Month: July 2023
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TRUDEAU’S LATEST CONSPIRACY THEORY: Says Muslim parents influenced by ‘far right’
Justin Trudeau says Muslim parents who oppose their children being taught about gender identity in public schools are being fed misinformation by ‘the American right-wing.’ Sun political columnist Lorrie Goldstein says it’s a false argument, but typical of the PM.
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Scotland’s New Police Station Features Islamic Wash Station
Ayr’s new £1.5 million police station was officially opened today, sporting a number of ‘firsts’ for Scotland’s police force.
Some 200 officers made the move from the crumbling King Street building to nearby Newton House, on Green Street Lane, in May, leaving behind their base of almost 50 years.
Now their ‘new home’, as Ayrshire’s top cop, Chief Superintendent Faroque Hussain, hails it, boasts ‘first class’ facilities, that embody modern-day policing.
The repurposed Newton House, which originally operated as a school and most recently as council offices, hosts a number of ‘firsts’ for Police Scotland including a multi-faith room with Wudu wash facilities for Muslim officers and a bespoke mothering room.
Upgraded office spaces, a brand-new gym, wellbeing rooms, and an LGBT+ changing room also feature in the revamped space – all costing £1.5 million compared to the £1.6 million it would’ve cost just to repair the leaking roof at King Street.
Also making the move from King Street is the Ayrshire Police War Memorial, which now takes pride of place near the entrance of Newton House, reminding police and public alike to never forget Ayrshire’s war hero cops.
Chief superintendent Faroque Hussain said he is “indebted” to those involved in transforming the building, including Chief Constable Sir Iain Livingstone QPM, Deputy Chief Officer David Page, responsible for finance and procurement, and South Ayrshire Council, all of whom helped Ayrshire Police Division secure a new premises.
He said: “The old police building wasn’t exactly the condition we would’ve liked it to have been in.
“We were determined to move out and find a location that we could be really proud of.
“Even though we moved out of a building that was built in 1975 into a building that was built in 1846, when you wander around you will see the first class condition that our colleagues have transformed this into.
“This building demonstrates a number of first for ourselves- this is the first operational police building that allows Muslim colleagues to actually do their prayers in terms of having Wudu facilities that allows them to wash.
“Although there are mothering rooms elsewhere within the organisation, they tend to be merged with other uses but here we’ve got a bespoke mothering room; alongside a number of wellbeing rooms, an outstanding gym for our colleagues and then for our LGBTI colleagues we have a gender neutral changing facility that allows individuals to use those facilities if they so desire.
France: Three Quarters Support Stripping Citizenship of Foreign Rioters
More than seven in ten people in France are in favour of stripping citizenship for foreigners who participated in the violent riots that broke out following the death of an Algerian teenager last month.
A survey conducted by French broadcaster CNews this week found that 73 per cent of the country would support removing French citizenship from dual nationals who took part in the recent spate of racially-inspired riots accross the country.
Although young people were less inclined to support the idea, the poll demonstrated a “wide cross-generational support”, according to the broadcaster, which reported that just 34 per cent of those under 35 opposed the idea of stripping citizenship from foreign rioters, while just 29 per cent of 35-49-year-olds were against the idea and only 22 per cent for those over 50.
Conservatives and right-wing populists were the most in favour of the measure, with 91 per cent of such voters backing the idea. However, somewhat surprisingly, a majority of voters of liberal and leftist parties, 56 per cent, supported depriving citizenship of foreign rioters.
The only political factions to see a majority oppose were those who supported the far-left La France Insoumise party of socialist Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the French Green Party (Europe Écologie les Verts), with 55 per cent and 52 per cent opposing, respectively.
The riots, which saw 1,000 buildings set on fire, 5,600 vehicles destroyed, and over 3,300 people arrested, have brought the topic of immigration to the forefront of the political conversation in France, with six in then people citing “the consequence of the failures of our migration policy” as the cause for the riots.
Speaking to Breitbart London ahead of Bastille Day, French MEP Patricia Chagnon-Clevers said: “France has been put to the sword by thugs who no longer confine themselves to imposing their laws in their neighbourhoods, but who come in hordes to attack OUR police, our prisons, and to loot and burn at the very heart of our cities. Even in the heart of Paris.
“The French now know that savagery is back in our country.”
The National Rally politician, who was elected to the European Parliament last year, argued that the government must “halt all immigration” to restore order to the country.
“In reality, the state has long since ceased to exist in many parts of our country, which has been infected by mass immigration, where women wear veils and radical imams preach hatred of the West, where gangs thrive on drug trafficking and young kids earn hundreds of euros a week working for drug gangs and where successive governments over the past 40 years have allowed a counter-society to take root, one that is half-religious and half-criminal.”
Ireland: Farmers on streets as govt wants to kill 200,000 cows to meet ‘climate change goals’
European countries are working ‘hard’ to meet their ‘climate change goals‘, and amidst the efforts, some ‘glorious’ ideas that need a golden page in history have become a reality. The Government of Ireland is considering one such idea as they want to kill around 200,000 healthy cows to meet their climate change goals. The farmers are protesting against the proposal, and Tesla chief Elon Musk also came forward against the idea. The Irish government wants to kill 65,000 cows every year for three years, and if they succeed, it will reduce the country’s livestock by 10 per cent.
Recently, on 13th July (local time), over 2,000 farmers took out a rally in Bandon, expressing their frustration and fears over a potential cut to the nitrates derogation stocking rate. Farmers attended the protests on foot, trucks and tractors. Not only dairy farms, but farmers from other agriculture sectors also turned up at the protest. IFA poultry chairman Nigel Sweetnam said, “This isn’t just a dairy problem, this is a problem for the whole rural economy. If you take cows and production out of the economy, it will have knock-on effects.”
Conor O’Leary, the chair of Cork Central’s Irish Farmers Association, said, “There are so many farmers that would be affected by this. We have done everything that’s been asked of us for 15 years, and we are saying that better measures can be undertaken. For a typical farmer, it would mean approximately a little more than 10 per cent reduction in cow numbers.”
“That last percentage of cows is where we make our income. Costs probably run at 70 per cent of income, and you make a profit on 30 per cent, but the last 10 per cent of cows, the profit might be 100 per cent,” he said. The nitrate derogation limit is 250 kg of organic nitrogen per hectare, which is being reduced to 220 kg of nitrate per hectare. According to Cornor, it will have a real economic impact on the farmers. We may have to reduce cow numbers, but the fixed costs will remain. It’s the first move by the European Commission that will affect the income of the farmers. We are concerned about that, and farmers are worried,” he added.
Irish Plan to kill cows
Notably, under the European Green Deal, 27 countries have agreed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 55 per cent by 2030. For some countries, the goal is not that easy to meet. One such country appears to be Ireland, which has decided out-of-the-box idea to fulfil the goal of killing 200,000 cows in the next three years.
The bizarre proposal also caught the attention of Elon Musk, who replied to Authoor Ashley St Clair’s Tweet and said, “This really needs to stop. Killing some cows doesn’t matter for climate change.” Ashley had called the push to end the life of both animals and humans in the name of animal activism a “fundamental evil”.
According to The Trumpet, the project would cost Ireland USD 640 million, and it will result in reducing the emission by 25 per cent over seven years. The proposal will be offered to the ‘ageing farmers’ as a ‘retirement exit scheme’. That means the older farmers can take the money (Euro 5,000 per cow) and let the government kill cows to reduce GHG emissions.
Agriculture representatives, farmers and some politicians have called it “absolute madness”. Pat McCormack, president of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association, questioned the proposal and said, “We’re the one industry with a significant road map, and, to be quite honest with you, our herd isn’t any larger than it was 25 to 30 years ago. Can the same be said for the transport industry? Can the same be said for the aviation industry?”
AOC wanted to get rid of the ‘farting cows’
In 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a US lawmaker, expressed her concerns over climate change and said if the issue were not addressed in time, it would end the world in 12 years. It was similar to the now-deleted statement of climate activist Greta Thunberg, who said humanity would end in five years in 2018. However, before the prophetic tweet completed five years, it came to premature death in early 2023.
Anyway, returning to AOC in 2019, she called for completely ditching fossil fuels and taking drastic steps, including totally overhauling transportation. She said, “We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to get rid of farting cows and aeroplanes that fast fully.” However, Fox News pointed out her remarks were first replaced with “emissions from cows” and then deleted completely.
Later, in an interview, she said the proposal did not mean to end cows but to find “innovative” ways to reduce cow flatulence.
The Life and Death of Milan Kundera
By Rick Marschall
One of the 20th century’s great writers died on July 11.
In these addled and busy times, he seemed to have become a voice of the past. During his active years, he very much was a voice of the “present,” a literary prism through which the crises of the age were illuminated, if not solved. He remains, however, a voice of and for the future.
As the times are addled, so is Kundera’s legacy, or rather the general perception of his work. As a onetime member of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, then a dissenter and dissident, twice stripped of party membership, then exiled, his works banned in his homeland, and a voice against totalitarian tyranny, he would seem to be secure in the pantheon of literary rebels like Franz Kafka, Arthur Koestler, Eugene Lyons, Whitaker Chambers, Elizabeth Bentley, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
But while Kundera clearly retained no affection for communism, the pervasive anti-totalitarian subtexts of his work were less specific, less political, and more philosophical. Perhaps most like his countryman Kafka among that pantheon of the 20th century’s lonely freedom fighters, Kundera identified and criticized the type of totalitarian mindset that is more insidious than the statist mentality of Marxism: the banal but incessant downward pressure of societies; the insistence on low expectations and lower ambitions; the denial of rights masquerading as the assertion of rights; the morphology of low standards to no standards.
Kundera, after some celebration from the 1960s to the ’80s as a brave survivor and voice of protest, slid into seclusion and self-imposed exile in France. Like Solzhenitsyn, he escaped oppression, arrests, and censorship, only to find himself in a different sort of prison: the materialistic West’s diffidence.
The fate of artists who assert the freedom of conscience and expression under communism became “non-persons.” In the West, most of them became free to be ignored, denied, sometimes ridiculed — non-persons of a different sort, in prisons without bars.
As totalitarian mindsets overtake the world and our own morally flaccid culture, Milan Kundera, however, remains a prophet — different in focus and in literary style from those predecessors, except for being largely unheeded. That literary style, by itself, was unique, but his critiques were fashioned in irony and ambiguity — not from timidity, at all, but to force readers to move more than halfway, not to meet him, but to confront truth. His fusillades were not frontal assaults, but attacks on the flanks of the march of totalitarianism.
Before my own first trip to Prague, to an international book fair, a friend gave me a copy of the recently published The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Kundera. It was, to me, revolutionary and, of course, perfectly timed. This was just after the “Velvet Revolution,” the overthrow of communism. I first spent a week in Sarajevo and Belgrade. Those former Yugoslav cities were dirty, grimy, depressed, broken. In the Czech Republic’s Prague, streets were clean, people were cheery, and even the closed shops somehow emitted optimism. I went to a rousing performance of the Bohemians’ national tone poem, Smetana’s Ma Vlast, attended by the new president (and former oppressed literary figure, like Kundera) Vaclav Havel, in the grand Concert Hall. It was grand, indeed.
Afterward, I read and appreciated Kundera’s landmark work The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. These and other works teach much about the individuals’ inescapable necessity to respond to totalitarian encroachments…whether brought by governments, societies, or our own life choices…the preternatural requirement to oppose national policies of betrayal and regimentation.
The Bohemians and Moravians — the thriving Czech Republic — restored citizenship, which the old communists had stripped, to Kundera. Slovakia, the other part of Czechoslovakia, which has clung to socialism, has not. His person, just as his beliefs, are foreign to that portion of his old homeland. Even after adopting French citizenship, Kundera had for years struggled with the meaning — and, in many lands, the absence of meaning — of home. “Forgetting” and “home” are words — concepts — with numerous implications that pervade his work.
Kundera as a prophet? I think his more personal attentions resulted in messages that speak more personally. His first novel, The Joke, is a virtual blueprint, act by act, of what today is called Cancel Culture. It was written in 1967. And how Tomas in The Incredible Lightness of Being is canceled, too — “blacklisting,” a previous generation termed it — however, not over politics, but over one group’s view of an individual’s behavior. Today’s New Puritanism, totalitarian in purpose and practice, has broadened from its parochial and partisan roots today and become national policy.
Much of 19th- and 20th-century literature grows from man-against-the-state critiques, even while Karl Marx was a mere glint in his parents’ eyes. Thackeray and especially Dickens frequently portrayed a type of social totalitarianism — certainly authoritarianism. Earlier, Jane Austen’s settings are woman-against-the-system — almost as brutal, but of a “tea, lace, and perfume” sort.
To the extent, and it was a great extent, that Kundera shrugged instead of fought, sighed instead of screamed, his work strongly suggested that much of contemporary life — above and beyond bureaucratic socialist states — is futile, or at least that mankind’s opposition might be futile. As such, he constructed stories and characters that were ironic, inconsistent, capricious, and very ambiguous.
I share here a photo framed on my wall, one I took in the Old Town Square during that trip to Prague. It memorializes the burning at the stake of Jan Hus, more than 700 years ago — an early fighter, prefiguring Milan Kundera, for freedom of conscience.
The battles for freedom of thought, there, here, and worldwide, yet rage.
In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
—Milan Kundera
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/07/the_life_and_death_of_milan_kundera.html
“In His Religion a Girl Could Marry an Adult Male from the Age of Nine” – “Joman sexually assaulted her at least weekly at a mosque in Leeds”
Since Andrew Tate is back in the news, it may be a good idea to remember what is considered normative sexual behavior in Islam. Just another typical story from the United Kingdom.
Three brothers have gone on trial accused of grooming and sexually exploiting underage girls in Barrow-in-Furness.
The Miah brothers – Joman, 37; Amran, 47; and Alman, 46 – are originally from Beeston in Leeds, where Joman and Amran are also accused of indecently assaulting two girls from the age of six and seven.
One of the girls claimed Joman sexually assaulted her at least weekly at a mosque in Leeds, where he taught the Qur’an and she was his pupil. She was aged seven to nine at the time, and Joman was 17 to 19.
Opening the prosecution case on Friday, the barrister Tim Evans said the girl was picked up from school in her uniform each day by Joman. He would take her to Iesha’s, where they would have sex most days, either on the sofa or in a bed.
About five months into their relationship, Joman allegedly began taking her to have sex in a Barrow hotel, the Gables, sneaking her in late at night when no one was on reception. A witness to their relationship thought the girl was “head over heels in love with Saj”, the court heard.
This is why in India, they call it the ‘Love Jihad’, in the UK, it’s grooming, Andrew Tate has his own spin on it, but it’s fundamental to Islam in areas where they do not yet exercise full control.
A fourth woman, who accuses Amran (also known as Jai) of raping her, told police she saw “many young girls at the takeaway, some downstairs, some upstairs and others out the back”, Evans told the court.
She told detectives she challenged Joman about his inappropriate relationship with her friend. “He replied that he was doing nothing wrong and that in his religion a girl could marry an adult male from the age of nine,” Evans said.
That is Islamic. It’s the religious law and value system that Muslims are taught to abide by based on the most ‘perfect man’ who ever lived.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/in-his-religion-a-girl-could-marry-an-adult-male-from-the-age-of-nine/
Kamal Harris Promises to Reduce Population
Democrats lie so incessantly, the only way to know what they are thinking is to wait for gaffes. Here’s one from Kamala “Heartbeat Away” Harris:
The White House says she meant to say “pollution” rather than “population.”
Via The Daily Fetched:
The political gaffe was defined by Michael Kinsley as “A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth–some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.” …
What was even more frightening is that Harris received raucous cheers and applause for her gaffe.
The Party of Death believes human life is a bad thing. It must be reduced to propitiate the climate gods. I have been informed by a liberal that homosexuality is good because it prevents human reproduction.
Imposing reliance on green energy will certainly reduce the population. When the economy collapses, starvation will bring it down dramatically. This should prove much more effective than promoting homosexuality and abortion.
https://moonbattery.com/kamal-harris-promises-to-reduce-population/