Wyrd Bið Ful Aræd Germania

The title of this post is a reference to the Old English saying Wyrd bið ful aræd, which means, roughly, “Fate is completely inescapable.” Bernard Cornwell prominently featured the phrase in his series of historical novels entitled The Saxon Chronicles.

The word wyrd has the same root as “weird” in the Scots idiom to dree one’s weird, which means to endure one’s fate.

The following essay looks ahead to 2023 as the year when the nation of Germany will have to dree its weird.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Ansage.org:

2023 Will Be a Fateful Year for Germany

Dear readers, another annus horribilis in and for Germany comes to an end in 2022, one which one does not know whether one should be glad to have survived, or whether one should prudently keep it in honourable memory — because that what lies ahead is only going to get worse.

The rapid intellectual and material loss of substance and prosperity goes hand in hand with a rapid erosion of trust in the honesty and competence of politics. And no one can say when this development will become hyper-critical, when it will become life-threatening in Germany. We can still try to sugarcoat things, flee into private life, close our eyes in Biedermeier denial to the approaching impacts — but firstly, as all pre-revolutionary epochs of history have shown, this self-deception only works for a short time, and secondly, we allow the established facts to pull us deeper into the abyss with each passing day. The price to pay for the coming catastrophe is pushed higher and higher. The escalations are progressing at all levels. At the same time it will be respice finem (the end), and the warning reference to the inevitable outcome of the development more and more hysterically frowned upon.

Only escalations

What am I talking about here, what exactly is being escalated? The answer: basically everything. Company deaths, economic flight, increasing migration of the remaining elites abroad. decline in education and level of vocational training. Mass immigration of unskilled and culturally alien people. Islamization. Excess mortality, vaccine damage. Inflation. Disappearance of the transportation infrastructure. Overuse of social systems. Public debt. Reduction of freedom and more and more regulation through prohibitions. Reduction of sovereignty through the transfer of legislative and legal powers to supranational bodies, which are then no longer democratically controlled. Prosecution and criminalization of critical opinions through increasingly “creative” censorship. And, and, and.

Does anyone seriously think all this could go on forever with no repercussions? Or will it end and change for the better by itself? You don’t wake up one morning and realize: Oops, suddenly there’s a dictatorship out there! Or: Whoa, the world is on fire! It’s creeping processes that carry us there — although since Corona, things have been more or less galloping.

Constructive pessimism

Anyone who accuses me here of cacophony, who calls for “optimism” in these times, who reproaches us for seeing and painting everything black and this constant calling out to Cassandra is just as frustrating as it promotes depression, I unfortunately have to reply: Wake up! Times are too serious to keep burying your head in the sand. Constructive pessimism is the optimism of our time. We’ve come to a point where everyone is either part of the solution or part of the problem.

Where silence and retreat into the apolitical are no longer options. In 2023, every individual is therefore encouraged to rebel, arouse, protest and make it clear within the scope of their individual possibilities in their environment that they are aware of the intentional ruin of their homeland and everything that is dear to us, and are no longer willing to watch. If this succeeds at least within a critical mass, then — and only then — the reversal process of healing can be initiated. This is certainly not to be expected from those who want destroy us. We don’t have much time left for that.

With this in mind, I wish you — in addition to personal happiness and health — a restless and alert year of 2023!

Yours,
Daniel Matissek and the Ansage team

Afterword from the translator:

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A Fundamental Right to Jihad

In March of 2016 the Islamic State pulled off two coordinated terrorist attacks in Brussels. The surviving alleged attackers are currently on trial.

A court in Belgium has just enjoined the state from conducting any further searches of the defendants’ — ahem — nether orifices when they are transported from their prison cells to the courtroom. The citizens of Belgium will thereby be deprived of fundamental justice!

A side note: The case appears to have a Mohammed Coefficient of only 14.3%.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from La Libre:

Summary Court prohibits anal cavity body searches imposed on defendants in the March 22, 2016 attacks

Accused received partial relief

December 29, 2022

Caption: Police escort the accused before the Criminal Court

On Thursday the summary court ordered the Belgian state to end its systematic practice of anal cavity body searches imposed on the defendants being tried before the Brussels Criminal Court for their alleged participation in the March 22, 2016 attacks.

This practice, imposed during the transfers between Haren Prison and the Palace of Justice, where the Criminal Court sits, is aimed at checking that the prisoners have nothing hidden in their anus.

Thus, in its ruling, issued Thursday, the tribunal partially granted the requests of six of the seven accused prisoners, Mohamed Abrini, Sofien Ayari, Salah Abdeslam, Ali El Haddad Asufi, Bilal El Makhoukhi and Hervé Bayingana Muhirwa. Osama Krayem did not join in the petition.

For the tribunal, this systematic body cavity search seemed to constitute inhuman and degrading treatment prohibited by the European Convention on Human Rights.

The tribunal is giving the Belgian state eight days to end this practice, under penalty of a fine of €1,000 for each violation with a maximum of €50,000 per petitioner.

Welcoming the Soldiers of Allah to Austria

Of the 100,000 “refugees” who have applied for asylum in Austria, the vast majority are young men. The report below doesn’t mention it, but that means that the newcomers are mostly men of military age. In other words, the Austrian government has been assiduously importing the Soldiers of Allah.

Gee, I wonder how that will work out…

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from the conservative Austrian site Unzensuriert:

Asylum policy

It isn’t women and children seeking protection with us — It is 91% men!

December 29, 2022

Pictures of small children in the arms of their mothers in the mainstream media always want to make us believe it is they who are seeking protection in Austria. The truth, however, is that 91% of the asylum requests are lodged by men.

Only 8.7% of asylum applications are from women

The Interior Ministry’s asylum statistics give a completely different picture from the numbers from the benevolent NGOs and many representatives of the federal government. It is not women and children who are seeking protection and help from us, but rather almost exclusively men. Of the 101,755 asylum applications, 92,854 — that is, 91.3% — are submitted by men. The majority of those are between 18 and 25 years old. Only 8,903 of asylum applications are from women — that is, only 8.7%.

Almost 100% of unaccompanied minors are men

As for the unaccompanied minors, the male portion is even higher. According to statistics from the Interior Ministry, these were, believe it or not, 98.8%. The migration of unaccompanied minors to Austria might be a trick by the human smugglers to enable family reunification. Most of the migrants came from Afghanistan, Syria, India, Tunisia, and Pakistan.

Dramatic rise in murders in cities with the high number of migrants

With these numbers from the Interior Ministry, Austria not only has the highest number in 67 years, but with this human migration, is sliding into conditions that currently exist in Sweden. As has been reported, Sweden is now paying a bloody price for the open borders policy previously preferred by the Social Democrats. There is a dramatic rise in murders in cities where the migration numbers are high.

Already 60 shooting victims

According to a report on Servus-TV, five years ago there were 36 people killed in shootings in Sweden, but this year, there are already 60 victims— an increase of almost 70%.

The ECHR Rules Against Eric Zemmour

Long-time readers will remember Eric Zemmour as the popular French commentator who often appeared in this space in subtitled videos from talk shows on French TV. More recently, of course, he ran for president, but failed in his bid to prevent the re-election of Emmanuel “Toy Boy” Macron.

Now the French establishment has finalized its revenge against Mr. Zemmour: his conviction for insulting Muslims has been upheld by the European Court of Human Rights.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from the French website Marianne:

“Choice between Islam and France”: The ECHR refuses to annul the conviction of Zemmour

by Marianne, with Agence France Press
December 20, 2022

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled against the controversial commentator Eric Zemmour on Tuesday and validated his conviction under French justice for incitement to discriminate and religious hate against the Muslim community after his remarks on France 5 in 2016.

Bad times for Eric Zemmour. On Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled against the president of the Reconquest party and validated his conviction by the French justice system for incitement to discriminate against the Muslim community after his remarks made on France 5 in 2016. The Court held that the French courts had not violated the freedom of expression of the candidate in the last presidential election. The former journalist had made the referenced remarks on September 16, 2016 on the program “C a vous”, broadcast live at 7pm on France 5, as part of the promotion of his book entitled Five years for nothing.

In particular, he stated that Muslims must be given “the choice between Islam and France,” and that France had been living “for the last thirty years under an invasion,” affirming that “in countless French suburbs where numerous young girls are veiled,” there is being played out, “a fight to Islamize a territory, a jihad.” He had been initially sentenced by the Paris Criminal Court to a €5,000 fine for “incitement to discriminate, to hatred or violence against a group of people for reason of their origin or adherence to a religion.” The sentence had been reduced to €3,000 on appeal. The Court of Cassation had then rejected his appeal.

Discriminatory Intention

The ECHR, the judicial arm of the Council of Europe, “holds that these remarks were not limited to a critique of Islam, but contained, given the context of terrorist attacks in which they were made, a discriminatory intention of a nature to call on the listeners to the rejection and exclusion of the Muslim community. Note that in 2020, Eric Zemmour himself had labeled the ECHR as “the source of evil,” in the fight against immigration. On the CNews program he then declared, “Not all of the unaccompanied minors are rapists, thieves, murderers, but since there are many who become so, the French people must be protected.” What would be good, according to him, would be “to leave the European Court of Human Rights”. “It is the ECHR and the European Convention on the Rights of Children that keep us from deporting anyone.” It is not sure whether the Court’s decision will improve the esteem of the polemicist for this institution.

The Betrayal of Europe

The following poem by Michael Copeland from 2016 is relevant to the story of Luna, the little Swedish girl who was raped and turned into a quadriplegic by a culture-enriching “youth”.

The Betrayal of Europe

by Michael Copeland

By the cultural Marxist Quisling traitor elites
Our countries are flooded with migrants instructed to hate us —
More than a million militant muslim males,
Who are told they’re the best of peoples raised up for mankind.

They’re turning our streets at night into danger zones.
By rape after brutal rape they stake their claim,
Displacing our nations’ laws with rules of their own,
As repeatedly told in their menacing hostile mosques.

“A woman without a scarf is asking for rape”,
“Their women are yours to take. Why don’t you enslave them?”
“The kuffar are filthy, …the offspring of apes and pigs”,
“You all have to hate them, …and punish their unbelief”.

Yet all this time our leaders are in denial,
Again and again they repeat what they did before.
People who try to object are roundly blackened,
Their motives smeared, their views belittled and scorned.

The inadequate mainstream media shares the blame,
Routinely omitting to cover the problem news.
Between them they lay the way for conflict to follow,
Blithely ignoring the warnings, to everyone’s doom.

For previous essays by Michael Copeland, see the Michael Copeland Archives.

Culture-Enriching Nightmare in Skellefteå

Last summer a 12-year-old girl named Luna was tied to a tree, raped, and almost strangled to death with her own shoelace by a 15-year-old Ethiopian culture-enricher in the Swedish town of Skellefteå. When the “youth” entered the country, his parents had registered his age as 13, which is why he was enrolled in school with girls of Luna’s age.

The near-strangulation deprived Luna’s brain of oxygen for a critical period before emergency personnel could reach her and begin treatment. Her ordeal has left her a near-vegetable, unable to move her limbs or speak. She is clearly aware of what has happened to her, however, and has endured unimaginable ongoing trauma. Her condition requires round-the-clock medical care.

See this article from Remix News (hat tip Reader from Chicago) for details on the incident that left Luna in such a gravely disabled condition.

The attack on Luna received relatively little attention last summer, but the girl’s aunt Emma recently went public with her case, and has garnered widespread public support, including donations that will help finance the necessary medical treatment and equipment to help mitigate her debilitated condition.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Expressen:

Luna’s family on the big support: “Feel our thanks”

December 22, 2022

Just under a week has passed since Luna’s family chose to tell about the serious crime that has turned their lives upside down.

The support has been enormous — and with that comes the feeling of being less alone in their grief.

“You know who you are — feel our thanks,” says Luna’s aunt, Emma.

by Katrin Krantz

Staggering. Beyond all expectations.

That is how Luna’s aunt, Emma, describes the just under a week that has passed since they went out and told Luna’s story to Expressen.

Reactions have been strong. Many have reached out to the family.

“It has been hard to take in how big this has become. It feels like all of Sweden stood up and hugged us,” says Emma.

She could not have foreseen the wave of warmth and sympathy that came in the wake of the reporting.

“We in the family had an ambition that Luna would be given a voice. That she would not be hidden and forgotten in the statistics, and that we would pursue her case.”

They have now made contact with people who have cutting-edge competence and can give advice about, for example, Luna’s rehabilitation. In the text, Emma tells how Luna is happy to greet dogs, and many dog owners have reached out and offered canine companionship.

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Tear Down This Mosque!

As reported here last week in the news feed, a mob of angry Muslims prevented police from shutting down an illegal mosque in Florence. Below are excerpts from a Breitbart article about the incident (hat tip Reader from Chicago):

A mob of Muslims in the Italian city of Florence blocked a local bailiff from repossessing an illegal mosque, with hundreds of people preventing police from entering.

A bailiff and local police attempted to take back a former garage in Piazza dei Ciompi being used as a mosque after the owner of the property refused to renew the contract with its operator due to money being owed.

On Friday morning, hundreds gathered in front of the mosque to stop police from entering the premises, as well as the local bailiff and legal representation for the property owner, the newspaper Il Giornale reports.

Florence imam Izzedin Elzir commented on the attempted eviction, saying: “We do not know if there will be a postponement of the eviction, we are here to pray. We will not leave until we find an alternative.”

“I thank those who do their part to guarantee the rights of all: part of this right is that of property and must be guaranteed, we are the first to say that we must give the space back,” he claimed.

[…]

Federico Bussolin, a local city councillor in Florence and member of the League, added: “The eviction of the illegal mosque must be done.”

Similar scenes have been seen elsewhere in Europe, such as in Franc in 2017 when Muslims in the city of Clichy took to the streets to protest a local government move to remove them from a building they had occupied and used as a mosque.

The following video shows remarks made by Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini about the illegal mosque. Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

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Culture-Enriching Terror Arrests in Limburg

On Wednesday two Syrian brothers were arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of terrorism. Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from De Telegraaf:

Elite police unit arrests two Syrian brothers on suspicion of terrorism

On Wednesday evening, with a great show of force, the elite police unit DSI arrested two Syrian brothers on Crostolostraat in Stein (Limburg) on suspicion of terrorism.

A police spokesperson confirmed the arrests of the men, aged between 20 and 22 years, and says that the investigation was focused on Limburg, but did not want to comment on the substance of the suspicions. The Special Intervention Service (DSI), the unit utilized in terror threats and arrests of armed persons, used force in the entry around 10pm. Neighbors heard four loud bangs. The police stated that measures were used to break in or to disorient the suspects. Witnesses say shots were also fired.

Brothers

The arrested men are brothers in their early twenties and of Syrian origin. Neighbors say that during the operation, heavily-armed police ordered them to stay inside.

Stein Mayor Marion Leurs doesn’t want to comment, and calls it “a matter for the police”.

In shock

Zaam Wonen, the corporation that rents out the residence that was raided, says it is awaiting official reports from the police. “If what we hear is true, then we have a problem. Then that would be in violation of the rental agreement and would have consequences,” says Director Karel Smitsmans, who did not want to go into detail. “We are just as surprised and shocked as the neighborhood. We have never received alarming signals about this family.”

Deep into the night, the investigators were busy with the investigation on Crostolostraat in the Stein neighborhood of Nieuwdorp. And according to neighbors, a police dog and drone have been deployed in the operation. The suspects are in custody and are being questioned.

The Closing of the Imanskolan

The following news video from Sweden is not current; it originally aired sometime last spring.

A Muslim-themed school in Uppsala known as the Imanskolan was shut down after its pupils were exposed to “radicalization”, due to their being taught in a parallel society. The interesting thing about the story is that the decision to close the school was taken based on input from Säpo, the Swedish Security Police. Säpo investigated the school and reported its findings to the Inspectorate of Swedish Schools, which moved to close the Imanskolan.

The video features interviews with Maged Ashkar, a member of the administrative board for Imanskolan in Uppsala, and Fredrika Brickman, the head of the Inspectorate of Schools.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

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Enricher vs. Enricher in Montpellier

When one group of culture-enrichers has a violent encounter with another ethnic group in the French banlieues, the incident is referred to as “community tensions”.

The following report adds some interesting details to the recent ructions in Montpellier: the incident involved North African “youths” battling gypsy “youths”. The gypsies had the temerity to express their support for the French World Cup team, which aroused the ire of the Maghrebians. It looks like the Muslims outnumbered the gypsies in that particular slum, and the death of the Muslim youth occurred when a gypsy was trying to escape in his car from a dangerous encounter.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Le Figaro:

Death of an adolescent after France-Morocco match. Montpellier shaken by inter-community violence

by Guillaume Poingt

Violence between the Maghreb community and that of the Travelers (Gypsies) broke out in the Mosson quarter after the death of Aymen (14) crushed by a driver identified by authorities.

Community tensions broke out in Montpellier after the death of a 14-year-old adolescent, crushed by a car after the France-Morocco football match on Wednesday, 14 December. That evening, in the Mosson quarter, a group of about twenty youths surrounded a white Citroen C4 and tried to grab a French flag from the vehicle. The driver then took off hastily before making a half-turn and mortally crushing a 14-year-old minor of Maghrebian origin. The driver then fled.

“The car was not stolen, so the driver was quickly identified,” a police source informs us. That was confirmed Friday evening by the prefect of L’Herault. This individual, on the run and wanted by the police, is reportedly from the community of Travelers (Gypsies). The ethnic origin of the victim and that — alleged — of the suspect triggered tensions. In the night between Thursday and Friday, four detachments of the CRS police were deployed to the Mosson quarter, northwest of Montpellier, “to prevent any confrontations between the Gypsy community and the Maghrebian community,” stated a well-informed source to Le Figaro.

According to our information, the apartment of the passenger of the vehicle implicated in the fatal accident was broken into and ransacked during the night between Thursday and Friday. This man, beaten up just after the incident, has now been hospitalized. Proof of the tension that reigns in the Mosson quarter, a video disseminated Thursday December 15 on social media shows a group of some 20 individuals running down the street shouting, “Allahu Akhbar,” and then, “We’re going to f*** your mothers, Gypsies”.

Driver actively sought

A first act of revenge reportedly took place Thursday morning. A man belonging to the Gypsy community was found with his throat cut, but alive, a police source informs us. This individual was reportedly transported to CHU of Montpellier [University Hospital] accompanied by the Brigade of Investigation and Intervention, (NDLR), the source continued. The prefect of Herault categorically denies this information to Le Figaro and mentions a person from the Gypsy community who was “attacked”.

Investigators are still actively looking for the driver. “The investigation is progressing rapidly under the direction of the prosecutor,” the prefect of Herault stated Thursday in a press release. When contacted, the Montpellier Prosecutor’s Office did not want to make any additional statement, “during this active phase of the investigation.”

“The death of Aymen plunges us into a terrible ordeal,” the family of the adolescent reacted in a press release issued by the city hall of Montpellier. “We call for calm and express our confidence in the institutions of the Republic, police, and justice,” it added, asking the media to respect their grief and privacy.

Paris is Burning

As I mentioned yesterday, the World Cup is on, and Moroccan “youths” in Europe are becoming more and more frisky as their team moves up in the semifinals.

The rambunctious youngsters engaged in some spirited high jinks in Paris last weekend after Morocco beat Portugal. The next milestone will be Morocco vs. France on Wednesday — the aftermath of that one is bound to be a doozy, especially in Paris. To paraphrase an old Arab proverb: “A thousand cars can be burned in one night by a running man.”

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Le Parisien:

World Cup: At least 100 arrests during celebrations on the Champs-Élysées

Police had to face projectiles and fireworks being thrown in their direction. More than 1,000 officers mobilized for the evening as 20,000 people gathered on the Champs-Élysées.

by E.J.
December 10, 2022

The Paris Prefecture of Police had announced a particular plan for Saturday evening. In their sights: Police fears of disorder tied to two World Cup matches in which Morocco (victorious 1-0 against Portugal) then France (2-1 against England) qualified to meet in the semifinal in Qatar.

At the final whistle of the first match, around 6pm, thousands of fans of Morocco, the first African country to reach this stage of the competition, paraded in the streets of the capital, as they did in all of France. 20,000 people came together in a festive atmosphere on the Champs-Élysées, and incidents broke out around 11pm. “Projectiles were thrown at security forces, three two-wheel vehicles were set on fire, and a barricade was erected,” the prefecture of police stated. “The front of a café was damaged, the window of a bank and an entrance hall suffered damage,” the prefecture added. Nineteen police officers were slightly injured. At midnight, security operations were still in progress.

At least 170 people were arrested throughout France, 100 of them in Paris, according to the latest total reported at Sunday midday by the prefecture and the Paris Prosecutor’s Office. Of the 100 persons arrested in the capital, 80, including 23 minors, were placed in custody, the prosecutor’s office stated. Essentially for “group participation, violence against public officials, rebellion, damages, and possession of explosives.” Eleven other persons “received citations,” the prosecutor’s office stated.

In the streets, the train stations, the metro… An important plan

A plan “to fight against delinquency, to insure the safety of property and people in Paris, the inner suburbs, and in public transport,” was announced Friday.

1,220 police and gendarmes were thus mobilized as of 4pm in the capital. “A specific plan was also put in place on the Champs-Élysées in order to prevent any disturbance of public order likely to be caused by fans and to counter any incidents of delinquency,” the Prefecture of Paris noted.

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Will This World Cup Never End?

The higher the Moroccan team ascends in the World Cup semifinals, the more culture-enriching riots break out in various major cities across Western Europe. The Netherlands is particularly affected by the phenomenon, due to its large Moroccan minority.

Even if Morocco were to lose and drop out of the running, however, the riots would continue. When their team wins, Moroccans riot. When it loses, they riot. It’s a longstanding tradition that culture-enriching football fans riot, no matter what. Rioting is simply Moroccans’ preferred form of public cultural expression.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from the Dutch state broadcaster NOS:

Moroccan fans’ celebration again gets out of hand in various cities

The World Cup victory of Morocco over Portugal is being celebrated tonight in several Dutch cities. The street celebrations began in a festive fashion but ended up in disturbances in several locations. The police intervened, and emergency orders were announced.

In the Lombok neighborhood of Utrecht, the ME [special riot squad] was deployed. There the police were pelted with fireworks. “What began as a festive atmosphere in the city, unfortunately, became grimmer in certain places as the evening progressed. The ME was deployed because an unacceptable situation arose around the mosque square through destruction, the throwing of heavy fireworks, and aggression against the police,” the community announced.

Fans came out together as well in the Overvecht and Kanaleneiland neighborhoods. As far as we know, it remained peaceful there.

Rotterdam Police: Go home

In the center of Rotterdam, people drove through the streets blowing their horns. Hundreds of people came together, and due to the commotion, parts of the inner city were closed off. That happened at Kruispleien and Hofplein.

Because of the commotion, the police finally asked fans to head for home. “It is just too much, and we want to give everyone the chance to get in and out of Rotterdam,” a spokesperson announced.

On the Kruisplein [square], the riot police intervened around 8:30pm, since some of the fans ignored the call to go home. Fourteen people were arrested, the police announced on Twitter, among other reasons for incidents with fireworks.

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Thoughts After a Visit to Poland

Fjordman’s latest essay concerns his recent visit to one of the few remaining European strongholds of Christianity.

Thoughts After a Visit to Poland

by Fjordman

The medieval city of Krakow in southern Poland has a well-deserved reputation for beauty. I recently had the pleasure of spending several days there. The city has seen its fair share of unrest, and was sacked and burned by Mongols in the thirteenth century. Yet Krakow survived the Second World War more intact than did many other Polish cities such as Warsaw.

Outsiders often think of Poland as a land of vodka, and to a lesser extent beer or mead. However, there are several wine-producing Polish districts as well. This is unusual for a country that was never a part of the Roman Empire; even today, most important European wine districts were once under Roman rule. Zielona Gora in western Poland has an annual wine festival. In the vicinity of Krakow you can also find several vineyards, primarily producing white wines.

While Krakow is a fine city to visit at any time, December is certainly one of the highlights. Personally, I enjoyed the local Christmas markets. Krakow is famous for its beautiful nativity scenes representing the birth of Jesus. The best ones of these are true works of art. Krakow also feels quite safe for visitors, and it still looks like a European city. Many towns further west in Europe now look like they have been transplanted from the Middle East or Africa.

Several cities, such as Berlin on 19 December 2016 and Strasbourg on 11 December 2018, have suffered deadly attacks by militant Muslims specifically targeting Christmas markets. As a consequence, security against Jihadist attacks has been beefed up all over Western Europe. Even Scandinavian cities such as Stockholm, Copenhagen and Oslo have put up concrete blocks to protect you from being mowed down by an Islamic terrorist while drinking mulled wine.

I have previously reviewed the book The Camp of the Sane and The Camp of the Saints by author Max Denken, who has Polish roots. He hopes that the eastern half of Europe, where people have experienced Communist rule, may be more resistant to social experiments, indoctrination and decadence than Europeans further west. The Visegrád Group of Central Europe, consisting of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, form an important part of this bloc.

However, the Russian invasion of the Ukraine in 2022 has created cracks within the Visegrád Four. It has inflamed anti-Russian sentiments in many countries, including Poland. Meanwhile, Hungary under its pragmatic Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been criticized for being insufficiently willing to impose harsh sanctions against Russia. Orbán has suggested that the sanctions have backfired and may have harmed the economies of EU countries more than Russia.

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The Muslim Brotherhood in Austria, Part 4

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from the Wiener Zeitung:

Anti-Semitism

Investigation into pro-Hamas mosque

Study refers to association that reportedly supports Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and anti-Semitism

December 8, 2022

In a study, the Document Center for Political Islam analyzed the contents of sermons, social media posts, and books in the library of a mosque run by the “Islamic Association in Austria” (IVÖ). The expressions of opinions of IVÖ officials are allegedly interspersed with anti-Semitic stereotypes, and the imam of one of the IVÖ-run mosques in the 2nd District mentioned the terror group Hamas as a role model in sermons, according to the report.

Integration Minister Susanne Raab (ÖVP [Österreichische Volkspartei, Austrian People’s Party]) announced on Thursday the opening of an investigative process, and also took the Islamic Faith Society in Austria (IGGÖ) to task.

The Islamic Association in Austria (IVÖ) runs one of the largest mosques in the country as an association. This is part of a religious community within the Islamic community in Austria. The Documentation Center for Political Islam assumes that the sitting president of the IVÖ is also the imam of said mosque. His predecessor in the IVÖ was a known supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Target group youth

In a study, the Documentation Center for Political Islam analyzed both sermons and social media postings, as well as contents of the mosque’s library, and came to the conclusion that, “all three areas show a support for the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Palestinian terror organization Hamas.” For example, martyrdom and death in defense of the religion are glorified. An important target group is reportedly youth in particular. In connection with this ideal, the readiness to use violence in defense of Muslim lands is mentioned. Repeatedly, the virtue of “manliness” is mentioned in sermons. Surveys by the Documentation Center identify young men as the primary audience of the imam. “The imparting of such a worldview to a predominantly young male audience in the mosque community is questionable and can contribute to the spread of radical thinking,” according to Lisa Fellhofer, Director of the Documentation Center for Political Islam.

In books in the mosque’s own library, as well as in opinion statements by IVÖ officials, there were open calls for the destruction of Israel, and anti-Semitic stereotypes were shared. The current imam, according to his own statements, is pursuing the goal of shaping a new generation, which will be a driving force in line with the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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