No Country For Anyone

This is what capitulation looks like:

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced sweeping reforms to clamp down on antisemitism in the wake of the deadly Bondi terror attack, while conceding his government is not perfect and could have done more before the tragedy.

 As part of the response, the government will use tougher hate speech laws to target preachers who promote violence.

Useless man.

But Australia is not the only country with an emboldened diverse population: 

A 26-year-old Toronto man has been arrested and charged with ISIS-linked terrorism offences and two other men are charged for alleged hate-motivated extremism targeting women and members of the Jewish community.

The federal terrorism investigation and related probes by Toronto police and Peel police follow violent incidents of armed men trying to abduct women from the street, one in May and two in June.

The RCMP charged Waleed Khan, 26, of Toronto with various terrorism charges including participating in the activities of a terrorist group, facilitating terrorist activity, terrorist financing and conspiracy to commit murder in association with a terrorist group.

Police charging information names ISIS as the terrorist entity, also known as the Islamic State or ISIL.

Khan was also charged by Toronto police and Peel police, along with two other Toronto men — Osman Azizov, 18, Fahad Sadaat, 19.

The Peel charges, in August, are for kidnapping, firearms, auto theft and others.

Toronto police also charged the three men for separate but similar attacks. The Toronto charges include kidnapping, attempted kidnapping with firearms, conspiracy to commit sexual assault and hostage taking classed as hate-motivated extremism.

Khan has additional Toronto police charges including possession of weapons, assault with a weapon, careless use of a firearm and other weapon and theft charges.

The arrests are related to attacks in and near Toronto where armed men appeared to be hunting women for capture and abuse, or worse.

“We have arrested three individuals for offences targeting women and members of the Jewish community,” said Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw.

On May 31, a woman was approached by three men, one of whom was armed with a handgun and another with a knife, in the Don Mills Road and Rochefort Drive area of Toronto, police said. The suspects attempted to force her into a vehicle but fled when interrupted by a passing motorist.

On June 24, two young women were targeted in Mississauga on Ellesboro Drive near Swanhurst Boulevard. Three masked men pulled up in an Audi SUV armed with a handgun, a rifle and knife, and chased the women and tried to grab them, police said. The men again fled after being interrupted by a passerby.

Peel Regional Police connected the two attacks and a joint investigation identified and arrested the suspects, police said. The joint probe was codenamed Project Neapolitan.

Khan was arrested for the Mississauga incident on Aug. 18, and at the time, Peel police said they were searching for two more suspects, described as Middle Eastern males, late teens to mid-twenties.

In Khan’s Toronto home, police said, they found two loaded prohibited firearms: an AR-style rifle capable of automatic fire and a pistol, both equipped with prohibited high-capacity magazines, along with over 110 rounds of ammunition. At the time of arrest, Khan was on probation for prior violent offences and prohibited from possessing firearms.

In late August, the two other men, Sadaat and Azizov were arrested.

“What began as armed, coordinated attempts to kidnap women led to significant arrests and charges, stopping a dangerous escalation of hate-motivated crimes and terrorism across the Greater Toronto Area and beyond,” said Peel Regional Police Chief Nishan Duraiappah.

“The evidence gathered expanded the scope of the investigation to include additional offences motivated by hate — particularly targeting women and members of the Jewish community. Investigators also uncovered links to terrorism, prompting a separate but parallel RCMP investigation,” Toronto police said in a release.

Friday’s announcement comes five days after the devastating massacre at Bondi Beach in Australia when two suspected jihadists shot and killed 15 people and wounded dozens more at a Jewish community event celebrating Hanukkah.

A court-imposed publication ban is in place in the Canadian charges preventing publication of some details in the case.

Why does this sound familiar?:

Some were awoken in their beds in kibbutzim by shooting. Others were dancing at dawn at a music festival in the Negev desert. Among the approximately 1,200 people slaughtered in the most brutal attack on Israel in its history were found the bodies of young women stripped and tied to trees and poles, shot through their genitals and in the head.

Sexual violence was “widespread and systematic” during the October 7 attack, rape and gang rape occurring in at least six different locations, according to a report using testimony never heard before now. But most victims were “permanently silenced”, either murdered during the assaults or left too traumatised to talk. About 1,200 people were killed in the attack.

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Surah 33:50: O Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee; and daughters of thy paternal uncles and aunts, and daughters of thy maternal uncles and aunts, who migrated (from Makka) with thee; and any believing woman who dedicates her soul to the Prophet if the Prophet wishes to wed her;- this only for thee, and not for the Believers (at large); We know what We have appointed for them as to their wives and the captives whom their right hands possess;- in order that there should be no difficulty for thee. And Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

There it is.