PARIS (AP) — Six teenagers go on trial Monday in Paris for their alleged roles in the beheading of a teacher who showed caricatures of the prophet of Islam to his class, a killing that led authorities to reaffirm France’s cherished rights of expression and secularism.
Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, was killed on Oct. 16, 2020, near his school in a northwest Paris suburb by an 18-year-old of Chechen origin who had become radicalized. The attacker was in turn shot dead by police.
Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., I wondered if the events would finally force the world to understand what the Israelis had been going through. A year earlier, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat rejected a historic peace offer at Camp David and launched a deadly second intefadeh against Israeli civilians.
Canada’s role in responding to Palestinian refugee crisis a potential ‘minefield’, says former ambassador
With Israel’s war on Hamas focusing international attention on the plight of Palestinians, some in Canada are pressing Ottawa to help. But experts say this country has long struggled to find the right approach to assisting Palestinian refugees.
The issue came to the fore earlier this month, after a leaked Israeli intelligence memo identified Canada as a potential mass resettlement destination for Palestinians. The prospect of a large-scale relocation at Israel’s direction drew condemnation from Palestinian groups, and Ottawa was quick to dismiss the proposal.
Why No Arab Government Wants Gaza, the West Bank, or Palestinians
With Israel well on its way to controlling all of Gaza, talk is turning to who will control it after the fighting stops. While Israel may retain control for the foreseeable future, Israel wants no part of Gaza. Its government left Gaza in 2005, taking with it every Jew residing in Gaza and even every Jew buried there. And Israel isn’t alone.
Egypt also wants no part of Gaza, which it ruled until Israel took it in the 1967 Six-Day War. For Egypt, ruling Gaza once was enough. Despite pressure from the United States to take Gaza back, even temporarily after Israel rids it of Hamas terrorists, Egypt has refused. Egypt has also refused to provide refuge to Palestinians fleeing the war in Gaza.
And Israel had better drop that damn idea.
Behold the Palestinians the Trudeau government would like to bring to Canada.
Never forget what happened on Oct 7th.
Thousands of Palestinian civilians lined the streets of Gaza to spit on the body of German-Israeli woman Shani Louk.
Civilians hit her body with wooden planks, punched and slapped her naked body as they cheered with joy.
Never forget. pic.twitter.com/JbJPLot4KH
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) November 20, 2023
The Tories have presided over a seismic demographic change
Boris Johnson has made his mark on British history. As a result of his brief tenure as prime minister, Britain is now undergoing its most significant period of demographic change since the Anglo-Saxon migration.
A newly released study shows, for the first time in French history, that the second most widely spoken language in the country is dialectal Arabic, with an estimated population of between three and four million speakers. The resulting population ratio in favour of people mainly of North African origin is fraught with consequences.
What. Where. Why.
You won’t find any of those ‘Ws’ in any story that the media is interested in covering up, rather than covering.
Take the stabbing of small children at a Catholic school in Dublin, allegedly, by an Algerian Muslim. You can read entire stories about what happened in Dublin with nary a mention of these key elements of the story.
Algerian migrant stabs Irish children. Irish newspapers the next day: pic.twitter.com/cHeHxEAtmM
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 24, 2023
h/t Kiki9
This is not the Dublin of Guinness and glass palaces housing tech companies which it wishes to present to the world
The situation in Dublin Thursday — in which five people were injured in a knife attack in the heart of the city, resulting in a riot and violent clashes with the police — was to the untrained eye reminiscent of Belfast from days gone by.
Speculation about the nationality of the attacker fueled the scenes of violence which took place last night and that has led to condemnatory tutting. After all, Ireland’s national myth is tied into tales of immigration and welcoming. A riot over immigration in its capital city contradicts the stories Ireland tells the world about itself.
Sounds very much like Canada.
Garda Commissioner says ‘lunatic, hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology’ behind violence; shops being looted and public transport services suspended
Dublin stabbing: how the chaos unfolded on Parnell Square
Shortly after 1.40pm on Thursday, journalists covering the Stardust inquests were filing lunchtime copy in the Pillar Room of the Rotunda hospital, where inquests have been under way since April. Deirdre Dames, a survivor of the 1981 fire rushed in, alerting us that someone was “after stabbing kids out there”.
RTÉ’s Conor Hunt and I, along with several others, followed her out to Parnell Square East where there were already four or five ambulances, several Dublin Fire Brigade appliances manned by paramedics and several Garda cars, as sirens blared as more arrived.
Reem is a symbol of today’s Europe. Embraced by Merkel as a poor refugee child, today her posts show a map without Israel.
The mayor of Saint Gilles, Belgium, one Jean Spinette (a serious Socialist), wants to change the name of Saint Nicolas to “Sidi Nicolas”. “Sidi”, in Arabic, means “my Lord”. Elsewhere “Saint Nicholas” or “Santa Claus” is linked to Christmas Day. But in Belgium the bearded “saint” has a day all to himself: December 6, when “the great friend of children” distributes gifts.
And given that the city of Brussels’ region has chosen a representative of the Muslim Brotherhood for its candidacy as “European capital of culture” in 2030, the future masters of Belgium could change the name of dozens of cities starting with Saint-Gilles, continuing with Saint-Josse, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Jette-Saint-Pierre and Saint-Job, finishing with the metro stations (Sainte-Catherine, Saint-Guidon).
Samuel Huntington’s insight into the clash of civilizations is brilliant and true, but a few details in his thesis might benefit from a bit of updating. Moreover, some of his critics, especially on the “Left”, might wish to rethink a few of their “conclusions”.
According to Huntington, since 1989 the clash between civilizations has been essentially cultural, rather than economic or political. The collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the transition from a world dominated by ideological oppositions — between communism and capitalism, imperialism and its counter-movement — to an era of cultural divergence, with the international political scene simultaneously verging on the multipolar and multicultural.
The German Interior Ministry on Thursday said police had conducted raids on properties in four federal states connected to suspected Hamas and Samidoun members.
Germany, along with the US, the EU and others, has designated Hamas a terrorist organization. Samidoun is an international pro-Palestinian network. Berlin had banned the activities of both organizations in early November.
“We continue our consistent action against radical Islamists,” German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said in a statement.
But we all knew Multiculturalism was about identity politics and pandering to ethnic strongmen who could deliver votes.
Why isn’t similar content to be found in English media?
[Ouch]
“They appoint (unelected) representatives of ethnic, religious, sexual “communities” (which only have a real existence in the discourse of their self-proclaimed representativeness) in the hope that the members of said “communities” » give their votes in return to the… pic.twitter.com/ahna9SWIUj— Norman Spector (@nspector4) November 23, 2023
Beyond the Bochra Manaï affair – NB – Google translate
When Bochra Manaï was appointed commissioner for the fight against racism and systemic discrimination at the City of Montreal, Valérie Plante assured Montrealers that she had been selected following “a very rigorous process” which was “guarantee of quality of the person who had been chosen” and that the latter knew that she was now serving an “institution” and understood well “her [new] role”.
Many Montrealers were indeed worried about the fact that the main person concerned had made herself known above all as a spokesperson for the National Council of Canadian Muslims and that as such, she had publicly criticized Bill 21 on the secularism of the State and Quebec as a whole, which has become, according to her, “a reference for supremacists and extremists around the world”. Could we really think that someone who had made such provocative and unobjective remarks a few weeks earlier (she had gone so far as to associate Bill 21 with the attacks in Quebec and Christchurch, New Zealand) was going to change instantly, by the magic of an appointment, as an impartial commissioner?
The crux of the problem is there. We recruit political activists to make them civil servants who are supposed to be objective and impartial and we are then surprised that they have remained above all… activists.
A tragedy occurred a few days ago in the small town of Crépol, in the Drôme region of southern France. During a village ball, some individuals appeared, spreading panic and terror and causing the death of Thomas, a boy of 16. Today, journalists and politicians are engaged in a veritable battle of semantics. A mere news item or a major event? Ordinary violence or savagery? A brawl or an assault? Every word used to describe this episode has far-reaching consequences. Once again, the Left shines in its denial of reality concerning both the origin of the attackers and the nature of the victims.
In Crepol in SE France “Thomas” aged 16 was stabbed to death. A group of North Africans gatecrashed a party chanting “We are here to stab white people.” In all, 17 others were stabbed & two taken to hospital.
Many on the right have claimed the attack was anti-white… pic.twitter.com/jP3v1vmp9l
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) November 22, 2023
Crepol, France. pic.twitter.com/6y5plUcAHF
— RadioGenova (@RadioGenova) November 20, 2023
Christian churches are under attack throughout Western Europe, with very recent examples from Austria, Germany, Italy and Sweden.
No Western nation, however, seems to experience as many attacks on its churches as France, once known as the “Eldest Daughter of the Church.”
Paulina Brandberg, Minister for Gender Equality, told journalists that the government would review Swedish legislation to determine if there are specific grounds for revoking residence permits. However, she listed potential examples of “lifestyle deficiencies,” including welfare fraud, debts, dishonest lifestyles, drug abuse, as well as connections with criminal networks or violent and extremist groups that “threaten fundamental Swedish values.”
h/t GR
