Bitte nicht die Kinder zum Fenster hinauswerfen!

The German Interior Ministry has announced a new initiative designed to dissuade refugees from throwing their children out of asylum center windows. Signs will be posted in eight languages (German, English, Arabic, Turkish, Urdu, Pashto, Swahili, and Amharic) in refugee accommodations instructing residents about German values and customs concerning the treatment of children. To help any migrants who may be illiterate, the following pictogram will be included:

Yes, yes; I made all this up. But it’s not all that far-fetched, considering the recent “Do Not Poop in the Showers!” initiative we reported on a couple of weeks ago. This is simply the way Germans handle issues associated with integration of “refugees”: carefully worded signage accompanied by non-verbal visual instructions.

Last night we posted a video of a report about a “Syrian” father who allegedly defenestrated his children at an asylum center. Below is a more recent article from FOCUS.de about the incident. Many thanks to Nash Montana for translating the article, and for translating the title of this post into German. This article was previously posted at Vlad Tepes in a slightly different form:

His own children thrown out the window: Father admits brutal act

The family drama in Lohmar has been cleared up: The children’s fall out of the window was not an accident, but a crime. The 35-year-old father of the three was arrested on suspicion of committing the crime; he has confessed to it.

“Yes, it’s true. The father of the children has confessed to doing this,” a spokesman for the Police in Bonn on Tuesday confirmed to FOCUS Online. But what motivated the 35-year-old to do such a thing is still unclear. “The motivation for the act is probably a family dispute,” says the spokesman.

A 7-year-old girl and her 5-year-old brother received heavy injuries when they fell out of the window on the first floor. A one-year-old child seems to have received no injuries, but has nonetheless been admitted to the children’s clinic. At first it was unclear whether the children were pushed or fell out when they were playing.

The children were pushed

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L’offensive islamique en Europe: un Têt numéro 2?

The following article was originally published in English in November 2015. If anyone were to publish the French translation in France, he would almost certainly be sued. It is archetypal “hate speech” as defined by the dominant regime of political correctness in France. People have been fined heavily for publishing much milder texts than this one.

Readers are strongly encouraged to disseminate the link to their French-speaking contacts (sharing the link carries no legal risk).

En français:

Cet article a été publié pour la première fois en anglais en Novembre 2015. Quiconque oserait publier cette traduction en France serait presque certainement attaqué en justice. Ce texte représente en effet un archétype “d’incitation à la haine” selon la définition imposée par le Politiquement Correct régnant actuellement en France. Plusieurs personnes ont déjà été lourdement condamnées pour des textes bien moins musclés que celui-ci.

Les lecteurs sont fortement encouragés à diffuser le lien menant à cet article à tous leurs contacts francophones (transmettre un lien ne vous fait courir aucun risque juridique).

L’offensive islamique en Europe: un Têt numéro 2?

Texte rédigé par Matthew Bracken, novembre 2015

(Traduit par Nathalie)

Il y a plus de dix ans j’écrivai mon premier roman, intitulé « Enemies Foreign and Domestic [1] ». Ce qui m’a en partie motivé, c’est la volonté d’établir la légitimité de mes qualifications à pronostiquer les tendances sous-jacentes dans les domaines sociaux, politiques et militaires. Je n’aimai pas la direction que prenaient les États-Unis, et je voulais avertir le plus possible de lecteurs sur la nature de certains dangers que je voyai se profiler à l’horizon. En cette fin d’année 2015, j’espère que le succès de mes prédictions passées encouragera ceux-ci à prêter attention à l’essai qui suit.

Alors que le nouvel an approche à grands pas, nous assistons aux préludes du dernier round d’une lutte titanesque entre trois grands acteurs. Trois grandes forces à l’œuvre dans nos sociétés vont droit à l’affrontement en 2016 et leur confrontation sera comparable, en termes historiques, aux Première et Seconde Guerres Mondiales.

Deux de ces grandes forces qui travaillent nos sociétés ont formé une coalition de fait contre la troisième. Elles ont forgé une entente tacite dont le but est l’annihilation totale de la force la plus faible tant que leurs puissances combinées sont assez puissantes pour le faire. Une de ces forces agissantes est prête à partager le contrôle d’une grande partie du monde avec l’autre force à l’œuvre au sein de nos sociétés. Une de ces forces n’a qu’un seul but : la domination totale de la planète entière. Quelles sont donc ces trois forces que nous venons de décrire ? Ce sont l’islam, le socialisme internationaliste et le nationalisme.

Permettez-moi d’expliquer les aspects les plus significatifs de chacun de ces acteurs, ainsi que la façon dont ils participent du cataclysme à venir en 2016.

1. L’islam

L’islam est similaire à un virus auto-réplicant qui aurait infecté un super-ordinateur; c’est une hydre monstrueuse, un juggernaut irrésistible conçu pour la conquête du monde entier. L’islam est pratiquement impossible à éradiquer, car il n’a ni cerveau central, ni poste de commandement; tel une étoile de mer, si on lui coupe un membre un autre pousse pour prendre sa place. Le nom des chefs musulmans ainsi que les noms des groupes islamistes ne sont que transitoires et n’ont en fin de compte n’ont que peu d’importance : Osama Ben Laden et Al Qaïda ont été remplacés par Al-Baghdadi et l’État islamique, qui eux aussi disparaîtront de la scène et seront remplacés par d’autres. Alors que les dirigeants et régimes musulmans vont et viennent, l’islam lui-même est demeuré en état de guerre constante avec le monde non-musulman depuis ses tout débuts, il y a 1400 ans.

L’islam ne reconnaît pas les frontières des nations laïques. Pour tout musulman dévot, le monde est divisé en deux : il y a le Dar al-Islam, c’est-à-dire la Maison de l’islam, là où vivent les croyants, et il y a le Dar al-Harb, la Maison de la guerre, que l’on doit soumettre à la loi islamique par tous les moyens possibles, y compris les plus violents, comme le djihad (guerre sainte). L’expansion de l’islam a parfois été arrêtée pendant de longues périodes. Cependant l’islam est la plupart du temps en pleine offensive et s’empare alors de nouveaux territoires. Une fois conquis, ces territoires sont rarement repris, à l’exception notable de l’Espagne.

Le monde musulman ne produit pratiquement aucun livre, ni aucunes nouvelles inventions. A moins d’avoir un sous-sol riche en pétrole et de bénéficier des revenus de l’or noir, la plupart des pays islamiques sont pauvres et arriérés. Quelle est donc la source de cette puissance qui alimente l’expansion constante, ou peu s’en faut, de l’islam depuis quatorze siècles ? Le moteur et la batterie de l’islam sont le Coran et les hadith ou paroles de Mahomet. Un mahdi messianique, un caliphe ou encore un ayatollah doté de suffisamment de charisme peut faire s’accélérer le rythme d’expansion de l’islam, mais les individus seuls ne jouent pas de rôles cruciaux.

Certains chefs d’état laïques et musulmans de pure forme, comme Saddam Hussein ou encore Mouammar Kadhafi, peuvent contenir l’islamisme pendant un temps en utilisant des méthodes brutales; mais les hommes forts sont souvent assassinés ou déposés et ne sont de toute façon pas immortels. Une fois les dictateurs laïques disparus, les mollahs fanatiques ont toute licence pour ranimer l’ardeur de leurs zélotes et instaurer un régime politique d’islamisme radical sous le régime de la charia, comme le leur ordonne le Coran.

Ce schéma de théocrates fanatiques qui succèdent à des autocrates laïques est récurrent depuis au moins un millénaire. Ne vous laissez pas endormir par la présence d’un moderniste comme le Roi Abdallah en Jordanie : pour le vrai croyant, tout roi ou homme fort à la tête de l’état n’est jamais qu’à la merci d’une balle de fusil ou d’une grenade qui le renverserait et mettrait à sa place un autre fanatique religieux.

Cette virulence du plan que Mahomet a établi au 7ème siècle et dont le but final est la subjugation de la planète entière signifie qu’à tout moment et en tout endroit le virus peut se réactiver de façon violente. L’islam est comme un feu de brousse ou une infection causée par la teigne : tout est mort et stérile à l’intérieur du cercle mais le périmètre s’enflamme de façon récurrente sur les marches frontières des sociétés non-islamiques qui le bordent et dont il se nourrit de manière parasitique. Quelle est donc la cause de ce fanatisme unique dans l’histoire, fanatisme qui anime des peuples et des nations entières qui semblent pourtant dénués d’énergie et de nouvelles idées dans d’autres domaines ?

Ce qui anime leur zèle et leur fanatisme ce sont les écrits du Coran et des hadith. Une fois retiré les oripeaux religieux, les textes islamiques sanctionnent le viol, les pillages, les razzia ayant pour but de capturer et de réduire en esclavage les Infidèles, et s’ils sont tués, ces mêmes écrits promettent aux djihadistes une orgie perpétuelle avec soixante-douze jeunes esclaves vierges et nubiles dans le paradis des musulmans imaginé par Mahomet, un paradis diabolique, répugnant et perverti. Contrairement aux Bibles juive et chrétienne, le Coran et les hadith font appel, non à la part angélique de l’homme mais aux aspects les plus vils et immoraux de celui-ci. (Il est en ce sens significatif que Jésus et Moïse aient grimpé aux sommets de montagnes pour parler à Dieu alors que Mahomet communiquait avec le sien tout au fond d’une grotte peuplée de chauve-souris).

Toute réforme réelle et permanente de l’islam est impossible, car toute nouvelle génération de fanatiques, brandissant leur Coran et hadith non-expurgés, déclarera que les réformateurs sont des apostats et les assassinera. Dans l’islam les fanatiques qui brandissent d’une main leur Coran inchangé et inchangeable et de l’autre un sabre, se tiennent toujours prêts à s’emparer du pouvoir et à exterminer leur ennemis.

Ce danger latent engendre une peur chez tous les non-musulmans et force la plupart d’entre eux à se montrer circonspects dans leur commerce avec les mahométans, de peur de se retrouver un jour sans tête. Cette crainte, soigneusement entretenue, est l’arme utilisée pour intimider tous ceux qui voudrait faire front et résister à la volonté de domination de l’islam. L’immuable Coran est la source constante des sanglantes conquêtes islamiques. L’islam radical est le pur islam, l’islam du Coran, l’islam véritable. Quiconque ne comprend pas cette âpre réalité, témoigne de sa coupable et périlleuse ignorance des 1400 dernières années de l’histoire humaine.

2. Le socialisme internationaliste

Le second grand acteur ou force sociétale qui travaille nos sociétés est le socialisme internationaliste. On peut en trouver une description sous les rubriques suivantes : gauchisme , étatisme, gauchisme culturel [2] et communisme. Tous ces mouvements font partie de la mouvance du socialisme internationaliste. Je pense que l’on peut retrouver l’origine de ces gauchistes culturels au moins dès le 18ème siècle avec les proto-Jacobins, club d’humanistes laïques, mondialistes avant la lettre et alignés avec la Franc-maçonnerie.

Ces proto-Jacobins quittèrent l’Allemagne pour la France avec dans leurs poches un projet cohérent et élaboré dans ses moindres détails dont l’objectif était de provoquer une explosion sociale qui leur permettrait de s’emparer du pouvoir. Le projet de déstabilisation élaboré par les Jacobins devint le modèle de nombreuses et sanglantes « révolutions populaires ». Après la Révolution Française vinrent ces hommes aux noms connus de tous : Marx, Engels, Lénine, Staline et Mao. Mais on connaît moins la Société des Fabiens [3], ce cercle de socialistes anglais créé au tout début du 20ème siècle et toujours actif de nos jours, ou encore Antonio Gramsci, le théoricien marxiste italien, ou encore l’École de Francfort, ce groupe d’intellectuels allemands qui se transportèrent outre-Atlantique, et avec eux leurs théorie socialistes internationalistes, et s’installèrent à l’université de Columbia.

À la différence de Vladimir Lénine et des communistes, ils avaient compris qu’ils n’atteindraient les buts du socialisme internationaliste que s’ils détruisaient le puissant édifice de la Civilisation Occidentale en le minant de l’intérieur et en le sabotant, jusqu’à ce qu’il n’en reste qu’une coquille vide. En fin de compte, les forces du socialisme internationaliste qui agirent dans la clandestinité en s’enfouissant profondément au cœur de la matrice de l’Occident l’endommagèrent de façon bien plus permanente que ne l’avait jamais fait le communisme de guerre de Lénine et Mao imposé par la force brute des armes.

Au cours du siècle qui vient de s’écouler, et tandis que s’effondrait le communisme en Union Soviétique, les socialistes du club des Fabiens s’avéraient de plus en plus habiles à empoisonner les racines mêmes de nos identités nationales, culturelles et ethniques, laissant les héritiers de la Civilisation Occidentale désorganisés et démoralisés, sans aucun système de croyance central auquel se rallier. Pourquoi cette démoralisation et cet abêtissement délibérés ? Les socialistes internationalistes pensent depuis au moins la Révolution Française qu’il est de leur devoir d’imposer un ordre féodal avec les plus puissants donnant des ordres aux « masses stupides », et d’ériger un nouvel ordre mondial dirigé par des experts auto-proclamés choisis parmi des élites éduquées selon leurs normes et ceci pour le bien des masses ignares, tout en continuant à s’emplir les poches et à jouir de la puissance et des richesses du style de vie des élites.

Il peut sembler paradoxal que les plus grosses institutions bancaires et les grandes puissances d’affaires aient si profondément investi ce nouvel ordre mondial du socialisme internationaliste. Cependant tout devient parfaitement clair une fois dénoué l’écheveau. De nos jours, les banques internationales et les grosses sociétés multinationales sont devenues de puissants acteurs sur la scène mondiale et sont maintenant parties prenantes dans chaque nouveau traité de commerce international. De fait, les avocats spécialistes en droit des sociétés écrivent l’immense majorité des pages de ces traités commerciaux longs de plusieurs milliers de pages, traités dont le nombre ne cesse d’augmenter. Ces accords commerciaux sont en train d’avoir force de lois internationales et prennent même le dessus sur la Constitution des États-Unis d’Amérique.

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Peering Down the Highway

Winter Fundraiser 2016, Day Two

Ah, I lucked out: the second day is the Shadow Position: Thus, Day Two of our Winter 2016 Fund Raiser is a good place to launch this essay, safely after the Baron’s entry.

The Baron, cued up by the exigencies of the clock, enters stage right on Day One. That’s because we both know darned well I’ll still be searching for my Round Tuit under the books and papers and bills, whereas he can just jump start the whole thing, take off down the road with the words flying, while I’m still looking for the starting line. Sigh.

Before I go any farther, we owe a big thank-you to the Western Rifle Shooters Association for giving us a shoutout and pointing people to our bleg. We’ve seen a fair number of new donors this time, and I’ll bet most of them were sent this way by WRSA. We surely appreciate it!

Tip jarOur quarterly fundraisers have a number of aspects. For us personally, it become akin to a retreat and regrouping for the two of us. Like those corporate retreats, but without the blather. Even though my physical (and spiritual) limits prevent me from being as full a partner in Gates of Vienna as I once was, GoV is always in the forefront of my mind: the first thing I think of in the morning, the last thing at night. It’s a bit like having another child to raise, only you don’t have to do music lessons or scout camp (whew). But instead of just watching Gates of Vienna grow (and yes, the Baron has all the charts) there’s the ugly part: the Baron’s ever more difficult task of staring depravity and destruction in the face for extended periods whilst maintaining his own balance and integrity. Sometimes our son and I talk about that amazing feat: how his Dad keeps a sense of humor and his sanity despite the ugliness he sees every day. With the very painful limits of PTSD, I have the ‘luxury’ of turning away when it’s overwhelming; he — being of sound mind and a strong constitution — does not.

Fortunately, the Baron has always known how to pace himself, how to use routines, when to delegate, and the wonderful programs he’s written to create ingenious record-keeping — he calls those his “Auxiliary Brain”. Since he commits so much of himself to this work, he has been fortunate to have Vlad for his primary collaborator/conspirator and source of good, unrepeatable jokes. It’s no longer possible to conceive of the work now without Vlad as a crucial part of its execution. Plus the other team members — scattered from Montana to Thailand — all of whom stay closely connected and willing to do whatever is necessary. Not only that, but to come up with their own original contributions.

I have learned so much about what clear communication and authentic collaboration mean from watching how they all interact with little friction or fuss. There is no designated leader as such, just a variety of individuals willing to try new ideas, to work together on recruiting new people. Over the years some political crises in the more neo-soviet parts of Europe have caused people to leave, either out of caution for their families or because they were persecuted or in danger of being so. The pain of those losses never really goes away, nor does the angst I feel for them as individuals living under such regimes. Others, such as Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, set upon by cultural jackals, tough it out at tremendous personal cost.

But for the two of us, planning around my limits in order to do a full week of fundraising is a bit like a campaign. Our conversations revolve around thematic possibilities, the logistics of food and rest, postponing or cancelling appointments, and, importantly, looking ahead to holidays and such when our readers may be busy elsewhere — e.g., the year we had a quarterly fundraiser in the midst of the World Cup. Oops. I forgot to check this one, though. [I was aware of the primaries in Iowa, but few who are paying close attention there are also people who come to Gates of Vienna. Besides, state primaries have long since jumped the shark, as has much of the political kabuki theatre leading up to the start of presidential campaigns. The only spanner in the spokes this time around is Donald Trump. Without his rallies, Jeb Bush would long since have nodded off till spring.]

Not only is the meta-conversation with the Baron necessary for our quarterly fund raisers, but we must needs talk with each other in a structured way about Gates of Vienna as it is at the moment, and what we think is immediately likely. Thus, after this week’s fundraiser we will again contemplate what is likely in between it and the next one. As if we all weren’t likely to be knocked out of our slumber as suddenly as, say, 9/11 or 7/7 — eh, 7/7 not so much it seems, or even the singular event of Lee Rigby’s murder. Yes, America had that beheading in Oklahoma, but the CEO (who wasn’t charged) shot the perpetrator and they will seek the death penalty for the African-American beheader. It’s America’s form of justice for capital crimes and one I endorse for premeditated murder. See this image for the withering stare of an accompanying police officer . It sums up my reaction, too.

Every single one of us lives with that existential unease now, from those stocking up for “emergencies” to those who are sure we’ll all go down with a few well-placed EMPs. The source of all this means we all well realize the whole thing is a house of cards, and we also know that some kind of implosion is inevitable; many are surprised it hasn’t happened yet. But being students of history and geopolitics, and being ever-aware of the Karma Dude’s whimsical notions about humanity, we know well the futility of predicting anything at all. As Al Stewart puts it (see yesterday’s post for the complete lyrics):

We measure our days out
In steps of uncertainty
Not turning to see how we’ve come
And peer down the highway
From here to eternity…

Well, to our own “eternity” at any rate. That vision is different for everyone now that the cultural certainties have been marginalized. History has had plagues before; this is another one.

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It’s not that none of us looks back, it’s that we all see things so differently.

For new readers — and there seem to be many of you these past two months — here’s some history:

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Syrian “Refugee” Allegedly Defenestrates His Three Children at German Asylum Center

I couldn’t find any English-language news reports on this incident. However, an article at FOCUS.de is fairly clear in machine translation.

The asylum center is in Lohmar in Rhein-Sieg-Kreis. The 35-year-old Syrian father was arrested after his children were thrown from the windows of the center. Police suspect that he may have deliberately attempted to kill them.

Many thanks to Nash Montana for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for subtitling this news report from RT:

Transcript:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/1/2016

Germany has opened the country’s first shelter for gay and lesbian refugees in Nuremberg. The authorities are concerned that minority-gendered asylum seekers may be under threat of violence if they are housed in shelters along with the general migrant population.

In other news, a suicide bomber killed at least nine people and wounded a dozen more at a police base in Kabul. Most of the casualties were reportedly civilians.

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

Thanks to AF, C. Cantoni, Fjordman, H. Numan, Insubria, JD, Jerry Gordon, 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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German Mayor: To Avoid Being Molested, Schoolgirls Shouldn’t Walk Near Migrants

The following video is a reprise of the advice that Mayor Henriette Reker of Cologne gave to women who were molested by migrants at the Cologne Hauptbahnhof on New Year’s Eve.

In this case the mayor is a man (no name given), and the town is Bad Schlema. Instead of women, the victims of culture-enriching harassment are little girls, some of them ten years old or younger. But the tagline is essentially the same: “If you don’t get outta line, girl, he won’t have to hit you!”

That is: if the little girls would just take another route to school, there wouldn’t be any problem. Just pay the jizya with willing submission, and show yourselves to be subdued, and everything will be OK:

From the notes accompanying the video:

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Mogens Camre: Convicted of “Racism” for a “Hate”-Tweet

All across Western Europe there is an increasing trend towards prosecuting people for speaking out against mass immigration or Islam. Ten years ago such prosecutions were very rare, but today they are a routine occurrence, to the point where it is no longer possible to keep a comprehensive list of dissidents who have been hauled into court.

It used to be that Denmark was different. It was a bastion of free speech back in the days when “hate speech” was being juridically punished in Britain, Sweden, France, the Netherlands, and other PC bastions in Western Europe. But nowadays you can get tried and convicted even in Denmark if you say negative things about immigrants or Islam.

Mogens Camre is a Danish politician, one of the founders of Dansk Folkeparti (Danish People’s Party). In his role as an elder statesman for the party, he came into his own in recent years as the European migration crisis caused public opinion in Denmark to swing towards DF and support policies that restrict immigration, crack down on migrant crime, and limit the social benefits handed out to recent immigrants.

Today Mr. Camre’s conviction for making a “racist” tweet was upheld by the Eastern High Court (landsret) in Denmark. Below are excerpts from an article in The Local describing his crime:

The Eastern High Court found Mogens Camre, a 79-year-old former MP and MEP for the Danish People’s Party and current member of the Gladsaxe city council, guilty of racism on Tuesday and slapped him with an 8,000 kroner fine.

The court thus upheld a previous ruling by the Glostrup City Court.

[…]

The two convictions stem from a tweet Camre wrote in July 2014 that compared Muslims to Adolf Hitler.

“Regarding the Jews’ situation in Europe: The Muslims are continuing where Hitler left off. Only the same treatment Hitler received will change the situation,” he wrote in the now-deleted tweet.

Two separate individuals filed racism charges against Camre after his tweet garnered national attention.

[…]

Danish People’s Party leadership said that Camre’s racism conviction would not affect his standing in the party.

Camre previously compared Muslims to Nazis in a 2009 Dutch TV interview.

“The German soldiers in our streets behaved better than the Muslim boys — much better, they were well disciplined,” he said in a clip that can be viewed here.

In 2003, Camre was charged with racism for saying that all Western countries have been infiltrated by Muslims planning to take over, and in 2005 he was reported to police for blaming Denmark’s low birth rate on the “immigrant burden” and for saying that “immigrants in Denmark as a whole do not contribute anything at all to society.”

Mogens Camre is being made an example of precisely because of the huge popularity of the Dansk Folkeparti’s policies, which are fragmenting the Left in the Danish parliament. Some socialist MPs are actually feeling forced to vote for DPP initiatives because of their huge public appeal.

At 79 years of age, Mr. Camre has been there from the very beginning, and now that the party he and others created is finally wielding power — having been proven right after all these years — this judicial assassination is how Denmark’s “Legacy Left” is petulantly getting its revenge.

Below are both the English and original Danish versions of the speech given by Mogens Camre in the High Court in Copenhagen last Friday. First, the English:

Speech by Mogens Camre MB, in the case against him tried at the High Court in Copenhagen, on 29 January 2016.

Honourable Officers of the High Court.

I have asked to make a closing statement summarizing my views in this case.

If free speech is to be limited only to formalized academic remarks, in language alien to the general public, which thereby obfuscates important problems certain interests in our society obviously wish to keep hidden, then it is simply impossible to work as a politician. I wish to underline this fact.

Nevertheless, I have contributed to a balanced academic debate. Both alone and in tandem with well-known intellectuals, I have written five books concerning the now widespread problems which have hit Denmark and Europe, due to the advance into our continent of a barbaric culture. Nobody has been able to point to errors, or statements open to refutation, in any of these books. Nor has any legal challenge ever been issued against the content of these books, which present my message in more detail. Neither has anyone ever been charged for their publication.

The High Court is now forced to judge whether a distillation of this body of work, reduced by the prosecutor to a single tweet, bound by the 140 characters limiting this medium – which therefore compels the use of figurative language – can credibly be interpreted in such a way that it constitutes a breach of the law.

Directly attached to the aforementioned tweet, were four subsequent tweets in which my opinions were immediately explained further. I do not think it possible to separate out, part of the entirety of my message, contained within the sum of these five tweets: thus criminalizing one tweet only by deliberately ignoring the meaning conveyed by all five.

There is nothing in my tweets, however, that can be interpreted as a threat against anyone, concrete or otherwise. Neither is there any sentiment contained within them that has not been expressed by other politicians, either verbally or in writing. When a political party prints election posters which contain the phrase, “Nazi Islamism,” this is an analogous simplification. It is self-evidently not a statement by The Conservatives that all Islamists are Nazis.

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The Age of Reason

Winter Fundraiser 2016, Day One

Today is the first day of February, and it’s also the first day of our winter fundraiser here at Gates of Vienna.

As I promised last fall, we’re convening right in the heart of the snow and ice season. In fact, we originally intended to start the bleg a week ago, but the blizzard intervened and prompted a postponement. It turned out not to be much of a storm as blizzards go (just 14″, 37cm, and no wind), but all the forecasters were predicting a lot more snow than we eventually got. Better safe than sorry.

We’ve acquired a lot of new readers since our previous fundraiser last October, so a brief explanation of what we’re doing this week is in order. Long-time readers can scroll through this part.

Tip jarI’ve been without full-time employment since I was laid off ten years ago, and for the last six years or so Dymphna and I have managed to eke out a living with these quarterly fundraisers. In the early years we asked our readers whether they preferred that we take on advertising (those ugly “skyscraper” ads; I hate ’em), or do fundraising like NPR affiliates, only without the coffee mugs and t-shirts sent out as prizes to the “prime” donors. Readers were emphatically in favor of the latter method, so here we are with no ads (except for the Amazon book links for our friends). Instead, for one week every quarter we badger our readers for contributions. If you like what you’ve been reading here, please go to the sidebar of the main page and make the Tip Cup clink.

This is how we maintain. We can’t do it without your help.

It’s always a nail-biter when we start one of these — will we pull in enough to keep the wolf from the door? — but after a day or two the generosity of our readers always kicks in. It’s amazing.

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Each quarter Dymphna and I choose a theme for the week and expand on it in various ways for each of the seven fundraiser essays. This week’s theme is “The Age of Reason”, and its topics will be drawn from the lyrics of an Al Stewart song entitled “A Man for All Seasons”, in reference to the play by Robert Bolt.

As you all know by now, Dymphna and I are fans of Al Stewart’s music, and especially his lyrics. In my estimation he was the best lyricist of the latter part 20th century, and the best we have so far in the 21st. In addition to his masterful use of language, he is preoccupied with history, and many of his songs concern historical topics from different eras, from modern to ancient. I’m a history buff myself, and that’s what drew me to his music back in the early 1970s.

“A Man for All Seasons” is from the album Time Passages, which was released in 1978. The title song was made into as a single, and became Mr. Stewart’s greatest popular hit. It could still be found on jukeboxes well into the spring of 1979. The “B” side of “Time Passages” was “A Man for All Seasons”, and I was delighted to be able to put a quarter in the juke and listen to a song about Thomas More and Henry VIII — how cool was that? Anytime I found it on a restaurant jukebox I would dig for a quarter and play it.

The spring of 1979 was also when Dymphna and I first met. On one of our earliest dates we went to a diner with jukeboxes at every table, and sure enough “A Man for All Seasons” was in the song list. I said, “This is a great song — you’ve got to hear it.” And put in the quarter.

Well… That turned out to be one of the reasons that made me certain I had to marry her, because she understood what the song was about. She knew about Thomas More and the Tower of London and the king who demanded that the Lord Chancellor to do what his conscience would not allow. She knew the theological background, and especially the history of the Catholic Church during the Reformation — much more than I knew.

All this in addition to the fact that she knew about Wallace Stevens and Walt Whitman — how could I not marry her?

So, in a way, this could be said to be “our song”. I mentioned that possibility to her when we were discussing this theme last week, and she reminded me that “11:59” by Blondie was another song that was on all the jukeboxes at the same time, and we used to play that one a lot, too. But there’s no way a whole week’s theme could be built on those lyrics, so we’ll stick with Al Stewart.

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Before we get to the music and the lyrics of the song, I must point out that Al Stewart made an error when he referred to “Henry Plantagenet” in the second verse. Henry VIII was, of course, Henry Tudor. His father, Henry VII, was the first king in the Tudor line.

I can see why the songwriter made that error — “Plantagenet” scans: it sounds just right at that point in the song, where “Tudor” would be clunky and useless. Maybe he knew he was wrong, and just left the word in there anyway because it sounded good. Or maybe he was stretching the truth a little bit, since Henry VIII was descended from the Plantagenets on his mother’s side.

Or maybe he was creating a double image, collapsing the events of the 16th century into the cellar of the 12th. The phrase could be taken as a reference to Henry II, who was indeed “Henry Plantagenet”, the first king of the Plantagenet line. The earlier Henry had his own thorn-in-the-side Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas à Becket, the “turbulent priest” who was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by four knights who believed they were doing exactly what the king wanted them to do.

History is full of resonance and rhyme, and Al Stewart excels at both. Whatever he intended with the lyric, the song is the better for it:

The full lyrics are reproduced below the jump:

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Desiderata For Our Time

A few inspirational thoughts from our English correspondent Seneca III for this, the Winter of Our Discontent.

Update: This post was made “sticky” at popular request, and was on top all day Sunday. Later posts appear below it, including:

Desiderata For Our Time
by Seneca III

Go with stout heart amid the noise and turmoil, and remember what peace there may be in victory. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with your own and forgive them their timidity for they do not understand what is upon them.

Give neither time nor succour to those loud and aggressive people who are inimical towards you; they are vexatious to the spirit and a threat to your person. If you compare yourself with them you waste your days in needless introspection.

Enjoy your achievements and those of your forebears, and stay true to your past. Keep yourself interested in your freedom, however demanding; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your governance, for those who would presume to govern can often be full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtues there are amongst your own; many people strive for high ideals, and everywhere the lives of your brothers and sisters are full of quiet heroism.

Speak truth unto tyrants and listen to others who do the same. Speak of this even to those of your gentle neighbours who stand confused amidst the tumult; they did not ask to be defenestrated and consumed in an inferno of treachery.

Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection for those who hold none for you. Neither be cynical about your love for your own; they who do not possess this gift are in all their aridity and disenchantment as sterile as the sands of their deserts.

Take wisely the council of the years, gracefully surrendering the naivety of youth; it is not ordained that your bloodline be scoured from the pages of history nor that your lives and livelihoods be torn asunder on a rack of barbarism.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/31/2016

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that she expects the “refugees” from Syria and Iraq to return home once their countries are at peace again, carrying with them the skills and knowledge they have acquired during their stay in Germany. Meanwhile, the latest polls shows that her party, the CDU, has lost an additional two percent in its approval rating with voters.

In other news, the kinetic activists of Boko Haram attacked a village near Maiduguri in Nigeria, killing scores of people and burning the village to the ground. The incident had nothing to do with Islam.

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Thanks to C. Cantoni, Dean, Fjordman, Ilia Toli, Insubria, JD, Upananda Brahmachari, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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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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What Did You Go Out to See? A Reed Shaken by the Wind?

The video below was on today’s Larwyn’s Links*, a page moderated by Director Blue. LL is a compendium of news stories from a wide range of sites. Every time I visit the page I read some new site he’s found or that’s been sent to him. DB is often more varied than the Drudge Report, but one goes to Drudge for different reasons.

This video is two weeks old, so no breaking news. It’s short but definitely worth your time for the obvious lessons learned:

Apparently, the pro-immigration Dutch jornolists got mugged by Reality.

The Baron pointed out that at least one of these idiots jornolists appears to be wearing a keffiyeh. Was that supposed to be for protection? As in “See? Palestinian signage here. We’re in solidarity with you.” But it was of no help as an amulet or as codespeak for “We friends. We come in peace.” As if anyone in the Calais Jungle gives a fig for Palestine, while on the other side, the visitors from Outside obviously think all Muslims are alike. It’s amazing these reporters are allowed to move about without supervision.

Of course, that scarf may have just been fashionable lefty attire, like a Che t-shirt.

At least one of them was meat a woman. Using her Dutch mode-Western habits of categorizing, she may have may have thought (using the word loosely) that being a woman kept her safe. Welcome to the brave new Islamic jungle, ma petite.

Just a small lesson on the road to Reality for these Dutch jornos, eh? There are thousands more small blips yet to encounter if they can keep their heads about them.

Given the admittedly brief evidence of this sojourn into the immigrants’ space, it would appear that such intrepid investigators would be able to learn quickly from experience. Once they were safely back in the Netherlands I doubt they rejoiced at their safety and then set out to join the PVV in solidarity against further immigration for violent thugs. Nope. They will simply stay in their safe white ethnic enclave, grateful to have all their body parts still intact.

One wonders what the learning level is for the willfully blind members of the elite. Would it have to be as grievous as missing body parts or genital violation for the message to penetrate? The message being, of course, that “We are not like you. Just because we want to invade your country and take over your space doesn’t mean you have anything else to offer us. Except perhaps your wallet and underage girls.”

Indeed, the carapace acquired through life-long indoctrination about the importance of good intentions has made Leftists like these two impervious to novel information that goes against their Consensus indoctrination.

A question for our readers who actually have to encounter the everyday well-meaning idjit: what do y’all think it would take in terms of personal experience to change the average programmed mind in Europe or Canada or the U.S.? The post-Breivik era in Norway left me pessimistic about broad change in politically correct totalitarian states where “niceness” and “tolerance” are the greatest virtues.

In other words, what does your own experience tell you about what your fellow citizens are likely to do, say, or believe after a confrontation of this sort? What tipping point would finally make them sound the alarm? What is their Achilles’ Heel? What scares the bejayzus out of them besides right-wing loopies?

In a Theodore Dalrymple book I read some years ago, he remarked on the fact that the patients he saw were generally drawn from the bottom of the gene pool in terms of education or upbringing. But to a man (this was a prison population) they prided themselves on their tolerance. For them the ultimate insult and shame would be the tar brush of racism. That’s pathetic.

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Here’s the information accompanying the video above [my emphasis in italics]:

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Pat Shea, CEO of the YWCA, Betrays Women and Puts on a Hijab

Below is the latest newsletter from the Tennessee Council for Political Justice.

Newsletter #193 — Pat Shea, CEO of the YWCA Betrays Women and Puts on a Hijab

Some women say their hijab represents religiously mandated modesty.

Some women say their hijab is a political statement.

Some women say they are forced to wear a hijab.

Pat Shea, a non-Muslim, voluntarily put on a hijab during a mosque sermon on “Domestic Violence/Compassionate & Honorable Treatment Towards Women in Islam.”

Pat Shea is the YWCA CEO and operates the largest domestic violence shelter in the state of Tennessee. Does Shea know that the hijab is a source of violence to Muslim women worldwide and in the U.S?

Muslim women have been killed for refusing to wear a hijab. For example:

  • 2007 — Canada, murder of 16 year old Aqsa Parvez choked to death by her father with the hijab she refused to wear
  • 2014 — in Somalia, woman murdered for refusing to veil
  • 2015 — Iraq, five women stoned to death for not wearing a hijab
  • 2015 — India, father kills his four year old daughter for not wearing a hijab at dinner

January 2015, a non-Muslim woman living in Muslim-majority Bangladesh murdered for not wearing a hijab

Muslim women have been threatened with violence for not wearing a hijab. For example:

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Is There a Partition in Sweden’s Future?

Our Indian correspondent Krutya sends his observations about the European “refugee” crisis, and specifically the situation in Sweden. He includes a series of questions about the problems associated with Muslim integration in the West, and invites input from Gates of Vienna readers.

Sweden’s Refugee/Immigration Challenge

It may go the way India went in 1947: to partition

by Krutya

I read the news from Sweden and other European nations, and I want to help, but I do not know how. I feel very badly for Sweden’s immigration/refugee crisis. No country that opens its doors to the refugees should be punished for its generosity by the same people whom it embraces.

The refugees from war-torn, impoverished nations of Middle East, North Africa and Arab nations pouring into Europe is a major challenge to the original inhabitants of Europe. I am going to avoid all political correctness.

A point of clarification: While Islam is practised the world over, the major problems seem to come from the Arab and Middle Eastern cultures, whose influence has been felt in Africa and other parts of the world. While my questions are about the Muslim population, I am primarily focusing on the Muslims from these Arab, Middle Eastern and African nations.

I am an Indian and I would like to believe I am as liberal and rational as the other person. What is my interest in Sweden’s refugee/immigration debate? Simple: I want every nation to maintain its unique cultural heritage proudly. That’s what makes the Earth interesting and livable. I have never visited Sweden, but those Scandinavian and some European nations are among the best nations to live in. While it may be futile to replicate their economic standard of living, perhaps every country could imbibe some of their values of social welfare, the rule of law, health care, education and a measure of broad-mindedness. If such open societies were to absorb sizeable populations from a society that is closed, regressive and sometimes incompatible with modernity, these accommodating cultures will experience a threat to their existence. Sweden has to only look at India to understand the influence Islam has had on its history.

The India that the British ruled included India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Up until 1000 AD, the Indian subcontinent was largely Hindu with sizeable populations of Jains, Buddhists and followers of animism. In 1000 AD the Islamic invaders from Arab and Middle East began to make successful forays into India, eventually ruling India for 850 years.

By 1947 the Hindu population was reduced to 68% of the Subcontinent. Muslims were 24% of the population. The Muslims convinced themselves that under a united India, Muslims would be under threat from the Hindu majority, and that they might lose their religious and cultural identity. Mind you, it was Muslim invaders from the Middle East and Arabia who invaded India, destroyed Hindu temples, and erected Grand Mosques upon the foundation of these Hindu and Jain temples, stamping their victory on the pagans and idolaters and violently converting the local populace.

After the Muslims dynasties had ruled India for 850, years until the 1850s, in 1947 they thought they were under threat from a Hindu India. Not all Muslims were convinced by such an explanation, but a large number were. Even though they were culturally Indian, the Muslims who migrated to Pakistan related to the Arab culture. The native, ethnic Indian culture is all but dead in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

In the Indian subcontinent, the population of Hindus decreased from 68% in 1947 to 61% in 2015. During the same time, the Muslim population in the subcontinent increased from 24% in 1947 to 33% in 2015. In India we have 172 million Muslims, as compared to 191 million Muslims in Pakistan and 153 million in Bangladesh. Hindus are almost extinct in Pakistan and are down to less than 10% in Bangladesh. Hindu culture is destroyed in Pakistan and under constant threat in Bangladesh.

In India, Islam was introduced by the sword, with bloodshed, looting, rape and pillage. While that may be the way armies behaved in the medieval world, Islam’s spread in India has been terribly violent, to put it very mildly.

Islam as we know it was never a spiritual path, but a political statement. In large numbers, Islam shows no mercy towards the other. In small numbers they successfully play the victim and appeal to the same modern values of liberal-mindedness that they so disdain to introduce in Islamic culture. I fear that Sweden may have opened its doors too widely and carelessly without fully knowing the history of Islam’s propensity to violently and totally eliminate the native culture wherever it finds a home.

I am proud of the heritage that I was born into. But I find it distressing that I must be careful in protesting against the sometimes favourable treatment meted out to my Muslim compatriots lest I be labelled a right-wing extremist. True, Muslims have their set of challenges in India, but the problems for them were not created by the Hindu majority. If that were true, how can the growth in proportion of the Muslim population in India from less than 10% to 15% be explained? Why are India’s biggest movie star, its most celebrated music director, its second-richest man and its most-loved President Muslims?

I am disappointed that while I have to follow the Law of the Land, our Muslim citizens have a separate set of civil laws. While such laws were justified in the immediate aftermath of India’s partition, continuing with such laws has no rationale. Suggesting they follow a Uniform Civil Law is shouted down by saying that we are majoritarian, and do not respect a Muslim’s right to practice his tradition. And this is just one of the many examples.

Muslim apologists, ultra-liberals and pseudo-secular “intelligentsia” demand that rich, peaceful, well-developed and liberal European Nations accept more and more immigrants/refugees from the troublesome Muslim nations. These host nations are blameless for the troubles of these Muslim refugees. To demand that they pay for someone else’s mistakes is unreasonable, to put it mildly.

In this communication I hope to put forth my support for Swedish culture, and to pray that it succeeds in maintaining its proud culture and heritage.

As for the refugee/immigrant debate, I present my observations and ask questions for which I would like to know some answers. For ease of comprehension, I have divided them into four categories. Further, I define refugees as those fleeing from atrocities for dear life, while immigrants are moving towards a better life than the miserable one their nation has handed them.

The Commonality of Crisis

Observations:

1.   Most refugees/immigrants are Muslims from Muslim nations usually running from atrocities committed by other Muslim groups. These groups could be: Terrorist organizations, nations with a majoritarian belief system (such as Sunnis against Shias), kingdoms, ethnically different cultures with animosities between them predating Islam itself.
2.   Most refugees/immigrants are from Arabian, Middle Eastern, or African nations with a distinct Islamic influence.
 

Questions:

1.   Why is it that refugees are mostly from Islamic nations?
2.   Are all these Islamic nations so utterly useless in protecting their compatriots and citizens?
3.   If a Muslim is not safe in a Muslim nation among his own Muslim neighbours and citizens, why does he hope for a better life in an Agnostic/Non-Islamic/Christian nation?
4.   If he can’t find peace in a nation that practices Islam — the Religion of Peace — and if he searches for a peaceful life in the Dar-al-Harb or Dar-al-Kufr, is he not being blasphemous?
5.   If Islam can’t foster peace and brotherhood among the millennia old animosities among African and Arab tribes and kingdoms, then how does it claim to be the only path to peace?
 

The Commonality of a Better Life

Observations:

1.   These refugees choose a well developed country — such as Sweden, Germany, Canada — that is religiously different, linguistically alien, culturally unimaginable, in the hopes of a better life.
 

Questions:

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Does ISIS Have Four Nukes?

The following video and text don’t supply an answer to that question.

The author of the text (which is in German) is purportedly a former member of the Islamic State who wants to warn the West that ISIS possesses four nuclear devices, and plans to use them against the United States, Russia, France, and Germany. What he says may well be a hoax, or more specifically, deliberately planted disinformation to achieve particular political ends. I can think of several Great Powers who would find it useful to disseminate the fiction that ISIS is ready to use nuclear weapons.

However, it could also be true. If it is, you may be sure that the intelligence services of Russia and the major Western powers are well aware of it. As the ISIS defector points out, the West has moles inside the highest levels of the Caliphate.

Before making this video, Vlad and I discussed the pros and cons of whether we should publish this material. After all, it serves the propaganda interests of the Islamic State to have this sort of thing disseminated. On the other hand, if it turns out to be true, and a mushroom cloud were to light up Berlin or Paris next week, we would have been remiss not to have put the information out.

So here it is, but with a huge CAVEAT: We have no idea whether the information given in this video and text is authentic. Listen to it or read it, and make your own best judgment.

The video and pdf were originally published by Netzplanet, which is also unable to confirm the authenticity of the story.

The text read out in the video and the text of the pdf are the same. Many thanks to Nash Montana for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Transcript:

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