Month: October 2022
It Begins
Neil Oliver: We are expected to forget those promising to fix the disaster caused it
‘Lazy sunbathing scroungers!’ Royal insider HITS BACK at Prince Harry amid new book
Rwandan Who Set Fire to French Cathedral Indicted for Priest Murder
Over a year after his arrest for the murder of a French priest, Rwandan migrant Emmanuel Abayisenga has been indicted by a French prosecutor.
The prosecutor of the Republic of La Roche sur Yon announced the indictment of Emmanuel Abayisenga on Friday for murdering French priest Father Olivier Maire, who was beaten to death in August of last year.
“In accordance with the requisitions of the prosecutor’s office, he was placed in pre-trial detention after a contradictory debate before the judge of freedoms and detention,” the prosecutor said, French newspaper Le Progrès reports.
The announcement of the indictment has taken over a year due to Abayisenga being placed into psychiatric care following his arrest in August of last year when he turned himself in to local authorities and was described as mentally unstable.
The alleged murder of Father Maire came just over a year after Abayisenga was arrested for an arson attack on the Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul in Nantes that caused extensive damage.
The fire destroyed the grand organ and several stained-glass windows of the cathedral, which began construction in 1434 and only finished in 1891.
Last August’s killing was met with shock across France and was also commented upon by Pope Francis, who stated he felt “great sorrow” after learning of the death of Father Maire.
“I extend my condolences to the Montfortian religious community in Saint Laurent-sur-Sèvre, in Vendée, to his family and to all the Catholics of France,” Pope Francis said. “I assure you of my sympathy and my spiritual closeness. To all, my blessing.”
It was also revealed that Mr Abayisenga had actually met the Roman Pontiff in 2016 when the Rwandan made a visit to the Vatican, with a picture of his meeting with Pope Francis published in French media.
I bet this guy is a math prof. It would explain a lot
The Government is spending £7 million a day on asylum seekers home affairs committee finds
NEIL OLIVER: Society is going to COLLAPSE
Harry agonistes
By Lynne Lechter
From the Queen’s June 4th, 2022 Jubilee celebration, marking her extraordinary seventy years on the throne in England, to her September 19, 2022 funeral, my feelings toward her grandson, Harry, underwent a drastic change (leaving aside the machinations of Madame Diva Meagan Markle). The pettiness and cruelty displayed by the royal family toward him went from churlish at the Jubilee to total destruction at the funeral. The world essentially witnessed a psychological snuff film.
How else can one explain what manner of people these are: his father, now King Charles, and his consort, his older brother, the heir now known as Prince William, and wife Princess Kate totally ignored Harry and his wife. Kate, who was once like a sister to Harry, now looked upon him as a leper with her pursed lips and steely hateful gaze.
The put downs and attempts at humiliation never stopped: from the onset, Harry was not informed in a timely fashion that the Queen, his beloved grandmother, was dead; from their ghosting and non-communication to being seated in the equivalent of the cheap seats, to the petty insults of not allowing Harry to wear his military uniform, to finally allowing him to wear the uniform for a brief time (albeit with Her Majesty’s initials removed), to not being allowed to salute the Queen’s coffin even though he had served in the military for a decade, to being uninvited to a private reception after purportedly having been invited in error, the king knives were definitely out.
Throughout, Harry’s visage was one of profound grief, Markle’s stoic. But they never raised a word of complaint and bore their humiliation with quiet dignity.
Thus, the announcement of Harry’s book, Spare, is well understood by Anglophiles. For years, Harry’s older brother Prince William was called the heir and Prince Harry was known as the spare. All attention was lavished on William as the future king and Harry was treated as the back-up — the spare just in case something happened to William. Harry was not treated with respect for himself personally, but just as a spare battery in case the battery in the remote control died. And yet despite his wild child years, Harry went on to live a life of valor and dignity. He served in the military for ten years with two spells in Afghanistan, and founded the Invictus Games, an Olympic-styled event for athletes with disabilities.
Making the facts of birth rank and royal succession more painful for Harry was the constant buzz about his parentage. His father Charles had a thing with now-wife Camilla Parker Bowles from a young age. But Camilla wasn’t one to wait forever and married someone else with whom she had children. That Union seemingly damned her forever as ineligible to subsequently marry Charles. Charles went on to marry the innocent, unblemished, virginal and beautiful Diana, of whom his parents approved.
Although they had two children, their marriage was doomed from the start because Charles was unwilling to part with his obsession for Camilla. Eventually Diana knew the truth, and after bearing the heir and the spare, sank into a depression from which she finally broke out and became a global icon. Charles, a two-timer and jealous, could not compete with Diana’s beauty, charm, empathy and warmth. Moreover, aware of Charles’s duplicity, Diana began a series of her own affairs, one of which to this day causes titters regarding Harry’s paternal genesis, a conflict that might contribute to Charles’s hateful behavior toward his own son, as Harry bears a striking resemblance to one of Diana’s lovers, James Hewitt. But historians swear that Diana didn’t meet Hewitt until two years after Harry’s birth.
Regardless, Harry’s choice of book title shouts volumes. He appears to be addressing the hurt of forever being called the spare, of seeing photos on his grandmother’s and father’s desks of Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, William. and William’s first son Prince George.
Any child would be hurt by such omission — a hurt multiplied exponentially on the world stage. One hopes the book will provide Harry a catharsis of sorts and the facilitation of new paths to explore and conquer.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/10/harry_agonistes.html
Muslim girls above 15 years can marry, it would not violate the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act: Indian High Court cite Sharia law
The Punjab and Haryana High Court recently reaffirmed that a Muslim girl who reaches the age of 15 can marry whoever she wants, and such a marriage would not violate the Prohibition of Child Marriage (PCM) Act. Notably, according to the personal laws in Islam (Sharia), the age of attaining puberty is 15. The High Court has also reassured that Muslim girls will continue to be governed by Islamic personal laws.
In his order, Justice Vikas Bahl stated, “Such a marriage would not be void in terms of Section 12 of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006.”
A 16-year-old had asked a childcare agency for permission to reconcile with her 26-year-old spouse. The remark was made during the hearing of Javed’s habeas corpus case, in which he was challenging the ‘imprisonment’ of his 16-year-old wife in a children’s care home.
The girl informed the court that she had fled her home to marry the person of her choice and reside with him. However, her family members had forcibly engaged the girl to her maternal uncle. Uday Chauhan, appearing for the minor girl told the court that the girl had performed Nikah with the 26-year-old man on July 27, 2022.
The court relying on Yunus Khan vs. State of Haryana & Ors ruled that their marriage was legal under Islamic law and that the petitioner had legal custody of the detenue. In the petitioner’s case, his marriage to his wife was consummated voluntarily and was recognized as genuine because both parties were Muslims, despite the fact that the detenue was a minor and under the age of 18.
The single bench of Justice Vikas Bahl ordered her release from the child care agency and custody transfer to the petitioner after reviewing the relevant records, legal arguments, and the detenue’s statement given pursuant to Section 164 of the CrPC.
A similar High Court decision that relied on the Yunus Khan case ruling to say that a Muslim girl over the age of 15 is competent to enter into a contract of marriage with the person of her choice has been challenged in the Supreme Court by the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR).
The NCPCR argued in its appeal that the ruling violated the PCM Act and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act 2012 (POCSO Act) by effectively allowing child marriage and sexual intercourse with children. The Supreme Court has appointed Senior Advocate Rajshekhar Rao as Amicus Curiae in the case, and it is expected to be heard soon November 7.
Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment Bill) 2021
It is worth noting that the Parliament previously introduced the Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill 2021, which would raise the marriageable age for girls to 21, the same as for boys. Furthermore, when introducing the bill, the government stated that it would apply to all girls, irrespective of their religion. The Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports examining the Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill 2021 was recently granted an extension.
The much-discussed ‘Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill 2021’ proposes raising the marriage age for girls from 18 to 21 years and consequential amendments in laws pertaining to the age of marriage i.e. ‘the Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872’; ‘the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936’; ‘the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act, 1937’; ‘the Special Marriage Act, 1954’; ‘the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955’; and ‘the Foreign Marriage Act, 1969’.