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Saudi Arabia set to execute political prisoner by crucifiction
September 17, 2015 — xanthippa‘A prisoner in Saudi Arabia, who was sentenced to death as a child, faces “death by crucifixion” after a final appeal has been dismissed. Ali Mohammed al-Nimr was arrested on 14 February 2012 when he was just 17, during a crackdown on anti-government protests in the Shiite province of Qatif. He was accused by the authorities of participation in illegal protests and of firearms offences, despite there being no evidence to justify the latter charge.’
I’m just hoping this is an Onion-esque type of a hoax.
Oh, and here is the picture that was published with the article:
A question – please answer, if you can!
September 15, 2015 — xanthippaYes, I usually post my never-humble-opinions.
But this time, I know I would be out of my depth had I offered one….
Still, the question itself has kept me up on more than one night.
Granted, my early schooling came behind the Iron Curtain – so, perhaps the very premises of my question are flawed. Yet, I have read enough (among the little bits of ‘H’istory that I have indulged myself in) here, in The West, that suggests to me that this question may, indeed, be more valid today than it has been in, well, almost a century.
Therefore, my dear reader, I beg you to indulge me in asking my question and, if you can, in enlightening me with the answer.
Thank you!
Now, for my long-winded question:
Before World War 1, the movement of peoples between nations was not regulated.
At least, it was not regulated in the manner in which it became regulated later on in the 20th century.
Yes, of course, there were border controls: but these were meant mostly for economic purposes (import/export taxes) and to apprehend criminals.
After all, it was not so long ago that mainland Europe was still using the Feudal System of governance, where the freedom of movement of country folk was under complete control of their landlords.
And the aristocracy was not limited by borders: crossing them freely and unencumbered to pursue political marriages. The land they held was their only anchor to the kingdom in which they held it.
The craftsmen were also not anchored in place by ‘kingdom-governance’ (I cannot think of a proper term for this), but by the self-regulated guilds of their region, under which they were permitted to practice their craft: guilds were built upon the apprentice-based artificially created scarcity of their products within various regions, calculated to ensure higher-than-market value of their work and thus inflating guild-members standard of living and social standing.
Similarly, scholars and artists moved freely between kingdoms, based on where they could find private patrons willing to fund them and their works. (Note: painters may be regarded as ‘artists’ today, but, prior to accessible photography, they were considered craftsmen and thus subject to the guild system.) For example, consider the alchemical court of Rudolph the Second.
After centuries of feudalism, it took a bit from when the shackles were shattered to when people gathered the courage to reach for freedom and travel to far-away lands – not just to learn, or as a right of passage, but to settle for good.
At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, the human migrations truly became unfettered and populations began to migrate.
From my own cultural background – this is where the huge exodus of Czechs into Texas began: so great was this migration that it was not until the 1970’s that Spanish overtook Czech as the second language of Texas. The University of Austin still has the largest Czech Studies department outside of the Czech Republic… And don’t even get me started on ‘Miss Czech Texas’..
Yes, I realize that I am providing just one example here, but, I am no historian: which is why I hope to get responses which will enlighten me.
Now that I have set the stage…
It has been suggested that one of the most important ‘behind-the-scenes’ reasons for the First World War was the absence of proper regulation on
the migration of populations across political borders.
Yes, of course – there were the ‘obvious’ reasons: but I have heard the claim that these ‘obvious’ reasons were, in fact, brought about because of the cultural instability and tensions brought about by, in practical terms, unregulated migration of populations across culturo-political borders.
It would be difficult to argue that what we are seeing now, in the EU in particular and in all of Europe in general is exactly the same type of unregulated migration of populations across cutluro-political borders!
But, it is even more pointed now than what it had been prior to WW1: at least back then, the migrations did not tend to cross religio-cultural borders – something that is most definitely happening now. The new migrants flooding Europe, without any true governance, are not just politically and culturally different, they are also religiously different: subscribing to an intolerant, supremacist religion that permits exploitation and violence against non-members of said religion and refuses to recognize any culture other than its own…
Finally, the question:
Are the current, practically unregulated migration conditions into Europe as dangerous, if not more, than the ones that sparked World War 1?
Interview from Free Speech Wall event on Parliament Hill, Sept 13th, 2015
September 14, 2015 — xanthippa
Video courtesy of Victor Laszlo.
Stephen Coughlin on “At War With Narratives Rather Than Terrorists.”
September 14, 2015 — xanthippa
Major Stephen Coughlin will be in Montreal on Wednesday, the 16th of September, Ruby Foo’s Hotel, 7655 Decarie Blvd. .
And, he will be right here in Ottawa on Thursday, 17th of September, at the Lord Elgin Hotel, 100 Elgin Street, at 7pm.
Both events are brought to you by Act!ForCanada.
Stephen Coughlin in Ottawa Thursday, September 17th
September 9, 2015 — xanthippaActForCanada is bringing
Major Stephen Coughlin
Thursday, September 17th
Ottawa, Ontario
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Lord Elgin Hotel
Address: 100 Elgin Street
Ticket Price: $15.00 (students free)
Stephen’s new book,
CATASTROPHIC FAILURE
Blinding America in the face of Jihad
will be available for sale.
The price is $30 Canadian.
Payment by cheque or cash.
For further information, please email info@actforcanada.ca
Photos of dead toddler, Aylan Kurdi, were staged (updated with retraction)
September 8, 2015 — xanthippaUPDATE: The AG News report I had relied on for the report of the staging of little Aylan’s body has now retracted the story. It is most important to keep the truth up front – I’d rather learn the truth before winning an argument any time. The rest of my rant seems, at least for now, to be factually correct.
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By now, everyone in the world (with internet access or not) has seen the heart-tugging pictures of poor little Aylan Kurdi’s drowned body on the sandy beach, demonstrating the human tragedy that results from this mass migration into Europe.
And a human tragedy it is.
But, as so often happens with emotionally charged stories, the first victim becomes the truth: especially if the narrative can manipulate the audience into somehow feeling good about themselves.
How can a child’s tragic death be used to make millions of Westerners feel good about themselves?
I will get to it.
First, please indulge me in reporting some of the truths of this incident.
The little boy’s name is not, in fact, Aylan Kurdi. His name is Aylan Shenu. ‘Kurdi’ is a reference to the fact that he is of Kurdish background and would perhaps be best translated as ‘Aylan, the Kurd’.
But, since the ‘Kurdish cause’ is currently in vogue in The West, the ‘Kurdi’ nomiker evokes the proper emotions in the Western audience and therefore, even in death, the little boy is stripped of his individuality, his own identity, in favour of playing up group politics.
Please, do not mistake my identification of the Kurdish cause as being in vogue in The West as any comment as to its rightness or wrongness: not in the least. In this particular article, I refuse to examine the source of the conflict and my opinions about it because this post is not about that!
It is about how a young child death was unnecessary, preventable and senseless – and how even in death he is stripped of his dignity by being used as a theatrical prop on the world stage!!!
Ok, now that we have his correct name, let’s stick to it: Aylan Shenu.
Wikipedia claims his first name is ‘Alan’, not ‘Aylan’, but they also claim his last name is ‘Kurdi’ and a lot of other factual errors can be found in their article, so I’m just noting this for completeness, not because I’m buying their version.
The next lie is that the family had tried to come to Canada and been turned down – and that is why they had to resort to this desperate boat ride. The family had never applied for entry to Canada.
As per the family itself – not just some lame bureaucrat’s claim.
But the family was fleeing war, right?
Wrong! The family had received free housing in Turkey of 3 years – the length of little Aylan Shenu’s life – and not been in any warn-torn, or even violence-threatened area.
Still, the conditions were so bad, they were escaping to save their lives, yes?
No! The family was hoping to go to Finland because they wanted to get dental care paid for by the Finish State rather than using the $5,000 their aunt had sent them from Canada to get their teeth fixed up. It was his parents’ greed – not war – that had caused the death of little Aylan Shenu!!!
And, to make sure his family had cut to the front of the line in the refugee application system, Abdullah, Aylan’s father, had sent his wife and children in first, alone, so that a lone mother and children would get help first. Then, under ‘family reunification’ program, he’d join them…
That manipulative greedy pig of a father was never even on the boat!!!
But, ‘greedy father wants free dental care and sends wife and babies on risky journey to cut in the refugee cue’ is nowhere near as pretty a narrative as ‘babies drown trying to escape war’…
More importantly, even though the true account of the event might evoke anger towards that {insert expletives of choice here} father, it would have no way of making the Western audience feel good about themselves. So, it would not sell nearly as many papers…and that’s before we get into the geo-political usefulness of the narrative over the truth.
Yet, if the media could spin this as a tragedy of those fleeing The Horrors of War – Westerners COULD be made feel better about themselves!
Just urge them to accept more migrants into their countries, welcome them, open their hearts and homes to them – then THEY will be DOING something ‘GOOD’. And thus feel good about themselves!!!
So, this narrative sells!
Of course, the fact that the UN openly states that it wants to undermine national homogeneity of EU member states – they’ve been saying this for a while now.
Which is exactly what this massive invasion is doing: who hasn’t seen the videos of migrants in Hungary chanting ‘Allahu Akhbar’ and ‘fuck you’ at the Hungarians as they destroy the food and water being distributed to them has not only failed to do their due diligence, they are guilty of wilful ignorance!
And Hungary is not the only place where the migrants are refusing donated food – videos from Germany where angry, young, able-bodied migrant are throwing it into garbage bins or pouring it on the ground in front of the very people who worked tirelessly to gather these donations for them abound!
Now, I speak as an immigrant: I went through the UN refugee camp in Traiskirchen and it was a tough place, to say the least. 35 years later, I still get ‘immigrant dreams’ now and then and, to be honest, even my family has still not heard about all that I had experienced on my journey from my birthplace to my home in Canada. So, I understand what immigrants go through, how dehumanizing the process can be.
Yet, never ever, in my wildest dreams, would we have behaved as these thugs do!
Yes, the food was not always the tastiest or according to what we were used to, but it was given to us out of the goodness of the heart of the givers – we were grateful for it! Beggars cannot be choosers…but these beggars are turning into bullies!
But, I digress. This is not my story – this is the story of little Aylan Kurdi Shenu.
So, the UN wants to erase the very thing that drove Europe into its technological and scientific progress: the competition between its nation states, driven by the rivalry between the various nationalities.
The media, who buy in to the UN’s politics, can not only advance its ideological aim, they can also financially benefit from twisting the true facts of the death of poor little Aylan Shenu.
And if there ever was a doubt about this being anything else, please, consider this, most telling fact: before the most heart-wrenching photos of little Aylan were taken, his body was specifically and intentionally posed!
And it worked…
That truly is a human tragedy!
Mark Steyn – Hillary’s E Mails and Ambassador Chris Stevens
August 28, 2015 — xanthippaWhat difference, at this point, do these unsecured emails make?
Well, here is just one of many valid answers….
The Unknown-The Day I Was Called a Woman by Islam
August 27, 2015 — xanthippa
For more information on Islamic laws on marriage, please see my previous posts:
It is also important to note that the Islamic Prophet Muhammed said that men and children are not, under Sharia, required to cover their hair: only women who are either available for marriage or married are to cover their hair. It is the role of the father (or, in his absence, the female’s wali, or ‘male guardian’, since women are never considered independent humans under Sharia) to determine at which age she is available for marriage and that this guardian is to signal this availability to the Umma (the Muslim community) by ‘imposing the veil on her’.
While the customary age for this is 9 lunar years of age, under Sharia, the female’s wali is the one who decides her eligibility for marriage, regardless of physical age or maturity. There is no lower limit and under some Islamic rulings, even an infant may be married off and her husband consummate the marriage – though if she is physically damaged by this, the husband will be responsible for her maintenance for the rest of her life (but she will not count towards his total of maximum of 4 concurrent wives).
And then, there is muta’a: the temporary ‘pleasure marriage’… Of course, if the girl is young, under muta’a, it is her wali who collects the mahr ‘bride gift/price’… because while a woman is entitled to own property, under Sharia, it is her wali who controls it for her – as a proper guardian should.
Isn’t Sharia wonderful? It can take something sordid and despicable and turn it into something virtuous that pleases Allah himself!
Xanthippa's Chamberpot 