Khaled Awad Update: Student Visa for Egyptian Who Stabbed Massachusetts Rabbi; Roommates Say He Hated Jews

Posted on | July 4, 2021 | Comments Off on Khaled Awad Update: Student Visa for Egyptian Who Stabbed Massachusetts Rabbi; Roommates Say He Hated Jews

When we first reported on this case, authorities in Massachusetts were still mystified about the motive behind the stabbing of a rabbi in front of a Boston-area Jewish school by 24-year-old Khaled Awad. Some readers may have anticipated this latest development:

An Egyptian man who is accused of stabbing a rabbi outside of a Jewish day school in Boston on Thursday overstayed his student visa and lost his legal status on May 14, Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Fox News.
Khaled Awad, 24, allegedly approached Rabbi Shlomo Noginski with a gun and demanded his car keys, at which point Noginski ran across the street to a park, where Awad stabbed him in the arm multiple times.
He entered the United States two years ago for college, but his legal status recently lapsed.
“Khaled Awad, 24, a citizen of Egypt, entered the United States on a student visa in August 2019,” a spokesman for ICE told Fox News. “However, he failed to stay enrolled as required by law, resulting in a loss of legal status in the U.S on May 14, 2021.” . . .
Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins said her office has launched an investigation into the case but it has not been labeled a hate crime as of yet. . . .
One of Awad’s former friends at the University of South Florida, Eric Valiente, told CBS Boston that Awad was “violent” and “anti-Semitic.”
“He started becoming violent,” Valiente told the local news outlet. “He was very much anti-Semitic. He would say like all types of Jewish jokes. I thought he was joking at first and then I started to see seriousness in his comments.”
Aidan Anderson, a former roommate of Awad’s who is Jewish, told CBS Boston he had to move out and get a restraining order last fall when Awad attacked him in their shared kitchen.
Prosecutors must prove “that a crime is bias-motivated beyond the violent and seemingly targeted nature of the attack” in order to charge a suspect with a hate crime, a spokesman for Rollins’ offfice said. . . .
Prosecutors said in court on Friday that Awad faced charges of battery and theft in Florida and had to be sent to a mental health facility. He had a clean record in Massachusetts.
Awad is currently being held without bail pending a hearing on July 8 to determine if he is a danger to society.

Talk about an open-and-shut case: Jew-hater stabs a rabbi, but you need a court hearing to know whether “he is a danger to society”? And prosecutors aren’t sure they can prove this is a hate crime?

Also, why are we importing Jew-haters from Egypt? Is there a shortage of domestic anti-Semites, so we need to bring them in from foreign countries? Stabbing the rabbis American Jew-haters won’t stab?

Category: Crime, Immigration, Massachusetts

FMJRA 2.0: Never Call Retreat

Posted on | July 4, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Never Call Retreat

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Some cool art for once from Ingress.

Rule 5 Sunday: Cottagecore Is The New Black
Animal Magnetism
Nebraska Energy Observer
Proof Positive
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

The Billionaire Landlord Cartel
The Political Hat
Whatfinger
357 Magnum
EBL

CAPTURED: Othal Wallace Arrested at Black Militia Compound in Georgia
The Political Hat
Bacon Time
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: You Dropped A Bomb On Me
A View From The Beach
EBL

Methamphetamine and White Supremacy
The Political Hat
357 Magnum
EBL

Thank You, Officer Curtis Brown!
Dark Brightness
357 Magnum
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In The Mailbox: 06.28.21
Proof Positive
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

What Happened to Nathan Allen? Troubling Omens of ‘The Crazy Years’
Rotten Chestnuts
357 Magnum
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‘White Supremacy’ Jiu-Jitsu
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In The Mailbox: 06.29.21
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357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 06.30.21
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357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 07.01.21
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357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

Guy Named ‘Khaled Awad’ Stabs Rabbi in Front of a Synagogue: ‘The Motive … Was Not Immediately Clear,’ Police Say
Proof Positive
357 Magnum
EBL

‘Bioessentialist Concepts of Gender’
The Political Hat
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.02.21
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
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The Other Podcast Rides Again

Posted on | July 3, 2021 | Comments Off on The Other Podcast Rides Again

Join myself, blog buddy John Hoge and frequent commenter Dianna Deeley for another exciting episode of The Other Podcast. If you miss an episode, you can always check the archives at Podbean.

Category: The Other Podcast

@Timcast vs. the Journalistic ‘Midwits’

Posted on | July 3, 2021 | Comments Off on @Timcast vs. the Journalistic ‘Midwits’

Tim Pool did on-the-scene reporting around the world before becoming one of the most popular YouTube commentators. His audience of more than a million subscribers is larger than many CNN programs. Tim called attention to Devlin Barrett of the Washington Post misinterpreting poll data to suggest that the alarming rise in crime over the past two years is entirely imaginary. This is illustrates the problem, says Tim, of journalism being a career field dominated by “midwits.”

In the course of that discussion, Tim asks an important question: Why aren’t the guys in the so-called “intellectual dark web” (IDW) working in actual newsrooms? Why are all these guys doing commentary, rather than reporting? There are several factors involved here, including laziness — i.e., spewing your opinions online is much less labor-intensive than doing the job of a reporter. Anyone can log onto Twitter (or switch on their webcam and record a video) and pontificate about what’s wrong with the world, and there are no barriers to entry, no bosses, no gatekeepers, no human resources department, no necessity of conforming to an employer’s expectations. Furthermore, punditry is considered more prestigious than mere reporting. The reporter may be required to crank out two or three stories a day, and the vast majority of his work never gets any significant amount of public attention. You’re working for a newspaper in Topeka or a TV station in Tampa, and you have a near-zero chance of gaining nationwide notoriety.

Making it to the Big Leagues of journalism is a long-shot prospect for the young local reporter, and the longer he stays in local journalism — the Minor Leagues of media — the less likely it is that he’ll ever be working in D.C. or New York. Nowadays, there are very few local journalists over the age of 30 who have any shot at the Big Leagues. Local journalism is not lucrative or glamorous, and if you are someone who considers yourself to be an intellectual, you’re never going to pursue that line of work, which you disparage as being beneath you. So, the reason IDW guys don’t become journalists is rather self-explanatory.

Journalism, as a trade, looks very different from the outside of a newsroom than from the inside. Most people think of “the media” in terms of what they see on TV, especially in terms of the millionaire network news anchors and cable-news celebrities. But the vast majority of actual work — the real reporting — in journalism is done by people you never see on TV, and who don’t spend their weekends in the Hamptons.

As for the ideological bias in journalism, I once had a cigarette break with the late Peter Jennings of ABC News, who said to me, “Don’t you think journalism is inherently a liberal business? You know, ‘Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable’ and all that?”

And I must admit, in retrospect, that Jennings had a valid point.

Journalism as a career attracts a certain type of person, and it involves a certain type of work, and a certain amount of liberal bias may be unavoidable in the industry, quite generally. But the question, in our era, is who are the “comfortable” and who are the “afflicted”?

Once liberal bias as a problem became apparent to me, in my mid-30s, I saw how utterly one-sided journalism was becoming, and that problem has gotten much worse since the 1990s. The question of balance — giving the reader a fair and objective picture of the situation — is ignored by the journalistic elite who see themselves as defenders and advocates of a political project. Is there anyone at CNN (or CBS or ABC, etc.) who thinks that Hillary Clinton deserved to lose the 2016 election? Is there anyone at the New York Times or the Washington Post who has serious doubts about the Black Lives Matter movement? Because I know how newsrooms operate, and how the “water-cooler consensus” tends to shape the coverage of events, I understand the value of dissent within newsrooms. If there is no one in the staff meeting willing to play devil’s advocate — to say, “Hey, why don’t we try to take a look at this issue from the other side?” — then the output of the newsroom is certain to become homogenous in its outlook. And this is the real problem in journalism now, which you can see in “woke” staff devouring the New York Times.

The problem of “midwits” like Devlin Barrett is a direct consequence of the increasing ideological conformity of newsrooms. Barrett knows that his continued employment at the Washington Post is a function of his usefulness in advancing the interests of the Democratic Party. So he looks at the poll numbers and interprets them in such a way as to make the problem of increasing crime seem trivial, if not wholly imaginary.

Barrett is probably smart enough to realize that his interpretation is wrong — at least, now that Tim Pool had done it, surely Barrett can realize his error — but the problem is that there is no one on the staff of the Washington Post who looks at things from Tim Pool’s point of view.

Category: Media Bias

In The Mailbox: 07.02.21

Posted on | July 3, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.02.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. It’s Gettysburg weekend, but I’ll try and get stuff posted in a timely manner.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

He knew the value of holding good ground.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: Reversing The Exodus
357 Magnum: Politicians, Police Brass, & Statistics
Director Blue: Twitter’s Internal Guide To Extremist Content Revealed
EBL: Why Is Yale So Racist To Asians?
Twitchy: Bloomberg Journo Drops Bad Orange Woman On Her Head Over Anonymous Sources
Louder With Crowder: Nancy Pelosi Short-Circuits During Speech – It’s Both Painful & Hysterical To Watch
Vox Popoli: Build Your Own Platforms, also, A Century Of Communist Rule
According To Hoyt: Sounding The Tocsin
Monster Hunter Nation: Upcoming Book Tour Dates!
Stoic Observations: The Axis Of Magic

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: A Christianity Without God
American Conservative: Sham Surveillance Safeguards Vs. Tucker Carlson
American Greatness: Defund The FBI, also, GA Gubernatorial Candidate Vernon Jones Humiliates “Controlling Negroes Network” Reporter
American Thinker: Did Biden Really Win California?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Nork Friday
Babalu Blog: How To Get Rid Of Socialism In America, also, Lithuania Refuses To Ratify EU Deal With The Cuban Dictatorship
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm Held Hostage – Day Two
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, also, More Delays In India’s Space Program
Cafe Hayek: Again, Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Milo Says It, also, Liberal Democrats Can’t Be Trusted To Run Elections…Says Mayor DiBlasio
Don Surber: NYC Primary Proves Trump Right, also, Biden’s Misery Index Hits 10.79
First Street Journal: Yeah, It’s Begun, also, What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The Geller Report: SCOTUS Upholds AZ Election Rules, also, Muslim Running For Seattle City Council Once Threatened To Blow Up School Bus Full of Kids
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, About That Sixteen Cents
Hollywood In Toto: Forever Purge Follows Far-Left’s Fear Of “White Supremacy”, Ignores Antifa, also, If You Ever Doubted Movie Critics Were Overwhelmingly Liberal
The Lid: If Only Facebook Cared As Much About Human Trafficking As They Cared About Their “Extremist” Narrative
Legal Insurrection: Federal Appeals Court Denies Oberlin College’s Motion To Dismiss John Doe #2 Damages Suit As “Moot”, also, NEA To Research Groups Opposed To Critical Race Training
Nebraska Energy Observer: Independency
Outkick: Shaq Fires Back At LeWhiner Over NBA Playoff Injuries & Scheduling, also, Canadian Olympic Pole Vaulter Alyssa Newman Pulls The OnlyFans Trigger
Power Line: How Radical Are The Teachers’ Unions? also, The Marvelous Rummy
Shark Tank: Ken Russell Anchors Senate Race On Family Fleeing Cuba
Shot In The Dark: Independence Day
The Political Hat: When H8 Crimes Are Thought Crimes, also, Firing Line Friday – The Decline of Anticommunism
This Ain’t Hell: Marine Raider Found Guilty In Death Of Green Beret, also, David d’Annunzio – Fake Navy SEAL
Victory Girls: Democrats Throw Tantrum Over SCOTUS Voting Rights Decision
Volokh Conspiracy: Justice Thomas Takes Another Shot At Qualified Immunity, also, TX Lawyers Can’t Be Required To Join The Bar
Weasel Zippers: Biden Snaps At Press – “I Want To Talk About Happy Things, Man!” also, Bad Orange Woman Claims Hot Dogs Are Cheaper Now Under Biden
The Federalist: Facebook Now Identifying & Reeducating Your Extremist Friends, also, Virginia State PTA Tries To Disband Fairfax Chapter Because Its Leaders Oppose CRT
Mark Steyn: Tal Bachman – We Have Met The Enemy, Part X

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Category: Linkagery

‘Bioessentialist Concepts of Gender’

Posted on | July 2, 2021 | Comments Off on ‘Bioessentialist Concepts of Gender’

My journalistic skepticism kicked in when I saw this tweet screencapped by Ace. Surely, this can’t be real? But then I checked, and indeed this is a real tweet by a real person — well, a Canadian, anyway. I’ve never considered Canadians fully human, but let’s not digress . . .

Here is the full autobiography of them:

Florence Ashley, BCL/JD, LLM (Bioeth) is a transfeminine jurist and bioethicist based in Toronto, where they are a doctoral student at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Joint Centre for Bioethics. Their doctoral project examines how science is deployed and used within the legal system to simultaneously bolster and undermine trans youth’s autonomy. Their research is supported by a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholarship. Prior to their doctoral studies, they served as clerk to Justice Sheilah Martin of the Supreme Court of Canada (2019-2020), being the first openly transfeminine person to clerk at the highest court. Prior to clerking, they completed degrees in civil law and common law followed by a master’s in law and bioethics at McGill University. Their master’s thesis, written under the supervision of Dean Robert Leckey, bears on the legality of conversion practices targeting gender identity.
Florence was awarded the 2018-2019 Canadian Bar Association’s SOGIC Hero Award for their academic work, advocacy, and leadership in trans communities, becoming the youngest recipient of the award. They were a recipient of the Forces AVENIR Graduate Personality Finalist Award and were awarded a Scarlet Key by McGill University in 2019. Florence is a member of the Comité trans of the Conseil québécois LGBT and previously served as chair of the advisory board and co-director of the Montreal Trans Legal Clinic. In 2018-2019 they were a member of a Committee on sexual orientation and gender vocabulary of the Office québécois de la langue française.
Their article “Don’t Be So Hateful: The Insufficiency of Anti-Discrimination and Hate Crime Laws in Improving Trans Wellbeing”, published in the University of Toronto Law Journal, inspired the first special issue on trans law in Canadian history. Their article “Gatekeeping Hormone Replacement Therapy for Transgender Patients is Dehumanising??” was selected as Editor’s Choice by the Journal of Medical Ethics and featured in a National Post article. Florence’s work on trans conversion therapy has been cited by the United Nations Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. Florence has also testified as an expert before the Québec National Assembly Committee on Citizen Relations in regards to the province’s proposed ban on conversion therapy. Florence’s article “Accounting for Research Fatigue in Research Ethics??” was profiled in WIRED.
Florence’s academic work is deeply transdisciplinary and has been published in the University of Toronto Law Journal, Service social, Archive of Sexual Behavior, The American Journal of Bioethics, Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Journal of Medical Ethics, Dalhousie Law Journal, The Journal of Sexual Medicine, Journal of LGBT Youth, Perspectives on Psychological Science, McGill Journal of Law and Health, The Sociological Review, Sexuality Research and Social Policy, Manitoba Law Journal, Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Études francophones, ?American Journal of Medicine, Bioethics, Green Bag, and NYU Review of Law & Social Change.
They frequently contribute to media conversations, having been interviewed by various media outlets, with publications in The Globe and Mail, CBC Opinions, Montreal Gazette, Huffington Post, The Conversation, NOW Magazine, The Advocate, IRPP Policy Options, Le Devoir, La Presse, Le Journal de Montréal, and Journal Métro.
Florence uses they/them pronouns in English. In French, they use ille with feminine grammatical gender. Florence can be reached on Facebook, Twitter, or at f.ashley at mail.utoronto.ca.

Canada: An asylum run by the lunatics. We must grant them permission to go milk a bull, or wait for a rooster to lay an egg.

Category: Canada, The Transgender Cult

Guy Named ‘Khaled Awad’ Stabs Rabbi in Front of a Synagogue: ‘The Motive … Was Not Immediately Clear,’ Police Say

Posted on | July 2, 2021 | Comments Off on Guy Named ‘Khaled Awad’ Stabs Rabbi in Front of a Synagogue: ‘The Motive … Was Not Immediately Clear,’ Police Say

Pretty sure that if some rednecks in Mississippi lynched a black guy, the police might be willing to speculate about the motive:

BOSTON — A man who is accused of stabbing a Brighton rabbi eight times appeared before a judge in Brighton District Court on Friday on charges of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon and assault and battery on a police officer.
The victim, identified as Rabbi Shlomo Noginski, was stabbed multiple times in the Brighton Common park at Chestnut and Washington streets, near the Shaloh House school.
A suspect, later identified as Khaled Awad, 24, of Brighton, was arrested a short time later on Chestnut Hill Avenue, authorities said.
In court Friday, prosecutors said Awad has no criminal record in Massachusetts but has had incidents in Florida, including battery and theft.
Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins was present in the courtroom for the arraignment. “We believe this individual is a danger to our community,” Rollins said following the arraignment.
Awad was held without bail, with a dangerousness hearing scheduled for next week.
Rollins’ office is still investigating to determine if the attack can officially be called a hate crime.
Court documents say three police officers initially made contact with the suspect, before he ran.
According to the court documents, one of the officers looked around a corner and was confronted by the suspect pointing what appeared to be a black firearm at him. The other police officers drew their firearms and ordered the suspect to drop his weapon multiple times.
The court documents say after a brief, but tense moment, the suspect lowered his weapon and threw it to the ground.
Police said the suspect kicked one of the officers in the stomach as he was being assisted into a transport vehicle for booking.
Rabbi Dan Rodkin, the executive director of the Shaloh House, said Noginski was stabbed eight times.
Rodkin said the suspect approached the rabbi while he was talking on the phone, sitting on the steps of the school.
According to Rodkin, the suspect demanded the rabbi’s car keys at gunpoint but also wanted the rabbi to get in the car.
Court documents, which cite a police interview with Noginski following the incident, say the suspect ordered him to walk over to his vehicle. . . .
Investigators said the motive of the stabbing was not immediately clear.

Yeah, it’s a real mystery, this case. By the way, did you notice this news report says nothing about Awad’s immigration status? Do you suppose it’s possible that Awad came here as some kind of “refugee”? But curiosity is no longer a requirement in the journalism business.

UPDATE: Ace of Spades: “If [the suspect] were white, CNN would already be analyzing what podcasts he listened to, and calling for YouTube to deplatform Tim Pool.” He forgot to add that they would be leading every hour with coverage of the story, and demanding that Republicans in Congress denounce Tim Pool for inciting this hate crime.