Afghans Gone Wild

There was an Afghan riot a week ago in Paris, but the mainstream media did their best not to report on what was happening.

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

Paris (11th arrondissement). Demonstration by Afghan migrants degenerates on Rue Charonne; Media coverage of events almost non-existent

April 22, 2024

Leaders from the right, Rassemblement Nationale, and Reconquête stepped up to denounce the scenes of violence that took place on April 20 in the capital during a demonstration. Some of them bemoaned the almost non-existent media coverage of the events.

Clashes during a demonstration in honor of the victims of a fire on Rue de Charonne

The demonstration that degenerated was, according to the police prefecture of Paris, a mobilization in honor of the victims of the fire on 7 April on Rue de Charonne. In this incident, Le Parisien reported recently, the occupant of the apartment set on fire is suspected of having shot two of his guests to death, one of whom an Afghan co-national, before setting fire to the scene to get rid of the traces of his crime. Three persons were killed during the tragedy, for which a criminal motive is assumed.

Journal du Dimanche

Tweet from police prefecture:

On Saturday, 20 April 20, a demonstration, called to honor the victims of the fire on April 20, 2024, on Rue de Charonne, was held from the Charonne Metro to 154 (Rue de Charonne). Upon dispersal of the 200 participants on Rue de Charonne around 5:30pm, some of the demonstrators who had remained at the scene took off in a wild procession and were quickly blocked by police.

The police proceeded with the arrests of four individual perpetrators, specifically for damage to outdoor furniture at the corner of Rue de Charonne and Boulevard Voltaire.

The situation returned to normal some 20 minutes later; the gathering of demonstrators was dispersed by the FDO, who utilized intermediate means of defense (3 tear gas canisters) to carry it out.

Tweet from Officiers et Commissaires de Police:

On Saturday, a demonstration in honor of the victims of the fire of April 7, 2024 on Rue de Charonne degenerated at the time of dispersion, Rue de Charonne in Paris. Police intervened to restore order and arrested for perpetrators for destruction of property.

Filip Dewinter: “Islam is Our Enemy and Ultimately Wants to Take Over Europe”


Vlaams Belang: Stop Islamization

The following video shows an excerpt from a recent appearance by the Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) leader Filip Dewinter on a Flemish talk show.

Seventeen years ago I had the privilege of sharing a podium with Mr. Dewinter at the first Brussels conference. His hair wasn’t white back then, but then, neither was mine. I went digging through my old photos, but couldn’t find any usable ones from the occasion. Steen may have taken some, but I don’t seem to have any copies of them.

It’s encouraging to see that Filip Dewinter’s stance hasn’t changed in seventeen years. More power to him.

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

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And Now For Something Completely Different…

…a Ukrainian girl gang in Germany that tortures deaf people.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Junge Freiheit:

Ukrainian girl gang is said to have tortured deaf people

Another brutal case of violence among adolescent girls? A group of Ukrainian girls is said to have tortured a woman of the same age for hours. The police are investigating.

Meissen

Four Ukrainian girls between the ages of 12 and 17 are accused of mistreating a 13-year-old deaf girl for several hours in the Saxon city of Meissen. The crime is said to have occurred over the weekend in a factory ruin near Käthe-Kollwitz-Park. “It’s about allegations of deprivation of liberty and grievous bodily harm,” the police spokesman Marko Laske told Bild.

According to the victim’s statement, the girl gang allegedly approached her in the park and held her. The girl from Slovakia is deaf and can therefore barely communicate.

The crime may have been filmed

The victim is said to have been led from the park into the factory ruins. “There they tied up the 13-year-old and held her for several hours,” says police spokesman Laske, describing the crime. They are said to have beaten their victim, presumably with a stick and an iron rod.

In the afternoon they abandoned their victim. She managed to escape and reported the incident to the police. They were able to arrest the girl gang near the crime scene and also confiscated their cell phones. The crime may also have been filmed.

A doctor was able to diagnose the victim with minor physical injuries. The investigating authorities now want to determine whether the allegations can be substantiated.

Similar acts in Heide and France

The case is reminiscent of a similar act in the Schleswig-Holstein town of Heide. In February 2023, a gang of girls held a 13-year-old there for several hours, mistreated her and filmed the act. The perpetrators, who were still minors, were later sentenced to community service. Afterwards there were large protests in the city.

A similar case occurred in France in December. There, a 13-year-old girl was held in a cellar by schoolmates and mistreated. The crime was filmed again and the recordings ended up on the Internet. Unlike the current case in Meißen, however, a previous personal conflict is said to have led to the crime.

Afterword from the translator:

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Let the Games Begin!

The 2024 summer Olympics will kick off in Paris late in July. The occasion presents an unparalleled opportunity for Muslim culture-enrichers in France, who now comprise more than 15% of the population. The chances of at least one Allahu Akhbar moment are not negligible.

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

Terrorist attack: 16-year-old adolescent arrested for plan to attack La Defense [arena] during the Olympic games

by Steve Tenre and Guillaume Poingt
April 24, 2024

According to our information, the minor said in messages on Telegram that he wanted to obtain material to put together an explosive belt, “in order to die a martyr in the name of the Islamic Caliphate.”

Panic over the Olympic games. A 16-year-old adolescent has been arrested, Le Figaro learned, at Marignier (Haute-Savoie), suspected of preparing a jihadist attack during the Olympic games at La Defense (Hauts-de-Seine), Wednesday, April 24, according to the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office, who opened a case for “terrorist criminal association”. He has been placed in custody by police from the General Directorate of Interior Security (DGSI).

The individual was detected after a tip to the local prosecutor’s office concerning troubling remarks posted on the secure messaging channel Telegram. The minor spoke of his wish to procure materials to put together an explosive belt, “for the purpose of dying as a martyr in the name of the Islamic Caliphate,” a police source stated.

Pledge of allegiance to Daesh (ISIS)

The young man was arrested by judicial police at his parents’ residence. During a search, investigators recovered handwritten documents, including a pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State. The suspect’s cell phone was also seized. According to a source close to the case, no explosive belt was recovered by the investigators.

During questioning, the adolescent admitted wanting to commit an attack during the Olympic games, “with a gun or an explosive belt.” According to a police source, the minor, of French nationality, “was already the object of monitoring due to radicalization.” The investigation is assigned to DGSI.

His term of custody can last up to a maximum of 96 hours, or be extended until Saturday morning. “Until then, the investigators are interrogating the minor based on digital data they have collected from his personal items,” a judicial source indicates, who points out that at this stage, “prudence is necessary” concerning this plan to carry out a terrorist act.

Berlin Schools Celebrate Rape Day

Yes, I know the title for this post is sensationalized and misleading. But choosing a suitable title for a story as dystopian as this one was a difficult task.

The alleged “rape day” was proposed for April 24, which was two days ago. I haven’t seen any follow-up reports yet, but I’ll post one if it comes in.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Junge Freiheit. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

Berlin senator warns of “rape day” in schools

This Wednesday, girls in schools are in danger of becoming fair game. It is spread via TikTok that rape will go unpunished on April 24th. Politicians are panicking.

Berlin

Berlin Schools Senator Katharina Günther-Wünsch (CDU) warned schools about “National Rape Day” in a letter. April 24th is known among young people through a “disturbing TikTok trend” that girls can be “touched” and “molested” with impunity. It is actually “encouraged” to do so.

The letter to the school principals, which was made available to Junge Freiheit, was only sent yesterday, Tuesday, and seems like a short-term panic reaction. It is doubtful how many recipients will still be able to respond to the warning.

[With this letter, the senator warns of “Rape Day”.]

Warning of danger on rape day

Günther-Wünsch writes that “National Rape Day” could have an impact on “coexistence in schools”: According to the senator, the so-called “Rape Day” was first called for via TikTok in April 2021: “In this video, which has now been deleted, it was encouraged on April 24 to touch and harass young women and girls without their consent.” [I’m not even going to make a guess about who posted this video on TikTok, and nobody with a functioning brain needs to guess, either.]

It is also suggested that “on this day there is impunity for these acts and there are no fears of any consequences”. This false claim remains “persistent, also because it is not labeled as such by social media.”

The senator warns: “There is also a risk of following these requests and carrying out corresponding actions.” The headmaster calls on the CDU politician: “Get the facts straight and involve school social work. Make your teaching staff aware of this form of possible calls for sexual assault and of an attentive and caring attitude towards the students.” [Is this statement just stupidity from the political site or simple malice? After all, they created this mess.]

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Purdah and Honor Killings: Life in Islamic Italy

Below is another investigative report by Eugenia Fiore into the plight of women in Muslim ghettoes in Italian cities. One of the cases mentioned is that of Saman Abbas, was murdered by her parents in Novellara (see the bottom of this post for a list of previous articles about Saman Abbas).

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

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It is Almost Certain That Cultural Enrichment Has Reared its Head Again

A student at a secondary school in the town of Ammanford in South Wales went on a stabbing rampage yesterday, wounding three people before being restrained. When I first read the news, I wondered if cultural enrichment might be a factor. Seneca III had similar thoughts, and sends this report (which was written yesterday).

It is Almost Certain that Cultural Enrichment has Reared its Head Again

by Seneca III

A Welsh Language School located in Ammanford, South Wales, was locked down resultant from an incident earlier this morning. The school has 1,800 pupils aged from eleven to eighteen drawn from its local hinterland and also from the city of Swansea, a multicultural hell hole to its SSW. The school is situated north of Ammanford town centre, which is located a few miles north-east of the western terminus of the M4 motorway.

Police and emergency services reports were sparse on facts earlier, which is fair enough as criminal investigations were still underway at the time, but they have since announced that two teachers and a girl were stabbed and that a teenage girl is under arrest.

Headlined “Ammanford school ‘stabbing’: Person is arrested and three people including ‘teacher’ injured after ‘knife attack involving two girls’ as classrooms remain in ‘lockdown’, the Daily Mail[1] reports inside that “Dyfed-Powys Police and two air ambulances were called to the scene. One air ambulance is said to have now left the field and is reportedly flying towards the University Hospital in Cardiff. The second remains on site.” followed by a succession of talking heads, predominantly political ones, waffling on despite their being no better informed than the rest of us as the police were playing this one very close to the chest, which in itself might have indicated that they felt at that time that the age, ethnicity or origin of the perpetrators and/or their victims was a matter of some sensitivity in modern-day Britain.

Demographically [2], Ammanford is as follows:

Male/Female = 57.2%/48.8%.

Ethnic Groups = White 5247; Asian 101; Black 18; Arab 7; Mixed 50; Other ethnics 21.

Religions = Christian 2425; Muslim 25; Hindu 22; Sikh 10; Buddhist 17; Jewish 4; Others 25; No religion 2610.

However, Swansea is a very different kettle of fish. It is a city at the mouth of the river Tawe with a working Maritime Quarter just around the corner from another notorious occupied territory, the Port City of Bristol, and therein lies an enigmatic clue to the conundrum facing the authorities in Carmarthenshire.

The 2021 Census recorded that 91.4% of Swansea’s usually resident population were white (around 218,100 people). The proportion of people with non-white ethnicity in Swansea has increased from 6.0% in 2011 (around 14,300 people) to 8.6% in 2021 (20,400). The largest non-white ethnic group in Swansea in 2021 was ‘Indian’ (around 2,900 people or 1.2%) with ‘Other Asian’, ‘Caribbean’ and ‘Bangladeshi’ also above 2,000.

67.0% of Swansea residents (159,900 people) expressed a ‘Welsh only’ or ‘Welsh and British only’ national identity (Wales 63.3%). This is slightly lower than the equivalent proportions in 2011 (Swansea 69.3%; Wales 64.6%).

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Have Machete, Will Travel

In the following report, notice that the machete-wielding thug is identified only as a “man”. And, since he is a “man born in Saarbrücken”, that means he is a GERMAN, and not a Somali, or Nigerian, or whatever ethnicity he really is. Simply to be given a German passport is enough to make one definitively German.

It’s worth revisiting Hasan and Misho:

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the online news portal Nius. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

Police shoot machete man in Mannheim university library

A man is said to have entered a library at the University of Mannheim with a machete. The police shot him. Shortly afterwards, the 31-year-old died in hospital. Now the LKA is also investigating.

A 31-year-old who stormed into a Mannheim University library with a machete was shot by police and died in a hospital. The police, the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) and the public prosecutor’s office said there was a threat to police officers on Tuesday evening, whereupon they used their firearms. The 31-year-old had become violent towards an employee before the officers arrived. Students were also there. A police spokesman claims there was no danger to them.

First, an armed man was noticed in the area of the library of the economics faculty. He had already been banned from the library because he had repeatedly behaved negatively, the statement said. When the police patrol arrived, he was reportedly holding a machete in his hand. After being shot by police, the 31-year-old man was taken to a hospital where he later died. According to the statement, the man born in Saarbrücken was known to the police. [I’m pretty sure that his name is NOT a typical name from the Saarland, it will be more like Mohammed or Abdul or something and most likely not a Frank, Peter, Felix or Dirk.]

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Wokist Socialism

MC includes a discussion of various types of socialism as a preface to his latest update from Sderot.

Wokist Socialism

by MC

Marxism is just the most successful of a long line of ‘socialisms’ and most people have been programmed to perceive Marxism as the only socialism.

This is simply not true. In the period after the First World War, three socialisms started competing against each other for popularity: Class-based socialism (Marxism), Race-based socialism (Nazism) and Nation-based socialism (Italian Fascism and maybe FDR-driven Americanism).

The US Supreme Court scotched ‘Blue Eagle’ FDR’s version of full on socialism pretty quickly.


National Recovery Administration (NRA) logo from the 1930s

Also, other centuries had other forms of socialism; Islamic (religious) socialism and Jacobin (equality-based) Socialism stand out as being highly lethal in their respective heydays. The Spanish Inquisition could also qualify as religion-based socialism, but was by no means as lethal as other forms.

Under pressure from Marxist class-based socialism, Nazi race-based socialism was contorted into a supposed ‘right-wing’ slot, and yes, compared to class-based Marxism, it was a little bit to the right.

Marxists have proven to be extremely good at lies, and their propaganda reflects it. Marxist propaganda creates a fictional fantasy of Utopian ideals, much like the Star Trek picture of the planet free from religion and capitalism.

As Marxists began to grab hold of the institutions, so Marxist socialism began to dominate Western culture, and the other ‘socialisms’ were suppressed and (relatively) demonized.

Race-based socialism (Nazism) was somehow equated to conservatism because of a perceived ‘racism’ amongst conservatives. But it was Democrats (Marxists) who demonstrated this particular racism: Jim Crow, the KKK, etc.

This race-based socialism of the Nazis was particularly focussed on Jews, but also Slavs (whose land was needed for Lebensraum) Gypsies, gays and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Those with non-white skin colours were perceived as just a slave class of Untermenschen.

Jews were ‘dangerous’ Untermenschen and a threat to the Aryan culture, whereas Africans were compliant Untermenschen.

Marxism redefined ‘socialism’ in its own image. To many, it became the only standard of socialism, and Marxism became “king of the castle” as such.

The Moral High Ground of ideas has always been a feature of Marxism. It is like a Wild West street at Universal Studios, a theatrical foreground shielding the Gulag mass killing machine behind the façade. The stars were Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, all mass murderers with a smile for the camera.

They had many acolytes in the West. They infiltrated Defence, Administration and the executive and probably even the FDR White House (Hopkins).

All socialism is a death cult where unbelievers forfeit their right to life and can be exploited as slaves, or just plain exterminated.

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Sharia Is Incompatible with Human Rights, Complaint at U.N. Alleges

The following report by Clare Lopez was published earlier this month by Sharia TipSheet.

Women Under Sharia

Sharia Is Incompatible with Human Rights, Complaint at U.N. Alleges

by Clare M. Lopez

UN Called to Respond to Sharia Violence against Women” by Raymond Ibrahim at Gatestone Institute, March 25, 2024

  • On March 8, 2024 — International Women’s Day — a formal complaint addressing how Islamic Law (sharia) is inherently abusive of women was submitted to the United Nations. Attached were the signatures of dozens of men and women worldwide, including victims of sharia, human rights activists, and more.
  • [Editor’s Note — See the Executive Summary of the complaint. It documents sharia-linked violence against women, pegs its source as the Quran and Hadith, and details other aspects of Islamic culture which are demeaning to women (e.g., female genital mutilation). The summary states flat out sharia is incompatible with human rights.]

Impregnating Infidels: Another Form of Jihad”, posted by Raymond Ibrahim at the Virginia Christian Alliance, March 27, 2024

  • “Love Jihad” continues

This month, we have a series of articles documenting the ongoing, increasing atrocities being committed by the Taliban against Afghan women — including flogging and stoning. Flogging and stoning to death are Islamic Hudud punishments for a specific set of offenses enumerated in the Qur’an. This means that doctrinally speaking, Taliban human rights abuses are neither extremist nor radical, but horrific as they are, instead mainstream, orthodox obedience to the doctrine, laws, and scripture of Islam.

Don’t Betray the Women of Afghanistan” by Lisa Curtis and Hadeia Amiry at Foreign Affairs Magazine, March 28, 2024

“Taliban leader says women will be stoned to death in public” by Akhtar Makoli at The Telegraph, March 25, 2024

“Afghanistan: Taliban’s Supreme Leader says ‘We will flog women in public, we will stone them to death in public’” by Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch, March 27, 2024

Taliban vow to Start Stoning Women to Death in Public for Adultery in Afghanistan” at Logan’s Warning, March 26, 2024

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Not Quite the Götterdämmerung I Expected

Update: Thank you all for your kind words. That was not quite the response I expected!

Your comments have given me a lot to think about for future twentieth-anniversary posts.

We’ll be coming up on the twentieth anniversary of Gates of Vienna later this year, and the process of preparing for an anniversary post has induced a sort of reverie in me as I contemplate the events of the past two decades.

Things have changed a lot, both externally and internally. I often feel like I’m too old to be doing this sort of thing. I’m over seventy now, and should be relaxing somewhere pleasant, enjoying the time that remains to me before I shuffle off this mortal coil.

And I sometimes feel like I’m close to burning out — I’ve just seen too way much information, most of it horrible. I wish I could return to the naïve, idealistic state of mind that I had when I started this job, but, alas, that’s not an option. Once you walk through the door of greater awareness, there’s no turning back. And, worst of all, I don’t think I’ve reached the limit of ghastly understanding. It seems likely that the worst is yet to come.

I’ve been working with Vlad for more than fifteen years now, and he says he’s feeling the pressure of burnout, too. We talk on the phone fairly frequently about all this stuff, in an effort to keep each other sane. With mixed results.

Anyway… for the time being, I’ll continue trawling through the hideous news every day and presenting it here, for your delectation (or horror, as the case may be).

The worst part of the recollection process is the growing awareness that all my efforts at Counterjihad have for naught. It’s been coming on gradually, and has intensified over the past few years, as the incidence of jihad in Europe has increased to the point where I can’t cover it all. It used to be that I could post about every major incident when it occurred, but that’s no longer possible — most of the stories get relegated to the news feed, if I have any coverage of them at all. There are just too many of them.

As Islamization has increased, the persecution of those who criticize it — or even just point it out — has intensified concomitantly. A number of Europeans that I worked with have been prosecuted; once again, I can’t keep track of them all. Many of them have now ceased their Counterjihad activities — when the choice is between losing your livelihood and giving up your Islamophobia, it’s not surprising that people decide to quit this line of work. If I actually lived in Europe, I might well have been driven out of it myself.

I used to think that making more people aware of what’s happening would help turn the tide. If a critical mass of understanding could only be reached, especially among elected representatives, the process of Islamization might be reversible. Back in 2007 and 2008 I said I thought we had a window of ten or fifteen years in which to begin the process of reversal. Unfortunately, that window has now closed. The demographics of Western Europe have passed the point of no return. The white natives are having fewer children, while the Muslims are having more, and all the while additional “asylum seekers” are pouring in. Tomorrow belongs to them.

Central and Eastern Europe may well be able to avoid the worst, at least for a while, but Western European countries will metamorphose into Muslim societies. Sweden, the UK, the Netherlands, and France will be the first to become Islamic republics, with Germany, Austria, Spain, and Italy following close behind. It’s too late to stop the process; it’s only a matter of time.

No one in a position of political power will take action against the inevitable. Anyone who is inclined to oppose Islamization finds out as soon as he rises high enough in the hierarchy that opposition is not permitted. The order comes down from above, and you either give up your opposition (relevant example: Giorgia Meloni), or your career comes to an end. There are always multiple ways to make an independent-minded politician an offer he can’t refuse. I can’t say exactly who the shadowy unelected globalists are who give the orders, but they’re out there giving them. Their gravitational influence is large enough to shift the orbits of our elected leaders.

As we approach 2050, the Islamization process will intensify to the point where civil strife will break out in Western Europe. If nuclear war can somehow be avoided, it may be possible for white enclaves to form where the worst of the Islamic excesses are kept at bay. However, based on the current demographics, the Caliphate will have control of the major cities. If the welfare jizya ceases to flow to the urban ghettos, then the Muslims living there will have to resort to razzias, which is their traditional way of dealing with privation. We can expect well-armed masses of them to descend on the suburbs and rural areas, where they can rape and pillage to their hearts’ content.

They will have the arms, and, sad to say, they will have more military-age men than the white natives will. By that time most of the remaining whites will be geezers. Thus we can expect that their enclaves will gradually shrink, while the culturally enriched sharia banlieues will gradually expand.

And that’s just the Islamization aspect of the coming collapse. One of the ghastly realizations I’ve come to during the past two decades is that Islamization is just one tool in the demonic toolbox accessed by our globalist masters. The culture wars that are raging all across the West feature several other lytic agents designed to break down traditional societies and render them unable to resist the planned apocalypse — Build Back Better, the Great Reset, or whatever they choose to call it.

The most recent destructive fad is the “trans” craze, which is dissolving every social institution it touches so rapidly that it’s hard to take in what’s happening. And that’s certainly not the last such craze — it’s already clear that bestiality, polygamy, incest, and pedophilia are coming up soon. For all I know, necrophilia, necrophagia, and cannibalism may be next on the menu. Cannibals have rights, too!

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Darmanin Orders the Protection of French Jews

The following translation came in a few days ago, but was delayed for various reasons. The news story was published after Iran attacked Israel, but before Israel’s retaliatory attack against Iran last night. The level of protection required to keep French Jews safe today must be enormous, given that at least 15% of the population of France is now Muslim.

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

Strikes against Israel: Darmanin asks for security reinforcement at places of worship and Jewish schools

April 14, 2024

At the approach of the Passover holidays, the Interior Minister has asked prefects to provide a “stationary and visible” police presence in front of places of worship and “the most sensitive and emblematic” buildings.

On Sunday, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin asked prefects to reinforce security in front of Jewish places of worship, as well as in front of religious schools, the day after the attack carried out by Iran against Israel and in anticipation of the Passover holidays. The minister is asking prefects to provide a “stationary and visible” presence of police in front of places of worship and “the most sensitive and emblematic” buildings.

“The security forces [police and Gendarmerie, editor’s note], of course, cannot carry out these missions alone,” the minister writes in a dispatch dated Sunday. “You will also need to requisition the Sentinel soldiers for this purpose,” he adds. On the approach of Passover, the Jewish Easter (22-30 April), he asks them to pay particular attention to the “religious services and gatherings that traditionally concentrate large numbers of people.”

“Stationary guards” and “ regular visits”

The Minister of Interior is also asking that “stationary guards be placed in front of religious schools beginning Monday, systematically, at the hours when pupils enter and leave.” Gerald Darmanin is also calling for the establishment of “regular visits by the police and Gendarmerie” at “specialized businesses”.

This decision was taken due to the “very high level of terrorist threat,” “the continuing high level of acts of an anti-Semitic character,” and “the persistence of tensions at the international level, including the attack by Iran upon Israel,” during the night between Saturday and Sunday, he detailed in the dispatch.

Junior Sharia Police Enforce Ramadan in Alsace

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from the French weekly Le Journal du Dimanche:

An adolescent (13) attacked for not respecting Ramadan

In Achenheim, (Bas Rhin [Alsace]), a 13-year-old minor was beaten by four Muslim minors who reproached her for not respecting the Ramadan fast while getting off a bus going to their school. Accompanied by her father, the adolescent filed a complaint Tuesday afternoon for the acts of group violence.

April 9, 2024

The day before Eid-al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of Ramadan, a female adolescent (13) was accosted by four minors in Achenheim (Bas-Rhin). On a bus heading to their school, she was accosted by four other pupils of the school who reproached her for not respecting the fast imposed by Ramadan. While getting off the bus, the victim, of North African origin, was beaten, according to our information from a judicial source. The adolescent was lightly injured, her face showing redness.

Complaint filed

After the attack the four minors, of Muslim faith, fled. As they are still in the process of being identified, the victim went to the police headquarters of Wolfisheim, accompanied by her father. She filed a complaint for the acts of group violence. With the matter in hand, the Gendarmerie brigade will begin an investigation.

The Play’s the Thing

Concerning the events of the last 24 hours: the Iranian attack on Israel resembles an extravagant theatrical production. Just look at all the media hoopla about an operation that didn’t kill or seriously injure anyone.

Iran was behind the Hamas attacks last October 7. It has also been behind the recent Hezbollah attacks on northern Israel, which have driven thousands of people from their homes. Those two operations (and many others) show that the Iranians can be very effective at harming Israel when they want to.

Conclusion: the mullahs didn’t really intend to do any serious damage to Israel last night.

I’m not sure what the motivation was for all the theatre, but I’m convinced it’s theatre. Mark Steyn has reached similar conclusions. And so has Sundance at Conservative Tree House. (That last link features some plausible speculation about what’s behind the scrim.)

Everything I say here is pure speculation. I’m no expert. I don’t know what’s going on. I just know there’s more to this than meets the eye.

Whenever I encounter indications of skullduggery, the first question I ask myself is: Cui bono? In this case, the answer is not at all obvious. There are, however, some data points that are worth examining.

According to The Jerusalem Post:

Iran informed Turkey in advance of its planned operation against Israel, a Turkish diplomatic source told Reuters on Sunday, adding that Washington had conveyed to Tehran via Ankara that any action it took had to be “within certain limits.”

Turkey, which has denounced Israel for its campaign on Gaza, said earlier on Sunday that it did not want a further escalation of tensions in the region.

The Turkish source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan had spoken to both his US and Iranian counterparts in the past week to discuss the planned Iranian operation, adding Ankara had been made aware of possible developments.

So the USA gave the green light for Iran to attack Israel “within certain limits”. And what might those limits have been? Based on what eventuated last night, it seems that Iran was enjoined not to cause significant Israeli casualties or do serious damage to the infrastructure of the Jewish state.

Those are pretty hard terms for a jihad-based entity like the Islamic Republic of Iran. Why would the mullahs agree to such humiliating restrictions?

After all, the Israelis did severe damage to Iranian honor by attacking that building in Damascus and killing major Iranian assets. Iran was honor-bound to mount a decisive response against Israel. They needed something to that would make faithful Muslims take to the streets all over the world, shouting with joy and handing out candy. But they also knew that if they were effective in their actions, Israel might do them significant damage. The Jewish state is quite capable of doing grievous harm to Iran. Doing so might trigger World War Three, with mushroom clouds waiting just over the horizon, but Israel can certainly nobble Iran if the situation is dire enough to require it.

Knowing all this, the State Department made Iran an offer that would allow it to salvage its international honor without ushering in Armageddon. Presumably the panjandrums at State also had enough leverage to persuade the Israelis to go along with the dirty deal.

So that’s a possible explanation for what Iran got out of the deal. What did the USA and its British mini-me get?

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