Imam Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison over Fatwa Against Geert Wilders

Kathy and Geert Wilders

In a landmark case, the Netherlands has sentenced two Pakistanis to prison for calling on their followers to murder Dutch populist leader Geert Wilders.

The court in The Hague sentenced 56-year-old Imam Muhammad Ashraf Asif Jalali to 14 years in prison over his issuing of a fatwa death warrant on the head of Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders, who now serves as the main power broker behind the Dutch government, for his role in promoting cartoon contests featuring caricatures of Mohammed.

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Justin Trudeau has lost the Canadian Left

Canadian politics has been thrown into further uncertainty this week. Jagmeet Singh, leader of the Left-wing New Democratic Party (NDP), announced that he was terminating the supply-and-confidence agreement which has sustained Justin Trudeau’s Liberal minority government since March 2022, adding that the ruling party is “too weak” and “too selfish” to stand up for ordinary Canadians.

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Murder of teen by ‘cow vigilantes’ exposes India’s religious divide

The killing of a Hindu teenager by a group of “cow vigilantes” who thought he was Muslim has laid bare how mob violence in the name of protecting holy animals has become normalised in Narendra Modi’s India.

Aryan Mishra, 19, was travelling in a car with friends in the northern city of Faridabad when they were spotted and chased by another vehicle for some 18 miles, apparently on suspicion of being Muslim cow smugglers.

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Jamie Sarkonak: Jordan Peterson is right — schools should be unabashedly pro-western

The sole determinant of a child’s gender in Prince Edward Island schools is self-identification, per ministerial decree. In Edmonton, the public school board has a new policy to “Work towards the removal of institutional and individual barriers related to heteronormativity and cisnormativity.” In New Brunswick, the school curriculum aims to mould students into “reconciliation leaders” who promote equity.

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Riots ‘show why public must be told more about mass terror attacks’

The terrorism watchdog has called for more information to be made public in the event of mass casualty attacks or risk undermining trust in public institutions.

Jonathan Hall, KC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, warned of an “information vacuum” after the Southport attack that led to riots across the country, and said that lessons needed to be learned.

One of the problems highlighted by the attack was the consequence of giving out so little information about what motivated the killings of three young girls.

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Controversial broadcaster Adler moves closer to $178K Senate seat

Veteran broadcaster Charles Adler has inched closer to securing a $178,100-a-year position in the Canadian Senate, following a formal notice issued by the Liberal cabinet.

The announcement, made Saturday, confirmed that Adler, 70, will represent Manitoba at the request of the Prime Minister, despite his controversial history of inflammatory remarks about indigenous Manitobans.

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Taylor Swift has a big Donald Trump problem

Taylor Swift’s trip to the US Open Men’s Final on Sunday looked, at first glance, like a normal day in the life of the world’s biggest pop star. Swift was joined in her VIP box at Flushing Meadows by boyfriend Travis Kelce, the Haim sisters and Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs teammate Patrick Mahomes – and to the fury of Swifties the world over, his wife Brittany.

She was anti-Trump I doubt that has changed.

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Brandenburg Elections: Another AfD Triumph on the Horizon

Right-wing anti-immigration AfD’s strong performance in last week’s German regional elections (first place in Thuringia and runners-up in Saxony) has evidently propelled the party to the top of the opinion polls in the state of Brandenburg.

The party received around a third of all votes in the elections on September 1st and, according to a recent survey, is set to do the same in another eastern state, Brandenburg, which is holding elections on September 22nd.

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