Racism Against Blacks Rampant on Social Media in China

Human Rights Watch discovered racist content targeting Black people on China’s social media platforms, where it is utilised to draw attention and earn profit. The rights group examined hundreds of videos and posts from 2021 on platforms such as Weibo, a short messaging app, and Douyin, the Chinese TikTok, and concluded that the content frequently represented Black people through “offensive racial stereotypes.”

Such content was also discovered on the video-sharing platform Bilibili, the Livestream and video app Kuaishou, and the social networking and e-commerce site Xiaohongshu, according to the report, which noted that the companies had failed to deal with it.

“The amount and extremity of racist content on the Chinese internet suggest that the platforms are either not meeting their own standards banning racist content, or that their policies are inadequate when addressing racist content, both of which are contrary to their human rights responsibilities,” according to Aljazeera.

Human Rights Watch stated that influencer videos presenting Black Africans as primitive or reliant on Chinese people as saviours were particularly highly shared, while Black individuals who married Chinese were accused of “contaminating” and threatening the Chinese race in internet remarks. Meanwhile, Chinese in partnerships with Black people were accused of being traitors.

“The Chinese government likes to tout China-Africa anti-colonial solidarity and unity, but at the same time, ignores pervasive hate speech against Black people on the Chinese internet,” said Yaqiu Wang, senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Beijing should recognise that investing in Africa and embracing China-Africa friendship will not undo the damage done by unaddressed racism.”

During the COVID-19 pandemic, several Africans were forced to leave their apartments and were singled out for quarantine, generating rare protest from African authorities. Some African inhabitants claimed that they had long been the target of everyday racism and xenophobia, with state media and advertisements using ‘Blackface’ and racial caricatures.

According to Human Rights Watch, the majority of Chinese social media platforms include community standards and rules that prohibit content that promotes racial or ethnic hatred and discrimination.

It claimed that Bilibili, Kuaishou, Weibo, and Xiaohongshu did not respond to its letters questioning the racist content, and urged the platforms, which are known for quickly removing content critical of the government, to remove videos and posts that violate community standards on hate speech or may incite racial discrimination or violence.

ByteDance, the owner of Douyin, withdrew one video after Human Rights Watch denounced it, but took no action against a number of others depicting a Black youngster, claiming that the representation was “not necessarily associated with any particular group or race.”

Douyin went on to say that it has “a combination of people and technology” to enforce content moderation criteria and that it “take[s] action on more than 300 videos and comments per day that include violative content targeting Black people on average.”

Racism Against Blacks Rampant on Social Media in China

Mayor Adams to Honor 9/11 Anniversary by Unleashing Mosque Loudspeakers Across NYC

The Ground Zero Mosque was something from another decade. All of New York City is becoming overrun with mosques. There’s even an official city guide to the best terror mosques to visit while in the city.

Now, Mayor Eric Adams has great news for anyone who likes being woken by Jihadist shrieks in the morning.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Edward A. Caban today launched a new NYPD initiative to support and facilitate the Islamic call to public prayer at regularly prescribed times each Friday and during the holy month of Ramadan. The effort represents a historic step forward in Mayor Adams’ continued efforts to foster a city that respects all faiths and allows people to practice their traditions safely and free from harassment.

“For too long, there has been a feeling that our communities were not allowed to amplify their calls to prayer,” said Mayor Adams. “Today, we are cutting red tape and saying clearly that mosques and houses of worship are free to amplify their call to prayer on Fridays and during Ramadan without a permit necessary. We want our brothers and sisters of Muslim faith to know that they are free to live their faith in New York City because, under the law, we will all be treated equally. Our administration is proud to finally get this done.”

No one is stopping mosques from hosting their calls for the death of infidels, but can it be done quietly? Nope, it’s gotta be “amplified” much as it was in the days of Mohammed through massive loudspeaker systems.

New Yorkers had already been complaining about mosque aural terror.

Minneapolis became the first city to allow the call to Jihad to be amplified at all hours. NYC is second.

The Minneapolis City Council unanimously agreed Thursday to amend the city’s noise ordinance, which had prevented dawn and late evening calls at certain times of the year due to noise restrictions, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.

Enjoy being woken by Jihadist shrieks at dawn.

This is how it got started in Dearbon, MI back in the late seventies before the city was overrun and fell.

Local residents have complained that they can hear the chants a half mile away and that the noise bothers them. One neighbor has filed a complaint against three mosque officials charging them with violating the city’s noise ordinance.

“The purpose of the call is to have the people hear it and some obey,” said Musa Jebril, one of the mosque leaders named in the suit. “If the people don’t hear it, we have no purpose of it. No one can quiet it down. No one has the authority to quiet it down.”

The mosque is located in an area that has one of the largest concentrations of Arabs in the country. The 90-second call to prayer, which Muslims refer to as the Azan, is broadcast once at 5:30 a.m., twice in the afternoon and twice in the evening.

Jebril said the Muslim faith dictates that the call be made in a prescribed hour.

“We cannot change the words,” he said. “We cannot change the time. No human being can change the time. This is appointed by our prophet, Mohammed.”

In Hamatrack, the first all-Muslim city government, the calls came roaring loudly at 6 AM. That makes it impossible to live anywhere near a mosque. And that’s the point. The message of the mosque is that if you’re a Muslim, you had better come to the mosque, and if you’re non-Muslim, you had better leave.

Here’s the kind of theocratic nightmare we are headed for.

Every night at 3:00 am, Rina is jolted awake by blaring speakers so loud she has developed an anxiety disorder: she can’t sleep, she’s too nauseous to eat — but she is also too scared to complain because doing so could see her jailed or attacked.

The noisy neighbour is the local mosque in her Jakarta suburb, and the clamorous sound is the call to prayer.

Both are so sacred in Indonesia, the world’s biggest Muslim majority nation, that criticising them can lead to accusations of blasphemy, a crime punishable by as much as five years imprisonment.

“None dares to complain about it here,” says Rina, a 31-year-old Muslim woman who is using a pseudonym in case of reprisals.

“The loudspeakers are not only used for call to prayer but they also use it to wake people up 30-40 minutes before the morning prayer time,” she tells AFP, adding that she is at breaking point after enduring the noise for six months.

Yesterday Indonesia. Today, America.

Who won the War on Terror again?

Mayor Adams to Honor 9/11 Anniversary by Unleashing Mosque Loudspeakers Across NYC

Errors about the Waldenses Found in Great Controversy chapter 4

By Dirk Anderson, Oct. 2021

In 1859, SDA pioneer John Andrews was the first Adventist to publish a book claiming the Waldenses were Sabbath-keepers. In 1884, Ellen White included some of Andrews’ research in the forerunner to the Great Controversy, the Spirit of Prophecy, volume 4. This placed her seal of approval on Andrews’ theory. Mrs. White wrote in the Great Controversy that the Waldenses observed the seventh day Sabbath:

“Through ages of darkness and apostasy there were Waldenses who denied the supremacy of Rome, who rejected image worship as idolatry, and who kept the true Sabbath. Under the fiercest tempests of oppositions they maintained their faith.”

“Some of whom [Waldenses] were observers of the Sabbath.”¹

Is this true? Did the Waldenses observe the Sabbath and keep the “true Sabbath” for centuries?

SDA Dilemma – Lack of Historical Evidence

SDA professor Samuele Bacchiocchi spent many years researching the Sabbath. Even with access to the restricted vaults of the Vatican library, he never found any evidence that the Waldenses observed the Sabbath:

“I spent several hours searching for an answer in the two scholarly volumes Storia dei Valdesi–(History of the Waldenses), authored by Amedeo Molnar and Augusto Hugon. These two books were published in 1974 by the Claudiana, which is the official Italian Waldensian publishing house. They are regarded as the most comprehensive history of the Waldenses. To my regret I found no allusion whatsoever to Sabbathkeeping among the Waldenses.”³

Notice, he researched the highest-regarded volumes of Waldensian history, written by the Waldenses themselves, not their enemies or critics. In those volumes, he could find no evidence of Sabbath-keeping. Bacchiocchi is not the first Seventh-day Adventist to search in vain for evidence of the Waldenses keeping the Sabbath.

In 2017, SDA professor P. Gerard Damsteegt wrote an article promoting the idea that the Waldenses kept the Sabbath. He notes that he and his students researched for “several years” in search of “evidence of Sabbathkeeping among the Waldensians.”⁴ Damsteegt admits that the “only evidence one finds comes from the mouths of their inquisitors.”⁵ Thus, in all the years of research by SDA professors and their students, the only evidence ever discovered is a single reference from the mouth of a persecuter of the Waldenses!

Catholic Inquisitor’s Testimony – Does it Prove the Waldenses Kept Sabbath?

According to Damsteegt, the Catholic inquisitor Moneta, in a treatise written against the Cathars and Waldenses, gave various proofs that Sabbath-keeping was for Jews. Based on this, Damsteegt leaps to the conclusion that “Moneta’s treatise clearly shows that a sizable group of Waldensians and Cathars in northern Italy and southern France during the thirteenth century were worshipping on a day other than Sunday, namely, the seventh-day Sabbath.”⁶

There are three problems with this conclusion:

1. Moneta’s treatise comes from an avowed enemy of the Waldenses. Can he be trusted? Ellen White warns that the inquisitors practiced deception: “Now the true spirit of the papacy was revealed… War, intrigue, and deception were employed against these witnesses for a Bible faith.”⁷ Thus, by Ellen White’s own admission, the papacy was practicing deception against non-Catholic groups during this same time period. The Catholics were notorious during this period for demonizing their opponents. Gabriel Audisio notes that during this era, the sects opposed to the corruption of the Papacy were accused of having sexual orgies and flying on broomsticks.⁸ Part of the slur campaign included the papists spreading the notion “that the satanic Sabbath was a practice common to Cathars and Waldensians.”⁹ The papacy can no more be trusted to bring fair accusations against the Waldenses than could the Jews be trusted in presenting fair evidence at the trial of Jesus (Mark 14:58).
2. There is no coorborating evidence. Jesus said, “In the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established” (Matt. 18:16). All the historical evidence, which will be reviewed at the end of this article, reveals the Waldenses kept Sunday and not Saturday.
3. Moneta’s diatribe regarding the Sabbath may have been more directed towards the Cathars than the Waldenses. There is some weak evidence (a single statement written by a Catholic) that a small number of Cathars may have kept the Sabbath.¹⁰ If this is even true, Moneta may have mistakenly lumped the two sects together in his assualt, seeking to sully the Waldenses with the accusation of Jewish Sabbath-keeping.

Waldenses in Bohemia Kept the Sabbath?

In an attempt to demonstrate more reliable evidence of Waldensian Sabbath-keeping, SDA professor Damsteegt has claimed “Sabbathkeeping among Waldensians was most widespread in Bohemia and Moravia,” citing a fifteenth-century manuscript which supposedly contains reports of the “Waldensians in Bohemia” of whom “not a few celebrate the Sabbath with the Jews.”¹¹ This seems like exactly the evidence Seventh-day Adventists have been searching for, until one examines the context more closely. First of all, the source cited is from a book written in 1890 by a German Catholic named Johann Döllinger. It appears to be a collection of earlier works, some of which are in Latin. The book attacks a wide variety of sects, including, but not limited to, Adamites, Albigenses, Cathars, Habrawansky, Lombards, Passagii (condemned as Sabbath-keepers), Pathareni, and Waldenses. In the section Damsteegt quoted about Sabbath-keeping, the Waldenses are not even mentioned.¹² The title of the section is:

“A summary of the impious and pharisaic religion of the Picards.” ¹³

Therefore, the section Damsteegt quoted from is not even about the Waldenses. It is about the Picards. Who are the Picards? According to the Encyclopedia:

“Picards – A heretical group of semisecluded communities in Bohemia since the late 14th century. The name originated either as a Slavicized version of Beghards (see beguines and beghards), or from those supporters of the movement who immigrated to Bohemia from Picardy, France, due to the Inquisition in the early 1400s.”¹⁴

According to the same Encyclopedia, from a religious background, the Picards consisted of Taborites and Adamites. They were not Waldensians. Some of their beliefs differed quite dramatically from the Waldenses. For example, the Taborites were known for their violence, literally attacking church property. This is very different from the approach of the Waldenses. Another contrary example is that of the Adamites, who wore no clothing in their religious services and believed in unrestricted marriages. Again, this is far different from the Waldenses who were admired for their purity. Thus, while all the sects within the Picards claimed to believe the Bible and believed the Catholic Church to be corrupt, the Picards were clearly distinct from the Waldenses. This is confirmed by the very book Damsteegt quoted from. On page 686 of Döllinger’s book one can read: “The Moravians of the Valdens (Waldenses) say that sin is the fuel of sin, the greatest, yet forgivable. The rest of Picards do not hold this.” This quote is important for two reasons:

1. It shows the Catholic author regarded the Moravian Waldenses as a different group than the Picards. The author may have regarded the Waldenses as a sub-sect of the larger Picard group.
2. The Moravian Waldenses had a different set of beliefs from the rest of the Picards.

Damsteegt has taken a quotation about the Picards out of context and used it to claim the Waldenses kept the Sabbath. The evidence does not support this. While a few of the Picards (perhaps the Cathars among them) may have held to a belief in the seventh-day Sabbath, there is simply no evidence any Waldensians held to that belief. Döllinger’s book is over 700 pages of papist attacks against the Waldenses and other sects. If the Waldenses had been keeping the Jewish Sabbath, certainly the Catholics would have severely attacked them for such a practice. However, the book’s silence on this subject speaks volumes.

Insabbati – Does this Label Prove the Waldenses Kept the Sabbath?

SDA professor Damsteegt has claimed:

“Swiss historian Melchior Goldastus (1576–1635) commented on Emperor Frederic II’s Constitution of 1220 against heretics. He reasoned that the label insabbatati was used to describe heretics during the thirteenth century ‘because they judaize on the Sabbath,’ that is, they kept the Sabbath like the Jews. He mentioned that the ‘Valdenses’ were often called ‘Insabbatati,’ indicating that during that time there were Waldenses who kept the seventh-day Sabbath (Saturday) as a day of rest.”¹⁵

First, it should be noted that Goldastus, writing 400 years after-the-fact, offered more than one possibility for the meaning of Insabbatati. In the same footnote quoted by Damsteegt, Goldastus also notes that the word could refer to the “upper part of the shoes, which they call the Sabbatum” (parte fue fotularis, quem Sabbatem appellant, deferre folebant). There are, in fact, many theories as to the meaning of insabbatati. Here are the most predominant ones:

1. The Waldensians were poor people known to wear sandals. The Latin word for sandals is sabbatum.
2. The Waldensians did not keep the Catholic feast days (known as sabbath days).
3. The Waldensians kept the seventh-day Sabbath. This view is primarily promoted by Seventh-day Adventists.

Döllinger’s book on sects indicates the Waldenses were called insabbatati because the Waldenses wore “the spiritual sign of a shield in the upper part of their shoes.”¹⁶ SDA scholar Samuele Bacchiocchi laments:

“Unfortunately the term insabbati has no connection to Sabbathkeeping. As Adventist Church Historian, Daniel Augsburger explains in the symposium The Sabbath in Scripture and History, the Waldenses were often called insabbati, not because they kept the Sabbath, but because they wore sandals. ‘The Latin word for sandals is sabbatum, the root of the Spanish zapato and the French sabot. The sandals were an outward sign of their being imitators of the apostles in living the vita apostolica and the justification of their preaching the gospel.’ In other words, the Waldenses were often called insabbati-(sandal-wearers), because many of them wore sandals cut away at the top in their itinerant ministry of preaching the Gospel.”¹⁷

J.M. Cramp writes:

“To the Inzabatati the name was given because so many of them belonged to the lower classes, who wore sabots, or wooden shoes; or as others suppose, because they refused to observe saints’ days, holding that the Christian Sabbath [Sunday] is the only feast day of the Church, whence they were called Inzabatati, or Sabbath-men.”¹⁸

Harvey Newcomb writes, “They were called Insabbathists, or Sabbath breakers…they were supposed by the Papists to do so, because they would not keep the saints’ days as they [the papists] did.”¹⁹ William Jones concurs: “Because they would not observe saints’ days, they were falsely supposed to neglect the Sabbath also, and called Inzabbatati or Insabbathists.”²⁰

In conclusion, it would appear many scholars today agree with the SDA historian Ausburger, that insabbatati refers to shoes and not to the Sabbath. Even if it did refer to the Sabbath, it most likely meant those who did not keep the Catholic feast days. It could not have meant Sabbath-keepers for the simple reason that the Waldenses were never known for keeping the Jewish Sabbath. The next section will demonstrate that.

Waldenses were Known as Sunday-Keepers

The Waldenses were not Old Testament Christians. J.M. Cramp informs us the Waldenses “refused to obey any laws relating to religion which were not to be found in the New Testament.”²¹ Since the Sabbath commandment is found in the Old Testament, and not the New Testament, then according to Cramp, the Waldenses would refuse to obey that law. This fact is supported by one of the laws of the Waldensian community, which states: “We are to cease from working on no day except the Lord’s Day–that the holidays of saints are to be rejected–and that there is no merit in observing the fasts instituted by the Church [of Rome].”²²

Despite the fact that many histories have been written about the Waldenses, there is a complete absence of historical evidence of Sabbath-keeping. No serious history of the Waldenses mentions Waldensian Sabbath-keeping. J. A. Wylie, from whom Ellen White copied substantially, never mentions the Waldenses keeping the Sabbath in his book, The History of the Waldenses.

A Waldensian researcher in Italy was contacted and asked if the Waldenses ever kept the Sabbath. Here is his response:

“The Waldensians did not keep the Sabbath and were not guardians of the ‘Sabbath Truth’ as you call it. … We can therefore say very clearly that the Waldensians were not Seventh-day Sabbath keepers and they were not persecuted for keeping Saturday as the Sabbath!” (click here to read the entire letter)

Conclusion

For years, SDA scholars have scoured the world’s libraries searching for any shred of evidence to prove Ellen White was correct. Many, like Bacchiocchi, resigned themselves to the fact that evidence does not exist. Here are the conclusions that can be drawn:

1. By their own account, the Waldenses worked on every day except the Lord’s Day (Sunday). Therefore, they were not Sabbath-keepers.
2. All of the best historical sources do not even hint that the Waldenses observed the Jewish Sabbath. The Catholics produced a mountain of writing attacking the Waldenses, but were virtually silent about them observing the Sabbath. Only in a single instance, a Catholic persecutor accused the Cathars and/or Waldenses of Sabbath-keeping. However, both groups were also accused of sexual orgies and witchcraft. While some of the Cathars may have kept Sabbath, there is no corroborating evidence to support the accusation that the Waldenses kept the Sabbath. The Waldenses wrote against the Catholics for centuries, but never attacked them for worshipping on Sunday. This near total lack of evidence would seem implausible if the Waldenses kept Sabbath.
3. The title of insabbatati could refer to the Waldensians’ sandals or their disdain for Catholic feast days, but there is no compelling reason to believe it had anything to do with observance of the seventh-day Sabbath. Since they worked on the seventh day, it is unlikely they were ever known as Sabbath-keepers.
4. The Picards were a different sect from the Waldenses and held different beliefs. Just because a few of the Picards kept the Jewish Sabbath does not mean the Moravian Waldenses kept the Sabbath.

Damsteegt concedes that one group of Waldenses “observed Sunday as the Lord’s day” but continues to insist on the existence of a second group “that kept the seventh-day Sabbath of the Bible.”²³ However, his argument relies on a Catholic inquisitor writing to both the Cathar and Waldenses, a questionable interpretation of Insabbatati that even his fellow SDA scholars reject, and a mention of Sabbath-keeping among the Picards, who were a different sect than the Waldenses. There is simply not enough evidence to verify the existence of this second group. In summary, there is no compelling historical evidence that any Waldensian group ever kept the Sabbath.

Citations

1. Ellen White, Great Controversy (1888), 65, 577.

2. Ibid.

3. Samuele Bacchiocchi, “A Reply to Criticisms Part I ‘The Use of Ellen White’s Writings in Interpreting Scripture'”, Endtime Issues 87, (August 1, 2002).

4. P. Gerard Damsteegt, “Were the Waldensians Sabbath Keepers?” Adventist World, (Sep. 6, 2017), https://www.adventistworld.org/were-waldensians-sabbath-keepers.

5. Ibid.

6. Ibid.

7. Ellen White, Great Controversy (1888), 62.

8. Gabriel Audisio, The Waldensian Dissent: Persecution and Survival c. 1170 – c. 1570 (Edinburgh, Cambridge University Press, 2004), 75-77.

9. Ibid., 76.

10. Gregorius, of Bergamo, Collectio Rev. Occitan, doc. 35 (~1250, Royal Library of Paris).

11. Damsteegt citing Johann Döllinger, Beiträge zur Sektengeschichte des Mittelalters (Munich: Beck, 1890), Vol. II, 662.

12. Johann Döllinger, Beiträge zur Sektengeschichte des Mittelalters (Munich: Beck, 1890), Vol. II, 661-663. In fact, the Waldenses (Valdensium) are mentioned 11 pages earlier, and in passing.

13. Ibid., 661. In the original Latin: “Summarium impiae et pharisaicae Picardorum raligionis.”

14. https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/picards.

15. P. Gerard Damsteegt, “The Ancient Waldenses: Did the Reformation Predate Luther?” (2017), Faculty Publications, 529, https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/pubs/529. Damsteegt is quoting from a footnote on page 303 of Robert Robinson, Ecclesiastical Researches (Cambridge, 1792).

16. Döllinger, Beiträge, 7. Latin: Insabbatati dicti sunt, quia olim de principio sui Valdenses perfecti spirituale Signum in inodum scuti in parte superiori sotularium deferebant.

17. Bacchiocchi, Endtime Issues.

18. J.M. Cramp, Baptist History from the Foundation of the Christian Church to the Close of the Eighteenth Century (London: Elliot Stock, 1868), 90.

19. Harvey Newcomb, The History of the Waldenses, 3rd ed. (Boston: Sabbath School Society, 1849), 11.

20. William Jones, The History of the Christian Church (Philadelphia: R. W. Pomeroy, 1832), 308.

21. Cramp, Baptist History, 91.

22. Jones, History, 245.

23. Damsteegt, “The Ancient Waldenses.”

Note: The word Sabbath, as used by the Waldenses, was a reference to Sunday (the Lord’s Day):

• “…even since the Reformation, the Lord’s day hath been frequently called by the name Sabbath: Those precious but persecuted Saints, the Waldenses in a Catechism of theirs teach their children to call it by this name…” Edm. Warren, The Jews’ Sabbath Antiquated and the Lord’s Day Instituted by Divine Authority, (London, 1659), 239.
• “…the Waldenses, who first separated themselves from the Church of Rome (as the Whore of Babylon) called the Lord’s day Sabbath…” John Ley, Sunday or Sabbath, (London, 1641), 174.

https://www.nonsda.org/egw/waldenses.shtml

3 people dead after gunman targeted Black people in Jacksonville, Florida, officials say

CNN — 

Three people were killed Saturday after a gunman opened fire and targeted Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, officials said.

“This shooting was racially motivated and he hated Black people,” Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said at a news conference.

Waters said the shooter, who he described as a White man in his 20s, shot and killed himself after the attack. The suspect left behind what the sheriff described as three manifestos outlining his “disgusting ideology of hate” and his motive in the attack.

All three victims were Black.

Waters said the shooter lived in Clay County, Florida, south of Jacksonville, with his parents, and told his father by text to “check his computer.” The father found documents described by Waters as manifestos and called authorities.

But Waters said by the time authorities were alerted about the manifestos, the gunman had already started the attack in the Dollar General.

The shooting started shortly after 1 p.m. ET, blocks away from Edward Waters University, a historically Black school where students living on campus were told to stay in their residence halls.

Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan said the gunman barricaded himself inside the store after the attack. It was not immediately clear if victims were shot inside or outside the store.

The sheriff said investigators believe the gunman acted alone and wore both a tactical vest and mask. He was armed with an AR-15 style rifle and a handgun.

Waters showed photos of the weapons, which showed swastikas were drawn on one of the guns with white paint.

“We have opened a federal civil rights investigation, and we will pursue this incident as a hate crime,” said Sherri Onks, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Jacksonville office.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/26/us/jacksonville-florida-shooting-multiple-fatalities/index.html

UK: Muslim group that warned ‘keep away from enemies of Allah, Jews and Christians’ allowed to register as charity

An Islamic youth organisation was permitted to register as a charity, despite having been accused of antisemitism.

The Cricklewood Muslim Youth Trust (CMYT) posted a tweet in December 2021 warning Muslims: “Keep away from the enemies of Allaah the Jews and Christians [sic]”.

The group, which aims to advance Islamic religious practices, was not registered as a charity at the time of the post, which has since been deleted.

The charity regulator has been subject to criticism for allowing the CMYT to register earlier this year.

https://www.thejc.com/news/news/muslim-group-accused-of-antisemitism-allowed-to-register-as-charity-by-watchdog-5PBjmg4HWcGuUE5mNYxkHV

UK: Muslim group that warned ‘keep away from enemies of Allah, Jews and Christians’ allowed to register as charity

LIKE CLOCKWORK: Hollywood studios led by Lionsgate re-implement forced masking, daily testing for second round of COVID TYRANNY

Déjà vu is hitting la-la-land as Hollywood studio giant Lionsgate reinstates Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) mask and “testing” requirements for all Los Angeles-based office workers.

The first Hollywood studio to do so this time around, Lionsgate is leading the charge in requiring all in-office employees at its Santa Monica headquarters to wear a face mask at all times while inside the building, except when alone in an enclosed office or large open workspace, effective immediately.

These same employees will also now be required to shove a large cotton swab laced with who-knows-what up their nasal cavity in “test” for Fauci Flu germs that might be hiding in the mucus next to their brain.

This time around, though, any old face mask or bandana will not do. Lionsgate is requiring its employees to wear “a medical grade face covering (surgical mask, KN95 or N95) when indoors except when alone in an office with the door closed, actively eating, actively drinking at their desk or workstation, or if they are the only individual present in a large open workspace.”

(Related: The Biden regime is once again gearing up to unleash hell across America in the form of covid tyranny.)

JUST SAY NO to ALL forms of COVID 2.0 tyranny

The tyranny from Lionsgate arrives as the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is claiming that there has been a recent uptick in the number of new covid “transmissions,” though the agency admits that “overall metrics remain at a low level of concern.”

Sadly, but not surprisingly, Lionsgate is not alone in reinstating covid tyranny. Morris Brown College, a “historically black” no-name college in Atlanta, is likewise forcing everyone on its campus to mask up and stay away from other people, effective immediately, because of those scary covid germs they feel are floating all around us.

This is music to the ears of the Biden regime freak show as former Barack Hussein Obama official and MSNBC medical contributor Dr. Kavita Patel said just last month on the little-watched cable “news” network’s “José Díaz-Balart Reports” program that covid is supposedly on the rise again and that everyone should be wearing a mask so she and the rest of the covid weirdos can feel “safe.”

A repeat of 2020, which was also an election year, the sudden repeat of covid fearmongering is just in time for the 2024 election, which Democrats are gunning to steal a second time using covid as cover.

“Didn’t we already just conclude that the masks don’t work?” one commenter asked.

“Or the standing six feet apart which they made up on the spot,” responded another.

“The six-foot rule, and masks too, were both debunked back in the 1950s with the tuberculosis research conducted by Richard L. Riley at the Baltimore VA hospital,” explained someone else.

“Well, there is an election upcoming,” wrote another, echoing the sentiment of many who have seen this play out once already. “Without the mail-in fraud … I mean vote, how are Democrats going to win?”

“Maybe it’s wishful thinking on my part but I do think the tide is beginning to turn,” said someone else with slightly more optimism.

“The demon rats (Democrats) have been outed for the cheaters that they are, and I don’t think it’ll be quite so easy to get away with it this time, not that they won’t try.”

“This was as predictable as Joe falling up a flight of stairs boarding Air Force One,” joked another about this tired playbook of tyranny and election theft.

The latest news about covid can be found at Plague.info.

Sources for this article include:

Breitbart.com

NaturalNews.com

Gazette.com

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-08-24-hollywood-lionsgate-mask-mandate-daily-testing-covid.html

COVID 2.0? Biden planning to LOCK DOWN and MASK America starting in mid-September, TSA whistleblowers tell InfoWars

Whistleblowers from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Border Patrol say that another round of lockdowns, mask mandates, and other tyranny are coming down the pike mid-September, complements of fake president Joe Biden.

According to reports, this COVID 2.0 scenario will be incremental now that the corporate-controlled media is signaling the alleged emergence of another “highly mutated variant” of the Wuhan coronavirus that they are calling BA.2.86.

Even the New York Post, which is normally more skeptical of official government narratives, is fearmongering about BA.2.86, asking in a headline: “should we be wearing masks?”

The answer, of course, is a definitive no. Not only do face masks do absolutely nothing except make a person look stupid, but they also cause serious harm by restricting proper oxygen intake while overloading a person’s body with carbon dioxide (CO2), eventually triggering a nasty case of hypoxia.

(Related: Did you know that Biden created a permanent federal agency to deal with future “pandemics?” This means they are definitely going to unleash another round of lockdown terror when the time is right.)

Will this be the final “pandemic” that transitions the world into a new age?

According to the first source from TSA who spoke with Infowars about the matter, there are new memorandums and policies circulating within the federal agency that suggest forced masking of TSA employees, followed by forced masking of all airport employees, will begin as early as mid-September.

The first whistleblower says these policies will then expand by mid-October to include forced masking of all pilots, flight attendants, passengers, and airport patrons.

When Infowars was told about all this, it immediately reached out to a trusted Border Patrol source who confirmed that similar directives are being sent out across that agency as well.

By mid-October, it is expected that forced masking will once again become a thing probably across society as a whole. With that will come mandatory lockdowns and all of the same tyranny that was pushed on Americans the first time – though this time around it is expected to be much worse in scope.

Now that the “fully vaccinated” have had time for their immune systems to degrade due to antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), the time is ripe for another chemical or biological weapon like covid to be released – and all the fully jabbed who now basically have AIDS will catch it easily and probably suffer horrific consequences as a result.

This will spur nationwide panic as hordes of fully jabbed people fall ill in possibly a much worse and more overt way than covid, which was largely a scamdemic built on phony statistics and the illusion of mass death. This time around there is likely to actually be mass death, and primarily among those who got injected and whose bodies and immune systems are in the process of being destroyed.

“They were told it was not a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when’ official Covid numbers will go back up and they expect by mid-October a return to forced-masking policies that the Biden administration previously only reluctantly ended after massive pressure,” reports Infowars.

“Both whistleblowers were told this rollout will be in tandem with the new Covid ‘variant’ hysteria that the MSM has been reporting on this week.”

In short, the timing of this second rollout of “pandemic” tyranny perfectly coincides with the Biden regime’s need to create chaos and mass destruction before the next presidential election. The Biden regime also needs an excuse for the economy collapsing, which is closer than ever.

Biden is an illegitimate, deranged, totalitarian dictator and pedophile pervert who does not belong in the People’s House – and neither does the rest of his illegitimate freak show of a cabinet. Learn more at Treason.news.

Sources for this article include:

Infowars.com

NYPost.com

NaturalNews.com

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-08-20-covid-2-biden-lockdown-masks-september.html

Is It Time to Ban Electric Vehicles?

The New York Fire Department recently reported that so far this year there have been 108 lithium-ion battery fires in New York City, which have injured 66 people and killed 13. According to FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh, “There is not a small amount of fire, it (the vehicle) literally explodes.” The resulting fire is “very difficult to extinguish and so it is particularly dangerous.”

Last year there were more than 200 fires from batteries from e-bikes, EVs and other devices.

A fire ignited at an e-bike shop and killed four people near midnight on the morning of June 20. Two individuals were left in critical condition. The fire commissioner has warned New Yorkers that such devices could be very dangerous and typically explode in such a way that renders escape impossible.

FDNY also reports that in just three years, lithium-ion battery fires have surpassed those started by cooking and smoking as the most common causes of fatal fires in New York City. It’s happening all over the country as these blazes have become commonplace. Cars and e-bikes are randomly blowing up in driveways and garages.

Now let’s be honest: 13 deaths in a city the size of New York with some 8 million people is hardly an epidemic. Regulations should always be based on a cost versus benefit calculation, or there would be no cars at all.

And yet the same scaremongers on the left who have zero tolerance and want bans for small risks when it comes to everything from swimming pool diving boards, gas stoves, plastic straws, vaping, fireworks and so on, have a surprisingly high pain threshold when it comes to people dying or suffering critical injured from “green” electric battery fires.

Or consider this: In 1965, Ralph Nader almost single-handedly helped ban the popular Chevrolet Corvair — famous for its engine placed in the back trunk of the car. Nader’s bestselling shock book “Unsafe at Any Speed” declared the car was deadly. But there was no real evidence of that claim, and to this day there are no reliable statistics on how many passengers — if any — died in Corvairs from rear-end accidents.

What is indisputable is that EVs will cause far more deaths than Corvairs ever did.

One other example: There have been more fatalities in just one city in a single year from lithium-ion batteries in cars than all the people who died from the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear plant accident — which was zero.

Yet, after the accident, thanks to the environmentalists’ fear campaign (with the help of the blockbuster anti-nuke movie “The China Syndrome”), no domestic nuclear plants were built for three decades. That is despite the fact that nuclear plants emit no greenhouse gases.

But with EVs, the greens are pushing aside any concerns about the collateral damage of deaths and injuries. Biden wants to mandate that nearly ALL new cars sold in the U.S. be EVs by 2032. If that happens, many thousands of Americans may die or will be inured from electric vehicle fires.

All this is especially hypocritical because once upon a time the left’s mantra was “no trading blood for oil.” Now they are willing to trade blood in exchange for getting Americans to stop using oil. An irony of all this is that because of all the energy needed to produce windmills, solar panels and electric batteries, new studies are showing that the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions to this “net zero” transition is close to zero. It turns out, green energy causes some pollution, too.

For the record, I’m not in favor of the government banning EVs or e-bikes or just about anything. I just believe that we should make policy decisions based on real and factual risk assessments, not false scares and sensationalism.

As for the future of EVs, maybe it’s time for Ralph Nader to write a sequel to “Unsafe at Any Speed.”

Is It Time to Ban Electric Vehicles?

Kenya bans churches linked to starvation cult deaths of followers who wanted to ‘meet Jesus’

Kenya has banned five churches, including one led by a suspected cult leader accused of encouraging more than 400 followers to starve themselves to death, according to a government document released Friday.

The license of self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie’s Good News International Ministries was canceled effective May 19, the Registrar of Societies stated in a gazette notice, AFP reported.

Mackenzie allegedly incited his followers to starve to death to “meet Jesus,” a case that has deeply shocked Kenyans. While starvation is believed to be the main cause of death, some victims, including children, were strangled, beaten or suffocated, official autopsies revealed.

Authorities have also banned the New Life Prayer Centre and Church headed by televangelist Ezekiel Odero, the newswire reported, explaining he has been linked to Mackenzie and is under investigation for charges such as murder, aiding suicide, radicalization and money laundering.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/kenya-bans-churches-linked-to-starvation-cult-deaths.html

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Defeating Adventism #7 – “The Spirit of Prophecy” Ellen G. White James White -Seventh-day Adventist

Woman accused of drugging, robbing Miami men

MIAMI – Fingerprint evidence led Miami police to arrest a woman Thursday they said drugged and robbed at least two men.

Authorities jailed Danyelle Eans, 34, of west Miami-Dade, on two grand theft charges.

Police said in the first incident, on May 21, 2022, a man took Eans back to his Coconut Grove home where the two had drinks together. He told authorities he passed out and when he woke up later that afternoon, he noticed $41,280 worth of valuables were missing.

They said home surveillance video, seen below, showed Eans walking out the door with two bags full of the victim’s items.

olice said fingerprints taken from a glass, as well as bottles of alcohol and orange juice, came back to Eans, whom the victim later identified in a photo lineup.

According to an arrest report, in the second incident, on July 15, 2023, a man said he met Eans, a stranger, at MAD Club Wynwood, located at 55 NE 24th St., and he took her home to his downtown apartment early that morning.

He told police that the pair “continued to drink and shortly after they went into the bedroom,” the report states. Then, “out of nowhere,” he said he fell asleep.

Surveillance photos:

Surveillance photos of drugging and robbery suspect. (MPD)

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2023/08/18/woman-accused-of-drugging-robbing-miami-men/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=snd&utm_content=wplg10

LAWSUIT: FIRE sues to stop California from forcing professors to teach DEI

• The California Community Colleges’ regulations force professors to espouse controversial views about “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” 
• FIRE filed a lawsuit after the chancellor’s office ignored our warning that the regulations violated professors’ First Amendment rights.
• The regulations dictate how professors teach the approximately 1.8 million students enrolled in California community colleges.

FRESNO, Aug. 17, 2023 — Today, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression filed a lawsuit on behalf of six California community college professors to halt new, systemwide regulations forcing professors to espouse and teach politicized conceptions of “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

Each of the professors teach at one of three Fresno-area community colleges within the State Center Community College District. Under the new regulations, all of the more-than-54,000 professors who teach in the California Community Colleges system must incorporate “anti-racist” viewpoints into classroom teaching. 

The regulations explicitly require professors to pledge allegiance to contested ideological viewpoints. Professors must “acknowledge” that “cultural and social identities are diverse, fluid, and intersectional,” and they must develop “knowledge of the intersectionality of social identities and the multiple axes of oppression that people from different racial, ethnic, and other minoritized groups face.” Faculty performance and tenure will be evaluated based on professors’ commitment to and promotion of the government’s viewpoints. 

“I’m a professor of chemistry. How am I supposed to incorporate DEI into my classroom instruction?” asked Reedley College professor Bill Blanken. “What’s the ‘anti-racist’ perspective on the atomic mass of boron?”

“These regulations are a totalitarian triple-whammy,” said FIRE attorney Daniel Ortner. “The government is forcing professors to teach and preach a politicized viewpoint they do not share, imposing incomprehensible guidelines, and threatening to punish professors when they cross an arbitrary, indiscernible line.”

DEI requirements are controversial within academia. FIRE’s research indicates that half of professors believe mandatory diversity statements violate academic freedom. The sole mention of academic freedom in California’s model framework frames it an inconvenience, warning professors not to “‘weaponize’ academic freedom” to “inflict curricular trauma on our students.”

https://www.thefire.org/news/lawsuit-fire-sues-stop-california-forcing-professors-teach-dei

Bangladeshi Fury After U.S. Visa Granted to Dangerous Hate Preacher

Bangladeshi Fury After U.S. Visa Granted to Dangerous Hate Preacher

Bangladeshi American and other Bengali activists have condemned a decision by U.S. border authorities to admit extremist preacher, Mizanur Rahman Azhari, into the United States to speak at an Islamist conference in Philadelphia.

Azhari entered the United States despite being previously excluded from the United Kingdom because of his extremism, and is reportedly in exile from his home country of Bangladesh.

Azhari’s extremism is indisputable. In an undated video disseminated among Bangladeshi activists, and translated by FWI, Azhari declares that Hitler was “divine punishment” for the Jews, blames the Jews for various troubles of the world, including AIDS, and states that, “The Jews are the biggest terrorists of the world” and a “poisonous blemish.”

White Crime Report: Crime Report: Zachery Ty Bryan’s Arrested…Again!

Laws requiring climate change content in K-12 education follow push from colleges

While nods to the climate change agenda have been creeping into curricula for years, becoming increasingly commonplace in American K-12 classrooms, some states are now codifying the topic into elementary and high school education through legislative mandate.

New Jersey’s new educational standards, passed in 2020, require climate change content to be integrated into K-12 classrooms– at all grade levels and in seemingly unrelated subjects like physical education and art. New Jersey was the first state to pass such standards, but other states are following suit, as recently highlighted by Edutopia.

Connecticut passed similar standards in July. 

A bill introduced in California would require the K-12 curriculum “to emphasize the causes and effects of climate change as soon as possible,” and eventually require that mandated high school science courses “include material on the causes and effects of climate change.”

[RELATED: Leo DiCaprio teams up with UCLA to train kids as young as 4 to be ‘climate warriors’]

New York could soon institute requirements for a “climate change and sustainability curriculum” in all grade levels and an initiative to adjust ”social studies, economics, geography, and government classes” to include climate change material.

The push to integrate climate change-oriented education for K-12 students often comes from institutions of higher education.

https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=23648

Defeating Adventism #6 – Who Changed the Sabbath

This is the sixth video in the series of Defeating Adventism. This video discusses a well-known topic among Sabbatarians and Seventh-day Adventists in particular and that is: “Who changed the Sabbath?” Watch and be surprised to discover what, if anything changed regarding the Sabbath.

Majority of Canadians believe Trudeau’s immigration targets will negatively impact housing costs

A majority of Canadians believe the Trudeau government’s plan to increase immigration targets to 500,000 immigrants a year will have a negative impact on the cost of housing.

The Nanos Research poll commissioned by Bloomberg News revealed that a total of 68% of Canadians surveyed said they believe increased immigration targets will either negatively impact or somewhat negatively impact the cost of housing. 

Twenty percent believe more immigrants will have a positive impact or somewhat positive impact, 7% believe it will have no impact and 5% are unsure.

Majority of Canadians believe Trudeau’s immigration targets will negatively impact housing costs

Mercedes Carrera Pretrial Date Postponed Another Month

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. — The criminal trial of Mercedes Carrera and her husband on multiple child sexual abuse charges has been postponed again.

At a hearing Tuesday, Judge Katrina West reset the pretrial date to September 14.

The first pretrial hearing for the case took place in July 2022, with an Oct. 3, 2022 date agreed upon for the beginning of the jury trial. Since then, however, the trial date has been repeatedly vacated and postponed.

Carrera and her husband, Jason Whitney, were arrested after a police raid of their Rancho Cucamonga home on Feb. 1, 2019.

By the new pretrial date, they will have been in the county jail awaiting trial for well over four and half years, held initially without bail and later, after they had liquidated their assets and had no source of income due to their incarceration, with bail set at $2 million for each.

Last month, two different YouTube channels published audio recordings purporting to be recent interviews with Carrera taped via phone from the West Valley Corrections Center.

During these interviews, Carrera expresses frustration with the conditions of her imprisonment and the handling of her case by the arresting officers, and questions some of the decisions made by her own legal counsel, who was appointed for her by the state.

For more of XBIZ’s coverage of the Mercedes Carrera case, click here.

https://www.xbiz.com/news/276005/mercedes-carrera-pretrial-date-postponed-another-month

College students’ latest headache? Digital access fees on top of rising textbook prices

As a newly arrived freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Kailey Brack stood in the aisles at the University Book Store, staring in disbelief at the plastic-wrapped bundle for her intro-level English course.

The bundle, required by her professor, included a textbook, a workbook and a writing guide, along with an online access code. The price: $230.

Brack, 19, of Chicago, walked out in shock.

“I didn’t even buy it that day,” she says. “I was, like, ‘This can’t be right.’ ”

But the price was correct.

Brack ended up trekking back to the book store and making the painful purchase, as well as spending about $165 more for books and lab materials for her other two classes — for a total of $395 for this semester, which Brack calls “overwhelming.”

As college students have headed back to class this fall, they’ve been grappling not only with textbooks that cost more than twice what their parents paid, but they’re also increasingly faced with having to buy online access codes in addition.

And now the proposed merger next year of two of the textbook industry’s biggest players — McGraw-Hill and Cengage — could end up squeezing students even more, consumer advocates warn, though the companies say that won’t happen.

The college textbook landscape is far different from when the parents of today’s students were in college, and printed textbooks were less expensive and often resold again and again.

Textbook publishers now push digital access codes through which students can get online reading material, take quizzes and even submit homework.

Unlike printed textbooks, a digital access code can be used only once. That means students can’t do the digital equivalent of reselling their textbooks when they’re through with them in hopes of getting back some of what they paid, says Nicole Allen, director of open education for the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, a group funded by university libraries. The group has asked the Justice Department to block the merger on antitrust grounds.

Students who don’t buy an access code that’s linked to homework could forfeit as much as 15 percent toward their final grade, according to Allen. As a result, the publishers have “a captive market,” she says.

“You have to buy it in order to do the work,” says Brack’s fellow freshman, Riley Olson of Cambridge, Wisconsin, who spent about $300 this semester on books and access codes.

Textbook giants plan merger

The Cengage and McGraw-Hill merger, announced in May and expected to go through in early 2020 if the Justice Department doesn’t move to block, would leave the new company and Pearson as the two giant players in the industry.

The textbook industry in the past was “very aggressive in raising prices,” says Michael E. Hansen, chief executive officer of Cengage, who would head the merged company.

But putting such a heavy burden on students was a mistake, Hansen says: “You cannot run a successful strategy if you don’t have the benefit of the end-user in mind.”

He says that even though the digital materials can’t be resold, they ultimately will save students money.

According to figures from the National Association of College Stores, student spending on course materials has begun to drop — from an average of $701 a year in the 2007-08 school year to $415 in 2018-19.

Last year, Cengage launched a Netflix-style subscription model: Students pay a flat rate of $120 a semester and get access to 22,000 online products. McGraw-Hill has a similar subscription service.

‘We’re broke college students’

Chicagoan Jevone Mayes, 21, a senior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, tries to save as much as possible on books. This semester, she scored a sign-language textbook, normally $70, for $17 used. Another time, she split the cost of a book with a classmate.

But with access codes, Mayes says, that’s impossible. She’s annoyed about the $60 she had to pay for an access code for a geology class not in her major.

“We’re broke college students,” Mayes says. “We don’t need to be spending all this money when it’s so expensive to go here already.”

Some academic innovators, such as OpenStax at Rice University in Houston and the Open Textbook Network in Minneapolis, encourage professors to use their free, open-source materials to help bring costs down for students.

Last spring, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, introduced the Affordable College Textbook Act, which would authorize grants to create and expand the availability of open textbooks nationwide. Durbin says having free materials would help students more than the planned corporate merger will.

“I’m skeptical that consolidating market power in the textbook industry is in the best interests of students in the long term,” Durbin says. “We’ve seen what happens when there is too little competition in this industry — prices soar, leading to more student debt.”

https://chicago.suntimes.com/consumer-affairs/2019/9/13/20863263/college-students-textbook-savings-online-digital-access-code-cengage-mcgraw-hill-merger-student-debt