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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has issued notices to Google Inc and Wikipedia for "disseminating sacrilegious content" through the two platforms, it emerged on Friday. In a press release, the authority said it has been receiving complaints regarding "misleading search results associated with 'present khalifa of Islam' and an unauthentic version of the Holy Quran uploaded by the Ahmedi community on Google Play Store". Being a matter of a very serious nature, the PTA has approached Google Inc with directions to immediately remove the unlawful content, the statement said. The platform has been issued the notice under the Removal and...

As you may have heard, we’ve sort of got a "casedemic" problem here in Tennessee. That means lots and lots (and lots) of people are testing positive for COVID-19. That’s about all we know for sure, of course. Nevertheless, hand-wringing from media, politicians, and local ‘health authorities’ is seemingly neverending, as are local reporters in my neck of the woods being filmed standing in front of that FEMA body truck they don’t bother to tell us has been sitting in front of the regional hospital, unused, SINCE MARCH. Hospitals aren’t overwhelmed by any measure, and even the death toll isn’t...

It’s just the flu, bro. For thousands of years people got exposed to germs and viruses on a daily basis and this helped us build up our natural immunity to viruses. In order to stop the relatively harmless Coronavirus we now have governments throwing away the way we have lived for thousands of years in order to create a sterile environment for us. Only an idiot thinks that it is healthy for society to live in a sterile environment. This “avoid germs at all costs” mentality is a grand experiment being conducted by people who have no understanding of the...

Faith-Based Social Media Post Leaves Hundreds Homeless for the Holidays 12/27/2020 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that hundreds of Pakistani Christian families from Charar, a neighborhood in Lahore, have fled their homes after a mob of Muslims threatened to set fire to their neighborhood. Local sources report that the mob threatened the Christians after a faith-based social media post was published by a local pastor. “Pastor Raja Waris published a faith-based post on Facebook on December 22, which Muslims claim hurt their religious sentiments,” Saleem Khokhar, a displaced Christian from Charar, told ICC....

A 20-year-old Belfortain boy was beaten up by five individuals. The reason: this Muslim took part in a family Christmas dinner and is the son of police officers. It is 3 p.m. this Friday, Nabil (*), 20, is at the table with his family in their new house in the inner suburb of Belfort. Happy to spend this time with his family, with his mother and his stepfather, both judicial police officers, he wants to share this festive time and takes a photo of the meal that he posts on his Snapchat account. On the picture, oysters and shrimps, nothing...

The House appears poised to override President Trump’s veto of the must-pass annual defense policy bill, a dramatic rebuke of Trump in the final days of his presidency. House lawmakers will vote Monday on overriding Trump’s rejection of the fiscal year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which passed both chambers of Congress with more than the two-thirds majority needed to overcome a veto. Some Republicans have said they would sustain Trump’s veto despite supporting the bill earlier this month. Still, dozens would need to flip their vote for the override to fail, and some Democrats who previously voted against...

The year 2020 will go down as exceedingly dumb, exceptionally dishonest, and utterly ridiculous, the calendar equivalent of that human potato who presides over a miserable TV show on the Airport News Network. Here’s how lame the year was – a Fox News host credited someone who was not me with observing that bulbous tuber is a potato, as well as dubbing him “Tater.” That moniker is my proudest achievement except, perhaps, my pioneering use of the cruise ship emoji to designate the Fredocon losers. Way to finish the year on yet another outrage. This year can’t end soon enough,...

'If this continues in France, the next step is auto-da-fés to burn books such as those of Voltaire' who also criticized religions. Opinion. ... “Caroline L.” is a professor at the Faculty of Law of Aix-Marseille. For talking about "sexually transmitted religions" during a master's degree, she received a complaint from the Ligue des droits de l'Homme (League for the Rights of Man) and countless death threats. ... “I am deeply saddened by what I consider an attack on free speech and academic freedoms,” says the teacher. She was accused of "Islamophobic" claims and the Aix-en-Provence prosecutor opened an investigation...

Maybe some of my Freeper acquaintances have noticed I have decided to just post items regarding period dramas from the Regency to Edwardian periods. To be totally honest, my psychological back broke weeks ago as I just have enough with the world we live in. My attitude is Let it Burn. So instead of joining a monastery, I decided to just focus on things that bring me joy. One aspect of that is I finally am taking advantage of my Amazon Prime status and am catching up on all the wonderful content available. Being interested in period dramas I have...

In the President’s signing statement, accompanying his signature of the COVID aid/government funding plan, he points out he wants "far less wasteful spending and more money going to the American people in the form of $2,000 checks per adult and $600 per child." Under the Budget Act of 1974, the President is required to submit a "budget request" to Congress in the winter. Many of the spending requests flagged by the President were consistent with his own budget request to Capitol Hill earlier this year.

The decades-old measure, named after an Illinois GOP lawmaker, limits the use of federal funds. WASHINGTON — House Democrats have spent two years passing government funding legislation without picking a fight over abortion, but with President Donald Trump leaving office, party leaders say 2021 will be different. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., who is set to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee, said next year the House will eliminate the so-called Hyde Amendment, a decades-old policy that prohibits federal programs like Medicaid from paying for abortions. “This is the last year,” DeLauro said at a Dec. 8 hearing about the adverse...

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At least seven Pakistani soldiers were killed in a terrorist attack in the country's restive Balochistan province, the Army said on Sunday. The militants fire-raided a Frontier Corps (FC) outpost in Harnai region of the province late last night, it said. During the intense exchange of fire, seven soldiers were killed, it said. The area was cordoned off and escape routes blocked to apprehend the fleeing militants, while a large-scale search and clearance operation was under way. Commenting on the attack, Prime Minister Imran Khan said he was "saddened" over the loss of lives. "My heartfelt condolences and prayers go...

Democrats got Joe Biden into the White House but are alarmed at the political power of President Donald Trump’s populist economic platform, admits the pro-Democrat Washington Post. “Party strategists now speak privately with a sense of gloom and publicly with a tone of concern as the election results become clearer,” said the December 27 print report by political writer Michael Scherer: They worry about the potential emergence of a mostly male and increasingly interracial working-class coalition for Republicans that will cut into the demographic advantages Democrats had long counted on. They speculate that the tremendous Democratic gains in the suburbs...

ISLAMIST terrorists massacred a group of Christians in a remote village in Nigeria on Christmas Eve after promising to carry out an attack during the church's holy season. Boko Haram killed at least seven people including a pastor in their latest sickening attack. The militants stormed the village of Pyemi, near Chibok, in northern Nigeria as locals prepared to celebrate Christmas, according to International Christian Concern (ICC). Seven people were left dead while a further 12 from the area remain missing. The attack followed a threat released by Boko Haram warning they would strike Christian communities over the festive period....

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency deported more than 185,000 illegal aliens in Fiscal Year 2020 including more than 4,200 gang members, despite operational disruption caused by the Chinese coronavirus crisis. Between October 1, 2019 and September 30, 2020, ICE agents deported 185,884 illegal aliens from the United States. About 64 percent of those deported, 118,949 illegal aliens, had criminal convictions or pending criminal charges against them. Nearly 14,500 illegal aliens deported were family units while a little more than 4,000 were Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs). The overwhelming majority, 92 percent, of illegal aliens deported from the interior of...

An excellent thread by the esteemed REX: 1. Sorry, guys. But this idea that the GOP will vote against Biden/the Dems to 'save the Republic' on Jan 6 is delusional. A few brave #MAGA Reps & Senators will object. But the GOP establishment will NOT, for as long as they can avoid it. Trump knows that. (If the link fails to work I will post a backup link in the first post.) Why?

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A high school senior of mixed race is suing a taxpayer-funded charter school in Nevada over the “coercive, ideological indoctrination” that is central to its Critical Race Theory-based curriculum that forces students to associate aspects of their identity with oppression. In the lawsuit, Clark v. State Public Charter School Authority, filed Dec. 22 in federal court in Nevada, the young plaintiff William Clark and his mother Gabrielle Clark claim their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights were being violated. Students were allegedly told that by refusing to identify with an oppressive group, they were exercising their privilege or underscoring their role...