Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/16/2013

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Dzhokar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston Marathon bomber, is said to have written various things on the inside of the boat he was hiding in before he was surrounded and captured by police. Among his scribbles was the phrase “Praise Allah”, as revealed by cell phone videos taken by local cops. Police officers were asked by the FBI to turn over their phones to the Bureau, so that no information would leak, but the cops refused to do so.

In other news, a new report on corporate graft reveals that Croatia and Slovenia are the most corrupt nations in the European Union.

To see the headlines and the articles, click “Continue reading” below.

Thanks to Fjordman, Gaia, Insubria, JD, Jerry Gordon, McR, Nick, Vlad Tepes, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.

Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. We check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.

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Fight Hate Speech — And Earn Big Bucks!

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Or kroner, anyway. Norwegian kroner, to be precise. Three million of them.

That’s what an independent foundation (in collusion with Norwegian government) is paying Øyvind Strømmen and one of his colleagues to “identify and expose” extremism and hate speech on the internet.

As long-time readers will remember from the LGF Wars, Mr. Strømmen was the conduit to Charles Johnson for leftist disinformation against the Sweden Democrats provided by EXPO and similar sources. He came back into prominence after the Breivik massacre in 2011, and is one of the numerous lefties who has repeatedly targeted Fjordman.

So what kind of extremism do you think these heroes will be fighting? Hint: It won’t be Antifa.

Our Norwegian correspondent The Observer has translated an article from Document.no about the largesse bestowed on these two esteemed Gentlemen of the Left. He includes this brief explanatory note:

Øyvind Strømmen should already be familiar to the readers of Gates of Vienna. Here is the Norwegian Wikipedia entry on his partner in crime, Kjetil Stormark. And here’s a Telegraph article with more information on Mr. Stormark. He recently published a book based on e-mail correspondence between Breivik and others..

It’s nice to see that at least some people in Norway have benefitted tremendously, both financially and career wise on the Breivik terror in Norway which cost 77 people their lives.

Wouldn’t you concur, Øyvind?

The translated article:

Yet another internet site against hate speech, hate crime and extremism

The independent foundation Fritt Ord [‘free speech’, or alternatively ‘free word’] has awarded NoK 3 million [about $510,000] to the newly established ‘journalistic trade network on hate speech, hate crime and extremism’. The new project ‘Hate Speech International’ (HSI) will be run by two authors and freelance journalists, Øyvind Strømmen and Kjetil Stormark. It will be supported financially by the Fritt Ord foundation and the Norwegian Foreign Ministry.

“The organization will create a website and carry out specific journalistic assignments with the aim of identifying causes and exposing leaders responsible for the dissemination of hate speech and hate crimes. ‘Hate Speech International’ will also focus on extremism as a phenomenon. HSI will be run in accordance with the guidelines of ‘redaktørplakaten’ [Editors’ rules] and ‘Vær Varsom-plakaten’ [The Norwegian Code of Media Ethics].

“Hate Speech International will focus mainly on Europe, but the organization also intends to establish networks and carry out research projects in North Africa and the Middle East.”

Kjetil Stormark will be the new editor of the internet site, with Øyvind Strømmen acting as the news editor and leader of content.

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Storm Cells

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Another line of thunderstorms is bearing down on us, with potential high winds and hail. We may lose our electricity in a little while.

If we disappear from view for a few hours, and your comments go unmoderated, you’ll know why.

Update: The raging tempests have all receded to the east and/or dissipated. Everything here is very wet, but otherwise unscathed.

What Happened in Luton?

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Last night I wrote about a Facebook message from Kevin Carroll, the leader of the EDL, about the rape of a child in a restroom in a Luton school.

Since then, thanks to additional information kindly supplied by commenters on the post, I have learned that the Bedfordshire police have denied that such an incident occurred (also on Facebook, but I don’t have the URL), and that they are investigating whether anyone broke the laws against incitement by posting inflammatory false information on social media.

Long-time readers know that we are committed to truthful reporting here at Gates of Vienna. In this particular case, I’m anxious to learn more. I know what Kev said, and I know what the police said. In my personal experience, the EDL has a better track record than the police when it comes to telling the truth about culturally enriched sexual predation in England. It took law enforcement and the Crown Prosecutor many years to admit that “grooming and pimping” by “Asians” was a reality — and in fact a mass epidemic — and that the EDL were right all along.

So I’m keeping an open mind. I’m interested in acquiring more information, and I don’t expect anything useful about the incident to come from the British MSM. Therefore, I’d welcome it if any of our British readers can supply specific information that addresses one or more of the following questions:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/15/2013

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Steven Miller, the acting director on the IRS, has resigned under pressure from the White House in the face of the latest scandal. Mr. Miller reportedly was aware that his agency was being used to target Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations.

In other news, in anticipation of summer riots, the British government is said to be secretly training police in the use of powerful water cannons, the same kind that were used to great effect in Northern Ireland.

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Thanks to DS, Fjordman, Insubria, JD, Jerry Gordon, JP, McR, Steen, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.

Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. We check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.

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How Much Does Immigration Cost Norway?

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This is a pressing question for Norwegian society, as the importation of cultural enrichment continues to accelerate.

Our Norwegian correspondent The Observer has translated an article from Dagbladet about the spiraling cost of bringing diversity to Norway. The translator includes this introduction:

The asylum-seeker industry in Norway is booming, and it is keeping lots of Norwegians employed. At the same time, Norwegian politicians can brag about how generous and kindhearted they are whenever they are invited to speak at the UN or similar organizations — and perhaps get a job with those organizations as a result of it.

One thing is certain: these politicians don’t look after the interests of the Norwegian people, who are being given the short end of the stick.

Articles which describe the lavish treatment given to ‘refugees’ in Norway really get my blood boiling. I have worked hard (physical hard work) all my life and I have hardly received a penny from the Norwegian government. Ever since I first started working in Norway I’ve being fairly close to what you would refer to as ‘working poor’, i.e. living from paycheck to paycheck.

This is due to the insanely high taxes and the cost of living. Even though the salaries are fairly high compared to many other countries, most of it is unfortunately being taken away by the greedy government in the shape of taxes, in order to pay for all this cultural enrichment.

That’s why I find it hard to read about the cushy lifestyle that these so-called ‘refugees’ are enjoying in Norway. They don’t have to move a finger, and they have everything handed to them on a silver platter.

The translated article:

NoK 56 billion spent on training courses for immigrants

An increasing number of immigrants end up outside the workforce despite costly introductory courses and work related training programs.

(Finansavisen — Norwegian financial newspaper) In a series of articles in the last month entitled “the cost of immigration”, Finansavisen revealed that the various integration schemes costs tens of billions and that the results are rather startling.

The money is pouring out, and an increasing number of immigrants end up outside the workforce despite the introductory courses, writes Finansavisen.

The newspaper previously revealed that Norway loses NoK 4.1 million on each non-Western immigrant that arrive in the country, and that immigration has cost Norway NoK 70 billion in the past seven years.

On Wednesday the newspaper revealed that the government has spent NoK 2 million on each newly arrived non-Western immigrant to get them to into the workforce or to take up studies. But despite these efforts fewer immigrants end up working or studying, according to figures released by the Bureau of Statistics in Norway (SSB).

Only 50 percent of the immigrants that completed the program in 2010 are net contributors today after two years of Norwegian studies, social studies or other studies, according to SSB.

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Child Gang-Raped by Muslims in Luton School Toilets

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Update: This report has not yet been independently verified. For further discussion, see this more recent post.

This just came in; it was posted by Kev Carroll, the leader of the English Defence League, on Facebook:

A year 7 [equivalent to 6th grade; probably 11-12 years old] child in Luton Town has been gang-raped by Moslems in the toilets whilst at school.

The authorities have been desperately trying to keep it secret for fear of massive unrest by Lutonians and the EDL. Well, it’s too late!

The Luton Town media have participated in the conspiracy of silence, along with the police and the council, so as not to upset the Islamic community.

OUT[expletive]RAGEOUS! Hold on to your hat, Luton!

Reservoir Jihad?

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The following story is an example of why we need more alert citizens like Don Laird.

Seven culturally enriched people — from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore — were arrested yesterday just after midnight for trespassing at a reservoir outside Boston, one of the city’s two major water supplies.

Like the “Truck Stop Jihad”, this may be just a coincidence. It’s possible that these foreign visitors just happened to be out sightseeing in the middle of the night, and decided to take a look at the famous Quabbin Reservoir. Uh-huh. In the dark. Sure.

And it’s also just a coincidence that most of the visitors come from countries that are hotbeds of radical Islam. Yup. Nothing unusual there. Right?

It’s funny, though — the Massachusetts state police don’t seem to believe in coincidences, since they have stepped up their patrols of all the reservoirs in the commonwealth in the wake of this incident.

There are many, many reservoirs scattered over millions of square miles throughout the United States. An increased law enforcement presence at all of them would be a difficult and expensive process to implement. How many drinking water reservoirs are there in the country? How many personnel does it take to watch them?

Investigating the statistics is not an easy task. Just to pick Kansas at random, the USGS lists twenty-four reservoirs in the state. We may assume that Kansas’ generally rural character makes that total smaller than average, implying that there are at least several thousand reservoirs throughout the country. Add the water towers, water treatment plants, pumping stations, catchment areas around reservoirs and lakes, etc., and it’s easy to see that the nation’s water supply offers tens of thousands of potential targets and hundreds of thousands of miles of perimeter to patrol.

We don’t have enough police, FBI and DHS agents, and National Guard soldiers to do the job. That’s why we need ordinary citizens to become experts on jihad-related behavior so they can be alert to what is going on around them.

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Below are excerpts from the report on the Quabbin incident, from CBS Boston:

7 Caught Trespassing At Quabbin Reservoir; Patrols Stepped Up Across State

BELCHERTOWN (CBS) — Shortly after midnight Tuesday, seven people were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir.

State Police say the five men and two women are from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, and “cited their education and career interests” for being in the area. The men told police they were chemical engineers and recent college graduates.

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Resisting Sharia in Morocco

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Morocco is one of the most liberalized Muslim countries in the world. Despite its many Islam-related problems — and despite the fact that it exports a wealth of radicals to places like the Netherlands and Belgium — Morocco still has a vibrant secular culture.

However, Moroccans have not entirely escaped the pressures of the “Arab Spring”. After the most recent elections, a semi-Salafist government took office. The institution of the monarchy helps keep further deterioration in check, but how long the dam will hold is anybody’s guess.

The Moroccan television commentator in the video below is an example of that rare species, the truly “moderate” Muslim. He is speaking out against a recent fatwa by a Salafist sheikh recommending the death penalty for apostates. The commentator calls him out on his selective application of sharia law, and demands that he be honest and advocate for all Koran-based punishments — or none.

I don’t hold out much hope for this fellow’s chances in the long term. In ten years he’ll probably be dead or living in exile in the West. However, for the moment, he provides a refreshing alternative to the usual drumbeat of Salafism heard on Islamic TV channels all over the world.

Many thanks to Russkiy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Transcript:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/14/2013

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Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department have opened a criminal inquiry to investigate whether the IRS broke the law when it targeted Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations. Mind you, this is the same Justice Department that intercepted and collected communications from Associated Press reporters in an effort to track down the identity of a government official who leaked information about a thwarted terrorist attack.

In other news, inflation in Italy has dropped to 1.1%, its lowest level since 2009. Meanwhile, unemployment in Portugal has reached the record level of 17.7%.

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Thanks to C. Cantoni, Fjordman, Insubria, JD, Steen, TV, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.

Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. We check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.

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Truck Stop Jihad?

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Last month we featured an original-source report by Don Laird on a culturally enriched act of vandalism by Muslims in Alberta. Mr. Laird is back with an account of an incident in an Edmonton truck stop that looked suspiciously like a “Mohammed Atta moment” — that is, devout Islamic activities immediately prior to martyrdom.

The following report was sent out today by fax to law enforcement agencies and other appropriate recipients.

ATTENTION

The information in this fax relates to a potential Muslim/Islamic terrorist threat to both Canada and the United States of America.

IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS FAX IN ERROR PLEASE IMMEDIATELY FORWARD IT TO:

Canadian Security and Intelligence Service, Ottawa, Canada
Fax: 1-613-231-0612

Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Ottawa, Canada
Fax: 1-613-993-0620

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Milk River, Alberta, Det)
Fax: 1-403-647-3874

Canadian Border Services Agency (Port of Entry, Coutts, Alberta)
Fax: 1-403-344-4427

United States ICE (Dept Homeland Security, Sweetgrass, Montana)
Fax: 1-406-335-2931

The Hon. Vic Toews, Minister, Public Safety, Ottawa
Fax: 1-613-954-5186

Introduction:

The information in this fax relates to an incident at the Road King Truck Stop located at the corner of 170th Street and 118th Avenue in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. While a seemingly mundane and innocuous incident, when examined there are facets which give rise to legitimate concerns relating to Muslim/Islamic terrorist threat in the form of the logistical and administrative support of terrorist action within North America.

Incident:

At approximately 10:30pm on the evening of May 13, 2013, I entered the Road King Truck Stop at the above location. I had been in this same truck stop each night at about the same time for the previous 2 nights.

I had not been to this truck stop in many years and upon my first visit noticed several changes, primarily a new restaurant and new owners. In addition, while in the Road King I had observed numerous Middle Eastern men who were obviously Muslim. These men stood out owing to their manner of dress and beards. specifically; skull caps and an unkempt style of beard favoured by orthodox Muslim men, in particular, the Salafists and Al Qaeda types. This was highly unusual as I had never seen these type of men frequenting these areas before.

On the third night after entering the truck stop I went to the washroom. There were two toilet stalls, urinals and a row of 3 sinks with mirrors. As I was using the urinals a man entered and began using the sink to perform Islamic ablutions. These ablutions included the washing of his feet in the sink. There were several other non-Muslim men in the washroom who raised eyebrows but said nothing.

I waited outside the washroom from a distance and watched the man as he left. He walked down through a large area towards the convenience store/fuel desk. He stopped at one of the Telus payphone kiosks and sat down and started making a call on his cell-phone. I sat down at the kiosk next to him and made a telephone call on the payphone. He turned, looked in my direction and then stood up and started walking toward the rear exit of the building that led to the truck parking area at the rear of the truck stop.

I followed him out and from a distance watched which truck he got into. Parked beside the truck the man entered was another truck belonging to H & R Transport. The H & R truck was being worked on by 2 drivers. I walked over and talked to the H & R drivers. During the conversation with the H & R drivers I wrote down the information relating to the Middle Eastern man’s truck.

During my conversation with the H & R drivers I watched another man get out of the Muslim truck. I had seen this man on a previous evening wandering around the truck-stop. It appeared there were two men in this truck and they possibly were running a “team driving” operation. During my conversation with the H & R drivers both Muslim males had gotten in and out of the truck for brief periods of time and appeared either concerned or interested in our presence in close proximity to their truck.

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Michael Stürzenberger Acquitted in Munich

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Michael Stürzenberger is a well-known Islam critic in Germany, and was one of the honored guests at last summer’s Brussels Conference. His outspoken style and uncompromising attitude have made him — along with Politically Incorrect and Die Freiheit — persona non grata with the Bavarian government. As with so many other Counterjihad figures who draw the baleful gaze of the authorities, Mr. Stürzenberger has been prosecuted by the state. In his case, the issue was the display of a photo of Heinrich Himmler at a Freiheit rally. No Nazi propaganda was included — and, as everyone familiar with the larger European Counterjihad movement knows, Nazi references are employed to wake citizens up to what lies ahead if their governments continue to cosset Muslims in their midst.

Yesterday Michael Stürzenberger was acquitted in a Munich courtroom. JLH has translated a report from Politically Incorrect on the auspicious occasion, and includes this introductory note:

As Stürzenberger often does, he allows his opponent to “speak” at length, by including Kaster’s article and surrounding it with his own atmospheric descriptions of the scene.

I said recently when introducing an article leading up to this trial, that Stürzenberger’s technique of disputation reminds me of a verbal version of a Clint Eastwood film. He seems to revel in the encounters and in his victories. I suspect that this alone will make him a permanent target of Islamists and leftists.

The translated article:

Munich Trial: Acquittal
No Penalty for Himmler Poster
May 13, 2013

Every seat in courtroom A225 of the Munich court building was occupied on the second day of the Islam-Himmler-poster trial. Several interested parties had to stand in the hall. After four more hours of witness interrogations, viewing of the TV documentary “Sarrazin’s Germany,” summations by the prosecutor and the defense attorney and final comments from the accused, the judge announced his verdict: acquittal. With that, the very fairly conducted trial of the Islam-clarifiers came to a welcome end.

Among the spectators, besides an editor of the Münchner Merkur, was Bernd Kastner of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, who followed both days of the trial and had already posted his article, “Trial of Stürzenberger — no Penalty for the Himmler Poster.” In it, he opines that the “activist of the Islam-hostile scene” had “used the court as a political stage.”

[The PI article includes Kaster’s entire article, minus one heading and one caption:]

Judge Rolf-Dieter Madlindl based the acquittal on the fact that the Himmler poster had only been shown for a few seconds on Marienplatz, before the police intervened. Furthermore, officers who testified had not seen any Nazi symbol like a swastika on Himmler’s SS uniform and were themselves not sure whether showing the photo was illegal. Certainly, anyway, there was no propaganda for Nazis.

An earlier meeting of the Stürzenberger group in a pub, where the poster had been shown, had been a limited display. Stürzenberger, said the judge, had been lucky, because a TV team which had filmed the poster had placed it in a critical context.

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Operation Bullfinch: Seven Convicted of Grooming and Trafficking Minors

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The “Operation Bullfinch” trial of nine men accused of grooming and trafficking young girls in Oxford has concluded. Of those charged, seven have been found guilty on all counts.

The nine accused had a Mohammed Coefficient of 22%, while the seven convicted register at just 14%.

The names of those on trial at the Old Bailey (those convicted are in bold):

  • Akhtar Dogar
  • Anjum Dogar
  • Assad Hussain
  • Bassam Karrar
  • Mohammed Karrar
  • Kamar Jamil
  • Zeeshan Ahmed
  • Mohammed Hussain
  • A man who cannot be named for legal reasons

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this BBC report on the trial:

Six of the victims testified in court about what they had endured at the hands of pimps and rapists. Below are excerpts from the BBC article:

Oxford rape and trafficking: Who were the victims?

Seven men have been convicted at the Old Bailey of being involved in the systematic grooming and trafficking of girls from the Oxford area into a life of sexual abuse.

At the heart of the prosecution was the testimony of six victims who had been targeted, groomed and ultimately controlled and sold for sex with men around the country.

One had been only 11 years old when the gang first approached her. When they gave their evidence, the youngest was 16 and the oldest 21. There were other victims who were not called as witnesses.

All victims of sex attacks are entitled to anonymity under the law. These are their stories, based on what was heard in court; they contain graphic descriptions of sexual violence and abuse.

Girl One

The first victim had a happy home life until her mother began drinking when she suffered post-natal depression after the birth of another child.

By the time she was in secondary school, the girl was smoking and playing truant and hanging around Oxford city centre to avoid home.

Akhtar and Anjum Dogar, two of the brothers at the centre of the abuse, befriended her. She was later introduced to Kamar Jamil and Assad Hussain.

She would stay out all evening with the men, smoking and drinking, and they would give her little gifts — and eventually cannabis and cocaine.

“They made me feel like I was kind of important,” she said.

But by the time she was 13, the men had forced her into sex in guest houses and hotel rooms. The individual acts progressed to group rapes.

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