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'Terrorism classes': 11 suspects charged for seeking to establish 'Islamic rule through jihad' in India


OutlookIndia.com
Thu, 09 Jan 2020 18:43 UTC
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The NIA on Wednesday named 11 Tamil Nadu residents in its charge sheet for their involvement in Ansarullah case, pertaining to attempts to "establish Islamic rule in India through jihad", which is being probed by the anti-terror agency since July last year.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed the chargesheet in a special court, Chennai against the accused identified as Hassan Ali, Haris Mohamed, Mohammed Ibrahim, Mohamed Sheik Maitheen, Meeran Ghani, Gulam Nabi Asath, Ahmed Azarudeen, Toufiq Ahmed, Mohamed Ibrahim, Mohammed Afzar and Farook.

They were charged under Section 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of Indian Penal Code and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

The NIA took over the case on July 9, 2019 and booked 16 accused persons from Tamil Nadu based on information received that they along with their associates, while being in the UAE, had conspired and conducted religious classes with the objective of establishing Islamic rule in India, through violent jihad and promoting unlawful activities.

Fourteen accused persons were arrested and detained in the UAE, in connection with the case, for "clandestinely conducting religious classes and meetings" with the intention of promoting violent jihad and other unlawful activities, the NIA said.

"They were arrested on their deportation from the UAE in July 2019. Hassan Ali, and Haris Mohamed were arrested from Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu in mid-July 2019 after recovery of incriminating materials during searches at their houses."
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Okinawa: Three incidents of US soldiers arrested for assault and shoplifting

Drago Bosnic
FRN
Wed, 08 Jan 2020 00:00 UTC
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© Toru Yanabaja/AFP/Getty ImagesDemonstrators protest the construction of a U.S. Marine air base in the remote Henoko part of Okinawa island, to replace the existing Futenma facility.
Three US soldiers stationed in an American military base in Okinawa were arrested in separate incidents on assault and shoplifting charges, according to Japanese police. US news outlet Stars and Stripes, citing Deputy Police Chief Hirotoshi Iha's statement, reported that Petty Officer Ricardo Alfre Monsalvogarza, 27, of US Naval Hospital Okinawa, is accused of punching his Japanese girlfriend in the face several times.

Prosecutors charged him with assault on Sunday after he was taken into custody on Saturday at his home in Yamazato, Okinawa City. Monsalvogarza admitted to the charge, Iha said.

Lance Cpl. Jose Alejandro Araica, 20, of Camp Courtney, was arrested last Wednesday after being accused of choking a Japanese man at a bar in Matsuyama, Naha, said Naha Police Deputy Chief Shigenari Kinjo. Araica, still in custody on Monday, was intoxicated and said he does not remember the incident, according to Kinjo. He was also charged with assault.

Lance Cpl. Justin Delgado, 20-year-old Marine, of Camp Kinser, was arrested December 26 after stealing alcohol from a convenience store in Chatan's Ihei neighborhood, Iha said. He is also accused of trespassing onto a private home and stealing a drink from the refrigerator. "Delgado was heavily intoxicated when he was arrested," Iha said.
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CNN settles harassment lawsuit with Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann, raises journalistic questions

Robby Soave
Reason
Tue, 07 Jan 2020 06:08 UTC
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© YouTubeStudent Nick Sandmann • Native American Nathan Phillips
CNN has reached a settlement agreement with Nick Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School student who was wrongly portrayed in the media as having racially harassed toward a Native American man on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 2019.

The incident was caught on video and widely circulated. The media's collective condemnation of Sandmann and his classmates was deafening, but subsequent video footage showed that the Native American man, Nathan Phillips, had misrepresented the situation in his public statements to news outlets. Reason was among the first to criticize the media's rush to judgment.

Sandmann has sued CNN, The Washington Post, and NBC Universal for $800 million, and his lawyers have promised that additional suits are forthcoming. They had asked for $250 million from CNN: The amount of the settlement was not disclosed.

Sandmann's lawyers stressed that the massive amount of money they are asking for is intended to deter future media misbehavior. Indeed, it would be a good thing if more journalists refrained from tweeting knee-jerk reactions to news developments they don't fully understand, and were slightly more reluctant to escalate small moments involving non-notable people into major national firestorms.
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Bill Cosby appeals sex assault conviction filed with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Maryclaire Dale
ABC News
Thu, 09 Jan 2020 12:21 UTC
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Comedian Bill Cosby filed an appeal Thursday of a court decision last month that upheld his conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home.

The latest appeal — filed with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which does not have to take the case — focuses on four key trial issues, including the judge's decision to let five other accusers testify and to send Cosby to trial despite what he called a binding agreement with an earlier prosecutor that he would not be charged in the case.

Cosby, 82, is serving a three- to 10-year prison term at a maximum-security state prison in Pennsylvania. His lawyers called the 2004 encounter consensual, but a jury found otherwise in April 2018, convicting him on all three felony counts in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.

The appeal was filed as jury selection gets underway this week in the case that launched that national movement of people coming forward with accounts of sexual assault or harassment. Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been charged in New York with raping one woman sexually assaulting another. Several other women are expected to testify about similar experiences with Weinstein.
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Best of the Web: The more we find out about Tehran plane crash, the more questions we have. Here are the main ones

Finian Cunningham
RT
Wed, 08 Jan 2020 17:22 UTC
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The crash of the Ukrainian plane in Iran so soon after the country launched a missile strike would have been a geopolitical event no matter what. Then came the strangely certain statements, and the retractions.

Iran blames technical issues, Ukraine not so sure

Iranian authorities were quick to blame a technical fault for the fatal crash of the Ukrainian airliner which took off from Tehran bound for Kiev Wednesday morning, with all 176 onboard losing their lives.

Ali Abedzedah, head of Iran's civil aviation authority, attributed the cause of the crash to engine failure, and said there was no involvement of terrorism.

While Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky warned against "speculation and unchecked theories", his prime minister Oleksiy Honcharuk told a press conference that he was not ruling out the possibility that a missile could have brought down the plane.
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Maryland legislator wants to steer low-income housing to affluent suburban neighborhoods

Luke Rosiak
Daily Caller
Wed, 08 Jan 2020 08:45 UTC
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A Maryland legislator wants to identify affluent suburban neighborhoods and target them for low-income, high-density housing.

House Del. Vaughn Stewart, a Democrat, wrote Jan. 3 that he will introduce "Homes for All" legislation that would "legalize the construction of modest homes in neighborhoods close to affluent schools, reliable transit, and good jobs."

"For too long, local governments have weaponized zoning codes to block people of color and the working class from high-opportunity neighborhoods, pushing them to the crumbling margins of cities and towns. We must act boldly to reverse decades of these exclusionary policies," he wrote.

The bill follows other efforts throughout the country to bring high-density housing to quiet neighborhoods of single-family homes, with advocates describing suburban neighborhoods with low crime rates and top-ranked schools as racially segregated.
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UK legal system allows known sex offenders to travel abroad to abuse children


Sky News
Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:14 UTC
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© Associated Press/Alastair Grant In this Jan, 11, 2000 file photo, British performer Gary Glitter, during a press conference in London. Police investigating the sex abuse scandal surrounding late BBC children's television host Jimmy Savile have arrested pop star Gary Glitter in connection with the case, British media said Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012.
Gaps in the UK legal system are allowing known sex offenders such as Gary Glitter and Richard Huckle to abuse children abroad, a report has found.

Offenders from England and Wales are travelling overseas to commit "extensive abuse" of children, including in eastern Asia and Africa, said the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).

It said civil orders, such as travel restrictions, are rarely placed on offenders to stop them visiting other countries where poverty and corruption have left children vulnerable.

Police forces are also often not aware of Section 72 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which allows residents of England and Wales accused of sexually abusing children abroad to be prosecuted in the UK, the report found.
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Unstable politicians in California seek to ban gas-powered lawn equipment

Kris Reyes
ABC 30
Tue, 07 Jan 2020 16:01 UTC
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If you've got a gas-powered lawnmower or leaf blower or any other garden equipment, you may have to give it up completely.

California is considering a statewide ban on the small-engine machines and Novato is the most recent city to make moves towards getting rid of them.

Mark Bailey, the owner of Buck's Saw Service, knows he'll have to sell more of this battery-powered equipment as he prepares to lose sales of another kind of inventory, blowers and mowers that run on gas.

Bailey says he sells about 500 of them a year.

Comment: These politicians are more concerned about maintaining their doomsday cult beliefs about carbon emissions than they are about the people they serve and their local economies. Seems they are quite intent on driving California into the ground.

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Professor vows to fail students if they cite Jordan Peterson

Libby Emmons and Barrett Wilson
The Post Millennial
Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:56 UTC
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Ted McCoy, a historian of prisons and punishment, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Calgary, has tweeted out that the rumours about him are true: any student who cites Dr. Jordan Peterson in his class will fail. He lists himself as anti-fascist, and his pronouns he/him.

According to the University of Calgary, his areas of interest include, Social Inequality and Social Justice, Criminology and Deviance, Health, Illness and Medicine, Work and Occupations, and First Nations. We assume it's the interest in "Social Justice" that led him to make this censorious claim on Twitter, promising to punish students for citing one of the most renowned scholars in the world.

McCoy has since deleted the tweet, but the internet never forgets. The archived tweet can be found here. Professor McCoy joins a dubious list of social justice professors like Matthew Sears who have contracted what can only be described as PDS: Peterson Derangement Syndrome.

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Reza Aslan to face the music for calling Nick Sandmann's face 'punchable' in now-deleted tweet

Tyler O'Neil
PJ Media
Wed, 08 Jan 2020 00:01 UTC
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One day after news broke that CNN settled a defamation lawsuit on behalf of Covington Catholic teen Nick Sandmann, Robert Barnes announced he had sued author, producer, and show host Reza Aslan for Aslan's tweet describing Sandmann's face as "punchable." The lawsuit, which Barnes provided to PJ Media, would slap Aslan with a minimum of $135,000 in damages.

When video of Sandmann supposedly smirking at a Native American man outside the March for Life went viral last year, Aslan infamously tweeted, "Honest question. Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid's?"

Nearly exactly one year after posting the tweet, Aslan had finally deleted it on Wednesday.

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