This is a disgusting piece. Not just because of the framing that people on the right would celebrate or be happy about anyone being gang raped because it helps their agenda but what happened to “believe” all women? Why are the rapes referred to as alleged? Garbage piece @CTVNews. https://t.co/RzVFYIF166
— Jacqui Budden (@JacquiDelaney) February 11, 2024
How Western media treats the ‘Islamic threat’
Edward Said, a Palestinian Christian scholar, wrote that those who control Western media are powerful and can be dangerous because they are able to shape peoples’ thoughts. Said’s book “Covering Islam” opened my eyes as a student and framed my engagement with the media.
In the post-cold-war era the West had moved from the “red scare” to the “green menace.” The flavour of the day, or more accurately flavour for the decades to come became the “Islamic threat.” Said’s Occident v. orient thesis popularized in his book, “Orientalism,” became more vivid.
Then as a lawyer in the wake of 9/11, Said’s thesis came alive again, but this time the zeitgeist broadened to go beyond foreign Muslims, to include Western Muslims like me. Through some Western eyes, even the “them” living among “us” can be the “enemy.”
Can be the enemy? We’re all those terror attacks listed by TROP committed by Christadelphians?
Islam is the enemy. It is a 5th Column whose goal is the destruction of the West.
The suspect in the Clapham chemical attack most likely drowned in the River Thames, police believe.
Abdul Ezedi had been on the run after a 31-year-old woman and her two children, aged three and eight, were doused with an alkali substance last Wednesday.
The CCTV of the last known sighting shows him on the bridge just before 11.30pm last Wednesday.
Two years ago, Éric Zemmour was the most talked-about man in France and a serious contender to be the ninth president of the Fifth Republic. A controversial journalist turned incendiary politician, he vied with Marine Le Pen for second place behind Emmanuel Macron in the polls. Crucially, he seemed to have something she lacked – an ability still to appeal to the Catholic bourgeoisie while tapping into widespread anger at mass immigration.
But then Russia attacked Ukraine, the mood of Europe changed, and Zemmour’s political fortunes sank as quickly as they had risen. He finished a distant fourth in the first round of the presidential election, with 7 per cent of the vote. The experience did not put him off running for high office, however, and today he is back in campaign mode looking ahead to the European elections in June and beyond.
British Columbia’s premier says Selina Robinson, who resigned as post-secondary education minister recently over Mideast comments, has received a death threat.
David Eby called the action inexcusable in a statement posted on the social media platform X.
He says police are investigating to find out who is responsible and that Ms. Robinson is safe.
Police in Switzerland have shot dead a man armed with an axe and a knife who took 15 passengers hostage on a train on Thursday night.
The hostage-taker, reported to be a 32-year-old asylum seeker from Iran, boarded a local train near Yverdon.
He forced the driver to stop the train and to join passengers in the carriage.
Officers stormed the train and “fatally wounded” the man after he attacked them, police reports say. The hostages were all released unharmed.
Reverend Matthew Firth tells how he wanted to hit stop button on the ‘conveyor belt’ of asylum seekers converting to Christianity
In 2018, when the Reverend Matthew Firth took up his new post at St Cuthbert’s, the church which has been at the heart of the north-eastern market town of Darlington since the 12th century, he was eager to bring new souls to the faith he passionately believes in.
It didn’t take long, however, for Matthew to figure out that there was something suspicious about the large number of souls from the Middle East who were queuing up to be converted to Christianity.
In 2023, around the world, 4,998 Christians — on average, 13 a day — were “killed for faith related reasons.” Another 4,125 Christians were illegally detained or arrested, and 14,766 churches and other Christian institutions were attacked.
Overall, the global persecution of Christians remains higher than ever, with 365 million believers suffering “high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith.”
A couple was sent by the Iranian government to Sweden as undercover agents with the goal of murdering Jewish citizens, Radio Sweden reported.
According to the investigation, the man and woman, who have been identified as Mahdi Ramezani and Fereshteh Sanaeifarid, were dispatched by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). They were tasked with murdering three Jews in Sweden, including Aron Verständig, Chair of the Official Council of Swedish Jewish communities. Another target for murder was a dual Swedish-American citizen.
h/t MP
Former British Columbia post-secondary education minister Selina Robinson could not have imagined that when she called what would become Israel in 1948 a “crappy piece of land with nothing on it” in a late January Zoom panel, she’d be setting off an ugly chain of events leading to her departure from Premier David Eby’s cabinet. Her comments were hardly a lie, if impolite, but Robison had made herself a target with the NDP simply for being a Jew who supports Israel.
We decorated Selina Robinson's office to let her know we don't want her as our MLA and that she needs to be ousted out of the NDP party. #freepalestine #Canada #NDP #coquitlam #ResignSelinaRobinson#FireSelinaRobinson @seanorr @critcrim @sasa_ghada @Dave_Eby @theJagmeetSingh pic.twitter.com/YXWGpP5hw4
— Canadian Antifa 🇵🇸🇵🇸🍉🍉 (@Exposeisrael123) February 6, 2024
Forty illegal migrants being housed on the Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge in Dorset are reportedly converting to Christianity. That amounts to almost one in seven of those said to be on board.
But officials fear that migrants are faking conversions simply to have their asylum claims accepted, and are considering limiting the role of the Church of England in the approvals process. Allison Pearson, columnist at The Daily Telegraph, asked “how stupid and craven is the Church of England” to believe that all of these claims are genuine.
Detectives have said they believe the Afghan asylum seeker suspected of carrying out a chemical attack in Clapham is being helped by others, as officers began to “target his associates”.
Officers from the Counter-Terrorism fugitive team have been tracking Abdul Ezedi’s movements following the attack, in which a 31-year-old woman and her two children, aged three and eight, were doused with an alkaline substance last Wednesday.
US-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria have liberated a Yazidi woman who had been held for a decade by Islamic State (IS), where she was raped and forced to marry extremists.
The 24-year-old woman was rescued with her son and daughter during a security operation by Kurdish fighters in Syria’s al-Hawl camp, which houses tens of thousands of people, mostly the wives and children of Islamic State fighters, the Syrian Democratic Forces said on Monday.
Priests must look out for “red flags” when baptising asylum seekers because some are faking conversion, an evangelical church leader has said.
Pastor Graham Nicholls, the director of Affinity, a network of 1,200 evangelical churches and ministries in the UK, said that church leaders “need discernment” to “test whether people are genuine in their beliefs”, adding that in some cases, some prospective converts are “faking it”.
His intervention came as the manhunt for Abdul Shokoor Ezedi, the Clapham chemical attack suspect, continued on Monday with Metropolitan Police detectives saying he could be dead in the River Thames.
A man was arrested in Liverpool over the weekend for flying the Union Jack flag in the middle of the pro-Palestine mob
State of play with the police in our county:
❌ to 🇬🇧 flag
✔️ to the Islamic flag of Jihad, the Israeli flag, or any other foreign flag pic.twitter.com/eDQq1WjEvG— SL (@Steve_Laws_) February 5, 2024
Mauser sent along the Flag link above. It is an excerpt of a much longer video (below). The videographer was late to the flag wavers arrest, but as explained the arrestee apparently ran through the crowd of Hamas supporters waving the English national flag and that triggered them. Hence his arrest. Worth watching the whole video for a slice of life in Liverpool.
