Trudeau won’t say if he has spoken to Housefather since Gaza motion

OTTAWA – Quebec MP Anthony Housefather remains undecided on his future more than a week after a House of Commons motion on Israel and Gaza left him questioning whether he will remain in the Liberal party.

And Prime Minister Minister Justin Trudeau isn’t saying if he has even been talking to Housefather to try and keep him in the fold.

Trudeau dodged the question today, saying only that he has spoken to Housefather many times over the years and that he is proud to head a caucus where multiple viewpoints are heard and reflected.

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France assesses Paris Olympics terrorist threat in light of Moscow attack

The French interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, has met intelligence services to assess the terrorist threat to the country, after the Moscow concert hall attack claimed by Islamic State raised fresh security fears over the Paris Olympics.

One of the biggest security challenges facing the organisers of the Games in the French capital is to protect the opening ceremony on 26 July. It is planned to be an unprecedented, open-air extravaganza, which for the first time in Olympic history will not take place within the confines of a stadium, but instead involve a flotilla of 94 boats carrying thousands of waving athletes down a 6km (3.7-mile) stretch of the Seine, followed by a further 80 boats carrying media and security, while an estimated 222,000 people gather along the river’s edge and 200,000 more watch from buildings.

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Poilievre has lost Hamas supporter vote claims random Muslim

‘We won’t forget’: How some Muslims view Poilievre’s stance on Israel-Hamas war

OTTAWA – A spokesman for a regional Muslim advocacy group says Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s stance on the Israel-Hamas war could complicate his party’s relationship with Muslim Canadians.
Nawaz Tahir of the Hikma Public Affairs Council in London, Ont., met Poilievre during the leader’s outreach efforts in southwestern Ontario last summer.

Tahir says he believes Poilievre has missed chances to show compassion with Muslims and that building ties could be, in his words, “much more difficult now.”

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It’s Ramadan in Germanistan

I don’t think they can be saved, the German Catholic idiots, they have delved so deeply into masochism.

In the first century, the historian Sallust wrote of the Roman Republic: “Decadence and arrogance are the natural dividends of prosperity.”

These are also Western dividends and Ayaan Hirsi Ali is right when, in her lectio this week named for Russell Kirk, she attacks the “suicidal degeneration of the West”.

They want to make everything collapse, without caring about the avalanche that will inevitably overwhelm them too, she asserted.


Meanwhile in Jolly Old England …

Ramadan lights on display in central London over Easter

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Swan Song to Canada’s Jewish Golden Age

As a Jew, I am watching in dismay as Hamas seems to be winning the war that Hamas unilaterally instigated on October 7 by its horrific assault. Hamas, which committed the actual war crimes of intentional killing, rape and torture of civilians, taking civilian hostages for ransom, and purposefully embedding military personnel and weapons within and below civilian homes, schools and even hospitals, has, with a brilliant campaign of disinformation, fine-tuned for a short-attention-span world of instant communication, and fanned by vehement supporters in the West, diverted public outrage away from Hamas’ actual war crimes, and directed it against Israel’s difficult military response. Hamas’ religiously motivated leaders are willing to put their own civilian population in harm’s way. Indeed, Hamas’ primary military strategy is to have as many Palestinian civilians as possible killed, or suffering, in order to turn public opinion against Israel, and to induce those in the West who support Hamas’ side of the war (such as Canada’s left-wing New Democratic Party) to put forward resolutions calling for a ceasefire, an arms embargo against Israel and official recognition of the State of Palestine, as the NDP did in Canada’s House of Commons on March 18.

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France to sue Muslim teen for falsely accusing teacher of striking her in headscarf row

France’s prime minister says a teenage girl will be sued by the state for falsely accusing her headteacher of striking her in a heated exchange over her wearing an Islamic head-covering.

The headteacher insisted that the pupil remove her head-covering inside the school, in accordance with French law.

He resigned after death threats circulated on social media.

Convict then deport.

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Mysterious writer behind ISIS-K propaganda calls himself ‘the Canadian’

A mysterious writer making propaganda for an Afghan branch of ISIS claimed to be based somewhere in Canada which, experts say, could be cause for concern for authorities.

Voice of Khurasan, an online publication used by the Islamic State of Khorasan (ISIS-K), which is suspected of being behind the Moscow attack that killed at least 140 people last week, includes several contributions from a person who publishes under the name Sulaiman Dawood al-Kanadie.

The last part of the handle means “the Canadian” in Arabic and has been used by several high-profile ISIS members from Canada in the past.

I’d start with the Liberal Party.

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European Countries Issue Warnings That Your Muslim Neighbors May Go On A Thrill Kill For Allah Murder Binge To Celebrate Easter

Austria, France, and Italy have all issued warnings of potential terrorist threats to Europe by the Islamic State (IS) following the group’s Moscow concert hall attack that killed 139 people.

The French government increased the country’s security alert to its highest level, which means more soldiers will be put on standby and ready to patrol sensitive sites, including schools. According to Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, France has thwarted two attack attempts by IS since the start of the year, including a foiled attack on the city of Strasbourg.

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Supreme Court asked to reconsider hearing case of ISIS terrorists detained in Syria

In a rare move, lawyers representing four Canadian men held in prisons in northeastern Syria have asked Canada’s top court to reconsider its decision not to hear their claim that Canada has a duty to bring them home.

The detained Canadian men include Jack Letts, who ended up in Syria after becoming a devoted Muslim as a teenager and then going on holiday in Jordan.

They are among tens of thousands of Syrians and foreign nationals being held in the region by Kurdish-led forces at camps and prisons for ISIS suspects and their families. Kurdish-led forces reclaimed the region in 2019 from the extremist group.

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Clapham chemical attacker granted asylum despite failing Christianity test

Abdul Ezedi’s conversion accepted as genuine by judge even though he could not answer basic questions

The Clapham chemical attacker was granted asylum despite the Home Office warning that he had failed a Christianity test and was “using religion for his own ends”.

Newly released documents show an immigration judge accepted Abdul Ezedi’s conversion as genuine even though he could not answer basic Home Office questions about Christianity and was found to have repeatedly lied about his background.

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Is there a conspiracy behind the Moscow terrorist attack?

Last weekend’s terrorist attack in Moscow has renewed debate about the capabilities and reach of Islamic State (IS) but also who, exactly, was behind the killing of at least 139 people at Crocus City Hall.

Much of the media coverage has so far focused on Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), an Afghanistan-based IS contingent that was likely involved in the atrocity. But this should not be misunderstood as a separate entity: IS’s “provinces”, such as ISKP, all take their cue from the “centre” in Iraq and Syria.

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Michael Higgins: Poll showing continued support for Hamas in Gaza exposes Liberal, NDP naivete

If the people of Gaza want peace and a two-state solution, as a new poll appears to suggest, they might want to rethink their overwhelming support for the genocidal terrorist organization Hamas.

Gazans’ support for Hamas has remained strong since the horrific Oct. 7 massacre, according to a March 20 poll from the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, as has their desire to have the group continue to control the Gaza Strip when the current war is over.

Of course they are …

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Was Russia right to torture the Moscow attackers?

The court appearance of the four men accused by Russia of carrying out the Moscow massacre of 137 innocent concert goers at the Crocus City Hall venue told its own grim story. All the suspects bore marks of torture: one was wearing a bandage on his ear, following reports that it may have been at least partially severed and forcibly fed to him during his interrogation; another was semi-conscious and appeared to be missing an eye. Meanwhile, a video did the rounds seemingly showing one of the men’s genitals hooked up to an electricity generator.

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No teacher should have to face extremism like this

One of the many things the pandemic taught us was this: teaching is hard. It’s hard to explain a grammatical rule or mathematical theorem to a child in clear terms; it’s impossibly hard to remain patient when that child does not understand, and you’re forced to explain it a second, third and fourth time.

Now imagine trying to do that with 30 of them. Imagine the long hours of marking at the end of the day, the fractious parents and the low pay.

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