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Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Islam in Canada > Quebec law to challenge Muslim's aggressive, arrogant, public prayer practices

 

Praying on the streets, in front of churches or synagogues, etc., is a message of arrogance by Muslims. It means - they can do what they want, and Canadian laws have no power over them. If this Quebec law passes, that theory will be tested, and Canada's far-left media will be in a complete quandary.


Canada: Quebec to table legislation banning prayer in public


What is most important is what Quebec Premier François Legault said months ago, that “seeing people praying in the streets, in public parks, is not something we want in Quebec.” Legault also said that he wanted to send a “very clear message to Islamists.”

No other religion makes a public scene praying on the streets and ties up traffic and free movement, causing major disruptions that are far from peaceful. 

Take a look at what happened in Ontario:

And last month in Montreal:

Muslim groups are defending their position on the grounds of religious rights and freedoms, as well as the freedom of peaceful assembly. Pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, intimidating and disruptive  protests have also been defended on the grounds that they were “peaceful protests,” but they are anything but.

The Quebec government intends to invoke Canada’s notwithstanding clause to ban public prayer if necessary. Canada’s notwithstanding clause refers to Section 33 of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Its provision allows both the federal parliament or a provincial legislature to pass a law that temporarily overrides certain sections of the Charter.


Quebec plans to table bill banning prayer in public

by Matthew Lapierre, CBC News, August 28, 2025:

The Quebec government intends to present a bill banning prayer in public.

Secularism Minister Jean-François Roberge said in a statement Thursday that the “proliferation of street prayer is a serious and sensitive issue.”

“The premier of Quebec has given me the mandate to strengthen secularism, and I am determined to fulfil this mandate diligently,” he said.

“This fall, we will therefore introduce a bill to strengthen secularism in Quebec, in particular by banning street prayers.”

His statement follows months of efforts by the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government to reinforce secularism in the province, which includes adopting a law that requires immigrants to embrace the common culture of the province and tabling a bill to expand the province’s religious symbols law to include school support staff.

The statement from Roberge on Thursday provided no details as to how the government would legislate against prayer in public, but Premier François Legault has said his government would not rule out using the notwithstanding clause….




Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Canadian Convulsions > Is Canada turning into the wild, wild west? This weekend voted 'yes'

 

— Colby Cosh

NP Platformed



The Opposition leader, Pierre Poilievre, newly restored to the House of Commons by the voters of Battle River—Crowfoot, Alberta, made some public remarks defending the use of force against burglars by homeowners. The Justice Minister Sean Fraser, sensing an opportunity but perhaps failing to read the proverbial room, replied indignantly on social media:  

 

“This isn’t the Wild West..."


His quip was followed by a weekend of appalling crimes across the country, some of them in fact having a disturbing Wild West flavour, darn the luck. 


In Vaughan, Ont., a homeowner died from “trauma to his body” (?) after armed burglars broke into his house and threatened his child. This incident is not to be confused with the four armed and masked men storming a house in Markham, Ont. And in Welland, Ont., an enterprising solo practitioner broke into a home and allegedly sexually assaulted a toddler. (A neighbour told the National Post that the accused had previously been convicted of a similar sex offence against her son, had received an 18-month prison sentence and had been turned loose in 12. Real solutions!) 

 

In London, Ont., which isn’t the Wild West, there was nonetheless a gunfight downtown that involved at least 11 rounds being fired. Guelph, Ont., which also isn’t the Wild West, got off easy, although the 80-year-old woman beaten unconscious in broad daylight didn’t. Renfrew, Ont., isn’t the Wild West, but two people allegedly broke into a hotel room to bear-spray the occupants and steal stuff. In west-but-not-wild Abbotsford, B.C., a house was riddled with bullets while its occupants slept. There have been a few apparent arsons, possibly involving homicidal intent — Richmond Hill, Ont.; Windsor, Ont.; and a fatal one in Edmonton in which a shouting match may have been ended, unanswerably, with a Molotov cocktail. Of course, I don’t know whether you could really say Edmonton isn’t the Wild West. A woman here was shot to death in her SUV over the weekend on the city’s historic main drag, Jasper Avenue. 


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Truth - St. Thomas Aquinas

 



The Media is the Message > CBS’ “Face the Nation” edits Kristi Noem comments to make Garcia look better and the government look worse

 

Kristi Noem accuses CBS of ‘shamefully’ editing her interview on Kilmar Abrego Garcia to ‘whitewash’ MS-13 gang affiliation

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem went on a tirade against CBS News on Sunday over allegations the network edited her interview about alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal migrant that theTrump administration deported to El Salvador earlier this year.

Noem was on CBS’ “Face the Nation” discussing Abrego Garcia Sunday morning, she said on X, but noticed by afternoon that the footage had been clipped to remove part of her answer.

“This individual was a known human smuggler, a MS-13 gang member, an individual who was a wife beater, and someone who was so perverted that he solicited nude photos from minors, and even his fellow human traffickers told him to knock it off, he was so sick in what he was doing and how he was treating small children,” the DHS chief said in the full, unaired clip.

Noem claimed a portion of her interview was cut from CBS.
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Comparison of Kristi Noem’s uncut and CBS-aired interview segments.
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“So he needs to never be in the United States of America and our administration is making sure we’re doing all that we can to bring him to justice,” she added.

“Secretary Noem’s “Face The Nation” interview was edited for time and met all CBS News standards,” a CBS rep told The Post. “The entire interview is publicly available on YouTube, and the full transcript was posted early Sunday morning at CBSNews.com

Noem wrote on X, “This morning, I joined CBS to report the facts about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Instead, CBS shamefully edited the interview to whitewash the truth about this MS-13 gang member and the threat he poses to American public safety.”

A US federal immigration judge ruled in 2019 that Abrego Garcia couldn’t be deported to El Salvador due to threats from local gangs — but the Trump administration flew him along with hundreds of other alleged gang members out of the country to a megaprison in the Central American nation earlier this year.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia speaks during a rally and prayer vigil for him before he enters a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office on August 25, 2025 in Baltimore, Maryland.
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The Trump administration claimed he was a member of the violent MS-13 gang — a US-designated foreign terrorist organization — based on a determination during that 2019 court proceeding.

Abrego Garcia and his defense attorneys have denied the allegation.

Democrats visited with and advocated for Abrego Garcia, saying he was “wrongfully” removed to El Salvador and kept there for weeks first at the notorious prison CECOT and then at a lower-security facility.

The purported Salvadoran gangbanger was eventually brought back to the US in June and charged with human smuggling, but released briefly before that trial only to be apprehended again by ICE on Aug. 25

He now faces the possibility of being deported to Uganda after having declined to plead guilty to the smuggling charges as part of an agreement that would send him to Costa Rica instead.

Abrego Garcia’s lawyers are still working on getting him asylum in the US. His first attempt in 2019 was denied, but if this one is approved, it could put him on a pathway to a green card and American citizenship.

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Monday, September 1, 2025

Middle East Madness > Syria's Emerging Intolerance

 

Syria: Muslims chant ‘Take us to Suwayda,’

where jihadis slaughtered Druze


The lad brandishing the huge pair of scissors is celebrating the jihadis’ humiliation of Druze elders by forcibly shaving their beards.

Anyway, where is the Vast Majority of Peaceful Muslims, exhorting these people to embrace the true, peaceful teachings of Islam?



Canada's Antisemitic media contributes to stabbing of Jewish woman in Ottawa

 

Leftist Angry Over Gaza Stabs Elderly Jewish Woman in Canada


A Jewish woman in her seventies wearing a ‘star-of-david’ was shopping in a supermarket with a large Kosher section was stabbed by a leftist who had written virulent antisemitic messages accusing Israel and Jews of genocide.

“I am under no obligation whatsoever, legal, moral, or otherwise, to like jews and I do not,” Joseph Rooke tweeted. “If that means I meet the Jewish definition of an anti-semite, so be it. In actual fact, I own an obligation to humanity to speak out against Israel’s ongoing attempt of a genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza.”

Much of Rooke’s hatred came from the media’s Hamas propaganda which falsely accused Israel of genocide and of starving and killing the Arab Muslim population in Gaza. All of this was mixed together with claims that “Judaism is the world’s oldest cult”, militant atheism and claims that Jews had invented the idea of god and declaring that the Holocaust disproved Judaism.

This is at least the second non-Muslim leftist terrorist attack against Jews in recent times (not counting the much older attacks by the Japanese Red Army or Red Army Faction/Baader Meinhoff Gang operating out of Germany) and shows how the propaganda being distributed by the media is operationalizing attacks on Jews in the Western world.

The victim is in critical condition. Police are considering the incident a hate-motivated crime. - CBC


Certainly Canada's antisemitic news coverage contributes to this far-left madness. But also, the left's godlessness contributes greatly to their antisemitism. Truth is a difficult commodity for the godless to find.



Middle East Madness > Palestinians never wanted 2-state solution - Bill Clinton

 

Someone please proofread Phil Schneider's posts before publishing.


Bill Clinton Has Been Banned by His Own After Admitting This About “Palestinian” Arabs


August 25, 2025 10.9K views

Not very long ago, the vast majority of the Democrat Party was squarely pro-Israel, despite being rather open to the idea of overtures for peace agreements between Israel and it’s (sic) Arab neighbors. However, in 2008, the transformation took place with the election of Barack Obama. 

Barack Obama did not just bring a new spirit into the Democrat Party. He threw out many of the accepted norms and brought in a mindset that was clearly one of prioritizing progressive values on many levels. Not only did Barack Obama sweep into power in the Oval Office. He largely changed most of the norms of the Democrat Party along the way. 

One of those norms that changed radically was the attitude towards the Jewish State. Instead of supporting a mindset that prioritized doing the right thing and supporting the “right” side in the conflict, Obama adopted the progressive line of supporting the weak against the powerful. It fit in with the world view that he espoused. If the Arabs were the weak side fighting the oppressed, then he would support the weak. It didn’t matter if the side he supported was bloodthirsty and genocidal in their attitude towards the Jewish people. 

The Clintons were different. In truth, Bill Clinton was also different than Hillary in the way he viewed Israel’s situation. But both Clintons never had any doubts about the fact that Israel was the good guy in a region that was surrounded with enemies that wanted to destroy her. Bill tried to broker a peace agreement and saw firsthand that no matter what was offered, the Arab side would simply not agree. Arafat basically played Clinton and Clinton never forgot it. He understood then that “peace” was not their goal. It was just a tactic in their longstanding attempt to destroy the State of Israel via the salami tactic. Clinton and Netanyahu may not have been in agreement on all matters, but they understood each other. Obama on the other hand had goals that were diametrically against the security and welfare of the State of Israel. It was inevitable that Netanyahu and Obama would clash. In the end, it’s clear that Netanyahu outchessed Obama by appeasing him during Obama’s first two years and then fighting back against him in the next six years when the Republican-led Congress had more power to push back on Obama. 

In the end, Israel must choose on it’s own what it’s policies will be in order to ensure it’s safety and well-being. Even if the Democrat Party does find a way to assume power again in 2028, it would be wise to listen to get advice from Bill Clinton and not from Obama concerning Israeli policy.  

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