Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/22/2017

Once again, the news feed is extraordinarily light. There must be nothing happening in the world this weekend…

Two Islamic terrorists trained by the Islamic State were killed in a shootout with police in the Stavropol region of southern Russia. Meanwhile, the federal migration office (BAMF) in Germany says that tens of thousands of, ahem, retired Taliban fighters may have entered Germany in the last two years disguised as migrants.

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Thanks to AF, FB, Reader from Chicago, Red Mike, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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USA
» Alex Jones, On Trial, Blames George Soros for Causing Marijuana-Induced Brain Damage
» College Republicans, YAF Threaten Legal Action Over Ann Coulter Berkeley Event
» Muslim Professor Arrested for Lying About Hate Crime
 
Europe and the EU
» EU Mulls Legislation in the Fight Against Online Hate Speech
» French Overseas Territories Kick Off Key Presidential Vote
» French Police Mourn Xavier, Another Colleague Killed in the Name of Terrorism
» Geert Wilders on Paris Attack: Europeans on Islamic Death List
» Marine Le Pen: Islamism Has Declared War on Our Nation, On Reason, On Civilisation
» Suspected Stockholm Truck Attacker Involved in ‘Extensive IDs Trade’ In Sweden — Report
 
Russia
» Report: Islamic State-Trained Militants Die in Shootout in Stavropol Region of Southern Russia
 
Australia — Pacific
» The Perfect Landing! Incredible Moment Cyclist is Thrown Into the Air After High-Speed Crash… But Lands Safely on the Car’s Roof and Sits Patiently Until Driver Pulls Over
 
Immigration
» Canadian Family Blames ‘Bureaucratic Lunacy’ After Losing Fight to Remain as Rural Scottish Shopkeepers
» Italy Hands First of 10 Boats to Libya for Migrant Rescues
» Pope Says Some Refugee Centers ‘Concentration Camps’
» Thousands of Ex-Taliban Fighters May Have Entered Germany: Report
 

Alex Jones, On Trial, Blames George Soros for Causing Marijuana-Induced Brain Damage

Media personality and controversial conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, while testifying in court, insisted that billionaire political donor George Soros has “brain damaged a lot of people” with marijuana.

As national media monitor the ongoing custody case currently unfolding in Texas between Mr. Jones and his former wife, Thursday’s accusation reverberated well beyond the Austin courthouse where a judge will soon decide the fate of the couple’s three children.

Witnesses said the quip occurred during cross-examination Thursday when Mr. Jones was asked about his marijuana use.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

College Republicans, YAF Threaten Legal Action Over Ann Coulter Berkeley Event

In a second legal letter, the Berkeley College Republicans and the Young America’s Foundation have demanded that administrators allow Ann Coulter’s upcoming lecture to proceed as it was originally scheduled.

The letter, which was the second message sent from attorney Harmeet K. Dhillon to university administrators, is in response to communication with Berkeley’s Chief Campus Counsel and Associate General Counsel Christopher Patti and claims that the Berkeley College Republicans will pursue legal action if the university fails to protect Coulter’s First Amendment right to speak on campus.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Muslim Professor Arrested for Lying About Hate Crime

A Muslim professor at Indiana State University lied about receiving threatening emails and being attacked on campus, police say.

Azhar Hussain, 56, assistant professor of aviation technology, was arrested on Friday and charged with felony charge of obstruction of justice and misdemeanor harassment, according to Terre Haute’s Tribune-Star.

On March 8, Hussain claimed to have received threatening emails containing anti-Muslim sentiments. And on March 24, Hussain claimed that he was attacked from behind while entering his campus office.

But the professor fabricated all of the incidents, police say.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

EU Mulls Legislation in the Fight Against Online Hate Speech

The European Union is considering legislative measures to harmonize how online platforms like Facebook (FB.O), Twitter (TWTR.N) and Google (GOOGL.O) take down hate speech and incitement to violence, a draft document seen by Reuters shows.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

French Overseas Territories Kick Off Key Presidential Vote

French overseas territories and residents in some U.S. states such as Hawaii began voting on Saturday in the French presidential election, a day ahead of a main first-round vote that could change the global political landscape.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

French Police Mourn Xavier, Another Colleague Killed in the Name of Terrorism

The shooting of a French police officer on the Champs-Elysées has once again left France’s forces of law and order in mourning. Here’s what we know about the victim who has been named as Xavier Jugélé.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Geert Wilders on Paris Attack: Europeans on Islamic Death List

Dutch politician, Geert Wilders, a contemporary of Marine Le Pen and Donald Trump, released a powerful response to the latest terrorist attack in Paris, as the French head to the polls to decide the direction of their imperiled nation.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Marine Le Pen: Islamism Has Declared War on Our Nation, On Reason, On Civilisation

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has denounced radical Islam as “a monstrous totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on reason, on civilisation,” after a deadly Kalashnikov attack on police officers in Paris.

“Hate preachers must be expelled, the Islamist mosques closed,” the Front National leader declared, lambasting the Socialist Party government as “notoriously feeble”. …

Ms Le Pen’s main rival for the presidency, former Rothschild banker Emmanuel Macron, was the Socialist economy minister until recently, and struck a very different tone following the attack, telling RTL France he would not invent an anti-terror programme in response to the police killing.

In another interview shortly after the shooting, Macron described radical Islamic terrorism as and “imponderable problem” which would be “part of our daily lives for the years to come”. …

Macron’s comments may prove to be a serious misstep. The presidential hopes of former colleague and prime minister Manuel Valls were dashed after he made a similar statement following the Nice lorry attack, saying “Times have changed and we should learn to live with terrorism” and earning a furious public backlash.

A majority of France’s paramilitary police force — the Gendarmerie — were already planning to vote for Ms Le Pen before the recent killing, well ahead of Macron.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Suspected Stockholm Truck Attacker Involved in ‘Extensive IDs Trade’ In Sweden — Report

An Uzbek citizen who is the suspect in the recent Stockholm terrorist attack has allegedly come to Sweden with a purchased visa, local media reports, adding that “an extensive trade” of documents is happening in the country.

Fake ID cards, employment papers, marriage certificates and driving licenses can be bought in Sweden “right in the open,” according to a report by radio broadcaster Sveriges Radio.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Report: Islamic State-Trained Militants Die in Shootout in Stavropol Region of Southern Russia

RUSSIAN security forces have killed two armed militants who had been trained by Islamic State and were planning a series of “terrorist crimes”, Russian news agencies report.

The National Anti-Terror Committee said on Saturday the two men had been killed in the Stavropol region of southern Russia after a shootout with security forces who had tried to stop their car.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

The Perfect Landing! Incredible Moment Cyclist is Thrown Into the Air After High-Speed Crash… But Lands Safely on the Car’s Roof and Sits Patiently Until Driver Pulls Over

A Melbourne cyclist has had an incredibly lucky escape after being hit and thrown into the air by a moving car, only to land safely on its roof.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Canadian Family Blames ‘Bureaucratic Lunacy’ After Losing Fight to Remain as Rural Scottish Shopkeepers

The fight by a Canadian family to remain in Scotland and keep running a rural Highland community’s only general store has ended in bitter defeat.

Jason and Christy Zielsdorf, originally from Calgary, along with their five children, have reluctantly shuttered their “wee shop” and café, are packing their belongings and one-way tickets to Toronto are booked for May 4 after a public battle with Britain’s immigration office.

“We were hoping that interventions might be successful and in some ways they were, but that’s only bought an ambiguous almost-extra year,” Jason Zielsdorf said in a phone interview Friday.

“Now there is more resolve on our own parts to leave, for the sake of our kids, to take them out of the ambiguity and to stop playing with, basically, a government department that is just crooked.

“The only real, legal way forward to extend the stay is to appeal along a human rights avenue and just kind of beg your way in. I don’t need to beg my way in. That’s not what I’m willing to do.”

The bureaucratic snag that doomed the Zielsdorfs’ life in Scotland made their fight something of a cause célèbre, grabbing headlines in the boisterous press, mentions in the U.K.’s House of Commons and petitions from supportive friends and outraged strangers…

           — Hat tip: Red Mike [Return to headlines]
 

Italy Hands First of 10 Boats to Libya for Migrant Rescues

GAETA, Italy (AP) — Italy has given the Libyan coast guard the first two of 10 boats to rescue migrants from foundering smugglers’ boats, as part of a strategy Rome hopes will reduce the huge numbers of the rescued from reaching Italian shores.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Pope Says Some Refugee Centers ‘Concentration Camps’

Pope Francis on Saturday described some of Europe’s refugee centers as “concentration camps” as he paid tribute to an unknown Christian woman slain for her faith in front of her Muslim husband.

“These refugee camps — so many are concentration camps, crowded with people… because international accords seem more important than human rights,” Francis said in impromptu remarks at a ceremony in memory of modern day Christian martyrs.

[sampling of the comments from the Yahoo feed:]

When 85% of the so-called refuges are men between 16 and 35, it is an invasion, not a refugee crisis.

Until you open Vatican City and let a few thousand of them stay there, just shut up.

Yes Pope, please show us where the residents are being tattooed for identification, starved and killed. Then, maybe THEN, we’ll listen to your guano

And how many “refugees” has the Pope invited into the Vatican? He really needs to stop the political #$%$ and deal with pedophile priests

There’s FOUR BILLION AFRICANS by 2027, seriously Europe will be an archaeologic cesspool without a single White person in it in no time if the migrants aren’t stopped AND sent back. Africans exterminate Whites in Africa, they’ll do the same in Europe. Same with moslems.

“Progressive” globalists like the Pope have infiltrated Christian institutions and are openly spreading Islam. This Pope doesn’t spread the gospel of Christ he spreads the gospel of Globalism and the deceitful virtues of Islam.

This is what happens when George Soros buys a Pope.

So let them stay in Vatican, now that Europe has been Destroyed!

           — Hat tip: FB [Return to headlines]
 

Thousands of Ex-Taliban Fighters May Have Entered Germany: Report

Thousands of former Taliban fighters may have entered Germany over the past two years among an influx of more than a million migrants and refugees, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Saturday.

Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) informed security officials that thousands of migrants had identified themselves as former Taliban insurgents during the asylum application process, the magazine said.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

3 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/22/2017

  1. ‘Thousands of Ex-Taliban (nothing ex there when it comes to Islam) may have entered Germany……’

    I would say that supposition is a dead certainty that only a useful idiot would try to refute.

  2. And on the pretend Pope. Is this Jesuit so assured of his own kind of ‘superior thinking’ that he believes whatever he utters, and that many seem to now reject, has anything at all to do with the teachings of Christ or the now apparent to many, agenda of the Vatican?

  3. On Saturday April 22, the Tri-State Islamic Center hosted an open house for the general public. The mosque opened on Dec. 1, 2016 in the City of Dubuque, Iowa.

    A reporter for the Telegraph Herald newspaper named Alicia Yager (alicia.yager@thmedia.com) reported about Saturday’s event with glowing quotes from members and leaders of the mosque, as well as positive remarks from the general public who were in attendance.

    Among those in attendance were John Eby, a professor from Loras College in Dubuque and member of the Children of Abraham organization. Also, the Dubuque Police Chief, Mark Dalsing, took upon himself to learn more about Islam and has formed friendships with center (mosque) members.

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