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To: pocotrader who wrote (1312923)	8/15/2021 8:32:50 AM
From: Bonefish	Respond to of 1583384

That's true. People loading up hospitals. Delta variant. Been going on for weeks now. Otoh 135 children hospitalized isn't that many. Why do you always yell fire?

To: pocotrader who wrote (1312923)	8/15/2021 9:06:01 PM
From: Maple MAGA	1 Recommendation Recommended By Mick Mørmøny Respond to of 1583384

Rotherham-on-the-Prairie August 15, 2021 A group of culture-enriching “Albertans” is giving the grooming gangs of Rotherham and Oxford a run for their money. Police in Calgary are shocked — shocked! — to find a practicing physician among the respectable citizens who were pimping out little girls to customers at multiple locations in Alberta. Of the eight people in custody, two are juveniles. The case has a Mohammed Coefficient of at least 50%, which is unusually high for that large a group. The mayor of Lethbridge says he is “very disappointed” with the misguided perpetrators. I’m sure his disappointment will prompt them to repent their misdeeds and help with their rehabilitation. Perhaps they will one day become model citizens of Modern Multicultural Alberta. Below are excerpts from CTV News: 10 Albertans charged following investigation into alleged trafficking of 15-year-old girl CALGARY — A police investigation into the alleged sexual exploitation of a 15-year-old girl in Alberta has resulted in eight arrests and the issuing of warrants for two additional suspects The accused, who all reside in either Lethbridge or Calgary, allegedly arranged to transport the girl to various locations where she was sexually assaulted. The human trafficking investigation involved members of the Lethbridge Police Service, Calgary Police Service, RCMP and the ALERT human trafficking counter exploitation unit. According to Lethbridge police, the 10 people accused of trafficking are also believed to have sexually assaulted a second victim — a 13-year-old girl — and there may still be additional victims that have yet to be identified. The accused range in age from 16 to 37 and a physician and a business owner are among those facing charges. Eight of the suspects are currently in custody awaiting their bail hearing while warrants have been issued for the two suspects — 26-year-old Merion Krasniqi and 22-year-old Khaled Alsaid — who remain at large. The eight people who are currently in custody are: Dr. Ziyaad Noor, 37 Mohammad Neirabani, 22 Mohammad Zafari, 20 Mahmoud Nirabani, 20 Fadi (Stawi) Chtewi, 20 Abdulla Mohammed, 19 A 17-year-old male who cannot be named A 16-year-old male who cannot be named A total of 60 charges, including sexual assault, child luring, trafficking persons under 18 and sexual assault causing bodily harm, have been laid against the eight people in custody and additional charges are pending. Police confirm Lethbridge-based Dr. Ziyaad Noor is the physician facing charges. Teenager Reached Out The swift human trafficking investigation began late last week after a teenager reached out to the Lethbridge Police Service with disturbing allegations. “During the course of the investigation, police first learned that a 15-year-old female had been selected, groomed and brought to specific locations where the offences took place,” said Inspector Pete Christos. “It is believed that these individuals involved in these crimes are all from Lethbridge and Calgary.” For Lethbridge Mayor Chris Spearman, the news of human trafficking activity in the city came as a shock. “It’s a horror story. It’s something that no parent wants to hear about that is happening in our city,” he said. “I’m very disappointed that there are people in our community, professional people engaged in this type of activity.” The investigation is ongoing to determine how widespread the crimes may have stretched and how many more people may be involved. All of the known victims are now safe and receiving social support.

To: pocotrader who wrote (1312923)	8/15/2021 9:08:09 PM
From: Maple MAGA	3 Recommendations Recommended By FJB Mick Mørmøny Winfastorlose Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583384

Girl Weeps As Taliban Approaches: ‘We Don’t Count Because We Were Born in Afghanistan. No One Cares About Us.’ AUG 15, 2021 6:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER My latest in PJ Media: On Friday, the courageous Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad, whom the Islamic Republic recently tried to kidnap in New York and take back to imprisonment, torture, and death in Tehran, posted a video on Twitter of a young Afghan woman. As the tears fall down her face, the woman says: “We don’t count because we were born in Afghanistan. I cannot help crying. I have to wipe my tears to be able to film this video. No one cares about us. We’ll die slowly in history. Isn’t it funny?” No, it’s as tragic as this woman feels it to be, and the reason why it is happening gets right to the heart of why the American mission in Afghanistan failed so completely, and left young women such as the one in this video without anyone to defend them from the Taliban.The woman in the video is not wearing a hijab, which gives the immediate impression that she is not an observant, Sharia-adherent Muslim. Political and military realities that are rapidly changing now may have obscured the fact for her, but this woman is not being abandoned now. She was abandoned years ago, in one of the foremost mistakes of our two-decade-long series of mistakes in Afghanistan. In our early years in Afghanistan, once the Taliban was toppled, we set about nation-building, initially with an eye toward establishing a Western-style constitutional republic in Afghanistan. But State Department foreign policy experts drastically underestimated the Afghan people’s attachment to Islamic law (Sharia), and disastrously discounted Sharia’s political aspects in the naïve belief, fueled by Islamic apologists in the U.S., that Islam was a religion of peace that was perfectly compatible with Western secular models of governance. The opposition to Sharia quickly gave way to their desire to be culturally sensitive. The Melbourne Forum on Constitution Building noted in 2018 that “most of the external actors, including the United States, American church groups and the United Nations, initially attempted to marginalise the role of Islam and Sharia in favor of liberal rights and freedoms. However, understanding that Islam and Sharia are entrenched parts of Afghan constitutional culture, foreign advisers such as Yash Ghai and Barnett Rubin, who were directly involved in the drafting process convinced external assistance providers to stand aside and leave Afghans to make choices on these sensitive constitutional questions.” And so the Afghan Constitution that Afghanistan’s then-President Hamid Karzai formally ratified on January 26, 2004, begins “in the name of Allah, the Most Beneficient, the Most Merciful” and is written in the name of “We the people of Afghanistan, believing firmly in Almighty God, relying on His divine will and adhering to the Holy religion of Islam.” The Constitution notes its appreciation for the “jihad and just resistance of all the peoples of Afghanistan.” It declares that “Afghanistan shall be an Islamic Republic, independent, unitary and indivisible state,” and that “the sacred religion of Islam is the religion of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.” The significance of this is spelled out explicitly: “No law shall contravene the tenets and provisions of the holy religion of Islam in Afghanistan.” There is more. Read the rest here.