The Islamic State has reportedly issued a fatwa ordering the elimination of children with Down syndrome and other congenital disabilities, reminiscent of Hitler’s infamous “Aktion T4” program, which administered forced “euthanasia” on an estimated 300,000 disabled persons.
A Riyadh-based “Islamic military alliance” has been formed to fight terrorism, Saudi Arabian state TV has announced. The coalition consists of 34 countries, including the Gulf States, a number of African countries, Turkey, Egypt, Malaysia and Pakistan.
Every morning at 2 a.m., they heard a kick on the door and a threat: Get up or get beaten. For the next 16 hours, No. 31 and his wife stood in the factory that owned them with their aching hands in ice water. They ripped the guts, heads, tails and shells off shrimp bound for overseas markets, including grocery stores and all-you-can-eat buffets across the United States.
Julie Bindel is a misandrist feminist who is a regular columnist for the Guardian newspaper and she wants to introduce concentration camps for all men, a group she doesn’t actually even regard as human.
One day, a historian will pinpoint exactly when we in the West started talking about Muslims. It came surprisingly late. Even in anti-immigration rhetoric, mention of religion used to be rare. The issue then was race. Enoch Powell’s famous “Rivers of Blood” speech of 1968 did not tackle religion.
George Orwell devised the word ‘unperson’ to describe someone who had so offended official thought, he or she was vaporised — not just liquidated but wiped from the record for eternity.
That way the unperson couldn’t set a bad example. All memory of the impertinence would be forgotten, Comrades! Orwell was satirising Stalin’s Russia, where such practices were all too common.
When a Politburo member called Nikolai Yezhov, People’s Commissar for Water Transport, fell out of favour with Joseph Stalin in 1940, he was not just killed. He was not the only one.
It’s been a year since Rolling Stone magazine published its infamous “Rape on Campus.”
The story should serve as a wake-up call for anyone who calls themselves a journalist, blogger, non-fiction writer or anyone who claims that their mission is to seek the truth and share it with others.
A Horrific new video shows Islamic State militants beheading two “magicians” accused of sorcery as a crowd of people cheered.
Children were among those witnessing the beheading, which apparently took place in Sirte, Libya.
As the holidays approach and Canadians dig through their pockets to support charitable causes, The Huffington Post Canada has learned several Quebec MPs — mostly New Democrats — have been using their office budgets to support third-party organizations.
The rules officially state that MPs cannot use any of their budgets for third-party fundraising, events, groups or causes.
Montreal-area Liberal MP Emmanuel Dubourg told HuffPost he doesn’t know how the NDP MPs could donate to charities.
Tuesday, the IMF joined the New Cold War. It has been lending money to Ukraine despite the Fund’s rules blocking it from lending to countries with no visible chance of paying (the “No More Argentinas” rule from 2001). When IMF head Christine Lagarde made the last IMF loan to Ukraine in the spring, she expressed the hope that there would be peace. But President Porochenko immediately announced that he would use the proceeds to step up his nation’s civil war with the Russian-speaking population in the East – the Donbass.
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