From Austria: State’s Attorney Investigating Geert Wilders

As I reported earlier today, the state prosecutor in Austria is investigating a possible hate speech charge against Geert Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom in the Netherlands.

Below is a brief report from the Austrian news service OTS. Many thanks to JLH for the translation:

KURIER: State’s Attorney Investigating Geert Wilders

July 27, 2015

After an Islam-hostile speech at an FPÖ event in the Hofburg, Justice finds suspicion of hate speech

Vienna: Vienna state’s attorney has initiated an investigation of Geert Wilders on account of hate speech. The basis for this is an Islam-hostile speech given in the Hofburg by the Netherlands’ right-populist on March 27th, at the invitation of the FPÖ leader, Heinz-Christian Strache. In the speech, Wilders described Europe as “at war with Islam,” compared the Koran with Hitler’s Mein Kampf, and called for banning it.

Tarafa Baghajati, leader of the “Initiative of Muslim Austrians,” subsequently entered a charge on suspicion of hate-speech, denigration of religious teachings and infringement of the prohibition law.[1] In his opinion, the state’s attorney did not properly proceed against Wilders and also Strache. There is no procedure against the FPÖ chief, who had listened “approvingly and with applause” to Wilders’ speech. There was, however, no evidence that Wilders had agreed beforehand with the FPÖ on the content of his speech.

The Spokesperson for the state’s attorney, Nina Bussek, confirmed that an investigation is proceeding.

1.   Prohibition Act of 1947, forbidding Holocaust denial and belittling of Nazi atrocities.
 

 

A Little Insider Baseball (U.S.-type) News

Unless you’re familiar with American politics, the whole of this may not be comprehensible. Who outside the U.S., for example, is aware of that excrescence, Geraldo Rivera? I hope not many have had to endure him. For an example of “you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up” here’s Geraldo’s defense of Planned Parenthood’s harvesting and marketing of fetal/baby parts. No, it’s not satire.

The People’s Cube, on the other hand, does wonderful satire. They are pluperfectly superb in this genre, as well they ought to be: Comrade site-owner is a real, genu-wine escapee from that unwilling Russian slave state, Ukraine.

Did I say this was satire? Oh, good. Because it is, you know. Satire, I mean. Kilroy’s essay, “Democrats Unleash Perfect Presidential Candidate”, is only understandable if you know who Geraldo is:

In the wake of embarrassing missteps by Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O’Malley on the campaign trail, the Democratic National Committee today announced that it has successfully recruited the perfect candidate, one that can both mobilize the entire Democratic Party base and destroy any Republican that dares challenge.

The newcomer to the race, 42-year-old Geralda Hernandez-Brown, was discovered in Atlanta by DNC operatives. Born to undocumented immigrant Maria Hernandez, and Theo “Pookie” Brown, whose ancestors once slaved in the cotton and tobacco fields of Georgia and the Carolinas, Gerald Hernandez-Brown underwent a sex change operation in 2005, and now considers xyrself gender-fluid.

“Xhe’s ideal in every way,” said DNC spokesman Christina Freundlich. “I mean, even the children from before the operation… one killed by a cop, one dead from a botched back alley abortion, climate change-induced heat stroke…the list just keeps going. Can you believe that we stumbled upon xer beneath the I-285 overpass?”

Asked whether Geralda’s religious beliefs could provide any insight to the American people regarding xer convictions and character, Freundlich exclaimed “of course xhe doesn’t believe in any god, that would be ridiculous, but xhe gets along very well with people of any faith that gives free stuff to the poor.” Added Freundlich, “which is pretty much all of them.”

When interviewed, Democratic voters largely welcomed the addition of Hernandez-Brown to the field.

Will Green of Toledo, OH, said “Hillary is a tool of the corporatists, and Sanders and O’Malley are old white males. Finally, somebody that understands the struggle and the importance of social programs. Somebody truly worth my vote!”

Qeesha D’Antelo of Fresno, CA responded “I had such high hopes for Obama, but now I realize that he’s half-white. And while he definitely doesn’t go out of his way to act like a man, he has never publicly denounced his whitemale privilege. Geralda is exactly the kind of hero I can believe in!”

Cautioned “Wolf” in Brooklyn, “sounds good, but where does xhe stand on fair trade coffee?”

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See the rest of the post, and other brilliant exposés here.

Yes, and that racist image is his, too. Oh, wait. Did I tell you this is satire??

/satire

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I’ll bet when he left Ukraine, Oleg didn’t ever dream he’d wake up every morning thinking, “Hmmm…whom shall I skewer today?” For sure it is his vocation.

Oleg told me once that while his other refugee friends went to ohh and awww at the amazing displays of food in American grocery stores, his shrine was elsewhere.

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How May I Direct Your Call?

Summer Fundraiser 2015, Day Three

This has been an eventful fundraising week so far. In addition to all the hope-not-hate foofaraw, we have now endured two major phone and internet outages (so far). Talk about a dearth of crucial resources — it’s as if Fate were conspiring to provide grist for this week’s rhetorical mill.

The first outage was on Monday night, in the midst of a heavy thunderstorm. That’s par for the course — lightning strikes too close to a junction box (or whatever they call those blocky little green structures that dot the roadsides like military installations for midget aliens) and ZAP! Out goes the DSL, or the phone, or both. That night it was both, but the Internet came back on after a little while. The phone stayed out overnight.

Then, a few hours after the phone came back on, both lines went out again. This time it was in the middle of a clear blue sky, so go figure. After a few hours I went outside with the old “candy bar” cell phone and walked around until I could get a couple of bars of signal. My connectivity lasted an average of 90 seconds, so there was no way it could survive for an entire wait-on-hold-while-listening-to-horrible-music service call. Instead I phoned a family member and asked him to contact Big Telecom for us. He called back a few minutes later and said the company promised to send a technician out no later than 2pm the next day.

That’s actually tomorrow, as I write these words. I’m taking advantage of our down time to put the next fundraising post on virtual paper. There’s no way to tell when I’ll actually be able to publish it, though…

Actually, although we pay Big Telecom for our phone service, the local system is a relic of earlier times, a small company that was gobbled up by a big company during the merger frenzy. Until fairly recently it was like the proverbial two tin cans and a piece of string. We even had a party line in the earliest days.

Somehow they figured out a way to run DSL down that string, but the system is still sensitive to, ahem, environmental variables.

These recent events provided part of the inspiration for the title and the header photo. But I’ll have more on that later.

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Well, Monday was a day to remember!

Tip jarIt wasn’t how we planned to start our Summer Fundraiser. Dymphna and I had blocked out some thoughts about “Resources” — the theme of the week — and we were going to put together a series of posts to entertain our readers while we attempted to pick their pockets.

But the best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley. Nick Lowles and HOPE not hate (what a brilliant misnomer) had other plans for us. Suddenly we’re in The Independent and The Guardian, and the resources of GoV’s over-burdened server are groaning under the additional load as a result.

It’s too early to gauge the effect of the sudden leftist onslaught from the UK on our fundraising efforts. At least two donors mentioned that they initiated or increased their gifts under the influence of HnH, but there’s no way to know whether there were other potential benefactors who were put off by the relentless campaign against us. All I can say for sure is that the number of donations flowing in from the UK has increased.

Also of interest is this response from a German donor to my hastily scrawled thank-you note:

This seems like a good time to say that I particularly value GoV for its fine selection of bomb manuals. What’s more, my paramilitary group has been able to avoid police detection thanks in no small part to the materials on your site.

Kind regards, and may you weather any storm that comes your way.

As it happened, a storm came our way just after his email arrived. We weathered that one, and the next…

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Everything that arrives in our inbox becomes grist for the mill, and the little nastygram from The Independent and HOPE not hate has definitely highlighted the “Resources” theme. Our resources, that is — not theirs. Theirs are predictable and boring — government grants, money from progressive foundations, and unlimited ideological cannon fodder employed to staff their offices.

But our resources are much more interesting. We draw on a vast reservoir of people — quite possibly representing a “silent majority” of the population — who oppose what is being done to them, their countries, and their cultures, and are willing to pitch in if they can do so without destroying their careers and their families.

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Politically Correct Babel on the Thames

Our Australian correspondent Julius O’Malley pays a virtual visit to Blighty to investigate a bizarre new multicultural policy implemented by the Metropolitan Police.


Linguistic demographics of London (click to enlarge)

Politically Correct Babel on the Thames

by Julius O’Malley

On July 20th 2015 a new mandatory requirement for employment by the London Metropolitan Police was introduced: applicants must be fluent in a second language other than English. That police force, ‘The Met’, is understandably the UK’s largest.

One might think this was just part of the relentless ‘upskilling’ of acceptable police recruits that has taken place in the Western world since around 1980. You know, whereas 35 years ago one needed only a 9th-grade education in Australia to join the police force, then a “School Certificate”, i.e. 10th-grade attainment was made an essential pre-requisite.

Then they dropped the minimum height and weight requirements that had been around for a century because these were “discriminatory”. So there are 5’2″, 100lb police officers; lots of them, because such undersized people are attracted to the sense of personal power that being a police officer affords.

Then they raised the educational bar again to require a “Higher School Certificate”, i.e. 12th-grade education, which was once the preserve of the smallish minority of teenagers who intended to embark on a tertiary education. I await the introduction of a degree in sociology as mandatory, with a master’s degree as a desirable qualification.

But it isn’t just upskilling, because the second language must be one of fourteen prescribed ones. The list’s inclusions and exclusions are mind-boggling, if the purpose of the mandatory requirement is to catch and assist in the prosecution of criminals in London; hopefully at least a consideration in police recruitment practices. The languages (as they appear in the very odd order on the Met’s website) are:

  • Yoruba (Nigeria)
  • Hebrew
  • Arabic
  • Hindi
  • Punjabi
  • Italian
  • German
  • Turkish
  • Greek
  • Spanish
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Sinhali (Sri Lanka)
  • Bengali

What is the ostensible purpose of requiring police officers to be able to speak one of the above 14 languages? From the 20 July Daily Mirror article:

‘In a press release, the Met said the requirement is a one-month ‘pilot’ scheme designed to “bring officers into the Met with more of the skills necessary to help police and engage with London’s diverse communities as effectively as possible.”

However, the Met does not specify that the new qualification is temporary on its website.’[2]

There is good reason to believe it will not be temporary, and has merely been initially floated as such by (non-binding) press release to test levels of public hostility. In the absence of howls of sustained public protest it will just stay.

First, the inclusions: German. German?! A map of London’s ethnic neighbourhoods (see the top of this post) may provide assistance here. There is no German ethnic neighbourhood on the map, nor any known to Londoners. There are no reported German crime gangs in London, and Germans don’t figure in the crime statistics. And even if there were a discernible problem with German crime in London, or Germans were a notable victim group, it was sagely pointed out by a Conservative politician that Germans living in London speak English very well. Given that most Germans in Germany do, this is indubitably so.

In second place we have Hebrew! Truly bizarre, as any Israeli living in London will, like any German, speak English, and there are only about six million Hebrew-speakers in the world. The London map doesn’t show a Hebrew-speaking neighbourhood; it does show a Yiddish-speaking neighbourhood. So the inclusion of Yiddish would make more sense, were it not for the fact that the vast majority of Yiddish-speakers living in London also speak English.

The exclusions are even more strange. I thought: Don’t they speak Urdu in Pakistan? Why isn’t it in the Met’s list? According to a Daily Mail bar graph, the fourth most spoken non-English language is Urdu[1].The answer is that the Met has for decades assiduously sought Pakistani-origin recruits to match the huge — and grossly over-represented in the crime stats and prison numbers — Pakistani population. So after this sustained effort they must have enough Urdu speakers on the force.

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Austria Launches Criminal Investigation Against Geert Wilders

On the same day that an opinion poll conducted by the Dutch state broadcaster revealed that the Party for Freedom (PVV) is now the biggest party in Netherlands, the country’s major newspaper De Telegraaf announced that Austria is launching a criminal investigation against Geert Wilders, the leader of the PVV.

Below is the translated article from De Telegraaf:

Austria preys on Geert Wilders

Geert Wilders is facing prosecution in Austria. The Public Prosecutor in Vienna is investigating whether the PVV leader is guilty of incitement during a speech last March.

In the Alpine state, there is a maximum sentence of two years for this offence.

Press Officer Nina Bussek of the Vienna prosecutor’s office cannot say how long the investigation will take, and whether Wilders will also be questioned by a prosecutor. “I can confirm that we are investigating following complaints against declarations he made during the event.” The [Austrian] law prohibits hurting religious feelings or inciting to violence against a religion.

On 27 March, Wilders gave a long speech in the Hofburg in Vienna at the invitation of the right-wing nationalist party FPÖ. He spoke in strong language about the necessity to reduce Islam.

Wilders’ visit was special, because Vienna is the city where, in 1683, the rise of the Ottoman Empire was halted. “Also today, we have a clear message for Islam: you will not conquer Vienna,” Wilders said.

In his speech, Wilders said that Austria had to change the present reality, “that Islamic brutality has gained a foothold in our countries. We are confronted with halal meals, with headscarves, burqas, honor killings, female genital mutilation, polygamy, mega-mosques.”

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The Dishonesty of The New York Times

The Dishonesty of The New York Times

by Fjordman

The New York Times claimed in January 2015 that it is false that there are no-go-zones in some urban areas in Western Europe dominated by certain immigrant groups. The American newspaper highlighted myself, alongside writers such as Steve Emerson and Daniel Pipes, for spreading this alleged falsehood. This was published shortly after Islamic terrorists had massacred the staff of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.

Fox News issued an unusual on-air apology for allowing its anchors and guests to repeat the suggestion that there are Muslim-only “no-go zones” in European countries such as Britain and France, areas that are not under the control of the state and are ruled according to sharia law.

According to the NYT, after the term attracted new attention Daniel Pipes “added an update to his original 2006 post to share the credit for it with an anti-Islamist Norwegian blogger who wrote under the pen name Fjordman. That blogger, whose work was cited 111 times in the manifesto of Anders Behring Breivik — the Islamophobic terrorist behind the deadly attacks in Oslo in 2011 — claimed in a post on his blog in 2006 that those underprivileged areas of France were ‘Muslim no-go zones where anything representing a Western institution (post office truck, firemen, even mail order delivery firms) was routinely ambushed with Molotov cocktails.’”

Just to remind people: Breivik was initially diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and declared insane by the first forensic psychiatrists who studied him. This conclusion was overturned following intense media and political pressure, but there are still many people who suspect that the initial diagnosis was correct.

Furthermore, Breivik stated repeatedly in plain words during the trial against him in Oslo in 2012 that he wanted to create a media-led “witch-hunt” against moderate conservatives and peaceful critics of Islam. He was very pleased that the mass media and the political elites gave him exactly such a witch-hunt.

In early 2014 ABB sent a letter in English from prison to various Western media outlets. In it declared that he is a Nazi, not an anti-Islamist. He said that he had quoted some Islam-critics specifically in order to harm them in the public eye.

Anders Behring Breivik may well be insane. He greatly admired Jihadist terrorists, and modeled his imaginary terror network “Knights Templar” on the Islamic terrorists of al-Qaida. ABB expressed a willingness to cooperate directly with Islamic terrorists in order to kill as many non-Muslim Europeans as possible. He quoted Islam-critical writers in order to harm them, and was very pleased with the result.

All of this is reduced by The New York Times to Breivik’s being an “Islamophobic terrorist.”

Evil allegations that I had personally murdered 77 human beings in cold blood were made in print and online by the writer Eric Pfanner in The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune on September 4, 2011. He then claimed that I am identical to the mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik. This was a full month after I had gone public, when my real identity and name were easily available on the Internet. The paper just barely managed to wriggle out of an expensive libel action by publishing a small technical “correction” to this article days later. They never issued a real apology.

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Our Roller Coaster Fundraiser

Summer Fundraiser 2015, Day Two

This is the second day of our Summer Quarterly Fundraiser for 2015. Only the second day? Oh, my — I’ve been through two thunderstorms and a whole lotta mudslinging since I woke up on Monday morning. Kind of elongates the time.

For this fundraiser, the Baron decided to return to the subject of “Resources” — which is a good idea, considering that our work is founded on them.

[It’s becoming a perennial and frequent subject, as most folks are worrying about their own fate while this president makes a downright ruin of a formerly functioning country. Make that several f.f. countries. But that’s change for you, Chicago-style: it’s destruction, plain and simple, but no one thought to ask him to define it.]

For many of our neighbors around here, the old mantra has been refurbished: “make do, make over, do without.” It’s harder now than it was for those in the 1930s, because obsolescence has long been made a feature — things that break or wear out are no longer “bugs”.

Our website is rather retrograde. No bells, whistles, or gizmos. Just words and illustrations. How quaint. That’s why I glommed onto this comment from the Baron’s first post of the quarterly:

Felix Quigley

You deserve to be supported. Your site is a credit to you. I go onto some fancy sites and I sit for ages waiting because they have loaded their sites with c..p

But your site is so fast. That means a lot to me.

I agree with Mr. Quigley, but it may be a losing battle. Not everyone lives in the fast lane with broadband connections. Here in our own area, only those who live near the Courthouses have access to such luxury. The government installed broadband for local governments — all the better to reach them easily. The rest of the county? Some of us live in cell tower dead zones and people have to drive to where reception is better. Or just not bother.

Tip jarOn top of everything else today (the Hater’s bizarre and erroneous attacks and the thunderstorms that took down our internet and phone) the Baron’s car went on the fritz as he was driving home from the pharmacy with my medicine. He knows what the problem is: you don’t live with a machine for ten years without learning its vulnerabilities. So he cancelled a doctor appointment for tomorrow and left a call for the mechanic. We won’t be seeing our ride for a few days…but who cares? We stay so busy during the Quarterly Fundraiser there’s no need to leave. And donations will cover the costs. Deo, etc.

I am quite pleased at my resourcefulness regarding our “cell phone” (a candy-bar type left over from the ’90s. Very loose in the joints from falling off our moving car one time. The B collected the pieces from the verge and the ditch and stuck them back together: Voilà, connectivity!). Since there is no landline way to call the phone company regarding the internet, and no car in which to leave to find a cell tower connection… what to do? With the phone carefully held together, I went outside, checking the garden while glancing at the screen. Wait! What’s this Sweet Spot! All the bars were bopping in this one small area of the garden. I quickly called a friend and asked her to report our outage. The Baron came out at the sound of my voice and was able to give her the directions to tell them for our landline “ticket”. In no time we had the internet back again; the landline may still be dead, but again, except to plot with Vlad, we don’t need any other mod cons during the Fundraiser.

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This preference I see everywhere for the quick, the convenient, the flashy, the replaceable, has been a concern of mine for a while. It has raised government and personal debt to the stratosphere. And it has left many behind. When we were involved in diocesan work for our church, we got to see the problems of rural parishes first-hand.

For one thing, they suffered badly from neglect by the Big Church. The geographical heart of the diocese was far, far from its actual working center in the remote east. I began to refer to the Diocesan offices — located in a big urban sprawl — the “Winter Palace”.

Episcopalians are infamous for being God’s frozen people; nowhere was this more evident than at its functional (not its geographic) center. Over the years it became increasingly bureaucratized and layered. Instead of a small diocesan newspaper published monthly and sent out to all the parishes, where people read them and looked at the photos, there is a bland website. It’s less interesting than my dentist’s webpage. Instead of evolving into something content-rich while being easy for country folks to load, they evolved to a… a governmental bureaucracy with no beating heart.

But not to fear. They have added a Communications office to replace the paper. Cheaper, they say. What a crock.

I don’t miss the Baron’s work as webmaster for that website, but it was an interesting product while he was there; it was inviting in a way the current page is not. So were the myriad small churches we visited. There is a certain smell in old Southern country churches: a soothing blend of dust, aged wood, candle wax, humidity, old prayer books and ironed linens in the press. In winter, the stoves at the back. Some lucky few had small pump organs.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/27/2015

As a part of its campaign to create a “safe zone” in northern Syria, the Turkish air force targeted Kurdish militants in the PKK across the border in Syria. Meanwhile, the EU says that Turkey’s actions pose a threat to the “peace process” with the Kurds.

In other news, the Chinese stock market endured its greatest one-day crash since 2007, losing more than 8% of its value.

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

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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Now it’s in the Grauniad

The HOPE not hate hit piece seems to be trickling down through all the usual channels of the British Left. First it was in the Independent, and now it’s in The Guardian.

But the editorial rapscallions there refused to give us a link — the nerve! Have they never heard of netiquette?

And they used a photo of Imran Hussain as the header. I’ll skip that part of it, but here’s some of the text:

MPs call for ‘anti-Muslim paramilitary manual’ website to be investigated

Far-right Gates of Vienna website is also promoting upcoming London exhibition of Muhammad cartoons which it is feared is intended to incite Islamist violence

A group of MPs have called for an investigation into a far-right website described as a training manual for anti-Muslim paramilitaries – amid fears that an upcoming exhibition of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in London is designed to incite Islamist violence.

The Gates of Vienna website has been heavily promoting the exhibition, which is understood to feature the same drawings shown in Texas in May when two gunmen attempted to storm the event and were killed by police.

It has been organised by the former Ukip parliamentary candidate Anne-Marie Waters and is set to take place at a location in central London on 18 September with tickets priced at £35. Organisers say among those attending will be Geert Wilders, the Dutch rightwing politician who has espoused controversial views on Islam.

In a report on the so-called British counter-jihadist movement, published on Monday, the anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate called for the exhibition to be banned.

The rest is mostly a rehash of the HnH piece.

After reading this article, I realized what they all must mean by a “server hosted in the UK”: These esteemed guardians of British cultural cohesion have been accessing the old Gates of Vienna site using Google’s country-specific URL gatesofvienna.blogspot.uk. That’s why they think the server is British. What fools these mortals be!

And they must also think we’re British. Why else would six MPs bestir their hallowed fundaments to call for an investigation of us? If they knew we were Americans, running an American website from a server hosted in the United States, would they even bother?

No way to haul us before Parliament, cap in hand, truckling and tugging our forelocks.

No way to send PC Plod out to collar us and bung us into chokey.

How can “investigating” us do them any good?

I really believe this simple error is the root of all the current foolishness.

Well, at least they don’t think we’re Viennese — that’s the more common error.

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Update: P.S. — They’ll get my keyboard when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

Hat tip: Blazing Cat Fur.

Hate Not Hope: “We demand the authorities take action against the Gates of Vienna blog”

Well, things have taken an interesting turn here on the morning of the first day of our fundraising week. I just received an email (reproduced below) from Jonathan Owen, a staff reporter for The Independent in the UK. Apparently HOPE Not Hate has decided to take down Anne Marie Waters, and The Independent was their chosen channel for breaking their “exposé”.

Breitbart has already picked up the story.

Mr. Owen’s deadline for a response from me was 5pm UK time, which is noon our time. Instead of replying to his email, my chosen response is to simply republish everything he sent me, in its entirety.

The pdf file that accompanied Mr. Owen’s email is here. I took a brief look at it, and it seems to just recycle the same old nonsense about us, left over from the Breivik uproar, with additional recent material about Anne Marie Waters.

The full text of the email is below.

I’d be very grateful for any response you may wish to make regarding the serious allegations made below and in the attached report. My deadline is 5pm today please.

Thanks and best,

Jonathan Owen
Staff reporter
Home news
The Independent, i and the Independent on Sunday
0203 615 2079
07500 891316

Exposed: the Muhammad Cartoons plot

‘Muhammad cartoons’ plot to ignite serious civil unrest uncovered in new HOPE not hate report

Same Counter-Jihad ideology inspired Norwegian killer, Anders Breivik

Call for authorities to take action against hate blog supporting murder of Muslims

Monday 27 July 2015 — A group of British ‘counter-jihadists’ (anti-Muslim activists) is planning to use a central London ‘Muhammad cartoons’ exhibition on 18 September to spark a violent backlash from Muslims, HOPE not hate can exclusively reveal.

Under the guise of ‘freedom of speech’, these activists — Anne Marie Waters, a one-time UKIP candidate; Alan Ayling, a financier who helped found the English Defence League (EDL); and Stephen Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson, the founder of the EDL) — have discussed using controversial cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad to incite serious disorder between Muslim and non-Muslim communities.

HOPE not hate has had inside access to their plans, which is published today in a report The Muhammad Cartoons, written by HOPE not hate chief executive, Nick Lowles.

More disturbingly, the report reveals that some of these counter-jihadists believe that Muslims should be forcibly expelled from Europe, via civil war and genocide. One British ‘counter-jihadist’ has even written a fictional account of this civil war, which starts with the publication of Muhammad cartoons.

Our report reveals how former UKIP leader Lord Pearson is linked to these counter-jihadists. It also reveals that one of cartoon exhibition’s sponsors, satirical online magazine Vive Charlie, counts controversial Sun columnist Katie Hopkins as one of its regular contributors.

HOPE not hate is publishing this information today in The Muhammad Cartoons report and is calling on authorities to prevent these counter-jihadists from inciting hatred and violence.

We are also calling on the relevant authorities to investigate The Gates of Vienna blog, one of the world’s main counter-jihadist sites, which has acted as a facilitator of these counter-jihadist plots. On a UK-based server, this website carries material promoting civil war, bomb manuals, tactics for setting up paramilitary groups, and techniques to avoid police capture.

The exhibition

The Muhammad cartoons event will take place on 18 September.

It will be attended by the infamous far-right Dutch politician, Geert Wilders. Wilders took part in a previous exhibition of the same cartoons in Texas this May, which was attacked by two jihadist gunmen (both killed by police).

The London exhibition is part of a wider ‘counter- jihad’ strategy to push an anti-Muslim agenda, with similar events taking place or planned in several other European countries.

The counter-jihadists view the use of the Muhammad cartoons as a way to illustrate what they believe is the incompatibility between Islam and the West.

The research in The Muhammad Cartoons report has been gleaned from inside information and from the counter-jihadists’ own writings and words.

The organisers

The lead exhibition organiser of the Muhammad cartoons exhibition is Anne Marie Waters, a trained lawyer who was a candidate for UKIP at the recent general election.

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Available Resources

Summer Fundraiser 2015, Day One

Well, I warned you that when the blistering hot weather arrived, we’d be back pounding on your door again to ask for your help in our quarterly fundraiser.

The theme of this week’s bleg is “Resources”, which was actually prompted by an incident that helped delay this fundraiser by a week. As you may remember, a couple of weeks ago Gates of Vienna went down completely for four days. Henrik was on holiday, and had a phone but no computer, so the site didn’t come back up until he returned and was able to address the database issues that caused the crash.

During the discussions among the techies, the same phrase kept recurring: “available resources”. It seemed the demands on the database had spiked at some point, exhausting our available resources and forcing a termination of certain processes, which disabled the website.

I don’t understand all the technical details, but the vulnerability came to the fore when our site was running at a peak load, for whatever reason. We are protected by a special firewall, so it wasn’t an attack that caused the problem. Did we have a lot of new readers who arrived in the wake of the Chattanooga jihad murders? Were they calling up a lot of posts from the archives to read? Who knows?

In any case, one of the ways to avoid the problem in future is to optimize the database and the site in certain ways, most of which remain mysterious to me. However, I was able to tackle a few of the issues, and Henrik handled the rest. That has improved efficiency in the WordPress site and — you guessed it — cut down on our use of available resources.

But there’s no guarantee that we won’t see something similar happen further down the road, which may require us to upgrade to the next hosting level, which would allocate us more in the way of server resources. Needless to say, this is something we dread, since it would be more expensive, thus depleting our available resources.

Tip jarI can’t deny that this has been a rough year so far at Schloss Bodissey, resource-wise. We endured the Great Plumbing Crisis back in April, which you already know about from the Spring Fundraiser, so I won’t recapitulate the details. But we have additional ongoing HVAC issues, which are also lining up to be expensive. And there are other unusual infrastructure problems draining our household resources — which now resemble one of those old cartoon purses that has nothing but moths emerging from it when opened.

So here we are again, giving you a virtual slap on the back and a digital shake of the hand as we look you in the eye and say: Brother, can you spare a dime?

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“But, Baron,” you say, “how does all this ‘resources’ folderol connect with the struggle against the Great Jihad?”

Well, there actually is an oblique connection…

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/26/2015

Yet another grenade exploded overnight in the southern Swedish city of Malmö, damaging a number of cars and shattering windows. The incident prompted the Minister of Home Affairs to say that it was definitely time for the perpetrators to be caught. He also called for more stringent grenade control laws.

OK, so I made that last part up. But still…

In other news, a passenger on a Chinese airliner was arrested after attempting to start a fire on the plane.

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