Islam - Current Day - Riots in Sweden; 2 Swedish Boys Raped, Buried Alive; Peace in Islam?

6 days before riots broke out in Sweden, two teenage boys were raped, tortured and buried alive by criminals from a migrant background

OpIndia

The precise ages of the victims is not yet known although they are reported to be less than the age of 15, the legal age for consent in Sweden.

29 August, 2020

OpIndia Staff

Two teenage boys were allegedly raped, tortured and buried alive at a cemetery recently in Solna near Stockholm, Sweden. The incident is reported to have occurred around 11 pm on Saturday. According to the Police, the two boys were taken to the cemetery after declining an offer to boys. The criminals are reported to be of migrant backgrounds.

The incident occurred six days before riots broke out in the city of Malmo, Sweden after a copy of the Quran was set on fire by ‘Stram Kurs’, a far-right group in the country. The rioters burnt tyres and pelted stones at the police. Sentiments against the country’s ‘Refugees Welcome’ migration policy has been growing following a rise of crimes in the country. See story below.

In this instance, the boys were forced to strip by a 21-year old Iranian immigrant and an 18-year old born to a Tunisian father before the criminals proceeded to force them into a pit where they were buried alive partially. They are also accused to have raped them. The suspects have been charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault, robbery and rape.

Not sure where OpIndia got the info on the perpetrators being migrants or the son of a migrant, it is not in Aftonbladet, the Swedish paper that broke the story, and I don't see it on other European papers. Of course, that is to be expected as most mainstream media outlets protect Migrant, Muslim criminals at the expense of young Europeans.

The precise ages of the victims is not yet known although they are reported to be less than the age of 15, the legal age for consent in Sweden. Both the accused have denied the charges. The boys were spotted by a passer-by at 8.39 a.m. on Sunday, 10 hours after they were abducted by the accused.

Seven minutes later, the 18-year old accused was arrested, sixteen minutes later, the police got their hands on the 21-year old. One suspect is reported to have been wearing items of the victim at the time of arrest. A court ruled that the accused should remain in custody. The motive for the attack is not yet known.

Both men were previously known to Swedish authorities.

Last month, the 21-year-old was found guilty of arson after causing hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of damage at a property using a Molotov cocktail.

At least one of the men has also been investigated in relation to robberies as well as threats targeted at younger students.

Anti-Islam protest in Oslo ends with Koran-tearing

and scuffles between anti-protesters & police 

29 Aug, 2020 14:48

© Facebook / Lars Thorsen

A Norwegian anti-Islam group staged a protest on Saturday, culminating in an activist tearing pages from a Koran. The event was wrapped up after a scuffle with counter-protesters, who managed to bypass the police perimeter.

The rally outside the parliament building in Oslo was organized by a group called Stop Islamisation of Norway, or SIAN. Some of their past rallies have ended with clashes between group members and their political opponents. The police had a heavy presence at the scene in advance of Saturday’s event.

The protest escalated into violence when a female activist held up a copy of the Koran and tore pages from the Islamic holy book. Angry counter-protesters then launched an attack, and the police rushed to intervene. One person was reportedly injured, and several others were arrested.

Before the scuffle, the rally had been mostly peaceful for around two hours, with demonstrators chanting, singing, and listening to SIAN leader Lars Thorsen as he delivered a speech in which he denounced Islam’s Prophet Mohammed as a “false prophet”.

Lars Thorsen after similar speech in Bergen, NW

A security barrier had been erected beforehand to separate the rival sides and keep order. As the situation became more tense and volatile, law enforcement agents used pepper spray on several occasions and pushed back counter-protesters who tried to cross the line.

Shortly after the Koran-tearing incident, the protest ended. SIAN activists were escorted away by the police, while the counter-protesters were allowed to remain at the scene.

Earlier this week, a Koran-burning stunt by members of a local anti-Islam group triggered outrage among the Muslim community in Malmo, escalating into fully fledged rioting (2nd story on link).

And now for something completely different: peace breaks out

in an Islamic country

Sudan signs historic peace deal with 5 rebel groups to end fighting

By Clyde Hughes

Sudanese citizens celebrate in the streets of Khartoum, Sudan, on July 5, 2019, after the military council reached an agreement with opposition leaders to share power in the new government. Monday, the government agreed to a peace proposal with several rebel factions to end decades of fighting.

File Photo by Marwan Ali/EPA-EFE

Aug. 31 (UPI) -- The transitional government in Sudan agreed Monday to sign a historic peace agreement with five major rebel groups in a major step to end violent conflicts stemming from the leadership of former dictator Omar al-Bashir.

The power-sharing government signed the deal in Juba, which provides the rebels with political representation and economic and land rights.

Supporters hope the agreement will help heal Sudan after years of fighting under al-Bashir, who was removed from power more than a year ago. He is wanted for war crimes during the Darfur conflict in 2003 and is on trial for the 1989 coup that put him in power.

Hundreds of thousands died in fighting in Darfur in the early 2000s. The Christian-majority south eventually split from Muslim-majority Sudan in 2011 following a civil war.

Not all opposition groups, however, have reached an agreement with the government.

The Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North has balked at the prospect of involving Darfur warlord Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo in the new government and part of the Sudan Liberation Army, led by Abdel-Wahid Al-Nur, is also holding out.

High Representative of the European Union Josep Borrell said the bloc is supportive of the pact.

"This is the time for all Sudanese stakeholders to set aside their differences and to look for the greater good of the country and of all Sudanese," Borrell said in a statement. "The EU remains committed to supporting the historic Sudanese transition."

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Sudan last week to support the transitional government.

Thank Goodness, NATO is not involved or there would be another 20 years of war.

#Ozzone 2:23b > Are You Guided By God's Interest in Others, or By Your Own Interests?

 

Islam - Current Day - Violent Riots in Sweden; Convicted MB Leader Arrested in Cairo

Egypt arrests Muslim Brotherhood leader Mahmoud Ezzat

By Clyde Hughes

Mahmoud Ezzat (R) is seen during a news conference in Cairo, Egypt, on October 9, 2010. He was arrested by authorities in Cairo on Friday. File Photo by Mohamed Omar/EPA

Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Egyptian authorities on Friday arrested a leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood hiding in an apartment in Cairo, officials said.

Mahmoud Ezzat, a deputy supreme guide for the Muslim Brotherhood, was previously convicted in absentia for organizing several terrorist attacks in Egypt. The Egyptian interior ministry said authorities captured Ezzatin an apartment in the Cairo suburb of Al Tajammu.

Ezzat is accused of being a founder of the Muslim Brotherhood's armed wing and supervising "terrorist and subversive" operations since it was removed from power in mid-2013 following an uprising supported by the army.

Authorities took a laptop and mobile phones with coded applications found at Ezzart's location Friday, authorities said.

Ezzat, 76, was accused of assassinating former Attorney General Hisham Barakat in 2015. Authorities also blamed him for the deaths of Brigadier Gen. Wael Tahoun at his home in Ain Shams district and Major Gen. Adel Rajai in Obour City.

Ezzat previously received two death sentences in absentia for spying for Hamas and a prison break in Wadi al-Natroun.

The Muslim Brotherhood gained renewed popularity in the "Arab Spring" of 2011, which led to the election of President Muhammad Morsi in 2012. He was removed the following year, which led Cairo to bar the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

Violent riots erupt in Malmo, Sweden after Koran-torching stunt,

police say they have ‘no control’ over situation

28 Aug, 2020

Demonstrators burn tires during a riot in the Rosengard neighborhood of Malmo, Sweden following a public Koran burning, August 28, 2020. ©  Reuters / TT News Agency

A wave of chaotic unrest broke out in Malmo, Sweden after anti-Islam activists filmed a public Koran burning, sparking protests that soon descended into riots, with unruly demonstrators setting fires and clashing with police.

Some 300 people gathered along a main thoroughfare in Malmo on Friday around 7:30pm local time to protest after members of a far-right political party staged a Koran burning earlier in the day, according to local press reports. As the crowd grew, fires were ignited in the street and several cars torched, prompting a heavy police response that struggled to bring the situation under control.

“We have ongoing and violent riots right now that we have no control over,” police spokesman Rickard Lundqvist told a local news outlet amid the disorder.

Clashes erupted between protesters and law enforcement in Malmo’s Rosengard district, seeing stones, paving bricks and fireworks hurled at officers and emergency response vehicles.

Rosengard is mainly Muslim migrant populated. The idiot who started this should be arrested. Nevertheless, it is another example of how easy it is to provoke moderate Muslims into mass hysteria.

Chants of “Allahu akbar” (“God is great” in Arabic) could be heard in footage that circulated online, which also showed tires and other debris burned in the street and a billowing column of black smoke rising into the night sky. A major fire was also reported in an underground parking garage in Rosengard, about 1km away from the main area of unrest.

The Koran burning which set off the riots was carried out by members of Stram Kurs (“Hard Line”), a far-right Danish political party founded by lawyer and anti-Islam activist Rasmus Paludan in 2017. The activists filmed the burning of the holy book, which was done in a public park.

Elsewhere in Malmo, three Stram Kurs members were reportedly arrested for incitement against an ethnic group after torching another Koran in public.

Paludan was barred entry into Sweden earlier on Friday, turned away at a border checkpoint near Malmo and slapped with a two-year ban from the country over concerns that he could “disturb public order,” a police spokesperson told Danish broadcaster DR. The right-wing activist had previously requested a permit to hold a demonstration in Malmo, where he was set to attend a Koran burning with street artist Dan Park, which was promptly rejected by Swedish authorities. A court argued that while “the freedom of assembly and demonstration are constitutionally protected rights,” the government may prohibit a gathering “for reasons of order and safety.”

War on Christianity > China Tears Down 900 Church Crosses in First 6 Months of 2020

China removes over 900 church crosses in first half of 2020: report

By Leah MarieAnn Klett, Christian Post Reporter 

In the first half of 2020, hundreds of crosses were removed from churches the eastern province of Anhui, which has the second-largest Christian population in China. | Bitter Winter

In the first half of 2020, over 900 crosses were removed from state-run churches across China amid Xi Jinping’s ongoing crackdown on places of worship, according to the Italian-based magazine Bitter Winter.

According to the religious liberty magazine, crosses were removed from over 250 state-run Three-Self churches in the eastern province of Anhui, which has the second-largest Christian population in China, in the first four months of the year. Additionally, 656 state-run Protestant churches in the province saw their crosses removed during the first half of this year.

A Three-Self church in the city’s Yingdong district, which lost its cross in April, was told by authorities that the cross-demolition campaign was part of national policy.

“If a church refuses to remove its cross, congregation members may lose their social benefits, like pensions and poverty-alleviation subsidies, and possibilities for their children’s future employment will be affected,” a church member explained.

United Front Work Department officials who removed the cross from a church in Hanshan county informed church congregants that any crosses taller than government buildings “must be demolished because they overshadow state institutions,” a church member told Bitter Winter. 

“Only churches that look like enterprises are considered legal. To ‘sinicize’ Christianity, Xi Jinping does not allow churches to have Western crosses.”

The believer also revealed that government officials warned an elder in the church that “protesting cross demolitions means protesting against the government.”

“I feel sad thinking that all crosses in our church have been demolished,” the believer added. “Even though it is a symbol of our faith, who dares to disobey the central government order?”

On several occasions, Christians who attempted to stop cross removals were injured by authorities or detained.

In May, the government of Ma’anshan-administered Dangtu county removed crosses from the Lingyunshan Christian Church using three large cranes. 

Hundreds of police officers “cordoned off the church, forbidding vehicles or pedestrians from approaching, and then stormed into the church having cut off an iron chain lock,” a local believer told the outlet, adding that an elderly believer who stepped forward to stop the demolition had her hands injured.

Bob Fu of China Aid, a U.S. based Christian rights group, previously explained that China’s cross removal campaign — which began in 2013 — “demonstrates the Chinese regime’s determination to contain the rapid growth of Christianity in China.”

China’s crackdown on religion and religious minorities has been widely condemned by international actors such as the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, rights groups, and the U.S. State Department. 

In its 2020 annual report, USCIRF noted that not only have authorities removed crosses from churches across the nation, but they have also banned youth younger than 18 from participating in religious services and replaced images of Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary with pictures of President Xi.

China has also been labeled by the U.S. State Department as a “country of particular concern” for “continuing to engage in particularly severe violations of religious freedom.”

In a recent webinar on China’s rising threat to human rights, Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said the Chinese Communist Party is “counting on” the fact that the world will be “bullied and intimidated into silence” because of China’s power and wealth. 

He explained that the Chinese government wants to make itself god, which is why it targets religious groups including Christians, Uighur Muslims, Tibetan Buddhists, Falun Gong practitioners, and any religious minority that would say there is an allegiance higher than the state itself.

“This attempt to even rewrite the scriptures and holy texts of these various religions in order to see to it that China is ultimate,” he said. “But as Christians, we of course know that God is ultimate, God is greater than any would-be Caesar. And we know that the image of God does not belong to any would-be Caesar, it belongs to God.”

China ranks as the 23rd-worst nation in the world when it comes to Christian persecution, according to Open Doors USA’s 2020 World Watch List. 

Japan deified their Emporer. Look how well that turned out for them at the end of the 2nd world war.

#Ozzone 2:23a > Can You Serve in Spite of Ingratitude?

 

Islam - Current Day - Honor Killing in Texas - Erdogan Aids Hamas - Afghan Stabs French Waiter

Yaser Said, Wanted for Honor Killing 2 Teenage Daughters, Captured in Texas

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Law enforcement never gave up the pursuit for 12 years

by Meira Svirsky  August 27, 2020

Clarion Project

Sarah (L) and Amina Said (Photo: Facebook)

Yaser Said, one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, was taken into custody Wednesday after a 12-year manhunt.

Said, now 63, was arrested for allegedly killing his two teenage daughters, 18-year-old Amina and 17-year-old Sarah, on New Year’s Day 2008.

Said’s son, Islam, and his brother, Yassim, were also apprehended and are accused of helping Said evade arrest.

Said was arrested in Justin, Texas, a short distance away from Irving, Texas where the murders took place.

Amina and Sarah, both high school students at the time, were found dead in a taxi their father had borrowed shortly after 911 received a call from Sarah who said that her father had shot her and she was dying.

The tragic story gripped the nation at the time. In 2014, a movie titled “The Price of Honor” was released about the story (see the trailer below).

Said, who was originally from Egypt, had a history of violence and alleged sexual assault of his daughters. He was described as controlling and engaged in sophisticated surveillance of them and his wife, Patricia Owens, the girls’ mother.

Owens, who divorced Said in 2009, said although Said was not religious, he was obsessed that the girls were “becoming too American.”

But what seemed to enrage him the most was when he found out that the girls had boyfriends. A friend of Sarah reported that Sarah told her that Said had threatened to put a bullet in her sister’s head because of the “offense.”

Another friend reported that Amina had come to school with welts all over her body and that Said had kicked her in the face another time when he found notes from her boyfriend.

A male friend of Sarah said, “She always used that term, ‘He would kill me, I would be dead,'” referring to what would happen if her father knew of their friendship.

The situation reached a critical level a week before Christmas in 2007, prompting Owens to take the girls and flee the state. They rented an apartment in Tulsa under an assumed name.

However, the family returned to their home in Lewisville, Texas on New Year’s Eve after Owen’s received assurances from Said’s family that they shouldn’t fear him and that the family would protect them. They offered to have Said stay with them and not in the house with Owens and the girls.

This is quite typical in honor killings, for the perpetrator, and even other members of the extended family, to promise the victim(s) would be safe if they came home. Then, immediately upon their return, they are beaten to death, set on fire, or otherwise murdered. Search this and my other blog for 'Honor killings' and 'honour killings'.

There is no doubt that others on the family were involved in planning this murder, and in the hiding of Said for the past 12 years.

Amina particularly wanted to finish her last year of high school in Lewisville and was worried that going to a new school in Tulsa might affect the full scholarship she had been offered to Texas Tech University.

On New Year’s Day, Said invited the girls to go out to eat and then allegedly shot them in a taxicab he had borrowed from a friend at an Irving hotel.

Owns reports that in the years following the murders, she was harassed by Said’s family and subjected to constant threats by them. She said they bombarded the media with stories that the girls were going to bars and sexually active as a cover for Said’s behavior.

She also reported that after the murders, someone broke into her house and stole all the birth certificates and passports of her children. Soon after, she says, the family took her mentally handicapped son and sent him to Egypt.

She says there he was brainwashed into thinking that his mother was responsible for his sisters’ deaths.

Matt DeSarno, special agent in charge for the FBI Dallas field office, declined to give details of how authorities found Said after so many years, simply saying that they relied on “good old-fashioned, aggressive, initiative-based police work.”

DeSarno did say,

“The FBI-led Dallas Violent Crimes Task Force has worked tirelessly to find Yaser Abdel Said. These experienced investigators never gave up on their quest to find him and pledged to never forget the young victims in this case. Said was placed on the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List nearly six years ago for the heinous act he committed against his daughters. His capture and arrest bring us one step closer to justice for Amina and Sarah. We want to thank our partners at the Irving Police Department for working with us to apprehend this dangerous individual.”

Sarno said that law enforcement had followed leads all around the world on the case and related that one officer who had been working on the case had pushed off her retirement because of it.

Irving police Chief Jeff Spivey noted,

“On January 1, 2008, the Irving Police Department opened a murder investigation after two young girls were found shot to death. Since that night, the members of the Irving Police Department and our partners with the Dallas FBI have tirelessly pursued justice for Amina and Sarah. Even after 12 years of frustration and dead ends, the pursuit for their killer never ceased. Today’s arrest of their father, Yaser Said, brings us closer to ensuring justice is served on their behalf.”

Erdogan handing out Turkish passports to senior Hamas terrorists

 

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (r) and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Istanbul, Feb. 1, 2020.

(AP/Presidential Press Service)

 

A known terrorist sought by the U.S. was among the Hamas members who met with the Turkish leader.

By Paul Shindman, World Israel News, August 27, 2020

A senior Israeli diplomat slammed Turkey Wednesday for issuing passports to a dozen Hamas members that will allow them to easily move around the world to conduct terrorist activities.

Israel’s charge d’affaires Roey Gilad told Reuters that Israel informed Turkey last year that Hamas was carrying out “terror-related activity” in Istanbul.

However, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hosted the Hamas leadership twice this year, the latest being a meeting last weekend in Istanbul.

Gilad said the Turkish government was giving citizenship and passports to Hamas members that would allow them to use Turkey as a base of operations, but he didn’t expect any response to Israel’s formal complaints.

“Judging by the last experience we had by presenting a well-based portfolio to the government… and getting no reply, I must say I don’t have high hopes that something will be done this time,” Gilad told Reuters.

Gilad posted a picture of Erdogan meeting with the Hamas leadership last weekend and pointed out Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri sitting near the Turkish leader.

“US has designated him a senior terrorist and has a $5m bounty on his head but Erdogan hosts him openly,” Gilad tweeted.

The U.S. State Department reacted angrily to the meeting, slamming Erdogan for hosting known terrorists.

“The United States strongly objects to Turkish President Erdogan hosting two Hamas leaders in Istanbul on August 22. Hamas is designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. and EU and both officials hosted by President Erdogan are Specially Designated Global Terrorists,” State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said in a statement.

Ortagus said there was a reward out for information on one of the Hamas terrorists at the meeting who is wanted “for his involvement in multiple terrorist attacks, hijackings, and kidnappings.”

“President Erdogan’s continued outreach to this terrorist organization only serves to isolate Turkey from the international community, harms the interests of the Palestinian people and undercuts global efforts to prevent terrorist attacks launched from Gaza,” Ortagus said.

Last week the Telegraph in London reported that it received copies of Turkish documents confirming that 12 members of a Hamas terror cell had either received Turkish citizenship and passports or were in the process of getting them.

Both the U.S. and U.K. have listed Hamas as a terrorist group, while Turkey, despite being a NATO member, calls it a legitimate political movement and provides it with assistance and shelter.

“These are not foot soldiers but the most senior Hamas operatives outside of Gaza. [They] are actively raising funds and directing operatives to carry out attacks in the present day,” an unnamed source told the Telegraph.

“The Turkish Government gave in to pressure by Hamas to grant citizenship to its operatives, thereby allowing them to travel more freely, endangering other countries that have listed Hamas as a terror group,” the source said.

Covid drama: French waiter STABBED for turning Afghan man away

for not wearing a mask

27 Aug, 2020

FILE PHOTO © AFP / PHILIPPE LOPEZ

A harrowing assault has shaken France's Le Havre, where a restaurant waiter received a grave stab wound for asking a customer to put his mandatory face mask on before entering a beachfront restaurant.

Wearing a face covering is obligatory in public places across France, but defending the rule, or reminding people about it, may spark a drama such as the one that occurred in the port city of Le Havre this Wednesday.

In the late afternoon, a 29-year-old Afghan man burst into a local restaurant overlooking a serene seaside beach. The visitor – drunk and not wearing a mask – was met by a waiter who “asked him to put one on,” local media reported, citing the police.

The brief altercation was apparently a prelude to violence. The man left the restaurant for a while before returning and stabbing the waiter with a knife.

There were some in the vicinity who could not stand back and watch the waiter bleed, it turns out. An off-duty member of CRS, France’s auxiliary police, intervened and apprehended the knife-wielding assaulter, but was also injured in the confrontation. Both victims were rushed to the hospital, with police saying the waiter's wound was “serious” but not life-threatening. The suspect was arrested by police who launched a criminal investigation. 

He isn’t alone in using violence to challenge France’s mask-wearing order. Earlier this month, a Parisian using a launderette said he was beaten by a pair of men with baseball bats after he asked a customer to put on a mask. 

In July, a bus driver in the French city of Bayonne was assaulted by a mob after he reportedly demanded that they cover their faces and show their tickets before boarding the bus. The driver was left brain dead, prompting some of his colleagues to refuse to go to work in protest over the brutal attack.

France has recently moved to task riot police with enforcing mask-wearing, after a local spike in Covid-19 cases was reported in Marseille. The news comes as the country's coronavirus tally surpassed 291,000, and over 30,500 people have so far lost their lives due to the pandemic.

Trudeau's Astonishing Cover-up of the WE Scandal Mocks Parliament

Commons law clerk says government went too far in redacting WE Charity documents

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Public servants pre-redacted documents; top Tory says Trudeau is engaged in a 'cover up'

Remarkable story in that it comes from CBC, which is Justin Trudeau's biggest fan club.

Don't be surprised if Tasker is looking for a new job next week.

John Paul Tasker · CBC News 

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre holds up redacted documents during a press conference on

Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. The documents were tabled by the

government at the House of Commons finance committee. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)

The House of Commons law clerk says public servants went too far in redacting the WE Charity documents released to MPs last week — and warns the cuts may have violated a production order from the finance committee to hand over all internal correspondence related to the summer student grants program.

The government released thousands of pages of documents related to the WE matter, as the committee requested last month. But rather than have the independent law clerk redact certain information, such as cabinet confidences and personal information, the various departments responsible for this aborted program did the blackouts themselves — an apparent contravention of the committee's request.

The end result was hundreds of blank pages and blacked-out content — information only known to the public servants who red-penciled the material.

They deliberately ignored the committee's will in order to cover up the truth

and protect Justin Trudeau's reputation.

- Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre

The finance committee requested all memos related to the WE Charity contribution agreement and clearly stipulated that any redactions should be "made by the Office of the Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel of the House of Commons" — not government censors.

Last week, a spokesperson for the Prime Minister's Office told CBC News that the redactions were done by the parliamentary law clerk, who was following the committee's direction to remove documents covered by cabinet confidentiality and personal information about Canadian citizens.

But that law clerk, Philippe Dufresne, said in a confidential August 18 letter to the clerk of the finance committee that the vast majority of the blackouts had been done by government bureaucrats — and some relevant information relating to the $912 million deal with WE may have been withheld, something which could constitute a breach of parliamentary privilege.

Ottawa-based news outlet iPolitics first reported on Dufresne's letter.

Dufresne raised red flags about the redaction process, saying his office did not have a chance to review the written material in its original form as the committee had intended. He also said the redactions his office did were limited to the personal information of public servants working on this file.

"The documents had already been redacted by the departments to protect personal information and on other grounds. As my office has not been given the opportunity to see the unredacted documents, we are not able to confirm whether those redactions are consistent with the order of the Committee," Dufresne said in his correspondence with David Gagnon, the finance committee clerk.

"The departments made certain redactions to the documents on grounds that were not contemplated in the order of the committee. We note that the House's and its committees' power to order the production of records is absolute and unfettered as it constitutes a constitutional parliamentary privilege that supersedes statutory obligations, such as the exemptions found in the Access to Information Act."

(Provisions of the Access to Information Act are commonly used to justify releasing censored material to journalists and the general public.)

"The House and its committees are the appropriate authority to determine whether any reasons for withholding the documents should be accepted or not," Dufresne added.

The opposition parties have said that the documents that have been released so far call into question Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's claim that he first learned that public servants were recommending that WE Charity administer the grants program ahead of a cabinet meeting on May 8.

Emails released show that senior members of his office — including Rick Theis, the director of policy and cabinet affairs — had meetings with the charity about its proposal to administer the program before that date.

An April 20 email from Michelle Kovacevic, a senior Finance official, said the "PMO was weighing in" on WE's pitch to dole out student support.

That same official called senior members of former finance minister Bill Morneau's staff "besties" with WE Charity administrators in a May 7 email. Members of Morneau's team were working with WE in April on how best to craft the grants program.

Craig Kielburger, the co-founder of WE, later thanked Ben Chin, one of Trudeau's senior advisers, in a June LinkedIn message for his "kindness in helping shape our latest program with the government."

WE Charity co-founders Craig (left) and Marc Kielburger introduce Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife

Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau as they appear at the WE Day celebrations in Ottawa, Tuesday November 10, 2015.

(Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative finance critic, said today he believes the government directed bureaucrats to hide key information related to this scandal to shield the prime minister from further scrutiny.

"They deliberately ignored the committee's will in order to cover up the truth and protect Justin Trudeau's reputation," Poilievre said in an interview with CBC. "The law clerk was tasked with combing through all the material and redacting any cabinet confidence or other information that needed to be kept from public view. Instead, the Trudeau government did its own redacting.

"I think the plan, Trudeau's plan, is to try and cover up the facts in this scandal until the fall when he will force an early election, in the hopes that none of this, none of the truth comes to light before Canadians go to the polls. This government, under his direction, is going to such lengths to bury it all until after Canadians vote."

After Morneau's abrupt resignation on August 17, Trudeau prorogued Parliament until the end of September, shutting down the Commons committees studying the WE matter. The prorogation means the committees are powerless to challenge redactions to the WE documents.

The opposition parties will have a chance to vote down the government — and force an election — after a Sept. 23 speech from the throne by Gov. Gen. Julie Payette.

Poilievre said the government should immediately hand over the original documents in question to the law clerk so he can decide what can or cannot be released to parliamentarians.

A senior government official, speaking on background Thursday, conceded both bureaucrats and the law clerk made amendments to the documents delivered to MPs.

But the official said the government released a number of memos to cabinet related to the WE matter — even though the committee explicitly called for the exclusion of such documents — as a show of good faith.

Good faith! Right! Hilarious!

The PMO referred all questions on the matter to the Privy Council Office (PCO), the arm of government that serves the prime minister and cabinet and coordinates the work of the various federal departments.

Pierre-Alain Bujold, spokesperson for the PCO, side-stepped a question about whether the government would hand over the documents — in their original state — for review by the law clerk.

He did not say why bureaucrats assumed responsibility for the redactions, despite the committee's order.

"Every effort was made to release as much information as possible to the committee, and indeed cabinet confidences pertaining to the Canadian Summer Student Grant program were disclosed," Bujold said in a statement. A limited amount of information was protected."

In fact, more than a quarter of all the documents provided to the finance committee were redacted in whole or in part.

And considering they provided many memos that the committee asked to be excluded, it's a good bet that if the committee had received only the documents they asked for, close to half would have been redacted.

Trudeau, like his father before him, has utterly no respect for Parliament and hence, democracy.

Islam - Current Day - Islamic Madness - in Norway, Israel, and Canada

Norway: Muslim mob beats critic of Islam for saying Muhammad was a false prophet

Bergen, Norway

“Norwegian critic of Islam attacked by mob: ‘We are on our way to the Swedish state,'” translated from “Norsk islamkritiker anfölls av mobb: ‘Vi är på väg mot det svenska tillståndet,'” Fria Tider, August 23, 2020:

An Islam-critical leader in Norway was violently attacked by a Muslim mob in Bergen. The incident makes the Progress Party, which is in the government, react strongly.

– We are on our way to the Swedish state, warns the former Minister of Immigration Sylvi Listhaug, writes in Document.

Violence and total chaos arose when Islam-critical SIAN (Stop the Islamization of Norway) held a demonstration at Festplassen in Bergen on Saturday.

Groups of Muslims and left-wing extremists had gathered at the site for a counter-demonstration.

When SIAN leader Lars Thorsen in his speech said that Muhammad was a false prophet, a Muslim mob attacked and beat him down, writes NRK.

In photos from the incident, Thorsen is then seen being taken away by the police while he is bleeding from the head.

Police have arrested three people in their 20s for the assault of Thorsen. However, at least two of them have already been released, according to NRK. A total of about 15 people are suspected of disorderly conduct.

The Norwegian media have focused on accusing the police of violence because tear gas was used to disperse the stone-throwing rioters. Among other things, left-wing activists are interviewed who accuse the police of having “gassed” them and “used chemical weapons against children”. The Social Democratic Labor Party and the Norwegian Left Party also criticize the police.

Sylvi Listhaug, top representative of the Progress Party and former Norwegian Minister of Immigration and Integration, reacts instead to the attack on Lars Thorsen.

– In Norway, it is allowed to say negative things about the Prophet Muhammad. That young people attack people because they express such legal opinions makes me feel that we are on the way to the Swedish state.

“The Swedish state” is a term that is often used for deterrent purposes in Norway and Denmark to describe the immigrant-related chaos of violence that neighboring Sweden has suffered.

I use Pakistanis and Afghans as examples of Muslims who can be turned into mob hysteria at the drop of a hat, or a word about Mohammed. But most of them are already devout Muslims who think the world should be under Sharia Law. There are many examples on this blog 

But how quickly can westernized Muslims be incited to mob hysteria is another question?

'HANG THE INFIDEL!' - Islamic Insanity Rises Against Christian Woman in Pakistan

Farkhunda, the Martyr, the Rest of the Story  - The diabolical madness of Islam

Search this blog for 'honor killings', or, 'honour killings' for more examples of Islamic madness.

Israeli rabbi killed in Petah Tikva knife attack

A rabbi has been stabbed to death by a Palestinian man in the Israeli city of Petah Tikva, Israeli police say.

Shai Ohayon, a 39-year-old father of four, was attacked at a road junction, reportedly after getting off a bus from a religious college where he studied.

A suspect was chased by a passer-by and later arrested by police. He is said to be a 46-year-old from a village near Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.

Investigators said they were treating the incident as a terrorist attack.

The Shin Bet security service said it was looking into whether the suspect had a history of mental illness, but that it was "too soon to tell" if that was relevant, according to the Times of Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered his condolences to Rabbi Ohayon's family.

"The heart aches. My wife Sarah and myself are hugging the family, a wife and four children who are left without a father," he wrote on Twitter. "We will demolish the terrorist's house and work for carrying out the most severe punishment possible."

Earlier on Wednesday, Mr Netanyahu shared an article on Facebook that said no Israeli civilian had been killed in a terrorist attack for 12 months for the first time in 56 years, the Jerusalem Post reported.

Since 2015, dozens of Israelis have been killed in a wave of stabbings, shootings and car-rammings, predominantly by Palestinians, in Israel and the West Bank.

Hundreds of Palestinians - most of them assailants, Israel says - have also been killed in that period, according to news agencies.

Others have been killed in clashes with Israeli troops.

Woman arrested in Toronto area for allegedly trying to join ISIS

By Stewart Bell Global News

Posted August 26, 2020 2:34 pm

Ten months after returning to Canada from Turkey, a Toronto-area woman has been arrested for allegedly attempting to join the so-called Islamic State.

Haleema Mustafa was taken into custody at around noon on Wednesday in Markham, Ont., north of Toronto, and was to appear in court Thursday to face charges.

The Public Prosecution Service of Canada said Mustafa faced two terrorism counts: leaving Canada to participate in the activities of a terrorist group and participation in the activities of a terrorist group.

A woman who answered the door at the family home declined to comment. Mustafa’s husband, Ikar Mao, was charged with the same two offences last December and remains in custody.

The couple left Toronto together in June 2019 and were caught in a Turkish city an hour’s drive from the Syrian border. They were detained and returned to Canada separately in October.

Few women have faced terrorism charges in Canada.

While women have a long history of involvement in terrorist groups, Canadian authorities have charged just three women with terrorism since 2013 — and only one of them was convicted.

“In Canada, there’s only been a handful of women who have been charged with terrorism offences,’’ said Jessica Davis, the author of Women in Modern Terrorism: From Liberation Wars to Global Jihad and the Islamic State.

Rehab Dughmosh tried to join ISIS in 2016 but was stopped by Turkish authorities. Sent back to Canada, she planned an attack at a Toronto Canadian Tire and was convicted in 2019.

In Montreal, Sabrine Djermane was charged with attempting to join ISIS with her husband El Mahdi Jamali, but was acquitted in 2018. A terrorism peace bond was later imposed on the couple. - I'm sure that will work!

Although unrelated to ISIS, Amanda Korody was found guilty by a jury in 2015 of attempting to bomb Canada Day celebrations in Victoria, but a judge ruled she and her husband were entrapped by police.

“So in general, the charges and convictions are quite rare, but that doesn’t necessarily represent how many women are actively involved in terrorism in Canada,” Davis said.

“That number is far bigger.”

Canadian security officials report that about 20 per cent of the extremists who have left Canada to take part in terrorist activities were women, and that some have taken their children to conflict zones.

With its promise of a state governed by a harsh interpretation of Islamic law, ISIS attracted thousands of women, including at least two dozen from Montreal, Edmonton, Vancouver and Toronto.

Women and girls as young as 13 have come under police investigation for trying to leave Canada to join ISIS. Three teenagers, aged 15, 18 and 19, flew out of Toronto in 2014 after communicating with an ISIS recruiter.

Their parents reported them missing and the RCMP worked with police in Egypt and Turkey to have them turned back once they landed in the Middle East. When they returned to Canada, they were not charged.

An Edmonton woman who returned to Canada from Somalia was also not charged, although the Canadian Security Intelligence Service described her as “committed” to ISIS and a “senior member” of Al-Shabab. Instead, the government seized her passport.

Well, that's good. Make sure if she blows something up, it will be Canada. Clever!

Queen’s University Professor Amarnath Amarasingam has identified 22 women who left for Syria and Iraq, although not all made it. By contrast, 59 were men, meaning women account for more than a quarter of the total number of Canadians.

Women also make up the bulk of adult Canadians held at camps for foreign ISIS detainees captured by Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria. None have yet been charged by Canadian authorities.

“It is often unclear which roles women who travel to Syria perform,” said the government’s 2016 Public Report on the Terrorist Threat to Canada, which called the participating of women one of the “emerging issues in terrorism.”

“The most commonly held assumption is that women travel abroad to marry terrorists, but the reasons for travel and eventual roles vary. Some may occupy secondary roles within terrorist groups, while in other cases they appear to be training and taking part in combat. Some women have also facilitated the travel of others.”

In interviews with Global News, Canadian women who were part of ISIS have downplayed their involvement in atrocities, portraying themselves as wives to ISIS fighters, housewives, mothers and victims.

But a report by the British think tank the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) said the portrayal of women in ISIS as “jihadist brides” was “reductionist and above all, incorrect.”

“The responsibility of Western women under ISIS-controlled territory is first and foremost to be a good wife to the jihadist husband they are betrothed to and to become a mother to the next generation of jihadism,” the ISD report said.

“However, these women are also playing crucial roles in propaganda dissemination and recruitment of other women through online platforms, both directly and indirectly.”

Photos posted on social media sites have shown ISIS women brandishing military-style firearms. Women also recruited for ISIS on social media, kept people enslaved and enforced the terror group’s brutal code of conduct.

Details of the case against Mustafa and Mao cannot be reported due to a publication ban. Turkish authorities arrested them north of a border town that was once a popular hub for foreign extremists crossing into Syria to join ISIS.

They were deported back to Canada in October. While Mao was arrested soon after returning to his parents’ home in Guelph, Ont., the investigation into Mustafa proved more difficult, delaying the charges.

“We have seen women in roles as recruiters and as propagandists in the Islamic State,” said Davis, president of Insight Threat Intelligence and a former senior strategic analyst at CSIS. “In fact, some very prominent women have played very fundamental roles in recruiting, specifically young women, to come and join the Islamic State,” she added.

“In terms of what we’re seeing for prosecutions of women, there is a disparity in the aggregate numbers that we’re seeing,” Davis told Global News.

“So for many countries, we don’t see any prosecutions of women, some of them are just being put directly into reintegration and rehabilitation programs. Other countries we are seeing some of that prosecution, so in the United States and U.K., women are being prosecuted – not to the same extent as men and there is a disparity in terms of the length of the sentences, the severity of the punishment,” she said.

“So there is a little bit of a gender gap there.”

Islam - Current Day - Men Kill 20 y/o Sister for Not Obeying Them; Rapist Marries 10 y/o Victim, Then Divorces Her; Canadian Terrorist Learns Nothing

Men kill 20 y/o sister over ‘suspicions’ of visiting neighbour

Complainant mother says victim was attacked with sticks

Our Correspondent

The Express Tribune

FAISALABAD: A 20-year-old girl was allegedly beaten to death by her brothers with sticks for going to the neighbours’ house on Wednesday.

The accused escaped after the incident. Police registered a case and launched raids to nab the accused.

The police said 20-year-old daughter of Muhammad Boota, a resident of Kamalpur area of Nishatabad, was repeatedly barred by her brothers identified as Muhammad Ikram and Muhammad Saddam, from going to their neighbours’ house.

On Tuesday, the victim left for her neighbours’ place and when she came back home she was asked by her brothers about her reason for leaving the house and where she had gone. The victim did not answer them.

The two brothers started beating beat her with sticks, injuring her fatally.

Rescue 1122 personnel rushed her to Allied Hospital where she succumbed to her injuries.

Nishatabad police reached the hospital, took the body into custody and handed it over to heirs after postmortem.

Following the statement of Suraya Bibi, mother of the slain victim, the police registered a case against Ikram and Saddam and started raids to arrest them.

Several incidents of murder over petty domestic issues have been reported in the past.

On August 18, a man killed his younger sister with an axe for not serving him a cup of tea in breakfast in a village near Arifwala. Police registered a case against the accused.

The incident happened in the jurisdiction of Sadar police station.

10-y/o Indian girl married off to rapist, given triple talaq

IANS Aug 23, 2020 

Muzaffarnagar: In a shocking incident, a ten-year-old girl was allegedly married to her rapist and then given Triple Talaq by him, police said on Sunday.

Triple talaq, also known as talaq-e-biddat, instant divorce and talaq-e-mughallazah (irrevocable divorce), was a form of Islamic divorce which has been used by Muslims in India, especially adherents of Hanafi Sunni Islamic schools of jurisprudence. It allowed any Muslim man to legally divorce his wife by uttering the word talaq (the Arabic word for "divorce") three times in oral, written or, more recently, electronic form. 

On 30 July 2019, the Parliament of India declared the practice of Triple Talaq illegal and unconstitutional, and made it a punishable act from 1 August 2019 which is deemed to be in effect from 19 September 2019. - Wikipedia

The incident came to light when a team from the child care helpline visited the girl for counselling at a village in Budhana police station area earlier this month.

According to the helpline in-charge, Punam Sharma, the victim alleged that she was 'married' to her sister's brother-in-law on February 16 after a rape.

The child care helpline later informed the police.

The accused, a resident of Shamli district, left the girl at her parents' house on August 4 after which the family approached the helpline.

Budhana SHO KP Singh said they have started an investigation into the allegations and called the accused for questioning.

Meanwhile, sources said that the minor's family had married the girl on the insistence of her sister.

Ontario man convicted of terror offences re-arrested,

could pose public safety risk: RCMP

Kevin Omar Mohamed, 27, found in 2016 with knife and notes on carrying out attack, detained on peace bond

CBC News · Posted: Aug 24, 2020 

This undated Twitter profile picture was linked by counter-terrorism researchers to Kevin Omar Mohamed. (Twitter)

An Ontario man convicted of supporting an al-Qaeda-affiliated terror group has been rearrested after national security officials learned of information suggesting he "may pose a risk to public safety," the RCMP says.

Kevin Omar Mohamed, 27, was first arrested in 2016 on the University of Waterloo campus after being found with a hunting knife, work gloves, a large quantity of money and handwritten notes taken down from al-Qaeda publications on how to plan and carry out an attack. 

He was sentenced to four and a half years behind bars — after pleading guilty to supporting Jabhat al-Nusra — and released in 2019 after receiving two and a half years of credit for time served.

But in the months since, the RCMP's Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET) says Mohamed was twice rearrested — once on July 8 for allegedly breaching his probation order by having a device capable of accessing the internet, and again on Sunday on a peace bond meant to "mitigate the risk of him committing a terrorist-related offence."

In the days leading up to his August arrest, the RCMP say they turned up information suggesting Mohammed might pose a public safety risk. They say police searched two residences on Sunday that Mohamed was associated with.

"The RCMP and our law enforcement and intelligence partners continue to monitor and assess the threat that individuals that possess ideologically motivated extremist views pose to public safety, particularly those on court imposed conditions as a result of their previous convictions for terrorism related offences," the service said in a news release Monday.

A decision by the Parole Board of Canada last year noted Mohamed had not participated in "any interventions geared toward deradicalization," noting there was "no evidence" that he was committed to changing his "extremist ideological beliefs." 

The board noted it was "very concerned" Mohamed could continue to present a "significant risk to the community."

The decision indicated Mohamed travelled to Turkey in 2014 where he met with members of the Syria-based Jabhat al-Nusra, also known as the al-Nusra Front, and was smuggled to Syria in the trunk of a car, only returning home after his brother flew to Turkey to meet him. The group was considered a terrorist organization by Canada and other countries. It has morphed and renamed itself several times since. 

Back in Canada, police said Mohamed promoted violence and tweeted out support for terrorist activities online under the pseudonym "Abu Jayyid," leaving his Whitby, Ont., home in February 2016 after an argument with his mother and ending up on the street.

Police tracked him for nearly a week until he suddenly went offline upon withdrawing $3,500 from his bank account.

He was arrested in March 2016 after being found sleeping in empty rooms on his university campus, and convicted in 2017. Following his release, he was to be subject to three years of probation.

Speaking to CBC News last year, Mohamed's lawyer Paul Slansky said his client's motivation had been "to help Syrians with the humanitarian crisis. However, he recognized that he went about it the wrong way," Slansky said.

No kidding!