CAIR Lies. Islam Definitely Insists Its Religion Should Control Politics

CAIR Lies. Islam Definitely Insists Its Religion Should Control Politics

Alocal school board meeting in Jacksonville, Florida, morphed into a raucous discussion of free speech and Islam Wednesday, as more than 100 people signed up to comment, primarily on the reported posts of a board member who questioned the religious nature of Islam. One week earlier on Nov. 3, the Florida chapter of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, demanded that school board member’s resignation over an apparent Facebook share declaring, “We got lost in the myth that Islam is a religion.”

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Sights and sounds of Dearborn, Michigan, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, coming soon to a city near you

Sights and sounds of Dearborn, Michigan, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, coming soon to a city near you

In Dearborn, Michigan, and in Minneapolis, Minnesota, mosques can blast Muslim prayers five times a day.

Yet, if a Christian church tried to similarly blast sermons, or even bells, they would quickly be shut down.

Officials, and the separation of church and state folks, would be on them in a heartbeat.

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Fentanyl traffickers using Chinese networks to buy chemicals and launder cash

Fentanyl traffickers using Chinese networks to buy chemicals and launder cash

When police arrived at a rural property on Abbotsford’s Bradner Road last May, they found a large-scale synthetic drug lab under construction with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of lab equipment, a pill press and precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl and methamphetamine.

The operation was just one of an increasing number of synthetic drug labs dismantled in B.C.

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The Gen Z protests are nothing like 1968

The Gen Z protests are nothing like 1968

As the so-called Gen Z protests have set European cities on fire, particularly in France, commentary has been awash with comparisons to 1968. But the lazy assumption that this is the spirit of the Sixties in new bottles is as flawed as the complacent shrug that ‘this is just what the French do’ – obscuring both the similarities with past waves of youth protest, and the marked differences.

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Denmark: Man raped 13-year-old girl multiple times near lake, but no deportation requested because he allegedly received citizenship in 2015

Denmark: Man raped 13-year-old girl multiple times near lake, but no deportation requested because he allegedly received citizenship in 2015

A 21-year-old man, Adam Mousa, has been convicted of raping a 13-year-old Danish girl near Teglgårdssøen lake in Hillerød and received only a two-year unconditional prison sentence.

The case has drawn attention to Denmark’s citizenship rules for people from MENAPT (Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey) countries and persistent overrepresentation in serious crime statistics. There is also ample speculation about the man’s migration background on X.

h/t kiki9

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For an Anishinaabe jurist, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ Nakba exhibit gets a failing grade

For an Anishinaabe jurist, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ Nakba exhibit gets a failing grade

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights has received piles of feedback about its small exhibition “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba, Past and Present” – both positive and negative. Perhaps the most surprising critique has not yet made it to its inbox.

It’s a report by Anishinaabe scholar and retired justice Harry LaForme and his wife Janice LaForme, a lawyer, written for the Network of Engaged Canadian Academics (NECA), a non-partisan group of university and college faculty concerned about campus antisemitism. Mr. LaForme, the former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, examines the exhibition through an Indigenous lens, specifically an Anishinaabe one. The LaFormes, who are not Jewish, also wanted to assess the exhibit in the context of the museum’s other offerings.

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Greta Thunberg laughs at protesters still participating in Fridays For Future – the climate movement she started

Greta Thunberg laughs at protesters still participating in Fridays For Future – the climate movement she started

Greta Thunberg has featured in a documentary appearing to mock protesters still participting in the climate movement she started.

Fridays for Future was launched by Thunberg in 2018, when she was just 15, after she began skipping school on Fridays to demand action on climate change.

What began in Sweden quickly snowballed into a global movement, inspiring millions of students to walk out of classrooms and take to the streets in rallies around the world.

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Carney and Hoekstra’s Remembrance Day handshake: ‘We’re going to miss the march’

Carney and Hoekstra’s Remembrance Day handshake: ‘We’re going to miss the march’

Canadians watching Wednesday’s Remembrance Day ceremonies in Ottawa witnessed a rare moment between two political antagonists, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. Ambassador to Canada.

As Carney and Gov. Gen. Louise Arbour left the cenotaph at the National War Memorial following the ceremony, both dignitaries stopped briefly to greet people nearby, mostly veterans, including some of the oldest living ones.

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Why do Western leaders pay so little attention to Christian persecution?

Why do Western leaders pay so little attention to Christian persecution?

A Nigerian woman who watched Boko Haram militants kill her husband after he identified himself as a Christian will be joining a delegation today delivering a petition with over one million signatories to 10 Downing Street. The letter is calling for ‘greater protection for Christian communities in sub-Saharan Africa, justice for victims and help for survivors rebuilding their lives’.

In October 2014, Afordia and her husband were travelling by car in Adamawa State, in north-east Nigeria, when men in uniform stopped them. The couple initially mistook the men for Nigerian soldiers before armed men emerged from hiding and ordered them out of the vehicle. The men asked her husband whether he was Muslim or an infidel. He replied that he was neither, but a Christian. He was ordered to the roadside, where he knelt and began to pray. Seconds later, he was shot several times and killed.

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Industry minister terminates resolution talks with Stellantis over Brampton auto plant sale

Industry minister terminates resolution talks with Stellantis over Brampton auto plant sale

Industry Minister Mélanie Joly wrote to the CEO of Stellantis Canada on Thursday, saying the government is terminating a resolution process with the automaker after it announced plans to sell its Brampton, Ont., plant to an armoured vehicle manufacturer.

Stellantis had been engaged with the government to find a possible alternative for the Brampton facility after the company announced last year that it wouldn’t be going ahead with plans to build the Jeep Compass at that plant.

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America’s Economy Is Becoming Two-Tiered

America’s Economy Is Becoming Two-Tiered

Cornell University is in the news and for all the wrong reasons. Yet whatever you think of the horrendous frat scandal that’s been dominating social media conversation, there’s one angle to the story, and to Cornell more generally, that’s gone largely unexplored: class.

Recent research backs up what we already know: the wealthy have a much easier time getting into elite schools like Cornell than everyone else. That elite education then places these young adults at even greater advantage, with Ivy League graduates wildly overrepresented among Fortune 500 CEOs, the New York Times editorial board, and other top institutions.

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