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Muslim cleric banned in Pakistan for preaching hatred, tours in Britain cancelled


RT
Tue, 20 Dec 2016 12:40 UTC
Cleric
© Rabansi / YouTube
A controversial Muslim cleric who has been banned from practicing in Pakistan for allegedly celebrating the murder of a popular politician is touring UK mosques.

Syed Muzaffar Shah Qadri, who has been dubbed a "firebrand" by Pakistani authorities, is due to speak at a number of British mosques in a series of heavily promoted events, despite being prohibited from speaking in his own country.

In Pakistan's Karachi, he has been labeled "prejudicial to public safety and maintenance of public order." He was banned from addressing crowds in October, according to a legal document obtained by Scotland's Sunday Post.

Qadri's UK visit has sparked concern from religious experts and politicians who fear the tour will cause divisions within the Muslim community.

"Syed Muzaffar Shah Qadri and the likes of him should not be allowed to enter the UK or Europe because he incites hatred and he claims to be a Sufi, but the message of Sufism is love all and hate none," Irfan al-Alawi, international director of US think-tank Centre for Islamic Pluralism, told the Observer.
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Flint just the tip of the iceberg: Lead contamination widespread and severe in low-income communities


RT
Tue, 20 Dec 2016 09:43 UTC
water contamination USA
© Carlos Barria / Reuters
Lead contamination in low-income communities is an even more of a severe problem across the US than initial reports from Flint, Michigan, indicated, according to new analysis from Reuters.

It has been over a year since lead contamination in Flint's drinking water became national news. The issue is nowhere near fixed, as residents continue to battle with the state over bottled water deliveries. Since the Michigan city fell under the spotlight, the issue of lead contamination and subsequent testing has grown considerably nationwide. Reuters found that five communities have even more widespread lead poisoning than Flint.

Many cities in the Midwest and rust belt are dealing with the ramifications of past lax regulations from during rough economic times, and where money once provided by local industry and manufacturing has gone. Places like South Bend, Indiana, were found by Reuters to have neighborhoods where 31 percent of small children tested from 2005 to 2015 had high levels of lead in their blood.

Comment: Liberals who are still confused as to Trump's overwhelming popularity in the Rust Belt states would do well to look more closely at America's crumbling infrastructure and the decay of its inner cities to understand why these people have had enough of the Establishment which has failed them in every way possible.

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One killed, two wounded by gunman in Wiesbaden, Germany


Sputnik
Tue, 20 Dec 2016 13:11 UTC
Geman police
A woman was killed and two men were injured and hospitalized after shooting took place in central-western German state of Hesse, according to local police.

A woman was killed and two other people were wounded in a shootout in central-western German state of Hesse, local police said Tuesday.
"A woman was killed this morning... In addition, two men were injured and hospitalized," Wiesbaden city police said in a statement, adding that the motives behind the attack are unclear.
Additional forces and a helicopter have been deployed in search operations for the suspect said to be 20-30 years old.
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Just 4 weeks ago US warned citizens of possible terror attacks on markets like Berlin's

Claire Bernish
Free Thought Project
Mon, 19 Dec 2016 00:01 UTC
Berlin market terrorist attack
© Michael Sohn/AP
Monday night, a tractor-trailer truck plowed into a bustling Christmas market in Berlin, Germany, killing at least nine people — possibly many more — and wounding scores of others.

UPDATE: Local police now confirm 12 people were killed and 48 others injured in the attack, and German media is reporting the driver of the truck was a Pakistani immigrant who entered Germany in February, although that has not been confirmed.

According to reports from local media, police believe the incident to be an attack, and are treating it as a terror incident.

Comment: See also:
  • 9 dead, many injured as truck plows into Christmas market in Berlin in likely terrorist attack


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'Women to blame' for New Year's sex attacks for being 'out alone at night' - HuffPo's Syrian refugee columnist

Raheem Kassam
Breitbart
Sun, 18 Dec 2016 21:53 UTC
Aras Bacho
© ArasBacho/TwitterHuffPo columnist Aras Bacho
Syrian refugee columnist for the Huffington Post has said that women are mostly to blame for the New Year's Eve sex attacks across Germany last year. Aras Bacho, 18, tweeted that women should not be out alone at night.

In a perhaps revealing statement about the attitudes of Syrian refugee men, Bacho — who writes frequently for the Huffington Post's German website — said: "Most of the time the women are to blame. To be alone at night. On the other hand, the refugees should behave".

He tagged the tweet "Silvester" or "New Year's" in German.
Daran sind meistens die Frauen schuld. Nachts alleine zu sein. Andrerseits sollten sich die Flüchtlinge benehmen. #Silvester

— Aras Bacho (@ArasBacho) December 12, 2016
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Oxfam rep says 'Hard to get inside Mosul, over 1mn people still trapped amid op'


RT
Tue, 20 Dec 2016 02:04 UTC
refugees mosul
© Ammar Awad / ReutersPeople who fled the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul, stand in line to receive food at a refugee camp, Iraq,December 18, 2016.
Humanitarian organizations face serious difficulties in delivering aid to people inside Iraq's Mosul amid the US-backed operation against Islamic State, Oxfam spokesman who returned from Iraq told RT. Over 1 million people are still trapped in the city.

"Unfortunately, it's very difficult for humanitarian agencies like Oxfam to get into Mosul itself," Kai Tabacek, Oxfam's digital press officer said in an interview to RT. He returned just a month ago from the area of Irbil, which is 90 kilometers from Mosul.

According to Tabacek, some 100,000 people have managed to flee the violence in Mosul, yet approximately 10 times more are still in the city and facing a "dire humanitarian situation."

After almost two months of operation to liberate Mosul "we have more than 100,000 people who have fled the city and surrounding areas," the Oxfam representative said. "Still more than a million people, we believe, are trapped inside Mosul and they are at risk from being caught by sniper fire, explosive devices. And it's really important that all sides in this conflict provide safe escape routes for those people to leave."
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Attacks of 9/11 paved way for intended rise of Islamophobia


Press TV
Sun, 18 Dec 2016 00:00 UTC
Shabbir Rahmatullah Hassanally
The September 11, 2001 attacks in the US were carried out by Zionists and neocons as an attempt to pave the way for the kind of hate crimes that we see against Muslims across the West today, says a political commentator in London.

Shabbir Rahmatullah Hassanally made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Sunday, while discussing a horrific hate crime against a British Muslim woman that took place earlier this week.

The 27-year-old woman was grabbed from behind and knocked down by two white males in a busy high street on Wednesday, police said on Friday.

The woman had just finished a driving lesson in Old Church Road in Chingford and was on her way to a hair salon when the two men attacked her.

Comment: Hassanally is absolutely and horrifically correct. Read Laura Knight-Jadczyk's 9/11: The Ultimate Truth to understand why.

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'Talented' teenage Idaho football player walks free after sodomizing disabled teammate with coat hanger

Elizabeth Preza
Raw Story
Tue, 20 Dec 2016 00:27 UTC
John Howard
© Screenshot via NY Daily NewsJohn Howard
The white ringleader of a horrific sexual assault of a mentally disabled black teen will avoid jail time and escape classification as a sex offender after pleading guilty to a lesser charge, the Daily Kos reports.

John R.K. Howard plead guilty Friday to one felony count of injury to a child after leading two football teammates to help him carry out a a violent sexual attack on a black teammate with mental disabilities.

The attack occurred on Oct. 23, 2015, when Howard and Tanner Ward, along with a third juvenile student, pretended to offer the victim a hug, then held him down and sodomized him with a coat hanger. KTVB reports "a third attacker then kicked the coat hanger several times, forcing it farther into the victim's body and causing rectal injuries that required treatment at a hospital."

The assault followed several months of race-related discrimination levied against the victim, who was adopted by a Dietrich, Idaho family when he was a child. The 18-year old victim was reportedly called "Kool-Aid," "chicken-eater " and the N-word by his teammates. Howard, the ringleader, "also posted a confederate flag on the plaintiff's computer and demanded he learn and recite a racist song titled "Moonman Notorious KKK," KTVB reports.

Comment: Rape Culture in America - How the system protects the rapists and fails the victims

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More than 400K refugees in Germany unable to find jobs, less than 10% are employed


RT
Mon, 19 Dec 2016 20:24 UTC
German workers
© Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters
More than 400,000 refugees are still without jobs in Germany while less than 10 percent are employed, the government's Institute for Labour Research (IAB) found. Hopes that most of refugees will get well paid jobs are an "illusion," the IAB chief warned.

Only a small number of Germany's 34,000 asylum-seekers managed to find a regular job between December 2015 to November 2016, according to the data released by IAB on Monday, as cited by Der Spiegel.

However, almost a quarter of those who have a job (22 percent) have signed only a temporary contract, the report found. Another 20 percent perform services without a specified contract term. On the other hand, 406,000 refugees in Germany have been registered at employment centers as job-seekers, while nearly 160,000 are registered as unemployed.

Comment: Wasted talent is a recipe for revolution!

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The Obamas' final Christmas vacation as First Family


Hawaii News Now
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 11:19 UTC
First Fam
© APFirst Family arrives in Honolulu.
After closing his final news conference of the year with a "Mele Kalikimaka," President Obama and his family left behind chilly temperatures in the nation's capital for their annual Christmas vacation in the islands.

Obama and his family landed at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam about 11 p.m., and were met by U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, (D-Hawaii), Gov. David Ige, Mayor Kirk Caldwell and Adm. Harry Harris, U.S. Pacific Fleet commander. After the president greeted the dignitaries, the family jetted off to their rented Kailua mansion by motorcade.

The U.S. Coast Guard has established a temporary security zone in Kailua Bay starting Friday at 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Jan. 2. The maritime security zone starts from Kapoho Point and extends westward to the shoreline near Kailuana Loop. The zone also includes the adjacent channel beginning at Kapoho Point to the North Kalaheo Avenue Road bridge. An orange marker will indicate the perimeter of the security zone.

This will be the Obamas' final trip to Hawaii as the First Family as the president's second term draws to a close.

It will be punctuated by a historic visit to the USS Arizona Memorial on Dec. 27 with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who will become the first Japanese leader to visit the site. Both will pay tribute to the lives lost in the attack on Pearl Harbor 75 years ago.

During last year's vacation, Obama spent much of his time working out at the gym, playing rounds of golf, going on hikes and dining at high-end restaurants, like Alan Wong's and MW Restaurant.

Comment: Yawn...

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