#if you’re european and you respond to this i’m reporting you for harassment

[joeynewgarden]

i am so sorry but i need all of you “xyz is happening in america and no one is talking about it but f1 is still racing” people to never speak on american issues again. y’all are so fucking loud and so fucking wrong.

americans, especially the texans and floridians who are impacted by these laws (like me), have been speaking up about it. we’ve been protesting, we’ve been organizing, we’ve been donating, we’ve been preparing for the worst. we’ve been screaming our lungs out at protests, we’ve been beaten, we’ve been arrested. just bc we’re not fucking writing essays on social media doesn’t mean no one is talking about it.

italy just elected another fascist as prime minister and no one is saying cancel imola or monza. britain is about to put a racist, genocidal sexual abuser on the throne and no one is saying cancel silverstone. all the antisemitic and islamaphobic shit that was happening in france for years and no one was calling to cancel paul ricard. have y’all seen what canada is doing to their indigenous and homeless populations? australia is still stealing aboriginal children and putting them in white homes, but y’all enjoyed melborne just fucking fine.

every time there is a human rights issue when it comes to racing, everyone says “let’s think of those impacted,” and rightfully so. but y’all NEVER do the same with americans. we didn’t ask for this, we didn’t want this, and we certainly didn’t vote for this, but somehow y’all seem to justify your ignorance about what is actually happening here under the guise of we “deserve it” for being american.

if you do not understand what it is like to live here while your rights are slowly stripped away, shut the fuck up, ESPECIALLY if you’re european. it is exhausting to come on here and watch a bitch who doesn’t even know what gerrymandering is, call me and my loved ones every name under the goddamn sun. you do not get to oh and ah about logan or jm or kyle or romain or rinus and call them names in the same breath.

enjoy miami. it’s a beautiful place with just a rich history and culture. florida is one of the most biodiverse places in north america. the state has become a racing powerhouse, many world class drivers being born here or calling this place home, and several of the world’s biggest races being held here. there are so many initiatives in florida to help women and people of color get into motorsports in any discipline, at any level. you can help support that.

y’all want to brag about the growth of motorsport, well it’s growing here, in america. you want our money and our tv ratings, but not our people, not our culture. and honestly? fuck you. have the week you deserve.

[celticnoise]

New Deal For Christie Just Papers Over The Celtic Park Cracks – Exclusive By Keith Jackass.

Celtic has responded to growing fan pressure since yesterday by giving reserve footballer Ryan Christie a brand new contract which does little to paper over the cracks at Parkhead. The result at Ibrox, where Gerrard’s magnificent men shook off their minor European hangover to destroy a Motherwell side who many had tipped to win big shows that the title challenge is alive and well, whilst the Parkhead club’s slip might prove to be fatal.

Christie was a bit-part player in Rodgers squad until very recently, when the cash-starved Celtic boss was forced to throw him and others into difficult fixtures due to the scarce resources at his disposal.

Whilst over at Ibrox, Gerrard has had an embarrassment of riches, his Parkhead rival has only had embarrassment.

Fortunate victories in recent weeks fed Celtic’s belief that a corner had been turned; now the club is engulfed in crisis once more after a 0-0 draw at the weekend was only enough to put them top of the table on goal difference.

A Parkhead insider, who would not be named and who would only agree to speak to us far away from the ground, stood in his heated driveway and declared the weekend’s result “the final straw for many on the board.”

Rodgers wanted money to spend, but instead Celtic has only allowed him to re-sign current players; Christie’s new contract follows in the footsteps of a new deal for French flop Olivier Ntcham, who they failed to sell on during the summer.

It is not clear if either player is on improved terms, or whether their wages have been slashed in drastic cost-cutting measures.

But what is clear is that the well at Celtic Park has run dry and that the football equivalent of a bread and water diet is well on its way to being realised.

Contrast this with the fortunes of King and his mighty club, who’s superb financial position was underlined last month when they posted £14 million in losses for the last campaign, a development which puts Gerrard in pole position to land his number one striking target in January.

In a move that will have the Ibrox support in raptures, this writer can exclusively reveal that the player they have in mind is Kris Boyd, who’s stunning form has him on the verge of a Scotland recall.

Brendan Rodgers is already known to be desperately unhappy at Celtic Park, and in particular since finding out that Peter Lawwell has not included him on his Christmas Card List.

Although insiders claim that no such list exists, this writer knows for a fact that it does because Lawwell once told me that I was no longer on it.

Tension has been building behind the scenes as a result of this snub, with Rodgers having cut Lawwell out of his own planned festive celebrations, deciding to spend Christmas Day with his family instead of sharing turkey with the club CEO.

We contacted Celtic Park to ask Brendan Rodgers if this news meant that he would be cleaning out his desk, but he would not respond except to say that “This constant harassment is getting ridiculous. If it doesn’t stop I’m going to report you for stalking.”

At that point, the money ran out in the pub telephone, and this writer was forced to get back to his drinking.

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'I never told anyone': 5 women's stories of sexual abuse at the Hajj

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim women descend on Mecca in Saudi Arabia each year to take part in the Hajj, but in recent weeks some female worshipers have told CNN they experienced incidents of sexual abuse or harassment while participating in the five-day pilgrimage.

Five women told CNN they were compelled to share their stories after a Pakistani woman’s account of being sexually abused at the Hajj went viral on Facebook last month. That post (since deleted) prompted an outpouring of similar stories from female pilgrims on social media.

Most of the incidents of sexual abuse and harassment reported to CNN happened during the tawaf ritual, a counter-clockwise procession around the Kaaba shrine. Only some of the women who shared their stories with CNN reported the incidents to police in Saudi Arabia but those who did said their complaints were ignored.

Responding to CNN, an unnamed Saudi official familiar with Hajj affairs said the Kingdom does not tolerate this kind of behavior anywhere, especially at holy sites and added that allegations made by the women were being taken very seriously by authorities.

“Anyone found guilty of committing these acts faces serious consequences including imprisonment and caning,” the Saudi official said. “By Royal Order, female police officers and investigators are now being added to the police force and security services including the Public Prosecution Department, so there will be a greater female security and police presence within the country and at the Holy sites to handle any issues that may arise.”

Saudi Arabia already issued a royal decree in September 2017 to outlaw sexual harassment. A new law is currently being drafted.

Below are the five women’s stories. They have been edited for clarity and length. Some women requested to remain anonymous because they fear a backlash within their communities.

Asra Nadeem, a Pakistani woman living in the US

I was 21 years old in 2006 when I did the Hajj for the first time.

First, I got stuck in the 2006 stampede during the Stoning of the Devil in Mina and that itself was very traumatic. It was horrible.

But a few days later I went back to Mecca to perform Umrah (a shorter form of the Hajj pilgrimage that can be performed at any time of the year). During that time, I was on my own, doing tawaf around the Kaaba.

The closer you get to the Kaaba, the more crowded it gets. Everybody wants to touch the Kaaba. I wanted to get closer to touch it, and in the last circle the crowd was moving really slowly.

I was next to the Kaaba and somebody grabbed my bum. I thought it was just the crowd; everyone was pushing. But then, when I moved up, somebody grabbed my boobs.

I turned my head and I saw this guy just smirking at me. I couldn’t do anything, and he was still holding my breast. So, I yelled at him, and then people started pushing me forward, shouting “yalla” (“hurry up”).

I reported the incident to the first two guards that I saw but both of them did not speak English and told me to move along.

I’ve met a few people who messaged me the same experience but in 2006 you didn’t want to talk about it, before Facebook or anything.

Hajj is a spiritual experience — you’re in a different state of mind. You’re praying for things, it’s very Zen-like. Your first instinct is that it cannot possibly be happening, but it’s there, in your face

I didn’t go back to do Hajj. It was very traumatic, first the stampede and then the harassment.

Anonymous British woman, now living in Asia

I had never been sexually assaulted before I went to Mecca, in 2007 when I was 32. The first time it happened I was heading into the Grand Mosque to perform tawaf. A man was heading out, towards the courtyard, and as he approached me he outstretched his arm and grabbed my breast. It wasn’t a clumsy brush. It was a grab. It was forceful and it hurt. He didn’t let go immediately. He squeezed and was looking at me the whole time.

The second time I was in the courtyard of the Grand Mosque and I felt something pressing into my lower spine. It was crowded and lots of people were bumping into each other. But the pressing continued. I turned around and saw it was a man and realized he was pressing his erection into me. He was pushing against me so hard he was almost driving me forward. He too was looking at me and holding my gaze. I ran off and found a policeman and told him (in English) what had happened. He shooed me away. He had no interest in listening to me. I even pointed out the man in the crowd and the policeman still ignored me.

The third time I was in a side street looking at Hajj-related merchandise. I felt a sharp jab from behind. An old man had put his hand between my buttocks with such force that his fingers were almost inside me. It happened really fast and I cried out in shock. He looked at me and smiled and said “Alhamdulillah” [“Praise to God”]. The person at the stall had his back turned and didn’t see anything.

I was assaulted each time in broad daylight with thousands of people around me. I was amazed at the audacity of the three men and I was angry that there was no recourse.

I was told before I left that I might get touched inappropriately. But it didn’t prepare me for the shock. I think assault happens a lot more at the Hajj than people — Muslims — would like to believe. It is the holiest place in Islam, a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Talking about sexual assault is difficult enough and talking about it in connection with the Hajj, which is a pillar of Islam, is even harder because it is sacred.

I did return to the Hajj a few years later…but I was militant about my personal space. I would almost run to where I needed to be so nobody could touch me and did a lot of my work late at night or early in the morning when it was quieter outside. I didn’t perform tawaf and I would zip through the courtyard of the Grand Mosque. It was my second visit so I knew all the tunnels and shortcuts.

Anonymous woman, Indonesia

I am from Indonesia and I was going to Mecca for Umrah in 2011, when I was 17

First, I got catcalled. I was waiting in the hotel’s lobby for my room and there were two males that started to stare at me and laughed. I ignored them and they started to call me “cantik” (Indonesian for “beauty”), with smirks on their faces.

When I did tawaf around the Kaaba, another pilgrim walked behind me and stuck his erect penis into my back.

I felt angry and unsafe. I could not complain about it to anyone because of the situation and everyone thinks “it is the holy city — who would do that?”

I haven’t come back for Umrah/Hajj. I am not sure that I would. Even after it happened I could not focus on my prayer and worship, just counting down when would I leave Mecca.

It’s a terrible situation when you are in a mosque, in front of the Kaaba, where you should feel the closest to God and the worst thing happens.

I’ve told no one about this one until today. I don’t know, maybe I didn’t want to remember the situation or I didn’t like that people would be asking “Why are you walking alone?” or “Why you are not using a black abaya?”

Anonymous woman, Egypt

I was harassed two times, one verbally and the other time physically.

The verbal was while I was walking with my sisters and mom during Umrah. Heading back to the hotel after prayers, a shop clerk said something with the implication of “come over here, pretty girl.” Mind you, I was 13, I never forgot it. I was very confused and disgusted with myself.

The second time was during Hajj, at the Stoning of the Devil area in Mina, just east of Mecca. In the midst of the crowd, I felt someone grab my boobs, I looked back and it was a man with his wife next to him. He didn’t respect his wife nor the holy city so he won’t respect me either.

Again, I was confused and disgusted with myself and I was just 17. For years after I’ve always said it might’ve been by mistake or unintentional since it’s the holy city and Hajj — but Twitter made me realize I’m not the only one.

Anooshe Mushtaq, a Pakistani woman living in Australia

When I was 10 years old my family was posted to Libya. My father was in the Pakistani air force and was posted there for four years. In 1980, my parents decided to perform Hajj.

I remember I was very excited as performing Hajj is a privilege. My parents traveled to Saudi Arabia with their two daughters. My sister and I were looking forward to going to Mecca and seeing the Kaaba for the first time.

When we entered the Kaaba it was very crowded.

Suddenly a young man groped me from behind. I felt extremely uncomfortable. I grabbed my mother’s hand and moved in front of her. I didn’t know if I should tell my mum or not so I just kept quiet.

During Hajj we were supposed to travel on a bus from Mecca to Medina. As we sat in the bus my sister and I sat next to each other and our parents sat in the seats behind each us.

The bus conductor was checking tickets. The bus conductor stood beside my seat and acted like he wanted to fix something on the inside of my seat. He moved his hand on my chest and groped my upper leg and he would not leave it. I felt angry and disgusted but didn’t know what to do. He then reached out as if he was fixing the curtains while thrusting his groin in my face.

I didn’t tell anyone due to shame and honor of my family and I kept quiet. I never told anyone what happened during Hajj until I recently saw the sexual assault post.

If I get a chance I will perform Hajj a second time in the future.

— Tamara Qiblawi contributed to this report.

The As Equals reporting project is funded by the European Journalism Centre via its Innovation in Development Reporting Grant Programme. Click here for more stories like this.

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Hal Lindsey Report ✞ Two prominent Swedish politicians wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. They said that there is, indeed, a crisis in Sweden caused by the constantly increasing number of Muslim immigrants

Hal Lindsey – Hoax and change

Sweden – The Rape Capital of the WORLD!

March 10th, 2017

In a speech in Florida last month, President Trump referred to the problems Sweden is experiencing because of its lax immigration policies.

As usual, there was an immediate mainstream media and social media response. Both ridiculed the President and his supposed lack of information. One reporter at the Huffington Post asked what the President was smoking to make such a claim.

Even the Swedish government responded. Their spokespeople tried to make it seem that the President was ill-informed about Sweden. The overwhelming stream of immigrants from the Middle East was having no ill impact on Sweden.

Then the truth began to emerge. Again.

Two prominent Swedish politicians wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. They said that there is, indeed, a crisis in Sweden caused by the constantly increasing number of Muslim immigrants who refused to assimilate into Swedish society. They said that, in fact, President Trump had understated the problem.

The Swedish Minister of Integration — who had publicly ridiculed the implication of President Trump’s simple statement — had to publicly apologize for her own overreach. She had misspoken and, indeed, sex crimes in Sweden are on the rise. She is now the one guilty of understatement.

Since the Muslim invasion of Sweden began in 1975, sex crimes have not only “risen,” they have exploded! In fact, between 1975, when Sweden began accepting large numbers of Muslim immigrants, incidents of rape have increased 1,472%! From a national total of 421 rapes in 1975 to 6,620 in 2014. And I’m sure 2015 and 2016 will add to that number appreciably.

For years, Sweden accepted about 50,000 Muslim immigrants per year. In the last few years, that number has skyrocketed. Some reports now estimate that from August to December, 2016, Sweden took in about 160,000 immigrants. Mostly young, military-aged men.

Though I have not discussed this on the program, I have seen e-mail from Swedish residents who describe the conditions under which they now live. Many of the elderly are now afraid to leave their homes at night. Women, who once freely shopped and dined alone, now only go to the stores with others. And only in the daytime.

They all say that they don’t recognize some parts of Swedish cities. One older gentleman said that some historic parts of once-pristine Sweden now look like third-world ghettos.

But you will never hear this in the mainstream media. Why? Because the globalist-elites who control the media do not want you to know. Their basic goal is to so weaken independent Western societies that they must join forces with other weakened nations to survive. That’s what the international trade associations like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are ultimately all about.

Each nation cedes its individual sovereignty to a higher, unelected authority. We then trust the globalist bureaucrats to keep us safe and make everything okay.

To accomplish that they must break down nations that possess strong Judeo-Christian moral values. So they constantly attack the family, traditional sexual roles, race relations, democratic government institutions, and free-market capitalist economies.

And the quickest way to do this is by promoting open-border immigration policies to overwhelm the ability of the state to cope with the added expense. Especially those policies which favor major influxes of Muslims. Large numbers of Muslims flooding into a free, democratic society inevitably destroys it. Islam is not compatible with democracy or individual freedom.

That’s precisely why Donald Trump, Geert Wilders, Marine La Pen, the Brexit movement, and others are so vehemently opposed by George Soros, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Mark Cuban, Carlos Slim, Jorge Ramos, Barack Obama, and other globalist-elite types. Trump, Wilders, La Pen, and Brexit-inspired movements promote a return to national pride and sovereignty.

And that’s precisely what Satan does not need to prepare the way for the rise of his Antichrist. The Antichrist will need to control the world by controlling the nations. He will also need a strong and cohesive European superstate. And, currently, the European Union appears to be falling apart. On March 1st, Forbes headlined a story: “An Investor’s Guide to the Collapse of the European Union.”

The globalists’ plan to subvert individual free European states by promoting the Muslim immigrant invasion hit a snag with the rise of the nationalist movements in several of the nations. But Vladimir Putin may have stepped in at the last moment to save the day.

The one thing that may trump the rise of European national pride (no pun intended) is the emergence of a serious common enemy. Putin’s Russia just may fill the bill.

Russia’s increasingly aggressive behavior within its sphere of influence has alarmed many European leaders. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and theft of Crimea, his harassment of NATO and European military ships and planes, his placement of nuclear-tipped missiles in Kaliningrad, and his alliance with Iran and support of Bashar al-Assad have all contributed to a state of unease among European leaders.

In fact, Sweden and Finland are cooperating militarily to prepare for a confrontation with Russia!

A strong defense against a common threat may become more important to Europeans than the ability to control their own borders and actually be autonomous. Already, EU bureaucrats are proposing that all individual European armies should be abolished and a single, large, and powerful European Army be established. Under Brussels’ control, of course.

I think it’s undeniable that all of this is leading to the emergence of the Antichrist. We are clearly in the gap period between the first 483 years and the final seven years that Daniel describes in chapter 9 of his book.

The potentially imminent economic and demographic collapse of the EU and the rise of a possibly coalescing influence from Russia to drive them back together, points to the emergence of a “revived Roman Empire” from which the prophet predicts the Antichrist will arise.

Wow! This is prophecy come to life! And it promises only to get more exciting! And scarier!

So now would be a good time for you to make certain that you’re ready to leave this boiling cauldron of a world when Jesus suddenly returns to snatch away all of His true believers in the Rapture.

If you have never accepted the free gift of pardon from your sins that Jesus purchased for you with his death on Calvary, do it now. It’s simple.

Just honestly confess to God that you realize you are a sinner and cannot live up to His holy standards. Believe in your heart that Jesus is the Son of God and took upon Himself the guilt for your sins. Ask Him to forgive you of your sins and cover you with His own righteousness. Then accept the pardon from those sins that Jesus purchased for you when He personally paid your death penalty with His life. It’s a free gift! You cannot earn it or ever deserve it. All you must do is accept it! Then thank Him for His unbelievable mercy and grace!

If you did this with sincerity and humility toward God, you have just joined God’s forever-family. You are now ready to enjoy an eternity of happiness with God Himself after your life here ends or you are snatched away when He returns for His bride.

Congratulations on making the most important decision of your life! You will never ever regret it!

Don’t miss this week’s Report on TBN, Daystar, CPM Network, The Word Network, various local stations, www.hallindsey.com or www.hischannel.com. Check your local listings.

A NOTE FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WATCH “THE HAL LINDSEY REPORT” ON TBN:Remember, the Report is now seen 30 minutes later, beginning at 6:00 pm Pacific/9:00 pm Eastern each Friday.God Bless,

Hal Lindsey

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Hal Lindsey Report ✞ Two prominent Swedish politicians wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. They said that there is, indeed, a crisis in Sweden caused by the constantly increasing number of Muslim immigrants Hal Lindsey Report ✞ Two prominent Swedish politicians wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. They said that there is, indeed, a crisis in Sweden caused by the constantly increasing number of Muslim immigrants…