Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/25/2016

A female employee of an asylum center near Gothenburg in Sweden was stabbed to death by one of the residents of the center. Since the center is for culture-enrichers who are — or claim to be — 14 to 17 years old, the alleged suspected perpetrator is a “youth”, and no further information is available about him. His motivation for the crime is unknown, but the family and friends of the victim are consoling themselves with the knowledge that the incident had nothing to do with Islam.

In other news, in order to make sure that newly-arrived “refugees” in the Netherlands are not discriminatory against gays, the Dutch authorities are planning to hold gay rights seminars in asylum centers. The program will be based on a model used in secondary schools.

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Financial Crisis
» Italy: December Trade Surplus Highest in 22 Yrs
» Italy: Exports: Price Falls, Debt, Violence Cost 5 Bln Euros — SACE
» Japan’s 2015 Annual Trade Deficit Narrows 78%
» Russian Families Feel Pain as Economic Crisis Drags on
 
USA
» Cruz v. Trump 2: The Post-Constitutional Election
» Fox News Poll: Clinton Drops Below 50 Percent as Her Lead Over Sanders Shrinks
» US Blizzard 2016: Perfect Conditions for ‘Snow-Swimming’
 
Europe and the EU
» Five European Airlines Launch New Alliance
» French Arms Exports Reach All-Time High in 2015 — Defense Minister
» Italy: Citrus Laborers Paid One Euro Per Hour, Finance Police Say
» Italy: Absenteeist Doctors, Nurses, Staffers Still on the Job
» Italy: Grillo Slams ‘Fascist’ RAI State Broadcaster
» Italy: Moroccan ‘Foreign Fighter’ Nabbed in Calabria
» ‘Merkel Should be Ready to Flee to South America’: AfD Leader
» Swedish Refugee Centre Worker Dead in Stabbing
 
Middle East
» Iran’s President Rouhani in Italy Seeking Business Deals
» US Threatens to Use Force in Syria as ‘Western Coalition is Falling Apart’
 
Russia
» Putin Calls for More Economic Freedom in Russia
 
South Asia
» Works of Mercy in Bangladesh: Catholic Man Buries His Parishioners for Free
 
Far East
» China: Fujian: Company Tells Family to Give Up “On Treatment” And Let Burnt Worker Die
 
Latin America
» Zika Virus: Outbreak ‘Likely to Spread Across Americas’ Says Who
 
Immigration
» Denmark Prepares to Enact EU’s Toughest Refugee Policy
» EU Interior Ministers Can Discuss Greece’s Exclusion From Schengen Zone
» EU Migration Crisis: Greece Threatened With Schengen Area Expulsion
» Germany ‘Pressure on Greece to Do Homework’
» German Cities Fear Complete Social Collapse Under Refugee Pressure
» Greece Tells Austria to ‘Weigh Words’ After Schengen Snub Suggestion
» Greece Faces Being Sealed Off From Europe to Stop Migrant Flow in Move That Creates ‘Cemetery of Souls’
» Greek Minister Lashes Out at EU for Not Helping
» Migrant Fatally Stabs Swedish Refugee Centre Worker: Police
» ‘Most Hated Man in Sweden’ Being Deported to Denmark
» Political Failure: ‘Merkel Left With Nothing’ Amid Refugee Crisis
» Rural Germany an ‘Integration Laboratory’ For Refugees (2)
» Rural Germany an ‘Integration Laboratory’ For Refugees (1)
» Several Hundred Migrants Awaiting Deportation From Norway to Russia
» UK: Refugee Jailed After Death Threats to ‘Too English’ Wife
 
Culture Wars
» Gay Rights to be Taught in Dutch Refugee Centres
» Italy: Boldrini Stance on Civil Unions Sparks Row
» Italy: Bishops ‘United on Civil Unions’ Says Bagnasco
 

Italy: December Trade Surplus Highest in 22 Yrs

5.9 bn euros

(ANSA) — Rome, January 25 — Italy’s December trade surplus with non-EU countries reached 5.9 billion euros in December, its highest since January 1993, more than 22 years previously, Istat said Monday. Exports to non-EU countries were up 0.9% in December while imports were 2.9% down, Istat said. On an annual basis, exports in December were 4.1% up in terms of raw data or 1.2% up when the effects of the calendar were factored in.

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Italy: Exports: Price Falls, Debt, Violence Cost 5 Bln Euros — SACE

2016 Risks Map, Mideast political violence heralds repercussions

(ANSAmed) — ROME, JANUARY 25 — Declining raw material prices, increased emerging countries debt and expansion of political violence have cost Italy as much as 5 billion euros in lost exports in 2015 but opportunites remain for a further 31 billion euros’ worth of new exports over the next four years, according to the Risks Map published by the Foreign Trade Insurance Service SACE for 2016.

According to the insurance-financing group active in export credit three fundamental factors will influence risks and opportunities this year, starting with the low prices of raw materials.

In 2015, the study recalled, all commodities lost value (42 out of 46 commodities hit their lowest prices in 30 years).

“This is an across the board phenomenon that is unlikely to be sustained in the medium to long term for those emerging markets that depend strongly on commodities and that are little diversified” SACE says, citing the example of Algeria.

Also influential is the increase in debt. Indebtedness has increased in the emerging countries, with an increase of both public debt (that overtook GDP by 150% in 2009 and is now at some 195%).

“The year 2015 saw an increase in the role of terrorism as a source of geopolitical instability and not just as a single risk event. The repercussions of terrorism have a sharp cost for the global economy, equivalent to dlrs 64 billion according to the Institute for Economics and Peace, compromising the operational capacity of several countries including Yemen (up 12 points on the Sace index), Libya (up 12 points) and Syria (up 5 points).

Economic performance in the Middle East and Africa area will be influenced by lower raw material prices (affecting Algeria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey), the return of debt (Egypt, Iraq, Turkey), and the re-emergence of political violence (Libya, Tunisia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey).

The belief that emerging countries are an El Dorado has been lost. According to the study risk in advanced markets improved slightly (down 1 point on the Sace index), compared to a significant increase in major emerging countries (up 4 points), with significant peaks for important commercial partners for Italy such as Brazil (up 10 points), Russia (up 9), and to a lesser extent Turkey (up 3 points).

“2016 will mark the end of the BRICS era and of the presentation of emerging markets as El Dorado,” said Roberta Marracino, Area Studies and Communications director of SACE.

“It will be a less flat world with sensitive differences within individual geographical areas, de facto a return to pre-2007 markets, but with greater complexity and volatility, what we have called ‘new Old Normal,’“ she said.

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Japan’s 2015 Annual Trade Deficit Narrows 78%

Japan’s annual trade deficit narrowed 78 percent in 2015, as the value of energy imports fell while auto exports gained momentum, official data showed Monday.

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Russian Families Feel Pain as Economic Crisis Drags on

Two years ago, before the Russian economy took a steep plunge, Maria Bunina vacationed abroad and supported her four children and nine grandchildren.

But now that Russians are confronted with a floundering currency and high inflation that have seen their purchasing power shrink, the 62-year-old pensioner brings a calculator to the supermarket and budgets to the very last kopeck.

“Before I knew I had money and that it would be sufficient,” Bunina told AFP in her cramped three-bedroom Moscow apartment she shares with seven family members.

As Russia’s economy plunged into recession on the back of Western sanctions over Ukraine and tumbling oil prices, Bunina lost her job as a social worker which she used to supplement her meagre pension…

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Cruz v. Trump 2: The Post-Constitutional Election

by Diana West

A word cloud envelops the Ted Cruz campaign for president. “Consistent.” “Conservative.” “Reliable.” “Consistent conservative,” “reliable conservative.” “Trusted.” Or, as the tagline goes, “TrusTed.”

This branding does not serve Ted Cruz well. After all, he is a politician. In his short career as a senator and presidential candidate, Cruz has already flip-flopped on vital immigration and trade issues. There is a pattern to his political “evolution.” As a measure of the Trump effect, Cruz has moved from the globalist position to the nationalist position on Syrian refugess (for to against), Obamatrade (for to against), H1B visas (from calling for expansion to calling for a moratorium), birthright citizenship (from waste of conservative time to must end it). Now he even calls for a “wall that works.” In this way, Cruz has moved to occupy brand new political terrain that Donald Trump by himself opened up (which is why Trump has my vote).

Fine. Americans frequently forgive and forget flip flops. But dub Candidate A the Shining Knight of Consistency and don’t be suprised when A’s inconsistencies take centerstage, especially when Candidate A is all about branding Candidate B as … inconsistent.

Ted Cruz is also known to us as the “constitutional conservative,” a moniker I never thought to question until I watched Canada-born Cruz dismiss and, then, on national television, distort and mock what is widely perceived to be the constitutionally conservative, or “originalist” understanding of the Constitution’s “natural born” clause. (For the record, I commented on Cruz’s ineligibility on such grounds in a syndicated column in 2013.) Thus, Cruz dismisses legitimate constitutional concerns which a voter might have as a laughing matter, all without merit. This would be one thing for a constitutional liberal. But the Official 2016 Republican Constitutional Conservative? Again, the branding becomes a liability, if not also an irritant.

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Fox News Poll: Clinton Drops Below 50 Percent as Her Lead Over Sanders Shrinks

Hillary Clinton’s lead in the Democratic primary race has narrowed to its slimmest margin yet.

The front-runner’s support has slipped under 50 percent, and cracks may be appearing in what some called her “firewall” — the African-American voter bloc.

Here are the numbers from the latest Fox News national poll:

Forty-nine percent of Democratic primary voters now support Clinton — down from 54 percent two weeks ago.

Bernie Sanders also drops — by two points — to 37 percent. Martin O’Malley, down two ticks as well, gets 1 percent.

Ten percent are undecided — a sign the race is more fluid than it seemed two weeks ago when only two percent were undecided.

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US Blizzard 2016: Perfect Conditions for ‘Snow-Swimming’

The huge blizzard that blanketed the US east coast kept most people indoors, but it also provided ideal conditions for “snow-swimming”.

Competitive and amateur swimmers, not to be put off by the bad weather, found a novel use for the deep layers of snow which in some areas reached 40 inches (100cm), and posted videos of people launching themselves into the soft powder.

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Five European Airlines Launch New Alliance

In an unprecedented step, Europe’s five largest airline groups including budget carriers EasyJet and Ryanair Wednesday launched a new alliance to combat rising airport charges amid a fierce battle with Gulf rivals.

The new association dubbed Airlines for Europe (A4E) brings together the budget airlines with giants Lufthansa, Air France-KLM and the International Airline Group, parent company of both British Airways and Iberia.

The alliance will “represent the interests of its members when dealing with the EU institutions, international organisations and national governments on European aviation issues,” it said in a statement at the launch at Amsterdam’s Schipol airport…

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French Arms Exports Reach All-Time High in 2015 — Defense Minister

According to the French defence minister, the country’s arms sales have doubled in 2015, amounting to $17.48 billions’ worth.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — France’s weapon exports were worth 16 billion euro ($17.48 billion) in 2015, an all-time high for the country’s defense industry, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Thursday.

“There have been 16 billion in the arms sales, double of the previous year,” Le Drian told BFMTV, adding that it was a record.

Le Drian said it was too early to discuss the situation with India purchasing France’s Rafale planes, and added that Egypt has already paid the whole price for the Mistral helicopter carriers.

In April 2015, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Francois Hollande agreed to supply the Indian Air Force with 36 French-built Rafale fighters. The deal is likely to be signed in January, according to local media reports.

In October 2015, Cairo and Paris signed a contract paving the way for Egypt’s purchase of the two warships originally built for Russia, after France officially terminated the 1.2 billion euro contract with Moscow on the delivery of the ships in August.

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Italy: Citrus Laborers Paid One Euro Per Hour, Finance Police Say

Police cite six after investigation uncovers exploitation

(ANSA) — Cassano allo Ionio, January 25 — Finance police on Monday issued citations to six people for labour exploitation and illicit brokerage with threats, violence and intimidation, following an investigation that found day labourers in citrus groves were allegedly paid one euro per hour for ten-hour work days without breaks or food.

The citations were issued to four Italians, one Bulgarian and one Pakistani — all alleged gangmasters.

Finance police in Sibari in the Calabrian province of Cosenza said the labourers, who were both Italian and foreign, were also forced to pay 100 euros a month for a bed in non-ventilated shipping containers

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Italy: Absenteeist Doctors, Nurses, Staffers Still on the Job

Almost 40 found guilty last summer in Brindisi

(ANSA) — Brindisi, January 25 — Almost 40 public health staffers in the southern city of Brindisi who were convicted in June of absenteeism and received prison sentences ranging from six months to three years are still on the job, sources said Monday.

Those still working in spite of having been found guilty and sentenced include 36 doctors, nurses, physical therapists, technicians, and administrative staff at the Brindisi public health agency. One of them, a doctor, even got a promotion, the sources said.

Last week cabinet passed an enabling decree to the government’s recently approved civil service reform act, calling for chronically absenteeist staff to be terminated if proven guilty. Supervisors also risk losing their jobs if found to tolerate or abet the absenteeism in any way.

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Italy: Grillo Slams ‘Fascist’ RAI State Broadcaster

‘Didn’t cover ‘Ndrangheta-PD allegations’

(ANSA) — Rome, January 25 — Italian State broadcaster RAI is a “Fascist TV station” that “censors anti-government news”, the leader of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S), Beppe Grillo, said Monday. Launching the hashtag #I’mTurningoffRai, Grillo said “they can force us to pay for it by inserting the license fee in power bills, but they can’t force us to watch it”. He criticised RAI for “not devoting even a second” to probes in Emilia Romagna allegedly involving the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta mafia and the ruling Democratic Party (PD). This story, Grillo said, was only covered by the small independent La7 broadcaster. Grillo has frequently been critical of RAI news coverage of M5S.

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Italy: Moroccan ‘Foreign Fighter’ Nabbed in Calabria

‘Only visited Turkey to pray,’ says street vendor, 25

(ANSA) — Rome, January 25 — Italian police on Monday arrested a Moroccan ‘foreign fighter’ near the Calabrian town of Cosenza.

Hamil Mehdi, a 25-year-old street vendor, denied being a member of ISIS and said he had recently visited Turkey “only to pray”.

Cosenza police chief Luigi Liguori said anti-terrorism DIGOS law enforcement agents had been trailing Mehdi since last July, after Turkish authorities blocked him at the Istanbul airport and sent him back to Italy.

Authorities said Mehdi was in Istanbul attempting to reach Syria to join ISIS.

Liguori said the investigation was “very tight and across the board, without neglecting any detail”.

Italian authorities said their subsequent investigation revealed Mehdi was planning to move to Belgium, had a “dogged interest for images, films and other propaganda content referring to ISIS”, and “a natural propensity” to join the ISIS cause.

In Luzzi, the Calabrian town where Mehdi and his family have their home, Mayor Manfredo Tedesco said he and local residents are surprised by the arrest.

“The young Moroccan and his family were perfectly integrated into our community,” said Tedesco.

“Our entire community is truly speechless”.

Mehdi arrived in Luzzi in 2006 with his parents and three younger brothers, all of whom have permanent stay permits.

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‘Merkel Should be Ready to Flee to South America’: AfD Leader

An Alternative for Germany (AfD) spokeswoman shocked TV viewers on Sunday night when she suggested that Chancellor Angela Merkel should “go into exile to Chile or South America” for fear of violent reprisals for her refugee policy.

Beatrix von Storch faced an immediate challenge from political talk show host Anne Will, who confronted her with one of her own Facebook posts blasting Merkel for “ruining our country like no one since 1945”.

“I’m taking bets that Merkel will leave the country when she steps down — for security reasons,” the post continued.

When Will asked if she was serious about this, von Storch said “I mean that she should go into exile to Chile or South America”.

It was a pointed reference to the fact that many Nazi war criminals, such as Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann, fled to South America following the defeat of the Hitler regime in 1945 and escaped prosecution for decades.

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Swedish Refugee Centre Worker Dead in Stabbing

A young man allegedly stabbed and killed a female employee at the refugee centre for unaccompanied minors where he was staying in western Sweden, police have said.

The 22-year-old victim was taken to a nearby hospital but died of her wounds. Other residents at the home restrained her alleged attacker while officers arrived.

Police would not comment on the identity or nationality of the alleged attacker, except to say that he was a young man who was a resident of the centre for 14- to 17-year-olds in Mölndal, near Gothenburg on Sweden’s west coast.

Police spokesman Thomas Fuxborg told the AFP news agency that the suspect had been arrested on suspicion of murder. The motive was not immediately clear, he said.

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Iran’s President Rouhani in Italy Seeking Business Deals

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has arrived in Italy for the first leg of a European trip during which he is expected to sign major business deals.

The visit comes a week after the implementation of a nuclear deal that saw economic sanctions against the Islamic republic lifted.

In Rome, Mr Rouhani is expected to sign agreements with Italian firms worth some $18bn (£13bn).

On his second stop in France, he will sign a major plane deal with Airbus.

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US Threatens to Use Force in Syria as ‘Western Coalition is Falling Apart’

The Pentagon is “clearly frustrated by the lack of support from its Western coalition,” with the US government threatening to resolve the Syrian crisis militarily, German newspaper Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten (DWN) wrote.

Earlier, US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter called for a stronger involvement of the members of the international coalition against Daesh terrorists, German newspaper Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten (DWN) reported, referring to Carter’s interview with CNBC.

According to Carter, many coalition members show insufficient commitment to the fight against terrorism in Syria. The US could do much by itself, but is also expecting other members of the 65-state alliance to do “their part,” the politician stressed.

Normally, the US refers to the coalition as an example of the determination to fight against jihadists. But lately Washington has been frustrated by the insufficient efforts of Turkey to enhance its border controls as well as inaction of several Arab states, which — although members of the coalition — contribute nothing to the current coalition’s activities in Syria, the newspaper wrote.

“The United States is clearly unhappy with Turkey and the coalition,” DWN noted.

According to US Vice President Joe Biden, a political solution to the conflict in Syria would be better, but in case it fails, the US is prepared to resolve the crisis using military means.

“We do know it would better if we can reach a political solution but we are prepared… If that’s not possible, to have a military to this operation in taking out Daesh,” Biden said.

The first step Americans plan to undertake is to build an air base in the northeast of Syria. US special forces and experts would expand an agricultural airport in the city of Rmeilan in Hasakeh province so that they could land helicopters and cargo planes to deliver equipment and ammunition to the Kurds, a source in the Syrian army told AFP on Saturday.

This move, if unauthorized by the official Syrian government, could constitute a clear violation of international law, DWN wrote. According to the newspaper, the whole US-led military operation has not been approved by the country’s authorities and can be considered as a violation of Syria’s sovereignty.

“However, the main reason for Washington’s nervousness lies more likely in Russia’s success in the Latakia region, rather than in the inaction of its allies. Russians have an effective alliance with Syria, Iran and Iraq: in particular, they have managed to return the Syrian army its power,” the German newspaper concluded.

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Putin Calls for More Economic Freedom in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the fundamentals of the economy allow showing “cautious optimism” regarding the development of the situation in Russia.

STAVROPOL (Russia) (Sputnik) — President Vladimir Putin on Monday called for the expansion of business freedom in Russia while curbing nepotism and corruption in the economy.

“We must expand economic freedoms and rid the economy of corruption, of the rule of nepotism of all sorts,” Putin said at a meeting with activists of The All-Russia People’s Front, a pro-Kremlin public movement.

Putin also stated that the fundamentals of the economy allow showing “cautious optimism” regarding the development of the situation in Russia.

“Fundamentals of the economy allow us to show cautious optimism. Our inflation rate has increased, and our budget deficit is less than expected, some 2.6 percent [of GDP], according to the Finance Ministry, instead of 3 [percent] with something,” Putin said at a forum.

At the same time, Russia has a trade surplus, sufficiently large reserve funds and low public debt, Putin added.

The Russian president pledged to keep the inflation rate and the public debt low, without detriment to people’s living standards.

The Russian economy has been hit by the rapid decline in global oil prices, with both the WTI and Brent benchmark dropping below $30 a barrel.

The Russian ruble hit its lowest level since December 2014, trading at 80.16 rubles to the dollar late last week in the wake of falling oil prices.

Last week, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that the budget should be balanced in accordance with the current oil prices, and the budget had not yet adapted itself to the slump.

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Works of Mercy in Bangladesh: Catholic Man Buries His Parishioners for Free

Shibu Gomes, 55, has buried at least 95 people. Digging graves is hard work; “for each, I remove almost a metric tonne of earth.” He would like to have some help, “but only to make sure that I do not get buried alive when digging.”

Dhaka (AsiaNews) — Shibu Gomes is a 55-year-old Catholic farmer, but for the past 40 years he has also been a volunteer grave digger in Bonpara Parish, Natore, in the Diocese of Rajshahi. His contribution to the community is vital and his fellow parishioners trust this good Catholic man who has performed for years one of the corporal works of mercy underlined by Pope Francis for the Jubilee.

Shibu lives in the village of Bahimaly, about two kilometres from the church. all those who know him say that he always has a smile on his face. From a poor family, he was not able to go to school, but managed to get married and raise three kids.

Speaking to AsiaNews, he said, “In my life I have dug at least 95 graves, all of it for free. I am very happy with my volunteer work.” however, “One day I’ll die too,” he said. “That is why I urge myself not to be dishonest, or arrogant, not to cause pain to others. The advice I can give anyone is to live honestly, because when we die we cannot take anything with us. We shall leave everything on this earth. Everyone is equal in eternal rest. “

Although he does it on a volunteer basis, digging is really hard. “It is not easy to dig a pit,” Shibu explained. “For each grave, I remove nearly a metric tonne of earth. I often find human bones, but I am not afraid. I just need another person to help me when I dig because if the soil were to fall on top of me, I could be buried alive.”

Although it is demanding work, his neighbours always see him smiling. “He never has sad face,” said one. “We depend on him. He leads a very simple life and he too could do with some financial help.”

Still, for Shibu, helping his fellow parishioners is something he has done since his youth. “When somebody asked for my help, I did not pull back. This is my vocation,” he said. “I hope that one day the Lord will reward my work. I have never been interested in success, but I have tried to be faithful to God through my actions.”

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China: Fujian: Company Tells Family to Give Up “On Treatment” And Let Burnt Worker Die

The victim, a migrant worker from Yunnan, fell into a vat of boiling slurry after 13 hours of non-stop work. He has burns on 99 per cent of the body, and has had one leg amputated. His employer has not paid the medical fees for months. The family now has a debt of 90,000 yuan.

Quanzhou (AsiaNews/Agencies) — A Chinese factory worker who survived burns to 99 per cent of his body when he fell into a boiling vat at work was told by his employers at a state-run company to stop treatment and die.

In a text message sent to the victim’s younger brother, a company official said, “We suggest asking relatives to tell the hospital that [Yuan is] giving up on treatment, and after [his] death we will compensate you …”

Yuan Longhua is a 38-year-old migrant worker from Yiliang County (Yunnan) who worked at the CQC Group, a foreign-focused enterprise based in in Quanzhou city, Fujian province.

On 1 August of last year, he fell into a boiling vat of slurry. Since then, he has had five skin graft surgeries and has had his right leg amputated (pictured), for a bill worth 1.4 million yuan (US$ 210,000).

In October, his employer began delaying payments for his medical fees and even suggested to his brother to halt treatment so that compensation could be paid out to him after his death.

So far, the family has managed to raise about 30,000 yuan. However, Yuan already owes 90,000 yuan in medical fees to Quanzhou 180 Hospital, and his treatment has been halted until all the debts are paid.

According to the South China Morning Post, citing Xinhua, the company was now thinking of ways to raise money so that Yuan Longhua could continue his treatment. However, the longer they wait the worse his medical condition will get.

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Zika Virus: Outbreak ‘Likely to Spread Across Americas’ Says Who

The Zika virus is likely to spread across nearly all of the Americas, the World Health Organization has warned.

The infection, which causes symptoms including mild fever, conjunctivitis and headache, has already been found in 21 countries in the Caribbean, North and South America.

It has been linked to thousands of babies being born with underdeveloped brains and some countries have advised women not to get pregnant.

No treatment or vaccine is available.

The virus was first detected in 1947 in monkeys in Africa. There have since been small, short-lived outbreaks in people on the continent, parts of Asia and in the Pacific Islands.

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Denmark Prepares to Enact EU’s Toughest Refugee Policy

Denmark’s foreign minister and immigration minister are due to face questioning regarding the country’s new immigration policy, deemed to be the European Union’s toughest.

Denmark is set to approve changes in its immigration policy on Tuesday, which would turn it into the toughest state in Europe for refugees and asylum seekers.

The media actively discussed the fact that the authorities will have the right to confiscate valuables. Much bigger problems for refugees involve tightening of rules for family reunification. Owners of the residence permit would have to wait three years instead of one, and woul themselves have to pay for travel expenses for his family.

“It will be written into the narrative of Denmark as a country with a right-wing handling of asylum policy. The thing is, yes, we have a right-handed management, but we have also lived up to all the international agreements,” Danish Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen told Politiko newspaper.

According to Jensen, the barrage of criticism against the Danish is caused by a misunderstanding, and the world has forgotten how much Denmark does for refugees around the world.

Even before the introduction of the new rules, the European Parliament’s Committee for Civil Rights and Liberties is to discuss the new law. The European Parliament called Kristian Jensen and Danish integration minister Inger Støjberg in to answer the Committee’s questions and try to defend the Danish government’s view on immigration policy.

Danish policies have resonated in Norway, where the Norwegian Progress Party (FrP) proposed that the valuables and money of refugees should be taken away on Monday.

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EU Interior Ministers Can Discuss Greece’s Exclusion From Schengen Zone

EU interior ministers could discuss the expulsion of Athens from the block’s borderless Schengen area, Slovak Interior Minister Robert Kalinak said Sunday.

PRAGUE (Sputnik) — On Monday, EU interior ministers are scheduled to hold talks on the extension of temporary border controls within the Schengen zone.

“Possible exclusion of Greece from the Schengen [area] could also be among the topics of EU interior ministers’ meeting in Amsterdam on Monday,” Kalinak said as broadcast on state television.

She added that Greece should be forced to change its approach to the resolution of migrant crisis in order to send out all the undocumented migrants, which could arrive in Greece, to the countries they would come from.

Europe is struggling to find a solution to a massive refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing conflict-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The EU border agency Frontex detected over 1.83 million illegal border crossings in 2015, while some 880,000 of refugees arrived solely in Greece.

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EU Migration Crisis: Greece Threatened With Schengen Area Expulsion

Greece is under concerted pressure from European governments to do much more to halt the influx of refugees and migrants from Turkey, as the EU scrambles again to put together a coherent answer to the biggest challenge the union has ever faced.

EU interior ministers meeting in Amsterdam are unlikely to overcome deep-seated differences over how to respond to the migration crisis amid a sense of deepening gloom and confusion.

In the past week national leaders and top EU officials have sounded increasingly alarmist, warning that Europe’s passport-free travel zone could crumble within weeks, risking the dissolution of the union.

The countries bearing the brunt of the one million-plus arrivals in the past year rounded on Athens, with Austria warning that it could be kicked out, at least temporarily, of the Schengen area embracing 26 countries.

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Germany ‘Pressure on Greece to Do Homework’

Time is running out, said Interior Minister De Maiziere

(ANSA) — Amsterdam — German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on his way into an EU interior ministers’ meeting on Schengen Monday that “we are exerting pressure on Greece to do its homework”. He said “we’ll see what results will be achieved in the next few weeks. We want to maintain Schengen. We want common European solutions, but time is running out”.

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German Cities Fear Complete Social Collapse Under Refugee Pressure

German’s federal states are appealing to the German Government to step in and take action over EU citizens claiming social assistance, which they claim is draining them of resources and causing the system to collapse amid the refugee crisis.

The federal states are reeling from two separate crises. One of them is the refugee problem, in which over a million people have fled to Germany from war-torn nations such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. The second is EU citizens claiming state benefits in Germany, which is costing the country another US$650 million a year. The federal states say the system cannot handle the avalanche of claims.

The chief executive of German Towns and Municipalities, Gerd Landsberg, said a Federal Court ruling that allows EU citizens to claim social assistance after a short stay is bleeding the system.

“The world has dropped on us an enormous cost avalanche. For the local authorities this jurisprudence has dramatic consequences.”

The Federal Social Court ruled that EU migrants may receive social assistance in Germany after no more than six months. In Germany, the social assistance is higher than a conventional industrial worker’s wage in the poorest EU states.

Benefit Abuse

The row comes as the federal states are already crumbling under the burden of financing temporary shelters for refugees, which they say has pushed the civil service to the point of collapse.

Administrators in Germany’s federal states are struggling to keep up with the registration and deportation process because of decades of cuts to its civil service, which has left the system unable to cope with the influx of over a million refugees.

The latest row over social benefits for EU citizens mirrors the case UK Prime Minister David Cameron is making for a renegotiation of Britain’s membership of the EU. He is calling for in-work benefits to be denied EU citizens working in Britain until they had lived in the UK for four years.

This has been met with resistance from many EU states. However, the outcry from the German states — and their warning of social collapse — could play into Cameron’s hands when he comes to negotiate what he hopes are the final points at the EU summit in February.

Germany last year moved to tighten up its welfare legislation in an effort to prevent benefit abuse. At the time, German interior minister Thomas de Maiziere told reporters:

“Freedom of movement is an indispensable element of European integration, which we fully support. But we must not close our eyes to the problems linked to it.”

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Greece Tells Austria to ‘Weigh Words’ After Schengen Snub Suggestion

Greek Foreign Ministry spokesman Konstantinos Kutras said that Austrian minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner should think more about the European spirit and vision rather than the political equilibrium in Vienna.

ATHENS (Sputnik) — The Greek Foreign Ministry called on the Austrian Interior Ministry Monday to use the European sentiment for guidance and weigh its words carefully, after the latter suggested that there should be a discussion of excluding Greece from the Schengen zone amid the refugee crisis.

Last week, Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner said that if Athens failed to secure its borders, also serving as the external borders of the European Union, there should be a discussion of temporarily excluding the country from the Schengen zone.

“I am recommending to the Austrian Interior Ministry to weigh her words when she is addressing the issue of refugees and Greece’s alleged responsibility in this. Austrian minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner should think more about the European spirit and vision rather than the political equilibrium in Vienna,” Greek Foreign Ministry spokesman Konstantinos Kutras said in a statement.

Europe is struggling to find a solution to a massive refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing conflict-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

Many of them take the West Balkan route, which crosses Greece, using the county as an entry-point to the bloc from where they travel to wealthier EU states where they intend to apply for asylum.

Germany and Austria are among the refugees’ most popular destinations. The EU border agency Frontex detected over 1.55 million illegal border crossings in 2015.

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Greece Faces Being Sealed Off From Europe to Stop Migrant Flow in Move That Creates ‘Cemetery of Souls’

Greece will have its borders effectively sealed off from the rest of the continent under plans to tackle the migrant crisis, European leaders proposed on Monday night.

The European Commission will consider plans that would see the frontier of the Schengen zone — the area which allows passport-free travel within Europe — moved north to exclude Greece.

The proposal came at a meeting of European leaders on Monday which also agreed to draw up plans to allow internal border checks in Europe for up to two years, effectively suspending the Schengen zone.

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Greek Minister Lashes Out at EU for Not Helping

Frontex in Macedonia ‘would be illegal’

(ANSA-AP) — AMSTERDAM — A Greek minister has angrily blamed European Union member states for failing to send Athens enough manpower and ships to help it tackle the migrant crisis and for not living up to pledges to relocate migrants.

Immigration Minister Ioannis Mouzalas told reporters on the sidelines of an EU meeting in Amsterdam on Monday that sending officers from the EU border protection force known as Frontex to neighboring Macedonia in an attempt to halt migrants there would be illegal.

It has been suggested that EU border guards would be more effective on the Greek-Macedonian border, but Mouzalas said sending them there is “not a good idea,” insisting: “We need Frontex in Greece.”

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Migrant Fatally Stabs Swedish Refugee Centre Worker: Police

A young asylum seeker on Monday allegedly stabbed and killed a female employee of the refugee centre for unaccompanied minors where he was staying in western Sweden, police said.

The 22-year-old victim was rushed to a nearby hospital but died of her wounds, police said.

Police would not comment on the identity or nationality of the alleged attacker, except to say that he was a young man who was a resident of the centre for 14 to 17-year-olds…

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‘Most Hated Man in Sweden’ Being Deported to Denmark

Refused asylum-seeker is charged with attacking a mother in front of her children

A Tunisian man, who has been branded “the most hated man in Sweden’ after video showed him attacking a woman in front of her two young children and then spitting on her at a metro station in Stockholm, is being deported to Denmark, Expressen.se reports.

The attack took place on January 5 at Gamla Stan station in the Swedish capital. The video footage shows the man kicking and punching the victim after she attempted to prevent him stealing from the handbag of an elderly woman.

To be sent to Denmark

The police went public with the video on Thursday and on Friday he was identified and arrested. It is reported that he sought asylum in Sweden in October but that his application was rejected and the Swedish migration agency Migrationsverket has decided to send him back to the last country he was in before entering Sweden, which is Denmark.

It was staff at Migrationsverket itself who identified the man from the video footage and alerted police to his whereabouts in a centre for refused asylum-seekers in the Stockholm suburb of Märsta. The man is currently in police custody awaiting trial, but denies the charges…

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Political Failure: ‘Merkel Left With Nothing’ Amid Refugee Crisis

German Chancellor Angela Merkel seems to do everything right from a moral standpoint, but in practice her policy of open doors has failed, German journalist Manfred Lachniet wrote for Neue Rhein Zeitung.

According to Lachniet, Angela Merkel is passively watching Germany experience one of the most important and difficult periods in its history.

“Why is this clever woman failing during one of the most important periods in German history?” the journalist asked, noting the current migration policy of the German authorities may be detrimental to the country’s security.

Lachniet accused the German Chancellor of not having a dialogue with her own people on the refugee issue. According to him, moral principles prevent Merkel from assessing the real situation in the country, where the population is concerned over their security amid the uncontrolled inflow of refugees.

“Merkel is left with nothing: it seems that from a moral point of view, she does everything right, but in practice she failed,” Lachniet wrote.

After the sexual attacks on women in Cologne, the German government should take the fears of the population very seriously, the journalist argued.

“Merkel has to prove that we will live in safety,” he wrote, adding that the patience of the Germans may soon come to an end.

The EU, and particularly Germany, has been trying to cope with a large-scale refugee crisis for more than a year, with hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants fleeing their home countries in the Middle East and North Africa to escape violence and poverty.

The recent events in Cologne, in which dozens of women were robbed, sexually assaulted, and raped on New Year’s Eve by groups of aggressive men, mostly of Arab and North African appearance, raised criticism among the local population regarding Merkel’s policy of open doors. Germany is reported to have accepted more than one million refugees over the last year.

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Rural Germany an ‘Integration Laboratory’ For Refugees (2)

Berlin (AFP) — German villages and small towns could hold the key to socially integrating a mass influx of refugees who would in turn help revitalise dwindling rural populations, experts say.

“The rural regions are a laboratory of integration,” said Karl-Friedrich Thoene from the infrastructure and agriculture ministry of the eastern state of Thuringia.

Unlike in densely populated big cities, “there can be no parallel societies in rural areas,” he said. “The village community is the ideal chance for integration.”

The lower cost of living, cheaper rents and tight-knit communities in the countryside are main “factors of success” for integrating the newcomers, said Gudrun Kirchhoff, an expert on refugee issues at the German Institute of Urban Affairs.

Social life in small communities is typically held together by clubs and associations in which most villagers take part, experts point out.

Germany has taken in more than 1.5 million asylum seekers since 2014, from war-torn Syria to Balkan countries. On arrival, they are allocated accommodation across the country, with cities, towns and villages all expected to take their share…

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Rural Germany an ‘Integration Laboratory’ For Refugees (1)

German villages and small towns could hold the key to socially integrating a mass influx of refugees who would in turn help revitalise dwindling rural populations, experts say.

“The rural regions are a laboratory of integration,” said Karl-Friedrich Thoene from the infrastructure and agriculture ministry of the eastern state of Thuringia.

Unlike in densely populated big cities, “there can be no parallel societies in rural areas,” he said. “The village community is the ideal chance for integration.”

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Several Hundred Migrants Awaiting Deportation From Norway to Russia

According to a representative from the Norwegian Organisation for Asylum Seekers, several hundred migrants who arrived in Norway via Russia are waiting to be deported.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Several hundred migrants who arrived in Norway via Russia are waiting to be deported once there is an agreement between the Russian and Norwegian governments on the refugee problem, a representative from the Norwegian Organisation for Asylum Seekers (NOAS), working to protect rights of asylum seekers in Norway, told Sputnik.

“There are people waiting to be deported to Russia. The exact number is unclear, but we are talking about several hundred. When they will be deported depends on how the talks between the Norwegian and Russian governments are,” a senior adviser from NOAS told Sputnik.

The adviser added he was unaware of the course of the talks.

On Sunday, a director of a Murmansk transportation company told RIA Novosti that the Norwegian authorities were planning to deport some 280 refugees to Russia.

Earlier on Monday, Norway’s Foreign Minister Borge Brende said the two countries were maintaining a constructive dialogue to address the issue of refugees who entered the country through Storskog on the border with Russia.

Earlier in January, 13 refugees were deported from Norway to Russia under an agreement to return them through the Storskog checkpoint by bus. A group of 30 refugees were due to arrive in Russia on Thursday, but the deportation was postponed for various reasons given by Norwegian officials.

The multiple deportations came about after Russia agreed that Norway could return any of the migrants in question who hold a valid Russian visa. Last year Norway deported some 400 asylum seekers who had documentation or a multi-entry visa allowing them to stay in Russia as part of a 2008 intergovernmental agreement.

Norway’s immigration affairs office claims around 700 asylum seekers holding such documents are currently in the Nordic country.

The northernmost migrant route has been used by an estimated 5,500 people fleeing conflicts and poverty in the Middle East and North Africa as Europe continues to grapple with its largest refugee crisis in decades.

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UK: Refugee Jailed After Death Threats to ‘Too English’ Wife

Behar Kasemi told police that women in Kosovo were supposed to ‘obey their husbands and look after the children’ after he was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence.

He spat at magistrates as he was jailed for four weeks for breaching a Domestic Violence Prevention Notice imposed on him by police after he was arrested.

The order, banning him from going back to his marital home, was made last Friday after Kasemi threatened to cut out his wife’s heart.

Detective Constable Rob Sweeney said he was ‘aggressive’ during his interview and had described his wife as having become ‘too English’.

He told officers: “In my country it is for the women to obey their husbands and look after the children.”

Magistrates heard Kasemi breached the order to stay away from his wife within hours of it being imposed.

His terrified wife called police and he was arrested hours after first being released in Swindon, Wilts.

Magistrates heard the original order meant when police released him on bail at 2.20am he had nowhere to go so he went home.

Kasemi spat at the glass in the dock during the hearing before Swindon magistrates as he admitted breaching the order…

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Gay Rights to be Taught in Dutch Refugee Centres

Refugees in asylum centres are to be given lessons in gay rights, education minister Jet Bussemaker said in an interview in Monday’s Trouw. The lessons will be based on the materials used in Dutch secondary schools, the minister said. The aim is to boost safety and to make clear that anti-gay discrimination will not be tolerated in the Netherlands, the minister said.

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Italy: Boldrini Stance on Civil Unions Sparks Row

Renzi confident of mustering support

(ANSA) — Rome, January 25 — House Speaker Laura Boldrini on Sunday spoke out in favour of Italy granting civil-union status to same-sex couples, prompting criticism from the centre right who said she had overstepped the impartiality of her office. Boldrini called for a law that would not “disappoint the expectations” of the estimated one million people who turned out in 100 cities across Italy Saturday in favour of civil unions and stepchild adoption.

The latter is a sticking point for Catholics on the centre left and centre right but Premier Matteo Renzi is confident of winning over critics within his ruling Democratic Party.

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Italy: Bishops ‘United on Civil Unions’ Says Bagnasco

‘Guarantee rights for all, but on different levels’

(ANSA) — Rome, January 25 — Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco said Monday there is no division among bishops over the government’s civil unions bill giving same-sex couples some of the same rights as straight married couples. “The bishops are united…in sharing the difficulties and trials of the family,” said Bagnasco, who heads the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI) and is the archbishop of Genoa. “We dream of a country…in which respect for all is part of the lifestyle, and the rights of each are guaranteed on different levels, according to the law”.

“We must never forget the identity that is proper to the family, its importance for the country’s stability and economic development, and its key role in the education of the new generations,” Bagnasco went on.

“Believers have a duty and a right to participate in the common good, with a serene heart and a constructive spirit,” he said.

It is up to lay people, the cardinal said, to “inscribe divine law into the life of the earthly city”. Catholic lawmakers across party lines are balking at a provision in the government’s civil unions bill, which would allow one partner in a couple to adopt the other’s biological children. They also objected to wording in the bill that compared same-sex unions to heterosexual marriage for juridical purposes.

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39 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/25/2016

  1. “In other news, in order to make sure that newly-arrived “refugees” in the Netherlands are not discriminatory against gays, the Dutch authorities are planning to hold gay rights seminars in asylum centers. The program will be based on a model used in secondary schools.”

    In think there would be more chance of success holding a seminar for Cats with the topic “Be nice to Mice.”

    • This is an ideological collision that was bound to happen. Do gays have rights under Islamic law? Can Islamic law change to accommodate a 21st Century model of individual rights? Will Islamic leaders embrace this new model? Certainly not in the short term. Europe’s progressives didn’t think about this. Now they’re scrambling to protect their own. Next up: Muslims elected to public office. Watch the fallout.

    • Nah… I think that’s propaganda. This is not about the war. The Swedes did well in the war, saved Jews and others from the Nazi machine, yet look at what’s going on there, even worse than Germany.

      • The Swedes were in a difficult position, with the Nazis occupying Norway. They supplied iron ore to Germany, and ball bearings to Germany and Britain (the latter collected by unarmed “civilian” Mosquito aircraft, which also dropped off British agents en route for Norway and liaison with the resistance).

    • The whole “war guilt” angle boggles my mind. World War II ended over 70 years ago! No one alive today can be held morally responsible for anything that happened that long ago. Germany’s misplaced guilt is destroying a continent!

      • “World War II ended over 70 years ago!”

        And slavery in the US was ended over 150 years ago, yet white guilt continues – although much of it is fabricated by the black grievance industry.

        • And Jim Crow ended almost as long ago as WW2. But whitey has to keep on paying… and paying… and paying…

          • We must assume it is not a well-thought-out plan, at least not for the long term.

          • If we were to pass away, what remained in our lands would be savages dancing, destroying, and endlessly, endlessly fighting among the ruins.

            Perhaps China would bring order with imperial colonization, but that would not be a kindly order for the savages.

        • Exactly, and if we let it, all of history’s prior losers will still try to make us feel guilty, while demanding money, in another 70 years, another 150, another 1000. In fact, for as long as we allow it.

          Which is why it must change.

  2. Islam and Christianity: the impasses of inter-religious dialogue. Le Figaro

    This is an interview with Father Francis Jourdan, an Islam scholar. He talks about the deep rooted problems between Islam and Christianity and has published a book on this subject. He sets out the historical context of Islam and certainly doesn’t mince his words.

    For the French speakers amongst you:

    http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/religion/2016/01/22/31004-20160122ARTFIG00344-islam-et-christianisme-les-impasses-du-dialogue-interreligieux.php

    To give you a flavour, here are some extracts translated into English:

    “François JOURDAN. – We are not ready for a real dialogue, neither, Islam, which has been very frozen for many centuries and essentially missing freedom, nor Christianity with its tardy doctrinal understanding of Islam in relation to Christianity and complicated by its former role of colonizer.”

    “The Muslim conquerors arrived in ancient lands & developed civilizations, (Egyptian, Mesopotamian, ancient Greek, Byzantine, Latin); in due course, they pursued the previous efforts, significantly through diffusion, due to their Arabic and Turkish empires, but this had not been very fruitful due to a lack of fundamental freedom.”

    “It is easily believed that we are close and so we can live in peace, so that in fact one does not need to have things in common to have a dialogue.”

    “For example, the right to religious freedom, fundamental human rights, sharia must be called into question sharia (Islamic organization of life, including society as a whole). We will have to talk about it one day between us. The fear: this is not “politically correct”. So there is a risk of being being resolved by the balance of demographic strength… and future violence in French society. Of course we are no longer in ancient times, but sharia is the Qur’an, and Islam must supersede all other religions (Qur’an 48,28; 3,19.85; and 2,286 as recited in the gardens of the Vatican in front of Pope Francis and Shimon Peres in June 2014). Moreover, Boumédienne, Gaddafi and Erdogan have said that so bluntly.”

    “This is a definition of the sharia, that is to say that Islam, as God must be victorious and manage every aspect of the world. Islam is all-encompassing. The Muslims of China or southern Philippines want to create their Islamic State… This is not simply a drift, but a profound consistency of the Qur’an. This is incompatible with real religious freedom.”

    “This is not the trend of the Quran, where Islam does not consider itself as other religions and should dominate (2,193; 3,10.110.116; 9,29.33).”

    « Islamic biographies of the founder of Islam testify to his use of violence, including the beheading 700 Jews in March 627 in Medina. And our friends of Islam justify it.”
    “And according to the ultra-traditional rule of abrogation (2.106), these are the verses the last of which repeal those that would contradict; in fact the latter are the intolerant ones when Muhammad is the political and military leader. This is not an excess.”

    • “Dialogue”, “Tolerance” and “Interfaith” are just other words for accepting dhimmi status.

  3. “His motivation for the crime is unknown, but the family and friends of the victim are consoling themselves with the knowledge that the incident had nothing to do with Islam.” Sounds like transplanted American ‘progressives’.

  4. So sorry for this young woman, my condolences to all her family and friends. This is surely a case of corporate/governmental manslaughter as such a tragic event was entirely foreseeable. This lady had a kind heart but this is what third world youngsters do (if indeed he was a teenager because there are cases where men in their thirties claim to be so and are UNCHALLENGED by the authorities) and she was duly sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.
    In Holland middle aged men arrive with twelve year old pregnant wives, it is or was called paedophilia, but a blind eye is turned because it is a “cultural thing”. In the UK ,where multiple marriage parners are illegal, the benefits system is about to be changed to pay MORE to second, third, and fourth Muslim wives! The politicos are determined to destroy Christian Europe at all costs and unfortunately they are aided and abetted by the lunatic fringe of left wing “no border” fanatics, feminists, spineless liberal governments and church leaders. I am glad that I am not a young person anymore but I could weep when I think what is to come for the next generation.

  5. I find it amazing that “feminists” would be advocates of this backward religion. But maybe they know nothing about it. . . oh, well.

    Cologne (sp?) should have given them a clue.

    I am far more worried about the Muslims than I am about the “black grievance industry” which has been operating since the 1960’s.

    I too, am worried. How this will end we know not. But I do know it will not end well.

    The Gates of Vienna did something in 1683 but now? all the doors are open and the victims seem to be willing. What insanity is this?

    • You have to realize that the “feminists” are actually just the neo-Marxist commanders in charge of forced-marching women in whatever way is most advantageous for neo-Marxist oligarchs.

      If placing Moslems at the top of the neo-Marxist zero-sum class warfare priority list is what will most effectively march the army toward the objective where certain oligarchs are permanently in power, they will order their woman soldiers to accept the attrition factors such as Moslem rape, abuse of women, and reduction in women’s rights.

      When “feminist” women will not criticize the treatment of women under Islam, their true role as political overseers and useful idiots for a cynical power agenda becomes obvious.

      If only we could do a better job of teaching young people about what is really going on.

    • Cologne (sp?)

      Eau de Cologne = Kölnisch Wasser – Acqua Colonia – Fragrance Water from Köln made by Italian perfume maker Giovanni Maria Farina

      The city of Cologne was a settlement of Agrippina, the German born mother of Roman Emperor Nero – a Colonia Agrippina. Cologne
      was later elevated to a colony with Roman town privileges, and became the capital of the Roman province Germania Inferior.

  6. “Homosexual (gay) rights seminars in asylum centres”, good luck with that!

    Mariadee: You may well ask! Bloggers keep saying most of the people don’t want what’s happening, yet every time Pegida holds a rally, there are far more Germans to howl them down and jeer at them, and it doesn’t seem to matter what happens in the U.K., the Brits just carry on, with NO sign of serious resistance.

  7. “Rural Germany an ‘integration laboratory’ for refugees”.
    No wonder Germany is in trouble with people like Karl-Friedrich Thoene coming up with such gems!

    There is trouble in the cities where ‘refugees’ form ghettoes, but Thoene seems unable to see that setting the migrant trash free in small villages would cause utter chaos; the more so since the migrants have no intention of integrating and insist the Germans should.

    • It depends on how outnumbered they are. The least willing to integrate need to be overwhelmingly outnumbered (100 to 1?) by the native population to have any chance, and in Germany they have allowed so ridiculously many in that there is no chance even when they are spread out as thinly as possible. Then when you add the Internet and social media, feeding them Islamic propaganda daily and keeping them in touch with other “refugees” every minute, it becomes even less likely.

  8. The 22 year old female worker who was killed at the asylum center in Sweden, was Christian Lebanese Alexandra Mezher.

    • Fleeing Lebanon for Sweden, only 25 years later, to find themselves in the “same, only new” Lebanon – Sweden

      “Sweden is no longer safe, says mother of murdered refugee worker: Heartbroken family pay tribute to young woman who ‘only wanted to help migrant children’ but ended up being stabbed to death by Somali boy”

      “Psychology graduate Miss Mezher – whose parents fled Beirut more than 25 years ago – was stabbed in the back and thigh on Monday in a block of flats housing ten youths aged 14 to 17.”

      At least, that’s what they claim, to be under 18. In general, some of the alone arriving children to Sweden, cuddling their teddy in their new home, may be sporting thinning hair and looking way older than 18.

      • Tonight we learn that Sweden’s Police Commissioner feels sympathy for the attacker ” as who knows what traumas he has been through.” This idiot should be sacked with immediate effect sans severance pay and also lose all pension rights. What is going on in Sweden? Where has the famous Viking spirit gone? This is a pivotal moment, if the Swedish public do not respond to this latest provocation, then their country is truly beyond redemption!

        • Always sympathizing with the muslim.
          Is this some way of trying to protect themselves personally?
          As if saying to any, and all, muslims that “I am not racist – I am a dhimmi” – so go and bother someone else.

  9. Ten Dialogue Police managed to flee threatening immigrant situation in Sweden

    The police had been called to “refugee centre” to solve problem, and at one point were trapped when attacked, however found their escaping through the emergency exit.

    • I was ready to fight for my life, one Dialogue Police says of the threatening situation at “refugee centre”

    • Police officers flee angry mob in Swedish refugee center through back door,” RT, January 26, 2016:

      A police patrol of 10 officers was forced to flee a refugee center in Sweden after being surrounded by a mob of violent migrants. Law enforcement officials had arrived to relocate a 10-year-old boy after reports of his repeated rape at the facility.”

  10. A bit more information on the murdered lady in the Swedish centre:

    (in French) http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/967063/le-temoignage-de-la-famille-dune-assistante-sociale-libanaise-poignardee-a-mort-en-suede-par-un-refugie-mineur.html

    “Our members describe a very difficult situation. Many of these centres are overcrowded and the paid staff haven’t been trained to calm down or counter violent situations;” stated a Vision Union leader.

    « Nos membres décrivent une situation très dure. Beaucoup de ces centres sont surpeuplés et les salariés n’ont pas été formés pour apaiser ou contrer des situations de violence », a déclaré une dirigeante du syndicat Vision, l’un de ceux qui représentent le personnel de ces centres.

    Social worker aged 22, Christian Lebanese roots. She the only paid worker on site at the time of the stabbing.

  11. Boys – or men

    “Claimed to be 15: Youssaf Khaliif Nuur who claims he is 15 though he is 6ft tall and, according to one unconfirmed source, shaves his beard and moustache”

    “The growing scandal over bogus ‘child’ migrants was highlighted this week with the murder of 22-year-old aid worker Alexandra Mezher at a Swedish refugee hostel for children in Gothenburg, where her mother says residents lie about their age to get preferential asylum treatment.”

    “For her part, psychology graduate Miss Mezher had warned her mother that she was caring for ‘big powerful guys’ aged up to 24, in a shelter designed for children aged 14 to 17.”

  12. Spotlight on Mölndal Sweden
    City destroyed by – islamic – migration

    “Interestingly, Swedish IP addresses are blocked from reading these articles about their country. So much for freedom of speech.”
    Comment to article about Mölndal, where Alexandra Mezher was killed by “15 year old refugee”

  13. Daily Mail article about Sweden
    censored – in Sweden

    “A source at the newspaper told Breitbart London this evening that the reporting on the article and the website were both fine, but that in Sweden alone the paper has had to take action “to avoid prejudicing” ongoing legal proceedings concerning the alleged murderer.

    The source said the Mail Online “have to have a block” on “one article”.

    But Mail Online readers in Sweden are reporting blackouts on several different stories”

    “The Mail Online is one of the largest news outlets in the world.”

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