Blog Heap of Links for the day 26 February 2016

A new report offers some startling statistics on the devastation wrought by Muslims on the Christian population in Nigeria, with 11,500 Christians killed, a million displaced and 13,000 churches destroyed or shut down in the last 15 years. …

A SCHOOLBOY was hauled out of class and interrogated by detectives after politically correct teachers reported him to the POLICE for visiting the UKIP website.… The 15-year-old went online earlier this week to research immigration following a classroom discussion on the subject,…

OTTAWA… All publicly funded institutions – which includes Christian hospitals and nursing homes – must be forced to provide assisted suicide and euthanasia, according to recommendations of the federal parliamentary committee in its report released today. …

The top admiral in charge of U.S. military operations in Asia says Washington should drop its remaining restrictions on weapons sales to Vietnam in order to better defend against China’s military buildup in the South China Sea.…

Obama: "Scooping ice cream is tougher than it looks. Rows and rows of rock-hard ice cream can be brutal on the wrists.…"

A new study suggests that there are around 700 quintillion planets in the universe, but only one like Earth. … Astrophysicist Erik Zackrisson from Uppsala University in Sweden arrived at this staggering figure … with the aid of a computer model that simulated the universe’s evolution following the Big Bang. …

Seven Taliban terrorists have been killed and two were seriously injured after they were blown up at a suicide bomber training session in a Madrassa in Afghanistan. … A senior Taliban commander was believed to have been showing several recruits on the safe way of manufacturing and handling suicide vests so they do not detonate prematurely. …

A Swiss butcher is going to jail after selling pork to Muslims for several years.

The Zurich butcher sold 3.1 tons of pork to Muslims but told them it was halal veal.…

A University of Texas dean said Thursday he’s leaving the school to pursue a different job in large part because of the new Texas law that will allow concealed firearms in public college classrooms.… University of Texas President Greg Fenves… has said allowing guns on campus will make it harder to recruit and retain top faculty and students. Steiner's departure would be the most immediate high-profile result of that prediction.…

We reported earlier this week that conservative author Ben Shapiro was banned from speaking at California State University LA by the school’s president.

The school then relented and said Shapiro could come after all. Then things got crazy.

Students who wanted to hear Shapiro speak had to be ushered quietly into the lecture hall through a back door while unhinged student activists and faculty members screamed and tried to force their way through a police barricade protecting the front door.…

Austria convened a summit yesterday in Vienna on migration via the “Balkan Route”. The other countries participating in the confab were Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro. Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner and Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz were the principal speakers. Greece was not invited. In response to the snub, Greece withdrew its ambassador from Vienna.

In other news, German media are reporting that the government expects that 3.6 million “refugees” will have entered Germany by the year 2020.…

…this isn’t a gargantuan illustrated edition, but it’s a very good one (and, for those who care, has a large selection of great pro-Israel stuff):…

Husein Kavazovic, the Grand Mufti of Bosnia, has called on the authorities to do something about radical Islamic terrorism. Mr. Kavazovic issued the call after he was threatened with death by the Islamic State for opposing Islamic extremism.

In other news, Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, acknowledged that he has a dispute with Austria over the latter’s new policy of capping the number of migrants that enter the country. Meanwhile Matteo Salvini, the leader of the Lega Nord, says that neither the European Commission nor Mr. Juncker are welcome in Italy. …

Work and family meant no debate for me. Anyway, I’m sick of a debate format that has candidates snarling like dogs at each other and at the moderators without actually providing useful information. In this post, I hope to provide some useful information.…

…Today will be cut short because I have a doctor's appointment early this morning. Also, I am going to do something a little different with the "day in history" thing. I am going to use the same one from last year and you will see why.…

Donald Trump is going after the media, threatening to sue publications for writing negatively about him.…

One of the things I’m gonna do, and this is only gonna make it tougher for me, and I’ve never said this before, but one of the things I’m gonna do if I win … is I’m gonna open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money. We’re gonna open up those libel laws.

So that when the New York Times writes a hit piece which is a total disgrace, or when the Washington Post … writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money, instead of having no chance of winning because they’re totally protected.

Thursday at CNN’s Republican presidential debate… hoping for response time Carson begged, “Can someone attack me, please”…

Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) explains why he’s endorsing Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), telling Breitbart News Daily host Stephen K. Bannon Cruz consistently fought to stop amnesty during his freshman Senate term.…

...Trump… holding a campaign event in Oklahoma City on Friday… cover photo of his official Facebook event page had "[strong]Oak[/strong]lahoma City." …graphic has since been removed… new graphic now just reads, "Oklahoma, OK."

…Trump and Sarah Palin held a campaign event in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in January… media badges read "[strong]Tusla,[/strong] Oklahoma…