1. Merkel Tells Germans Not to Attend Anti-Islam Rallies
Merkel condemned the organizers of the protests and said they were driven by prejudices and hatred against foreigners.
The chancellor used unusually direct words in her New Year’s speech on Wednesday for the rallies organized by a group calling itself Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West, or PEGIDA which have been attended by thousands.
When the protesters chant “we are the people,” they actually mean to say “you don’t belong ? because of your religion or your skin color,” Merkel said.
PEGIDA organizers insist they are protesting only against extremism and not against immigrants or Islam itself, but the demonstrations have received support from far-right groups, prompting concerns that anti-foreigner sentiment might be rising.
(Don’t you love it when someone tells you why you do a thing? Cause till then, you had no idea why you drove all that way and spent all that time walking in the cold and so on. Thank god for people like Merkel and Cameron and so on that explain to us why we do things and what we think etc. or we would never know!)
2. 15 killed in Boko Haram raid, Nigerian villagers say
Kano, Nigeria (CNN) — At least 15 people were killed and several homes burnt on Tuesday when Boko Haram gunmen raided a village in northern Nigeria near the town of Chibok, according to fleeing residents and a military officer.
Boko Haram rebels drew international condemnation when they kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from Chibok in April, many of whom they said they sold into slavery.
In the latest raid, scores of Boko Haram fighters armed with guns and petrol bombs stormed the remote farming village of Kautikari on motorcycles early Tuesday, shooting randomly and torching homes.
(Oh well I guess if its happening everywhere there is no need to do anything about it)
Children are being sexually abused in every town in the country, police and experts warned today.
Fleur Strong, director of Parents Against Child Sexual Exploitation (Pace), told MailOnline that people retreated to a ‘comfort zone’ of thinking grooming and abuse only happen ‘elsewhere’.
And Detective Superintendent Paul Sanford said CSE was taking place in ‘all communities’ across the country.
In the last year police have been inundated with reports of child sexual exploitation, including historic cases and allegations of grooming and trafficking across the country.
It follows high profile historical cases involving celebrities such as Jimmy Savile and revelations about sex gangs in Rotherham and Rochdale.
4. Man brutally murders 10-year-old daughter
Man admits to torturing and killing daughter for allegedly having sex
Sana’a: A Yemeni father callously tortured and killed his daughter, 10, for allegedly committing adultery in the northern Dhamar province, a local official who questioned the man told Gulf News on Tuesday.
On the weekend, Yemenis on social media widely circulated a photo of a tortured girl who was found dead by shepherds in a rugged area in the northern province of Ibb.
“We found a video clip in his mobile phone asking his daughter to confess to her mistake. The girl was bleeding and crying,” he said.
The official told Gulf News that the father used different methods of torture to force her into admitting having sex with another man, including putting an iron to her skin.
(Think the professional feminists will say anything about this? No? How come?)
The so-called Islamic State’s all-female police unit tortured a breastfeeding mother by clamping her chest with a barbaric spiked clamp, it is claimed.
The al-Khansa brigade, the female religious police in Raqqa, the insurgency’s de facto capital in Syria, is said to use the bear trap-like device to punish women who defy their strict laws.
Opposition media group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently claim that in one case it was used on a 24-year-old woman who was arrested while breastfeeding her baby in the city centre.
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Police force: Dozens of Britons are understood to have joined the Al-Khansa Brigade in ISIS’ Syrian de facto capital Raqqa, helping to patrol the city with guns and daggers hidden beneath their religious robes
The woman, given the name Batol to conceal her true identity, was quoted as saying: ‘I was in the market buying a few items when Khansa battalion came and arrested me on the grounds that the niqab [Islamic face covering] which I was wearing does not meet Sharia requirement because it was transparent[.]
Thank you Wrath of Khan, Buck, UK Pete, M., and all. More to come Im afraid.
