Photos from 9ice's birthday party

Photos from 9ice's birthday party

9ice celebrated his birthday party and had friends and loved ones at the event. More photos after the cut..

Gruesome photo of man killed yesterday in Kwara by suspected cultists

Gruesome photo of man killed yesterday in Kwara by suspected cultists

Yesterday, I told y'all about a popular suspected cultists named Bayo Ajia (pictured above) who was killed yesterday in Ilorin by suspected cultists...(read here), well, I just got a gruesome photo taken immediately he was murdered at his car wash. He was macheted. See the photo after the cut..*viewer discretion advised*

N.Y. woman faces jail for calling former in-law 'stupid' in Facebook post

N.Y. woman faces jail for calling former in-law 'stupid' in Facebook post

A US woman is facing a one-year prison sentence for violating a protection order by tagging victims in a Facebook post and making derogatory comments about them.

Despite being divorced from her ex-husband Rafael Calderon and issued with a protection order preventing her from contacting her ex-husband or his family, Maria Gonzalez of New York decided to tag her former sister-in-law Maribel Calderon in a Facebook post and call her 'stupid', according to the New York Law Journal.

Gonzalez also tagged Calderon in another post saying: "You and your family are sad ... You guys have to come stronger than that!! I'm way over you guys but I guess not in ya agenda."

 

Protection orders, also known as restraining orders, are court-issued orders that require one person (the one being restrained) to stay away from the person requiring protection, and this means specifically that the restrained person is not to hurt, threaten or communicate with the protected person at all.

 

You might think it should be obvious that "no communication" would include SMS text messages, phone calls, emails, IM chat messages and any form of contact through social media networks, but

 

Gonzalez argued in court that the protection order "did not specifically prohibit [her] from Facebook communication" with her ex-husband's family.

Unfortunately for Gonzalez, who was charged with second-degree criminal contempt, Acting Westchester County Supreme Court Justice Susan Capeci disagreed.

"The allegations that she contacted the victim by tagging her in a Facebook posting which the victim was notified of is thus sufficient for pleading purposes to establish a violation of the order of protection," Capeci wrote in the decision The People v. Gonzalez, 15-6081M, upholding the charges.

Capeci stated in her ruling that Facebook is considered to be a viable form of communication, citing a 2014 decision made by the New York Court of Appeals in the case of People v Horton. In that case, the judge presiding ruled that Facebook messages are equivalent to emails, after a defendant was found guilty of witness tampering by trying to "out" a confidential informant on Facebook and then sending her Facebook messages with threats intended to induce her not to testify against the defendant.

 

Gonzalez' court-appointed lawyer Kim Frohlinger told the New York Post that she would not be appealing the ruling.

 

Although such a case hasn't surfaced in the UK yet, it would be advisable for everyone to note that any form of digital messaging or communication over social media does in fact count as a form of communication, regardless of whether the message is sent privately or publicly.

Muslim employees quit manufacturing job after company changes prayer policies

Muslim employees quit manufacturing job after company changes prayer policies

Dozens of Muslim employees at a Wisconsin manufacturing company claim that they were forced to quit this week, after the company changed its prayer-on-the-job policy to one that prevents them from participating in their daily prayers to Mecca.
WBAY-TV reported that before Thursday, Somali Muslims employed by Ariens Manufacturing were allowed to leave the producing line twice a shift in order to participate in two of the five daily prayers required by the Islamic faith.

Ariens, which is based out of Brillion, WI, primarily manufactures snow blowers and riding mowers:
The new policy, as told to the station by a company spokesman, only allows the employees:

…to pray during scheduled breaks in designated prayer rooms. Our manufacturing environment does not allow for unscheduled breaks in production.”

The dozens of employees affected by the policy allege that praying only during a meal break goes against their religion. Masjid Imam Hasan Abdi, an employee from Green Bay, told the station:

“If someone tells you, ‘You pray on your break,’ and the break time is not the prayer time? It will be impossible to pray.”

Added former Ariens equipment painter, who held out his unemployment packet as he spoke to WBAY:

“We pray by the time. So they say, ‘If you don’t pray at the break time,’ they give us this [unemployment] paper to just leave.”

According to the company’s spokesman, the policy change impacts 53 of the company’s workers, with the majority of them opting to leave the company as a result of the new company.
The spokesman added that the company “put a considerable amount of effort” into finding a solution that would work for both sides, which included meeting with members of their Somalian employee group.
Dan Ariens, the company’s chairman and CEO, also wrote in an open letter posted to Twitter that reads, in part:

“We continue to be open to any of the employees returning to work under the new policy…
We respect their faith, we respect the work they have done at Ariens, and we respect their decision regardless of their choice to return to work or not.”

Per US law established by the the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission on religious tolerance in the workplace, “an employer does not have to accommodate an employee’s religious beliefs or practices if doing so would cause undue hardship to the employer.”
The Council for Islamic-American Relations (CAIR) is also calling on Ariens to reverse its policy, per a Tweet sent on Saturday.