Behind the Gates of Vienna

Like so many other writers who oppose Islamization, the Danish psychologist Nicolai Sennels has been lumped together by the media with the mass murdering psychopath of Oslo and Utøya. This is his response.


Behind the Gates of Vienna
by Nicolai Sennels

I am now one of those who are accused of making Anders Breivik into a mass murderer. As Gates of Vienna is also involved, I thought my answer might be of interest and maybe also inspiration for GoV’s readers:

“In his commentary ‘Behind the Gates of Vienna’ in the August 19 edition of Weekend Newspaper, Arne Hardis puts me into the same category as Anders Breivik. The reason for this is that I have called the violent conflict between the Islamic world and everyone else a Third World War. We are not at war with Islam, but Islam is at war with us. The whole thing begins in the Quran, which in reality is a declaration of war against all non-Muslims.

Islamic terror has no limits, and Muslim ghettos have no fatherland. You may call it what you like, but the war on terror is a worldwide conflict.

Hardis also thinks that I am too harsh when I predict exchanges of fire between Muslim groups and Western authorities. Unfortunately, this has already happened several places, among others at Grenoble. There, the police chief said desperately at a press conference that ‘ they shoot at us like shooting at rabbits ‘.

The Islamists’ demand for local sharia states in Europe, which I likewise have predicted, is now a reality. Does Hardis dare to believe that there are no Muslims who will take to the usual means of terror and kidnapping in order to get these demands fulfilled? Breivik was fed up with the Leftist rulers’ careless policy toward a violent and totalitarian religion, and committed crimes against the democratic principles supported by Islam-critical blogs.

Only Breivik can assume the responsibility for his deplorable acts. Those who let Islam enter the Gates of Vienna, however, and sold their voters the dream of a happy multiculture, have burdened themselves with a historically huge responsibility.

“Islam Has Never Grown Up”

Our Norwegian correspondent The Observer sends his translation of a surprising op-ed from Dagbladet.

Ole Martin Moen says things in this piece that one would not normally expect to see in the Norwegian media. In fact, don’t his words prove that he is an “Islamophobe”, just like — gulp! — Anders Behring Breivik?

From Norway, of all places, a remarkably sane opinion column:

Go ahead, insult

We need to stop the preferential treatment of Islam

by Ole Martin Moen

Criticism of Religion: When the pope visited the UK last year, thousands of protesters gathered in the streets to express their opinion of the Catholic Church: That it acts as brake on enlightened ideas and equality, and that it isn’t welcome in modern day Britain. The slogans were numerous. ‘Nope Pope!’ and ‘Go Home Pope!’

Most people believe that a big and authoritarian religion like Catholicism needs to be able to tolerate such protests. But ask yourself: How would a similar protest against Islam be dealt with? Quite differently. Slogans like ‘No to Imams!’ and ‘Imams go home!’ are hardly ever heard. No one would say that Islam isn’t welcome in a modern European nation. Geert Wilders had to stand trial for expressing similar thoughts.

Does Islam deserve a softer treatment than Catholicism? Hardly. Islam is the bigger religion of the two, and it has more political power. Islam is also the most oppressive. While Catholicism discriminates between men and women in matters relating to the church, Islam also discriminates in these matters in civil society. If a scantily dressed woman enters St. Peter’s Cathedral, she will be asked to cover more of her body. If she enters Mecca she will be jailed. In most Catholic nations gays can get married; in most Muslim nations they’re persecuted.

More on the Attempted Water-Poisoning in Spain

Yesterday I posted a brief summary of a news story about a Moroccan terrorist in Spain who was arrested for planning to poison the local water supply.

Below are some excerpts from an AFP article in English about the incident:

Qaeda suspect ‘plotted to poison water’: Spanish judge

By Daniel Silva (AFP)

MADRID — An Al-Qaeda suspect plotted to poison tourists’ water supplies to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden, a Spanish judge said Saturday as he remanded the man in custody.

Abdellatif Aoulad Chiba, a 36-year-old Moroccan, had gone so far as to obtain manuals on poisons, toxins and explosives on jihadist websites, the judge said.

Police swooped soon after the suspect appeared to be saying farewell to his wife.

Chiba’s online comments on jihadist websites “expressed a clear desire to carry out an attack against ‘infidels’ by poisoning human water supplies”, he said in a written ruling.

The online comments indicated that he wanted to strike “at camp sites and tourist resorts”, most likely in Spain, said the judge of the National Court, Spain’s highest authority for hearing terrorist cases.

“The risk increased after he entered in contact with other users of the forum who supplied him with manuals on how to make and use poisons, toxins and explosives.”

Police arrested Chiba on Wednesday in the southern town of Linea de la Concepcion.

He was remanded in custody Saturday on suspicion of conspiracy to commit a terrorist killing and of being a member of a terrorist organisation. Formal charges have not yet been laid.

In one online post found by police he swore his allegiance to Al-Qaeda’s North African offshoot, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.

The suspect had “expressed his intention to continue the organisation’s efforts to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden and other key members of Al-Qaeda”, the court said.

Update: Rattle #2

Aftershocks?

There was a 2.8 at 2:46 p.m., but we didn’t post it. In fact, we didn’t even look up.

But the one @ 8:04 p.m.? The Baron says it was magnitude 4.2, according to the USGS website.

Hey! What’s with this rittle-rattle? Some of us are trying to do a fund-raiser, ya know.

I definitely don’t have time to keep running outside with my scaredy black cat at my heels and us having to wait in the yard till the Baron’s paintings stop bouncing around in their frames…

Okay, so I’ll admit the first time was exciting. The second? Not so much.

Mother Nature needs to get a grip.

Fighting Dirty

Thom Jefferson is a Gates of Vienna reader and commenter who lives and works in East London. He encountered the following poster at 4pm today on Whitechapel Road in Tower Hamlets, and took a photo for us:


I enlarged the poster and removed the foreshortening to make it clearer:


So this is what we’re all up against.

This is an example of the favored tactic that is being used against us on both sides of the Atlantic, and we can expect more of the same for the indefinite future.

For what it’s worth, here’s my advice to EDL members and their sympathizers, both inside and outside the UK:

Shakin’ and Quakin’ in Virginia

So there I was, stretched out on our bed and slathered with arnica gel in an attempt to bring down my pain level. That’s also when I usually meditate, though in truth it often becomes a half-snooz-itate.

The Baron was next to me with a pillow over his eyes, something he does for a few minutes when he’s been too long at the computer.

Suddenly the bed began to shake. “Oh, no! My husband is having an epileptic seizure!”

Except he wasn’t. The bed was empty (he’d long since tiptoed out and returned to the eye-ruining computer in his office).

Second thought: the earth is having an epileptic seizure…again! Which means running outside and waiting for it to pass. So we did. From outside, we could still hear the bedroom’s contents shaking. This went on for about a minute or so. Perhaps less. You know how it is when the earth moves. It does funny things to time.

Eventually silence descended and we returned to the house, looking to see if anything had fallen, if all our gear was still functioning. The phone was working, the electricity was on. A few things had fallen off the shelves. Otherwise it was quiet. That odd kind of stillness which I remembered from that first one a few years ago.

Next step: to phone our near by friends, neighbors, and relatives. One teenager in Richmond was shaken out of bed. A friend who works at home and lives a very short distance away as the crow flies had the sound of adrenalin in his voice (this is a very quiet fellow in usual circumstances) when he answered the phone.

Next — what else? — we opened Drudge. His “major news” headline in a huge font lettered in red:

Summer Fund Raiser: Sailing Home, Day One

Say wha’??

Nah, it can’t possibly be time for the Summer Fundraiser. Why the Spring bleg just ended a few…umm, let me look.

Oops. Spring Break at Gates of Vienna did indeed begin on May 15th. Oh my, that was a whole garden ago. So how come it feels like last week, while also seeming to reside in a dim memory from a former life?

Yeah, three guesses.

All those gawkers and squawkers from Norway and Sweden took their toll; the unrelentingly focused hatred was a brand new life lesson. As soon as I’ve recovered from those stare burns, I’ll read up on the answers in the back of the book and let you know what those lessons are.

Right now, though, I’m betting that y’all could tell me what went down better than I.

Here’s one lesson that’s still as fresh and purple as a bruise.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/22/2011

Reports of the capture of Saif Al-Islam Qaddafi were apparently premature, since the son of beleaguered Libyan dictator Muamar Ghedafi appeared with an armed entourage at a hotel in Tripoli, where he was taped and photographed.

The Libyan dinar is expected to be withdrawn from circulation at any moment, and Arab businessmen are flocking to Cairo with suitcases of Libyan currency notes, which they hope to sell to their Libyan counterparts before it is too late.

In other news, after bouncing back and forth today, the stock market settled down at the close of trading slightly above its starting value, ending a major slide. American bank stocks were down, however, apparently in reaction to the continuing debt crisis in the Eurozone and the ECB.

To see the headlines and the articles, open the full news post.

Thanks to Diana West, Gaia, Insubria, JP, KGS, Nilk, Srdja Trifkovic, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

Commenters are advised to leave their comments at this post (rather than with the news articles) so that they are more easily accessible.

Caveat: 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.

Forcing Immigrants to Vote

Our Norwegian correspondent The Observer sends this translation from yesterday’s Aftonbladet, and includes this introductory note:

It seems that the Labour-led coalition government in Norway wants to capitalize on the ‘immigrant vote’. They are very aware that the majority of the third world immigrants will vote for them if they promise to keep their end of the bargain, which of course is to continue with their very liberal immigration policies.

The translated article:

Opposition parties don’t want compulsory voting

The political opposition parties aren’t thrilled about a proposal from the government’s integration committee about introducing mandatory voting in Norway.

A majority of the committee members believe that mandatory voting is an interesting idea which needs to be studied more closely. Such an arrangement could guarantee that all the different ethnic groups in Norway participate in national elections. A minority of the committee members, however, fear that a legal requirement to vote could lead to contempt for the political system.

If the government decided to propose mandatory voting, the task of looking into this will probably fall on The Standing Committee on Local Government and Public Administration. There is little enthusiasm for such a proposal in this committee, writes Aftenposten.

“The act of voting is supposed to come from an inner spirit of civic duty,” says Michael Tetzschner from The Conservative Party (Høyre). He fears what he calls ‘criminalisation of couch potatoes’ if this arrangement provides for the issuing of fines to those voters who choose not to vote without valid reasons.

Bad: Email’s Down. Good: EU Skepticism’s Up

An announcement for anyone trying to reach us via our webmail:

It’s out of service and has been for several hours now. We have no idea why. I tried calling the couple who runs our ISP but no luck. So my guess is they’ve been served yet another huge dam of spam.

Had this happened during the day, I’d surmise some backhoe operator cut the cable, but since we’re past working hours, that leaves the spammers as the proximate villains.

This is a good excuse to post a video I found yesterday at Klein Verzet. Enjoy this glimpse of the growing phenomenon of Eurosceptic graffiti:

The Breivik Portfolio, Part Three: The OIC Connection

Note: This post is of necessity long and involved, because the Organization of Islamic Cooperation does not pursue its goals in a straightforward fashion. If the OIC made all its moves in broad daylight where everyone could see what was happening, this article would not only be much shorter, it would be unnecessary.

Unraveling the knots of the OIC’s intentions requires lengthy exposition, much explaining, and laborious interpretation. The reader may be halfway or two-thirds of the way through this post before he realizes what I’m trying to do.

Bear with me: this really is going somewhere. The result will be worth your time.


In the aftermath of the Oslo massacre, the common theme in the mainstream media on both sides of the Atlantic was that “anti-Islam” websites like this one were at least partially responsible for the slaughter carried out by Anders Behring Breivik. According to the media’s logic, we “created a climate of hate” that helped legitimize the actions of the killer.

As our several of our recent posts have demonstrated, however, the opposite was in fact the case — any opposition to Islam in the West has been relentlessly delegitimized and demonized in public discourse for at least the last decade. The absolute ban on any meaningful discussion of the issues at stake prevented any normal political action, leaving the field open for a psychopathic mass-murderer to do it his way. Many ordinary people have long been silenced, since opposing Islam is often a career-killer, but why would a psychopath worry about such trivial matters?

The public standards regulating the discussion of Islam all across the West are remarkably uniform. Whether enforced formally or informally, they require the suppression of free speech in draconian ways that are not applied to speech about any other religion or group. How did this come about?

All of these rules about what may and may not be said about Islam — where did they come from?

Longtime readers already know the answer to that question: the discussion of Islam in the public forums of the West is regulated by the tenets of shariah, as described in the Koran and the Sunna of the Prophet and codified in the four principal schools of Islamic law. This application of shariah in the West accords with the repeated demands of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) as promulgated through resolutions at the United Nations. The behavior of the media, the academy, and Western political leaders closely follows the strictures against the “defamation of religions” as laid down by the OIC.

The first post in this series examined the American influences on Anders Behring Breivik. Part Two looked at the killer’s training and connections in Belarus, Russia, and Chechnya.

In this third installment we’ll highlight a different sort of influence:

• What created the environment in which a Norwegian mass murderer could be “weaponized” so effectively against the European Counterjihad?
  
• Why are our governments and our media complying with the demands of the OIC?
  
• How did Western Europe and the United States become such willing and diligent enforcers of shariah law?

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To understand the astonishing degree to which the Organization of Islamic Cooperation has subverted the institutions of the West, it is necessary to investigate in some detail the historical and legal basis for the OIC’s demands.

Back during the Danish Mohammed cartoon crisis in 2006, Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Secretary General of the OIC, said this [pdf]:

The angry reaction in the Muslim world… is mainly due to the premeditated and deliberate attack on the revered person of the prophet, whose holy position, message and teachings were maliciously and calculatingly sacrilege by the so called defenders of freedom.

To Prof. Ihsanoglu, the rights and freedoms we enjoy in the West are illegitimate and deserving of scorn. He and the OIC recognize a different standard, one that sets well-defined limits on freedom of speech as required by Islam. As I pointed out last week, the OIC foreign ministers recently passed a resolution [pdf] that included these clauses (italics added):

7.		Expresses its deep concern over the frequent and erroneous association of Islam with violations of human rights and the misuse of the print and audio-visual media in propagating such misconceptions which lead to the reinforcement of prejudice and discrimination against Muslims and calls on the Member States to undertake information activities to counter these activities;
8.		Notes with grave concern the increasing trend of Islamophobic measures in the Western countries, stresses the responsibility of those States to ensure full respect to Islam and all divine religions and the inapplicability of using freedom of expression or press as a pretext to defame religions, and calls for refrain from imposing restrictions, in any form whatsoever, on the cultural and religious rights and freedoms of people.
		[…]
10.		Expresses the need to pursue, as a matter of priority, a common policy aimed at preventing defamation of Islam perpetrated under the pretext and justification of the freedom of expression in particular through media and Internet.

As is often the case with Islam, common English phrases such as “human rights” and “defamation of religion” mean something different to the Muslims of the OIC than they do to non-Muslims.

The founding document of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (now the Organization of Islamic Cooperation) is its Charter [pdf], which states in Article 15:

The Independent Permanent Commission on Human Rights shall promote the civil, political, social and economic rights enshrined in the organisation’s covenants and declarations and in universally agreed human rights instruments, in conformity with Islamic values. [emphasis added]

So what “universally agreed human rights instruments” are referenced here? Is the OIC referring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was passed by the United Nations soon after its founding?

Not at all. The OIC considers the UDHR inadequate and un-Islamic. To codify the human rights of Muslims, the OIC created the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, commonly known as the “Cairo Declaration”. It is a formal legal instrument put together by the OIC on behalf of OIC member states in 1990, and was formally served to the United Nations in 1993.

Article 22 of the Cairo Declaration states:

Poisoning the Drinking Water of the Spanish Kuffar

Update: Commenters have supplied several English-language links and articles about this story. Click through to the comments to read more.


A reader just sent us this brief news summary from Spain:

It’s interesting that there has been no English-language coverage of this item yet, despite publicity about it in Spain, Portugal, France and Italy.

It’s about a jihadi who was convicted for planning to poison the drinking water supply in Spain — particularly at campgrounds, playgrounds and parks where kuffar tourists are likely to be found. Translation of the comments section would indicate that the Spanish are no more enamoured of their Islamic invaders than other ethnic Europeans.

There isn’t much info (that I could find) on the exact charge for which the conviction was given, nor on sentencing. That may come out later or be found elsewhere — I didn’t have time to dig extensively, just thought it was interesting that it had not been covered in English.

This is indeed an intriguing story. I’ll post any further news about it as it arrives.

Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff on Urban Infidel

Our Austrian correspondent Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff was featured yesterday afternoon on Urban Infidel’s Blog Talk Radio program.

I neglected my duty and forgot to mention it before air time, but anyone who wants to hear Elisabeth talk about her case and answer questions from callers can listen to the permanent podcast here.

Most of you already know that earlier this year Elisabeth was convicted in a Vienna courtroom of “denigration of religious beliefs of a legally recognized religion”. Her “crime” was to refer to Mohammed’s sexual predilections as evidenced by his marriage to a nine-year-old girl — an event described in an authentic hadith from Islamic scripture.

In other words, to describe Islam accurately in its own words is to “denigrate” it.

For previous posts on the “hate speech” prosecution of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, see Elisabeth’s Voice: The Archives.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/21/2011

Everyone in the world except for Dymphna and me seems to have gone on vacation. Most of our usual tipsters have disappeared, so the news feed is light tonight.

The big news of the day is that the Libyan rebels have overrun Tripoli, and are said to have captured three of Moammar Gheddafi’s sons. Col. Qadafi himself has not been seen, and he has reportedly already left the capital. It seems that endgame is very close for the Man of Many Spellings.

In other news, an Islam-critical politician from the “Pro” movement in Germany was attacked on the street in Berlin by a masked leftist thug, who sprayed acid in his face. The victim received burns around his eyes, but was released after being treated at the hospital. He is not thought to have been permanently disfigured.

To see the headlines and the articles, open the full news post.

Thanks to An EDL buck, heroyalwhyness, Kitman, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

Commenters are advised to leave their comments at this post (rather than with the news articles) so that they are more easily accessible.

Caveat: 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.