Imams rally against domestic violence in the UK
United Kingdom – Two women are killed each week as a result of domestic violence in England and Wales, and one in four women will experience domestic violence in their lifetime. On average, police in the UK handle a call about domestic violence every minute, but only about 35 percent of incidents are even reported. […]
Loose Screw Scott Baio Says Obama Is Muslim Intent On Destroying America
Does anyone else feel like we’re living in 2008 again? On Wednesday, a has-been actor revived a has-been racist theory that President Obama is secretly a Muslim. 80’s sitcom star Scott Baio said that the president is either a Muslim or “a Muslim sympathizer” who Baio says he suspects is intent on eliminated the United […]
Citing Orlando massacre, Republican group in Bayonne says planned Islamic center would be ‘unsafe’
BAYONNE — Even as the city’s Muslim community condemned Sunday’s Orlando massacre as a “barbaric attack,” a recently formed Republican group has cited the tragedy as a reason to oppose a planned Islamic community center. Former candidate for state Assembly, freeholder and school board Michael Alonso, who has billed himself the leader of the “Real […]
Mosque to ask forgiveness instead of prison for man who shot at them
This congregation of Muslims believes forgiveness will do more good than prison for someone who wanted to kill them. Ted Hakey Jr. has pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime and apologized to members of the Baitul Aman Mosque in Meriden. Nobody was hurt when he opened fire on the empty building in a drunken […]
Man arrested for threatening Seattle mosque on Facebook
A 37-year-old man who allegedly threatened a Seattle mosque was arrested Tuesday afternoon following a brief standoff in North Seattle.According to police, the man had posted threats against a mosque online and later posted that he had purchased an assault rifle and ammunition. Police say they were tipped to the threats by an out-of-state friend […]
Killing of MP Jo Cox halts Brexit campaigning in UK
Campaigning for Britain’s EU referendum scheduled for next week has been suspended for a second day as the nation reels from the murder of a popular pro-Europe MP. On Thursday, Jo Cox, a 41-year-old former aid worker and pro-EU campaigner known for her advocacy on behalf of Syrian refugees, was killed outside a library where […]
America’s gun: How ridiculously easy it is to fire the rifle that’s the symbol of the gun control debate in the U.S.
I’d never held a gun before walking into The Shooting Gallery, a firing range and gun store in Orlando just six kilometres from Pulse nightclub. It’s a little more than 48 hours since Omar Mateen unleashed a torrent of bullets, killing 49 and wounding another 53. A portly man with dark hair stands behind a […]
Why Jo Cox’s Murder Must Force Our Society to Unite
As I write this, I’m still reeling in shock and horror at the murder of Jo Cox, the MP for Batley and Spen, who was so brutally killed yesterday. I had been sharing drinks with her husband, Brendan, only the night before. Now he is a widower and their two young children face life without […]
WV Shooter Was Infowars Fan, Cheered On Malheur Occupiers
When are we going to be inundated with on-air rants about white home-grown paranoid extremist men who shoot people with weapons of mass death? Never. That’s when. Erick Shute took out three neighbors with an assault-style weapon earlier this week in West Virginia, but it doesn’t seem to make much difference to a media and […]
Christie: Democrats ‘exploiting’ Orlando shooting by pushing gun reforms
Gov. Christie – Democrats are exploiting Orlando shooting massacre Gov. Christie – Democrats are exploiting Orlando shooting massacre. (Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media) TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie is accusing Democrats of “exploiting” this past weekend’s Orlando mass shooting by pushing for tougher gun control reforms. The Republican governor was asked during a Statehouse […]