Month: December 2024
Trans-Identified Male Convicted of Sexually Abusing A Child Transferred to Women’s Prison Where He Exposed Himself To Female Inmate
Reduxx has learned that a trans-identified male sex offender was quietly transferred into a women’s prison in Minnesota, despite having been convicted of sexually abusing a girl under the age of 13 years old. Daniel Patrick Benz, 38, filed a civil rights complaint on February 27, 2023, which resulted in his transfer into Minnesota’s only women’s prison.
Benz legally changed his name to Danielle Marie Whitebird in June of 2023 after his petition was approved by the state of Minnesota. In addition to the name change, Benz also was supplied with a “replacement birth record” which declared his sex as female, despite not having undergone any surgeries, according to his own legal complaints.
In 2007, Benz was convicted of criminal sexual misconduct with a victim under the age of 13. According to court records obtained by Reduxx, St. Louis county police officers responded to a tip from the Eveleth Police Department in July regarding the sexual abuse of a minor.
Eveleth police had received a text message informing law enforcement that Benz had “played a game of touch the peanuts” with a 6 year-old girl. The informant, whose name has been redacted, said the girl had been acting oddly for two weeks. The child divulged to the individual that “Dan” had sexually molested her on multiple occasions.
Benz had been staying in the same residence as the victim after having been evicted from his apartment. During an interview with a social worker, the girl stated that Benz had been touching her genitals.
“One night when her mommies went to pick up her daddy, she was with Dan at her house,” reads the 2007 complaint. “They were sitting together watching a movie… [The girl] stated that Dan reached with his hand and went inside of the left leg of her pajama pants. He then put his hand inside her panties and touched her on top of her vagina.” The victim also described other similar instances of abuse.
Benz was handed the maximum 25 year sentence. However, his long history of criminal behavior indicates that he was released in approximately 2012, when he was convicted of a misdemeanor for giving a police officer a false name – a charge that appears multiple times throughout his criminal record.
The convicted predator has recently been released after serving a brief sentence for burglary. Benz was convicted of the theft of a motor vehicle in 2018, a charge which carries a maximum ten-year sentence. Police records filed after his arrest in 2017 state that Benz had “active warrants” out of Crow Wing County for “failure to register as a predatory offender” as well as a domestic assault report.
While incarcerated in a men’s facility, Benz began claiming to experience “gender dysphoria”. When filing a request for a change of name and legal sex in February 2023, Benz claimed to be a “transgender woman [whose] legal documents do not match my gender and gender identity”.
“It is painful, difficult, and uncomfortable for the party addressing me, when they inquire about the ‘male’ legal name, and my ‘male’ sex identifier are on my legal documents,” Benz wrote.
He continued: “I humbly request this court changes my ‘current legal name’ Daniel Patrick Benz to Danielle Marie Whitebird, and my current sex identification from ‘male’ to ‘female’, in order to match my gender and gender identity. This will alleviate my unnecessary suffering.”
Concurrently, Benz had also filed a human rights complaint requesting a transfer to the women’s prison MCF-Shakopee on the basis of the Eighth Amendment’s clause against “cruel and unusual punishment.”
“Ms. Benz-Whitebird’s case satisfies both elements of the deliberate indifference test,” Benz wrote in his complaint. “She has presented extensive evidence that, despite hormone therapy, she continues to experience gender dysphoria so significant that she continues to have thoughts of self-castration and is at serious risk of acting on that impulse again.”
The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) violated Benz’s human rights, he claimed, by failing to transfer him to MCF-Shakopee in a “timely manner,” and “failing to house Plaintiff in a female facility according to her gender identity which would ensure safety and reduce the risk of sexual victimization”.
Reduxx has now learned that Benz had been transferred to MCF-Shakopee at the end of 2023, where he remained until September of 2024. He has since been released to the supervision of Crow Wing County. Benz’s placement in the women’s prison was confirmed both through court records and by an inmate who spoke to Reduxx via women’s prison advocate Rebeca Warmbo – herself once an inmate at the facility.
Warmbo provided documented exchanges from a woman who was a former victim of sex trafficking. In order to protect her identity, her name has been changed.
“[There was a] man who introduced me to drugs and then prostitution, which eventually led to the charges I am here for now,” said Cate, adding that while he was in MCF-Shakopee, Benz “showed me his penis… I was terrified.”
Cate went on to explain that though she had reported the incident to prison officials, “nothing was done” and “everyone turned their cheek.”
Cate stated that she believed action was not immediately taken on the basis that her report was seen as “homophobic” or bigoted.
“We just want to be protected here and not abused or taken advantage of. Most of us come from a background of abuse and we shouldn’t allow it here. We should be safe and protected, but they are allowing abusers in,” she added.
Benz’s temporary transfer into MCF-Shakopee constitutes the sixth known male convict to be placed in the women’s prison since a June of 2022 lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Corrections resulted in changes to policies.
It was at that time that a discrimination claim was filed by the trans activist non-profit organization Gender Justice on behalf of Craig ‘Christina’ Lusk, who was serving a five-year sentence for the possession of methamphetamine at the Moose Lake correctional facility for men. In order to aid their legal fight to have violent men placed into the women’s prison, Gender Justice was granted nearly $500,000 in taxpayer funds from the administration of Governor Tim Walz.
Though Lusk was only housed at MCF-Shakopee for just under a year, the lawsuit filed on his behalf allowed for several other men to be transferred into the female facility, including two other men with previous convictions for child sexual abuse, and upon his release, Lusk was awarded a $495,000 payout on the basis of discrimination.
The legal claim, which was successful in court, demanded that Lusk be transferred to MCF-Shakopee and refers to him as “a woman who was assigned male at birth,” using feminine pronouns throughout.
Gender Justice further demanded that Lusk be given “women’s undergarments,” and claimed that DOC “punished Ms. Lusk for having breasts and for wearing women’s clothing.” Additionally it was stated that Lusk was “repeatedly misgendered and misnamed.”
In October, multiple female inmates at MCF-Shakopee told Reduxx that the transfer of violent men into the prison had caused them to feel “scared” and “unsafe.” Additionally, at least one of them male inmates had attempted to strike “deals” with some female inmates to impregnate them in order to sue the state for financial compensation.
Gender Justice is also currently pursuing a Supreme Court suit in a bid to allow a trans-identified male to compete against women in powerlifting. Yet Jess Braverman, the Legal Director at Gender Justice, has been received multiple honors and awards. For three consecutive years, from 2021 to 2023, Braverman was named Minnesota’s Attorney of the Year.
The ‘Second Battle Of Britain’
By Eric Utter
Britain is slipping away.
The progenitor of the free world, the United States included, is barely recognizable these days. Lack of reverence for life and an equally troubling tolerance for extreme antisemitism have combined with an almost total intolerance for those who oppose these evils to cast a malevolent pall over the U.K.
It is not only life and Judaism that are threatened. Christianity is increasingly under assault, as well. The English Football Association (EFA) recently issued a ‘warning’ to one of its players for having the temerity to write “I Love Jesus” over his league-mandated rainbow flag armband. Meanwhile, another league player, who is a practicing Muslim, flatly refused to wear the rainbow armband altogether…with nary a complaint from the same association.
In related news, a Catholic woman from Northern Ireland was recently convicted of praying in a ‘buffer zone’ outside an abortion mill. Convicted of praying. (She’s probably lucky she didn’t get life in prison, as she also held up a pro-life sign.)
The House of Commons, too, recently denied the sanctity of life, voting 330 to 275 to approve draft legislation that would allow terminally ill adults who are ‘expected’ to die within six months to seek help in ending their lives. There may be significant tax benefits to dying early, leading terminally ill pensioners to utilize legally assisted dying to spare their loved ones six-figure tax bills.
In fact, under current rules, pensions are passed on, free of income tax, if a person dies before turning 75 years old. What’s not to like about government tax policy rewarding early death? Lest we forget, the Nazis practiced euthanasia ever more extensively before establishing their concentration camps.
And there’s more. Shockingly, GB News recently reported that “leaflets with the words “every Zionist needs to leave Britain or be slaughtered” were found spread around the streets of Hendon, a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in north London.” This hate speech and, indeed, blatant death threats received very little coverage or attention, a sad testament to how antisemitism has once again become normalized in parts of Europe, as it was when Nazis ruled. People are afraid to speak up or protest, as the Starmer government has threatened them with fines or incarceration. (Speaking of Nazi-like behavior.)
An ever-decreasing percentage of Britain’s population is native to the Isles. Not coincidentally, an ever-decreasing percentage of those who reside in Britain are Christian. Or admit to being so. What amounts to an unrecognized pogrom is stealing both the British character and the British Islands themselves…from the British. Jolly Olde England is not so jolly nor so English anymore. (To wit, Muhammad is now the most popular name for baby boys in England and Wales.)
Punished for stating “I love Jesus.” Rewarded for dying early. Overwhelmed by foreign invaders. Can this be the country that gave us Locke, Disraeli, Churchill, and Thatcher?
How is this happening? One word: appeasement—which didn’t work out so well before World War II, either. It never does. For the record, appeasement and “tolerance” are closely related.
This is the Second Battle of Britain, whether it is recognized as such or not. If Britain loses this one, it will be just as defeated, just as lost, and just as subjugated as it would have been if it had surrendered to Hitler’s Germany. There will be no “The World At War” documentary series after this battle and no Sir Laurence Olivier narrating for the BBC. There may well be no BBC. There will only be black-clad women crying in the corners…and shouts of “Allahu Akbar” piercing the cheerless, leaden skies.
If we in the West don’t wish to suffer through another Dark Age, we must realize it is high time to turn the lights back on. If we tarry, if we fail, if we falter, it will be too late.
Churchill once noted that if England was victorious in the first Battle of Britain, “the British Empire” might “last for a thousand years.” Speaking of early death, it now appears Britain might not make it 100 years past that remark.
If it does not, somewhere, Churchill may be heard to utter, “Never in the field of human conflict have so many so cravenly surrendered to so few.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/the_second_battle_of_britain.html
Starmer ADMITS Mass Immigration was an “EXPERIMENT”. Badenoch Never Cared About Legal Immigration
On today’s #NCFNewspeak, NCF Director Peter Whittle, Senior Fellows Rafe Heydel-Mankoo and Dr. Philip Kiszely and Amy Gallagher of Stand up to Woke discuss:
- Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch: Why should anyone believe or trust them on immigration?
- Labour’s new plan for policing
- Football row over LGBTQIA+ armbands v Christian & Muslim beliefs
Former EU ‘Values’ Chief Complains About “Infectious” Spread of Anti-Woke Laws in Europe
Photo: Lukasz Kobus © European Union, Source: EC—Audiovisual Service, 2024
Věra Jourová, the EU Commission’s Vice-President for Values and Transparency until last week, parted ways with her old job by whining about the increasingly pronounced ‘democratic backsliding’ in Europe one last time.
In an interview with Euronews on Thursday, December 5th, Jourová said it was “shocking” to see more and more EU member states planning to replicate measures to protect children from premature exposure to woke ideology or to prevent foreign NGOs from interfering in their democratic processes, despite her best efforts throughout the last five years.
Jourová began by singling out Hungary, the country she said was the most concerning in this regard with its 2021 ‘child protection law’—which banned the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality and gender-transition in schools without parental consent—and a subsequent piece of legislation to protect the country’s sovereignty from foreign interference.
But despite the European Commission freezing tens of billions worth of EU funds, pressuring other member states into joining its lawsuits against Hungary, and even threatening to take away its membership rights—including the right to vote (and veto) in the European Council—Brussels still has to deal with the alarming trend of similar bills popping up across the EU.
“What is shocking to me is how infectious these laws are,” Jourová said.
The ex-values chief specifically mentioned Bulgaria and Slovakia, which plan to follow suit in banning “LGBT propaganda” in schools, as well as Italy and Romania where there are also concerns about the erosion of LGBT rights.
Interestingly, this didn’t prevent either Romania or Italy from getting an executive vice president in the second von der Leyen Commission, which shows that belonging to the right political camp in Brussels is still more important than whatever the term “EU values” entails.
Another big problem is the gradual erosion of media freedom, Jourová said, primarily pointing at Hungary and Slovakia, as well as the pre-Tusk Polish government.
“The public service media are so important in democratic systems; especially in the era of disinformation, public service media should be the media where people can find trustworthy, fact-checked information, evidence-based truth,” Jourová said.
Now this is the most ironic part coming from her, since it was Jourová who is strongly suspected of having instructed the Slovenian supreme court in 2023 to begin the unprecedented purge of conservatives from the entire media landscape—starting with the public broadcasters, of course. She also called Elon Musk a “promoter of evil” because he allows free speech to flourish on X, which really puts her usual rants about “disinformation” into perspective.
The cherry on top is that, despite being in charge of ‘transparency’ in the EU, Jourová refused to disclose documents related to her Slovenian visit even after being called on to do so by the European ombudsman. Her scandals in the area probably contributed to the decision to no longer include a ‘transparency’ portfolio in the new Commission, although von der Leyen’s utter disrespect for transparent conduct might have been an even greater factor.
Nonetheless, the more someone like Jourová is concerned about the ‘democratic backsliding’ in conservative countries, the more you know those governments are on the right track.
Fr. Heimerl: Francis’ ‘synodal church’ is controlled by old homosexual men
There are men who are like lonely callers in the desert, and we know from the Bible that it is usually the Spirit of God that rests on such men.
Joseph Strickland, the emeritus Bishop of Tyler, Texas, who was unjustly deposed by Francis, is such a man. He shares the same fate as the prophets of the Bible, namely that no one listens to him.
Yet millions now listen to Bishop Strickland; only his fellow bishops do not.
When Strickland recently asked them to finally take a stand on the fact that Francis no longer teaches the Catholic faith, his words fell into silence. No one dared to come forward to support the Texan who spoke the truth so fearlessly, no bishop in the U.S. and certainly no one elsewhere.
Nevertheless, what Strickland said remains true: Francis stands for a new, for a “synodal” church and with it for a new faith that is no longer Catholic and which must be decisively rejected! No one is obliged to believe in a “synodal” church. On the contrary: the traditional faith of the Church forbids this.
While the bishops remain silent about all this, the superior of the German district of the Society of St. Pius X clearly called a spade a spade. He described the Pope’s “synodal church” as “diabolical,” a “betrayal of Christ’s mission,” and “anti-Gospel.”
But no one is bothered by this either. In the ranks of the bishops, a voice from the Society of St. Pius X is listened to even less than the one from Texas. Instead, the silence of the bishops orchestrates a polyphonic apostasy: that of the Pope and a large part of the Catholic world, and it almost seems as if this is a new “normality.”
But where does the indifference of those who are appointed guardians of the truth come from and who do not serve God with their silence, but Satan, the “father of lies” (cf. 1 John 3:8)?
Could their apostasy have arisen out of nothing? Hardly. Instead, it had probably been latent for a long time, and it only took a pope like Francis for it to finally become visible.
The controversial document Fiducia supplicans, which was published a year ago, perhaps shows this most clearly: in it, the Pope himself permitted the “blessing” of irregular “couples,” i.e., the blessing of homosexuals and adulterers.
In the eyes of Holy Scripture, such a “blessing” is an abomination and blasphemy. Nevertheless, the document has remained in force to this day, and the (minor) resistance of the bishops was stifled from the outset.
The significance of Fiducia supplicans is therefore twofold: the document is the Magna Carta that most conspicuously documents the bishops’ general apostasy. And it makes visible the forces that have been at work in the Church for far too long, i.e., the numerous homosexuals among the bishops and cardinals.
It is certainly no secret that the clergy has traditionally been infiltrated by homosexuals, even if they are reluctant to speak openly about it. This also applies to the higher clergy. Serious estimates (in the absence of reliable data) put the figure at a good two-thirds, and even if it were less (which I don’t believe) the Church still holds an unprecedented record.
There are many reasons for this, above all sociological ones. Among the older clergy in particular, right up to the Pope’s generation, there is an above-average number who have escaped social reprisals by opting for celibacy.
Today things are different, at least in Western societies, and the homosexuals stranded in the priesthood and especially in the episcopate are now vehemently pushing behind the scenes of the Vatican for the Church to open up to the new course. To put it bluntly: the Church has fallen into the hands of older homosexual men.
It is only against this backdrop that it is understandable that the Pope made possible the egregious with Fiducia supplicans and at the same time encountered so conspicuously little opposition: Very few people cared about the “blessing” of sin and apostasy from God; most of them obviously identified with it long ago and deliberately instigated the document under the leadership of Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández.
Since then, at the latest, nothing has been the same: what is commonly known as “gay heresy” has hijacked the Church with the Pope’s approval, and more and more bishops and cardinals are now hypocritically claiming that they have suddenly “learned something new” in a “synodal process of listening.” They have understood – as if by a miracle – that homosexuality is “willed” by God and is by no means a sin, contrary to revelation and the 2000-year-old teachings of the Church.
An astonishing change, don’t you think? Or is it not more likely that all these prelates were just seizing the opportunity to finally justify their predisposition and “approve” it with the help of the Pope? Who else could promote “gay heresy” if not those most reverend gentlemen who are themselves “gay” and who are only driven by it and not by the “Holy Spirit”?
It is as inconceivable as it is true: the Church is in the Babylonian captivity of homosexual senior clergy who, starting with the “gay heresy,” are now gradually installing a new pseudo-church, precisely the one that Bishop Strickland warns us about the Pope’s “synodal church.”
The barque of the Church is thus experiencing something like the mutiny on the Bounty, but with one crucial difference: the captain himself is here with the mutineers, and the men who, like Strickland, close themselves off to the “gay” mutiny almost have their backs to the wall.
Meanwhile, the Antichrist reigns in the house of the Lord, and the Pope himself has erected an idolatrous altar to him with Fiducia Supplicans. It will not be the last, should Francis remain in office for much longer.
I would disagree with all those who attest that Francis is not the legitimate pope and that this is the only reason why these hair-raising conditions are possible. There is no other pope but Francis. But it probably took a pope like him to expose the workings of Satan in the Church and take it to the extreme. Yes, Francis is the legitimate pope, and he is pope not to the glory of God but to the eternal shame of the Apostolic See, which he has desecrated with Fiducia Supplicans.
And yet: perhaps God only wanted to make the disfigurement of His Church visible through Francis in order to restore it through a worthier successor to Peter? Who knows?
Until then, it is important to listen to the voices of the right men, namely those who do not represent “gay heresy” and thus their own disposition, but who, like Bishop Strickland, are the voice of God. “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” (Mt 11:14).
Canada’s ‘Doctor Death’ Has Killed Hundreds of Patients and Counting
Dr. Ellen Wiebe does not heal her patients. Instead, she kills them.
The doctor operates an abortion mill in Vancouver, called the Willow Clinic, where she also performs assisted suicides. In Canada, this practice of doctors killing their patients is called “medical assistance in dying,” or MAID.
“She does abortions during the day, and then she goes out and provides euthanasia to sick old people,” Angelina Ireland, executive director of the Canadian nonprofit Delta Hospice Society, told The Federalist. “Some might consider her to be a massive serial killer.”
Wiebe once operated a family practice but “now restricts her practice to women’s health and assisted death.” She is the research director of the Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers (CAMAP) — an organization supporting doctors who deliberately kill their patients — and sits on the clinicians advisory council for the powerful pro-euthanasia lobby Dying With Dignity Canada.
Canada legalized MAID in 2016, revising criminal code to let doctors kill their patients. Officials updated the law in 2021, removing the requirement that a patient’s death be foreseeable. Groups like Dying With Dignity Canada have since been pushing to expand the euthanasia program to “mature minors,” and parliament has been debating the issue.
In an interview with Wiebe, the disabled actress Liz Carr — a public opponent of euthanasia — asked the doctor if someone like herself would be eligible.
“Liz, right now you love life, and you want to live. But there’s lots of nasty illnesses you might get,” Wiebe replied, breaking out in laughter.
The doctor said killing people is her favorite part of the job.
“I love my job. You know, I’ve always loved being a doctor,” Wiebe said. “But this is the very best work I’ve ever done, in the last seven years. And people ask me why, and I think, well, doctors like grateful patients. And nobody is more grateful than my patients now, and their families.”
The typical MAID process seems deceptively peaceful. A doctor uses three chemicals to kill the patient, administering Midazolam, a sedative; propofol, which induces a coma and stops breathing; and rocuronium or cisatracurium, muscle paralytics. The medications render the patient unconscious and paralyzed, creating a morbid illusion of calm — though the patient is under respiratory arrest.
“After they’re in a deep coma, then we give the medication that stops the breathing and stops the heart,” Wiebe said in a webinar. “They’re in a deep coma, and then it’s over. … They’re such calm, peaceful deaths.”
Alexander Raikin, a visiting fellow in bioethics at the Ethics and Public Policy Center who writes for The New Atlantis, told The Federalist that if doctors fail to follow the MAID regulations and processes specified in criminal code, they void their exemption, and could face charges of assisting a suicide.
“If you fail to follow any of the safeguards or eligibility criteria, you are then not protected through the criminal code exemptions that allow for euthanasia-assisted suicide,” Raikin said. “What Canada’s example shows is that, in reality, it’s impossible to have oversight.”
Killing the Vulnerable
Wiebe has gained positive press from legacy media outlets like The New York Times for killing her patients — more than 430 of them. She has been repeatedly accused of violating rules governing how doctors kill their patients.
While discussing accusations that she approved a patient for MAID without due process, Wiebe said that “angry family members are our greatest risk,” according to The New Atlantis.
A judge granted an injunction in October to keep Wiebe from executing a woman, 53, with bipolar disorder. After quitting her medication too quickly, the patient began to experience physical symptoms that made her suicidal. The woman then sought Wiebe’s assisted suicide services, and at the end of their first call, the doctor allegedly approved her for MAID.
Since the woman could not find a witness to sign the MAID form, a volunteer at Wiebe’s clinic signed it for her, according to the injunction. The law also requires two medical providers to approve a patient for euthanasia, so when the woman could not find approval from a second professional, Wiebe allegedly called in the ironically-named Dr. Elizabeth Whynot to sign off.
Meanwhile, the woman’s husband has been trying to save her life. He claims his wife is ineligible to end her own life, and that Wiebe “breached” her “statutory duty” to adhere to the MAID process.
Raikin said family members often have to get involved to save their loved ones’ lives. “The police are just uninterested in this.”
Had the husband not intervened, Wiebe would have killed his wife at 8 p.m. on Oct. 27, at the Willow Clinic.
The facility is in the Fairmount Medical Building, which closes at 6 p.m. Ireland said she worked in the same building, on the same floor as Wiebe’s facility, for “many years.”
“The whole building is closed. … Nobody’s there,” Ireland said. “There’s basically a euthanasia clinic right there that operates after hours in downtown Vancouver.”
In 2017, Wiebe allegedly snuck into Vancouver’s Louis Brier Nursing Home, where she killed 83-year-old patient Barry Hyman, according to the Vancouver Sun. Wiebe claimed Hyman and his family requested this.
Since the nursing home is an Orthodox Jewish institution, it would not allow euthanasia on the grounds. Louis Brier CEO David Keselman told the Vancouver Sun the killing “was hidden” and “there’s no documentation.”
“We have a lot of Holocaust survivors,” Keselman said at the time. “They’re going to feel like they’re at risk when you learn someone was sneaking in and killing someone.”
The nursing home filed a complaint against Wiebe with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia, but the doctor ultimately cleared the review process. “There was no discipline, and so she only just continues,” Ireland said. “The College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia has done nothing to stop her.”
Wiebe also killed a man who was rejected for MAID because he did not have a serious illness and was incapable of making “informed decisions” about his health, according to The New Atlantis.
After previous providers rejected the patient as ineligible, Dying With Dignity Canada referred him to Wiebe, who arranged the rest.
“He flew all by himself to Vancouver. … I picked him up at the airport, um, brought him to my clinic and provided for [euthanized] him,” Wiebe said, according to The New Atlantis.
Wiebe said in a webinar she has faced “10 different College [of Physicians and Surgeons] complaints” regarding her euthanasia practices. “Everyone came out in my favor that I had in fact done everything right.”
“She will have people come to Vancouver to be killed,” Ireland said. “She’ll meet them at the airport, and then she’ll bring them back to her office, and then she’ll kill them.”
Slaughtering the Unborn
At the same location Wiebe performs euthanasia — the Willow Clinic — she also performs abortions. The facility offers “medication abortion” both in person and through video call appointments. Its website portrays a medical abortion as a “process which appears just like a miscarriage, which can be completed at home.” “For many people, this is more convenient, comfortable, and private.”
The abortion medication is free for those with a British Columbia Services Card, but patients are on their own to pay for painkillers.
Wiebe said in a webinar she has been aborting babies since the 1970s. She complained about facing pressure when she or other abortionists would botch an operation.
“If a patient had a complication from an abortion — an infection, a bleed, or whatever — we’d go into the hospital and our work would be scrutinized. And, you know, it was like, ‘Those terrible doctors who do those abortions, what a mess they make,’” Wiebe said. “Our colleagues really would come down on us; there’s an enormous stigma. And guess what? We get the same in MAID.”
Ireland said she has seen Wiebe multiple times “over the years” while working in the same medical building.
“She has a perpetual scowl on her face and never speaks to anyone, not even in passing or to be polite,” Ireland said. “Oddly, during her interviews, she actually smiles and giggles. … So bizarre! Perhaps she really enjoys recounting her ‘work’ which she describes as very satisfying.”
The Federalist asked the Willow Clinic for comment, but did not hear back in time for publication.
Source: The Federalist
Germany: Underage Muslim schoolgirl wants to attend lessons fully veiled and sues
The Düsseldorf Administrative Court has ruled that a Muslim schoolgirl is not allowed to wear her niqab in class, as reported by the Rheinische Post. The 17-year-old had filed a lawsuit together with her parents because the Bachstraße vocational college in Düsseldorf had banned her from wearing the face veil. The court rejected the application for a temporary injunction and declared the ban to be lawful. The decision is not yet final.
‘The pupil is not authorised to cover her face with a niqab while attending lessons,’ said the court. Such a veil would contradict the pupil’s legal obligation to actively participate in the fulfilment of the school’s educational mission.
According to the court, the aims of the school include not only the pure transfer of knowledge, but also the promotion of communication and exchange. ‘Both pupils among themselves and pupils and teachers must be able to exchange ideas in such a way that full – verbal and non-verbal – communication is possible at all times,’ it says in the grounds of the judgement. However, open communication in the classroom is considerably restricted, if not impossible, without the perception of facial expressions.
The judges emphasised that the almost complete covering of the face by the niqab significantly impaired the state’s educational mission. This restriction also justified an interference with the pupil’s constitutionally protected freedom of religion. There is no need for an additional legal regulation prohibiting the wearing of the face veil at school.
In particular, the court saw a concrete impairment in the assessment of performance. Oral participation accounts for half of the assessment in North Rhine-Westphalia. Without visible facial expressions, an appropriate assessment of the pupil’s contributions by the teachers was not possible.
The pupil had not been able to convincingly explain that she would have a conflict of conscience in class without a niqab. A conflict with her religious beliefs had also not been sufficiently explained. An appeal against the decision can be lodged with the Münster Higher Administrative Court. Until then, the decision of the Düsseldorf Administrative Court applies.
Algerian man armed with a knife known to the police who was deported causes threat at German Christmas market – he is immediately released again
On Tuesday evening, there was a threatening situation at the Wuppertal Christmas market. An Algerian man, who had previously been carrying a cutter knife, stormed through the Kerstenplatz square in Elbfeld bare-chested and climbed onto barriers. Several police officers then arrived and arrested the man. NIUS has a video of the police operation.
The video clip, which was shared on social media, shows a short and relatively hectic police operation: several officers run to the barriers and shout in the direction of the shirtless man: ‘Stop, police!’. Later you can hear: ‘Get down on the ground! Get down on the ground!’ A man without a T-shirt, who had previously climbed onto barriers, is arrested.
When asked by NIUS, the police confirmed the authenticity of the video. According to information from NIUS, the man is said to have got into a rage at around 06:15 p.m. because he had been refused entry to a café on Gathe, a main street in the centre of Wuppertal with numerous cafés, amusement arcades, bars and shops. There, the 26-year-old Algerian pulled out a box cutter and allegedly said to the café owners: ‘Fucking Albanians! Why won’t you let me in?’ The café operators blocked the door and then alerted the police.
After the man was refused entry to the café, he allegedly took off his T-shirt and ran towards the Christmas market on Neumarkt, where he made threats and was arrested. The man’s demeanour was aggressive. According to current information, the man is said to have thrown away the cutter knife on the way to the Christmas market, but the police did not know this at the time of the arrest.
According to NIUS information, the suspect is a 26-year-old Algerian who is known to the police for several offences. According to the police, the man is said to have been drunk and under the influence of drugs. According to the public prosecutor’s office, there are no indications of a religiously motivated offence. According to information from NIUS, the man does not have a valid residence permit in Germany. The Algerian had already been deported in 2020, but subsequently re-entered the country illegally. However, an arrest warrant was not issued after the incident on Tuesday because the investigators lack clear evidence of the offence.
Meanwhile, officials say that the incident shows how sensitively emergency services now react to potentially dangerous situations. In November, a 17-year-old German-Turkish man was arrested in Elmshorn after authorities investigated the initial suspicion that he might have been planning an attack on the Christmas market. Last week, officers arrested a 37-year-old asylum seeker from Iraq who is suspected of planning an attack on Christmas markets, as the German newspaper Welt reported. At the end of November, it became public that the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) assumed in an internal paper that the risk of an attack by Islamists was assessed as ‘persistently abstractly high’. Christmas markets in Germany are a particular focus.
Muslim private high school Al-Kindi in Décines-Charpieu, France, targeted by prefecture for pro-jihad books and teachers who glorify terrorism
According to Lyon Mag, the private Muslim high school Al-Kindi in Décines-Charpieu is facing an administrative procedure that could lead to the cancellation of its association contracts with the state. An inspection report found serious shortcomings, including the irregular use of contract funding for non-contractual activities and non-compliance with pedagogical obligations such as the prescribed timetables.
Among the more worrying elements is the presence of books that justify violent jihad, advocate violence against homosexuals and convey a backward-looking image of women. The house rules also stipulate special clothing for girls, but not for boys. In addition, a teacher is said to have supported controversial personalities on YouTube who are associated with the glorification of terrorism.
These findings prompted the prefecture of the Rhône department to initiate adversarial proceedings, with a meeting scheduled for December 12 to give the school management the opportunity to respond to the allegations.