Leave Our Mosque Alone!

The following video shows the reaction of Muslim residents in Clichy-la-Garenne (a northwestern suburb of Paris) when police enter their mosque and evacuate so that it can be closed.

From the notes accompanying the original video:

FRANCE — CLICHY — Street prayers and a demonstration after the tense evacuation of a mosque in Clichy-la-Garenne

Occupied illegally since 2015, a place of worship that is to be transformed into a media library was evacuated by the police, despite the presence of the faithful who tried to intervene. The protesters then gathered in front of the town hall.

After the morning prayer on March 22, dozens of CRS [Republican Security Company] began the evacuation of the mosque of Clichy-la-Garenne.

Some 50 people tried in vain to intervene before being forcibly removed.

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

Transcript:

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A Bonfire at the Sternschanze in Hamburg

The Sternschanze, also called the “Schanze”, is a district and metro station in Hamburg. The incident described in the article below took place tonight about 300 yards away from the Sternschanze metro station.

Egri Nök, who translated this brief piece from the Hamburger Morgenpost, adds this bit of context:

The building in the Background is an Antifa squat, by the way. It used to be a theater and they turned it into a squat in 1989. And the name of the square is not “Achidi John Place”, of course; they just put that sign up there.

The translated article:

Commotion in the Schanze

Chaos and frenzy: police gather forces

[photo caption: More than 300 persons gathered for a spontaneous demonstration in the Schanze. Photo: JOTO]

by Rüdiger Gaertner
March 24, 2017 9:24pm

Trash cans burning, sirens howling through the night: there was a large police action at Schulterblatt on Friday evening. At about 9pm CET passers-by reported to police that around 300 demonstrators had gathered on the street.

Several patrol cars immediately arrived. As a precaution, a group of a hundred was alerted, too. Several minutes later the firefighters were also given the alarm: trash cans had been set on fire.

But a police spokeswoman gave an all-clear: according to her it was only about 150 Kurds celebrating their New Year festival there.

A video of the festivities:

The BBC Asks What the Penalty for Blasphemy Should Be — And Doesn’t Like the Answer

The hostess in the following clip from the BBC makes the mistake of asking her listeners — most of them presumably Muslims — what the penalty for blasphemy should be. She seems genuinely surprised when a caller tells her exactly what Islamic law specifies as the required punishment for blasphemers.

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

Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/23/2017

The native “Briton” who committed the jihad attack in London yesterday has been identified: his name is Khalid Masood, and he was 52 years old when he rammed his vehicle into pedestrians and stabbed a policeman. Authorities say the late mujahid was a “lone wolf” terrorist. Police immediately arrested eight people in Birmingham as part of the ongoing investigation into the attack.

In other news, around 250 would-be migrants are thought to have drowned in the Mediterranean when the two inflatable dinghies carrying them capsized.

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This is How the Soros-Type “Civilian” Organizations Do It

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are portrayed in the media and by leftist politicians as neutral non-profit organizations whose volunteers organize charitable operations with the help of high-minded philanthropists.

The reality, of course, is somewhat different. The following report from Hungary discusses the justifications for classifying foreign-funded NGOs as lobbying organizations, and their employees as agents of foreign powers. Regarding the latter characteristic, I would suggest the recognition of a new class of potentially subversive lobbyists: those who act not in the interests of any one national power, but as agents for global governance, trans-national corporations, and international financial interests.

The article below from 888.hu is a précis of the full monograph [pdf] about Soros’ operations. Many thanks to CrossWare for the translation.

This is how the Soros-type “civilian” organizations do it

By Balázs Bácskai
March 21, 2017

The Századvég (Century-End) Foundation [Significant conservative think tank in Hungary — translator] compiled a monograph about the influence-seeking techniques of NGOs (non-governmental organizations) and the qualms about that. These NGOs finance their activities using foreign financial sources and are inaccurately called “civilian organizations”, because the nature of their operations are emphatically different from the tens of thousands of domestically-funded NGOs.

The NGOs are active ideologically committed political actors

The NGOs have serious power to influence public opinion, and furthermore some NGOs have more international influence than some states or political organizations. They owe their influence and recognition to the fact that they have an advantage against openly political organizations to position themselves as civilians and independent. The important question is: How do the NGOs use the above-mentioned influence? According to the findings of Századvég, some organizations engage in distribution of a well-defined political ideology. Ideologically, these organizations are therefore are not at all independent.

In their activities they typically use human rights issues for political gain. But their political independence is made questionable by the fact that the NGOs actively intervene in the internal politics of a nation-state. In domestic political issues such as the migration crisis, same-sex marriage, and drug liberalization, they typically take the side of the foreign supporter’s opinion. In fact, they sometimes provide such powerful policy tools in the hands of the opposition, they can successfully cause the fall of the ruling government.

The organizations that use foreign resources struggle with a democratic deficit

In a representative democracies, the application of political ideologies and the shaping of domestic policy is the right of political parties who are given a mandate in public elections. However, the mandate of NGOs themselves is not measured by traditional elections, so the grounds for their activities are questionable. In addition, NGOs also raise some accountability questions. Political parties operate with the knowledge that the voters will give their opinions about their activities every four years, and when appropriate, this may lead to their political destruction. This cannot be said about NGOs, which do not participate in political competitions in a traditional sense. Their activities are completely independent of the electorate’s will, so they can continue to operate and develop their social reputation on political issues, even though they have absolutely no public support.

They create their legitimacy by networking

NGOs often emphasize their expertise when trying to substantiate the basis for their existence. NGOs try to authenticate their professionalism by referring to their high number of international and domestic citations, saying that if so many people cite them, then obviously they are professionally competent. But their high level of citations is due not to their high technical excellence, but rather to their networking. In practical terms, this means that are they enmeshed all around the world, operating branch organizations in almost every country, in addition co-operating with NGOs with similar profile. So their highly-quoted status (and hence also their professional credibility) is generated by themselves among themselves.

Foreign-funded organizations often represent the business and political interests of their supporters

The NGOs often emphasize that they are independent “from everything.” As noted above, ideological, political independence in their case is not possible. The Századvég study also points out that the NGOs are financially dependent on their supporting donors. As a consequence, the NGOs subordinate the professional aspects to the private economic interests of their donors. The post-Soviet countries provide a great example of the NGOs’ economic lobbying activities after the change of regime. In these countries, NGOs have seeped into the national legislatures, insisting on economic liberalization, privatization and free market legalization, when actually they are lobbying for the economic interests of their capital-rich western donor corporations. Part of the professional literature therefore considers a group of NGOs as quasi-lobbyists. But in public perception as well they appear more and more to be lobbyists. According to a 2013 European-wide study, 51% of respondents think that NGOs are lobbyists. In Estonia this number is 100%, in Finland 93%, in Latvia 80%, in the Netherlands 78% identify NGOs as lobbyists.

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And Now Antwerp

It looks like a Maghrebin culture-enricher was planning to pull off a vehicular jihad attack in Antwerp today, but was stopped before anyone was hurt.

Many thanks to Egri Nök for translating this article from Die Welt:

Belgium: Man in Antwerp prevented from driving into crowd

3:19pm CET

[photo caption: Police in Antwerp at the terror investigations]

One day after the act of terror in London, it appears an attack was prevented in the Belgium town of Antwerp.

According to police, before noon on Thursday, a man drove at high speed through the main shopping street. People had to jump to the sides, they say. The car had caught the attention of police because it ran a red light.

After being chased by security forces, the car was stopped and the driver arrested. He was wearing a camouflage uniform. Several stabbing weapons, one gun, and a canister containing an unknown substance were found in the car.

The man was in camouflage uniform

The car had a French license plate. Additional forces of police and army were deployed in the town.

The arrested is from Northern Africa, and, according to media reports, already known to the police for illegal possession of weapons. Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel thanked the security forces on Twitter.

The incident took place on the well-known Meir shopping street. The day before, a man carried out a deadly attack on Westminster Bridge and in front of Parliament in London.

Somali Burns Down Asylum Center in Mönchengladbach

Another day, another asylum center burned to the ground.

Today’s arson was committed by a Somali resident at a center in the German town of Mönchengladbach. Many thanks to Egri Nök for translating this article from Express.de:

Mönchengladbach: Major Fire in Refugee Center — Resident Arrested

[Photo caption: Thursday before noon, a refugee shelter in Carl-Diem-Straße in Mönchengladbach burnt to the ground completely. The inhabitants accuse an asylum seeker from Somalia of setting the fire. He was arrested.]

Mönchengladbach — The smoke column rising from the Volksgarten in Mönchengladbach on Thursday mid-morning was visible for kilometers.

Smoke Column over Volksgarten

A fire broke out in a refugee shelter on Carl-Diem-Straße shortly after 10 AM CET. The flames spread rapidly. The container modules which housed refugees from different countries were soon fully ablaze.

Firefighters could basically only let it burn down in a controlled manner. There was nothing left to save.

Did an inhabitant set the fire?

Police arrested a 21-year-old asylum seeker from Somalia. Other inhabitants accused him to the police of setting the fire.

It is not certain if he indeed set the fire. Police began further investigations.

No one was injured. The refugees are being taken to other shelters at the moment.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/22/2017

In the southern Italian city of Foggia, a North African man ran through a police roadblock and injured one officer before crashing his vehicle. When he got out of the car he stabbed another police officer, and was then arrested. Same [effluent], same day, different country.

Also today, as if to underscore events in London, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Europeans that it would not be long until they “will not walk safely on their streets”.

In other news, on Sunday a man carrying a knife disrupted a mass in a Catholic church in Kuwait City. No one was hurt, and he was arrested. He is said to have a history of mental problems.

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Tommy Robinson in Westminster: “It Has Everything to do With Islam”

Tommy Robinson, the former leader of the English Defence League, happened to be in central London this afternoon (doing a video shoot with TheRebel.media, if I understand it correctly). He was only a couple of minutes away from Westminster when the mujahid mowed down pedestrians on the bridge and then stabbed a policeman to death, so Tommy came as close to the “crime scene” as he could before recording this video.

Language warning: In the heat of the moment, Tommy uses some salty language in this clip:

Hat tip: Steen.

What’s Erdogan Doing?

Our Dutch correspondent H. Numan sends his analysis of what the cheerful, avuncular Recep Tayyip Erdogan is up to with his latest antics.

What’s Erdogan Doing?

by H. Numan

Our beloved bogeyman Erdogan seems to be frothing at the mouth. Just about anyone he can insult he has already insulted, and he is looking for more. Why? Why infuriate Germany so much that even Merkel has to say: You shall not pass!

First of all, mohammedans have a terrible inferiority complex, which they compensate for by looking down on the rest of humanity. Sorry. They don’t. They are humanity. The rest of us are a kind of apes, according to mohammedans. Even the poorest mohammedan beggar in Mecca is infinitely superior to non-believers, no matter how rich they are or what accomplishments they have. It’s built into the religion, right from the start. Don’t forget that mohammedanism was invented in the world’s crotch, by nomadic and semi-nomadic bandits. The truth hurts, and they know it.

Back to Turkey. It used to be one of the world’s superpowers, for centuries. That is often forgotten in Europe, because that truth hurts just as much. The Ottoman Empire was the successor to the Byzantine Empire. Where the Byzantine Empire was already tottering in decline, the Ottoman empire grew vibrantly. It took over the Byzantine Empire, and has enjoyed its very strategic position on both sides of the Bosphorus until this very day.

Taking over the Byzantine Empire in 1453 was just the cherry on top of the cake. The eastern Mediterranean was already a Turkish sea. Before Columbus discovered America and Spain became the western superpower, the Ottoman empire already was. Like communism, it carried its own seeds of destruction. Communism went the way of the dodo in 74 years; the Ottoman empire took much longer to die. It was one of the European superpowers until the 19th century, and after that it took a long time to become the sick old man of Europe. It lost the last of its European colonies only after 1912 during the first Balkan wars.

The most important reason for its decline is religion. Mohammedanism doesn’t invent. It takes things over. All religions share that habit. Readers may disagree with me. Western science didn’t take off because of religion, but despite religion. Real progress was made after the religious wars of the 17th century were resolved.

Mohammedans do not invent. They never have, and never will. Lefties often praise the discoveries made by mohammedans, but that is pure propaganda. Algebra, for example, was not invented by mohammedans. It was invented well before them by, among others, Greeks and Indians. All mohammedans did was take it as booty. They invented the word ‘algebra’ and very little else. The Turks were no exception. Once they ran out of steam after the Siege of Vienna they started to lag behind. More and more as times progressed. Turkish janissaries fought in mail armor against Napoleonic muskets, for example.

Kemal Ataturk abolished the sultanate, secularized society as much as humanly possible within a mohammedan culture, ethnically cleansed the country of Greeks and started again. He did a much better cleansing job than Hitler. With some economic success. Not because the Turks are such a creative bunch of people, but purely because of their strategic location. Everybody wants it. Nobody wants someone else to have it.

Erdogan was one of the many Turkish politicians who wanted power, and is the last man standing. He launched a coup against himself. Which, of course, failed. That failed coup was a copy of the Reichstag fire. Just an excuse to arrest everybody and his cousin. Like any wannabe dictator (or sultan-to-be), he doesn’t like opposition. There is lots of it, in Turkey. About 50% aren’t really keen on seeing Erdogan elected president with ruling power in the April referendum. The other half can’t wait for it to happen.

At this moment Erdogan is the ceremonial president. He controls the entire government, but that’s not the same thing as being able to rule yourself. Hence the referendum.

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Car and Knife Jihad in London

Update 2:35pm EDT: The perp has died, and so has a cop he stabbed. Four people are reportedly dead, but it’s not clear whether the mujahid is numbered among them.

(Hat tip: KGS)

Update 1:18pm EDT: Here’s a photo of the mujahid being wheeled away for medical treatment:

Two of the pedestrians he ran down are reportedly dead, and at least a dozen people were wounded.

This is breaking news. The headlines I saw didn’t mention whether any of the pedestrians mowed down by the vehicle were killed.

From Breitbart:

The British Parliament Has Been Suspended and Westminster is on Lockdown After Police Reportedly Apprehended a Knife Attacker on the Grounds of the Houses of Parliament.

Shots were heard late afternoon on Wednesday, with authorities confirming within minutes that the Parliament was on lock down and Members of Parliament were kept in the Commons chamber.

Less than an hour after the attack London’s Metropolitan Police declared they were treating the attack as a “terrorist incident”.

[…]

Eyewitnesses report between “eight and ten” figures on the ground on Westminster Bridge, believed to have been the victim of a car ramming attack using a 4×4 vehicle. Eyewitnesses have told how the vehicle mounted the pavement and mowed down pedestrians.

It is currently believed the driver of the car then turned the corner onto Parliament Square before getting out of the car and attempting to get into the grounds of the Palace of Westminster, stabbing a police officer along the way.

[…]

The man is believed to have been shot by police and put in an air ambulance to a nearby hospital.

Britain’s Prime Minister, Theresa May, is said to have been in the division chamber, voting after Prime Minister’s Questions, when she was whisked away by a plain-clothes police officer. An air ambulance helicopter has touched down in Parliament square after the attack, which is thought to have consisted of a car attack and a knifeman.

The police and the director of security of the House of Commons have advised the Chamber of the House to be locked down.

Hat tip: Seneca III.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/21/2017

The European Union’s commissioner for migration says the EU can and will force member states, including Poland, to take their share of migrants that cross the external borders of the EU. Meanwhile, the number of migrants landing on the Greek islands has shown a sharp increase in the last few days, and may be an indication that Turkish President Erdogan is carrying out his threat to unleash a new flood of immigrants on Europe.

In other news, the body found in the house that blew up in Rockville, Maryland has been identified as that of the homeowner, Steven Martin Beck, who died of a gunshot wound. According to police, forensic evidence indicates that Mr. Beck shot both himself and his dog to death before the house blew up.

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