The U.S. Supreme Court turned away on Monday a Canadian former Guantanamo Bay detainee’s bid to vacate his convictions for the 2002 murder of an American soldier in Afghanistan and other crimes he committed at age 15 to which he later pleaded guilty.
The justices declined to hear an appeal by Omar Khadr, now age 37, of a lower court’s refusal to hear his case on the grounds that he had waived his right to appellate review as part of a 2010 plea agreement before a U.S. military commission.
Two prison guards were killed in a spectacular attack on a prison van Tuesday by a commando tasked with freeing Mohamed Amra, a figure linked to drug trafficking and gang-related crime, during his transfer. The tragedy is a shocking illustration of the explosion of the drug trade revealed in a senate report, the release of which coincided with the attack.
The German government’s laissez-faire approach to Islamism has moved the problem into a taboo zone that has strengthened the Islamists.
More than a thousand Islamic extremists recently marched through the streets of Hamburg, Germany’s second-largest city, demanding that the European Union’s most populous and powerful country be reconstituted as an Islamic state governed by sharia. The demonstration, organized by a fast-growing Islamist group called Muslim Interaktiv, was allowed to proceed after left-wing parties in Hamburg’s legislature rejected a petition by right-wing parties to prohibit the event.
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Lawyers are questioning Canada’s approach to screening visa applications for people in Gaza with extended family in Canada after one applicant, a medical worker, was asked whether he had treated members of Hamas.
The Canadian Press obtained a redacted letter sent to the applicant by a Canadian immigration officer, which asks if he has “ever provided medical care to injured Hamas members.” If he has not, the letter asks him to say how he was able to refuse “without consequences.”
Kelly O’Connor, an immigration lawyer in Toronto, said she gasped out loud when she saw the text. Any medical worker who denies care to someone hurt in a war zone is committing a “serious breach of the Geneva Convention,” she said in an interview.
No Gazans should be admitted to Canada.
Earlier this month, the Biden administration floated a trial balloon, suggesting “senior officials across several federal U.S. agencies have discussed the practicality of different options to resettle Palestinians from Gaza who have immediate family members who are American citizens or permanent residents.”
Justin is no doubt enthralled.
“It started with a fellow pupil saying ‘Heil Hitler’ to my son – in the classroom, the school corridor and the playground.” Sarah’s* teenage child didn’t want to go to school the day after this happened. “He was very upset,” she says. “He was also worried about reporting it and being seen as a snitch. There are incidents all the time and it’s not a nice environment for him.”
Sarah’s son attends a state secondary school in Surrey. As a Jewish pupil, he had experienced one incident of anti-Semitism there before Oct 7 last year. But since Hamas’s terror attack on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza, the British schoolboy has found himself at the sharp end of an escalation in anti-Semitic abuse from his peers, some of whom have taken to incorporating the word “Jew” into his name.
TDSB investigating incident of alleged antisemitism at North York school following community rally
The Toronto District School Board is investigating an incident that sparked a community rally outside a North York school Friday morning in support of a Jewish student.
In a letter sent home to parents Friday afternoon, Principal Katia Robles said the rally “was related to serious allegations involving students.” She said it was reported to administrators that “a small group of students were throwing stones, among other items, at each other at various times during the day” on Thursday. The letter does not specify further details about what happened or why.
Rally attendees, however, say that the student they showed up to support was targeted because he is Jewish and the victim of antisemitism and bullying.
The prison van attack is just the beginning
The cold-blooded execution of two prison guards at a Normandy motorway toll on Tuesday has shocked France. It is for many commentators and politicians incontrovertible evidence of the ‘Mexicanisation’ of the Republic.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has told the escaped prisoner and his accomplices that they will be hunted down and punished, but it better be done quickly. With every passing hour that they remain at liberty it reinforces the image of a state that, in the words of Senator Bruno Retailleau, ‘has lost control’.
Other politicians are talking of a ‘war’. Eric Zemmour told an interviewer the country was engaged in ‘a civil war’, while Francois-Xavier Bellamy of the centre-right Republicans said that the ‘state is in the process of losing the war’.
🇫🇷 Gangster freed like in a movie!
Gunmen wearing balaclavas ambushed a prison van in northern France on Tuesday to free a drug dealer known as "The Fly," killing two prison guards, severely wounding three and triggering a major police manhunt.
The brazen, morning attack at a… pic.twitter.com/vNVX3qDsMS
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) May 14, 2024
Teachers will be given protection from claims of blasphemy by religious groups under proposals set out in a government-commissioned report.
Legal guarantees upholding teachers’ rights to freedom of expression should be introduced, according to the recommendations. Schools would also be barred from automatically suspending staff or pupils in response to blasphemy complaints.
New guidance to all schools would also make clear that unlike sex education, schools have no obligation to consult parents on content that may insult certain religious groups nor do they have a duty to consult religious or community groups.
I can’t wait for the Gazan refugee influx.
Who let him in?
“This is what your ancestors did, came to this country (Canada) and disrespected everything in sight”
This guy says that if he doesn’t act arrogant towards white Canadians, they win.
He sees immigration as revenge on whites. pic.twitter.com/LIKOMxE6ZF
— LΞIGH (@LeighStewy) May 13, 2024
OTTAWA – Canada is providing $40 million to help Palestinians in the Gaza Strip amid concern over what it calls a catastrophic humanitarian situation, worsened by an Israeli ground offensive in Rafah.
Ottawa says the funding will support the provision of food, water, emergency medical assistance, protection services and other life-saving assistance in the region.
The money will go to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, as well as trusted partners in the region including the Canadian Red Cross and other Canadian non-governmental organizations.
French police shot and killed an armed individual who reportedly intended to set fire to a synagogue in the northern city of Rouen, France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Friday.
“National police in Rouen neutralized early this morning an armed individual who clearly wanted to set fire to the city’s synagogue,” Darmanin said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
Fdesouche ID’s the perp.
According to a source close to the case, the suspect in the synagogue fire, shot dead by the police officers whom he then threatened, was a 29-year-old Algerian national, under an OQTF (obligation to leave the French territory) “ for less than a year. But this was not enforceable because he had initiated an appeal before the administrative courts .”
An expert on Islamism has highlighted the dangers to Europe of the Muslim Brotherhood through its emphasis on legal rather than ‘terrorist’ methods. Dr. Lorenzo Vidino told a recent European conference how the Brotherhood is a “social network,” united by ideological and economic ties, and heavily financed by Qatar.
It facilitates Islamist radicalisation while impacting the discussion of human rights and democracy—which it wishes to abolish in favour of establishing a global caliphate: i.e. theocratic rule by a caliph, the recognised successor to the prophet Muhammad.
A 34-year-old man has been given the toughest penalty in German law after attacking people with a knife on a train in 2023, killing two and wounding four others. The defense argued he should be put in psychiatric care.
… The 34-year-old grew up in Gaza and had been in Germany since 2014 but was still trying to secure residency rights.
The prosecution alleged that frustration following an unsuccessful appointment at the migration office in Kiel, seeking one of the last legal avenues to stay in the country that was still open to him, led to him stealing a knife from a supermarket and then attacking people on the train with it.
Two men who are accused of plotting to carry out an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack targeting the Jewish community in Greater Manchester have appeared in court.
Walid Saadaoui, 36, of Abram, Greater Manchester, and Amar Hussein, 50, of no fixed abode, allegedly planned for the attack to cause “multiple fatalities using automatic weapons”. Both are charged with the preparation of terrorist acts between December 13 last year and May 9 this year.
At least two French prison guards were shot dead and three others seriously injured on Tuesday after heavily armed men ambushed a prison van to free an inmate, French police said, triggering a major manhunt.
The orchestrated attack, which comes amid rising drug-linked violence across Europe, took place Tuesday morning at a toll booth in Incarville in northern France. The inmate and the attackers escaped, police said.
🔴 Vidéo de l'attaque du fourgon au péage d'Incarville (Eure), ce matin. Plusieurs agents pénitentiaires ont été tués par balles. Le détenu, Mohamed A., connu pour trafic de stupéfiants, s'est évadé. @Valeurs pic.twitter.com/UuQQKBy2QI
— Amaury Brelet (@AmauryBrelet) May 14, 2024
Wow! He’s named Mohammed!
Incarville : l'évadé serait Mohamed Amra. pic.twitter.com/yKJ7yed0PK
— Laurent Obertone (@LaurentObertone) May 14, 2024
