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    Below is the latest op-ed from the German opinion writer Anabel Schunke. Many thanks to JLH for translating this piece from Roland Tichy’s blog:
    Against the Right: Narcissism and Pseudo-Activism
    by Anabel Schunke
    June 18, 2016

    Flyer: Hand-in-hand against racism
    Hardly anything in this country is as little questioned as the phantom battle against the imaginary brown social majority. “Hand-In-Hand Against Racism — For Humanity and Diversity.” A title like that can do anything, because it says nothing.
    And here we go again. Faced with the omnipresent racism in Germany — which has in the meantime even jumped to the “uninhibited middle,” as the Heinrich Böll Foundation recently discovered[1] — haste in going to battle against the “rightist rabble-rousing” is called for. A glance at the past months will suffice to create a picture of the increasing racism here. A racism which can be perceived in the many refugee assisters, the general willingness of the civilian population to provide aid and funds in recent months, as well as the many immigrating groups which see Germany as a completely non-racist country. So it is understandable that a clear signal must be given against xenophobia.
    “Hand-In-Hand Against Racism — For Humanity and Diversity” is the name of the newly minted alliance against “rightist rabble-rousing,” which is calling for a nationwide human chain for June 18th and 19th. The alliance is supported, of course, by a Who’s Who of German asylum profiteers, organizations of the bleeding hearts and the indignant. Among them, leftist utopian groups like ProAsyl and Campact, as well as public profiteers like the DGB[2] and Diakonie[3] and diverse developmental aid organizations such as Bread for the World and Misereor.[4] And of course the association of experts on tolerance — the Central Council of Muslims, as well as the German Lesbian and Gay association and the Union of Progressive Jews. In this latter case, we might well ask, for exactly what “diverse pluralism” they will be hitting the streets with the others mentioned. Would it be for that diversity in France that provides impetus for the emigration in droves by Jews on account of the mass Arab immigration of recent decades, or perhaps the “multiplicity” that recently cost 50 people in Orlando Florida their lives, because Muslims (possibly suppressed gay Muslims) are not pleased to see gay men freely living out their sexuality?
    Gegen Rechts (Against-the-Right) Always Does Well and Only Needs to Brag
    The theme “racism” plus “battle against the Right” is and remains a lasting motif. You can’t go wrong with it. Hardly anything here is as little questioned as the phantom battle against the imaginary brown social majority. “Hand-In-Hand Against Racism — For Humanity and Diversity.” A title like that can do anything, because it says nothing. You can just see it, when the founders of the action are sitting around a table: “Hey, let’s start an action against the Right. What to call it? Yeah, something with human rights and multiplicity. That always works. Oh yeah, that’s good!”
    Meaningless, unchanging phrases with which anyone can agree, and yet behind which there is so much misconception and so little consideration of consequences, that it gives you a migraine. But the meaninglessness is what makes its so successful. It is so noncommittal that anyone can agree with it at no risk of being wrong. Others can bear the direct consequences of this Political Correctness pose we in Germany are dealing with. It is important to be on the right side, unequivocally and with minimum protest. Useful initiatives? Real steps to solve what will be the result of this posture in the coming years? Who needs it?
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    The Mosques Are Our Barracks — And Our Armories

    Posted on June 20, 2016 by Baron Bodissey

    Anyone who has studied the Great Jihad in depth knows that mosques in infidel lands are often used as storehouses for weapons. The situation has become so ominous in North Rhine-Westphalia that the official responsible for security made public statements at a press conference about the caches of weapons that have been uncovered in or near mosques.
    Many thanks to Nash Montana for translating this article from Epoch Times:
    NRW: Arsenal of weapons with “heavy war weaponry” uncovered near mosque
    An arsenal of weapons of radical Islamists was uncovered in NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia). The “top secret assignment” took one week and brought a heavy war arsenal to the surface. This is what the Hessian delegate Ismail Tipi (CDU) says.
    According to information from the Hessian CDU delegate Ismail Tipi, a “top secret assignment” of the SEK (Spezialeinsatzkommandos, special operations commandos) in North Rhine Westphalia was carried out. In the cooler room of a vegetable vendor near a mosque, weapons were found and seized. “According to my information on this particular operation, an arsenal with heavy war weaponry was found. The danger of arming of the fundamentalists and Salafists willing to resort to violence is very high in Germany. This was shown clearly by this secret operation,” said Tipi on Friday at a press conference.
    The expert on extremism also assumes that weapons are have been stockpiled in other cities. For instance, the Hamburg intelligence service for the protection of the constitution also speaks of an increased number of supporters of armed jihad.
    In the meantime more than 300 people in Hamburg have been identified as supporters of armed jihad. “Information about this is increasing. The fear is that Salafist sleepers, jihadists and IS terrorists in Germany may find support through foreign intelligence services that aren’t friendly to German interests. Through these weapons arsenals, militant jihadists and sleepers will be equipped with weapons in their preparations for attacks,” the Turkish-born delegate says.

    “Politicians have to use straight talk”
    Tipi warns: “If these worries prove to be true, we can expect that these secret weapons arsenals will be used for terrorist attacks not only in Germany, but in all of Europe. It would be extremely negligent not to address this danger and do everything to find these arsenals.” One problem is that many battle-seasoned young Salafists returned to Germany from combat zones and implanted themselves within the stream of migrants, the press briefing further mentions.
    “We have to see this threat and we need to act fast. Here, our security administration is asked to look at this very clearly and vigorously, to investigate precisely, and to share as much of the information as possible among relevant administrations and services,” Tipi says.
    And he demands: “Politicians have to use straight talk, they have to address the possible dangers and threats, they have to educate the population and call for a full awakening, and ask them to report to the police any type of suspicious activity. The problem of Salafism and IS terror will get bigger and bigger if we don’t all respond. Here, each and everyone of us is asked to step up.”
    Tipi’s political engagement against radical Salafists has already led to death threats against him.
    They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
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    PC Europe Now Blaming Women for Provoking Muslim Rapists

    By Raymond Ibrahim June 23, 2016
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    PC Europe Now Blaming Women for Provoking Muslim Rapists


    Are Western women responsible for provoking Muslim men into raping them? Some Europeans certainly seem to think so.
    Recently, a 20-year-old Austrian woman waiting at a bus stop in Vienna was attacked, beaten, and robbed by four Muslim men from Afghanistan. From her statement:

    [One attacker] started [by] putting his hands through my hair and made it clear that in his cultural background there were hardly any blonde women.
    So how did Austrian police respond? They told the victim to dye her hair:

    At first I was scared, but now I'm more angry than anything. After the attack they told me that women shouldn't be alone on the streets after 8:00 pm. And they also gave me other advice, telling me I should dye my hair dark and also not dress in such a provocative way.Indirectly that means I was partly to blame for what happened to me. That is a massive insult.
    She is not the first European victim of Muslim attackers to be blamed. According to FrontPage Magazine editor Jamie Glazov:

    Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker’s response to the assaults under her watch [1,000 German women were sexually molested and raped by Muslim migrants] has been to reprimand the victims, suggesting that they had asked for it.Reker has vowed to make sure that women will change their behavior, so that they don’t provoke Muslims to sexually assault them again. There will now be published “online guidelines” for women to read so they can prepare themselves …
    Oslo Professor of Anthropology Dr. Unni Wikan’s solution for the high incidence of Muslims raping Norwegian women is not for the rapists to be punished, but for Norwegian women to “take their share of responsibility” for the rapes because Muslim men found their manner of dress provocative.
    Norwegian women, she has counseled, “must realize that we live in a Multicultural society and adapt themselves to it.”
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    These responses overlook the fact that, since the dawn of Islam 14 centuries ago, European women -- even nuns -- have always been portrayed as sexually promiscuous by nature. This is easily discerned by examining medieval Muslim perceptions of Byzantine women. (Islam’s initial contact with Europe in the Seventh Century was through the Christian empire of Byzantium. This contact came to represent white/European women in Islam).
    Consider the following excerpts from Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs by Nadia Maria el-Cheikh:

    One quality that the Arab Muslims inevitably assigned to the Byzantines was beauty … This characteristic, beauty, is associated with Byzantine women in particular. Byzantine women are described as being white-complexioned blondes, with straight hair and blue eyes.
    This view traces back to Muhammad. He once asked a new convert:

    Would you like the girls of Banu al-Asfar?
    Muhammad was including the possibility of capturing “yellow-haired” women to entice the convert to join the jihad on Byzantium. Muhammad also asked the following of another potential jihadist:

    O Abu Wahb, would you not like to have scores of Byzantine [fair] women and men as concubines and servants?
    Wahb responded:

    O Messenger of Allah … if I see the women of the Byzantines, I fear I will not be able to hold back. So do not tempt me by them.
    This predilection was not limited to Arab Muslims. Of the Turks, Bernard Lewis writes in Islam and the West:




    Europeans saw themselves primarily as Christians threatened by a new assault from the old Islamic enemy … Among the faults and vices ascribed to the Turk, two themes dominated: arbitrary power and unbridled lust.So universal were these themes and so striking the terms in which they were presented, in both letters and arts …
    European women came to exemplify Islam’s femme fatale. Continues the author of Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs:

    In our [Muslim] texts, Byzantine women are strongly associated with sexual immorality Our sources show not Byzantine women but [Muslim] writers’ images of these women, who served as symbols of the eternal female -- constantly a potential threat, particularly due to blatant exaggerations of their sexual promiscuity.
    Muhammad also asserted that there is no “fitna more harmful to men than women.” El-Cheikh explains:

    Fitna, meaning disorder and chaos, refers also to the beautiful femme fatale who makes men lose their self-control.Fitna is a key concept in defining the dangers that women, more particularly their bodies, were capable of provoking in the mental universe of the Arab Muslims.
    Cheikh documents how Muslims further claimed:

    “[Byzantine females were the] most shameless women in the whole world.”“[Byzantine women] find sex more enjoyable, they are prone to adultery.”
    “[A]dultery is commonplace in the cities and markets of Byzantium … [even] the nuns from the convents went out to the fortresses to offer themselves to monks.”
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    Concludes the author of Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs:

    While the one quality that our [Muslim] sources never deny is the beauty of Byzantine women, the image that they create in describing these women is anything but beautiful.Their depictions are, occasionally, excessive, virtually caricatures, overwhelmingly negative.

    Such anecdotes [of sexual promiscuity] are clearly far from Byzantine reality and must be recognized for what they are: attempts to denigrate and defame a rival culture through their exaggeration of the laxity with which Byzantine culture dealt with its women.

    In fact, in Byzantium, women were expected to be retiring, shy, modest, and devoted to their families and religious observances.

    [T]he behavior of most women in Byzantium was a far cry from the depictions that appear in Arabic sources.
    Little has changed some 1400 years after the founding of Islam: European women continue to be seen as naturally promiscuous and guilty of provoking Muslim men into raping them.
    After the endemic sexual abuse of native British women at the hands of Muslims was revealed, a Muslim imam in the UK confessed what Muslim men are taught:

    [Women are] second-class citizens, little more than chattels or possessions over whom they have absolute authority …[What imams preach] denigrates all women, but treats [non-Muslim] whites with particular contempt.
    Last December in the UK, a Muslim father of four “dragged a young pub worker off the street and raped her for three hours, while telling her ‘you white women are good at it.’”
    Another Muslim called a 13-year-old British virgin “a little white slag” -- British slang for “loose, promiscuous woman” -- before raping her.
    This mentality is hardly limited to Britain. A Muslim man who almost killed his 25-year-old German victim while raping her -- to shouts of “Allah!” -- asked if she enjoyed it afterwards.
    Another Muslim migrant said that “German girls are just there for sex.”
    In Austria, an “Arabic-looking man” approached a 27-year-old woman at a bus stop, pulled down his pants, and “all he could say was sex, sex, sex,” until the woman screamed and he fled.
    The ancient Islamic motif concerning the alleged promiscuity of European women is alive and well, and continues justifying the Muslim rape of Western women.
    And even on this issue, Islam can turn to its Leftist allies for cover.
    Just as the Left has struggled long and hard to portray Islamic intolerance, violence, and terrorism as the West’s fault -- because of the Crusades, because of colonialism, because of Israel, because of cartoons, because of freedom of speech, etc. -- the left now adds “Western promiscuity” to the list of things that provoke Muslims to acts of violence, and worse.
    They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
    “As a general rule, the earlier you recognize someone is trying to kill you, the better off you’ll be.”

    "You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass."



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    They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
    “As a general rule, the earlier you recognize someone is trying to kill you, the better off you’ll be.”

    "You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass."



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    Switzerland: Basel schools drop pork from lunches to avoid offending Muslims

    June 22, 20168:49 pm By Robert Spencer 96 Comments
    Islam forbids the consumption of pork, and given the authoritarian and supremacist nature of Islamic law, that means no one can eat it. “Could it be that we are adapting to certain cultures, rather than the other way around?” Why, of course you are. And there will be much, much more adapting demanded of you before this sorry story is finished, and your new masters are fully in power.

    “Anger as Swiss council plans non-pork school lunches,” The Local, June 22, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
    Politicians with the conservative Swiss People’s Party believe school authorities in Basel have caved to religious minorities in their decision to take pork off the school lunch menu in the coming school year.
    Pork sausages are as much a part of Swiss cuisine as fondue and chocolate – so much so that a decision to remove them from the lunch menus of four primary schools in the district of Binningen in Basel-Country has left some local politicians fuming.
    “We are outraged. When we first hear [about the decision] we thought we weren’t reading it right,” Swiss People’s Party representative Susanna Keller said at a local council meeting on Monday.
    Speaking at the meeting, she argued that sausages such as the Klöpfer – a boiled sausage similar to the cervelat – were part of Switzerland’s cultural heritage.
    “Could it be that we are adapting to certain cultures, rather than the other way around,” Keller said, according to local daily the Basellandschaftliche Zeitung.
    In a formal information request provided to the council, the Swiss People’s Party asked if the decision would lead to “more demands in future”, without specifying what such demands could be.
    But a spokesperson for the local council said the decision to remove pork from the menu came in response to a school survey which showed that around five percent of parents did not want pork on the menu. The reasons had not been investigated….
    They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
    “As a general rule, the earlier you recognize someone is trying to kill you, the better off you’ll be.”

    "You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass."



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    Calls in Italy, France, Netherlands and Denmark for referendums to leave EU

    June 24, 201610:42 am By Robert Spencer 14 Comments
    True to form for the mainstream media, it isn’t mentioned in this article or in most others about Brexit and its reverberations, but what really concerns most of the people who are in favor of the end of the European Union is its suicidal policies regarding Muslim immigration. Free societies in Europe will never survive a continuing influx of people among whom many, or most, favor Sharia and approve of jihad. This will have to be confronted sooner or later, unless European nations continue to opt for appeasement and surrender.

    “Brexit SPREADS across Europe: Italy, France, Holland and Denmark ALL call for referendums,” by Katie Mansfield, Express, June 24, 2016:
    POLITICIANS across Europe have called for their own referendums in the wake of Britain’s historic decision to quit the EU.
    Italy’s anti-establishment 5-Star movement has now officially called for a referendum on whether to keep the Euro.
    Buoyed by big gains in local elections, Luigi Di Maio, a vice president of the lower house of parliament, said: “We want a consultative referendum on the Euro.
    “The Euro as it is today does not work. We either have alternative currencies or a ‘Euro 2’.
    “We entered the European Parliament to change many treaties.
    “The mere fact that a country like Great Britain even held a referendum on whether to leave the EU signals the failure of the European Union.”
    The 5-Star movement has called for two different currencies in Europe, one for the rich northern countries another for southern nations.
    While any such referendums on the EU or the Euro would be merely test public opinion because Italian law does not allow referendums to change international treaties, a victory would send a clear signal to the government, especially in the wake of Brexit.
    Brexit is a huge blow to Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s Democratic Party and was hailed by supporters of 5-Star as a possible springboard to Italian independence.
    In France, National Front party leader Marine Le Pen promised voters their own referendum as she declared her support for Brexit.
    She said: “I would have voted for Brexit. France has a thousand more reasons to leave than the UK because we have the euro and Schengen.
    “This result shows the EU is decaying, there are cracks everywhere.”
    Experts across the continent warned today that Brexit would lead to the entire break-up of Europe….
    Free people can only hope so.
    They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
    “As a general rule, the earlier you recognize someone is trying to kill you, the better off you’ll be.”

    "You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass."



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    Londoners Calling For Capital To Break Away From Britain, Stay In EU


    Via Mirror:
    Londoners have called for the capital of England to breakaway away from the rest of Britain following today’s vote to leave the European Union.
    The city went against the national trend by voting in favour of Remain – unlike vast swathes of the north of England and some Tory heartlands in the south.
    More than 2.2million London voters backed Remain compared to 1.5million in favour of Leave.
    The Leave vote hit the City of London particularly hard as a day of horror saw billions wiped off FTSE 100 shares.
    Frustrated Londoners have now taken to social media to ask London mayor Sadiq Khan to declare the city independent from the rest of the UK and stay in the EU.
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    Refugees Banned From Austrian Pool After “Foreigner’ Sexually Assaults Teenage Girl
    Authorities in the Austrian town of Mistelbach issued a temporary pool ban for refugees following a sexual assault by a “dark-skinned’ man on a 13-year-old girl.
    “This news was a shock,” said the town’s mayor, Alfred Pohl, as quoted by the Heute media outlet.
    According to Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung, the attack happened on Wednesday afternoon.
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    Migrant assaults mother and 4yo son in Austrian swimming pool
    The girl was first followed by a young man into the women’s changing room. Once there, he forced her to perform oral sex. The girl however fiercely resisted and started shouting, forcing the attacker to flee.
    Police are now investigating the incident and are searching for the suspect.
    According to eyewitnesses and the victim herself the man was a “foreigner.”…
    They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
    “As a general rule, the earlier you recognize someone is trying to kill you, the better off you’ll be.”

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    Mandarins (the intellectual elite) make lousy leaders

    It was nearly a decade ago, during the summer vacation, that I read a book which permanently changed one of my cherished beliefs.

    The book was The decline of the German mandarins: the German academic community, 1890-1933, by Fritz K Ringer.

    The cherished belief was that it would be best if countries were led by their intellectual elite, i.e. by 'Mandarins' - by the likes of Professors, senior administrators and professionals - by those whose jobs require high level formal educational certification.

    In other words, I had assumed, up to that point, that if only things were run by people 'like me', then things would inevitably be run better.

    ***

    Before reading the book I had not been aware that I believed this, but although unarticulated, a belief in leadership by intellectals had been a basic assumption.

    It is, indeed, an assumption of the modern political elite, and has been the assumption of Dichter und Denker (poets and thinkers) for a couple of hundred years (since the Romantic era) - but it was *not* an assumption of traditional societies before this.

    Indeed, as I read in Ernest Gellner at about the same time, in traditional societies the intellectual class (priests and clerks) was subordinated to the leadership - which was essentially military.

    Intellectuals were - Gellner said - essentially 'eunuchs' - in the sense that they were not allowed to build dynastic, hereditary power - this was reserved for the military leadership.

    So priests and other intellectuals with power were sometimes actual eunuchs, or servants and slaves, or celibate (legally, not sexually, celibate - i.e. they could not have legitimate heirs), or members of a legally circumscribed minority (such as Jewish merchants and money lenders), or - like the Chinese mandarins - they were prohibited from handing on their status to their children (entry to the mandarinate being controlled by competitive examinations).

    The 'natural' leaders of human society throughout most of history are the military leaders - the 'generals'. The aristocracy were essentially the military leaders.

    ***

    But in modern societies, the Mandarins have progressively taken over the leadership.

    People 'like me' run things; the military leadership (unless they are themselves mandarins - as increasingly is the case - and servile to political correctness) are officially feared, hated and despised; indeed any aspirant for power who is not 'an intellectual' is officially feared, hated and despised.

    Fritz Ringer's books was a revelation because he described a familiar and recent society that had indeed been a mandarinate - and this was Germany in the nineteenth century and leading up to the first and second world wars. Germany was at that time the academic intellectual centre of the West.

    And 'yet' the mandarinate had been a disaster - leading to two world wars and National Socialism and also (ironically) to the eclipse of the German mandarins - who were purged virtually overnight in 1933 (only a few obedient Nazi mandarins were allowed to stay - like Martin Heidegger).

    The German mandarins were nationalist, that was the focus of their ideology (the distinctive superiority of German culture) and that is one variety - very rare nowadays except in small nations and would-be nations like Scotland or Catalonia.

    Of course the most widespread mandarinate was the Soviet Union whose ideology was (mostly) anti-nationalistic/ international communism. And international left-mandarinism is now the dominant form of government in the West.

    ***

    Since reading Ringer, when my eyes were opened, my experience has hardened into conviction that - as a generalization - mandarins make very useful servants but very bad leaders. Good professors make bad kings.

    The main problem is, I think, that mandarins are expert at ignoring common sense reality and focusing on abstraction.

    Mandarins live 'in culture' - they are 'Kultur' experts. Culture is the source of their expertise and prestige - culture comes between mandarins and common sense.

    When, as is normal, mandarin abstractions are substantially incomplete and significantly biased, then there is no limit to how bad mandarin leadership can be; because any feedback provided by 'reality' can be ignored by mandarins in ways which are impossible to normal people.

    ***

    Mandarins can wreck an organization, a nation, with a completely clear conscience; and will then write history to show that they were correct all along.

    Conversely, there is no achievement of their enemies that is so large or blatantly obvious that mandarins will not ignore, sideline, or subvert it.

    (In pursuit of discrediting their enemies, mandarins are utterly unscrupulous, dishonest and coercive - they perceive this as nothing less than their duty, indeed heroic.)

    Nothing that could conceivably happen would conceivably affect mandarin ideology - which explains everything in advance.

    ***

    Mandarins are therefore unique among humans both in their perspective on life - in their evaluations of what is important; and in being immune to learning from experience.

    And mandarins really are, on average, the most knowledgeable and cleverest people, and they know it and they value smartness very highly; so they will not listen to any critics who they think of as dumb.

    Undeniably smart critics are labelled crazy or evil (they *must* be, obviously), so they are ignored too.

    When mandarins have closed the loop between education, media and power; they are hermetically sealed from alternative perspectives - change can only arise from within the loop, and this change will tend to bolster the power of the mandarinate, and be directed against their enemies in the natural military leadership.

    ***

    So, once they have taken-over, the mandarinate is uniquely unreformable by argument and experience.

    And that is the present situation in the West.

    Posted by Bruce Charlton at Tuesday, June 28, 2016
    They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
    “As a general rule, the earlier you recognize someone is trying to kill you, the better off you’ll be.”

    "You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass."



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    A Culturally Enriched High School Graduation in Denmark

    Posted on June 28, 2016 by Baron Bodissey
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    Young culture-enrichers in Denmark are increasingly disrupting a traditional Danish graduation custom by violent attacks on high school students who visit the homes of graduates.
    Many thanks to Tania for translating this article from Den Korte Avis:
    Everyone is familiar with the sight of open-bodied trucks filled with noisy happy students. It is a Danish tradition for high-spirited students to drive around and visit individual students’ homes on the day they don their graduation caps.
    So it was with a class from Ørestad Gymnasium. But a day that began with celebration and joy was turned into something of a nightmare when a group of immigrant men attacked the vehicle, launching various “missiles”.
    It happened in a Hørgården tenement on Amager, where many immigrants live. Here Mohamed also lives; he was one of the students on the truck.
    A group of migrant boys and young men had planned an attack. In a video you can see how the waste containers were rolled out on the road to block the vehicle while students were inside at Mohamed’s family’s apartment. Watch the video here.
    The driver, Brian Brandt, who stayed down by the truck, said he could see a group of youngsters with eggs, water balloons and cooking oil gather together on a nearby lawn. More and more people came to join them.
    As the students came down the street one of the immigrant boys stood ready with a bottle of cooking oil, which was shaken and then sprayed over them. Then the rest of the group began to bombard the students with water balloons, eggs and flour.
    Brian Brandt, who has been driving these student parties for 20 years, says he has never experienced anything like it.
    “It was a shock to see the behavior of these young men. All the attackers had an immigrant background, and they were totally indifferent to what I said to them. At one point I was afraid that they would smash the truck,” says Brian Brandt to Ekstra Bladet.
    He quickly tried to get the truck quickly away from the narrow Bryde Alley, but it was difficult, as the road was blocked by containers.
    “They barricaded themselves and were ready with eggs by the containers, so I chose to back out. But when I get a ways down the road, I encounter other vehicles,” says Brian Brandt to Ekstra Bladet. These can also be seen on the video.
    Meanwhile the attackers bombarded the truck with eggs and water balloons and even jumped up on the side of the truck and begin pouring cooking oil over some students who were trying to hide under some banners which they had torn from the side of the truck bed.
    One of the students in the truck was Stina Marie Carlsen. She tells about the experience which for her was a huge shock:
    “I notice that a crowd of about 20 young people start to congregate around the truck, but don’t otherwise think anything of it. When we get up into the back of the truck, they suddenly began attacking us and throwing eggs and oil and flour. Several of my classmates begin to pull some carpets off the pallet tables that were in the middle of the vehicle, while the others pulled banners from the side of the truck in an attempt to use these as protection,” says Stina Marie Carlsen to BT.
    “I was beginning to think about how to get away from there, as the driver could not drive anywhere. Imagine if they came up to us in the wagon! At the same time it was really disgusting to feel egg and flour running down my head and my back. I was completely soaked afterwards and it stank terribly,” she says to BT.
    Stina Marie Carlsen was afraid that the rest of the day would be ruined and the student run canceled as the truck was completely covered in eggs and oil after the attack.
    The trip, however, was completed, although only with effort.
    “I had to shower a total of three times during the rest of the trip because I could not get the smell of eggs and oil away. At the same time I kept finding eggshells in my hair. My mother had to come with a change of clothes for me, “says Stina Marie Carlsen to BT.
    Mohamed: It was just for fun – Police: We take it very seriously
    Mohamed El Ar Bagi tells EB, that it really was for him the eggs were intended, and that the throwing of eggs after students had been a tradition in the area for some years, he says.
    “But this time they may have gone too far. But we just laughed and blotches of egg on my student cap is only a dear memory of the day,” says Mohamed.
    Others are also trying to downplay the attack. They’re just little boys, they said. But on the video you can see that they are big guys.
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    They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
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