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TV ad in migrant's native language enrages Swedish, causes backlash on social media


RT
Tue, 26 Mar 2019 08:36 UTC
Ahlens store
© Wikipedia / Holger.Ellgaard
A Swedish TV commercial showing a man, presumed to be a migrant, reading his daughter a bedtime story in his native language instead of Swedish sparked social media uproar.

Many Swedish TV viewers were left baffled last week after a local broadcaster ran a commercial in a language that most of the viewers could not grasp - and it didn't even have subtitles.

The ad, launched by the local department store Ahlens, shows a father reading a bedtime story to his daughter - a piece from the Swedish children's book Pippi Longstocking - apparently in Dari, a dialect of Persian spoken largely in Afghanistan.


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Erdogan mulls reopening Hagia Sophia as a mosque


Daily Sabah
Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:04 UTC
Hagia Sophia
President Recep Tayyip ErdoฤŸan on Sunday voiced the possibility of reverting the Hagia Sophia, which has been used as a museum since 1935 and is considered one of the world's wonders, to a mosque.

"This is not unlikely. We might even change its name to Ayasofya Mosque," ErdoฤŸan said during a live interview with Turkish broadcaster TGRT.

"This is not a strange proposal," he said regarding the calls to convert the historical building to serve the purpose it did for half a millennium.
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Irish soldier turned 'ISIS bride' says she wants to return home


RT
Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:04 UTC
ISIS bride
An Irish woman accused of being a member of ISIS says she wants to return home. Lisa Smith is a former Army soldier and Air Corps corporal who went to Syria five years ago and is currently detained in a refugee camp.

"I want to go home. I think the people here should realise all the people here are not terrorists," Smith told a CNN reporter at the Al-Houl refugee camp controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces in northeast Syria.

Smith was asked whether she would be ready to go to jail in Ireland, and said, "I know they'd strip me of my passport and stuff and I wouldn't travel and I'd be watched kinda. But prison, I don't know. I'm already in prison."
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French Muslim council to file complaints against Facebook & YouTube for distributing Christchurch shooting video


RT
Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:04 UTC
ChirstChurch shooting
The French Council of Muslim Faith (CFCM) announced they will file a complaint against Facebook and YouTube for hosting the video of the New Zealand shooting, claiming the platforms helped spread the shooter's hateful message.

The CFCM announced their decision to file the complaint on Monday, saying the social media sites had disseminated "violent messages inciting terrorism," which "seriously undermine human dignity" and were "likely to be seen or perceived by a minor," according to a copy of the complaint sent to AFP.

The CFCM is a non-profit organization that serves as an unofficial mediator between the French government and the country's Muslim population.

Comment: Also see: Christchurch Terror Attack: Mass Censorship, Mystery Shooters, And The Globetrotting Lone Gunman

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Best of the Web: Paul Joseph Watson: The Collapse of Western Civilization

Paul Joseph Watson
Sott.net
Mon, 25 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC
collapse
All around us the signs may be seen. And are accelerating. Watch Paul Joseph Watson as he explains why almost every factor that precedes the collapse of great civilizations has been met by the West.


Comment: See also: Depravity, frivolity, and dissent: The tell-tale signs of the end of an empire

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'Islamophobic' incidents across UK allegedly jumped 600% in week after New Zealand terror attack

Lizzie Dearden
Independent
Sat, 23 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC
Birmingham mosque
© PAForensics are carried out at a Birmingham mosque where windows were smashed on Thursday
Monitor Tell Mama says perpetrators have been using 'language, symbols or actions' inspired by Christchurch atrocity

Islamophobic incidents have rocketed by almost 600 per cent in Britain following the New Zealand terror attack, a monitor has reported.

Tell Mama said that in the week after 50 Muslim worshippers were gunned down, offenders used "language, symbols or actions" linked to the atrocity to target Muslims in the UK.

"Cases included people making impressions of pointing a pistol to Muslim women and comments about British Muslims, and an association with actions taken by the terrorist in New Zealand," the monitor said.

It came after an alleged terror incident linked to the Christchurch massacre, attacks on mosques in Birmingham and several arrests over online statements.

Comment: It looks very much like, to some great extent, the engineers of the Christchurch massacre are getting their wish; to generate ever-worse division in Western countries (which they then blame on Russia, China, etc).

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Family

Russian Orthodox priest calls sex reassignment surgery a 'crime against God'


RT
Mon, 25 Mar 2019 21:45 UTC
Russian Orthodox church
© Sputnik / Vladimir Astapkovich
A senior Russian cleric has criticized gender reassignment surgeries and called for the criminal prosecution of parents who teach their children that they can choose their gender.

"Such surgeries are, in my opinion and in the opinion of the church, a crime against God," Metropolitan Hilarion, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church's external relations department, said in an interview.

He explained that the church doesn't recognize a person's "new" gender after sex affirmation surgery.

Hilarion reiterated that the Russian Orthodox Church "will never recognize such lifestyle as normal... when children from the cradle are being taught that there is a biological gender and a gender they can choose."
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Banning of Christchurch shooter's manifesto sparks free-speech debate in New Zealand

Nick Perry
Associated Press
Sun, 24 Mar 2019 21:21 UTC
Christchurch vigil
© AP Photo/Vincent Yu, FileIn this March 18, 2019, file photo, a student lights candle during a vigil to commemorate victims of March 15 shooting, outside the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand. New Zealanders are debating the limits of free speech after their chief censor banned a 74-page manifesto written by a man accused of massacring 50 people at two mosques.
New Zealanders are debating the limits of free speech after their chief censor banned the 74-page manifesto written and released by the man accused of slaughtering 50 people at two mosques in the city of Christchurch.

The ban, issued Saturday, means anybody caught with the document on their computer could face up to 10 years in prison, while anyone caught sending it could face 14 years. Some say the ban goes too far and risks lending both the document and the gunman mystique.

At the same time, many local media organizations are debating whether to even name the Australian man charged with murder in the March 15 attacks, 28-year-old Brenton Tarrant, after New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed she would never mention him by name.
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Monsanto takeover 'a good idea' despite lawsuits says Bayer CEO


Industry Europe
Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:45 UTC
Roundup
Monsanto's weedkiller Roundup has been at the centre of over 1,000 US court cases over alleged cancer link.
The corporation is facing 11,200 US legal cases over the weedkiller Roundup

The CEO of the German chemical giant Bayer has insisted that the $63-billion (โ‚ฌ55.6-billion) takeover of the American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation Monsanto in 2018 was a "good idea" despite the huge legal costs that are building up over the firm's Roundup weedkiller.

When asked by a journalist from the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Bayer CEO Werner Baumann said that "the Monsanto acquisition was and is a good idea."

The multi-billion dollar takeover has turned out to be plagued with other massive expenses.

Two months after the acquisition was completed, Monsanto lost a court case in the US to Dewayne Johnson, a school groundskeeper suffering from terminal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, who has sued the chemical giant over the glyphosate-based weedkillers Roundup and Ranger Pro.

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WikiLeaks probe: Supporters say Manning in 'solitary confinement'


Yahoo News
Sat, 23 Mar 2019 16:42 UTC
Chelsea Manning
© AFP Photo/Lars HagbergSupporters of Chelsea Manning say she is being held in 'solitary confinement' in an Alexandria, Virginia detention center.
Chelsea Manning, the anti-secrecy campaigner who was jailed for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks, has been held in solitary confinement for over two weeks, supporters said Saturday.

Since being sent to a detention center in Alexandria, Virginia earlier this month, "Chelsea has been placed in administrative segregation... a term designed to sound less cruel than 'solitary confinement,'" the Chelsea Resists group said.

"However, Chelsea has been kept in her cell for 22 hours a day.

"Chelsea can't be out of her cell while any other prisoners are out, so she cannot talk to other people, or visit the law library, and has no access to books or reading material. She has not been outside for 16 days," they added.

Comment: See also: Chelsea Manning sent back to jail for refusing to testify in secret proceedings against Wikileaks

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