Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Immigration, Islam, and Christopher Hitchens

“What I have found in the book is strong enough to suggest that there is a correlation between mass migration from Muslim-majority countries and the increase in sexual violence.”

On May 11th, Merion West’s Vahaken Mouradian spoke with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, New York Times bestselling author of Infidel, about her latest book—Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights. After escaping forced marriage and requesting asylum in the Netherlands, Ms. Hirsi Ali has been a politician, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the subject of campus protest and disinvitation long before the practice became fashionable. She is one of the most prominent and eloquent apostates from and critics of political Islam.

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What Really Is Behind the Latest Burst of Hamas Terror in Israel

What Really Is Behind the Latest Burst of Hamas Terror in Israel

Like all wars, the real causes are many and lie below the surface.

The media of our day always coalesce around a narrative that fits their preconceived worldview. When viewed in a light that “Palestinians” all are “Victims of Color” and that all Israelis are White Supremacists or their next of kin, it is easy to misjudge the Mideast reality underlying present conflict coming from Gaza. That narrative thus preaches that Jews with legally valid property rights in the eastern portion of United Jerusalem are not entitled to advance their legal claims to oust trespassers, Arab or otherwise, from their homes. That same line of reasoning proposes that supposed Israeli belligerence lies beneath the barrage of some 2,000 rockets launched from Gaza and aimed by Hamas at Israel’s civilian population from Ashdod and Ashkelon to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

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Meghan and Harry face questions over deal with firm which sells skin-whitening cream

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are facing questions over their partnership with a brand which sells skin-whitening creams, it is reported.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex last week announced a multi-year global partnership with Procter & Gamble.

But since news of the deal emerged, P&G’s sale of Olay skin-lightening creams has been brought to people’s attention.

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Natural Virus or Lab Experiment Gone Wrong?

Natural Virus or Lab Experiment Gone Wrong?

Nicholas Wade has been writing important science journalism for decades. I’ve blogged about one of his books, Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science, which was published back in 1982.

Two weeks ago, Wade penned a lengthy essay, Origin of Covid – Following the Clues. It also appears online under the title The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?

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Supreme Court Agrees to Take on Major Abortion Case

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take a major abortion case and would consider Mississippi’s appeal of a lower court ruling that reversed a ban on most abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

The case will grant the Supreme Court the opportunity to reconsider landmark abortion rulings including Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. With Roe v. Wade, in a ruling that was derided by conservatives and religious adherents, the high court in 1973 ruled that a woman had a right to an abortion and reaffirmed it about 20 years later.

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South Carolina: new law makes inmates choose firing squad or electric chair

The governor of South Carolina, Henry McMaster, has quietly signed into law a bill that requires inmates on death row to choose between a firing squad or the electric chair if lethal injection is not available.

The law, signed without ceremony on Friday, comes amid a shortage of lethal injection drugs that has affected the state’s ability to implement capital punishment. South Carolina has not executed any prisoners since 2011.

Prisoners have chosen death by legal injection, leading to the halt in executions. The new law will put prisoners back in line to be killed by the state.

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Sen. Rubio to 60 Minutes: UFO presence should be taken as serious threat ahead of Pentagon report

Sen. Rubio to 60 Minutes: UFO presence should be taken as serious threat ahead of Pentagon report

Sen. Marco Rubio said during an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” that so-called “UFOs” are a real subject that can’t be ignored by lawmakers any longer because they pose a serious threat to U.S. national security.

Rubio’s comments to the television news magazine follow an eyebrow-raising report last week during a segment on Fox News’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” The host featured a video clip captured by sailors aboard a U.S. Navy warship in the summer of 2019 showing an “unidentified aerial phenomenon,” or UAP, as they are now called, being tracked for a distance above the ocean before disappearing into the water.

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Anti-Israel protests in Germany prompt calls for antisemitism crackdown

Politicians in Germany have called for tougher measures against antisemitism after thousands of people attended what became aggressive protests at the weekend in connection with the escalating violence in the Middle East.

In the most violent protest, in the southern Berlin district of Neukölln, demonstrators who had gathered to show solidarity with Palestinians burned Israeli flags, chanted anti-Israel slogans and flew Hamas banners.

“We are experiencing antisemitic protests and despicable hatred towards Jews in these days, which makes it vital that we take on antisemitism much more decisively,” Paul Ziemiak, the general secretary of the Christian Democrats, told German media.

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FUREY: Let’s face it, Ontario’s stay-at-home order is effectively over

FUREY: Let’s face it, Ontario’s stay-at-home order is effectively over

There was one event in particular that I watched unfold over the weekend that signalled to me the death knell, in practical terms, of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s controversial “stay-at-home” order.

Yes, there were a number of dead giveaways that highlighted just how many Ontarians weren’t following the rules as much as Ford, Dr. David Williams and Solicitor General Sylvia Jones would have liked.

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Responsibility for the Latest Upsurge in Arab-Israeli Violence Goes to US President Joe Biden

Responsibility for the Latest Upsurge in Arab-Israeli Violence Goes to US President Joe Biden

Full responsibility for the latest upsurge in Arab-Israeli violence goes to US President Joe Biden as a result of the policies of appeasement and capitulation he has pursued in the Middle East.

When Mr Biden took office in January, the Middle East was enjoying one of its rare moments of optimism, mainly due to the successful approach adopted by his predecessor, President Donald J. Trump.

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Twitter suspends user for saying a man cannot get pregnant

Twitter suspends user for saying a man cannot get pregnant

If you don’t live in Spain and you’ve never heard of Francisco José Contreras, you’re to be forgiven. He’s not exactly a household name in international politics. But he’s an elected official who serves as a deputy in Spain’s Vox party, so he has a voice that carries some weight in Spanish politics. That voice disappeared from Twitter for the better part of a day recently, however. The Twitter lords deemed that one of Contreras’ tweets represented hate speech and suspended his account until he agreed to delete it.

Twitter is a pile of shit.

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The lone detective and the Barry and Honey Sherman murder case

For the last three and a half years, five days a week, Detective-Constable Dennis Yim of the Toronto police homicide squad sits at his computer, either at police headquarters or his home due to pandemic restrictions. He starts early in the morning, puts in his shift, repeats the next day, looking through data and documents for a proverbial needle in a haystack.

He’s the lone full-time investigator on the high-profile murders of billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman.

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Kim Potter, charged in Daunte Wright shooting to appear in court

A former suburban Minneapolis police officer charged with second-degree manslaughter for fatally shooting the 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright is scheduled to appear in court via videoconference on Monday.

The former Brooklyn Center officer Kim Potter, who is white, has an omnibus hearing, also known as a pre-trial hearing, on Monday afternoon in Hennepin county district court. The purpose of such a hearing is to go over evidence and determine if there is probable cause for the case to proceed.

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