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The Glazov Gang-Stephen Coughlin on “Muslim Brotherhood: Above the Law in America.”
November 11, 2015 — xanthippaProtest against the lashing of Raif Badawi, 2nd of November, 2015, 11 am in front of the Saudi Embassy, Ottawa
November 1, 2015 — xanthippaWho is Raif Badawi?
Raif Badawi, who blogged at ‘Free Saudi Liberals’ first rose to international prominence in June 2012 when he was arrested in his native Saudi Arabia under Cyber crime laws,for insulting Islam through electronic channels. Later that year, apostasy was added to the charges against him. If convicted, he could have faced the death penalty.
Following years of legal battles and international pressure, the final sentence Raif Badawi received is 10 years in jail, 1,000 lashes and a fine equivalent t $267,000. His lawyer, Waleed Abdulkhair was sentenced to 15 years in jail for ‘undermining the authorities’…
After 50 of these lashed had been administered early in 2015 in front of a Jeddah mosque and hundreds of spectators, many people from all over the world had stepped up and offered to suffer a portion of Badawi’s lashes on his behalf. Instead, the Saudi government announced that the rest of the lashing shall be postponed due to Badawi’s poor health condition.
Last week, Raif Badawi made news again for having been awarded the prestigious EU Sakharov prize for human rights – the latest one of the many international prizes for writing, human rights and bravery that he has already been honoured with.
Raif Badawi’s wife, Ensaf Haidar, who lives with their three daughters in Canada since having received political asylum here in 2013, had been notified that the lashing will resume.
Which brings us to the protest:
Date: Monday, November 2nd 2015
Time: 11:00 am to 12:00 noon
Place: Saudi Arabian Embassy, 201 Sussex St., Ottawa
It is unthinkable that in today’s modern world, a young man should be beaten to death by his government simply for speaking as a sovereign human being.
Let’s all come out and show our support for Raif Badawi and to protest the barbarity that is Sharia!!!
Offensive and Defensive Lawfare: Fighting Civilization Jihad in America’s Courts
October 28, 2015 — xanthippaMore interesting news coming out of Europe
October 24, 2015 — xanthippaHere is a clip from Czech Independent TV that I translated:
H/T – Baron Bodissey and Vlad Tepes.
Here is another, VERY important news item from CNtv (which I had translated – so blame all errors on me, please!)
It describes the plight of a Czech PM, member of a minority party ‘Usvit’ – member of the anti-Islamisation coalition – after he spoke at a PEGIDA ralley in Dresden.
HERE IS THE VIDEO (sorry, cannot seem to embed).
Following his speech, as he was heading to his bus, the Czech MP was assaulted by some sort of spray that had blinded him. As he was blinded, he had bent over – just as he had been struck by a paving stone hurled from a bridge above… Had he not been doubled-over in agony over his loss of sight, the paving stone would have struck him in the head (instead of his back) and caused a very serious, potentially life-threatening injury…
What kind of a world are we living in if people – even elected officials – are threatened with death should they speak to the people?!?!?
I want to get off this planet…but how?
Thunderf00t unplugged: Feminists celebrate getting me ‘fired’
October 14, 2015 — xanthippaThunderf00t is a brilliant combination of scientist who debunks un-reason and defends free speech, regardless of where it comes from. And for this, he has had to face a lot of troubles:
Thunderf00t on feminists who want free speech for themselves – and nobody else
October 7, 2015 — xanthippaA bright young Czech’s perspective on the ‘migrant crisis’ – Part 1: the background
September 24, 2015 — xanthippaI have asked a young, bright Czech – living in the Czech Republic – to give me some insight on the ‘migrant crisis’ – from his individual point of view.
He agreed – but said it will take more than one post….because the whole ‘thing’ is so complex and complicated.
Here is Part 1 of his response, laying out the background to the story itself. Frankly, I think it is vitally important!
Please, do read for yourselves:
Many of you know about migration crisis in Europe. It is the most discussed topic in whole Europe right now.
There are many oppinions, TV debates, blogs, newspaper articles…
But, from my point of view, we have to look further back to the past than few months.
First, let me introduce myself. I am fresh graduate of Czech Technical University – Faculty of Electrical Engineering and I live in a city near Prague.
My first thoughts will lead us to the media.
Most newspapers, and their related internet versions, are owned by few Czech billionaires.
There are lots of TV stations, but only one of them is owned by Czech state. It is called “Czech Television” (CT). A few years back I would have said “It is the only independent media in Czech republic”.
But, times are changing and now I say “I do not believe any news containing important topics in CT”.
Our media are full of “political correctness” and “multiculturalism”.
But this situation is all around the world. It has spread like a cancer!
All media are following those lines.
Do you have different opinion? “Oh, sorry. We think you have a problem. You are not enough politically correct/multicultural (we call it that you are not “truth and love” enough – the motto of first Czech president, Vaclav Havel, was “Truth and love will defeat hate and lies”).”
I am sick of those practices, but what can I do against them?
Absolutely nothing!
If you say something that goes against the line set by official media, you will get tagged with the sign “extremist” or “pro-Russian fundamentalist”.
One example for all is our president Milos Zeman.
He is the first president elected by the people, not the parliament.
After his election, opinions were voiced that a president should not be elected by people (clearly, somebody thinks, that the Czech citizen is stupid and not capable to choose one’s own president – democracy in its purest way) and put this duty back to Parliament.
Milos Zeman has a different opinion on almost everything that the representatives of European Union say (e. g. Angela Merkel). When he presents his oppinions to public, he is always called “pro-russian”, “xenophobe” etc.
The worst part is when media say that he acts against the “interests of our nation”, but his actions are absolutely logical!
I cannot say that our president is 100 % allright and everything he does is good, but our media are throwing dirt at him way too much. He is just not that “multicultural and politically correct”. He has his own oppinion and that is his “worst crime”.
My summary is that if media can blame democratically elected president for being a “traitor”, there is something wrong.
How could you believe your media’s ‘news-reports’ about the global situation, if they are trying to throw dirt at the President, just because he has different opinion then the rest of the EU?
Especially if it is the only “independent” TV in your country. I will tell you, there might be something wrong.
“Aren´t we talking about freedom of speech here?”
Hell yeah!
Freedom of speech started to disappear in our country around the year 2003.
First, there was a great attenuation of provocative humour.
You cannot see those innuendos from 90´ s now!
And if you do something like that, you would be definitely sent to prison for “racism” or “xenophobia”.
Maybe prison is way too comfortable. You get qa warm meal three, times a day, you do not have to work and you can watch TV all day.
Better way is to push you down. You will lose your job and no one will hire you.
Then you know what comes next…
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