Reports state that a policeman was stopped at a red light in his patrol car when the attacker pulled up next to him, shot and killed the officer. The attacker then shot and wounded another officer a short distance away.
Update:
Paris shooting: More shots fired on the Champs Elysees
Suspect in Paris terror attack on the run is Youssouf El Osri.
A personMuslim who fired on police on the Champs-Elysees shopping boulevard just days ahead of France’s presidential election has been killed, the source said. A police source also said there had been two assailants, and a witness told Reuters that one man got out of a car at the scene and began shooting with a machine gun.
Police authorities called on the public to avoid the area.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a meeting at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey,
Extraordinary propaganda in the Sydney Morning Herald: a Muslim activists saying Muslims should be proud that Turkey now has a president who has, in fact, made himself almost an elected dictator and is a Muslim xenophobe.
[President] Erdogan has carved his own name indelibly into Turkish history having successfully manipulated his party’s political supremacy over four elections and his personal ascendancy as the president. One could argue he is the greatest leader the nation has known since Ataturk…
A lot of pundits are screaming that this [referendum result giving him the power to appoint ministers and judges] is the end of democracy in Turkey and this could lead to the establishment of a sharia style dictatorship.
But those who want to see Turkey fail have been doing their best to rid the nation of Erdogan. Time after time, he has survived…
A new US-style presidential system in Turkey could mark the end of an era of instability marked by military coups and political turmoil.
The one yes-but:
The drawbacks are that Erdogan will be given unprecedented powers and there is potential for lack of freedoms and rights in the nation especially for journalists and opponents of Erdogan.
“Potential for lack of freedoms”? Erdogan has in fact already purged 100,000 public servants, judges, officers and other state employees not deemed loyal enough. He has already jailed many journalists and shut down dozens of publications.
Emmanuel Macron’s life and career defined by audacious moves, like marrying his high school teacher, 24 years older:
Marrying someone older than your mother is “audacious?”
Macron is despicable. My relatives, who fought valiantly in Algeria must be turning in their graves. Here, he declares them all criminals:
Macron calls colonisation a ‘crime against humanity’ in Algeria interview
French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron in Algiers on February 13, 2017.Reuters/Ramzi Boudina.
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French presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron drew a storm of criticism on Wednesday after calling France’s colonisation a “crime against humanity” during a visit to Algeria.
In an interview in Algiers with private owned TV Echourouk News, Macron said that colonisation was “genuinely barbaric, and constitutes a part of our past that we have to confront by also apologising to those against whom we committed these acts”.
His rivals on the right for the French presidency pounced on the comments.
Right-wing, far-right reactions
Les Républicains candidate François Fillon denounced what he called “this hatred of our history, this perpetual repentance that is unworthy of a candidate for the presidency of the republic”.
Wallerand de Saint-Just, an official in Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front party, accused Macron of “shooting France in the back”, while Gerald Darmanin, an ally of ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy, tweeted “Shame on Emmanuel Macron for insulting France while abroad”.
Macron, the Multicultural Destroyer of France
Thanks to Gallia Watch
The push to make Emmanuel Macron the next president is accelerating dramatically as political luminaries rally to his side. Including former Prime minister Manuel Valls.
Back in January when I initially reported on Gargasoulas’ self-identification as a Muslim, numerous people indignantly tweeted and emailed me, saying that Dimitrious Gargasoulas was not Muslim, he was Greek, and this was not a jihad attack, as he was simply insane. That Islam is a religion and Greek is a nationality seemed to escape a surprising number of people, including Australian authorities. But indeed, Gargasoulas did seem to be quite unbalanced, and his statements at his court appearance only underscore that fact. What mainstream analysts fail to grasp is that being unbalanced and being a jihadi are not mutually exclusive. In fact, Islam attracts the psychically marginal, as it provides them with a justification of and blessing for their impulses to rage, hatred and violence.
“Alleged Bourke Street killer declares: ‘I am the saviour,’” by Adam Cooper, The Age, April 19, 2017 (thanks to JW):
The man accused over the Bourke Street massacre in Melbourne has claimed Islam is the ‘correct faith’ and he is ‘the saviour’ in a bizarre rant in court…
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Gargasoulas also told the court that “all law is illegal for Aboriginal and Islamic people.”
“Your honour, did you know Muslim faith is the correct faith? And that I’m not guilty? I am the saviour.’
Everyone with an QI above today’s temperature knew he was a Moslem and the media lied & “authorities” covered it up!
His ex girlfriend said he was a Moslem, he called himself a Moslem on FB, his best mate said he went off the rails when he became a Moslem and two witnesses said he yelled out “Allah Akbar”
But the fake news media and the apologists still believe Islam is a race and therefore he can’t possibly be a Moslem?
This is a rather awkward article by a Gary Johns from The Australian. There is no “struggle over the soul of Islam”. Islam is Islam. That’s it.
There is a fascinating struggle taking place in Australia over the soul of Islam. The women of Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia, acting out their pantomime of “permissible” discipline in a Muslim marriage, set tongues wagging.
Hizbuttniks trying to sell wife-beating to Australians
I say pantomime because surely no one believes the event was not set up to mask the true level of male control in Islam. If you doubt it, look at the laws on marriage, or succession, or rape in marriage among our key migrant source Islamic countries: Lebanon, Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia. A striking feature of the laws is that they distinguish the application of the law by religion. Religion first; the rule of law second.
The struggle over the soul of Islam in Australia is taking place in the mosques, in the universities and in public life.
Actually, Islam has no soul. It has no heart and no spirituality. Islam’s struggle is jihad, by no means “inner struggle”, but open-ended warfare against disbelievers, until they submit to Islam.
In his book Islamic Exceptionalism, Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institute argues that “because the relationship between Islam and politics is distinctive, a replay of the Western model — Protestant Reformation followed by an enlightenment in which religion is gradually pushed into the private realm is unlikely … We aren’t all the same but, more important, why should we be?”
The Brookings Institute is a Soros front. Hamid is a Soros tool.
Hamid’s call to “respect” Islamic exceptionalism was taken up by the darlings of theABC, who gave it plenty of coverage.
Hamid also wrote: “If it were destroyed tomorrow morning, the Islamic State would still stand as one of the most successful and distinctly ‘Islamist’ state-building projects of recent decades.”
In this episode of The Mark Steyn Show, Mark explores what Daffy Duck used to call “pronoun trouble”. His guest is Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist at the University of Toronto whose entire career has been imperiled by his opposition to the new “non-binary” gender pronouns – such as “zhe”. Transgender activists and other politically correct enforcers have determined to destroy him.
In this full-length interview, Steyn and Professor Peterson discuss the Orwellian perversion of language and the totalitarian impulses of social engineering. And Mark asks the big question: Is the jig up for western civilization?
A good analysis by one brave American who went undercover at the Battle at Berkeley with ANTIFA
TRUTH AND FREEDOM ARE THEIR ENEMIES
Tim Blair
At a violent Berkeley demonstration, one protester explains why the left has a problem with free speech.
Larry Michaelson and Brett Johnson, two demonstrators who identified themselves as members of Bay Area Antifa, said they were protesting in opposition of white supremacy. According to Johnson, “true Antifa” emphasizes the spirit of nonviolence. Johnson likened the group’s efforts to those of Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi.
“Free speech has an air of white supremacy,” Michaelson said.
The students’ letter comes out swinging against the Enlightenment itself, and brands the search for truth – the mission of a liberal arts college – a false, Eurocentric concept that only serves to embolden white supremacy:
“Historically, white supremacy has venerated the idea of objectivity, and wielded a dichotomy of ‘subjectivity vs. objectivity’ as a means of silencing oppressed peoples. The idea that there is a single truth-‘the Truth’- is a construct of the Euro-West that is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment, which was a movement that also described Black and Brown people as both subhuman and impervious to pain. This construction is a myth and white supremacy, imperialism, colonization, capitalism, and the United States of America are all of its progeny. The idea that the truth is an entity for which we must search, in matters that endanger our abilities to exist in open spaces, is an attempt to silence oppressed peoples.”
At yet another US university they don’t even know how to write, as Alice B. Lloyd reports:
A Wellesley News editorial has caught viral flak from civil libertarians, conservatives, copy editors, and other sensible sorts for its clumsy defense of censorship in the name of sensitivity.
In their defense of the modern academy’s responsibility to assimilate the unenlightened, the students distinguish “free speech” from “hate speech.” But their failed experiments in sentence structure, as well as logical leaps none among the uninitiated could easily follow, backfire:
“Shutting down rhetoric that undermines the existence and rights of others is not a violation of free speech; it is hate speech.”
The pronoun “it” floats free, unbound by any antecedent, after the semicolon. The editorialists may have meant the second half of the sentence as a coded message to the world outside their coddling cell: Shutting down rhetoric is hate speech, of course it is! Send help!
A sane and literate friend graduated a year or so ago from Wellesley. Thankfully she survived the de-education process.
Good question. Amazingly, it was a line in a new network television program, Chicago Justice, another in the long list of Dick Wolf-produced crime-legal shows. Carl Weathers of Rocky fame speaks the line; he plays the district attorney of Chicago. It was shocking to hear the question uttered in a prime-time drama. Of course there was a murder in this television episode, and the murderer turned out to be a young girl besotted with her radical leftist, anti-gun professor. Her victim? A pro-gun conservative on their campus.
Real life these days is stranger than fiction. Even Orwell could not have imagined how far we have surpassed all he imagined in 1984 – especially on college campuses. Higher education in America has been utterly destroyed by the left since the tenured radicals of the 1960s took control of it. Now our campuses are virtually totalitarian in nature. Stanford just admitted an applicant who is not black but who wrote “Black Lives Matter” a hundred times on his application. Forget all the serious students who took the application question – “What matters to you and why?” – seriously. They are toast, cast upon the funeral pyre of diversity and freedom of thought in favor of the anti-merit (racist), pro-ethnic diversity but anti-diversity of thought mindset of college admissions officials.
Wellesley has demeaned itself by printing a fascist screed by a student who writes poorly and has not a clue about what our Constitution says or means. She is opposed to freedom of speech.
Too many of these young people think no one should be able to utter a word they find unacceptable. Not a word.
“For us Muslims, it is not a hate message,” Syaf told Al Jazeera. “It’s a rule from Allah. Allah, through this verse, says Muslim cannot choose a non-Muslim leader. That’s not hatred.”
Only infidels can be guilty of ‘hate-crimes’ when they put Islam on the stand and question the belief system.
Ardian Syaf defends himself after using Quranic verse and symbols to make political statements, saying he did not spread ‘hate message’.
An Indonesian Muslim comic artist who sparked controversy for inserting hidden political and religious references into his work has defended his moves, in an interview with Al Jazeera.
French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron in Algiers on February 13, 2017.Reuters/Ramzi Boudina.
