Europe is Threatened by a Transformation to the Point of Being of Unrecognizable

The following speech about the European “migration” crisis by Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary was originally published on Andreas Unterberger’s website. JLH has kindly translated the text from the German.

Note: Mr. Orban’s speech was given in Hungarian, and the text was then translated into German. This translation from the German may differ somewhat from other direct English translations, if any such are extant:

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Europe is Threatened by a Transformation to the Point of Being of Unrecognizable

August 4, 2015
author: Viktor Orban

A speech by the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, at the 26th student encampment of the Free Summer University in Bálványos is worthy of appearing here as a guest commentary, since — apart from the British prime minister — there is no other politician in all of Europe who tells it like it is. It is really heartening (even though clearly formulated from the Hungarian perspective). It is miles removed from anything Austrian politicians utter.

Here is the majority of what Orban said, translated:

A year ago I said that we live in times when anything can happen, and I still say so today. Who would have thought that Europe would not be capable of protecting its own borders against unarmed refugees? Who would have thought, for instance, that things could go so far in France that the leader of the Islamic community there would publicly propose to the French state that it leave its depopulated Christian churches to his community, since they would be happy to turn them into Islamic houses of worship? Who would have thought that the United States of America would be wiretapping leading German politicians?

All of this has happened, and yet the sky is not falling. And who would have thought that we Europeans would act as if nothing had happened, and continue friendly free-trade negotiations with a partner who probably knew our negotiating positions before we did?

The uncertainty of the future can mislead us into pondering the nature of the political future, or to put it more precisely, the natural history of being able to recognize the future. We tend to imagine the future and/or the study of the future as does a ship’s captain sailing into the unknown. We stand at the prow of the ship, telescope in hand, and use it to reconnoiter the unfamiliar coast. In this endeavor, the captain has an advantage, i.e., the one who finds the future first will be the one with the sharper eyes or the better telescope. As if the future is somewhere out there like a yet undiscovered continent, just waiting for us to find it.

But, dear friends, the future is of an entirely different nature. That is, the most important characteristic of the future is that it is not yet complete, does not yet exist and will only occur after this moment. So it makes no sense whatsoever to strain our eyes looking forward to discover it. It would be far more rewarding to think of the future as does the rower in a regatta, that is, with his back to the direction of travel. That way, you see what lies behind you, and what gradually comes into your field of vision. Thus, the bow of the boat is being steered in the direction of the future as the coast appears in our view.

We should therefore deduce the future from the entirety of what we already know. This means that pondering the future is not a contest that is about seeing as far as possible into the future, but rather about understanding the past better. The winner in that enterprise is the one who gains a deeper understanding of the past and can more swiftly and courageously comprehend its lessons. At the same time, this represents the starting point for political leadership and planning. That is good news, since to understand things we need, first of all, our minds — that is our reason — and human reason is equally distributed in the world. In this respect, every person is certain of having more of it than others. When we think about the future of the European Union, and our own future within it, we must first consider the past of the European Union.

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Living Under Anarcho-Tyranny

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Living Under Anarcho-Tyranny
by Fjordman

On August 21, 2015, what could have become yet another Jihadist massacre of Europeans was prevented at the very last second. Not by the country’s authorities, but by random travelers. An armed militant Muslim on a train to France was overpowered by some of the male passengers, among them several unarmed American soldiers, just before he could start shooting people. Ayoub El Khazzani, a Moroccan national, has been charged with attempted murder of a terrorist nature.[1] The police believe had carefully planned a terror attack.

Mr. Khazzani was known to the security services prior to this incident.[2] Yet they still did not manage to stop him. He was able to move freely in the EU between different Western European countries. He joins the rising number of Muslim terrorists who were able, or in his case nearly able, to carry out terror attacks, despite already being on terrorist watch lists. Why? Because there are just too many Jihadists out there. The authorities cannot stop them all. French authorities are concerned about a truly spectacular Islamic terror attack, perhaps on the scale of the September 11 attacks in the USA in 2001.[3]

As a result of the stupidest policies in human history, over the past decades millions of Muslims have been allowed to settle as immigrants throughout the Western world. As a consequence, the number of militant Muslims has now reached critical mass. Inspired by the Koran and Islamic religious texts, and encouraged by groups such as al-Qaida and the Islamic State (ISIS), many of them are willing and able to murder us. Nevertheless, Western governments have not even tried to halt further Muslim immigration.

Literally thousands of migrants, asylum seekers and foreign opportunists continue to pour into Europe on a daily basis. Some of these are Muslims with more or less radical views. Statistically speaking, militant Muslims with potential or actual Jihadist sympathies stream into Europe every single hour, 365 days a year. They come on top of the many millions of Muslims and other alien nationalities who are already here.

Any official talk about “increasing security” is intended to deflect attention away from a disaster that has already happened: Muslims with potentially militant views are now present in cities all over Western Europe, from Ireland to Italy and from Finland to Portugal. Meanwhile, internal border controls across much of the European continent have been largely abandoned. The external border controls were weak to begin with. Under the massive strain of illegal immigration from Africa and the Islamic world, Europe’s external borders have nearly collapsed.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/26/2015

Vester Flanagan, a disgruntled former employee of a TV station in Southwest Virginia, went to Moneta (a town not all that far from here) to the scene of a live TV interview by station employees and shot three people. The cameraman and the young woman conducting the interview were killed. The woman being interviewed was seriously wounded and is in the hospital. The shooter later shot and killed himself. In internet postings before he died, he indicated that his actions had been motivated by anger over the massacre in Charleston last June (Mr. Flanagan was black, and also reportedly gay).

In other news, the Swedish coast guard found around forty dead would-be migrants in the hold of a drifting traffickers’ boat off the coast of Libya. The boat was one of a number of such vessels, from which more than 2,000 refugees were rescued.

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Freeing the Slaves in Iraq

For a welcome change of pace, this news story concerns a Canadian businessman named Steve Maman who has organized an operation to rescue sex-slaves from the Islamic State by purchasing them from their owners. Mr. Maman — who happens to be Jewish — likens his actions to those of Oscar Schindler, as depicted in the movie Schindler’s List.

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

Transcript:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/25/2015

In the wake of last week’s terror attack on a Thalys train, French President François Hollande said that France needs to impose tighter security on trains. Meanwhile, M. Hollande vigorously condemned an arson attack on a mosque near Toulouse in southern France.

In other news, the focus of the Balkan migration crisis shifted as thousands of refugees streamed into Serbia after Macedonia relaxed its controls at the Greek border.

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The European “Migration” Crisis

Ezra Levant of TheRebel.media talks to Simon Kent of Breitbart UK about what is commonly referred to as the “European migration crisis”. The word “invasion” is not generally used. The discussion is aimed at a North American audience that might be largely unfamiliar with current events in Europe:

Hat tip: Vlad Tepes.

How Qatar Propels Muslim Gangs Into Europe

Joost Niemöller’s latest essay takes a look behind the scenes in the “migration” crisis, paying particular attention to the role played by Qatar in expediting the movement of Muslims from North Africa and the Middle East into Europe.

Many thanks to GB for the translation.

How Qatar propels Muslim gangs into Europe

by Joost Niemöller

On the Al Jazeera website we found a comment about the illegal immigrants flooding Europe[1]. According to AJ, we are not allowed to speak about “immigrants”, because they are “refugees”:

So far this year, nearly 340,000 people[2] in these circumstances have crossed Europe’s borders. A large number, for sure, but still only 0.045 percent of Europe’s total population of 740 million.

Contrast that[3] with Turkey, which hosts 1.8 million refugees from Syria alone. Lebanon, in which there are more than one million Syrians. Even Iraq, struggling with a war of its own, is home to more than 200,000 people who have fled its neighbour.

Al Jazeera is the state-funded broadcaster in Qatar. Qatar itself takes in ZERO “refugees”, just like the other filthy rich Gulf countries, according to Amnesty.[4].

The six Gulf countries — Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain — have offered zero resettlement places to Syrian refugees.

Nevertheless Qatar wants to teach us a politically correct lesson.

In reality, there is a plan behind the recent movements of these hordes.

The main origin of the panic in the Middle East is ISIS, whose sophisticated and professional PR apparatus has made it abundantly clear that the mass movement of people towards Europe is part of their strategy.

ISIS plays with the “refugees”[5], shooing them away.

In the face of ISIS’ professionalism stands the distinctly amateurish treatment of terrorists by countries such as Turkey.

Turkey doesn’t seem to be interested in fighting terrorism, as explained in the revealing blog of a Dutch traveler.[6] In this “kind” of country, terrorism has a clear field.

Of course people flee: to the EU!

But a diabolical plan is behind all this.

ISIS is being funded by countries such as Qatar.[7]. Turkey provides military training to ISIS troops.[8]. The politically incorrect channel of Al Jazeera in Arabic calls for the extinction of the Alawites.[9]

Furthermore, I urge my readers to look at the pictures and clips you will NOT find in the mainstream media.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/24/2015

The New York stock market continued last week’s nosedive in reaction to the Chinese market crash. The Dow and the NASDAQ lost more than 3% of their value, and the S&P more than 4%. European stocks were hit even harder.

In other news, Ayoub El Khazzani, the young culture-enricher whose attack on a French train was thwarted by Americans, says that he was not planning to use his AK-47 to commit a terrorist act, but to rob the train’s passengers.

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No Korans Were Harmed in the Making of This Video…

…But one was seriously injured and sustained water damage during the events depicted in it, based on police reports.

As reported earlier today, last week a group of Muslim immigrants at a refugee reception center in the German town of Suhl became angry and offended at a rumored Koran-desecration (allegedly by a fellow Muslim). They took out their hurt feelings by trashing the place, busting up cars, attacking the police, and screaming… Well, see if you can guess what they screamed.

Vlad Tepes was moved to compile excerpts from a cell phone video taken inside the refugee center by one of the offended culture-enrichers. Vlad has enhanced the footage with his own exegesis:

Culturally Enriched Riots at a Refugee Center in Thuringia

Rioting and violence broke out last week at a refugee center in Suhl in Thuringia. The trouble began after friction arose between groups of Muslim residents from different regions. A rumor that an Afghan asylum seeker had torn pages out of a Koran and thrown them in the toilet was enough to set off the spark.

The rambunctious culture-enrichers responded by kicking in doors, breaking furniture, throwing things out windows, and attacking cars. The mayhem went on for several hours before the police were able to restore order.

Below are two German news clips about the evening’s events. Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translations, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Video 1:

Video 2:

There’s more at Vlad’s place.

Transcript of video 1:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/23/2015

For the second night in a row, anti-migrant demonstrators clashed with police outside a home for asylum seekers in the town of Heidenau in eastern Germany. The Saxon authorities have denounced the xenophobic actions of the demonstrators, and say they will take stern action against them. Meanwhile, the European Commission told the German government no adjustments to the Schengen free-movement rules will be permitted.

In other immigration news, the Macedonian government has relented and opened the border crossing with Greece, allowing thousands of migrants to pass through on their way to Serbia, Hungary, Austria, and ultimately Germany.

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Nice Little Province You Have Here… Wouldn’t Want to See Anything Happen to It…

As we reported last night, a proposed bill before the provincial assembly in Quebec would make it a crime to “defame religions” — that is, it would implement UN Resolution 16/18 and enforce sharia-based Islamic blasphemy laws in Quebec.

The following video shows excerpts from testimony in favor of Bill 59 given by an imam named Salman Elmenyawi before the Commission des Institutions at the National Assembly in Quebec City. Pay special attention to the very end of this clip. Some people say that Mr. Elmenyawi made a “veiled threat” against Quebec, but to my mind, it’s about as veiled as Miley Cyrus.

He presented a straightforward warning to the Assembly: “If you don’t pass this bill, daddy-o, you gonna run into a little Muslim trouble, dig?”

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

Transcript (two clips patched together):

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