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The New York Times had to retract his story. This Queen’s professor stands behind him.

In December 2016, New York Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi travelled to Canada to meet Shehroze Chaudhry, an Oakville, Ontario man who claimed to have been a part of ISIS in Syria in 2014 before returning to Canada. Callimachi, a foreign correspondent who covered Al Qaeda and ISIS at the time, would turn Chaudhry’s story into the award-winning—and later largely retracted—podcast series, Caliphate. But in this moment, as she left Canada, she felt like Chaudhry simply needed someone to talk to.

She put him in touch with Mubin Shaikh, a counterterrorism and extremism expert. Shaikh then called Amar Amarasingam, an extremism expert and assistant professor at Queen’s School of Religion, to give Chaudhry more support. Amarasingam first spoke to Chaudhry on Dec. 8, 2016 and told The Journal they’ve been “in touch ever since, on and off.”

The Prof is as big a bullshitter as the jihadi wannabe.

by Blazingcatfur•March 27, 2021March 26, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Sharing the identity of a teacher who showed pupils cartoon of cult idol Muhammad could result in police action

Sharing the identity of a teacher who showed pupils an “offensive” cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad could result in police action, a watchdog has warned.

Protests were held outside Batley Grammar School, where the staff member was suspended after complaints.

Baroness Kishwer Falkner said making a teacher fear for their safety was “simply unacceptable”.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission chair said the school “ought to be trusted” to take action.

Diversity.

by Blazingcatfur•March 27, 2021March 26, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

Fired USA Today Editor Deflects From Wrongdoing, Alleges ‘White Supremacy’

A USA Today “race and inclusion” editor was fired this week for using her professional Twitter account to report flagrant disinformation in the wake of a mass shooting. In response, she wrote a lengthy Medium post that briefly admitted “regret” for her “careless error in judgement” but focused mostly on how the corporate press is allegedly “subservient to white authority.”

by Blazingcatfur•March 27, 2021March 26, 2021•0•Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists

Covid vaccine: Social media urged to remove ‘disinfo dozen’

Facebook, Twitter and Google have been urged by a US lawmaker to ban a dozen people who it is claimed are spreading the vast majority of disinformation about Covid vaccinations.

Representative Mike Doyle made the call to remove their accounts during a US congressional session on how the three firms were dealing with fake news.

He challenged Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Sundar Pinchai to deplatform the dozen people immediately.

None have responded to the call so far.

by Blazingcatfur•March 27, 2021March 26, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Facebook pledges $8 million for journalism in Canada days before top exec to testify before MPs

Facebook has announced $8 million for journalism in Canada ahead of a hearing at a parliamentary committee next week where the company is expected to face questions about its decision to block users from sharing news in Australia.

The money comes amid a global push by governments and news organizations to make big tech giants like Facebook and Google pay for news that ends up on their platforms.

In a statement on Friday, the company said the cash would go toward extending the Facebook-Canadian Press News Fellowship through to 2024, a boost for the country’s news wire service.

by Blazingcatfur•March 27, 2021March 26, 2021•0•facebook, facebook is evil

Ontario reports 2,453 new Covid cases … no one ever expects to be “collateral damage’

Ontario reports 2,453 new COVID-19 cases and 16 more deaths; hospitalizations continue to rise

Ontario reported more than 2,000 new COVID-19 cases for a third day in a row, as hospitalizations hit a high not seen since early February.

Provincial health officials logged 2,453 new COVID-19 infections on Saturday and 16 additional deaths.

Today marks the highest single-day case count since Jan.22 when 2,662 were reported.

COVID-19’s collateral damage: What happens when Canadians with other illnesses miss out on medical care?

By the time Pedro Gomez Marin met the surgeon who would remove his oral cancer and rebuild his jaw, the tumour in his neck was nearly as big as a golf ball.

The mass had ballooned since Mr. Gomez Marin, a retired owner of a landscaping and snow removal business, first noticed a bump that felt like a small nut three months earlier. The 71-year-old, who goes by Peter, needed major surgery right away.

“[The surgeon] told me that this type of cancer Peter has is quite an aggressive, fast-moving cancer. It has already spread into the bone in his jaw,” said Karen Leahy-Gomez, Peter’s wife of nearly 40 years.

by Blazingcatfur•March 27, 2021March 27, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

MSNBC Spreads Anti-Gun Propaganda While Smearing Conservatives

On Wednesday afternoon, MSNBC host Katy Tur used her show to to misinform viewers about gun violence while wrongly accusing gun rights advocates of spreading “lies.”

After alluding to some of the gun control laws that have been passed in Colorado in the past decade, Tur allowed Colorado Democratic State Senator Rhonda Fields to complain that her state’s residents could still get guns from Wyoming or Utah without offering any evidence that this has happened in any recent shooting.

by Blazingcatfur•March 27, 2021March 26, 2021•0•Gun Control, Gun Rights, The Media Lies

More cases of concerning Brazil P.1 variant confirmed in Vancouver lab than entire U.S.

A team of researchers at St. Paul’s Hospital first detected an entire cluster of cases of the P.1 variant – most commonly associated with Brazil – that were previously unknown earlier this month. In subsequent days, they’ve found even more. As of Friday at noon, they revealed they’ve discovered a total of 215 of the P.1 variant through their screening, a number not yet reported by provincial officials.

“At St. Paul’s Hospital we’ve actually identified more P.1 variants than the entire United States,” said. Dr. Marc Romney, co-author and medical leader of the microbiology and virology department at the facility. “This is concerning because P.1 is associated with immune evasion.”

by Blazingcatfur•March 27, 2021March 26, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Press Conference Confirmation — The US Is Now Like China and the CCP, a Nation Run by a Party and Not an Elected Leader

This has not exactly been a secret, if you have been paying attention for the last 8 months.

But Joe Biden’s performance in the press conference on Thursday — which took place ONLY because Democrat party-supporting media organizations had begun to question why he had not yet appeared in a press conference setting since the inaugural — confirmed the unspoken truth: that Joe Biden is only a prop, not the leader of the free world.

by Blazingcatfur•March 27, 2021March 26, 2021•0•"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden", USA

Google exposes nine-month counter-terror hacking op by ‘friendly’ government, raising questions about what makes an ally

A Google hacking team has exposed — and shut down — an expert counterterrorism hacking operation by a supposed US ally. While the report hid most details, it raised troubling questions on what constitutes an ally in cyberspace.

The tech giant’s Project Zero and Threat Analysis Group hacking teams uncovered and ultimately put an end to a counter-terrorism operation being run by a US ally, according to MIT Tech Review, which detailed the internal struggle at Google over whether to publicize the incident and what it implied for future cyber-espionage

by Blazingcatfur•March 27, 2021March 26, 2021•0•Espionage, USA

Whites Excluded, Illegal Aliens Qualify for Oakland‘s $500 Month Payouts

Oakland, California, Mayor Libby Schaaf (D) announced a program that offers poor minority families $500 a month. Poor white families are excluded for the sin of being white. However, illegal aliens qualify.

Per the Daily Mail, “An estimated 10,000 of Oakland’s 435,000 population are white residents who live in poverty,” but they will receive nothing, and only because they are white.

by Blazingcatfur•March 27, 2021March 26, 2021•0•Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists

California can no longer detain people because they can’t pay bail

California’s highest court has ruled that judges in the state will have to consider a suspect’s ability to pay when they set bail, a major decision that essentially requires that those who can’t afford bail be freed unless they are deemed too dangerous to be released awaiting trial.

“The common practice of conditioning freedom solely on whether an arrestee can afford bail is unconstitutional,” the justices said in a unanimous decision on Thursday.

Just what California needed!

by Blazingcatfur•March 27, 2021March 26, 2021•0•California, Crime

Pete Buttigieg says the Biden administration is considering taxing drivers by the MILE to fund their $3trillion climate-friendly infrastructure proposal

The White House is mulling a tax on vehicles’ mileage to pay for a proposal to revamp the nation’s infrastructure expected in the coming days, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on Friday.

In an interview with CNBC, Buttigieg said a tax on miles driven ‘shows a lot of promise,’ as President Joe Biden’s administration faces pressure to find ways to fund infrastructure improvements, a goal that has eluded the past two presidential administrations.

‘The gas tax used to be the obvious way to do it. It’s not anymore, so a so-called vehicle miles traveled tax or mileage tax, whatever you want to call, could be a way to do it.’

by Blazingcatfur•March 27, 2021March 26, 2021•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", USA, WTF?

Sajjan was involved in Vance pay raise, top civil servant says

A top civil servant contradicted Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan’s denial of any role in awarding former chief of defence staff Jonathan Vance a pay raise after the Prime Minister’s Office and Mr. Sajjan were made aware of sexual misconduct allegations against him.

Janine Sherman, who as a deputy secretary to the cabinet is one of the most senior civil servants in the federal government, appeared at the House of Commons defence committee Friday. Citing privacy rules, she declined to answer many questions about the allegations and the government’s response, prompting an NDP MP to compare her responses to a “culture of denial and deflection” within the public service.

by Blazingcatfur•March 27, 2021March 27, 2021•0•Canada, WTF?

San Francisco schools oust vice president for ‘harmful’ tweets about Asians

A San Francisco school board official under fire for racist tweets against Asian Americans has been ousted from her position after she refused to resign.

Alison Collins, who is black, was stripped of her role Thursday as vice president of the San Francisco Board of Education in a 5-2 vote of no confidence, the board announced in a statement.

by Blazingcatfur•March 27, 2021March 26, 2021•0•"Cancel Culture", Batshit Crazy Progressive Hypocrites, Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists