The cost of lock downs, and Islamic reasoning at Speaker’s Corner: Links 1, October 26, 2020

1. “What is the cost of the second lockdown in Victoria?” (Australia)

2. Turkey is clearly determined to push for Ottoman Empire mark 2.0

#BREAKING Turkish President Erdogan: Muslims in Europe subjected to a “lynch campaign similar to that against Jews before World War II” pic.twitter.com/TAfoneNPvB

— AFP news agency (@AFP) October 26, 2020

3. Live Updates: Turkish F-16 Jets Will Be Used in Case of Aggression Against Azerbaijan, Aliev Says

Paris (AFP) — France’s largest employers’ federation on Monday urged companies to “resist the blackmail” over a product boycott by Arab countries as a backlash widens over Paris’s hardened stance against radical Islam.

French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to take the fight to Islamic radicals after the October 16 beheading of a history teacher who had shown cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed to pupils in a class discussion on free speech.

But his comments triggered protests in Muslim-majority countries at the weekend, with people burning pictures of Macron in Syria and setting fire to French flags in the Libyan capital Tripoli.

Boycotts of French goods are under way in supermarkets in Qatar and Kuwait, with further calls to spurn French products in Jordan and other states.

10. Muslim having an Islamic style, reasoned discussion with a woman who objects to many Islamic precepts

Speakers Cornerpic.twitter.com/Qa8Owj12Za

— Old Holborn® (@Holbornlolz) October 26, 2020

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