Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/21/2017

The mayor of Minneapolis, Betsy Hodges, asked for and received the resignation of Police Chief Janee Harteau today. Mayor Hodges said she had lost confidence in the chief after last Saturday’s fatal shooting of an unarmed woman by Officer Mohamed Noor.

In other news, the British Museum in London was evacuated today so that a controlled explosion could be carried out on a suspicious vehicle parked near the building.

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Financial Crisis
» 4.7mn Italians in Absolute Poverty in 2016 — ISTAT
 
USA
» Craven Maine Democrats Block Bill to Protect Safety of Little Girls
» Justice for Justine: Hundreds of Protesters March Through the Streets of Minneapolis to Honour the Life of Australian Woman Shot Dead by Cop
» Minneapolis Police Chief Resigns in Wake of Shooting Death of an Unarmed Australian Woman by Officer
» Newsweek Takes Down Fabricated Sputnik-Trump Collusion Stories After Settlement
» Oakland Man Charged With Supporting ISIS
» Oddities of the Noor Shooting
» Pentagon Dumps $65 Million Into Mind-Control Project
» Peoria House Destroyed in Explosion
 
Europe and the EU
» British Museum Evacuated: Controlled Explosion of Unattended Vehicle Carried Out After ‘Security Concern’
» Italian MP Wants Italy to Leave the European Union
» Italy: Finance Police Request Credit Suisse Policy Names
» Italy: Labour Undersecretary Cassano Quits
» Italy: PD Councillor Suggests Killed G8 Protestor Had it Coming
» Sweden: A Failed State?
» The Worst Ideological Enemy of the US is Now Europe
» Tusk in Astonishing Attack on Duda as Warsaw Defies EU
» UK: Armed Police Patrol Keswick Convention
» UK: Builder ‘Hacks up Teenager’ In Suspected Honor Killing at £1.5m London Home
 
Middle East
» Is Turkey Becoming Another Iran?
 
South Asia
» Muslim Neighbors Advise Hindus to Leave Pakistan for Making 100% Islamic Brotherhood
 
Australia — Pacific
» ‘He Was So Proud of His Daughters’: Emotional Friends and Colleagues Pay Tribute at the Funeral for Heart Surgeon Killed in One-Punch Attack Outside the Hospital Where He Worked
» Victim Blasts ‘Remorseless’ Vandal Who Escaped Jail Despite Laughing as He Smashed Through 68 Graves at Sydney Cemetery
 
Latin America
» Venezuela Opposition Congress Names Alternative Supreme Court Judges
 
Immigration
» Asylum Seeker Claims ‘Overwhelming’ German Courts Claims Judge
» Ex Italian PM Tells EU Their Relationship is Hitting Rock Bottom
» Greece: Police Crack Ring That Set up Sham Marriages
» ‘I Will Kill the English’ Illegal Migrant Escapes Deportation After Storming Church
» Iraqi Man Threatened to “Kill All the English” After Bursting Into Church Service in Barnard Castle
» Italy Takes No Lessons, Says Gentiloni After Visegrad ‘Close Ports’ Call on Migrants
» Over 93,000 Migrant Arrivals to Italy in 2017 — IOM
» Sessions: Sanctuary Cities Helping MS-13
» Study: German Media Was Wholly “Uncritical” During Migrant Crisis
» Sweden: Efforts to Educate Migrants Stall as Just Three Per Cent Want to Try Learning
» ‘They’ll Become Terrorists’: Millionaire Entrepreneur Dick Smith Says High Immigration Will Create an Angry Underclass of Unemployed — and Likens Population Growth to Cancer
» UK’s Refugee System Criticized: Syrian Family’s Hotel Stay Tops £28k
 

4.7mn Italians in Absolute Poverty in 2016 — ISTAT

1.62 households, figures steady over 2015

(ANSA) — Rome, July 13 — Some 4.742 million Italians in 1.619 million households were in absolute poverty in 2016, ISTAT said Thursday, saying the figures were steady over 2015. But the rate of absolute poverty rose from 18.3% to 26.8% between 2015 and 2016 among households with three or more minor children, affecting 137,7771 households and 814,402 individuals.

The rate also rose among minors, from 10.9% to 12.5% (1.292 million). ISTAT said absolute poverty was double if the head of the household was a factory worker, and that 8.465 million people were in relative poverty.

The no.2 of the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI), Msgr Nunzio Galantino, condemned the figures. “I should like these huge figures to move consciences and political agendas,” said the CEI secretary-general, adding that “there are enormous outcasts that cannot be left at the margins”.

Politicians, especially opposition ones, called on the government to combat this “scourge”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Craven Maine Democrats Block Bill to Protect Safety of Little Girls

by John Moody

The motto of the state of Maine isDirigo — Latin for ‘I lead’. Bellwether wants to know who’s leading the fight to protect little girls in Maine from genital mutilation.

A Republican-sponsored bill to outlaw the barbaric procedure is being opposed by Democrats, who say they fear it will offend the cultural sensitivity of the approximately 10,000 Somalis living in the state. But there’s an uglier, more malevolent reason lurking behind the scenes.

Female genital mutilation — in which a young girl’s clitoris is cut out and her vagina stitched closed — is commonly practiced in Somalia, where it is estimated 90 percent of the female population has undergone the ritual. The intention is to ensure that girls remain chaste until they are married, and that they derive no pleasure from sexual activity.

With the arrival over the past several years of thousands of Somali refugees and asylum seekers in Maine, the tradition of FGM also crossed the ocean. So-called “cutters”, who are usually female midwives, often perform the procedure without anesthesia and with dirty razor blades. Some victims suffer from urinary tract problems as a result.

“I had never heard of it, when someone first brought to my attention that it could be happening here,” says state Rep. Heather Sirocki, a Republican. “I said, ‘You’re kidding me, right?’“ Once she was convinced it was no joke, Sirocki introduced legislation to ban genital mutilation in Maine. Such was her initial naïveté, she thought the bill would pass unanimously…

           — Hat tip: Thucydides [Return to headlines]
 

Justice for Justine: Hundreds of Protesters March Through the Streets of Minneapolis to Honour the Life of Australian Woman Shot Dead by Cop

Hundreds of protesters have marched through the streets of Minneapolis to honour the life of an Australian woman shot dead by a cop.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Minneapolis Police Chief Resigns in Wake of Shooting Death of an Unarmed Australian Woman by Officer

Janee Harteau resigned amid calls for new leadership in the department following the shooting last week. In a statement released Friday, Harteau said: “I’ve decided I am willing to step aside to let a fresh set of leadership eyes see what more can be done for the MPD to be the very best it can be.” Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges said she asked for the chief’s resignation.

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

Newsweek Takes Down Fabricated Sputnik-Trump Collusion Stories After Settlement

Former print magazine and current online publication Newsweek took down a pair of falsified articles by infamous writer Kurt Eichenwald following a legal settlement reached with a former Sputnik journalist Eichenwald smeared.

Newsweek deleted the stories smearing William Moran and claiming that Sputnik News colluded with the Trump campaign.

Eichenwald, a senior writer for Newsweek, has been repeatedly caught lying, falsifying sources and making up stories, but because he remained dedicated to the mainstream media narrative, his transgressions never hurt his career, but rather have propelled it. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Eichenwald found a new bandwagon and decided to become the smearer-in-chief of then-candidate Donald Trump. He falsely claimed that The Donald had been admitted to a psychiatric clinic, but when asked to prove his allegations was unable to produce any evidence. He was one of the first to quote the quickly discredited “Golden Showers” dossier as proof that Trump was a Russian spy and, of course, accused Sputnik of being in cahoots with WikiLeaks and its staff of being not journalists but spies.

It was the final claim that finally got Eichenwald in trouble, taken down by a young journalist and lawyer who refused to be bought off or intimidated.

Now, two of the publication’s most popular stories of 2016, “Dear Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, I am not Sidney Blumenthal” and “How I Got Slimed by Russian Propaganda Site Sputnik,” have gone dark following a settlement reached with former Sputnik writer William Moran. Those unfamiliar with the background of the story can read about it here, but in short, Moran, in reading a release of Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta’s emails by WikiLeaks, mistakenly attributed an article by Eichenwald to Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal and wrote a piece based on this erroneous attribution. Moran realized his mistake within 20 minutes and deleted the article, but its brief online life was enough for Eichenwald to come up with a wild conspiracy theory connecting Sputnik, WikiLeaks and the Trump campaign, as Trump gave a speech at a rally the same day, quoting the same tweet that had confused Moran and led to the story mistake.

After Moran reached out to Eichenwald, trying to explain what really happened and request a retraction, Eichenwald instead offered him a job as a political reporter with The New Republic in exchange for silence. When the young journalist refused and went public with his explanation of events and Eichenwald’s bullying, the Newsweek writer doubled down on his claims.

Smearing Trump as a Putin puppet and Sputnik journalists as Russian spies earned Eichenwald top slots on cable news channels: he was greeted as an American hero. The real story behind the scandal remained largely uncovered by the mainstream press.

Moran left Sputnik after the scandal. A recent Georgetown law graduate, he decided to pursue legal action against Newsweek and despite facing a team of high-paid lawyers, managed to bring the online publication to a humiliating settlement.

In a statement, Moran said, “The lawsuit has been settled amicably and to my satisfaction. After the settlement, Newsweek removed Eichenwald’s two stories ‘Dear Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, I am not Sidney Blumenthal’ and ‘How I Got Slimed by Russian Propagandist Site Sputnik.’“

“I brought this case before I was admitted to the bar and was up against the talented attorneys at mega law firm Pepper Hamilton. In recent weeks, I was admitted to the bar and anybody in need of a good libel attorney should contact me through my website www.moranmedialaw.com,” he continued.

“As for any possible questions regarding the terms, I have no comment as the parties to the agreement have agreed to keep the terms confidential.”

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

Oakland Man Charged With Supporting ISIS

SAN FRANCISCO — A 22 year-old Oakland man has been charged with supporting ISIS, federal prosecutors announced Friday.

A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted Amer Sinan Alhaggagi on Thursday on charges of attempting to provide material support to ISIS between July and November 2016, according to a news release from the office of U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch.

Alhaggagi allegedly attempted to open social media accounts for the use and benefit of ISIS.

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

Oddities of the Noor Shooting

John and Scott have both offered long posts about the shooting of Justine Damond by Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor, and I have only two questions to add.

First, I am surprised I haven’t seen more questions or comments about a most peculiar aspect of the story—that officer Noor fired at Damond from the passenger seat out the driver’s side window, meaning he shot past his partner. I am no expert in police procedure, let alone handguns, but this strikes me as beyond strange, as well as highly dangerous (to the other officer’s hearing, if nothing else). I would think that police training would discourage this kind of weapons discharge, but perhaps members of law enforcement among our readers can comment more knowledgeably than I can about this detail.

Second and related, a question that I am sure the mainstream media will not ask, and the Minneapolis political class will suppress if asked in any case, is whether officer Noor was qualified to be a police officer as part of an affirmative action push to get a Somali officer on the force. It would be interesting to see his test scores and training evaluations from whatever police academy he went through. Is there evidence of political pressure to qualify Noor for active duty? Normally I wait for more facts to emerge before engaging in speculation on stories like this, except that this is one question that, as I say, is certain to be suppressed.

           — Hat tip: LP [Return to headlines]
 

Pentagon Dumps $65 Million Into Mind-Control Project

The Pentagon’s research arm — the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA — just received $65 million from American taxpayers to develop a way to plug a human brain directly into a computer. According to an announcement by DARPA, the project will create a way to “enable rich two-way communication with the brain at a scale that will help deepen our understanding of that organ’s underlying biology, complexity, and function.” If successful, the Neural Engineering System Design (NESD) will give the Pentagon power to “support potential future therapies for sensory restoration.”

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

Peoria House Destroyed in Explosion

PEORIA — A Peoria home was destroyed late Friday afternoon by an apparent explosion.

No one was home at the time and no Peoria firefighters were injured while battling the intense fire and heat. Smoke billowed throughout the neighborhood near Norwood and Atlantic avenue as two fire trucks and several engines arrived to battle the blaze. Many in the neighborhood sat on their lawns watching the firefighters battle the blaze which gutted the home.

Police blocked off an area two blocks away from the house, located at 1108 E. Norwood Ave.

A firefighter was on his way home, saw the house ablaze and then called in the fire to dispatch, said Bud Sous, the acting battalion chief.

The chief said the firefighters made a quick attack on the fire shortly after 5 p.m. when they arrived but quickly, the home became unstable and there was a threat of the roof collapsing. That forced firefighters to take a defensive posture and use the ladder trucks to pour water on the house from a safe distance without risking people getting hurt.

Neighbors across the street said they heard a loud boom. One woman, Yvonne O’Berg, who lives across the street from 1108 E. Norwood Ave., said the windows of the house were blown out. Another woman, Eleanor Stengler, said she heard the boom and then a few minutes later, the fire trucks.

The humid afternoon, with a heat index around 100, made the firefighting all the more difficult. Coolers with water and ice were stationed through the area…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

British Museum Evacuated: Controlled Explosion of Unattended Vehicle Carried Out After ‘Security Concern’

The British Museum has been evacuated amid a “security concern” after a suspicious vehicle was spotted outside the London attraction.

Families enjoying a day out at the start of the school holidays were reportedly thrown into panic when they were suddenly asked to leave.

The popular attraction said on Twitter: “The Museum is evacuated temporarily due to a security concern nearby. We apologise and will update when we can.”

Several people took to social media to describe the disruption, with one person tweeting: “I’ve just been in a British Museum evacuation and it was total chaos.”

“Russell Square closed and controlled explosion has taken place. Trying to get to hotel for wedding reception,” another person tweeted.

One said: “Suspicious package in Russell Square. Roads and park cordoned off. Our offices evacuated.”…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Italian MP Wants Italy to Leave the European Union

AN ITALIAN MP challenged the Italian Government to hold a referendum as the country’s relationship with the EU sours over the migrant crisis.

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

Italy: Finance Police Request Credit Suisse Policy Names

Petition to Swiss authorities in relation to tax-evasion probe

(ANSA) — Rome, July 20 — Italy’s finance police have presented a request to the Swiss authorities for the names of the Italian beneficiaries of the Credit Suisse insurance policies at the centre of a tax-evastion probe. That investigation led to an agreement in October for the company to pay 109 million euros to the Italian tax authorities. According to investigators, the policies were a ruse to enable Italian clients to take money over the border and hide it from the taxman.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Labour Undersecretary Cassano Quits

Senator set to leave AP, join Forza Italia

(ANSA) — Rome, July 21 — Senator Massimo Cassano announced Friday that he has quit as labour ministry undersecretary.

Cassano is a member of the centrist AP group, a junior partner in the ruling coalition, but looks set to leave and join Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right opposition Forza Italia. Enrico Costa quit as regional affairs minister this week and also left AP for Forza Italia.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: PD Councillor Suggests Killed G8 Protestor Had it Coming

Party set to discipline Urbisaglia over Facebook comment

(ANSA) — Rome, July 21 — Premier Paolo Gentiloni’s Democratic Party (PD) is set to punish a councillor for the centre-left group in Ancona for suggesting Carlo Giuliani, a protestor shot dead by a young Carabinieri policeman doing military service during the 2001 Genoa G8, had it coming.

Giuliani was shot as he was attacking a police vehicle with a fire extinguisher.

“Today in 2017 I am a father and if my son were in there I’d shout at him to shoot and aim well,” PD councillor Diego Urbisaglia said on his Facebook page. “Yes, I am bad and heartless, but that was a question of the life of one or the other. Extinguisher against gun.

“I won’t miss you Carlo Giuliani”. Urbisaglia made an apology of sorts after the comments caused controversy.

“I have said sorry for the bitter tone used, but the concept remains,” he said.

“I correct the words but not the concept”. Lorenzo Guerini, the coordinator of the secretariat of the Democratic Party (PD), said Urbisaglia would be disciplined.

“What councillor Urbisaglia said is totally unacceptable and unjustifiable,” Guerini said. “That is why I have asked the competent committee to take the punishment procedures in our statute”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Sweden: A Failed State?

Sweden increasingly resembles a failed state: In the 61 “no-go zones”, there are 200 criminal networks with an estimated 5,000 criminals who are members. Twenty-three of those no-go zones are especially critical: children as young as 10 years old are involved in serious crimes there, including weapons and drugs, and are literally being trained to become hardened criminals.

The trouble, however, extends beyond organized crime. In June, Swedish police in the city of Trollhättan, during a riot in the Kronogården suburb, were attacked by approximately a hundred masked migrant youths, mainly Somalis. The rioting continued for two nights.

Violent riots, however, are just part of Sweden’s security problems. In 2010, according to the government, there were “only” 200 radical Islamists in Sweden. In June, the head of the Swedish Security Service (Säpo), Anders Thornberg, told the Swedish media that the country is experiencing a “historical” challenge in having to deal with thousands of “radical Islamists in Sweden”. The jihadists and jihadist supporters are mainly concentrated in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and Örebro, according to Säpo. “This is the ‘new normal’ … It is an historic challenge that extremist circles are growing,” Thornberg said. …

Even after all this, the Swedish state, in true Orwellian style, fights those Swedish citizens who point out the obvious problems that migrants are causing. When police officer Peter Springare said in February that migrants were committing a disproportionate amount of crime in the suburbs, he was investigated for inciting “racial hatred”.

Currently, a 70-year-old Swedish pensioner is being prosecuted for “hate speech”, for writing on Facebook that migrants “set fire to cars, and urinate and defecate on the streets”.

With thousands of jihadists all over Sweden, what could be more important than prosecuting a Swedish pensioner for writing on Facebook?

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

The Worst Ideological Enemy of the US is Now Europe

Europe is the worst enemy of the US? You cannot be serious. Islamism, Russia, illegal immigrants… whatever, but surely not Europe! Are we not still together in NATO? Do we not conduct huge amounts of trade every day? Do we not share the same cultural roots, the same civilization, the same vision of the future? Did France not give the US her famous Statue of Liberty — “Liberty Enlightening the World?”

Not anymore. In a sense, Europe looks like a continent where American Democrats have been in power for 30 years, not only in the European states, but also at the level of the European Union.

In the US, the political spectrum still spans a vast range of views between Democrats and Republicans, globalists and nationalists, pro-lifers and pro-choicers, pro-government control and pro-individuals’ control, and pro-whatever. Even today with a president and a Supreme Court clearly on the political “Right” these divisions, and the all-important separation of powers, allow for and encourage vigorous debate. By contrast, in Europe, at the “official” level, such a spectrum of views no longer exists. …

By contrast, in Europe, the topic of “illegal” migrants is effectively forbidden. The continent has recently been invaded by millions of migrants — many apparently arriving under the false pretense of being refugees, even according to the United Nations.

One of the reasons is the open-door policy of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who allowed over a million mostly Muslim migrants to enter Germany, not only without extreme vetting, but with no vetting at all.

There is, however, another, more structural cause for the current situation. In 2012, the ECHR enacted the so-called “HIRSI” ruling, named after the court case of Hirsi Jamaa and Others v. Italy, which states that the European states have the legal obligation to rescue migrants wherever they find them in the Mediterranean Sea — even just 200 meters away from the Libyan coast — and ferry them to the European shores, so that these people can claim the status of refugee. …

The European people, of course, still share the common values of Western civilization. The “Visegrad Group” of countries in Central Europe, for instance — the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia — do not accept the German diktat to relocate Muslim refugees. Parts of Western Europe, such as the northern Flemish-speaking part of Belgium, are also pretty tired of the whole European mess, and Merkel will not embody the leadership of Germany forever.

Americans, therefore, would do well to understand that for the time being the “Cultural Left” is so deeply entrenched in Western Europe and the EU, that their worst ideological enemy is not the Middle East or Russia: it is Europe.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Tusk in Astonishing Attack on Duda as Warsaw Defies EU

TENS of thousands of Poles protested against a new law that allows parliament to appoint Supreme Court judges, defying a European Union warning that the move undermines democracy and the rule of law.

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

UK: Armed Police Patrol Keswick Convention

Armed police and barriers are being brought in to help protect Christians attending the Keswick Convention in Cumbria against any potential terror threat.

Extra security measures are being put in place for the three-week festival, as officials say they are not taking risks in light of recent attacks in Manchester and London. Organisers stress there is no information to suggest a specific threat.

Armed police will patrol the Skiddaw Street and Rawnsley premises, according to the Carlisle-based newspaper, News and Star. Organiser, Keswick Ministries has also hired its own professionally trained security team.

           — Hat tip: DK [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Builder ‘Hacks up Teenager’ In Suspected Honor Killing at £1.5m London Home

A BUILDER allegedly hacked up a teenage girl and stuffed her dead body in the freezer as part of a suspected honour killing.

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

Is Turkey Becoming Another Iran?

[…]

Here is a short list of some of the latest developments in Turkish schools and their curricula:

Turkey to stop teaching evolution in secondary schools as part of new national curriculum

Evolution will no longer be taught in Turkish secondary schools after being described as a “controversial subject” by the government. The head of the education ministry’s curriculum board, Alpaslan Durmus, said a section on Darwinism would be cut from biology classes from 2019.

“We have excluded controversial subjects for students at an age unable yet to understand the issues’ scientific background,” he told a seminar in Ankara, according to Hurriyet Daily News.

“Jihad” in compulsory school curricula

So the question naturally arises what exactly will Turkish schoolchildren be taught instead. The answer is “jihad.” Turkey is in the process of including the concept of jihad in compulsory school curricula. According to a statement issued in January by the Turkish Ministry of National Education, Turkish textbooks will be teaching “jihad” as a “value” in classes at Imam Hatip middle schools (schools that offer an Islamic curriculum to pupils).

At a press conference, Ismet Yilmaz, the minister of national education, explained the details of the new curricula to the press. According to the newspaper Cumhuriyet, jihad will be taught in seventh grade while pupils study the fundamentals of “tawhid” (oneness of God) and wahdat (Islamic unity) civilization.”

In eighth grade, jihad will also be taught under the title “Struggling on the Path to Allah: Jihad” under the chapter called “Worshipping Allah.”

1.5 million Imam Hatip students across Turkey

Under Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP), the number of Imam Hatip schools has ballooned from 500 to 3,500, with enrollment surging from 60,000 to 1,500,000 since the AKP first came to power in 2002.

The first Imam Hatip schools in Turkey were opened in 1924 during the rule of the Republic’s first president, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, as vocational schools to train government-employed imams and Islamic scholars.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Muslim Neighbors Advise Hindus to Leave Pakistan for Making 100% Islamic Brotherhood

114 Pakistani Hindus are Indian citizens now in Gujarat. Facing Islamic attacks and threats in Pakistan they took shelters in India.

Swati Jain | HENB | Ahmedabad | Jul 21, 2017:: Nandlal Meghani’s, Kishanlal Andani’s, Dr Vishandas Mankani’s joy knows no bounds. They are among the fortunate 114 Pakistan citizens granted with Indian citizenship. They all received their Indian citizenship certificates today. But, these migrated people recall the days of threats and attacks in Pakistan for which they left Islamic Pakistan facing most critical times. Though these ‘New Indians’ are feeling lucky, but they express their anxieties for the minorities in Pakistan who are still living in the crime and terror hub in Pakistan and not getting any scope to leave that land of perils.

Attacks on religious places, encroachment on landed properties, ransom on business, abduction, forced conversion and marriage, murder by terrorism, tangle in blasphemy are the main causes for which the minorities in Pakistan are leaving their motherland.

High crime rate in Pakistan leads daily attacks on Hindus

Sharing the daily attacks on Hindu minorities and increasing terrorism in Pakistan, Nandlal Meghani, 50, a resident of Ghatlodia, told HENB, “I along with my wife and daughter came to India 16 years ago from Sindh in Pakistan. We compelled to sell our home and business in much less price to make a new start here in India. We were impressed with the common man’s life here as soon as we arrived and applied for the Indian citizenship. The main reason to opt for Indian citizenship was the high crime rate in Pakistan and that also targeted to the Hindu minorities there. Even our Muslim neighbours back in Pakistan encouraged us to shift to India, looking at widespread terrorism and attacks on minorities there.” Meghani was engaged in auto parts business in Pakistan. In India, he started afresh by starting a home renovation firm. His sons are engaged in medical stores.

           — Hat tip: Upananda Brahmachari [Return to headlines]
 

‘He Was So Proud of His Daughters’: Emotional Friends and Colleagues Pay Tribute at the Funeral for Heart Surgeon Killed in One-Punch Attack Outside the Hospital Where He Worked

Friends and colleagues of Melbourne’s Dr Patrick Pritzwald-Stegmann gathered for an emotional memorial service, four weeks after he became the victim of an alleged one-punch attack.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Victim Blasts ‘Remorseless’ Vandal Who Escaped Jail Despite Laughing as He Smashed Through 68 Graves at Sydney Cemetery

A Sydney grandson has blasted former stone mason Naseem Raad citing he had better ‘neck up,’ after escaping jail time for his despicable crimes.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Venezuela Opposition Congress Names Alternative Supreme Court Judges

CARACAS (Reuters) — Venezuela’s opposition-led congress on Friday appointed alternative judges to the country’s Supreme Court, whose current pro-government members have been a bedrock of support for leftist President Nicolas Maduro.

While widely seen as symbolic, the move raises the specter of the development of a parallel state. The top court has warned that the naming of the alternate judges is illegal, and they could be jailed.

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

Asylum Seeker Claims ‘Overwhelming’ German Courts Claims Judge

GERMAN courts are on the brink of collapse as they are being “overwhelmed” by asylum seeker appeals and applications, a top judge has warned.

Robert Seegmuller, chairman of the Association of German Administrative Law Judges, claimed the sheer number of migrants challenging the decision of immigration authorities has put a huge strain on the judicial system.

And he says the amount of appeals is overwhelming the civil courts in the country to the point they could collapse under the weight of the cases.

He said: “The situation is dramatic for administrative courts. We are now completely stretched to our limits.”

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

Ex Italian PM Tells EU Their Relationship is Hitting Rock Bottom

A FORMER Italian prime minister blasted the European Union’s dealing of migrants saying Italy’s relationship with the bloc is going “down, down, down”.

Romano Prodi, who led the country from 2006 to 2008, said boats from EU member states that were “rescuing” migrants who then ended up on the Italian coastline were causing a strain between the country and Brussels bloc.

Mr Prodi, who was also president of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004, added the situation was “desperate” and Italian people were blaming the EU.

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

Greece: Police Crack Ring That Set up Sham Marriages

An accountant, a lawyer and four notaries stand accused of running a network in Athens that helped numerous undocumented migrants gain legal status in Greece through sham weddings and falsified paternity claims, police said Friday.

The mastermind of the racket is thought to be a 59-year-old accountant, who has already been convicted for other offenses, while a 38-year-old lawyer, who is still at large, is believed have acted as her right-hand man.

Police arrested a total of 12 people in the broader Athens area in a crackdown on the racket but another 76 people are believed to have been part of the illegal network.

The gang allegedly approached Greek women who had children that were born out of wedlock and offered them money to falsely declare undocumented migrants as the father. They also arranged fake marriages with Greek women so that their clients could claim citizenship.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

‘I Will Kill the English’ Illegal Migrant Escapes Deportation After Storming Church

A DRUNKEN illegal immigrant has escaped jail even after he threatened to kill churchgoers.

Despite living in the UK for nine years, Iraqi Zana Hassan boasted how much he hated the English before storming into a Methodist church during Sunday service.

After police arrested him he shouted: “I will ******* kill you and kill all the English ********.”

This prompted magistrates this week to ask the Crown Prosecution Service to review the case to decide whether he should face more serious charges.

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

Iraqi Man Threatened to “Kill All the English” After Bursting Into Church Service in Barnard Castle

A DRUNK Iraqi man burst into a Methodist Church mid-service on a Sunday afternoon, marched to the front and started shouting and swearing at the congregation, a court heard.

Zana Hussan said he hated the English before walking into the church in Barnard Castle during the service. After police arrested him he told them “I will f****** kill you and kill all the English bastards”…

           — Hat tip: NB [Return to headlines]
 

Italy Takes No Lessons, Says Gentiloni After Visegrad ‘Close Ports’ Call on Migrants

Premier responds to Visegard group call to close ports

(ANSA) — Turin, July 21 — Premier Paolo Gentiloni said Friday that Italy would not take lessons from its EU partners after the Visegard group leaders sent him a letter calling on Rome to “close the ports” to asylum sekers. “We have the right to demand solidarity from our neighbours, countries with whom we share the European project,” Gentiloni said in Turin. “We don’t accept lessons, nor threatening words. “We limit ourselves to serenely saying that we do our duty and we demand that Europe does it without giving dubious lessons”.

Hungarian Premier Viktor Orban announced Friday that the the four leaders of the Visegrad group, which also includes the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland, had written a letter to Gentiloni calling in it to close its ports to asylum seekers.

In the letter the four said refugees had to be differentiated from economic migrants before they arrived in Europe. According to Orban, who is not ruling out the military option, the problem must be resolved in Libya. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Friday that 93,369 asylum seekers arrived in Italy via sea up to July 19 this year, 85% of the total of 111,514 for the whole of Europe. It said 2,360 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean so far this year.

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Over 93,000 Migrant Arrivals to Italy in 2017 — IOM

85% of the total of 111,000 to come to Europe by sea

(ANSA) — Geneva, July 21 — The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Friday that 93,369 asylum seekers arrived in Italy via sea up to July 19 this year, 85% of the total of 111,514 for the whole of Europe. It said 2,360 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean so far this year.

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Sessions: Sanctuary Cities Helping MS-13

Attorney General Jeff Sessions called out Philadelphia and other sanctuary cities for “giving sanctuary to criminals” in a Friday speech to law enforcement officers.

Sessions has fought against sanctuary immigration policies since his appointment, recently weighing in to support Texas Gov. Greg Abbot’s ban on sanctuary cities in his state. Sessions argued Friday that, aside from the fundamental issue of shirking federal law, sanctuary cities inhibit the Department of Justice from effectively combating drug trafficking and the MS-13 gang.

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Study: German Media Was Wholly “Uncritical” During Migrant Crisis

A new study has slammed German media companies accusing them of promoting the government line and being entirely uncritical of the migrant crisis, instead, spreading only the ideas of “welcome culture.”

The study, carried out by the Hamburg Media School and the University of Leipzig, claims that the mainstream German media took the government policy of German Chancellor Angela Merkel on board without criticism and actively promoted pro-migrant rhetoric. The researchers said the media had adopted the “solutions of the political elite,” Die Welt reports.

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Sweden: Efforts to Educate Migrants Stall as Just Three Per Cent Want to Try Learning

The Swedish government has found that only between three and four percent of newly arrived migrants with a poor standard of education have any interest in attending further schooling or training.

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‘They’ll Become Terrorists’: Millionaire Entrepreneur Dick Smith Says High Immigration Will Create an Angry Underclass of Unemployed — and Likens Population Growth to Cancer

Millionaire entrepreneur Dick Smith predicts Australia will suffer from a spate of terrorist attacks if it continues taking in 200,000 migrants a year. He says poor underclass will turn violent.

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UK’s Refugee System Criticized: Syrian Family’s Hotel Stay Tops £28k

BRITAIN’s refugee system was criticised last night after it was revealed that a Syrian family’s hotel stay while they fight to be allowed to remain in Britain has cost £28,000 so far.

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17 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/21/2017

  1. DARPA experiments need to be reined in. This is not science, but what Churchill warned us about all those decades age, this is perverted science, and a thinking, that will send the world into a darkness never before experienced with little possibility of retaining what it is that makes us all Human, our soul.

  2. IS THE INFIDEL JIHAD STARTING TO LOSE STEAM?

    I believe the Baron gives us fairly free rein in the ‘replies’ to the Newsfeed.

    Is it just me or are green shoots of a particular kind becoming more visible?

    I’m just a private person of counter-jihad persuasion. I don’t run any blog or anything dangerous like that, but I do comment on many places online and on social media.

    Now, is it just me, or has the public become noticeably less hostile to the counterjihad position over say the last six months even? Not in media, but among private people? I’m measuring this only from my kind of experience — low-level commenting online as an individual here and there, and the reaction one gets.

    When you say counterjihad truths in public, the biggest army you face most immediately right now in the West, are an army of non-Muslim Islam-ignorant multicultural, usually politically leftist, virtue-signallers who want to shut you down as an Islamophobic, Xenophobic, bigot-racist etc. Let me label this army the Infidel Jihadists. They are a team of mercenary traitors against Western Civilization, who are fighting on the side of the jihad not for money, but for prestige, and status in their community. Infidel Jihadist foot-soldiers, if you will.

    There is plenty of Infidel Jihad at the organized level, such as Hope not Hate who specializes in it, and many institutions who play a prominent organized role in it even if it is not their specialty, such as the BBC. So I’m not saying that there is a noticeable change at the level of the Infidel Jihad at the organized level just yet.

    I’m thinking that there is a subtle but still noticeable change at the unorganized, grass-roots level, even over the last six months. It’s the ordinary, street multiculturalist who will attack you on social media or in a pub for your views. It is this kind of Infidel Jihad that I think is starting to flag. I think that the atrocities around the world and the growing awareness of the truth of Islam is starting to make their act stale, cloying and now more visibly morally questionable.

    So in a word I think that the morale of the grass-roots Infidel Jihad has waned noticeably over the last six months. In other words, the grass-roots Infidel Jihad may have already just peaked.

    Is this just me?

    • I have noticed many more people having an inkling that there is something awry with Islam. Also, have noticed Muslims coming into Breitbart discussions with praise for Trump and anti-left words, even agreeing with some criticisms of Islam, then launching into crass takiyya. Would be interesting to know how good people are getting at picking up the deceit.

    • After 9/11 when I used to talk about the dangers of Islam I was howled down by almost all around me, including my kids, of course. Now I don’t have to say anything, as every fresh atrocity is on the news for all to see! It won’t be much longer when almost everyone will know of someone who has been slaughtered – and then it hits home. That happened to me in 2002 with the Bali bombing.

      However my Leftie freinds, who are appalled that I have become a ‘Rightwing (ie neo-Nazi) nutcase’, still harp on the fact that the terrorists are only a tiny minority and have little to do with Islam. They themselves have had little to do with Islam either. They have not researched it and they certainly know nothing of its history – nor of any history except how terrible the West has always been.

      My opinion is that my generation (I’m 70) will not reform their views because that would mean they had been misguided for their entire lives, bewitched by Marx at university in the late 1960s – and their egos are too heavily invested in their own virtue to cope with such a personal failure.

      Perhaps the younger ones will wake up more quickly because they have not yet retired from active life.

      • Thanks.

        Actually, I believe that unwillingness to recognize the mistakes one has long made is indeed a big force in jihad denial. And how evil is that — can one even get more evil than that, than sacrificing to one’s own ego the safety and heritage of one’s child and grandchild generation!

      • “Tiny minority”? How tiny?
        One per cent? Half of one per cent? One tenth of one?
        There are 1.6 billion muslims, after all.
        Those would be:
        16 million …. 8 million…. or 1.6 million dangerous violence-users.
        Yes, “tiny”.

    • I’m a very small fish in the counter-Jihad movement myself, and I live in a famously conservative town (or at least it was conservative before the army became so interested in mandating the whitewashing of Islam), but I have lately been followed everywhere I go – possibly by SJWs. I’ve had dead rats in my driveway and three flat tires in the last 11 months, plus mysterious car problems.
      I hope you are correct that average people are waking up from the Orwellian nightmare of mandatory Islamophilia. But the social justice warriors who think feminists should ally themselves with Islamists against humanity’s sole oppressor, the white Capitalist, will personalize this fight with any sort of harassment they can find. The fight is far from over.

      • Right Alice, the fight is far from over. But it is changing. The Infidel Jihad may even pick up at the organized level, or the SJW level. But I’m hoping that it is becoming less tenable among most ordinary people.

        I should point out that I consider the universities to harbor very powerful ‘organized’ Infidel Jihad. So I don’t by any means believe that the tides are turning in our favor there yet….

      • There are inexpensive motion detectors and motion-activated cameras that could be used to good effect around your car. Too, digital cameras have sensors that work in very low light. Your car can be parked in the “dark” but activities around it could still be photographed.

        It would make a fun project to stake out your car. You’ve probably seen the video of the cop who was removing political signs from one person’s lawn. Delicious.

        Same with being followed. You could plan an errand or excursion to places that would require those following you to take routes where they would be exposed and identified by photography.

        Great pseudonym, Alice. Thanks for all that you do.

    • You have to be gentle with the red-pilling process, this isn’t the Matrix.

      Calling for extreme violence is not going to work with the majority of Westerns because they have been programmed to be completely squeamish.

      You have to ease them into it with statements like, “Their tradition is a complete break with ours. They are coming from a totally different perspective that doesn’t include Plato, Socrates, Seneca, Cato, Jesus, St. Augustine, etc.”

      Then you have to go away and let that person mull that thought over in their mind for a while. If their hearts are in the right place, the rest will come in time.

    • I don’t see the change you do. I think there has been a gradual widening of the Overton Window since 2005. Bloggers and commenters routinely discuss issues with much more frankness and derision. It makes sense that you are seeing what you do. Infidel jihadis probably find their views tolerated less.

      Too, the left has just embraced such stupefying, moronic ideas that simple embarrassment is enough to get them to engage.

  3. Justice for Justine: Hundreds of Protesters March Through the Streets of Minneapolis to Honour the Life of Australian Woman Shot Dead by Cop

    Notice in the article how former MN senator, Michelle Bachmann was labelled as Rightwing and accused of inflaming racial hatred by her pithy comment: “Ms Bachmann called Officer Noor an ‘affirmative-action hire by the hijab-wearing mayor of Minneapolis’.” (The mayor had worn a hijab while speaking at a Muslim venue to drum up political support from the Somali community.)

    Noor, instead of facing his criminal negligence, is taking refuge in his religion and skin color. I suppose Islam doesn’t honor honesty or self-reproach.

    Notice none of the banners speak to Political Correctness, because I would be shocked if 99% of the marchers didn’t vote Democrat. It’s all about bashing the police, who are faced with death every day! That’s not to excuse a police officer who was a complete idiot and never ought to have been on the force – except for DEMOCRAT PC HIRING POLICIES! The hypocrisy is enough to make one throw up!

  4. You can’t fix stupid, unfortunately. This unfettered immigration is already biting them in the behind and unfortunately it will get worse.

  5. Murderous cop Mohamed Noor reminds of Europe’s mistakes. After several years of mass migrant sexual attacks during Cologne’s New Years celebration, it was obvious extra patrols were necessary for the event. So what did they do? They recruited temporary patrols from among the migrant community! The guys hired to protect women from Islamist misogynist migrant attacks were the Islamist misogynist migrants!
    These people come from countries where women are not allowed to wield the slightest authority. So when they reach the West, they react violently to women police, women meter maids, women train conductors checking tickets – all have been physically attacked in Europe. Ditto for French elementary school teachers who mention that pork is a product of France.
    The murdered woman in this case thought she heard a woman being raped in an alley at night. Might not Noor have thought that any woman out at night deserved being raped? Might he have been appalled that the lady making the report lived with a man not yet her husband?
    Noor has been the subject of several past complaints about which I know no details. But he’s also being sued by a former social worker who made complaints about “at risk” individuals (elderly or low IQ) being abused by those in a position of trust. The former social worker says Noor manhandled her and threatened her for making the complaints. ( Have you ever looked at Medicare’s most wanted lists? Lots of Somalis for running fraudulent home healthcare services, and Noor is Somali)
    Also, doesn’t the Australian victim’s future step-son have an Islamic-looking beard in the video? Strange. And he jumps right on the anti-police bandwagon with no suspicion at all towards a possible Islamist motive.

  6. I particularly enjoyed the article that only 3% of the invaders even want to try the freely available education classes.

    All those doctors and engineers to be will lead Europe into a future so bright we’ll all have to wear shades!

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