Five years after Montreal city hall removed a crucifix, it has reopened an image of a woman with a hijab, prompting criticism from some, and support from others.
Visitors to city call now encounter the message “Bienvenue à L’Hotel de Ville de Montréal“ in an image two metres high. The picture includes a sketch of a young man wearing a hoodie and ballcap, a woman wearing a hijab, and a male senior citizen.
A new constituency of antisemitic voters has arisen during the past year—the pro-Hamas protesters who have been using “Zionist” as a codeword for Jew, who have been brandishing signs calling for a “Final Solution.” Are those the voters candidates should court?
We’re accustomed to politicians courting the Black Vote, or the Jewish Vote, or the Youth Vote. But what about the Antisemitic Vote?
CNN correspondent John King asserted on July 21 that “there could be some risks” for Kamala Harris if she chooses Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as her running mate because “he’s Jewish.”
In other words, antisemitic voters would not cast their ballots for a Harris-Shapiro ticket. That may be true. The question is whether courting the votes of bigots should be an acceptable political strategy.
Same in Canada, Britain, France, Germany etc. etc. etc.
The threat of IS has been growing; not just in Europe, but the rest of the world too. This year, there has been an increasing number of foiled plots and threats that are coming from Islamic State networks in Africa. Proof of this came on Tuesday when the US Treasury sanctioned Isis networks across Africa, specifically in Somalia and Mozambique.
It is already the case in the UK. Looking at the situation in Britain’s government, one can only ask: Where does it go from here?
Looking at England today, Paul Verlaine would rewrite: “Je suis l’Empire à la fin de la décadence”.
The great Jewish historian David Abulafia writes in The Telegraph that the “survival of the United Kingdom as a beacon of freedom” is at risk. The warning of one of the leading experts on the Middle Ages should not go unnoticed.
After 14 years of Conservative flop, Labour’s long flop begins.
Once upon a time, this country shipped oil, gas, lumber, cars and fish to the world.
That seems to have changed.
Now, the latest commodity we’re exporting seems to be terrorism.
A scrum of disappointed tourists stared, wistfully, through the maze of metal fences lining the River Seine. Ahead of them, Notre Dame cathedral and other Parisian treasures lay, tantalisingly, out of reach.
“We don’t have a code,” said a woman from Mexico, watching others – armed with the requisite QR security code – pass, with an approving beep, through a police checkpoint.
Further downstream, beside the Eiffel Tower, a weary couple trailing large suitcases performed a slow U-turn on a crowded pavement.
What a grotesque state of affairs.
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside a Rochdale police station overnight and chanted “Allahu Akbar” after an armed officer was filmed apparently stamping on a man’s head at Manchester Airport.
A Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officer has been suspended after appearing to kick and stamp a man during the incident on Wednesday, footage of which was widely shared online.
Screams of "allahu akbar" as mobs of Muslims surround the police station in the notorious "grooming gang" town of Rochdale threatening violence if their "brothers" aren't released after they broke a female police officer's nose at Manchester Airport.
"Authorites" cowed. pic.twitter.com/GBuaWpGBW7
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) July 25, 2024
A flash mob of Cousins attended Rochdale Police station in support of the arrested Airport Cousins.
They’re organised, they vote as one and they hate us all.
Only Idiots wouldn’t have seen this coming! pic.twitter.com/Akj8qK5oLh
— Deport Foreign Criminals (@peterstopcrime) July 25, 2024
Why can't all police be like the ones at Manchester Airport? pic.twitter.com/jBeZLzNg5k
— David Halliwell (@D_Halliwell95) July 24, 2024
Canada’s acceptance of Palestinian refugees from Gaza is setting off alarm bells south of the border.
In a letter Wednesday to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, United States Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) expressed concern over the program, which he warned could lead to an increased risk of allowing individuals with ties to terror groups easy access to the United States.
h/t DS
A court in Germany has ruled that there is no longer a general danger to all civilians in Syria, and that a convicted Syrian people smuggler can legally be deported to his home country. The ruling could significantly impact deportation cases, because the German government has so far classified Syria as an unsafe country of origin and rejects deporting failed asylum seekers there.
Teachers are quitting schools in Vienna in droves, with up to 20 teachers quitting per day due to the extremely stressful environments featuring mostly migrant children, many of whom do not speak German or very little German.
According to a study by the Austrian Statistical Office, around 70 percent of school-age children in Vienna do not speak German in their everyday life. Now, the rise of mass immigration has created growing problems in the Austrian school system, with the Vienna school system threatening to collapse.
The terrorist attack by a Canadian man attempting to stab guards outside of a town in southern Israel is being called a “wake-up call” over growing antisemitic extremism in Canada, and a warning sign of what happens when it is left unchecked.
Anjem Choudary, the notorious Islamist preacher, is facing life in jail after he was found guilty of directing a terrorist organisation following an unprecedented joint investigation by MI5, Scotland Yard, the New York Police Department and Canadian police.
Choudary, 57, was released early from a five-year sentence for inviting support for Isis in October 2018 but his licence conditions prevented him from using the internet until July 2021.
Update – Canadian gas station attendant and British preacher convicted in U.K. terrorism case
… Ms. Moreland was asked why Mr. Hussein wasn’t arrested and charged in Canada. She said each national investigation was at a different stage in 2023, but Mr. Hussein’s trip to London presented an opportunity to have him arrested in Britain and face charges under its terrorism legislation. Unlike the U.K., neither ALM nor ITS is banned in Canada.
Canada is a “Don’t Offend The Muslims Zone”
Part of Saidakrami Rajabalizoda’s ear appeared to have been cut off and shoved in his mouth.
The gory scene was filmed by his captors, likely Russian security services, the day after the deadliest terrorist attack in Russia in decades.
Still bleeding through a white bandage wrapped around his head, Mr Rajabalizoda was soon trotted out in a Moscow court as one of the alleged perpetrators.
The authorities talk of “involuntary destruction by fire”: I suspect that these fires have the same source as the desecrated cemeteries and synagogue burnings of Bondy, Clichy, Trappes and many other Jewish places of worship in France.
November 24, 2018: Pontoise Cathedral burns.
February 6, 2019: Lavaur Cathedral burns.
March 18, 2019: the cathedral-basilica of Saint-Sulpice burns.
April 15, 2019: Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris burns.
June 12, 2020: Rennes cathedral burns.
July 18, 2020: Nantes Cathedral burns.
Six great cathedrals of France set on fire.
Ever since October 7, Biden has been doing his best to put the brakes on Israel’s efforts against Hamas. By doing so, he turned what should have been a short war that destroyed a tyrannical enemy and probably freed the Gazans as much as it did the Israelis into a long war with a higher-than-necessary death toll on both sides. He did this to placate the pro-Hamas wing of the Democrat party, especially the voters in Dearborn, Michigan. However, his deadly efforts have failed. Dearborn hates Biden.
