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The path that led to a 19 year old Melbourne man plunging a knife between a policeman's eyes.

This is Senior Constable Daniel Yeomans of the Victoria Police.

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(Photo from the Police Association of Victoria)

On 18 November last year Senior Constable Yeomans and his wife went to bed, safe and sound in their own home.

Daniel wake up to horrifying screams coming from their kitchen.

He recognised his wife's voice and ran to her.

It was 1.45AM.  His kitchen, his home - and 19 year old Jade HUNIA was in it with a knife in his hand.

Yesterday the Melbourne Magistrates' Court heard HUNIA plead guilty to "recklessly" causing serious injury to Daniel, common assault, car theft and entering a building with intent to steal. After a plea deal and prosecutors had withdrawn more serious charges.

Senior Constable Yeoman's statement to investigating police was released by the court yesterday.

"(Hunia) had his right hand above his shoulder with the knife in his hand, blade pointing towards me," 

"He launched at me and punched me with the knife once on my face. I felt he punched me in the forehead.

"I stepped back and felt blood on my face. I looked down, blood was dropping on the floor.

"I looked up and saw the knife in his hand. 

He said 'Where are your keys?' 

I said 'On the bench.' "

This is Jade HUNIA in a photo he posted 2 days before the home invasion and knife attack that could have killed Daniel Yeomans.

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Hunia published details of his life leading up the attack, it's still there today on his Facebook page.

On 26 August, 2016, two and a half months before he plunged a knife into Daniel Yeoman's forehead, HUNIA had cause to celebrate what he called "My Day One".  

It was a new beginning, but not too new.  Just so there was no confusion HUNIA wrote "Fuck The Police".

His friend Malik Mulipola added "This is the way we like to live life, a thrill Nigga".

"Love you too," replied Hunia of their photo together in a toilet.

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On 6 October 2016, just over a month before the attack, HUNIA was cruising in someone's ride.  

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A friend commented, "I can only see one c*nt with a licence, and he ain't in the front seat".

On 9 October HUNIA gave us what in retrospect is a horrifying insight into what amuses him.  

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Charming.

On Monday 10 October HUNIA was feeling like the devil, wetting himself laughing.

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A friend said, "They were meant to be everywhere on Saturday night, I couldn't find one".

HUNIA, "Hahaha, they're useless".

Exactly one month before he launched at Daniel Yeomans with a knife, HUNIA partied.

"Me no love all those pretty boy antics", he said of this photo.

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The next day HUNIA didn't want the party to end.

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Then nothing.

For more than a week.

Until we get the explanation - and the decision that could have cost Daniel Yeomans his life.

On 24 October, just 3 weeks before HUNIA stole the Yeoman's sense of security in their home, he was out.  Again.    

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HUNIA has 2,556 friends on Facebook.  Support for him flooded in.  Hardly the "marginalised disaffected youth excluded from society".

The theme of most messages was, "Stay out this time.  Stay out of trouble this time. Take care of yourself."

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104 people sent messages of love supporting him.  He had pages of supportive messages.

He posted this photograph of himself dressed for his appearance.  I'll spare you his accompanying commentary.

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And it did go well - if you consider that a man capable of what HUNIA did should have been out.  On bail.  Because that's what happened.

On 4 November, just two weeks before he broke into Daniel Yeoman's home with the intention of committing further serious offences once he got in, HUNIA was on top of the world.

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By the next day happy wasn't enough.

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And the day after kicking on was top of mind.

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Kick-ons, that is, until the hangover kicked in.

Later that night he changed his status update to "sick" with the commentary "Never again".

He should have taken his own advice.

Or the advice and support from family and friends numbering in the hundreds.

On 12 November 2016 he posted his last message to Facebook declaring his love for his other half.

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A few days later he stabbed Daniel Yeomans between the eyes.

He was charged with doing it intentionally.

In a plea deal that charge was reduced to recklessly launching himself at Daniel Yeoman, after breaking into Yeoman's house while armed with a knife at 1.45AM.  And all of that happened while he was on bail for previous offences.

Dan Yeoman's dad is also a copper.

Detective Senior Sergeant David Yeomans spoke to the media after his son's attack.

"The recovery is going to long and arduous, they're traumatised - with concern mostly for their children".

"Physically the injuries will heal, emotionally will take a lot longer".

I know 3 people who've had home or car invasions in Victoria in the past few months.

The place is out of control.

HUNIA will get out of gaol.

But he has taken something from the Yeoman's family that is gone forever.

 


Compare and contrast cream of Australian youth - 1940s to now

Participation Agreement - Australians 18YO+ - 1942

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Participation Agreement - Australians 18YO+ - 2017

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To respect and uphold the safer space and grievance policy at all times.

To have read or heard trigger warnings for each workshop I attend and to use relevant trigger warnings when expressing opinions and experiences

To always get explicit verbal consent before touching someone or crossing their personal boundaries.

To listen to everyone’s opinions and experiences without interrupting or arguing afterwards, unless said opinion violates safer space or grievance policy.

To recognize that everyone has personal experiences which helps forms their opinion, and we should respect that opinion unless it violates the safer space and grievance policy agreements.

To not generalize your experience to that of various groups of people, and to not generalize opinions to that of various groups.

To not get antagonistic when someone asks you to stop if you overstep these boundaries or violate the safer spaces or grievance policy agreements.

To respect all physical, mental & emotional boundaries at all time and make sure you have complete continual consent in any situations where it is required.

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VIDEO - Ogling O'Connor puts people first. Except for "one old bloke with a GoPro".

One day this week the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance failed to send Canberra Press Gallery operatives to play their part in the Labor spin cycle.

It's so hard to find good help.

 

Thanks David Sharaz for that enlightening video.

Last June, O'Connor was happy to pose for Melbourne constituent Bill Thomson at Southbank.

That is until he realised what Bill wanted to talk about.  

His face says it all the moment Bill utters the word "ogling".

 

Brendan gets upset when the MEAA operatives don't front to hear him.

Bill Thomson goes out of his way to give Brendan an outlet.

Brendan "puts people first".

He is a passionate advocate for social justice and the people of Western Melbourne.

Except for "one old bloke with a GoPro" outside the ABC studios.

This is from last November.

Part One  O'Connor - man of the people - spots Bill and won't exit the limo, won't wind down the window and definitely won't risk being courteous.  O'Connor drives off as Bill says, "Can you believe this shit?"

 

In Part Two, O'Connor having lapped the block awaiting ABC security staff (triple time and a half penalty for Sunday) to open the security door to the Safe Space underground car park.  Time is ticking and Barrie Cassidy waits for no one.  

So Brave Brendan has no choice but to cross the road and run the risk of Bill saying hello.

Having treated Bill with absolute contempt on the way in - you'd hope perhaps on the way out he might have said hello once the pressure of his appearance was off.

What was I thinking?

The lousy bastard waited - on the phone with the limo driver - until our limo paid for by us was pulling up.

And all to avoid Bill.

Here's O'Connor avoiding Bill with extreme prejudice in the centre of Melbourne one month earlier.

Maybe if Bill Thomson was younger with good legs in a skirt Brendan might have given him a bit more attention.

 

Irony, thy name is Ogling O'Connor.

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US House of Reps passes Honest Science Act - requires the truth from climate cult people

This act is a ripper.

Simple.

Concise.

Straight to the point.

Don't pretend the science is settled - and don't bother coming on Monday if your models don't match reality.

I wish we had a journalist who would ask Malcolm Turnbull whether he proposes to bring similar legislation here.

If not, why not?  Don't Australians deserve the truth?  That's all this Act demands Malcolm

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4Corners is a formidable investigative resource - why does it cover Pauline Hanson but not Gillard?

On Monday ABC 4 Corners brings its considerable resources to bear against Pauline Hanson's One Nation - even though the ABC is regularly at pains to talk down her significance and electoral prospects.

 

Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party chose not to cooperate with the ABC during the WA election.

The ABC was not happy.

It issued this statement following the campaign.

ABC News editorial director's statement on not being invited to Pauline Hanson's party

Statement from ABC Editorial Director: exclusion of ABC journalists by One Nation officials

The ABC is deeply concerned at the decision by One Nation to single out and exclude ABC reporters from its official election night function in Perth on Saturday night.

I have been in communication with One Nation officials since early Sunday seeking an explanation.

Despite the fact that One Nation has claimed that all media were treated appropriately and obtained material from a pool camera on the night, the facts remain that:

  • Other media representatives from a range of organisations attended on the night without any prior arrangements or permission being required.
  • Those other media representatives, who included broadcasters, agencies and newspaper reporters from inside and outside Western Australia, were granted immediate access to the event.
  • The ABC was denied access, and was treated differently to all other media.

Throughout the Western Australian election campaign, the ABC has provided accurate, impartial and independent political coverage and all political parties have been the subject of appropriate scrutiny and questioning.

If the ABC has been denied normal access to political events for simply doing its job, then that is an attack not just on the public broadcaster but on the fundamental role of the media in a democracy.

We will continue, as we always have, to report without fear or favour.

Alan Sunderland

ABC Editorial Director

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There's no doubt there's bad blood between the ABC and Pauline Hanson.

But 4Corners is a very expensive national asset.  It's not the plaything of the ABC's staff collective.

Now listen again to the promotion for Monday night's show.

The promo could equally have been written featuring Bob Kernohan and others in 2012 regarding Gillard and her secretive deals with the AWU.

"A political party is supposed to be transparent, democratic, inclusive and the party at the moment is not any of those things."Former Party Worker

"If the public knew what went on in the Party I don't think they'd have anything to do with One Nation." Former Candidate

In 2012 I spent days at the ABC going through the paperwork and other evidence I had gathered setting out the story of Gillard and the AWU Scandal.

Jonathon Holmes was my first port of call.  He was quite reasonable, gave me a lot of time and realised that his first commentary on the scandal when I was suspended was wrong.  He atoned with this: 

 
He also took me to the 4 Corners offices and arranged meetings for me with the Executive Producer and reporters.
 
I know that 4Corners people set to work on a story regarding Gillard and the AWU Scandal.
 
I know people like Bob Kernohan were spoken to.
 
But in the end, the story of the prime minister who was under police investigation for fraud was canned.
 
All the comments from members of the tiny Pauline Hanson One Nation Party could equally apply to Gillard's Labor Government which was in power when 4Corners decided to drop the story.
 
Pauline Hanson offers the ABC nothing.  But who decides what gets covered at 4Corners and what doesn't?
 
I'd hate to think it's payback for Pauline.
 
But at the same time the ABC decided to drop the story on Gillard, Gillard gave them $190M of our money. 
 

The ABC did very well out of the Rudd/Gillard Governments - as a result you'd hope it was extra careful about bias.

The ABC tells us it was pleased with the extra financial support that the Rudd and Gillard governments gifted to it.  On the other hand, the ABC had contingency plans to deal with widely expected funding cuts should the coalition win government.

The ABC should have been aware of the potential conflict of interest it could be accused of in any perceived reporting that favoured Labor.   Where actual complaints of bias were made to the ABC you'd hope the ABC would act swiftly to correct the perception.   And where newsworthy events that reflected poorly on Labor happened,you'd hope the ABC would be assiduous in covering them.

In the context of an extra $190M in ABC funding that the Gillard Government decided on in June this year - smack bang in the middle of the search warrant reports in other media - the absence of any reporting at all on the issue takes on potentially sinister overtones.

ABC Managing Director Mark Scott was equipped with 102 pages of "priority briefing notes" prepared by ABC staffers when he fronted the October 2012 Senate Estimates hearings.

His briefing notes were released under FOI in May this year.

Page One of 102 pages recorded how well the ABC had done out of the Rudd years.

The ABC wanted an extra TV network - ABC3 - and it got its way with $67M.

The ABC wanted more money for its local drama producing mates - they're very expensive if you want to see them happy and smiling.   $70 million extra for that.

$15.3 was found for ABC Open - along with an extra $13.6 for some capital spending.   All in all the ABC was very happy.

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In 2013 under Ms Gillard the ABC was hit with the lucky stick again!  Here's the official statement reporting that the Gillard goverment found an extra $190M for its ABC - this was first published by then Minister Steven Conroy's office in June 2013 - right in the middle of the ABC's non-reporting of the Victoria Police search warrant proceedings.

Funding

The ABC is primarily financed by the federal government through triennial funding arrangements. In the 2013-14 Budget, the government is providing the ABC with an additional $30 million over three years to meet the growing demand for its digital services. The ABC will also receive $69.4 million over four years from 2012-13 to expand its news and current affairs services. In addition, the government will provide a loan of $90 million over three years to the ABC to assist with the construction of a purpose-built ABC facility at Southbank, Melbourne.

In 2013-14, government funding to the ABC will total $1.05 billion.

You can add the Australia Network contract worth $233M over the next decade - gifted to the ABC in perpetuity after Julia Gillard's intervention.

Mark Scott and the team were thrilled with Labor.   How about the coalition, what impact did the ABC plan for - what did the ABC itself think of the prospect of having the coalition in charge.

Mark Scott carried these public statements from his Chairman Justice Jim Spiegelman in his pack of Senate Estimates papers.

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So - Labor financially good for the ABC.  The Coalition would probably mean cuts to its funding.

Pretty strong motivation to look after their 190M dollar girl.

 

Monash University to protect students from reality - trigger warnings so kids can avoid growing up

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On Wednesday night the ABC's 730 program brought us news of Monash University's decision to fold to student demands over "trigger warnings".

A "trigger warning" is an alert that something you don't want to hear might be coming up.  The idea is that students should have the right to submit a list of verboten topics and to be warned in advance and given time to leave the room before a word of unpleasantness is spoken.

One of the groups that lobbied for protection from maturity is NOWSA.

What is NOWSA?

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What exactly is NOWSA?

NOWSA is the acronym for the Network of Women Students Australia. The Network Of Women Students Australia was established in 1987, and founded on ideals of creating a grassroots, autonomous network concerned with issues that impact women and women students.

Every year, NOWSA hosts a conference in collaboration with an Australian University Union. The conference provides an opportunity for women identifying students to engage with personal, political, social, and cultural issues that effect women. The environment allows students to share resources, skills and knowledge. Attendees also have the opportunity to work together to develop strategies to improve the experiences of women in Australia.

ENDS

The trigger warning bell at Women Identifying Students shindigs goes off a lot.

Here's the official list of iss-ewes which cannot be spoken of unless the sisters get Trigger Warning and time to avoid reality.

PS - check out their source at the tail end - and please take this as my one and only trigger warning for the language used by the students who identify as women.  Most unladylike.

Trigger Warning Policy

What is a trigger?

A trigger is something that evokes a strong negative response in the viewer/reader. A trigger may cause an intense reaction such as a panic attack, flashback, or symptoms associated with PTSD. It may invoke aspects of a persons mental illness or it may cause great anguish to the person viewing or reading it.


A trigger warning alerts the reader/viewer to the fact that a discussion contains potentially distressing material.


A trigger warning (TW) is a short note before a blog post, picture, video, or other content that warns readers/viewers about an aspect of the content that may trigger them. At the very least, it allows for people to assess their current mental state before continuing to consume content that may negatively alter their wellbeing.

Why do you use trigger warnings?

Trigger warnings are used at NOWSA to preserve the conference as a safe and inclusive space for all attendees wishing to engage in discussions while at the conference. The NOWSA Organising Committee values the mental health of others, and understands that sometimes these warnings are needed to continue to overcome, heal, and avoid content that would negatively impact on an individual.

How do I format a trigger warning?

For NOWSA attendees, it is important to include trigger warnings in the published description of your workshop and at the beginning of the workshop, and to then give a quick break for people to be able to leave inconspicuously. It is also beneficial to give another quick trigger warning immediately before discussing the topic.

For example, if you are presenting a written piece of work that details an experience of sexual assault, at the beginning of the piece you may write:

“TW: sexual assault; sexual harassment.”

For spoken trigger warning, you may say, for example:

I would like to trigger warn that I am about to go into a detailed discussion about an experience of sexual assault. Please feel free to leave at any time throughout this discussion if you wish.”

Attendees should also make efforts to drop trigger warnings in general discussion, conference floor and workshops.

When you do warn about triggers, please be respectful, make sure you cover as many as you can think of, be clear, add extra emphasis if needed, and only warn about things that are triggers. To trigger warn unnecessarily undermines the system because it puts ‘being annoyed’ or ‘being mildly angry’ alongside ‘being greatly distressed or triggered’.

Here is a more extensive list:

Please note this is still a work in progress, and don’t hesitate to send the NOWSA Organising Committee an email if there is something you think should be added.

  • Ableism
  • Ableist slurs
  • Abuse:
    • Physical
    • Mental
    • Emotional
    • Verbal
    • Sexual
    • Financial 
  • Blood
  • Body image
  • Body horror
  • Child abuse
  • Classism
  • Corpses, skulls or skeletons
  • Death/Murder
  • Drug use or talk of drugs (legal, illegal or psychiatric)
  • Eating disorders
  • Eye contact (scopophobia)
  • Fat shaming
  • Flashing lights 
  • Food
  • Gore
  • Harassment
  • Hate crimes
  • Insects
  • Islamophobia
  • Kidnapping 
  • Medical procedures
  • Mental illness
  • Misophonia
  • Nazi paraphernalia
  • Needles
  • Panic attacks
  • Pedophilia
  • Pregnancy
  • Queerphobia
  • Queerphobic slurs 
  • Racism
  • Racist slurs 
  • Rape
  • Scarification
  • Self harm 
  • Self-injurious behavior
  • Serious injury
  • Sex
  • Sexism
  • Sexist slurs
  • Sex shaming
  • Sexual assault
  • Slimy things
  • Snakes
  • Spiders
  • Suicide
  • Racism
  • Classism 
  • Body-shaming 
  • Cultural shaming
  • Xenophobia 
  • Transphobia 
  • Transphobic slurs 
  • Transmisogyny 
  • Trichitillomania
  • Trypophobia
  • Violence
  • Vomit
  • Warfare
  • Weapons

Sources: Kyriarchy & Privilege 101 Fuck Yeah Trigger Warnings The Feminist Network

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Isn't Ableism a little beauty!

TRIGGER WARNING - ABLEISM - sorry for the unintentional distress, I'm walking.

The women, sorry, students-identifying-as-women have plenty more concocted crap in their books.

There's a safer spaces policy - providing a refuge from femmephobia and other made up boogey men.

A policy to encourage a lifetime habit of complaints and grievance - it runs for a few pages and just when you think all the angles are covered, up pops this last little gem:

Individuals may wish for their grievances to be resolved within their relevant autonomous collectives or caucuses (Indigenous, WoC, Queer, Disabilities, etc) to ensure that the mediation process is appropriate and safe.

 

We now have an optional education system, where reality can be avoided and responsibility for protecting students from the real world rests with the university.
 
Shame the real world doesn't work that way.
 
But I'm sorry, we can't discuss that, trigger warning.

Julie Bishop's friends in Iran sentence 19 year old conscript to death for insulting the prophet

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No one who values free speech could support Islam.

And no one with self-respect could deal with a regime who could do this.

https://www.iranhumanrights.org/2017/03/young-man-facing-death-for-insulting-islam-online-tricked-into-signing-confession/

 

Young Man Facing Death for Insulting Islam Online Tricked into Signing Confession

 
 

Sina Dehghan, sentenced to death for “insulting the prophet” of Islam when he was 19-years-old, was tricked into signing his confession, an informed source told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). 

Despite the severity of the charge, a court-appointed attorney who failed to defend him properly represented him during his trial, added the source, who requested anonymity for security reasons.

“During his interrogation, Sina was told that if he signed a confession and repented, he would be pardoned and let go,” said the source in an interview with CHRI on March 21, 2017. “Unfortunately, he made a childish decision and accepted the charges. Then they sentenced him to death.”

“Later he admitted that he signed the confession hoping to get freed,” said  the source. “Apparently the authorities also got him to confess in front of a camera as well.”

“Security and judicial authorities promised Sina’s family that if they didn’t make any noise about his case, he would have a better chance of being freed, and that talking about it to the media would work against him,” added the source. “Unfortunately, the family believed those words and stopped sharing information about his case and discouraged others from sharing it as well.”

“Sina is not feeling well,” continued the source. “He’s depressed and cries constantly. He’s being held in a ward with drug convicts and murderers who broke his jaw a while ago.”

“He was a 19-year-old boy at the time (of his arrest) and had never done anything wrong in his life,” added the source.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested Dehghan on October 21, 2015 at a military barracks in Tehran after he made comments against Islam and the Quran on the LINE instant messaging application. He has been imprisoned in Arak Prison ever since.

Initially, Branch 1 of the Criminal Court in Arak sentenced Dehghan to death for “insulting the prophet” and 16 months in prison for “insulting the supreme leader.” The Supreme Court confirmed his death sentence in late January, according to the source.

Deghan’s co-defendants, Sahar Eliasi and Mohammad Nouri, were also convicted of posting anti-Islamic content on social media. 

Nouri was issued the death sentence, which was upheld by the Appeals Court, but it is not known if the Supreme Court has issued a final ruling.

Eliasi was initially issued a seven-year prison sentence, which was later reduced to three years upon appeal.

According to article 262 of Iran’s Islamic Penal Code, insulting the prophet is punishable by death. However, Article 263 states that if the accused tells the court that his insults were the result of anger or a mistake, the sentence could be reduced to 74 lashings.

“Sina is allowed to contact his family by phone and receive visits,” the source told CHRI. “During the past year, his family has come from Tehran to visit him every week.”

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Meanwhile the gaydar endorsed by Sydney's Sheik Shady (by appointment, Iftar dinner guest to the Prime Minister) has been diligently deployed in Mosul in the past week.

Given the Shady Sheik's plethora of public statements about loose women getting hung up by their nipples and the need to be constantly on the lookout for gay men to execute, you have to wonder what Chairman Mal, Waleed and the Sheik chatted about over their Halal cordial and chickpeas.

The good ole boys near head office in the Islamic State are doing exactly as Muhammad and Sheik Shady instruct.  Get the gaydar going, find a high point, throw the presumed-gay-boy off (Allah knows best) and then stone him at the bottom to protect him from his sins.

This report is from the Iraqi News Agency.

http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/photos-islamic-state-stones-youth-homosexuality-mosul/

Photos: Islamic State stones a youth accused of homosexuality in Mosul

Photos: Islamic State stones a youth accused of homosexuality in Mosul
 
Members of the Islamic State while stoning a youth in Mosul.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) The Islamic State group has sentenced a youth to death by stoning in the city of Mosul, on charges of homosexuality.

The terrorist group published photos on affiliated websites showing a number of IS Diwan al-Hisbah (accountability) members, while reading out death sentence according to Sharia, in the presence of a crowd of people, before carrying out the execution based on “the limits of Allah and Islam”.

The photos revealed that the Islamic State militants started to throw the youth with stones, who was blindfolded, after throwing him from a building’s rooftop, but the exact time and location of the execution were not identified.

 

 

The incident is not the first of its kind in Mosul, where the terrorist group claims to implement the limits of God and Islam.

Earlier this year, Islamic State militants sentenced a man to death by throwing him from a high rooftop in Mosul, after accusing him of being homosexual, while used the same method to execute four people, including two of its own members, on charges of homosexuality and sodomy in Dor al-Toub area in central Mosul.


After redefining "misogyny" to suit Gillard, the Left's current target is "racist" - to apply only to whites

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According to Sky News regular Dee Madigan, only white people can be racist.

That's crap.

English gives us a huge range of expression.

But English - like any language - only works for us if we respect it and use it properly.

If Dee wants to talk about racism combined with political power - then do that.

But give us a break from the fake-words made up to create fake-news.

Yes English evolves over time.

But the Left has history here of political activism through using emotion charged words improperly for effect - not meaning.

There was no justification for providing Gillard with cover through the politically motivated change to the definition of misogyny to accommodate Gillard's grasping efforts to stay in power.

Here's a gleeful Fairfax announcing another perceived achievement arising from Gillard's speech in support of Peter Slipper's right to call female genitals "mussels in a bottle".

http://www.smh.com.au/national/misogyny-definition-to-change-after-gillard-speech-20121016-27q22.html  

 

Misogyny definition to change after Gillard speech

 OCTOBER 17 2012
 
Prime Minister Julia Gillard's fiery speech about sexism and misogyny has even forced the word watchers to take note.

The Macquarie Dictionary has announced it is broadening the definition of the word "misogyny".

As it stands, the reference book says misogyny is a hatred of women, the kind that's pathological.

But editor Sue Butler says it's time that changed to reflect what Ms Gillard really meant last week when she accused Opposition Leader Tony Abbott of sexism and misogyny during a speech to parliament.

Not that he needs a session on the psychiatrist's couch, but that he merely has an "entrenched prejudice against women".

That will be the official second definition in the next updated edition of the dictionary.

How can we communicate truthfully to each other if words can mean what whatever.

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Why does Sky News and Paul keep presenting activists as "commentators".


The Guardian's Hadley Freeman - misogyny & frustrated masculinity cause terrorism, not Islam

 

Hadley Freeman writes in The Guardian today with the key to understanding terrorism - here it is.

The problem isn’t Islam, or a perverted interpretation of Islam, but rather a perversion of frustrated masculinity.

Perhaps HR or concerned friends might have a chat with Ms Freeman who reports - unsolicited - that she is "looking forward to more men screaming" at her over her contribution.

 

Ms Freeman, after these urges to have more men scream at you have passed, perhaps you might see Islam and terrorism differently.

Why not start with some of these oppressed sisters, victims of "the problem" of frustrated masculinity and misogyny.