Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/31/2017

The four men in Sydney who allegedly planned to bomb a plane (and are now in custody) have been identified. They are Khaled Merhi, Khaled Khayat, Mahmoud Khayat and Abdul Merhi. Their alleged crime thus has a Mohammed Coefficient of 25% (but the Khaled Coefficient is 50%, an unusually high reading).

In other news, the Spanish maritime rescue service saved 60 migrants crossing the Strait of Gibraltar in three different boats.

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The Dark Truth About Gender Equality

Our Dutch correspondent H. Numan wades into the Culture Wars with a discussion of what is now commonly known as “trans”.

A note from the author on the photo below: “Both people are reporting for the draft, but the monk has a much better chance of having to serve. (Shows in their faces.)”

The dark truth about gender equality

by H. Numan

Gentle men and women, can you keep your nutcases under control, please? I can’t really write men and women anymore. How should I address you? Beloved comrades of the Gates? Dear readers? Your social justice warriors (or whiners, as I see them) are spreading with gusto and enthusiasm to Europe. Amsterdam and the Dutch Railways NS will no longer use proper genders, as it might offend some seriously disturbed people. Men who think they are women and vice versa.

Amsterdam also wants to ban smoking in its entirety within the city, while we are at it.

To start with the latter, I merely have one simple question: tobacco is a huge cash cow for any government. Do you honestly believe your government will simply forgo that enormous source of income? If smoking is banned, are you going to pay it? If you, activist non smoker, don’t want to pay it, who should? The (now ex) smokers have stopped, as you desired. They can’t afford it anymore. It’s your turn, or do you really think it works any differently?

Now back to the gender-benders. I happen to live in one of the few countries on earth with a fairly substantial percentage of ‘kathoeys’ as we call them or ladyboys. Men who feel they should have been born women, or women who feel they should be born as men. Mainly men, though. Very few women. I’ve met quite a few here in my 25 years in Thailand, and I’m still mystified by them.

Many of them begin to notice their different feelings in high school. They very often dress as girls, which means wearing girls’ uniforms in school or university. In Thailand everyone in the educational system wears a uniform. Red in preschool, khaki in primary school, blue in high school and black on universities. Girls wear skirts, boys trousers. You are probably amazed to hear that points for good behavior are also given on universities. Berkeley activists very likely wouldn’t be able to graduate from a Thai university… However, ladyboys are allowed to wear skirts in most universities and a lot of high schools.

Some schools set up ‘third gender’ bathrooms, if the number of ladyboys is high enough to warrant the extra cost. Thais are fairly easy going with regard to sexuality. Don’t get me wrong — boinking in the streets is a definite no-no. Showing affection in public is also frowned upon. Kissing in public for example, is something not really done here. Whatever you do, you do it in private.

Thailand is a Buddhist country, with no real monotheistic stigma on sex. If you’re hungry, you eat. If you’re thirsty, you drink. If you feel randy, well … Fill in the blanks. But not in public! Most boys loose their virginity in brothels, where they are taken by their peers. On one hand, Thais are very prudish, much more so than in the West. On the other hand, anything goes. It never ceases to amaze me.

Living together as a gay couple is completely normal here. But not legally married. My Dutch marriage is not valid in Thailand. Funnily enough, about half the residents of my condominium live together. Nobody blinks an eye. There is talk about legalizing gay marriage, but there is also talk about legalizing marijuana or building the Kra canal. Don’t hold your breath, though.

Parents aren’t exactly thrilled with joy if their son decides he’d rather be a girl, and starts acting as one. But mostly they go along with it. Nor are their peers very sympathetic. Teasing and bullying happen a lot. That’s why ladyboys often stick together, and probably one reason why there are so many in Thailand. The older ladyboys get the hormones the younger ones want but cannot buy in the pharmacy due to the age limit. The pill is only available for 16 and over.

Now the darker side of the story. If you’re young you are immortal. Death is somewhere far, far away in the future. Other people die. Not you. Same goes for beauty. Beauty eventually fades away. No matter what you do. Most of us accept that fact, but it is something extremely difficult for kathoeys to accept. Not surprisingly, the suicide rate is unbelievably high amongst them.

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Lawful or Unlawful? Let’s Ask Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri

In the comments on last night’s post about the Konstanz discotheque incident, the venerable Mark Spahn asked me to justify my statement that “[n]othing a Muslim does to a non-Muslim is illegal under Islamic law.”

I’m glad he made the request. It gives me the opportunity to explain once again the legal justification under the Shariah for various deeds that would be considered crimes under Western law. We’ve picked up quite a few readers since the last time I covered this material, so newcomers may find the following references helpful.

As with so many examples from Islamic law, I’ll cite ’Umdat al-salik wa ’uddat al-nasik, or The reliance of the traveller and tools of the worshipper. It is commonly referred to as Reliance of the Traveller when cited in English.

The Revised Edition (published 1991, revised 1994) is “The Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law ’Umdat al-Salik by Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri (d. 769/1368) in Arabic with Facing English Text, Commentary, and Appendices”, edited and translated by Nuh Ha Mim Keller. The publisher is listed as amana publications in Beltsville, Maryland.

This is an authoritative source on Sunni Islamic law, because it is certified as such by Al-Azhar University in Cairo. There is no higher authority on Sunni Islamic doctrine than Al-Azhar; it is the closest equivalent to the Vatican that can be found in Islam.

Here are some samples of authoritative Shariah law, Book O, Justice, “Those Not Subject to Retaliation” (o1.2):

    The following are not subject to retaliation:
        […]
        (2)   a Muslim for killing a non-Muslim.
 

From the same section of “Justice”, also not subject to retaliation are:

        (4)   a father or mother… for killing their offspring, or offspring’s offspring…
 

Maj. Stephen Coughlin makes the following observation on clause (4):

This is honor killing. When someone says honor killing is not a part of Islam, all I say is, “Reliance of the Traveller, o1.2-(4).” If I can show you it is published in Islamic law, it is part of Islam.

So there you have it. You can find numerous other acts that are permissible (or mandatory) under Islamic law — for example, rape and slavery — that would be crimes in the West.

Conversely, there are hundreds or thousands of instances of behaviors that are forbidden under Islamic law, but not even mentioned in Western statute books.

For example, from Book E “Purification”:

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It Stinks to High Heaven in Gaza

The following article from the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung describes the desperate, fetid circumstances into which the Gaza Strip has recently sunk, and investigates the complex reasons behind the current situation.

JLH, who translated the piece, includes this note:

Here is a Schweizer look at the innards of the “Palestinian Question” — a clue of how more-than-byzantine life and politics in Arab-dominated North Africa can be. It is also a glance into the psychology of the Europe which lately almost uniformly condemns Israel in its contentions with the Palestinians.

I love the last few sentences. How much did Western Europe sympathize with the plight of the Serbian people when American air power was blowing them up? They were the enemy, weren’t they?

The translated article:

Power struggle in Palestine

It Stinks to High Heaven in Gaza

by Ulrich Schmid
July 27, 2017

Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, wants to bring Hamas to its knees. That is why he is allowing the residents of Gaza to suffer. The sewage treatment plants have stopped working, because there is no longer enough electricity. Israel is doing nothing to prevent that.

It stinks to high heaven. Truly infernal steam clouds rise from the ocean at Gaza. Children hold their noses. Adults hold handkerchiefs to their faces. Anyone who can, hastily leaves the area of the stench. Fishermen stare sullenly into the sloshing green-gray that forbids the casting of nets. Until now, the sea was the only escape for the caged Gazans — the only place that spoke of freedom and the wide-open spaces. Now that is gone too. Gaza the prison has become definitively unbearable.

It stinks because six of the nine pumps that move sewage into the treatment plants in Gaza city, are out of order. So now that brew is being directed into the ocean, where it lends the water a poisonous, grey-green tinge, which turns up as far as the Israeli beach of Zikim, now closed by the government because of “fecal” contamination. Yet more and more people in Gaza are going swimming.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/30/2017

It is foregone conclusion that today’s election in Venezuela will create a constituent assembly that will amend the constitution and give President Nicolás Maduro the powers he wants. The opposition responded by boycotting the election, and there was violence on the streets as a huge explosion went off in the middle of a police motorcycle convoy.

In other news, the ISIS terrorists in Sydney who planned to blow up a passenger jet had constructed a homemade bomb that would have emitted a poison gas and killed everyone on the plane.

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A Big Bomb in Småland

A culture-enricher in the southeastern Swedish province of Småland has been arrested for planning a Breivik — that is, he was going to build a big bomb using lots of fertilizer.

Many thanks to FouseSquawk for translating this article from Fria Tider:

Suspected Iranian terrorist arrested in Småland — Attempted to buy 400 kilograms of fertilizer

July 29, 2017

A 38-year-old man has been arrested in Småland on suspicion of attempting to build a bomb. The man, who is of Iranian origin, stubbornly tried to buy 400 kilograms manure for bomb making, Expressen writes.

On July 18th the Security Police arrested a 38-year-old man in Nässjö in Småland, who was subsequently detained on suspicion of preparation for general devastation.

The suspected criminal activity is from April 1 this year and afterwards. However, the preliminary investigation is confidential and it is unclear exactly why the man, who is of Iranian origin but has both Swedish and Afghan citizenship, was arrested.

Now anti-terrorist police in Italy state that the man is suspected of attempting to manufacture a bomb.

It was the Italian police who warned Säpo [the security police] that the man tried on several occasions to buy 400 kilograms of fertilizer via the Internet.

Artificial fertilizer was what Anders Behring Breivik, for example, used when he set off a bomb at a government office in Oslo 2011.

“The effort was made on the basis of our mission to prevent serious crimes from being committed, and it was done in close cooperation with local police,” says Åsa Nilsson, Head of the Investigation Unit at the Swedish Security Service.

The security police are conducting the preliminary investigation, which is led by prosecutors at the Security Unit for Security Objectives.

“Our task is to protect democracy and the security of the country, and that is why we are in the forefront,” Karl Melin, Press Officer at Säpo, said earlier to SVT.

The man is most likely suspected of preparing for general devastation. He denies any crime.

Malmö: Graduate School for Gunshot-Wound Surgeons

Now that the southern Swedish city of Malmö is rapidly becoming a third-world sinkhole, surgeons at the hospital in Malmö are gaining valuable experience in treating gunshot wounds. So, from the Swedish point of view, there’s a silver lining in all this unforeseen violence and mayhem accompanying the current wave of migration.

However, this article from Sveriges Radio is at pains to point out that Malmö’s not really all that bad, not if you compare it with places that really have a lot of gunfire — presumably meaning Mogadishu and Chicago, among other places.

Many thanks to Tania Groth for the translation:

Malmö — The more common shootings are, the better care for gunshot victims

“It has gone from a few to routine”

[Picture 1: Increased shootings have resulted in an improvement in the Malmö hospital’s reception of gunshot victims

Picture 2: Mikael Ekelund is responsible for emergency surgery at Malmö Hospital]

Doctors and health care professionals at Malmö Hospital have gained greater experience in receiving patients with gunshot wounds.

Since the beginning of the year, 22 people have been shot in Malmö. Six people have died and 16 were wounded, ranging from mild to lifelong injuries. Throughout last year, 31 people were arrested in the city, according to figures from Malmö police.

Even though shooting injuries are not new, receiving gunshot victims has become much more common in the hospital in recent years. When the hospital receives gunshot victims now, they are far more experienced.

“Awareness of the injuries has increased as it has gone from a few to a routine occurrence,” says Mikael Ekelund, the chief physician responsible for emergency services at Malmö Hospital.

Within the health care sector, shooting injuries are a part of what are called trauma injuries, that is, injuries caused by external violence.

However, despite the fact that the Malmö hospital handles many of these serious injuries, they are still relatively unusual compared with other injuries.

“Per surgeon, however, these gunshot injuries are a relatively rare matter,” says Mikael Ekelund.

The heavy expertise in shooting injuries is not found in Sweden however, but in countries where shooting is much more frequent.

“Sweden will hopefully not become a school for shooting injuries, but the number that do occur require us to gain the knowledge on how to handle it,” says Mikael Ekelund at Malmö Hospital.

An Islamic Mobster in a Konstanz Discotheque

The report below from Egri Nök about this morning’s nightclub shooting in Germany is an example of the endemic violence that accompanies Muslim immigration. It doesn’t appear to be jihad, but Islam usually brings with it other forms of deadly violence.

As I’ve said repeatedly in the past, the structure and function of Islamic culture are indistinguishable from organized crime. Nothing a Muslim does to a non-Muslim is illegal under Islamic law, so the kuffar are available to be preyed upon with impunity. Furthermore, since Islamic scripture commands the faithful to slaughter the infidel in the name of Allah, violence is familiar and customary. Therefore, violent predation against non-Muslims is as natural as breathing. A Muslim is entitled by Islamic law to relieve the non-Muslim of his worldly goods, and if the victim happens to get killed in the process, that’s no problem — it means there’s one fewer kuffar in the world.

The religious aspect of Islam provides the ideological justification for such abhorrent behavior. The true believer not only gets to enrich himself and satisfy his lusts, he is actually righteous when he does so.

Thus it’s only natural that Muslim immigrant “youths” form predatory gangs when they arrive in Western cities. As their numbers expand, those gangs become sophisticated networks of organized crime that resemble the mafia — they’re the Islamic Mob.

Muslim gangs are also violent among themselves, with turf wars and clashes between tribal rivals. Islamic law forbids the killing of Muslims, but there’s a convenient loophole known as takfir — the declaration that another Muslim or group of Muslims has committed kufr, or unbelief. During their fierce turf wars and tribal conflicts, Muslims often invoke takfir to justify wiping out competitors among fellow Muslims.

Something like that may have happened in the city of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg early this morning. But in any case, it doesn’t appear to be jihad in the usual sense.

This article was published earlier today at Vlad Tepes in a slightly different form.

1. Two dead, several injured at shooting in discotheque in Konstanz — at the moment no indications of a terrorist background

Filed by Egri Nök

From Südkurier:

Cruel scenes in a discotheque in Konstanz. A 34-year-old opened fire with a weapon, according to police. A member of the security staff is dead, several people injured. The alleged perpetrator succumbed to his injuries in hospital after an exchange of fire with the police. His motive is unclear.

Again, a severe attack in a club in Konstanz takes a deadly toll. It was Sunday morning around 4:30 CET, when police received several emergency calls. A 34-year-old invaded the discotheque “Grey” with a weapon and went on a shooting spree. A security staffer was mortally wounded.

Three people are currently in hospital with partially grave injuries. The alleged perpetrator is dead, too. As recently as March, a young man had stabbed a 19-year-old dead in a Shisha-bar.

Perpetrator was known to police

Police confirm that the 34-year old alleged perpetrator is an Iraqi. He had been living in Germany since 2001, a well-informed source confirms to Südkurier. He had been living in Konstanz for more than 15 years, police confirm. He was not an asylum seeker. He was known to the police for several offenses, among others drug related crime, well informed circles tell Südkurier.

As witnesses describe to Südkurier, the man entered the discotheque from the parking lot with a rapid-fire weapon, killing a member of the security staff. In the discotheque, he fired shots and injured several people. Then he left the building, as police speaker Bernd Schmidt announces.

The 34-year-old ran in the direction of police so an exchange of fire took place. The officers hit the man; he died shortly thereafter in hospital. One policeman was also gravely injured, a joint press release by Prosecution and Police announces, but his life is not in danger.

Currently no indication of terrorist background

The guests fled from the discotheque in panic and took shelter, police announce.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/29/2017

Four men were arrested in Sydney after police thwarted a plan to bring down a passenger jet with a bomb. A functional bomb was discovered one of the houses that was raided, and subsequently defused by the bomb squad. Australian authorities have now tightened airport security.

In other news, a man was seriously wounded when he was stabbed in the throat at the Cincinnati Zoo.

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The Hamburg Mujahid: A Lone Wolf, and Mentally Unstable

Below is a more detailed account by Egri Nök of yesterday’s jihad terror attack in Hamburg, drawn from information supplied at a police press conference earlier today.

This post was published previously at Vlad Tepes in a slightly different form.

Hamburg Terror: Report from the Joint Press Conference of the Interior Senate and the Police of Hamburg

by Egri Nök

For a detailed account of the attack jump right to the statements of Ralf Martin Meyer, Police President of Hamburg, and Hennings, leader of the Investigation Team.

For background on how and why he was known to security authorities, jump to the statement by Torsten Voss, Office for Protection of the Constitution.

Hamburg Town Hall, 12:00 CET

Opening statement by Andy Grote, Senator of the Interior Hamburg, Social Democrats:

One dead, seven wounded, partly gravely; a random “barbaric” knife attack in an everyday situation that could have hit any of us.

What makes it worse is that the perpetrator came to our town asking for our protection.

Thank you to the citizens who detained him; they were very courageous and determined.

The Department of Public Prosecution is leading the investigation. The perpetrator was known to the intelligence agencies; they had evidence of radicalization. There was contact with him, talks by the State Office for Criminal Investigations and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

He was not seen as immediately dangerous. But he was classified an Islamist, not a Jihadist.

It was a random attack with primitive equipment at a random place. We do not have any clues at the moment that there were others involved; we assume a single perpetrator, psychologically unstable.

The perpetrator was obliged to leave the country; he did not object to his asylum application’s being rejected, and he was cooperative in getting new passport. Only yesterday he spoke to the aliens registration authority. The Palestinian National Authority was willing to issue new papers for him, so we were expecting him to leave soon.

The city must stand together. We must confront the hate that manifested itself in this deed. We must not let fear rule our daily lives. We should probably adapt a combative attitude like the citizens who detained the perpetrator.

Thank you to the doctors fighting to save the lives of the wounded and comforting their families.

Statement by Hamburg Police President Ralf Martin Meyer

We received the first call at 15:11, the act had occurred at 15:10. The caller said a person was attacking people with a knife in the Edeka supermarket on Fuhlsbütteler Street. We immediately sent officers. It was unclear at that point whether it was amok or terror. After Munich, the concept for such situations was changed: the patrol cars were equipped with protective armor. The first officers who arrived were plainclothes officers; they saw men at the Hellbrookstraße surrounding one person, and as the situation was unclear to them, they fired warning shots. Then they determined that the person attacked was the perpetrator. They handcuffed him and called for an ambulance, as the perpetrator evinced head injuries.

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Iranian Expat in Germany: “The Country is Being Islamized”

After yesterday’s knife jihad attack in Hamburg, an Iranian expat who has lived in Germany for more than thirty years recorded a video message to Chancellor Angela Merkel. In it the Persian woman expresses her bitter anger over Frau Merkel’s “welcome refugees” policy, which is flooding Germany with exactly the same Islamic violence and persecution that she fled from all those decades ago.

Many thanks to Nash Montana for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/28/2017

Early this morning North Korea launched another intercontinental ballistic missile that left the atmosphere briefly and then returned, landing in the Sea of Japan. The United States is consulting with its allies to craft a stern response, which may go so far as to submit a proposal to the United Nations for new sanctions.

In other news, the Italian government is considering sending naval vessels to patrol Libya’s territorial waters and turn back the migrant boats.

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The Hamburg Mujahid: A Palestinian “Refugee” — And an “Extremist” Known to Police Who Could Not Be Deported

As reported earlier today, a young culture-enricher went on a jihad rampage in Hamburg today with a large knife — possibly a kebab knife — killing one person and wounding five others.

Egri Nök has compiled a report on the day’s events in Hamburg, and the official response.

Hamburg Jihadi a Palestinian Refugee

by Egri Nök

The attacker who today killed one man in a supermarket in Hamburg and injured six other people, one of them gravely, was a Palestinian “refugee” named Ahmed al H., according to the German newspaper Tagesspiegel. He was born in 1991 in Saudi Arabia [or the U.A.E.] and came to Germany as a refugee. Although he was due to be deported, he couldn’t be, due to his lack of papers.

He is reportedly known to German intelligence agencies as an extremist, and as a so-called “risk” — one of those assessed by German intelligence agencies as willing to commit acts of violence.

According to Bild, the refugee accomodation where H. was residing was raided this evening by police.

A video shows passers-by fighting the attacker with chairs.

There will be a police press conference tomorrow at 12:00 PM CET that we will report from.

Police press release 70728-6a:

POL-HH: 70728-6a. Suspect arrested after knife attack, further information (see also PM 170728-4a. and —5a.)
28.07.2017 — 21:20

Hamburg — time of crime: 28.07.2017, 15:10 scene of crime: Hamburg, Barmbek-Nord, Fuhlsbüttler Straße

Due to today’ events a special commission was set up, which is entrusted with the further investigation. The investigation will be conducted with the participation of the homicide department (LKA 41) and the state security department (LKA 7).

The suspect is a 26-year-old male, born in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). His current citizenship has yet to be clarified.

The presumptive murder weapon was found and seized.

Because of identity cards that were found it is currently assumed that the murdered person is a 50-year-old German male.

As far as we know by know one woman (54 years old) and four men (64, 57, 56 and 19 years old) suffered stab-wound injuries. A 35-year-old man was injured while overpowering the suspect. Some of the injuries are severe. The injured persons are currently being treated or in surgery in different hospitals.

A special phone line +4940-4272727 for clues was set up by the special commission.

The investigation will be conducted in all directions. This includes explicitly an investigation by the state security department.

A special website was set up to upload pictures and videos of the event. The URL of this site is hh.hinweisportal.de.

Police press release #170728-5a:

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