1. PA state-sponsored hate speech must stop, human rights expert says
A week after the Israeli cabinet dedicated the bulk of its weekly meeting to Palestinian incitement, the Canadian parliamentarian regrets not having been more vociferous in highlighting what he believes to be widespread, state-sanctioned Palestinian incitement.
2. Jewish school teacher beaten in Ukraine
The CEO of the World Jewish Congress said on Wednesday that the beating of a Jewish man in Kiev, Ukraine, which local leaders believe was sparked by anti-Semitism, was a “vicious act that must not go unpunished.”
3. U.S. to Expand Rules Limiting Use of Profiling by Federal Agents
The Justice Department will significantly expand its definition of racial profiling to prohibit federal agents from considering religion, national origin, gender and sexual orientation in their investigations, a government official said Wednesday.
The move addresses a decade of criticism from civil rights groups that say federal authorities have in particular singled out Muslims in counterterrorism investigations and Latinos for immigration investigations.
(meanwhile Japanese courts actually make a rational decision and allow spying on the people actually likely to commit acts of political terror)
A religious teacher put his hand under a schoolgirl’s headscarf and touched her sexually as she prayed, a court heard.
Sajid Hussain, 26, and Shahid Sadik, 24, tricked Michael Irvine and his girlfriend Louise Cogle into travelling from their home in the Shetland Islands, thinking they would be buying a car in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
The couple had travelled by plane and train from their remote home to buy a white Audi Quattro they had seen advertised for sale for £5,995 on Auto Trader.
6. Graphic video: Suicide bomber roasting in the car he detonated in order to kill many in Lebanon. Notice the Al-Qaeda insignia inset in the video.
7. Best call to prayer video yet! Most rational as well.
8. Suspect In Koran Burning In Russia Sent To Pre-Trial Detention
A court in Moscow has sent a man suspected of burning the Koran to pre-trial detention until at least March 9.
Thank you LCC, M, Richard, UK Pete, and all who sent in material. Thank you for the tips guys.
3/ The contrast between folly and common sense couldn’t be starker.
OooouuRaaaaaa. Burn burn burn
1/ Good grief, a career built on teaching thought crime, criminalizing thought crime and defending the constitutionality of such misconceived law. And after 50 years of wrecking free speech in Canada he admits he’s a hypocrite. Does he hear himself even now?
‘Non-democracies where free speech is prohibited, such as Iran or the Palestinian Authority, have an even greater obligation to prevent hate speech than free societies such as the US where all speech is protected, Cotler said.’
I must be missing something, not having 50 years of professional engagement with the issue. If all speech is protected, then speech that someone happens to find hateful is protected, no? The hard lesson that ‘sticks and stones’ arose to teach is that the world is full of rotten people who get off on making other people feel bad, and every child needs to figure out ways to cope with that – ways that stop well short of growing up to write ‘anti-hate legislation’ in a Ministry of Justice.
@ #5.
We had a similar event in Denmark : http://tinyurl.com/n4ymk24
Has the dog “embraced” islam? If so it must be mentally challenged.
Dog knows better, just making fun of muezzin. Doesn’t bother to suck up to tards, they hate him, & the feeling is mutual.
Never underestimate the depths of stupidity the left will go to in their efforts to destroy the west, rulings like this are one of the reasons so many people are working hard to get a state called constitutional convention to pass the amendments that would allow the states to override rulings like this one.