Yahoo News: The Guy Fawkes mask popping up in protests around the world [Seems to be an attempt to appear stylish, dramatic and highly photogenic while protesting any government policy, action or regime, or sometimes just to wear an eye-catching costume. --tma]

The mask popping up in protests around the world



2014 was a year of protest. People all around the world flooded the streets to protest police brutality, crime rates, inflation and shortages of basic goods. An image that connects these disparate demonstrations is the ubiquitous Guy Fawkes mask. Fawkes was best-known as a conspirator of the Gunpowder Plot, an attempt to blow up the House of Lords in London in 1605. Fawkes was hanged for high treason. 

The mask gained popularity after the 2005 movie "V for Vendetta." Now the mask is a symbol of change by demonstrators. Let's take a look back at some of these demonstrations and where the Guy Fawkes mask was worn. (Yahoo News)

Photos ...

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/the-mask-popping-up-in-protests-around-the-world-1418677104-slideshow/

Refugee Resettlement Watch - Ann Corcoran: Another mosque fire in Sweden—the land that hands out welfare goodies and loves diversity [Maybe this will make the Left happy, since for decades they have been predicting that Whites are going to go berserk with 'hate.' If ordinary people of European heritage are forced by their Open-Borders Overlords to fight, it won't be primarily out of hatred for our invaders, and it will be something that our hostile ruling elites will regret having wished for.]

Another mosque fire in Sweden—the land that hands out welfare goodies and loves diversity

We reported on a previous arson fire involving a Swedish mosque, here a few days ago.  I do hope we learn who is ultimately responsible because I have become so cynical that I think there is a chance that either other Muslims with grudges (Muslims like using fire for revenge!) are responsible, or that the fires are intentional to enhance the victim status of Muslims in Western countries for propaganda purposes.

If it turns out to be local Swedes striking the matches because of anger over immigration policy, then civil war is closer than I thought.

The latest mosque experiencing an arson attack is located in Eslöv, in the south of Sweden where diversity is blooming according to this informative websitewhich proudly declares:

Apart from Swedish, some of the major languages are: Albanian, Arabic, Bosnia, Croatian, Serbian, Dari, English, Sorani, Kurmanji, Persian, Somali, Thai and Tigrinya.

From The Local (hat tip: ‘Pungentpeppers’):

UPDATED: Police suspect a mosque in southern Sweden was deliberately torched on Monday, with a local imam blaming rising Islamophobia in the region.

Imam Samir Muric fears for his safety. But, if you were so afraid would you allow a news outlet to take and publish your photo?

Emergency services were called to the mosque in Eslöv, a small city in the south of the country, at around 3.15am on Monday.

It is understood that the blaze began after flammable liquid caught fire in one of the rooms in the building.

Firefighters quickly arrived at the scene and were able to prevent the fire spreading, although the flames still caused minor damage to the building. Firefighters suspect foul play.

“There is no possible natural explanation for this type of fire to break out by itself”, fire department spokesman Gustaf Sandell told Sveriges Radio.

Samir Muric, the local imam, said he was worried for his own safety. [What is Muric’s ethnicity? Sunni? Shia? Maybe this is an Islam on Islam crime? Why is that information never reported?—ed]

“Unfortunately, this is probably something to do with Islamophobia. I live close by and it’s beginning to feel unsafe,” he told the TT news agency.

You have to laugh because the Leftists in the media immediately link the arson story to the rise of the political right in Sweden:

Mosques in Sweden have been subject to growing numbers of attacks in recent months. ...

http://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/another-mosque-fire-in-sweden-the-land-that-hands-out-welfare-goodies-and-loves-diversity/

Refugee Resettlement Watch - Ann Corcoran What is going on with the UNHCR in Malaysia, and why are we taking all these “refugees?” [Apparently our Open-Borders Overlords now consider every nation in the world near the friendly shores of the American Empire: 'Swim on over, the lavish taxpayer social programs are just fine!' --tma]

What is going on with the UNHCR in Malaysia, and why are we taking all these “refugees?”



Apparently our Open-Borders Overlords now consider every nation in the world near the friendly shores of the American Empire: 'Swim on over, the lavish taxpayer social programs are just fine!' --tma

I wish I knew who we were processing into America from Malaysia.  As I told readers here recently we have already “welcomed” to America, 1,504 “refugees” from the safe Muslim country in only the first two months of the fiscal year.

Why is it in our national interest to relieve Malaysia of some of its asylum seekers/illegal migrants? ...

http://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/what-is-going-on-with-the-unhcr-in-malaysia-and-why-are-we-taking-all-these-refugees/

AP / Yahoo News: House GOP leader once addressed white supremacists [Don't have much sympathy for the Stupid Cowardly Party, but I always get a kick out of the Mainstream Media quoting the SPLC as if it is the final word on this subject, as if it were the National Science Foundation of Hate Sociology, when the SPLC even goes after "hate groups" like hapless people in small town churches who are simply conservative enough not to embrace things like gay marriage. --tma]

The SPLC is always publishing maps of hate groups that are always "on the rise ... rise ... rise"--I tell you--RUN! --tma


House GOP leader once addressed white supremacists

As Republicans struggle to attract more votes from minorities heading into the 2016 presidential election, a House GOP leader has acknowledged that he once addressed a gathering of white supremacists, though his office denies any association with the group's social views.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, the chamber's third-ranking Republican, served in the Louisiana Legislature when he appeared in 2002 at a convention of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization. Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke founded the group, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has classified as a hate group. ...

http://news.yahoo.com/house-gop-leader-once-addressed-white-supremacists-224357238--politics.html

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Protester Joshua Williams who advocates peace charged with setting fire at Berkeley QT [Reminds me of a sign someone put up in Berkeley, California during the first Bush administration: "Get Quayle First!" Just a joke? Sure, to emphasize Quayle's seeming Bambi-like unimportance, but it still somehow illustrates how the Left, the Peace and Tolerance Police, can easily slip back and forth between supporting and condemning violence, depending on the target. --tma]

Protester who advocates peace charged with setting fire at Berkeley QT



Joshua Williams (left center) and Nicholas Austin Jackson shout at St. Louis police chief Sam Dotson (left) as he tries to give a presentation during the second meeting of the Ferguson Commission 

One of the most frequently quoted and photographed Ferguson protesters was charged Saturday with setting fire to a Berkeley convenience store last week.

St. Louis County police arrested Joshua Williams, 19, of St. Louis, on Friday after several local media outlets and store surveillance captured images of him trying to set a pile of wood on fire outside the QuikTrip on North Hanley Road early Wednesday.

Williams confessed to setting fires at the store in a videotaped interview, according to court documents. ...

The Post-Dispatch, Bloomberg, USA Today and the Associated Press have quoted and photographed Williams. On Oct. 13, he was photographed walking arm-in-arm with author and activist Cornel West toward the St. Louis University campus where protesters staged a sit-in. ...

An MSNBC profile of Williams in September quoted him as saying, “We have to come together as one and show them we can be peaceful, that we can do this. ...

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/protester-who-advocates-peace-charged-with-setting-fire-at-berkeley/article_ad4006c5-06ab-5b7e-8a7f-3fd2ed4dbbcb.html

News York Post: Wary NYPD cops letting minor crimes slide - “I’m concerned about my safety,” the cop added. “I want to go to home to my wife and kids.” [Who can blame them? They are domestic police caught as sitting ducks in a one-sided race war, with one hand tied behind their backs, with a mayor and the Mainstream Media fighting on the other side, with the war itself being papered over and re-framed at every turn so that many Whites will not recognize it is taking place. --tma]

Wary NYPD cops letting minor crimes slide

With cops on edge following the assassination of two patrol officers on a Brooklyn street, many officers have started turning a blind eye to some minor crimes, sources told The Post, while a union mandate that two patrol cars respond to all police calls has led to slower response times to non-emergencies.

“I’m not writing any summonses. Do you think I’m going to stand there so someone can shoot me or hit me in the head with an ax?” One cop said Sunday, referring to the Dec. 20 slayings and another recent attack on the NYPD.

“I’m concerned about my safety,” the cop added. “I want to go to home to my wife and kids.” ...

http://nypost.com/2014/12/29/wary-cops-letting-minor-offenses-slide/

Refugee Resettlement Watch - Ann Corcoran: Indonesia wants to put Muslim asylum seekers on an island; blasts Australia for lack of welcome - "Hang tough Australia!"

Indonesia wants to put Muslim asylum seekers on an island; blasts Australia for lack of welcome


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This is actually pretty funny!  Indonesia, a Muslim country, has long served as a transit route for the Middle Eastern and African illegal aliens (boat people) wanting to get into Australia, but Australia has been attempting to stop the illegal migration and is now guarding its borders.  Consequently, the pile-up of “asylum seekers” in Indonesia has become a problem.

Here is a thought—let Indonesia give refuge to fellow Muslims.

Australian Immigration Minister, Scott Morrison: We are taking the “sugar off the table!” Where is America’s Scott Morrison?

From the Global Post (emphasis is mine):

 JAKARTA — Senior Indonesian officials say they are looking for an island to accommodate some 10,000 asylum seekers and refugees waiting for resettlement in the country, as they have become a “burden.”

Asylum seekers flock to Indonesia from the Middle East, Asia and Africa, hoping to reach Australia. But Indonesia’s southern neighbor has recently announced that all refugees registered at the Jakarta office of the UNHCR refugee agency from July 2014 will now automatically be banned from resettlement in Australia.

Australia’s immigration minister Scott Morrison compares the ban to “taking the sugar off the table,” and says it’s in Indonesia’s interest. “We’re trying to stop people thinking they can go to Indonesia and wait around till they get to Australia,” he told Australia’s ABC Radio late November. “This is designed to stop people flowing into Indonesia. It will help Indonesia.”

But Indonesian authorities don’t see it that way. “It’s Australia’s right, but it’s creating a burden for us,” said Indonesia’s Justice and Human Rights minister Yasonna Laoly on Australia’s ABC News. “There are 10,000 foreign citizens, which becomes a burden for us.”

Indonesia has never signed any refugee treaty with the UN!  So, why isn’t UNHCR Antonio Guterres blasting Indonesia?  Is it because it is already a Muslim country and it is Australia that should be Islamized?  (LOL! is that a word?).

As a signatory to the United Nations’ Refugee Convention, Australia is bound by international law to protect refugees. Indonesia has not signed the treaty.

[….]

Faisal, a 23-year-old Somalian who calls Australia’s policy “inhumane” and “cruel”…

[….]

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s anti-immigration “Operation Sovereign Borders” was launched shortly after he took office late 2013, and has created tensions with Jakarta. Indonesian authorities haven’t been happy with Australia towing back boats of migrants en route to Australia towards Indonesian waters.

There is more, read it all!

Hang tough Australia! ...

http://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2014/12/28/indonesia-wants-to-put-muslim-asylum-seekers-on-an-island-blasts-australia-for-lack-of-welcome/