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Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale has become ‘more and more plausible’

Margaret Atwood -Old Elbows Up Crank

Margaret Atwood has said the plot of her book The Handmaid’s Tale, which tells a story of an authoritarian regime under which women are forced to reproduce, has become “more and more plausible” in recent years.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Atwood said she believed the plot was “bonkers” when she first developed the concept for the novel because the US was the “democratic ideal” at the time.

“It was the land of freedom … and people in Europe just didn’t believe that it could ever go like that,” she said.

“I’ve always been somebody who has never believed it can’t happen here. It can happen anywhere, given the circumstances.”

Has this crank ever raised her voice against Islam and sharia law?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?

The Somali leader of ISIS’s British wife and her life in Slough: How ‘supreme commander’ abandoned her and three children to pursue global terror

The new global leader of the ISIS terror network has a British wife and three children living in Slough who he walked out on to pursue his terrorist vision, The Daily Mail can reveal.

Abdul Qadir Mumin, the new supreme commander of the Islamic State, is now based in a remote mountainous region of northern Somalia leading its global terror campaign with 1,200 hardened fighters at his command.

Known for his striking, orange-dyed beard, pearl-white teeth and fiery rhetoric he has been designated as one of the world’s most wanted terrorists and has survived several attempts on his life during operations by US ground and air forces and Somali troops.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

RCMP employee linked to Palestinian activist network raises questions over political influence

Federal records show a founder of a Palestinian activist organization is currently working inside the RCMP’s federal policing branch, prompting fresh scrutiny over political advocacy within Canada’s national police force.

Blacklock’s Reporter says Access To Information documents reveal the founder of the Muslim Federal Employees Network uses an RCMP email address, though the force redacted the individual’s name.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, RCMP, WTF?

Can you ban kids from social media? Australia is about to, but some teens are a step ahead

It took 13-year-old Isobel less than five minutes to outsmart Australia’s “world-leading” social media ban for children.

A notification from Snapchat, one of the ten platforms affected, had lit up her screen, warning she’d be booted off when the law kicked in this week – if she couldn’t prove she was over 16.

“I got a photo of my mum, and I stuck it in front of the camera and it just let me through. It said thanks for verifying your age,” Isobel claims. “I’ve heard someone used Beyoncé’s face,” she adds.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?