Regina mosque faces threats after launching weekly amplified call to prayer

Regina mosque faces threats after launching weekly amplified call to prayer

A downtown Regina mosque says it has received threats after beginning a weekly amplified Muslim call to prayer from its rooftop speaker.

Regina City Jamia Masjid began testing the broadcast of the adhan, or the Muslim call to prayer, over the noon hour on Friday. The call lasts about three minutes.

“We are not here to bother anybody,” M Anisur Rahaman, director of the mosque, said. “We are here to meet and greet and share the knowledge.”

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Ottawa student flagged as security threat over research helpful to Iran’s weapons program

Ottawa student flagged as security threat over research helpful to Iran’s weapons program

Mohammadreza Pakatchian said he chose to study aerospace engineering at Carleton University because it was a “great opportunity” to further his skills and knowledge.

In its acceptance letter to the Iranian, Carleton University offered him a scholarship, while an MP’s office spoke with immigration officials about his student visa.

But Canada’s national security agencies aren’t so keen on the 41-year-old doctoral student.

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‘Islamophobia’ Makes a Texas Muslim Start Crying

‘Islamophobia’ Makes a Texas Muslim Start Crying

Texas is home to some serious anti-Sharia initiatives, and the establishment media is fighting back with everything it’s got, misrepresenting Sharia as private religious law that harms no one, and smearing opponents of Sharia as “far-right” mouth-breathers who are bent on opposing Sharia not out of any real principle, but because they hate “brown people,” and are unjustly suspicious of anything that ain’t Christian, ‘specially some furrin’ law that folks that don’t even talk like us is bringin’ here in the dark of night.

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‘Sense Offenders’ and Sudan

‘Sense Offenders’ and Sudan

IIn the 2002 sci-fi film Equilibrium, agents of the state hunt down ‘sense offenders,’ dissidents who refuse government-mandated drugs designed to eliminate all human feeling. In the setting’s city-state of Libria, when a citizen is murdered, the deep state dispatches undercover officers to lay flowers at the scene in a bid to create a funereal atmosphere and muffle any temptation to anger.

As atrocities become commonplace, the government writes and issues false statements in the name of the victim’s families in a bid to effect behavioural change on its long-suffering populace. They seek to play down, or even deny, the most heinous crimes, because in Libria “there is no crime.”

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CSIS increases operation to combat Iranian state-directed activity, warns of continued threats

CSIS increases operation to combat Iranian state-directed activity, warns of continued threats

Canada’s spy agency, CSIS, says it has stepped up operations to combat possible Iranian state-directed activity here, warning that threats from Tehran’s theocratic regime are expected to continue this year.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service declined to provide details of its operations Monday. It said it was increasing activities focused on violent extremism in Canada.

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Owner of Paramount Fine Foods and the City of Mississauga are suing each other. Here’s why

Owner of Paramount Fine Foods and the City of Mississauga are suing each other. Here’s why

Mohamad Fakih, the owner of Paramount Fine Foods, is alleging the City of Mississauga defamed him by publicly claiming his company owes more than $1 million in connection with the naming rights of that city’s largest sports and entertainment venue.

The municipality announced in late May that it would be renaming Paramount Fine Foods Centre to the Mississauga Sports and Entertainment Centre at the beginning of June, following the termination of its contract with Paramount.

In an open letter dated May 26, Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish said the city had been “forced” to end their agreement, alleging the food company owes the city $1.6 million.

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OLDCORN: Regina is not Riyadh — time to enforce noise bylaws on mosque loudspeakers

OLDCORN: Regina is not Riyadh — time to enforce noise bylaws on mosque loudspeakers

The Islamic call to prayer blasted from four weatherproof horn speakers mounted on all four sides of Regina City Jamia Masjid mosque.

The “sound test” lasted roughly three minutes. Mosque representatives called it a “historic milestone.”

The rest of Regina should call it what it is: a warning siren.

Islam has no place in the west.

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Terry Newman: U.K. grooming gang report details horrific child exploitation

Terry Newman: U.K. grooming gang report details horrific child exploitation

The Rape Gang Inquiry Report, chaired by British MP Rupert Lowe and led by survivor Sammy Woodhouse, exposes the systematic grooming and sexual exploitation of vulnerable, overwhelmingly white British girls by predominantly Muslim Pakistani gangs in towns and cities throughout the United Kingdom.

But will political parties have the courage to act on the report’s findings, despite possible political ramifications?

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When Hybrid Warfare Calls Itself a Religion

When Hybrid Warfare Calls Itself a Religion

In 2017, the Multinational Capability Development Campaign (MCDC), a consortium including Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, and the European Union, published a report titled *Understanding Hybrid Warfare*.

… An interesting question arises.

What happens when an entity employs many of the same methods but describes itself not as a state, movement, or military organization, but as a religion?

The question becomes particularly relevant when examining Islam’s own primary sources.

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Taliban Open Fire on Women Protesting the Islamic Dress Code

Taliban Open Fire on Women Protesting the Islamic Dress Code

The story is all too predictable. What could anyone have expected when women in Afghanistan, of all places, decided to take to the streets to protest the Taliban’s Islamic dress code? The South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP) reported recently that “on June 9, at least two people, including a woman and a child, were killed and many others wounded after Taliban opened fire on protesters in Herat city of Herat Province, reports Amu TV. The violence erupted after residents took to the streets to protest the detention of women and girls accused of violating the Taliban’s dress code.”

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How come they never do Piss Mohammed?

How come they never do Piss Mohammed?

FREDERICTON – An art gallery in Eastern Canada is leveraging a notorious, damaged photograph of a crucifix floating in urine to spark public discourse — even drawing criticism from a member of Parliament.

The Beaverbrook Art Gallery, located in New Brunswick’s capital Fredericton, is exhibiting American artist Andres Serrano’s controversial piece until the end of November.

It marks the first time the Piss Christ (Immersions), on loan from the Rennie Collection in Vancouver, has been shown in Atlantic Canada.

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Penthouse to outhouse: ‘Poor’ Ilhan Omar now claims erstwhile-millionaire hubby made as little as $200 last year

Penthouse to outhouse: ‘Poor’ Ilhan Omar now claims erstwhile-millionaire hubby made as little as $200 last year

Scandal-scarred Rep. Ilhan Omar and her hubby have gone from the penthouse to the poorhouse.

The husband of the Minnesota “Squad” firebrand — who once valued his venture capital and wine empire at up to $30 million — now claims to be pocketing as little as $200 a year.

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Paedophile ringleader handed 35 year jail term could be released after serving just 10 YEARS thanks to Labour’s ‘soft justice’ measures

Paedophile ringleader handed 35 year jail term could be released after serving just 10 YEARS thanks to Labour’s ‘soft justice’ measures

The ringleader of a sex grooming gang is being lined up for early release under Labour’s soft justice measures despite being handed a 35 year sentence.

Arshid Hussain raped and abused teenage girls in Rotherham, and a judge said his gang had committed ‘devastating’ harm of ‘unimaginable proportions’.

But now one of his victims has been officially notified by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) that her abuser may be coming out of jail soon – after just 10 years.

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5 injured in bloody machete rampage allegedly targeting Muslims in Scotland

5 injured in bloody machete rampage allegedly targeting Muslims in Scotland

A maniac went on a bloody rampage with a machete in Scotland that left five people hurt.

The shirtless attacker appeared to be targeting Muslims in the Friday attacks, which unfolded in Edinburgh, according to reports.

The suspect, 36, who was not publicly identified, slashed two men near a mosque in the western portion of the city before going on to hurt three others Leith Walk, authorities said.

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