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Leo McKinstry: Supporters of cultural diversity prattle about tolerance and equality, but in reality, their demands for acceptance of the Islamic legal code in Britain, they are promoting the most brutish forms of intolerance and inequality.
It is grotesque that self-styled liberals, so smug in their progressive opinions, should back a judicial system that effectively institutionalises persecution, misogyny, oppression, homophobia and barbarity.
Wherever sharia operates across the world, it means the triumph of savage superstition over humane justice, the reign of the mullahs in place of democracy and freedom.
Every theocratic country governed by sharia has an appalling human right records, complete with vicious punishments for so-called crimes like apostasy and blasphemy.
The eagerness to enforce sharia law is central to the vile, authoritarian cause of Islamism, which is filled with hatred for western values.
Since January 2014,
the flamboyantly barbaric Islamic State, also known as ISIS, has blown
up Shiite mosques, bulldozed churches, pulverized shrines, and plundered
In some cases, conquerors turn non-Islamic holy places into Islamic
ones, thereby asserting the supremacy of Islam.
This can be done by
converting them into Islamic sanctities, such as the Kaaba in Mecca, the
Cathedral of St. John in Damascus, and the Hagia Sophia in
Constantinople, or building on top of them, as with Al-Aqsa Mosque in
Jerusalem and Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, India.
Is there a Middle Eastern country that exults in its
multi-religious heritage, celebrates ancient artifacts on coins and
stamps, builds fabulous museums for its antiquities, treats archeology
as a national pastime, and studies manuscripts instead of burning them?
Well, yes, there is.
It's called Israel. The rest of the region could learn a thing or two
about historical appreciation from the Jewish state.
What does this mean at a time where Obama gets closer with the likes of Iran and harsher on Israel?
And how did Canada's mainstream media react to Netanyahu's win?
Ezra Levant gives you the run-down and sums up how many are on the wrong side of history.
The group was part of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
I don't know how I missed this story when it came out earlier. Just
last week a suicide bomber struck a popular falafel shop near the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs here, killing several people.
On Monday
evening Raad Hashim, working the counter at a liquor store near the site
of the attack, burst out laughing when he heard the news. "This is so funny," Mr. Hashim said. "It shows how stupid they are, those dogs and sons of dogs."
He said, "People in the West say 'they don't know.' How can you not know?
You either support ISIS or you must have turned off all the satellites. I am sorry to say this, but my pain is big."
Like so many Christians in Iraq and Syria who watched ISIS kidnap their leaders, burn their churches, sell their children, and threaten all others with conversion or beheading; the archbishop wonders how it is that these maniacs so easily took his home city this summer?
It is a good question.
A potential Islamist attack on the cathedral and
synagogue in Bremen, Germany, was averted following action by police on
February 28, a Belgian newspaper reported.
Numerous police guarded the cathedral and synagogue and searched a local Muslim cultural center, according to the report.
Even here, he notes that "Christians are
persecuted." He does not name the perpetrator. It is the great global
force that no one dares name.(If he names them more Christians will die--edit) "Pope: Christians are persecuted and the world tries to hide it," Asia News, March 15, 2015 :
Vatican City (AsiaNews) – Christians "are persecuted, and
the world tries to hide it. I ask the Lord, implore the Lord for peace
in Pakistan," said Pope Francis after the midday Angelus. He had
mentioned as much when he introduced the midday Angelus in which he
stressed that God "loves us, really love us, and loves us very much!
This is simplest expression that sums up the whole Gospel, faith, and
theology. God loves us freely and boundlessly.
This is how God loves
us."… Right after the Angelus, the pope gave an unscripted address to the
crowd. "Dear brothers and sisters," he said, "it is with sorrow, a lot
of sorrow that I learnt of today's terrorist attacks against two
churches in the city of Lahore, in Pakistan, which have resulted in many
dead and wounded.
And here we see police bosses telling officers not to pursue
investigations of these rape gangs. The Muslim rape gangs went
unreported, unprosecuted, and in general unstopped because of far-Left
organizations like Hope Not Hate, Faith Matters, and Tell Mama, which
waged relentless war against anyone and everyone who spoke out about
these issue. They demonized as "Islamophobic," "hateful" and "bigoted"
anyone who said that there were Muslim rape gangs at all, and that they
had to be stopped.
They led the campaign to ban Pamela Geller and me
from entering the country, when one of the events we had discussed going
to was a rally against the rape gangs.Search for "grooming"
(these gangs are usually called "grooming gangs" in the British media)
at Hope Not Hate's site, and you will see that the vast majority of the
articles mentioning this practice are attacking those who are calling
attention to it and protesting against it.
Who is responsible for the religion-based mass gang-rape of British
girls? The British Left — in particular the "anti-hate" crusaders Nick
Lowles of Hope Not Hate, Fiyaz Mughal of Faith Matters and Tell Mama,
and their friends, supporters, and allies.
The lives of countless thousands of girls in Britain are ruined today
because of these men. If Britain were even close to being a sane
society today, these people would be being subjected to scorching
criticism, and there would be a thorough public reevaluation of how much
the Left's alliance with Islamic supremacism and smear campaign against
foes of jihad terror has harmed the nation and its people.
But Britain
is not a sane society today, and these sinister individuals — Lowles,
Mughal, and the rest of them — will continue to wield their considerable
power and influence in British society. "Sheffield officers investigating child grooming 'told to wind necks in' by bosses," by Chris Burn, The Star, March 14, 2015 :
the response from Christians in the West? Yawns of indifference. "15 killed, 70 injured as blasts target Lahore churches," The News International, March 15, 2015 :
LAHORE: Twin blasts targeted the Roman Catholic Church
and Christ Church during Sunday mass in Youhanabad area of the
provincial capital, killing 15 people including two policemen and
injuring at least 70 others.
According to initial reports, two suicide bombers attacked the churches located in the Christian locality. Eye witnesses told Geo News that a man blew himself up outside one of
the churches as a police guard stopped him from entering, while the
other blast took place inside the church during Sunday mass.
However, police have yet to confirm the nature of the blast. Two
suspected men were caught from the venue but the enraged mob burnt them
alive after subjecting them to severe torture in the presence of police. The explosions caused a stampede at the Church as panicked worshipers
ran to save their lives. Windowpanes of the nearby buildings were
shattered due to the explosions.
wife's from a rural area and obviously gun ownership wasn't just for
the farm, but was for a certain level of security when you're a ways
away from immediate police assistance," he said when asked about new
firearms legislation during a question-and-answer session at the
Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities annual convention.
He also defended law-abiding gun owners, "guns are something people use for recreation and the vast majority do so safely.""What we are trying to do with [Bill C-42] are some things that will
both increase safety around the acquisition and use of firearms but also
to deal with some of the bureaucracy and excessive red tape."
Bill C-42 would limit the discretionary authority of chief firearms officers. "In some provinces, those firearms officers have exercised their authority in extremely arbitrary ways," Harper said.
For example, video clips show two Calgary, Alberta Muslim leaders — Imam Abdi Hersi and Mizz Haibibi — instructing women to reject equality. Hersi adds that wives must provide sex on demand to their husbands.
Halevi also presents a book called "Women In Islam," that was available at Islam Awareness Week at York University and is distributed by street preachers at Toronto's Dundas Square.
Halevi says this book reflects conventional Muslim teachings as they are regularly conveyed in Canada. It condones wife beating (as long as it doesn't involve "breaking a bone.")
"A word of advice to government bureaucrats doing the Muslim
Brotherhood's bidding: we will sue you and you will lose. Act
At AFDI, we are not just raising awarness of the nature and magnitude
of the jihad threat with our campaigns; we're also setting legal
precedents that have implications that can't be understated: for
decades, the left has been chipping away at our First Amendment rights.
"Federal Judge Orders SEPTA to Display 'Stop the Islamic Jew-Hatred' Advertisement," American Freedom Law Center, March 12, 2015:Without most Americans realizing, they've placed almost as many hedges
and restrictions around the First Amendment as they have the Second.
Many were the Ways of Life that have passed away before
you: travel through the earth, and see what was the end of those who
rejected Truth. (Qur'an 3:137)
Obviously this cuts
against the idea of tourism of ancient sites and non-Muslim religious
installations such as St. Catherine's monastery.
V. S. Naipaul
encountered this attitude in his travels through Muslim countries. For
many Muslims, he observed in Among the Believers, "The time
before Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology.
History has to serve theology."
Naipaul recounted that some Pakistani
Muslims, far from valuing the nation's renowned archaeological site at
Mohenjo Daro, saw its ruins as a teaching opportunity for Islam,
recommending that Qur'an 3:137 be posted there as a teaching tool. "Iraq: Isis blows up 10th century Assyrian Catholic monastery near Mosul," by Gianluca Mezzofiore, International Business Times, March 10, 2015:
That's Qur'an 5:82. "Fight them until
there is no fitna ['strife'], and religion belongs to Allah alone."
That's Qur'an 8:39. "Fitna is worse than killing." That's Qur'an 2:191
and 2:217.
Will some moderate Muslim leader please explain how Ismail Al-Wahwah is misunderstanding and misinterpreting the Qur'an? Meanwhile, "Al-Wahwah" would be the perfect name for a Muslim leader
whining about "Islamophobia."
I hope that will be the subject of this
learned imam's next Friday sermon. "Australian Islamist Leader Ismail Al-Wahwah Incites to Wage Jihad against Jews: 'They Are the Most Evil Creatures of Allah,'" MEMRI, March 3, 2015:
The French National Bureau of Vigilance Against
Anti-Semitism (BNVCA) reported that two Jewish teens were assaulted and
robbed while leaving a synagogue in Marseille, and as a result of the
attack required medical treatment.
The attack by two assailants "of African origin" according to the
victims occurred on Tuesday. There are many Muslim African immigrants in
France, increasing the likelihood of religious hatred being a prime
motivator in the crime. Making that likelihood undeniable is the fact that before attacking,
the assailants said "dirty Jews, we will exterminate all of you,"
according to the teens.
"Narrated Abu
Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, 'By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, son of
Mary (Jesus) will shortly descend amongst you people (Muslims) as a
just ruler and will break the Cross and kill the pig and abolish the
Jizya (a tax taken from the non-Muslims, who are in the protection, of
the Muslim government). Then there will be abundance of money and
no-body will accept charitable gifts.'" (Bukhari 3.34.425)
Did the Muslim prayer service include any of these Qur'an readings? Christians have forgotten part of the divine revelations they
received: "From those, too, who call themselves Christians, We did take a
covenant, but they forgot a good part of the message that was sent
them: so we estranged them, with enmity and hatred between the one and
the other, to the day of judgment. And soon will Allah show them what it
is they have done." — Qur'an 5:14 Jesus is not the Son of God: "O People of the Scripture!
Do not
exaggerate in your religion nor utter aught concerning Allah save the
truth. The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was only a messenger of Allah,
and His word which He conveyed unto Mary, and a spirit from Him. So
believe in Allah and His messengers, and say not "Three" – Cease! (it
is) better for you! – Allah is only One Allah. Far is it removed from
His Transcendent Majesty that He should have a son. His is all that is
in the heavens and all that is in the earth. And Allah is sufficient as
Defender." — Qur'an 4:171.
"Under fire, vicar who said 'we love Allah': Liberal clergyman attacked
by traditional Anglicans for allowing full Muslim prayer service in his
Church," by Chris Pleasance, MailOnline, March 12, 2015:
Because the advertising for it is out. Amongst plenty of other evidence, one Chinese front organisation conducted a poll on Australian attitudes to the ANZUS treaty and a Chinese attack on Japan.
Why would they conduct such a poll unless they are going to attack Japan?
Not that they were interested in the results as such. They just wanted to be able to publicize the poll in order to try to keep Australia on the sidelines of their war.
The war will have two functions for China. Firstly, it will provide legitimacy for the regime as economic growth stalls. Secondly, the Chinese will have pride in humiliating their neighbouring countries, and the United States, by defeating them in battle and creating no-go zones in the oceans which other countries won't be able to enter without Chinese permission.
The war will have nothing to do with oil and gas resources under the seabed and securing sea-lanes. The Chinese have never offered those excuses for their behavior themselves. The excuses are the creation of Western pundits for something that otherwise is stupid, destructive, and primitive.
Get used to it, MPs,
because you're going to be seeing a great deal more of it. Not only is
Britain galloping toward its own ruin, but its taxpayers are paying for
the privilege. "Jihadi John family's 20 years on benefits:
How it's cost taxpayers
up to £400k to house fanatic and his relatives in upmarket areas," by
James Slack and Paul Bentley and Sam Marsden for the Daily Mail, March 3, 2015 :
Jihadi John and his asylum-seeking family have milked the British benefits system for 20 years, the Mail can reveal today. Housing the Islamic State executioner and his relatives in affluent parts of London has cost taxpayers up to £400,000.
One landlord said Mohammed Emwazi's family were 'parasites' and
'tenants from hell'. Incredibly, they are still believed to be pocketing
£40,000 a year in handouts despite there being no sign of them in
Britain. Emwazi's father Jasem, who has six children, is back in his native Kuwait – the country he claimed he fled fearing for his life.
"This is a bad deal — we're better off without it."
The entire point of the videos is to advertise his savagery and that of the hellish cause he serves. Yet, shamefully, even he can claim the expiating status of victimhood and get a sympathetic hearing.
According to his own self-pitying e-mails prior to his star turn as a knife-wielding executioner, Emwazi was harried by British intelligence beyond human endurance.
Some so-called civil libertarians have picked up on his plaint to argue that a good, promising young Muslim man was pushed into the arms of a medieval terror group by the Brits. "Jihadi John: 'Radicalized' by Britain" was the title of a press release from the terrorist-defending, British "human rights" group Cage. It maintains that young Muslims like Mohammed Emwazi have "turned to violence because of British counter-terrorism policies coupled with long standing grievances over Western foreign policy."
The Washington Post, which broke the news last week that Emwazi was Jihadi John, ran a piece about his run-in with British authorities when trying to travel to Kuwait in 2010 headlined "The moment Jihadi John may have become a terrorist."
"We appreciate all that President Obama has done for Israel," he said. "Some of it is widely known . . . Some of what the president has done for Israel is less well-known."
The prime minister listed all the times he called Obama and received immediate aid, including the 2010 Carmel forest fire and the siege of the Israeli embassy in Cairo during the 2011 unrest. "In each of those moments,
I called the president, and he was there," Netanyahu said. "And some of what the president has done for Israel might never be known, because it touches on some of the most sensitive and strategic issues that arise between an American president and an Israeli prime minister." "But I know it!" he continued. "And I will always be grateful to President Obama for that support."
There is no question about whether President Obama — along with Secretary of State John Kerry and the editorial pages of many newspapers — has a particular dislike of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But there is another question: Why? And the answer is due to an important rule of life that too few people are aware of:
Those who do not confront evil resent those who do. Take the case at hand. The prime minister of Israel is at the forefront of the greatest battle against evil in our time — the battle against violent Muslims. No country other than Israel is threatened with extinction, and it is Iran and the many Islamic terror organizations that pose that threat. It only makes sense, then, that no other country feels the need to warn the world about Iran and Islamic terror as much as does Israel.
That's why when Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the United Nations about the threat Iran poses to his country's survival and about the metastasizing cancer of Islamist violence, he, unfortunately, stands alone. Virtually everyone listening knows he is telling the truth. And most dislike him for it. Appeasers hate those who confront evil.
Given that this president is the least likely of any president in American history to confront evil — or even identify it — while Benjamin Netanyahu is particularly vocal and eloquent about both identifying and confronting evil, it is inevitable that the former will resent the latter. The negotiations with Iran over its nuclear weapons program are today's quintessential example. Those who will not confront a tyranny engaged in terror from Argentina to the Middle East, and which is committed to annihilating another country, will deeply resent Israel and its leader.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a nation surrounded by
enemies, a nation so small that it narrows at one point to just 9.3
Yet, in a world where the Oval Office is manned by someone openly
apologetic for most American exercises of power; and where Western
Europe's economy is enervated, its people largely faithless, and its
leadership feckless; and where Freedom House has found "an overall drop
in [global] freedom for the ninth consecutive year," the safeguarding of
our civilization might rely more on leaders who possess uncommon moral
courage than on those who possess the most nukes or biggest armies.
Right now, nobody on the world stage speaks for civilization the way
Netanyahu does. While Barack Obama babbles about the supposedly
"legitimate grievances" of those who turn to jihad, Netanyahu talks like
this (from his speech to the United Nations on September 27, 2012):
The clash between modernity and medievalism need not be a clash
between progress and tradition. The traditions of the Jewish people go
back thousands of years. They are the source of our collective values
and the foundation of our national strength.
At the same time, the Jewish people have always looked towards the
future. Throughout history, we have been at the forefront of efforts to
expand liberty, promote equality, and advance human rights. We champion
these principles not despite of our traditions but because of them.


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from the better-repaint-their-room dept.
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Keanu Reeves approves of this idea.
the company Second Sight promises to commercialize the implant, aiming for VGA resolution within the decade.
And, if they achieve VGA resolution, you can just get the next upgrade [xkcd.com] in software [gamedev.net]!
If they achieve better than VGA resolution, it's a steady road to needing HDMI cables, and I'm not convinced they will fit.
Make sure you include some kind of tuner, because I don't want to have to see Radio Disney nor the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation. But full-body scans at the airport might be a fun channel - those x-ray glasses I ordered when I was 12 didn't work.
those x-ray glasses I ordered when I was 12 didn't work
You must have had a defective pair.
The ones I had when I was living in southern France worked perfectly.
and millimeter wave vision options
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Closing date: 15th June 2014
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Closing date: 20th June 2014
Entry Fee: £5
For more information and entry forms please write to; Canterbury Festival,8 Orange Street, Canterbury CT1 2JA
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Mslexia Pamphlet Competition 2014
Prize: Publication of the pamphlet by Seren Books, plus £250,25 complimentary copies of your pamphlet and 10 per cent royalties from subsequent sales.
Entry fee: £20 for a collection of 18-20 poems of 20-24 pages.
Closing date: 16 June 2014
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Mslexia Poetry Competition 2014
Judge: Wendy Cope
1st Prize: £2,000 plus optional extras: A mentoring session with the editor of Poetry Review, and a week at the idyllic poets' retreat of Cove Park.
PLUS Special new prize: £1,000 for the best poem by a previously unpublished woman poet.
2nd Prize: £400
3rd Prize: £200
17 Runners up: £25 each
Entry Fee: £7 for up to 3 poems
Closing date: 16 June 2014
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Magpie Poetry Contest Notice
Deadline: June 15,2014
First Prize: $500 (CAD) and publication, Second and Third prizes, $50 and publication in Pulp Literature Magazine. Entry fee $25 first poem/$10 additional poems
Summary: The Magpie Award for Poetry
Adjudicator: Vancouver's first Poet Laureate George McWhirter.
This is the first annual poetry contest from Pulp Literature Magazine, a west-coast mixed-genre adventure in reading.
Results announced July 15.
Winners to be published in our Autumn 2014 issue and given promotion on our website.
Details: http://pulpliterature.com/contests/
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Segora Writing Competitions 2014
deadline for all competitions June 15th and results 13th July 2014
entry details: www.poetryproseandplays.com
Poetry Judge: Blake Morrison
First prize: £150 Second: £50 Third: £30
Entry fee: £4, adding £2 per subsequent entry, no limit
Short Story Judge: Michèle Roberts
First prize: £150 Second: £50 Third: £30
Entry fees: £5.50,2 for £10,3 for £14
Vignette (short fiction) Judge: Ed Briggs
First Prize: £50 Commended £10
Entry fees: £4, adding £2 per subsequent entry, no limit
Judge: Ed Briggs
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