Canadian officials deny that Abdirahman Abdi’s death at the hands of several officers had anything to do with race

The Ottawa Police Association is denying Abdirahman Abdi’s death at the hands of several officers Sunday had anything to do with race. Abdi died after, according to witness accounts, cops pepper sprayed him, hit him with batons, and punched him in the head and neck. However, despite the denial of racial problems by police officials …

Radical right wing AfD removes foreigner’s face from poster campaign.

The Alternative for Germany (AfD), whose leader said earlier this year that German police should be ready to shoot migrants to prevent them entering the country illegally, was founded three years ago upon a Eurosceptic message. A recruitment poster for the AfD in the southern state of Baden-Württemberg was part of a campaign to bring …

“Islamist terrorism has arrived in Germany” says Bavarian premier

Horst Seehofer, Bavarian state premier and leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU), attends a news conference and said that “Germany must face the fact that Islamist terrorism has arrived and respond with tougher security and tighter immigration policies.” However, German officials say two of the assailants in the spate of attacks within Germanyhad links …

“All Muslims in the US should be monitored” says American politician

On 15 July 2016, Newt Gingrich, an American senior politican and political consultant, said in an interview with Fox News that all Muslims in the United States should be tested to see if they believe in Sharia Law. “Let me be as blunt and direct as I can be. Western civilization is in a war. …

7 Teenage Deaths, but No Answers for Aboriginal Canadians

They were teenagers from tiny indigenous Canadian communities, isolated by a maze of lakes and forest. Thunder Bay, a metropolis by comparison, offered them their only opportunity for a high school education. Instead, the students met death. Indigenous leaders and parents of the dead had long called for investigations, suspecting the students were victims of …

Israeli military’s new chief rabbi implied soldiers can rape in war

The man chosen as the Israeli military’s new chief rabbi has previously implied that soldiers would be permitted to rape women in war. Karim was at the center of a media controversy in Israel in 2012, when it was revealed that, in 2003, he suggested on a religious website that soldiers were permitted to commit …

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