Author: Blazingcatfur

This is Joseph of @israel_advocacy commenting on Mohammed Hijab & Ali Dawah marching in London. Hijab orders the police inspector not to get his 'haram' dogs out because they will kill them.

They march to Speaker's Corner chanting, "we'll find some Jews, we want their blood.… pic.twitter.com/qd5RM4BvZ5

— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) October 16, 2023

Markham Public Library apologized on Monday for an employee email posted online that suggested it was going to take down Islamic Heritage Month displays.

According to images shared on social media of the email, Markham Public Library (MPL) was going to pull the displays due to the situation in the Middle East.

“The email is inaccurate,” Catherine Biss, CEO of the library, said in a statement. “Markham Public Library regrets this occurred and we apologize for any confusion or hurt this has caused the community.”

Over the last few years, I have engaged in continual dialogue with people across the spectrum of Islam, from Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who left her religious upbringing behind, through to moderates such as Mustafa Akyol and Hamza Yusuf, and even some of the more hardline commentators whose perspectives are popular among Muslim millennials in the UK.

I have done this because I believe that Jews, Christians and Muslims share more in common than what divides them, and because I know that since there is no such thing as a world without religion, we must do what is best with what we have been bequeathed.

In scenes eerily reminiscent of the dystopian film Children of Men, the ethnoreligious tinderbox that Europe has become was on full display over the weekend as massive numbers of pro-Palestinian demonstrators flooded the streets of its major cities. Protesters demanded a halt to Israel’s military operations in Gaza that came in reaction to the rampage last weekend by Islamist militant group Hamas.

Across the continent and beyond—in Germany, Sweden, Poland, the UK, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and elsewhere—tens of thousands of livid, and sometimes violent protesters occupied squares and streets, in some cases in defiance of bans on demonstrations.

Bodycam film of Hamas filth entering Kibbutz Kissufim.
Shoots the family dog dead before then torching the home.
Pure murderous and destructive evil.. pic.twitter.com/fgvh2mT988

— Versatile (@Versati51739827) October 9, 2023

WE ARE told that to learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise. The British people now know who rules over them, and it is not the British people.

The appalling events last weekend when Hamas terrorists broke into Israel slaughtering any Jews they could find, infants and elderly, men and women, individuals and families, evoked revulsion across the world. Except in certain quarters.

After the Holocaust, academics and others tried to make sense of the murder of six million Jews. Historians pointed to the rise of nationalism following the First World War; the dismal state of the German economy when Hitler rose to power; the dehumanising abstraction of Enlightenment rationality. Some rabbis argued that the Holocaust was a punishment from God, but they could not agree on why it was merited. Was it because the Jews of Europe sought to found a state of their own? Or because they didn’t? Others more prudently followed Wittgenstein’s observation: “That of which we cannot speak, we must consign to silence.”

Let’s do a thought experiment. Think of the group whom you find most dangerous or otherwise objectionable. It might be a political group on the left or right. It might be campaigners for a particular cause—Black Lives Matter, say, or a far-right activist group. In my case, that would include transgender activists and allies, especially those working to transition children and minors.

Now, imagine that some armed and angry people who share your antipathy to that group took up weapons and slaughtered over 1,000 of them in a single morning. Imagine that it kidnapped their children and was holding them hostage. How would you react?

Don't you dare forget who started this war. Don't you dare forget how Hamas crossed every red line. pic.twitter.com/fJOzgFAWZn

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) October 16, 2023