of a mass shooting. this one at an elementary school. in about a half an hour, we expect an update from greg abbott on yesterday s shooting at rob elementary school. police say the shooter, armed with an ar-style rifle and wearing the type of vest tactical teams use, entered the school, barricaded himself in a classroom, and opened fire. police say they eventually had to break windows to evacuate other students and staffers. as investigators continue to piece together what transpired, they re learning more about the suspect himself. they have identified him as 18-year-old uvalde resident. no friend or girlfriend that we can identify. it s hard to identify what caused or sent this individual to, you know, complete this heinous act, this evil act. it shows you pure evilness with this individual going into a school, barricading himself inside a classroom, and shooting children and teachers. meanwhile, in washington flags are flying at half-staff outside the white house the d
16 May 2021
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed that Muslims in Europe live in what amounts to an “open-air prison” and that Islamophobia was as dangerous as the Wuhan coronavirus.
The Turkish leader made his statements earlier this week during a television broadcast in which he criticised European countries for “Islamophobia”, saying: “The Islamophobia virus, as dangerous as coronavirus, is spreading rapidly, especially in European countries.”
According to a report from the Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency, President Erdogan went on to add: “Europe, where 35 million Muslims live today, including six million Turks, is increasingly turning into an open-air prison for our brothers and sisters.”
16 Feb 2021
PARIS (AP) – France´s lower house of parliament is voting Tuesday on a bill that would strengthen government oversight of mosques and religious schools and crack down on polygamy and forced marriage, among other measures aimed at rooting out Islamic radicalism.
The bill is part of broader French efforts to fight extremism in recent years that gained new urgency after a teacher was beheaded in October and other attacks. President Emmanuel Macron says the efforts are also needed to protect French values like gender equality and secularism from encroaching fundamentalism in some communities.
But many French Muslims say the draft law limits religious freedom and unfairly targets them, and say France already has enough laws to fight terrorist violence. Critics call the bill a political maneuver by Macron to win support from conservative and far-right voters ahead of next year´s presidential election.
French Teen Who Criticised Islam Receives 30 Hate Messages a Minute
19 Jan 2021
The French teenager who received death threats after criticising Islam online and was briefly the subject of a hate crime investigation receives 30 hate messages a minute.
Mila, then aged 16, came to media attention in February 2020 when she was subject to a “hate provocation” investigation after making comments critical of Islam, at one point saying to a social media user: “I hate religion. The Quran is… full of hate. There is only hate in it. Islam is a shit religion. That’s what I think.”
The local public prosecutor dropped the case against the young woman, proceeding to investigate the barrage of death threats being levelled against her.
there s no boundary that says, no, don t go further than this. i had a guy on the other night, i said, the standard question, which he called me taking him down the rabbit hole. i did my sort of mental check. i said, was president obama a lim legitimately elected president? he said, i m not going down that rabbit hole. i knew you d do that. classic rabbit hole, chris. is this president the president of the united states? that is considered a trick question. well, i think, chris, it speaks to an evolution, one of the kind of plot lines that s unfolding in the president s in the white house telling us there s going to be a focus on executive action. the idea of recognizing the opposition to what it is, rachel. two things have happened in that relationship. one, the shutdown and catastrophic political consequences for the gop when the president held firm and stared them down, two, the filibuster, which was supposed to be the end of the republic and led to a bunch of people