Six men have been found guilty of murder and attempted murder for their parts in the Isis suicide bombings in Brussels that killed 35 people and injured more than 300 in 2016.
Among them were Salah Abdeslam, previously convicted for his role in the Bataclan terrorist attack in Paris a year earlier, and Mohamed Abrini and Osama Krayem, both of whom failed to detonate their explosives after apparently losing their nerve.
Old Vienna, in the midst of a demographic crisis, is a museum inhabited by elderly people strolling in the Prater. Islam has won.
340 years ago, on July 15, 1683, an Ottoman officer approached the walls of Vienna with a proposal to surrender. The message was delivered to a Croatian soldier: “Accept Islam and live in peace under the Sultan! But if you resist, then death, desolation and bondage will be the fate of you all!”
In Vienna, two months later, Europe defeated the Ottomans and only the battle of Marathon in 490 BC. C. – where the Athenians defeated a Persian expeditionary force – had the same significance for Western culture.
Approximately 200 Muslim protestors gathered outside the European Parliament Wednesday, July 19th, as Islamic groups in Brussels rallied against the controversial burning of the Quran in Sweden.
Shouts of “Allahu Akbar” were heard right outside the Parliament as an almost exclusively male crowd gathered at Place du Luxembourg at 4:00 p.m. organised by a group calling itself the ‘Muslim Community of Brussels.’
The return of Iran’s infamous Gasht-e-Irshad (“morality police”) has been greeted with dismay, but protesters who spoke to the Guardian said they would not be dissuaded from taking to streets again.
A police spokesperson confirmed last week that they had started patrolling the streets to deal with civilians who “ignore the consequences of not wearing the proper hijab and insist on disobeying the norms”.
A PREDATOR who tried to rape a sleeping woman at King’s Cross station told police it was “okay because she wasn’t dead”.
Amer Mohamed, 31, approached the woman before exposing himself inside the station at around 5am on July 23 last year.
h/t TB
A Canadian man arrested by British police at Heathrow Airport last week on suspicion of terrorism offences has now been formally charged.
“The Crown Prosecution Service has authorized charges in relation to Anjem Choudary and Khaled Hussein under the Terrorism Act,” said Nick Price, chief Crown prosecutor for the CPS counterterrorism division.
“The charges relate to the proscribed organization Al-Muhajiroun, also known as the Islamic Thinkers Society.”
A French teenager was hospitalized after an attack by a group of youths who had taken issue with her choice of clothing on a night out left her face disfigured.
The attack occurred in the early hours of Wednesday morning when the 19-year-old victim, named as Nissan, was on a date with her boyfriend in the southern French city of Toulouse.
Protests involving the desecration, vandalism, or burning of the Islamic holy book, the Quran, have been going on for years in Scandinavia, with Danish anti-Islam activist Rasmus Paludan and his group Stram Kurs (Hard Line) being behind many of the demonstrations in Denmark, Sweden, and elsewhere.
Earlier this year, Paludan burned a copy of the Quran in front of the Turkish embassy in Stockholm, provoking fierce condemnation from the Turkish government and from Islamist president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
I’ve written frequently in this space on one of the great ironies of Canadian politics: that the most socially conservative communities — often Muslim, Sikh, and Hindu communities — usually vote for the most radical, progressive politicians. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party has, since coming to power in 2015, spearheaded an unprecedented and aggressive campaign of liberalization on virtually every social issue, undermining parental and religious rights with their “conversion therapy ban,” championing abortion at home and abroad, and pushing a euthanasia regime that is breathtakingly cruel in singling out the mentally ill, sick, and disabled.
Mississauga, Ont.: Muslims protesting against #trans and LGBTQIA2S+ education in schools on Saturday held up an anti-Justin Trudeau banner. Photo by @BethBaisch/@TPostMillennial: pic.twitter.com/ycsZ6j69T4
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) July 15, 2023
The most likely result of this interfaith alliance is that concessions will be made to accommodate the Muslims. Christians will be denied the same treatment.
We know how government works in Canada. Anyone who reads this blog knows about the TDSB’s Mosqueteria where Muslim children hold prayers on TDSB school property.
The TDSB has even allowed the Muslim community to segregate menstruating Muslim girls from their kindred faith members during these prayers because they are considered “unclean”.
Can you imagine the uproar if Christians even asked for prayer space in our so called secular school system?
… France24 researchers verified a number of videos showing Momika in military clothing, associating with members of other militias. They concluded he was the same man who founded a political party in Iraq, the Syriac Democratic Union Party, in 2014, as well as an associated militia.
Momika’s own militia, which, like many others at the time, was originally set up to fight the extremist “Islamic State” (IS) group, appears to later have been linked with a motley variety of other groups in Iraq. That includes militias with Shiite Muslim affiliations that support, and are supported by, neighboring Iran, as well as Kurdish militias that espouse a more atheist and communist agenda. Iraqi journalists wrote that Momika left the country because of a power struggle with the leader of another Christian militia.
Momika is also thought to have supported the cleric al-Sadar at one stage, and then to have also agreed with anti-government protests in Iraq. A town council member told the publication The New Arab that Momika had committed fraud in his hometown.
For the past few weeks, women archaeologists working on an excavation site near the royal basilica of Saint-Denis in the north of Paris have been subjected to intimidation and insults on the grounds that they wore ‘indecent’ clothing and did ‘men’s work.’ Posters calling for respect for their work and their persons have been put up around the site. The verbal abuse the women have been subjected to has reignited the controversy surrounding the origin of the perpetrators, who belong mainly to North African immigrant populations that have become the majority in certain areas of Seine-Saint-Denis.
After stonewalling as long as they could, federal and local authorities in North Dakota officially admitted that
Mohamad Barakat, the Syrian Muslim terrorist, had planned to kill thousands of people at a Fargo fair.
Thousands of people took part in protests across Muslim majority nations on Friday after a second incident in Sweden involving the desecration of the Qur’an.
The episode left the Swedish government apologetic and fearing that the outrage in the Middle East may delay Turkey lifting its veto on Sweden’s membership of Nato.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had said at the Nato summit in Vilnius that he would recommend the Turkish parliament ratify Sweden’s application, ending Turkey’s year-long veto, but on returning from a trip from the Gulf he merely said Turkish ratification was contingent on the steps taken by Sweden.
Salwan Momika, an Iraqi refugee who burned Quran 2 weeks ago, has burned another copy of Quran today.
Salwan has also burned the Iraqi flag.
He tore up the Quran and then burned it.
His protests are due to his belief that the Quran promotes terrorism 🤷🏼♀️
pic.twitter.com/0vjXRdhIVj— Ashlea Simon (@AshleaSimonBF) July 20, 2023
A man who assaulted worshippers at a mosque in Mississauga, Ont., last year had been planning the attack for a year and was motivated by hatred of and a desire to intimidate Muslims, court documents show.
Mohammad Moiz Omar “intended to perpetrate a mass casualty event” when he entered the Dar Al-Tawheed Islamic Centre during early morning prayer on March 19, 2022 and sprayed bear spray toward congregants while swinging a hatchet, according to an agreed statement of facts read at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Brampton, Ont. Wednesday.
Omar, who was 24 years old at the time of the attack, pleaded guilty to three charges, according to one of his lawyers, Jacob Roth of Robichaud Criminal Lawyers. Those charges include administering a noxious substance with intent to endanger life or cause bodily harm, assault with a weapon, and mischief to religious property with motivation of bias, prejudice or hate based on religion.
The killing of a teen criminal vs. the passing of judicial reform.The lawless violence of 2023 is similarly close to the surface.
During last year, many large European cities, from France to England, from Sweden to Belgium, have caught fire. And in those flames we could see the end of multiculturalism crackling, a giant powder keg waiting for the spark.
“How can we avoid secession? Because that is what is happening: secession,” said former socialist president François Hollande. And if Gérard Collomb, Emmanuel Macron’s former interior minister, long-time mayor of Lyon and historic exponent of the Socialist Party, said before leaving that the communities, from “side by side”, have moved on to live “face to face, face to face” and that there is a risk of a “civil war”, in the Journal du dimanche an appeal by French generals and officers warned: “We have seen declared a hybrid and multifaceted war, which will end either with a civil war or with a defeat” .
