tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86519442024-03-12T20:44:58.518-04:00Gates of ViennaAt the siege of Vienna in 1683 Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe.<br>We are in a new phase of a very old war.Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.comBlogger12967125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-32939989930815389292013-01-22T10:04:00.002-05:002013-01-22T10:07:37.130-05:00Gates of Vienna Has Moved<p><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/suitcaseclock.gif" border=0 hspace=16 vspace=0 align=right alt="Time to go!" />After being taken down twice by Blogger within a single week, we got the message:</p><p><font size=+1><b>It’s Time To Go.</p></b></font><p> </p><p>Gates of Vienna has moved to a new address:</p><h1><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.net/">http://gatesofvienna.net/</a></h1><p>Not everything over there is fully functional yet, and the internal links still point to this blog, and will for the indefinite future. So all the old material will be left here for archival purposes, with comments turned off.</p><blockquote><i><p>Gotta get down to it</i><br /><i>Blogger is cuttin’ us down</i><br /><i>Shoulda been done long ago</p></i></blockquote>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-46139654314549113042013-01-19T20:24:00.000-05:002013-01-19T20:25:30.298-05:00Seduced by Palestinian Propaganda<i><p>The following op-ed by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.hannenabintuherland.com">Hanne Nabintu Herland</a> concerns the Norwegian government’s persistent soft spot for the Palestinians. It was originally published in <i>Aftenposten</i>, Norway’s largest newspaper, on January 15th, 2013, and has been translated by the author.</p></i><p align=center><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/hamasnorway.jpg" border=0 vspace=8 alt="Hamas, Jonas Gahr Støre, and Jens Stoltenberg" /></p><p><b>Naïve Checkbook Diplomacy<br />by Hanne Nabintu Herland</p></b><p>Torgeir Larsen, a junior minister for the Norwegian Labor Party, admits in Norway’s largest newspaper <i>Aftenposten</i> on December 28, 2012, that Norwegian authorities closed their eyes to the realities of the Middle East. Too often they thought they were in the service of stability, but later found out that was not the case.</p><p>Regardless, this acknowledgement of Norwegian naïveté must lead to tangible changes in foreign policy in order to be of real value.</p><p>The junior minister asked me what I meant by my leading article on December the 20th (“In bed with the enemy”) in which I stated that Norwegian checkbook diplomacy is de facto supportive of terrorist organizations that display significant intolerance towards Christians, Jews, gays or other minorities who are not considered “sufficiently Islamic”.</p><p>Let’s take a look at the statistics: Norway is one of the smallest countries in the world, and one of the largest contributors to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and others, with annual donations of over 700 Million NOK. Especially since the current left-wing Labor government took office in 2005, the donations have exploded. What are these sums spent on?</p><p>Recently the remuneration for suicide bombers was tripled. The Hamas terrorist who killed 30 Israelis in 2002 by now receives 20,000 NOK a month, according to <i>The Times of Israel</i> last September the 9th. Those who have carried out the worst attacks against innocent civilians receive the highest pay.</p><p>Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center figures from 2005 show that Palestinians have conducted 25,770 terrorist attacks, 147 suicide attacks leading to 1,100 dead Israelis and 7,500 wounded between 2000 and 2005. Fatah conducted 214 acts of terrorism in 2003-2004 alone, according to 2005 <i>Terrorism Review</i>.</p><a name='more'></a><p>Gross corruption charges have for a long time been directed at the PLO, which already by 1993 was the richest terrorist organization in the world, according to the British <i>National Criminal Intelligence Service</i>, having assets of ten billion dollars and an annual income of approximately two billion dollars. <i>The Daily Telegraph</i> reported in 1999 that the PLO had secretly invested over 50 billion dollars around the world. Still, Norway has continuously broken bread with these people.</p><p>The Norwegian taxpayers’ money has amongst other things financed a number of visits from the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Fatah, not to forget the PLO, coming to Oslo. Not to mention the intense activities of Norway’s previous Foreign Minister, Jonas Gahr-Store, as he has travelled extensively between different Islamist groups in the Middle East, having secret meetings in 2007 with Hamas’ leader, Khaled Meshaal, which shocked the West. Having publicly denied these meetings, the Norwegian TV station, TV2 forced him to admit to lying about this in 2010, an incident which is referred to in <i>Aftenposten</i>.</p><p>The PA Minister Faisal Husseini said to <i>Al-Safir</i> in 2001 that “Our eyes will continue to aspire to the strategic goal, namely, to Palestine from the river [Jordan] to the sea. Whatever we get now cannot make us forget this supreme truth.” And Hamas’ message from the internet: “We are a nation that drinks blood, and we know that no blood is better than the Jews’.” In this perspective it is interesting to note that the pluralist liberal democracy of Israel is the only country in the Middle East where gays are protected legally, having annual gay pride parades and religious liberty, and where Christian minorities are growing and the nation enjoys a free press and an active public debate. But these we do not support in Norway.</p><p>As recently as 1996, Yasser Arafat stated in Stockholm — three years after his Nobel Peace Prize — that the Palestinian plan still was to annihilate Israel, establish a pure Palestinian state and make the Middle East so horrible that the Jewish minority could not stand to live there anymore, according to <i>Arutz-7</i>.Arafat said this three years after having received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in 1993.The PLO’s decision on genocide against the Jews had still not been removed from its charter. As we all know, one of the reasons for Oslo II 1995 was that Arafat was to denounce terrorism and remove from the PLO’s charter the quest for Jewish genocide.</p><p>The current Norwegian Labor government has been far too gullibly influenced by Palestinian propaganda. Hoping to become an internationally renowned peace mediator and content seeing the effects of our checkbook diplomacy, we have closed our eyes to what we actually finance. No wonder our role as a peace mediator in the Middle East seems to be over.</p><p align=center><img src="http://chromatism.net/images/bar400.gif" border=0 /></p><i><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.hannenabintuherland.com">Hanne Nabintu Herland</a> is a Norwegian historian of comparative religions and a bestselling author.</p></i>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-86802051675388362202013-01-18T23:38:00.000-05:002013-01-19T00:04:32.805-05:00Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/18/2013<p><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/newsfeed.gif" border=0 hspace=8 vspace=5 align=right alt="Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/18/2013" />Many more foreign hostages than originally reported were taken by the Al Qaeda terrorists at the Amenas gas plant in Algeria. The Algerian government says that 100 out of 132 were freed, and some sources say that 30 or more hostages were killed. The British government offered the Algerians manpower, equipment, and expert assistance to expedite the resolution of the crisis, but was refused. American, British, and French nationals are thought to be among the dead.</p><p>In other news, the latest figures from Angola indicate that at least 250,000 Chinese nationals have migrated to the country. The Angolan government says that work permits were issued for the Chinese to assist with development projects.</p><p>To see the headlines and the articles, open <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2003/01/news-feed-20130118.html">the full news post</a>.</p><p>Thanks to Andy Bostom, C. Cantoni, DS, EG, Insubria, JD, <a target="_blank" href="http://tundratabloids.com">KGS</a>, Mary Abdelmassih, <a target="_blank" href="http://greenspiece.blogspot.com/">Paul Green</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://snaphanen.dk/">Steen</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://vladtepesblog.com/">Vlad Tepes</a>, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.</p><b><p>Notice to tipsters:</b> Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.</p><b><p>Commenters are advised to leave their comments at this post (rather than with the news articles) so that they are more easily accessible.</p></b><b><p>Caveat:</b> Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. We check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.</p>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-20045424535580835622013-01-18T22:50:00.001-05:002013-01-18T22:50:45.838-05:00Babel on the Danube<p align=center><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdMaA7g9Zv0iHTA9HaO582muSJYJDZorkxKrUxN3bO0ec-PXbKcY2JygVcLcAoJmULYbqZjgd5C_roswV-caHwSIwpA-cGsMVjnn7ZVovk6poPyce3-cWyEjQUIQBmgc3UcajT/s400/multiculti4.gif" border=0 vspace=8 alt="Cultural Enrichment News" /></p><p>As a follow-up to <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2013/01/babel-on-fjords.html">Tuesday’s post</a> about the majority-minority public schools in Oslo, the following brief account reports the latest statistics on the cultural enrichment of schools in Austria. Vienna is the most fully enriched location, and seems to be in roughly the same situation as Oslo.</p><p>Many thanks to Hermes for the translation from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.unzensuriert.at/content/0011384-Anteil-deutschsprachiger-Volkssch-ler-dramatisch-gesunken">Unzensuriert.at</a>:</p><blockquote><b><p>Austria — The number of German-speaking primary school students has declined dramatically</p></b><p>The number of pupils with a first language other than German has doubled from 1995 to 2011. This is what the recently-issued “National Report on Education” shows. During this time, the percentage of “monolingual German” children at primary schools dropped from 88% to 76%.</p><p>The doubling in the number of multilingual students is evident in virtually all provinces in Austria. In Carinthia, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol and Vorarlberg, the rise is a little lower, in Upper Austria is a bit higher, and in Burgenland it remained on average. The Styrian province is the only outlier, where the number of children with a different native language has tripled from about 5,000 to 16,000.</p></blockquote><p align=center><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3J6KTi1CavULGqq83tbUB3Mx5OKHHiDk4aET740i3vV5aazrzbmiLduxmlWy9bhdctxNsirUkQJJ-LRM0pjd8xQMWzplt41RHkRJM7To8ysYLj4C3uuWhk4DpWw6JjWQzunNw/s400/multiculticlassroom.jpg" border=0 vspace=8 alt="Multicultural classroom" /></p><blockquote><b><p>Barely any students with German as mother tongue in Vienna</p></b><p>The nationwide statistics conceals the dramatic developments in Vienna, because German is hardly spoken in the primary schools of the federal capital. The district in Vienna where this is most blatantly visible is Margareten, where the proportion of immigrant children has risen to 89 % — that is, 924 out of 1038 children have as their mother tongue something other than German. The districts Rudolf Fünfhaus and Ottakring have a proportion of 80%, Brigittenau 79% and Meidling at least 70%.</p></blockquote><p align=center><img src="http://chromatism.net/images/bar400.gif" border=0 /></p><p>For a complete listing of previous enrichment news, see <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/07/cultural-enrichment-archives.html">The Cultural Enrichment Archives</a>.</p>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-20297481061278514632013-01-18T15:30:00.000-05:002013-01-18T15:33:22.951-05:00Here We Go Again<i><p><b>Note:</b> The following post accompanies <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-bee-and-lamb-part-9-continued.html">Takuan Seiyo’s latest piece</a>. Both are being kept “sticky” until tonight. Scroll down for other posts that have appeared since Wednesday.</p></i><p align=center><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/trains1.jpg" border=0 vspace=8 alt="Entrance to Auschwitz" /></p><p>Certain posts at Gates of Vienna, among them those by Takuan Seiyo, tend to attract the attention and comments of people who are preoccupied with the Jews. They frequently refer to “Holohoax” in World War Two, often supplementing their scornful references with obscenities or derogatory epithets.</p><p>I generally delete such comments without publishing them. One of them came in this morning, the second or third such screed submitted on Takuan Seiyo’s latest post. Before I deleted it, I sent it to Takuan, just to show him what was coming in. He suggested that I go ahead and post it, followed by his response.</p><p>So here’s the comment by “Anonymous” [typos in the original]:</p><blockquote><p>Some interesting points, a lot of waffle and some errors. Your stated view that the WW2 ‘Holocaust’ resulted in the old 6 million dead Jews is well past its sell-by date. Top class, modern historians now regard that figure as grotesquely disproportionate. The Red Cross AND the German Government counted less than 150,000 for ALL deaths in ALL camps other than those behind Russian lines. It’s now commonly called the HOLOHOAX. It is one of the most successful internationsal businesses of all time.</p></blockquote><b><p>A response from Takuan Seiyo:</p></b><p>You have the temerity to post this kind of Nazi apologist garbage in a comments thread of an article by a writer whose gentile grandparents had been murdered in a concentration camp and whose gentile mother spent two years in a labor-extermination camp, was a state witness in the post-war trial of its commandant, and relayed her wartime experiences to this writer directly. Moreover, a writer who was born and grew up one hour by car from Auschwitz and three kilometers from the plant where the firm Hoch und Tiefbau AG had built the crematoria for that camp. In which, alone, 2.5 million people were murdered, 1 million of them Jews. And that’s according to the testimony its commandant Rudolf Hoess, based on data from SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann.</p><p>Moreover, you desecrate the memory of <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold%27s_Report">Witold Pilecki</a> plus other Polish officer escapees from Auschwitz who produced written reports, e.g. Jerzy Tabeau and Kazimierz Piechowski — all of them of impeccable “white” credentials way beyond what you and other White Nat lunatics may ever aspire to. I am omitting here reports by Jewish escapees, for example the Vrba-Wetzler report, as well as the fate of the Jewish part of my family during the war, so as to skirt the whole specious <i>Joooos-tainted-it</i> aspect of your comment.</p><p>It’s true that legitimate modern-day attempts to calculate the number of the Holocausts’ victims produce a range of numbers. The lowest for Auschwitz, for instance (by the Polish historian Franciszek Piper), cites 1.1 million victims, in contrast to the 2.5 million estimate — interesting, however, that even in that much-reduced number the Jewish victims component remains the same 1 million as in the bigger total-victim figures. The highest figure cited for Auschwitz is 4 million.</p><a name='more'></a><p>The lowest legitimate estimate of victims of the Jewish Holocaust cites 5.1 million instead of the accepted meme “6 million”. There is room for different methodologies and re-evaluations; there are difficulties, including the fact that much of the physical plant was erased by the Germans. For instance, the Belzec Extermination Camp, where 600,000 Jews were murdered plus some 2,000 Poles in punishment for sheltering or aiding Jews, was entirely plowed under by its German operators before they fled the advancing Soviet Army.</p><p>By the way — Belzec too had many direct witnesses from non-Jewish sources, including the famous Jan Karski who snuck in and out, and this writer’s mother who saw freight trains packed with people sardine-style, some of them acquaintances and one a family member, leaving for Belzec, and those “passengers” never returning, with the Polish train conductors telling Polish and Ukrainians bystanders at the station that what they had seen just from the gates of Belzec was Hell on Earth.</p><p>Also by the way — here too there are legitimate differences of interpretation, assessment of evidence etc. The lowest valid estimate of Belzec victims is not 600,000 but 500,000.</p><p>To erase by a stroke of the pen the best-documented event in history in order to produce the 150,000 number you cite is an act of supreme evil. Please do Gates of Vienna readers a favor and post elsewhere.</p><p>I will deal in a later chapter with the issue of White Nats’ desperate massaging of Holocaust history as an attempt to wrest Western history from what, to them, should have been the losers, in order to place the skein of narrative back in the hands of what ought to have been the winners, that is, “white people.” They don’t quite get that WW2 is a story of the ultimate triumph of Western Civilization and of Whites, and that there is no need at all to lie or fall prey to wishful delusions. The losers who wrested the skein of history are not “the Jews” or “the coloreds” but white Marxists-Socialist professors in the 1960s. What they lost is their faith in the infallibility of Marxist dialectics, in view of how prosperous and content the Western proletariat had become.</p><p>That quite a few key figures among them were Jews is another matter — but that has nothing to do with historical facts of the Holocaust which, by then, had been firmly documented, catalogued and established for what all but a few Nazis in hiding thought would be all time.</p><p>Yet, here we go again.</p><i><p>— Takuan Seiyo</p></i><p align=center><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/auschwitz.jpg" border=0 vspace=8 alt="Auschwitz survivors" /></p>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-87603456267636536782013-01-18T13:10:00.000-05:002013-01-18T13:10:32.149-05:00The Bee and the Lamb, Part 9 (Continued)<p><b>Note:</b> Takuan’s post (which was originally published last night) is to remain at the top for a while, so I made it “sticky”. However, much has happened since it went up, including the Blogger outage. Scroll down for a <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2013/01/outage-report.html">report on that</a>. </p><p>See also: Two forthrightly <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-jews-ruin-things.html">anti-Semitic Islamic leaders in Norway</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2013/01/lethal-judicial-coddling.html">Judicial coddling</a> in Germany, and <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2013/01/is-this-justice.html">Part 3</a> of the Imran Firasat interview.</p><p>More new posts will be added below this one. Oh, and don’t mess around with <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2013/01/dont-mess-around-with-jim.html">JIM</a>.</p><p align=center><img src="http://chromatism.net/images/bar400.gif" border=0 /></p><i><p>The essay below is the conclusion of the ninth part in a series by Takuan Seiyo. See the list at the bottom of this post for links to the previous installments.</p></i><p align=center><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5O0BBkMjx3lLM-2QhQPbPROpiI_2nkIJD4qjnEwXT5GgDuMXQyV-smPswmXS9LVUfYPORok27DFEyVbztYrN0sTfuC5ys49q1pdZXsCU7Vi0kLW3I-WbkY5tXLn4OOlH7NfWX8A/s400/renoirgrosz.jpg" border=0 vspace=8 alt="Renoir-Grosz" /><br /><font size=-1><sup>Left: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, <i>Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette</i>, 1876<br />Right: George Grosz, <i>Metropolis</i>, 1916/17</sup></font></p><b><p>The Bee and the Lamb<br />Part 9 (continued)</p></b><i><p>By Takuan Seiyo</p></i><b><p>A Whole New Road to Serfdom</b></p><b><p>That Which is Not Seen</b> (continued)</p><p>For over 60 years, White mea-culpists have had a firm grip in all fields of cultural mind imprinting: education high and low; paper media, then electronic, then digital media; all forms of entertainment, the plastic arts and music high and low, and religious instruction and worship too. Their main endeavor has been to enforce their compulsory (e.g. K-12) and discretionary (e.g. television) self-flaying on account of long-ago Slavery, Colonialism, Imperialism, Male Supremacism, Racism, Antisemitism, and so on.</p><p>It’s the evils of the Iberian Inquisition — which were evil — but not the evils of the Japanese equivalent in which, in the 40 years up to 1597, 50,000 Christians were publicly crucified, burned or beheaded. Nor the evils of the worldwide Islamic Inquisition which — not in the 16th century but now, in the 21st, condemns Muslim apostates to barbaric execution. It’s America’s destruction of the snail darter but not Mussulmanism’s destruction of the Bamyan Buddhas or its proposed destruction of the <a target="_blank" href="http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/11/12/249092.html">Sphinx and the Pyramids</a>, let alone its obliteration of all the pre-Rome cradles of Christianity but for remaining ruins in the Middle East and dust of the desert in North Africa.</p><p>It’s the evils of feudalism and industrial workers’ exploitation in Europe and America, but not the strict Confucian evils of Northeast Asia. There, a member of the ruling class in China had, essentially, a free hand with anyone of the lower classes, a Japanese samurai could test his sword by cutting down an insolent peasant, and farmers were so squeezed by their fief holders that they habitually sold their daughters to bordellos for the few coins it provided for next season’s seed.</p><p>Feminism, Socialism and anti-Antisemitism should have arisen in Saudi Arabia or Yemen, Algeria or Peshawar, for good reasons. Instead, aggressive White androphobes of all genders which I can no longer count are decimating the philogynous and egalitarian West. Equality psychos are tearing down the most egalitarian society that ever existed (except for initial communist experiments, before they turned bloody). American Jews, at the apex of the greatest fortune and philosemitic tolerance their long diaspora has ever bestowed on their kind, are busy supporting all the ideologies and policies that demolish their safe harbor and build up their Muslim, Black and Third World enemies. They will come to rue their tacit assumption that better the antisemite you don’t know than the few hundred imputed and real ones catalogued at ADL.</p><p>One would be hard put to find a nation not based on the invasion of another people’s territory and their mass slaughter. Yet poisoned American madmen proclaim <a target="_blank" href="http://www.alternet.org/culture/no-thanks-thanksgiving">“No Thanks for Thanksgiving”</a> as though the Indians themselves did not fight endless genocidal wars from Peru to Canada, with torture, ritual murder or slavery for the captives and, at times, cannibalism too.</p><p>Leftoid masochists and the Christian meek call for returning Hawaii to the Hawaiians and capitulating before a massive Mexican reconquista of one-third of America. The self-defined “Feminist-Tauist-NeoPagan-Post-Structuralist-Deconstructionist-Socialist” useful idiot Gillian Schutte begins her New Year 2013 <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/gillianschutte/2013/01/02/dear-white-people/">Dear White People</a> by “wholeheartedly apologizing for what my ancestors did to the people of South Africa and inviting you to do the same.”</p><p>Yet the Magyars don’t seem to feel much guilt over the Illyrians, Pannonians, Sarmatians and Celts whose land and lives they took in the 9th century, to form Hungary. The rightful Etruscan landowners are not bearing angry placards in front of the Vatican. The Japanese are not planning to relinquish Hokkaido to its original owners, the Ainu. The tall, white and fair-haired Chachapoyas of the Andean forest have, alas, no remnants left to sue the Incas for genocide in a Peruvian court of law. The Aztecs, whether in Jalisco or Los Angeles, don’t agonize over having taken what would become Mexico City from its original Culhuacan owners, with lots of grisly details. Yet for 38 years Neil Young has been reminding adoring audiences about “<a target=_blank href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lGiVErPEec0#">Cortez the Killer</a>”, discreetly omitting <a target=_blank href="http://www.aztec-history.com/aztec-flower-war.html">Tlacaelel the killer</a> and the killer people whom Cortez killed.</p><p><i>Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust</i> (1996) is a book by Daniel Goldhagen presenting the thesis that the German nation as such was composed of willing executioners of the Jews because of a unique “eliminationist antisemitism” in the German people, with long historical roots. However, even that great moral abyss of Western civilization — the Holocausts — stands out more in its industrialized and organizational features than it does either in the quality of its hatefulness or its relative or even absolute volumes. And Holocausts they were, for in addition to the nearly 6 million Jews, the Germans also murdered over 21 million civilian Slavs, and that’s counting Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Czechoslovakia alone.</p><p>In absolute numbers, the total number of World War II non-German civilian victims of Nazi Germany is smaller than the 50 million victims of the Bolsheviks in Russia, or Mao’s 70 million in China, or the Mughal-Muslim genocide of Hindus — the latter have their own Holocaust Day on August 14.</p><p>In relative numbers, in just one year, 1994, the Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda, killed off a total of one million, in a population of 7 million. 75% of the Tutsi population was erased. Is it more humane to go by a stroke of a blunt machete than by a whiff of Zyklon B?</p><p>The Khmer Rouge murdered at least 2 million Cambodians between 1975 and 1979: one quarter of the population, by a conservative count. Is it more humane to die by wallops from a Cambodian pickaxe handle than by a bullet from a German Mauser?</p><p align=center><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiOmivkGGadXcsfMOxipLk_AaoHiRaUe94W7zS2KYCbmk-323Q57JZCeYQDYrQboeX_OHjW_U4KcSkvRihez3UpPh5sl4zdulVsFMAM2PyByHFJCKsPkeXSvc7FxYZAmT46h2d/s1600/ukraineaktion.jpg" border=0 vspace=8 alt="Ukraine 1942, Jewish Aktion, Ivangorod" /><br /><font size=-1><sup>Inscription on the back (in German): “Ukraine 1942, Jewish <i>Aktion,</i> Ivangorod.”</sup></font></p><p>There is a special horror attached to the Third Reich, because those were 20<font size=-1><sup> th</sup></font> century Europeans, Christians, and in many ways the smartest, most civilized people on Earth. But the Holocausts do not prove that Whites are worse than other people, just that they are no better. The history of the Third Reich also proves that with the right formula of economic blowup, misery and humiliation, sparked by charismatic evil, no people are immune to such horror, at no time.</p><a name='more'></a><p>And that includes the here and now. Unaware that history that occurs first as tragedy repeats itself as farce, the Rulers of the West have cooked up a potion with similar ingredients to those of 1930s Germany, complete with an imported Semito-Turkic minority that Europeans have far fewer reasons to like than they did the previous, semi-indigenous Semitic minority once living among them. What’s missing are hyperinflation and the evil genius. But not to worry — they are working hard on “quantitatively easing” and “prime pumping” the hyperinflation into being. And hyperinflations have a way of unearthing evil geniuses too.</p><p>All that while thinking that they have run away from Hitler as far and as fast as is humanly possible, having roiled from Berlin to Brisbane 24/7 for 50 years to find the fascist in every White and the evil in every facet of Western tradition.</p><p>Hence the loud guffaw reverberating through the cosmos.</p><i><b><p>De mortalitate</p></b></i><p>The early Church Father and martyr, Cyprian of Carthage, was witness to the smallpox pandemic that devastated the Roman Empire in the second half of the third century. The pandemic is known as the Plague of Cyprian, because he described it in the consoling missive to his congregation, <i>De mortalitate</i>, i.e. “On the Plague.” At its height, the plague killed 5,000 people a day in Rome alone and, according to Cyprian, no house in Carthage was without its victims.</p><p>It’s the irony of recurring human folly that the powers that be and the mob in Carthage blamed the Christians for the plague and unleashed murderous persecutions against them, just as the Christians would blame the Jews for the bubonic plague a millennium later, and kill them by the hundreds of thousands across the continent, from Spain to Lithuania. <sup><font size=-1>[1]</font></sup></p><p>The task of science in epidemic etiology is to find and isolate the cause. Only then can the cure be devised. With respect to the Western brain rot that I call acute cognitive <a target=_blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmissible_spongiform_encephalopathy">spongiform encephalitis</a>, a small group of academics in the 1950s-60s was “patient zero.” What the homosexual Canadian flight attendant Gaëtan Dugas was with respect to the spread of AIDS, they were with respect to multiculturalism, “diversity,” demonizing the white race, extolling the barbaric and inferior as long as non-white, rewriting history, white population replacement, Islamization, “justice and equity” (with mutations such as “environmental justice”), celebration of loose sex and of deviant sexuality, demonization of men and masculinization of women, sabotage of the West camouflaged as love of <a target=_blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_Charter">Gaia</a>, and the conversion of the entire Western <i>gestalt</i> from amalgamated Christianity and Enlightenment rationalism to a fanatical secular religion replete with totems and taboos, manifest lies, forbidden truths, hallucinatory mandates revealed to chosen prophets, and persecution of apostates.</p><p><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI1eAGa782tC5LoXqbBqWyNd3zDyNlYHu_2AEQzcLB3xDIlA3bfYVgHSPEwlNTwsHhYU_HFQouKiOgUjUcq6I1P33FKy84tzYgG4a1tX8XuiPvArZIOgTl8SL18d0IuaHO3Hh_/s1600/explainingpostmodernism.jpg" border=0 hspace=8 vspace=5 align=right alt="Stephen R.C. Hicks: Explaining Postmodernism" />The American philosopher Stephen Hicks has traced this causal chain superbly in his <i>Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault</i>.<sup><font size=-1>[2]</font></sup></p><p>Hicks traces the roots of postmodernism to Rousseau, Kant and Heidegger, but we shall examine just five of the post-1950 main branches: all university professors of major renown. Of the four academics whom Hicks credits with originating postmodernism — Michel Foucault, Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, and Richard Rorty — we shall look next at Foucault and Derrida. Then, the father of the postmodern New Left, Herbert Marcuse, whom Hicks also covers in his book. Finally, two chief Anglophone spreaders of the pox in the realms of history and literary criticism: Howard Zinn and Edward Said.</p><p>All of that, and all of these, have been mutations of Marxism, just as the successful virus absorbs and adapts to the body’s defenses and then finds a new avenue of attack that circumvents the body’s immune system.</p><p>This perception is of significant operational implication. To cite just one of some twenty major plagues now bedeviling the West, it implies that the advanced Islamization of Western Europe and the creeping one of the Anglophonic diaspora cannot be combated by arguing about the history of Islamic imperialism, the wiles of <i>taqiyyah</i> or the evils of <i>sharia</i>.</p><p>Islam and Muslims are not the lethal disease. It’s the West’s postmodern Marxism-soaked universities that are the lethal disease, and the generations of their programmed graduates who are now the Ruling Class of the West. Without them, Muslims would have been back where they were in 1955 — in Sanaa and Fallujah, Islamabad and Jawhar, but not in Houston, Melbourne, Amsterdam and Cologne. Islam would have still had its supremacist dreams, but dormant and subdued — for Muslims, in their own native milieus and dealing with a self-confident, rational West, would have had other things to worry about than how to make the World Khalifate come true. In fact, a sort of tenuous friendship could have existed between the West and Dar-al-Islam, the way it existed between mid 19<font size=-1><sup> th</sup></font> and mid 20<font size=-1><sup> th</sup></font> centuries.</p><p>If only the West’s nouveau-Marxists had not shot their host society in the head…</p><p align=center><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLHXj3x5IvnzIz0DtSZUZzjHr9AsVxwCO2eVa8RGKDMhMiaqZ-fjZ-xXF9Q5LjkPzc1aeO7p2PebjF1HzeXzQgso7w8-Km8HCAajqMjjIMuxaD2eYQiL2ciI3fFavxiocj1Kmz/s1600/islamsocialism.jpg" border=0 vspace=8 alt="Liberalism, Islam, and Socialism" /><br /><font size=-1><sup><i>Picture on the left by permission of D.T. Devareaux; picture on the right, popular icon, creator unknown</i></sup></font></p><b><p>Notes:</p></b><p><table border=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td valign=top>1.</td><td> </td><td valign=top>It’s important to keep track of such things in a civilization that’s dying by its own hand. For what is taking place is bad karma accumulated from horrific stupidity in the past, acting to produce a countervailing horrific stupidity in the present. The chain of stupidity could be broken if people were able to see the pattern. You cannot and should not atone for the murder of six million Jews by self-kneecapping through the import of 25 million profoundly alien Muslims three generations later.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>2.</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Stephen R. C. Hicks, <i>Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault</i>, Ockham’s Razor, August 2011.</td></tr></table><br /><p align=center><img src="http://chromatism.net/images/bar400.gif" border=0></p><i><p>Takuan Seiyo is a European-born American writer living in exile in Japan.</p></i><p>Previous posts:</p><p><table border=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr><td align=left valign=top>2008</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Oct</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>14</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top width=80%><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/10/real-mark-to-market.html">The Real Mark-to-Market</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Dec</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>1</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/12/you-say-mumbai-i-say-bombay.html">You Say Mumbai, I Say Bombay</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top>2009</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Apr</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>8</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/04/deadly-jive-of-jiverly-diversity.html">The Deadly Jive of Jiverly Diversity</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Jun</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>2</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-press-unbearable-lightness-of.html">The American Press: The Unbearable Lightness of Treason</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>12</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/06/critique-of-culture-of-kevin-macdonald.html">Critique of the Culture of Kevin MacDonald</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Jul</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>31</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/07/sons-of-onan.html">Sons of Onan</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Sep</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>2</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/09/be-change.html">Be the Change</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Dec</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>15</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/12/f-street.html">F Street</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top>2010</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Apr</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>25</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2010/04/vast-canyon-of-gas-and-dust-inshallah.html">Vast Canyon of Gas and Dust, Inshallah</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Jul</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>7</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2010/07/vast-canyon-of-gas-and-dust-progressive.html">Vast Canyon of Gas and Dust — Progressive Progress Report</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Dec</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>12</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2010/12/art-of-strategic-citizenship.html">The Art of Strategic Citizenship, Part 1</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top>2011</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Jan</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>7</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/01/art-of-strategic-citizenship-part-2.html">The Art of Strategic Citizenship, Part 2</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>31</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/01/art-of-strategic-citizenship-part-3.html">The Art of Strategic Citizenship, Part 3</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Mar</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>20</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/03/art-of-strategic-citizenship-part-4.html">The Art of Strategic Citizenship, Part 4</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Apr</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>2</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/04/art-of-strategic-citizenship-part-4.html">The Art of Strategic Citizenship, Part 4(b)</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Sep</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>30</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/09/on-fanciful-attributions-and-wishful.html">On Fanciful Attributions and Wishful Imputations</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Nov</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>1</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/100955/sec_id/100955">The Bee and the Lamb, Chapter 1</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Dec</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>1</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/102298/sec_id/102298">The Bee and the Lamb, Chapter 2</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top>2012</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Jan</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>1</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/104659/sec_id/104659">The Bee and the Lamb, Chapter 3</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Feb</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>12</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/02/bee-and-lamb-part-4.html">The Bee and the Lamb, Chapter 4</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>13</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/02/free-university-of-brussels-is-not-free.html">The Free University of Brussels is Not Free</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>23</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/02/short-treatise-on-modern-dance.html">A Short Treatise on Modern Dance</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Mar</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>6</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/03/bee-and-lamb-part-5.html">The Bee and the Lamb, Part 5</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>May</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>4</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/05/prokophy-is-destiny.html">Prokophy is Destiny</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>12</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/05/three-cs.html">The Three Cs</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Jun</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>16</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/06/through-looking-glass.html">Through the Looking Glass</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Aug</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>6</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-bee-and-lamb-part-6.html">The Bee and the Lamb, Part 6</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Sep</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>25</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-bee-and-lamb-part-7.html">The Bee and the Lamb, Part 7</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Oct</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>17</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-bee-and-lamb-part-8.html">The Bee and the Lamb, Part 8</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Nov</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>7</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/11/cowards-lose.html">Cowards Lose</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Dec</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>6</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/12/stupidity-worse-than-hate.html">Stupidity Worse Than Hate</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>6</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-bee-and-lamb-part-9.html">The Bee and the Lamb, Part 9</a></td></tr></table></p>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-24038082485995601942013-01-18T13:01:00.001-05:002013-01-18T13:02:52.218-05:00“The Jews Ruin Things”<p align=center><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPsu_9ca0Iz9HWI8uMTX9q-hedrXL6TLinlLoBGR4Va-feYnCXnC1wB-tw_z1y9_G7Z-xAJOhzVXVVHuCTGva5sQ2n5W4jb89fw6kAAUXS9GJYgjqO20K_27dTzKl5NbsvquNO/s1600/shahsarwaroslo.jpg" border=0 vspace=8 alt="Nehmat Al Shah and Ghulam Sarwar, Oslo" /></p><p>Our Norwegian correspondent <a target="_blank" href="http://someofmyessays.blogspot.com/">The Observer</a> sends his translation of an article and interview with two respectable high-profile Muslim leaders in Oslo, who have strongly negative opinions about Jews and the worldwide Jewish conspiracy. The Observer notes:</p><blockquote><p>A new trend seems to have developed in the Islamic community in Norway: grab hold of a journalist and speak your mind on issues such as stoning, adultery, apostasy and Jews — and don’t hold back.</p><p>This article deals with the twisted views of the imam and the chairman of Norway’s largest mosque. It should also be pointed out that this is the <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/police-dhimmitude-in-oslo.html">same mosque that the Norwegian police apologized so profusely to last year</a> for the fact that we have freedom of speech in Norway.</p></blockquote><p>The translated <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dagsavisen.no/samfunn/imam-gir-joder-skylda-for-mediedekning/">article from <i>Dagsavisen</i></a>:</p><blockquote><b><p>Imam blames Jews for media coverage</p></b><b><p>Controversial: Many Norwegians have a negative view on Islam due to Jewish domination of the media. This accusation is made by the imam and by the chairman of Norway’s largest mosque.</p></b><p>We are visiting Central Jamaat-e Ahl-e Sunnat, the mosque with the largest member base in Norway, to talk to its spiritual leader. The mosque was founded in 1977 and currently has more than 5,000 members. The Cultural Center in Grønland in Oslo can accommodate 2500 people during prayers. The spiritual leader, Imam Nehmat Ali Shah is not fluent in Norwegian, so every now and then Chairman, Ghulam Sarwar has to translate from Punjabi.</p><p>“But we have the same opinions,” says Sarwar while the imam nods and smiles — he looks both stern and benign at the same time.</p><p>The subject of the interview is the relationship between the major religions and Norwegians’ attitudes toward Islam. The Imam begins by explaining that all three heavenly religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, are sacred to them. Many people are unaware of this fact, says Sarwar.</p><p>Then a statement is made that many will find far more problematic.</p><b><p>“The Jews ruin things”</p></b><p>“Schoolchildren visit the mosque regularly and some of the students may think that we are against Christianity,” says Sarwar. Both of them believe that the school visits confirms their views that Norwegians in general have an inaccurate impression of Islam and Muslims.</p><p>“Students, journalists and people like you ask the same questions over and over again — about forced marriage, hijab and whether females can become imams.</p><p>“No one can be forcefully compelled to marry in Islam, but parents can assist in finding the right partner, and no, women cannot become imams. People are ignorant because they get their information from the media, and the media only write negatively about Islam. Judaism has a better grip on the media,” says Sarwar.</p><i><p>“Why do the media only write negatively about Islam?”</p></i><p>“Because the media has Jewish roots. The Jews control the media and that’s detrimental. Only a handful of people were behind the movie about Mohammed in the U.S. and they didn’t have a lot of money. So who was financing them, who was backing them?” asks Sarwar, referring to the anti-Islamic film <i>The Innocence of Muslims</i>, produced by a Christian Egyptian Copt living in the USA.</p><b><p>“Anxious people”</p></b><i><p>“Who are the Jews behind this in your opinion?”</p></i></blockquote><a name='more'></a><blockquote><p>“I couldn’t say. I don’t know exactly who, but there aren’t that many Jews. I read that seven million of them were killed in WW2, so there aren’t that many of them today, because there weren’t that many around back then either.”</p><i><p>“How did the Jews manage to attain such media power?”</p></i><p>“Because of education and business.”</p><p>Sarwar translates the question to Nehmat Ali Shah.</p><p>“Jews have immense commercial power that stretches around the world,” repeats the Imam through Sarwar.</p><i><p>“What is the relationship generally between Jews and Muslims?”</p></i><p>“It has never been good.”</p><i><p>“Why not?”</p></i><p>“Why did the Germans kill them? One reason is that they are anxious people,” says Sarwar.</p><b><p>Wants dialogue</p></b><i><p>“But at the same time you do say positive things about Judaism, that it is sacred?”</p></i><p>“Yes, we’re not saying that Jews should be killed or anything to that effect. Moses is our prophet, but some people only want to ruin things,” says Sarwar.</p><p>“The Quran says that we should accept all the prophets of Judaism, Christianity and Islam — from Moses to Jesus. If we speak ill of the prophets we would be contradicting our own books, but it’s not like that for Jews and Christians,” adds Al Shah.</p><i><p>“What do the media want to achieve by writing negatively about Islam?”</p></i><p>“They want to prevent Islam from growing.”</p><p>The Imam confirms what Sarwar is saying</p><p>“Dialogue is very important to us. You may find disagreements, but that doesn’t mean that we should stop talking to each other. Dialogue is the only way,” says Chairman Ghulam Sarwar while Imam Ali Shah Nehmat nods affirmatively.</p><b><p>Reacts sharply</p></b><p>Rune Ottosen, a professor of journalism from the University College of Oslo, reacts strongly when he hears about the remarks made by the two leaders of the Mosque:</p><p>“This sounds like anti-Semitic conspiracy theories of the worst kind,” he says.</p><p>He points out that the Norwegian media landscape is dominated by NRK, TV 2, Schibsted and A-pressen.</p><p>“The fact that they can actually think in such terms is so far removed from reality that I find it difficult to take them seriously. It is impossible to debate on such a basis,” says Ottosen.</p><p>He is willing to admit that the media coverage can be skewed and refers to own research about media coverage of Islam and Muslims.</p><p>“Of course prejudices exist, and yes, let’s talk about it. But the debate needs to be based on an actual knowledge of the Norwegian media landscape. These allegations are something entirely different. When such prominent figures say things like that, it just reaffirms that there are fundamental anti-Semitic sentiments within the Muslim community.”</p></blockquote>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-52355968751181218652013-01-18T10:55:00.000-05:002013-01-18T10:55:12.959-05:00Don’t Mess Around With JIM<p align=center><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/mischief.jpg" border=0 vspace=8 alt="Mischief" /></p><p>A big tip of the Bodissey pickelhaube to our commenter Jolie Rouge, who <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2013/01/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-1172013.html">has provided us</a> with a brand new acronym. The occasion was an observation about <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01pzqmz/This_Week_17_01_2013/">BBC 17/01/2013 This Week</a> (the link only works in the UK):</p><blockquote><i><p>Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo are joined by former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan and Alastair Campbell.</p></i><p>Interesting conversation — acknowledging the geopolitical threat to the West.</p><p>Note the aggressor is not named other than by geographical location (e.g.) North Africa, Afghanistan and surprisingly the inclusion of Turkey.</p><p>Amazingly they manage to avoid the JIM words — Jihad, Islam and Muslim.</p></blockquote><p>I think JIM could have great utility for our enterprise: it’s concise, pronounceable, handy to use, and easy to propagate.</p><p>Who will be the first major Western politician (not counting Geert Wilders) to break the greatest cultural taboo of our time, and mess around with JIM?</p>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-71022147092245539292013-01-17T23:23:00.000-05:002013-01-17T23:53:46.354-05:00Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/17/2013<p><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/newsfeed.gif" border=0 hspace=8 vspace=5 align=right alt="Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/17/2013" />Tonight’s news feed is unusually fat, due to the inclusion of last night’s items, which were never used because of the Blogger outage.</p><p>Yesterday a group of Al Qaeda terrorists assaulted a natural gas plant in Algeria and killed two foreigners while taking 41 other hostage. Today Algerian special forces staged a helicopter raid on the plant, killing a number of the hostages — between six and 34, depending on whose figures you believe — in the process of taking out the terrorists. Among the foreign hostages were American, British, French, and Japanese nationals.</p><p>In other news, Germany has begun repatriating its foreign gold reserves, which are stored in vaults in Paris, London, and the United States.</p><p>To see the headlines and the articles, open <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2003/01/news-feed-20130117.html">the full news post</a>.</p><p>Thanks to C. Cantoni, Erick Stakelbeck, Fjordman, Insubria, JB, JD, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/">Jerry Gordon</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://kitmantv.blogspot.com/">Kitman</a>, McR, <a target="_blank" href="http://someofmyessays.blogspot.com/">The Observer</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://vladtepesblog.com/">Vlad Tepes</a>, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.</p><b><p>Notice to tipsters:</b> Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.</p><p>+<b>Commenters are advised to leave their comments at this post (rather than with the news articles) so that they are more easily accessible.</p></b><b><p>Caveat:</b> Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. We check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.</p>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-48511008596112586422013-01-17T23:01:00.001-05:002013-01-17T23:01:49.881-05:00Lethal Judicial Coddling<p align=center><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdMaA7g9Zv0iHTA9HaO582muSJYJDZorkxKrUxN3bO0ec-PXbKcY2JygVcLcAoJmULYbqZjgd5C_roswV-caHwSIwpA-cGsMVjnn7ZVovk6poPyce3-cWyEjQUIQBmgc3UcajT/s400/multiculti4.gif" border=0 vspace=8 alt="Cultural Enrichment News" /></p><p>The following article tells a brief tale about immigrant-on-immigrant violence in Cologne, with Muslims of immigrant background dealing it out and Russian immigrants as victims.</p><p>JLH, who translated the piece, sends this brief note:</p><blockquote><p>It shows the attempts by a Turk to protect a Russian family and being killed for his trouble. An example of what happens to the good guys among the immigrants if they don’t toe the line.</p></blockquote><p>The translated article from <a target="_blank" href="http://quotenqueen.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/todesopfer-dank-kuscheljustiz/">Quotenqueen</a>:</p><blockquote><b><p>Dead Thanks to Judicial Coddling</p></b><p>The unwillingness of German judges to lock up unsocialized walking time-bombs already known to the police has claimed a victim in Cologne on New Year’s Eve. Two criminal foreigners, free to terrorize their neighbors despite drug-related and violent crimes, killed a Turkish husband and father who tried to get them to behave. It happened in a sector of the city called Bickendorf — a district notorious for years for immigrant violence and bordering on the thoroughly Islamized Ehrenfeld. There was also knife-play at night in the immigrant milieu of right-bank Cologne-Vingst, where “Antifa” pastor Meurer is collecting for the building of a mosque and reading masses against Pro-Köln. But no one was killed.</p><p>The Kölner Express reports:</p></blockquote><a name='more'></a><blockquote><p>Ferhat and Cihad are both known to the police. And to the neighborhood of Ossendorfer Weg. “They are always toking, drinking, fighting,” says one resident.</p><p>Several days before the New Year, they were seen with a little wagon, loaded down with New Year’s Eve fireworks. They used them to terrorize neighbors, throwing firecrackers up on balconies all day.”</p></blockquote><p> </p><!-- more --><blockquote><p>After midnight of the evening it happened, they harassed a Russian family with the big firecrackers. “Aziz from Kulk was only visiting here for the celebration. He wanted to calm down the conflict, stop the youngsters from throwing firecrackers,” one of his acquaintances said.</p><p>But the two resisted and struck out at him. There was a serious struggle. Then one of the two pulled out a knife and thrust it twice into the victim’s torso. Witnesses saw the two perpetrators flee.</p><p>Because there were so many calls, it was a relatively long wait for the EMTs. Aziz was brought into the ICU, where his condition stabilized at first. On the afternoon of New Year’s day, he died of severe internal injuries.</p></blockquote><p align=center><img src="http://chromatism.net/images/bar400.gif" border=0 /></p><p>For a complete listing of previous enrichment news, see <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/07/cultural-enrichment-archives.html">The Cultural Enrichment Archives</a>.</p>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-36412410818383027232013-01-17T21:05:00.000-05:002013-01-17T21:06:18.029-05:00Is This Justice?<p align=center><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipffp5j058z9ZnJpHkzv_eOfy4fsbNSowWZiHkdq3jbhIIXfEn1bBSGTdeQVf4S9BrtCfpmdtCBP9qjO_szPGiJmqQCzj4uyCDWLvJbyE6cU_wQDGetdgqg4FtIPk_rNBIskin/s1600/innocentprophet.gif" border=0 vspace=8 alt="The Innocent Prophet" /></p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.mundosinislam.com/">Imran Firasat</a> is a Pakistani ex-Muslim who collaborated with Terry Jones on the movie <i>The Innocent Prophet</i> (watch it <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/12/innocent-prophet-released.html">here</a>). The Spanish government recently revoked his status as a political refugee in Spain, and he is due to be deported to Pakistan, where he will face the death penalty for blasphemy. There is currently a <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2013/01/canada-give-refugee-status-to-imran.html">push to persuade the Canadian government</a> to grant him and his family political asylum.</p><p>Mr. Firasat was interviewed recently on <i>Alerta Digital TV</i>. The video below shows the third part of the interview, and includes segments in English of a statement by Terry Jones. Previously: <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2013/01/understanding-reality-of-islam.html">Part 1</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2013/01/pressure-persecution-and-abuse-of-power.html">Part 2</a>.</p><p>Many thanks to our Spanish correspondent Hermes for the translation, and to <a target="_blank" href="http://vladtepesblog.com/">Vlad Tepes</a> for the subtitling:</p><p align=center><iframe title="MRC TV video player" width="480" height="270" src="http://www.mrctv.org/embed/119460" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p><b><p>Transcript:</p></b><a name='more'></a><p><table border=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td valign=top>00:01</td><td> </td><td valign=top>So I want to say that I don’t understand why refugee status was once granted to me</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>00:07</td><td> </td><td valign=top>and has now been revoked for the same reason: for criticizing Islam, and I assure readers of</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>00:13</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Alerta Digital, those watching the program, that I have never done anything illegal</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>00:19</td><td> </td><td valign=top>against Islam; I have always told the government about my activities</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>00:25</td><td> </td><td valign=top>through legal petitions, and I have all official papers about that,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>00:31</td><td> </td><td valign=top>about the film I was intending to make. So I told them about all this 3 months in advance,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>00:37</td><td> </td><td valign=top>by email, that I would like to make a film in order to show everybody the real face of</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>00:43</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Mohammed, and I humbly called for an appointment to show them the film,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>00:49</td><td> </td><td valign=top>for them to tell me whether there’s something offensive to anyone in the film,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>00:55</td><td> </td><td valign=top>and all is in conformity with the Spanish laws, but I received no answer,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>01:01</td><td> </td><td valign=top>but in the end, when an Islamic organization in Madrid filed a complaint,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>01:07</td><td> </td><td valign=top>they became active, and they told me that my film</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>01:13</td><td> </td><td valign=top>can be dangerous to Spain. — Now Imran, from Florida, we have a connection</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>01:19</td><td> </td><td valign=top>through YouTube with a person who wanted to appear tonight in order</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>01:25</td><td> </td><td valign=top>to give you his support. He is a friend of yours, Pastor Terry Jones, another symbol of</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>01:31</td><td> </td><td valign=top>the fight against Islamic fanaticism in the world, a pastor who was banned</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>01:37</td><td> </td><td valign=top>from entering Spain by the same Interior Minister who wants to expel you.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>01:43</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Pastor Jones was very interested in appearing on this program, which he usually follows,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>01:50</td><td> </td><td valign=top>as you told me — Yes. Mr. Terry Jones</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>01:55</td><td> </td><td valign=top>is a very good fellow, no matter what is said about him, but for me he is a brave fellow,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>02:01</td><td> </td><td valign=top>who speaks the truth, fights for the truth. Maybe some of you do not agree with some of his</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>02:07</td><td> </td><td valign=top>views, but regarding Islam, I agree 100% with him, and</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>02:13</td><td> </td><td valign=top>he is also grateful to Alerta Digital for drawing attention to my case…</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>02:19</td><td> </td><td valign=top>- So here is his direct testimony through YouTube.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>02:24</td><td> </td><td valign=top></td></tr><tr><td valign=top>02:53</td><td> </td><td valign=top>What Mr. Terry Jones is saying is that if they stop us in this way,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>02:59</td><td> </td><td valign=top>then we lose our fundamental liberties, our human rights,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>03:06</td><td> </td><td valign=top>but first and foremost our freedom of speech, and if we lose that,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>03:12</td><td> </td><td valign=top>then we find ourselves in a dictatorship, so</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>03:18</td><td> </td><td valign=top>they must make clear whether this country is under dictatorship, or give us total liberty,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>03:24</td><td> </td><td valign=top>but double moral, double standard, that is not fair. Well, they tell me that</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>03:30</td><td> </td><td valign=top>I am a danger to Spain for criticizing Islam, and not because of having committed a crime,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>03:36</td><td> </td><td valign=top>but if it had been a Spaniard… — Excuse me, let</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>03:42</td><td> </td><td valign=top>us watch the video. Let’s watch it in full…</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>03:48</td><td> </td><td valign=top>It would be good if people could see the video of the Pastor in full.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>03:54</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Now let’s watch it, and then we’ll comment on it.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>04:00</td><td> </td><td valign=top></td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:07</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Pastor Jones speaks clearly: it is not just about Imran Firasat’s freedom, but that of us all;</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:12</td><td> </td><td valign=top>if today it is taken away from him, then tomorrow</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:16</td><td> </td><td valign=top>it will be taken away from us. There’s a lot at stake.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:20</td><td> </td><td valign=top>As I said before, I am a foreigner, so it is easy for them to</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:25</td><td> </td><td valign=top>deport me, revoke my status, but what would have happened if I had been a Spaniard?</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:30</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Would they take away his citizenship? Would they</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:34</td><td> </td><td valign=top>persecute him? No, he would be put on trial. So let them</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:37</td><td> </td><td valign=top>put me on trial. They will not find anything about my having violated Spanish law,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:43</td><td> </td><td valign=top>and if they stop me now, well, it is not about me, but about everybody. If they stop me</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:49</td><td> </td><td valign=top>from criticizing Islam, tomorrow they will stop you from criticizing President Rajoy,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:55</td><td> </td><td valign=top>or the king, and nothing will be allowed to be</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:58</td><td> </td><td valign=top>criticized. But Jesus is allowed to be criticized,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>08:01</td><td> </td><td valign=top>everybody is allowed to insult our God, but Mohammed cannot be criticized. Is this justice?</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>08:07</td><td> </td><td valign=top>- Yes, we’ll talk later about Mohammed, but in order for you to know</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>08:12</td><td> </td><td valign=top>that hundreds of thousands of euros of tax money,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>08:16</td><td> </td><td valign=top>which thanks to this Partido Popular government,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>08:19</td><td> </td><td valign=top>that self-proclaimed ‘Christian’, are made to flow to the mosques of this country,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>08:25</td><td> </td><td valign=top>I’ll reveal some data as an exclusive info for all readers of Alerta Digital. The money</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>08:31</td><td> </td><td valign=top>which is taken away from impoverished Spaniards, and which these villains in Rajoy’s gang</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>08:37</td><td> </td><td valign=top>give to the mosques, so that there the believers can be indoctrinated</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>08:43</td><td> </td><td valign=top>into hatred, crime, and to hate anybody who does not share their way of thinking</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>08:49</td><td> </td><td valign=top>This is a short list of the funds which Rajoy’s government gives to some Islamic centers</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>08:55</td><td> </td><td valign=top>in our country. I assure you that the following is not even 10% of</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>09:01</td><td> </td><td valign=top>all funds being given to Islamic centers. Now listen:</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>09:07</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Islamic Center of Torrent — Valencia County: 3000 euros</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>09:13</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Islamic Board of Madrid — Collado Villalba: 2200 euros</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>09:19</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Islamic Center of Albacete: 2000 euros. Again: money given by the</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>09:25</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Partido Popular government from all of your pockets.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>09:31</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Aval Islamic Center: 4500 euros</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>09:37</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Muslim Women’s Association of Vall D’uxó — Valencia county: 4500 euros</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>09:44</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Religious Islamic Center of Asturias — Altahuí mosque: 1500 euros</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>09:53</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Islamic Center Colonia Sant Jordi: 1500 euros</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>09:58</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Almassora Islamic Center: 1680 euros</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>10:04</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Islamic Community of Prat de Llobregat: 3000 euros</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>10:08</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Islamic Community Al-Ándalus in Altura (town): 3000 euros</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>10:13</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Islamic Community of Onda — Valencia county: 2000 euros</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>10:20</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Islamic Community ‘Villanueva de Castellón’ brotherhood: 3000 euros</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>10:25</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Islamic Community ‘Noor’: 1950 euros</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>10:28</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Islamic Community of Alaquás: 1680 euros</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>10:33</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Again, data referring to subsidies give</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>10:39</td><td> </td><td valign=top>by the Partido Popular government, official subsidies</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>10:45</td><td> </td><td valign=top>which are not even the 10% of all subsidies, and meanwhile Spaniards are committing suicide,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>10:51</td><td> </td><td valign=top>over not being able to pay their mortgages, and 6 million jobless,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>10:57</td><td> </td><td valign=top>and meanwhile our most talented ones have to look for a job</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>11:03</td><td> </td><td valign=top>in other countries of the EU. And this villain Mariano Rajoy taking away</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>11:09</td><td> </td><td valign=top>money from our pockets, the money which goes to the Islamic associations of our country.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>11:15</td><td> </td><td valign=top>An absolutely clear picture of what happens in this country.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>11:21</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Of what the Spanish democracy is. Of what we have been turned into by the</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>11:27</td><td> </td><td valign=top>state represented by these genuine criminals, a true moral sewer.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>11:33</td><td> </td><td valign=top>What can these Islamic associations contribute to the</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>11:38</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Spanish community, to the social and economic</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>11:42</td><td> </td><td valign=top>progress, to the cultural and spiritual development</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>11:45</td><td> </td><td valign=top>of the Spaniards that could justify the handover of these funds by part of the government</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>11:51</td><td> </td><td valign=top>of Mariano Rajoy? This is an outrage! You told me before that</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>11:57</td><td> </td><td valign=top>they are preparing to build in Barcelona the biggest mosque</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>12:03</td><td> </td><td valign=top>of Europe . — Yes, the Muslims of Barcelona are planning to build</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>12:09</td><td> </td><td valign=top>a mosque more huge and nicer than the Sagrada Familia,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>12:15</td><td> </td><td valign=top>but… I… I am not against Muslims,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>12:21</td><td> </td><td valign=top>I’ve never said that Muslims are bad, or criminals. I’ve said that</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>12:27</td><td> </td><td valign=top>it is the ideology they follow which is bad, and this has to be taught to them,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>12:33</td><td> </td><td valign=top>any they must be asked to change it. Their ideology</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>12:39</td><td> </td><td valign=top>is to fight, to make jihad, or to use any</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>12:45</td><td> </td><td valign=top>trick to take over the world. I’ve seen in many newspapers where Muslims</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>12:51</td><td> </td><td valign=top>leave comments, that they will soon conquer Spain again,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>12:57</td><td> </td><td valign=top>we will turn Spain again into Al-Ándalus. So please understand</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>13:03</td><td> </td><td valign=top>that not all Muslims, but many of them are planning to conquer Spain again,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>13:09</td><td> </td><td valign=top>join the political life of the country, and after that persecute</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>13:15</td><td> </td><td valign=top>those who talk about Islam. — They are succeeding</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>13:18</td><td> </td><td valign=top>with the help of these treasonous politicians.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>13:21</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Yes, why do they have to give thousands of euros in funds to those Islamic centers?</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>13:27</td><td> </td><td valign=top>How do they contribute to society? Here we have almost no food,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>13:33</td><td> </td><td valign=top>we cannot pay our mortgages, but those Islamic associations</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>13:39</td><td> </td><td valign=top>receive so much in funds. — The worst is that they are using our laws, in Spain,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>13:45</td><td> </td><td valign=top>and in Europe, in order to enforce theirs upon us, when the demographic factor turns decisive,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>13:51</td><td> </td><td valign=top>in order not to depend on us. — Yes, applying Sharia in order to punish anybody who</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>13:57</td><td> </td><td valign=top>goes against Islam. So we are losing the Europe we had,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>14:03</td><td> </td><td valign=top>our values, our rights. So I repeat again that</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>14:08</td><td> </td><td valign=top>I don’t know whether I will be killed after leaving</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>14:12</td><td> </td><td valign=top>the studios, because I receive so many threats,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>14:16</td><td> </td><td valign=top>that Islamists will kill me and my family, but please, do you think of your future?</td></tr></table></p>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-65618003771953506952013-01-17T18:12:00.004-05:002013-01-17T18:17:43.589-05:00Meteorological Update From Dymphna<p align=center><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisJGSvZqk0Jc8yfza2DouEqk7GhB9IhHHd-oCe-MgZMqZtXTwwFgyzWJV268OPLyFLWBsuen8ZB38VsTpZReTqdTgklqUxJQEA0rvYVDE4eGv4HQ6PqZOg_FGkpqg1u_m39iw0/s400/jansnow2.jpg" border=0 vspace=8 alt="Snow January 2010 #2" /></p><p>We are in the midst of a Winter Weather Warning (also known as Crystallized Climate Change) here at Schloss Bodissey. That means I am watching big, fat flakes accumulating on everything — though the driveway is still clear. Prior to that, we awoke this morning to heavy rains. It is our good fortune that there was never any period of transitional ice. Thank heavens!</p><p>Why am I talking about the weather, you ask? Because this heavy wet snow may well eventuate in a power outage. Should that happen we would have no way to tell you why when, once again, no one seems to be home.</p><p>If the power does go out, I’m confident it won’t be for long. Our rural electric cooperative is exceptionally good at handling these kinds of weather ‘events’; <i>if</i> we do go out, it won’t be for long. And thanks to the generosity of our donors several years ago, we installed a gas cook stove so we can cook and have — thank heavens, again — hot coffee during the outage.</p><p>Yes, we are careful regarding the possibility of carbon monoxide poisoning if we were to use the stove for heat. However, given how leaky our storm windows are, I’m not worried.</p><p>Here’s what NOAA says:</p><a name='more'></a><blockquote><p>... Winter Storm Warning remains in effect until 1 am EST Friday... </p><p><ul><li>Hazard types... heavy wet snow.<br /><li>Accumulations... snow accumulation of 3 to 6 inches.<br /><li>Timing... late this afternoon and evening.<br /><li>Impacts... hazardous driving conditions due to snowfall.<br /><li><b>Power outages also possible due to the heavy snow</b>.<br /><li>Winds... north 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.<br /><li>Temperatures... falling into the lower 30s by evening.</ul></p><p>This Winter Weather Advisory means that periods of snow will<br />cause travel difficulties. Be prepared for slippery roads and<br />limited visibilities... and use caution while driving.</p><p>The public is encouraged to report snowfall amounts to the<br />National Weather Service via email at rnk.Skywarn@noaa.Gov </p></blockquote><p align=center><img src="http://chromatism.net/images/bar400.gif" border=0 /></p><p>Oh me. I do wish there were a way to magically bring back my grown-up children to the time when they were all about ten years old. What excitement! Lashings of hot cocoa. Wet snow suits and parkas everywhere! Loud laughter at the recall of sleds bouncing over the hidden bumps.</p><p>Somehow I’ll bet mothers with children of a certain age aren’t in any such fantasy land as I’ve just constructed. Instead, they’re wondering how long it will be before the roads are plowed and everyone is safely on the road back to their regular routines. And they would be right — I really only want that trip in The Way Back Machine to last for a few hours. I don’t want the extra laundry or the bored bickering, or the wet drippings all over the front hall…yet the memories remain…</p>Dymphnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11332644582520636279noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-55326861922756399242013-01-17T17:14:00.002-05:002013-01-17T17:14:43.950-05:00Sharia Patrols in London, Revisited<p>Yesterday we reported on a group of young Muslim men who accost pedestrians in certain parts of east London. They insist that their turf is a “Muslim area”, and require that non-Muslims observe the appropriate dress code and the Islamic proscription on alcohol while they are there. The <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2013/01/sharia-patrols-in-london.html">original post</a> included an embedded video taken by the group and posted on their YouTube account.</p><p>Since then YouTube has yanked the video, on <a target="_blank" href="http://vladtepesblog.com/?p=58404">the grounds</a> that it was “intended to harass, bully and threaten.” However, for the sake of the historical record of these dire times, <a target="_blank" href="http://vladtepesblog.com/">Vlad Tepes</a> has preserved a (slightly augmented) copy at MRC TV:</p><p align=center><iframe title="MRC TV video player" width="480" height="270" src="http://www.mrctv.org/embed/119459" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-21549996896732931452013-01-17T15:48:00.002-05:002013-01-17T15:48:34.199-05:00Outage Report<p align=center><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTj9JdwNXVnPAUv1OR7iKiQ9ZfDhefz147X1N2DN6IZJ9Eg6LOJUFBlc48VUBjbHCiBNNEvIshuJAfsG12uXJJ0uMZAUc5vvdVMmrgilnGy_gVakyhbE1_0nDgVcZ8j1cvhO6x/s400/chancellorsville1.jpg" border=0 vspace=8 alt="Chancellorsville Ruins #1" /></p><p>As you all know by now, our blog was suddenly removed last night between 8 and 9pm EST for no apparent reason. Blogger never provided any explanation before, during, or after the outage. I assume it was an internal technical problem at Google.</p><p>Below is a portion of a mass email I sent out earlier today to dozens of people who had written to us to ask what happened:</p><blockquote><p>Blogger “removed” our blog suddenly last night. One second it was there; the next it was gone. If we had violated their terms of service, we should have received an email, according to their own established procedure. But we received no email.</p><p>I retain my “dashboard” account, as does Dymphna. And, as you can see, I still have the gmail account. </p><p>There is no “deleted blogs” link on our dashboards, as there should be if the blog had been deleted deliberately through a normal procedure.</p><p>Late last night I began the process that one always goes through with Blogger: we posted requests on the help forum. That’s really all that can be done; you can’t talk to human beings where Google is concerned. We actually received a response, which is unusual with Google. Based on the replies, there seems to have been a major problem with Blogger last night. Many other blogs disappeared in the same fashion.</p><p>I anticipate that this is most likely a technical glitch on Google’s part, based on the number and types of blogs that had the same thing happen to them last night. But we should know for certain within another day or two.</p><p>It’s also possible (but far less likely, in my estimation) that we were taken down for political reasons. If it was a deliberate take-down, we will migrate to another platform with our own domain. We back up the entire blog frequently, so only a few posts will be missing when we restore.</p></blockquote><a name='more'></a><blockquote><p>This is all that we know at present. I’ll send out more emails if I find out anything else. Dymphna will also send out Twitter messages.</p><p>Thank you all for your concern and support.</p></blockquote><p>Now the blog has reappeared just as mysteriously as it disappeared. No message, no explanation.</p><p>All indications are that this was a technical glitch at Google, given how many other blogs were affected, including lots of non-political ones.</p><p>It seems extremely unlikely that there was any political component to the outage. Nevertheless, we will continue with our “disaster preparedness” policy, with an eye towards an eventual migration to a secure platform, one that we have complete control over.</p><p>Thanks to everyone for all the emails, skype messages, blog posts, Facebook posts, and tweets. It’s gratifying to know how many friends we have!</p>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-60433414409257345772013-01-16T16:12:00.000-05:002013-01-16T16:12:21.452-05:00Reclaiming Our Brains<i><p>Prompted by <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2013/01/babel-on-fjords.html">yesterday’s translation</a> about the cultural enrichment of public schools in Oslo, our Austrian correspondent AMT has written a call for her fellow Austrians to take back their country from the Multiculturalists who are leading it to destruction.</p></i><p align=center><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLHq4-0143MxOAu4seg3vaK64Z8UfNDYKhMMfQWtdfBbFBc3ELFH4KRyY0D-24sV8wMDE7eKoiM-DHZIhkZ6vMTeCOB21Q5ezJxAe-QtciJuGyVvnxRMkyWMkJdvOtMQ05sZ9QdA/s400/ummahaustria.jpg" border=0 vspace=8 alt="Ummah Austria" /></p><b><p>Managing Diversity<br />by AMT</p></b><p>As usual, it’s all about diversity management, integration, and migration background. That’s all it’s ever about. German president <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pi-news.net/2013/01/gauck-zuwanderer-als-bereicherung-sehen/">Joachim Gauck has recently appealed</a> to Germans to show more enthusiasm towards migrants, to welcome them. Germans should also be aware of the enrichment emanating from migrants, “if only Germans would allow it.” Does this include allowing sharia law? As one commentator put it, “I am still of the opinion that I have the right to believe that some migrants are welcome and other are dangerous to our country and our freedom. This is my damned right, at least it was up until now. Or will our brains soon be implanted with chips?”</p><p>We, the people of our different nations in the realm of democracy, are supposed to be the ones making decisions via our elected officials. But we aren’t. We are merely riding shotgun in a car that is driving down the road to hell, a hell that is fast turning the majority into the minority. That is, the minority is reaping the rewards of the majority without returning much, if anything, to the majority. That’s what it should be all about, right? A give-and-take, solidarity, friendship. But if there are only a few givers and many takers, the so-called solidarity is nowhere to be found.</p><p>It is obvious that we, the soon-to-be minority, are no longer making any decisions, for if we were in fact in charge, we would have been asked if we agreed with the policies of uncontrolled immigration. We were not asked. Ever.</p><p>If we were in charge, we would be able to speak out about the pitfalls and dangers of some groups that are obviously are not interested in the values of Western liberal democracies, the equality of men and women before the law, or the principles of universal human rights. We are no longer able to discuss the negative aspects of the immigration of certain groups. We are immediately branded as “Nazis”, “racists”, “right-wing extremists”. We lose our jobs, our income, our livelihoods, sometimes, tragically, even our families.</p><p>If we, the majority, were in charge, we would not have to fund unlimited language studies for those migrants who are not even remotely interested in teaching their children rudimentary language skills, whose neglect thereby limits their children from participating in school and setting the stage for school drop-outs. Many of those children then go on to a career in thuggery, thievery and worse. The point here is that it is the parents, of whatever or no migration background, who still bear the primary responsibility for their children. They are the ones who are in charge of ensuring their children’s language skills. They should also be compelled to pay for their kids’ acquisition of these skills.</p><p>If we were truly in charge, we would not allow the judiciary to exhibit leniency towards criminals and murderers “with a migration background” due to “cultural sensitivities.” Men and women, regardless of background, religion, economic status, are to be dealt with according to the law. But in many instances we cannot even criticize the decisions of the courts without being called derogatory names.</p><p>If we were truly in charge, we would make sure that primary schools, such as those in Vienna and <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2013/01/babel-on-fjords.html">Oslo</a> and elsewhere, would not have to deal with the consequences of having more than 50% of students with immigrant background. Most of those students do not have the necessary language skills, which thus limits those students who do and who are able to follow the curriculum.</p><p>But we are no longer allowed to criticize this situation, for all of this is subsumed in “diversity”. It is diversity for the majority to be left behind as the minority struggles to keep up.</p><p>We, the taxpayers, have the privilege of funding those migrants who refuse to do their part. We are not asked whether we agree with all of this.</p><p>The goodies are mind-boggling:</p><a name='more'></a><p><ul><li>Ten million euros per year for language support in kindergartens. Prior to approximately 1990, none of this was needed.<br /><li>Free language courses for migrants. Hello! These courses are not free! They are paid for by the taxpayer!<br /><li>Mentoring in and by the Chamber of Commerce. Who will mentor the majority?<br /><li>Dialog Forum Islam. Imams are to be trained in Austria and in German. Fine, but what about the suras calling for the death of apostates and non-Muslims? What difference does it make if this is taught in German? Official Austria still does not know the teachings of Islam. Until then, the taxpayer still gets to fund the religious education of Muslim students.</ul></p><p>Day after day, we are told that our countries would cease to function without migrants, that they are subjected to nonstop discrimination, and that their lives are hell.</p><p>If their lives in their new country are indeed hell, as they claim, then why on earth are they here? Could there be an ulterior motive?</p><p>Let us reclaim the driver’s seat. Let us speak up and call a spade a spade.</p><p>We do not want sharia law in our freedom-loving societies. Never.</p><p>We do not want our children to be held back by those who refuse to learn German.</p><p>We do not want uncontrolled immigration.</p><p>Our countries offer opportunities. We, the majority, reject the exploitation of opportunities, for they come at a cost.</p><p>To our elected officials: Do not tell us that diversity and migrants are just great when reality shows us that this is far from true. Stop humiliating those migrants who <i>are</i> well-integrated, who pay taxes and whose children and grandchildren speak fluent German and who feel, who <i>are</i> Austrian or German. In short, those migrants who are no longer migrants but hardworking and loyal additions to Austria or Germany.</p><p>This is actually a no-brainer.</p><p>Let us reclaim our brains. Let’s wake up.</p>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-34359576913673225602013-01-16T12:22:00.000-05:002013-01-16T12:22:22.562-05:00Sharia Patrols in London<p>A group of aggressive Muslim vigilantes in London is harassing non-Muslims for their dress, alcohol consumption, and other “non-Islamic” behavior in what it designates as Muslim areas of the city. The video below, which was posted on the group’s YouTube channel, shows the sharia patrols in action:</p><p align=center><iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QumGaL8pS2U?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p><p>As the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2458/_muslim_patrol_vigilantes_attempt_to_%20control_london_streets">Commentator points out</a>, YouTube has already taken some of the videos down for violating its policies:</p><blockquote><p>So far, the group has posted two videos to its new YouTube account which was set up in December 2012. The first video shows the destruction of advertising and vandalising of bus shelters, both displaying images of H&M push-up bras. The second video sees the ‘vigilantes’ approaching and harassing members of the public for either consuming alcohol, dressing ‘inappropriately’, or being inebriated near a mosque.</p><p>Several of the videos uploaded to the account have already been removed as they violated YouTube’s terms and conditions. One specifically states that YouTube deemed it intentionally “designed to bully, harass and threaten”.</p><p>The footage is likely to have come from East London, where ‘Shariah zones’ were set up last year. The new tactic of intimidation is said to appall local residents, who will likely find the ‘patrols’ disconcerting.</p><p>In the videos, the ‘Muslim Patrol’ is heard to say, “Alcohol banned. This is a Muslim area. Muslims patrol the area.”</p></blockquote><p><a target="_blank" href="http://vladtepesblog.com/?p=58404">Vlad Tepes</a> has this to say about the situation:</p><a name='more'></a><blockquote><b><p>The ‘Balkanization’ of England and Western nations, and the cost of Islamic immigration “A Muslim patrol”</p></b><p>So what does it mean to have millions of Muslims in a nation, especially in an era of political correctness and moral and cultural relativism? Well here is a pretty good example of the latter stages of ‘No Go Zone’ creation, where the state cedes all sovereignty to hostiles and accepts the moderately paced erosion of the nation state, selectively applying all of its own laws only against the indigenous Western minded people to the advantage of the violent invaders. Why? Because governments prefer the illusion of peace and security even temporarily to the application of force on its own streets. Partially because of the ideology of those in charge, but likely just as much because of how the media will present it if the West fights back to enforce its own values on its own jurisdictions.</p><p>It could be added that the class with influence in England especially does not live anywhere near these “Muslim areas” and the class that does, is widely viewed as the great unwashed by the non-working class. And any attempt to even sound the alarm by the indigenous British who live in these areas are met with force due to the perversion of the constabulary from an organization that enforces British law, to one that guarantees political hegemony at the cost of British law.</p></blockquote>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-3699023924787980612013-01-15T23:48:00.000-05:002013-01-16T00:16:10.743-05:00Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/15/2013<p><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/newsfeed.gif" border=0 hspace=8 vspace=5 align=right alt="Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/15/2013" />The latest “grooming and pimping” trial is underway in the venerable English city of Oxford. Nine culturally enriched men (<a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2010/08/mohammed-coefficient.html">Mohammed Coefficient</a>: 22%) are charged with intimidating, threatening, beating, exploiting, and pimping out girls as young as 11 years old.</p><p>In other news, a Coptic center for social services, which contained a kindergarten and a reception hall, was attacked and destroyed by a mob of Egyptian Muslims. The crowd had been aroused by area mosques after rumors went around that local Christians were building a church.</p><p>To see the headlines and the articles, open <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2003/01/news-feed-20130115.html">the full news post</a>.</p><p>Thanks to C. Cantoni, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dianawest.net/">Diana West</a>, Gaia, Insubria, JD, <a target="_blank" href="http://kitmantv.blogspot.com/">Kitman</a>, Mary Abdelmassih, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.</p><b><p>Notice to tipsters:</b> Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.</p><b><p>Commenters are advised to leave their comments at this post (rather than with the news articles) so that they are more easily accessible.</p></b><b><p>Caveat:</b> Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. We check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.</p>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-38406250077252578512013-01-15T13:55:00.003-05:002013-01-15T13:55:46.965-05:00The Imran Firasat Case Presented at the European Parliament<p>As a follow-up to the <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2013/01/pressure-persecution-and-abuse-of-power.html">previous post</a>, below is the presentation of the Imran Firasat case to the European Parliament yesterday in Strasbourg by MEP Gerard Batten of UKIP:</p><p align=center><iframe width="480" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MhpWkuFxrRU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p><p>From the notes accompanying the video:</p><a name='more'></a><blockquote><p>The EU legislation responsible for Spain’s actions, namely Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA, was exposed in the Strasbourg European Parliament yesterday, by Gerard Batten MEP, London Region representative of the UK Independence Party (EFD Group).</p><p>This terrifying document, in force in EU states since 2010, even goes so far as sanctioning terminating, through criminal law, the employment of those accused of speech and thought crimes. [Article 6(1.)(b)]</p><p>The document may be read in full <a target="_blank" href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:328:0055:0058:EN:PDF">here</a> (pdf).</p><p>Mr Batten is a long-standing and respected member of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee.</p></blockquote>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-39934877405611305102013-01-15T13:30:00.003-05:002013-01-15T13:45:17.030-05:00Pressure, Persecution, and the Abuse of Power<p align=center><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipffp5j058z9ZnJpHkzv_eOfy4fsbNSowWZiHkdq3jbhIIXfEn1bBSGTdeQVf4S9BrtCfpmdtCBP9qjO_szPGiJmqQCzj4uyCDWLvJbyE6cU_wQDGetdgqg4FtIPk_rNBIskin/s1600/innocentprophet.gif" border=0 vspace=8 alt="The Innocent Prophet" /></p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.mundosinislam.com/">Imran Firasat</a> is a Pakistani ex-Muslim who collaborated with Terry Jones on the movie <i>The Innocent Prophet</i> (watch it <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/12/innocent-prophet-released.html">here</a>). The Spanish government recently revoked his status as a political refugee in Spain, and he is due to be deported to Pakistan, where he will face the death penalty for blasphemy. There is currently a <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2013/01/canada-give-refugee-status-to-imran.html">push to persuade the Canadian government</a> to grant him and his family political asylum.</p><p>Mr. Firasat was interviewed recently on <i>Alerta Digital TV</i>. The video below shows the second part of the interview; the first part is available <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2013/01/understanding-reality-of-islam.html">here</a>.</p><p>Many thanks to our Spanish correspondent Hermes for the translation, and to <a target="_blank" href="http://vladtepesblog.com/">Vlad Tepes</a> for the subtitling:</p><p align=center><iframe title="MRC TV video player" width="480" height="270" src="http://www.mrctv.org/embed/119420" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p><b><p>Transcript:</p></b><a name='more'></a><p><table border=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td valign=top>01:29</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Well, we were talking about your arrival in Spain</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>01:32</td><td> </td><td valign=top>with your wife, and you begin to study the Koran</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>01:36</td><td> </td><td valign=top>in a minute and detailed way… - Yes, in order to make everybody know</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>01:43</td><td> </td><td valign=top>what is the Koran, what is Islam, but</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>01:49</td><td> </td><td valign=top>not to outrage anybody. I understand that in Pakistan, In India, In Bangladesh, in Sri-Lanka,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>01:55</td><td> </td><td valign=top>in these countries Arabic is not the mother tongue, but it is used while praying,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>02:01</td><td> </td><td valign=top>we read the Koran in Arabic, we prayed to Allah in Arabic,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>02:04</td><td> </td><td valign=top>so we had no direct relation with Allah,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>02:07</td><td> </td><td valign=top>we did not know who Allah is, all we had to do is to repeat the suras in Arabic</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>02:13</td><td> </td><td valign=top>as they taught us, so, with the purpose to show the truth, what the Koran tells,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>02:19</td><td> </td><td valign=top>I tried to learn, and I found lots of things I did not know before,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>02:25</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Something important: What does the Koran say that we do not know? Well, there are thousands of</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>02:31</td><td> </td><td valign=top>verses, I cannot cite them all, but the Koran says clearly, and I have no intention to upset</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>02:37</td><td> </td><td valign=top>anybody, I tell the reality, and you yourselves can see it by reading the Koran,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>02:43</td><td> </td><td valign=top>the Koran says clearly: ‘kill them wherever you find them. - Kill the infidel,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>02:49</td><td> </td><td valign=top>- The infidel, those who are not Muslims. And regarding the discrimination of women,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>02:55</td><td> </td><td valign=top>hit them if they do not obey you, so the Koran teaches men that</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>03:01</td><td> </td><td valign=top>they are allowed to hit women, and this happened when some months ago an Imam was</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>03:07</td><td> </td><td valign=top>teaching Muslims in Catalonia… - The imam of Mataró. - Yes, the thing is that</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>03:13</td><td> </td><td valign=top>all they do is written in the Koran. They don’t do it</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>03:16</td><td> </td><td valign=top>by themselves, but because the Koran says it.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>03:19</td><td> </td><td valign=top>The Koran says clearly not to make friends with infidels. They must be persecuted and tortured</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>03:25</td><td> </td><td valign=top>until they convert to Islam. Jihad must be practiced till the entire world is ruled by Allah…</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>03:30</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Wait a moment, this is important: you got refugee status</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>03:34</td><td> </td><td valign=top>in Spain because of your fight against</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>03:37</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Islam. - Yes. - Because the Spanish Government had knowledge that you were in danger, and</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>03:42</td><td> </td><td valign=top>you were granted the status. - Yes, no doubt.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>03:45</td><td> </td><td valign=top>The day I applied for the refugee status, the officer</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>03:49</td><td> </td><td valign=top>asked me: ‘Are you writing a book about Islam called Islam: Religion or Punishment’?</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>03:55</td><td> </td><td valign=top>I answered yes, and they told me to give them articles about me</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>04:01</td><td> </td><td valign=top>from the press, videos of TV interviews in which I appear talking about Islam.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>04:07</td><td> </td><td valign=top>They had 100% knowledge about my activities regarding Islam, and they told me that</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>04:13</td><td> </td><td valign=top>it was my freedom of speech. - In what year was this?</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>04:16</td><td> </td><td valign=top>- 2006, with Zapatero (Socialist) in power.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>04:19</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Yes, with Zapatero in power, and they didn’t tell me</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>04:22</td><td> </td><td valign=top>that here one cannot criticise Islam, or that</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>04:25</td><td> </td><td valign=top>my activities can spark danger coming from Islam, so I assure you, and I can prove it, that</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>04:31</td><td> </td><td valign=top>I was granted political refugee status because of talking about Islam.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>04:37</td><td> </td><td valign=top>- And what changed between then and now, Imran, that they wants t</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>04:43</td><td> </td><td valign=top>take it away from you? - Change of government. - So the PP (Right wing) is worse?</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>04:49</td><td> </td><td valign=top>It is the same. Well, you know why they want to revoke my status, but</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>04:55</td><td> </td><td valign=top>the only I want to say is that in the repeal of my refugee status decision,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>05:01</td><td> </td><td valign=top>it appears nowhere that I might have committed any crime or violation of Spanish law.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>05:07</td><td> </td><td valign=top>There’s nothing about it, for I did not breach any law,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>05:10</td><td> </td><td valign=top>I haven’t - will never have any criminal record.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>05:13</td><td> </td><td valign=top>So, all they say in this resolution is that my activities</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>05:19</td><td> </td><td valign=top>about Islam provoke Muslims and offend their religious feelings,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>05:25</td><td> </td><td valign=top>and they could commit violence, but hey, if they commit unjustified</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>05:31</td><td> </td><td valign=top>violence, so why do we have to fear them? Why can’t we tell them that what they do is illegal?</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>05:37</td><td> </td><td valign=top>But no, instead of halting them, they halt me if I speak (out).</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>05:43</td><td> </td><td valign=top>- Like criminalizing the old lady who carries her bag,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>05:46</td><td> </td><td valign=top>in this way tempting the thief to steal it. - Yes.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>05:49</td><td> </td><td valign=top>So now we’ll try to talk with your lawyer, so that he can explain us your situation</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>05:55</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Let us connect with Claudio Lobo Villanueva, Imran Firasat’s lawyer,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>06:01</td><td> </td><td valign=top>We’ll talk about the support you received. Is Alerta Digital mentioned somewhere by some</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>06:07</td><td> </td><td valign=top>of the Spanish authorities? Yes, the police asked me about my links with</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>06:13</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Alerta Digital, that so much is talked there about you? So I told them that apart from…</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>06:19</td><td> </td><td valign=top>- The police of Madrid? - Right. Apart from</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>06:22</td><td> </td><td valign=top>the fact that we are friends, they speak the truth,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>06:25</td><td> </td><td valign=top>they talk about thing nobody dare to, about controversial issues,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>06:31</td><td> </td><td valign=top>that is why Alerta Digital talks about my case, not because they are my friends, but</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>06:37</td><td> </td><td valign=top>because we have a mutual respect, I have</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>06:40</td><td> </td><td valign=top>great respect for AD, and I am grateful that they talk</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>06:43</td><td> </td><td valign=top>about those issues which no other media want to discuss, that’s what I told the police.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>06:49</td><td> </td><td valign=top>- Excuse me, your wife is in Indonesia? - Yes, she is in Indonesia.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>06:55</td><td> </td><td valign=top>- She is not allowed to enter the country? - In spite of having the right to get all papers</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:01</td><td> </td><td valign=top>in order to return to Spain, because my kids were born in Spain, my family has refugee status,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:07</td><td> </td><td valign=top>but they are not given the papers due to pressure</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:10</td><td> </td><td valign=top>from the Islamic state. - Due to pressure from</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:13</td><td> </td><td valign=top>the Islamic state of Indonesia? - Yes, I have been</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:16</td><td> </td><td valign=top>requesting the papers for them for more than two years,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:19</td><td> </td><td valign=top>in spite of being in danger. But I am not given any reason, nor right to appeal.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:25</td><td> </td><td valign=top>It is very complicated. But I have no more hope that they will be allowed to come</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:31</td><td> </td><td valign=top>- Do you have more family in Europe? - I have a sister in the UK.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:37</td><td> </td><td valign=top>She refuses to stay in contact with me because she says that I am an infidel,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:43</td><td> </td><td valign=top>for Muslims, contacts come after religion. First comes Islam,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:46</td><td> </td><td valign=top>and only after that come brothers, parents.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:49</td><td> </td><td valign=top>So I spent the last 3-4 years trying to convince her that ‘look, my opinion about Islam</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>07:55</td><td> </td><td valign=top>is my personal opinion, it is not about you and our relationship’, but she refuses because</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>08:01</td><td> </td><td valign=top>she says that she will be my sister again until the day I reconvert to Islam. Otherwise not.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>08:07</td><td> </td><td valign=top>- We have on the phone your lawyer, C.L.V., a renowned lawyer from Madrid. Welcome Claudio!</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>08:13</td><td> </td><td valign=top>- Hello. - How are you? - Fine , thanks. - Imran’s testimony is spine-chilling,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>08:19</td><td> </td><td valign=top>which reveals the double standard, not only by part of the Spanish authorities,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>08:25</td><td> </td><td valign=top>but also of the national media. Just imagine what would be if instead of Imran’s case,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>08:31</td><td> </td><td valign=top>with his video which clearly shows to the public opinion the reality of Islam,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>08:37</td><td> </td><td valign=top>if instead of being an anti Islamic activist, he would be a Moroccan journalist</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>08:43</td><td> </td><td valign=top>rebelling against king Mohammed VI. What would be the Spanish media saying,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>08:49</td><td> </td><td valign=top>all those NGOs, civil organizations, and all those religious good-will people</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>08:55</td><td> </td><td valign=top>if the Spanish Government would have dared</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>08:58</td><td> </td><td valign=top>to threaten that journalist with deporting him back.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>09:01</td><td> </td><td valign=top>But in the case of Imran Firasat, no one but AD raises a voice</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>09:07</td><td> </td><td valign=top>about this, which is another scandal of the many taking place in the Spanish public life.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>09:13</td><td> </td><td valign=top>- Yes, I fully agree with that, about the regrettable double standard</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>09:19</td><td> </td><td valign=top>in the reality of Spanish political life, and in the case of Imran this is</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>09:25</td><td> </td><td valign=top>blatantly visible, this actual double standard.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>09:31</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Claudio, what is the legal situation now of Imran Firasat’s case?</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>09:37</td><td> </td><td valign=top>It is unfortunate, he is in an extremely bad situation</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>09:43</td><td> </td><td valign=top>in Spain, because his status as a political refugee has been revoked,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>09:49</td><td> </td><td valign=top>and plainly stated, he is in a limbo,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>09:55</td><td> </td><td valign=top>in a legal limbo, he has no papers, but he cannot be expelled</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>10:01</td><td> </td><td valign=top>from the country. - The case is now being dealt with in the national court, right Claudio?</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>10:07</td><td> </td><td valign=top>No, we are considering going to the national court, but</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>10:13</td><td> </td><td valign=top>what is suitable now is an administrative appeal against the decision of the administration,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>10:19</td><td> </td><td valign=top>but we are considering going directly to the national court,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>10:25</td><td> </td><td valign=top>regarding his civil rights, what might this revocation mean</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>10:31</td><td> </td><td valign=top>to his condition as a refugee in our country, of Imran Firasat?</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>10:37</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Well, I can feel what he is passing through, it is a Dantesque situation,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>10:43</td><td> </td><td valign=top>- He can be detained at any time. - He has no papers at all in Spain,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>10:49</td><td> </td><td valign=top>and he has entered a vicious circle, in which he will hardly get legal residence</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>10:55</td><td> </td><td valign=top>in Spain, but neither can he leave the country.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>11:01</td><td> </td><td valign=top>I would not like to be in that situation, the (sense of) abandonment is overwhelming,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>11:07</td><td> </td><td valign=top>and speaking again about the double standard, the administration</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>11:13</td><td> </td><td valign=top>does not understand the situation of the other person, that returning to his homeland</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>11:19</td><td> </td><td valign=top>would clearly mean the death sentence for him. - But this is beyond judgement,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>11:25</td><td> </td><td valign=top>but what options dose the government see as viable, Claudio? Extradition to Pakistan?</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>11:31</td><td> </td><td valign=top>No, I don’t think so, because of the asylum rights themselves, it must consider</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>11:37</td><td> </td><td valign=top>sending him to a third country willing to admit him,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>11:43</td><td> </td><td valign=top>in which he receives guarantees that his rights will be respected.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>11:49</td><td> </td><td valign=top>But nowadays I don’t think that (the government) would do it. - Claudio, do you think</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>11:55</td><td> </td><td valign=top>that there is pressure being exerted by some Arab countries?</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>12:01</td><td> </td><td valign=top>I don’t think so, I would not like to think that, sincerely.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>12:07</td><td> </td><td valign=top>I find it difficult to think about this. - Claudio, do you feel optimistic</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>12:13</td><td> </td><td valign=top>regarding the resolution of the case? - Yes I am, no doubt.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>12:19</td><td> </td><td valign=top>Imran is a good fellow, he deserves to have rights respected,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>12:25</td><td> </td><td valign=top>that his right to voice his opinions be respected, and it is simply that</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>12:31</td><td> </td><td valign=top>what he is doing is just criticising, showing the</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>12:37</td><td> </td><td valign=top>real behavior of those extremist Muslims who rely on their religion.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>12:43</td><td> </td><td valign=top>If this is a sin, then it would be regrettable to understand it in this way.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>12:49</td><td> </td><td valign=top>- And first and foremost, Claudio, our astonishment that these events</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>12:55</td><td> </td><td valign=top>and threats come from a government of which some members see themselves as Catholics.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>13:01</td><td> </td><td valign=top>- Yes, it is regrettable, no doubt about that.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>13:07</td><td> </td><td valign=top>- Well, Claudio…</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>13:13</td><td> </td><td valign=top>(this was) the testimony of Claudio Lobos Villanueva, the lawyer for Imran Firasat.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>13:19</td><td> </td><td valign=top>It was clear enough to know a bit more of all</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>13:25</td><td> </td><td valign=top>the legal context of this case. Your lawyer says he is moderately optimistic,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>13:31</td><td> </td><td valign=top>regarding the outcome of this case. - Yes, I trust Spanish justice.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>13:37</td><td> </td><td valign=top>The administration can make abusive use of its power, but Spanish justice</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>13:43</td><td> </td><td valign=top>will not leave me in a limbo, or in danger. I am optimistic, and my lawyer too, that</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>13:49</td><td> </td><td valign=top>we go to Spanish justice to ask for my rights and my freedom,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>13:55</td><td> </td><td valign=top>and they will rule in our favor, because one thing is that if they</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>14:01</td><td> </td><td valign=top>give me refugee status for one reason, they cannot revoke it for the same reason,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>14:07</td><td> </td><td valign=top>and if in this country criticising Islam is a crime, then this must be</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>14:13</td><td> </td><td valign=top>ratified in the Spanish constitution, and that if Islam is already something</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>14:19</td><td> </td><td valign=top>valuable which cannot be criticised,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>14:25</td><td> </td><td valign=top>this has to be clearly said by the law.</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>14:28</td><td> </td><td valign=top>But the double standard, on the one hand, everybody has</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>14:31</td><td> </td><td valign=top>the right to freedom of speech, but if one uses this freedom of speech for talking</td></tr><tr><td valign=top>14:37</td><td> </td><td valign=top>about Islam, then there is pressure, persecution, abuse of power, and all that.</td></tr></table></p>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-92173503341649767542013-01-15T11:25:00.003-05:002013-01-15T11:25:47.390-05:00Babel on the Fjords<p align=center><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdMaA7g9Zv0iHTA9HaO582muSJYJDZorkxKrUxN3bO0ec-PXbKcY2JygVcLcAoJmULYbqZjgd5C_roswV-caHwSIwpA-cGsMVjnn7ZVovk6poPyce3-cWyEjQUIQBmgc3UcajT/s400/multiculti4.gif" border=0 vspace=8 alt="Cultural Enrichment News" /></p><p>Our Norwegian correspondent <a target="_blank" href="http://someofmyessays.blogspot.com/">The Observer</a> sends the following translated report about the gradual disappearance of native speakers of Norwegian in Oslo’s public schools.</p><p>This ongoing process is revealed to be exactly what the “Islamophobes” have described: the gradual replacement of the native population with unassimilated immigrants from Third World countries, most of them Muslims. Even more significant is the distribution of the “New Norwegians”: they are becoming the majority more rapidly in the poorer, eastern districts of Oslo, while their proportion is actually <i>decreasing</i> in the affluent western neighborhoods of the city.</p><p align=center><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3J6KTi1CavULGqq83tbUB3Mx5OKHHiDk4aET740i3vV5aazrzbmiLduxmlWy9bhdctxNsirUkQJJ-LRM0pjd8xQMWzplt41RHkRJM7To8ysYLj4C3uuWhk4DpWw6JjWQzunNw/s400/multiculticlassroom.jpg" border=0 vspace=8 alt="Multicultural classroom" /></p><p>In other words, the well-to-do elites of Oslo — those who made the decision to flood Norway with ever-increasing numbers of hostile foreigners — are completely insulated from the consequences of the their policies. They have decided, in their infinite wisdom, to destroy the nation of Norway for the good of humanity. But their children will never have to suffer from a degraded learning environment in their schools as a result — that privilege is reserved for the kids of ill-bred working class parents, who may safely be disregarded. </p><p>The Observer includes this note:</p><blockquote><p>More bad news from Norway, this time it’s about the demographic shift taking place at public schools in Oslo. The Norwegian student population in the capital is in virtual free fall and, and native students are in the process of being surpassed by immigrants. Many of the “New Norwegians” have a very poor grasp of the Norwegian language, which unfortunately eats up precious resources and lowers the overall quality of education.</p><p>This, however, is not an exclusive Norwegian phenomenon. It is taking place all over the western world at the moment; it’s just that it is happening at a faster pace in Oslo. I feel sorry for those Norwegian children who are made to feel like immigrants in their own country, as was the case with <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mrctv.org/videos/life-norwegian-kids-norway">this kid</a> before him mum finally came to her senses and transferred him over to a ‘Norwegian school’</p></blockquote><p>The translated <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/01/15/nyheter/politikk/utdanning/25240461/">article from today’s <i>Dagbladet</i></a>:</p><blockquote><b><p>Minorities constitute a majority at 54 schools in Oslo</p></b><b><p>Sixteen of the elementary schools are almost exclusively made up of minority students.</p></b><p>Students with Norwegian as their first language are in minority at 54 of 125 elementary schools in Oslo, according to figures released by Oslo City Council. Currently immigrant students make up 40.7% of the overall number of students in the capital.</p><p>All the schools where Norwegian native speakers make up the minority are located in the eastern part of the city.</p><p>There are a total of 56,500 elementary school students in the city. Included in that figure are 23,000 that belong to a linguistic minority. 62% of those receive supplementary Norwegian language lessons, according to the department of education.</p></blockquote><a name='more'></a><blockquote><p>The proportion of minority students has increased slightly compared with last year when the figure was 40.6%.</p><p>Sixteen of the elementary schools in Oslo are almost exclusively made up of minorities with a minority student ratio of more than 80 percent. The figures from the City Council also reveal that the proportion of minority students is decreasing in schools in the western part of the city [more affluent area of Oslo — translator], while it is increasing at schools in the eastern part of the city. Out of the 125 schools, nine have a 90% or higher proportion of students with Norwegian as their native language, all situated in the western part of the city and on Nordstrand.</p><p>The education department defines an immigrant student as someone who does not speak Norwegian or Sami as his first language. The data used to determine a student’s native tongue are gathered from school entry forms filled in by the parents.</p><p>(NTB)</p></blockquote><p align=center><img src="http://chromatism.net/images/bar400.gif" border=0 /></p><p>For a complete listing of previous enrichment news, see <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/07/cultural-enrichment-archives.html">The Cultural Enrichment Archives</a>.</p>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-72868438794607706212013-01-14T23:44:00.000-05:002013-01-15T00:15:02.230-05:00Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/14/2013<p><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/newsfeed.gif" border=0 hspace=8 vspace=5 align=right alt="Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/14/2013" />A huge crowd of protesters demonstrated against gay marriage in Paris yesterday. Depending on who was doing the estimating, between 340,000 and 1.3 million people took part in the demonstration. François Hollande’s socialist government is standing firm, however, and says it intends to implement the new institution by June.</p><p>In other news, for the third night in a row race-based violence has erupted in Logan, a southern suburb of Brisbane, Australia. Groups of Pacific Islanders and Aborigines vandalized cars and fought each other in the streets. There’s no word on which side, if any, is considered to be racists in such circumstances.</p><p>To see the headlines and the articles, open <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2003/01/news-feed-20130114.html">the full news post</a>.</p><p>Thanks to C. Cantoni, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.carolineglick.com/">Caroline Glick</a>, CSP, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dianawest.net/">Diana West</a>, Fjordman, Insubria, JD, <a target="_blank" href="http://kitmantv.blogspot.com/">Kitman</a>, McR, <a target="_blank" href="http://someofmyessays.blogspot.com/">The Observer</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://vladtepesblog.com/">Vlad Tepes</a>, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.</p><b><p>Notice to tipsters:</b> Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.</p><b><p>Commenters are advised to leave their comments at this post (rather than with the news articles) so that they are more easily accessible.</p></b><b><p>Caveat:</b> Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. We check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.</p>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-62034628312075780242013-01-14T17:36:00.001-05:002013-01-14T17:38:15.920-05:00Whatever You Do, Don’t Say “Devil-Spawned Death-Cult”<p align=center><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFtnPN4uqWmN14FQOdopNO3391askQW6-tIh49JDA5PsdU8Y6JYqL71SDTru2bZMH6muERMPWoaBRISwYEGv71yef9K-H5sYbxajPV7DG4BMQ1shn8yXfpHzMC80iczdhiqH97/s1600/kevincarroll.jpg" border=0 vspace=8 alt="Kevin Carroll — Photo credit ICLA" /><br /> <i>Photo credit: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.libertiesalliance.org/">ICLA</a></i> </p><p>Kevin Carroll, the Chairman of the British Freedom Party, was arrested in Luton on Saturday for making a comment on Facebook.</p><p>“Boy oh boy, Baron,” you say, “that must have been a really dangerous comment! What did he do? Call for killing people? Did he incite rebellion against Queen and country?”</p><p>Well, actually, no. It wasn’t anything like that. This is what was posted:</p><blockquote><i><p>“They are all backward savages, a devil-spawned death-cult worshipping all that is unholy and barbaric. Pure evil.”</p></i></blockquote><p>Screen shots of the comment “allegedly” made by him were provided to the police, and that was enough to have him arrested for the crime of Religious and Racial Hatred. He has now been bailed with conditions, and has to sign in at the police station twice a week.</p><p>A reliable source reports that he was on his way to a meeting in Luton when he noticed he was being followed. The men in blue all pulled up around him, with pepper spray, flashing lights, the whole police state rigmarole.</p><p>Kevin himself sends this brief account:</p><a name='more'></a><blockquote><p>They swooped down on me, blues flashing and sirens wailing — you would have thought I was a serial killer or something. Right in the middle of the town centre! </p><p>“Religious and racial hatred,” is what they called it. I’ve been bailed again for four weeks approximately, and have to sign on at the police station Tuesdays and Fridays.”</p></blockquote><p>An EDL supporter writes with this recommendation for anti-sharia activists in Britain:</p><blockquote><p>I suggest that everyone posts this [“a devil-spawned death-cult” etc.] as their Facebook status. Let them arrest thousands of us!</p><p>All the solicitor has to do is refer to suras in the Koran to find religious hatred in abundance. Then they should go and arrest every Muslim in this country who prays five times a day to this evil book of hate.</p></blockquote>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-15028044340859793582013-01-14T01:50:00.002-05:002013-01-14T01:50:39.461-05:00The Sunday Times: Theft, and a Hatchet Job Against Gavin Boby<p>Regular readers are familiar with Gavin Boby of <a target="_blank" href="http://lawandfreedomfoundation.org/">Law and Freedom</a>. For the past couple of years Gavin has been tireless in his opposition to the construction of new mosques in England through action in local planning councils.</p><p>Yesterday <i>The Sunday Times</i> published what it must have believed was a hit piece on Gavin. They accused him of “ideological hatred of Islam” and connected him with “the far-right blog Gates of Vienna”.</p><p>I can’t show you the whole piece, because it’s behind a paywall. But here’s a screen shot of the top of the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Society/article1193426.ece">article by Richard Kerbaj and Robin Henry</a>:</p><p align=center><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl23tRMREs9ROURGnlAxwaPB6i9bZjzr9mMpDLYNV79kS7-EntX1eNKJaAlVwmH_grdk2EsEXSsB26gBVPlPUYm3YdZ8m8MjwxHchFSnkFEgf-3xXKNWW71Bpd1wXS0AT2Y1yY/s1600/gavinbobyst.jpg" border=0 vspace=8 alt="Gavin Boby — Sunday Times article" /></p><p>And a brief snip from the opening of the article:</p><blockquote><p>A SELF-STYLED “mosque buster”, who boasts that he has blocked plans for 16 mosques across Britain, was once linked to the far-right English Defence League (EDL) and claims that Islam encourages paedophilia, sexual abuse and pimping.</p><p>Gavin Boby, a planning lawyer from Bristol, urges his followers to undermine planning applications for mosques by raising their opposition with councils.</p><p>Boby, 48, runs a planning consultancy but under the banner of the Law and Freedom Foundation he also provides a free legal service for those who oppose mosque developments…</p></blockquote><p>More than that I dare not quote, for fear of exceeding “fair use” and violating the copyright of <i>The Sunday Times</i>.</p><p>Interestingly enough, the <i>Times</i> itself seems to be a bit slack about copyright. </p><p>The photo at the top of the article looked familiar to me. It was obviously taken last July at the Brussels Conference sponsored by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.libertiesalliance.org/">ICLA</a> in the European Parliament.</p><p>With a little bit of digging, I uncovered the original. It was taken by my good friend <a target="_blank" href="http://snaphanen.dk/">Steen</a> of Snaphanen, and <a target="_blank" href="http://snaphanen.dk/2012/07/17/selvhadernes-logik/">posted on his blog last December</a>.</p><p>If you look at the <a target="_blank" href="http://snaphanen.dk/upload/2012/07/Bryssel-2012-4-302.jpg">full-sized version of the photo</a>, you’ll notice that it is clearly watermarked with “Foto © Snaphanen.dk”.</p><p>Trivialities such as copyright are no obstacle to <i>The Sunday Times</i>, however. The editors must have passed the photo on to one of their graphics specialists, who edited out the pesky watermark. Look at the two detail shots below — on the left you’ll see Steen’s original, and on the right is a blowup of the <i>Times’</i> edited version:</p><a name='more'></a><p align=center><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5jXXnCfbTjXKn8wabSvsLB3PVsCr-caHmxbqf-ZqSpu-uIgQIivRvPj6tOsKQWpAhcWSuwcY_Q-PdNHSOQCyOzuQfAOrqVFzjWveEP_7Qjhlv9g0Lw6YpbpQiYjgVrL9foBb-/s1600/gavinbrysselmike-st.jpg" border=0 vspace=8 alt="Gavin Boby — Sunday Times theft of Snaphanen photo" /></p><p>You’ll notice that the graphics editor was a bit sloppy, and left in a fragment of Steen’s © to the left of the microphone.</p><p>Whoops!</p><p>The evidence is clear. Even an amateur like myself can see that the venerable <i>Sunday Times</i> stole that image from Steen. </p><p>It would be bad enough if they had simply borrowed it, and left the watermark intact. But they actually went to the trouble and expense of <i>removing</i> the watermark, in a fumbling attempt to erase the evidence of their theft of Steen’s intellectual property.</p><p>How crass.</p><p>How tacky.</p><p>And how typical!</p><p>I hope Steen has a legal case that he can press against the mandarins of the <i>Times</i>. But even if he doesn’t, they have been revealed as what everyone already knew they were: a bunch of second-rate hacks.</p><p align=center><img src="http://chromatism.net/images/bar400.gif" border=0></p><p>For those who are interested, a publicly available version of the <i>Times’</i> story was published by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261623/Mosque-buster-claims-stop-tide-Islam-giving-free-advice-block-building-plans-new-places-worship.html"><i>The Daily Mail</i></a>.</p><p>Previous posts about Gavin Boby and the Law and Freedom Foundation:</p><p><table border=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr><td align=left valign=top>2011</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Jun</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>10</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top width=80%><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/06/mosque-busting-english-vs-american.html">Mosque Busting: English vs. American Styles</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>20</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/06/central-role-of-mosques-in-islamic.html">The Central Role of Mosques in Islamic Political Doctrine</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Aug</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>4</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/08/mosquebusted.html">Mosquebusted!</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Oct</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>9</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/09/win-for-mosquebusters-in-uxbridge.html">A Win for Mosquebusters in Uxbridge</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>9</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/10/no-megamosque-for-dudley.html">No Megamosque for Dudley</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Dec</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>1</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/12/blackpool-mosque-busted.html">Blackpool Mosque: Busted!</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top>2012</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Jan</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>17</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/01/four-more-mosques-busted.html">Four More Mosques: Busted!</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Mar</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>17</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://vladtepesblog.com/?p=45809">When you call us you win</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Nov</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>21</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/11/two-new-wins-for-mosque-busters.html">Two New Wins for the Mosque Busters</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Dec</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>18</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-mosque-is-far-more-than-house-of.html">“The Mosque is Far More Than a House of Worship”</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>25</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/12/how-to-stop-mosque-in-your-area.html">How to Stop a Mosque in Your Area</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top> </td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>28</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/12/santa-brings-us-another-win.html">Santa Brings Us Another Win!</a></td></tr><tr><td align=left valign=top>2013</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top>Jan</td><td> </td><td align=right valign=top>9</td><td> </td><td align=left valign=top><a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-we-win.html">How We Win</a></td></tr></table></p>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-7973549858343341252013-01-13T23:37:00.000-05:002013-01-13T23:49:16.855-05:00Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/13/2013<p><img src="http://chromatism.net/current/images/newsfeed.gif" border=0 hspace=8 vspace=5 align=right alt="Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/13/2013" />Nigel Farage, the leader of the British EU-skeptical party UKIP, is reportedly “shocked” that his party is now ahead of the Tories in the latest opinion polls on the upcoming EU parliamentary elections. 23% of voters say they will back UKIP in the 2014 elections.</p><p>In other news, Saudi Arabia has reacted defensively to worldwide criticism of its execution of a young Sri Lankan woman for murdering her employer’s child. The Saudis deny that the beheaded woman was a minor when she committed the crime, and say that the Kingdom is always assiduous in its principled application of juridical practices. In addition, they warned foreigners not to interfere in their internal affairs.</p><p>To see the headlines and the articles, open <a target="_blank" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2003/01/news-feed-20130113.html">the full news post</a>.</p><p>Thanks to C. Cantoni, DS, Fjordman, Insubria, JD, <a target="_blank" href="http://kitmantv.blogspot.com/">Kitman</a>, McR, <a target="_blank" href="http://snaphanen.dk/">Steen</a>, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.</p><b><p>Notice to tipsters:</b> Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.</p><b><p>Commenters are advised to leave their comments at this post (rather than with the news articles) so that they are more easily accessible.</p></b><b><p>Caveat:</b> Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. We check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.</p>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651944.post-58243953550803134142013-01-13T22:51:00.001-05:002013-01-13T22:52:54.931-05:00The Cost of Integration and Norway’s Fiscal Future<p align=center><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSxSOfgB_Y8ILcoJ8waQt9pOhGg8aRzGGYsdGIkJIRSiL_lOjILGNdbsGvVKkuTM10eNVZ1qqX7lsevGCU6oWbof0zWhWN45wAeOzyhZoXBMr7plg5RMMnvPFd2c6jvLaVKJz1bg/s400/asylumseekers.jpg" border=0 vspace=8 alt="Asylum-seekers in Norway" /></p><p>Our Norwegian correspondent <a target="_blank" href="http://someofmyessays.blogspot.com/">The Observer</a> sends two translations that bear on the future fiscal well-being of Norway. He says:</p><blockquote><p>Although not directly linked to Islam, these two articles are still relevant. I have abbreviated and translated one from <i>Aftenposten</i> and one from <i>Nettavisen</i>.</p><p>They’re about the cost of integrating immigrants in Norway (only funds spent on integration schemes, not immigration as a whole) and the sustainability of the Norwegian ‘model’, which isn’t very sustainable at all. Norway is just another Greece or another USA waiting to happen. The oil isn’t going to save us: it’s just something that the authorities can use to muddy the water and to slow down the impact of the coming crash.</p><p>I expect to see a sharp increase in Norwegian emigration to the New World in the next couple of decades if things don’t change, because the future in Norway is looking very bleak.</p></blockquote><p>The first abbreviated translation is from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kommentarer/Vi-vil_-vi-vil_-men-far-det-ikke-til-7089052.html"><i>Aftenposten</i></a>:</p><blockquote><p>A total of twenty-three national action plans have been made and implemented in the last 20 years. However, despite this the unemployment rate among immigrants is three times higher than that of the rest of the population — just as it was twenty years ago. In other words, nothing has changed.</p><p>During this period a staggering NoK 100 billion has been spent — yes, one hundred billion — on schemes to integrate refugees, asylum seekers, and individuals who have arrived in Norway on family reunification visas. Divide this sum by the current population of Norway, which is five million, and we discover that each inhabitant has chipped in NoK 20,000.</p><p>Yes, we have an immigrant population with a relative high employment rate compared to other European countries, but that is mostly due to the fact that we have a very low unemployment rate in general.</p><p>Thousands of immigrants in Norway have jobs and are well integrated into our society. The question, however, is whether this is due to official integration policies or the efforts of the immigrants themselves. For the unemployment rate among immigrants is, as it was twenty years ago, three times higher than the rest of the population. Among Africans it is six times as high.</p><p>Another fact is that thousands of immigrants are working in jobs for which they are over-qualified due to an incomprehensible systematic inertia in acknowledging qualifications from abroad. Many lawyers and engineers with different skin color make a living by washing off dirt and grime for white Norwegians.</p><p><i>Aftenposten</i> can also reveal that the government, politicians and bureaucrats are unaware of which policies, or which of the hundreds of schemes, that are effective, work poorly or don’t work at all. The authorities are even unaware of the actual number of plans and reports that have been produced and implemented and how much money has been spent on it.</p><p>We at <i>Aftenposten</i> had to figure that out for ourselves.</p></blockquote><p>The second article is from <a target="_blank" href="http://stavrum.nettavisen.no/har-gitt-bort-oljefondet/"><i>Nettavisen</i></a>:</p><a name='more'></a><blockquote><p>Employees working in the public sector are slated to receive NoK 4,300 billion in future pensions. This is more than the current value of the Oil Fund.</p><p>“Public employees have been given the entire Oil Fund,” writes <i>Finansavisen</i> [Norwegian financial newspaper], which has been studying the future pensions of public employees’ as pledged by the government.</p><p>The equation applies to 840,000 public employees who will be paid 66% of their current salary when they retire. No one in the government has dared to do anything about these public pensions, despite the fact that employees in the private sector are experiencing frequent attacks on their future pensions because private companies simply can’t afford to pay for them.</p><p>“There are strong indications that Norway is sitting on top of a public pension bomb,” writes <i>Finansavisen</i>.</p><p>Since the red-green coalition government took over in 2005, an additional 100,000 public sector jobs have been created, and consequently, the state (taxpayers) has incurred future economic obligations for even more public retirees.</p><p>But is it really fair that the state guarantees NoK 4,300 billion in pension liabilities for public employees — at the same time that private employees are having their pensions shaved and face tax increases to cover the rising costs of public pensions?</p><p>In 1980 there were 460,000 employees in the public sector. That number rose to 580,000 in 1990. In 2000 the number was 711,000 and now 840,000 employees are working in the public sector in Norway.</p><p>On top of this, an additional 10,000 new permanent public jobs are created each year. The level of the Oil Fund is currently at NoK 3,865 billion. Even if future public retirees were to be given the entire fund, there would still be a shortfall of NoK 500 billion in pension obligations.</p><p>Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg recently estimated that taxes had to be raised by 8%-9% in order to cover this gap, which means that an annual tax increase of NoK 70-80 billion will have to be implemented sometime in the future.</p></blockquote>Baron Bodisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.com2