Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/2/2018

In the Italian town of Cassino, a “refugee” from Senegal attacked an employee at an asylum center. The young miscreant was reportedly unhappy that the asylum facility had no Wi-Fi.

In other news, the popularity of French President Emmanuel “Toy Boy” Macron has fallen to a record low of 30%.

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USA
» “Hate Group” SPLC Helping YouTube Purge Conservatives
» Buffalo Woman Pleads Guilty to ISIS Threats
» ‘Device’ Caused Northeast Austin Home Explosion That Led to Man’s Death, Police Say
» Ex-CIA Chief Warns ISIS Could Send Chemical Weapon “Recipe” To Followers in U.S.
» In 2002, President Bush Imposed 30% Steel Tariffs; This is What Happemned Next
» Student Shooter Kills 2 People at Central Michigan University as Parents Arrive, Police Say
» What America Can Learn From Israeli Gun Laws
 
Canada
» Private School Teacher Accused of Sexually Assaulting Boy, 10, In Scarborough
 
Europe and the EU
» British Teacher Convicted of Trying to Recruit Children for an ISIS-Inspired ‘Army’
» ‘Doomsday’ Seed Vault Gets Makeover as Arctic Heats Up
» EU Wants World Trade Organization to Punish U.S. For Tax Cuts
» Exclusive: Italy PM Candidate Tells Express.co.uk Italexit on Cards as He Heralds Brexit
» France: President Macron’s Approval Sinks to Low of 30%
» ISIS Calls for Attacks on Sports Events and Markets in Barcelona in Chilling Message Intercepted by Spanish Police
» Italian Election: Berlusconi Says ‘Revolution’ is Coming as Italy Prepares to Vote
» Italian Election 2018: What Happens if Five Star Movement Wins Italy General Election?
» Italy: Security Guard Who Shot Bingo Robber Acquitted
» Italy: Milan Station Knife Attacker Gets Seven Years
» Italy: CasaPound Says Candidate Attacked in Taranto
» Italy: Vegan Diet ‘Risks Causing Fetus Neurological Damage’
» Italy: I’m PD Leader Till 2021 — Renzi
» Italy: Forza Nuova Marches in Rome Banned
» No Go Zones: Chaperone-Matching App Helps Protect Travellers From Assaults in Paris
» Sweden: Woman Interrogated & Imprisoned for Posting Joke Meme About Islam
» UK: Bury Police Announce Probe Into Grooming Gangs Preying on Children in Parks
» UK: Is There a Problem With Unregistered Schools?
» Vatican Cardinal Says the West is ‘Committing Suicide’ By Forgetting Its Christian Roots
» War on Free Speech: EU Demands Facebook and Google Censor ‘Illegal’ Speech in One Hour
 
Russia
» Putin’s New Weapons
 
South Asia
» Pakistani Court Wants Names, Ages & Family Info of Those Who Left Islam
 
Australia — Pacific
» Diplomatic Brawl Over Kiwi Crims: Jacinda Ardern Slams Malcolm Turnbull for Sending Crooks Back to New Zealand Because They’ve ‘Never Stepped a Foot in the Country’
» Muslim Extremist, 20, Who Planned ‘Mass Murder’ Terror Attacks Across Sydney Sentenced to 19 Years in Prison
» The Sentencing of Raban Alou
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» At Least 30 Dead as French Embassy Comes Under Attack in Burkina Faso
» South African President Vows to Settle the Transfer of Land From White to Black Owners, Saying: ‘This Sin That Was Committed When Our Country Was Colonised Must be Resolved’
 
Immigration
» African Migrant Attacks Italian Refugee Worker Because There’s No Wi-Fi
» Hungary’s Prime Minister: Migration as a Human Right Will Lead to a Primitive Humanity
» Italy: Ticketless Asylum Seeker Punches Cop on Train
» New Czech PM Stands Firm Against Migrant Quotas: No Way Will Brussels Dictate Who Lives Here
 
Culture Wars
» Italy: Rightists Rage at Frozen Gay Angle
 

“Hate Group” SPLC Helping YouTube Purge Conservatives

The far-left organization known as the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), often described as an “anti-Christian hate group,” is working with YouTube to purge conservatives, Christians, libertarians, and others from the video streaming platform, according to news reports. A number of prominent media figures have already been banned, with others facing demonetization and warnings. Some accounts were restored amid a national outcry. But the new revelations about YouTube partnering with radical leftists and anti-Christian bigots come as Google, Facebook, Twitter and other Internet giants come under increasing fire for blatantly trying to silence right-of-center voices on their platforms. Lawsuits against the tech behemoths are underway, and calls for government regulation are growing louder.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Buffalo Woman Pleads Guilty to ISIS Threats

A Buffalo woman pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday, Feb. 28, to using social media to threaten government agents and service members on behalf of ISIS, according to Timothy A. Garrison, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Missouri.

Safya Roe Yassin, 40, of Buffalo pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool to two counts of transmitting threatening communications across state lines, contained in a July 19, 2016, federal indictment.

According to the release, Yassin, formerly of Bolivar, admitted her guilt in using Twitter to threaten several persons, including two FBI employees and two former members of the military and their families, on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, also known as ISIS.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

‘Device’ Caused Northeast Austin Home Explosion That Led to Man’s Death, Police Say

A man died after a home explosion in Northeast Austin.

Investigators from multiple agencies are working to determine how a “device” ended up on the front porch of a home in Northeast Austin, causing an explosion that killed a man.

At a press conference, Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said that the department received a “nature unknown” urgent call at 6:55 a.m. March 2. Police said it was reported that a man was found with critical injuries at a home in the 1100 block of Haverford Ln. near East Howard Lane and Harris Ridge Boulevard.

Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services said they took a man in his 40s to St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center with critical and life-threatening injuries. The man succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased just after 7:45 a.m.

No one else was injured, Manley said.

Police said based off of their preliminary investigation, they discovered that “some type of device” exploded on the front porch of the residence. Chief Manley said he believes the incident is isolated and not related to terrorism.

“What we don’t see here is any indication that this is anything part of a larger scheme,” Manley said.

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Ex-CIA Chief Warns ISIS Could Send Chemical Weapon “Recipe” To Followers in U.S.

A new report warns that ISIS followers in the Middle East may be plotting a chemical attack on the U.S. Based on intercepted conversations, the report shows a desire by ISIS to use chlorine or other weapons of mass destruction on American soil. U.S. officials are working to disrupt the plan and a homeland security official said, “the bottom line is: the threat is real.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

In 2002, President Bush Imposed 30% Steel Tariffs; This is What Happemned Next

In an eerie analogue of what is about to take place, on March 5, 2002 President George W. Bush imposed tariffs as high as 30% on global steel imports.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Student Shooter Kills 2 People at Central Michigan University as Parents Arrive, Police Say

(MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich.) — Police in camouflage uniforms searched house-to-house near the campus of Central Michigan University on Friday for a student suspected of fatally shooting two people at a dormitory and then fleeing into the neighborhood.

Police released a photo of James Eric Davis Jr., urging the public to call 911 if they see him but also warning that the 19-year-old shouldn’t be confronted. The campus was locked down, and students and staff were told to find shelter.

“He should be considered armed and dangerous,” campus police Lt. Larry Klaus said.

[…]

Police declined to confirm news reports that said Davis had fatally shot his parents when they came to pick him up for spring break…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

What America Can Learn From Israeli Gun Laws

By Caroline Glick

When mass shootings take plan in the U.S., commentators routinely raise Israel as a case study to prove that guns in the hands of citizens save lives.

Israel, with its long and painful history of contending with terrorism, is rich with examples that prove this contention. In recent years, armed citizens have stopped dozens of terrorists. In some cases, those citizens acted when cowardly police officers shrank from danger.

For instance, on March 6, 2008, a terrorist disguised as a delivery man entered the Merkaz Harav seminary in Jerusalem with an assault rifle hidden in a television box. He opened fire on students studying in the library.

Two beat cops arrived on the scene but failed to enter the building to stop the killing…

           — Hat tip: KS [Return to headlines]
 

Private School Teacher Accused of Sexually Assaulting Boy, 10, In Scarborough

A private school teacher in Scarborough is facing multiple charges after a 10-year-old boy was allegedly taken from the school grounds and sexually assaulted.

Police allege the man, a teacher at the Islamic Foundation of Toronto, took the boy from school property just after 11 a.m. on Feb. 16.

The boy was driven to a location in the Neilson Road and McLevin Avenue area where he was allegedly sexually assaulted, before being returned to the school, police say.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

British Teacher Convicted of Trying to Recruit Children for an ISIS-Inspired ‘Army’

A British teacher was convicted Friday of trying to recruit students to carry out Islamic State-inspired attacks across London.

Umar Haque, 25, was accused of radicalizing children at two schools and a mosque, making them re-enact deadly attacks on London and role-play attacks on police officers; he even exposed the children to gruesome videos of beheadings, Reuters reported.

Prosecutors said that Haque “was fascinated by the warped and extreme ideology of ISIS.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

‘Doomsday’ Seed Vault Gets Makeover as Arctic Heats Up

Designed to withstand a nuclear missile hit, the world’s biggest seed vault, nestled deep inside an Arctic mountain, is undergoing a makeover as rising temperatures melt the permafrost meant to protect it.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

EU Wants World Trade Organization to Punish U.S. For Tax Cuts

Officials from the European Union super-state and its formerly sovereign member states are plotting to punish the United States using the World Trade Organization, according to news reports. The Europeans are apparently upset about the tax cuts backed by President Donald Trump, which they claim are in violation of WTO rules and might result in businesses and capital fleeing from bloated European welfare states to the United States.

In essence, a coalition of Big Government-loving politicians and bureaucrats across the Atlantic claim that low taxes that attract capital and investment may be in breach of WTO agreements, and therefore “illegal” under what globalists often misleadingly refer to as “international law.” Trump has previously threatened to lead the U.S. government out of the WTO. But so far, that globalist outfit has been allowed to undermine U.S. sovereignty with impunity.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Exclusive: Italy PM Candidate Tells Express.co.uk Italexit on Cards as He Heralds Brexit

The leader of Italian party the League said the upcoming Italian election is Europe’s “last chance” to reform itself.

In an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk, the anti-EU candidate Matteo Salvini warned Brexit is the perfect example to follow if Brussels refuses to listen to his demands.

Mr Salvini said: “On principle, I always support the opinion of a population who express themselves through a referendum.

“The British case is even more emblematic because it represents the first and only time so far where European citizens have had the opportunity to have a say about their membership of the European Union. And they rejected it. I’m not surprised.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

France: President Macron’s Approval Sinks to Low of 30%

The EU establishment’s popularity continues to slide, with France’s President Macron approval numbers sinking to their lowest level since being elected.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

ISIS Calls for Attacks on Sports Events and Markets in Barcelona in Chilling Message Intercepted by Spanish Police

Islamic State leaders have urged their ‘faithful’ followers to ‘martyr’ themselves by attacking ‘infidels’ in Catalonia.

The message — broadcast through Telegramand and written in Spanish —was intercepted by the General Commissariat of Information of the National Police Body (CNP).

Specifically mentioning Barcelona, the message instructs terrorists to attack sports facilities and events as well as markets.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Italian Election: Berlusconi Says ‘Revolution’ is Coming as Italy Prepares to Vote

The ex-prime minister and leader of Forza Italia was appearing with Matteo Salvini, head of coalition partner Lega, at a press conference.

Describing him as a fellow rebel, Berlusconi said: “A revolution in this country. And we are different kinds of rebels. There is one that is perhaps more revolutionary. That’s our Matteo (Salvini).”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Italian Election 2018: What Happens if Five Star Movement Wins Italy General Election?

Luigi Di Maio, the 31-year-old Five Star Movement (M5S) leader hopes to soon walk into the Italian Parliament as the youngest Prime Minister in Italian history.

The bold young politician believes his party is the one-solution answer to Italy’s deepening economic recession and migrant crisis.

He said last year: “The only possibility for the other parties is to support a Five Star government. We are the only chance of stability. Either they support us or they vote again.”

But with less than 48 hours to go before the ballots open, Mr Di Maio’s chances of singlehandedly securing a majority Government are looking slim.

In fact, less than five percent according to Luigi Scazzieri of the Centre for European Reform (CER).

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Security Guard Who Shot Bingo Robber Acquitted

Guard shot robber as he approached his car with gun

(ANSA) — Pisa, March 2 — A security guard who killed a former colleague attempting to rob a bingo hall in Navacchio near Pisa has been listed among those under investigation for the incident.

A judge “fully recognised” the guard’s right to self-defence, judicial sources said. Robber Davide Giuliani, who had worked for the same security company but was on paternity leave, approached security guard Simone Paolini after he had just withdrawn about 6,000 euros of Bingo hall takings.

Giuliani pointed his gun at Paolini when he was in his car, and then walked towards the vehicle.

Paolini then responded by firing two shots from the car, injuring Giuliani, who retaliated by attacking Paolini, telling him he had economic problems. Giuliani then escaped in a car and was later found dead about a kilometre away.

Police looked into whether Paolini was authorised to carry firearms and carry out certain duties. He was uninjured in the incident.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Milan Station Knife Attacker Gets Seven Years

Italian-Tunisian stabbed two soldiers and rail police officer

(ANSA) — Milan, March 2 — A 21-year-old Italian-Tunisian was given a seven-year prison term at the end of a fast-track trial on Friday for a knife attack on two soldiers and a railway police officer at Milan’s central train station in May. Prosecutors had requested a 10-year sentence for Ismail Tommaso Hosni for attempted homicide, bodily harm and resisting arrest.

The judge acknowledged diminished responsibility due to Hosni’s mental state.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: CasaPound Says Candidate Attacked in Taranto

De Cataldis asked police to intervene

(ANSA) — Taranto, March 2 — The extreme-right CasaPound party said Friday that Raffaele De Cataldis, one of its Senate candidates in Sunday’s general election, was attacked on Taranto late on Thursday. It said De Cataldis went to hospital after suffering the beating in the company of a 70-year-old friend and fellow CasaPound supporter and asked the police to intervene. The election campaign has been marred by several acts of violence.

On Thursday a Casapound activist was attacked in Livorno.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Vegan Diet ‘Risks Causing Fetus Neurological Damage’

Alarm raised by experts from Rome, Florence hospitals

(ANSA) — Rome, March 2 — Italian doctors on Friday reported a three-fold increase in cases of vitamin B12 deficiency during pregnancy, with the risk of permanent neurological damage for the unborn child, and said the vegan and vegetarian diets followed by some mothers were among the causes. The alarm was raised by experts from Rome’s Bambino Gesù children’s hospital and Florence’s Meyer hospital following an extensive screening programme.

They said the number of cases of a deficiency in the important vitamin rose from 42 in 2015 to 126 in 2016.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: I’m PD Leader Till 2021 — Renzi

Ex-premier set to stay at helm of party regardless of showing

(ANSA) — Rome, March 2 — Ex-premier Matteo Renzi said Friday that he has no intention of stepping down as leader of the Democratic Party (PD), no matter how well or badly the centre-left group does in Sunday’s general election. “I will be PD secretary until 2021, that was decided by the primaries (last year),” Renzi told La7 television.

The PD looks set to do badly in Sunday’s general election, according to opinion polls that also put Premier Paolo Gentiloni’s approval rating higher than Renzi’s, who was head of government from 2014 to late 2016. Gentiloni is also a PD member.

Renzi said Thursday he would back Gentiloni “or any other PD candidate” if they are tapped by President Sergio Mattarella to try and form the next government. “I have an extraordinary relationship with Gentiloni, and whoever in the PD gets the mandate from the president will have my support,” Renzi said. “Those who are trying to fuel an internal congress, let’s let them carry on: Gentiloni and I will never quarrel.

“The PD has the best team and the strongest ideas, so good that the others are copying them”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Forza Nuova Marches in Rome Banned

‘Only rallies allowed’ — police chief

(ANSA) — Rome, March 1 — Rome’s police chief on Thursday banned marches in the Italian capital planned by the far-right Forza Nuova (FN) group at the last day of the general-election campaign on Friday. The police chief’s office said it had reminded FN, which is holding four rallies in different parts of Rome, that it cannot march between them holding up banners and shouting slogans.

But the rallies themselves will be allowed to go ahead, the office said.

It also said “counter-protests” by anti-Fascists were banned within the new ‘green zone’ covering the historic centre.

The office said security would be further stepped up for the last day of campaigning ahead of Sunday’s general election.

There has been a string of clashes across Italy between police and anti-Fascist protesters trying to get at rallies by FN and another neo-Fascist group, CasaPound.

On Thursday police deployed several armoured vehicles and two water-cannons in the central Largo Argentina area to make sure a far-left rally against CasaPund went off safely.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

No Go Zones: Chaperone-Matching App Helps Protect Travellers From Assaults in Paris

Parisian public transport company RATP has partnered with a tech firm on a mobile app which allows travellers to match up with others making similar journeys so they can avoid being targeted by criminals on public transit.

The app, called ‘Mon Chaperon’, or My Chaperone, has been available since December 2016 and allows users to meet up with others travelling along the same route.

Fabien Boyaval, the creator of the app, said: “I had this idea after one of my friends was assaulted in the street in Montpellier.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Sweden: Woman Interrogated & Imprisoned for Posting Joke Meme About Islam

A woman in Sweden was interrogated by police, had her DNA taken and was subsequently imprisoned for the “crime” of sharing a joke meme about Islam on Facebook.

The 32-year-old woman from Gothenburg drew the attention of authorities after she posted the image below, which depicts a Muslim man having his brain removed and then being wrapped in Islamic head dress.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Bury Police Announce Probe Into Grooming Gangs Preying on Children in Parks

Police announced that arrests have been made in connection with an investigation into child sex exploitation (CSE) gangs targeting “vulnerable, underage” girls in Bury parks.

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said the case — codenamed Burgos — has been underway since June last year when officers received reports that children around Clarence Park and Openshaw Park were being plied with alcohol and drugs then sexually abused by groups of men.

According to the Bury Times, officers made the announcement in order to “reassure the public” after reports on social media accused authorities in the borough of covering up the exploitation of up to 50 children.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Is There a Problem With Unregistered Schools?

School inspectors have warned that there are hundreds of unregistered schools but that they have few powers to investigate or shut them down.

When you think of a place that teaches groups of children — all day, every day — the word most people would use is “school”.

But the law in England is surprisingly vague on what a school actually is.

More than 350 sites — suspected of being unregistered schools — have been investigated in England by education watchdog Ofsted since a specialist taskforce was set up two years ago.

Ofsted inspectors say they don’t have proper powers to inspect or close them. The people running these sites say they are not schools at all.

Some of them are on industrial estates, in church basements and even in pubs. The BBC has obtained pictures showing squalor, appalling food hygiene and dangerous wiring. Some premises have blocked fire escapes and no access to clean drinking water. Many sites do no criminal records checking of staff.

But because of the confusing legal situation, most remain open…

           — Hat tip: Mark H. [Return to headlines]
 

Vatican Cardinal Says the West is ‘Committing Suicide’ By Forgetting Its Christian Roots

The prominent African Cardinal Robert Sarah said in a recent address in Belgium that by forgetting its Christian roots the West is committing suicide, “because a tree without roots is condemned to death.”

In his meeting in Brussels in early February, the outspoken prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments had strong words both for the leaders of European nations and for certain cardinals and bishops who distort the Catholic faith.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

War on Free Speech: EU Demands Facebook and Google Censor ‘Illegal’ Speech in One Hour

The unelected executive branch of the European Union (EU) has ordered social media and tech firms like Facebook to delete content it considers “illegal” within one hour, as they ramp up efforts to censor the Internet.

The EU insists they are focusing on “terrorist” content. However, when Germany introduced a similar ‘delete in 24 hours’ law on January 1st this year, it resulted in satire and some right-wing opinions being removed.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Putin’s New Weapons

by Srdja Trifkovic

The most interesting part of President Vladimir Putin’s two hours long state of nation address on March 1 was his announcement—accompanied by a video presentation—that Russia has developed a hypersonic state-of-the-art missile 20 times faster than the speed of sound, as well as a nuclear-powered cruise missile, both supposedly safe from interception.

Putin claimed that the existing U.S. anti-missile system would be rendered useless by the new arsenal, adding that Russia’s military hardware was primarily designed to safeguard the existing global strategic balance. In the same vein Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that the new weapons are aimed to maintain “strategic parity, which is essential for maintaining peace and stability.”

Putin’s announcement appears to be his response to the Trump administration’s 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS), announced in January, which replaced the erstwhile Quadrennial Defense Review. It called for comprehensive modernization of the offensive nuclear arsenal, deploying more missile defense systems at home and abroad, and building up stockpiles of battlefield weapons in strategic locations around the world…

           — Hat tip: Srdja Trifkovic [Return to headlines]
 

Pakistani Court Wants Names, Ages & Family Info of Those Who Left Islam

A Pakistani court has ordered the citizen database to hand over a list of an estimated 10,000 people believed to have requested a change of religion. The petition is the latest move by mainstream Muslims to criminalize Qadianism.

On Monday, Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui, of the Islamabad High Court (IHC), ordered Pakistan’s Citizen Authority (NADRA) provide information on residents who reportedly changed their religion from Islam to Qadianism. Qadiani, or Ahmadi Muslims are believers of a minority Islamic sect considered heretical by other, mainstream, Muslims.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Diplomatic Brawl Over Kiwi Crims: Jacinda Ardern Slams Malcolm Turnbull for Sending Crooks Back to New Zealand Because They’ve ‘Never Stepped a Foot in the Country’

Jacinda Arden, New Zealand’s Prime Minister, 37, expressed her ‘strong feeling’ about Australia’s policy of sending back Kiwi criminals back to Australia. But Malcolm Turnbull was having none of it

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Muslim Extremist, 20, Who Planned ‘Mass Murder’ Terror Attacks Across Sydney Sentenced to 19 Years in Prison

Tamil Khaja has been sentenced to 19 years behind bars after pleading guilty to planning and preparing a terrorist attack in Sydney two years ago.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

The Sentencing of Raban Alou

Hearing Date(s): 29 January 2018 to 2 February 2018

[…]

Decision: The Offender, Raban Alou, is sentenced for the offence of aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of a terrorist act by Farhad Mohammad against s.101(1) Criminal Code 1995 (Cth), to a term of imprisonment of 44 years commencing on 7 October 2015 and expiring on 6 October 2059 with a non-parole period of 33 years commencing on 7 October 2015 and expiring on 6 October 2048…

[Comment: Alou pleaded guilty to aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring (he probably did all four) the murder by a 15-year-old of Curtis Cheng, an accountant with NSW Police. He obtained and supplied the gun, which was handed over in the women’s department of the local mosque. The shooter’s sister was also heavily involved and has taken off for the Islamic State (or what’s left of it).

New South Wales judges are a tad more robust with their sentences than Victorian judges, and the head sentence is 44 years (discount on 52 for guilty plea) with possibility for early release after 33 years, with ‘conditions’ (which, I have no doubt, would include participation in and successful completion of ‘deradicalisation’). ]

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At Least 30 Dead as French Embassy Comes Under Attack in Burkina Faso

About 30 people were killed and 85 wounded in terrorist attacks on the French embassy and cultural centre in Burkina Faso and the west African country’s army headquarters on Friday.

Most of the dead were Burkina Faso soldiers, killed as they defended the targets in the capital, Ouagadougou, supported by French forces. There were no French casualties, security sources in Paris said.

It was not immediately clear how many gunmen took part in what are believed to have been coordinated strikes described by Edouard Philippe, the French prime minister, as “a terrorist attack”. At least six assailants are known to have been killed.

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South African President Vows to Settle the Transfer of Land From White to Black Owners, Saying: ‘This Sin That Was Committed When Our Country Was Colonised Must be Resolved’

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has said he wants to resolve the highly contentious issue of land ownership, saying a ‘sin’ was committed when the country was colonised.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

African Migrant Attacks Italian Refugee Worker Because There’s No Wi-Fi

Two weeks ago we shared a video about how some of Italy’s elderly want food while the country’s refugees are complaining about Wi-Fi access. That wasn’t an exaggeration as a migrant worker has now been attacked over a lack of Wi-Fi.

A twenty-six-year-old Senegalese migrant attacked an asylum centre worker in the Italian town of Cassino after he complained the place had no Wi-fi, Italian newspaper Ciociaria Oggi reports.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Hungary’s Prime Minister: Migration as a Human Right Will Lead to a Primitive Humanity

Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, reacted to the UN’s migration plans and attempts of George Soros to influence the country’s elections in an interview with Kossuth radio.

The UN’s plans to open up borders and making migration organised and a human right are completely oppositional to Hungary’s stance.

Orban said: “If migration becomes a human right, this will be a sure recipe for destroying the earth, leading to a primitive humanity. If sovereignty is taken away, then ancient cultural rights, opportunities and a living standards achieved through hard work will be at risk.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Ticketless Asylum Seeker Punches Cop on Train

In Puglia

(ANSA) — Bitonto, March 2 — A Nigerian asylum seeker found to be travelling without a ticket in Puglia was arrested for punching a Carabinieri officer on Friday.

Jackson Hhlevin, 25, allegedly attacked the plain-clothes officer when he intervened to help an inspector who was having trouble with the asylum seeker.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

New Czech PM Stands Firm Against Migrant Quotas: No Way Will Brussels Dictate Who Lives Here

Andrej Babis has said there is ‘no way’ the Czech Republic will agree to Brussels’ demand that the nation accept a quota of migrants from the third world.

Speaking in the country’s parliament on Thursday, the recently elected Czech Prime Minister slammed the European Union’s (EU) mandatory quota scheme as “ineffective” and divisive.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Rightists Rage at Frozen Gay Angle

‘World turned round’ says Salvini, ‘a bit much’ says Meloni

(ANSA) — Rome, March 2 — Rightist Italian leaders fumed this week against the prospect of Disney’s Frozen heroine Elsa getting a girlfriend in the sequel to the smash hit cartoon.

“They’re preparing a world turned around,” said anti-migrant, Eurospketic League leader Matteo Salvini.

“I’m worried, I want to intervene before it happens,” said Salvini, who recently swore on the Bible and the rosary to preserve traditional Catholic values.

Nativist Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader Giorgia Meloni, who has vowed to protect traditional Italian families, was also unhappy.

“It’s one thing to defend rights, and another one entirely to put girls of five and six in the middle of these complex things,” she said.

The prospect of a lesbian Elsa “seems a bit too much to me,” she said.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

10 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/2/2018

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    “Meeting The World’s Most Notorious Imam” 50m:58s
    Interviewed by Tommy Robinson .
    Imam Tawhidi is one of the world’s most notorious religious scholars. He lives under constant threat of attack for his outspoken views on Islamic history.

    I wanted to know more about the Imam who wants to abandon the Hadiths, claims Aisha was a twenty one year old with a past and says that Sadiq Khan isn’t fit to run a McDonald’s.

    So I sat down with the ‘Imam of Peace’ to understand what motivates him, and just where he gets these radical ideas about his own religion from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6tuQoXhOPQ

    After all he knows, he still wants to remain a muslim. Very good back ground and different perspective of islam, so in some ways you also learn more depth about islam.

    Maybe another way and tool, to aim for “Jesus muslims”.

    ———-
    Tommy feeling the pressure

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=103&v=qeAUS6HfX-k
    2m 28 sec.
    Support my work: http://TommyRobinson.online/support

    Help expand my kit: http://amzn.eu/7MEBD0R

    I’m not going to be around for much longer. Between the police, the mainstream media and social media giants in Silicon Valley there is a concerted effort to silence and discredit me. Soon enough they will remove me from social media completely.

    I need your support and so I’ve launched my own website, tommyrobinson.online . I want to be able to reach you and let you know when I post new content when they do inevitably take my social media down. So please go to http://tommyrobinson.online/support , support me and I promise I will keep telling the truths that this country needs to be told.

    Thank you

    It also sounds like Tommy’s twitter account has been banned for 7 days earlier and now removing his verification, and also limiting his account.
    Tommy is concerned that much of the social media aims to take away his voice, so that he can not respond to media twisting things about him.

    So he has got going his own website.
    http://tommyrobinson.online/ the home page and to other links of like “latest” videos he has made.
    He is also looking for support, so click through the links, and think on things.

    Thanks to Baron & Dymphna in letting the knowledge of the world flow openly.

  2. *In the Italian town of Cassino, a “refugee” from Senegal attacked an employee at an asylum center.*

    How’s the war in Senegal going? Who’s winning?

  3. “the law in England is surprisingly vague on what a school actually is”

    It’s also evidently quite vague on what a school does…

    • I received this story through the (UK) National Secular Society’s weekly news, but it comes from the BBC. Interesting that the first two cases quoted concern Jewish Haredi “schools” (not that they’re not a problem), but only then does it address Islamic ones, which pose a wider potential future threat to the general popuation.

  4. Very bad news. Perhaps Wilders in the Kremlin pumped up Argentine cocaine.
    https://russian.rt.com/world/news/488288-deputat-niderlandy-putin-lider
    The head of the Dutch freedom Party said that Europe lacks Putin-like leaders
    Member of the Dutch Parliament, leader of the freedom party of Geert Wilders in an interview with RT said that he admires the way the President of Russia Vladimir Putin defends the interests of Russian citizens.
    ==========
    It’s very funny to read. Many in Russia think that Putin is pursuing a policy of genocide of the Russian population.

  5. Most unusual hidden court case.

    A WOMAN living in Australia is going to be stripped of her Kiwi [New Zealand] passport because she is seen as a national security threat.

    The cancellation of the Victorian [Australian State] resident’s passport is because she is thought to be a threat to the security of another country that is not New Zealand.
    ……..neither she or her lawyers will be allowed to listen to the evidence against her because the evidence the New Zealand Minister of Internal Affairs relied on was “classified security information”….
    http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/melbourne-woman-loses-nz-passport-due-to-security-threat/news-story/436624b83cb81c3709a3ee42efae1ae5

    Something is going on ?

    • Another questioning source from a judicial point of view.

      the High Court in Wellington. A woman is asking to get her passport back after the government took it off her. She is doing so without knowing the evidence the government has for deciding she represents a security risk, without being able to be in the court to watch the case being argued, and without being able to have her own lawyer present to argue for her (although some unnamed “advocates” have been appointed to “assist with issues that have to be dealt with” in her absence).

      And none of us can go in and watch the case. Nor can the media go in to watch it on our behalf. http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/351672/secret-court-case-anathema-to-fairness

      So was she an immigrant to New Zealand?
      Is she a native born New Zealander?
      What country was she a security threat to?
      Where did she intend to travel to?
      Why is she not a danger to Australia?
      As it seems that there may be a criminal element, why has not Australia deported her to New Zealand?
      Would she be a danger to New Zealanders?
      To be a security threat, did she follow an ideology?
      Is she just insane?

      It may be said , too many stupid questions. 🙂
      Maybe the Security Intelligience have got things right?

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