Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/24/2018

A Palestinian migrant who entered Germany as a “Syrian” was granted asylum status, despite a violent criminal record that extended back to his arrival in the country. Among his crimes was a sexual assault against a 10-year-old girl.

In possibly unrelated news, two Pakistani men were arrested in Italy for raping a boy who was waiting for a train at a station.

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Thanks to AF, C. Cantoni, Charles Low, JD, Reader from Chicago, Red Mike, Vlad Tepes, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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USA
» Armed School Guard and Now 3 Sheriff’s Deputies Also Waited Outside Florida High School During Massacre
» CNN is Directly Lobbying YouTube to Shut Down Infowars
» Delingpole: NOAA Caught Lying About Arctic Sea Ice
» Father of Parkland Survivor Tells How CNN Tried to Tell Him What to Say During Interviews [Video]
» First Photo of Deputy Who ‘Never Went in’ During Florida Shooting…police Officers Guarding His Home
» Flashback: Eric Holder Talks About “Brainwashing” Kids With Anti-Gun Curriculum in Washington D.C. [Video]
» Health Ranger: The Left is an ‘Obedience Cult’
» Joe McCarthy and Lillian Hellman: The Hated Patriot vs. The Beloved Commie
» Mass Shootings Will Never Negate the Need for Gun Rights
» NRA Chief Calls Out Chuck Schumer for Not Following Through on Promise: “They Are Liars to the Core” [Video]
» Obama Tweets Creepy Message to Florida Teen Protesters [Video]
» Sheryl Attkisson Reveals Who’s Really Behind the ‘Fake News’ Scheme … Here’s What She Discovered
 
Canada
» Trudeau Deals With Fallout From Disastrous India Trip
 
Europe and the EU
» Anti-Semitism Drove These Jews Out of France
» Archbishop of Canterbury Says Islamic Rules Are Incompatible With Britain’s Laws Which Have Christian Values
» Austria Sues Over EU Approval of Hungary Nuclear Plant
» Farage: ‘In the UK, People Are Beginning to Get the Trump Message’
» German AfD Leader: It’s a Big Mistake to Punish Britain for Brexit, They Shouldn’t be Treated That Way
» Grooming is Still Rife in Britain: Warning as Major Report Says Police Gave Gangs the ‘Green Light’ To Sexually Abuse 700 Girls and Women…
» Irish Govt ‘Paid Press’ To Promote Plan to Grow Population by One Million With Mass Migration
» Italian Election: How Brexit-Fan Matteo Salvini is on Course to be EU’s Next Nightmare
» Italian Election: Will Matteo Salvini Win Italy’s Election? Who is the Lega Nord Leader?
» Riots Breakout Across Italy Ahead of General Election (And Markets Are Getting Anxious)
» Sweden: Emergency Calls in Foreign Languages Up 34 Per Cent in 2017
» Swiss Islamic Council Justifies Female Genital Mutilation
» Takeover: Migrants Found Their Own Political Party in Notorious Swedish No-Go Zone
» Three Migrants Brutally Torture Swedish Psychiatric Patient for “Insulting” Them
» UK:33-Year Streak of No Female Genital Mutilation Convictions Continues as Case Against Somali Father Dismissed
 
Middle East
» Does Jihad Really Have “Nothing to Do With Islam”?
» Iran: Tehran Wants Own Digital Currency to Boost Economy and Circumvent US Sanctions
» Turkish Ships Block Italian Drilling Ship in Cypriot Waters
 
South Asia
» Pakistan: In Punjab, Fear Spreads Among Christians After Young Man is Charged With Blasphemy
 
Far East
» CPAC: Frank Gaffney Warns of China Waging ‘Unrestricted’ Financial, Cyber War on U.S.
» Former Obama National Security Official Trashes Ivanka’s Olympics Visit… Gushes Over North Korea: “They Won the Olympics” [Video]
» Gun Ownership: China Slams US, Says Washington Should Learn From Beijing to Protect Human Rights
» How North Korea’s Cheerleaders Are Forced Into Sex Acts With Kim Jong UN’s Twisted Regime
» Philippines: Mindanao: Colonel Warns: ‘Jihadists Ready for Insurrection’
 
Immigration
» Germany: Migrant Convicted of Sexually Abusing 10-Year-Old Received Asylum Status Despite Known Criminal History
» Jewish Grandmother Sentenced to Death in Iran; Holland Won’t Grant Her Asylum
» Pakistani Migrants Arrested for Rape of Young Italian Boy at Railway Station
» Slovakian PM: Migrants Threaten the Rights of Europe’s Women
» UK: No Jail Time for ‘Frustrated’ Asylum Seeker Who Swore to Carry Out Terror Attack Against ‘White People’
» ‘We Demand a Refund!’ EU in Turmoil as Hungary Shocks Brussels With €1 Billion Bill
 
Culture Wars
» Leftists Versus the People
» Promoting Garbage Disguised as Art
» The Contemptible American Left
 

Armed School Guard and Now 3 Sheriff’s Deputies Also Waited Outside Florida High School During Massacre

We previously reported that a Deputy did not go into the Parkland High School during the shooting last week. He stood outside the entire time that Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 people.

Well, it gets worse…Now we find out that three more Sheriff’s Deputies also waited outside…Katie Pavlich just tweeted exactly what we’re all thinking…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

CNN is Directly Lobbying YouTube to Shut Down Infowars

CNN is now directly lobbying for YouTube to terminate Infowars from its platform entirely, with the news network brazenly admitting as much in an article published today.

The piece, entitled, How the Florida school shooting conspiracies sprouted and spread, notes how an Infowars video questioning whether Parkland school shooting survivor and now anti-gun activist David Hogg was being coached on what to say during interviews was removed by YouTube.

CNN then relates how it “identified three similar YouTube videos from InfoWars” which were brought to YouTube’s attention for potential removal. A YouTube spokesperson responded that those videos were also now under review.

CNN then openly acknowledges that the goal behind this lobbying effort is to have the Infowars YouTube channel permanently terminated.

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

Delingpole: NOAA Caught Lying About Arctic Sea Ice

The Arctic is melting catastrophically! Sea ice levels are experiencing their most precipitous decline in 1500 years! Something must be done — and fast…

Well, so claims the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and we know by now what that means, don’t we?

Yep: the Arctic sea ice is doing just fine. Yep: yet again, the NOAA is telling porkies.

As usual, Paul Homewood has got its number.

First, here’s what the NOAA is claiming, as relayed in a scaremongering piece at Vox:…

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Father of Parkland Survivor Tells How CNN Tried to Tell Him What to Say During Interviews [Video]

Andrew Klein, whose daughter attends Stoneman Douglas High School, says that a CNN producer told him the day after the shooting they were looking for people to do interviews who would “espouse a certain narrative which was taking the tragedy and turning it into a policy debate.”

Laura Ingraham spoke with the father and daughter about how CNN tried to shape the narrative for the interview. This isn’t a small thing but a part of a much bigger problem with the media. In case you missed our report on another student who called out CNN for trying to shape the narrative after the Florida shooting, here is his interview with Tucker Carlson:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

First Photo of Deputy Who ‘Never Went in’ During Florida Shooting…police Officers Guarding His Home

Police officers are guarding the Boynton Beach, Florida home of the deputy who ‘never went in’ to try and take down Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz. A local news crew reported that they tried to talk to Peterson and were turned away by six police officers guarding the home:…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Flashback: Eric Holder Talks About “Brainwashing” Kids With Anti-Gun Curriculum in Washington D.C. [Video]

Eric Holder gave a speech about gun violence in 1995 where he expressed his idea for how to curb gun violence. This reveals a key tactic used by the left to repeat, repeat, repeat what they want you to believe until it’s stuck in your brain i.e. brainwashing. Notice how the left often has coordinating and repetitive messaging(see Cass Sunstein below)? They’ve most recently used it to describe President Trump when they called him “mentally unfit”. Remember that? Now we have the left involved in the framing of the narrative with the Florida shooting. They want and have gotten a feeding frenzy of anti-gun, anti-NRA language. Common sense is nowhere to be found right now…that’s how the left works…all emotion, all the time.

[Comment: Psychological studies have shown that switching on the emotion part of the brain switches off the logic part until emotions die down. This is how the leftist communist propaganda apparatus control and brainswash the masses. Whatever “information” (ie lies) is provided when the target is in an emotional state is UNCRITICALLY absorbed into the mind of the target. This is how the leftist rabble have become nothing more than Pavlovian dogs savilating each time the US-pravda machine blast their propaganda.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Health Ranger: The Left is an ‘Obedience Cult’

Mike Adams, The Health Ranger, has come out and said what many are thinking. He says the left has become an “obedience cult,” and there’s probably a reason for that.

Militant leftists have been known for shutting down the speech of conservatives or others that don’t agree with their authoritarian ways. But when the government is your god, and someone dares suggest an alternative, you’re vilified and ostracized. Current leftism in America is “a legitimate comparison to the rise of the Nazi state in Germany,” says Adams.

Nazi stands for “national socialist.” It was a socialist regime that gave rise to Adolf Hitler and the hundreds of thousands of order followers who executed on demand. “Under the Nazi regime, you had to be obedient to the state and the media. And the media, of course, functioned as just an extension of the state,” said Adams. And we are seeing these parallels now. People honestly think they cannot survive with the government. That’s actually pretty terrifying when you stop and ponder those implications.

“Under Nazism, there was tremendous peer pressure. You had to go along with the Nazis in order to be accepted to be able to move up into high society… they thought they were better than everyone else, thus, the idea that they had of a ‘master race’ or a ‘superior civilization’ made sense to them. Now that is exactly reflecting what you see in the left across America today.” Adams used Jimmy Kimmel as an example. Kimmel was asked why all late-night TV shows are hosted by leftists, and Kimmel replied that Republicans aren’t smart enough to host those types of shows.

This thinking that others are somehow more stupid or less of a human being for disagreeing or not showing the god-government the right respect is exactly how a genocidal mindset forms. Anyone who isn’t a leftist is considered to be an “inferior race” and we’ve seen how the left reacts and can watch this play out in the media.

[Comment: The Left is now a communist collective — deviant from the collective and you will be punished. Just like the BORG. True patriotic Americans should hold fast to their 2nd Amendment — make no mistake, the communists end goal — once they achieve power — is to line up patriots against a wall for execution. Refresher of their goals: http://www.rense.com/general32/americ.htm ]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Joe McCarthy and Lillian Hellman: The Hated Patriot vs. The Beloved Commie

Over half a century after the “Red Scare,” playwright and memoirist Lillian Hellman, whose name is often coupled with her adversary Senator Joe McCarthy, seems to have emerged relatively unscathed in the court of elite progressivist opinion despite the exposure of her manifold fabrications and deceptions. The liar, it appears, is the incarnation of a higher truth. Such is the power of the press and the cultural salience of left-wing attitudes in America. …

The anti-anti-communists relentlessly pushing their doctrines, as Diana West writes in American Betrayal, of “political correctness … sensitivity training” and the “top-down transformation of the human condition” have turned the past into a strategy against the future and social and political history into a kind of fumetti caricature of actual events. Ultimately, the left needs its McCarthy as much as it needs its Hellman — the one to vilify for seeking to defend his country, the other to rehabilitate for seeking to subvert it.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Mass Shootings Will Never Negate the Need for Gun Rights

Though the media often attempts to twist the gun rights debate into a web of complexity, gun rights is in fact a rather simple issue — either you believe that people have an inherent right to self defense, or you don’t. All other arguments are a peripheral distraction.

Firearms are a powerful epoch changing development. Not because they necessarily make killing “easier;” killing was always easy for certain groups of people throughout history, including governments and organized thugs. Instead, guns changed the world because for the first time in thousands of years the common man or woman could realistically stop a more powerful and more skilled attacker. Firearms are a miraculous equalizer in a world otherwise dominated and enslaved by everyday psychopaths.

The Founding Fathers understood this dynamic very well. Despite arguments from the extreme left falsely insinuating that the founders are essentially barbarians from a defunct era that were too stupid to understand future developments and technology, the fact is that they knew the core philosophical justification for an armed citizenry was always the most important matter at hand. Today’s debates try to muddle meaningful discourse by swamping the public in the minutia of background checks, etc. But the following quotes from the early days of the Republic outline what we should all really be talking about:

“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” — Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776

“To disarm the people…[i]s the most effectual way to enslave them.” — George Mason, referencing advice given to the British Parliament by Pennsylvania governor Sir William Keith, The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, June 14, 1788

“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops.” — Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, October 10, 1787

“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined… The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.” — Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778

“The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.” — Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833

“On every occasion [of Constitutional interpretation] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying [to force] what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, [instead let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed.” — Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, 12 June 1823

The inborn right to self defense and the ability of the people to maintain individual liberties in the face of tyranny supersedes all other arguments on gun rights. In fact, nothing else matters. This key point is so unassailable that anti-gun lobbyists have in most cases given up trying to defeat it. Instead of trying to confiscate firearms outright (which is their ultimate goal), they attempt to chip away at gun rights a piece at a time through endless flurries of legislation. This legislation is usually implemented in the wake of a tragedy involving firearms, for gun grabbers never let a good crisis go to waste. Exploiting the deaths of innocent people to further an ideological agenda is a common strategy for them.

This leads us to the recent mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. The narrative being constructed around this event is the same as usual — that stronger “gun control and background checks” are needed to prevent such things from ever happening again.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

NRA Chief Calls Out Chuck Schumer for Not Following Through on Promise: “They Are Liars to the Core” [Video]

While addressing the CPAC, LaPierre played a clip of him speaking to Schumer on the CBS program “Face the Nation” in 1993.

“Are you in favor of computerizing the mental-health records of people into a national computer bank?” LaPierre asks Schumer in the clip.

“You bet, you bet I am!” Schumer responds.

“Well, can we join hands on that and go to Capitol Hill right now?” LaPierre asks.

“We can,” Schumer says as he shakes LaPierre’s hand.

LaPierre then blasted Schumer before the CPAC audience for not following through on his promise 25 years ago.

“Now, here’s the real tragedy: Charles Schumer shook my hand to get all of the mental-health records into the system, and then he went back to Capitol Hill and you know what he did? Absolutely nothing,” LaPierre said. “How many lives might have be saved if he had just kept his promise?”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Obama Tweets Creepy Message to Florida Teen Protesters [Video]

Obama is like a gnat that just won’t go away. Has there ever been a more irritating past president who really just won’t shut up? Obama not only stayed in D.C. but is now actively trying to undermine President Trump’s every move. He just tweeted out the creepiest message that brings back memories of his effort to “fundamentally transform” America.

“…to remake the world as it should be…We’ve been waiting for you.”…CHILLING

“WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU”???

Obama has always targeted and used the youth of America to rally support for himself or for a cause. He famously used Facebook during the election of 2008 to rally young people to vote for him.

His most recent effort at rallying the youth was his young leaders conference in Chicago last April. He addressed the crowd and told them they must engage in civic activism.

He’s a walking Alinsky textbook that never stops stirring sh*t up. It’s who he is…

Remember “fundamental transformation” and other buzzwords Obama used to try and change America? He’s not accepting of America as she is but wants CHANGE. The only problem is that the change people bought into was NOT what Obama had in store for America.

REMEMBER THAT THIS MAN WAS CONNECTED TO A BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY PREACHER AND THE LEADER OF NATION OF ISLAM AND RADICAL BILLIONAIRE GEORGE SOROS…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Sheryl Attkisson Reveals Who’s Really Behind the ‘Fake News’ Scheme … Here’s What She Discovered

Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson gave a Tedx Talk at the University of Nevada a couple of weeks ago. During her “Ted Talk”, Attkisson made a shocking revelation about how the “fake news” narrative began. Watch, as Attkisson ties Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Google, and Facebook to start of the “fake news” propaganda campaign designed to discredit conservative news sources.

Attkisson started out her talk by explaining to her audience that she began her investigation into “fake news” by asking 3 basic questions…

Attkisson said that soon enough “fake news” was being discussed on a national level, as if the mainstream media had received “its marching orders.” She stated, “Fake news, they insisted, was an imminent threat to American democracy.” Attkisson posed a question, “What if the whole anti-fake news campaign was an effort on somebody’s part to keep us from seeing or believing certain websites and stories by controversializing them or labeling them as fake news?” It was then that Attkisson began to research who was funding organizations such as First Draft, she discovered that one of the first major donors to that particular nonprofit group was Google. The former Executive Chairman of Google parent company Alphabet, Eric Schmidt, is well-known to be a big supporter of Hillary Clinton.

She added that Schmidt “offered himself up as a campaign adviser and became a top multi-million donor to it. His company funded First Draft around the start of the election cycle.” She continued, “Not surprisingly, Hillary was soon to jump aboard the anti-fake news train and her surrogate David Brock of Media Matters privately told donors he was the one who convinced Facebook to join the effort.” It was then that Attkisson decided that, “the whole thing smacked of the roll-out of a propaganda campaign.”

Attkisson then noted that there was a sudden shift in the attitude towards the term “fake news” — thanks to President Trump. “But something happened that nobody expected. The anti-fake news campaign backfired. Each time advocates cried fake news, Donald Trump called them ‘fake news’ until he’d co-opted the term so completely that even those who [were] originally promoting it started running from it — including the Washington Post.”

[Comment: Sheryl is a real investigative journalist. youtu.be/UQcCIzjz9_s ]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trudeau Deals With Fallout From Disastrous India Trip

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continues to try to explain how a convicted terrorist who attempted to assassinate an Indian cabinet minister became a VIP guest on his tour of India.

The entire tour has been mocked on social media and even ridiculed by Canada’s mainstream media. Trudeau has offered multiple photo-ops in traditional Indian clothing and even attempted local dance moves.

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

Anti-Semitism Drove These Jews Out of France

The City of Light is losing its Stars of David.

As a rash of anti-Semitic attacks, largely at the hands of Muslim extremists, has hit France, many Jews are fleeing.

“In the last couple of years, [there have] been hundreds [of French Jews] moving to New York City,” said Steve Eisenberg, co-founder of the Jewish International Connection of New York, a Manhattan group that helps international Jews acclimate to the city. “They’re here because they just can’t breathe as Jews in France. There’s no Jewish future there. You can’t walk in Paris wearing a yarmulke. You’re taking your life in your hands.”

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

Archbishop of Canterbury Says Islamic Rules Are Incompatible With Britain’s Laws Which Have Christian Values

“Sharia law should never become part of the British legal system, the Archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday.

Justin Welby said the Islamic rules are incompatible with Britain’s laws, which have developed over 500 years on the principles of a different culture.

           — Hat tip: Vlad Tepes [Return to headlines]
 

Austria Sues Over EU Approval of Hungary Nuclear Plant

Staunchly anti-nuclear Austria lodged a legal complaint with the European Court of Justice on Thursday against the EU’s approval of the expansion of a nuclear plant in neighbouring Hungary.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Farage: ‘In the UK, People Are Beginning to Get the Trump Message’

Nigel Farage has begged Americans to ignore London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, telling a TV station that the UK is instead embracing the US president.

Farage is currently in Washington for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). He took some time out to speak to Fox News about the special relationship between the US and UK.

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

German AfD Leader: It’s a Big Mistake to Punish Britain for Brexit, They Shouldn’t be Treated That Way

Alice Weidel, one of the leaders of Germany’s right-wing AfD party, has heavily criticised the EU and the German parliament.

Weidel said it is a “big mistake” to punish Britain and it is “not the way you treat European partners”. She also suggests the EU punishes Britain to warn other countries for leaving the EU and take back their sovereignty.

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

Grooming is Still Rife in Britain: Warning as Major Report Says Police Gave Gangs the ‘Green Light’ To Sexually Abuse 700 Girls and Women…

…and reveals one attacker would have been BEHEADED in his homeland for his crime

Grooming gangs are still sexually abusing girls and young women across the country despite repeated warnings and prosecutions, a shocking report revealed yesterday.

Efforts to stop the exploitation have been hampered by the authorities’ failure to understand why abusers target vulnerable white girls, the investigation found.

The author of a report into the latest abuse scandal yesterday urged the Government to order a national study into the ‘cultural influences’ on the offenders, predominantly from an ‘Asian British’ background.

[Comment: Still tap dancing around it. Hate that term “Asian British” — it lumps all the non muslim asians in there.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Irish Govt ‘Paid Press’ To Promote Plan to Grow Population by One Million With Mass Migration

The Irish government has been slammed for paying journalists to write good news stories about Project Ireland 2040.

Unveiled by the government last week with a commitment to spend €116 billion, the document outlines plans to boost the Irish nation’s 4.7 million population by another million using mass migration.

The government’s strategic communications unit paid for sponsored “news pieces” to appear in national and regional newspapers promoting Ireland 2040, which “could not include negative or critical content”, The Times reported on Friday.

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

Italian Election: How Brexit-Fan Matteo Salvini is on Course to be EU’s Next Nightmare

ITALIAN election front-runner Matteo Salvini has pledged in his party’s manifesto to be a thorn in the European Union’s side, which he dubbed ‘a strong and fearsome enemy’.

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

Italian Election: Will Matteo Salvini Win Italy’s Election? Who is the Lega Nord Leader?

ITALIAN election frontrunner Matteo Salvini will battle Silvio Berlusconi, Luigi Di Maio and current PM Paolo Gentiloni for the post of prime minister of Italy in the upcoming general elections taking place on March 4. But who is Mr Salvini?

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

Riots Breakout Across Italy Ahead of General Election (And Markets Are Getting Anxious)

Heading into the weekend, the Italian government massively stepped up security across the country in anticipation of demonstrations by anti-fascist and far-right groups, ahead of the general election on March 04. Italians will go to the polls next Sunday, in an election that could rebalance the political environment or send shockwaves through the European Union.

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

Sweden: Emergency Calls in Foreign Languages Up 34 Per Cent in 2017

The number of emergency calls to police and ambulances by people speaking foreign languages rose by 34 per cent in 2017, with Arabic and Somali being the most common.

Sweden saw a total of 7,783 emergency calls made by individuals speaking a language other than Swedish or English in 2017, requiring an even greater need for interpreters, according to SOS Alarm, the group who run the 112 emergency line.

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

Swiss Islamic Council Justifies Female Genital Mutilation

The Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (IZRS) has defended the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), claiming that Islamic law justifies the practice.

The organisation released an “Islamic legal opinion” this week arguing that a form of so-called “female circumcision”, involving the removal of parts of the genitals, is justified, Swiss newspaper Tages Anzeiger reports.

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

Takeover: Migrants Found Their Own Political Party in Notorious Swedish No-Go Zone

A self-described “stateless” Palestinian migrant has formed a new political party in the heavily migrant-populated Swedish city of Malmö.

The party, named the New Coalition Collection (NKS), was founded and is lead by Palestinian migrant Hussam Alkoblawi along with a number of other migrants to Sweden, 24Malmo reports.

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

Three Migrants Brutally Torture Swedish Psychiatric Patient for “Insulting” Them

A Swedish patient, suffering from mental health issues, has been brutally tortured, Friatider reports.

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

UK:33-Year Streak of No Female Genital Mutilation Convictions Continues as Case Against Somali Father Dismissed

The latest Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) case to make it to court has been dismissed, with the judge claiming the child had denied harm and medical evidence was inconclusive.

The Somali origin father, who lives in Bristol, had allegedly admitted to allowing his seven-year-old daughter to be cut on the clitoris, telling a charity worker it would stop her “feeling sexy all the time”.

However, Judge Julian Lambert described the prosecution’s case against 29-year-old former Uber driver as “deeply troubling” and slammed witnesses as “inconsistent”, the Daily Mail reports.

He also stressed that the child had denied being harmed and dismissed the medical evidence as “wholly inconclusive at its highest”.

Not a single person has been found guilty of FGM offences in Britain, despite the practice being illegal for 30 years, thousands of cases being logged annually, and there being hundreds of successful prosecutions in France.

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

Does Jihad Really Have “Nothing to Do With Islam”?

“National Security officials are prohibited from developing a factual understanding of Islamic threat doctrines, preferring instead to depend upon 5th column Muslim Brotherhood cultural advisors.” — Richard Higgins, NSC official.

At the heart of the problem lies the fantasy that Islam must be very similar to other religions, particularly Judaism and Christianity, out of which it was, in fact derived.

The use of force, mainly through jihad, is a basic doctrine in the Qur’an, the Prophetic sayings (ahadith), and in all manuals of Islamic law. It is on these sources that fighters from Islamic State, al-Qa’ida, al-Shabaab, and hundreds of other groupings base their preaching and their actions. To say that such people have “nothing to do with Islam” could not be more wrong.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Iran: Tehran Wants Own Digital Currency to Boost Economy and Circumvent US Sanctions

According to the Minister of Information and Telecommunications, the government has plans to use a cryptocurrency. An Iranian bank is preparing to announce a tender to build such a platform. The United States is ready to hit those who use the new currency.

Tehran (AsiaNews) — Iran is preparing to launch its own digital currency in a move that many believe can help reduce the country’s vulnerability to US sanctions.

Iran’s Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad Azari Jahromi said a plan to develop a platform for using cryptocurrency in the country was already in the works, local media report.

Jahromi said the project would be led by the Post Bank of Iran, which is already preparing to announce a tender for developing the platform.

The minister also invited all Iranian tech experts to participate in the upcoming tender of Post Bank — a bank which focused on e-banking and the development of Iran’s electronic banking infrastructure.

The removal of economic sanctions against Iran in 2016 led to certain openings in the country’s commercial activities with other countries. Now however, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is under threat from the current US administration.

What is more, the country has yet to fully benefit from the removal of the sanctions because some restrictions — specifically those that concern banking transactions with Iran — still remain.

The success of cryptocurrencies over the past few months opened a debate among ruling circles in Tehran as to the use of digital currencies to dodge sanctions.

This follows what other countries have done recently, most notably Venezuela, which has also been targeted by the White House.

In addition, certain openings for Iran to use the digital currency in overseas trade had appeared earlier.

Last March, media reports noted the Government of Sweden had reportedly authorised a local business to create a mechanism based on the bitcoin — the world’s most popular virtual currency — to transfer funds to Iran.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies could be used to send funds to Iran, where they would be converted to the local currency, the rial, and used to invest in publicly traded companies on the Tehran Stock Exchange.

Still, doubts remain vis-Ã -vis the use of crypto-currencies. The latter could be a way to circumvent international efforts to regulate financial transactions and impose sanctions.

The countries most interested in the technology — Iran, Venezuela and Russia, as well as North Korea according to some sources — are all targeted by US sanctions.

For its part, the US Treasury Department has warned US citizens that purchasing these currencies may violate sanctions laws.

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Turkish Ships Block Italian Drilling Ship in Cypriot Waters

The Saipem drilling platform, which operates under license from the Cypriot government, was supposed to resume its activities. Turkey rejects the agreements signed by the Cypriot government with Israel and Egypt, claiming that they harm the interests of Turkish Cypriot community. However, others believe that Turkey is using the latter to control the oil and gas in the eastern Mediterranean.

Istanbul (AsiaNews) — Turkish Navy ships have again stopped a drilling ship owned by Saipem, an Italian oil and gas company, threatening to sink it.

The incident occurred 25 nautical miles southeast of Cyprus, in block 3, within the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The commander of the Italian vessel was able to avoid a collision with Turkish naval ship.

Saipem’s drilling platform had tried to resume its exploration for oil and gas based on the license issued by the Cypriot government.

This is the second time that the Turkish Navy prevented the Saipem platform from exploring the seabed in Cyprus’s EEZ.

A similar incident occurred in the same area a week ago, when the Turkish Navy warned the commander of the Saipem platform not to continue its operation because it was conducting military manoeuvres.

When the latter ended, the platform tried to resume its activity.

Following these incidents, the Saipem platform has moved away, whilst the Turkish Navy has extended its ban on exploration until 10 March.

EU heads of government, meeting in Brussels, have been informed of the serious incident, as Cyprus is a member of the EU. Yesterday afternoon, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiadis and Italian prime minister Gentiloni met.

EEZs have been agreed by the countries in the eastern Mediterranean, under international treaties. In this case: Cyprus, Israel and Egypt. Experts believe that this part of the Mediterranean is rich in oil and natural gas.

A platform owned by French oil and gas company Total is continuing to explore under the protection of a French naval ship.

A drilling ship owned by US-based Exxon is making its way to the area with exploration licenses from Cyprus, Israel, and Egypt.

Turkey does not accept the agreements signed by the Cypriot government with Israel and Egypt, claiming that they harm the interests of Turkish Cypriots.

However, many in Brussels believe that Turkey is using the Turkish Cypriot community to control oil and gas in the eastern Mediterranean in order to control supplies to Europe.

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Pakistan: In Punjab, Fear Spreads Among Christians After Young Man is Charged With Blasphemy

About 800 Christian families have left their homes in the village of Dhir after Patras Masih, 18, was accused of sharing an offensive post on Facebook. Police watch over empty homes to prevent robberies. For priest, “Illiterate people do not need to buy expensive smartphones as they do not know how to use social media”.

Shahdara (AsiaNews) — Hundreds of Christians have fled their homes in a village in Punjab fearing violence from Muslims. This follows allegations that Patras Masih, an 18-year-old Christian resident in the village of Dhir, near the city of Shahdara, disrespected the prophet Muhammad on Facebook.

An angry mob of members of the Islamic group Tehrik-e-Labaik Ya Rasool took to the streets on Monday, calling for the young man be executed. He has now been arrested and charged with blasphemy, whilst his family has gone into hiding.

AsiaNews tried to contact some of the families that fled, but no one wanted to make any statements. In all, around 800 families escaped from their homes. Through the empty streets of the village, homes are bolted and padlocked.

Christians fear for their lives after Muslims staged a protest that lasted at least 12 hours. Masih, who says he is innocent, is accused of sharing a Facebook post showing a person on top of the Roza-e-Rasool, Muhammad’s mausoleum in Madinah.

The assistant parish priest at St Luke Catholic Church in Shahdara visited the Christian families in the area. A group from the National Justice and Peace Commission (NCJP) also visited the village.

“I have not returned home since the protests,” said Farhat, an intelligence officer speaking to AsiaNews. “We are protecting the empty Christian houses from thieves. The culprit has been arrested and the matter is resolved. We are calling on community leaders to urge their members to return”.

According to Father Qaiser Feroz, director of the Workshop Audio Visual Education studio, the national Catholic communication centre, Patras Masih is innocent. “We strongly condemn the false blasphemy accusation against him,” he said.

NCJP director Father Emmanuel Yousaf Mani said that he tried his best to prevent the registration of First Information Report in this case.

In his view, “Illiterate people do not need to buy expensive smartphones as they do not know how to use social media. We are urging [members of] the community to delete controversial images/posts as soon as they receive them.”

“Everybody has to be careful and respect the state religion,” Fr Yousaf noted. “I believe our connections in Muslim community and friends in majority can help in such incidents.”

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CPAC: Frank Gaffney Warns of China Waging ‘Unrestricted’ Financial, Cyber War on U.S.

The communist People’s Republic of China has been waging “unrestricted war” against the United States as its top financial and cyber adversary, cautioned national security expert Frank Gaffney during a 2018 CPAC event Friday.

Gaffney advised American President Donald Trump to fire his National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and replace him with former U.N. ambassador John Bolton, who he suggested has a better understanding of the threat.

During CPAC Friday, Gaffney, the president for the Center for Security Policy (CSP), urged U.S. President Donald Trump to fight back against China’s ongoing war against the United States, which primarily consists of financial tactics to undermine the American economy, compromise essential military tools made in China, and intensify cyberattacks with the help of quantum computing beyond U.S. capabilities that allows them to develop “codes that cannot be broken and easy ability to break ours.”

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Former Obama National Security Official Trashes Ivanka’s Olympics Visit… Gushes Over North Korea: “They Won the Olympics” [Video]

What is it about liberals who worked for former President Obama, that makes them want to defend and propagandize on behalf of brutal dictators, communist countries, and tyrannical regimes? While Iran was shouting death to America, Barack Obama and his Secretary of State tried to convince us that they were our friends. Barack Obama traveled to communist Cuba to hang out with Raul Castro, the brother, and successor of the brutal and oppressive dictator Fidel Castro.

According to the WFB, Samantha Vinograd, who served on former President Barack Obama’s National Security Council, said Friday that North Korea “won” the 2018 Winter Olympics because of the media’s positive coverage of Pyongyang coming out of the games.

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Gun Ownership: China Slams US, Says Washington Should Learn From Beijing to Protect Human Rights

Editorial in party newspaper points the finger at others where gun ownership is more important than life. China rejects criticism on human rights, but persecutes activists and lawyers.

Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) — The United States should learn from China and “genuinely” protect human rights by restricting gun ownership, a state-run Chinese newspaper claims.

The editorial in Global Times newspaper follows a massacre in which 17 students and staff were killed at a Florida high school last week.

“Washington has been pointing an accusing finger at other countries over human rights . . . However, more Americans have been killed by gunfire in the country than American soldiers being killed in all U.S. wars,” the paper said.

Turning a blind eye to gun violence is “inhumane”, the editorial noted, adding that “Gun ownership in China is strictly regulated”.

“The U.S.,” it went on to say, “has no other choice but to adopt gun control. The right of life is the most fundamental (of) human rights. The right to bear arms cannot overpower the individual’s right to live”.

Human rights have long been a source of tension between the world’s two largest economies, especially since 1989, when the United States imposed sanctions on China after a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

China has always rejected criticism of its rights record, whilst at the same time cracking down on rights activists and lawyers.

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How North Korea’s Cheerleaders Are Forced Into Sex Acts With Kim Jong UN’s Twisted Regime

It turns out those propaganda cheerleaders from North Korea, that our American media couldn’t get enough of, are more than just young, beautiful, enthusiastic North Korean women. Those smiling faces on the young, and beautiful North Korean cheerleaders, are actually the faces of sex slaves or young women who are regularly forced to have sex with high-ranking members of Kim Jong Un’s regime.

The NYP reports— Members of the North Korean national cheerleading squad — who have been featured gleefully rooting at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics — are systematically forced to have sex with high-ranking members of Kim Jong Un’s twisted regime, according to a disturbing report.

Behind the scenes, the troupe — dubbed the “Pleasure Squad” by insiders — are forced to perform sex acts on party leaders during their trip to the Olympics, a defector with knowledge of the sexual slavery told Bloomberg News…

The perky and impeccably dressed cheerleaders are subject to an extreme vetting system based on their looks, family backgrounds and loyalty to the Workers’ Party, according to the outlet.

They are monitored 24 hours a day, even while they eat and use the restroom, according to the UK Metro.

Yeon’s account of the sexual slavery piggybacks on past reports in which female defectors from North Korea have described being “selected” to sexually service members of the political party.

In 2010, defector Mi-hyang said she was only 15 years old when soldiers in green uniforms stormed her classroom and chose her to become a sex slave for Kim Jong Il, the father of Kim Jong Un, according to Marie Claire magazine.

She was forbidden from seeing her family and forced to spend 10 years sexually pleasuring him, according to the report.

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Philippines: Mindanao: Colonel Warns: ‘Jihadists Ready for Insurrection’

The Mautos have a force of about 200 fighters and have launched a series of clashes with the Manila army. They recruit new soldiers, thanks to money, guns and jewels stolen from the city’s banks and private houses during the Marawi siege.

Manila (AsiaNews / Agencies) — Just months after being repelled from the southern city of Marawi (Mindanao), Islamist militants are conducting a new and deadly attempt to establish a Southeast Asian Caliphate in the same region.

This is the alarm launched today by a senior officer of the Philippine Armed Forces. The 148-day Islamist occupation of the city represents the most serious security crisis for the Philippines in recent years and raises the fear that with its mountains, jungles and porous borders, the island of Mindanao can become a magnet for the fighters of the Islamic State (IS) fleeing Iraq and Syria.

Colonel Romeo Brawner declares that the guerrillas have rallied a force of about 200 fighters and faced a series of clashes with the Manila army, after the government forces retook Marawi last October. “Fighting against widespread poverty and Muslim armed uprisings seeking independence or self-government, Mindanao must improve the poor supervision of Islamic schools or madrasas, where many young armed men are recruited,” adds the officer.

Brawner reports that the armed forces are reorganizing to face the threat of the terrorist group Maute, which occupied the “Islamic city” of the southern Philippines after promising loyalty to the Islamic State (IS). The guerrillas who escaped during the first days of the military operation in Manila to reconquer Marawi are engaged in recruiting new soldiers, thanks to the large amounts of money, guns and jewels stolen from the city’s banks and private homes.

“The recruits — continues Brawner — are mostly local people, but recently an unknown number of Indonesians, some with the ability to manufacture bombs, have reached the island”.

Military sources in Mindanao report that in November of last year, the Mautos murdered three merchants in the city of Piagapo, near Marawi. On 8 February, three jihadists were killed in Pantar, while three of the suspected murderers of the Piagapo businessmen were arrested in the same city last month.

Also in January, the military were engaged in armed clashes with the Maute in the cities of Masiu and Pagayawan. The recent clashes followed the alarm launched by Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte and other political leaders in the Mindanao region about possible new Islamist uprisings. To counter jihadist danger, Duterte imposed martial law throughout the island until the end of the year. Ebrahim Murad, head of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the main Muslim rebel group of the Philippines, who signed a peace treaty with Manila in 2014, reported three days ago on the recruitment activities of the jihadists, who “could take another Philippine city “.

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Germany: Migrant Convicted of Sexually Abusing 10-Year-Old Received Asylum Status Despite Known Criminal History

A 37-year-old Palestinian migrant, who was recently convicted of sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl, was given asylum status despite a criminal record stretching back to when he first entered Germany in 2014.

The Palestinian, who claimed to be from Syria, attempted to rape a 10-year-old girl last June and was convicted of child abuse at a court in Tübingen and sentenced to five years and nine months in prison, Stern reports.

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Jewish Grandmother Sentenced to Death in Iran; Holland Won’t Grant Her Asylum

UTRECHT, Netherlands (JTA) — To the dozens of revelers of this city’s main Purim party, a Jewish grandmother who cooks the event’s annual Persia-themed holiday feast is a rare communal asset.Since she immigrated to the Netherlands in 2012 from her native Iran, the soft-spoken newcomer has been volunteering with the local Chabad House, preparing delicious traditional dishes with exotic spices, such as saffron-flavored yellow rice and chicken, for Utrecht’s celebration of the holiday.

Her contribution has added prestige to the event, which has been featured in regional and national media thanks to the authentic touch she adds. (After all, the story behind Purim is set in Persia, celebrating the rescue of that country’s Jews from a communal death sentence.)

But only a few of the locals who know Sipora (not her real name) are aware that she is both an illegal alien in the Netherlands and a refugee with a death sentence hanging over her own head in Iran for political offenses.

Sipora, 60, was sentenced in absentia to death by public execution in 2013 by a Tehran court that convicted her of “violating Islamic rules [of the] Islamic Revolution” and “anti-regime activity.” Her crime: running an underground organization that found housing solutions for women with abusive husbands who could not obtain a divorce.

Luckily for Sipora, she had already left Iran a year prior to her sentencing to help with the pregnancy of her daughter — herself a political refugee who has been living in the Netherlands since fleeing her native land in 2010. Sipora’s daughter, Rebecca, fled in connection with her involvement in the making of a documentary film about the fight for democracy in Iran.

“A few weeks after I came to Holland, I called my husband on the telephone. He asked me to go on Skype. I knew something was wrong,” Sipora recalled.

Sipora’s husband of over 40 years, a Jewish building contractor with a heart condition, told her online that Iran’s dreaded secret police were looking for her and other members of her group.

“In that moment I knew there is no going back,” Sipora recalled.

Unfortunately for her, Sipora’s legal troubles back home coincided with a toughening of immigration policies in the Netherlands, where the center-right ruling party is bleeding votes in favor of the anti-Islam Party for Freedom, which favors a shutdown of immigration from Muslim countries…

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Pakistani Migrants Arrested for Rape of Young Italian Boy at Railway Station

Two Pakistani migrants were arrested in the Italian city of Brindisi this week after being accused of raping a boy who was waiting for a train at the city’s railway station.

The two men, identified as 29-year-old Rab Nawaz and 28-year-old Ali Imram, have been accused of making sexual advances toward a young man at the train station and forcing him into an alley where they are said to have raped him, Italian newspaper Il Messaggero reports.

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Slovakian PM: Migrants Threaten the Rights of Europe’s Women

In his comments on not ratifying the Istanbul Convention, Slovakia’s Prime Minister Rober Fico said that protecting women’s rights is more important than ever.

“Any violence against women is unacceptable and has no place in our society”, Fico said to Sme daily. He added that the protection of women’s rights is “particularly important in a time when migrants make up an increasing proportion of the European population” and bring with them “the perception of a woman as a submissive human being”.

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UK: No Jail Time for ‘Frustrated’ Asylum Seeker Who Swore to Carry Out Terror Attack Against ‘White People’

An Afghan who threatened to commit a vehicular terror attack which targeted “white people” because he was frustrated waiting for his refugee status has been spared jail.

Ruzykhan Sayadi, 23, was sentenced to a community order for 18 months, rehabilitation activity for 20 days, and a curfew on Thursday, after being found guilty in late January of racially aggravated intentional harassment and causing alarm or distress, the Oxford Mail reports.

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‘We Demand a Refund!’ EU in Turmoil as Hungary Shocks Brussels With €1 Billion Bill

HUNGARY’S Prime Minister Viktor Orban has set up a tense showdown with the EU elite, after he delivered a fiery speech which included shock demands for a massive refund from the bloc’s coffers.

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Leftists Versus the People

Do they really hate ordinary people that much?

Yes, they do. For liberals, the distinction between the “dumb masses” and their enlightened selves renders life meaningful. Disdain for ordinary folks is not just an ancillary trait of liberalism. It is fundamental to the its nature.

At its heart, liberalism is a gnostic religion, and the essence of that religion is the believer’s faith that he possesses the means of changing the world for the better. The belief that the world must be changed requires there to be a mass of individuals whose lives are in need of change. Following this logic, it is the liberal, not those deplorables in need of change, who knows what must be changed. For liberals, there must be a mass of people in need of this knowledge for life to make sense.

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Promoting Garbage Disguised as Art

Manhattan’s House of Horrors — commonly referred to as the Museum of Modern Art — recently received a $100 million donation from a billionaire art collector to help fund a $400 million renovation project. Another misguided mogul contributed $50 million towards the same endeavor.

It leaves one dispirited and dejected just think of the benefits their $150 million-dollar contributions could have accomplished for truly worthy causes. These wealthy individuals could have made a real difference in the lives of handicapped children at Shriner’s Hospital for Children, or St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

What sickness or evil motivates the promotion of indecipherable degeneracy as “art,” over truly ennobling and life-enhancing cultural enrichment?

Ultra-rich leftists, globalists and culture destroyers — like the Rockefellers, Rothschilds, and Soroses — seek to replace true artistic expression with neurotic garbage to distort and pervert the appreciation and understanding of truth and beauty. This is done to eliminate cultural standards, and confuse and madden the masses into accepting anything that comes down the pike from our self-anointed “leaders.”

These emotionally sick people seek to create a mass psychosis where everything unnatural is tolerated and promoted, while absolutes are absent and where the childish efforts of poseurs are celebrated as “genius.”

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The Contemptible American Left

Those who self-identify as Progressives, leftists, socialists, or Marxists have one overwhelming trait in common: they are narcissists who believe they are pre-ordained to rule the masses too ignorant to govern themselves. In order to achieve that end, no tactic is beneath consideration, and no crisis can be allowed to go to waste as they make certain that an ever-increasing percentage of the population becomes permanently indentured to the government they intend on controlling in perpetuity.

Over the 242-year history of the United States, this nation has encountered many crises as well as unethical and unscrupulous political factions. However, the left and the Democratic Party of today are the most dangerous, unprincipled, and deceitful cabal in this nation’s history. They are capable of permanently tearing this nation asunder. They callously exploit the anger and emotion of the truly grieved, irresponsibly promise Nirvana, manipulate various ethnic blocs as sacrificial pawns, and consciously pit citizen against citizen. They deliberately undermine individual freedom in order to achieve their devious ends, and so they are essentially not at all different from those ultimately responsible for the carnage extant in the mid-20th century.

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2 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/24/2018

  1. “A Palestinian migrant who entered Germany as a ‘Syrian’ was granted asylum status, despite a violent criminal record that extended back to his arrival in the country. Among his crimes was a sexual assault against a 10-year-old girl.”

    He lied about his status, he was criminally violent, he sexually assaulted a child. Yet STILL he was granted asylum. Is there NOTHING bad enough to prevent asylum being given? (Yes, I’m starting to shout.)

    The “experiment” of “turning Germany into a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural society” isn’t working. When are the people in the white coats going to admit their failure and call it a day? Or do they prefer to watch the laboratory blow up?

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