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Charity compares women who don’t wear hijab to ‘unwrapped sweets’

Charity compares women who don’t wear hijab to ‘unwrapped sweets’

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A newly registered Islamic charity has compared women who do not wear the hijab to ‘unwrapped sweets’, the National Secular Society can reveal. One True Message Foundation (OTMF), based in Feltham, West London, registered as a charity earlier this year under the charitable purpose ‘the advancement of religion’. In a now removed video titled Hijab vs Non-Hijab, Faisel Qarni, an OTMF trustee, says: “I have two sweets, yeah, one I open the wrapper and I throw it on the floor, yeah, and I tread on it a little bit. The other one I leave in the wrapper and I throw it on the floor and I tread on it. One’s in the wrapper one’s not. I pick both of them up and I say take one. Which one are you going to choose? … Case closed” The National Secular Society said the comments are “deeply misogynistic” because they suggest women who do not wear the hijab are “sullied”. Another OTMF video describes an “AMAZING SOLUTION” to “RAPIDLY reduce crime”. Qarni relates how “there’s no crime” …

Biden Compares Hamas Attack to Holocaust in Antisemitism Warning

Biden Compares Hamas Attack to Holocaust in Antisemitism Warning

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday that the threat of antisemitism is growing in the United States, including on college campuses, as his support for Israel’s assault on Gaza divides Democrats and alienates some young voters. In a speech honoring the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust, Biden joined a heated American debate about Jewish security, Zionism, free speech and support for Israel, in the country with the largest Jewish population after Israel. Addressing a bipartisan audience at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s annual commemoration, he warned of the risk that the truth about the systematic killing of Jews during World War Two would be lost. War in Israel and Gaza “‘Never again’ simply translated for me means: Never forget. Never forgetting means we must keep telling the story, we must keep teaching the truth,” Biden said at the U.S. Capitol’s Emancipation Hall. “The truth is we’re at risk of people not knowing the truth.” Biden spoke seven months to the day after the Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel on …

Sadiq Khan apologise to Chief Rabbi but Tory chair compares row to ‘BNP’ tactics | Politics | News

Sadiq Khan apologise to Chief Rabbi but Tory chair compares row to ‘BNP’ tactics | Politics | News

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Sadiq Khan has been forced to apologise to the Chief Rabbi after implying that his criticism of the Mayor’s call for a Gaza ceasefire was influenced by Islamophobia. In an interview yesterday, the London Mayor said he had been “disappointed” when Jewish leaders condemned his decision to speak about Gaza. He complained that his interventions on the Middle Eastern conflict had been subjected to greater criticism than similar calls by Manchester mayor Andy Burnham. He told interviewer Mehdi Hasan: “What motivated them to come out in the way they did against the Mayor of London, and the Mayor of Greater Manchester – I’ll give you a clue, he’s not called Ahmed Bourani, he’s called Andy Burnham, whereas I’m called Sadiq Khan”. He added: “I’ve not seen the Chief Rabbi, the Jewish Chronicle, say comments against me in relation to my calls for a ceasefire”. “And I’d ask those Jewish people just to pause and reflect on their response to me calling for a ceasefire.” The comments sparked fury in the Jewish community, with one source …

The Jinx director compares convicted killer Robert Durst to Donald Trump

The Jinx director compares convicted killer Robert Durst to Donald Trump

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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Convicted killer Robert Durst reminded The Jinx director Andrew Jarecki of someone else prone to lying: former US president Donald Trump. Jarecki spoke to The Independent ahead of the release of The Jinx – Part Two, the sequel to his 2015 hit series about the multiple murder allegations against realty heir Durst, which is set to air on Max this Sunday. In the first series, Durst lies to Jarecki about being in Madrid in order to get out of an interview, although it later transpires he was in Los Angeles. “Bob is like a Trump in that way, he’s very good at dodging something,” Jarecki said. “The Germans have this word ‘Blitzlüge’ – a lightning lie – something you can pull in a second. And so I know Bob was sitting in a restaurant in Los Angeles, listening to some Spanish music and said: ‘I’m sorry I can’t …

Andrew Scott Opens Up About How His Role In Ripley Compares To Sherlock’s Moriarty

Andrew Scott Opens Up About How His Role In Ripley Compares To Sherlock’s Moriarty

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Andrew Scott has revealed how he thinks his character in the new Netflix series Ripley compares to his villainous role in Sherlock. The Irish actor takes the lead in the new limited series about a grifter who is hired by a wealthy man to convince his son to return home from Italy, before a tale of deceit, fraud and murder ensues. The show is based Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 crime novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, which was also adapted for the big screen for the 1999 film of the same name, which starred Matt Damon, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow. Speaking to HuffPost UK ahead of Ripley’s release on Thursday 4 April, the Fleabag star reflected on whether his new role bears any resemblance to the notorious Jim Moriarty in the BBC show Sherlock. The Bafta winner confessed that while it was “fun” to return to a darker character again, he finds the two characters exist in “very different territory”. “I feel Moriarty is a villain, and even though I know Tom Ripley does very villainous …

Nine crypto VCs on why Q1 investments were so hot and how it compares to previous bull market

Nine crypto VCs on why Q1 investments were so hot and how it compares to previous bull market

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If the 2023 crypto venture landscape was an ice-cold pot of water, the first quarter of 2024 is the part where the bubbles start to form right before water boils, Tom Schmidt, a partner at Dragonfly Capital, said to TechCrunch. And he’s not wrong: $2.52 billion in total capital has been raised across the crypto and blockchain sectors in Q1 2024, according to PitchBook data. That’s about 25% higher than $2.02 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023. “It’s been an extraordinarily busy time. It has 2021 feels to it,” said David Nage, portfolio manager at Arca. “Deals in 2021 felt like you had a gun to the back of your head; that feeling has kind of returned to the market a bit.” Nage said his firm has tracked over 690 deals across stages that have transpired during Q1, about 30 to 40% more than the lows in 2023. “In Q1, the crypto venture capital funding landscape was cautiously optimistic, rebounding from a challenging two-year period of fundraising difficulties for both companies and managers,” said …

Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan felt ‘super free’ filming Channel 4’s Big Mood as she compares ‘very different’ shows

Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan felt ‘super free’ filming Channel 4’s Big Mood as she compares ‘very different’ shows

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Nicola Coughlan has revealed that she felt “super free” while filming Channel 4’s new comedy Big Mood compared to Netflix’s Bridgerton.  The Irish actress stars opposite Lydia West in the series as best friends Maggie and Eddie whose ten-year friendship is tested when Maggie’s bipolar disorder makes an unwelcome return. The Irish actress spoke to HELLO! and other press ahead of the show’s release and was asked if she could use more of her comedy skills in the role compared to Bridgerton.  WATCH: Get a first look at Penelope and Colin in season three of Bridgerton “I think, because this was written by one of my best friends, it’s very much the vernacular and the way in which we speak to one another,” she explained. “So I felt a lot of freedom in the performance.” Recalling her first reading of the script, Nicola said it was “very obvious” who Maggie was and told director Rebecca Asher that she wanted to be “quite free in the performance”.  © Chris BakerNicola Coughlan plays Maggie in Big Mood …

How Sam Bankman-Fried’s Sentence Compares With Other White-Collar Cases

How Sam Bankman-Fried’s Sentence Compares With Other White-Collar Cases

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Two years in prison for tax and securities violations. Eleven years for deceiving investors. A 150-year sentence for the largest Ponzi scheme in history. The country’s most notorious white-collar fraudsters — like Bernie Madoff and Elizabeth Holmes — have received a range of punishments for their crimes, from relatively short prison terms to effectively a life sentence. On Thursday, Sam Bankman-Fried, the onetime cryptocurrency mogul, joined their ranks, receiving a 25-year sentence for fraud, conspiracy and money laundering. Mr. Bankman-Fried was convicted of stealing $8 billion from customers of his international crypto exchange, FTX — charges that carry a maximum sentence of 110 years. In legal filings, prosecutors cited 13 examples of white-collar prosecutions that involved a loss of more than $100 million. In all but two of those cases, the defendant was sentenced to 40 years or more. Here’s how Mr. Bankman-Fried’s sentence compares with penalties faced by other high-profile white-collar criminals. Michael Milken Mr. Milken, once known as the “junk bond king” of Wall Street, was sentenced to 10 years in 1990 for …

We Tried Mistral AI’s Le Chat AI Chatbot, and Here’s How It Compares to ChatGPT

We Tried Mistral AI’s Le Chat AI Chatbot, and Here’s How It Compares to ChatGPT

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Key Takeaways Le Chat, an AI chatbot by Mistral AI, shows promise but lags behind ChatGPT in creativity and programming skills. Le Chat’s coding abilities are inferior to ChatGPT, failing basic tasks, but it excels at common sense reasoning. While Le Chat may have potential, it needs further refinement before competing with top AI chatbots like ChatGPT. Mistral’s Le Chat has been gaining traction within the AI chatbot community, with some observers tagging it as a potential rival to ChatGPT. But is this fledgling AI chatbot really worth the title? Is Mistral’s Le Chat better than ChatGPT? What Is Mistral AI’s Le Chat? Le Chat is a conversational AI chatbot developed by French AI startup Mistral AI. It is powered by several Mistral-owned large language models, including Mistral Large, Mistral Small, and Mistral Next, all of which you can choose to use when interacting with the AI chatbot. Although it is a relatively new entrant in the AI chatbot space, it is rated highly because of the performance of its AI models despite their smaller …