Friday Post

Aaahhh, the week-end ...




So goes Barcelona:

A senior police official in Spain says that a single police officer killed four of the suspects who carried out the attack in the Catalan seaside town of Cambrils.

Catalan regional police official Josep Lluis Trapero says that it was "not easy" for the officer involved despite being a professional. A total of five suspects were killed after the Cambrils attack in which a car plowed into a crowd, killing a woman.

Hours earlier, a van struck a crowd of pedestrians, killing at least 13 people in Barcelona and injured more than 100 people.

 
(Sidebar: give that man a Kewpie doll!)

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The driver of the van that plowed into crowds in Barcelona, killing 13 people, may still be alive and at large, Spanish police said on Friday, denying earlier media reports that he had been shot dead in a Catalan seaside resort. 

So goes Finland:

A man stabbed eight people Friday in Finland's western city of Turku, killing two of them, before police shot him in the thigh and detained him, police said. Authorities were looking for more potential suspects in the attack.

A suspect — who police said was "a youngish man with a foreign background" — was being treated in the city's main hospital but was in police custody. Security was being stepped up across the Nordic country, Interior Minister Paula Risikko told reporters at a news conference.

And Sweden:

Rosengard, where more than 80 per cent of the population was not born in Sweden, has become widely regarded a flashpoint for communal strife. I was told again and again by Swedes and Arabs in Sweden’s third-largest city that the slightly scruffy neighbourhood (few communities in Scandinavia are truly scruffy) had already become a virtual No-Go Zone for fire trucks and ambulances unless protected by a robust police escort and that when crimes were committed the community was tightlipped with police about what had happened.

And Canada:

The Crown is seeking a nine-year prison sentence for a man convicted of attempting to leave Canada to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

The defence has countered with a recommendation of six-and-a-half years for Ismael Habib.

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Much has been written about it even by Western Doctors but these studies have been conveniently overlooked to conform to Islamophobic sentiments expressed by a largely Jewish controlled media. This media machine works in different ways. For one thing, it will say that Islam advocates genitally mutilating women to curb their sexuality, citing examples of barbaric forms of FGM practiced in sub-Saharan Africa, thereby associating Islam with a misogynistic attitude. But of late, we see another trend, one that seeks to disassociate female circumcision altogether from Islam without differentiating the proper Islamic form from the rest. Why, you may ask? It’s very simple really. There is a strong body of evidence emerging to support the view that the proper Islamic procedure involving the removal of the clitoral prepuce is beneficial to women and not detrimental to them.

As one speaks, there are the predicable, trite and incredibly unhelpful candlelight vigils being held in Spain that coincidentally just let in six hundred unvetted migrants who hoped to otherwise enter the country illegally. Sweden not only denies that no-go zones and rapes exist but has actively silenced anyone who does point out that the country may have an Islamist problem.

The Trudeau government cannot Islamise fast enough.

Countries that willingly commit suicide should not garner any sympathy. If they don't care what happens in their countries, why should anyone?




And this is why Canada cannot claim that it abhors censorship:

A pledge by Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer to yank federal funding from universities that fail to uphold free speech wouldn't apply to a decision by the University of Toronto to ban a nationalist rally from campus, his spokesman said Wednesday.

"No," was Jake Enwright's answer when asked whether the university's move would risk its federal funding under a Scheer government.

While Enwright could not articulate exactly why the decision to bar the Canadian Nationalist Party event didn't meet the threshold, he said Scheer will be working with universities to prevent loopholes for events that risk violating Canadian law.

"Mr. Scheer is committed to working with the universities to ensure that any policy he brings forward does not become a platform for hate speech," Enwright said.

(Sidebar: which is defined how - and by whom?)

Scheer made the promise during his campaign for the leadership of the Conservatives, linking it to a number of instances where pro-life and pro-Israel events were turned away from university campuses after protests erupted.

"The foundation of our democracy is the ability to have a debate about any subject," Scheer said during his leadership victory speech in May, to raucous cheering and applause.

"That is why I am so committed to defending free speech. I will withhold federal funding from universities that shut down debate and can't stand different points of view."

Scheer hadn't yet articulated how the policy would work, in part because of another platform commitment — letting Conservative grassroots shape the party's policy at next year's convention.  

But the decision Wednesday by the University of Toronto to reject the Canadian Nationalist Party event has put the idea to an early test.

The nationalist group's 21-point platform includes a claim that the founding peoples of Canada — which it describes as being of European descent — are being suppressed.

It also calls for amending the charter, "characterizing ethnic nationalism and removing its stance of multiculturalism," and for "citizenship requirements be returned to founding criteria, resulting in the immediate deportation of citizenship-holding convicted terrorists."

The group is planning an event for mid-September to discuss the nationalist movement, and had said on its Facebook page that it would be held at the university. 

But university president Meric Gertler said bigotry, hate and violence have no place on campus, condemning the deadly clash between protesters and white supremacists in Virginia over the weekend that left one woman dead and 19 others injured.

First of all, the handful of fascists who constitute student unions have proven themselves as thin-skinned as they are iron-fisted. Anything is "bigotry, hate and violence" these days.

Just ask the crowd appalled that Jordan Peterson refuses to use made-up words.

Secondly, political multiculturalism is a failure. One cannot maintain that cultures that, for example, force women to wear body-covering garb are similar in custom and mentality to ones that do not.

Thirdly, many Canadians see no problem with revoking the citizenship of dual citizens who commit acts of terrorism. The offending group above is not saying anything that most people are not thinking.

Finally, either Andrew Scheer means what he promised or he can direct his party to failure.

It's on you, Andrew.




Because Russia:

Russia has banned Jehovah’s Witnesses as an extremist organization, placing the pacifist sect in the company of neo-Nazi and jihadist groups.

Yes, about that:

Jehovah’s Witnesses endured intense persecution under the Nazi regime. Actions against the religious group and its individual members spanned the Nazi years 1933 to 1945.

"High-quality data"? Not this time:

Hamel, who’s been in charge of the census program since 2009, said they’ve painstakingly checked over the previously-released census data, and are reviewing practices to ensure the future releases (there are three more planned this year) are clean.

But above all, he said the key now is to be transparent about what happened. “It is an absolute must. Anything that we put out has to be based on trust that the information is accurate, it’s been compiled and collected in the right way. Transparency is at the centre of what we do.”

This was also Smith’s biggest piece of advice for how the agency can recover: fix it immediately, learn from it, and be honest.

Whatever.




An Australian researcher believes a cure for peanut allergies is possible:

A major breakthrough in allergy treatment shows that a permanent cure for peanut allergy might be close. Eighty-two per cent of children with peanut allergies who underwent the clinical trial suddenly found themselves able to tolerate the killer nut.

Prof. Mimi Tang of Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Australia says she is “very excited about the results,” which would allow allergic kids to consume peanuts without fear of death. Effects from the treatment lasted for years from the original study — 80 per cent were still eating peanuts four years later.

“This is a major step forward in identifying an effective treatment to address the food allergy problem in Western societies,” Tang said in a news release.