Monthly Archives: May 2015

Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/26/2015

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A 14-year-old “Austrian” boy has been convicted of plotting to blow up Vienna’s main railway station. According to prosecutors, he was radicalized by Al Qaeda and other kinetic activists online, and downloaded bomb-making plans onto his PlayStation. He was sentenced to two years of confinement, with fourteen months suspended. With time served, he will serve three months in juvenile detention.

In other news, over the past two days 1,200 migrants have been rescued and brought to safety by Greek maritime authorities.

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“Our Values Are of no Interest to Immigrants”

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Below is an article about a refreshingly honest Viennese defense attorney, who offers his un-PC opinions on why “integration” has failed in Modern Multicultural Austria.

Our Austrian correspondent AMT, who sent the tip for the piece, includes this introductory note:

Rudolf Mayer is a notorious attorney here in Austria, and certainly not known for his “right-wing” opinions. So it is interesting to note his candid views, even though he fails to connect the dots to come to the conclusion that it is one religion/ideology which is the culprit of the poor woman’s misery.

Unfortunately, given the current political reality, his views make no difference whatsoever. They will not change a thing.

Many thanks to JLH for translating this article from Wiener Zeitung:

“Our Values Are of no Interest to Immigrants”

by Clemens Neuhold

The prominent attorney Rudolf Mayer makes a devastating judgement on the integration policy.

VIENNA. Attorney Rudolf Mayer (67) represented Josef Fritzl, the “Ice Cream Killer” Estibilaz Carranz and the serial murderer Elfriede Blauensteiner, known as the “Black Widow.”* Less prominent were the numerous youthful criminals represented over a 34-year span by the former parole officer. Currently among his clients is a 14-year-old alleged jihadist, who is said to have planned a bomb attack on Vienna’s Western Train Station. Mayer is also representing a 16-year-old in Favoriten district, who with his twelve companions is said to have broken into 300 cars and to have relieved other young people of their cell phones. Mayer had already gotten his client out of pre-trial detention when the latter went robbing again.

This Turkish gang, in turn, was relieved of its ill-gotten gains by a Chechen gang called “Goldenberg.” And those even tougher Favoriten youths are being tried for several break-ins to supermarkets and pharmacies.

In his practice, Mayer has studied what an example such youngsters are for criminals. Speaking with the Wiener Zeitung, the attorney gives his account of domestic integration policy. He considers it a failure.

His focus on younger, male immigrants already going bad may represent just a snippet of reality. Nonetheless, we think it appropriate, in the context of a broad debate on integration, to document his provocative opinions. Subsequently, social workers and integration politicians will have their turn to speak here.

1. “Integration in the third generation is worse than in the first”

“Essentially, every person ought to have the right to choose his residence on the earth, with no time limit. The idea of cosmopolitanism must be revived. But that also includes not seeing integration through rose-colored glasses, but addressing the problems seriously, so that coexistence functions better. Social romanticists are attached to the idea that succeeding generations automatically integrate better. So the second generation is better integrated than the first, and the third better than the second. Anyone who says that today is naïve and out of touch with real life. The guest workers of old, who worked their whole lives for the sake of their children — they are the model immigrants. Despite that, many a grandchild is traveling to fight in Syria or goes out robbing, because the code of honor, pride and battle taught in the parks is more important than the word of mother or grandfather. The third generation in my experience is more poorly integrated than the first. And if only one percent of them are self-radicalized, then we have a huge problem. This generation is also more brutal. Previously fights ended with a headlock. Nowadays you win if you jump the other guy more than he does you.

“Veiled women, completely at a loss, sit in my office and cry. They say: ‘Mr. Mayer, I gave my son pocket money, I raised him well, sent him to school — but he went to the park and learned from the others there how to steal cellphones.’ I advised that woman to go back to Turkey with him and return after he reaches puberty — to get some distance from the park. That is how far it has gone. All isolated instances? I can refute that from my experience. If we keep taking the path of least resistance, we will be overwhelmed by the problem.”

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“I Hope I’ll Survive it All”

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Geert Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV) in the Netherlands, is in the crosshairs yet again. In the wake of the terror attack earlier this month in Texas, he has been listed as a prime target for assassination by Dabiq, the magazine of the Islamic State.

The following article was sent to me as an image, and is not available online, so I don’t know what newspaper it was published in. Many thanks to Wachteres and Henk V for the translation:

Wilders has been portrayed again as a target for IS attack

The Hague — PVV leader Geert Wilders has been portrayed again as a target for an attack by the terrorist group Islamic State (IS).

In the preface of IS’ internet magazine Dabiq is a picture of Wilders, and underneath the text: “A crusader who mocked the prophet”.

The preface is, among other things, about the two men who committed an assault in the US city of Garland, Texas two weeks ago during a conference about cartoons of the prophet Mohammed.

Wilders attended that meeting, but had just left the building at the time the men who were firing handguns tried to get inside. Afterwards IS claimed responsibility for the attack.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/25/2015

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British intelligence officials are concerned that there is a strong likelihood of a chemical attack by jihadists in the UK. They fear that “British” veterans returning from the jihad in the Middle East will bring with them the expertise to build chlorine bombs, which are the mujahideen’s WMD of choice.

In other news, the Islamic State has issued a death fatwa against President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina, whom they describe as “Satan”.

None of this has anything to do with Islam.

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Thanks to C. Cantoni, Fausta, Fjordman, Insubria, JD, 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.

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Those Non-Existent ISIS Convoys

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Two weeks ago the United States government asked the media to stop showing “B-roll” footage of Islamic State convoys when they air stories about ISIS on news programs. According to IBT:

Coverage of the war against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria do not accurately reflect the reality on the ground because U.S. television networks are using old footage showing the extremist group’s movements, senior officials in the Obama administration have reportedly said. The officials also urged the country’s media outlets to update their recordings of ISIS’ activities in the region.

Top officials in the State Department and the Pentagon called on TV networks to stop using “B-roll” — stock footage that appears on screen with reporters and commentators speaking in the background — showing ISIS at the peak of its strength last year before coalition strikes began, Politico reported.

The Pentagon suggested a revised depiction:

“One Toyota speeding down the road by itself at night with its headlights off,” would be a more accurate image, said Pentagon spokesman Col. Steven Warren.

The next day U.S. Special Forces staged a raid in Syria and killed Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic State commander, and captured his wife. That story dominated the headlines and airwaves for the next 24 hours, although I’m not sure if media outlets complied with the order to revise their B-rolls when they aired it.

The next day the forces of the Islamic State overran Ramadi, the capital of al-Anbar Province in Iraq.

I don’t think the timing of these three things was coincidental. There was no way American intelligence was unaware that Ramadi was about to fall. So: order the revised B-rolls to change the spin on the coverage of ISIS. Then stage a spectacular raid and neutralize a bad guy so as to gain massive admiring coverage. Then, the next day, when Ramadi falls, things don’t look quite so bad.

The conquest of Ramadi is far more significant and momentous than the loss of one ISIS commander, no matter how senior. But the American people don’t know that, which is what the Obama administration is counting on. It’s all spin, spin, spin — domestic political considerations are everything.

As it happens, some of those non-existent convoys for the Islamic State were involved in the capture of Ramadi. Vlad Tepes has uploaded some footage of them, and annotated it with his own commentary:

Convert or Die!

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Mayor Bart De Wever of Antwerp has been threatened with death if he does not convert to Islam. His response? To hire a bodyguard.

But he’s the mayor, for crying out loud! You’d think he could send an armed police battalion to roust all the usual suspects out of certain culturally enriched neighborhoods. He could then make sure that they fully understood their status in his city, and keep them on their best behavior — or else.

But this is Europe we’re talking about, and that’s not how they do things in Modern Multicultural Belgium…

Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

There’s more at Vlad’s place.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/24/2015

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The Greek interior minister says that it is not possible for his country to make its next debt payment to the IMF by the deadline next month; the money simply isn’t there. Greece is looking to make an arrangement with its creditors in order to get the next tranche of bailout money. Meanwhile, the latest polls say that the Greek public supports the government’s anti-austerity policies, but wants to retain the euro as its currency.

In other news, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter says that the fall of Ramadi was the fault of the Iraqi military. According to him, Iraqi forces lacked the will to hold their positions.

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Thanks to C. Cantoni, Fjordman, Insubria, JD, 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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“It is Not Possible to Think of Giving Up”

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JLH has translated an inspiring interview with the prominent German Counterjihad activist Michael Stürzenberger. The translator includes this note:

Many of us at GoV have commented and reported on Michael Stürzenberger — or “Stürz” as Oz-Rita likes to call him — over the past years, and I vividly remember his days as a columnist and interviewer at Politically Incorrect. We have watched in awe as he took on the powers-that-be in Munich, revived the White Rose with its only surviving member, and suffered numerous counterstrokes. But until reading his answers at the end of this interview, I did not appreciate the full extent of his day-to-day misery. A horrifying example of what one of our most prominent American political families christened (and practiced) as “the politics of personal destruction”.

It is sad that the leftist pressure can alienate even friends and relatives. It is deeply ironic to think of the legitimate pleas for tolerance of minorities, women, and gays over the years, often made by some of the same people who are now happy to see the misery of ostracism visited on people who disagree with them.

The translated interview from Journalistenwatch:

“It Is the Duty of An Enlightened Citizen to Resist Islam!”

From the first Michael Stürzenberger has been an Islam-explicator. And right from the start, serious obstacles have been placed on his path to accomplishing his task, so crucial to the survival of Germany. Driven into the “Nazi-corner” by politicians and the media, hounded by the legal system, shunned by the banks, stigmatized by the intelligence services, threatened with death by Islamizers, attacked by counter-demonstrators, banned by restaurants — he has had to struggle all these years merely to exist.

But he has never given up. It is time for a comparatively personal interview with one of the few people in Germany with some backbone.

Journalistenwatch: When, on what occasion and in what form did the subject “Islam” penetrate your consciousness for the first time?

Michael Stürzenberger: Islam was not on my radar before September 11, 2001. With that apocalyptic terrorist attack, the so-called “religion of peace” vaulted into my life. I wondered what had compelled these 19 Muslims to kill themselves along with thousands of others. When it became known that Mohammed Atta and company had in their written declarations cited verses from the Koran as the basis for their terrorism, I read that book from cover to cover. Then everything was clear.

So, you previously had no personal contact with “offensive”-acting Muslims, and the mosques in Munich were just normal houses of worship to you?

Before 9/11, I had neither concerned myself with Islam nor had any noteworthy contact with Muslims. Only one time at the beginning of the 1990s, when my favorite disco in Munich — “Liberty” — was taken over by Turks, renamed the “Bebek Club” and Germans were not welcome there. I seriously wondered what was going on. But I did not continue to worry about that, because I was involved with my career as a journalist.

What edition of the Koran did you read, and what effect did the Koranic Suras have on you? Did you read other books on the subject?

In my library, I have those by Max Henning and Rudi Paret; I have compared them with the Koran edition of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany on their internet site, islam.de, and with the Salafist Koran, which is being passed out by the hundreds of thousands on the streets of Germany. There are no notable differences in the formulations. The pertinent commands to violence, battle and killing are the same everywhere. Christians and ex-Muslims from Islamic countries have confirmed to me that the Arabic edition is also comparable, if not even harsher in several instances.

Anyone who reads the Koran through instantly recognizes it as a literal manual for Muslim terrorists who are causing trouble all over the world. Even the 1400-year history of Islam’s conquest is not surprising. And then, when you examine the biography of the “prophet” and warlord, Mohammed, who is responsible for the entire Islamic ideology, the connections become clear. Anyone who still maintains that Islam is a religion of “peace” is either a conscious liar, or needs to have his head examined.

As you say, 9/11 was just one more Islamic terrorist act in the long, violent history of this “religion of peace.” But this event shook the entire Western world. For many, as for you, this day was the impetus to critically examine Islam. But only a few have dared to take the next step and become dedicated Islam-explicators.

What brought you to take this risky step? What was it like? Where and how did you become involved?

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Ring Out, You Songs!

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Today is the Feast of Pentecost (or Whitsun), which commemorates the occasion when the Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles after the Resurrection and the Ascension. Many Christians celebrate Pentecost as the “Birthday of the Church”, and denominations that closely observe the liturgical calendar consider it a holy day second only to Easter.

In honor of the occasion, below is a video of the cantata “Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten!” (“Ring out, you songs; sound, you strings!”, BWV 172) by Johann Sebastian Bach, as performed by the Monteverdi Choir, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.

See the YouTube page for the full libretto (in German).

Hat tip: ritamalik.

The Kafirophage

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A virus is the simplest form of what is commonly thought of as “life”. Many viruses consist of nothing more than a single strand of DNA wrapped in a protein casing, although they sometimes have additional structural features that perform rudimentary functions.

The bacteriophage is one of the most well-known types of viruses. In addition to its capsule of DNA, it features a columnar tail with a base plate. Attached to the plate are fibers that look like the legs of a landing craft, which bring the base plate into full contact with the target bacterium at specific receptors on the victim’s cell wall using special pins. After the virus attaches itself, the tail contracts, injecting viral DNA into the host cell. The invader’s DNA then hijacks the host cell’s ribosomes, forcing them to build new viruses rather than perform their normal functions. After a sufficient number of new viruses have been assembled, the cell wall is destroyed, and a new generation of viruses is released into the environment to repeat the cycle with other bacteria.

Viruses that target multicellular organisms function in a similar manner. However, they have of necessity evolved genetic strategies of greater complexity in order to exploit their more complex hosts. To reach the tissues they have evolved to target, they must make their way past the immune defenses that their hosts have developed to thwart them. A weakened organism whose immune system has been compromised by age, injury, stress, famine, or previous bouts of infection is more vulnerable to an attack by invading viruses.

A strategy that includes the weakening of a host’s immune system thus becomes a useful part of a well-tailored virus’ wardrobe. Viruses that cause autoimmune diseases — HIV is the most well-known example — attack the host’s immune system directly.

Analogous behavior is exhibited by the computer viruses used to target cybernetic systems. Labeling these snippets of code “viruses” is apt: their modus operandi is directly analogous to that used by biological viruses that attack living organisms.

As soon as it has been inadvertently downloaded, the first action attempted by a well-tailored piece of “Trojan horse” malware may be to disable the target’s virus-protection software. It overwrites the antivirus system’s database of malicious code signatures, removing any reference to itself as a malicious entity. After that it masquerades as virus protection and announces that the user’s computer has been infected. Typically it offers additional software for sale, which it says is necessary to remedy the problem.

This and other malicious strategies may do serious damage to the host system, sometimes disabling it completely and necessitating a rebuild of the computer.

The virus analogy may be extended to other complex information systems. Any system that is sufficiently complex is also vulnerable to malicious intrusion. A packet of information from outside the system may mimic the characteristics of some part of the system, providing appealing “hooks” to induce its incorporation. Then, once it is fully integrated into the substrate of its host, it begins to replicate itself, using internally encoded instructions to disable further resistance on the part of the surrounding system.

After that the invader spreads, gradually replacing components of its host with its own simulacra. Its replacements may not be fully functional, but they only have to serve until the invader’s purpose has been accomplished — which is usually to suck all useful sustenance/information from the system before moving on to other uninfected hosts.

By now regular Gates of Vienna readers will have noticed the resemblance between invading viruses and a certain Religion of Peace…

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How the Muslim Brotherhood Operates in Tennessee (Part 6a of 8)

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Below is the latest newsletter from the Tennessee Council for Political Justice, an addendum to the previous one.

Newsletter #168a — How the Muslim Brotherhood Operates in Tennessee (part 6a of 8)

Islamist Political Action Groups — Fellow Travelers

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)

In 2013, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) announced its status as an official student organization at UT-Knoxville. In April 2015, the Vanderbilt University Ingram Scholar Hytham al-Hindi posted the SJP Vanderbilt chapter. With about 100 chapters at last count, SJP organizes extreme hate-filled anti-Israel activity on college campuses around the country.

The SJP organization was started by Hatem Bazian at Berkley who was formerly the MSA president. He was also a fundraising speaker for Kindhearts, a HAMAS front closed by the US government. Bazian also founded and chairs the national extremist anti-Israel organization American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) which helps train and support SJP activists. SJP’s 2002 national convention was sponsored by the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), with guest speaker Sami al-Arian.

SJP’s 2014 national convention keynote speaker was UTK alumnus, Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou who is also involved with the BDS campaign against Israel.

SJP chapters are the primary activists pushing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns against Israel. They also hold “Israel Apartheid Week” on campuses and work to disrupt pro-Israel campus events.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/23/2015

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In Tensta, a culturally enriched suburb of Stockholm, a mob of “youths” attacked a police patrol with rocks and Molotov cocktails. Police were forced to fire warning shots into the crowd. The rioters, said to be mainly Somalis and Kurds, were apparently upset that police had started cracking down on crime in their neighborhood.

In other news, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a Shi’ite mosque in Saudi Arabia, and promised more attacks targeting Shi’ites.

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Thanks to C. Cantoni, Fjordman, 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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You Can Draw Anything You Want — But Not Here

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Alexandra Belaire was a guest yesterday on Sam Sorbo’s radio program. She and her host discussed her aborted “Draw Mohammed Day” event on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

During the last couple of minutes they also talked about home-schooling. It’s interesting to notice the difference between American attitudes to home-schooling and those of people in other countries. Even in Canada there seems to be a general reluctance to assign any real legitimacy to educating one’s children at home. And in some European countries home-schooling is not just frowned upon, it’s illegal.

There’s a huge amount of cultural pressure from the elites in the USA against home-schooling, but it hasn’t made much of a dent in popular attitudes — more and more Americans are choosing to pull their kids out of the dangerous cesspits that the public schools in many cities have become.

Previous posts about Alexandra Belaire and “Draw Whatever You Want” Day on Parliament Hill in Ottawa:

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