1. From the department of absurd Irony, a man exposed himself in an Ottawa park
2. Another knife attack at a Chinese railway station.
(Think the Chinese will run a series of TV adds apologizing for a never-happening ‘backlash?)
Here is a Daily Mail link. Below, in the BBC clip on this incident, notice the contempt the BBC ‘expert’ has for the Chinese calling people who stab strangers with a knife in public transport stations, ‘terrorists’.
It makes one wonder what it would look like if the BBC were to remake Lord of the Rings.
4. Thailand: Two bombs in Hat Yai wound 8 people
Eight people, two policemen and six civilians, were injured by two bomb explosions in the heart of Hat Yai city of Songkhla province on Tuesday afternoon, police said.
Pol Col Passakorn Klanwan, the Hat Yai police chief, said the two bombs both went off about 2pm.
The first one exploded in front of a 7-Eleven convenience store on Polpichai road, injuring five civilians.
The second bomb exploded very shortly after on Phetkasem road in front of a police apartment building near the Hat Yai police station. Two policemen and one civilian were wounded.
5. Obama biographer: President Obama feels the world disappoints him.
(I suspect its time that Obama impeached the world and elected a new world.)
6. Intense fighting in the Central African Republic leaves militant gunmen dead
(French Vs. “unidentified” militants. Umm yeah)
4/ Two bombs? Make it four plus one. There is always room for more, isnt there…
Bomb blasts rock Hat Yai (thestar, May 6, 2014)
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/05/06/Bomb-blasts-rock-Hat-Yai/
“Four separate bomb blasts hit the Hat Yai district of Songkhla on Tuesday causing injuriy to five people. A fifth bomb found near the entrance to apartments inside Prince of Songkhla Hospital was safely diffused.
The first bombs separately went off at about 1.30pm in front of 7 Eleven convenient store on Ponpichai Road and near the police flats opposite Hat Yai police station. The blast at the police flats damaged many vehicles as it the bomb had been placed near the police station’s parking area.
Fire fighters rushed to the scene to control the flames caused by the explosions. Later reports said two more bomb blasts hit an area near Hat Yai railway station as well as close to Robinson department store.
A further bomb was found near the flats in Prince of Sonkhla Hospital but the bomb squad as able to diffuse it in time. – The Nation/ANN…”
Twelve Pakistani Taliban killed in factional in-fighting (thestar, May 6, 2014)
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/World/2014/05/07/Twelve-Pakistani-Taliban-killed-in-factional-infighting/
“Twelve militants were killed in fighting between factions of the Pakistani Taliban near the Afghan border on Tuesday, Taliban and security officials said, the first such clash since the two feuding groups agreed to abide by a ceasefire two weeks ago.
The government hopes to exploit the divisions within the Pakistani Taliban, a loose alliance of dozens of militant groups. It is separate to but allied with the Afghan Taliban, who have a far clearer command structure.
The two feuding Pakistani Taliban factions are led by rival commanders from the Mehsud tribe, who provide the bulk of the Pakistani Taliban’s men and money.
Commander Khan “Sajna” Said supports peace talks with the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, but his rival Shehryar Mehsud does not…”
Yemen says army captures al Qaeda stronghold (thestar, May 6, 2014)
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/World/2014/05/07/Yemen-army-enters-militant-stronghold-in-south–defence-ministry/
“Yemeni government forces captured al Qaeda’s main stronghold in the southern part of the country on Tuesday after insurgents blew up the local government compound there and fled, the Defence Ministry said.
The mountainous al-Mahfad area of Abyan province, along with Azzan in the adjacent province of Shabwa, has been the militants’ main stronghold in Yemen since 2012. In that year, the Yemeni army, with U.S. help, drove the fighters from towns they had seized during a chaotic national uprising in 2011…”
AFP- US offers expert team to help find Nigerian girls
VICE News – Anger Over Odessa Reaches Donetsk
MONTREAL – Muslim woman sues for damages after hateful messages over charter debate
A Muslim woman, who describes herself as a sociology student and staunch feminist, is suing two people and a website for $120,000 for what she alleges are defamatory things they wrote and said about her after she spoke out last fall against the charter on a popular Quebec talk show.
Dalila Awada claims Philippe Magnan, one of the defendants, posted videos and messages on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and his own blog about Awada after she appeared on Tout le monde en parle on Sept. 29, 2013.
In her lawsuit, filed in Quebec Superior Court last week, Awada claims the video accused her of infiltrating the Quebec Federation of Women to advocate in favour of the niqab.
The student at Université du Québec à Montréal claims the video says she associates with groups that she says she has no links to, such as the World Islamic League, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Canadian Islamic Congress.
After the video appeared online, Louise Mailloux, an anti-religion CEGEP professor sent out numerous emails containing erroneous information about Awada, the lawsuit claims.
It also claims that the website Vigile ( dot ) net published several pejorative articles about Awada that she says paints her as a manipulator working for Muslim fundamentalists.
By posting defamatory and erroneous information about her over a period of six months, the defendants tried to ruin Awada’s reputation and created hate toward her, the lawsuit claims.
From October 2013 on, she was bombarded with hateful messages from people convinced that she was a terrorist. Her student email inbox filled to capacity in one day and she lost many friends, the suit says.
As a result, Awada claims, she suffers from insomnia, heart palpitations and headaches. She feels constantly stressed, waiting for the next damaging article to surface. She became depressed and had to drop out of school last semester.
In her lawsuit, Awada says she will donate any money she receives from the case to the Fondation paroles de femmes, a non-profit organization that promotes and defends Quebec women who speak out publicly in support of interfaith and cross-cultural dialogue and against intimidation and harassment.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Muslim+woman+sues+damages+after+hateful+messages+over/9809131/story.html
REUTERS – Palestinian worshippers scuffle with police on Israel’s Independence day
Jerusalem may 5 2014 …. worshippers …
#5 LOL