Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/29/2023

More than 60% of transgenders in Scottish prisons reportedly transitioned after being incarcerated. Meanwhile, the National Hockey League is considering abandoning “Pride” nights after numerous players refused to wear the rainbow paraphernalia.

In other news, Russian hackers are reportedly preparing for a new cyber-offensive in Ukraine.

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Intoxicated Culture-Enriching Ecdysiast Terrifies a Church in Monza

A drunken Moroccan migrant with exhibitionist tendencies caused consternation in an Italian church by berating the priest and nuns and disparaging the statuary and then began to take off his clothes. Fortunately, he was subdued by police and parishioners before he could expose his junk. It was eventually determined that he has a long rap sheet, and will be deported.

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

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Fretting Over the Pronouns of a Mass Murderer

I assume that everyone already knows who Audrey Elizabeth Hale was, and what she did at the Covenant School in Nashville on Monday morning.

What I find interesting (and entertaining) is the way the legacy media have been tying themselves into pretzels over the shooter’s pronouns. Yesterday I heard one newscaster apologize for his station’s misgendering of the killer during its early coverage of the massacre, before it became known that she was a he. I wish I’d saved a link to that video; I don’t even remember which network it was.

I just read an article in The Tennessean — which is well-known for its progressive editorial slant — that couldn’t make up its mind how to handle the issue. Mostly it just dodged the dilemma by not using any pronouns, simply referring to her as “Hale… Hale… Hale…” over and over again. It was awkward.

However, the writers of the article (it takes at least two to put together a news report for The Tennessean) slipped up twice and said “she”, while on multiple other occasions calling her “he”.

They couldn’t make up their tiny minds.

I even saw one progressive contributor on a forum reprimanding other posters for misgendering the Killer Chick, reminding everyone how important it was, even in these sad circumstances, to use a creature’s preferred pronouns.

In the bright shining Utopia that is 21st-century America, you can’t make this [odiferous material] up.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/28/2023

A Tunisian immigrant in Milan stabbed a fellow Muslim after he spotted the man drinking beer during Ramadan. Meanwhile, the government of Cyprus appealed for help from the EU due to an overwhelming number of asylum claims.

In other news, annualized food price increases in the UK hit a record high of 17.5%.

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Culture-Enriching Knife Rampage in Lisbon

An Afghan culture-enricher entered an Ismaili (Islamic) facility in the Portuguese capital today and stabbed two infidel women to death. He also wounded a university professor.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from the Portuguese daily Correio da Manhã:

Mariana and Farana, the two women who died in the attack at the Ismaili Center in Lisbon

March 28, 2023

It was around 11am when a man entered armed in the Ismaili Center and killed two persons and wounded a professor with a stab wound to the neck.

The fatal victims of the knife attack in the Ismaili Center in Lisbon are Mariana (24) and Farana (49). The mother of one of the fatal victims was at the scene early in the morning when she thought that her daughter was merely injured.

One of the victims, Mariana, was a graduate in political and international relations at the New Faculty of Social and Human Sciences in Lisbon.

Around 11am, an armed man entered the Ismaili Center when there was an English class in progress. The motives for the attack are unknown.

As a result of this attack, a professor was also injured, who received a stab wound in the neck. The victim made it to the Santa Maria Hospital on his own. The attacker, of Afghan nationality, frequented the center, where he was studying Portuguese, and was shot by the PSP (National Civil Police) and taken to the St. Joseph Hospital. The Correio da Manhã is aware that the attacker had already made threats to people in the center, including the dead victims.

See also this English-language article on the attack.

No Easter Allowed!

Nasty WAYCISTS in a secondary school in Austria abused a Muslim student by exposing him to the symbols and practices of Easter. The horror!

Fortunately for the followers of Mohammed, school administrators intervened, and caused the classroom to be cleansed of all traces of Christianity, thereby making the school safe for Islam.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from eXXpress:

School cancels Easter tradition — out of consideration for non-Christians

The next incredible attack on our culture: In an AHS [Academic Secondary School] in Upper Austria, a teacher wanted to decorate the class with palm branches. A trip to the Easter market was also planned. A student’s father complained. With success: The school director then reprimanded his teacher for her “Christian fundamentalism”.

Niki Glattauer was a teacher and school principal himself. In the newspaper Heute he reports on an email that reached him from Upper Austria. “Are Palmkatzerln [palm fronds] fundamentalist, and an Easter market for schoolchildren completely unreasonable?” asked the teacher there.

The pupil M. was disturbed by the Christian customs

Shortly after the first palm branches adorned the classroom, the father of a student whose second-generation parents are from Bosnia got in touch. Glattauer quotes from the message in the school app: “Our child is very disturbed by the transformation of his classroom into a church. Even an Easter market is completely unreasonable for M. We will therefore keep our child at home for the time being.”

Principal calls teacher ‘insensitive’

But that’s not all. The teacher turned to her principal for support. But he stabbed her in the back, instead asserting that she had “acted insensitively” and asked her to remove the palm branches immediately. For “Christian fundamentalism” there is Holy Week.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/27/2023

A 28-year-old woman named Audrey Hale entered a private Christian elementary school in Nashville carrying two semi-automatic rifles and a handgun. She opened fire, killing three adults, including the headmaster of the school, and three 9-year-old children. Ms. Hale was reportedly a former pupil at the school. She identified as male and used the pronouns he/him. President Biden expressed his sympathy for the victims of the massacre, and argued for stricter gun-control laws.

In other news, Humza Yousaf won the leadership contest in the Scottish National Party, and is expected to become the next First Minister of Scotland.

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Banksy’s Migrant Ferry Vessel Impounded

Most readers have probably heard of Banksy, the pseudonymous British graffiti artist who has been active on the hip art scene in England since the 1990s. Banksy’s street art is very trendy, and his graffiti works — some of which have required the removal of sections of wall where they were painted — are often sold at auction for millions of dollars.

Banksy is also an activist for various progressive causes, including that of the poor, poor Palestinians. In addition he has often expressed his sympathies for third-world Muslim immigrants.

Recently Banksy lent his artistic hand to the decoration of a refitted French naval vessel, the Louise Michel, which is now being used as a migrant-ferry boat. The artist lavished a lot of pink paint on the job, and included some of his signature stencils in the design.

Now the Louise Michel has been impounded by the Italian maritime authorities for hindering the coast guard in its performance of its duties. The bien-pensants are up in arms about this interference in their migrant operations, and have lodged protests with the Italian government.

The following Italian news video reports on the brouhaha over the Louise Michel. Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/26/2023

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his plans to station tactical atomic weapons in Belarus. The Ukrainian government responded by demanding an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the issue.

In other news, the mayor of Philadelphia recommended that city residents drink and cook with bottled water rather than tap water after toxic chemicals leaked into a creek in Bucks County.

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Let the Fun Times Begin!

It looks like the upcoming elections in Thailand will be very entertaining. Our Bangkok correspondent H. Numan has the story.

Let the fun times begin!

by H. Numan

I reported about the elections in The Netherlands, and now it’s Thailand’s turn. Prime Minister Prayuth sort of dissolved the cabinet and announced elections. That date is now published: the 14th of May. The day before, he will officially dissolve the government. So he is not a caretaker prime minister, but acting prime minister. Great. That means we’re in for a LOT of fun! Hope you still got your colorful shirts; you’re going to need them. Let me explain.

A Thai prime minister can call for elections whenever he wants. Nothing unusual here; many prime ministers have the same privilege. They usually do that when they consider the moment to be right, for themselves. Sometimes they have to call for elections simply because they run out of options. A cabinet, even a Thai cabinet, usually has term limits. They may find it difficult to postpone the inevitable. Just look at how the British Conservative Party tries to stay in power. At the moment it’s more an Italian operetta than anything else. Prayuth is having some problems in the popularity department and with the clock. He survived a vote of no confidence. By survive I mean: found a legal loophole to invalidate it. Don’t get me wrong; Prayuth is fairly popular among the population. It’s the opposition who really hate him.

And that brings me to the fun part:

You know who’s running again? Yup, the Thaksins. Not one, but no fewer than three this time. All his children are running for office. That surprised me a bit, because so far they didn’t appear to be interested in politics. Daddy got three children to run for prime minister. One is sure to win, the others are to support the winner. He also announced he wants to end his voluntary exile, and return to Thailand. Even if that means going to jail. He is in his seventies right now, and has spent well over a decade in exile. That means he is certain of victory. With good reason, mind you. Every time a Shinawatra runs for office they win by a landslide.

You see, the democratic system in Thailand is a quite different from the West. A vote is worth Bt. 500 or $15. That a big difference. Buying votes is illegal, it also is expected. Another big difference is how parties work. Yes, we do have a plethora of parties here. But parties themselves don’t matter. It’s the big shots in a party who matter. Parties merge, split, work together, become enemies or friends, according to the whims of the big shots. Very few parties are older than a couple of years, and almost all have a very local power base. In that district or province they hold an absolute majority, but anywhere else almost no presence at all.

When Thaksin Shinawatra became prime minister his cabinet was the first cabinet in the history of Thailand to be a single party cabinet. That was because at that moment Thaksin was already a billionaire and merged many smaller parties into his own. Yes, he was hugely popular. Even without mergers his party would have been the biggest by far. Smaller parties simply merged to get a slice of the pie. Better something than nothing, right?

Voters expect some compensation as well. I spoke with a rural voter who said: of course they’re bribing us. We’re not that stupid! Both the Pheu Thai Party and the Democrats offer us a new four lane road to the village. We know the Phu Yai Baan (elected village headman, sort of mayor) will pocket the money, and his friends will build that road. If we vote for Pheu Thai, we get at least a two lane road. If we vote for the Democrats we get nothing. Who would you vote for?

I wrote this long ago, but it is still true today. Somehow the big shots of Thai politics never seem to understand that they have to deliver at least something of their many electoral promises. That means problems. Just about everybody over the age of six expects a landslide victory for one of the Shinawatras. They wouldn’t run, and certainly not three together, if they weren’t certain of victory. Their secret is no secret at all. They simply deliver what they promise. And why shouldn’t they? It’s tax money anyway.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/25/2023

The Bulgarian prime minister announced that his country will not be sending any fighter jets or tanks to Ukraine. Meanwhile, the Finnish defense minister rejected a Ukrainian request for fighter jets.

In other news, inflation in the U.K. shot above 10% in February as food prices continued to rise.

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Vaccine Roulette, Part 3

This is the final installment of a three-part German documentary on the adverse effects of the experimental mRNA treatment intended to mitigate the effects of infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus. Previously: Part 1, Part 2.

This excerpt summarizes the plight of patients featured in the previous installments, and introduces several additional victims of “adverse events”. It also features a medical practitioner who treats patients with severe reactions to the jab using a process known as apheresis, in which all their blood is drawn out and passed through a relevant treatment process before being returned to the body.

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

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Legal Under Islamic Law: Women, Honk If You Love Sharia

The following report by Clare Lopez was published earlier this month by Sharia TipSheet. See the original for the embedded links.

Legal Under Islamic Law: Women, Honk If You Love Sharia

by Clare M. Lopez

  • Clare says: “If we can get folks to understand the extent to which all of this is literally legal under Islamic Law, and is taught as such to Muslim kids (including in madrassas across America) from the earliest ages, we’ll have come a long ways to changing perspectives about Islam.”

“Italy: Muslim migrant murders his mother with hammer blows”, by Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, 12 March 2023

  • Although this likely was a so-called “honor killing”, Italian authorities investigating the killing claim that “the motive for the crime is unknown”.

“Afghan universities open solely for men amid ‘heartbreaking’ ban on women” by Estelle Emonet & Qubad Wali, Times of Israel, 6 March 2023

  • Despite 20 years of U.S. efforts in Afghanistan, once the Taliban took over again in August 2021, shariah-based restrictions on women began again. It is unfortunately impossible to export a Judeo-Christian-based Western-style of liberal governance to a people and place entirely unwilling to accept it.

“Iran’s judiciary says women will be punished for violating Islamic dress code -IRNA”, Reuters, March 6, 2023

  • Iranian regime demand that women wear a hijab (head-covering veil) is based firmly on Qur’anic verses (Q 24:31 and Q 33:59). The September 2022 killing of the young Iranian Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, by Iran’s “morality police”, who bludgeoned her to death because her hijab slipped & showed some hair, launched the 6 months of street protests by the Iranian people which continue to this day.

“Denmark: Muslim migrant takes 12-year-old to Somalia for marriage with 75-year-old, sells her when she refuses”, by Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, March 1, 2023

  • Under Islamic Law (shariah), women and girls are essentially commodities to be owned, abused, sold, and raped by men.

“‘TRAUMATIC DEATH’ Young woman, 20, ‘stabbed to death with metal spike by uncle then dumped “like rubbish” in honour killing’”, by Holly Christodoulou, The Sun, 1 March 2023

  • UK court records indicate the young woman was murdered by her uncle in an honor killing in her own home in Bradford, England.

“VIDEO: 10-year-old girl stabbed in the stomach — ‘Allahu akbar’”, Samnytt, March 2, 2023

  • Perpetrator was caught & arrested, but as usual, even though he was chanting “Allahu akbar” during the attack, Swedish authorities state “the reason for the assault is still unclear”.

“France: The sex offender Abdoulaye D. lured little girls into his room in the Adoma dormitory and then sexually abused them. He claimed ‘that he was teaching them the Koran’”, Medforth, February 28, 2023

  • As Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch commented, “And maybe he was”. The Qur’an teaches that infidel women can be lawfully taken for sexual use (Q 4:3, Q 4:24, Q 23:1-6, Q 33:50, Q 70:30)

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/24/2023

President Joe Biden paid a visit to Ottawa today and gave a speech in the Canadian parliament. During his speech Mr. Biden mistakenly praised China when he meant to say Canada.

In other news, the banking crisis apparently spread to Europe, as Deutsche Bank shares lost 15% of their value.

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