ESW: “The Beginning of the End of the Constitutional State”

Below is an interview with Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff that was published in Zur Zeit (2016 #3), a weekly Austrian magazine. Many thanks to Nash Montana for the translation.

“A Religious-Cultural Phenomenon”

Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff talks about sexual assaults on women by Muslim immigrants and the misconceived tolerance of the West.

Frau Sabaditsch-Wolff, on the night of New Year’s eve in Cologne and in other cities, we saw massive sexual assaults on women by immigrants and asylum seekers with Arab and north African background. Is this a cultural or more of a religious, specifically Islamic, phenomenon?

Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff: It is a religious-cultural phenomenon. There is a word in the Arabic language for what happened on Silvester night: Taharrush. A culture which possesses its own word for sexual assaults by men has to be viewed as a threat. And because in Arab states Islam is the dominant religion — from which its culture develops — there is automatically a correlation between the two.

Why do women have such a low status in Islam?

Sabaditsch-Wolff: From an Islamic viewpoint her status is anything but low: that is merely how we see it from our Western perspective. A woman has rights and duties given to her by Allah, as well as a designated place in society. We cannot blame Islam for that as such. The main argument, however, is: Will we as a Western society let it happen, that women in Europe can be treated according to Islamic perceptions?

Do you believe that courses in sexual morality for Muslim asylum seekers, as is being discussed right now, could be beneficial?

Sabaditsch-Wolff: I am not familiar with the details of these courses. But I am skeptical. What exactly are sexual morality courses meant to convey, by whom and how?

The refugees are predominantly young males. What are the consequences of this for countries like Germany, Austria, and Sweden?

Sabaditsch-Wolff: What it means is that in these countries the status of women will gradually reflect that of women in Saudi Arabia: “Women will have to dress modestly,” they will be told; they shouldn’t be alone out at night in public spaces. What is going to be next? The hijab and/or the burka? And who will decide?

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PEGIDA Representatives in Prague: “We are the Voices of Europe”

In her speech at the PEGIDA rally in Dresden last night, Tatjana Festerling described a meeting of PEGIDA leaders from various countries that took place in Prague over the weekend. The result was the Prague Declaration, a vigorous repudiation of mass immigration and Islamization, and an affirmation of national sovereignty for each European nation.

Below are brief excerpts from that meeting in Prague. Many thanks to Xanthippa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Transcript:

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Geert Wilders: The Patriot Spring

Below are excerpts from an op-ed by Geert Wilders published at Breitbart today. In it Mr. Wilders discusses the ongoing “refugee” crisis in Europe, and the resurgence of patriotism in European nations that has resulted from it:

The Patriot Spring
by Geert Wilders

“A revolution,” Wikipedia says, “is a fundamental change in political power or organizational structures that take place in a relatively short period of time when the population rises up in revolt against the current authorities.”

In Europe and America, revolutions are brewing. They are peaceful and democratic, but they are going to send the elites home that are running our nations into the ground.

I have just reread Ronald Reagan’s 1982 Westminster speech, in which he predicted that freedom and democracy would soon send the communist dictatorships in Eastern Europe and Russia to “the ash heap of history.”

Reagan spoke of “Poland’s struggle to be Poland.” And today, three decades later, history is about to repeat itself in the United States and in several West European countries. Of course, I am not comparing our current political elite with the Communist dictatorships with their prison cells for dissidents, but the fight of a nation to be itself, remain itself and defend its identity, that fight is also being waged today.

We are witnessing America’s struggle to be America, and the struggle of several European nations, among them the Netherlands, Britain, France, Germany and many others to preserve their identity and liberty, to remain the Netherlands, Britain, France, Germany. Everywhere, patriots are on the march. We are living the Patriot Spring.

Everywhere, democratic revolutions are underway. They will drive the elites from power. People are sick and tired of seeing their nations lose. They are fed up with how the political and media elites are weakening their country. They want to regain their national sovereignty from supranational organizations such as the European Union. They want to get rid of the fake parliaments that sell out the national interests because they no longer stand for what the majority of the people want. They want brave and patriotic politicians in the legislatures. They also want more direct democracy, so that the people can correct those who misrepresent them.

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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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Tatjana Festerling in Dresden: The Prague Declaration

Tonight’s walk and rally by PEGIDA in Dresden was a memorable occasion. Representatives from a group of ten European countries had met in advance and hammered out a manifesto called “The Prague Declaration”.

Tatjana Festerling, one of the German leaders of PEGIDA, was given the job of reading out the declaration as a part of her speech to the assembled crowd. Rembrandt Clancy has translated excerpts from what she said, and includes the entire Prague Declaration, along with explanatory material to provide context.

Ms. Festerling’s speech may be found in the video record of the rally.

Tatjana Festerling in Dresden: The Prague Declaration
by Rembrandt Clancy

At the PEGIDA demonstration in Dresden today, 25 January 2016, Tatjana Festerling reported that on Saturday she and Lutz Bachmann had participated in a large political conference in Roztoky, near Prague. They met with representatives of citizens’ movements and parties from various European countries. Besides Germany, representatives from the following countries were in participation or present by way of a link-up: the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Austria, Bulgaria, Holland, Finland, Iceland and Italy.

Frau Festerling announced, that independently of the EU and the usual elites, the

…networking of patriotic Europe is broadening into a Fortress Europe. Therefore the participants have named themselves accordingly, Festung Europa or Fortress Europe.

For only in solidarity, she continued, will it be possible to “preserve our Europe as we know her and love her”:

The climate of this conference was characterised by trust, mutual respect and by friendship . . . . [Chancellor Angela] Merkel and the Federal government are showing the world that their asylum policy is not working. They have isolated Germany inside Europe. As PEGIDA, we are bringing into clear expression that Frau Merkel does NOT represent the majority of Germans. Therefore the goal of the network is international understanding. For only by the profound solidarity among peoples will it be possible for us to cooperatively ward off the population replacement and the Islamisation of Europe that goes with it. Submission is out of the question.

Frau Festerling revealed, that after intensive discussion, the representatives at the Prague conference signed a position paper called the “Prague Declaration”. She then read it to the demonstrators:

The Prague Declaration

Conscious of the fact that the thousand-year history of Western Civilisation could soon come to an end through the Islamic conquest of Europe, and conscious of the fact that the political elites have betrayed us, we, the representatives of the various nations of Europe, declare as follows:

We shall not surrender Europe to our enemies. We are prepared to stand and oppose political Islam, extreme Islamic regimes and their European collaborators.

We are prepared to risk our freedom, our property, our occupations and careers and perhaps also our lives as generations have done before us. It is our obligation to future generations.

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Tanya in Dresden: “Our Culture is European, Not Islamic”

Tanya, the leader of PEGIDA DK, hosted the three leaders of PEGIDA UK at a march and rally at Copenhagen last Saturday. She then hurried off to Dresden for the Monday night walk and rally by the founding group of PEGIDA.

Below is Tanya’s speech for the occasion. She spoke in English, and a simultaneous translation of her words was read out in German. Notice the reaction of the crowd to what she has to say when they hear it in their own language.

Many thanks to KGS for uploading this video:

For links to previous articles about PEGIDA (Patriotische Europäer Gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes, Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West) and related movements, see the PEGIDA Archives.

The Groping Jihad Comes to Arkansas

A reader sends this report about an incident that occurred at a convenience store in Arkansas. It’s a more isolated instance of the sort of thing that has been happening recently in Cologne and other Western European cities. However, as thousands of Obama’s (and Baby Doc’s) “Syrian” refugees pour into our continent, we can expect a lot more of this:

I want to tell you about an alarming incident that occurred in Russellville, Arkansas just last night. Russellville is home to Arkansas Tech University as well as Arkansas One Nuclear power plant. There are many poultry farms and processing facilities in the area constantly in need of cheap labor.

My daughter’s long-time friend and current college roommate was driving back to college in Northwest Arkansas from our hometown in Bryant, Arkansas. She stopped in Russellville, Arkansas for a quick break.

She took exit 81 and stopped at the Superstop Convenience store. Upon exiting the ladies’ room inside the store there were two young Middle-Eastern-looking men standing right in front of the door. She exited the store quickly and they followed her. She got inside her car and locked the doors. Before she could leave the two men got in their car and parked behind her. She said they had their windows rolled down and were shouting at her and motioning to her. She managed to drive up on the curb and walkway she was parked in front of to get out of there. My daughter said she was very upset, but she did call local police after she got back on the highway.

I knew this would start happening here but I am shocked that it is this soon and in the middle of rural Arkansas! I think sooner rather than later there will be just as many horror stories in regards to “Syrian refugees” in America as there are in Europe.

Are there any chicken processing plants in your area? Just wondering…

“The [EU] May Be Incompetent, But They’re Not Stupid”

In Britain, the “Grassroots Out” Campaign (see the GO on the signage), launched this weekend.

In the video below Dr. Liam Fox makes a good case for sovereignty. “We don’t want to be ‘Little Europeans’…It’s time…to take control of our own destiny… our own laws… and our borders”. Dr Fox makes a particularly strong case for the lack of military security in the EU, and the economic trade deficit the UK has with the EU making any sanctions unrealistic. Who needs whom?

I’ve mentioned before that in English we lack a word indicating the ‘right’ time to do something. In Greek, I’ve been told the word is καιρός, transliterated to “kairos”. This sentiment expressed by Dr. Fox, that the time has come to leave the EU, is a swell of reasoned feeling rising on the tide of ugly events in Germany, and the reaction throughout Eastern and Western Europe to the swarming of lawless immigrants in many parts of the European Union.

One thing is sure: the UK and other countries who may ‘exit the EU’ will save a ton of money on unaccountable bureaucratic expenses in Brussels.

The quote from which the title of this post came was said by Sammy Wilson, MP from Northern Ireland. His speech is here, and he was referring to the rulers in Brussels…

Here is the YouTube channel for Leave the EU, which has uploads of the speeches.

Here is the Leave the EU site

If the two groups are separate, they certainly are entwined…

I hope our British readers will chime in with their opinions about this event. I only watched two of the speeches, but it is obvious that sovereignty is on the rise. Transnationalism is declining as a viable solution for the problems arising in our individual, always idiosyncratic, cultures.

Perhaps Mad Mutti Merkel has blasted a wake-up call to other nations in Europe. Her insane decision is scaring the bejayzus out of normal people.

Tommy Robinson in Copenhagen: “Unite Europe Like Never Before!”

The video below feature Tommy Robinson’s speech at the PEGIDA rally in Copenhagen on Saturday. Pay special attention to the well-armored Danish police acting as bodyguards for Tommy while he speaks. The same thing would never be provided for him in the UK — he always has to rely on private security when he speaks in Britain. The only function the police perform at such events is to arrest Tommy if he exceeds his time limit, or is speaking in a part of London he is forbidden to enter.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for editing and uploading this video:

Tommy Robinson and Paul Weston spoke tonight at PEGIDA Dresden, and did Tanya from PEGIDA DK. We will be featuring videos of their speeches later, as they become available.

For links to previous articles about PEGIDA (Patriotische Europäer Gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes, Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West) and related movements, see the PEGIDA Archives.

“Be Irate at the Muslim Women!”

Zana Ramadani is an ex-Muslim from Macedonia who now lives in Germany. Referring to incidents such as the Groping Jihad on New Year’s Eve in Cologne, Ms. Ramadani is emphatic that Muslim women bear the responsibility for inculcating misogyny in their male children, and the habit of subjugation in their female children.

Many thanks to JLH for translating this interview from Die Welt:

“Be Irate at the Muslim Women!”

The former Femen activist Zana Ramadani believes that incidents such as Cologne are possible everywhere where Muslims live. Islamic values are to blame — and mothers who raise their children in accordance with them.

by Kathrin Spoerr

As an activist in the Femen movement, the feminist Zana Ramadani fought for equal rights. The 32-year-old was born in Macedonia and grew up in her Muslim family in Siegerland [North Rhine-Westphalia]. She is now living in Berlin.

Die Welt: After the excesses of New Year’s Eve — who should we be mad at? Arabs? Muslims? Men in general?
Zana Ramadani: Clearly, Muslims. Not just the Muslim men, but also Muslim women, especially Muslim mothers. The perception of women that confronted us on New Year’s Eve is one that is lived everywhere in the Islamic world. Exactly the same thing could have happened where I came from, in Macedonia. And in Pakistan or Bangladesh. It could have happened in every Islamic country, and does, daily. Because the values are to blame for these events. These are the values of Islam.
Die Welt: What values are those?
Zana Ramadani: As follows: Women are attendants. Women are slaves. We are merchandise. It is up to us to behave demurely. If we look a man in the eye for too long, our intention is to tease and excite him. All that we do, and all that we are, is pure provocation. So we must cover ourselves. At the same time, this impugns men as impulse-driven rapists.
Die Welt: Many people had that impression after the events in Cologne.
Zana Ramadani: Yes, but of course that is nonsense. I do not believe that Arab men are more compulsive or have more testosterone than European, Christian men. But Muslim men are raised from childhood with a despicable image of women. These men learn that women who wear short skirts or tight pants are available. They learn that they have the right to treat us with disrespect. What many Muslims and many imams fail to understand is that they have not only a bad picture of women, but also of men. In fact, the veiling law presumes that every man is a compulsive rapist. So Islamic values are inimical to both men and women.
Die Welt: How are these values inculcated in men?
Zana Ramadani: In Islamic culture, it is almost always the women who do the nurturing and training. Women have so internalized the values under which they themselves have often suffered, that they pass them on to their sons as well as their daughters. From childhood, the boys are pampered and treated as little princes. Girls are guided before all else to virtue. From the start, they must do housework and help their mothers to spoil the men of the family.
Die Welt: Was that your experience in your Muslim family?
Zana Ramadani: Yes, in fact it was very extreme. I have a brother. My mother spoiled him and overlooked whatever he did. As a girl, I was raised with incredible severity. I had no liberty, and whenever I played outside with my friends anyway, she scolded me as filth or as a whore — long before I even knew what a whore was. It was a long and bitter battle to emancipate myself from my family. My brother is happily continuing to live the values of my Muslim family.
Die Welt: Are all Muslim mothers that extreme?
Zana Ramadani: Naturally, all mothers do not call their daughters whores just because they were playing in the sandbox with a boy. The older generation is stricter than the younger one. But the idea that a girl may not do certain things, or this is for a girl to do and that is for a boy — that is deep in Islamic culture.
Die Welt: How does a good Muslim girl behave?
Zana Ramadani: She does not contradict. She must always be at home. She must always live within the family. And then, of course, there is this virginity mania. The family’s honor resides between their daughters’ legs.
Die Welt: So is the mother also to blame for the sexual repression?
Zana Ramadani: Yes. Every Islamic mother teaches her daughter that she is only of worth if she enters marriage as a virgin. You stay in the marriage, you do not divorce, you accept your fate.
Die Welt: Is this mania new, or was it always like that?
 

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al-Gore Anniversary…+1

Today* is the day…No doubt you’ve had January 25, 2016 marked on your calendar this last decade, waiting for al-Gore’s shining prediction at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006, which actually began with one of his books in 1996. [I forget which one now, but I remember him saying we’d have to learn to get along without the internal combustion engine. And from then on he walked everywhere (small lie in aid of his larger truthiness)].

*[This post was started on the 25th, hours before the final bell. But somehow I kept writing and updating but Word Press closed abruptly, pinching my fingers…and zap! here we are at Anniversary +1. So we’ll make like al- and pretend. Don’t you wonder how he’s spending -spent – that auspicious day?]

Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” slide show was a real blockbuster back then in 2006; he was grabbing the world by the lapels to tell everyone time was running out. In ten years the droughts, floods, famines, etc., ad infinitum et nauseam, would be upon us. And all over us. The hole that was The World Trade Center would be under water.

He and his apocalypse were the humble stars of The Sundance Festival in 2006…

But what else are you gonna do when you get the presidency stolen right from under you by a dumb Texas cowboy – the all-hat-no-cattle George W. Bush, low-down election thief? You can’t stay crying in the boys’ bathroom forever.

Here’s how Al re-invented himself – though I will say this ecological alarmism had been a feature since his undergraduate days. But now he’d got a best-selling ecopocalypse on the book charts from that small germ of a worry dating back to Harvard.

So ten years after the first book, he’s a star at the Sundance Film Festival, as reported by The Washington Post, written in that special WaPo style found in its “Style” section (or maybe that’s changed since Mr Bezos purchased the paper):

Al Gore, Sundance’s Leading Man
By William Booth
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 26, 2006

PARK CITY, Utah — Has ever a little indie film faced a greater hurdle? Imagine this sales pitch: Babe, it’s a movie about global warming. Starring Al Gore. Doing a slide show.

With charts.

About “soil evaporation.”

Improbable? Perhaps. So it’s all the more amazing that “An Inconvenient Truth” had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday night before an enthusiastic audience that gave the former vice president and his movie a big standing O.

Among the film’s lessons: Earth’s glaciers are melting, the polar bears are screwed[note to 2016: the polar bear population has increased considerably], each year sets new heat records. Al Gore sometimes flies coach. He also schleps his own bags.(that’s what I mean by WaPo’s too-precious “Style” section -D)

The morning after his debut as leading man, Gore pronounces this whole Sundance thing “a most excellent time.” He is wearing earth tones again. He seems jolly. He brought Tipper and the kids. He is attending parties and posing for pictures with his fans and enjoying macaroni and cheese at the Discovery Channel soiree. He’s palling around with Larry David of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” who says, “Al is a funny guy.” But he is also a very serious guy who believes humans may have only 10 years left to save the planet from turning into a total frying pan.

The core of the film is a one-man, ever-evolving multimedia slide show that Gore assembled himself. A little-known fact: Since his defeat by George W. Bush in 2000, Gore has traveled the globe with his bar graphs, staging event after event for small, invited audiences. Free of charge. And he’s presented one version or another of this slide show, by his own estimation, a thousand times.

The official Sundance Film Festival guide calls the documentary a “gripping story” with “a visually mesmerizing presentation” that is “activist cinema at its very best.”

In the film, Gore presents the latest evidence to demonstrate how the accumulation of carbon dioxide and other pollutants of the industrial age are increasing temperatures. In addition to timelines and bell curves and stuff about oxygen isotopes in Greenland ice cores, Gore includes several cartoons, one featuring a Mister Sunbeam trapped by the bullies known as Greenhouse Gases.

Gore argues — with scientific evidence projected on big screens at his back — that global warming may soon lead to catastrophic sea level rises, which could inundate cities such as New York (flooding the former site of the World Trade Center), producing scary nonlinear runaway spasms of extreme weather (bigger, badder hurricanes and typhoons), global pandemics and, depending on where you live, torrential rains or decade-long drought. It is not a pretty picture.

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Paul Weston in Copenhagen: “The Media Cannot Ignore This Forever”

Below is Paul Weston’s speech to the rally following the PEGIDA march in Copenhagen last Saturday. As shown in one of last night’s videos, the marchers had been dogged at every step by the “anti-fascists”, who longed to get their hands on the “Islamophobes” but were prevented by the police.

Mr. Weston has a few choice things to say addressed directly to the antifas, who were still ululating beyond the police cordon during the speeches:

For links to previous articles about PEGIDA (Patriotische Europäer Gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes, Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West) and related movements, see the PEGIDA Archives.

Paul Weston is a British-based writer who focuses on the damage done to Western Civilisation by the hard left’s ongoing cultural revolution, which seeks to destroy the Christian, capitalist and racial base of the West. He is now one of the leaders of PEGIDA UK, and is also the leader of Liberty GB. His website may be found here, and his political Facebook page here. For links to his previous essays, see the Paul Weston Archives.

Photo credit: Henrik Clausen.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/24/2016

Germany is still receiving a flow of about 2,000 new migrants every day, but about 10% of those are being denied entry because they are not fleeing war or persecution. Meanwhile, a Belgian resort town is considering banning migrants from its public swimming pools after teenage girls were molested by asylum seekers.

In other news, Hong Kong is experiencing its coldest winter in sixty years, with frost appearing on the upper slopes of nearby mountains.

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Progressives Raise the Alarm About PEGIDA Flanders

We reported earlier today on the expansion of PEGIDA to new locations in Europe, including Flanders.

The following article from De Redactie takes a left-slanted look at PEGIDA Vlaanderen. H. Numan, who translated the piece for Gates of Vienna, includes this prefatory note:

This article is reporting on one hand and warning for Pegida with the other. It is not unbiased reporting, but the careful sending of a message. Pay particular attention to the Hitler photo.

You may be absolutely certain that the journalist who wrote this obnoxious stuff is very progressive.

The translated article:

Pegida demonstrates against Islam, Allah and Mohammed in Antwerp

In Antwerp 300 supporters from the anti-Islam movement Pegida demonstrated. The “Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the Occident” is originally a German protest movement, which, in their own words, act against Islam and against “the Islamization of Germany and Europe”. The demonstrators in Antwerp were addressed amongst others by parliamentarian Filip Dewinter of the extreme right-wing Vlaams Belang [Flemish Interest].

[banner in the first photo: “Violence-less (without violence) & united against religious and other wars on European ground]

The arrival of hundreds of thousands refugees in Europe seems to give Pegida new life. That hasn’t escaped the notice of Filip Dewinter, the leader of Vlaams Belang. “It’s the time for people not just to be sick of it, but also to go out and resist against the politically correct dictatorship that rams multiculturalism down their throats and compels them to live together with a religion — what did I just say? — an ideology, Islam,” he said to our journalist. According to him, Islam is only out to conquer Europe and will never respect us.

Amongst the demonstrators was Lutz Bachmann, the founder of Pegida in Germany. Bachmann made the news last year because of a photo in which he posed as the German dictator Adolf Hitler.

[Second photo, Adolf Hitler]

During the demonstration Flemish banners were carried, but also a controversial banner depicting the prophet Mohammed. They called Allah ‘a lie’. Islam was depicted as ‘a backward desert religion’.

[Third photo, Mohammed not welcome]

The demonstrators want Europe to close its borders for more refugees and referred to Cologne’s rape scandal.

For links to previous articles about PEGIDA (Patriotische Europäer Gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes, Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West) and related movements, see the PEGIDA Archives.