Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/18/2016

The Slovenian government says that if Germany and Austria continue with tightening border controls, it will suspend the Schengen rules itself. When Vienna imposes limits on the number of migrants that can enter Austria, Slovenia will do the same at its own borders.

In other news, private security guards are being used to patrol some streets in the Hague, handling issues that the Dutch police don’t have time for.

To see the headlines and the articles, click “Continue reading” below.

Thanks to AF, C. Cantoni, Fjordman, Insubria, JD, MC, Nick, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.

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.

Financial Crisis
» ECB to Keep Door Open to New Easing: Analysts
» IMF Resists a Return to Still-Struggling Greece
» Italy: Average Inflation Rate Just 0.1% in 2015, Says ISTAT
» Italy: Milan Bourse: Banking Shares Tumble
» What’s Eroding the Middle Class?
 
USA
» Assailants Chanted ‘ISIS’ Before Beating Man in New York City
» Hillary Clinton’s Tightrope Walk
» Hillary Clinton Expects US Muslims to Help Fight Lone-Wolf Terrorists
» Michigan Stations Selling Gas at Less Than 80 Cents Per Gallon
» Stunning NASA Image Shows Pluto’s Atmosphere
 
Europe and the EU
» After Russian Embargo, Stormy Seas for Iceland’s Fisheries
» Concern Over Miscommunication With Italy — EU Sources
» EU Statements ‘Unusual’ Says Gozi
» Feminist Says Migrant Rape is ‘Islamic Terrorism’, Claims Cologne Police Covered Up Problem for 20 Years
» Foreigners Are to be Banned From Claiming Legal Aid to Sue Soldiers in UK Courts
» Gentiloni Says Govt is ‘Interlocutor’ With EU
» Hollande Says France in State of Economic Emergency
» Italy: Alleged Latin American Gang Member Arrested for Rape
» Italy: Bari Theatre Director ‘Took Eight Bribes in Two Months’
» Italy’s Telecom 2nd in EU for Profit, Lowest in Investment
» Italy: Msgr Scarano Sentenced to Two Years for Defamation
» Italy: Anti-Skivers’ Law Superfluous — Camusso
» Juncker Elected for Flexibility — Renzi
» Muslim Anti-Semitism Drives Jews From Europe
» Netherlands: Private Security Guards Patrol Some Streets in the Hague
» Richest 1% Own More Than the Rest of US: Oxfam
» Swedes Jailed for Fighting With Islamist Terrorist Group
» Time When EU Remote-Controlled Italy Over — Renzi
» UK: 6 Rochdale Men Charged With Trafficking, Rape and Sexual Exploitation of Teen Girls
» UK: Asian Men Charged Over Allegations of Child Rape, Trafficking and Sex Assaults in Rochdale
» UK: Ban Donald Trump? You’ll Have to Ban Ex-Muslims, European Leaders, And Me as Well
» UK: Donald Trump Debate: Ban Risks Making Tycoon a ‘Martyr’
» UK: Police Investigation Launched After Bacon Butties Thrown at Mosque
» UK: Racists Who Threw Bacon Sandwiches at Bristol Jamia Mosque Are Hunted by Police
» UK: Six Men Charged as Part of Child Sexual Exploitation Investigation
» Wind-3 Merger Creates Italy’s Largest Mobile Operator
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» PA Official: Netanyahu Has Destroyed Arab ‘Culture of Peace’
 
Middle East
» Going Rogue? NATO Puzzled by Turkey’s Move to Develop Offensive Weapons
» Op-Ed: A Call for Sanity: How the Quran-Abiding Muslims View the Jews
» Turkey Probes Opposition Chief for Calling Erdogan ‘Tinpot Dictator’
» TV Series on Erdogan an ‘Homage to Turkish Hero’
» US Should Unite Anti-Daesh States, Including Russia, Iran — Sen. Sanders
 
Russia
» Economic Crisis Becomes the Main Topic at Public Debate
 
South Asia
» ‘Nine-Year-Old Girls Are Marriage Material’ Say Sharia Hardliners in Pakistan
» US Faces Challenge Freeing Americans Held Hostage on Pakistani-Afghan Border
 
Far East
» After 30 Years on Ice, This Thing Came Back to Life
» China Aims for the Moon With New Rockets
» China Orders Foreign Banks to Hold Yuan
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Child’s Burkina Faso Terror Killing Shocks Italy
 
Immigration
» Another Invader Center Burns in Sweden
» Austria: Schoolgirls Report Abuse by Young Asylum Seekers
» Austrian Leaders Rethink Open Door Policy for Refugees
» Austria: Teen Girl ‘Rushed to Hospital After She Was Raped by Afghan Migrant on Park Bench’
» Austrian Government to Decide on Border Security Measures on January 20
» Czech President Says Impossible to Integrate Muslim Communities Into Europe
» Danish Discos Ban Refugees and Migrants for Harassing Women
» DHS’s Immigration Branches Ill-Equipped to Detect Asylum Fraud
» EU Citizens Face Extra “Refugee Tax”
» Europol: Traffickers’ Revenues, $3.6 Billion in 2015
» Female Refugees Face Abuse on Migrant Trail in Europe: Amnesty
» German State Secret: Criminal North Africans
» ‘Lawless Areas: Helpless Police — Can We Still Feel Safe?’ Top Magazine Speaks of Germany as Failed State
» Merkel’s Party Seeks to Stem Tide of North African Arrivals
» Migrant Sex Attack Gangs Could Come to Britain Under EU Laws, Cameron Warned
» North African States Refuse Repatriation
» Refugee Footballer Signed for AC Milan Accused of Rape — As Police Find He Lied in Papers
» Slovenia Could Also Suspend Schengen
» Teach Refugee Children About Sex: Swedish Campaigners
 
Culture Wars
» Spike Lee Boycotts ‘Lily White’ Oscars Over White Nominees
» Why Feminism Failed Cologne’s Women
 

ECB to Keep Door Open to New Easing: Analysts

The European Central Bank is set to hold the door open for further easing at its policy meeting this week, after measures taken in December to drive eurozone inflation higher disappointed investors, analysts said.

“After disappointing markets in December, we expect the ECB to indicate at its forthcoming meeting that the door is still open to bolder policy support,” said Capital Economics economist Jennifer McKeown.

The ECB “is unlikely to alter policy for now given the firm tone of recent survey data and the damage that such a change of heart might do to its credibility,” McKeown said…

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

IMF Resists a Return to Still-Struggling Greece

The Europeans want it and Athens is resigned to its presence, but the International Monetary Fund has still not decided whether it will participate in the third financial bailout for Greece, and continues to set out its conditions.

“We have not decided anything in the financial sense on a possible participation,” IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said in an interview published Friday.

In 2010 and again in 2012, the world’s crisis lender was a key member of the “troika” behind the rescue plans for Greece, together with the European Commission and the European Central Bank…

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Average Inflation Rate Just 0.1% in 2015, Says ISTAT

Down for third consecutive year

(ANSA) — Rome, January 15 — Italy’s average inflation rate was just 0.1% in 2015, down from 0.2% in 2014, national statistics agency Istat said on Friday. It is the third consecutive year that the average rate has dropped. The figure for 2015 was in line with the preliminary estimate Istat had previously given. Low or negative inflation is seen as a threat to recovery prospects.

The Italian economy, which returned to positive growth last year after years of recession, endured periods of deflation both in 2015 and in 2014.

Istat said the annual inflation rate for December was steady at 0.1%, the same as November.

As for month-on-month data, the agency added that its consumer-price index showed only negligible change on the previous month.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Milan Bourse: Banking Shares Tumble

FTSE Mib -2.22%, MpS suspended

(ANSA) — Milan, January 18 — Bank shares plunged in a tumbling Milan stock exchange Monday amid generally flat European markets after the end of Iran sanctions brought crude oil prices down further and ahead of China GDP numbers out Tuesday.

Shares in troubled Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) suspended after losing as much as 7.74% as the FTSE Mib index shed 2.22% to 18,772 points.

Carige, Bper, Ubi and Banco Popolare also fell amid speculation of delays in setting up so-called bank banks to take over toxic loans.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

What’s Eroding the Middle Class?

A society without a functioning middle layer of economic and social activity is not stable, though repression can mask this for a time.

As historian Peter Turchin explained in his book War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires, societies that lose the cohesion needed for concerted, collective action collapse, either by failing to meet an external threat or from internal conflicts.

Economies constructed of a supremely wealthy elite, a thin layer of independent artisans and small farmers, and a great mass of laborers with no assets has no shared sense of identity or purpose; those at the bottom have little in common with those at the top, and the thin middle that is scraping by has little affinity with either the elite above or the poverty-stricken below.

This erosion of a self-employed, independent middle class was an important pre-condition for the collapse of Rome and the French Revolution.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Assailants Chanted ‘ISIS’ Before Beating Man in New York City

Amid rising tensions in the US over the threat of the Islamic State, a man was beaten in New York City while his assailants chanted “ISIS,” according to the New York City Police Department.

A 43-year-old man was walking with a nine-year-old girl in the Bronx on Friday at about 5:30 p.m., when he was assaulted, the NYPD says. The unidentified man was knocked down and hit several times in the head. He was left with bruises on his face and head before being treated at a nearby hospital and released.

No arrests have been made and the NYPD continues to investigate the case with the help of the Hate Crime Task Force, according to a statement made by the agency on Saturday.

According to the New York Times, the victim was wearing a traditional South Asian outfit called a shalwar kameez.

The attack comes as ISIS militants claim more deadly attacks throughout the world. Last month, the group inspired a couple which led a mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., killing 14 people weeks after gunmen linked to the group led a series of attacks that claimed the lives of more than 130 people in Paris.

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Hillary Clinton’s Tightrope Walk

Hillary Clinton is teetering on a legal tight rope. She is counting on Attorney General Loretta Lynch to block the anticipated request for a Grand Jury to indict her for violation of federal laws governing the handling of classified information. Lynch, however, will become a pariah with lead investigators at the FBI and many career prosecutors at Justice if she intervenes to prevent prosecution of Hillary Clinton. The overwhelming quantity of emails containing classified information that Clinton caused to be transmitted to and from her personal email account and possible additional federal corruption charges are too great to excuse, ignore, or sweep under the rug. The evidence is indeed overwhelming and, unlike in the case of General David Patraeus (whose dereliction constituted one instance of mishandling of classified information), Hillary Clinton’s dereliction involves over 1,340 separate communications. Increasingly, it looks like the central issue about to arise is not whether Hillary will be recommended for indictment by the FBI, but whether Lynch will sacrifice her own career to prevent the matter from reaching a grand jury, and whether the Democratic Party will stand by Hillary Clinton and back her presidential bid even if she is the subject of an FBI recommendation to indict or an actual indictment.

Fox News’ Catherine Herridge and Pamela Browne reported this past week that the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton embraces not only the mishandling of classified information but also public corruption charges based on influence peddling. Peter Schweizer’s Clinton Cash first drew significant attention to the overlap between foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton’s actions while serving as Secretary of State. At root, FBI seeks to determine if decisions made by Hillary Clinton in her dealings with foreign businesses and leaders were in any way in response, or pay back, for contributions lavished upon the Clinton Foundation by those same businesses and leaders or at the direction of those businesses and leaders.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Hillary Clinton Expects US Muslims to Help Fight Lone-Wolf Terrorists

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that Muslim US citizens can help the country’s authorities in the fight against lone-wolf terrorists.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Muslim US citizens can help the country’s authorities in the fight against lone-wolf terrorists, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Monday.

“We’ve got to recognize our first line of defense against lone-wolf attacks is among Muslim Americans… We need to be reaching out and unifying our country against terrorist attacks and lone wolves, and working with Muslim Americans,” Clinton said at the Democratic presidential debate, as transcribed by the Federal News Service.

She also condemned statements of some Republicans, and particularly Donald Trump, who earlier called to ban Muslims from entering the United States.

“And it is not only shameful, it is dangerous for the kinds of comments you’re hearing from the Republican side,” Clinton said.

In December 2015, Trump proposed a “total and complete” ban for Muslims entering the United States, as well as an Islamic registration and control of certain mosques.

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Michigan Stations Selling Gas at Less Than 80 Cents Per Gallon

For the first time in years, gas stations in one U.S. state are reportedly selling gas at less than $1 per gallon.

Stations throughout Houghton Lake, Mich., are selling gas at less than $1 per gallon.

Beacon & Bridge Market sold gas at 78 cents per gallon, while Marathon sold it at 95 cents per gallon. Gasbuddy.com verified these prices after photos were uploaded to the website’s app.

Fox 2 Detroit reports the shifts may indicate a price war and that levels may soon rise back to above $1 per gallon.

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Stunning NASA Image Shows Pluto’s Atmosphere

NASA has released an incredible image of the haze layers in Pluto’s atmosphere taken by the New Horizons spacecraft.

The processed image is the highest-resolution color look yet at the haze layers, according to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which engineered New Horizons with the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI). The image, which was acquired on July 14, 2015, was taken by the spacecraft’s Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), “splashed” with Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) four-color filter data.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

After Russian Embargo, Stormy Seas for Iceland’s Fisheries

In Iceland’s small harbours, a Russian embargo on European fish imports isn’t just a headache for fishermen — it’s a headache for everyone.

“Of course we’re worried,” says Astvaldur Sigurdsson, a grocer in Neskaupstadur, a town of 1,500 people nestled in a cove in eastern Iceland.

“This is bound to lead to lower income.”

Russia suspended food imports from most Western countries in August 2014 in retaliation for sanctions the West imposed on Moscow over its role in the Ukraine crisis. Iceland has been on the blacklist since August 2015…

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Concern Over Miscommunication With Italy — EU Sources

Vacuum led to misunderstandings over banks, Ilva, and more

(ANSA) — Brussels, January 18 — European sources told ANSA Monday there is concern at the highest EU levels over a lack of communication channels with Rome. Communication issues can turn into political problems, the sources said. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker was and is Premier Matteo Renzi’s friend and Italy’s best ally, the sources said. Juncker and Renzi traded barbs Friday over economic flexibility clauses and migrants. Juncker had lost his patience, the sources said. They went on to qualify Italy’s representative in Brussels, Stefano Sannino, as the best ambassador in the Belgian capital. What’s missing, however, is continuous dialogue with experts and envoys on specific issues, such as the ones other European governments send in between major summits. This working method helps smooth rough edges long before leaders engage, the sources said.

For example, France sent specialists to “negotiate for weeks” on its behalf over its national budget last fall.

This communication gap has generated misunderstandings over Italy’s four rescued banks, its troubled ILVA steelmaker, and the use of flexibility clauses among other issues, according to the sources.

They went on to list two areas of EU concern over Italy: its protests after losing its only component on Juncker’s cabinet, legal expert Carlo Zadra, earlier this month — Zadra quit and was replaced by a Briton after clashing with Cabinet Chief Martin Selmayr — and its blocking of a three-billion-euro fund for Syrian refugees in Turkey in spite of the fact that the Commission has “put it in writing” that the aid won’t be included in deficit calculations.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

EU Statements ‘Unusual’ Says Gozi

‘We have no personal problems with anyone on EC

(ANSA) — Brussels, January 18 — Undersecretary for EU affairs Sandro Gozi said on EU sources’ complaints on communication issues with Rome Monday that “these statements are unusual, but we think they can be resolved with politics and by addressing the issues that we have put on the table, above all in the interests of that Europe which must change”. He said “we have no personal problems with any of the members of the (European) Commission”. Gozi said “if the anonymous sources wanted to restart dialogue, we welcome that. But Italy has its sticking points and has highlighted them, on what the EU must do to change”. He said “right from the start the Renzi government made explicit what must be done in the EU” and therefore “we will continue to be constructive when we see that the Commission moves towards a new start, and we will continue to be critical in a constructive way when we see that there are delays and inertia”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Feminist Says Migrant Rape is ‘Islamic Terrorism’, Claims Cologne Police Covered Up Problem for 20 Years

After the New Years migrant sex attacks, a leading German feminist has said the politically correct “bubble has burst” and Germans should speak out against Islamism. She claimed Cologne police have been covering up Muslim rape for 20 years, and said that sexual violence was now being used as a weapon of war in Germany.

By in large, the feminist reaction to the migrant sex attacks has been to either play down the problem or deflect attention on to a non-existent “western rape culture”.

As Breitbart London reported shortly after the attacks, a local feminist group in Cologne held a protest in support of further mass migration, and a British feminist publication tried to justify abandoning female victims because the male Muslim attackers were “oppressed”.

Alice Schwarzer (pictured left, next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel), is a veteran “second wave” feminist who rose to prominence before feminism became preoccupied with apologising for Islamism and misogynistic Muslim culture.

She has previously called for a ban on the wearing of the Islamic headscarf in schools or other public settings, and warned of a creeping Islamisation of Europe, which in her opinion would lead to an erosion of human rights, especially women’s rights…

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Foreigners Are to be Banned From Claiming Legal Aid to Sue Soldiers in UK Courts

A crackdown will ensure foreigners cannot claim legal aid to sue soldiers, but it comes too late to affect Iraq claims.

The ban comes as David Cameron has become increasingly concerned that British troops, who fought in the Middle East, have been hounded.

However, the proposals will not affect the Iraq Historic Allegations Team inquiry as the £57 million has already been funded by the Government.

Taxpayers’ money is being used by solicitors for 1,100 compensation claims, on behalf of alleged victims of mistreatment by British troops.

[Typical — Trying to close the stable door after the horse has bolted.]

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

Gentiloni Says Govt is ‘Interlocutor’ With EU

‘Continuous dialogue’ says FM

(ANSA) — Brussels, January 18 — Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni replied Monday to EU sources’ complaints of a lack of “interlocutor” in Rome that “we have a continuous dialogue with the institutions, we have a foreign minister, interior, economy, Italy has a government in the fullness of its powers”. EU sources told ANSA there is concern at the highest EU levels over a lack of communication channels with Rome. Communication issues can turn into political problems, the sources said. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker was and is Premier Matteo Renzi’s friend and Italy’s best ally, the sources said.

Juncker and Renzi traded barbs Friday over economic flexibility clauses and migrants. Juncker had lost his patience, the sources said.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Hollande Says France in State of Economic Emergency

President Francois Hollande has set out a €2bn (£1.5bn) job creation plan in an attempt to lift France out of what he called a state of “economic emergency”.

Under a two-year scheme, firms with fewer than 250 staff will get subsidies if they take on a young or unemployed person for six months or more.

In addition, about 500,000 vocational training schemes will be created.

France’s unemployment rate is 10.6%, against a European Union average of 9.8% and 4.2% in Germany.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Alleged Latin American Gang Member Arrested for Rape

Wilfredo Alexander Barrera Martinez alleged member of MS-13

(ANSA) — Milan, January 14 — Police on Thursday arrested Wilfredo Alexander Barrera Martinez, 24, accused of raping a 29-year-old woman in Milan in September 2015, ANSA sources said.

Investigators said Martinez raped at gunpoint the girlfriend of a drug dealer as revenge for being sold a dose of “cocaine” that was actually baking soda.

Martinez, who is from El Salvador, has prior convictions as well as an expulsion order dated August 30, 2015.

Known as “El Pajaro”, he allegedly belongs to the Latin American gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13).

Police said Martinez had also had contact with some members of a group that in recent months used a machete to threaten a train conductor in Milan’s Villapizzone station.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Bari Theatre Director ‘Took Eight Bribes in Two Months’

Prosecutors say Vito Longo raked in 20,000 euros

(ANSA) — Bari, January 13 — Companies that supply the Petruzzelli theatre in Bari paid bribes to its director at least eight times in less than two months, the chief prosecutor in the southern Italian city said on Wednesday.

Prosecutor Giuseppe Volpe told a news conference that overall the theatre’s director Vito Longo was paid 20,000 euros in bribes related to supplier contracts between October 29 and December 4 last year. “Investigations are still underway, it’s a short period but we decided to intervene straight away because we could not allow more crimes to be committed,” Volpe told the news conference.

The investigation has led to the arrest of five people for crimes including corruption. It focuses on three contracts for theatre lighting supplies and cleaning services which prosecutors say were awarded in exchange for money and other benefits.

Volpe said he had decided to share videos that show Longo receiving the envelopes filled with money from company executives because they are effective footage and could serve as deterrents.

The probe was launched after another business executive complained to police about news articles discussing potential irregularities in theatre contracts, which he viewed as defamatory.

Wiretaps and video footage in Longo’s office then led police to make the arrests.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy’s Telecom 2nd in EU for Profit, Lowest in Investment

Mediobanca annual study shows Iliad top in investment

(ANSA) — Milan, January 14 — Italy’s Telecom is the second-largest telecommunications group in Europe based on industrial profit (operating income on revenue of 20.6%), just behind British Telecom (24.3%), and just ahead of Vimpelcom, Telefonica and Orange, according to a study on European telecommunications groups by R&S Mediobanca released Thursday.

In investments, Telecom ranks last with an investment rate of 3.5%, here again just trailing British Telecom at 3.8%.

Iliad, French entrepreneur Xavier Niel’s relatively young ISP and mobile operator, tops the investment rate ranking at 19.2%.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Msgr Scarano Sentenced to Two Years for Defamation

Ex-Vatican financial official cleared of corruption

(ANSA) — Rome, January 18 — Msgr Nunzio Scarano, a former Vatican financial official on trial for allegedly trying to fly 20 million euros back from Switzerland, was convicted of defamation Monday and given a suspended two-year sentence. A Rome court acquitted him of corruption charges, saying no crime had been committed. Scarano, former accountant of the Holy See’s asset-management agency APSA, wound up in jail in June 2013 on charges of corruption. The cases of his two alleged accomplices, former intelligence officer Giovanni Maria Zito and broker Giovanni Carenzio, were put into separate proceedings. Zito, having leased a plane to go to Switzerland, did not reportedly succeed in the mission to bring the money back to Italy. Scarano was accused of defamation for falsely accusing Zito of stealing a 200,000-euro cheque Scarano gave him as part of the alleged corruption.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Anti-Skivers’ Law Superfluous — Camusso

Union head demands government explain need for new legislation

(ANSA) — Rome, January 18 — Rules governing the firing of workers who break employment contract rules “already exist” and the government should explain why they don’t work rather than drawing up new ones that “otherwise are just propaganda,” Susanna Camusso, the head of the CGIL trade union federation said Monday.

Camusso made the remark on the fringes of the presentation of the universal rights of labour Charter in reply to a question about a new government norm to be approved Wednesday under which “crafty” people who clock into work and then disappear from the workplace could be sacked within 48 hours.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Juncker Elected for Flexibility — Renzi

On basis of political accord

(ANSA) — Rome, January 15 — European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker was elected “on the basis of a political accord that included flexibility and investments,” Italian Premier Matteo Renzi said Friday. He spoke amid a spat with Juncker on who should get the credit for introducing budget flexibility, among other things.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Muslim Anti-Semitism Drives Jews From Europe

Rising anti-Semitism caused by Muslims has driven record numbers of European Jews to flee to Israel—while the Jewish state and all official Jewish organizations formally support the largely Muslim “refugee” invasion in Europe…

The Board of Deputies of British Jews has even set up a special website called “Support Refugees,” supported by all major Jewish synagogues and organizations in the UK, to “be a one-stop shop for those who want to get involved in supporting refugees and asylum seekers both in the UK and abroad.”

In Hungary, András Heisler, the Chairman of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Hungary, said in a Euronews interview that Hungary was “obliged” to take in the Muslim “asylum seekers.”…

Heisler’s comments were reinforced in an official statement by the World Jewish Congress, the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities (Mazsihisz), and the Hungarian Autonomous Orthodox Jewish Community (MAOIH), who said that “supporting refugees is a commandment of Judaism . . .For the Jewish communities it is of high importance to help those in dispair.[sic] Supporting outcasts and refugees is a commandment of Judaism. We are grateful for the help civil society is providing and we ourselves offer further assistance in order to ease the trouble of those in need.”…

The World Jewish Congress and the Central Council of Jews in Germany also issued a joint statement welcoming the nonwhite invasion of Germany, calling it the “right thing” and an “evolution towards an open society.”

In a formal statement published in Die Welt newspaper titled “Wir Juden wissen, wie bitter Flucht ist” (“We Jews Understand What Being a Refugee Means”), Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and Dr. Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany and a vice-president of the WJC, said that the “Jewish community, both in Germany and worldwide, welcomes this evolution towards an open society. It is the right thing.”

In addition, the WJC statement described all Germans who oppose the flooding of their country as “neo-Nazis.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Netherlands: Private Security Guards Patrol Some Streets in the Hague

Private security guards are patrolling parts of The Hague this winter, dealing with issues which the police have no time to cover, the AD says on Friday.

Schilderswijk and Moerwijk are among the parts of the city where private security guards have been put to work. ‘They patrol the district, look out for suspicious goings on, give information about break-ins and robberies and ring on doorbells if necessary,’ the paper says.

Using the private guards means the police have a ‘much better picture of what is happening on the streets’, Nezar van Geffan of Hofland Security told the paper.

Capacity

However, police unions and some political parties are unhappy about the use of private patrols. The move is further evidence that there are not enough police officers to do the job, ACP union chief Gerrit van der Kamp said.

‘We would appear to have more need for monitoring and control than the police can deal with,’ he said. ‘But ensuring public order and safety is maintained are jobs for the government.’

Money spent on private security initiatives should instead be directed to the police, Van der Kamp told the paper.

Privatisation

‘These are police jobs. Privatisation is going too far,’ said Andre Elissen, a local councillor for the anti-immigration PVV.

Local coalition party HSP is also unhappy about bringing in private firms for public security tasks. ‘It is extremely undesirable… police jobs should be done by the police, not subcontractors,’ said councillor Fatima Faid.

The city council told the paper the private security guards are operating in and close to shopping centres and cannot detain suspects. The project is part of an initiative known as the Donkere Dagen Offensief, aimed at reducing theft.

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Richest 1% Own More Than the Rest of US: Oxfam

The richest one percent of the world’s population now own more than the rest of us combined, aid group Oxfam said Monday, on the eve of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos.

“Runaway inequality has created a world where 62 people own as much wealth as the poorest half of the world?s population -? a figure that has fallen from 388 just five years ago,” the anti-poverty agency said in its reported published ahead of the annual gathering of the world?s financial and political elites in Davos.

The report, entitled “An Economy for the 1%”, states that women are disproportionately affected by the global inequality.

“One of the other key trends behind rising inequality set out in Oxfam International’s report is the falling share of national income going to workers in almost all developed and most developing countries… The majority of low paid workers around the world are women.”…

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Swedes Jailed for Fighting With Islamist Terrorist Group

Two Swedish citizens who fought for the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab in Somalia were sentenced to 11 years in prison on Friday.

Ali Yasin Ahmed, 31, and Mohamed Yusuf, 33, were sentenced by US District Judge John Gleeson in Brooklyn, New York, in light of their guilty pleas in May to conspire to provide material support to al-Shabaab.

Both men were Somali-born and returned to Somalia from Sweden in 2008 in order to fight.

The Swedes fought against US-funded African Union forces in Somalia, prosecutors said.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Time When EU Remote-Controlled Italy Over — Renzi

‘We no longer cap in hand to Brussels’

(ANSA) — Rome, January 15 — Premier Matteo Renzi said Friday the time when the EU ordered Italy about by remote control was over. Speaking on TG5, he said amid a spat with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker that “Italy has completed reforms and therefore the time in which they could remote control policies from Brussels to Rome is over”. He said “the time when we used to go cap in hand is over”. Renzi said that budget flexibility was only introduced by the EU “after Italy asked for it in a very very very insistent way”. He added: “Flexibility means common sense, having an economic policy that thinks more about employment and less about austerity and iron-clad budget rules”. The premier was speaking amid an unusually sharp exchange with Juncker, who had chided Renzi for criticising the EC. Renzi also vowed to come down with “an iron fist” on slackers in the civil service, and to fire those guilty of chronic absenteeism.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

UK: 6 Rochdale Men Charged With Trafficking, Rape and Sexual Exploitation of Teen Girls

The men all of Rochdale have been charged with offences which are said to have been committed between 2004 and 2008 against three alleged victims who were aged between 14 and 16.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Asian Men Charged Over Allegations of Child Rape, Trafficking and Sex Assaults in Rochdale

Six Asian men have been arrested in connection with child sexual exploitation in Rochdale.

The men, all of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, are being held over offence believed to have taken place between 2004 and 2008 against three people aged between 14 and 16.

Joshim Miah, 31, of Yorkshire Street, Rochdale, is accused of rape and trafficking a person within the UK for sexual exploitation.

Mohammed Sadeer, 27, of Brimrod Lane, Rochdale, Naheem Akram, 39, of Manley Road, Rochdale, and a man, who police say cannot be named for legal reasons, are all also charged with rape.

Ittefaq Yousaf, 25, of Stanley Street, Rochdale, has been charged with sexual assault and causing/inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity, while Arfan Iqbal, 25, of Park Road, Rochdale, is charged with attempted rape.

All defendants are due to appear at Bury Magistrates’ Court on Thursday January 21.

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Ban Donald Trump? You’ll Have to Ban Ex-Muslims, European Leaders, And Me as Well

By Raheem Kassam

It was perhaps inevitable, when you note the wilful and lazy underreporting by Britain’s mainstream media of issues pertaining to radical Islam, that when a vocal critic came along, people’s first instincts would be to call him a “racist” and seek to curtail their own rights of free speech in response. Turkeys voting for Christmas. Cutting off your nose to spite your face. Choose whatever idiom you want… if the shoe fits… ahem.

So when Suzanne Kelly — a long-standing anti-Trump campaigner in Scotland — started a parliamentary petition, the media seized on it, failing to report that a) it was NOT in response to his comments about a moratorium on Muslim immigration to the U.S. and b) it was actually started BEFORE he even said anything of the sort.

It was one socialist, who has been “investigating Trump’s activities and the objections of local residents to his golfing development for several years” who inadvertently triggered tonight’s parliamentary committee debate on effectively banning people from saying anything even remotely critical of Islam. It accidentally turned from a socialist crusade against property rights, to a socialist crusade in favour of an Islamic blasphemy law in Britain.

[…] Whether or not you agree with me about Donald Trump — you surely believe that it is time for radical change in this country. And that starts with refusing to vote for the same old parties, buying the same old newspapers, and watching the same old TV channels. Turn it off.

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Donald Trump Debate: Ban Risks Making Tycoon a ‘Martyr’

Stopping Donald Trump from coming to the UK risks turning him into a martyr, a Labour MP has claimed during a three-hour House of Commons debate.

Paul Flynn said Mr Trump’s call to ban Muslims from the US was “extremely dangerous” but barring him from the UK risked being seen as anti-American.

However, SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh said a ban would be justified on the grounds of “religious harmony”.

A petition advocating a ban has attracted 574,000 signatures.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Police Investigation Launched After Bacon Butties Thrown at Mosque

POLICE are hunting apparent anti-Islamists who left bacon outside one of Britain’s biggest mosques and abused elderly worshippers.

An unidentified group gathered outside the Bristol Jamia Mosque, the largest in south west England.

Bacon sandwiches were thrown at the mosque’s doors and another report claimed bacon was hung outside the mosque.

Locals tried to intervene and police were called to the scene in Totterdown, Bristol after the incident at around 12.50pm on Sunday.

[Aren’t the ‘moderate Muslims’ who attend the mosque ‘anti-Islamists’?]

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Racists Who Threw Bacon Sandwiches at Bristol Jamia Mosque Are Hunted by Police

An unidentified gang had gathered outside the Bristol Jamia Mosque (pictured) during prayer time in Sunday afternoon, throwing sandwiches at its doors.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Six Men Charged as Part of Child Sexual Exploitation Investigation

Six men have been charged as part of an ongoing investigation to tackle child sexual exploitation in Rochdale.

The charges relate to offences committed between 2004 and 2008 against three victims who were aged between 14 and 16 at the time of the abuse.

Charges

Joshim Miah, born 22.09.1984, of Yorkshire Street, Rochdale, has been charged with two counts of rape and one count of trafficking a person within the UK for exploitation.

These charges relate to one victim.

Mohammed Sadeer, born 08.03.1988, of Brimrod Lane, Rochdale, has been charged with one count of rape.

This charge relates to one victim.

Naheem Akhram, 28.08.1976, of Manley Road, Rochdale, has been charged with one count of rape.

This charge relates to one victim.

A man who cannot be named for legal reasons has been charged with four counts of rape.

These charges relate to two victims.

Ittefaq Yousaf, born 31.08.1990, of Stanley Street, Rochdale, has been charged with one count of sexual assault and one count of causing/inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity.

These charges relate to two victims.

Arfan Iqbal born, 12.03.1990, of Park Road, Rochdale, has been charged with one count of attempted rape.

This charge relates to one victim.

They are due to appear before Bury and Rochdale Magistrates on 21 January 2016 at 9:45am.

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

Wind-3 Merger Creates Italy’s Largest Mobile Operator

PosteMobile growth doubled, to reach 3.4% market share

(ANSA) — Milan, January 14 — The merger of Wind and 3 Italia has created Italy’s largest mobile operator, with a 33.8% market share, a study by R&S Mediobanca said on Thursday.

The merged group surpassed communications giant Telecom, which has a 32.3% market share.

Between 2010-2014, growth doubled for PosteMobile, the mobile operator offered by the nation’s postal service, to reach a market share of 3.7%.

The study showed there’s still room for growth for virtual mobile operators, with commercial SIM cards offered by companies Poste, Coop, Carrefour and Tiscali holding a combined share of 7.1%, much less than Germany, which has a share of 24% for the same indicator.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

PA Official: Netanyahu Has Destroyed Arab ‘Culture of Peace’

Saeb Erekat announced his “shock and surprise” to Channel 10 on Monday, two days after it was reported one of the senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official’s aides had been arrested on suspicion of spying for Israel.

The suspect was arrested by PA security forces in Erekat’s offices on Saturday, on charges he had leaked information about the PA’s position in regard to negotiations with Israel for over two decades.

While Erekat would not reveal the identity of his aide, he did note an investigation was being conducted to determine if he had indeed spied for Israel and to what extent.

“The law will take its course,” Erekat asserted. “I say the suspect is innocent until proven guilty.”[…]

“I think Netanyahu has succeeded in destroying the culture of peace from the minds of our people,” he added. […]

[Culture of peace? my elbow…]

           — Hat tip: MC [Return to headlines]
 

Going Rogue? NATO Puzzled by Turkey’s Move to Develop Offensive Weapons

Turkey has recently reiterated its intention to build offensive missile systems, claiming that it is “difficult for a country to be deterrent with defensive missiles only”; the move has puzzled NATO, as it’s doubtful that the member state’s demand for such arms has any “strategic sense” and calls into question whether Turkey intends to go rogue.

“It is puzzling from a NATO perspective that this ally wants to develop offensive missile capabilities,” one NATO ambassador in Ankara told the website Defense News. “Turkey is part of the security umbrella. We are not sure if any Turkish effort for offensive missiles makes strategic sense … despite [Turkey’s] legitimate perceptions of increased military threat in its region.”

His words are echoed by an EU ambassador in Ankara, who also said that the Turkish move to put an offensive system in place was “confusing”.

“Such ambitions can fuel sectarian tensions in the region. A missile rivalry between a NATO member and Iran does not sound pleasant in any way,” he is quoted as saying by the website.

Turkey’s ambitions have caused concerns from other experts, who are wondering if Turkey may eventually go rogue.

“Ballistic missiles have certain disadvantages … like lack of precision. They can also be easily intercepted. Their limited payload is another problem. In comparison a modern fighter jet can carry up to four or five times more payload and is an agile aerial asset,” said one London-based Turkey specialist.

He explained that missiles are often preferred by “rogue states” as they can carry biological, chemical and nuclear warheads.

“Turkey is not a rogue state and it is curious that it has ambitions to develop offensive missile systems,” he added.

On January 7, Turkey’s top procurement official, Ismail Demir, reiterated Turkey’s ambitions to develop offensive missiles.

“It is difficult for a country to be deterrent with defensive missiles only … This is why offensive [missile] systems too should be developed,” Demir claimed at a briefing to the Turkish parliament’s defense committee.

“The political authority is determined that Turkey should possess such missile capabilities. How, at what cost and how soon are questions that remain to be examined,” he added.

In November, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on the Turkish national TV channel ATV that Turkey may adopt a strategy of local acquisition of long-range surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) with offensive capabilities with a range of about 3,000 kilometers.

Earlier in November Turkey scrapped a $3.44 billion tender for the SAM system, code-named T-Loramids, for which in 2013 it selected as a contractor China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corp. (CPMIEC), offering the HQ-9 system.

The selection of CPMIEC drew considerable criticism from the US as well as from other NATO allies over inter-operability and the security issues of operating a Chinese system.

“What is important is whether we will engage in defense or offense in the long term. We want [these missiles] to be developed locally but to also have an offensive nature. With the cancellation of the missile tender we took this step. We are currently developing missiles, but we are not at the level we want them to be concerning their range,” Erdogan told ATV on November 18, highlighting that the canceled T-Loramids project was a missile defense project.

The politicians admit that at any such program’s initial stages, Turkey would need foreign know-how.

Without naming any particular country that may be willing to assist any Turkish program, Ismail Demir, however, did not reject the “Chinese option.”

Turkish media also suggests that it is highly possible Ankara may “knock on China’s door” to develop its own long-range missiles with ballistic missile capability.

“This is because Turkey’s allies will refrain from forging any cooperation with Ankara to help it develop long-range missiles that will have ballistic missile capabilities as well,” suggests Turkish English-language daily Today’s Zaman.

The move, it says, will mark a dramatic change in Turkey’s defense policy of acquiring non-offensive weapons.

“Hence it now seems Turkey will no longer rely solely on NATO’s security umbrella in the case of any threats posed to it and will go solo when necessary.”

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Op-Ed: A Call for Sanity: How the Quran-Abiding Muslims View the Jews

The author writes that Quranic verses taken out of context and therefore misinterpreted are used as a pretense for Muslim hatred of Jews.

Adnan Oktar

The writer, an influential Turkish writer and publicist in the Muslim world,…

It is clear to anyone that our world is in dire need of peace. Any contribution to peace, small or large, will be extremely valuable. For this reason, I believe that clearing a major confusion about how the Quran-abiding Muslims really see Jews is of paramount importance.

For decades now, regrettably certain religious authorities in the world, especially in Muslim areas in and around Israel disillusioned by erroneous explanations derived from traditions, superstitions, and fake hadiths (Prophet Mohammed’s sayings), created an image of Jew-hating Muslims. They even went as far as making absurd claims that Jews descend from pigs. (Our Jewish brothers and sisters are surely beyond such remarks).[…]

           — Hat tip: MC [Return to headlines]
 

Turkey Probes Opposition Chief for Calling Erdogan ‘Tinpot Dictator’

Turkish prosecutors on Monday launched an investigation into the head of Turkey’s main opposition party after he called President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a “tinpot dictator”.

Kemal Kilicdaroglu was speaking out against the detention of Turkish academics last week over a petition condemning the military crackdown in the Kurdish-dominated southeast, just days after Erdogan threatened the signatories.

“Academics who express their opinion are being detained, one by one, because of a tinpot dictator,” Kilicdaroglu told a congress of his Republican People’s Party (CHP) at the weekend…

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

TV Series on Erdogan an ‘Homage to Turkish Hero’

Dedicated to youth and president’s first years in politics

(ANSAmed) — ISTANBUL, JANUARY 18 — A television series on the youth and first years of the political career of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the latest homage dedicated to the head of State in Turkey, producer Ali Avci has announced. He explained that filming of ‘Reis’ (chief) will begin this week in North Cyprus and that at the beginning of March the series will be broadcast on national television.

Reha Beyoglu will have the role of the president as an adult while Ozlem Balci will be his wife Emine. Both are very well-known actors in the country. The television series, a very popular genre in Turkey, will tell the story of Erdogan’s life, starting from his childhood in the low-income district of Kasimpasa in Istanbul, util his election as mayor in the city on the Bosphorus in 1994 and his arrest in 1999, when he was accused of attacking the secularity of the State.

“Nowadays, in cinema worldwide, we see characters like Spiderman and Superman but they don’t exist”, the producer said. “The production process of this film started with the idea: ‘How did they become heroes?’. Instead of seeing him as a president, people will see Erdogan as a man”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

US Should Unite Anti-Daesh States, Including Russia, Iran — Sen. Sanders

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said that United States should bring together all the countries fighting the Daesh militant group, including Russia and Iran.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The United States should bring together all the countries fighting the Daesh, also known as ISIL/The Islamic State militant group, including Russia and Iran, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said.

“The immediate task is to bring all interests together who want to destroy Daesh, including Russia, including Iran, including our Muslim allies, to make that the major priority,” Sanders said during Democratic presidential candidate debates on Sunday.

He added that Iran and Russia should also be involved in the political settlement of the Syrian crisis.

Since 2014, vast territories in Iraq and neighboring Syria have been occupied by Daesh militants, who have proclaimed a caliphate on the land under its control. The terrorist group is outlawed in many countries, including Russia and the United States.

The United States created an international coalition of some 60 countries, to participate in an aerial campaign against the Daesh targets in Syria and Iraq. However, in Syria, the coalition operates without the approval of Damascus or the UN Security Council.

On September 30, Russia began carrying out separate airstrikes against the terrorist group, at the request of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Economic Crisis Becomes the Main Topic at Public Debate

Prime Minister Medvedev tells Russians to prepare for the “worst scenario” as the country’s economy follows the downward spiral of oil prices. Government spending will be cut by 10 per cent. Wages are in arrears. Yet, experts do not expect any mass protest for now.

Moscow (AsiaNews) — Russian government officials spoke this week at an economic forum in Moscow about Russia’s worsening economic outlook, warning the population to prepare for the “worst scenario” as low oil prices continue to sink the country’s energy-dependent economy.

Speaking at the annual Gaidar Forum in Moscow, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov warned that oil prices might continue to drop and that country might see a repeat of the 1998 financial crisis. He pointed out that Russia needs oil to be US$ 82 whilst at present it hovers around US$ 30.

Similarly, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev noted that “if the oil price keeps falling and dropping, we’ll have to adjust our fiscal parameters,” since Russia’s existing cash reserves are not limitless, adding “let’s brace ourselves for the worst scenario”.

Although “The middle class has suffered,” the situation is not yet like that of 1998. Still, he warned that the government needed to act to stimulate investment and head off an “economic depression (that) could last for decades.”

Oil and gas represent more than half of Russia’s government revenues. And lower prices have a strong impact on the national economy. A US$ 10 drop in price represents a loss of US$ 25 billion in the federal budget (although the depreciation of the ruble has somewhat buffeted lower oil revenues).

The 2016 federal budget that was approved was based on an oil price of a barrel in 2016, so the government will be forced to make corrections. Siluanov announced 10 per cent spending cuts and asked state-owned companies to adapt their budgets to the new reality.

Things are not that much better on financial markets. Yesterday, the Moscow Stock Exchange dropped by 5 per cent and, at 85, the ruble hit a record low since 2014 vis-à-vis the euro.

Consumer spending is also down, with car sales plunging by 35.7 per cent in 2015.

Last year, the GDP contracted by 3.7 per cent. This year, instead of growing by 0.7 per cent, as the Economic Development Ministry forecast, the economy will contract by another 0.8 per cent, Vedomosti reported.

Prime Minister Medvedev admitted that the middle class is losing ground, but tried to reassure people that appropriate steps will be taken to ensure economic growth and stop the drop in the standard of living.

He reiterated that the government would continue its policies of import substitution to counter agricultural sanctions and would not raise taxes for small and medium-sized businesses.

Despite such efforts, socio-economic tensions are rising, experts say, but so far, they have not led to mass protests.

According to a survey by the St Petersburg Policy rating fund, cited in Vedomosti, the crisis has meant delays in the payment of wages. In some regions, doctors and teachers went on strike.

In recent years, the payment of wages on time had been a major factor of stability; however, problems began in several regions last December.

“As wage arrears grow, so do pessimism and anxiety among ordinary people,” this according to analyst Mikhail Vinogradov.” What will happen next is difficult to predict.”

Protest activity might rise, but most people are still very much apolitical. At the same time, “appeals for loyalty to the president are growing. This will work so long as the government can maintain the illusion that it is all powerful.”

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

‘Nine-Year-Old Girls Are Marriage Material’ Say Sharia Hardliners in Pakistan

OFFICIALS in Pakistan have been forced to withdraw a law banning child marriages after Sharia enforcers declared it “un-Islamic” and “blasphemous”.

The proposed bill would have handed out harsh punishments to anyone who married a minor while raising the minimum age for girls to 18.

But Marvi Memon of the Pakistan Muslim League party was forced to withdraw the proposal after facing staunch opposition — with the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) slamming the plans.

CII chairman Mohammad Khan Sheerani went on to claim the move contradicted Islamic teachings.

He said: “Parliament cannot create legislation that is against the teachings of the Holy Quran or Sunnah.”

The group, who unanimously rejected the proposal on “purely religious grounds”, have also claimed the country’s current child marriage laws are not compliant with Islamic teachings — and want it lowered.

Pakistani rules stipulate that the legal age for marriage is 16 for girls and 18 for boys.

Last year the CII stated that under Islamic Law girls as young as nine were suitable for marriage if “the signs of puberty are visible”.

[See the case of callofthepatriot.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/islam-and-law-khan-vs-united-kingdom.html Kahn vs. the United Kingdom.]

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

US Faces Challenge Freeing Americans Held Hostage on Pakistani-Afghan Border

Freeing four American prisoners from Iranian prisons required billions of dollars and high-level diplomacy, but liberating captives — including an American woman who was pregnant when she was taken in Afghanistan — from the shadowy organization that once held Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will likely prove far more daunting.

It was more than three years ago when American Caitlan Coleman and her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle, vanished in Afghanistan. The couple, who were backpacking through the region while Coleman was five-months’ pregnant, next surfaced in a video emailed to Coleman’s family in York County, Pennsylvania. The U.S. government believes they, as well as an unnamed American in his 60s, are being held by the infamous Haqqani network.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

After 30 Years on Ice, This Thing Came Back to Life

Japanese researchers have successfully awakened a microscopic tardigrade (more colloquially known as a waterbear) after it spent three decades in a subzero slumber, the Telegraph reports.

That’s a new record; previous Antarctic specimens were revived after about eight years, per the study, published last month in Cryobiology .

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

China Aims for the Moon With New Rockets

China’s space industry revealed that its new rockets would be used for an unmanned moon mission capable of returning soil samples, as well as a delivery vehicle for a new space station.

China’s space agency will launch two new rockets into space in 2016, as it prepares for a potential moon mission, the country’s Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.

One of the rockets, Long March-5 which has a payload capacity larger than that of Russia’s Proton rocket used for commercial satellite launches, is expected to complete a mission to the Moon in 2017. Long March-5, a smaller variant similar to Russia’s Soyuz-FG is expected to be used for a future space station.

“The two carrier rockets’ maiden flights will significantly boost our country’s ability to enter space and help realize leapfrog development in our space transportation system,” the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation statement said.

China expects to launch 20 rockets in 2016, compared to Russia’s 29 and the US’ 20 in 2015. China has also been developing international cooperation, launching a commercial satellite for Belarus on Saturday.

China’s 2017 moon mission aims to be an expansion of its 2013 landing on the Moon, for the purpose of bringing back rock samples for the first time.

China plans to launch a space station similar in dimensions to Russia’s now-defunct Mir by around 2020. A smaller non-modular station called Tiangong-2 is expected to be launched in 2016, Xinhua earlier confirmed.

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

China Orders Foreign Banks to Hold Yuan

China will require foreign financial institutions in the country to hold yuan in reserve, the central bank said Monday as it seeks to stabilise the currency, which has been hit by capital flight.

Until now, overseas banks in China have been set a reserve requirement ratio — the amount of depositor funds they must keep aside — of zero.

From next week they will be subject to similar rules as domestic lenders, the central People’s Bank of China (PBoC) said in a statement, without specifying the percentage to be retained. Major Chinese banks currently have a ratio of 17.5 percent…

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Child’s Burkina Faso Terror Killing Shocks Italy

Michel Santomenna, 9, mowed down along with mum, granny, aunt

(ANSA) — Rome, January 18 — Italy on Monday was in shock over the violent death of nine-year-old Michel Santomenna, who was mowed down by Islamist fundamentalists in a terror attack in the Burkina Faso capital last Friday.

Misha, as he was known, was the only Italian among the 29 people killed in Friday’s al-Qaeda attack on the Cappuccino restaurant and bar and the Hotel Splendid in Ouagadougou.

Also killed were his mother Victoria Yankovska, his aunt Yana and his grandmother, all three Ukrainian nationals.

The whole of Italy expressed sympathy for the father, Gaetano Santomenna, a longtime Ouagadougou resident who owns the Cappuccino and several bakeries.

“The violent hand of the terrorists doesn’t stop, even in the face of a nine-year-old boy,” said President Sergio Mattarella.

Premier Matteo Renzi said that “as a father (and) a prime minister, there are no words to express the pain and the condolences of the whole of Italy for this death — for a young life cut short by hatred,” said Premier Matteo Renzi.

Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni for his part tweeted that killing a child “is a horrendous crime”.

As of Sunday, the victims were identified as one American, at least seven Burkina Faso nationals, six Canadians, one Dutch citizen, two French, one Libyan, one Portuguese and one Swiss national.

An unconfirmed number of terrorists were also killed by Burkina Faso and French forces.

Burkina Faso has decreed three days of national mourning, which began Sunday.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Another Invader Center Burns in Sweden

Swedish patriots have burned yet another invader center to the ground overnight, this time at the Bockaberg holiday camp in Floda, Lerum Municipality, Västra Götaland County.

The luxury holiday camp—consisting of a number of cabins which had been especially equipped for hundreds of “refugees”—was almost completely destroyed in the attack, Swedish media have reported.

Emergency services were alerted to the fire early on Saturday, November 7, at the camp which had been earmarked by the Swedish Migration Board as a “refugee settlement” base.

When the fire services arrived at the scene, several houses were on fire, and one had already burned completely to the ground. The wooden nature of the camp’s construction—log cabins—meant that there was little chance any of the remaining houses would be saved.

A Swedish Immigration service spokesman, Johanna Uhr, was quoted by the Aftonbladet newspaper as saying that the arson was “incredibly unfortunate as we rely on accommodation places such as these because there are so many people who are coming to Sweden”—a reference to the flood of nonwhite invaders who have taken up Sweden’s blanket amnesty offer for any claiming to be from a “war zone.”

A preliminary investigation into the arson attack has already started, and police cordoned off the area almost immediately…

So many invader centers have been burned down in Sweden that insurance companies have now refused to insure them, the Götensborgs-Posten reported earlier.

Willis Åberg, head of the Swedish Migration Board, said that he had recently found that all insurance companies had refused to insure any accommodation when they discovered it was to be used as an “asylum home.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Austria: Schoolgirls Report Abuse by Young Asylum Seekers

Austrian officials are investigating allegations that four under-age asylum seekers sexually harassed and assaulted three schoolgirls for months, without anybody taking action.

The four boys attended the Schlossstrasse middle school in Salzburg. It was only in the wake of the widely reported New Year sexual assaults in Cologne that one of the victims, aged 14, made a complaint to police.

That resulted in the four youngsters, aged 14, 15 and 16, being suspended. Only one of them had a residence permit.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Austrian Leaders Rethink Open Door Policy for Refugees

The refugee crisis will be the focus of a summit on Wednesday when Austrian state governors and leaders of the federal government meet in Vienna.

Foreign and integration minister Sebastian Kurz has said the crisis has overwhelmed both the EU and Austria and that plans to increase border controls will be high on the summit’s agenda.

A spokesman for Chancellor Werner Faymann said that the aim now is to “significantly reduce” the total number of refugees entering Austria.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Austria: Teen Girl ‘Rushed to Hospital After She Was Raped by Afghan Migrant on Park Bench’

A TEENAGER has been rushed to hospital after she was allegedly brutally raped by an Afghan migrant she met on a train, police have revealed.

The 18-year-old is believed to have been sharing a drink with the 21-year-old asylum seeker in he early hours of the morning in Prater Park — a popular destination in Vienna, Austria.

But the friendly exchange between the two strangers then allegedly took a dark turn.

Park security staff, who heard the teenager’s screams for help, rushed to her aid, investigators said.

In a police report, the victim said: “We got talking and decided to buy some alcohol to drink at the Prater park.

“We then sat down on the main avenue through the park on a bench.”

The man then became violent, attacking the woman from behind, and raped her on the park bench, according to Breitbart.

The alleged attacker is being held before trial. He is also reported to have been carrying forged money and marijuana at the time of the incident.

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

Austrian Government to Decide on Border Security Measures on January 20

Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said that Austrian authorities will take concrete measures to defend state borders from migrant inflow.

VIENNA (Sputnik) — Austrian authorities will take concrete measures to defend state borders from migrant inflow during a forthcoming meeting of the federal government later in the week, Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said Monday.

“The meeting of the federal government, devoted to the refugee issue, will take place on January 20, and I assume that [some] concrete measures will be taken. As for me personally, it is obvious that if there is no an all-European solution [to the migrant crisis], such countries as Austria are obliged to take national measures,” Kurz told journalists on Monday.

According to Kurz, Austria received about 90,000 claims for asylum in 2015, which is three times more than usually, and the situation in 2016 should not be the same.

According to the minister, there are countries in the European Union that want the flows of migrants to move to Central Europe as fast as possible.

“…however, there are also such states as Germany, Austria and Sweden, which do not agree with this situation, and we need to make everything to reduce these flows [of migrants],” Kurz stressed.

According to the Austrian top diplomat, hospitality and openness policy is not the solution to the refugee crisis, and if it is impossible to stop migrants at EU external borders, it must be done at countries’ national borders.

Europe is still facing a major refugee crisis, as hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers from conflict-torn countries in North Africa, the Middle East, Central and South Asia attempt to escape poverty and violence in their home countries.

The EU border agency Frontex detected 1.55 million illegal border crossings at the course of 2015.

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Czech President Says Impossible to Integrate Muslim Communities Into Europe

Czech President Milos Zeman said the experience of Western European countries, where there are ghettos and closed areas, as well as recent events, demonstrate once again that the integration of the Muslim community is practically impossible.

PRAGUE (Sputnik) — Western European experience confirms the futility of integrating Muslim communities into European society, Czech President Milos Zeman said Sunday.

“The experience of Western European countries, where there are ghettos and closed areas, as well as recent events, demonstrate once again that the integration of the Muslim community is practically impossible,” Zeman told the Czech Republic’s Blesk tabloid in a video interview.

Reiterating his longstanding stance, augmented by the greatest migrant crisis Europe has experienced in decades, Zeman stressed that newly arrived people must adapt to local culture and traditions while retaining their own distinct identities.

“Of course, integration is possible from cultures that are similar,” the Czech leader said, providing Ukrainian and Vietnamese diasporas as examples.

Zeman has vowed to challenge the European Union’s migrant quotas requiring member states to accommodate refugees proportionate to their population, size and budget.

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Danish Discos Ban Refugees and Migrants for Harassing Women

Nightclubs in the Danish towns of Sonderborg and Haderslev have stopped letting in refugees and migrants after complaints that they were harassing women, Denmark’s TV Syd reported.

Nightclubs in Sonderborg and Haderslev in southern Denmark have stopped allowing in refugees and migrants because female visitors were being harassed, Denmark’s TV Syd reported last week.

Old army barracks in the town of Sonderborg were converted into a reception center for 700 refugees around a year and a half ago. Refugees and migrants, mostly single men, also began arriving in Haderslev in 2014. Since then, say the proprietors of local nightclubs, there has been a notable change in the local nightlife.

“It must be said, that a large part of our male visitors who come here from the local asylum center find it very difficult to respect the opposite sex,” Glenn Hollender, owner of the Den Flyvende Hollænder nightclub in Sonderborg, told TV Syd.

Den Flyvende Hollænder is one of three nightclubs in the town that requires its visitors to be able to speak Danish, English or German.

“It is clear that if we ask male visitors to leave a girl alone, they must understand what we mean. There were simply too many instances when they ignored our requests to leave the female guests alone,” said Hollender.

Rafi Ibrahim, a Syrian who has lived in Denmark for many years, told TV Syd that many refugees and migrants do not understand the culture they have arrived in.

“Many of the refugees and asylum seekers who visit nightclubs at the weekend don’t know the rules. If they see a girl, they run amok. They simply can’t handle it. They try to pull at the girls’ clothes or grope her.”

“In Syria and many other countries it’s not normal if a girl you don’t know smiles at you. The girls that they pestered were not dressed provocatively, or drunk. Sometimes it’s just that they are girls,” said Ibrahim.

Following TV Syd’s report, Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten asked women in Sonderborg about their experiences of local nightclubs since the arrival of refugees and migrants in the area.

“Who should asylum seekers learn standards of behavior from?” asked the women.

They complained that despite the numerous reports about the problematic behavior of migrants towards women, they face more harassment from young Danish men.

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

DHS’s Immigration Branches Ill-Equipped to Detect Asylum Fraud

Each year, tens of thousands of aliens in the United States apply for asylum, which provides refuge to those who have been persecuted or fear persecution on protected grounds. Asylum officers in the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the immigration judges in Department of Justice adjudicate asylum applications.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) was asked to review the status of the asylum system. This report addresses: (1) what DHS and DOJ data indicate about trends in asylum claims, (2) the extent to which DHS and DOJ have designed mechanisms to prevent and detect asylum fraud, and (3) the extent to which DHS and DOJ designed and implemented processes to address any asylum fraud that has been identified.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

EU Citizens Face Extra “Refugee Tax”

Germans—and all European Union nationals—might be burdened with a special extra “refugee tax” on every liter of gasoline they put in their cars in order to pay for Angela Merkel’s nonwhite invader hordes, Germany’s Foreign Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has announced.

Speaking in an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, Schäuble—a member of Merkel’s CDU party—said that “if funds are not sufficient in the national and European budgets, then we will propose that a levy be placed on each liter of gasoline. Then we will have the means to cope with the European refugee question.”

When asked if this extra refugee tax was going to be obligatory across the entire European Union, Schäuble said that he would prefer it to be voluntary, rather than mandatory.

“If any [country] is not willing to pay [the levy], then I am in favor of allowing them that option. In this way, we will form a coalition of the willing.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Europol: Traffickers’ Revenues, $3.6 Billion in 2015

Rob Wainwright, ‘One of the major criminal activities’

(ANSA) — LONDON — Human traffickers earned between 3 and 6 billion dollars last year (2.7-5.5 billion euros) from smuggling more than one million refugees into Europe, according to Europol director Rob Wainwright, who spoke to British newspaper Independent on Sunday (UK). It is estimated that every migrant has paid an amount between 3,000 and 6,000 dollars to flee war and poverty. The trafficking of human beings has thus become the “Champions League” of European organised crime.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Female Refugees Face Abuse on Migrant Trail in Europe: Amnesty

Female asylum seekers face physical assault and sexual harassment on their journeys through Europe, Amnesty International warned in a report on Monday, calling on governments to offer more protection.

The London-based human rights group interviewed 40 migrant women and girls in Germany and Norway who had travelled to Greece and then across the Balkans.

All those interviewed were from Iraq and Syria…

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

German State Secret: Criminal North Africans

Criminals from North Africa have been rampaging through Germany for years with the full knowledge of the police, controlled media, and all establishment politicians—but the facts have been deliberately suppressed from the public out of fear it would empower the “right wing” parties in that country, it has emerged.

In a front page article which appeared in Die Welt newspaper on January 17, 2016, titled “Criminal North Africans: A Long-guarded State Secret,” the extent of the nonwhite crime wave—and the facts around the cover-up—are detailed in public for the very first time.

According to Die Welt, the North Africans “steal, drink, and harass women. But, out of fear of fanning xenophobia, police and politicians have been silent for years about the problem of violent migrants from North Africa.”

“As early as 2014, [former North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) Interior Minister Lothar] Hegemann, and his secretary of state, and internal politicians of all political groups knew that there was a problem group among refugees: Northern Africans who stole massively, drank, harassed women, and perpetrated violence. But this knowledge was treated very discreetly from all sides,” Die Welt continued.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Lawless Areas: Helpless Police — Can We Still Feel Safe?’ Top Magazine Speaks of Germany as Failed State

As a metaphor for the German state having rings run around it by barely literate, violent migrant gangs the image of a police car up on bricks having had its wheels stolen is a powerful one.

This is the cover of the latest edition of Der Speigel, the high circulation, high brow news magazine which is this week questioning the Federal government with the emboldened headline ‘State Impotence’ — a play on words leaving ‘State Power’ in black text and the modifier in white…

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Merkel’s Party Seeks to Stem Tide of North African Arrivals

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party Monday said Germany should declare Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia “safe countries of origin”, making it easier to reject asylum requests by its nationals.

The conservative party’s proposal comes as Germany, struggling with a mass influx of 1.1 million asylum seekers last year, has also seen arrivals spike from North African countries.

ADVERTISINGAnd it follows public outrage over a rash of reported sexual attacks and robberies against women on New Year’s Eve in the western city of Cologne blamed on North African and Arab migrants…

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Migrant Sex Attack Gangs Could Come to Britain Under EU Laws, Cameron Warned

Migrants accused of sex attacks in Germany on New Year’s Eve could move to Britain within the next few years, David Cameron has been warned.

Dominic Cummings, director of anti-EU group Vote Leave, said ministers will be powerless to stop the accused at the UK border once they have obtained an EU passport.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage also warned migrants who are given the right to stay in Germany could become EU citizens within three years.

It comes as the Prime Minister and pro-EU campaigners claimed leaving the EU could undermine Britain’s security.

Mr Cameron said the issue of quitting the EU is “not just a matter of jobs and trade but one of the safety and security of our nation”.

But Eurosceptics claim EU law actually poses more of a threat to Britain — which would be powerless in stopping terrorists and criminals from entering the country.

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

North African States Refuse Repatriation

Three North African states whose nationals have taken part in the Angela Merkel-created mass “refugee” invasion of Europe—Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia—are now refusing to take back their nationals even if they have been served with deportation orders, it has emerged.

The revelation has made a mockery of Merkel’s announcement that her government was going to “speed up” deportations of nationals from these North African states.

According to a report in the NTV service in Germany, government officials have admitted that their attempts to deport nationals from those three countries have largely been undone because their governments have simply refused to cooperate in “any meaningful way.”

A government report obtained by the TV station gave one example of the sort of problems the German authorities were facing: in late July 2015, it said, some 5,500 Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians were ordered deported back to their countries by the Interior Ministry after their “asylum” requests had been turned down.

However, since then, only 53 of that number have successfully been sent back home.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Refugee Footballer Signed for AC Milan Accused of Rape — As Police Find He Lied in Papers

AN asylum seeker held up as an example to others when he was signed by AC Milan after arriving in Italy has been exposed as a fraud after he was accused of rape in Germany.

Former AC Milan player, Yusupha Yaffa, moved to Germany after being signed by Eintracht Frankfurt and is currently on loan to MSV Duisburg.

But after he was arrested in Frankfurt for the attempted rape of a 19-year-old, prosecutors discovered irregularities in his asylum seeker papers in which he claimed to have been 17-years-old.

And now it has been revealed that in fact he was an incredible nine years older than he claimed, and instead of being 19 — the age in his player paperwork stipulates that he was born on 31 December 1996 — he is actually aged 28.

When he had applied in Italy in 2009 for asylum after arriving from Gambia, he had claimed that they had been lost and when giving his personal details had apparently not told the truth.

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

Slovenia Could Also Suspend Schengen

After news of Austria’s possible halt

LUBIANA — If Austria and Germany actually decide to limit the number of migrants it welcomes, Slovenia is ready to adopt similar measures, including the suspension of Schengen with the re-introduction of passport-controls along its borders, said the Lubiana government, after Austrian Chancellor, Werner Faymann, ordered the re-enforcement of controls on the Austrian border, with a temporary suspension of the free circulation of people.

When Vienna’s decision will come into force, Slovenia, announced its government, will introduce controls at its border in order to regulate the flow of migrants coming from Croatia.

In the case in which “Slovenia’s national interests were to be put at risk or if other countries were to act unilaterally” Lubiana is ready to take “concrete steps” at its borders, the statements reads.

According to press sources, Austria could officially suspend the Schengen Treaty by the end of the week.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Teach Refugee Children About Sex: Swedish Campaigners

Sweden’s largest sex education campaign group wants to launch a training programme for young refugee boys arriving in the Nordic nation, including gay rights and gender equality.

Leading managers at Sweden’s sexual education organization RFSU argued in an opinion piece for newspaper Svenska Dagbladet over the weekend that Sweden should offer sex education classes for refugee boys, with the idea sparking a strong debate that continued into Monday morning.

“There is an acute need for knowledge about everything from sexually transmitted diseases and condoms to abortion rights, gender equality, legislation and LGBTQ rights,” wrote its chairperson Kristina Ljungros and secretary-general Maria Andersson.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Spike Lee Boycotts ‘Lily White’ Oscars Over White Nominees

Film director Spike Lee and actress Jada Pinkett Smith have said they will not attend next month’s Oscars ceremony because of the mostly white nominees.

Lee said on Instagram he “cannot support” the “lily white” awards show.

This is the second year in a row there have been boycott calls, sparked by a list of nominees that is mostly white.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Why Feminism Failed Cologne’s Women

Big Feminism, fresh from fighting pitched battles against swimsuit posters in European subways and other phantoms of “rape culture”, failed the women who were attacked by violent Muslim migrant mobs in Cologne, Berlin and Hamburg who were the products of an actual rape culture dating back to Mohammed’s injunction to his men that Muslim women must wear burqas to avoid being “molested” while non-Muslim women captured in the House of War could be raped by Muslim Jihadis at will.

Big Feminism has a great deal of interest in rape as an abstract idea that can be unpacked to represent everything the left hates from Valentine’s Day to environmental degradation to the college frat, but it has little interest in rape as a crime or rape victims as people. Eve Ensler exploited the idea of rape to build up her brand while her PR was being handled by Trevor FitzGibbon, a progressive sexual predator who was also representing Julian Assange, another progressive rapist. Eve Ensler had a great deal of interest in rape as an ideological tool, but none in the women who were raped by her allies.

Feminism is only another of the many manipulative masks that the left wears. Its acolytes cannot see rape as a personal crime, only as an ideological one. To the left, rape, like racism, is a form of institutional oppression practiced by the stronger white male against everyone else. Sexual assaults that don’t fit this structural template won’t be acknowledged and when they become so public that they must be acknowledged, it will be only to change the conversation.

That process is already underway in Germany as feminists insist that all the coverage of the Muslim rape mob attackers (a coverage that took place despite the best efforts of their left-wing colleagues to bury the politically incorrect story before anyone had even heard about it) is distracting attention from domestic sex crimes. The obligatory feminist protests emphasized opposition to sexism and racism, but they did not mean the form of racism that led large numbers of asylum seekers to see native women as fair game to be abused, degraded and spit on, but the racism involved in calling them out for it.

The hundreds of women who were attacked in a single day by Muslim mobs are inconvenient victims. Like the Peace Corps workers abused by the locals or female activist raped by the Palestinian Muslims they came to help, their stories don’t fit the intersectional paradigm and have to be covered up in a politically correct burka.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

6 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/18/2016

  1. The virtually nonexistent feminist response to the attacks on European women leaves open door to rants like Greenfield’s. He makes some good points. Nevertheless, just because the misogynist Arab/Islamic culture is so much more insane, does not make western treatment of women sane. And it emphatically does not mean that western “rape culture” does not exist.

    Rape is about power, not sexual desire. Access to women in misogynist cultures is a status thing; women are jealously guarded by those who have access to them. That leaves a lot of young men out. So free access to undefended women must seem very attractive to them, and part of the reason for the enthusiastic journey to Europe.
    Western culture has much that is disrespectful toward women: girls are hypersexualized, women’s naked bodies are splayed out for all to see in ads and magazines, and it is only very recently that women’s shelters and women-friendly laws have been commonly provided for the many women who are grievously abused in families.

    And finally, that Greenfield should blame rapes on the left rather than on men (of all races and religions) is truly pathetic.

    I think that we see before the death of liberal feminism. But those of us who consider ourselves part of the women’s movement that seeks to improve the lives of women on all sides of the political spectrum will keep on keeping on! Especially those who would like to use the failures of modern feminism to pull women back to the days when any “uppity” woman could be shouted down and told to get the coffee.

    • Girl, you’d better get your purty little self into the kitchen and rattle them pots and pans.

        • Despite what the feminists may say, rape is very, very seldom about ‘power’. Most of the time its simply that he’s horny and she’s drunk.
          Access to women is , to some extent, a status thing in all cultures, Islam is just particularly in-your-face about it.
          I often get the impression that the human gene pool is actually much smaller than anyone thinks and wonder how many guys who think they are fathers really are.
          In a mixed group, pretty much all the women will usually go for the same 1 guy, all others might as well leave.
          Very much like lion prides, wolf packs or deer herds.
          The fact that White girls are undefended today is, at least in part, their own fault, having demonized and beaten down White guys for at least as long as I’ve been alive, maybe even longer, often even siding with the aggressors against their own men.
          In addition to that, White guys have become soft, lazy, complacent, docile, domesticated (‘verhausschweint’, if you will), pacifist, nerdy, video-gamey, Googly, Twittery, you get the idea.

          • Our son talks about this in connection with the formerly tough Scots Irish people who settled Appalachia, some of whom he lives among. He thinks when the downturn comes their genetic heritage will re-assert itself and the mounds of blubbery government food adipose tissue will melt away – bec there won’t be any government food by then.

            As hard as that is, I hope he’s right. Meth will only carry you so far when the rest of your hollow is busy figuring out how to survive the coming winter…and thinking your addled brain is of no use to them.

Comments are closed.