Author: Blazingcatfur

On Teaching Muslim Kids in Austria – Tales from the Vienna ’hoods.

Kulturkampf im Klassenzimmer – Culture Battle in the Classroom

The Blackboard Jungle (1955), Up the Down Staircase (1967), Conrack (1974), Stand and Deliver (1988), Lean on Me (1989), Music of the Heart (1999), The Ron Clark Story (2006), The History Boys (2006), Freedom Writers (2007). These and plenty of other movies over the decades have told more or less the same story: idealistic teacher accepts job at tough inner-city high school, struggles to get through to the kids (who have troubled home lives and are indifferent to education), experiences disillusionment and even comes close to quitting, but ultimately succeeds – if only, perhaps, with one or two of the students.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Austria, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

How identity politics has revived racial thinking

Kenan Malik’s new book, Not So Black and White: A History of Race From White Supremacy to Identity Politics, lives up to its title. It dispenses with simplistic views of racism as a matter of privileged whites lording it over people of colour and gets to grips with its complex history.

Malik, a writer, lecturer and broadcaster, focuses on two key themes. First, the history of the concept of race, where he argues convincingly that race only emerged as an idea in the 18th century. Malik also counters the widespread assumption that race has always been understood in terms of skin colour. As he points out, there were times when the working class was also viewed as a race apart.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics"

Muslim Comedian Under Attack for Calling Out Grooming Behavior by Non-binary Creep Jeffrey Marsh

We tell our children not to talk to strangers online. Some of us put monitoring software on our child’s devices that will alert us to any messaging between minors and online predators. We are told this is good parenting. We are told that we should monitor our kids online and teach them about the predators out there who want to talk to them about sex and groom them to leave their families and meet strangers. Kids are victims of this type of grooming every day. Everyone remembers To Catch a Predator with Chris Hanson, right? The entire show revolved around an adult pretending to be a child online who gets messages from predators. They arrange to meet, then the predator shows up at the location to find Hanson and his camera crew waiting instead of a child.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"They really do want your children", WTF?

Trudeau’s Chinada on sidelines as U.S., Britain, Australia move ahead on new security deal

 

Experts are warning that, as the U.S., Britain and Australia move ahead on an expanded military pact, Canada’s omission from that group suggests a larger problem with how this country is perceived by its friends.

U.S. President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Australian leader Anthony Albanese were at a naval base in San Diego on Monday to confirm the next steps of the trilateral agreement, known as “AUKUS” after the three countries involved.

I do not believe it a stretch to think that Canada was excluded because the Trudeau government is riddled with ChiCom spy’s.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Anthony Furey: Three Years After the Pandemic Began, What Have We Learned?

When it comes to singling out the most ludicrous of pandemic restrictions that Canadians endured, the list of contenders is long. But there’s one that I continue to go back to as, if not the most ridiculous, then at least the most inhumane.

It was March 2021, and lockdowns had thankfully been lifted to some degree and schools were open at that point in Ontario. But I had been hearing from parents across the province that when a child in their kids’ class had tested positive for COVID-19, their child was sent home with some truly alarming guidelines.

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Ottawa’s plan for guns misfired. Alberta gun cultures might help us understand why

Jason Acorn was 12 years old when he first shot a deer.

He was in the McLeod River Valley area, far west of Edmonton. It was freezing cold, and snow was everywhere.

He remembers pouting, because his brother had just shot a deer and he hadn’t.

But then, just at last light, a small white-tailed doe, probably weighing about 100 pounds, appeared. Acorn’s father whispered to him: “OK, Jay. It’s your turn.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights

Joel Kotkin: Canada and the U.S. are not systemically racist — and the numbers prove it

As we talk about the future, we also need to confront the past. History, with all its complexities, defines our civilization, creating both cautionary tales and forging a common identity, which is particularly critical for relatively young and highly diverse countries.

Grifters of perpetual victimhood hardest hit.

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Carlos the Jackal ‘betrayed by CIA informer in his own ranks’

Four years before he vanished on a ferry in the Mediterranean, Bruno Breguet walked into a US embassy offering information on his paymaster, a Venezuelan called Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, but known the world over as Carlos the Jackal.

By the spring of 1991, the Swiss-born Breguet had risen to become a deputy leader for Sánchez in western Europe, with the Jackal in hiding in Damascus. Breguet, who was legally a resident of Ticino, Switzerland, often spent weeks at a time in the Syrian capital and was trusted by the world’s most wanted terrorist to run his operations.

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Why would FIFA want the Saudis to sponsor the Women’s World Cup?

The Kingdom is hardly a bastion of women’s rights

In July and August, Australia and New Zealand are hosts of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.

It could not be a better opportunity for the sport. Soccer in Australia at the professional level lags well behind Australian Rules Football and rugby league when it comes to profile and broadcast attention. And in New Zealand the round-ball game has a permanently uphill challenge to compete with the unofficial state religion, rugby. The tournament is therefore a huge deal for the two host associations — and the culmination of years of planning and hard work.

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Iranian police hunt girls who launched viral Selena Gomez dance trend

The girls defied a ban on public dancing and strict public dress codes mandating the wearing of headscarves

Iranian police are hunting for a group of girls who launched a viral Selena Gomez dance trend.

A video was posted online last week showing five young Iranian women performing a dance routine to the Afropop hit Calm Down by Rema and Selena Gomez.

The women danced without headscarves in front of tower blocks in Shahrak Ekbatan, a west Tehran housing development that has been a flashpoint of anti-government protests.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Iran, Islam, Islam and violence

Why parents need a Bill of Rights

As a former teacher, I find that transparency in education makes me a little nervous. Good! Parents carry the responsibility of raising their children, and they must be kept in the light. That is why a Parents Bill of Rights, introduced in many state legislatures and now before the U.S. House , is important.

I taught sixth graders at a charter school that served students from low-income families and created my own curriculum. We read about the Holocaust. I discussed themes in To Kill a Mockingbird. I assigned essays about Clarence Thomas. And I enforced strict rules; it took tough love to convince rowdy pre-teens that this 22-year-old was captaining the ship.

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Children as young as seven might be ‘mixed berry gender fluid muffins’, Welsh teachers told

Children as young as seven might be a “mixed berry gender fluid muffin”, teachers have been told in a sex education resource promoted by the Welsh Government.

The 170-page “Agenda” pamphlet, which has been promoted to all schools in Labour-run Wales, claims that biological sex “is not just ‘male’ and ‘female’” and lectures teachers on how some “want to change our gender pronouns (eg. from he to she) or want to be ‘agender’”, where they have no gender.

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