The state of things in significant parts of the West: Links 2, July 22, 2019

1. UK’s political options look bad at the moment

2. India: Police arrest 16 Muslims, foil jihad attacks and plot to “establish Islamic rule in India”

Police in India have foiled a plot to “establish Islamic rule” in India. 16 suspects were arrested and taken into custody; they were plotting a jihad attack in the country. They were reported to adhere to the “ideologies of Al Qaeda, Islamic State and Students Islamic Movement of India.”

In a statement by the National Investigation Agency:

Accused persons have been actively recruiting individuals to strike terror in India and have also been routinely posting videos and other jihadi propaganda material exhorting their supporters to conduct terrorist attacks using various methods including the use of explosives, poison, knives and vehicles, as means of attack.

There is a problem with Islam worldwide; “terror” is being struck into the hearts of disbelievers (Qur’an 8:60) — either the terror of jihad violence and attacks or the terror of being afraid to speak truth about the atrocities that are being committed in the name of Islam and being branded “Islamophobic.”

3. Very interesting analysis on Biden’s anti-gun nonsense. One thing he forgot though. The reason you do not want ‘smart guns’ is because the 2nd amendment was designed to protect freedoms from government, who inevitably will try and take them.

4. When Virtue-signalling Goes Wrong: May Turned Down Trump Offer to Protect UK Ships to Please EU

The United States reportedly offered to organise a joint naval security operation to protect British shipping in the Persian Gulf, but Theresa May turned it down because she “didn’t want to upset the Iranians” or the EU.

Despite clear indications that the Iranian regime intended to target British shipping in the region in retaliation for Gibraltar’s detention of an Iranian tanker accused of transporting crude oil to Syria in defiance of international sanctions, Mrs May is said to have declined “repeated overtures” to establish a British-American security operation, because “it would look like the UK backed Washington’s wider hardline stance on Iran”.

 

While the Trump administration has pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal and imposed sanctions on the theocratic regime, the United Kingdom has followed along with the EU in trying to keep it on life support — despite the Iranians’ more or less naked belligerence towards them.

5. Former judge Tracie Hunter dragged from courtroom, ordered to serve six-month sentence

CINCINNATI — Authorities held a woman back and the crowd screamed as a deputy removed ex-judge Tracie Hunter from the courtroom Monday morning after she was ordered to begin a six-month sentence.

Judge Patrick Dinkelacker executed the sentence despite push back from Hunter’s supporters and a letter from the mayor.

 

Hunter was convicted of mishandling a confidential document in 2014. She has been free since then because she has been appealing.

After Dinkelacker ordered authorities to take her to jail, Hunter appeared to go limp as she stood from her seat, and a deputy dragged her out of the courtroom.

 

“She passed out,” someone yelled, but Hunter appeared to be conscious. She looked around and flicked her fingers as the deputy dragged her from the courtroom.

“This city is going to burn,” someone shouted.

(Video at site)

6. This article makes the case that allowing John Yaniv to force women to wax his genitals is legally mandating sexual assault. I have a hard time thinking how its wrong.

This week, the Canadian press erupted with a storm of stories about Jessica Yaniv. A transgender woman, Yaniv is suing fifteen female aestheticians – waxing services operators – for their refusal to wax her male genitalia.

Their refusal to give Yaniv a Brazilian bikini wax was enough for her to accuse them of “transphobia,” and file complaints against the lot of them at the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal.

 

Should the tribunal side with Yaniv, it will be, arguably, the first case of state-enforced sexual assault.

Empowered by the government of Canada, the tribunal is reviewing a number of cases against the female-only aestheticians and forcing some of them out of business; and second for issuing a publication ban that prevented much of the Canadian press from reporting on the story in earnest.

 

Public personalities, including journalist Meghan Murphy and free speech advocate Lindsay Shephard, risked violating Canada’s censorship laws by speaking publicly about the case. And until the publication ban was listed, the media could only refer to the case offering only the scantest of details. Only citizen journalists at The Post Millennial were able to bring to light details of the case prior to the lifting of the ban. It’s now being discussed in the National Post and theToronto Sun.

 

Lindsay Shepherd has been banned on Twitter for “abusing” Yaniv, who often attempts to silence those who disagree with her by taking full advantage of Twitter’s lopsided moderation policies.

(The details on this are horrifying. John’s nonsense about Lindsay was the most grotesque kind of vulgarity and also composed of mostly pure invention. While Lindsay responded by pointing out those inventions and was banned for it. Twitter, is what you are thinking it is. “Freedom means being able to say 2+2=4” -Winston Smith, in the book, 1984. On Twitter there is little freedom.)

7. Another “Go back to where you came from if its better” story

Here is my story of being told to go back where I came from by a restaurant waiter

If you stand with me, Comment or RT using hashtag
? #IStandWithTerrenceKWilliams pic.twitter.com/lOhqoszKo3

— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) July 22, 2019

8. Maxime Bernier in London On.

9. Nice bust of organized premeditated media bias:

Nice bust of CBS bias! pic.twitter.com/eDCMHiXQl2

— Vlad Tepesblog (@Vladtepesblog) July 22, 2019

Thank you Richard, M., SB., EB Wrath of Khan, Sassy, and everyone who contributed to the site today.

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