Yes, Somali Immigrants Commit More Crime Than Natives

Since the news of Minnesota’s sprawling Somali-linked fraud cases went national, debate over immigrant crime has flared once again. President Trump has dispatched federal agents to the Twin Cities to crack down on illegal immigrants. But Trump is overreacting, critics contend: the Somali immigrant population, they claim, does not have particularly high crime rates.

Alex Nowrasteh of the Cato Institute, for instance, set off considerable debate on X by posting a chart showing that Somali-born immigrants have, if anything, slightly lower incarceration rates than native-born Americans. Among those aged 18 to 54 included in the 2023 American Community Survey (ACS), 1,170 of every 100,000 people born in Somalia were incarcerated, versus 1,221 for the native-born.

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

Why Canadians feel unsafe despite crime rates dropping

I am one of those people who suffers from an acute, yet ephemeral, fear of flying, which washes over me the precise moment I feel the plane’s wheels lift off the tarmac. “What type of idiot risks her life in a metal box flying 30,000 feet above the ground?,” I think to myself as I look around the cabin, seeking comfort in the seemingly calm faces of the imputed idiots around me. I forget about this fear right around the moment the plane completes its ascent, only to be suffused with it yet again when the pilot announces he is ready to steer the flying metal box back down to Earth.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Crime

New StatsCan Survey Shows Canadians Losing Faith in Parliament and Media

Canada is experiencing a quiet but unmistakable crisis of legitimacy, and the numbers prove it.

New data from the Statistics Canada Canadian Social Survey for the fourth quarter of 2024 shows what many Canadians already feel in their gut: confidence in the country’s most powerful institutions is eroding fast. And nowhere is that collapse more obvious than in Federal Parliament and the Canadian media.

h/t BK

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUncategorized

Iran’s supreme leader looking to flee, Trump says as protests spread

President Trump has said the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is looking to flee the country as protests against his rule continue to spread.

Thousands of Iranians took to the streets on Friday night during an internet blackout by the authorities as what started as anger over the collapsing economy escalated into the most significant wave of dissent against the Islamic regime since demonstrations over disputed elections in 2009.

Half the Mullah regime lives in Canada

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUncategorized

Freeland resignation shakes up already fluid situation in House of Commons

Former cabinet minister Chrystia Freeland is officially vacating her seat in the House of Commons on Friday, leaving the Liberal government — which is within striking distance of a majority — one MP down for the time being.

Freeland’s resignation adds to what was an already fluid situation in the House of Commons when MPs left Ottawa in December. The Liberals had picked up an extra seat on the final sitting day when former Conservative Michael Ma crossed the floor to the governing party — joining Chris d’Entremont who defected to the Liberals in November.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The Digital Services Act: A Mechanism of Mass Censorship

The Digital Services Act (DSA), adopted by the European Union in 2022 and fully applicable since February 2024 to “very large online platforms” (VLOPs) such as X, Facebook, TikTok, and Google, is not officially presented as an instrument of “organized censorship.” Formally, it is purported to be a regulatory framework intended to govern digital services in order to protect users from illegal content, systemic risks, and opaque platform practices.

However, a growing number of critics — particularly in the United States, including Elon Musk and several Republican members of Congress — describe the DSA as a mechanism of mass censorship. In their view, it imposes heavy bureaucratic oversight on freedom of expression and enables selective repression of dissenting opinions.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

Olivia Chow’s budget is smoke, mirrors and raid on city reserves

Chairman Chow and her right hand Islamist Ausma Malik

Mayor Olivia Chow kicked off the announcement of her election year budget with a campaign-style speech on Thursday. Standing in the Junction Triangle Branch of the Toronto Public Library, Chow said that her budget was about investing in services and giving residents a break.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Minnesota Democrats Are Testing How Woke Is Too Woke

What is going on in The People’s Republic of Minnesota? The Democrat establishment in the Gopher State is nothing like it was back in the Reagan years, with ex-vice president Walter Mondale or Gov. Rudy Perpich. The insurrectionist echoes of their language about immigration-enforcement cops is eyebrow-raising in the same week the elitist media somberly mourned the attack on police at the January 6 riot.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke"

Conservative MP accuses students of free speech attack after campus event cancelled

OTTAWA – The cancellation of a planned event at York University has led some Conservative MPs to accuse students there of attacking free speech.

Conservative MP Garnett Genuis says he was denied permission to hold an event on campus on Friday.

But the York University Student Centre says its decision was “not politically motivated in any way” and the event simply didn’t meet its requirements.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture"

Illegal criminals released into US by Biden admin ID’d as Portland Tren de Aragua gangbangers shot while trying to mow down feds

Venezuelan gangsters Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras

The married Tren de Aragua gangbangers who were shot after they tried to mow down ICE agents in Portland were let loose by the Biden administration despite lengthy rap sheets, Homeland Security officials said.

A CBP agent opened fire on Venezuelan gangsters Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras after they “weaponized” their car fleeing a traffic stop Thursday, said a DHS statement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, USA

Mississauga bylaw governing tall grass violates freedom of expression rights, court rules

An Ontario court has struck down part of a Mississauga bylaw that requires homeowners to keep their lawns below 20 centimetres, in a victory for natural gardeners who argue the municipal rules violate charter rights.

Residents have the freedom to express themselves through their front lawns, Superior Court Justice Michael Doi ruled this week in the case of Wolf Ruck versus the City of Mississauga.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Scott Bessent Says Feds Are Working to Ban Somali Funds from Leaving the U.S.

Any hope the people of Minnesota had that things would quiet down in their state following revelations of widespread and deep corruption tied to Somali scams has evaporated by now. The Trump administration has been flooding the state and the city of Minneapolis with people from all levels of the federal government and just about every major agency, all determined to assess the extent of the depravity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIslam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA