War on Christianity > Muslim attacks Christian parade with an axe in Iraq; Christian convert driven from her family in Somalia; Australia's largest mosque - Call to Prayer - Sydney; 'Queer Theologies' in Catholic U.

 

Iraq: Muslim goes on axe rampage at Assyrian Christian festival parade, injuring three people

Apr 4, 2025 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

We only ever see attacks of this kind from one religious group. Yet the blindness and denial over their ideological derivation remains near-universal.

ISIS axe rampage at Christian festival parade leaves three injured before attacker is overpowered

by Taryn Pedlar, Daily Mail, April 2, 2025:

Three people have been injured in Iraq after a man armed with an axe attacked a parade hosted by Assyrian Christians as they marked their new year, officials said.

The event in, held every year on April 1, drew thousands of Assyrians who marched through Dohuk in northern Iraq waving flags and wearing colourful traditional clothes.

But witnesses of Wednesday’s horror said an attacker, who has not been officially identified, ran towards the crowd chanting Islamic slogans before carrying out his stabbing spree.

He brutally struck three people with the axe before being overpowered by participants and security forces.

Videos circulating online show him pinned to the ground by a brave member of public, as he repeatedly shouted: ‘Islamic State, the Islamic State remains.’

A 17-year-old boy and a 75-year-old woman suffered skull fractures following the viscous attack at the annual parade.

A member of the local security forces, who was operating a surveillance drone, was also wounded. All three were taken to hospital, local security officials said….

Janet Aprem Odisho, whose 75-year-old mother Yoniyah Khoshaba was injured, said they had been shopping near the parade when the attack happened.

‘He was running at us with an axe,’ she said. ‘All I remember is that he hit my mother, and I ran away when she fell. He had already attacked a young man who was bleeding in the street, then he tried to attack more people.’

Her family, originally from Baghdad, was also displaced by past violence and now lives in Ain Baqre village near the town of Alqosh.

Assyrians faced a wave of hate speech and offensive comments on social media following the attack….

Of course they did! That's Islamic logic! Curse the victims of violent crimes; celebrate the criminals.

 

Mother of Three in Somalia Loses All Relatives for Receiving Christ

Morning Star News, March 28, 2025:

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The Muslim husband of a woman in Somalia sent her back to her parents for accepting Christ – without their three young children – and then her parents drove her away for sharing the gospel with her sister, sources said.

Fatuma Hussein, 30, was beaten and then ostracized by her birth family on Saturday (March 22) for sharing her new faith in Christ with her sister in Tabta village, Lower Juba Region, said the leader of a Christian team that first visited her on March 15.

They entered a house that day as her relatives were breaking the daily Ramadan fast at about 7:30 p.m., and Hussein’s husband was not present. The team found Hussein unwell and complaining of Jinn (supernatural beings from the unseen world in Islam) (ie demons) power menacing her; they prayed for her and left for another village, the leader said.

On March 17, Hussein phoned the team to let them know that that since the time of prayer, she had felt peace and comfort in her heart and invited them back to her house. When they arrived, she happily requested more prayer and said she would pay them $100 USD – which the team declined, telling her that salvation was a free gift of God through his Son, Issa (Jesus), the leader said.

Hussein told the team that she had heard the voice of God telling her, “Receive my power so that you can pray for others for healing as well,” he said.

“She needed some clarification on this, and we took time explaining to her that she is a vessel of God, and she was receiving salvation in Christ Jesus,” the leader told Morning Star News. “After her receiving Christ as her Savior, then we left the village to another area for mission outreach.”

On March 19, Hussein boldly shared her new faith with her husband, Ibrahim Suleiman. Angry with her for embracing a faith different from Islam, he informed her parents, and Hussein’s father told Suleiman to send her back to him so that he could “deal with the issue,” Hussein said.

On March 20, Hussein’s husband sent her back to relatives without their three children ages 7, 5 and 3, she said. Undaunted, she began sharing about the love of God with her sister, the Christian leader said.

On March 22, Hussein’s father learned about her sharing Christ with his other daughter and began mistreating her, the leader said, recalling that Hussein told him, “My father started beating me with sticks and threatening to kill me and immediately kicked me out of the family by chasing me away with a sharp sword. He even told my husband to beat and even kill me whenever I am seen around.”

Driven from both families, Hussein is lonely and praying for them to receive what she has received, the leader said. His team has connected her with a nearby underground Christian family, a stop-gap measure that he does not regard as safe in the long term.

Hussein said she was trusting God to take her to a safe place where she can have freedom to worship God.

“I have lost my children, but the peace of God will continue comforting my heart,” she told the leader. “Please tell Christian families wherever they are to continue praying for me and support me with money to buy food to sustain me wherever I will be staying, so that I do not become a burden, and more so that God will sustain and meet all my physical and spiritual needs. I am lonely, but Issa is with me.”…

Australia: Largest mosque in the country proposes broadcasting Islamic call to prayer from loudspeakers

Apr 10, 2025 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

The adhan, prayed in Arabic, repeats “Allahu akbar” six times, “I testify that there is no god but Allah” three times, and “I testify that Muhammad is Allah’s prophet” twice.

Dr. Gavin Ashenden, former chaplain to the British queen, who resigned his position in protest against a Qur’an reading in a Scottish church, observed that “the Muslim call to prayer is a dramatic piece of Islamic triumphalism. It proclaims Islam’s superiority over all other religions, and in so doing casts Jesus in the role of a charlatan and a liar. The Muslim god, Allah, is unknowable and has no son. Jesus was, therefore, a fraud in claiming He and the Father are one.”

Is Sydney really wise to broadcast repeatedly a declaration of the superiority of Islam, a faith that directs its adherents to make war against Christians and other non-Muslims and subjugate them as inferiors under the hegemony of believers (cf. Qur’an 9:29)?

Is Sydney wise to broadcast the cry “Allahu akbar,” beloved of jihad terrorists the world over? Chief 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta wrote this in his letter to himself before carrying out his jihad mission: “When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world. Shout, ‘Allahu Akbar,’ because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers.” This is why the Fort Hood jihad killer, Nidal Malik Hasan, shouted it as he shot thirteen Americans in November 2009, and why so many other jihadis have used it essentially as an announcement that non-Muslims are about to die.

Celebrate diversity!

Australia’s largest mosque unveils bold new plan to broadcast call to prayer through loudspeakers

by Nick Wilson, Daily Mail Australia, April 8, 2025 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Australia’s largest mosque could begin broadcasting the Muslim call to prayer from loudspeakers every week under a proposal lodged with a Sydney council.

Lakemba Mosque, also known as the Masjid Ali Bin Abi Talib, has proposed to affix four loudspeakers to its minaret in a new bid to the Canterbury-Bankstown Council in Sydney’s west.

It would be the first mosque in Sydney to broadcast the call to prayer – known in Arabic as the adhan – regularly throughout the year.

According to planning documents, nearly two thirds of the Lakemba population identified as Islamic in 2021 while nearly one quarter spoke Arabic at home.

The proposed development would be permissible under zoning restrictions with council’s consent, according to the application.

The mosque is owned and operated by the Lebanese Muslim Association (LMA), a community-based non-profit organisation established in 1962.

A spokesperson for the LMA told Daily Mail Australia the proposal was ‘modest in nature but deeply meaningful to our community.’

‘If approved, it reflects the growing recognition of Australia’s multicultural identity and religious diversity,’ the spokesperson said.

Lakemba Mosque is a Sunni place of worship. It’s [sic] opening in 1977 was attended by former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and is widely considered to be Australia’s most significant mosque….

Progress: Theology Students in Oregon Can Take ‘Queer Theologies’ Instead of ‘Biblical Texts’

Apr 11, 2025 5:00 am By Robert Spencer

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The Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire taught the ancient Greek classics in its schools for the entire thousand years-plus of its existence, but come on, man! We are much smarter than that now, and know that we have to move and change with the times. Even in theological schools, where the naïve and untutored might think that special attention is given to timeless truths, the forward-thinking have better ideas. At the University of Portland, a private Catholic university in determinedly “progressive” Oregon, they have come up with the best idea of all, as far as the left is concerned: throw out all that old, musty theology and dive head-first into the deep end of theological wokeism.

There is more. Read the rest here.

Canadian Convulsions - Elections > Horrendous bias in Canadian media for the Liberal Party of Canada

 

Some years ago, I gave up watching CBC News because of its absurd, left-wing, godless bias. When Trudeau came to power and took the Liberal Party of Canada from centre-left to extreme left, the CBC gleefully followed along. I watched for other networks- CTV, Global, City, to counter the extreme tilt to port, but it didn't happen. 

Then Trudeau announced a $600mn fund to support Canadian media outlets, probably a good thing in the digital age, but nevertheless, leaving the Liberals open to criticism about influencing the reporting since the Liberals set up the board that chooses who gets to take part of the $600mn fund (slush fund?).

Lets take a look at today's story as an example of the bias even on Global. 

Poilievre unveils ‘three strikes and you’re out’ crime plan. Will it work?

The bias shows up, even in the title. No such title of a story on Carney would have the question "Will it Work?"

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is pledging the “biggest crackdown on crime in Canadian history” by targeting three-time serious offenders with maximum life imprisonment.

The Conservative Party of Canada unveiled its crime plan Wednesday, proposing to pass what it calls a “Three-Strikes-and-You’re-Out” law.

Under this policy, anyone convicted of three serious offences will become ineligible for bail, probation, parole or house arrest, Poilievre said at a campaign stop in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., on Wednesday.

These three-time serious criminals will serve a minimum prison term of 10 years and up to a maximum life sentence, he said.

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Poilievre says Conservatives would ‘crack down’ on crime with ‘3 strikes you’re out law’

Poilievre added that the proposed law would also designate such perpetrators as “dangerous offenders,” a legal classification that means an offender cannot be released until they can demonstrate they are no longer a danger to society.

“We need a change. A lost Liberal decade of soft-on-crime, hug-a-thug policies has made life more dangerous,” he told reporters.

“Under my watch, the only way for repeat offenders to obtain their freedom will be through spotless behaviour and clean drug tests during a lengthy minimum prison sentence with earned release dependent on making real progress in improving their lives, such as learning a trade or upgrading their education.”

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Canada’s Crime Severity Index higher in 2023 with increased child exploitation

Police-reported crime in Canada has gone up in recent years.

The most recent crime data from Statistics Canada showed that the volume and severity of police-reported crime rose by two per cent in 2023 – the third successive annual increase.

While 2% may not seem like a significant increase, remember the hug-a-thug attitude by police, prosecutors, and judges has probably kept those numbers down significantly, not because the crimes are not being committed, but they are just not being prosecuted. How much enthusiasm do police have to catch car thieves when they will be back out on the street within a couple hours?

A total of 5,843 incidents per 100,000 population were reported to police in 2023, StatCan said.

What is a dangerous offender?

The Conservative proposal broadens out the current criteria for the “dangerous offender” designation in Canada.

One point I need to make about dangerous offenders is that rapists and child sexual abusers are dangerous offenders. The traumatic effects of rape on young women and child sexual abuse on children of any age are never talked about in public and are not dealt with very well at all in Canada. In ten years of Trudeau, not one single act of legislation, not one direction to the Justice System to clamp down of child abusers occurred.

In those ten years, there were roughly 76 million children in Canada. If half were girls and if 20% of those girls suffered from some traumatic form of sexual abuse (and that is a conservative estimate, many estimates are 1 in 4 or even 1 in three); then the number of sexually abuse children on Trudeau's watch would be about 7 million 6 hundred thousand. But Trudeau's only concern was for the few hundred transgenders, and the media bought completely into that.

Under the Criminal Code, a person is considered a dangerous offender if the offence for which they have been convicted is a “serious personal injury offence,” showing a pattern of “repetitive behaviour” or “persistent aggressive behaviour.”

Jennifer Quaid, a professor of civil law at the University of Ottawa, said the Conservative plan raises “a whole host of constitutional and legal problems.”

When it comes to mandatory minimums and the dangerous offender designation, “there are constitutional constraints on what Parliament can do,” Quaid said in an interview with Global News.

“The idea of designating someone a dangerous offender, that’s an extremely rigorous process because what you do is if you designate someone like that, it takes a lot of evidence,” she said.

Quaid also said that putting in mandatory minimums can face legal challenges, and limits the judge’s ability to determine what the appropriate sentence is.

This is probably the point of it all. Judges' abilities seem to be incapable of protecting society while it strongly protects the violent criminal's rights. That has to change!

She said a “very significant social change in Canadian society” would be needed to bring about constitutional change and “there’s a level of tolerance for the extent to which we’re going to inflict really serious punishments in this country.”

We are used to very significant social changes, the past ten  and the past twenty years have resulted in some abhorrent changes in Canadian society, few of which are for the better.

“It’s not impossible. Society has changed, but I just think that in the current framework here, there are limits as to how far you can reasonably interpret and apply the constitution,” Quaid said.

“And I suspect that some of what’s being contemplated is it makes good sound bites, but it doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell.”

Here we go again. That last sentence would never appear in an article on Mark Carney. Therein is the hopeless bias of the media, in this case Global News. But it is typical of most Canadian "News" propaganda outlets.

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Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre speaks to supporters in Winnipeg

Earlier in the campaign, Poilievre promised a law that would ensure life sentences for people convicted of five or more counts of human trafficking, importing or exporting 10 or more illegal firearms, or trafficking fentanyl. He also said repeat offenders would be ineligible for bail.

Some experts have said those measures are unconstitutional and would very likely be struck down by the courts — which is what happened with crime measures passed by the former Conservative government under prime minister Stephen Harper.

Asked Wednesday whether he would invoke the notwithstanding clause to enforce the proposals if constitutional challenges emerge, Poilievre argued that his proposals are constitutional.

“We know that what I am proposing today is not only constitutional, but it is necessary,” Poilievre said in French.

“In order to protect constitutional rights, people who obey the law, we need to put criminals in jail, so my proposals are respectful of the constitution and are necessary to protect the constitutional rights of all Canadians.”

The notwithstanding clause allows governments to circumvent certain constitutional rights, and effectively invoke a piece of legislation notwithstanding the provisions of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms that a bill might be infringing on.

In 2022, a Liberal government bill ended mandatory minimum sentences for all drug convictions and for some firearms and tobacco-related offences. The changes reversed “tough on crime” measures passed under Harper.

That bill came after Canadian courts pushed back against mandatory minimum sentences. In a 2016 decision, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down a number of mandatory minimum penalties in the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

The Liberals and New Democrats have yet to release their plan to tackle crime in this federal election campaign.

Right! Because they don't have a plan.

Speaking to reporters in Calgary Wednesday, Liberal Leader Mark Carney said “the full force of the law should be applied and appropriately severe punishment put in place” for serious or habitual crimes.

“I don’t jump to a baseball rule of three strikes and you’re out for a period of time,” Carney said, adding that the party will have more to say on its crime plan.

— with files from The Canadian Press