On June 18–the day after the heinous attack in which nine were killed at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church–President Obama said, “At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.”
On June 18—the day after the heinous attack on Charleston’s Emanuel A.M.E. Church—Obama surrendered on gun control, accepting the fact that the GOP-controlled House and Senate will not act to restrict the rights of over a hundred million law-abiding gun owners because of the actions of one individual with criminal intent.
Fourteen members of a banned Islamic group called Forsane Alizza (“Knights of Pride”) are on trial in Paris for planning a wave of attacks against Jewish-owned stores, similar to the hostage standoff and killings that took place at the Hyper Cacher grocery store after the Charlie Hebdo massacre in January.
Belgian police announced an investigation after photographs surfaced of two men celebrating in the autopsy room of two dead terrorists.
The Ontario Provincial Police have completed a report on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) response to jihadi gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, who attacked Parliament Hill last October and murdered Corporal Nathan Cirillo.
A fan jumped onto Philippe Chatrier Court after Roger Federer defeated Alejandro Falla to take a selfie with the tennis great.
On the one year anniversary of Elliot Rodger’s May 23 Santa Barbara attack, Richard Martinez said he will continue to push gun control in the United States because attacks like Rodger’s “don’t happen in other countries.”
A new poll shows that a majority of Democrats want to limit free speech with laws that would prohibit so-called “hate speech.”
The Assyrian International News Agency relays a report from Dubai television news concerning a raid on an ISIS safe house in Syria, in which rebel forces opposed to the Islamic State discovered a large stash of stolen Western passports. These travel documents have allegedly been used by ISIS to bring Western jihadi recruits to Iraq and Syria.
“When Cannes rolls out the red carpet May 13, it will also be on red alert,” quips the Hollywood Reporter. Security will be greatly heightened at the legendary film festival, not due to any specific threat, but because of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, and what the Reporter confusingly describes as “a subsequent series of several smaller attacks against religious targets.”
HBO host Bill Maher criticized Charlie Hebdo’s detractors as engaging in “the soft bigotry of low expectations” during a discussion on PEN giving an award to Charlie Hebdo and the shooting at the Mohammad Art Exhibit and Contest in Garland, TX
The Surveillance State faces stiff criticism in the United States. Limiting domestic surveillance, or at least subjecting it to more extensive oversight, is likely to be a prominent feature of several 2016 presidential campaigns. But in France, Parliament just took domestic surveillance up a notch, granting internal intelligence services “their most intrusive domestic spying abilities ever, with almost no judicial oversight,” as The New York Times puts it.
Haroon Moghul, the Fellow in Muslim Politics and Societies at Fordham Law School’s Center on National Security wondered “is it really helpful at this time?” to give Charlie Hebdo the PEN America James C. Goodale Freedom of Expression Courage Award on
Gerard Biard, Editor-in-Chief of Charlie Hebdo, argued that blasphemy is necessary and misunderstood on Monday’s “The Last Word” on MSNBC. Biard said, “people don’t know what — what blasphemy is. I think that blasphemy can be a good thing. Because
Last week, six writers serving as table hosts for the PEN American Center gala withdrew to protest the Freedom of Expression Courage Award given to Charlie Hebdo magazine. Now six new writers, including graphic novel legends Neil Gaiman and Art Spiegelman, have stepped forward to take their places. Their gesture is more important and appreciated than ever, in light of the anti-free speech attack in Texas on Sunday night.
Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld argued that journalists who didn’t see the point of the Mohammed Art Contest were “the real cartoon” and that “there’s always that ‘but’” when it comes to free speech on Monday’s broadcast of “The
On May 3 Breitbart News reported that two gunmen approached the Mohammed Art Exhibit and Contest at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, and began firing. Their attack was cut down by good guys with guns who were there to stop bad guys.
“Texas officials are actively investigating to determine the cause and scope of the senseless attack in Garland, Texas,” said Governor Abbott. “This is a crime that was quickly ended thanks to the swift action by Garland law enforcement. Our thoughts and prayers remain with all those affected tonight.”
When armed men attacked people gathered in Garland, Texas, on May 3 over Prophet Muhammad cartoons, armed police cut them down.
The inaugural Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest hosted by Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) is sold out and ready for Sunday evening’s festivities. The event is bringing art from across the world expressing free speech which is under attack from radical Islamic groups like those who attacked Charlie Hebdo in January. The exhibit will be held on Sunday, May 3, at the Curtis Culwell Center, 5-7 pm, in the Dallas suburb of Garland, Texas.
The PEN award to the survivors of the Charlie Hebdo massacre has drawn some very distinguished fire.
Two Democrat U.S. Representatives are seeking to block Wilders from entering the United States where he is scheduled to speak at the First Annual Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest. The event will be hosted May 3rd at the Curtis Caldwell Center, which is owned and operated by the Garland Independent School District. The exhibit is being hosted by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI). The Curtis Caldwell Center was the site of a “Honor the Prophet” rally in January. About two thousand Texans came out to protest the event.
Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Renald “Luz” Luzier, who drew the toon of Mohammed holding a “Je suis Charlie” sign for the record-breaking post-massacre comeback issue of the French magazine, says he’s done drawing pictures of Islam’s prophet.
A school in northeast France received criticism after the principal sent home a 15-year-old Muslim girl named Sarah for wearing a long black skirt, which the principal believed was a violation of the nation’s secular dress code for schools.
French authorities arrested a 24-year-old Algerian, allegedly planning an “imminent attack” on the nation’s churches. The man, believed to be an aspiring ISIS jihadist “known to security services as having expressed a wish to travel to Syria,” was arrested after shooting himself.
On April 11 Breitbart News talked with GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump about guns and gun rights.
Using her verified Twitter account, New York Times Bureau Chief Lydia Polgreen praised “Doonesbury” cartoonist Garry Trudeau’s victim-blaming attack on the 12 dead staffers at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. “Wise, nuanced words on Charlie Hebdo from Gary Trudeau,”
Less than four months after Islamic fanatics stormed the Paris offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and butchered 12, while accepting the George Polk career award Friday, left-wing cartoonist Garry Trudeau blasted the dead with the claim that they had “wandered into the realm of hate speech.”
Spanish police arrested eleven people in a terror raid in Catalonia this week, including one Paraguayan minor believed to be preparing to attack Spain and working with jihadist groups, including the Islamic State.
In their ceaseless search for new reasons to push gun control, Gabby Giffords’ gun control group–Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS)–is now pushing gun control as a way to fight terrorism.
Washington (AFP) – A prominent Jewish figure urged the United States to beware surging anti-Semitism in Europe and warned that seven decades after World War II Jews on the continent are having to look over their shoulders once more.
In light of the huge number of submissions of Muhammad cartoons that we have received, we have decided to give a second prize: the People’s Choice Award.
A French magazine called Paris Match has printed photographs of Cherif and Said Kouachi, the jihadis who attacked Charlie Hebdo magazine in January over its “insults” to Islamic law, killing a dozen innocent people. The Kouachis were cornered by police in a printing factory near Charles de Gaulle airport, and died in a gun battle.
Putin’s disappearance may be part of a major Moscow political crisis; Fears grow of violence between Kadyrov’s security forces and Putin’s FSB
Fake posters mocking Liam Neeson’s gun control hypocrisy are popping up on bus stops in Los Angeles.
Russian media went into a frenzy when former Chechen policeman Zaur Dadayev confessed to the murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, but now Dadayev claims authorities forced him to confess and tortured him in the process.
Russian President Vladimir Putin claims he was not involved in the deaths of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko and opposition leader Boris Nemstov. However, in the span of two days, he bestowed special honors on the prime suspect in Litvinenko’s death, Andrei Lugovoi, and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who praised Nemtsov’s murderer.
A French Policewoman and four others have been arrested on suspicions that they were linked to Amedy Coulibaly, the jihadi gunman who carried out an attack on a Kosher supermarket in Paris in January.
Last month, the Islamic State’s magazine Dabiq included an “interview” with a prisoner named Muhammad Said Ismail Musallam, who was supposedly a spy recruited by Israeli intelligence. Now it has been followed by a videotaped execution perpetrated by a pistol-packing child.
Charlie Hebdo has been named 2015 International Islamophobe of the year, despite many of its staff having been killed by Jihadists in January. The annual ‘award’ was given by Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), a British group that claims to
