Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/31/2016

French Minister for Families Laurence Rossignol provoked outrage by saying that women who wear the Islamic veil are like “Negroes who supported slavery.” The minister’s comments were in response to a spate of fashion shows aimed at the Islamic market that feature women in hijab.

In other news, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton said that the migration crisis in Europe is a threat to the national security of the United States.

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ISIS Terror Cell Busted in Moscow: The Uzbek-Turkish Connection

This Russian TV news report details a raid on an apartment in Moscow that allegedly served as the headquarters of a cell of operatives for the Islamic State. The men who were arrested were all Uzbeks, but there may well be a Turkish connection, judging by the presence of forged Turkish IDs among the fake documents. It seems that the cell’s function was to facilitate the movement of people to and from Syria and Iraq through Turkey, and within the Russian Federation as well.

Many thanks to D@rLin|{ for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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Paul Weston on Long Island: Totalitarian Britain Cracks Down on Criticism of Islam

On March 8, as part of his North American tour, Paul Weston spoke to AlertLI, a chapter of ACT For America, in Hauppaugue, New York.

Below are excerpts from his talk that focus on the increasingly totalitarian nature of the British state, which is tightening the rules on the criticism of Islam and cracking down on people who break them. The recent emergence of PEGIDA UK — of which Mr. Weston is one of the leaders — is the latest reaction to Britain’s repressive political culture.

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

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.

A Rosetta Stone for Viktor Orbán: Slovenian

Earlier this month Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave a major speech that has electrified people not just in Hungary, but all across the European Union. Mr. Orbán used the occasion of Hungary’s National Day to urge his countrymen and other EU countries to resist the totalitarian dictates on immigration imposed by Brussels.

Below is the Slovenian version of excerpts from Mr. Orbán’s speech. Many thanks to Andrej Turjaški for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/30/2016

Two groups of men of “Middle Eastern appearance”, each comprising about 15 people, gathered at a remote location in a California state park, fired automatic weapons while shouting “Allahu Akhbar”, and threatened campers and visitors. One group fled when the police arrived, while the members of the other group were detained, and later released. Local police pooh-poohed rumors about what happened, and said they were “unfounded”.

In other news, the National Border Patrol Council has endorsed Donald Trump for president.

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A Rosetta Stone for Viktor Orbán: Dutch

On March 15, 2016, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave a landmark speech. The occasion was on Hungary’s National Day commemorating the country’s independence in 1848. He spoke about the importance of national sovereignty, and the necessity for European countries to be unified in their opposition to the migration policies imposed by Brussels.

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Revision, Denial, and Wishful Thinking

Dyspeptic commenters here at Gates of Vienna have occasionally pointed out that Dymphna and I are “preaching to the choir” — that is, we are addressing an audience that is already aware of the danger posed by Islam. Although there are occasional exceptions (I have received more than one email saying. “Your site opened my eyes!” or expressing similar sentiments), this is mostly true. New readers who find their way here are usually already aware of the nature of Islam.

In order to expand the pool of people who “get it”, it’s necessary to stick your neck out and talk to people who are not only ignorant about Islam, but may also be predisposed to resist anything you have to say. Since I live in a remote rural area, I rarely get the chance to do that sort of thing.

Yesterday was one of those rare occasions.

I have a like-minded friend, a conservative to whom it is safe to forward occasional “Islamophobic” emails. She has a daughter named Anna about the same age as the future Baron, who lives in Izmir with her Turkish husband and their small child. The husband is from a secular/atheist Turkish family, and has converted to Christianity. I’ve met them both; they’re decent people.

Her daughter’s residence in Turkey is a source of continuous worry for my friend — she knows the general trend of events in the region, and has urged Anna to get out of Turkey and come back to the USA before it becomes dangerous there. Her motherly concern has turned into a bone of contention between the two.

Yesterday I received an Armenian email newsletter detailing the recent expropriation by the Turkish government of private plots of land in eastern Turkey, including Armenian Catholic churches, Chaldean churches, and Assyrian churches. I knew this would be of interest to my friend, who is a staunch Christian. What happens in eastern Turkey today may well happen on the Mediterranean coast tomorrow or next week.

The newsletter added to her already high level of concern, and she forwarded my email to her daughter. Much to my surprise, I received this direct communication from Anna:

Ned,

Mother forwarded me your e-mail. I appreciate your concern, but Turkey is a wonderful, secular, modern country and we are very happy here. The government is tolerant of all religions. I feel much safer and happier here than I did in the U.S., because people are more loving and hospitable. I have never felt religious pressure here. People don’t even talk about religion, it’s a very private, personal thing. Very few women wear the veil; most dress just like Europeans. There is complete equality between men and women. You should visit before you believe poorly informed propaganda written by people who have never even visited Turkey and are uneducated. Then you would see how it really is. I wouldn’t leave this wonderful place if you paid me.

By the way, asbarez.com is an Armenian-American website highly prejudiced against Turks. It’s not an objective news source. While conducting research, you should really investigate the reliability of your sources.

I could have just shrugged my shoulders and not bothered to reply. But this young lady may be in danger before too long, and her apostate husband even more so. I felt it was my duty to do the best I could, so I spent a long time composing this measured reply:

With all due respect, the material that crosses my desk is not “poorly informed propaganda”. It is made up of news stories from multiple sources in all parts of Turkey. The prospects for non-Muslims in Turkey over the medium-to-long term are not auspicious. For secular Muslims, they may be even worse — during the recurring bouts of Islamic fundamentalism that have swept the region over the past thousand years, the greatest anger of the zealots is usually reserved for Muslims who are insufficiently Islamic. In fact, those who fare the worst are apostates, i.e. people who have left Islam. Their crime is known as kufr, or unbelief, and they are called gavur in Turkish. During the massacre of September 1922, in Smyrna (Izmir), when the Armenians and the Assyrian Christians were killed en masse, the cry of “Gavur!” was often heard as the soldiers and mobs carried out the slaughter. In other words, the massacre was religious in nature, motivated by Islam.


The burning of Smyrna, September 1922, taken from the forebridge of HMS King George V

I do not say these things idly, or without having studied them. I have been doing this work for twelve years now, and have been studying Islamic law and theology intensively for the past seven years. I’ve worked closely with Major Stephen Coughlin, the foremost non-Muslim expert on Islamic law in the United States. Until Muslims forced his removal, he worked in the Pentagon for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, briefing the generals on Islamic law. This was something that the Muslim Brotherhood — whose operatives also work in the Defense Department — did not want the Joint Chiefs to know. So Major Coughlin had to go.

His book is out now, and I highly recommend it: Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad:

I helped him write the first draft back in 2010, based on a nine-hour video of his full Pentagon briefing. Since then he has expanded it greatly. He understands what Islam is up to in the United States better than anyone else I know.

I have made the Islamization of Europe my area of specialty. What has happened recently in Brussels, Paris, Copenhagen, and Cologne is the beginning of the “kinetic phase” of the Islamic hijra into Europe.

Turkey is pivotal in this process, since most of the Muslims entering Europe pass through Turkey as “refugees”. And now Turkey is also being attacked by the Islamic State, due to its secularity — which, despite President Erdogan’s efforts, is still largely in place in the major cities, including Ankara and Istanbul, and of course your own city Izmir.

The political situation in the region is complex. Fundamentalist Islam — both Sunni and Shi’ite — is in the ascendant at the moment. To simplify matters a bit, Mr. Erdogan and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the caliph of the Islamic State, are rivals for the title of Caliph of the Muslims. The Ottoman Sultan had held that office for almost a millennium until it was abolished by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1924, when Turkey was forcibly secularized. Recep Tayyip Erdogan obviously longs to recreate the Caliphate of the Ottomans, with himself or his son as Caliph. From his point of view al-Baghdadi is an upstart, a usurper.

However, he has found it expedient to work with the Islamic State, allowing material support to pass through Turkey to IS in Syria (and taking a cut of the profits). His family benefits from the black market oil trade that passes from IS’ refineries in Syria through Turkey to Mediterranean ports. The younger Erdogan runs the business that transships the oil.

Revelations about the corrupt relationship between the Erdogans and the Islamic State have been published in Turkey by, among others, the courageous editors of Cumhuriyet. As a result journalists have been arrested and imprisoned, and some have been killed under mysterious circumstances.

Despite their recent cooperation, in the long run there will be conflict between Erdogan and the Islamic State. IS has already launched the first skirmishes, at first just across the border from Syria, and then later in Istanbul.

Meanwhile, there is a Kurdish insurgency in the southeast, which is moving towards a full-blown war. As the economic situation continues to deteriorate (exacerbated by Russian sanctions), a three-way civil war in multiple areas is likely to emerge in the next two to five years.

You are fortunate to live where you do. The Mediterranean coast of Anatolia and Turkish Thrace are, despite the massacres of the 1920s, still the most Europeanized regions of Turkey, where Christians can live more or less normal lives. The most dangerous and brutal events are occurring far to the east and north of you.

However, the signs for the long term are not good. The reason I forwarded that Armenian newsletter to your mother is that it is quite ominous for the future of Christians in Turkey. If the AKP government can expropriate church property in the eastern provinces, it can do so elsewhere — when the time is auspicious, and the revenue needed. Churches do not enjoy any permanent protection from such practices under Islamic law, which is what Mr. Erdogan intends to fully implement throughout Turkey as soon as he can manage it.

What happened to those Armenian and Assyrian churches is significant — not even the Ottoman Sultans attempted that kind of wholesale expropriation. As long as the Christians paid the jizyah — the annual poll tax that guaranteed them protection under the dhimma, or “pact” — they were allowed to practice their religion, provided they obeyed the strictures imposed by the sharia (they could not build new churches, they could not ring the bells, their houses must not be taller than Muslims’ houses, they were not allowed to be ostentatious in their display of wealth, they must wear distinctive clothing identifying them as gavur, etc.).

Yes, I understand that the Armenians are “prejudiced” against the Turks. They have every reason to be — between 800,000 and 1.5 million of them were murdered during the genocide of 1915. Their “prejudice” against the Turks is therefore very similar to the “prejudice” of the Jews against the Nazis.

Over the long term, Erdogan and the AKP plan to fully Islamize Turkey. Mr. Erdogan does not believe in “moderate” Islam. As he famously said, “There is no ‘moderate’ Islam — Islam is Islam, that’s it.”

President Erdogan’s moves against Christians are harsher than those of the Sultans — this does not bode well for Christians in Turkey.

The secular, liberal Turks are concentrated mainly in the urban areas and their adjacent suburbs. In the rural hinterlands, the fundamentalists are in the majority. And their numbers are growing all the time — they have more children than the city dwellers and suburbanites, so the future belongs to them. According to some surveys, they are now in the majority in the country as a whole. They are what keeps President Erdogan in power.

I understand that you love where you live, and would not lightly advise you to move. I suggest that you watch very carefully as events unfold over the next few years — with luck, you will get some advance warning of what is to come. Some of the earliest signs will be bombings or arson attacks against churches. Harassment of Christians on the street, especially women, is another sign. These will likely be accompanied by government pronouncements and propaganda about the necessity to observe Islamic law more strictly.

As a guide to what may lie ahead for Turkey, study up on Lebanon. Fifty years ago it was a secular, modern, tolerant multi-religious state. Now it is an Islamic pest-hole dominated by Hezbollah and subject to chronic, severe violence. This occurred because the Muslim population grew while the Christian population stagnated or declined.

When things really deteriorate, Christians and lapsed Muslims will be targeted. And the latter will be subject to the more severe penalties. This has always occurred throughout history whenever waves of Islamic fundamentalism become dominant in Muslim countries.

None of this is ill-informed propaganda. These are simple historical facts.

Ned

P.S. This news story hit the headlines while I was composing this email:

“US orders diplomatic, military families out of south Turkey”

Her response arrived quickly — too quickly for her to have read more than a paragraph or two of what I wrote:

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A Rosetta Stone for Viktor Orbán: Danish

Update: There was a technical problem with the original video file. Vlad fixed it, so the embed is once again working.

On March 15 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave an impassioned speech about sovereignty on Hungary’s National Day commemorating the country’s independence in 1848. He described the dangers of mass immigration, and called for the nations of Europe to unite against the migration policies being imposed upon them by Brussels.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/29/2016

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that millions of Muslims adhere to an ideology that makes them incompatible with the modern world. He also said that the mujahideen of the Islamic State cannot be contained, that they “have to be crushed”.

In other news, the U.S. government ordered the families of American diplomats and military personnel evacuated from their posts in southern Turkey, due to the increasing threat of terrorism in the region.

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Editor of Österreich: Ban Islam!

We posted last Saturday about the editor of an Austrian daily paper who caused a ruckus by saying that it must be possible to discuss the banning of Islam from Europe. Below are two more articles on the topic, both translated by JLH.

First, a brief summary from Politically Incorrect:

Editor of Österreich: Ban Islam!

Wolfgang Fellner, the Viennese editor of the daily paper Österreich (Austria), has penned a very readable commentary on the terrorism in Brussels. He suggests taking three lessons from the “Super-GAU for our security”. Fellner: …The third point in the battle against terrorism is the most problematic: The discussion must be allowed of whether Islam per se should be banned in Europe. With all due respect for the freedom of religion and the many peaceful, sympathetic adherents of Islam here in Austria. The lines between peaceful Islam and terrorism in the name of Islam are becoming increasingly more blurred. In our municipal kindergartens. In many mosques. Terror is encouraged, preached and prepared there. This cannot go on.

And a longer article from Die Presse:

Brussels Terrorism: Uproar Over the Österreich Commentary on the Banning of Islam

Editor Wolfgang Fellner calls for allowing discussion of a ban on the practice of Islam in Europe. Religious community criticizes Fellner.

March 23, 2016

An editorial in the daily Österreich by Wolfgang Fellner has caused outrage among Austrian Muslims. In the Wednesday edition. he opined : “The discussion must be allowed of whether Islam per se should be banned in Europe.” The opinion of the Islamic community is that Fellner is openly “attacking the central human right of religious freedom.”

The spokeswoman for the Islamic Faith Community in Austria (IGGiÖ), Carla Amina Baghajati, stated in a broadcast that Fellner’s statement represented “an atrocity and must not be passed over in silence.” She says that Islam is a state-recognized religion in Austria. When Fellner writes that the lines between peaceful Islam and terrorism in the name of Islam are becoming increasingly more blurred, she says, Muslims are being pushed into the “spiritual vicinity of the terrorists.”

Terrorists “are happy” about this comment

Terrorists would be happy about Fellner’s comment, Baghajati believes, for “Islamophobia is grist for the mill of their perfidious recruiting propaganda which above all emphasizes the experience of exclusion.” The editor of Österreich is doing them a favor “by going beyond the general suspicion already painfully perceptible to Muslims.” By openly discussing the demand for a ban, he is only confirming the distorted view offered by the terrorists.

Fellner refined his view. It a not about a ban on a religion per se, but a possible ban on its practice. As in the study on kindergartens commissioned by the Minister of Integration, Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP — Austrian People’s Party), there must be an examination of the institutions of the religious community. in order to draw appropriate conclusions. “For me, it is also that the ideology of terrorism must be stopped,” Fellner expanded. Therefore, it would be necessary to investigate to what extent this is an ideology of Islam itself.

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A Rosetta Stone for Viktor Orbán: Spanish

Earlier this month Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave an important speech on Hungary’s National Day commemorating the country’s hard-won independence in 1848, the “Year of Revolutions”, affirming his country’s determination not to be dictated to by the EU.

Below is the Spanish version of excerpts from Mr. Orbán’s speech. Many thanks to pampasnasturtium for doing the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Another version of this video subtitled in Spanish is available here.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/28/2016

A man named Larry Russell Dawson pulled a gun on a police officer at the screening area of the National Capitol visitors’ center in Washington D.C., and was immediately shot and wounded by police. Mr. Dawson is under arrest in the hospital, where he is recovering from his wounds. He is reportedly known to police, having exhibited (non-Muslim) religious mania at the House of Representatives last fall.

In other news, in his Easter message Pope Francis condemned governments that prevent refugees from crossing borders.

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The Church of Universal COEXISTence

A woman named Dawn sent us the following disturbing information about a church she used to attend. She’s asked that her anonymity be preserved, so I’ve edited out anything that might indicate where she lives and which church is referred to.

This sort of “educational” material can only gain traction where there is widespread ignorance about the history and doctrines of Islam. Disinformation flourishes among well-meaning but ill-informed people. This is why websites such as Gates of Vienna, Vlad Tepes, Tundra Tabloids, The Religion of Peace, Politically Incorrect, Snaphanen, Jihad Watch, and Pamela Geller exist — to provide an education about Islam that is otherwise sorely lacking.

Here’s what Dawn had to say:

For the past four years, a mainline church I used to attend has been opening their hall to Muslims to gather for Friday prayers. Since most of the congregation are elderly, no one has complained. The imam who leads the Friday prayers has run a few Q&A sessions for people interested in Islam, also in the church hall, and has left booklets there explaining an airbrushed version of Islam.

This same imam has podcasts that used to be online (but seem to have disappeared) where he preaches to fellow Muslims in a very different tone, frequently calling his fellow non-Muslim citizens “racists” and “bigots.” When I finally spoke up and suggested that this is our opportunity to open their hearts and minds to the teachings of Christianity, I was met with expressions of shock and indignation.

Recently, I noticed this official announcement poster in our church hall:


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I looked online to try to find the source of their percentages and came across the Global Research website, which seems to be where it originated.

It would be interesting to know where these stats come from, as there are no links to data. I agree the Muslim victim statistic is high, but the other percentages are also highly doubtful. The definitions seem skewed as well.

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Fjordman: War

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On the morning of March 22, 2016, Belgium was struck by coordinated nail bombings. Two hit Brussels Airport at the check-in counter, before the security screening. Another suicide bomber hit Maalbeek metro station, located not far from prominent EU buildings. The attacks occurred a few days before the Christian Easter celebrations. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (IS or ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attacks. At least 35 people were killed, and many seriously injured. The Muslim terrorists have connections to militant Muslims in many parts of Europe and the Middle East.[1] The authorities faced difficulties in apprehending some of the terrorists partly because they enjoy widespread sympathy and support in certain Muslim communities.

Brussels is not merely the capital of Belgium. It is also the capital of the European Union (EU), and houses the headquarters of the Western defense alliance NATO. It is therefore a symbolic target. The city contains a large Muslim immigrant population. In notorious urban districts such as Molenbeek, radical Muslims have ties to international Jihadist networks. Belgium has produced more Jihadists as a proportion of its population than any other Western European country. On May 24, 2014, a gunman killed four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels.

Following the Brussels bombings, the US State Department warned US citizens of the “potential risks” of traveling to Europe. A statement said terror groups were planning “attacks throughout Europe, targeting sporting events, tourist sites, restaurants and transportation.”[2]

Europe is now becoming more like Israel, facing constant Islamic terror threats in daily life. When I worked in the Middle East in the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) civil observer mission in 2002 and 2003, my experience there made me fear that this would happen in Europe. I had also been studying Arabic at the American University in Cairo. I lived in Egypt during the September 11 terror attacks in the USA in 2001, which was quite interesting.

The Mike’s Place suicide bombing killed three civilians and wounded 50 at the beautiful beach front of Tel Aviv on April 30, 2003. I was there that day and had been sitting very close to this spot only minutes earlier. This event made a deeper impression upon me than other acts of terrorism in the region. That is because it was carried out by Muslims with British passports, not by local Palestinian Arabs.[3] I remember thinking that the Muslim terrorists who strike Israel today may well extend their Jihadist operations to Europe tomorrow. This is indeed what happened shortly afterwards. Islamic terrorists committed mass casualty attacks in Madrid and London. The Madrid bombings on March 11, 2004 and the London bombings on July 7, 2005 targeted the general population in public transport.

2015 was a turbulent year. Islamic terrorists attacked in different parts of the world. More than 60 people, most of them European tourists, were brutally murdered in Jihadist massacres in Tunis and Sousse, Tunisia. Due to instability in the region, many Europeans now refrain from traveling to countries such as Tunisia, Egypt or even Turkey. The problem is that Middle Eastern ghettos now exist all over Western Europe. Europeans no longer have to travel to the Islamic world to be exposed to Islamic terrorism. As a direct result of Muslim immigration, the Islamic terror threat is now great in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Barcelona, Rome and Stockholm.

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