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An Australian runner found an unpleasant surprise while running on Monday near his home in New South Wales. Paul Roberts, 42, was doing run-walk intervals at Lake Macquarie State Conservation Park. when he saw what looked like a man-made pile of leaves along the trail. Though not heavily populated, the trail does get foot and bike traffic, which is why Roberts was shocked when he kicked off the top of the leaves and found wine corks with nails through them. These are similar to historic weapons known as caltrops. At first, Roberts said he didn’t think much of his initial...

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s weekend appearance at a Seattle-area fundraiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) drew protesters as well as socialist counter-protesters who praised the embattled congresswoman. Saturday's event in Bellevue, Wash., had especially tight security as demonstrators criticized the Minnesota Democrat over her numerous controversial comments, some of which were deemed anti-Semitic. But her appearance also attracted the support from a socialist political group. Liberation, the Newspaper of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, revealed Monday that members of the socialist Community & Labor Against Fascism (CLAF) carried signs reading “Solidarity with Ilhan Omar” or “We stand with...

‘Aadara Sevana’ (Abode of Love) in Anuradhapura is a social service cum prayer centre run by the Methodist Church in Sri Lanka. It is located a few kilometres away from the Anuradhapura town at a place called Kundichchaankulama in Sinhala and Kundichchaankulam in Tamil. The relatively-unknown Methodist Centre in the North Central Province has been in the news lately for extremely-troubling reasons. Aadara Sevana was the target of a mob attack on Sunday, April 14, celebrated worldwide by Christians as Palm Sunday. The mob comprising 20 to 25 youths had issued death threats, pelted stones and thrown firecrackers. They later...

There are reports up to a dozen people have been injured in a shooting at the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand. Police have confirmed they are responding to a "critical incident". All Christchurch schools are in lockdown and witnesses have reported multiple injuries. The mosque was reportedly busy due to Friday prayers. Witness Len Peneha said he saw a man dressed in black enter the Masjid Al Noor mosque in central Christchurch about 1:45pm and then heard dozens of shots, followed by people running from the mosque in terror. Mr Peneha, who has lived next door to the...

Police said they were dealing with fires in Gothenburg, Malmo and Helsingborg Around 60 vehicles were reportedly vandalised with stones thrown at police Emergency services were tackling the fires with no reports yet of any injuries Dozens of cars were set alight and stones thrown at police as gangs of masked youths went rampaging across Sweden on Monday evening.

Jordanian minister claims Jews visiting Temple Mount 'harm' Al-Aqsa mosque, 'provoke' Muslims around the world. The Jordanian government condemned Israel for allowing Jews to visit the Temple Mount, calling it "irresponsible" and "provocative to Muslims around the world." Jordan's Minister of State for Media Affairs Mohammad Momani published a statement declaring Israel's actions "unacceptable." Israel, he said, is "provoking in an irresponsible fashion" Muslims around the world. Momani also claimed Israel is "harming" the "blessed Al-Aqsa mosque." According to Momani, Israel's policy contradicts international law, which requires the preservation of holy sites. Israel's actions also harm the relationship between the...

The jihadis were wearing suicide vests – are authorities still unclear as to motive? Residents of the Spanish seaside resort of Cambrils fled in terror in the early hours of Friday after five terrorists wearing suicide vests launched the second ramming attack in the country in a matter of hours. (Telegraph) Spanish police say they have killed five people in the town of Cambrils to stop a second attempted van attack after an earlier one in Barcelona. The attackers were wearing explosive belts, police said. August 17, 2017: BBC: Thirteen people died and dozens were injured when a van ploughed...

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Enjoy the updated verson of MUSLIMS IN LONDON, one of the few that is actually performed and not a sing-along. Since I can no longer get into the Doug from Upland account on YouTube, I established the account of Hillarys FatAss to post my songs. They will kill you when your riding the train. Of course, they'll kill you when you're flying a plane. They're gonna kill ya boarding a bus. They'll say "Infidel, you're not one of us." AAAAOOOOOO, Muslims in London

It isn’t enough that Muslim migrants are sexually assaulting children, seniors and scores of women throughout Europe, now in Australia, “a rampaging mob of 30 African migrants beat two men senseless during an unprovoked and horrifying attack on a beach.” In recent years, gangs of mostly Sudanese men have terrorised Melbourne suburbs with a spate of burglaries, rape, assault, and carjackings. Police have said the gangs seem to be motivated by pleasure, warning: “Drugs or money aren’t the driver. It’s purely for the fun. They’re getting off on humiliating their victims.” Apparently nothing else is expected of these “wild animals”...

The mayor of a village in Germany had to be hospitalised after he was severely beaten in a suspected far-Right attack over his support for asylum-seekers. Joachim Kebschull, the mayor of Oersdorf in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, was attacked from behind as he walked to a planning meeting on Thursday night. The 61-year-old was beaten with a club by unknown assailants who fled after he lost consciousness. Police believe the attack is linked to the mayor’s support for plan to accommodate asylum-seekers in the village. Hours before the attack, he received a threatening letter which contained the phrases “He...

A Muslim organization has privatised an indoor swimming pool in southern France that is allowing women to wear burqinis, but the local mayor is having none of it and neither are right-wing politicians.... "There is nothing innocuous about this: The battle of 'the veil' is a visible sign of fundamentalists wanting to mark their territory and subjugate women, like men, and to establish a territory where Islam appears uniform and in social control," she said, reported L'Express newspaper.

... Today, it mixes French political weakness with German moral solipsism. This is a formula for rapid civilizational decline, however many economic or military resources the EU may have at its disposal... ...More important, Europeans will have to learn that powerlessness can be as corrupting as power—and much more dangerous. The storm of terror that is descending on Europe will not end in some new politics of inclusion, community outreach, more foreign aid or one of Mrs. Merkel’s diplomatic Rube Goldbergs. It will end in rivers of blood. Theirs or yours?

Is it Muslim or Moslem? When Baby Boomers were children it was Moslem. The American Heritage Dictionary (1992) noted, "Moslem is the form predominantly preferred in journalism and popular usage. Muslim is preferred by scholars and by English-speaking adherents of Islam." No more. Now, almost everybody uses Muslim. According to the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, "Moslem and Muslim are basically two different spellings for the same word." But the seemingly arbitrary choice of spellings is a sensitive subject for many followers of Islam. Whereas for most English speakers, the two words are synonymous in meaning, the Arabic roots of the...

HONOLULU – Gov. David Ige signed SB 2954 (ACT 108) which authorizes county police departments in Hawai‘i to enroll firearms applicants and individuals registering their firearms, in a criminal record monitoring service. The system, also known as the “Rap Back” system, is a service of the Federal Bureau of Investigation that provides continuous criminal record monitoring for authorized government agencies such as law enforcement agencies. The service notifies the agencies when a firearm owner is arrested for a criminal offense anywhere in the country. This will allow county police departments in Hawai‘i to evaluate whether the firearm owner may continue...

France was the number one visited country in the world with 85 million foreign visitors last year. The Paris region (Ile-de-France) was swamped by 16 million. In Ile-de-France alone, the jobs of half a million people depend on tourism. It’s the region’s largest industry. Tourism accounts for 7% of the French economy and for 13% of the economy of the Ile-de-France. France hosts the Euro 2016 soccer tournament this year. It will kick off on June 10 and last about a month, with games played around the country. About 2.5 million spectators are expected. But last November, terrorist attacks killed...

In the latest terror attack linked to the Islamic State, at least 29 people were killed when a suicide bomber attacked a football stadium south of Baghdad Friday, Iraqi security officials told The Associated Press. Nearly 60 other people were reported hurt. Fox News has learned ISIS immediately claimed responsibility for the blast. The terror group also said it was behind the bombings in Belgium Tuesday, which killed 31 people and wounded 270 others.

Authorities say a Philadelphia police officer is recovering after he was shot several times during an ambush late Thursday night in West Philadelphia. Philadelphia police commissioner Richard Ross says the officer was sitting in his patrol car around 11:30 p.m. at 60th and Spruce Streets when a gunman fired 13 shots through the driver's side of the car. The officer - 33-year-old Jesse Hartnett - was struck three times in his arm, authorities say. "Shots fired! I'm shot! I'm bleeding heavily!" Hartnett can be heard yelling on police radio. Sources tell Eyewitness News the suspect has given a full confession,...