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  1. Mosaic tip: Southern Poverty Law Center
    A Civil-Rights Group That Once Took Klansmen and Neo-Nazis to Court Now Hounds Liberal Muslims for “Blasphemy”

    Founded in 1971 to combat white-supremacist groups, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) won a number of important legal battles against the Ku Klux Klan, various neo-Nazi groups, and other opponents of desegregation. Now it generates materials like its “field guide to anti-Muslim extremists”: a list of fifteen individuals that includes the historian Daniel Pipes, the apostate Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and the British Muslim critic of jihadism Maajid Nawaz. Among Nawaz’s crimes are having tweeted a cartoon portraying Jesus and Muhammad, “despite the fact that many Muslims see [such depictions] as blasphemous.” Nick Cohen comments on what he calls “the white left’s first fatwa”:

    Nawaz…and his Quilliam Foundation have struggled against both the white far right and the Islamist far right. They have defended liberal Muslims and, indeed, all of us from lethal blasphemy taboos and the threat of terrorism. They respect freedom of speech, including the freedom of their enemies to speak…. They think they should try to stop young Muslims joining Islamic State, not just for the sake of the Yazidis they will take into sex slavery, or the civilians they will tyrannize and kill, but for the sake of the young Muslims themselves.

    A significant faction on the left hates them for upholding the values they have forgotten, and will use any smear to denigrate them…

    In the liberal orientalist world view the only “authentic” Muslim is a barbarian. A battery of insults fires on any Muslim who says otherwise. They are “neoconservatives,” “native informants,” and “Zionists”; they are as extreme as the jihadists they oppose or, let’s face it, worse. In short, a section of the Western left has adopted the ideology of the Salafists, Khomeinists, and Islamists.
    […]
    Of course they could not leave alone Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who became an atheist and denounced the faith of her childhood, and is hated by a section of the white left for doing what they do all the time. That Hirsi Ali needs bodyguards to protect her from Islamist assassins in no way restrained our Alabama witch finders.

    http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/10/white-left-issued-first-fatwa/

  2. Recycling Religiously?
    In a case awaiting review by the Supreme Court, the Pacific Legal Foundation has filed a friend-of-the-court brief making an argument for one of the nation’s fundamental principles—the equal protection of the law.

    The case is Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Sara Parker Pauley. The church is located in Columbia, Mo., and Ms. Pauley is director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
    […]
    The church is making three claims: one under the First Amendment’s establishment clause, a second under its free-exercise clause, and a third under the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal-protection clause. It is the equal-protection argument that is most interesting. . . . [In an amicus brief], the Pacific Legal Foundation . . . argues that, while equal-protection cases “most commonly address discrimination on the basis of race,” the Supreme Court’s equal-protection decisions “reflect the view that differential treatment on the basis of religion is just as intolerable.” . . .

    The foundation says that Missouri violated the U.S. Constitution by excluding [the church playground] from its Scrap Tire Program on the basis of religion. Treating people differently on the basis of race is subject to “strict scrutiny,” the Supreme Court’s “most stringent standard of review.” The Pacific Legal Foundation argues that “strict scrutiny is just as appropriate” when classifications based on religion are under review. . . .

    By taking seriously unequal treatment on the basis of religion, the Pacific Legal Foundation has offered an understanding of equal protection and what it entails that is worthy of the Court’s attention.

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/recycling-religiously/article/2005222

    • “The department based its denial of the church’s application on a provision in the state constitution providing that “no money shall ever be taken from the public treasury, directly or indirectly, in aid of any church, sect or denomination of religion.””

      This is absolutely correct. Those children will be indoctrinated to love and hate a Jesus-God and Satan-God respectively to them be at the mercy of Socialism and Islamic kingdoms.

      We don’t pay to harm infants.

    • This is interesting i will have to remember to keep looking to see what is happening on this case.

  3. Telefilm Canada announces, in partnership with the industry, gender parity measures for feature film production financing
    Montreal, November 11, 2016—Following its announcement of September 8, 2016—to build, by 2020, a representative and diversified feature film portfolio that better reflects Canada’s population—Telefilm Canada, as a first step, is pleased to reveal its gender parity measures for feature film production financing, developed in collaboration with the industry. Telefilm aims by 2020 to achieve a balanced production portfolio (at all budget levels) that reflects gender parity in each of the key roles of: director, writer and producer.

    “We’re extremely proud that, together with the industry, we’re moving to quickly and concretely foster gender parity in Canadian cinema,” said Carolle Brabant, Telefilm Canada’s Executive Director. “Our goal is to level the playing field for Canadian female talent, and we encourage creators to submit projects directed and/or written by women. This can only benefit the industry as whole; increased competition can lead to better quality projects that connect with audiences whose tastes and interests are changing along with the cultural landscape.”

    Brabant added: “I want to make it clear that this is just a first step. We will now take the same measured, consultative approach to ensuring our feature film portfolio also better reflects cultural diversity and Indigenous communities. We have already begun work with Indigenous creators, and are taking steps to address the challenges faced by creators from culturally diverse communities. Sustainable long-term solutions are key, not interim initiatives.”
    Telefilm’s five-pronged action plan to achieve gender parity is as follows:

    Encouraging a diversity of projects: Telefilm will encourage producers to submit projects that reflect the diversity of Canada’s population.
    Evaluation of projects: Telefilm will now, for projects of equal quality, favour projects that have a woman as director and/or a woman as writer (as per guidelines). Based on industry recommendations that these two roles require immediate critical attention, gender parity amongst directors and screenwriters was identified as a priority. In September 2017, once Telefilm reviews its survey data (see below), the challenges of women producers will be addressed.
    Transparency and reporting: Telefilm will continue to respect government privacy laws. However, in order to regularly report back to the industry, other means of data reporting have been created. Industry representatives have agreed to encourage their members to provide information, via a voluntary questionnaire at the application stage, which will identify key creative members of the team (director, writer, producer). This questionnaire will also address questions regarding cultural diversity amongst key creatives, and if members are from Indigenous communities. Based on the collected information, we will re-evaluate each year what our priorities should be in order to reach our global diversity objective.
    Continued targeted promotion of female talent to raise their professional profile and market appeal (ex. St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival, Birks Diamond TributeHot Docs’ Don Haig Award Pay It Forward Prize). Telefilm will continue to promote all talent in its general promotional activities.
    Continued support of the conversation on gender parity via research and professional development initiatives (ex. Women in the Director’s Chair, Women in Film & Television, Women in View—2 x More, CMPA study Women & Leadership: A study of global policies and programs to advance gender parity in the screen-based industries)

    https://telefilm.ca/en/news-releases/telefilm-canada-announces-partnership-industry-gender-parity-measures-feature-film-production-financing

  4. More Islamofauxia:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/10/women-in-hijabs-on-2-campuses-say-they-were-attacked-by-men-invoking-donald-trump/

    A student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette fabricated a story that she was attacked and had her hijab rippped off, police said Thursday.

    The attack was one of several reported in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory.

    In a press release Thursday afternoon, the Lafayette Police Department said that during the course of their investigation into the woman’s complaint, she “admitted that she fabricated the story about her physical attack as well as the removal of her hijab and wallet by two white males.

  5. Far-right nationalists congregate on Polish Independence day
    WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Tens of thousands of far-right nationalists, burning flares and carrying Polish flags, marched peacefully through the streets of Warsaw on Friday to mark Poland’s Independence Day.

    In a yearly ritual that has become one of the largest far-right gatherings in Europe, they marched under the slogan “Poland the Bastion of Europe.”

    The nationalists are strongly opposed to accepting refugees from the Middle East. Some of them carried banners depicting a falanga, which is a far-right symbol dating to the 1930s of a stylized hand with a sword.

    The Interior Ministry estimated that 75,000 people joined the march, while Warsaw town hall estimated the number at 60,000. It proceeded peacefully, in contrast to violence of several marches in the past.

    One huge banner read “God, Honor, Fatherland,” a patriotic slogan. Others read: “Death to the enemies of the fatherland” and “To be a Pole, to be a Catholic is a privilege and honor.”

    Some participants burned a Ukrainian flag at the march, which comes amid increased strains between Poland and Ukraine because of renewed discussions of a wartime massacre of Poles by Ukrainians.

    The main organizers were the National Radical Camp and the All-Polish Youth, groups which take their names from radical nationalistic groups of the 1930s that pushed a virulently anti-Semitic ideology.

    “This movement promotes the exclusion of all minorities and of everyone who isn’t Polish enough,” said Rafal Pankowski, the head of Never Again, an organization that monitors and fights racism and extremism. “This year and last year, the anti-Muslim message has been emphasized and it is an extreme and violent message.”

    Pankowski said skinheads and other extremists held their first, small march on Independence Day in 2009 and that the yearly event has grown in number each year. It now draws extremists from Hungary, Germany, Sweden and the U.K., becoming what Pankowski believes is the largest such far-right gathering in Europe.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3927320/Poles-mark-Independence-Day-marches-opening-church.html

    That’s how media is lying. That polish people who marched in Polish Independence Day were not far-right nationalists, they were patriots. It seems that the media can not understand the difference between patriots and far-rightists.

    • This is part of the march, about 1 hour of it, but you can see how peaceful it is. And the funny thing is that all these people with children, youth and old people are, according to the media, far-rightists. They think that if someone believe in God and is patriotic then one must be “far-right” .

  6. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3927716/Female-anti-bullying-ambassador-23-arrested-Trump-Tower-protest-pushing-man-74-ground-fight-new-President-elect.html

    Female anti-bullying ambassador, 23, arrested at Trump Tower protest for pushing man, 74, to the ground in fight over the new President-elect
    Shacara McLaurin, 23, was arrested at Trump Tower on Thursday night
    She pushed a 74-year-old man to the ground during protests over election
    The pair began fighting while she protested against Trump’s election win
    Her lawyer claims the man spouted racial slurs including the N-word
    She says her client pushed him when he refused to leave her alone
    Because the man is over 65, McLaurin was arrested for felony assault
    She was released from court on Friday with no bail and must return in January

  7. Turkey arrests head of opposition newspaper: Report (ahram, Nov 11, 2016)
    http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/248803/World/Region/Turkey-arrests-head-of-opposition-newspaper-Report.aspx

    “Turkey detained on Friday the head of the board of opposition daily Cumhuriyet, which saw nine of its staff arrested last week, the newspaper said.

    Akin Atalay was taken into custody at Istanbul’s airport after arriving from Germany, said Cumhuriyet, which has in recent years taken a strong line against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP).

    He was targeted by a warrant that was part of a probe into “terrorist activities”, and was ushered into a police vehicle that was waiting for him on the tarmac.

    Nine of the paper’s staff, including its current editor-in-chief, were remanded in custody at the weekend pending trial after raids that have added to growing international alarm about media freedoms in Turkey.

    The exiled former editor-in-chief, Can Dundar, fled to Germany earlier this year while appealing against a near six-year jail term for revealing state secrets.

    Some 35,000 people have been arrested and tens of thousands more have lost their jobs — including military officers, judges, teachers, civil servants and journalists — in a sweeping crackdown in the wake of the failed July bid to oust Erdogan.”

  8. Belarus: Erdogan and Lukashenko inaugurate new Cathedral Mosque in Minsk </strong<

    Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and his Turkish counterpart Alexander Lukashenko attended the opening ceremony of the Cathedral Mosque in Minsk, Friday.

    Lukashenko stressed that the mosque “will become an important spiritual centre, a source of enlightenment and distribution of humanistic ideas and true Islam purposes for all the Muslims of Belarus and Belarusian people.”

    The Turkish president’s wife Emine Erdogan, the Mayor of Minsk Andrei Shorets, and Belarusian Culture Minister Boris Svetlov were also present at the ceremony.


  9. Crackdown on Illegal Migrants Cancelled After Complaints People Felt ‘Uneasy’ (breitbart, Nov 11, 2016)
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/11/11/crackdown-migrants-cancelled-complaints/

    “A promised crackdown in Sweden on illegal migrants has stalled, as police have agreed to stop asking landlords and communities to help track illegals in hiding following complaints that border control emails made people feel “uneasy”.

    A police spokesman admitted the U-turn, after several municipal housing facilities in Blekinge received emails asking for help in detecting migrants who are staying in Sweden illegally, reports Göteborgs-Posten.

    Ewa-Gun Westford told reporters: “We take very seriously [the fact] that people felt very uneasy due to the email. Therefore, we will not do it here.”

    “The people we seek are often hiding with relatives/acquaintances”, police wrote in the offending email. Landlords were also asked to share information on properties at which they suspect there may be extra people residing.

    Attempts at border control through the years have been hampered by Sweden’s staunchly-enforced culture of political correctness. The previous, nominally centre-right government, fired Immigration Minister Tobias Billström after he said the vast majority of people hiding illegal migrants are not “nice, blonde, Swedish lad[ies]” but “fellow countrymen who are not blond and blue-eyed”.

    Billström’s words were deemed “worrying”, by Green Party migration spokesman, Maria Ferm, who said: “I am alarmed every time anyone makes a distinction between man and man.”

    Sweden’s Red-Green government is under pressure after the country of under 10 million people received more than 160,000 asylum applications last year. According to their estimations, around half of the people who applied lack any real grounds for asylum and therefore are eligible to be deported.

    The government is aware of the fact that many of the people whose asylum is rejected refuse to respect the state’s decision and instead go underground and fears that tens of thousands of those refused asylum last year will act in the same way, Avpixlat reported…”

  10. Woman fined 30,000 euros for niqab in town hall (ansa, Nov 11, 2016)
    http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2016/11/11/woman-fined-30000-euros-for-niqab-in-town-hall-2_915a4324-995a-456b-a099-480ef617ba33.html

    “(ANSA) – Pordenone, November 11 – A judge in the northern city of Pordenone on Friday handed a four-month prison sentence to a woman who failed to meet a demand to show her face and identify herself while wearing a niqab in a public building in a nearby town. The judge converted the punishment into a 30,000-euro fine. The incident happened three weeks ago when the 40-year-old woman of Albanian origin entered the town hall of San Vito al Tagliamento, where a council meeting for young people was taking place, wearing a niqab, which covers all the face except for the eyes.
    Mayor Antonio Di Bisceglie, a member of Premier Matteo Renzi’s centre-left Democratic Party (PD), repeatedly asked the woman to remote the traditional Muslim headgear, but she refused.
    The woman, who has lived in San Vito al Tagliamento since 2000 and recently acquired Italian citizenship, was removed from the council assembly by local police, who then identified her.
    The woman was found guilty of violating Law 152 of 1975 that regulates people’s conduct in public places and features an obligation for it to be possible to recognise someone’s face for security reasons.”

  11. Pressure growing in EU to halt Turkish membership talks but no decision yet (ahram, Nov 11, 2016)
    http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/248818/World/Region/Pressure-growing-in-EU-to-halt-Turkish-membership-.aspx

    “European Union foreign ministers will on Monday consider shelving membership talks with Turkey over what they see as its disturbing lurch away from democracy after a botched coup there, though there is no consensus for such a tough step yet.

    Despite EU alarm at the scale of Ankara’s post-coup security crackdown, EU diplomats say they must keep talking to President Tayyip Erdogan to retain his crucial help in curbing migration to Europe and fighting Islamist militants in the Middle East.

    But the fact that Austria, Luxembourg and some European lawmakers now openly call for suspending the Turkey talks marks a sea change in tone just eight months after the bloc promised Ankara the process would be sped up in exchange for its collaboration in reducing migration from its territory.

    “Suspending membership talks with Turkey is not formally on the agenda but we expect some ministers to bring this up,” one EU official said of the 28 foreign ministers’ meeting scheduled in Brussels on Monday.

    “It is true some deeply troubling things are happening in Turkey. But you have to ask yourself the question what exactly would we achieve by suspending the process now? How would that help? We need to keep communication channels open.”

    An EU report this week accused Turkey of backsliding on its road to membership since the July coup attempt, since which Ankara has suspended, dismissed or arrested over 110,000 people including soldiers, judges, teachers, journalists and Kurdish leaders over alleged support of the putsch.

    The EU’s top enlargement official said Turkey’s EU candidacy was now hanging in the balance.

    “This is something that could happen,” one diplomat in Brussels said. “But not just yet, definitely not until EU leaders meet in December.”

    Berlin, as well as several other EU capitals, have so far poured cold water on talk of aborting Turkey membership talks…”

  12. Trump Sticks to his Plan to Register American Muslims in Database (moroccoworldnews, Nov 11, 2016)
    https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2016/11/201186/trump-sticks-plan-register-american-muslims-database/

    “The United States’ president elect, Donald Trump, confirmed that the Muslim community in the US would be registered in database.

    During his presidential campaign the real estate mogul created controversy when he said that as president he would force all Muslims of the United States to register to a database. This move, he explained, had the aim of reducing the threat of terrorism in the country.

    Trump was asked again, as a president elect, about whether or not he will carry out his promise in this regard and force all Muslims to register. Trump replied to NBC news reporter, “they have to be.”

    The reporter asked Trump about the way this database would be different from the database the Germans forced the Jews to register in during Hitler’s reign. Trump said as he signed the autographs, “You tell me.”

    The president elect was also asked about the places where the Muslim Americans will sign up and how this registration system would be conducted. Trump answered vaguely: “Different places. You sign up at different places. But it’s all about management. Our country has no management.’’

    During the electoral campaign, observers slammed trump over his bigotry against Muslims specifically, but stated that these promises would not see the light as they were made to attract white nationalist voters.

    On December 7, 2015 Trump made another controversial statement where he called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” This statement mysteriously disappeared from his official website in the day of the elections but reemerged after the election results were announced.”

    • This is the first I have heard about a database. He wants to stop people from terror regions coming in until we can figure out how to vet them. He also said that the families of home grown terrorists have to know what is being planned and wants to prosecute them.

    • ridiculous. Federal law prohibits asking and storing information about religion, specifically wrt census data. The only way that non-Muslim middle-easterners were able to have a category was that they asked that the long version of the census include the ethnicity of Assyrian.

  13. Muslim Brotherhood: Trump victory a ‘disaster’

    Any disaster for the Muslim Brotherhood can only be an unqualified Triumph (contains the word “Trump”).

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