Month: August 2021
UK Government REJECT BBC Latest Cash Demands
Nigel Farage: ‘Effectively what Biden has done is arm the Taliban’
Afghanistan lost – will the Falklands be our next test?!
Taliban celebrates, West in shock!
Patrick Christys: I hope American voters kept their receipts, they should be asking for a refund
Wearing the Muslim veil has a negative impact on school performance, says French economist
Since 2004, the wearing of the veil in French public schools has been prohibited by law for reasons of upholding secularism, but according to a study by economist Eric Maurin reported by Le Monde, this ban has also had a positive effect on the schooling of young Muslim girls. An analysis published in his book “Trois leçons sur l’Ă©cole rĂ©publicaine” ( Publisher Seuil). To reach this conclusion, Eric Maurin analysed the success rate of Muslim girls in the baccalaureate according to their year of birth. The 1994 Bayrou decree (banning the wearing of the veil, ed.) was a turning point. Although the law on banning the veil did not come into force until ten years later, this first decree had de facto the same effect.
The study finds that of Muslim women born in France before 1970 and therefore not affected by the ban on the veil, only one in two has achieved the baccalaureate, compared to 62% of non-Muslim women. By contrast, of the young women born after 1990 and who therefore went to school after the veil was banned, 68% have passed the baccalaureate. The gap with their non-Muslim classmates (74 % of whom had passed the baccalaureate) has been halved. According to Eric Maurin, the headscarf ban would have allowed young Muslim girls from traditional families to have a more carefree time at school, Le Monde reports. This would have put an end to family conflicts over the issue.As for the impact of other factors, especially social factors, the economist finds none. He also notes that Muslim men have not experienced the same positive development in the periods studied. They are still 12 points behind non-Muslim students in access to higher education.
Why isnât natural immunity a reason not to get vaccinated?
By Joe Strader
In all the discussions of vaccines to get immunity (of a sort) from COVID, there is a big blind spot surrounding natural immunity. Studies have shown that natural immunity, the kind one gets from surviving a bout of the actual disease, is superior to the immunity the vaccines may create. The obvious question is âWhy are they ignoring natural immunity?â but for some reason, the question is not directly answered. I have a few theories.
For a while, there was no easy way to test for natural immunity. When those tests came out, I found that I had to travel 100 miles to get one and that my insurance would not cover the $160.
Now, the very new COVID tests are widely available for those feeling ill or curious. Theyâve been passing out the COVID tests like candy at the Christmas parade, which explains why antibody testing did not take off. Why should it? If one had COVID as determined by the nasal probe, then one would achieve natural immunity and be good to go, assuming one survives the virus.
But still, why arenât we testing for natural immunity to see who needs the vaccine? It would make sense that those with the superior antibodies shouldnât need to risk a vaccine that still has some questions attached to it. There are reasons we do not look for natural immunity or even talk about it. The reasons are not scientific.
The first reason is that testing people for natural immunity as a screen for the vaccine would reveal possibly millions of people who successfully survived a âdeadlyâ disease without any long-lasting harm or even knowing that they had it. The Democrats must maintain the narrative that this virus is a deadly scourge of mankind. People who survive and have immunity without even realizing it make it a lot less dangerous and scaryâbut scary is important to the narrative.
The second reason is related to the inaccuracies in the PCR tests. There are a significant number of false positive tests…but letâs not say they are false. Maybe it is that the PCR tests are too good at finding traces of the virus.
We donât know how many people felt bad, tested positive, and thought they had an active COVID infection when it might have been something else. If these people later took a COVID antibody test, theyâd expect it to be positive, leaving them free from the risks of the vaccine. What happens if the antibody test is negative?
They would then realize that their sufferingâfearing death as well as isolation from family and friendsâwas for the flu or a bad cold. A lot of people would instantly be unhappy when they realized they went through all of that and still are not exempt from vaccine requirements.
The most insidious problem is also related to those âtoo good at finding tracesâ tests. There are millions of people who have been told they had COVID as the result of a positive test that they took only because they were required to do so. If they were healthy but the hypersensitive test revealed they had COVID, they would have a profound sense of loss: Lost work, time, and money. More than that, they would have isolated themselves from society for two weeks to spare the world their deadly disease. Then, they had to take another test to prove purity with a negative test to return to the land of the free.
Moreover, through draconian contact tracing systems, people they had contacted had to also withdraw from society. Entire businesses were shut down when one employee tested positive. What if an antibody test reveals that a poorly administered or improperly calibrated test led to a false positive result of COVID? They would be many very unhappy people.
Those are probable reasons no one is testing for natural immunity. We cannot know how many survived without knowing they were sick and we also can never know how many were never sick who thought that they were.
The testing for antibodies and natural immunity would create the data set that would show just how many people were really infected and with what severity. It might also show the amount of unnecessary disruption forced on our lives and businesses. It just might show the statistics of cases, deaths, and survivability were concocted to sell a narrative. None of that can ever be known.
Fired for likening Islamic female garb to a âbatâ
A French Socialist party assistant privately described a veiled female from a polling station in Saint-Denis as a âbatâ because of the way she was dressed.
The beginning of the controversy dates back to June 20. A little over two months later, the municipality of Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) finally cracked down on this politically incorrect statement. Frédéric Bonnot, chief of staff to the far-left Socialist mayor Mathieu Hanotin, will be officially dismissed from his post on August 31, reported French daily Le Parisien.
Bonnot will therefore no longer be the right arm of the far-left councilor, according to Le Parisien on Saturday, August 28. The chief of staff was replaced at the Saint-Denis town hall. The reason for FrĂ©dĂ©ric Bonnotâs dismissal was that he had compared an Islamic veiled woman to a âbatâ on June 20, 2021.
On this day the first round of regional and departmental elections in France had taken place. In Saint-Denis, the number two of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, had voted by placing his ballot in the ballot box in front of a Muslim veiled assessor. Visuals that captured the moment had then aroused strong reactions and mockery on social networks from the left in general. It was even shared on a private WhatsApp group, of which FrĂ©dĂ©ric Bonnot had been part, Le Parisien reported. Bonnet had commented: âOn top of that, itâs a bat that makes him [Bardella] voteâ, followed by a laughing emoji.
His disrespectful message was soon leaked and FrĂ©dĂ©ric Bonnot quickly apologized. âI made the mistake of using an extremely inappropriate qualifier about this woman.â Despite his apology, he was given a three-day layoff from the mayor in July. A protest was then organized on July 8 in front of the town hall of Saint-Denis to challenge this decision deemed too light.
To keep his job, the mayor had to give in to the pressure from Muslims. Three Muslim deputies had submitted their resignation and left the majority group, the town hall had stated in a press release.
Among them was Brahim Chikhi who denounced the âomertaâ in the face of this type of behavior of the ethnic French within the local executive. âI am extremely shocked. Me as the son of a âbatâ, I find that hurtful [âŠ]. However, this chief of staff was not sanctioned, there was no recall. There is a kind of omerta, everyone was aware of it, but nobody dared to talk about it, but for me there is no place in Saint-Denis if we have this kind of humor,â Chicki told France Bleu.
Republicans saw the veiled voting assistant as a direct attack on institutional secularism in France, but leftists mocked them for stating that. The mayor of Saint-Denis was however forced to clarify the situation, recalling that nothing prevents a voting assistant from being veiled in a polling station. Only the president of the office is in fact bound by religious neutrality, as a representative of the State.
https://freewestmedia.com/2021/08/31/fired-for-likening-islamic-female-garb-to-a-bat/
France: ” Abuses ” at a Muslim school are brought to court
A Muslim school in Toulouse that has been under surveillance since 2016 and narrowly escaped closure in 2018 has been reported to the competent court, France Bleu reported on Monday August 30. The Avicenne Al-Badr institution has been reported to the public prosecutor’s office for various “obvious violations”, the Toulouse academy’s rector said. “Two inspections have revealed obvious shortcomings at both the educational and administrative levels,” he said.
Among other things, the inspections found deficiencies in the teaching of basic skills, insufficient material to ensure compulsory education and shortcomings in the administration, such as “the irregular presence of the headmaster, whose duties are delegated to unauthorised persons”, France Bleu reports. In July, the parents of the 130 pupils were notified and told to seek another school.This is not the first time the school has had trouble in court. In 2016, classes were deemed “not in compliance”. The school was closed and its head, an imam with a conservative reputation, was given a four-month suspended prison sentence and banned from running an educational institution. However, the decision was overturned on appeal in 2018, and the institution continued to operate after a new religious association took over. “They created a new structure, but then when we do an inspection, we find the same violations. It’s the same people who are behind these structures,” said the rector of the authority, according to the newspaper France Bleu. However, a new court decision is needed before an administrative closure can be ordered.