The residents of the Belgian city of Liège woke up to quite a surprise over the weekend, hardly left by the Easter bunny: hundreds of pocket-sized, French-language Qurans had been distributed throughout multiple neighborhoods by unknown activists.
Concerned locals believe the stunt to be more of a provocation than friendly religious outreach, prompting the Belgian police to actively investigate the incident to find the perpetrators.
France is in the midst of an ideological struggle that could reshape the identity of its Republic. At the core of this struggle is the growing influence of Islamism—not as an external threat but as a domestic movement embedded in civic life—and the chilling treatment of those who speak out against it.
Marine Le Pen, president of the National Rally and one of the country’s most prominent opposition figures, has been convicted on charges relating to EU fund misuse. The sentence: four years in prison (two suspended), a €100,000 fine, and a five-year ban from holding public office. The timing is conspicuous. Just days before her sentencing, Le Pen called for an outright ban on the Muslim Brotherhood in France, citing national security concerns and intelligence reports alleging long-term “entryism” by the group.
An investigation has been opened into death threats received by the head of a French university who has been accused by conservatives of a “chilling indulgence” towards Islamist activists.
The inquiry into the threats made against Isabelle von Bueltzingsloewen, the president of Lumière Lyon 2 University, comes at a time when French higher education establishments are riven by the sort of divisions that have emerged in the US since the October 7 attacks by Hamas.
Community leaders condemn “blatant antisemitism” after couple told to leave pharmacy at Bloor and Spadina for wearing Jewish symbols
h/t MP
The King’s anti-Christian statement and mass arrests for those voicing unfashionable opinions are ugly signs of Britain’s rapid decline.
“Tis the times’ plague, when madmen lead the blind.”
William Shakespeare, King Lear
Last Friday marked the 250th anniversary of the Shot Heard Round the World. This was the first musket shot of the American Revolution, fired across the old North Bridge near Lexington. No one knows who shot first, the British regiment on one side of the bridge or the Minute Men on the other. But everyone knows what came of it — the birth of a great nation and the perseverance of another. Today, America is still rising after twice this century rejecting malevolent suicidal leadership. While Great Britain embraced it and is thus collapsing fast.
But there is a difference to the current UK ruling Liberal Party — and Christians are getting the worst of it.
A bad King.
Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-François Blanchet is calling on Parliament to close what he describes as a dangerous loophole in the Criminal Code that allows hate speech to hide behind religious teachings, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
Speaking with reporters, Blanchet said it’s time for Canada to remove any legal protections for hate-filled speech, even when it’s presented in a religious context. “If a believer of any religion whatsoever uses religion to support hate, to support radicalization of our youth, I believe this is a crime,” he said. “It has to be punished as a crime in whatever language or whatever religion.”
Canada does not monitor what goes on inside the Muslim cult’s dens.
But every once in a while the cultists make their murderous intent public.
For an insight into the current state of the British penal system, the case of Denny De Silva is as instructive as it is worrying.
A drug-dealing murderer, on being jailed in 2016 he converted to Islam and ever since has been a thoroughly disruptive presence wherever he has been locked up.
From battering inmates who don’t share his beliefs, to smuggling in mobile phones to disseminate ‘graphic and grotesque’ Islamic State material, the 32-year-old is described as an ‘extremist enforcer’ who ‘influences and incites’ other Muslim prisoners wherever he goes.
England is on the verge of collapse.
Since the Hamas invasion of Israel to massacre Jews on Oct. 7, 2023, there has been an eruption of public Jew-hatred in Canada. The most recent example occurred this past weekend, at the start of Passover, when “pro-Palestinian” demonstrations took place on Parliament Hill during which an officer was spat upon, in Edmonton blocking a bridge, while in Montreal, just ahead of Passover, “demonstrators” vandalized Concordia University’s Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies.
Despite the flimsy excuses of apologists that such displays and protests are “merely” anti-Zionism, they have led numerous commentators to draw explicit, horrified, baffled comparisons to the 1930s that, while legitimate to a point, actually fail to express the far greater seriousness of the situation today.
Nothing mass deportation can’t fix.
For the first time, Muslim students are the largest religious group in Vienna’s schools, underlining the incredible demographic transformation taking place in the Austrian city. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) is now raising the alarm.
Muslim students now account for 41.2 percent of all students, while Christian students fell to 34.5 percent. The trend is only growing, and is accompanied by rising problems, including violence in schools, anti-Semitism, and contempt for women.
h/t DS
A Pakistani jihadist cannot be deported despite renouncing his British citizenship because it would breach his human rights, official papers suggest.
Irfan Khalid was one of the leaders of a gang who plotted to carry out a 7/7-style mass terror attack in Birmingham and turn the city into a ‘little war zone’.
The conspiracy was smashed during Britain’s biggest anti-terror investigation, with Khalid sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2013.
h/t Kiki9
The Canadian Future Party is calling for the immediate dismissal of Amira Elghawaby, cabinet’s $191,000-a-year Special Representative on Combating Islamophobia, and the elimination of her office entirely.
Blacklock’s Reporter says in a platform released this week, the party proposed folding her responsibilities into existing government agencies.
Rajeev Syal, an editor for The Guardian, recently wrote on the “disproportionate” use of force against Muslim convicts while incarcerated in English prisons:
Muslim prisoners are disproportionately subjected to force including pain-inducing techniques by jail staff, according to new data.
Freedom of information requests found that in eight out of nine prisons with high Muslim populations, Muslim men were more likely than the average inmate to be confronted with batons, made to wear rigid bar handcuffs, or deliberately held in a painful position.
In most of Europe and the Americas, cousin marriage is extremely rare — only a few percent of people are married to their first or second cousins. But in other societies — mostly in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia — it’s much more common. By some estimates, more than 50% of Pakistanis are married to their first or second cousins.
A major problem with cousin marriage is that the children of such unions are more likely to have mental and physical health problems. Why? It has to do with rare recessives.
I wonder what strain Pakistani immigrants have placed on Canadian health services.
The Texas House of Representatives passed a resolution on March 28, officially recognizing March 23 as “Pakistan Day.” The resolution, introduced by State Representative Dr. Suleman Lalani, claims that Pakistani Texans have made “significant contributions in the state’s social, religious, linguistic, and economic spheres.” Pakistan’s Consul General in Texas, Muhammad Aftab Chaudhry, was present at the event.
