Reclaiming Our Brains

Prompted by yesterday’s translation 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.

Managing Diversity
by AMT

As usual, it’s all about diversity management, integration, and migration background. That’s all it’s ever about. German president Joachim Gauck has recently appealed 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?”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If we were truly in charge, we would make sure that primary schools, such as those in Vienna and Oslo 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.

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.

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.

The goodies are mind-boggling:

Sharia Patrols in London

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:

As the Commentator points out, YouTube has already taken some of the videos down for violating its policies:

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.

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”.

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.

In the videos, the ‘Muslim Patrol’ is heard to say, “Alcohol banned. This is a Muslim area. Muslims patrol the area.”

Vlad Tepes has this to say about the situation:

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 (Mohammed Coefficient: 22%) are charged with intimidating, threatening, beating, exploiting, and pimping out girls as young as 11 years old.

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.

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The Imran Firasat Case Presented at the European Parliament

As a follow-up to the previous post, below is the presentation of the Imran Firasat case to the European Parliament yesterday in Strasbourg by MEP Gerard Batten of UKIP:

From the notes accompanying the video:

Pressure, Persecution, and the Abuse of Power

Imran Firasat is a Pakistani ex-Muslim who collaborated with Terry Jones on the movie The Innocent Prophet (watch it here). 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 push to persuade the Canadian government to grant him and his family political asylum.

Mr. Firasat was interviewed recently on Alerta Digital TV. The video below shows the second part of the interview; the first part is available here.

Many thanks to our Spanish correspondent Hermes for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Transcript:

Babel on the Fjords

Our Norwegian correspondent The Observer sends the following translated report about the gradual disappearance of native speakers of Norwegian in Oslo’s public schools.

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 decreasing in the affluent western neighborhoods of the city.

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.

The Observer includes this note:

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.

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 this kid before him mum finally came to her senses and transferred him over to a ‘Norwegian school’

The translated article from today’s Dagbladet:

Minorities constitute a majority at 54 schools in Oslo

Sixteen of the elementary schools are almost exclusively made up of minority students.

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.

All the schools where Norwegian native speakers make up the minority are located in the eastern part of the city.

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.

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.

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.

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

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Whatever You Do, Don’t Say “Devil-Spawned Death-Cult”

 Photo credit: ICLA 

Kevin Carroll, the Chairman of the British Freedom Party, was arrested in Luton on Saturday for making a comment on Facebook.

“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?”

Well, actually, no. It wasn’t anything like that. This is what was posted:

“They are all backward savages, a devil-spawned death-cult worshipping all that is unholy and barbaric. Pure evil.”

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.

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.

Kevin himself sends this brief account:

The Sunday Times: Theft, and a Hatchet Job Against Gavin Boby

Regular readers are familiar with Gavin Boby of Law and Freedom. 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.

Yesterday The Sunday Times 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”.

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 article by Richard Kerbaj and Robin Henry:

And a brief snip from the opening of the article:

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.

Gavin Boby, a planning lawyer from Bristol, urges his followers to undermine planning applications for mosques by raising their opposition with councils.

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…

More than that I dare not quote, for fear of exceeding “fair use” and violating the copyright of The Sunday Times.

Interestingly enough, the Times itself seems to be a bit slack about copyright.

The photo at the top of the article looked familiar to me. It was obviously taken last July at the Brussels Conference sponsored by ICLA in the European Parliament.

With a little bit of digging, I uncovered the original. It was taken by my good friend Steen of Snaphanen, and posted on his blog last December.

If you look at the full-sized version of the photo, you’ll notice that it is clearly watermarked with “Foto © Snaphanen.dk”.

Trivialities such as copyright are no obstacle to The Sunday Times, 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 Times’ edited version:

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.

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.

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The Cost of Integration and Norway’s Fiscal Future

Our Norwegian correspondent The Observer sends two translations that bear on the future fiscal well-being of Norway. He says:

Although not directly linked to Islam, these two articles are still relevant. I have abbreviated and translated one from Aftenposten and one from Nettavisen.

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.

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.

The first abbreviated translation is from Aftenposten:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Aftenposten 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.

We at Aftenposten had to figure that out for ourselves.

The second article is from Nettavisen:

“We Are Definitely a Danger to Western Democracy”

Last night we reported on the refreshing candor of a Muslim in Norway. Today it’s the turn of French Muslims to speak the plain truth about their intentions.

When the Western welfare state finishes collapsing, and the real trouble begins, no one can say they didn’t know what lay in store for their ruined societies. We have been most emphatically warned.

Many thanks to Bear for translating this video, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Transcript (of the translated portion):

Understanding the Reality of Islam

Imran Firasat is a Pakistani ex-Muslim who collaborated with Terry Jones on the movie The Innocent Prophet (watch it here). 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 push to persuade the Canadian government to grant him and his family political asylum.

Mr. Firasat was interviewed recently on Alerta Digital TV. Many thanks to our Spanish correspondent Hermes for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Transcript:

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/12/2013

The news feed was delayed overnight by a power outage, which occurred just before midnight and continued for several hours. There was no apparent reason for it — the temperature was above freezing; there was no precipitation and no wind. The ways of Grid are mysterious.

I’ve backdated the post to make it January 12.

Of interest is the French military intervention in Mali, which aims to prevent an Al Qaeda state from forming in the northern half of the country. France has already lost two helicopters in the operation.

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