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Rise of Global Terrorism/Refugee Connections Thread (All Discussion Here)

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To keep the Anything section a little more tidy and clean, I'm creating this thread for the sole purpose of discussing the connections between global terrorism and the upswing in refugees from those afflicted regions. This is also the thread to post any news regarding terrorist attacks that are unaffiliated with refugees and news regarding refugees that are unaffiliated with acts of terrorism.

The bold is very important, because these discussions can be exclusive from one another. Please keep it clean in here. I know this subject draws a lot of passion from both sides. We don't need a hostile environment here.

Discuss away.
 
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Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard recently visited Syria and met with the Syrian people and President Assad. In an interview with Fake News Outlet CNN's Jake Tapper, she responded to Tapper's attempts to push the previous administration's pro-regime change narrative that there are "moderate rebels" by stating that it is the view of the Syrian people that "there are no moderate rebels" and effectively stating that the US is arming and helping to empower Al Qaeda. Fascinating and essential interview. Huge respect to the congresswoman for seeking and reporting truth and standing firm even in the face of CNN's attempts to emotionally manipulate the American people with images and even tweets supposedly by devastated children in Syria asking for "help". Be sure to check out the video in the link.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/rep-gabbard-syria-no-moderate-rebels/

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard made damning statements about the U.S. role in Syria in a CNN interview — noting that “there are no moderate rebels” — after a secret four-day fact-finding mission to Syria in which she met with everyday Syrians, and eventually met with President Bashar al-Assad.

“I wanted to see if there was in some small way, a way that I could express the love and the aloha and the care that the American people have for the people of Syria, and to see firsthand what was happening there, to see that situation there,” Gabbard told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Wednesday.

Her message to the American public was clear, and an extremely damning indictment of the steady stream of propaganda the Western media has fed the public regarding the existence of “moderate rebels” during the Assad regime-change operation:

“I’ll tell you what I heard from the Syrian people that I met with, Jake, walking down the street in Aleppo, in Damascus, hearing from them.

They expressed happiness and joy at seeing an American walking through their streets. But they also asked why the U.S. and its allies are providing support and arms to terrorist groups like al-Nusra, al-Qaida or al-Sham, ISIS who are on the ground there, raping, kidnapping, torturing and killing the Syrian people.

They asked me, why is the United States and its allies supporting these terrorist groups who are destroying Syria when it was al-Qaeda who attacked the United States on 9/11, not Syria. I didn’t have an answer for them,” Gabbard said, noting the clear dismay the average Syrian has for the U.S. support of al-Qaeda – a proposition which every American should equally question.

“The reality is… every place that I went, every person that I spoke to, I asked this question to them, and without hesitation, they said, there are no moderate rebels. Who are these moderate rebels that people keep speaking of?
For her efforts and willingness to go against the establishment line, she is of course being smeared in the ways you would expect:

Tulsi Gabbard's Fascist Escorts to Syria



 
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Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard recently visited Syria and met with the Syrian people and President Assad. In an interview with Fake News Outlet CNN's Jake Tapper, she responded to Tapper's attempts to push the previous administration's pro-regime change narrative that there are "moderate rebels" by stating that it is the view of the Syrian people that "there are no moderate rebels" and effectively stating that the US is arming and helping to empower Al Qaeda. Fascinating and essential interview. Huge respect to the congresswoman for seeking and reporting truth and standing firm even in the face of CNN's attempts to emotionally manipulate the American people with images and even tweets supposedly by devastated children in Syria asking for "help". Be sure to check out the video in the link.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/rep-gabbard-syria-no-moderate-rebels/

For her efforts and willingness to go against the establishment line, she is of course being smeared in the ways you would expect:

Tulsi Gabbard's Fascist Escorts to Syria



Teflon Don Juan also went through with signing an executive order to suspend the refugee program. While it's unfortunate that those in danger can't flee to the good ol' US of A, I'm sure Germany is willing to bend over and take a few more inches up the ass by allowing them in willy nilly.

:trump3

Also, McMullin and Sellars can go fuck themselves on the grounds that one couldn't even place second in his home state during the election and the other is a true-blue shuckin' and jivin' token DNC member.
 
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Paris to Build Barrier Around Eiffel Tower to Counter Terrorism

by
Gregory Viscusi
‎February‎ ‎09‎, ‎2017‎ ‎2‎:‎57‎ ‎AM

Paris plans to build a barrier around the Eiffel Tower to limit the risk of terrorism.

The city is setting aside 20 million euros ($21.3 million) for the project and will evaluate proposals with consideration for their aesthetics.

The idea is to have a “permanent and aesthetic barrier,” said Jean-Francois Martins, a city official. “Sadly the risk of terrorism hasn’t gone away,” he said.

The Eiffel Tower receives roughly 7 million visitors a year.
The remaining vestiges of Western civilization seem poised to continue the process of suicide initiated a hundred years ago with the Great War and subsequent horrors , over the next hundred years, to the point of beginning to now fall to Éowyn's greatest fear. As per The Return of the King:

"What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.

"A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire."

Not so long ago it was the West that drove headlong into the rest of the world, so animated by zeal in faith and mastery of geography, mathematics, politics, navigation, war and unreconstructed burning avarice. Now the West ostensibly begins its long recession into a fortress of its own making, forged from centuries of liberalism finally reaching an apotheosis in collapsing native birth rates of the people whose ancestors assembled and sustained its dominion.

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
 
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#767 ·
Mark my words, a war in Europe is going to happen over this.


A new survey conducted by Ipsos Mori has revealed some staggering insights into how the French view Islam, society and migration in general.

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60% of the French believe Islam is incompatible with French society, which is incredibly high given that only 8% would say the same about Catholicism and 19% about Judaism.



A further breakdown of the figures reveals that 74% of people believe that Islam seeks to impose its will on others, as opposed to 18% of people who believed the same about Catholicism.



The French are also fed up with mass immigration it would seem, 65% feel there are too many foreign people in France, according to the poll, which is down slightly from the 70% who said the same in 2013. (We guess 4 years of mass immigration would skew the results a little bit!)



Contrary to what the hard left would have you believe, attitudes are similar across all professions, from professionals to labourers:

The French also believe it is becoming harder to integrate migrants into French society, with 61% say that they believe immigrants do not make an effort to integrate properly into French life.



An explanatory note for the document says: “The 2017 wave of Fractures Français (report) reveals a generalised revival of confidence in the political, economic and regal institutions and a decline of the “declinist”. These positive movements do not, however, erase the pessimism which is still very marked within French society.”



Looks like Monsieur Macron still has a long way to go in restoring French confidence in their society, and the movement in attitudes suggests that papering over the cracks isn’t going to work forever…
http://www.westmonster.com/60-believe-islam-is-incompatible-with-french-society/
 
#16 ·
^Yeah ... I saw that. BBC is being asked to issue an official apology because muslims complained.

So apparently, ISIS are not Muslims, but making fun of them is Islamophobic ... because ya know ... Deep down Muslims know that ISIS are muslims and making fun of ISIS is the same as making fun of Muslims ... but when ISIS commits act of terrorism it has nothing to do with Islam because then ISIS aren't Muslims ... but they're Muslims when you make fun of them.
 
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I think you know well enough that you will never get the same answer twice when dealing with a millions-strong group of individuals. I think you also know that no-one is immune to so-called "PC society" where logical and thought out conclusions like "BBC are calling me ISIS just because I wear a niqab" are rife.

Regardless, that clip was the best thing I've seen all year (so far!)
 
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http://www.dailywire.com/news/18685..._content=062316-news&utm_campaign=benshapiro#

Justin Trudeau’s glossy exterior often distracts us from his unapologetic moral bankruptcy. By all metrics, he should be the laughingstock of the entire world. An elitist showman, the boy with the silver spoon in his mouth has gone from teaching yoga to offering sycophantic eulogies to the likes of Fidel Castro, the Cuban dictator who filled his coffers with blood money forcibly seized from his own people under the banner of communism.

The problem is Trudeau’s far-left pathology is only getting worse.

Last week, the Canadian Prime Minister issued a formal apology to Omar Khadr, an al-Qaeda terrorist convicted of killing an American serviceman. This isn’t satire or some conservative caricature of liberal naiveté. This is real. Trudeau’s apology, delivered on behalf of the Canadian government, comes on the heels of leaked reports revealing that Trudeau is handing Khadr a whopping $10.5 million settlement to make up for all that the murderous al-Qaeda operative has supposedly endured. As The Wall Street Journal notes, “That’s an extravagant sum in the Canadian justice system, which is much more restrained in awarding damages than U.S. courts.”

For Khadr’s victim, Sgt. First Class Christopher Speer, the settlement might as well be a second death. It’s almost 15 years ago today that Khadr tossed a grenade in Speer’s direction. The attack resulted in Speer’s death and the partial blinding of Sgt. First Class Layne Morris.

Shortly after the July 27, 2002 incident, Khadr confessed to his crime and pled guilty before a war-crimes commission in Guantanamo Bay. Though Khadr’s left-wing supporters justify his actions by claiming that he was only a teenager (a fighting age male of 16 years old) at the time, the al-Qaeda member had spent years training as a killer alongside other jihadist operatives in Afghanistan. Living with his father, Khadr allegedly resided in Osama Bin Laden’s compound in the Kandahar region of Afghanistan before carrying out the fateful attack that killed Speer and permanently injured Morris.

So how did Khadr go from a prison cell in Gitmo to not only becoming a free man, but a rich man, courtesy of Trudeau’s depraved, terrorist-sympathizing regime? The Journal explains:

Mr. Khadr was just shy of his 16th birthday at the time of the attack. In 2010 Canada’s Supreme Court held that the interrogation of Mr. Khadr at Guantanamo Bay by Canadians in 2003-04 violated Canadian standards for the treatment of detained youths. These violations occurred during the mandates of Liberal Prime Ministers Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin. The Supreme Court left it to the government, then headed by Conservative Stephen Harper, to determine an appropriate remedy, and to the civil courts to rule on any damages.

A few months later Mr. Khadr entered his guilty plea on five war-crimes charges. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison, reduced by pretrial agreement to eight years. The Harper government determined that returning Mr. Khadr to Canada would be the appropriate remedy. In 2012 he was repatriated to serve the remaining years of his sentence. He was released on bail in 2015.

Mr. Khadr wasn’t satisfied. He sued the Canadian government for 20 million Canadian dollars (about US$16 million at current exchange rates).

Meanwhile in Utah, Sgt. Speer’s widow, Tabitha, his two young children and Mr. Morris sued Mr. Khadr and received a judgment for $134.1 million in damages. Their goal was to preserve possible future action against Mr. Khadr’s assets — at the time a remote possibility.

But last week Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a formal apology to Mr. Khadr and a massive cash settlement, though no court had ordered him to do so.

Sadly, the Speer family’s woes have only been compounded by Trudeau. It gets worse. Much worse. And we have Canada's unhinged prime minister to thank for that. Here’s The Journal again:

Mr. Trudeau knew there was an outstanding judgment against Mr. Khadr in Utah. An insider told the Canadian Press wire service that Ottawa rushed the payment to Mr. Khadr to dodge compliance with the Utah judgment. The Speer family and Mr. Morris had filed for an injunction June 8 to enforce the Utah judgment in Canada. The Trudeau government had the money out the door before their petition could be heard in court.

Last week the Speer family filed an emergency injunction to freeze Mr. Khadr’s assets. On Thursday an Ontario judge denied the request, describing it as “extraordinary.” Had Mr. Trudeau waited for a court ruling, the Speers’ claims could have been adjudicated without extraordinary measures. The prime minister’s choice thus undermined the Speer family’s legal options.

It takes a certain kind of coward to put a soldier’s grieving widow through this much pain and suffering. Trudeau may be fawned over by teen magazines and white liberal feminist blogs eager to praise the young prime minister for his “woke” rhetoric, but inside, where it really counts, this man is rotten, perhaps even evil.

Trudeau’s egregious behavior is a slap in the face to Canadian and U.S. forces who have fought, bled, and died side-by-side on the field of battle in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. Trudeau not only spits in the faces of his own soldiers, but he undermines the international coalition supporting brave Afghan and Iraqi forces, warriors who are battling day-and-night to wrestle their countries back from the hands of sadistic religious fanatics spilling the blood of innocents to turn the Middle East into a medieval-aged dystopian caliphate.

Shame on you, Justin Trudeau. Canada, the civilized world, and all men and women of conscience deserve better.
There are no words to describe how insidious this is.
 
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-truck-idUSKBN14S0E3

At least four killed in Palestinian truck attack in Jerusalem

By Jeffrey Heller and Ori Lewis | JERUSALEM

A Palestinian rammed his truck into a group of Israeli soldiers on a popular promenade in Jerusalem on Sunday, killing four of them in an attack that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said was likely inspired by Islamic State.

It was the deadliest Palestinian attack in Jerusalem in months and targeted officer cadets as they disembarked from a bus that brought them to the Armon Hanatziv promenade, which has a panoramic view of the walled Old City.

The military said a female officer and three officer cadets were killed and that 17 others were injured. Police said three of the dead were women.

Police identified the truck driver as a Palestinian from Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem and said he was shot dead. His uncle, Abu Ali, named him as Fadi Ahmad Hamdan Qunbor, 28, a father of four from the Jabel Mukabar neighbourhood.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said that nine Jabel Mukabar residents, including five members of the attacker's family, were arrested on suspicion of aiding the attacker.

The Israeli military regularly takes soldiers on educational tours of Jerusalem, including the Armon Hanatziv vantage point.

Netanyahu visited the scene and convened his security Cabinet, a forum of senior ministers, to discuss Israel's response. He said that security forces were controlling access in and out of the neighbourhood.

"We know the identity of the attacker. According to all the signs he is a supporter of Islamic State," the prime minister said.

A government source said ministers had called for the demolition of the attacker's home and for his body not to be returned to the family for burial. It also decided to detain without trial persons expressing sympathy for Islamic State.

The United States condemned the attack "in the strongest terms" and offered to help Israel work to determine who was behind the attack, National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said in a statement that also expressed condolences for the victims.

Roni Alsheich, the national police chief, told reporters he could not rule out that the driver had been motivated by a truck-ramming attack in a Berlin Christmas market that killed 12 people last month.

"It is difficult to get into the head of every individual to determine what prompted him, but there is no doubt that these things do have an effect," Alsheich told reporters.

In another attack claimed by Islamic State and involving a truck driven into a crowd, nearly 90 people were killed in the French city of Nice in July.

STREET ATTACKS SLOWED

Actions inspired by Islamic State in Israel, the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem have been rare and only a few dozen Arab Israelis and Palestinians are known to have declared their sympathy with the militant group.

A wave of Palestinian street attacks, including vehicle rammings, has largely slowed but not stopped completely since it began in October 2015, with 37 Israelis and two visiting Americans killed in those assaults.

At least 231 Palestinians have been killed in violence in Israel, the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip in the same period. Israel says that at least 157 of them were assailants while others died during clashes and protests, blaming the violence on incitement by the Palestinian leadership.

The Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited self-rule in the West Bank, denies that allegation, and says assailants have acted out of frustration over Israeli occupation of land sought by Palestinians in peace talks that have stalled since 2014.

Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip, routinely praises those who carry out street attacks, and did so on Sunday.

"We bless this heroic operation resisting the Israeli occupation to force it to stop its crimes and violations against our people," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum told Reuters.

Nickolay Mladenov, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, sent his condolences to the families while condemning the attack and those praising it.

"It is reprehensible that some choose to glorify such acts which undermine the possibility of a peaceful future for both Palestinians and Israelis," Mladenov said in a statement.

Security camera footage showed the truck racing towards the soldiers and then reversing into them.

A security guard identified only as "A" told Channel 10 how he shot at the truck and its driver.

"I shot at a tyre but realised there was no point as he has many wheels, so I ran in front of the cabin and at an angle, I shot at him and emptied my magazine," he said.

"When I finished shooting, some of the officer cadets also took aim and also started firing."

The footage showed many of the soldiers fleeing the scene as the attack took place, their rifles slung on their shoulders.

As a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem, the truck driver would carry an Israeli identity card and be able to move freely through all of the city. Israel considers all of Jerusalem its united capital, a stance not supported by the international community.

(Reporting by Jeffrey Heller and Ori Lewis; Additional reporting by Maayan Lubell and Mustafa Abu Ghaneyeh, and Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza, and Julia Harte in Washington; Editing by David Goodman and Peter Cooney)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/201...-sentence-child-migrant-raped-5-year-old-boy/

Exclusive: Government Will Not Request Prison Sentence for ‘Child Migrant’ Who Raped 5 Year-Old Boy

by Jack Montgomery 8 Jan 2017

The Attorney-General’s Office (AGO) will not request a prison sentence for a “child migrant” who raped a 5 year-old boy in late 2015, Breitbart London has established.

The migrant, who told the boy he would “break him into pieces” if he told anyone about the attack, was handed a non-custodial, three-year rehabilitation order by Judge Jonathan Bennett. Defence lawyer Alwyn Jones welcomed the ruling, saying he hoped it would “address the underlying issues this young man has.”

Any member of the public can request that the Law Officers of England and Wales appeal sentences of this nature under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme. Breitbart London reported last November that at least one unknown member of the public had done so in this case.

However, the AGO has since told Breitbart London that Tory MP Robert Buckland, the Solicitor-General, has “carefully reviewed the papers” and “concluded that if the sentence imposed on the offender was referred to the Court of Appeal, the Court would not increase the sentence”.

It was on this basis that Buckland “decided not the refer the case”. The AGO gave Breitbart London no indication as to its own assessment of the sentence’s suitability.

The original sentence was just one of a series of rulings which have encouraged accusations that the judiciary are “out of touch” with the ordinary public, with some calling for judges to be subject to retention elections, as in Japan and several American states.

In one such case, last August, judges as Basildon Crown Court ruled that Alexander Bassey would serve just four years in custody after horrifically scarring and partially blinding five white teenagers in a random acid attack before calmly walking back to his laughing, twenty-strong gang at an Essex railway station.

Criticism of the judiciary reached fever pitch following a controversial ruling in the High Court which deemed that MPs should have the final say over whether or not the UK leaves the European Union (EU), a move which saw senior judges branded “enemies of the people”.

Furthermore, the courts have proven keener to resort to imprisonment for offences which are seemingly much less serious but judged to be “racially or religiously-motivated” in character.

35 year-old Kevin Crehan was imprisoned for leaving bacon sandwiches on the doorstep of a mosque. He was found dead in his cell shortly after Christmas in an incident which is currently subject to an ongoing investigation.

The courts have also appeared to be relatively harsh when dealing with members of the British Armed Forces, as in the case of Sergeant Alexander Blackman – better known as ‘Marine A’.

Sergeant Blackman was handed a ten year sentence for shooting dead an already fatally-wounded terrorist in Afghanistan. Critics of the sentence, which the courts reduced by just two years on appeal, have described the shot as a coup de grâce, or “shot of mercy”. Deficiencies in Sergeant Blackman’s defence mean that the original sentence may ultimately be deemed unsafe.
 
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Another truck attack. :frown2: I don't see how they can be prevented.
The lenient sentences being given to migrants (throughout Europe) are only pissing people off. Average rape sentence here is 8+ years. He rapes a 5 year old and they let him off. He could be an adult for all we know. Does anyone really believe he's not going to reoffend? They'll hide his identity and send him to school with the kids here. Evil judge. :cussin:
 
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This is a terrible story: http://www.bild.de/regional/chemnit...sarah-um-sie-zu-infizieren-49866560.bild.html

A 38-year-old Pakistani man who reached Germany under the guise of being a refugee committed a particularly vicious rape, repeatedly biting his victim to attempt to infect her with hepatitis C, but he cannot be deported back to Pakistan for that government refuses to take him. He was sentenced a week ago to 46 months in prison for the July 2016 rape and assault of a 19-year-old German woman with blonde hair in the town of Zwickau in Saxony.

Was watching a few YouTube videos of German women saying that they are changing their hair from blonde or hiding their blonde hair at nighttime in public.

Angela Merkel has been enjoying 66% approval from German women versus 44% from German men.

German women may want to begin rethinking certain things.
 
#86 ·
Absolutely digusting.

I usually think my country is one of the worst in Europe when it comes to migrant related crimes and how to deal with them but we've got nothing on the stuff happening in scandinavian countries, Netherlands, Germany or even the UK, they've reached a new low of self-destruction.

If European countries don't change their politics quickly, we're done, there will be Breivik-style revenge terrorism and we'll end up like Yugoslavia.
 
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Are we really going to start accusing posters of only caring about themselves and their backyards in a thread devoted to news stories of people fearing, hating and lashing out violently at each other over cultural differences? That seems unnecessary.

As a bilingual, half-aboriginal Canadian I can give an insider perspective on events involving French Canada, English Canada and First Nations Canada. I have no business trying to speak for people I do not know who live in cultures and places I have no first-hand experience with. Don't misinterpret having nothing of value to share as meaning I, and others, don't care.

Since its become a talking point, these are the names and a bit of information about the men who died (there are others in critical condition) in the mosque shooting (courtesy of CBC.ca):

Azzeddine Soufiane

The 57-year-old father of three was a grocer, butcher, and longtime Quebec City resident who often helped guide newcomers to the provincial capital.

He owned and operated the Boucherie Assalam in Sainte-Foy, less than a kilometre away from the Islamic cultural centre where the shooting took place.


Khaled Belkacemi

Belkacemi, 60, was a professor of soil and agri-food engineering at Laval University, also in the Sainte-Foy neighbourhood. He earned his bachelor of science in chemical engineering from Polytechnic School of Algiers in Algeria in 1983 and graduated with a PhD from Sherbrooke University in 1990.

His area of research focused on green chemistry and functional foods. He was the keynote speaker at the 66th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference in Quebec City last October.


Aboubaker Thabti

Friends of Thabti, 44, told the Globe and Mail he worked in a pharmacy and had two young children.

Abder Dhakkar told the newspaper that Thabti was one of the first people he met when he came to Quebec City from Montreal a year-and-a-half ago.

"He's so kind; everyone loves him — everyone," he said.


Mamadou Tanou Barry

Mamadou Tanou Barry, 42, worked in information technology, was the father of two toddlers, aged three and one-and-a-half.


Ibrahima Barry

Ibrahima Barry, 39, worked for Quebec's Revenue Ministry, was a father of four. His children are aged 13, seven, three and two.


Abdelkrim Hassane

Hassane, 41, was Algerian and worked as a programming analyst for the Quebec government. He had three daughters, aged 10, eight and 15 months.


Here's a link to the GoFundMe page if you'd like to offer financial support to the families to help with funeral costs.
 
#129 ·
There are plenty of disingenuous people here who make up excuses or try to lesson the evil committed by some for their own agendas. You're not one of those people which is why you're one of my favorite posters here! :x

Thank you for your information! This whole thing is just nuts.
 
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@RavishingRickRules That Cameron quote is a beautiful example that the idea of Conservatives all being anti-gay and homophobic is a seriously outdated way of thinking, lacking in any nuance, research or foresight. Not to mention it's one of the best recent Conservative quotes out there, I wasn't a huge fan of Cameron (though I'd prefer him to May...) but his defence of same-sex marriage was outstanding.

What's funnier is the left in the UK continue to try and peddle themselves as the defenders of women's rights and the LGBT community and yet it is the Conservative government who not only legalized same-sex marriage but have also had two female prime ministers. I know the left have tried to do a lot in those regards but it's still hilarious. They must absolutely hate that fact. Not only that and you can correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe Labour have ever even elected a female leader before, all of them have been white males which are the type of people that the authoritarian left these days always denounce :lol. Amazing how these things end up playing out...

It of course also completely debunks people like BM who are absolutely convinced Conservatives are just evil heartless bastards with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Anyone who thinks that about the left or right are moronic to say the least in my opinion. But then again, this is the same guy who believes Milo Yiannopolous wants to restrict gay rights even though Milo is gay himself....not much credibility when you make claims like that :lol.

This leads in perfectly to some news I saw a few days ago regarding Trump:

Trump Vows to Keep Obama-Era Protection for LGBT Federal Workers

President Donald Trump intends to maintain an Obama-era executive order aimed at protecting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender federal workers and contractors from workplace discrimination, the White House said Tuesday.

Trump “is determined to protect the rights of all Americans, including the LGBTQ community,” according to the statement.

The statement was issued after reports Monday on news websites and social media that a draft order was circulating in Washington which would have repealed action taken in 2014 by then-President Barack Obama that applied to all federal agencies as well as to 24,000 companies with federal contracts that employ 28 million people, a fifth of the U.S. workforce.

Protections on the basis of sexual orientation for federal employees were already in place when Obama expanded them to include gender identity and to also require all federal contractors to have policies barring discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. He chose not to include an exemption for employers affiliated with religious groups, something that Trump could still decide to add.
The reports on Monday also suggested that the Trump administration was considering an order that would have allowed federal employees to refuse to serve LGBT people; given federally funded adoption agencies the option of discriminating against LGBT parents; and allowed taxpayer funds to go toward social services programs that discriminate against LGBT people.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer was asked Monday if the administration had plans for executive actions that would cut into LGBT rights.

“I’m not getting ahead of the executive orders that we may or may not issue,” Spicer said. “There is a lot of executive orders, a lot of things that the president has talked about and will continue to fulfill, but we have nothing on that front now.”
The news reports on the Monday Trump is going to repeal Obama's legislation on LGBT worker rights and instead he is keeping them. It again shows us how untrustworthy and irredeemable the media have been when it comes to Trump's presidency thus far.

The left and anti-Trump protesters have convinced themselves that Trump is anti-gay yet his words and actions have been to the contrary. Let us not forget that Trump in his RNC speech made the protection of the LGBT community a priority after the Orlando shootings and Republican voters cheered. Not to mention he invited a gay conservative to speak at the RNC, first time in history that has happened.

Nothing Trump has done indicates that he is anti-gay, the complete opposite has happened. Now of course if Trump does go that rout then I'll call him out for it and I'll put my hands up but as it stands the Republicans under Trump do not have an anti-gay platform, his actions thus far have shown this.

Pro-Life? Yeah of course, it's a given. But considering that the US overall has more lenient abortion laws than in Europe....something I didn't even know until a couple of weeks ago, I can understand now why there is such a big pro-life movement in the states:



In terms of gay rights though, only really the social conservatives now in America truly believe in restricting LGBT rights barring same-sex marriage and they are a block that is growing smaller each election cycle. Hell, a good portion of them this time around voted Trump in the primaries and he isn't exactly a social conservative in his private life :lol.

Now if Trump were to be impeached and Pence ends up being president? Yeah, then you'd see the Republican platform switch firmly to anti-gay measures. This is one of the reasons why I don't want Trump being impeached, there are still some anti-Trump supporters who don't understand Pence in many ways is worse than Trump, particularly on social issues.
 
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What's funnier is the left in the UK continue to try and peddle themselves as the defenders of women's rights and the LGBT community and yet it is the Conservative government who not only legalized same-sex marriage but have also had two female prime ministers. I know the left have tried to do a lot in those regards but it's still hilarious. They must absolutely hate that fact. Not only that and you can correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe Labour have ever even elected a female leader before, all of them have been white males which are the type of people that the authoritarian left these days always denounce :lol. Amazing how these things end up playing out...
I think a very key point here is also that from New Labour until recently Labour were centre-right on the spectrum on most issues not regarding social welfare. But yeah I don't think Labour have had a female leader unless you count Harriet Harmon as the go-to interim leader. Though if we're talking about the left in the UK you have Nicola Sturgeon (SNP are centre-left) Caroline Lucas (Green Party of England & Wales are left) Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru - Left wing) Maggie Chapman (Green Party of Scotland - Centre-left to left) so I'm not sure you can really say "the left hasn't elected a female leader" as most of these parties have been "the left" in the UK over the last 20 years as New Labour shifted to a Blairite neocon/neoliberal right-centre party for a good portion of that. Had to add that for fairness, the criticism of Labour is very apt, the criticism of "the left in the UK" maybe less so ;).
 
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#166 · (Edited)
Time to take the words of Western man's ancient, steadfast adversary at face value.



In Trump's second term a wall built on the Canadian border may be necessary. :mj @AryaDark @Beatles123 @CamillePunk @The Dazzler @Goku @MillionDollarProns @Miss Sally @Pratchett @RipNTear @Rowdy Yates
Might have to. Thankfully Trudeau and his lame duck government is nothing but lip service otherwise North of USA could end up facing a rush of poorly vetted "Canadians" trying to get into America.

Hopefully the Canadian government just keeps talking like it always does and doesn't actually fuck up their immigration program [which at the moment is tougher than the American one] so we never have to deal with their shitizens too.
 
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It's about time. With France potentially voting Le Pen who just called Erdogan a Tyrant and told him to keep his backward ass politics out of Norway, looks like things are finally going to shape up for the preservation of western liberty. Sweden was recently exposed and eventually Germany will follow as well. Maybe in a decade or two we'll see an end to the globalist agenda.

Once Europe stops being a safe haven for the muslims that are running away from the wreckage of their failed states, maybe they'll finally turn inwards and make some progress towards secularization.
 
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He warned that the closure of their prayer hall could drive worshippers underground and increase the risk of them becoming radicalized.

The group wants its prayer hall reopened until the end of Ramadan in July and space for the building of a new mosque.
"Give us what we demand or you'll be sorry"

Religion of Peace my ass. :mj4
 
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Needless to say the reaction of the Trump administration to the questionable chemical attack in Syria, and their foreign policy actions in general, have been sorely disappointing for those of us who supported Trump in large due to his non-interventionist rhetoric, unmatched by other candidates besides Rand Paul, which painted Trump as the only candidate who could possibly have a sane and largely peaceful foreign policy, if such a thing were ever possible in American politics.

As I said though, I do find the story of Assad using chemical weapons quite fishy. With heavy Russian support and a US president that was vocally against ousting him and supporting the rebels, why take this measure and risk all of his gains? This is not to mention that these jihadists have a history of committing hoaxes involving supposed chemical attacks:

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/08/25/transparent-hoax-could-lead-to-war/

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/04/06/who-was-behind-the-syrian-sarin-false-flag-attack/

An image and a video purportedly showing the aftermath of the chemical attack which raises some questions:





Before we have clear evidence and confirmation of what actually has happened, we have the neocons and their MSM propaganda partners pushing the American public towards accepting war.

I make no conclusions here, but this all does seem very familiar to me.
 
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You make no conclusions? That's a rather laughable contention.

How are you making those conclusions that you're lying about not making, anyway, considering the lack of evidence you claim and the lack of confirmation as to what actually happened that you also claim?

I'm just curious as to the lack of intellectual consistency, the double standards, the repeated self contradictions now coming down from the rational, sane brigade.

Before we have clear evidence and confirmation as to what *actually* happened, we also have you in particular making repeated conjectures and innuendos as to what *actually* happened. Or did you think no one would notice the way you're talking out of both sides of your mouth?
 
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The RCMP’s national security team and Toronto police are investigating after a woman was arrested and charged for threatening people with a knife at a Canadian Tire store in Toronto on Saturday.

Toronto police responded to a store in the Lawrence Avenue East and Markham Road area Saturday at 5:10 p.m.

Police said in a release a woman walked to the paint section of the store with a golf club and began swinging it at employees and a customer while uttering threats.

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A source confirmed to Global News the incident took place at Scarborough’s Cedarbrae Mall and the woman was reportedly wearing a niqab and a bandana adorned with what appeared to be a symbol for the so-called Islamic State group.

Police said employees and customers managed to restrain the woman and contact police, when she pulled a “large knife” out from under her clothing.

The woman was restrained and police said the knife was “pried out of her hand” with the help of another store employee. The employee sustained non-life threatening injuries and was treated at the scene.

When asked about the incident Tuesday evening, Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders said the public shouldn’t be “concerned about safety in any way, shape or form.”

“It was a very isolated situation and we have taken all the steps I believe necessary to make sure that we have kept the community and city safe,” he said.

Rehab Dughmosh, 32, (left) appears in a Toronto courtroom in this June 6, 2017 court sketch.
Rehab Dughmosh, 32, (left) appears in a Toronto courtroom in this June 6, 2017 court sketch.
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The RCMP confirmed its Greater Toronto Area Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET) continues to investigate the incident in partnership with Toronto police and there is “no outstanding risk to public safety.”

Rehab Dughmosh, 32, of Toronto, was charged with assault, uttering threat to cause death, carrying a concealed weapon and two counts each of assault with a weapon and possession of a weapon for committing an offence.

Dughmosh appeared in a Toronto court Tuesday and was remanded into custody until her next appearance on June 21.

The accused also made reference to “ISIS” when asked her name, as well as the leader of the Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi during her court appearance.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-4300 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).

With files from Catherine McDonald, Cindy Pom and Nick Westoll

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This is a BIG story which will really shape the future of Europe and the EU as we know it if it's enforced: https://www.yahoo.com/news/eu-court-rejects-apos-open-113428732.html

In a ruling which could have far-reaching consequences for how the European Union deals with migrants in future, the European Court of Justice on Wednesday upheld the right of member states to deport asylum-seekers to the first EU country they enter.

The ruling amounted to an effective rejection of Angela Merkel’s controversial “open-door” refugee policy, which saw more than one million asylum-seekers flood into Germany.

The court ruled that the EU’s Dublin regulations, under which refugees must seek asylum in the first member state they enter, still apply despite the unprecedented influx of 2015.

In doing so, the court ignored the advice of Eleanor Sharpston, its British advocate-general, who warned that the system could leave border states “unable to cope”.

The court ruled on the cases of two Afghan sisters and a Syrian man who entered the EU during the 2015 crisis.

The Jafari sisters, Khadija and Zainab, entered the EU through Croatia after fleeing Afghanistan with their children. At the time, Mrs Merkel had opened Germany’s borders to migrants and Austria was operating a similar policy.

Croatia allowed the sisters and their children to cross its territory in order to reach one of the two countries.

They claimed asylum in Austria, but the Austrian government later reversed its position and returned the families to Croatia, ordering them to seek asylum there.

The sisters challenged the decision, arguing they should be given asylum in Austria as they had been allowed to cross Croatia and had not entered its territory illegally.

In a second case, an unnamed Syrian man challenged his deportation from Slovenia to Croatia under similar circumstances.

The court rejected the challenges, ruling that the fact Croatia had allowed the migrants to cross its territory did not mean the Dublin rules had been waived.

The ruling will be welcomed in central European countries like Austria and Slovenia, where there is considerable political resistance to letting in more migrants.

But it will cause concern in the countries where most migrants first enter the EU, Italy and Greece, which complain the system leaves them to shoulder too much of the burden.

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The court’s decision was unexpected, after the judges took the unusual step of ignoring the advice of the advocate-general.

In a written opinion issued last month, Ms Sharpston warned that the Dublin system “was simply not designed to cover such exceptional circumstances”.

“If border member states, such as Croatia, are deemed to be responsible for accepting and processing exceptionally high numbers of asylum-seekers, there is a real risk that they will simply be unable to cope with the situation,” she wrote.

While the ruling will be seen as a victory by many in central Europe, Hungary and Slovakia suffered a setback in a separate case over EU quotas for sharing asylum-seekers between member states.

In an opinion presented to the court, Yves Bot, another advocate-general, said the court should reject a bid by the two countries to have the quota system overturned.
This has extremely interesting and far reaching consequences. This is good news for Western Europe provided we actually get our shit together and stop importing so many damn migrants, something Germany and France are unlikely to do but with the UK leaving the EU and not adhering to the free movement of people by March 2019, we may just have a chance to weather the storm.

This however has terrible consequences for Italy, Greece and the Eastern Bloc. They don't have nearly as much resources as the countries I have already listed and certainly cannot cope with the numbers. This may increase tensions in the EU and move the organization closer to being broken up.

Let's hope countries like Poland, Hungary and Slovakia as well as the others I have mentioned stand strong on this issue.
 
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2009 - Iran regime was on the verge of collapse. Obama pulled back support for the protesters
2013 - Iran regime was on the verge of collapse. Obama intervened again.
2016 - Iran regime was one the verge of collapse. Obama sent them the billions that were held back.

2017 - Iran regime is again on the verge of collapse. American pro Obama media is making it about progovernment rallies and economic crisis despite videos of women tearing of their hijabs and demanding an end to islamism.

Just what kind of corruption exists at the highest levels in America ATM that has this much support for terrorists and islamist regimes?
 
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