Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/20/2024

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The presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised that he will support $5 billion in reparations for black farmers when he takes office. Mr. Kennedy made his promise despite an earlier court ruling that such a measure would be unconstitutional.

In other news, the container ship Dali that collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore back in March was refloated today and returned to the Port of Baltimore, eight weeks after the incident.

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Thanks to Daniel Greenfield, Dean, DV, JW, LP, Reader from Chicago, Roger, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Sharia 101

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There are so many Muslim culture-enrichers in Germany now that a leading pedagogue wants to institute formal Islamic education in the public schools.

The big question is who will do the teaching. Will it be native German pedagogues who have undergone training in the intricacies of sharia? Or will it be imams “with a migration background”? If the latter — which I assume will most likely be the case — the problem will be finding any that are not under the control of Ditib (Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs [Turkish: Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı; German: Türkisch-Islamische Union der Anstalt für Religion]) or Iran (I don’t know the name of the Iranian religious authority in Germany, but I’m sure there must be one).

Chances are, when the new curriculum has been put together and the teachers assigned, everything will be under Turkish control, but everyone involved will pretend that’s not the case.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Junge Freiheit. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

“In the spirit of the Basic Law [Constitution]”

Teachers’ association calls for comprehensive Islamic teaching in Germany

Over a million students of Muslim faith now attend German schools. For them, President of the German Teachers’ Association Düll wants comprehensive teaching “in the spirit of the Basic Law”.

Berlin

The President of the German Teachers’ Association, Stefan Düll, has called for comprehensive Islamic teaching in public schools. “We have to set up Islamic classes under state supervision,” Düll told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (NOZ) on Monday. [Is this guy for real if he believes he can “teach” an Islam that isn’t based on violence and conquest of the infidel? Is he planning to rewrite 1,400 years of aggression? Good luck, moron.]

For many Muslims, the ethics lessons offered as an alternative to Christian religious education are not enough. “Rather, they repeatedly express their wish that their children receive Islamic instruction under state supervision, preferably at school,” emphasized the senior director of studies, who himself has taught at various schools in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria in the past.

When it comes to extracurricular Islamic lessons, many parents have “legitimate concerns” with regard to the values taught there. They wanted to raise their children “in the spirit of enlightened Islam with professional support, but not instruction that is controlled by other states such as Turkey or Iran.” Therefore, courses must now be created “in accordance with the Basic Law,” as Düll confirmed to the NOZ. [Has he ever heard of taqiyya? I’d assume NOT, otherwise he wouldn’t talk such balderdash. He should look towards the Netherlands for how well Islamic indoctrination works in reality.]

Over a million Muslim students in Germany’s classrooms

To date, there is no uniform teaching of Islam in Germany’s schools. In addition to Baden-Württemberg, federal states such as Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia have already initiated various model projects. The spectrum ranges from faith-oriented lessons in collaboration with Islamic religious associations to faith-neutral religious studies. There is currently no comparable offer in the new federal states.

According to the Integration Media Service, over a million students in Germany are currently of Muslim faith. However, only a fraction attend classes in school that correspond to their faith, namely almost 70,000 young people in the 2022/23 school year.

According to the media platform, the demand for Islamic religious education is much higher than can currently be offered — due, among other things, to a shortage of teachers. [Higgledy Piggledy Piggery]

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/19/2024

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A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian crashed this afternoon in dense fog in the mountains of northwest Iran. For a number of hours, there was hope that survivors might be found, but when searchers found the crash site late at night, there was no sign of life.

In other news, the southern English city of Brighton has elected its first ever South Asian Muslim mayor.

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Thanks to Dean, Dora, DV, JW, LP, McN, MM, Reader from Chicago, SS, Steen, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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In Duisburg and Berlin, the Kids Are All Right… NOT!

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Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the online news portal Nius. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

In Berlin and Duisburg: elementary school student slashes his friend’s arm, ten-year-olds mistreat animals!

Two serious crimes committed by children: Serious crimes committed by young people occurred independently in Duisburg and Berlin. In Berlin, an 8-year-old girl cut the arm of a 7-year-old classmate with the blade of a pencil sharpener.

As the police announced, “Neither he nor his parents showed any remorse when the matter was clarified. The boy was initially suspended from school for several days.” The police are investigating. [I guess he’s a jihadist in training.]

Mistreatment of animals in Duisburg

In Marxloh in the Petershof in Duisburg, children tortured animals in a brutal way. As WAZ and Der Westen report, three children between the ages of 9 and 10 broke into the social pastoral center in Duisburg’s problem area [is this the same as a “sensitive zone”?] and stoned a chicken to death. They then attacked a goat.

As the portals report, the break-in is the climax of a series of break-ins in recent weeks. Animals keep disappearing. In response, Petershof installed a surveillance camera. The recordings from last weekend were “unbearable”. Killing the chicken and torturing the goat amounts to a “real excess of violence”.

Accordingly, the children are said to have thrown paving stones at the chicken and abused the goat with spades, stones and sticks. The offense is said to have lasted 45 minutes before the Duisburg police caught the children in the act. At that moment, the children were about to use electric hedge trimmers.

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Senegalese Culture-Enricher Runs Wild With a Knife in Saxony

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Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the online news portal Nius. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

Drunk Senegalese in Saxony harasses women and attacks passers-by with a knife

In the community of Gelenau (population 3,000) in the Erzgebirge region of Saxony, a drunk Senegalese man attacked passers-by with a knife on Saturday. As Bild reports, a 41-year-old was wounded and taken to hospital. At around 8:40pm, local police received an emergency call after witnesses saw the man attacking another man with a knife. At the scene, officers found the victim had severe cuts. The attacker was able to escape.

As a police spokesman told Bild, the suspect returned to his home address, an asylum accommodation in the Spinnerei district of Drebach. There the drunken Senegalese was overpowered by a special unit around 9:30pm. Because he was mentally disturbed, he was taken to a psychiatric hospital. [Well, isn’t that a surprise for a change?] The suspected weapon, a knife with a large blade, has not yet been located.

The 36-year-old is now being investigated for grievous bodily harm. The police are also examining evidence that the Senegalese man is said to have harassed several women in the area of a supermarket before the attack.

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Injured vs. Wounded

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When someone gets stabbed, or shot, or blown up by a suicide bomber, or deliberately run over with a vehicle, would you describe him as “injured”? Or is he “wounded”?

For many years, guidelines provided by the Gates of Vienna style book have advised that anyone who is hurt but not killed by deliberate human actions should be described as “wounded”. I follow that rule when editing essays and translations: I change “injured” to “wounded” where appropriate.

Even if a translation is exactly, literally correct, I’m going to change “injured” to “wounded”, because I think the use of the former word is part of the media propaganda war intended to hide the full horror of immigrant atrocities. That type of obfuscation is being attempted in all languages.

Injuries happen during car wrecks, train disasters, hurricanes, and other acts of God, but anything human-inflicted is a wound.

The difference is subtle, but the nuance is picked up subliminally by the reader, who becomes conditioned to think that that someone who is “injured” by a culture-enricher with a machete is basically the same as the victim of a natural disaster.

I’ve noticed this phenomenon for many years in English-language news reports. People who receive horrible wounds at the hands of jihad terrorists, muggers, and “teenagers” playing the knockout game are described as “injured”.

If you hear that often enough, you become desensitized to the difference between the two words.

I won’t be a party to the propaganda: those victims are WOUNDED.

Culture-Enriching Arsonist Can’t Be Deported

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I posted yesterday about an Algerian culture-enricher who tried to burn down a synagogue in Rouen, and was shot dead by police for his efforts. The unfortunate youth had been ordered to leave France, but could not be deported because he had appealed the order.

Below are three news videos from French TV about events in Rouen. Many thanks to HeHa for the translations, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling.

Video #1:

Video #2:

Video #3 (remarks by Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin):

Video transcript #1:

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Liberal Hegemony

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Karl-Olov Arnstberg is a Swedish writer, ethnologist, and retired university professor. His essays are posted at his blog, Invandring och mörkläggning. Below is today’s installment of his “Sunday Chronicle”. Many thanks to our Swedish correspondent LN for the translation:

Sunday chronicle: Liberal hegemony

by Karl-Olov Arnstberg

At the international level, the liberal order is characterised by economic openness, i.e. low barriers to trade and investment, relations between states being regulated by laws and institutions such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and multilateral alliances such as NATO.

At the national level, the liberal order is synonymous with:

  • Democratically elected leaders
  • The rule of law
  • Market economy
  • Religious and social tolerance
  • Human rights

Proponents of a liberal world order do not believe that this dream society arises spontaneously or automatically sustains itself. On the contrary, they believe that the liberal order requires active leadership. They also agree the United States, as the only superpower, is uniquely qualified to take the lead. Because it faces no threats in the Western Hemisphere and is shielded from the rest of the world by two vast oceans, it can intervene in distant countries without jeopardising its own survival. The two fundamental beliefs of liberal hegemony:

  • The United States must remain far more powerful than any other country.
  • It should use its superior military power to defend, spread and deepen liberal values around the world.

In the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, history seemed to be moving in the US direction and it was considered easy to spread the American version of liberalism. The victory in the Cold War, the so-called Velvet Revolutions in Eastern Europe and a wave of democratic transitions in Latin America convinced many that liberal democracy was the only logical end point for modern or even postmodern societies.

US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright called the United States ‘the indispensable nation that sees beyond what others do.’ The Washington Post hailed US foreign policy as ‘the landmine that protects civilisation from barbarism.’ Only so-called rogue states, led by dictators and international troublemakers, opposed the exercise of US power, but they were comparatively weak and politically isolated. In any case, they were assumed to be heading for the dustbin of history.

The political scientist Francis Fukuyama captured the zeitgeist perfectly when he argued that the great ideological battles of the past were now behind us and that humanity had reached the end of history. In the future, he said, there would be no struggle or conflict over major issues and consequently no need for generals or statesmen. Fukuyama warned that boredom could be the greatest danger of the future.

The enlargement and deepening of the EU in 1992, and the introduction of the euro as the single currency, fitted into this optimistic narrative. The EU was further proof that democracy, and the gradual development of international institutions, could bring lasting peace between countries that had previously fought bloody wars with each other. Overall, the future seemed bright not only for the United States but also for much of the world. Liberal values were on the rise and seemed to be inexorably pulling the world in the direction American leaders wanted it to go.

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Covid-19: All Lies. All Crime. — Chapter 1

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Paul Weston has kindly given me permission to serialize his recently published book, Covid-19: All Lies. All Crime. Below is the first chapter.

Mr. Weston includes this prefatory note: “The point of the book is to lay out the colossal fraud in such a way as to be easily read and understood by the average person. Without their understanding what has happened, it becomes so much easier for it to happen again. If the majority realised the extent to which they’ve been conned they would be marching on our government buildings by now, with pitchforks in hand.”

Covid-19: All Lies. All Crime.

by Paul Weston

Chapter 1: Introduction

Four years after the Covid-tyranny began, the jury is pretty much out. The whole world became a gigantic film-set, produced by Bill Gates, and directed by the World Health Organisation. Our politicians, scientists and journalists acted out their leading roles whilst all of earth’s citizens became unimportant, disposable extras in a global Truman Horror-Show.

The organisation involved to make this happen is staggeringly vast. It must have taken years to plan, and it must have cost unimaginable sums of money, all of which has been repaid many times over by now. What an investment that turned out to be. As Bill Gates has repeatedly mentioned, the returns on vaccines are up to twenty times the initial investment.

I don’t believe such a gigantic operation was ever going to be just a one-off. I am convinced another pandemic is just around the corner. The WHO and Bill Gates have both talked about the inevitability of another one, and the WHO is currently engaged in a power grab designed to put it completely in charge of sovereign nations when the much-anticipated next pandemic arrives. Disease X is just a matter of time, I believe.

In order to stop this from happening, or at least to try to stop this from happening, it is essential that the majority of people understand what happened post March 2020. I have written a short, succinct book in order to get my message and warning out. It is easy to read, but also highly detailed in its exposure of the global fraud involved in driving the last so-called pandemic.

The book basically answers the following questions:

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“I Am Afraid to Be an Israeli in Belgium”

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An Israeli Jew and his daughter were physically attacked by angry Hamas supporters in the Belgian city of Brugge (known in French as Bruges).

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from the Flemish daily De Morgen:

“It is dangerous to come here.”: Serious violence against Jew who took down anti-Israel poster in Brugge [Bruges] station.

On social media and in the Israeli press, images appear of 64-year-old Israeli, Amnon Ohanah, who was attacked by youths in Brugge. He tells his story.

by Bruno Struys
May 17, 2024

“It is not just verbal abuse or spitting, but now there are also physical attacks, which can end in disaster,” Rabbi Menachem Margolin, chairman of the European Jewish Association (EJA), told the Times of Israel.

The images of a man who was kicked and beaten in the Brugge station have been commented on in the Israeli press and widely circulated on social media.

“Anti-Semitism!” says Antwerp City Council member Andre Gantman (N-VA) on X. “The result of continuous, rabid Israel-bashing!”

“Free Palestine”

The images spread predominantly on Friday, but the incident turned out to have happened on Monday. The 64-year-old Amnon Ohanah had been living in Belgium for seven years and had his 29-year-old daughter for a visit. He was eager to show her our country. On Monday, he took her to Brugge for a tourist visit.

It went well until on the way back in the station, Ohanah reportedly took down a “Boycott Israel” poster.

“A group of people began to shout, “Free Palestine,” he says. “I paid them no attention and wanted to leave. And then someone came up to me and broke my jaw. I was able to grab him so that he couldn’t escape. Then the rest of the group came and were kicking me.”

Video was recording

The police arrived, interviewed the man, and took a statement for intentional assault and battery. The police advised Ohanah to go to a hospital for an examination.

The next train was delayed, and while Ohanah and his daughter were waiting, they were again attacked by youths. At that moment, his daughter decided to film the violence.

A medical report shows that his jaw is, indeed, broken, his ribs bruised, and he has abrasions to his legs and arms. Ohanah is unable to work for a week.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/18/2024

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Authorities closed down Munich airport today after six climate activists broke through a security fence and glued themselves to access routes leading to runways. Meanwhile, environmental protestors stopped play at two matches at the Rome Open tennis tournament.

In other news, former President Trump said he wants President Biden to be drug-tested before their first debate.

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More and More Migrants go on the Dole in Germany

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According to the latest government statistics, the proportion of migrants among welfare recipients in Germany is now well over 50%. It seems that the “New Germans” are adept at extracting the jizyah social benefits from their hosts.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Junge Freiheit:

Migration into the social systems

The proportion of welfare recipients with a migrant background is growing

The number of migrants of German citizenship is constantly increasing. Three federal states particularly stand out. But Germany is not only changing in terms of its social system.

Berlin

The vast majority of citizens’ benefits recipients in Germany have a migration background. Last year their share was 63.1%, reports Welt am Sonntag, citing information from the Federal Employment Agency. According to it, 2.48 million of the total 3.93 million recipients of guaranteed citizens’ income had a migration background. The authorities understand by this to mean people who were themselves or whose parents were born without German citizenship.

According to the federal authority, of those with a migration background receiving the citizens’ allowance, 1.99 million were “with their own migration experience”, 427,000 were “without their own migration experience” and 61,000 were “with a migration background without further details.” 1.83 million people with a migration background did not have a German passport. Accordingly, foreigners made up 46.56% of citizens’ benefit recipients.

One in three people has a migration background)

The proportion of employable people with a migration background, as they are called in the official language, is particularly high in Hesse (76.4%), Baden-Württemberg (74.1%) and Hamburg (72.8%). In addition to the classic unemployed, the category also includes “top-ups” who receive benefits because of an income below the legal subsistence minimum.

The data were collected from a survey of all benefit recipients. 73% took part. Nevertheless, according to the Federal Agency, “a reliable statement about the migration background can be made for the population”.

Over the past decade, the number of people with a migrant background in Germany has increased dramatically. While in 2013 around one in five people had a migrant background, in 2023 it was almost one in three. The number of people without an immigration history fell by 8% to around 58.6 million. During the same period, the migrant share of those eligible for benefits rose from 43% (2013) to the current 63% (2023).

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Culture-Enricher Tries to Burn Down a Synagogue in Rouen

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An Algerian culture-enricher tried to burn down a synagogue in the French city of Rouen, but was shot dead by police before he could consummate his heart’s desire.

I haven’t yet seen a name for the alleged would-be perpetrator, so I can’t assign a Mohammed Coefficient to the incident.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from France Bleu:

Attempt to set fire to the Rouen synagogue: “A particularly serious anti-Semitic act,” denounced by Gerald Darmanin

For the Interior Minister, the attempted arson of the Rouen synagogue by a man shot dead by police Friday morning is “obviously an anti-Semitic act,” Gerald Darmanin announced that he was going to decorate the police officer who fired the shot.

Rouen

May 17, 2024

A few hours after the attempt to set fire to the Rouen synagogue by a man shot dead by police, the Minister of Interior, Gerald Darmanin, traveled to the Norman city to address his “support to the city of Rouen, to the Jews of Rouen and of France.” For him, it is “obviously an act of anti-Semitism, which took place at a sacred place for the Republic, a place of worship.”

Gerald Darmanin declared that “this act touches all of us deeply,” expressing regret for the disgraceful, unacceptable violence against French Jews. He stated that “Rouen was not the object of any particular threats.”

The officer who fired the shots will be decorated

The minister wished to salute the work of the firefighters and police who intervened Friday morning and who faced “an individual who was particularly dangerous and violent.”

“This individual, with a large knife, rushed at a young deputy police officer, age 25, who was extremely courageous and professional,” Gerald Darmanin emphasized, who stated that he (the officer) had reason to use his weapon. For that, the officer, placed on limited duty within the framework of an investigation being carried out by IGPN [National Police General Inspection Service], will “be decorated by the Republic for his support given to the protection of places of worship.”

“Personally, I am fed with this criticism of the police. I have decided to decorate this officer because I believe he did his job,” said the minister.

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