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Muslim rioters rampage with police blessing: Today Amsterdam, tomorrow Britain? | |
2024-11-28 | |
Lots of links at the link. [TheConservativeWoman] ISRAEL is on the front line in the fight against the Islamists. But now we share that front line. The Islamists go first for the Saturday people and then the Sunday people.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word Iranis a cognate form of Aryan.The abbreviation IRGCis the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either Duceor Führeror maybe both. They hate and opposing the United States), the protesters descended into violence and anarchy, chanting for Israel’s demise, threatening a new Holocaust of Jews, and throwing Hitler ![]() salutes at bystanding Jews. It left Montreal’s Jewish community shaken and fearful for their safety; their leaders comparing it to historical anti-Semitic attacks. Amsterdam was a planned attack, with rioters travelling from outside the city to join in. The full-scale violence began after the match, co-ordinated by Moslem taxi drivers who had mapped out the hotels where the Maccabi supporters were staying, and gave a running commentary on the locations of the Maccabi supporters during the attacks. There are reports of police collusion and participation in the attacks. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who is a former Dutch politician, has talked about the takeover of Amsterdam’s internal security apparatus: ’Today, a large part of the Amsterdam police force is made up of second-generation One of the fans who was attacked said: ’The Dutch chief of police says officers are human being[s] and they can enforce the law however they want. He gave a legal right to the police not to protect us.’ Regarding the Moslem attackers, he added: ’They want to apply the Sharia law all over Europe. They will kill us, you, everyone. We know this, and Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... needs to as well.’ The Israeli government sent planes to the Netherlands to take Israeli citizens home. Local Jews organised transport to the airport as taxis were not deemed safe for Israelis. Around the same time as the Amsterdam attacks, Belgian police arrested six suspects who were allegedly planning an Amsterdam-inspired ’Jew hunt’ in Antwerp, and teenagers in a Jewish youth football team were attacked by a knife-wielding pro-Paleostine mob in Berlin — ’hunted down’ by Arab youths. The Berlin police chief has admitted Berlin is not safe for ’openly gay’ or Jewish people: ’Unfortunately, there are certain neighbourhoods where the majority of people are of Arab descent, who also have sympathies for terrorist groups.’ How many police chiefs in the UK would openly admit to such ’no-go’ zones here, or that dozens of Sharia courts are allowed to operate freely and give out ’Islamic’ judgments to Moslems living in UK communities? Internationally, inflammatory pronouncements such as that from UNICEF that the Israeli UNRWA ban ’means a new way has been found to kill children’, or the announcement that Canada is reaching out to ’allies’ in its quest to recognise a Paleostinian state, can only give further encouragement to jihadists. The UN has voted to stop Israel defending certain parts of its own territory, and to force it to withdraw entirely from key areas that serve to make its country defendable against its enemies and direct attack. The thinking appears to be that Israel should not be allowed to fight back. Perversely October 7 was the trigger that released this new anti-Semitic onslaught against all Jewry, and all those who stand in defence of Israel and its legitimate place in history, in what must be one of the most egregious act of victim-blaming in history. In March this year I wrote: ’How much longer will it be before I will need to go to Israel to look a Jew in the eye, because there are none left in the UK?’ As the year has progressed, I have seen nothing to change that view. Indeed, after the installation of the Labour government of Two-Tier Keir Starmer and election of several independent Moslem Vote MPs, my fear increased. Now, with the Prime Minister Starmer’s shocking backing for the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant for Israeli PM Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, it has doubled. It can but give direct encouragement to Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... in particular and Islamist ambitions in general. UK politicians have also given credence to the lie that Israel is now the unwarranted aggressor in its conflict with Hamas, recently voting at the UN Security Council to impose a ceasefire on Israel (vetoed by the US) with no dependent clause for Hamas to release the hostages it kidnapped on October 7. This is despite clear evidence that the former head of UNRWA repeatedly met and expressed unity with Hamas and Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... leaders and let them influence UNRWA operations; that UNRWA employees took part in the October 7 atrocities; and despite that Hamas-originated inflated casualty numbers and Israel deliberately starving Gazooks are based on on lies and propaganda — in a word, faked. What happened in Amsterdam on November 7 and in Montreal this weekend is a warning of what could come to Britannia in the not-too-distant future. Is this what we want in this country? Do we stand aside as Israel-haters continue to pack our streets, populate social media with anti-Semitic and hate-inciting bile, and whose representatives sit in Parliament and local councils and undermine police neutrality? At the start of the Second World War the Dutch Jewish population was around 150,000. Three-quarters of them were murdered in Hitler’s extermination programme. The current core Jewish population is 30,000. The new Nazis of fashionable anti-Semitism — the fundamental Islamists in our midst, the woke, the intellectually deceived, and the purely ignorant — act as though they would like to continue the work of 1930s and 1940s Nazis across Europe and in the UK. For UK and European Jews, surely all roads must now lead to Israel. But where do the rest of us go, once the Saturday people have departed, and it’s the turn of the Sunday people? | |
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Transatlanticist with good hands. What else is known about the new NATO Secretary General |
2024-06-28 |
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Andrey Zvorykin [REGNUM] On June 26, 2024, it became known that on October 2 of this year, the new, fourteenth Secretary General of NATO will be the former head of the government of the Netherlands Mark Rutte, who recently resigned as prime minister of the kingdom. ![]() There has been speculation for quite some time about who will replace the Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg, who was Secretary General for almost ten years, in the combat post of head of the “defensive” (as he positions himself) alliance. The London Telegraph two years ago confidently wrote that ex-Prime Minister and catalyst of the Ukrainian conflict Boris Johnson would sit in the post of Secretary General. The Canadian CBC predicted the “secretary general” for the head of the Canadian Ministry of Finance, the ethnic Ukrainian Chrystia Freeland. Up until a certain point, there were two more ladies on the shortlist: former British Prime Minister Theresa May and her current Estonian counterpart Kaja Kallas. In general, the transformation of the alliance into a "women's kingdom" was the most common forecast, and it was the Baltic women who were mentioned most often: former Lithuanian Prime Minister Dalia Grybauskaite and former Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid were mentioned. In addition, it was said that the Balkans could be encouraged by inviting former Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic as Secretary General. But the four main players in the alliance – the USA, Britain, France and Germany – came out in support of the man from Old Europe – Mark Rutte. “I know that I am leaving NATO in good hands,” Jens Stoltenberg commented on the appointment on the social network X (formerly Twitter). Why would a Norwegian hand over his post to a Dutchman? AN OLD BACHELOR WITH A TEFLON REPUTATION Mark Rutte was born on February 14, 1967 in The Hague, the birthplace of the artist Vermeer, the group Shocking Blue, and one of the de facto capitals of the kingdom: the parliament and the cabinet of ministers sit in The Hague, and the royal residence is also located here. But what is more important is that the headquarters of globalist and Atlanticist structures, about one hundred and fifty in number, are concentrated here. In this “city of peace and justice” (the official title of The Hague), the tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sat, Slobodan Milosevic died here, and the headquarters of the International Criminal Court are also here. Rutte, who had a successful career that earned him the nickname "Teflon Mark," was an early graduate of the globalist school. The future prime minister was born into a family of one of the country's richest citizens, the director of a large trading company that made money in the colony of the Netherlands East Indies, now Indonesia. The family professed rather strict religious views of the Calvinist persuasion, Mark was the seventh child. The future politician received a history education, graduating in 1992 from Leiden University with a corresponding specialization. After completing his studies, he worked at Unilever, a company engaged in the production of food and household chemicals (and at the same time demonstratively caring for the environment), as a personnel manager. Since 2008, he has taught courses in sociology at the Jan de Witt College in his native The Hague. At the same time, Mark Rutte began his political career. While still a student, the future prime minister headed the youth organization of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (NPSD). From 1993 to 1997, he was a member of the party's Executive Council. The NPSD was created in 1948 on the basis of the conservative-liberal Freedom Party and several leaders of the Labor Party who left the latter because, in their opinion, it was too socialist. For most of the time since its founding (53 out of 75 years, from 1948 to 2023), the NPSD has been part of the ruling coalition, which was achieved due to the “half-hearted” liberal-conservative ideological direction of the party, divided by this factor into two approximately equal wings. Mark Rutte considers himself to be on the liberal wing. In 2002–2004 he served as Secretary of State (deputy minister participating in government meetings) of labor and social protection, and after, until 2006, the formation in the government of Jan Peter Balkenende, a leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal party, the NPSD was a partner in the ruling coalition. At the same time, since 2003, Rutte occupied the seat of a deputy in the lower house of parliament. In 2006, after the resignation of Josias van Aertsen, the previous chairman of the NPSD, Rutte nominated himself for this post, his main opponent was Rita Verdonk, a figure in the conservative wing of the party. During the voting, Mark won, gaining 52% of the votes against 46% for Verdonk. The following year, 2007, Rita Verdonk was expelled from the ranks of the NPSD. The reason was that Verdonk accused her party and parliamentary colleague, Somali migrant and feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, of either not having received Dutch citizenship or having received it with violations. Ali's documents were corrected, the conservative Verdonk was ostracized, and "Teflon Mark", who did not interfere in the scandal, came out on top. Let us add that Rutte’s personal reputation also seems to be unblemished – the unmarried and childless politician has nevertheless not been suspected of anything reprehensible, unlike, for example, the married family man Donald Trump. COVID ALMOST RUINED CAREER In 2010, Rutte led the party in the parliamentary elections and was declared the winner of the televised debates. In his election program, the liberal Rutte played with nationalist and left-wing populist agendas: he promised to tighten immigration laws, raise the retirement age and reduce benefits for immigrants, and to use the freed-up money to combat the consequences of the 2008 economic crisis. In the October 2010 elections, the PPSD won 20% of the vote and 31 seats (9 more than before) in the second chamber of parliament. On October 14, Queen Beatrix announced the appointment of Mark Rutte as Prime Minister of the country. A coalition government of the NPSD and the Christian Democratic Party was immediately formed. Subsequently, Mark Rutte resigned from his post and returned to it three more times: in 2012, due to disagreements over the formation of the budget, the coalition split and Rutte had to reorganize the cabinet, this time together with the Labor Party. In 2017, regular parliamentary elections were held, as a result of which Rutte again headed the cabinet. Finally, in 2021, his government resigned again as a result of mass protests caused by anti-coronavirus measures. However, in the early elections, the cabinet of the winning coalition was again headed by Mark Rutte. In all of the above cases, between elections, Rutte led the country as acting head of government. On 7 July 2023, Rutte submitted his resignation to King Willem-Alexander due to disagreements with the Christian Union, a coalition party, on the migration issue: the Christian Union refused to support measures to restrict migration to the Netherlands put forward by the NPSD. On 14 August, Rutte also resigned as party chairman. However, following the November 2023 elections, a new government was not formed due to the impossibility of forming a coalition, so Mark Rutte is still acting Prime Minister. A STAUNCH PRO-UKRAINIAN The politician was first offered the post of NATO Secretary General back in January 2023, but then Mark Rutte refused, citing a desire to end his political career after the end of his next term. However, after his resignation in July of that year, Rutte returned to the proposal. In February 2024, it became known that the Dutch politician was the main contender for the post of Secretary General, his candidacy was supported by 28 of the 32 member countries of the alliance. The current Secretary General of the organization, former Prime Minister of Norway Jens Stoltenberg, announced his resignation on October 2, 2024. In June 2024, all members of the alliance confirmed Rutte's candidacy. It is worth mentioning that the Dutch politician, while serving as prime minister, ardently supported Ukraine back in 2014. On March 1, 2022, almost immediately after the start of the SVO, Rutte signed a bilateral security agreement with Vladimir Zelensky, promising to provide financial assistance. Rutte also warmly supported the recent summit in Switzerland, saying that Russia has no right to participate in it until it “complies with international principles.” "Mark is a true transatlanticist, a decisive leader and a consensus builder," Stoltenberg, his predecessor, said of Rutte. Rutte himself said the following during his April visit to Lithuania: "It is vital that NATO maintains deterrence, that we all understand that this border of the Baltics and other countries on the eastern flank with Belarus and Russia is our collective border... First of all, this means that we all spend at least 2 percent (of GDP) on defense. This also means strengthening the defense of the eastern flank." So there is no need to expect any changes in the alliance’s policy towards Russia. It was in this spirit that Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov assessed the appointment: “It is unlikely that this choice will change anything in the general line of NATO and the members of the Atlantic alliance.” Related: Mark Rutte 06/27/2024 Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: June 26, 2024 Mark Rutte 06/27/2024 Political scientist Kornilov calls the post of NATO Secretary General ceremonial Mark Rutte 06/19/2024 Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: June 18, 2024 |
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British anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson was arrested in Calgary, Canada after speaking at an event |
2024-06-26 |
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Geert Wilders’ right-wing party reaches provisional deal for hard-right Dutch coalition |
2024-05-16 |
[IsraelTimes] Anti-Islam firebrand ... firebrandsare noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... took the most votes in recent election but had difficulty forming a government; a technocratic prime minister is expected to be brought in Anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders and three other Dutch party leaders said Wednesday they have brokered a provisional coalition deal in a move that brings closer a government driven by the hard right in yet another European Union ![]() nation. The party leaders said that they will put the text to their party backbenchers before a full government deal can be announced. The parties still have to agree on a prime minister, who is expected to be a technocrat from outside the party structures. With hard-right and populist parties now part of or leading a half dozen governments in the 27-nation bloc, they appear positioned to make gains in the June 6-9 election for the European Parliament. "We have a deal among negotiators, and we will return to the position of prime minister at a later moment," Wilders said. He has reluctantly acknowledged he will not succeed Mark Rutte and instead has pushed for an outsider. The name of a prime minister was still elusive, and even though Wilders won the election, he was considered by many too risky to be the national leader. Speculation has centered on Ronald Plasterk, from the Labor Party, who shot back to prominence this year when he became the first "scout" to hold talks with politicians about possible coalitions. Wilders has called Plasterk a "creative spirit" with political experience, but who is also distanced enough from the current political scene. "If you want a government to succeed, you need a prime minister that unites," said Pieter Omtzigt, leader of the centrist New Social Contract party. Outgoing Prime Minister Rutte’s center-right People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy and the populist Farmer Citizen Movement are also in the coalition deal. Wilders’ Party for Freedom won 37 seats in the 150-seat lower house of the Dutch parliament, and the four parties combined hold a comfortable majority of 88 seats. After two decades in the opposition, Wilders seemed to have a shot at leading a nation that long prided itself on its tolerant society, but he has stepped aside in the interest of pushing through most of his agenda. From Finland to Croatia, hard-line right parties are part of European governing coalitions, and hard-right or populist prime ministers are leading Hungary, Slovakia and Italia. Related: Geert Wilders 02/17/2024 Neo-Trotskyists again want to burn Russia in the fire of world revolution Geert Wilders 01/21/2024 US is preparing to destroy a key Russian industry Geert Wilders 12/23/2023 Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Death of the Old Europe‐and the Rise of the Right |
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Russian Foreign Ministry laments loss of Scythian gold |
2024-02-12 |
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The Scythian gold transferred by the West to Kiev may ultimately be lost, said Artyom Studennikov, director of the first European department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on February 11. “Now we see how icons are being taken out of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. Items from Ukrainian museums are allegedly transferred for storage to museums in a number of European countries. That is why we have every reason to believe that the Crimean artifacts may suffer a sad fate - we cannot exclude that they may be lost,” he noted in an interview with RIA Novosti. The Kerch Historical and Cultural Reserve, the Central Museum of Taurida, the Bakhchisarai Historical and Cultural Reserve and the Tauride Chersonese sent the exhibition “Crimea - a golden island in the Black Sea” to Bonn in 2013, and then to Amsterdam. After the reunification of Crimea with Russia in 2014, the question arose about who should return the collection, and in October 2021, the Amsterdam Court of Appeal decided to give it to the Ukrainian authorities. Crimean museums filed a complaint, but the decision remained in force, and the Allard Pearson Museum transferred the collection to Kyiv. In Russia, the court’s decision was called biased; the head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said that the collection was simply taken away from the museums. As Regnum reported, in November, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, announced the threat of looting the collection of Scythian gold after its transfer to Kiev. She called the very fact of its delivery to the Kyiv regime unconscionable from a moral point of view and unlawful from the point of view of the practice of exchanging museum exhibits. Also, in a conversation with IA Regnum, historian and political scientist Mikhail Smolin called the fact of the transfer of exhibits from Crimean museums to the Ukrainian side as theft. He also noted that today there are no guarantees for the return of exhibits to Russia by European museum sites, and therefore no exhibition activities or cooperation with them are possible. |
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St. Louis Park swears in state’s first Somali mayor |
2024-01-06 |
Let us hope she turns out to be another Ayaan Hirsi Ali instead of another Ilhan Omar. [ShabelleMedia] St. Louis Park City Council on Tuesday evening swore in Nadia Mohammed as the city’s mayor.Mohammed is the first Somali-American mayor in the state. She also made history as the youngest person to be elected to St. Louis Park’s City Council. She received over 58% of the first-choice votes and will succeed Jake Spano, who announced in March he would not seek reelection. The swearing-in was attended by St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar ![]() AmericanDem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side. She is a member of The Squad, and would like to make the country look a lot more like Mogadishu... , who represents Minnesota’s 5th District. |
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Death of the Old Europe‐and the Rise of the Right |
2023-12-23 |
Europe is in shock. We are not. That is because we both left the Netherlands because of the phenomena that have now brought Wilders to power. What we have witnessed will tell you not just about how Wilders could win a landslide victory in one of the most liberal countries in Europe, but about what could soon be coming to countries like France, Germany, and other liberal democracies who fail to grapple with the dual challenge of mass migration and assimilation and ignore the very real concerns of their citizens. |
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More Somali-Americans running for public office |
2022-09-12 |
Noted by the folks back home. The question is whether they are like Ilhan Imar or Ayaan Hirsi Ali [Garowe] Somalis living in the United States of America have continued to make history, especially in the political arena, a field that seemed to be almost an impossibility a few decades ago due to historical and cultural barriers in the West.At Maine Legislator, a Somali-American woman from the Democratic Party is poised to break history after one of her challengers dropped out of the race, almost making her the main candidate ahead of November mid-elections in the country. Recently, Fred Sanborn-Silvers of the rival Grand Old Party [GOP] commonly known as Republican withdrew from the race, clearing the path for Mana Abdi in her bid for Maine House District 95. Another Somali American, South Portland Mayor Deqa Dhalac, is also running for a different House seat. Should Mana Abdi win the seat, she would automatically make history in the tiny Eastern state of America. Maine is home to thousands of African im A quick study shows that many Somalis living within the state have settled in Portland and Lewiston-Auburn. Several have held elected municipal positions, but none have been elected to the Legislature. The late departure of Sanborn-Silvers from the race automatically prevented the Grand Old Party from fielding another candidate in the race since the laws don't permit such a move. The Democratic Party is currently at the helm of power in the US through President Joe The Big GuyBiden ...46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry... Sanborn-Silvers indicated on social media that he’s no longer a candidate "due to legal reasons." He didn’t return an email from The News Agency that Dare Not be Named seeking comment, CBS news reports. Sanborn-Silvers drew attention two years when he said on social media that "Moslems should not be allowed to hold public office." He told Maine Public that it was a misstatement and that legal citizens should be able to run for office. She will join Ilhan Omar ...Somali- AmericanDem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side... , the Minnesota 5th District representative as some of the Somalis who are making history in the US. For Ms. Omar, she became the first Moslem woman to represent people in Congress, and in November, she will be vying for the third consecutive term. |
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Somali candidate is running for Toronto city council seat |
2022-08-20 |
Could be an Ayaan Hirsi Ali, could be an Ilhan Omar — if they elect him, Torontans will soon discover which. [ShabelleMedia] Somalis in the diaspora make history in the elections of the countries they live in as second citizens after migrating from their motherland over civil war.Abdikarim Omar, a young Somali who grew up in Canada registered to run for the local council in Toronto in October. The deadline for the registration expires on Friday evening. Omar will contest against twenty candidates competing for the mayor of Toronto. John Tory, who has been the mayor of the city for the past eight years is in the race seeking a third time in the office. The election is held every four years. The Toronto City Council consists of 25 members, and the candidates from the 25 constituencies will represent the city for the next 4 years. Toronto is home to the majority of Somalis who live in Canada. Good to know. Related: Toronto: 2022-07-28 Canada's Trudeau Declares War on Fertilizer, Following the Footsteps of Sri Lanka Toronto: 2022-06-14 The Latest Mask Research Is Bad News For Branch Covidians Toronto: 2022-05-26 ISIS chief from Brooklyn who groomed terrorists and made prisoners dig their graves before shooting them faces life in jail after being found guilty of conspiracy to provide material support to a terror group |
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali fears curriculum will teach children to 'hate each other'' |
2021-08-06 |
[FOXNEWS] Somali-Dutch scholar and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali did not mince words regarding her feelings about Critical Race Theory![]() ...teaches that skin color is the most important characteristic of any person, which translates to separate but equal with a different bunch in charge. All whites and Asians are born racist and racism permeates every aspect of society, which should be dismantled and the remains turned over to the kind of dipshit who pushes this nonsense... in an interview with Fox News, calling it a "nihilistic" practice that will teach children to "hate" one another. Ali is concerned about America's trend toward "wokeness," which she said is all about stoking division. "It divides us into people of different races and it says that these racial differences are irreconcilable and then divisions along gender, along transgender, along im |
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2020-09-16 |
[PJMedia] There is an organized and growing effort to push back against the cancel culture on college campuses. Thousands of conservative and libertarian scholars and academics are standing up and issuing a ringing endorsement of academic freedom. It’s called “The Philadelphia Statement on Civil Discourse and the Strengthening of Liberal Democracy” and has been signed by such luminaries as Robert George, Christina Hoff Sommers, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and more. The statement embodies concepts that all can embrace — at least, those whose minds haven’t been poisoned by the radical left. Tragically, we are losing these defining features of our democracy. Common decency and free speech are being dismantled through the stigmatizing practice of blacklisting ideological opponents, which has taken on the conspicuous form of “hate” labeling. Responsible organizations are castigated as “hate groups.” Honest people of good faith are branded “hate agents.” Even mainstream ideas are marginalized as “hate speech.” This threatens our ability to listen, discuss, debate, and grow. Blacklisting is spreading. Corporations are enacting “hate-speech” policies to protect people from “wrong” and “harmful” content. Similarly, colleges and universities are imposing speech regulations to make students “safe,” not from physical harm, but from challenges to campus orthodoxy. These policies and regulations assume that we as citizens are unable to think for ourselves and to make independent judgments. Instead of teaching us to engage, they foster conformism (“groupthink”) and train us to respond to intellectual challenges with one or another form of censorship. |
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Conservatives Slam Judge for Blocking Genital Mutilation Charges |
2018-11-21 |
![]() "Outrageous," said a tweet from Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a U.S.-based advocate, who was born in Somalia and underwent Somalia’s severe form of the Islamic practice, dubbed FGM for Female Genital Mutilation. "Cutting girls genitals is a crime and must be prosecuted," she added. "Wait! What? Judge dismisses key charges in genital mutilation case," said a tweet from Trump supporter Katrina Pierson: "I had no idea that we needed laws against #FGM in the United States." "Congress can regulate every aspect of your life but it can’t regulate FGM," commented Dan Horowitz, the editor of Conservative Review and a determined critic of over-powerful courts. "Folks, we are done." The judge’s decision may end the Detroit trial unless it is reversed on appeal. The Muslim defendants cannot be charged in the state because the state’s anti-FGM law was passed after their arrest. State officials may charge the defendants with other crimes, such as sexual assault. |
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