OTTAWA — A former aide to then prime minister Stephen Harper who oversaw major appointments is casting doubt on the Liberals’ explanation that the public service failed to properly vet Canada’s new human rights commissioner Birju Dattani.
Howard Anglin, who served as Harper’s deputy chief of staff, said that each appointment for the head of a major agency or board goes through layers of verifications from ministerial staff, the Privy Council Office (PCO) and the cabinet itself.
A NYC taxi driver was hit with a hate crime for allegedly vandalizing statues outside a Queens Catholic church, prosecutors said.
Jamshaid Choudhry, 44, of Hollis, was arrested Thursday night and charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime and other related crimes for allegedly decapitating a statue of a young Jesus outside of the Holy Family Roman Catholic Church in Fresh Meadows on June 30.
🇺🇸 | Dans le quartier de Flushing (Queens, New York), un homme a été arrêté après avoir violemment détruit une statue de la Vierge Marie.
D’après le prêtre de la paroisse, le suspect l’aurait insulté et aurait tenté de l’écraser avec sa voiture. (Via New York Post) pic.twitter.com/VmnGpAko9K
— Via Christ (@viachrist_) November 1, 2022
In a couple of weeks, an estimated 15 million tourists will visit Paris for the upcoming Olympic Games. Around 10,500 athletes from 206 countries will compete for sporting glory. But there are growing security concerns over the threat posed by Islamist extremists due to a massive surge in recent days of Islamic State (IS) propaganda about attacking stadiums.
France’s recent election shows a nation in turmoil. Many French citizens are afraid that “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” will give way to “Allahu akbar.”
The U.S. media report the election as a surprise victory for the left and a defeat for Marine Le Pen’s “far-right” National Rally party.
It’s a bit more complicated than that.
London doctor’s ‘death to Israel’ post triggers backlash
A London doctor has sparked outrage over a social media post calling for “death to Israel,” with some pro-Israel supporters calling for her medical licence to be revoked.
Dr. Nahla Al Sarraj, now in post-graduate psychiatry studies at Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine, in a video post on X spoke about the months-long conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and called for “death to Israel and death to Zionism.”
OTTAWA – Three weeks after the federal Liberals promised to do a “formal, independent review” of the appointment of Canada’s new human-rights commissioner, the government hasn’t provided any details about what that review will entail.
Birju Dattani, former executive director of the Yukon Human Rights Commission, was named as the new head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission on June 14.
On Aug. 8, he is set to start a five-year term in the new job, as the first person of colour and the first Muslim man to hold the role.
The recent UK General Election was marred by intimidation and harassment. ‘British politics must soon wake up to what happened at this election’, said Shabana Mahmood, Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood. Jess Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, said that this was the ‘worst election I have ever stood in’. Even before the election was announced and campaigning had kicked off, now deputy prime minister Angela Rayner spoke in February of being too afraid to leave the house.
For years, national security experts and freedom activists have sounded the alarm about Muslim Brotherhood activity in the United States, only to be tarred and dismissed as hysterical “hatemongers” and “Islamophobes.” Now, however, an internationally prominent former Brotherhood activist has confirmed the warnings. Is he, too, a “hatemonger” and “Islamophobe?”
Three out of four European Jews fear displaying their Jewish identity in public spaces, a new survey finds.
Conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, the survey presents a grim picture of the experiences of Jews in Europe, with 76 percent reporting that they choose to avoid wearing items outside of their homes or synagogues that identify them as Jewish.
To stop rising antisemitism in the Netherlands and Europe political leaders must put an end to open border mass immigration and reverse the cultural relativist failure to foster integration, Dutch Party for Freedom founder and leader Geert Wilders told The Jerusalem Post in an interview on Wednesday, in which he also explained that his support for Israel was grounded in the broader defense of Western values.
h/t Patti Jo
Jewish life in Europe will be a thing of the past by 2050. There is no future for them there and their desperate love for the old and beloved continent will die. What was unthinkable yesterday is plausible today and certain tomorrow.
The chief rabbi of the Great Synagogue of Paris, Moshe Sebbag, called for departure:
“There is no future for the Jews in France. I tell all young people to go to Israel or a safer country”.
The president of the Jewish consistory of Alpes-Provence, Zvi Ammar, confessed to Cnews that “in order to no longer live hidden and insecure”, more and more Jews are ready to make aliyah, to move to Israel. “In the mouths of people in every Jewish home comes the question: ‘do we still have a future in France?’. It hurts a lot. Today people feel safer in Israel, despite it being a country at war”.
Whether it’s hiring an antisemite to design anti-racism training or feting a former Nazi in the House, this government seems unable to perform a simple Google search
It’s not an accident. It may in fact be deliberate and they just hope no one catches them.
No Islamist should ever be appointed to serve in a sensitive position.
The statue of Jewish Holocaust victim Anne Frank has been defaced with ‘Gaza’ graffiti, with Dutch politicians condemning the act.
The Anne Frank memorial in Merwedeplein, Amsterdam, located near the Jewish diarist’s first home in the Netherlands, was vandalized with red paint spelling out ‘Gaza’.
“Several” suspected terrorists targeting the 2024 Paris Olympics have been arrested in France. An intelligence source said those detained are connected to the Islamic State–Khorasan Province (ISKP), an offshoot of the Islamic State (IS) terror group, responsible for the Crocus City Hall attack on Russian civilians in March 2024.
Islam is the religion of terror.
A “key campaigner” for the pro-Gaza MP who unseated Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth has been charged with a terrorism offence.
Police confirmed that Majid Novsarka, also known as Majid Freeman – a supporter of Shockat Adam, the new Leicester South MP – has been charged with encouragement of terrorism and supporting a proscribed organisation.
The 36-year-old has been released on bail, and is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on July 24.
