Nobody from the US State Department or embassy contacted Pettibone's family.
Sellner was on his way to give a speech that authorities say would cause "tension among local communities and possibly incite hatred."
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Nobody from the US State Department or embassy contacted Pettibone's family.
Sellner was on his way to give a speech that authorities say would cause "tension among local communities and possibly incite hatred."
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Searches for the website of the infamous Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM), a Nazi group which repeatedly praised Adolf Hitler and gave lectures about Nazi Germany, appeared as news, Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter found.
When Googling for the Holocaust, users were directed to an anti-Semitic blog post containing detailed information on a number of Swedish Jews, including their names, occupation and even pictures. Dozens are described in a humiliating and derogatory manner.
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Bessel van der Kolk
Bessel van der Kolk
New York Times-bestselling The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma and founder of the Trauma Center in Brookline, Mass., tells Yahoo Lifestyle. "It's an outrageous story - nobody's come forward, and I've never been accused of improprieties by anybody ... and now there are these insinuations about how 'he's a sexist,' intimations that I'm a sexual abuser, which is of course devastating not only for me but for the tens of thousands of people who believe in me." "No allegations have been made," van der Kolk, author of the New York Times-bestselling The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma and founder of the Trauma Center in Brookline, Mass., tells Yahoo Lifestyle.
Daniel Woolf is the principal and vice-chancellor of Queen's University.
Freedom of speech and academic freedom on university campuses have been in the news a great deal. This issue has not escaped Queen's University. Recently, the faculty of law hosted a lecture by Dr. Jordan Peterson to discuss compelled speech, currently a very divisive subject within the Ontario law profession. The visit caused tensions on campus, with some individuals taking issue with the decision by one of the faculty members to invite him to speak. I took the position that the lecture should proceed and posted a blog explaining my own categorical support for academic freedom and civilized debate at Queen's. The lecture went ahead, though not without a protest that at times pushed well beyond being respectful and peaceful.
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According to his testimony, he left Syria to escape the Islamists. He went to Europe hoping to find freedom. However, he was reportedly interrogated unceremoniously by the German police and placed in a refugee camp with supporters of al-Qaeda and Daesh and where he would have been the only Christian.
The young man wonders about the future of Europe that became home to Islamists.
Comment: Europe has sown the seeds of its own destruction, one war or another.
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"Today the largest rally against the militants ever took place in Kafr Batna," Syrian human rights activist Ammar Jamal told reporters. "Up to 10,000 people went to the streets demanding the militants to leave their settlement."
Witness reports on social media hold that militants opened fire on the demonstrators, reportedly killing one and injuring nine.
According to Jamal, the citizens marching shouted slogans in support of the Syrian Arab Army and the government and demanded that the militants besieging their town either leave entirely or provide passage to the humanitarian corridor for noncombatants.
Comment: Despite the terrorists' efforts to prevent anyone from leaving, more than 300 people have succeeded in escaping East Ghouta thanks to the humanitarian corridor organized by the Russian Syria reconciliation center. The terrorists are fighting a losing battle. The same script that played itself out in Aleppo is repeating in Ghouta. The Syrians will liberate the entire area. Whatever terrorists aren't killed in fighting will be allowed safe passage to Idlib. They're just prolonging the inevitable.
The President addressed the issue on Twitter Monday morning.
Listed below is a longer rundown of what to expect.
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Physicist Stephen Hawking
Physicist Stephen Hawking
"We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today. He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years," Hawking's children Lucy, Robert and Tim said in a statement.
The world-famous astrophysicist had been battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a debilitating neurological condition, for over half a century.
Diagnosed with the slow-progressing disease at the age of 21, Hawking was given a mere two years to live. But beating all the odds, he built a remarkable career as a theoretical physicist and cosmologist, popularizing science with his best-selling book, A Brief History of Time.
Hawking believed in the colonization of Mars, arguing that the Earth is "becoming too small for us" and will soon be unable to sustain human life. He said people will eventually master space travel beyond the Solar System, and even this generation could manage to send a probe to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to Earth.
A narrative was being spread throughout mainstream media like wildfire.
"Was Orlando shooting terror or homophobia? Yes.", claimed a CNN headline.
"ISIL or not, Orlando shooting was hate crime against LGBT people," chirped another by USA Today.
"Orlando nightclub gunman remembered as abusive, homophobic and racist," added another header from the LA Times.
The Daily Beast published a story with the header and sub-header, "Omar Mateen Committed LGBT Mass Murder. We Must Confront That. - The media and politicians are in retreat from calling Omar Mateen's massacre an act of anti-LGBT hate. Especially in Pride month, this erasure must not happen."
"ORLANDO SHOOTING: HATE CRIME BY A LONE WOLF RATHER THAN ISIS-LED ATTACK," blared Newsweek.
"Orlando Attack Roils Gay Community, Painfully Accustomed to Violence," added the New York Times.
"Call the Orlando massacre a hate crime: This was an attack on the LGBT community - and that matters," said Salon.
"The Orlando Shootings Were Homophobic Terrorism, Whether You Like to Admit That or Not," added the Huffington Post.
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Alan Dershowitz speaking at a 2015 lecture.
Alan Dershowitz speaking at a 2015 lecture.
In a letter on Monday he called for the channel to "reshoot and re-edit" the film before its release to add "pro-Israel commentators."
Clayton Swisher, Al Jazeera's head of investigations, revealed in an article for The Jewish Daily Forward on Friday that he ran into Dershowitz at a restaurant when the Harvard law professor and prominent propagandist for Israel was recently in the Qatari capital Doha.
Swisher offered Dershowitz a private screening of the film, which uses undercover footage shot by an Al Jazeera reporter who infiltrated powerful Israel lobby groups in Washington by posing as a pro-Israel activist.
Comment: Judge for yourself. Al Jazeera's earlier work on the Israeli Lobby's activities in the UK can be seen here.
Comment: Conservative pundits seem to be increasingly under attack in the current landscape, both on social media, in the press, speaking engagements and now also in being blocked from entering "free countries" who supposedly uphold some level of freedom of speech. See also:
- European women fight back with anti-migrant violence campaign video
- Conservative media under attack: Here are some of the prominent conservative websites who are victims of the tech giant purge list
- YouTube shuts down conservative channels, says it was an 'accident'
- Project Veritas catches Twitter engineers explaining how they censor conservative viewpoints (VIDEO)
UPDATE: Apparently Sellner and Pettibone have been released.Update 2: Independent journalist Laura Southern was also subjected to the same treatment. She was detained in Calais by UK border authorities. Tommy Robinson traveled to Calais to interview Southern about her experience.