British courts shouldn’t have to protect criticism of Islam

When a British judge last week ruled that criticism of Islam counts as a “protected belief”, it seemed paradoxical: the Equality Act, long accused by the political Right of stifling free expression, was suddenly upholding it. For some, this appeared to confirm that the law is self-contradictory, a statute designed to protect minorities which is now defending the right to criticise religion. Yet perhaps the contradiction lies not in the Act itself, but in a society that has lost the moral compass to distinguish between the fair criticism of ideas and outright discrimination against people.

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

Conrad Black: The Cowichan Aboriginal Title Ruling Raises More Questions Than It Answers

The Cowichan Tribes versus Canada case, recently decided by the B.C. Supreme Court, has been continuing for 11 years, including 513 days of trial hearings, and is already probably the longest trial in Canadian history and one of the most complicated. It has already been appealed and will presumably end in the Supreme Court of Canada.

Immense controversy has been provoked by the court’s recognition of the superiority in some cases of aboriginal title over the fee simple ownership of subsequent parties. The facts are specialized, and so fears that the native peoples in general could make a successful claim for ownership of the entire country, with the approximately 95 percent of non-aboriginal owners mere tenants of the innumerable tribes, bands, and clans among the First Nations, are exaggerated.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue"

Harvard Astronomer Claims Interstellar Object Barreling Around Our Solar System Could Be Alien Technology

A Harvard astronomer is making waves by suggesting that a massive interstellar object hurtling through our solar system might be an alien spacecraft.

Professor Avi Loeb, who also serves as director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has theorized that the object, named 3I/ATLAS, is exhibiting unusual behaviors inconsistent with a natural comet.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"UFO's"

When the ‘Pastor’ Marries Four Men: Germany’s Truce with Polygamy

It is a snapshot of cultural collapse: A young German woman with pink hair in clergyman’s robes, facing four men, bestowing her approval on their bizarre sexual arrangement, the details of which we are blessedly unaware. The pro-LGBT pastor is now under fire for blessing the ‘marriage’ of four men who showed up at a pop-up wedding fair at Berlin’s St. Paul the Apostle Church recently. Lena Müller, the 33-year-old clergyperson in question, posted a photo of the ceremony to Instagram.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

C.P. Champion: It’s a problem that Canada doesn’t capitalize on its reserve force

If we go to war, a lot will depend on the reserves. The CAF can’t treat them like an afterthought

The Canadian Armed Forces’ greatest enemy is ignorance — or a certain national cluelessness — and this is especially true for the reserves. From military reporters to regular full-time Canadian Armed Forces members, many don’t know what a reservist actually is or does. Let me offer a few ideas for reflection, based on my 500-page study of 30 years of unvarying reserve problems, Relentless Struggle.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

Second World War veterans are a shrinking presence on Remembrance Day

As the Second World War came to a close, Elmer Friesen and his brother, Alvin, received a letter from their Mennonite church in Aberdeen, Sask.

They could return to the church, it said, but not without publicly apologizing to the small rural congregation. They had been expecting the ultimatum since first being given the choice at the outset of the war: Serve and renounce your membership to the church, or don’t participate at all.

But the appeal to pacifism – a core belief of the church – didn’t land with the Friesen brothers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada

The ‘rich countries’ are no longer in any state to pay for everyone else

Residents of the ‘global north’ want their own nations put in order first

They have lost their enthusiasm for combatting climate change, and they are no longer willing to subsidise the fight against global warming. The president of the UN’s climate talks, Andre Correa do Lago, has complained that the “rich countries” of the “global north” have lost their enthusiasm for the fight to save the planet. The checkbooks are starting to close. But hold on. In reality what is so terrible about that?

As he opened the latest Cop summit, and welcomed the usual circus of virtue-signalling politicians, Correa do Lago struck a wistful tone. There is, he complained, “a reduction in enthusiasm” among the global north for fighting climate change, with the momentum moving to the “global south”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

ALBERS: MAPLE MIRAGE: Canada – a cautionary tale for America

“When inflation, ideology, and immigration collide in a nation that forgot arithmetic.”

As a Canadian, I confess to watching my country’s troubles not with outrage first — but with disbelief. A stunned, slack-jawed astonishment at how quickly a nation once steady, responsible, and confident has managed to drive itself into the ditch and keep the accelerator pressed.

And now, a fresh Liberal budget is upon us — yet another thick, glossy brochure promising “investments in the future,” which in the plain tongue of the taxpayer means more spending, more debt, and another shovel-load of red ink poured into a pit we can no longer see the bottom of.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Indigenous man caught with ‘killing machine’ of a rifle gets time served due to intergenerational trauma

More than 500 days in harsh pre-trial custody was enough punishment for a Mohawk man caught driving around Peterborough with a crack pipe in his lap and a “killing machine” of a rifle in the back seat, along with a flame thrower in the trunk, according to a recent sentence of time served from Ontario’s Court of Justice.

Jesse Garlow, a convicted drug trafficker who was under a firearms prohibition, had been in custody since June 7, 2024 when he was sentenced. Police initially pulled him over because the car he was driving was weaving.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue", "Justice", WTF?

The truth about ‘UK-born’ criminals

The police want us to know one thing about Anthony Williams, the alleged LNER knife attacker. We can only speculate about his motives, his record or whether he was responsible for an earlier attack in the London Docklands. But one fact was broadcast almost immediately: he was British-born.

The police put out a statement soon after arresting him (along with a second man, who was released afterwards):

“A 32-year-old man, a black British national, and a 35-year-old man, a British national of Caribbean descent, were both arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Both were born in the UK.

OK, he was born in the UK. So were three of the four 7/7 bombers. So were the men who murdered Lee Rigby outside Woolwich Barracks. So were the Westminster Bridge and London Bridge stabbing attackers, the perpetrators of the Manchester Arena abomination and, of course, the Southport knife killer, Axel Rudakubana.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime, UK

Twenty Million Dead: The Generation Abortion Stole from America

Progress with a body count.

Imagine an entire generation, then erase nearly a third of it. That’s not a half-hearted thought experiment. It’s a national crime scene, neatly packaged as progress.

Recent demographic reports reveal a devastating reality. Nearly 28 percent of Gen Z in America were denied the simple mercy of daylight. Between 1997 and 2011, 19.5 million lives were ended before they began. For every classroom, every cradle, every dinner table, an empty space mourns what never was.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAbortion debate

Mark Carney is already struggling with Justin Trudeau’s immigration legacy

The queue to immigrate to Canada has always been long.

Like a competitive university, Canada has always had more applicants than places. Like a competitive university, Canada developed processes, notably the points system, to decide which applicants to prioritize, and which to sideline.

And like a competitive university, the applicants queued up and competed for admission from outside the fence. Applicants to Harvard aren’t already at Harvard. Applicants to immigrate to Canada were not already in Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Israel and India, Both Under Threat, Solidify Ties

Israel, reacting to the usual condemnations from its supposed European allies, is understandably seeking assurance that its armed forces will have, in any future military crisis, an uninterrupted supply of critical weapons, spare parts and ammunition.

As some European states that were arms suppliers to Israel, such as Germany, have embargoed the delivery of weaponry, India seems to be a prime candidate to satisfy Israel’s ongoing needs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIndia, Israel