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Bad Internet Connection? Destroy the Migrant Shelter!Posted on January 12, 2017 by Baron Bodissey
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Below is another brief article translated by Nash Montana, this time from OE24.
The translator includes these remarks:

From Austria, a small news snippet which I think is extremely interesting. The article says that the 15-year-old Afghan had been served with a restraining order. Yet they are mulling over whether to place him in a different facility. So which is it?
The article is sketchy but I reckon this is what a restraining order in Austria looks like these days: “Don’t touch anything in the asylum home, and if you do, we will make you someone else’s problem (an SEP).”

The translated article:

No internet: Refugee loses it
15-year-old Afghan destroyed his shelter because he was angry
Because the WiFi connection in the refugee shelter in Köflach (Voitsberg District) wasn’t working to his satisfaction, the 15-year-old Afghan lost it and destroyed a large part of the shelter after a heated argument with a guardian.
Restraining order against the boy
The boy vandal couldn’t be calmed down, so the guardian called the police in Köflach. Since the 15-year-old boy had drawn attention for his aggressive behavior in the days prior, he has now been served with a restraining order. Furthermore it is being considered whether to move the 15-year-old Afghan into a different facility.

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Finland: Gay man on trial for warning about Islam on Facebook

January 12, 2017 9:15 am By Christine Williams 31 Comments
The charges relate to Facebook postings Tynkkynen made about Muslims and Islam. Finns Party gay politician Sebastian Tynkkynen commented in November that “Christianity is the only religion that can be criticised and even disparaged in Finland.” Three Finns Party politicians are now in Finland court over alleged online hate speech against Muslims for their comments […]

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Belgium: Brussels police forced to take Islam lessons to foster “respectful relations with Muslim communities”

January 13, 2017 By Robert Spencer 14 Comments
Great. Now will Muslims in Brussels be forced to take lessons on Belgian culture in order to foster respectful relations with non-Muslim communities? Of course not. It’s always incumbent upon the kuffar to reach out to the Muslims, never the other way around; even Western authorities take this for granted. “Police FORCED to take lessons […]


Two Muslims arrested for supplying fake documents to Islamic State jihadis to plan Paris jihad massacres

January 13, 2017 9:25 am By Robert Spencer 9 Comments
It appears as if the Paris jihad mass murderers had a substantial support network in Muslim communities. There is no indication, however, of anyone in those communities trying to stop them or alerting authorities to their activities. “Paris attacks: Two suspects arrested for ‘supplying fake documents to Isis militants to plan atrocities,’” by Lizzie Dearden

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Austria: Muslim migrant arrested, had planned jihad massacre in Vienna

January 21, 2017 12:07 pm By Robert Spencer 2 Comments
The fact that Islamic jihadis are entering Europe among Muslim migrants has still not been addressed by European authorities, who continue to stigmatize opponents of the Muslim migrant influx as “racists” and “neo-Nazis.” “Austria arrest ‘foils terror attack’ in Vienna,” BBC, January 20, 2017: Austria’s interior minister says the arrest of a man in the […]

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Switzerland: Muslim migrant sexually assaults woman in train station

January 22, 2017 8:24 pm By Robert Spencer 14 Comments
The Qur’an teaches that Infidel women can be lawfully taken for sexual use (cf. its allowance for a man to take “captives of the right hand,” 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30). The Qur’an says: “O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their […]

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THE HOLOCAUST’S UNLEARNED LESSONS

How Merkel's mistakes are empowering anti-Semites.

January 25, 2017
Caroline Glick
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Originally published by the Jerusalem Post.
Two days before the leaders of European far-right parties met in Koblentz on January 21, one of the leaders of Germany’s far-right AfD party made clear why so many people fear the rise of nationalist forces in Europe.

Speaking at a rally in Dresden, Bjorn Hocke, AfD’s state leader in Thuringia, attacked the Holocaust memorial in Berlin. In his words, “Germans are the only people in the world who plant a monument of shame in the heart of the capital.”



Hocke likened German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Eric Honecker, the last leader of East Germany. The crowd responded by chanting, “Merkel must go!” Hocke insisted there must be a “180-degree turnaround” in the way Germany remembers its past. “This laughable policy of coming to terms with the past is crippling us,” he said.

Recalling the Allied bombing of Dresden, Hocke argued that Germany’s current policy claims that in World War II “there were no German victims, only German perpetrators.” This, he argued, is unjust.

Some of Hocke’s party colleagues criticized his remarks. But reported criticisms did not relate to the substance of what he said. Rather his fellow AfD leaders criticized him for making statements that could scare German voters away.

Frauke Petry, Hocke’s party leader, participated in the Koblentz conference. Sitting next to her fellow nationalist European leaders, Petry was the belle of the ball. Holland’s Geert Wilders, whose Freedom Party is expected to win the Dutch elections in March, and France’s Marine Le Pen, who is now leading national polls ahead of April’s presidential elections, both enthused that Petry is the future of Germany.

AfD enjoys the support of between 10%-15% percent of German voters. It is expected to gain seats in the Bundestag for the first time in September’s general elections.

The AfD’s rise has been sudden. It was formed in 2013 and in its short history it has siphoned off voters from nearly every party in Germany. In the 2014 elections for the European Parliament AfD shocked Germany’s political establishment when it won 7.1% of the vote.

In 2015 it won big victories in regional elections. In Merkel’s home state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania it outperformed the chancellor’s CDU party with 20.8% of the vote. It even won 14.2% of the vote in normally left-wing Berlin.

Like its European counterparts, whose leaders shared a stage in Koblentz with Petry on Saturday, AfD’s steady empowerment is based in large part on its stalwart opposition to Islamic immigration and its concomitant rejection of the intellectual constraints of political correctness and the cultural restraints of multiculturalism.

AfD’s barely disguised xenophobia and Nazi sympathies make its empowerment disconcerting.

It also points to the fact that not all far-right parties are the same.

Le Pen, for instance has taken drastic steps to separate her National Front party from the antisemitic and fascist roots her father Jean-Marie Le Pen planted.

Wilders has adopted a decidedly pro-American and pro-Israel platform and record.

In Germany, though, the situation is different.

There are many causes for the absence of a nationalist party in Germany that is bereft of Nazi sympathies.

Two are particularly worth noting.

First there is Angela Merkel and the political establishment she represents. The AfD’s rise is a direct consequence of the German political establishment’s refusal to consider the wishes of German voters along a whole spectrum of issues. On immigration specifically, rather than listen to her critics Merkel and her allies denounce them as racists and treat them as criminals.

For instance, as Judith Bergman reported last week at the Gatestone Institution website, in July 2016, 30 people had their homes raided by German police for publishing anti-immigration posts online.

When thousands of German women were raped by Muslim immigrants during the public celebration of New Year’s Eve in Cologne last year, German authorities went to great lengths to cover up and deny what had happened. The Cologne police took several days to acknowledge or begin investigating what had happened. For four days, the German media delayed reporting what had happened.

In September 2015 Merkel was caught on a hot microphone excoriating Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for not erasing anti-immigration posts from Facebook fast enough.

If Merkel spent more time listening to her constituents and less time rejecting their right to their entirely rational opinions, the AfD would probably not be so powerful today. In all likelihood, AfD politicians wouldn’t be embarrassed when their colleague mouthed off about Holocaust memorials because their constituents wouldn’t include anyone who had a problem with people like Hocke.

Even if Merkel was willing to listen though, she would still have to worry about Germans that yearn for the glory days of Hitler and the Third Reich.

This then leads us to the second reason for the resonance of Nazi messaging in Germany and beyond.

In 1945 the Nazis were defeated and Nazism was outlawed in Germany and throughout Europe. But whereas the peoples of Europe were prohibited from denying the fact of the Holocaust, they were never required to conduct a true moral reckoning with what happened. Criminalizing Holocaust denial and outlawing Nazi parties, while reasonable on their own terms, mistook the symptoms of Nazism with the cause of Nazism.

Europeans have been schooled to view the Nazi period as a unique phenomenon unrelated to anything that happened either before 1933 or after 1945.

But the opposite is true.

Adolf Hitler and his Nazis and their collaborators throughout Europe didn’t spring from nothing. They were the natural outcome of centuries of European antisemitism. Their genocidal obsession with the Jewish people was a natural progression of a hatred that predated Christianity, and was an integral part of Europe’s development through the ages.

The way to block the Nazis from rising on the Right is to correct both Merkel’s mistake and the larger mistake of the leaders of Europe since 1945.

Merkel empowers Nazi forces by preventing liberal democracy, predicated on limited government, individual freedom and equal protection under the law, from developing in Germany. By demonizing and criminalizing her critics, she forces lawful citizens into the open arms of the political fringe, which resonates their concerns.

More generally, Europe itself facilitates the rise of antisemitism as a political force on the Right and Left by conflating European rejection of Jews with a more general, and less meaningful, problem of racism. You do not fight hatred of Jews by pretending away its significance and its roots that go back as far as European civilization itself. You do not block the resurgence of Nazism by pretending that European antisemitism was born the day Adolf Hitler came to power.

There is a tendency to believe that all nationalist movements are alike. But this is not true. Each nationalist movement is a reflection of the specific nation it represents. For European nationalists and globalists alike to avoid the fascism that captivated their grandparents, they need to embrace liberal values and meaningfully reject Jew hatred in all its forms.

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France and Germany, intent on national suicide, “concerned” over Trump immigration policy

January 29, 2017 By Robert Spencer 69 Comments
“Welcoming refugees who are fleeing war is part of our duty,” said French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault. A duty according to whom? Why isn’t protecting your citizens from jihad terrorists who will come into France among the “refugees” your duty? Remember, all of the jihadis who murdered 130 people in Paris in November 2015 had […]

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Real Madrid soccer team removes cross from logo to avoid offending Muslims

February 1, 2017 1:12 pm By Robert Spencer 34 Comments
“We have to be careful with regions of the Gulf where there is sensitivity about products that have a cross.”
Of course. But where do Muslims ever display a similar sensitivity to non-Muslims? The old adage always holds: when in Muslim countries, conform your behavior to suit Muslim sensibilities. When in non-Muslim countries, conform your behavior to suit Muslim sensibilities.
Real Madrid initially did this in 2012. This is just follow-through.

“Real Madrid remove cross from logo for Middle East fans,” as.com, January 24, 2017:

Real Madrid will alter the crown on top of their badge to eliminate the traditional christian cross on team apparel that sells in various countries in the Middle East.
Marka, a distribution group from the United Arab Emirates have obtained the exclusive rights to “manufacture, distribute and sell Real Madrid products” in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman, the company said in a press release on Tuesday.
Cultural sensitivities
The vide-president [sic] of Marka, Khaled al-Mheiri, told reuters that the badge was being altered because of cultural sensitivities. “We have to be careful with regions of the Gulf where there is sensitivity about products that have a cross,” said al-Mheiri, owner of a Real Madrid cafe in Dubai.
It is not the first time the symbol has been altered. In 2014, Real Madrid eliminated the Christian cross in its logo when it was used by its sponsor the National Bank of Abu Dhabi.

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France Needs Tighter Machete Control

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Baron Bodissey

A mujahid carrying a machete attempted a jihad attack on soldiers near the Louvre today in Paris. The attacker was shot five times by a soldier. Not counting the perforation of the jihadi (who is receiving treatment for his wounds in the hospital), there were no serious injuries.
When they can’t get guns or bombs or trucks, the preferred weapon for mujahideen is a machete or a kebab knife (the latter, which is readily available to Muslims in the West for obvious reasons, is often mistaken by witnesses for a machete). France obviously needs to tighten its machete control laws to prevent further senseless tragedies like this one. Or even institute kebab control, although that would be racist, and thus unlikely to be implemented.
Below are excerpts from the The Local:

Machete attack on soldier near Louvre was of ‘terrorist nature’
A French soldier patrolling at a shopping centre at the Louvre museum in Paris shot and seriously injured a machete-wielding man on Friday who yelled “Allahu Akbar” (“God is greatest”) as he attacked security forces, police said.
Hundreds of tourists were confined to secure areas of the world-famous art gallery in central Paris after the attacker was shot five times around 10:00 (1100 GMT) in a public area inside the complex.
Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve called the attack “terrorist in nature.”
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President François Hollande called it ”a savage assault” and reaffirmed the state’s determination to fight terrorism.
One soldier was “lightly injured” and has been taken to hospital, while the knifeman is in a serious condition but is still alive, security forces said. He was undergoing an emergency operation at Georges Pompidou hospital.
“I think this was an attack by an individual who obviously intended to cause harm,” Paris police chief Michel Cadot said, saying the fact that the man shouted “Allahu Akbar” suggested a “terrorist nature” to the assault.
Two backpacks carried by the assailant were checked by bomb disposal specialists at the scene and were found not to contain explosives.

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A second man whose behaviour was “suspicious” has been arrested, Cadot said, without giving further details.
Soldiers and armed police have patrolled tourist attractions and other sensitive areas like shopping centres ever since the Charlie Hebdo and Jewish Kosher store attacks of January 2015.
12:26 — Attacker in a critical condition
The latest reports in the French media say the attacker is in a critical condition and is undergoing an operation. He was hit by at least one of the five bullets fired by the soldier.
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11:28 — Woman also arrested at the scene
The Ministry of the Interior have also confirmed a woman was arrested at the scene, but they say it is not clear what role, if any, she had in the attack. The ministry says we have to be “cautious” at this stage about suggesting she was involved.
11:21 — French PM describes it as an attack of a “terrorist nature”
Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the attack was “clearly of a terrorist nature”.
11:18 — Attacker wounded in stomach and taken to hospital
Latest reports from French police say the attacker was wounded in the stomach rather the legs as first reported. He has been taken to the Georges Pompidou hospital.