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KIRKLAND LAKE, ONTARIO -- (Marketwired) -- 06/24/14 -- Kirkland Lake Gold Inc. (the "Company") (TSX: KGI) (AIM: KGI), an operating and exploration gold mining company, is pleased to announce an update on operations and production activities for the beginning of its fiscal year 2015 (began May 1, 2014) and a summary of its three-year mine production plan. The mine plan is based on a CAD$1,350 gold price. All figures in the release are stated in Canadian dollars.
-- Year to date production (May 1 - June 20, or 51 days) totalled 52,987 tons at a head grade of 0.42 ounces per ton ("opt"), or 14.4 grams per tonne ("gpt") to produce 21,426 ounces. -- Robust gold pour on June 19, 2014 of 4,862 fine ounces based on one week's production. -- A new mining horizon is being developed on the 5,400 foot level of the South Mine Complex ("SMC") that saw the first stope, 5417, come online in mid-May. This now gives the Company three mining horizons in the SMC. Proven and probable reserve blocks from this level up to the 5,300 foot level include 481,000 tons at 0.57 opt (19.5 gpt) containing 274,000 ounces; while proven and probable reserves from this level down to 5,600 foot level include 299,000 tons at 0.70 (24.0 gpt) opt containing 209,000 ounces. The Company is planning to mine 5 stopes from the 5,400 foot level in fiscal 2015. -- The Company is also developing the main SMC decline ramp as part of its sustaining capital budget in fiscal year 2015 in order to mine on the 5,600 foot level and below where reserve grades are even higher and will be incorporated into the Company's fiscal 2016 mine plan. Please refer to the summary of reserves and resources table later in the press release. -- On May 12 following a 7 day shutdown the Company commissioned the new ball mill with ore, running the mill on a new 5 and 2 day schedule with a daily throughput averaging 1700 tons per day ("tpd") run of mine ore at better than 96% recovery. At its peak, the mill ran at 2,000 tpd. -- The mine is currently producing at a rate of 1,050 tpd of ore. The Company will take delivery of two new one boom, T1 D, electric hydraulic jumbos in the second half of the calendar year. Productivity improvements realized with this new equipment are expected to increase average daily ore tonnage to 1,150 - 1,250 tpd. -- The Company remains on track to achieve its fiscal 2015 guidance of 140,000 to 155,000 ounces of gold produced. -- The Company currently has 5,400 tons of ore stockpiled in front of the mill.
-- Kirkland Lake Gold's reserve and resource base is as follows: -- Proven and probable reserves: 2,784,000 tons at an average grade of 0.50 opt (17.1 gpt) for 1,385,000 ounces -- Measured and indicated resources: 4,152,000 tons at an average grade of 0.49 opt (16.8 gpt) for 2,055,000 ounces -- Inferred resources of 2,092,000 tons at an average grade of 0.54 opt (18.5 gpt) for 1,133,000 ounces -- Total mine life of 14 years. -- Average gold production for the next three year totalling: -- FY 2015: 140,000 - 155,000 ounces per year at an average grade of 0.37 opt (12.7 gpt) -- FY 2016: 150,000 - 170,000 ounces per year at an average grade of 0.39 opt (13.4 gpt) -- FY 2017: 160,000 - 180,000 ounces per year at an average grade of 0.41 opt (14.0 gpt) -- Fiscal 2015 operating cost guidance of CAD$800 - $850 per ounce. -- Fiscal 2015 AISC of CAD$1,250 - $1,350 per ounce. -- Fiscal 2015 total sustaining, property, plant, and equipment expenditures of $58,000,000 -- Fiscal 2015 revenue of approximately CAD$200,000,000; Cash flow from operations of between CAD$ 50,000,000 - $60,000,000 -- Fiscal 2015 free cash flow generation of between CAD$15,000,000 - $20,000,000 -- The current three-year mine plan calls for daily ore tonnages to remain steady at 1,150 - 1,250 tons per day. Ounces will increase due to higher grades coming from the SMC as the 5400, 5600 and 5900 levels are opened up and mined over the ensuing years. Therefore, operating costs per ounce are expected to continue to decrease in fiscal years 2016 and 2017 with operating costs per ton remaining relatively flat. The resultant outcome will be to increase profitability and maximize free cash flow. Over the next three-years, Management's target is to lower AISC to CAD$1,190 - $1,250 per ounce.
Summary of SMC Reserves and Resources by Level
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proven + Probable Proven + Probable Proven + Probable LEVEL (TONS) (GRADE) (OUNCES) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5025 89,000 0.44 opt (15.1 gpt) 39,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5300 620,000 0.47 opt (16.1 gpt) 290,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5400 481,000 0.57 opt (19.5 gpt) 274,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5600 0.70 opt 299,000 (24.0 gpt) 209,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5700 - 6600 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Measured + Indicated Measured + Indicated Measured + Indicated LEVEL (TONS) (GRADE) (OUNCES) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5025 57,000 0.39 opt (13.3 gpt) 22,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5300 220,000 0.39 opt (13.3 gpt) 86,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5400 179,000 0.41 opt (14.0 gpt) 71,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5600 222,000 0.55 opt (18.8 gpt) 122,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5700 - 6600 768,000 0.91 opt (31.1 gpt) 703,000 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mr. George Ogilvie, President and CEO commented, "The current fiscal year is off to a strong start with operations thriving under the new strategy of focusing on quality tons to significantly improve head grades. The year-to-date head grade is 0.42 opt (14.4 gpt) which represents a 30% increase over and above the 0.32 opt (10.9 gpt) achieved in fiscal 2013. This approach will continue over the next three years, where the plan calls for keeping daily ore tons constant in order to keep labour and other mining costs stagnant, with an increase in produced ounces coming from higher grades. Grades in the SMC get significantly richer at depth, where development of additional high-grade areas (incorporated in the fiscal years 2015, 2016 and 2017 mine plans) is underway. It's pleasing to see we are now mining on a third mining horizon, 5400L, in the SMC where reserve grades in the block up to the 5,300L are above 0.55 opt (18.8 gpt). Costs are trending down due by previously announced cost-saving measures while others recently implemented (e.g. change in mill schedule) will start to be realized from June. In addition we should see further productivity improvements in the second half of the calendar year with the arrival of two new one boom, T1 D, electric hydraulic jumbos."
"The Company expects to be free cash flow positive at current gold prices in the next 2 - 3 months. The ounces forecast in fiscal years 2016 and 2017 do not take into account any mining from the near surface mineralization. Our recent flow through financing will allow us to accelerate the exploration drilling of the near surface mineralization; which includes a resource expansion and in-fill drilling to define a reserve. In house a preliminary economic assessment is being undertaken to help define the robustness of the near surface mineralization economics. The study is expected to be complete by the end of the calendar year," concluded Mr. Ogilvie.
About the Company
Kirkland Lake Gold's corporate goal is to create a self-sustaining and long-lived intermediate gold mining company based in the historic Kirkland Lake Gold Camp. The Company plans to do this by mining to the reserve grade, generating profits and free cash flow for the shareholders. The Company will also look to take advantage of its increased infrastructure capacity in the appropriate gold price environment. At the same time, the Company is committed to maintaining a significant exploration program aimed at developing and maintaining a property wide reserve and resource base sufficient to sustain a mine life of more than ten years. Over the last several years the Company has invested significant capital to improve the infrastructure of the business including upgrading the production hoist, skips, mill, underground mobile equipment and capital development. From initial discovery to present day there have been over 24 million ounces of gold mined from the Kirkland Lake camp while the current reserve and resource provides for more than 10 years of mining with significant exploration upside.
The reserve estimates and technical disclosure have been reviewed, verified (including sampling, analytical and test data) and compiled by the Company's geological staff (which includes a 'qualified person', Stewart Carmichael P.Geo., the Company's Chief Exploration Geologist, for the purpose of National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, of the Canadian Securities Administrators). Mr. Carmichael also supervised the preparation of the information that forms the basis of the technical disclosure in this release.
Neither the Toronto Stock Exchange nor the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange has reviewed and neither accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements
This Press Release contains statements which constitute "forward-looking statements", including statements regarding the plans, intentions, beliefs and current expectations of the Company with respect to the future business activities and operating performance of the Company. The words "may", "would", "could", "should", "will", "intend", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect" and similar expressions, as they relate to the Company, are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements used in this Press Release include, but may not be limited to, statements regarding the Company's production capacity and its exploration program. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements are based on the opinions, assumptions and estimates of management considered reasonable at the date the statements are made such as, without limitation, opinion, assumptions and estimates of management regarding the Company's business, its ability to increase its production capacity and decrease its production cost. Such opinions, assumptions and estimates, are inherently subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other known and unknown factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements.
These factors include the Company's expectations in connection with the projects and exploration programs being met, the impact of general business and economic conditions, global liquidity and credit availability on the timing of cash flows and the values of assets and liabilities based on projected future conditions, fluctuating gold prices, currency exchange rates (such as the Canadian dollar versus the United States Dollar), possible variations in ore grade or recovery rates, changes in accounting policies, changes in the Company's corporate mineral resources, changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined, changes in project development, construction, production and commissioning time frames, risks related to joint venture operations, the possibility of project cost overruns or unanticipated costs and expenses, higher prices for fuel, power, labour and other consumables contributing to higher costs and general risks of the mining industry, failure of plant, equipment or processes to operate as anticipated, unexpected changes in mine life, seasonality and unanticipated weather changes, costs and timing of the development of new deposits, success of exploration activities, permitting time lines, government regulation of mining operations, environmental risks, unanticipated reclamation expenses, title disputes or claims, and limitations on insurance, as well as those risk factors discussed or referred to in the Company's annual Management's Discussion and Analysis and Annual Information Form for the year ended April 30, 2013 and the Company's Management's Discussion and Analysis for the interim period ended January 31, 2014 filed with the securities regulatory authorities in certain provinces of Canada and available at www.sedar.com. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein as intended, planned, anticipated, believed, estimated or expected. Although the Company has attempted to identify important risks, uncertainties and factors which could cause actual results to differ materially, there may be others that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. The Company does not intend, and does not assume any obligation, to update these forward-looking statements except as otherwise required by applicable law.
Glossary of Terms
National Instrument 43-101 Definitions of Resources and Reserves
The Reserve and Resource estimation classifications as prescribed in National Instrument 43-101 are given here for clarity.
Mineral Resource
Mineral Resources are sub-divided into 3 categories depending on the geological confidence. The highest level with the most confidence is the `Measured' category. The next level of confidence is the `Indicated' category and the lowest level, or the resource with the least confidence, is the `Inferred' category.
Inferred Mineral Resource
An `Inferred Mineral Resource' is that part of a Mineral Resource for which quantity and grade or quality can be estimated on the basis of geological evidence and limited sampling and reasonably assumed, but not verified, geological and grade continuity. The estimate is based on limited information and sampling, gathered through appropriate techniques from locations such as outcrops, trenches, pits, workings and drill holes.
Indicated Mineral Resource
An `Indicated Mineral Resource' is that part of a Mineral Resource for which quantity, grade or quality, densities, shape and physical characteristics, can be estimated with a level of confidence sufficient to allow the appropriate application of technical and economic parameters, to support mine planning and evaluation of the economic viability of the deposit. The estimate is based on detailed and reliable exploration and testing information gathered through appropriate techniques from locations such as outcrops, trenches, pits, workings and drill holes that are spaced closely enough for geological and grade continuity to be reasonably assumed.
Measured Mineral Resource
A `Measured Mineral Resource' is that part of a Mineral resource for which quantity, grade or quality, densities, shape and physical characteristics are so well established that they can be estimated with confidence sufficient to allow the appropriate application of technical and economic parameters, to support production planning and evaluation of the economic viability of the deposit. The estimate is based on detailed and reliable exploration, sampling and testing information gathered through appropriate techniques from locations such as outcrops, trenches, pits, workings and drill holes that are spaced closely enough to confirm both geological and grade continuity.
Mineral Reserve
Mineral Reserves are sub-divided into 2 categories. The highest level of Reserves or the level with the most confidence is the `Proven' category and the lower level of confidence of the Reserves is the `Probable' category. Reserves are distinguished from resources as all of the technical and economic parameters have been applied and the estimated grade and tonnage of the resources should closely approximate the actual results of mining. The guidelines state "Minerals Reserves are inclusive of the diluting material that will be mined in conjunction with the Mineral Reserve and delivered to the treatment plant or equivalent facility." The guidelines also state that, "The term `Mineral Reserve' need not necessarily signify that extraction facilities are in place or operative or that all government approvals have been received. It does signify that there are reasonable expectations of such approvals."
Probable Mineral Reserve
A `Probable Mineral Reserve' is the economically mineable part of an Indicated and in some circumstances a Measured Mineral Resource demonstrated by a least a Preliminary Feasibility Study. This study must include adequate information on mining, processing, metallurgical, economic, and other relevant factors that demonstrate, at the time of reporting, that economic extraction can be justified.
Proven Mineral Reserve
A `Proven Mineral Reserve' is the economically mineable part of a Measured Mineral Resource demonstrated by at least a Preliminary Feasibility Study. This study must include adequate information on mining, processing, metallurgical, economic, and other relevant factors that demonstrate, at the time of reporting, that economic extraction is justified.
A more detailed list of technical terms can be found at http://klgold.com/cmsAssets/docs/pdfs/2013/2013%20Annual%20Information%20Form.pdf
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back slapping public officials
"Its pretensions to "comprehensitivity" destroyed, we can now see this "system" as a form of intellectual charlatanism, a studied fascination with process and minutiae that bespeaks the true soul of the born bureaucrat–the man who does nothing in particular, and to no societal good, but who by his own lights does it very well."
The context of the above writing is not county politics, political appointments, school boards, citizen committees, or similar local governing bodies that folks–so eerily described above–zealously seek out and set aside for themselves each year in Elbert County.
How many times have you heard one of them hold forth on how hard they, or one in their cohort, works in the power role they've secured?
Do they expect us to believe that obsessive protection of their local offices somehow disproves the corrupting influence of power?
unacknowledged wars
"The context and subtext contain the real message. This is true on both sides of today's political battles. On the one side, we have the remnants–scratched and bleeding, but still partially cohesive–of the old American Christian cultures, largely Protestant but with a strong admixture of Catholics; on the other is the far less numerous but culturally potent Unholy Left, adhering to its own secular religion, although it professes atheism. As with the battle between radical Islam and the West, one side has explicitly avowed war on the other, while the other, more powerful, refuses to acknowledge it or even conceive of it. Which side, under these circumstances, is more likely to be successful?"
Michael Walsh, "The Devil's Pleasure Palace," 2015, p. 115.
Kansas Nascar game faces Spring 2016
Election Insights
Cool tool: http://electioninsights.mybluemix.net/#/
Graph adjustable from 1 to 250 subjects (bottom slider), and 1 minute to 1 week (top slider). Note how much better Trump is doing this past week than Hillary.
Memo to #nevertrumpsters: If conservative principles are so precious that they provide justification to subject the country to openly Leftist government, I should think those principles need more context and perspective.
"What evidence is there that there is an arc of history and that it bends in any particular direction? One would think that the Unholy Left would be the last to assert such a grand pattern, given their disbelief in the Deity. Whence comes this "arc"? Who created it? Where did its moral impulse toward "justice" come from? What is "justice" anyway, and who decides? And if the word "justice" bears a bien-pensant modifier (as in "environmental justice"), the only "justice" is likely to be the "justice" of revenge. The word "justice," in the hands of the Left, has come to mean pretty much any policy goal they desire.
None of this matters, however, when the purpose of the assertion is not to offer an argument but to shut down the opposition via the timely employment of unimpeachable buzzwords and to advance a political agenda that has little or nothing to do with the terms employed for its advancement. Indeed, martial metaphors, not moralistic catchphrases, are the key to understanding the modern Left and its "scientific" dogma of Critical Theory: Theirs is a Hobbesian war of all against all (bellum omnum contra omnes), of every man's hand against every other man's. As Orwell, who knew a thing or two about the intellectual fascism of the Left, wrote in 1984: "War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength." These three aphorisms are the official slogans of the Ministry of Truth in 1984, and the truth is whatever the Ministry says it is. Truth is malleable and fungible, a function of day and date. The Devil will say what he has to say and will quote such scripture as he requires in order to achieve the sole objective remaining to him: the ruination of Man and his consignment to Hell."
Michael Walsh, The Devil's Pleasure Palace, 2015, pp. 52-53.
still undecided
It was passing strange when Ken Buck represented the 1% of Colorado citizens who attend Republican caucuses as 40% of all voters yesterday (4/11/16) on the Mark Levin show. Stranger still that Levin went right along with the charade that unelected caucus attendees represent the voters. I lost count of the number of times he echoed the 40% of all voters myth.
I have to separate my respect for Levin's constitutional analysis from my disgust over his knee jerk support for the non-representative caucus system.
When will the Colorado GOP figure out that they cannot claim legitimacy because a minuscule minority of them show up at a meeting once every two years? Legitimacy comes from the consent of all the voters, not a self-selected few.
The hypocrisy of upholding the values of accountability and personal responsibility when talking about the failings of other people, but practicing an unrepresentative form of politics by local-loud-mouth, completely undermines their cause.
- I'm waiting for the politician who doesn't promise me, or anyone else, anything.
- I'm waiting for the politician who doesn't use my idealism to advance them self.
- I'm waiting for the politician who doesn't try to pull an emotional response from me.
- I'm waiting for the politician who is known for the laws they repealed.
- I'm waiting for the politician who has no pitch, and who is not a salesman.
- I'm waiting for the politician who does not seek political office.
- I'm waiting for the politician who takes no satisfaction from governance.
- I'm waiting for the politician who admits the evil nature of power in them self.
Same old stuff, different day – and you thought I was going to use the more accurate word.
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To summarize, in the name of the inalienable rights of liberty and property, the laudable purposes of safety and general welfare, and the myth of mother Gaia, the Left would lard up the Colorado constitution with collectivist abrogations of the inalienable rights of liberty and property, would decrease safety and general welfare, and would empower local Leftist apparatchiks to dominate their subjects – us – with impunity.
I don't like being a subject. I suggest that Colorado citizens vote against becoming subjects by rejecting these Leftist initiatives. Don't we have too much totalitarianism already?
One more thing…
Memo to the above decision makers:
The best thing for the citizens of Elbert County that you could do with the referenced grant money would be to dismantle and destroy the regulatory planning law and its appurtenant bodies that have caused so much harm to Elbert County in the form of foregone economic activity and the elimination of economic potential.
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what works
Faced with overwhelming evidence that markets "work," Obama's advice is to go on searching for "what works." => Denial on stilts.
Thanks! to all the givers!
what's on the ballot
On the one hand we have an ongoing food-fight egged on by the media who only ask questions about the food-fight, and never follow any thread about substantive solutions to the worlds problems.
On the other hand, a serene and respectful candidate discussion about fantasy subjects that have never worked is encouraged, with a reality reduced to simplistic emotions for the least common denominator of voter, and a fawning media who never follow up on any problem in the world remotely connected to their simplisticism.
The real adversary in this election is television media; CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS & FOX.
Horned Lark
caucus anyone
This presidential race illuminates just how far out of the bottle the genie has gone. Peel back the layers of President and Congress to reveal the massive federal, state, county, local, and special district bureaucracies – the envy of any socialist utopian – that forge ahead relentlessly to define and manage every corporeal and theoretical element about America and her people.
The electoral theater is in season, with many acts, many intermissions, and incessant analysis – all of it tracking to the myth of the constitutional consent of the governed. As if!!!
As if any one man (a President), or any consortium of men (a Congress) could even know what the American bureaucratic Leviathan does to us each minute of every day.
As if the millions of lines of written rules by all manner of governing body in America – a.k.a. The Rule of Law – could even be comprehended in any significant degree.
We are subjects to bureaucrats discretion now. Our consent is vestigial. Our Constitution is open to interpretation and we have no control over the interpreters.
These flourishes at the margin where individuals step into the limelight for a few moments to plant seeds of hope in the fertile soil of our founding ideology, just remind me of what will never be a reality for us again.
To get America back, the bureaucracy must be dismembered, amputated, discarded. There is no mending it. The people who recognize that truth are vastly outnumbered.
And that's the nuts and bolts of it. All the rest – the ideological fights, the religious fights, the rights fights, the wealth fights, the health fights, the cultural fights, they're all sideshows. Constant distractions to divert attention from the one hand in your pocket, and the other one wrapped around your spinal cord.
Going to caucus? Please….
Winter is Trumping
Reason, not force. Consent, not submission. Citizen, not subject.
Justice Scalia's death is a litmus test for the nation. Everyone who justifies their position on the proper course of action for the President and the Senate to fill Scalia's seat on the Court with an appeal to the will of the people is wrong. America was never intended to be governed by a political expression of the will of the people.
Justice Scalia fought an uphill battle to preserve the rule of law, not the rule of men. He agreed with the Framers that Constitutional law should only be changed with the safeguards of the amendment process in order to avoid judicial tyranny. But this process is far too slow for the Left who see the Court as the architect of social engineering in America.
That concept – social engineering – is the very antithesis of freedom. It makes lab rats out of free men. It just amazes me to see the Left, who are all so libertarian about their behavioral choices, chuck their free will aside and line up to conform with the latest politically correct gestalt.
And if it were only that, I could grudgingly accept it. But no. They're driven to make law to govern and force me to accept their experiments too. And that's where I draw the line – because I don't sell my freedom cheaply. I expect to be persuaded and convinced, and the Left, generally, don't make compelling arguments.
Antonin Scalia
"It seems to me that that is where we are heading, or perhaps even where we have arrived. Seventy-five years ago, we believed firmly enough in a rock-solid, unchanging Constitution that we felt it necessary to adopt the Nineteenth Amendment to give women the vote. The battle was not fought in the courts, and few thought that it could be, despite the constitutional guarantee of Equal Protection of the Laws; that provision did not, when it was adopted, and hence did not in 1920, guarantee equal access to the ballot but permitted distinctions on the basis not only of age but of property and of sex. Who can doubt that if the issue had been deferred until today, the Constitution would be (formally) unamended, and the courts would be the chosen instrumentality of change? The American people have been converted to belief in The Living Constitution, a "morphing" document that means, from age to age, what it ought to mean. And with that conversion has inevitably come the new phenomenon of selecting and confirming federal judges, at all levels, on the basis of their views regarding a whole series of proposals for constitutional evolution. If the courts are free to write the Constitution anew, they will, by God, write it the way the majority wants; the appointment and confirmation process will see to that. This, of course, is the end of the Bill of Rights, whose meaning will be committed to the very body it was meant to protect against: the majority. By trying to make the Constitution do everything that needs doing from age to age, we shall have caused it to do nothing at all."
winter sunset
Arab Spring Stampede
The Left and Islam have a strange codependency – each embodying and enabling what the other hates and loves the most.
The violence of the Safe Space
On 23 January Brendan O'Neill took part in a debate about free speech on campus at the University of California Irvine. These were his opening remarks.
The most striking thing about Safe Spaces on campus is how unsafe they are. How hostile and even violent they are towards anyone who has unpopular views, or who simply believes people should have the right to express unpopular views.
Safe Spaces are spreading across campuses in the US and the UK. They're presented as happy-clappy therapeutic zones in which students, especially minority students, should not be subjected to gruff words or prejudicial ideas.
As one student union in Britain puts it, they're spaces in which students must be "free from intimidation or judgement" and should always "feel comfortable". These spaces are justified in inoffensive, Oprah-like language: it's all about providing a space in which people can be themselves without fear of ridicule.
But in practice, Safe Spaces are ugly, authoritarian places. They're propped up by menace. They're fortified by a simmering threat of force against any transgressors of the new cult of psychic safety and moral conformism.
Consider some recent examples from Britain, where students have built what they call Safe Spaces but which look to me more like Unsafe Spaces for those judged to hold the wrong views or to have the wrong attitudes.
Last week at King's College London, a meeting of pro-Israel students was invaded by anti-Israel activists. They smashed windows, set off a fire alarm, threw chairs around. They chanted "Nazis!" at the attendees of the meeting. Oh, the irony of activists shutting down a meeting of largely Jewish students while shouting "Nazis": a serious self-awareness failure.
A key justification given by student radicals for shouting down pro-Israel meetings is that such events are "offensive" or "distressing" to certain students. That is, they violate the Safe Space. So in the name of maintaining safety on campus, certain events can be violently interrupted. It's Orwellian: war is peace, freedom is slavery, violence is safety.
On two campuses in Britain — Cambridge and Goldsmith's — feminist students have burnt the literature of far-left groups whom they accuse of rape apologism and of contributing to a hostile climate for female students. That is, these far-left groups make women feel unsafe and therefore their pamphlets must be publicly burnt. The use of fascistic menace to make students feel comfortable — the Orwellianism continues.
At a London university last year, the Iranian secularist Maryam Namazie was harassed by members of the Islamic Society who shouted at her: "You are violating our Safe Space!"
Namazie is a stinging critic of Islamism. Some big Islamist guys turned up to her talk and hectored her, switched off her powerpoint, and created what could really be described as a hostile environment. And their justification was that they were maintaining their Safe Space against someone with problematic views. We have the Kafkaesque situation where a bunch of blokes can physically intimidate a woman in the name of saving students from feelings of intellectual intimidation.
In 2014, I was prevented from taking part in a debate about abortion at Oxford, on the basis that I am a "person without a uterus" and therefore have no right to discuss women's bodies. As it happens, I was due to make the pro-choice case, to say that officialdom has no business limiting a woman's sovereignty over herself.
More than 300 feminist students said the discussion would harm their "mental safety", so they threatened to turn up to the debate "with instruments" to disrupt it. They couldn't see the dark, twisted irony of threatening the physical safety of a campus debate in the name of defending students' mental safety. Shamefully, the Oxford administration caved to the students' demands and banned the meeting.
And on it goes. Things are burnt, people are harassed, and books, newspapers and songs are banned in the name of "safety". Menace, fire and threats are used to create "safety". Discomfort is deployed in the name of comfort. Intimidation is used to tackle alleged intimidation. Violence is safety.
Student unions in Britain have crushed all sorts of things in the name of safety. Robin Thicke's song "Blurred Lines" has been banned on more than 30 campuses because it apparently makes female students feel unsafe. Mexican hats are banned on some campuses because they create a hostile environment for Latinos. Some unions have banned the making of sexual noises in the student bar, because it makes women feel unsafe.
On American campuses we have seen professors being screamed at and journalists being manhandled by mobs of students rallying under the banner of the Safe Space. "You make us feel unsafe and therefore we will destroy you" — that is the perverted rallying cry of today's student radicals.
That Safe Spaces can generate so much unsafety is revealing. It exposes the iron fist of authoritarianism that lurks within the velvet glove of the self-esteem movement. It exposes the dark side to the cult of therapy and the idea that an individual's feeling of self-worth should override other people's right to express themselves as they see fit.
The motor of campus censorship is a profound feeling of psychic vulnerability among students. They see everything as a threat to their mental security. Statues of old dead white men, novels that feature sexual violence, pop songs… everything is considered potentially wounding.
This is best summed up in the idea of microaggressions, where even innocent, everyday conversation is reframed as a peril. The Oxford students currently trying to have a statue of Cecil Rhodes taken down describe the statue as an "environmental microaggression". Even inanimate objects are experienced as an attack on the self.
This extreme psychic vulnerability confirms that we're entering a new and quite terrifying era of censorship. Once we had ideological censorship, designed to elevate a particular political outlook by suppressing others. We had religious censorship, designed to protect a certain belief system through crushing blasphemy. Now we have therapeutic censorship — censorship which aspires to squash or at least demonise anything that any individual finds aggressive, uncomfortable, or wounding to their worth. It is a tyranny of self-regard.
This censorship is more insidious than the old censorships. It is vast and unwieldy and can turn its attention to almost anything: magazines, clothing, monuments, jokes, conversational blunders. It's as if students feel they deserve their own personal blasphemy law to protect them from scurrilous comments or images or objects. We have a generation of little Jesuses, threatening menaces against anyone who says something that stings their psychic health.
Campus censors can't be held entirely responsible for this therapeutic censorship. In fact, in many ways they are the products of a culture that has been growing for decades: a culture of diminished moral autonomy; a culture which sees individuals as fragile and incapable of coping without therapeutic assistance; a culture which treats individual self-esteem as more important than the right to be offensive; a culture that was developed by older generations — in fact by the fortysomethings and fiftysomethings now mocking campus censors as infantile and ridiculous.
Yes, we should mock these little tyrants who fantasise that their feelings should trump other people's freedom. But we must go further than that. We must remake the case for robust individualism and the virtue of moral autonomy against the fashion for fragility; against the misanthropic view of people as objects shaped and damaged by speech rather than as active subjects who can independently imbibe, judge and make decisions about the speech they hear.
The Safe Space is a terrible trap. It grants you temporary relief from ideas you don't like, but at the expense of your individuality, your soul even. If you try to silence unpopular ideas, you do an injustice both to those who hold those unpopular views, and also to yourself, through depriving yourself of the right and the joy of arguing back, taking on your opponents, and in the process strengthening your own mental and moral muscles. Liberate yourself — destroy the Safe Space.
These are comments Brendan O'Neill made at the conference "What Cannot Be Said" at the University of California Irvine on 23 January.
militancy without end
Leftists and political Muslims share a successful strategy of umbrage politics – "Agree with me or I'll get upset." Each day news reports come in about the riots, demonstrations, occupations, marches, boycotts, and class actions underway by upset beneficiaries. You'd think that's all that ever happened in America.
Leftist reporters saturate the media with reports about the struggles. The struggles never end as the numbers of beneficiaries and Muslims continue to grow. No degree of social justice, religious obedience, or equality can satisfy them, as if these things could even be quantified. No fixed amount of entitlement benefits can sustain an enlarging population. The struggles are designed to be unsatisfiable, unsolvable, unwinnable, and unending.
Liberal politicians keep putting more money on the table and unscrupulous beneficiaries keep lining up to collect. You can't legitimately call either the politicians or the beneficiaries citizens because citizenship implies duties that neither one cares much about. They are gamers – gaming the system for personal benefit, be it preferential law or public money – and gaming the system for votes.
Who even discusses economic and political theories, reasoning, science, education, or even metaphysical foundations anymore? Why bother with intellectual baggage when numbers in the streets will get favorable laws written, favorable court cases decided, entitlement money allocated, criminal prosecutions foregone, constitutional protections denied, the power of the Leftist state and Muslim Sharia increased, and votes?
Conservatives are chasing their tails with volumes of sound and persuasive analysis about these social pathologies, but the groups who trade in power demographics don't care about what conquered people have to say, except to the extent it identifies more opportunities to exploit.
Pure democracy is literally devouring America. Leftists and Muslims are leading the short walk to the end of our constitutional society. The tyrannies of the minorities are on the march while liberal vote-buying politicians eagerly fund and enable them.
The overwhelming majority of Americans who provide the real value to America that predatory Leftists and political Muslims feed on, are apparently too busy to stop it.
The Crying Game
A week in the San Francisco Bay Area
A short course in moral philosophy
What "Social Justice" Really Means
For much of my academic life, I considered the terms, "values," "rights," and "social justice," to have equivocal meanings. When these terms were used without clarification, they disrupted any fair social order. Each of the phrases had two or more meanings that usually meant the direct opposite of each other. Conversations and legislation in which these terms were used almost always ended in incoherence. One group used a term one way; the next group used it in an opposite way. Both usages were found in the language with various explanations of how they came into common usage. Each usage had its own philosophical presuppositions.
"Value" was a term from Max Weber or Nietzsche that denied any grounding to our ethical lives. Whatever we choose as our purpose or end was all right. The term admitted no rational scrutiny, only arbitrary choice. "Science," in this sense, dealt exclusively with the means whereby we might achieve our selected end or purpose, whatever it might be. To say "this is my 'value'" meant simply that I "opt" for this or that desire. I have no intrinsic reason why one choice is better or worse than another. The word "value" was thus a function of relativism. To "guarantee" values, or agree on them, merely meant accepting whatever we willed, not on understanding and on being held to what is right or wrong, true or false.
The word "rights" caused even more confusion. Especially in Catholic social thought where it was equated with some objective duty. But the modern usage of the word comes from Hobbes. It means that no objective goods can be rationally comprehended. A "right" was whatever I thought that I needed to avoid violent death. A "right" was the intrinsic power to obtain it and keep what I decided.
The Leviathan state was contractually empowered to guarantee these "rights." This guarantee meant, in effect, the state defined the "rights" that were allowed to exist. The "right" to life confronted a "right" to abortion. When people insisted on their "rights," they were accused of denying the "rights" of others. Battle after battle to defend the "right" to life was lost because it was seen as a denial of a "right" to abortion. The rhetoric of "rights" was independent of the rhetoric of truth.
"Social justice" was purportedly a new addition to the classical legal, distributive, and commutative justice ideas found in Aristotle. It was rather connected with the Leviathan state. Social justice was based on the idea that what is "due" to people for their flourishing is what decides their good. It was not personal virtue that was at the center of moral and political life. Social and political "structures" determined virtue and vice.
So the "vocation" to "social justice" derived its nobility from "service" to the poor and down-trodden through promises to "re-structure" the state or economy. Oftentimes this renovation of society was promoted in revolutionary terms, because state and social "structures" determined the meaning of virtue and vice. "Social justice" always hovered in the shadow of totalitarianism. The state became the center of all human life. Social Justice received it's self-justification from what it distributed to everyone.
In this context, Michael Novak and Paul Adams have brought together in one concise consideration an understanding of "social justice" that does not arise from these "value-rights-justice" presuppositions found in the post Machiavellian understanding of modernity and the state. In Social Justice Isn't What You Think It Is, they undertake a systematic re-reading of what is known as "Catholic Social Doctrine." But their "re-reading" turns out to be directed to everyone, to social and political thought as such. The approach is unique and convincing. Initially it arises from the experience of Adams who has been involved in what we now call "social services," that is, those efforts of the state and other bodies to meet pressing needs of the poor, disadvantaged, or otherwise needy. The theoretical issue is over what kind of analysis best deals with these issues, while retaining and expanding any real meaning of a civilization of love and reason.
As the family has come more and more into a crisis status, the growth of the state agencies to meet the result has been almost exponential. Chesterton said somewhere that if we stop doing things out of personal sacrifice, love, and generosity, we will soon find ourselves having to pay others to do the needed things for increasingly high wages. This same point is really what Benedict XVI argued; namely, that no bureaucracy could substitute for the kind of personal care and love that actual human beings require above minimum physical needs that can be purchased.
What is argued here is lucid and well-grounded. It is a much better explanation of both facts and vision than other approaches to basic world economic and political issues. Social justice is not, as too many maintain or imply, a revolutionary virtue whose object is the restructuring of the state, family, or society as the principal way to deal with modern problems. Rather it is an aspect of Aristotle's understanding of justice and politics. It is a flushing out of the habit of virtue in all its implications. This virtue is located within each person. It is an acquired habit, the result of repeated and prudent acts.
This centrality of habit/virtue is where the discussion of human good properly belongs. Novak is particularly good in spelling out how this classic virtue is involved in those activities that are necessary, and even beyond necessity, for achieving the common good. The careful discussion of charity is a disciplined effort to acknowledge that into any social order something from outside of it may be necessary for its ultimate good. The classical idea of benevolence is the natural basis of the supernatural virtue of charity.
The "common good" is another basic idea from Aristotle and Aquinas that needs fuller restatement in the light of the centrality of personal virtue. The "common good" is not some grand plan to reform all of society to meet and eliminate every human ill. Novak is a realist when it comes to human evils. Any actual human common good must deal responsibly with this basic problem. Evils (vices) will always be present in any society. They will always need to be confronted with clear eyes. What is wrong in the world is mainly located in the human heart and relates to human freedom. We cannot pass down the virtue or vice of one generation to another because each generation of persons must itself decide whether it will be good or not in its concrete activities. Talk of reform of society that does not include talk of habits, of virtue and vice, is but another way of abandoning any real understanding of man in society.
The common good is an order of thought, habit, law, custom among acting persons in which the actual potentialities of individuals can and do develop. No human being or organization can foresee the varied goods of all types that arise out of the freedom and intelligence of human beings. The common good does not mean that everyone has exactly the same things. It is not uniform. Rather, it means that everyone develops different things. The total goods implicit in human potential and variety are allowed and encouraged to come forth. Thus, the common good will also include those differing institutions of law, police, army, and common sense that directly deal with the vices that also arise from their intelligence and wills.
In many ways, this book is about America and its earlier tradition of law, free markets, federalism, and generosity as something new in the world, yet as something that continues and develops classical and Christian thinking of the good of mankind. The degree to which cultural America has deviated from its own founding on matters of sin and relativism is treated in detail. The Founding Fathers were often aware of the dark side of human nature and sought to counteract it, as some described in the Federalist.
But it is quite clear that America's general contribution to the world's fund of practical knowledge is a major accomplishment, particularly concerning issues of poverty and human dignity. The dynamism that exists in each human soul is fundamental to recognize. Man's intelligence and drive are the real sources for meeting real needs of actual people. But they will not be allowed or properly developed by just any religious, ideological, or traditional mode of thought that impedes the basic place of virtue in human life.
Novak uses several initiatives or remarks of Lincoln to illustrate his point about how social justice properly understood works. He cites Lincoln's remarks on the provision for patents that the American Founders put in the Constitution. Perhaps no single act has been more important in providing for ordered human progress than the law of limited patents. For this provision allowed individuals to use their own initiative to invent or write things that would step by step contribute to human needs and wants in growing and ever-more complex societies. Again and again, the activities and institutions between the individual and the state are emphasized as central to true social justice. No actual person is an isolated being. Rather he is a member of family and myriads of other associations designed to accompany human purposes through free and responsible human activity
We find here a particularly fine discussion about just what really does help the poor to become not poor. People need not be poor. The first step is to understand that wealth is not another commodity or property. The constant repetition of the statistic about 20 percent own 80 percent of the wealth implies that this is an obvious injustice. It isn't. The statistic completely overlooks the cause of wealth production and the growth of entire economies including that of the poor. It is ultimately intelligence and the skill in applying it. The principal agent for dealing with poverty is not some foreign aid or rearrangement of laws or state structure. It is a recognition of the capacity of individuals, if given a chance, to deal with problems themselves in free concert with others.
There is an almost diabolical temptation in the souls of many politicians, clerics, and academics to want to solve someone else's problems. Instead of thinking what people themselves can do to solve their own problems, the temptation is to think of ways to do it for them. This latter approach almost always ends up in emptying society of that individual and personal vitality that alone is able to vivify a society. Neither individualism nor socialism, or their variants, can show the record that a personalist-based approach to social justice as a virtue can achieve.
"It is not at all necessary that there should be poor people on this planet. The Creator of this world has made it abundantly fruitful for all, and has hidden within it huge resources for human wit to discover and put to use for all," Novak wrote. This book was unfortunately mainly written before Pope Francis' full comments on economics were clear. The tentative reflections here are based almost solely on Evangelii Gaudium.
If anyone from the pope to the bishops to college professors and students, to media, business people, and government cadre is looking for a succinct and far-reaching guide to reconsider how to think about the order of this world and its relation to the human good, it would be difficult to find a better book than this work of Michael Novak and Paul Adams.
inflation under Obama
Roots of the Jihad
Deobandi Butchery in San Bernardino: 1977 Roots of the Jihad Carnage
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) whistleblower Philip Haney made a startling series of revelations Thursday evening (12/10/15) on Fox News' The Kelly File. Haney described how he began investigating scores of individuals with links to the traditionalist Islamic Indo-Pakistani Deobandi movement, and its related offshoots, prominently, Tablighi Jamaat. He maintained the groups were exploiting the visa waiver program to transport suspected jihadist operatives in and out of the U.S., thus he started tracking them, and recording these findings within a DHS database. Haney's efforts (as summarized by Chuck Ross of the Daily Caller) were eventually noticed by the National Targeting Center (NTC), which operates as an umbrella organization in U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Haney was subsequently asked to work for the NTC and rivet his attention on these Deobandi-related organizations. Over the course of his investigation, Haney received an award for identifying more than 300 potential jihad terrorists with links to the Deobandi affiliates.
Tablighi Jamaat certainly merited the attention Haney was giving it, having been connected to a series of jihad terrorist attacks, which included targeting the U.S.: the October, 2002 Portland (Oregon) Seven, and September, 2002 Lackawanna (New York) Six cases; an Aug. 2006 plot to bomb airliners en route from London to the U.S.; attempted bombings in London and Glasgow, Scotland, in July 2007; and involvement in the July 7, 2005, London bombings, which killed 52 and injured more than 700. French investigators have further estimated Tablighi Jamaat ideological indoctrination was associated with 80% of their jihad terror cases.
Haney's fastidious investigations raised serious concerns about the San Bernardino Deobandi movement-affiliated Darul-Uloom al-Islamia mosque—attended by jihad-waging killer Syed Farook. In addition, Farook's jihadist accomplice wife, Tashfeen Malik, attended a traditionalist Islamic education center in Pakistan, also connected with the Deobandi movement. Notwithstanding his patriotic, yeoman efforts, DHS shut down Haney's probe, and revoked both his security clearance and access to the databases he compiled. Retributive investigations against Haney by DHS and the Obama Justice Department, however, revealed no wrongdoing on his part. Tragically, as Haney explained, had his probe not been terminated for alleged "civil rights violations" of jihad-indoctrinated Muslim followers of the Deobandi movement:
Either Syed would have been put on the no-fly list because association with that mosque, and/or the K-1 visa that his wife was given may have been denied because of his association with a known organization.
The Deobandi-linked jihad carnage that transpired in San Bernardino has much deeper roots, not only on the Indian subcontinent, but dating from at least 1977, within North America, as well.
The traditionalist Islamic Darul Uloom Deoband school was founded in conjunction with the mid-19th century Indian Muslim jihad against British colonial rule, becoming a hub of the broader global Caliphate revival movement centered in India after the humiliating Ottoman defeat during the 1877-78 Russo-Turkish War. Mahmood Hasan (1851-1920), the first graduate of the Darul Uloom Deoband, was active in early 20th century jihadist activities against British colonial India, and he was also an accomplished Koranic scholar whose seminal 20th century commentary on the Koran (via his pupil S.A. Usmani) remains an influential work for Indo-Pakistani Muslims. Moreover, per a reverent biography of Muhammad Ilyas (1885-1944), founder of the Tablighi Jamaat, who was "infused with the spirit of Jihad," Ilyas "took the pledge of Jihad at the hands of the Maulana Mahmood Hasan for that very reason." Muhammad Ilyas in turn, formally mentored Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi (1914-99)
Nadwi was a founding member of the Muslim World League, a member of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (now Cooperation), a member of the World Supreme Council for Mosques, and a member of the Fiqh Council of Rabita. He participated in a host of other activities under the umbrella of these, and other Islamic supremacist organizations and institutions, including, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY). In India, during his "formative years," Nadwi was associated with Maudoodi's Jamaat Islami, in addition to Tablighi Jamaat founder Muhammad Ilyas. Nadwi later became president of the Academy of Islamic Research and Publications, which published his own 1983 hagiography of Muhammad Ilyas, who had written directly to Nadwi "perhaps the most detailed letters concerning the aims and principles of the [Tablighi Jamaat] Movement." Most significantly, Nadwi served as rector of Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama ["Organization of Scholars"], sister institute of Darul Uloom Deoband, and a major disseminator of traditionalist Islamic, Deobandi teachings.
Gustave von Grunebaum published a brilliant analysis of Nadwi's defining 1951 work, What Has the World Lost Through the Decline of the Muslims? Nadwi's book invokes the words of the second "Rightly Guided" Caliph Umar's [r. 634-644 AD] envoy to Yazdagird [III, d. 651], the last Sasanian king of Iran:
Allah has sent us so we can lead out those he wishes from the service of all the servants to the service of Allah alone, and from secular constraint into freedom and from the oppression of the (earlier) religions to the justice of Islam.
Arguing that the Muslim community (umma) is the only power with the ability to overcome the dominant, corrupting Western (European) spirit, Nadwi, as von Grunebaum observes, advocates "the transfer of leadership to the Muslim world," because Islam's message "holds as good now as it did in the seventh century." Nadwi, in his triumphal exuberance, proclaims:
Behold the world of man looking with rapture at the world of Islam as its savior, and behold the world of Islam fixing its gaze on the Arab world as its secular and spiritual leader. Will the world of Islam realize the hope of the world of men? And will the Arab world realize the hope of the Muslim world?
But Nadwi also maintained that prior to re-assuming global hegemony, Islam must undergo a "spiritual revival" along traditionalist lines, while steeping itself in the sciences to master modern technology, commerce, and the arts of warfare. Von Grunebaum's analysis concludes with this foreboding insight, all the more relevant today:
In his final chapter Nadwi calls on the Arab world to assume its traditional leadership of Islam. The religious importance of the Arabs is emphatically asserted. …For it is the Arab world to which will fall the generalship in the final ejection of Europe; its [Arab Islam's] faith, the power of its message, and divine help will assist it.[O]ne realizes that his prescription for the world is simply an injunction to return to, or, as he would say, to resurrect, a golden age that never existed. Salvation by sameness, the implied belief that what worked once will always work, and the unconcerned readiness to forego the wider horizons that have been opened by man, and for the most part, by Western man, during the last centuries—one cannot help feeling both frightened and depressed by the appeal that Nadwi's message appears to have for certain Muslim circles. [NOTE: That "appeal" has mushroomed in the intervening half century]. The ultimate impenetrability of one civilization by another is demonstrated, unintentionally it is true, but, for that, all the more convincingly. Even as, in the late Middle Ages, orthodoxy in self-defense was prepared unhesitatingly to narrow down the scope of the Muslim experience by pushing Hellenizing philosophy and the natural sciences to the periphery, in precisely the same way, although perhaps with still greater radicalism, Nadwi is throwing overboard the Western concept of science—the objectivization of experience and its interpretation as a rational system—whose philosophical and operational meaningfulness he obviously never realized. Needless to say, Nadwi shies away from any specific suggestion of how a victorious Islam would remove the illnesses that he diagnoses in our world. Rather, he does not shy away from the specific; it simply does not occur to him that the model of the golden age might not provide the required panaceas. Not a word, therefore, on the position envisaged for the minorities…
A decade later (1961), Nadwi wrote an essay for the Islamic Center of Geneva, Switzerland, titled, "Responsibilities of Muslim Young Men Proceeding to the West," which extolled the Sharia, and promoted its universal application, including, by inference, within non-Muslim societies.
The preserved treasure of the Islamic Sharia is present, without any distortion or amendment, as it was left behind by the bringer of the Sharia, the Prophet himself. The Sharia is the most complete and the most perfect jurisprudential system in the world. It denotes an admirable blending of the ancient with the modern and can serve the needs of all ages and climes. It is also well established for the future. It possesses such wise and sound foundations that the edifice of a healthy society or civilization can always be built on them.
But it is during a series of addresses Nadwi delivered in the summer of 1977 to U.S. (primarily) and Canadian audiences that one sees his unabashed advocacy of Sharia supremacism—overturning "infidel" Western legal systems—by these Muslim diaspora populations. The speeches are open calls for Islamization by both non-violent proselytization, and jihad (spelled, as per the Indian Muslim predilection, "jehad"), even jihad martyrdom. Nadwi appeals to North American Muslims for patience, and unwavering forbearance, but also gives explicit sanction for jihad martyrdom violence—so "Islam be made stronger and brought into power and authority"—entirely consistent with the San Bernardino carnage wrought almost 40 years later by Syed Farook and Tashfeen Mailk.
Nadwi's own introductory comments (reproduced in the speech collection, "From the Depths of the Heart in America," 1978) outline the itinerary of this 1977 tour, which included not only mosques, and Islamic centers, but major U.S. universities, and the United Nations:
This is a collection of my speeches in the United States and Canada which I visited in the summer of 1977. I went there at the invitation of Muslim Students Association, mainly to attend its Annual Conference at Bloomington in Indiana. After the Conference, a tour was arranged by the Association which took me to almost all the important cities and educational, cultural and industrial centres of North America where a considerable number of Muslims drawn from India, Pakistan and the Arab countries live for various reasons. The original itinerary included New York City, Jersey City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, San Jose and Los Angeles in the States, and Montreal and Toronto in Canada, to which Washington was added later. In all, I addressed twenty gatherings, half of them in Arabic and half in Urdu. I had an opportunity of speak at five leading American Universities—the Columbia University at New York, the Harvard University at Cambridge, the Detroit University [sic; University of Michigan?] at Ann Arbor, the South Californian University at Los Angeles [sic; University of Southern California, or University of California at Los Angeles?] and the Utah University at Salt Lake City, and was, also, asked to give the Friday sermon in the Prayer Hall at United Nations Headquarters and in the Jami' Masjids of Toronto and Detroit. Muslims who are studying in America or have taken up residence there took a keen interest in the meetings and came from far and near to attend them.
These preliminary comments introducing the collection of speeches also reaffirm Nadwi's "constant endeavor" throughout his sojourn in North America to:
speak straight from the heart, without mincing the matters, and to offer some sincere suggestion to the Muslim brothers and sisters who have settled in the West, particularly in America. As for the Western Civilisation, it has been viewed from a height which Islam confers upon its followers and from which both the Old [Europe] and the New [America] Worlds seem narrow and empty, and their glitter false and unreal.
Nadwi brazenly elucidated Islam's religious supersessionism in words delivered at the Muslim Community Center of Chicago, "before a large gathering of educated Muslims," on June 19, 1977. Outlining what he referred to as the "Deputyship of Ibrahim" [Abraham of the Old Testament], Nadwi urged his Muslim audience to pursue their divine mandate to replace both Judaism and Christianity as the abiding North American faiths, with Islam:
This country [the U.S.] is an idol-hall in which the Azan [Muslim call] of Ibrahim has to be given, and this you, alone, can do. You are the real descendants of Ibrahim, not the Jews who have strayed far away from his path. Not the Christians who are the followers of the Christianity of St. Paul, not of Jesus. They have been divested of true Christianity. It was a colossal conspiracy that bore fruit. No religious conspiracy has,- perhaps, been so successful. It brought about a complete metamorphosis of Christianity. Now, whether Catholics or Protestants, they are the adherents of St. Paul. They have lost the claim to be the successors of Hazrat Ibrahim. You are his successor.
Finally, Nadwi delivered chilling speeches to Muslim audiences in Toronto (June 10, 1977), and again in Chicago (on June 20, 1977), which openly sanctioned waging jihad, and being martyred in North America as a paramount "responsibility for Muslim immigrants," justified as endeavors at "protection of faith [Islam]" which "must take responsibility over everything." Punctuated by Koran 2:193, Nadwi issued these clarion calls for jihad:
The Koran has alluded to it in these words: …. "Until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah. (II: 193)." What it denotes is that the state is reached in which Truth is triumphant and no battles are waged for the souls of men and they do not have to undergo the ordeal of deciding which way to turn: only Allah is obeyed and divine honors are paid to Him alone. There prevail justice and faith in Allah. For it is preaching, and the sanctioning of what is right and forbidding of what is wrong, and, if need be, even Jehad. For it is Islam to be made stronger and brought into power and authority so that even for the fainthearted people it might not become so hard to follow the path indicated by Allah that they gave way to despair and decided that it was beyond their endurance. …Allah may take from you the task of spreading the guidance in this land, and, one day, it might adopt Islam. It is not inconceivable…Your stay here is not only justified, but also a Jehad if you have made sure of the preservation of Islam for yourselves and your future generations and are carrying out the duty of the preaching and propagation of Faith and presenting an image of the Islamic way of life which is attractive to others. Look into your intention from time to time, and make it right. The aim and idea behind all your acts should be the propitiation of Allah and the service of Islam and Muslims. You will, then, InshaaAllah, earn the reward equal in value to that on Jehad, and, sometimes, even on martyrdom.
Nadwi's invocation of a quintessential jihad verse from the Koran, 2:193, and his accurate assessment of "what it denotes" are consistent with the gloss on 2:193 by the early Deobandi ideologue Mahmood Hasan:
War against infidels is permitted for the eradication of wrong and oppression and for the prevention of the infidels from betraying other people from Islam and for the establishment of [an] Islamic system in the land…[Those] who are still active in spreading infidelity and barring others from Islam, they should be slaughtered of course.
Slaughtered of course, indeed. Jihadist butchers Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik certainly understood this Deobandi, and hence authoritative Islamic, Koran-sanctioned method for "eradicating wrong and oppression," so they "slaughtered" the "oppressive" San Bernardino infidels. When will our criminally negligent political and law enforcement leadership be held accountable for the consequences of allowing this mainstream, genocidal Islamic ideology—jihad—to be preached with impunity throughout the U.S.?


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"The solid March increase in the RPI was fueled by stronger sales and traffic levels, which bounced back from the weather-challenged results in recent months," said Hudson Riehle, senior vice president of the Research and Knowledge Group for the Association. "Looking forward, restaurant operators are increasingly optimistic about sales gains, and a majority plan to make capital expenditure in the next six months."
The RPI's current situation index, which measures four trends — same-store sales, traffic, labor and capital expenditures — climbed 1.5 percent to 100.8 in March from 99.3 in February. Fifty-five percent of restaurant operators reported a same-store sales gain between March 2013 and March 2014, while 32 percent of reported a sales decline. Additionally, 46 percent of restaurant operators reported higher customer traffic levels between March 2013 and March 2014, while 33 percent reported a decline in customer traffic.
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I was expecting PBF to be wearing some kind of super baggy little john type clothes with a big ass gold chain the way people were talking.
Other than being a bright ass ugly color, there isnt anything wrong with what he is wearing. It does look like it was taken from a 1970's sofa but It would be just fine if it was a different color though.
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Floyd can't dress lol, it's no secret. Just like Michael Jordan can't dress lol..........just like 98% of professional athletes, they can't dress.
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Damn Floyd face is still bruised up from the canelo fight.
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It's always something with you clowns, lmao. Day after day you have to prove how much you don't like Floyd-and he just keeps on winning.
The man just can't win with you guys-outside of the ring lol!
What's Floyd wearing today? Didn't hit up Ig Twitter or FB yet. It's probably something ass.
Floyd eats Doritos. Doritos taste like ****, I like Wise better.
Well, what's he drinking, Coke? I always liked Pepsi better.
Floyd is making 41 mil. Yeah, but Dlh paid his back taxes.
Floyd's house got robbed, Floyd planned the break-in.
That's Floyd's ex in that pic? Ugly *****.
Did you peep the Uncle Rog interview. Crackhead.
Sr has been a big help in his sons camp. Sr don't love his son.
It's hilarious to read.
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If Money May was born in 1895, a lot of these boxers wouldn't be considered legends. GOAT
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I bet that ngga wearing tom ford
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Yall dont have a clue about style he looks sharp
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He could become the biggest boxing star of all times. I got to admit he's earn it and if he retires 50-0 i dont know how cant you put him in the top 10 all time.
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Nothing wrong with the outfit besides the colors; but hey I'm a high end shopper myself.
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Asahi Beverages Australia Pty Ltd manufactures and markets soft drinks in Australia. It offers carbonated drinks, mineral water, and juices. Asahi Beverages Australia Pty Ltd was formerly known as P&N Beverages Australia Pty Limited. As a result of the acquisition of P&N Beverages Australia Pty Limited by Asahi Holdings (Australia) Pty Ltd, P&N Beverages Australia Pty Limited's name was changed. The company was incorporated in 1990 and is based in Sydney, Australia. As of September 2, 2011, Asahi Beverages Australia Pty Ltd operates as a subsidiary of Asahi Holdings (Australia) Pty Ltd.
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Quality Hotel Bayside Geelong, Geelong - Bellarine Peninsula
- Free WiFi and free parking
Main amenities
- 68 guestrooms
- On the beach
- Near the beach
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- Outdoor pool
- Breakfast available
- Free use of bicycles
- Business center
- Terrace
- 24-hour front desk
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
What's around
- On the beach
- Rippleside Park (0.6 mi / 1 km)
- Deakin University (0.6 mi / 1 km)
- Steampacket Gardens (0.8 mi / 1.3 km)
- National Wool Museum (0.8 mi / 1.4 km)
- Geelong Performing Arts Center (1 mi / 1.6 km)
For families
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Private bathroom
- Separate sitting area
- Television
- Free toiletries
- Terrace
Quality Hotel Bayside Geelong, Geelong - Bellarine Peninsula
Hotel Info: 866-539-8117from $100
- Standard Room
- Standard - Single Room
- Room, 1 Queen Bed, Non Smoking
- Standard Room, 1 Double Bed, Non Smoking
- Standard Room, 2 Bedrooms, Non Smoking
- Executive King Room
- Economy Room, 1 Double Bed
- Superior - double room
- Standard - Triple Room
- Superior King Room
- Superior - single room
- Standard - Double Room
- Apartment, 2 Bedrooms
- Executive Room
- Family Room
- One Bedroom Apartment
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Hotel size
- This hotel has 68 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 2 floors
- 24-hour check-in
- Check-out time is 10 AM
- Express check-in/out
Required at check in
- Credit card deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- Up to 2 children (12 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Pets not allowed (service dogs only)
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Free self parking
- RV/bus/truck parking
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- Buffet breakfast daily (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop/café
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Barbeque grills
- Outdoor pool
- Free bicycles on site
- Ecotours nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
- One meeting room
- 24-hour front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Year Built 1960
- Elevator/lift
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Designated smoking areas
- Picnic area
- Terrace
- In-room accessibility
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- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board
- Separate sitting area
- Private bathroom
- Shower only
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 42-inch TV
- Digital TV channels
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DiningBlack Salt Restaurant - This beachfront restaurant specializes in regional cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). Reservations are required. Open daily.
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Also known as
- Quality Bayside Geelong
- Quality Hotel Bayside Geelong
- Chifley Hotel And Apartments Geelong
- Chifley On The Esplanade Geelong
Mandatory fees
Deposit: AUD 100 per stay
Optional extras
Onsite credit card charges are subject to an extra charge
Rollaway beds are available for an additional charge
Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of AUD 25 per person (approximately)
Cribs/Infant beds are available for AUD 20 per night
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
Recent reviews
Good 3.9 /5 from 65 reviews
The hotel and room was nice and clean but I don't think I would stay there again due to the noise coming from the restaurant
This hotel has a phenomenal location right across from the beach, with updated rooms, and a good (but expensive) restaurant. I would certainly recommend this hotel, but two things did stick out to me. 1) I wish that there were more rooms that took advantage of the location and faced the beach. Most were tucked away in the back. 2) The restaurant, which was very good, seemed out of place in the hotel. It was just too expensive. I ate at the restaurant and my bill for 1 person, 2 drinks, was $65.
Quick stay very very nice
Went away with my boyfriend for our 1 year anniversary. The stay was great and we had a lovely dinner in the restaurant downstairs :)
Very nice hotel and surrounding views. Can watch sunset n sunrise from balcony.
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