Less than an hour from the capital of the European Union, gangs fight gun battles in the streets or bomb each other’s outposts. Crime reporters, police and prosecutors are bought off or killed. Torture cells are set up in shipping containers and bodies can be cleanly disposed of, but when the gangs really want to send a message they set up a public execution or fire off a rocket.
That’s the way things are done, not in Bogota or Beirut, but in Antwerp.
In 2018, the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on British Muslims proposed the first working definition of Islamophobia in the UK. In its report, Islamophobia Defined, it stated that ‘Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness’.
Civilizations are mortal. We know of entire worlds disappearing, of empires collapsing. It is happening again.
Imagine a ship. You start by changing the bow, then the rudder, the hull, the mast, the sail and finally all the constituent parts as they erode. At the end of this transformation, will it still be the same ship? Plutarch’s image in the “Life of Theseus” offers some help for a reflection on identity. Let’s imagine that the boat is our civilization. Would we still be faced with the same civilization?
With the wave of mass migration towards Europe we are faced with the greatest upheaval of European identity since the times of the Spanish Reconquista and the Ottoman wars. Italian PM Giorgia Meloni said that “millions” will come, after 10.000 migrants landed in the Italian island of Lampedusa.
A priest has been accused of desecration after installing two beer pumps in a 600-year-old church.
The bar was set up by the St Ives Brewery in St Ia’s Church ahead of the Cornwall town’s annual September festival.
It is the first time the church, consecrated in 1434, has been chosen as one of the main venues for the two-week celebration of music and arts.
Toronto psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson plans to challenge sanctions imposed on him by the College of Psychologists.
Peterson had been ordered by the college to take a coaching program on professionalism when making public statements on social media after complaints were made against him.
The United Nations Security Council is no match for Europe’s most consequential war in decades, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, told members of the council at its headquarters on Wednesday, dubbing the council’s attempt at ending the war “ineffective.”
If one needed an example of the UN’s most powerful body’s struggling to be effective, the session provided one, starting with a long procedural debate about when Mr. Zelensky would be allowed to speak. Eventually, Mr. Zelensky took the stage.
#Ukraine: An active Russian Osa SAM system was destroyed by a Ukrainian precision artillery strike south of Lozove, #Donetsk Oblast. pic.twitter.com/eVvSvgOnbb
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) September 20, 2023
The youth of today are facing many issues like economic instability, mental health and dealing with lingering disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic.
These compounding factors have added pressure to the roughly 7.3 million Canadians aged 15 to 29 and lowered their overall quality of life, according to a new report by Statistics Canada. It’s also making them less likely to have children.
“Affordability concerns and lack of access to suitable housing were more recently cited as factors influencing the fertility intentions of Canadians, in particular among those aged 20 to 29,” the report released Wednesday reads.
The governments of B.C., Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador lost up to $2.47 billion in tax revenues over four years due to the growth in illegal tobacco sales, says a convenience industry report.
The Convenience Industry Council of Canada report released Wednesday examined the downward trend in legal tobacco sales in the three provinces since 2019, compared with the rising growth in the underground contraband tobacco market.
No one studies history anymore?
VANCOUVER – The Vancouver Police Department says it’s beefing up security outside India’s Consulate after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this week there was credible intelligence about a potential link between India’s government and the killing of a Sikh community leader in B.C.
Const. Tania Visintin, the department’s media relations officer, says police are “closely monitoring the situation” since Trudeau’s announcement about the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a vocal supporter of an independent Sikh homeland, who was shot dead in Surrey in June.
Father of two believes there should be no age of consent. pic.twitter.com/QR3sD80M4Z
— Males In Disguise (@MalesInDisguise) September 19, 2023
OTTAWA – Conservative MPs were told not to post online or talk to media about competing protests on Parliament Hill that saw protesters clashing over how schools should handle LGBTQ+ issues.
The Canadian Press obtained a copy of the message sent to members of Pierre Poilievre’s caucus, which warned them not to speak publicly about the issue and provided talking points they could use to communicate with their constituents.
That was cowardly. Unlike Max.
There’s a massive crowd this morning at the Ottawa #1MillionMarch4Children and the PPC is there to say we must protect our kids against radical gender ideology! pic.twitter.com/mWOpr3ad7t
— Maxime Bernier (@MaximeBernier) September 20, 2023
SCOOP: A parent emailed @DJUSD regarding a lesson on gender identity and the principal responded explaining that there are 13 genders including “trigender” and “pangender.”
This is what the people in charge of your children’s education are promoting in schools. pic.twitter.com/ECSTnzicnI
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 19, 2023
Ukraine is reported to have rejected a consignment of Germany’s Leopard 1 tanks – on the grounds that they are technically flawed, and that Ukrainian engineers lack the skills and training to fix them.
Embarrassingly for Germany, this is the second time that Ukraine has turned its collective nose up at a delivery of German armour. When the first ten tanks – the advance guard of a total of 110 Leopard 1s that Berlin has agreed to supply to Kyiv – arrived in Ukraine, they too were found to be unsuitable for deployment on the front line. This despite the desperate need for armour to break through Russia’s defence lines resisting Ukraine’s vaunted counter offensive striking south towards the Sea of Azov.
The delay in his charging, and the lone misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct, fuels theories.
The headlines read: “Ray Epps Charged With Jan. 6 Crime—After Conspiracy Theory Claimed He Worked For FBI” (Forbes), “Ray Epps Charged Over Jan. 6 Riot, Dealing Major Blow to Tucker Carlson’s Conspiracy Theory” (Mediaite), “Feds charge Jan. 6 protester at center of unproven, hard-right conspiracy theories”.
Presidentish Joe Biden’s crackdown on hunter education in schools is being met with an act of defiance in Wyoming, best summarized with two words in ancient Greek familiar to American gun owners: Molon Labe.
