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The Intercept 17/11/2015 - In a statement published in its online magazine, Dabiq, this February, the militant group the Islamic State warned that "Muslims in the West will soon find themselves between one of two choices." Weeks earlier, a massacre had occurred at the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The attack stunned French society, while bringing to the surface already latent tensions between French Muslims and their fellow citizens. While ISIS initially endorsed the killings on purely religious grounds, calling the murdered cartoonists blasphemers, in Dabiq the group offered another, more chilling rationale for its support. The attack had "further [brought] division to the world," the group said, boasting that it had polarized society and  "eliminated the grayzone," representing coexistence between religious groups. As a result, it said, Muslims living in the West would soon no longer be welcome in their own societies. Treated with increasing suspicion, distrust and hostility by their fellow citizens as a result of the deadly shooting, Western Muslims would soon be forced to "either apostatize ... or they [migrate] to the Islamic State, and thereby escape persecution from the crusader governments and citizens," the group stated, while threatening of more attacks to come. [...] Through increasingly provocative terrorist attacks, hostage executions, and provocative threats, the Islamic State is consciously seeking to trigger a backlash by Western governments and citizens against the Muslim minorities living in their societies. By achieving this, the group hopes to polarize both sides against each other, locking them into an escalating spiral of alienation, hatred and collective retribution. In a such a scenario, the group can later attempt to pose as the only effective protector for increasingly beleaguered Western Muslims. Read more - Lire plusPolice believe attackers used forged passports to stigmatize refugeesI was held hostage by Isis. They fear our unity more than our airstrikesRobert Fisk: Shadows of Algeria: The lost context of the Paris attacks |
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CommonDreams 17/11/2015 - First and foremost, our alliances with terror-sponsoring dictatorships across the Muslim world must end. All the talk of making difficult decisions is meaningless if we would rather sacrifice civil liberties instead of sacrificing profit-oriented investments in brutal autocracies like Saudi Arabia, which have exploited western dependence on its oil resources to export Islamist extremism around the world. [...] Secondly, in Syria, efforts to find a political resolution to the conflict must ramp up. [...] Every military escalation has been followed by a further escalation, because ISIS itself was incubated in the militarized nightmare of occupied Iraq and Assad-bombed Syria. Thirdly, and relatedly, all military support to all actors in the Syria conflict must end. Western powers can pressurise their Gulf and Turkish state allies to end support to rebel groups, which is now so out of control that there is no longer any prospect of preventing such  support from being diverted to ISIS; while Russia and Iran can withdraw their aid to Assad's bankrupt regime. If Russia and France genuinely wish to avoid further blowback against their own citizens, they would throw their weight behind such measures with a view to force regional actors to come to the negotiating table. Fourthly, it must be recognized that contrary to the exhortations of fanatics like Douglas Murray, talk of 'solidarity' is not merely empty sloganeering. The imperative now is for citizens around the world to work together to safeguard what ISIS calls the "grey zone" - the arena of co-existence where people of all faith and none remain unified on the simple principles of our common humanity. Despite the protestations of extremists, the reality is that the vast majority of secular humanists and religious believers accept and embrace this heritage of mutual acceptance. But safeguarding the "grey zone" means more than bandying about the word 'solidarity' - it means enacting citizen-solidarity by firmly rejecting efforts by both ISIS and the far-right to exploit terrorism as a way to transform our societies into militarized police-states where dissent is demonized, the Other is feared, and mutual paranoia is the name of the game. That, in turn, means working together to advance and innovate the institutions, checks and balances, and accountability necessary to maintain and improve the framework of free, open and diverse societies.Read more - Lire plusWe accept that Russian bombs can provoke a terror backlash. Ours can tooGlobe editorial: To defeat IS, we must learn from failure in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya "We shouldn't play into the hands of ISIS": Vijay Prashad on danger of military escalation in SyriaStopping ISIS: Follow the moneyDavid Graeber: Turkey could cut off Islamic State's supply lines. So why doesn't it?After Paris: Victory to the KurdsHere's why Wall Street is cheering after the Paris attacks |
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Think Progress 18/11/2015 - French President Francois Hollande promised to honor his commitment to take in tens of thousands of refugees on Wednesday. He said France would do so despite concerns raised by ultra-right nationalist leaders that refugees might pose a security threat to the country.
"Some people say the tragic events of the last few days have sown doubts in their minds," Hollande  said, but added that it is a "humanitarian duty" to help the throngs of refugees who have landed on European shores after fleeing conflict and hardship in countries like Syria and Afghanistan. In a speech to mayors from around France, Hollande said France would welcome 30,000 refugees over the next two years. That's even more than the 24,000 he committed to accepting in September. Hollande said that he would invest about $53.3 million to develop housing for refugees. |
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The Huffington Post 18/11/2015 - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has condemned the acts of hatred and racism witnessed in Canada after the terrorist attacks in Paris last week. In a statement released Wednesday from Manila, where he is attending the APEC summit, Trudeau said he has "noted with deep regret a number of highly disturbing acts aimed at  certain Canadians." Trudeau referenced the recent fire at a mosque in Peterborough, Ont., smashed windows at a Hindu temple in Kitchener, Ont., and an attack on a Muslim woman in Toronto. "Diversity is Canada's strength. These vicious and senseless acts of intolerance have no place in our country and run absolutely contrary to Canadian values of pluralism and acceptance," he said in the statement. Read more - Lire plusLiberals drop niqab appeal Harper government took to Supreme CourtAngry neighbours, other faith groups reach out to help after Ontario mosque torchedThe organizer of the Peterborough mosque fundraiser says white supremacists are targeting himMuslim women hit with racial slurs, pushed on Toronto subwaySuspect arrested after masked man vows on video to kill Muslims in QuebecToronto couple changes sign after backlash from asking Muslims if they're sorrySomeone sent a Muslim woman in Ottawa a note saying "Canada is no place for immigrants or terrorists. Go home."France - Muslim woman traumatized after being called terrorist during vicious attackMan pushes Muslim woman into oncoming underground train in LondonThe top five attacks on America committed by Christian terrorists, not Muslims |
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CommonDreams 18/11/2015 - Update: The Prefecture of Police of Paris has reportedly cancelled a march planned for November 29 that organizers expected to draw at least 200,000 people, citing security concerns. Activists noted that other actions planned worldwide will still move forward. [...] Earlier: French police are reintroducing border checks and cracking down on demonstrations set to take place during the upcoming climate talks in Paris-but activists on the ground say they will not sacrifice their plans for protest. Talks between organizers and  French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius ended in a stalemate on Tuesday with no immediate consensus on a massive march planned for November 29-the day before the COP21 negotiations are scheduled to begin-which climate groups hoped would draw hundreds of thousands of people. Following last week's attacks that killed 129 people in Paris, French officials had proposed scaling down the November 29 march to a stationary action held behind kettling nets, miles away from the summit headquarters, with a cutoff of 5,000 participants. But organizers said such a dramatic downsizing "would not be acceptable." In fact, many said, now is the time to double down on free speech and free assembly. Read more - Lire plusCOP21 : le gouvernement interdit les manifestations sur la voie publique |
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CommonDreams 18/11/2015 - Just as they did in the wake of 9/11, corporate media outlets-led by cable news networks-are spreading hysteria, fueling anti-immigrant sentiment, and beating the drum for war by providing "context-free coverage of terror," as one analyst put it this week. The 24/7 coverage of Friday's attacks in Paris and their aftermath, marked by speculation and sensationalism, is only helping the media conglomerates. According to Deadline: "Fox News Channel and CNN both logged their biggest primetime crowds of the year, excluding presidential debates, when viewers tuned in to learn about the attacks in Paris on Friday that killed at  least 129 people and injured hundreds more. The two cable news networks traded hourly wins in the news demo that night." But wall-to-wall "analysis"-bereft of actual facts or nuance-does little for the viewer, wrote Jim Naureckas of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) on Tuesday. And it's part of a historical pattern that only perpetuates war and conflict. "The outpouring of no-context, ahistorical sympathy after 9/11 helped pave the way for a violent reaction that killed in Iraq alone roughly 150 times as many people as died in Lower Manhattan that day-an opportunistic catastrophe that did more to mock than avenge those deaths," Naureckas argued. Political analyst and media critic Heather Digby Parton, writing at Salon on Tuesday, agreed that the media has been complicit in pushing problematic foreign policy. Read more - Lire plusCNN implicates refugees in Paris attacksContext-free coverage of terror helps perpetuate its causesDid the media ignore the Beirut bombings? Or did readers? |
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Tell Trudeau to Support Refugees!
RefugeesWelcome.ca - After the recent tragic events in Paris a number of calls are being made to ban refugees from coming to Canada. Three petitions have gathered almost 100,000 signatures. Humanity is indivisible. We refuse to exploit  these tragedies to fuel fear, hatred and more war. Now is the time to open our hearts, extend our hands and homes in welcome, and to work for peace. Tell Justin Trudeau: Open the borders to all refugees seeking safety, overhaul the immigration system, end the wars.
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PM Trudeau: Call on the UAE to free Canadian citizen Salim Alaradi now!
ICLMG - Salim Alaradi, a Canadian citizen and father of 5 young children, has been detained without charge in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)  since August 2014. We are also worried that he was tortured. His health is deteriorating quickly as his family has informed us this week. Write to Prime Minister Trudeau to urge him to call on the UAE to free Salim Alaradi now!
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Planète+ Canada - Les conséquences de la guerre au terrorisme que mène le Canada, et plus particulièrement le recours aux forts controversés certificats de sécurité. Le film présente cinq familles dont la vie a été bouleversée par ces certificats de sécurité qui autorisent la détention indéterminée sans que des accusations soient portées et la  non-divulgation, même aux avocats de la personne détenue, des raisons qui motivent cette détention. Même si la Cour suprême du Canada a jugé que ces certificats étaient anticonstitutionnels, ils sont toujours utilisés. Au cours de la dernière décennie, cinq hommes ont ainsi été détenus, passant ensemble un total de plus de 30 ans en prison. Aucun d'eux n'a encore été accusé de quoi que ce soit. Détails et horaire de diffusion
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NEW Tell Prime Minister Trudeau to consult with Canadians now, while there's still time to undo C-51
OpenMedia - Prime Minister Trudeau has said C-51 is a top priority,1 but we must ensure Canadians are at the centre of the process. If we aren't consulted, we could miss our chance to fully repeal the dangerous powers in this bill. C-51 was rammed into law  without meaningful public consultation. Its unprecedented new spy powers are too far-reaching to address behind closed doors. Over 300,000 Canadians have spoken against the reckless, dangerous, and ineffective bill. If we don't act quickly, we'll lose our chance. ACT NOW: Tell Prime Minister Trudeau to launch a public consultation.
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Let Khaled leave Egypt!
Free Khaled Al-Qazzaz - Write to your MP to ask them to urge the Egyptian authorities to remove the travel ban on Canadian resident Khaled  Al-Qazzaz so he can finally be free after being detained without charges for a year and a half and released since January 2015 but prevented from leaving the country.
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Saudi Arabia: Stop the execution of juvenile activist Ali al-Nimr
Amnesty International - Two courts have upheld the death sentence against a Shi'a activist. He has exhausted his appeals and may be executed as soon as the King ratifies the sentence. Ali al-Nimr was sentenced to death on 27 May 2014 for offences he is alleged to have committed when he was 17 years old. The court seems to  have based its decision on "confessions" which Ali al-Nimr has said were extracted under torture and other ill-treatment and has refused to look into this allegation. When Ali al-Nimr was arrested in February 2012 he was not allowed to see his lawyer. He has said that GDI officers tortured him to make him sign a "confession". Read more and sign the petition now!
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Signez la pétition pour libérer le blogueur saoudien Raif Badawi
 Amnistie internationale - Raif Badawi, prisonnier d'opinion en Arabie saoudite, risque la mort pour avoir offert un débat sur la liberté religieuse. Exigeons des autorités saoudiennes que les coups de fouet cessent immédiatement, que Raif soit libéré sans condition, et qu'il soit réuni avec sa famille réfugiée au Canada. Exigeons de cet État qu'il respecte ses obligations en matière de droits humains et qu'il abolisse la flagellation.  English petition
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The News Digest is ICLMG's weekly publication of news articles, events, calls to action and much more regarding national security, anti-terrorism, and civil liberties. The ICLMG is a national coalition of 43 Canadian civil society organizations that was established in the aftermath of the September, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. +++
La revue de l'actualité est notre publication hebdomadaire de nouvelles, d'évènements, d'appels à l'action, et beaucoup plus, entourant la sécurité nationale, la lutte au terrorisme, et les libertés civiles. La CSILC est une coalition nationale de 43 organisations de la société civile canadienne qui a été créée suite aux attentats terroristes de septembre 2001 aux États-Unis.
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leaders have threatened in response to the atrocities in Paris: "It's not as if the outside world hasn't already given pitiless war a try. The Soviet Union spent all of the 1980s attempting to pacify Afghanistan and succeeded only in killing a million or so Afghans while creating an incubator for Islamic radicalism. Beginning in 2003, the United States attempted something similar in Iraq and ended up producing similarly destabilizing results. By the time the US troops withdrew in 2011, something like 200,000 Iraqis had died, most of them civilians. Today Iraq teeters on the brink of disintegration." I like the poem by Karma Ezara Parikh. She wrote: "It's not Paris we should be praying for, it's the world." This came from a woman who is a better historian than the hired guns over at the Post and most of the Western media. [...] Justin Trudeau needs to have the courage of the convictions that got him elected. When it comes to the so-called War on Terror, the Harper approach was part of the problem, not the answer.
identified several public surveillance trends, all of which he says are "increasing at an accelerating rate." Canada is not about to become Western Europe, he says, but "it is incumbent upon us as a society to think about the ethical consequences" of mass surveillance. John Brennan and his peers in the secret world would call that more hand-wringing. They would argue that the cameras are desperately needed tools, and that anyone who isn't doing anything wrong has nothing to worry about. That of course is the police state justification. But it has a powerful appeal to law-abiding citizens when pitiless men appear in suicide vests firing Kalashnikovs into crowds. They hate us because we are free, we are told. The fact that we've responded by giving up ever more freedom doesn't seem to matter. There. I just wrung my hands again.
university's Human Rights Research and Education Centre and Centre for International Policy Studies, "Arar +10" reviewed the state of national security and human rights in Canada a decade after a public inquiry was established to investigate the rendition to Syria and torture of Canadian citizen Maher Arar. From a range of panels key recommendations emerged. The conference's recommendations are particularly timely as the new federal government prepares to introduce legal and other reforms reversing or revising national security and citizenship laws and practices.
promote and favour the interests of Canadian mining companies and to influence decisions over extractive projects and related policies. The trend of repression and deregulation in Canada to favour mining, oil, and gas projects is consistent with the model that the Canadian government promotes abroad. Concluding with a series of ideas and recommendations for discussion, the report seeks to spur debate and foster creative action to protect dissent in defence of land and the environment, and to question Canada's role in promoting the underlying economic development model that is putting communities at such a deadly disadvantage.
