Author: Blazingcatfur

‘No Shakespeare’ without Islam?

Pity the Bard of Avon. William Shakespeare has long been the subject of conspiracy theories, including some emanating from the Muslim world. Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi claimed in 1989 that Shakespeare was an Arab whose real name was “Sheikh Zabir.” Turkish conspiracy theorist Kadir Mısıroğlu made news in 2016 by claiming that “Shakespeare was not English and his original name is ‘Sheikh Pir.’ Even more, he was a secret Muslim.”

The latest salvo from the grassy knoll of literary criticism came last month from TRT World — an Ankara-based Islamist outlet controlled by Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) — in an article by Nadia Khan declaring absurdly that “there would have been no Shakespeare were it not for Islam.”

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

‘He bought me like a chicken’: Islam & slavery in Niger

What a shitty neighbourhood.

It’s sex trafficking. In Islam, prostitution and sex outside marriage are sins … it’s legitimate from a traditional and religious-legal perspective – Dr Benedetta Rossi

Al-Husseina Amadou never forgets the day she was sold. Like her parents, she was born into slavery in southern Niger. Forty-five years ago, when she was 15, a wealthy businessman from across the border in Nigeria arrived and bought her from her family’s master as a “fifth wife” or wahaya.

“My parents had no say,” she recalls. “I was just a girl and he bought me like a chicken in the market. When I left with him, I was crying with my mother.”

For 15 years Amadou lived with her “husband” in northern Nigeria, cooking and cleaning for his four “official” wives, whom he had married in accordance with Islamic law, and their children, while also working in their fields and tending their livestock.

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

What happens to US fighters captured in Ukraine?

Much of what passes as ‘justice’ in wartime is meted out by the victor

Alex Drueke and Andy Huynh are two former American military members now in Russian custody, captured by the Russians in Ukraine, where they were fighting for the Ukrainian government. What is going to happen to them?

The most likely thing is that both men will eventually be traded to the US in return for captured Russians. Prisoners are very valuable and rarely wasted in executions unless those carry much more value than the prisoners held by the other side. The deal may be public or secret, and the US can expect to pay a premium. Israel usually releases ten or more Palestinian prisoners in exchange for one of its captured troops.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Media outlets wait for August court decision on Coutts, Alta. warrant details

A decision on whether or not media outlets can obtain and publish information in a redacted version of four Coutts, Alta., blockade search warrants is scheduled for Aug. 26.

Thirteen people were arrested and charged with various weapons and mischief offences after an RCMP raid revealed a cache of weapons, ammunition and body armour near the Coutts border blockade site on Feb. 14. Christopher Lysak, Anthony Olienick, Jerry Mitchell Morin and Chris Carbert are also each charged with conspiracy to commit murder against RCMP officers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

We hate the monarchy but love the Queen: Surprising results from one of the biggest-ever polls of Canadians

… Concern for climate change goes right out the window when gas prices are high

Climate change also ranked pretty high as a national threat. Although the issue failed to chart among Conservative and PPC voters, it scored a number one spot among Liberals, and NDP and Bloc Québécois voters. But concern over a warming climate seems to magically disappear when that same poll respondent is gassing up their SUV. Voters for every single party lent majority support to the idea that “Canada should use its natural resources to reduce energy costs for Canadians” — basically, that we should pump as much oil as possible to bring down fuel costs. The “keep it in the ground” camp, meanwhile, only managed 35 per cent support.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

RCMP Earns Tonton Macoute Badge: New Documents Reveal Second RCMP Staffer’s Email Shows Trudeau, Blair & Lucki Are Liars

2nd RCMP staffer suggests commissioner under political pressure after N.S. mass shooting

… Lia Scanlan, former communications director for the Nova Scotia RCMP, wrote in a scathing email to Lucki that during the April 28, 2020, meeting she attended with the commissioner and senior Nova Scotia officers, Lucki informed the group of “the pressures and conversation with [then public safety] minister Blair,” which the group clearly understood was related to upcoming gun control legislation.

“I remember a feeling of disgust as I realized this was the catalyst for the conversation,” Scanlan said in her email dated April 14, 2021, about a year after the shooting.

“I could not believe what you, the leader of our organization, was saying and I was embarrassed to be privy to what was unfolding. It was appalling, unprofessional and extremely belittling.”

I think anyone arrested by the RCMP should consider themselves captives of a private mercenary army.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, RCMP

2 suspects killed, 6 police officers injured in shootout at bank in Saanich, B.C.

Six police officers are in hospital with gunshot wounds and two suspects have been killed following an attempted bank robbery in Saanich, B.C., on Tuesday.

As of Tuesday afternoon, police continue to ask people in the area of North Dairy Road to Cedar Hill Cross Road, and between Richmond Road to Cedar Hill Road, to shelter in place as heavily armed officers search for a possible third suspect.

Multiple officers from Saanich Police, VicPD, and the Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team (GVERT) responded to the report of armed suspects at a bank in the 3600-block of Shelbourne Street around 11 a.m.

This seems odd for a Canadian bank robbery, shootouts are as rare as dead bank robbers.

So was it drugs that motivated such a suicidal commitment by the robbers or were they following a higher calling and this is linked to the Coastal gas terrorists?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime, WTF?

This Cup Won’t Runneth: Over Inflated projections of what the World Cup will bring to U.S. cities help explain ever-growing taxpayer sports subsidies.

One of the most persistent myths about taxpayer investments in sports is that pumping public money into stadiums and arenas or hosting big international events generates enormous economic returns for communities. We got another repeat of that fairytale recently, when mayors and governors around the country touted the benefits that the World Cup would bring if soccer’s international governing body named them as host cities for the 2026 North American tournament. The fantastical sums thrown about—at a time when NFL franchises are asking cities to pony up for the next generation of subsidized stadiums—are a reminder that the public purse is never off-limits to popular pursuits like sports.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Bread and Circuses"

Pennsylvania Drag Queen Who Performed For Children Charged With 25 Counts Of Child Pornography

Brice Patric Ryschon Williams – WTF is this thing?

A Pennsylvania drag queen was charged with 25 counts of child pornography, according to a criminal docket issued Thursday.

Brice Patric Ryschon Williams was charged with 25 counts of child pornography and 18 counts of criminal use of a communications facility. The bail is set at $100,000 and Williams is unable to post bail, according to the docket.

h/t CK

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny, WTF?

Iran’s Plan to Foil Israeli-Arab Normalization and to Keep Expanding the Revolution

Iran and its terrorist proxies have intensified their efforts to sabotage US President Joe Biden’s upcoming visit to the Middle East, which is scheduled to take place in mid-July.

The effort to sabotage the visit comes amid reports that Biden will try to advance Israel-Saudi relations and broker a military alliance between Israel and a number of Arab countries to confront the threats and terror by Iran and its proxies.

According to the reports, Biden is planning to form a regional conference in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The coalition will include the US, Israel, and some Arab countries, including Gulf states, Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq. “The new alliance is intended to contain Iran and, in the first stage, will be based on an air defense system against Iranian missiles and attack drones and cyber security measures,” said Prof. Eytan Gilboa, an expert on US-Israel relations.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

Record spending isn’t helping Canada’s Indigenous people

If spending more on Indigenous issues led to actual improvements in the lives of Indigenous people, then their lives would be much better by now.

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals came to power in 2015, federal spending on Indigenous issues was $11.4 billion annually.

According to Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s latest budget, it’s estimated at $27.4 billion this year — an increase in nominal dollars (not accounting for inflation) of 140% in seven years.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canada’s Reputation Put at Risk After Feds Escalated Actions Against Convoy Protests, Says Former Ambassador, Sergeant-at-Arms

As scenes emerged of police confronting the Freedom Convoy protesters in Ottawa in February, Kevin Vickers, a former House of Commons sergeant-at-arms and Canada’s ambassador to Ireland from
2015 to 2019, started receiving messages from his international contacts about what was happening in Canada.

“I think those images, whether they’re benign or whatever, are certainly something that will come back to haunt us,” Vickers, who as sergeant-at-arms famously helped subdue Parliament Hill attacker and killer Michael Zehaf-Bibeau in 2014, told The Epoch Times.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government