The parents of Bebe King and Elsie Dot Stancombe want the world to know what they were like — their joy, jokes and dreams — as they relive that awful July day
Elsie Dot Stancombe and Bebe King never knew one another, but their parents believe they were alike and could have been friends. They use the same words to describe their daughters: confident, happy, emotionally intelligent, enthusiastic, affectionate. Both girls cared deeply about others.
OTTAWA — As conflicts continue to erupt around the globe, a new survey suggests that Canadians are anxious about relationships between groups here at home — particularly between Muslim and Jewish Canadians.
The survey of 1,578 Canadians, conducted by Leger Marketing for the Association for Canadian Studies between Jan. 17 and 19, 2025, asked respondents for their perceptions of relations between Muslim, Jewish, Indigenous, white and other Canadians.
Across Canada, 43 per cent of respondents said the relationship between Muslim and Jewish Canadians was “bad.”
As expected the Islamist apologists are out in force …
Deborah Lyons, Canada’s special envoy on combating antisemitism, said in a media statement that public perceptions of the relationship between Canadian Muslims and Jews don’t always reflect real life. “In truth, these communities share far more in common than many assume, including resilience and perseverance in combating hate and discrimination,” Lyons said.
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“This may indeed be what Canadians think, but it reflects a false and widespread misconception that Israel-Palestine is fundamentally a religious conflict between Jews and Muslims, rather than a political issue about human rights and international law,” Bueckert said.
OTTAWA — Two federal cabinet ministers and several Liberal MPs have signed their names to a statement condemning as “ethnic cleansing” U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate Palestinians out of Gaza into neighbouring Arab countries.
Justice Minister Arif Virani and International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen say they also support their government’s response that Canada supports two states, Israel and Palestinian.
A man who briefly headed the Canadian Human Rights Commissioner has filed defamation lawsuits against the deputy Conservative leader, media personality Ezra Levant and a leading Jewish group for statements he claims “characterized him as an antisemitic, terrorist supporter.”
Birju Dattani claims in the lawsuits that during the summer of 2024 he became the subject of an online and media campaign. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman and Levant have been named as defendants in a set of three similar lawsuits.
Community groups say Canadians are scared as Trudeau warns hate crimes are rising
Zaid Al-Rawni is CEO of Naseeha Mental Health, an organization that operates a mental health hotline. He said his organization has seen a 600 per cent increase in distress calls in the past year.
“It’s causing them a lot of social anguish,” said Al-Rawni. He added that most of the hotline’s users are Muslim and many are feeling that their faith is being questioned by other Canadians.
No one has any questions about Islam. We know it’s a supremacist murder cult.
Israel’s version of SNL just released this skit about the Red Cross. pic.twitter.com/x7HBfNKV4S
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) February 6, 2025
h/t XC
A Canadian Islamic nonprofit organization, i3 Institute, has invited Mohammed Hijab, a controversial U.K.-based Islamist preacher and activist, to speak at its second “Reviving Roots” conference, titled “Reclaiming the Muslim Identity in a Secular World.” The conference is slated to be held in Burlington, roughly 35 miles from Toronto, in late February. Hijab spoke alongside twelve other speakers at a previous i3 conference that took place in Mississauga in 2023.
Mass deportation practically sells itself.
Civil servants should be wary of what the people they grant a seat at the table really believe
If you’ve been bewildered by the actions of certain British institutions of late, you’re probably not alone.
The discontent and distrust these bodies attribute to pervasive mis-and-disinformation is at least partly driven by a form of moral dislocation between the majority of the public, and the increasingly ideologically homogeneous professionals who scold them and manage their affairs.
An underplayed component of this ideological drift has been the role of domestic Islamism and its penetration of state and civil society institutions. In short: entryism, a tactic long associated with the hard left.
At a trial that begins on Tuesday in upstate New York, a district attorney will rise to tell the story of an attempt to murder a man in his seventies who was sitting on an amphitheatre stage four miles from the courthouse.
Jason Schmidt is known to be an accomplished prosecutor, quick on his feet, and even the most prosaic description of the alleged crime would be laced with drama. Yet it may be hard, in an opening statement, to match the account of the attack that has already been set down by one of the most famous writers of the age, who was also its victim.
Less than 24 hours after a man in Manchester was convicted of a hate crime for burning the Koran, news has emerged of the UK government’s plans for further restrictions on what can be said about Islam.
As the Telegraph reports, UK deputy prime minister Angela Rayner, in her role as communities secretary, is setting up a council to advise her on drawing up an official government definition of ‘Islamophobia’. Although it is presented in the language of tackling prejudice, discrimination and abuse faced by British Muslims, we can be certain that the government will attempt to ringfence criticism of Islam itself – and perhaps even of Islamic fundamentalism and extremism.
She is a lunatic.
A man was arrested at the weekend after allegedly burning a copy of the Koran – no, not in Iran or in Saudi Arabia, but in Manchester, in the UK. Apparently, it can now be a criminal offence in 21st-century Britain to express your distaste for a seventh-century religion.
The arrest followed a livestream on social media that appeared to show a 47-year-old man setting light to the Koran, page by page, on Saturday. This was just two days after Salwan Momika, an Iraqi atheist, was assassinated in Sweden, seemingly as punishment for burning copies of the Muslim holy book in public.
England ditched its blasphemy laws back in 2008. No longer would it be an offence to engage in ‘contemptuous, reviling, scurrilous or ludicrous’ speech concerning God. No longer would any poor soul be hauled off to jail, far less to the stocks, for the crime of profanity. So you can imagine my surprise when a man was arrested in Manchester on Saturday after desecrating a copy of the Quran. Was blasphemy snuck back on to the statute books without anyone noticing?
Over the past few weeks, politicians, journalists, and commentators have expressed outrage that gangs of mostly Pakistani Muslim men have been raping British girls for years—and that many have not been punished. Many in these institutions have had every opportunity to help shut down this abuse over the last two decades, but they’re only speaking out now because it’s safe to jump on the bandwagon.
To those who have finally found a conscience, I ask: Where were you 20, or even 10, years ago?
Because when I tried to tell the world about this scandal, no one wanted to listen.
STOCKHOLM, Feb 3 (Reuters) – Sweden’s government on Monday accused a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in Stockholm of being a platform for Iranian spying against Sweden and the Iranian diaspora.
Sweden’s Minister for Social Affairs said on X that the Swedish Security Service assessed that the Imam Ali Islamic Center in Stockholm was used by Iran as a platform to spy and conduct activities threatening security.
“This is extremely serious,” Jakob Forssmed said, and added that Sweden had stopped all state monetary aid to the centre. He added, without elaborating, that “an additional process” was under way.
And the Swedes were funding the mosque. Talk about an own goal.
The murder of notorious Quran burner Salwan Momika this week has shaken Sweden to its core. But this incident only tells part of the story of the brutal violence which has become increasingly commonplace in the Scandinavian country.
Just a day before the shooting of Momika, a relative of internationally wanted drug dealer Rawa Majid — also known as “The Kurdish Fox” — was killed in a suburb just outside Stockholm. This swiftly followed a suspected gang murder in the small university town of Lund, where a career criminal was gunned down by a 17-year-old at a train station. Yet the statistic which most shockingly lays bare the extent of Sweden’s descent into criminality is that there were over 30 bombings across the country in January alone — more than one a day.
Critics warn that a new executive order from Donald Trump’s administration purporting to “combat antisemitism”, and a corresponding fact sheet suggesting deporting international students who protest Israel, could chill political speech on campuses.
The fact sheet released before Trump signed the order on Wednesday quoted the president as saying: “To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you. I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.”
Mirrors common sense.
