Toronto finds new purpose, as a warning to others.
Cold, Canuck Hands
There is no joy in Goodale today…
The gun used to shoot 15 people on a busy Toronto street was likely obtained from a “gang-related source,” according to a person familiar with the case.
CP24 safety specialist Cam Woolley says a police source has told him the semi-automatic handgun used in the shooting is illegal in Canada and was originally from the United States. American authorities are helping track the gun’s exact origin.
But never fear, law-abiding gun owners. Every crime committed with a firearm is and will always be, your fault.
“The media-savvy Hashim”
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The leader of the Muslim DENK party in the Netherlands has caused controversy by telling Dutch citizens to leave their own country if they don’t like the increasing number of Muslim migrants populating Dutch cities.
Democracy, immigration, multiculturalism — pick any two.
Diversity Is Our Strength
This Is My Brother Muhammed And This Is My Other Brother Muhammed
h/t antelope
Diversity Is Our Strength
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As Chancellor Angela Merkel fights to save her government in a heated battle over immigration, an opinion poll Friday showed most Germans support the tougher line of her rebel interior minister.
The survey found that 62 percent of respondents were in favour of turning back undocumented migrants at the border, in line with the stance of Interior Minister Horst Seehofer who is openly challenging Merkel.
And 86 percent want faster deportations of rejected asylum seekers, a process now often held up by bureaucratic hurdles and legal challenges, according to the Infratest dimap poll
Good.
Related: Immigration, and the intense opposition to it, are roiling the political agendas of democracies on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Those Moderate MP’s!
It seems @markhollandlib is a practising Muslim. I did not know this. https://t.co/YoHEGkpHVv
— Katewerk (@katewerk) June 15, 2018
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Meanwhile in Germanistan…
Biggest story you’re likely missing right now: Merkel in an internal party crisis in Germany (over migration) and could lose a confidence vote this week, leading to her resignation. Situation in Berlin on a knife edge.
The Suicide Of Europe
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Not A Muslim
The Obama administration secretly sought to give Iran access — albeit briefly — to the U.S. financial system by sidestepping sanctions kept in place after the 2015 nuclear deal, despite repeatedly telling Congress and the public it had no plans to do so […]
The report by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations revealed that under President Barack Obama, the Treasury Department issued a license in February 2016, never previously disclosed, that would have allowed Iran to convert $5.7 billion it held at a bank in Oman from Omani rials into euros by exchanging them first into U.S. dollars. If the Omani bank had allowed the exchange without such a license, it would have violated sanctions that bar Iran from transactions that touch the U.S. financial system.
The effort was unsuccessful because American banks — themselves afraid of running afoul of U.S. sanctions — declined to participate. The Obama administration approached two U.S. banks to facilitate the conversion, the report said, but both refused, citing the reputational risk of doing business with or for Iran.
This is big. Thus, you’re not going to hear about it.
Free Tommy Robinson!
“Tommy this, an’ Tommy that …an’ Tommy go away”
Mean Tweets
— Embassy of Israel (@IsraelinUSA) June 4, 2018
Theresa May’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and “Wow, @SadiqKhan’s latest tourist promotion video for London is brilliant! “
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The Safest Country for European Jews?
Last Friday evening I put on a kippah and walked half an hour across Budapest to the Keren Or synagogue maintained by the Budapest Chabad. After violent attacks on Jews in German streets, the leaders of Germany’s Jewish community warned Jews last month not to wear a kippah or any other visible sign of Jewish identification in public. The French community issued such warnings years ago. Belgian TV could not find a single Jew in Brussels willing to wear a kippah in public. I walked across Budapest four times (for Friday evening and Saturday daytime services), and no-one looked at my kippah twice. At services I met Hasidim who had walked to synagogue with kaftan and shtreimel, the traditional round fur hat. Whatever residual anti-Semitism remains among Hungarians, it doesn’t interfere with the open embrace of Jewish life. There are no risks to Jews because there are very few Muslim migrants.
This Is My Brother Mohammed, And This Is My Other Brother Mohammed
Those Moderate New Democrats!
(Update — looks like Brian and I both posted on the same item. Twice the fun!)
Embrace Pallywood!
A miracle in Gaza. The man with the crutches suddenly started running pic.twitter.com/53l5bb3zV1
— Yanki יענקי פרבר (@Farberyanki) May 14, 2018