The following video shows a speech given before the recent election by Dr. Alexander Gauland, one of the leaders of the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany). Dr. Gauland decries the Islamization of Germany, and emphasizes his party’s core principle that any foreigners admitted to Germany must assimilate to the language, culture, values, and laws of their adopted country.
Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translation and the subtitling:
Below are brief excerpts from a press conference held by the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany) after Sunday’s election.
Many thanks to Egri Nök for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
Led by communist members of the council, local authorities in Paris have voted to remove the “To the Happy Negro” sign on a former chocolate factory of the same name. It was felt that the sign was demeaning to minorities, and might cause offense by bringing up unhappy memories of the time of slavery.
In other news, in the Republican senatorial primary in Alabama, retired Judge Roy Moore defeated incumbent Senator Luther Strange. President Trump had campaigned for Sen. Strange, but to no avail.
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Below is the first part of a two-part essay by Hans-Peter Raddatz about the political Götterdämmerung that is rapidly approaching in Germany. It was written a few days before Sunday’s general election.
Many thanks to Rembrandt Clancy for the translation.
Hans-Peter Raddatz — Word on the German Election (Part I)
About the Author
Dr. Hans Peter Raddatz is a German specialist in Middle Eastern and Oriental studies. He is also an economist, consultant and writer. After being active for many years representing the interests of international banks in the Near East, he wrote numerous books on the fundamentals of globalisation, Islam and the Islamisation of the West. He has made contributions to the Encyclopaedia of Islam and has translated Bat Ye’or’s Europe, Globalization, and the Coming of the Universal Caliphate, providing it with a commentary (cf. Gates of Vienna).
When the Elites go Mad: not exclusively a German dilemma!
by Hans-Peter Raddatz
21 September 2017
Translation by Rembrandt Clancy
German Language Source in the Appendix
In view of the federal election, it is well to recall a few political characteristics of the political parties which, apart from the routine corruption to which the people have almost become adjusted, can also lead to psychotic behaviour among those “responsible”.
For example, ignorance and brutality are timeless characteristics of potentates who go out of control. Since in the history of mankind no one has yet escaped this rule, it also applies to the Sovietised politics of the EU and its affiliated states. Germany is no exception in this case; rather she has become, by virtue of her surge toward the radical left since reunification, the driving force. This can hardly be surprising, given her pan-German, red-brown “tradition”.
Since the mechanism is independent of time, it also runs its course in ever the same way. In order to give the German uniparty [Einheitspartei], consisting of the government and opposition (except the AfD), room for its unobtrusive radicalisation — evident from the path leading from enforced immigration to immigrant invasion — the nation has been dressaged since the 1970s in the prayer wheel of “cultural dialogue” to three major factors as follows: a) the minimisation of education, with the result that people cannot appreciate their own situation; b) maximisation of taxes, such that the increasing workloads and tax burdens further paralyse initiative; c) a propaganda, which combines these two and drums a schizophrenic thinking into the nation; that is, the people, who are also voters after all, are supposed to trust a government which considers them the enemy.
For whatever criticism arises, it appears to those “responsible” as “hate speech” framed as populism, racism, parasitism etc. This völkisch politics cribbed from the Nazis accompanies a decline of the constitutional state, which is radically divorced from the old-nation [Altvolk] as “sovereign”, and replaced by means of the pumping-in of Muslims. It follows logically that they not only belong to Germany, but also occupy the country with enormous support from the bureaucracy and the “humanitarian” institutions. These have been infiltrated over the years, even by forces hostile to the state, and have been overrun by countless opinion tanks [Meinungspanzern], also known as think tanks. Thus they have little objection to the hunting season now being opened on the population; meanwhile the justice system is also involved and almost everyone is turning a blind eye.
Since only “hate-speakers” dissent, and since the unity-propaganda of the Islamic peace proceeds from all of the institutions — the media and the universities being in the vanguard — Germany finds herself already in the midst of her third totalitarianism. The colour green has long since been attributed to this system, owing to the new dominant culture following that of red and brown; however, the brutal Islamic one is often forgotten over the sloganeering of the media.
In the following speech from the recent election campaign, Alice Weidel of the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany) publicly discusses the fact that she is a lesbian. She emphasizes that this is why she joined the AfD, because the millions of Muslims welcomed into Germany by its current leadership pose a grave threat to the country’s homosexuals.
Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
As we all know, whenever Muslims in the West conduct prayers on the streets, they are claiming that piece of infidel territory for the Ummah, permanently. In perpetuity.
In the case of this (illegal) street prayer in Paris, they are doing even more: they are calling for the indiscriminate murder of all infidels, without exception. Since the prayer is being chanted in Arabic, the pedestrians on the sidewalk and the policeman directing traffic are unaware that the imam is appealing to Allah to slaughter them:
In the second video, the Algerian-French “auto pundit” Also Sterone provides some exegesis on this particular prayer, and what it means for the infidels of France.
Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
Most cases of arson at mosques turn out to be false flag operations by Muslims themselves. The incidents are relatively trivial — someone throws a smoke bomb against the wall or burns a pile of trash in the doorway, and then calls the police. It garners huge headlines in the press about a “hate crime” against the mosque, and the imam gets interviewed on TV about how sad it all makes him, and how Islam is all about love. Then a week or two later the police investigation discovers that the perp was a member of the congregation, or even the imam himself (as happened once in Australia; I can’t remember the guy’s name). But that story ends up buried on page 32 of the paper, if it gets covered by the media at all.
This mosque-burning in the southern Swedish city of Örebro was different. It was a serious fire: half the mosque was burned to the ground. Unless the imam set the fire to collect the insurance (which is always a possibility), it seems unlikely to have been an inside job.
Many thanks to Erik V for translating this news video, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
The Vatican is blocking an online petition that accuses Pope Francis of heresy over various moral positions he took in a document issued last year. Internet users in Vatican City can access the page with the petition, but they are prevented from signing it.
In other news, the latest polls indicate that Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) is far ahead of other parties. It has almost twice as much support as the opposition party Civic Platform.
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What Were the True Origins of Islam?
by Fjordman
On September 9, 2017, there was a conference in Copenhagen about the origins of Islam. It was a collaboration between the International Free Press Society in Denmark plus the organizations Humans Rights Service and Document from Norway.[1]
The speaker was Professor Robert Martin Kerr. He participates in Inarah, a research network that is engaged in a scientific historical-critical, philological investigation into the Koran, the origins of Islam and its early history.[2]
Around 50 or 60 people attended this lecture. Not much, but still pretty good for a dense, six-hour lecture about ancient stone inscriptions and languages many people have never heard of. Multiple policemen stood guard outside. Even in Scandinavia, you now need armed police to protect you while listening to details about Aramaic grammar. Freedom is slowly slipping away in Western Europe.
Professor Kerr doesn’t seem to believe that Muhammad, the alleged founder of Islam, is a historical figure. Perhaps he never existed at all. As he points out, we have no contemporary evidence for the existence of Muhammad. None. The word “Muhammad” could be a title meaning “the praiseworthy one,” not a personal name.
Sunni Muslims believe that after Muhammad’s death, the leadership of Muslims passed to the four so-called rightly guided caliphs (successors) who had known Muhammad personally: Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali. Shias only recognize Ali, who was Muhammad’s son-in-law through his marriage to Fatima.
Sunnis and Shias alike take for granted that these individuals really lived. However, yet again we have no physical proof that any of these first caliphs ever existed. They may be fictional characters. We have no coins struck by any of these rulers. As far as we know, coins were not struck in Mecca or Medina until the ninth century AD. That is two centuries after Islam and the Islamic empire was supposedly born there.
Ibn Ishaq, who wrote the first purported biography of Muhammad, did so more than a century after Muhammad supposedly lived. Serious questions have been raised about the validity of this biography. The hadith literature about what Muhammad allegedly said and did was collected later. Even Muslims admit that many hadith were outright fabricated. Without these sources, we know practically nothing about Muhammad.
We know that there were big Arab conquests in the seventh century, from Persia to the Iberian Peninsula. Yet we do not know exactly what these Arabs believed in, what triggered the conquests or where they began. Non-Muslim chroniclers writing at the time of the early conquests made no mention of the Koran, Islam or Muslims, and scant mention of Muhammad. Perhaps Islam as we now know it was created after the Arab conquests, not before. Of course, that leaves the unanswered question of what was the real cause of the expansion.
The Arab conquerors themselves didn’t refer to the Koran during the first decades, quite possibly because it did not then exist in a recognizable form. A fully developed Arabic script did not yet exist at the time when the Koran was supposedly collected, either. This further introduces substantial sources of error.
According to Robert Martin Kerr, parts of the Koran may well predate the supposed life of Muhammad. Even educated, native speakers of Arabic find parts of the Koran difficult to understand. This was the case even one thousand years ago. The author Ibn Warraq has written some excellent, albeit detailed, books on this subject.
The following op-ed by Hans Heckel was written just before the German election, but the author’s take on the likely result turned out to be accurate.
Many thanks to JLH for translating this piece from Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung:
Rebirth of Parliament
Difference of opinion returns to the Bundestag — good for democracy
by Hans Heckel
September 20, 2017A great nervousness is rattling the final days before the election. We are approaching an historic date.
The 2017 Bundestag election will leave deeper marks on the history of the Federal Republic than any election since 1990, when Germans decided on the direction of their only recently united country.
The SPD may be facing its worst defeat since the end of the War. The CDU will win, but is reduced as a party to the dolorous task of carrying its leader’s train, which presages an uncertain future for it. According to polls, the AfD — nemesis of the establishment — can expect a result twice as good as that of the Greens when they first entered the Bundestag in 1983.[1]
The expectation that everything will remain the same is only superficial. Merkel will be chancellor again, with three possible coalition partners—SPD, FDP, and the Greens.
This bizarre juxtaposition of a serious unsettling of the party system on the one hand, and the governmental leadership’s predictable adjuration to “Keep on keeping on” on the other, is reflected in the mood of the people. Here, the poll-takers and opinion researchers recognize a calm and contentment in the foreground, behind which bubbles deep-seated insecurity, even fear — and great rage. This double disjointedness — both above and below — brings on an aggressive edginess that is palpable in the waning days of the campaign. Standing opposite those who shout “Merkel must go!” are the politicians and media who know no moderation when dealing with the AfD.
Several times, it looked as though people might be pulling themselves together. But Sigmar Gabriel’s outburst, that the AfD entering the Bundestag was the same as if the Nazis were entering, was only the visible tip of the coarsening of the discourse.
A Sudanese immigrant named Emanuel Kidega Samson entered a church this morning in Antioch, Tennessee, and opened fire with a gun, wounding six people. Mr. Samson had allegedly already shot and killed a woman in the parking lot before he entered the church. An usher at the church confronted him and struggled with him, and was pistol-whipped while they were grappling. The gunman accidentally shot himself during the struggle, whereupon the usher ran to his car, got his own gun, and held the wounded attacker at gunpoint until police arrived. The wounded members of the congregation are recovering in the hospital, as is Mr. Samson, albeit under police guard.
In other news, Catalan separatists defied the Spanish government and distributed ballots in advance of the planned independence referendum on October 1.
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Grande-Synthe is a suburb of Dunkirk, on the coast of France northeast of Calais. After the “Jungle” migrant camp near Calais was dismantled a year ago, many of the displaced residents migrated to Grande-Synthe and set up shop in a new camp there.
Now the residents of the Grand-Synthe “Jungle” are being forcibly removed. Many thanks to Ava Lon for translating this news report, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
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Update: Egri Nök has more on the election at Vlad’s place. It seems that leftist violence in the streets has already begun, outside the AfD’s election party in Berlin and at the city hall in Leipzig.
That’s what the media and political leaders from the other major parties call the AfD — “Nazis”.
Germans voted in a general election today, and a substantial number of them departed from tradition and voted for the AfD.
According to Egri Nök, the AfD was in at least third place everywhere, and placed second in parts of eastern Germany, the former DDR. It is the worst result for the CDU/CSU Union since 1949.
Nash Montana sends this summary, referencing Politically Incorrect:
The AfD has caused an earthquake in the Federal election of 2017, and they have increased their outcome by almost three times as much. The CDU (UNION) and the SPD saw the largest loss, the result of their mass immigration politics.
Here’s a list of the parties that will be seated in the Bundestag:
And here’s a chart kindly compiled by Nash that compares the platforms of the various parties on major issues. As you can see, AfD is the sole dissenter on all these issues. Except for the AfD, Germany is essentially run by a Uniparty, much like Great Britain and the United States:
In the following video from OSCE Warsaw the Canadian representative used his right to respond to take exception to Debbie Anderson’s intervention warning about M-103. He essentially said that Canada intends to squash free speech in the name of “tolerance”, branding those who spread alarm about M-103 as the intolerant ones.
As an example of the hatred and intolerance being permitted in Russia, he cited the oppression of gays in Chechnya — neglecting to mention, of course, that the persecution of gays in Chechnya is being carried out by Muslims in line with Islamic law.
Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video:
See Vlad’s remarks on this intervention.
For links to previous articles about the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, see the OSCE Archives.