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Friday, September 11, 2026

Terrorism Around the World > Muslims, Gay Pride, and Gay night clubs in the USA

 

4 Muslim Terror Plots Against Gay Pride Parades in 5 Years


Gay rights groups promote the mass migration of those who want to kill them.

São Paulo LGBT Pride Parade, Ben Tavener, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0


Ousman Ceesay, a Muslim migrant from the Gambia, collected a list of gay venues, went to Venture-N, a Tucson gay bar, and killed two people, and the media didn’t mention Islam.

It’s not the first time. Since 2023, Muslim terrorists have targeted gay people every single year.

The Tucson Police Department has said that “this shooting was a targeted attack motivated by hate toward the LGBTQIA+ community,” but carefully avoided mentioning where that hatred was coming from even though just two months ago a Muslim terrorist had rammed a car into the Berlin Pride Parade and last year three Muslim men from Dearborn, Michigan, two of them named Mohammed, had been arrested in a plot to shoot up gay bars in Detroit.

There have been 4 Muslim terror plots against the Chicago, Phoenix, Seattle and Philly Pride parades in just the last 5 years without a single media report connecting the dots.

The Gambia, a 95% Muslim country, is notorious for its particular hatred for gay people.

“We are in a Muslim dominated country and I will not and shall never accept such individuals,” former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh had warned, vowing to “cut off the head” of any gay person and bragging about laws “stricter than those in Iran”. The Islamic Council of Gambia had cheered, “We thank President Jammeh for leading the battle against homosexuality in Africa.”

Gambia was one of the countries placed on President Trump’s restricted travel ban. Unfortunately, gay rights groups chose to fight the ban and invite in more gay bar killers.

Gay rights groups promote the mass migration of Muslims to America despite the fact that Muslims have been vastly overrepresented in the list of violent attacks on gay people. GLAD and the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project filed briefs opposing efforts to limit travel from Muslim terror states to America. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) opposed the travel ban, claiming that the gay rights group “will continue to stand up against all forms of Islamophobia and call out the danger this travel ban creates for LGBTQ people abroad.”

The lack of a travel ban from Muslim terror states is creating danger for gay people in America.

Two of the three worst mass murders at gay clubs in America, the Pulse Massacre and the Venture-N shooting, were carried out by Muslim believers acting in the name of Islam.

Omar Mateen, the Afghan Muslim terrorist who killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, carried out the largest massacre of gay people in America. While Mateen may not have known he had selected a gay club, he began his manifesto with the words, “in the name of Allah”. And many subsequent Muslim terror plots, including those inspired by the Pulse massacre, deliberately targeted gay people.

In 2014, Musab Mohammed Masmari, a Libyan Muslim immigrant, used gasoline to set fire to the staircase of Neighbours: a gay club in Seattle in order to burn alive those instead (inside?). There were 750 people upstairs in the crowded gay bar. Mohammed had reportedly told a man whom he met at a mosque that “homosexuals should be exterminated”. Then he tried to flee to Turkey.

That same year, Ali Muhammad Brown killed two men outside R Place, a gay nightclub in Seattle, “because he believed they were homosexual” as a form of ‘Jihad”. The Muslim terrorist had lured the men through the Grindr app. “My mission is vengeance,” Brown, who was wanted as a sex offender for trying to solicit a minor, warned, calling it his “jihad against Americans.”

The two locations were two blocks apart in the Capitol Hill gay area in Seattle. And yet two Muslim terrorist attacks against two gay bars two blocks apart in the same year were never connected together as part of a larger pattern or reported on as a threat by the media.

“I’m going to place a bomb in a gay club, Wallah,” Amer Al-Haggagi, a Yemeni Muslim living in California, pledged. He was arrested in 2017 for allegedly planning bombings in the Bay Area a month after the Pulse massacre. “I live close to San Francisco. That’s like the gay capital of the world. I’m going to handle them right.”

Even though Al-Haggagi had been sentenced to 15 years in prison, Judge Milan Smith, who had previously cracked down on a coach praying before a high school football game, intervened to cut down the terrorist’s sentence to only 6 years, forcing his premature release from prison.

In 2019, Fabjan Alameti, an Albanian Muslim, was arrested after talking about carrying out an attack against a government building, “gay club,” or Jewish temple. In 2021, Elvin Hunter Bgorn Williams, a Muslim convert, urged another Muslim to attack the Seattle Pride Parade. “‘Come on do it with me. Let’s go f____ do the gay pride parade in downtown Seattle.’ It’s one of the biggest pride parades in the United States,” he urged. “If we get a semi-truck, we can drive all the way through the parade.”

The number of Muslim terror plots against gay venues has continued to increase and since 2023, there has not been a single year without a Muslim terror plot targeting gay people.

In 2023, Muhyyee-Ud-din Abdul-Rahman was arrested in a plot to allegedly place bombs in trash cans along the route of the Philadelphia Pride Parade. In 2024, an ISIS chat room discussed an attack against the Chicago Pride Parade. “We will be att@cking the Chicago pride parade with a backpack,” and that same year, Marvin Aneer Jalo, talked about using a bomb drone to attack the Phoenix Pride Parade.

In 2025, Mohmed Ali, Majed Mahmoud and another Dearborn Muslim man were arrested after scouting gay bars in Detroit as possible targets around Halloween. (This Halloween terror plot by three Muslim men should not be confused with the other Halloween terror plot by three other Muslim men that same year to massacre Jews and rape Jewish women in New Jersey.)

And much like liberal Jews, LGBTQ groups are inviting the biggest threat to their people inside.

After the Venture-N shooting, local and national gay rights groups complained about ‘homophobia’ and tried to imply that Republicans were the problem. Ousman Ceesay wasn’t MAGA, he was a Muslim migrant from a Muslim country on Trump’s travel ban list whose former leader hated gay people so much that he bragged about wanting to cut off their heads.

Gay rights groups fought for the rights of Gambian Muslims like Ousman to come to America.

One of the men killed in the Venture-N shooting had been a vocal advocate for Muslim terrorists in Gaza. It didn’t save him from being killed by Muslim terrorists in America. Gay rights groups that advocate for Muslim mass migration to America are ensuring the murder of gay people.

Fighting for the Islamization of America isn’t gay rights: it’s gay suicide.

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London: Four rushed to hospital after stabbings, dogs reportedly attacked, too


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What we don’t know yet: The religious identity of the perpetrators or what motivated their violent actions, or whether they are legal UK residents or illegals.

What we do know: Sadiq Khan’s London (and other parts of the UK) has seen a massive crime and national security problem correlated with an invasion of unvetted, illegal migrants — mostly Muslims from Africa and the Middle East. This has also contributed to escalating crime and security threats.

We know how Muslims feel about dogs, so this may be some hint….

Jibril (Gabriel) promised to visit the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) but delayed and this grieved him very much. When he came out of his house, Jibril met him. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) asked him about the reason of delay, and he replied: “We do not enter a house in which there is a dog or a portrait. (Riyad as-Salihin 1685: Book 17, Hadith 175)

Whatever the motive, this scene is increasingly becoming the norm in London and throughout once-peaceful Britain. Expect more, since what else can one expect from wide-open borders but a mirror effect of the third world and the worst elements of Muslim societies? A society becomes its inhabitants. Goodbye, Britain, and every Western country that the left governs, if change doesn’t happen fast.

London stabbings, X screenshot


Four rushed to hospital after quadruple stabbing in Bromley as emergency crews swarm high street

by Ed Griffiths, GB News, September 10, 2026:

Four people have been rushed to hospital after a “quadruple stabbing” in southeast London.

Police arrested seven men, and they remain in custody.

Emergency services were called to Bromley High Street shortly after 2pm this afternoon after reports of a stabbing.

Ambulance crews, a paramedic in a fast-response car, an incident response officer, an advanced paramedic, and London’s Air Ambulance were all dispatched to the scene.

The teams treated four patients outside a KFC branch and Nationwide Bank.

They were then taken to hospital, the London Ambulance Service said.

Three of them are receiving treatment for non-life-threatening injuries….

Grok indicates that this was an altercation between rival gangs. I wonder what the odds are that at least one of those gangs was Muslim? If not, they would have told us so already.





Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Canadian Convulsions > Trudeau is unable to handle people who disagree with him; RCMP sound worse than truckers

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Trudeau’s party takes hit in poll


Conservative Party of Canada overtakes Liberals, gains 10 percentage points,

in latest polling


FILE PHOTO © Dave Chan / AFP


New polling figures show Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party has been overtaken by the Conservatives amid waning support among Canadians for Covid-19 vaccine and mask mandates, and against the backdrop of a major crackdown on the trucker-led protests.

The poll, conducted by Mainstreet Research, showed that voter support for the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) has increased by 10 percentage points in the past month. The CPC would be the leading vote-getter if an election were held today, garnering 36% of ballots, compared with 28% for the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC), the survey found.

And the CPC doesn't have a leader right now!

The polling was conducted last week, starting two days after Trudeau invoked Canada’s Emergencies Act. That move suspended civil liberties to quash the Freedom Convoy protests and take such actions as freezing the bank accounts of demonstrators without court orders, increasing police powers, and subjecting fundraising platforms to laws normally applied to money launderers and terrorist financiers. The survey was completed before footage from Canada’s capital city, Ottawa, showed protesters apparently being trampled by police-mounted horses, dispersed with tear gas, and pummeled with rifle butts.

Just 36% of Canadians still support Covid-19 restrictions, compared with 55% who favor ending all government pandemic measures, the Mainstreet poll showed. As recently as two months ago, 56% of Canadians said they would support another round of Covid-19 lockdowns. About 39% of respondents to the latest survey said they strongly oppose Trudeau’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act, while 38% strongly support the move.

A Maru Public Opinion poll released earlier this month showed that just 16% of Canadians would vote for Trudeau based on his actions during the first two weeks of the Freedom Convoy trucker protests. Nearly half of respondents said they believed he was “not up to the job of being prime minister.”

In my humble opinion, his reaction to the trucker convoy was like that of a frightened little boy. His complete inability to communicate with people who don't maintain his far-left ideals is beginning to catch up with him. However, there are still too many people who think he is Mr. Wonderful, even while he tears Canada apart and puts us into a debt from which we can never emerge.

On a separate topic, the Mainstreet survey showed relatively strong support, especially among LPC voters, for sending Canadian troops to Ukraine if Russia invades the country. More than 48% of respondents, including 58% of Liberal voters, said they favor sending Canadian forces to fight Russian invaders, while 38% said they oppose such a military deployment.

Madness! Thanks to our far-left national media in Canada.

An Economist/YouGov poll released earlier this month showed that only 13% of Americans believe it would be a “good idea” to send US troops to tangle with Russian forces in Ukraine.


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Police probe leaked messages where officers reportedly celebrated brutality


Purportedly leaked messages show Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers describe trampling of demonstrators as “awesome”


A tactical police officer stands on the base of a street advertisement as police move in to clear downtown Ottawa, Canada, February 19, 2022 © Getty Images / Justin Tang


The Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced on Sunday that it is “looking into” leaked messages apparently from an officers’ chat group, in which members appear to cheer on the trampling of Freedom Convoy demonstrators in Ottawa, and declared it “time for the protesters to hear our jackboots on the ground.” 

“The RCMP is aware of the material circulating on social media pertaining to a chat group that includes some of its members, and we can confirm that we are looking into the matter,” read a statement from the force. “This material is not representative of those who have committed themselves to serving Canadians with integrity and professionalism.”

A federal police force, the RCMP were brought in to assist Ottawa Police officers in clearing the Freedom Convoy protest that had occupied much of downtown Ottawa for the past three weeks. The crackdown was a brutal one, and as city and federal officers arrested nearly 200 people since Friday and seized 76 vehicles, video footage emerged showing baton beatings, attacks with projectile weapons, and a mounted cavalry charge into a crowd of demonstrators.



According to screenshots posted online on Saturday, RCMP officers cheered on this crackdown. The screenshots, purportedly taken from the force’s ‘Musical Ride’ group chat, showed a member named ‘Marca’ saying “just watched the horse video – that is awesome” and adding “we should practice that manoeuvre.”

Another member named ‘Andrew Nixon’ posted a picture of himself holding a pint of beer, telling his fellow officers “Don't kick all of them out until next week’s group gets our turn,” and saying that it was “time for the protesters to hear our jackboots on the ground.” 

The screenshots were posted on Twitter, and heavily publicized by Canada’s Rebel News, a right-wing outlet whose reporter said she was earlier shot with a non-lethal weapon at close range by an officer.

These attitudes and actions are much more like the descriptions Trudeau spoke of when describing the truckers and their supporters. But these are OK with Trudeau because they work for him, The Hypocrite and Chief!

The police crackdown came after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the never-before-used Emergencies Act last week. As well as empowering police to clear the streets, the act permits the government to freeze bank accounts and cryptocurrency wallets belonging to protest participants and donors. 

Interim Ottawa Police Chief Steve Bell declared the protest “over” on Saturday. However, Bell warned on Friday that his department would continue to hunt down those who had been involved in the protests and punish them financially. “If you are involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges,” he threatened. 

While a number of Canadian provinces have relaxed their Covid-19 restrictions since the protest began, Trudeau’s nationwide vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers – the rule that sparked the demonstration in the first place – remains in force.


Saturday, February 19, 2022

Anti-Semitism > Trudeau's disgraceful behaviour in Parliament; Jewish Scientists rake Trudeau over the coals, and so do I

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‘OUTRAGE’: Canadian PM accuses Jewish lawmaker,

descendant of Holocaust survivors, of ‘standing with swastikas’


February 17, 2022
 
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau (AP/Charles Krupa)
 
 

Justin (Sunny Ways) Trudeau tells descendant of Holocaust survivors she belongs to a political party that supports Nazism.


By World Israel News Staff

Lawmakers in Canada’s House of Commons lost their cool during a tense parliamentary session on Wednesday during which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a Jewish MP, who is a descendant of Holocaust survivors that she and other members of the Conservative party are guilty of “standing with people who wave swastikas.”

Trudeau’s remark was aimed at MP Melissa Lantsman, the first Jewish woman elected as a Conservative lawmaker in the country.
 
Lantsman had asked Trudeau about his remarks characterizing people participating in mass anti-vaccine mandate protests “as very often misogynistic, racist, women-haters, science-deniers, the fringe.”

By using this language, Lantsman said, Trudeau is “fanning the flames of an unjustified national emergency.” She suggested that he was out of touch with the Canadian public.

In response, Trudeau accused Lantsman’s Conservative party of supporting Nazism.

“Conservative Party members can stand with people who wave swastikas, they can stand with people who wave the Confederate flag,” Trudeau said.

He appeared to be referencing a handful out of the tens of thousands of protesters who were seen with Nazi flags.

Trudeau’s comment was immediately met with strong backlash throughout the chamber. Multiple lawmakers shouted at him to apologize.

“I’ve never seen such shameful and dishonorable remarks coming from this prime minister,” said Conservative MP Dane Lloyd. “My great-grandfather flew over 30 missions over Nazi Germany. My great-great-uncle’s body lies at the bottom of the English Channel. There are members of this Conservative caucus who are the descendants of victims of the Holocaust.

“For the prime minister to accuse any colleague in this House of standing with a swastika is shameful. I’m giving the prime minister an opportunity. I’m calling on him to unreservedly apologize for this shameful remark.”
 
Trudeau refused to apologize and left the parliamentary session early.

“I am a strong Jewish woman and a member of this House and a descendant of Holocaust survivors and … it’s never been singled out, and I’ve never been made to feel less,” Lantsman said in a Twitter statement.

“Except for today, when the prime minister accused me of standing with swastikas. I think he owes me an apology. I’d like an apology and I think he owes an apology to all members of this House.”




Jewish Scientists, Doctors Around the World

Issue Justin Trudeau Open Letter Amid Canada Protests


By Mimi Nguyen Ly 
February 19, 2022

A woman waves a flag and cheers on truckers in protest of COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Ottawa, Canada, on Jan. 30, 2022. (Alex Kent/Getty Images)


A group of 23 Jewish scientists, doctors, and academics issued an open letter on Friday to Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, saying they are “deeply concerned” about how he had been describing protesters in Canada who have been demonstrating against COVID-19 mandates and restrictions since late January.

One of the authors of the letter, Stanford Professor of Biophysics Michael Levitt, who was awarded one-third the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013, shared a copy of the letter on Twitter.

“In recent weeks, we have been following the news about the Freedom Convoy 2022 protests that have taken place in Canada. … We witnessed, with mourning concern, how instead of a constructive dialog with the protesters, you adopted a smear-by-association campaign, portraying the protesters as ‘Nazi sympathizers,’ ‘racist,’ and ‘antisemitic,'” the group said in their letter.

“The last incident was your allegation on February 16 that a Jewish member of the Conservative Party was ‘standing with people who wave Swastikas,'” they added.

Trudeau made the comment in Parliament during Question Period amid debate over a blockade in Ottawa and Trudeau’s declaration of a State of Emergency on Feb. 14. Trudeau is the first prime minister to invoke the Emergencies Act since it became law in 1988.

Melissa Lantsman, a Conservative member of parliament for Thornhill in the House of Commons, told the chamber that Trudeau “fans the flames of an unjustified national emergency” by having described the protesters as “‘very often misogynistic, racist,’ ‘women haters,’ ‘science deniers,’ the ‘fringe.'”

She then asked, “So, Mr. Speaker, when did the Prime Minister lose his way? When did it happen?”

This might be referring to Justin's oft-repeated motto of "sunny ways". Which he seems to have abandoned completely recently.

Trudeau responded, “Conservative Party members can stand with people who wave swastikas. They can stand with people who wave the Confederate flag.

“We will choose to stand with Canadians who deserve to be able to get to their jobs, to be able to get their lives back. These illegal protests need to stop and they will.”

He sounds, for all the world, like a frightened little boy. Is that why he fled the city while the truckers were still on their way to Ottawa? Is that why he started immediately to condemn them as being far-right extremists while they had not committed one act of violence?

Funny thing, yesterday, news came from British Columbia of millions of dollars of destruction on a pipeline construction site. The location would infer that it was probably 1st nations' people responsible. There was no word from Trudeau on the incident even though it was far more violent than any of the trucker rallies across the country. 

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), which is extremely protective of the far-left Trudeau, makes no mention of the story today. CBC News website even has a column on indigenous affairs, but makes no mention of this one. In fact, I cannot find any national news site that carries this story:


House Speaker Anthony Rota followed up, telling the chamber, ”I just want to remind the honourable members, including the Right Honourable Prime Minister, to use words that are not inflammatory in the House.” However, Trudeau did not withdraw his comment.

Lantsman, a descendant of Holocaust survivors, said on Twitter that Trudeau falsely accused her of standing with a Swastika. “What a disgraceful statement unbecoming of anyone in public office—he owes me an apology,” she wrote.

In the letter on Friday, the Jewish group of scientists, doctors, and academics expressed disapproval of Trudeau’s recent rhetoric.

“We, an apolitical group of Jewish Israeli medical scientists, physicians, researchers, and legal scholars, some of us second or third generation Holocaust survivors, are deeply concerned by your attempt to stigmatise the Freedom Convoy 2022 protesters as Nazi ideology supporters,” they wrote.

“The important fight against antisemitism should not be weaponized and directed at a legitimate civil protest which aims at restoring fundamental liberties, to what used to be, until not long ago, one of the freest countries in the world.”

The Epoch Times has reached out to Trudeau’s office for comment on the letter.

Late on Friday, Trudeau wrote on Twitter, “Illegal blockades and occupations have threatened businesses, endangered jobs, and obstructed communities for three weeks now. This week, to restore public order and protect Canadians as the situation evolves, our government invoked the Emergencies Act.”

“We’ll continue to make sure municipal, provincial, and federal authorities have the resources they need, and do whatever is needed to keep people safe and get the situation under control—and we’ll make sure your rights and freedoms are protected,” he added. “That remains our top priority.”

This is as divisive and hypocritical a statement as I have ever heard. He seems to be saying that he will sacrifice the rights of thousands of truckers and tens of thousands of their supporters without even hearing what they are concerned about, in order to protect the rights of a few dozen businesses on a couple streets in Ottawa.

Protesters have expressed offense at Trudeau’s recent comments that have portrayed them as racist or hateful, The Epoch Times previously reported. Trudeau previously said the protesters are a “fringe minority’ who hold “unacceptable views” and espouse conspiracy theories.

Where did he get that theory from, considering he refused to meet with any of them?

Protesters on Parliament Hill for the most part have been carrying Canadian flags. Some images were circulating on social media that showed Nazi symbols on flags, while other videos on social media showed protesters telling those holding hateful signs to leave.

Some local reports have also stated that people opposed to vaccine mandates have likened Canada’s mandates to the persecution of Jews by the Nazis. 

That, of course, is absurd!

The protest started in late January as a show of defiance. Truckers opposed the Canadian government’s vaccine mandate that started on Jan. 15 for truckers who often cross the United States-Canada border. It has since evolved into a large movement joined by people from across Canada to oppose different COVID-19 mandates and restrictions.

Vehicle convoys came to Ottawa on Jan. 29, and many have stayed in the city, with trucks and other vehicles parked by Parliament Hill. Since then, various protest convoys have been set up in different parts of Canada.

Early on in the protest, Trudeau has said he wouldn’t be meeting with the protesters—he said he wouldn’t go anywhere near demonstrations “that have expressed hateful rhetoric, violence towards fellow citizens, and a disrespect not just of science, but of the front-line health workers.”

Following the invocation of the Emergencies Act, two lead organizers of the Freedom Convoy protest, Chris Barber and Tamara Lich, were arrested in Ottawa on Thursday. Ottawa’s interim police chief warned on the same day that action to remove Freedom Convoy demonstrators was “imminent.”

Ottawa's Police Chief stepped down the day before the arrests started. I would really like to hear from him exactly why he stepped down at that particular time. But, Canada's Trudeau-loving media will never ask him.

Lich, at a press conference on Feb. 14, said that protesters “will remain peaceful” despite the government’s use of the Act.

Despite the arrests, many protesters still remain in Ottawa. In early February, Lich said the protesters won’t be leaving until the government lifts the COVID-19 mandates.

“We’re not coming here to be aggressive or hateful or cause violence,” she told The Epoch Times. “We’re going to be staying in for as long as it takes. We’re not leaving until Canada is free.”

Police have arrested about 170 protesters and appear to be cleaning out the streets of Ottawa. What these people will be charged with is not apparent, although I've heard the word "Nuisance" being thrown around. 

No arrests have been made in the violent British Columbia pipeline destruction case.

I fear that this letter will turn Trudeau against Jewish people. He does not take criticism well, as you have probably already observed. 

Here is Northwood's Proverb which you will find on the sidebar of this blog. I think it is unfortunately appropriate for this occasion:


Humility and Pride
You can tell a humble man that he has a problem with pride and he will agree with you;
but if you tell a proud man that he has a problem with pride, he becomes your enemy.

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Sunday, August 2, 2020

Islam - Current Day - ISIS Bride; Afghan Car Bomb; Islamic Rage; Women's Rights Activist Goes Silent


ISIS bride Shamima Begum’s UK return put on hold after British government wins right to appeal decision


Shamima Begum’s return to UK shores has been cast in doubt after the British government dramatically won a court battle allowing it the right to appeal an earlier decision. The appeal will be heard by the UK’s Supreme Court.

Begum, now 20, who was one of three east London schoolgirls who traveled to Syria to join Islamic State in 2015, won a High Court appeal earlier this month, allowing her to return to the UK and challenge the withdrawal of her British citizenship.

However, on Friday, the Court of Appeal ruled that the case raised a point of law of public importance, meaning that Begum’s return must be paused while the UK government appeals the decision.

Begum left the UK five years ago and lived under IS rule for over three years, having married Dutch-born Islamic State fighter Yago Riedijk. She was found in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019, and was discovered to be pregnant.

Then-UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid revoked her British citizenship later that year on national security grounds. Last year, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) said that Begum had not been unlawfully rendered stateless while she was living in Syria because she was entitled to Bangladeshi citizenship.




Afghanistan car bomb kills 8, injures 30
By Danielle Haynes

Afghan security officers stands guard outside the emergency hospital in Kabul after a car bomb blast targeted
a crowded market in Logar province of Afghanistan, on Thursday. Photo by Jawad Jalali/EPA-EFE

July 30 (UPI) -- A car bomb exploded in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least eight civilians and injuring dozens more, the Interior Ministry said.

Multiple children were among the victims.

"The incident occurred at 7:40 p.m. local time in Sharwal Square of Pul-e-Alam city, capital of Logar [province]. The initial information indicated that eight civilians were martyred and 30 wounded," tweeted ministry spokesman Tariq Arian, according to a translation by Xinhua news agency.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack; the Taliban denied involvement, Tolo News reported.

The explosion comes ahead of a planned three-day cease-fire between the Afghan government and Taliban militants for the Eid al-Adha holiday.

Pol-e-Alam, AFG



Egyptian kills brother in row over Eid meat

Accused had warned his family against accepting meat being distributed to the poor

Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent
Gulf News

The accused told prosecutors in the Delta province of Beheira that he flew into rage on learning that his family had accepted the meat given away to the poor during the Eid of Sacrifice, private newspaper Al Masri Al Youm said.

He added that his family had ignored his earlier warnings against accepting such gifts. In a fit of rage, he flew the meat piece out of the house window, triggering a fight with his brother. Wielding a knife, the accused reportedly fatally stabbed his brother and inflicted wounds in the abdomen of his sister.

Local prosecutors ordered him to be kept in custody for four days pending further interrogation.

During Eid Al Adha, Muslims, who can afford it, sacrifice animals such as sheep, goats, camels and cows, honouring the Prophet Ebrahim’s willingness to slay his son Ismael at Allah’s command. As the Prophet Ebrahim and Ismael showed unwavering obedience to the divine order, Allah sent a ram slaughtered in the son’s stead.

Was it that he was too proud to accept meat given to the poor? Did his pride exceed all common sense and love for his brother and sister? 

Of course, the son Abraham nearly sacrificed was Isaac. Ishmael had been sent away by Abraham as an illegitimate son after Isaac, the promised son was born. The Ishmael sacrifice story was invented by Mohammed thousands of years after Isaac's story was written.




'It's psychological torture': Saudi activist's family say she hasn't been heard from in 6 weeks
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UBC graduate Loujain Alhathloul turned 31 on Friday in a Saudi jail

Michelle Ghoussoub · CBC News 

Alhathloul, a graduate of the University of British Columbia, was arrested in May 2018 along with nine other high-profile women's rights activists. (Loujain Alhathloul/Facebook)

Women's rights activist Loujain Alhathloul, currently jailed in Saudi Arabia, hasn't been heard from in six weeks — the longest time she's been silent since she was arrested over two years ago, according to her brother.

Alhathloul, a graduate of the University of British Columbia, has been detained since May 2018, when she was arrested along with nine other women's rights activists. She turned 31 in prison on Friday.

"We don't know anything about her well-being and we don't know anything about where she is exactly," said her brother Walid Alhathloul, speaking on the phone from Toronto.

He said she was previously detained in Ha'er Prison, a maximum-security prison and the country's largest, but the family now isn't sure whether she's been moved to a different location.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, her family was able to visit her weekly. But those visits were replaced by weekly phone calls when Saudi Arabia tightened restrictions on prison visits to prevent the spread of the virus.

Alhathloul says the family now hasn't heard from her since June 9. "I would say it's a way to torture us, the family. Loujain knows that we are doing fine, but we don't know if she's doing fine," he said.

"We're safe — she's not safe. It's psychological torture."

Detained since 2018

Alhathloul was first accused of attempting to destabilize the kingdom. Since then, those charges have been changed to communicating with foreign journalists and attempting to apply for a job at the United Nations.

Her trial was indefinitely postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We're expecting that we're not going to get any updates from the court, or from the judge," said her brother, who said that even two years on, the family maintains hope that she will be released.

"We're holding up. We're used to that and we know that the target is us. This was difficult at the beginning, but right now it's becoming part of our DNA."

Loujain Alhathloul's birthday triggered an outpouring of support on social media, and protests
outside of the Saudi embassy in Washington DC. (Loujain Alhathloul/Facebook)

Alhathloul was a vocal activist known for her vivacity and spirit even prior to her high-profile arrest.

In 2014, following her graduation from UBC, Alhathloul was arrested for live-streaming herself breaking Saudi Arabia's female driving ban by driving across the border from the United Arab Emirates.

The stunt, which captured the world's attention, earned her 70 days of detention. She followed that up by running in Saudi Arabia's first election open to women.

After 14 months of detention, she was offered to sign a deal that would have let her walk free if she posted a video statement denying that she'd been tortured. She tore up the document.

She had previously told her family that she'd been held in solitary confinement and suffered electrocution, flogging, and sexual assault

Alhathloul's birthday triggered an outpouring of support on social media and protests outside of the Saudi embassy in Washington, D.C.

Nobel Peace Prize nominee

Walid Alhathloul said he believes his sister, who in February was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by United States Congress members, has become a symbol for women's rights across the world.

"People saw that when she got involved, she didn't have to, because she had all her own privilege," he said. "And despite that, she sacrificed her own privilege for the sake of greater women's rights in Saudi Arabia. She did that unconditionally."