Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling on Speaker Ted Arnott to reverse a ban on keffiyehs at Queen’s Park, describing the move as “needlessly” divisive.
“The decision to ban the keffiyeh was made by the speaker and the speaker alone. I do not support his decision as it needlessly divides the people of our province,” Ford said in a statement issued Wednesday evening.
My hometown is in the news every day. I hear it on the radio, see it on television and read about it in print. It’s never good. Dearborn, Mich., is now known as the place where protesters chant “Death to Israel, Death to America.” It’s the city that President Biden is reportedly trying to placate ahead of the election as he cobbles together a Mideast policy that doesn’t undermine our Israeli ally.
It wasn’t always like this. When I was growing up between the 1950s and 1970s, Dearborn was known for Ford Motor Co., then the second biggest carmaker in the world, whose headquarters was four miles away from my family’s house. Its iconic brand of vehicles synonymous with American car culture—the muscular Mustang, the stylish Thunderbird, the rugged F-150 truck—defined our radiant town.
Dearborn Imam Usama Abdulghani: People Should Not Chant “Death to America” in Our Demonstrations; Allah Teaches Us Not to Say Words That Can Be Used by the Enemy to Hurt Our Cause pic.twitter.com/NV6ppOJ5vr
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) April 17, 2024
A Moroccan asylum seeker accused of murdering a pensioner in revenge for Israeli attacks in Gaza told police he would have killed “thousands” if he had a gun, a court has heard.
Ahmed Alid, 45, is on trial for knifing Terence Carney to death in Hartlepool town centre, in October, eight days after the Hamas attacks.
He also allegedly attempted to murder one of his housemates, Javed Nouri, 31, who is a Christian convert.
The man convicted and sentenced to death for carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 is fighting to keep federal prosecutors from seizing the funds he has accumulated in his prison canteen account.
The Boston Herald reported an attorney for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 30, filed an appeal seeking to stop the feds in Boston from taking the $4,200-plus in Tsarnaev’s account, arguing the death row inmate “is neither hoarding funds nor spending profligately.”
York University faculty group recommends defining support of Israel as ‘racism’
A York University faculty committee has recommended that the school henceforth define any acknowledgement of Israel’s existence as evidence of “anti-Palestinian racism.”
According to an April 5 “recommendations report” leaked to National Post, an official committee within York’s Department of Politics has proposed that any defence of Israel be viewed as “anti-Palestinian, Islamophobic, and anti-Arab.”
The BCF Settler Colonial Project claims rights to its ancestral lands on which York U is parked.
… The study, titled “Six months after October 7th: An analysis of terror attack responses by Canada’s religious groups,” had its origins in author Rahim Mohamed’s shock at the “wave of public displays of religious intolerance—mostly targeting Jewish Canadians—that would have been unthinkable just days earlier.”
A senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation and a National Post columnist, Mohamed undertook a careful analysis of post-Oct. 7 statements, both formal and informal, by Canada’s leading Muslim organizations. From his findings, he concluded that interfaith relations in Canada are arguably “even worse than the headlines would suggest; indicating that it is not just a small, vocal minority who’s turned against Canada’s Jewish community, but in fact much of the Muslim community’s leadership.”
No offense but the good guys are not exactly legion and Justin funds votes.
The federal government says it plans to explore new measures to expand access to “alternative financing products, like halal mortgages.”
According to the federal budget, the Liberal government has already begun consultations with financial services providers and diverse communities “to understand how federal policies can better support the needs of all Canadians seeking to become homeowners.”
The Islamic faith considers the charging of interest to be a form of usury, and considers gains made through interest to be unjust.
h/t Patti Jo
Within minutes of news emerging that Iran had launched an unprecedented direct attack at Israel, Canadian cities were witness to scenes of open celebration.
In Florida, we drag these people out of the road and arrest them. pic.twitter.com/XU6ZUUf9xX
— Bryan Griffin (@BryanDGriffin) April 15, 2024
h/t DS
CALGARY – The lawyer for a Calgary man accused of committing terrorism offences over a decade ago argues charges should be stayed because of court delays.
Jamal Borhot, 34, faces three terrorism charges stemming from alleged activity in Syria in 2013 and 2014.
The charges were laid in September 2020, but the case has languished in the courts ever since.
Palestine activists have blocked the Brooklyn Bridge, the Golden Gate and roads to the Chicago O’Hare Airport in a coordinated attempt to bring America to its knees.
On Monday afternoon, more anti-Israel protestors took to the Brooklyn Bridge and were seen walking through traffic, chanting, banging drums and igniting flares.
Multiple protestors were arrested by NYPD officers as they attempted to block traffic on the bridge.
Dear Government of Canada past and present, Liberal and Conservative. Thank you for turning Canada into a shithole state. It was swell of you to invite a death cult to settle here. PS. The crocodile won't eat you last. #cdnpoli https://t.co/us2jAnAOQ7
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) April 16, 2024
OTTAWA — Rising antisemitism in Canada since the Oct. 7 Israel terror attacks has triggered a call to convene a second national antisemitism summit.
That call came via an open letter signed by 200 politicians, community and spiritual leaders, along with a motion that will be tabled in the Senate later this week.
Marvin Rotrand, a retired politician and interim director-general of United Against Hate Canada, said during Monday morning’s press conference that while a lot of good came out of Canada’s 2021 antisemitism summit, more needs to be done.
After reading this article I can’t shake the notion that those calling for this summit are hopelessly out of touch with the true nature of Islam.
They seem to think they can reason with the people who joyously slaughtered men, women and children Oct 7.
Don’t misunderstand me, I know they are well meaning and I wish them well. But this will not accomplish a thing.
It appears the Jewish community no longer has the support they used to.
Canada has been balkanized by mass immigration and the newcomers have their own tribal conflicts to keep them busy.
Sunni or Shiite, the Islamic apocalypse is a serious matter and should be taken as such. Instead, we Westerners think we live in a candy pink world.
After spending ten days in Iraq and Syria with the Islamic State, Jürgen Todenhöfer, a German journalist, provided a summary of the ideology that animated them. “One day we will conquer Europe, the question is not if we will do it, but when, for us, it is obvious,” a German jihadist who spoke on behalf of the ISIS command told him. “Our expansion will be perpetual and the Europeans must know that when we come, it will not be beautiful, it will be with our weapons, and those who do not convert to Islam or who do not pay the Islamic tax will be killed,” the terrorist said.
And if they refuse to convert, Todenhöfer questions? “150 million, 200 million or 500 million, it doesn’t matter. We will kill them all,” replies the jihadist, who then justifies the enslavement of non-Muslims. “They are preparing for the biggest religious cleansing in history,” concludes the German journalist.
