Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/30/2017

One of four mujahideen arrested recently in Mallorca was planning a massacre in a city center modeled after the vehicle-and-knife jihad attacks in London. Meanwhile, London is facing the possibility the jihadis may run down pedestrians using mopeds, which can get through the new barriers via gaps designed for bicycles.

In other news, a man went on a rampage with a knife in a market in Tunisia, wounding two German tourists.

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The Red Star Flies Again Over Ljubljana

It seems that Communism is the Ideology That Will Not Die.

Our Slovenian correspondent Andrej Turjaški sent the following note today about a recent event in Ljubljana. Despite the bitter lessons of experience, some people in Slovenia are still enamored of the Red Star and all it represents:

Yesterday the Slovenian followers of the Red Star gathered in our capital to celebrate the symbol of the Red Star. They showed who has the power in Slovenia. 26 years into independence, but there were still Yugoslavian and Slovenian flags with a Red Star on display. Sad, very sad for those of us who know what kind of atrocities were committed under the Red Star.

For more info and photos, click the link [in Slovenian].

Best regards to you,
Andrej Turjaški

Abdallah Won’t Assimilate!

Abdallah Zekri is the director of the Islamophobia Observatory (l’observatoire de l’islamophobie) for an organization called the Collective Against Islamophobia in France (Le Collectif contre l’islamophobie en France, CCIF). CCIF’s observatory is similar to that of the OIC — it monitors and records anything done by the kuffar that Muslims don’t like, and then makes loud complaints about it, taking legal action whenever possible.

He is a prominent public figure among Muslims in France, and reportedly has the ear of the new president, Emmanuel “Toy Boy” Macron.

In the interview below, you’ll hear Mr. Zekri discuss the integration or assimilation of Muslims into French culture, and how much he holds that concept in contempt.

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

Video transcript:

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Sturm und Drang

A big orange and red blob is heading our way, according to the Nexrad radar image. That means boom and bang in the sky, water pouring down the driveway, and high winds in the trees.

It probably won’t knock out our Internet, but you never know. Lately it seems that whenever a bird drops a doot on the phone company’s server box, our Internet connection goes down.

So if you don’t hear from us for a while, you know it’s another “Oh, no! Not again!” moment here at Schloss Bodissey.

Terror and Slaughter Return

We’ve featured this poem before, but it’s been more than ten years. Another look is warranted, given how much more dire times have become than they were just a decade ago.

Rudyard Kipling was a prophet whose clear vision peered ahead into the devastated twilight of Western Civilization. “The Gods of the Copybook Headings” is a remarkable poem. Written almost a century ago, it speaks to today’s deracinated remnants of Christian culture as we approach End Game:

The Gods of the Copybook Headings
by Rudyard Kipling

As I pass through my incarnations
                in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations
                to the Gods of the Market-Place.
Peering through reverent fingers
                I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings,
                I notice, outlast them all.

We were living in trees when they met us.
                They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us,
                as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift,
                Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas
                while we followed the March of Mankind.

We moved as the Spirit listed.
                They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne
                like the Gods of the Market-Place;
But they always caught up with our progress,
                and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield,
                or the lights had gone out in Rome.

With the Hopes that our World is built on
                they were utterly out of touch.
They denied that the moon was Stilton;
                they denied she was even Dutch.
They denied that Wishes were Horses;
                they denied that a Pig had Wings.
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market
                Who promised these beautiful things.

When the Cambrian measures were forming,
                they promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons,
                that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us
                and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said:
                ”Stick to the Devil you know.”

On the first Feminian Sandstones
                we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour
                and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children
                and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said:
                ”The Wages of Sin is Death.”

In the Carboniferous Epoch
                we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter
                to pay for collective Paul;
But though we had plenty of money,
                there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said:
                ”If you don’t work you die.”

Then the Gods of the Market tumbled,
                and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew,
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled
                and began to believe it was true,
That All is not Gold that Glitters,
                and Two and Two make Four —
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings
                limped up to explain it once more.

As it will be in the future,
                it was at the birth of Man —
There are only four things certain
                since Social Progress began —
That the Dog returns to his Vomit
                and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger
                goes wobbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished,
                and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing
                and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us,
                as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
                with terror and slaughter return!

Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/29/2017

The Czech Republic responded to the EU’s crackdown on guns by passing a constitutional change that includes the right to bear arms. One of the purposes of the new gun rights is to give ordinary citizens the ability to respond quickly in the event of a terrorist attack.

In other news, the European Union is concerned about President Donald Trump’s plan to visit Poland ahead of the G20 meeting. The mandarins of Brussels are worried that Mr. Trump’s visit will enhance the status of the nationalist government in Warsaw.

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Muzzled in France: Éric Zemmour Hit With a Gag Order and a Fine

Éric Zemmour is a well-known politically incorrect French journalist and commentator. He has been prosecuted and convicted in the past for his “racist” utterances.

Last week a criminal court in Paris handed down another judgment against Mr. Zemmour. In addition to a fine, this decision includes a gag order.

The remarks that got him in hot water this time were made on a TV talk show last September. The following video shows that “Islamophobic” discussion. Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Below are two articles about last week’s judgment against Éric Zemmour, also translated by Ava Lon. The first one is from Le Figaro:

Eric Zemmour sentenced again for Islamophobic remarks

June 22, 2017

The polemicist Eric Zemmour was sentenced Thursday [06/22/2017] to a €5,000 fine for incitement to hatred for anti-Muslim remarks made in the program “C to you” on September 6, 2016.

During the broadcast on France 5, he in particular considered it necessary to give Muslims “the choice between Islam and France”.

He also argued that “all Muslims, whether they say it or not,” regarded jihadists as “good Muslims.”

The Criminal Court of Paris ruled that the remarks he made are “undoubtedly serious”, with Eric Zemmour “stigmatizing on several occasions and in particularly violent and peremptory terms a community taken in its entirety”.

In addition to the fine, he was ordered to pay one euro in damages to CAPJPO EuroPalestine, which initiated the proceedings, and €2,000 for legal costs.

Eric Zemmour was previously convicted in 2011 for incitement to hatred, after saying on television that “most drug dealers are black and Arab; that’s how it is; it’s a fact.”

More recently, the Court of Appeal of Paris confirmed last November its sentence of a €3,000 fine for statements considered Islamophobic in the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera. He appealed in cassation.

And from Dreuz.info:

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Beaten and Nearly Blinded by Culture-Enrichers on the Beach in Lucerne

We’ve been spending a lot of time recently on the horrors and absurdities of Germany, so it’s time for a change: the following account describes a horrific attack on a native Swiss by migrants at the beach in the idyllic lakeside city of Lucerne.

Many thanks to Egri Nök for translating this article from Blick.ch:

Brutal attack in Lucerne: Noah (17) nearly blinded by beatings

June 28, 2017

Lucerne – a clique beats up Noah B.* (17) on the Ufschötti bathing beach in Lucerne. The attack is so brutal that the victim was almost blinded. Now police are onto the perpetrators.

by Anian Heierli

When Noah B.* (17) talks about last Friday, his voice is still shaky. A group of youths brutally beat him up right in the middle of Lucerne, on the Ufschötti public bathing beach. “Without any reason at all,” he tells Blick.

It was around 11pm when Noah and two friends were strolling towards the lake. “We walked past a group of fifteen young migrants. The half-drunk men hollered at us,” the college student remembers. Noah ignores them, wants to keep walking on. But the situation escalates: “One of them came running after me and without any warning hit me in the face.” The pupil realizes that a second one is attacking him from the side. Then he goes down. Blood is running across his forehead. He has to spend the night in hospital.

His injuries reveal how brutal the attack was. Noah has lacerations, fractures on both sides of his nose, and a rupture in his left eye. Doctors at first could not rule out that he might go blind. Fortunately they now know: his eye will heal. But from now on he will always have an increased risk of glaucoma.

Girlfriend was scared for Noah

Noah has a bad feeling: “I’m not sure if I will be able to go out carefree again.” His friend M.B.* (16), who witnessed the attack, cannot forget the terrible scenes. “Noah was covered in blood. I was so scared for him and I had to cry,” she says. The incident worries her: “I’m not sure if I will go to the bathing beach again in the evenings.”

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Geert Wilders: “We Must Finally and Urgently Introduce Administrative Detention”

The video below was recorded in the Dutch parliament today during the debate on counterterrorism. In it you’ll see Geert Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), make the case for administrative detention for terrorist suspects when there is not enough evidence to arrest them under normal judicial procedures:

Mohammad Will Style Your Hair — And Slit Your Throat

Mohammad Hussain Rashwani is a Syrian “refugee” who came to Germany for a better life. He is a skilled hairstylist, and found employment working for a woman who owns a hair salon in Herzberg. He did so well that he was touted as a model of successful “integration” in Modern Multicultural Germany.

Yesterday there was a little integration glitch: Mohammad was unable to resist emulating his namesake, and slit his employer’s throat.

I hardly need to point out that this incident has a Mohammed Coefficient of 100%.

Many thanks to Egri Nök for translating the two articles below from Lausitzer Rundschau. The first is a flashback to last summer, for background:

Syrian Hairstylist finds employment in Herzberg

Salon owner Ilona Fugmann is amazed by his skills

August 31, 2016

Herzberg — In early September, Ilona Fugmann will give the Syrian Mohammad Hussain Rashwani a permanent position in her hair salon in Herzberg. The 38-year-old’s skills immediately convinced her. Mohammad Hussain Rashwani is an example of how well integration can work out.

It was late June when Mohammad Hussain Rashwani introduced himself to Kevin Freiwald, the job adviser in charge for refugees at the Elbe-Elster job center in Herzberg. He said he was a hairdresser and was looking for work. Bärbel Meyer of the employers’ service of the job center knew of salons that were looking for good staff. “The demand in Elbe-Elster is very high. There are always three, four hair salons looking for staff,” she said. The job management staff member’s words fell on sympathetic ears with Ilona Fugmann, who had opened a salon in Herzberg in mid July. She wanted to give Mohammad Hussain Rashwani an apprenticeship first. But the ultimate goal was regular employment. “It is very difficult these days to find real good staff in the hairdressing craft. Why shouldn’t I give him a chance?” says Ilona Fugmann.

She immediately realized that Mohammad Hussain had an excellent command of his craft. He also gets along well with the two female colleagues in the salon on the Mönchstraße. “The chemistry is right. Admittedly, Mohammad is a proud person, but very attentive and prudent. He even helps with the clean-up,” says Ilona Fugmann.

Salon in Damascus was destroyed

Even though the Syrian only began the apprenticeship a few weeks ago, he already has regular customers, his colleagues say. The customers are just as convinced by his skills as his boss. This is no surprise. Mohammad Hussain Rashwani reports that he, a master hairdresser, and his family operated two salons in Damascus for more than fifteen years. The women operated the salon for ladies, and he operated the one for men. He does not have a problem with the fact that in Germany ladies and gentlemen are served in one salon. But he needs to brush up his skills on ladies’ hairstyles. Nevertheless, that won’t be difficult for him; Ilona Fugmann is certain. She will give Mohammad Hussain Rashwani regular employment. He is very happy about that. He came to Germany because his salon in Damascus was destroyed. He wants to start a new livelihood in Herzberg. Now that he has employment, his family can come, too. The 38-year-old has a wife and two children. He misses them very much.

The only thing that is still difficult for him is the German language. He tries very hard and is taking a language course at the community college. But in the meantime, he uses a translation app on his mobile phone to communicate with colleagues.

Language skills a problem

It is not everyday that a refugee like Mohammad Hussain Rashwani finds a job in Elbe-Elster. “In his case, it is a lucky constellation, and everyone involved is helping”, says the job center boss Eike Belle. “In the metal industry, with its many safety regulations, integration is much more difficult,” the manager says.

There are 411 refugees currently registered as unemployed in the job center for Elbe-Elster county. Only five to ten percent have got a sufficiently advanced command of German that they can find work, says Eike Belle. That is why they try to combine German language courses with career training, and offer several welcome courses. In addition, the refugees can use all the offers that German job seekers use.

[Photo caption: Kevin Freiwald of the job service allows himself to be convinced by the skills of Mohammad Hussain Rashwani, under the eyes of Eike Belle, Bärbel Meyer and Ilona Fugmann (right to left). Photo: Rudow]

The second article is about yesterday’s unfortunate incident:

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Germany — Land of Milk and Honey

What is the effect of immigration of people from collapsed states or states incapable of development? Are they importing that collapse to this society? Are they destroying here the cultural and institutional prerequisites of industrialization which they never had and could not create in their homelands?

The following brilliant and comprehensive article about Modern Multicultural Madness was the last one published before his death by the German scholar Rolf Peter Sieferle. Among other things, it provides a useful synonym for multiculturalism: “multi-tribalism”.

JLH, who translated the piece for Gates of Vienna, includes this introduction:

This article was recommended to me by Egri Nök.

Rolf Peter Sieferle took his own life on September 17, 2016, at age 67.

It is clear from the “in memoriam” comments in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as well as in assorted other articles, that he provoked strong feelings — affection and respect among friends, colleagues and students; bitter criticism from others, especially of his book Finis Germania, published post mortem, which is a miscellany of the thoughts and writings in his remaining manuscripts and journals. He has been characterized as a “right-radical” by many, for the obvious reason that he was a clear-eyed historian who provided a close look at what is happening today.

The last thing published before his death is the long article, Deutschland, Schlaraffenland, translated below. It is long, but worthwhile. With calm, relentless logic, he guides us through the rise of the industrialized, capitalist state and inexorably leads us through the causes and results of its dissolution in terms of universal history. He may be a latter-day Spengler, or a fact-based Nostradamus. Whatever he is, when I read his words, I find myself thinking that the real reason Donald Trump was elected is because many people went to the polls thinking, “Make us trust again!”

The translated article from Jürgen Fritz’s blog [pdf]:

Germany — Land of Milk and Honey

On the path to the multi-tribal society

by Rolf Peter Sieferle

At this point in time, a wave of immigration of unprecedented magnitude is inundating Europe. On the periphery, millions are setting out for the promised land. Europe is surrounded by collapsing states and hopeless areas. The population of Africa, presently circa one billion, is growing annually by 3%, that is, 30 million, of which several million yearly can set out on the way to a better, promised land. Add to this the emigration from the civil war areas of the Near East. Some of the earlier barriers to this migration have disappeared. In Libya alone, a million migrants await a space on a boat which will transport them on the dangerous passage across the Mediterranean Sea.

In this respect, Europe is in an unusual situation, due to its geographical location. Other industrial areas in the world are threatened by immigration, but none as extensively as Europe. Latin America has a population of about 400 million, that is, the number of potential emigrants is approximately the same as that of the resident population of North America (USA and Canada). The ratio in Europe is three times as great (1500 million vs. 500 million). The US border with Mexico is relatively small and can be relatively easily secured, since there is only one country from which immigrants can flow into the USA. It is quite different in Europe. It is realistically impossible to screen off the outer borders. And in the border areas of North Africa and the Near East, there are more and more unpredictable states which cannot be counted on to cooperate.

Other industrial countries such as Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand are so far from possible origin lands of immigration that the trip by boat people is risky and relatively easy to monitor. It is more problematic in the emerging countries of Southeast Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, etc.) which are eligible goals for immigrants. Other countries such as China and Russia are difficult to reach and are not (yet) attractive for immigration. That leaves Europe as the place where we can expect the greatest immigration pressure. Europeans must be paralyzed with fear at this development. They are facing a folk migration comparable to the one in late antiquity.

Why do so many people want to immigrate to countries like Germany? The reasons are obvious: here there is prosperity and security, a functioning constitutional state; there are no wars or civil wars, no epidemics; the health system is excellent and free; unemployment is low; the social nets are lush — it is a land of milk and honey, and you would have to be a little dim not to recognize that. The reasons for immigrating, for the wish to immigrate, are easy to understand.

It is somewhat harder to understand why conditions in Germany are so much better than in, for instance, Iraq. That was no always the case. A thousand years ago, it was not clear where living conditions were better, and three thousand years ago, the standard of living, i.e., the civilizational niveau in Europe was without doubt lower than in Mesopotamia. Something has changed drastically here in recent millennia. The question is, what? This question is the same as the one about the reasons for “Europe’s unique path” — that is, why Europe succeeded in breaking out of the model of agrarian civilizations and bringing forth a new kind of economy, state and society, which combines prosperity and security for all. In asking this, we come upon three complexes of factors which have instigated Europe’s advance into the constitutional industrial society (a.k.a. “the modern age”): they are by nature technical-industrial, cultural-intellectual and political-institutional. What element played what role is a very thorny question. Thus far, there is no agreement on what was decisive. But it is certain that a process of positive feedback has built up in Europe in the last 300 years, and the result is the “land of milk and honey” we see before us.

Undisputed though it may be that the development into an industrial society radiated outward from Europe, it is also clear that the imitation of it in other regions has proceeded with greater or lesser success. This was simplest in the neo-European colonies (USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) which effortlessly adopted or even took part in shaping the European model. Examples of success may be found in Asia, in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan — presumably also sooner or later in mainland China and India. These countries did not develop their own version of industrialization, but succeeded in a relatively short time in joining the parade.

Other countries were less successful, even though they could observe Europe’s unique progress from closer at hand. This is especially true of Russia, which has tried to keep pace with Europe for 300 years, and yet continually regresses to its old plight. That is also true of the Ottoman Empire, of which only one province was truly successful — Palestine/Israel, and in fact because of the Zionist immigration from Europe. It must be emphasized here that Judaism was not a decisive factor. If someone (for instance, Werner Sombart [1]) should wish to trace industrial capitalism to the Jews, the geographical location of its inception would have to be sought in Galicia,[2] rather than in the north of England, where there were hardly any Jews in the 17th and 18th centuries.

From Tribal Consciousness to Industrial Nation

So we confront the problem that a successful industrialization is based on certain historical, especially cultural and institutional preconditions which are not easy to imitate or create. People like living in the promised land, and are moved to immigrate to industrialized countries, but something is keeping them from establishing this paradise at home. Apparently, immigrating to an already existing utopia is easier. Why? If industrialization and democratization, the creation of a constitutional order and implementation of rational ways of thinking are natural characteristics of “modernization,” then why is it so much more attractive to undergo the rigors of migration, than to transform one’s own native land according this model? The reason, in general, is that the assumptions of modernization theory are false. Ours was a highly improbable process, shaped by many contingencies which had over centuries created ways of thinking and institutions, the results of which are evident today in zones of prosperity and security. This model of success cannot simply be copied. Transferring technology is easy; transferring institutions is difficult; transferring cultural-intellectual paradigms is practically impossible or at least a very lengthy process.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/28/2017

The flood of migrants across the Mediterranean to Italy has reached record levels, and is spiraling out of control. Italy’s ability to handle the influx has deteriorated so much that it is seriously considering closing its ports to all foreign ships. Those WAYCISTS!

In other migration news, the EU is accepting five times as many migrants as required by its agreement with Turkey. A third of those “refugees” are arriving in Germany.

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Geert Wilders Peppers Rutte with Facts While the Prime Minister Tap Dances

Below are excerpts from remarks made today by Geert Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Netherlands. Mr. Wilders was responding to Prime Minister Mark Rutte in the Dutch Parliament:

Video transcript (translation by the PVV):

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/27/2017

Mujahideen for the Islamic State are being given “protected identities” when they return from the jihad in Syria. The Swedish government is concerned that if the general public become aware of these men’s past, the unfortunate youngsters will be discriminated against for their errors of judgment, and be unable to find jobs.

In other news, according to statistics compiled by Breitbart, more than 1,620 people were killed in Islamic terrorist attacks during the holy, holy, holy month of Ramadan.

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