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In this mailing:
- Soeren Kern: France: Migrant
Crisis Spirals Out of Control
- Khaled Abu Toameh: Palestinians: The
Atrocities No One Talks About
- Tom Quiggin: The Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation: Serving Canada or Serving Islamists?
by Soeren Kern • February 6, 2018
at 5:00 am
- French Interior
Minister Gérard Collomb described the level of violence in
Calais as "unprecedented." He attributed the fighting
to an escalating turf war between Afghan and Kurdish gangs
seeking to gain control over human trafficking between Calais
and Britain, which many migrants view as "El Dorado"
because of its massive underground economy.
- During his visit to
Calais, Macron outlined his government's new immigration policy:
food and shelter for those entitled to remain in France, and
deportation of those in the country illegally.
- "Emmanuel Macron
did it. Never before has a president of the Republic fallen into
unpopularity so fast and then become popular again." — Paris
Match.
Pictured:
Migrants at "The Jungle" migrant camp in Calais, France on
October 28, 2016, shortly before the camp was closed by French
authorities. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
Hundreds of Africans and Asians armed with knives and
iron rods fought running street battles in the northern port city of
Calais on February 1, less than two weeks after French President
Emmanuel Macron visited the area and pledged to crack down on illegal
immigration.
The clashes plunged Calais — emblematic of Europe's failure
to control mass migration — into a war zone and reinforced the
perception that French authorities have lost control of the country's
security situation.
The mass brawls, fought in at least three different
parts of Calais, erupted after a 37-year-old Afghan migrant running a
human trafficking operation fired gunshots at a group of Africans who
did not have money to pay for his services. Five Africans suffered
life-threatening injuries.
by Khaled Abu Toameh • February 6,
2018 at 4:30 am
- Why the need to keep
reminding the world of the plight of the Palestinians in Syria?
It is because the international community and pro-Palestinian
groups around the world do not seem to care about the atrocities
that are being committed against Palestinians in Syria or any
Arab country because they were not committed by Israel.
- The 82-year-old
Mahmoud Abbas, meanwhile, has made clear where his priorities
stand. Instead of searching for ways to help his people in Syria
and the Gaza Strip, where hospitals are facing a deathly
shortage of fuel and medicine, Abbas has just spent $50 million
to purchase a "presidential plane."
- Abbas, however, could
not care less. In his view, the needs of his people are the
responsibility of the world. He wants everyone but himself to
continue funneling financial aid to the Palestinians. For him,
delivering a speech before the EU Parliament or the UN General
Assembly easily takes precedence over the Palestinians who are
dying due to lack of medicine and food.
The Yarmouk
Palestinian refugee camp in Syria has been under siege by the Syrian
army for more than 1,660 days. Pictured: Residents of Yarmouk line up
to receive food supplies, on January 31, 2014. (Image source: UNRWA)
A Palestinian refugee camp has been under siege for
more than 1,660 days. Hundreds of the camp residents have been
killed, while tens of thousands have been forced to flee from their
homes.
Those who have remained in the camp -- mostly the
elderly, women and children -- live in unspeakable sanitary conditions
and drink polluted water.
More than 200 Palestinians from the camp, which has
been under siege since 2103, have died as a result of lack of food or
medicine. The conditions in the refugee camp, by any standard, are
horrific.
Why have most of us not heard about the hair-raising
"living" conditions that characterize this camp? Because it
is not located in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip.
The name of the camp is Yarmouk, and it is located
about five miles from the Syrian capital of Damascus.
More than 100,000 Palestinians used to live in the
2.11 square-kilometer Yarmouk camp before the civil war erupted in
Syria in 2011.
by Tom Quiggin • February 6, 2018
at 4:00 am
- In practice, the CBC
only respects sensibilities when it comes to Islamists such as
ISIS or to those who attacked Charlie Hebdo. When it
comes to attacking Christians and Jews, the CBC exercises no
such restraint.
- The CBC also quotes
organizations such as the National Council for Canadian Muslims,
formerly known as CAIR CAN, which the CBC has referred to as a
civil rights group. But they failed to note that CAIR CAN was
formed to support its parent organization, CAIR USA, which is a
listed terrorist group in the United Arab Emirates. It also does
not mention that CAIR USA was formed in part by supporters of
Hamas and that it has had multiple run-ins with terrorism
financing.
- Similarly, when
supporting a variety of Islamist issues, the CBC quotes as a
source the Canadian Council of Imams. The CBC does not reveal,
however, that the Vice President of the Council of Imams, Hakim
Quick, believes that the position of Islam on homosexuality is
death. It also does not state that the "Emir" of the
council is also the head of the Islamic Circle of North America
(ICNA). The ICNA believes that Islam is not compatible with
democracy, women are inferior and wife beating is permissible.
- As a criminal and
federal court expert on terrorism, specifically jihadist-based
terrorism, my opinion is that the CBC has willfully assisted
Islamists in the creation of the social, cultural and political
spaces necessary for extremism to grow. By deliberately
sheltering even ISIS supporters acting out in Canada from public
scrutiny, the state broadcaster is failing the Canadian
public.... This failure appears willful, intentional, and
consistent over time.
Canada's state broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcast
Corporation (CBC) consistently supports the Islamist cause, including
direct cooperation with terrorist front groups. This support extends
to editing domestic Canadian stories to ensure that even ISIS is not
criticized in the domestic context. Given that the CBC is owned by
the Government of Canada and funded by taxpayers with a billion
dollar a year subsidy, the question arises as to whom they serve.
The CBC deliberately removes references to ISIS and
other Islamist groups when it would reflect poorly on the terrorist
group's presence and influence in Canada. On February 19, 2016, for
instance, the CBC ran a story concerning events at Maisonneuve
College in Montreal. The bland title was "Collège de Maisonneuve
teachers' union wants action over alleged library threats."
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