Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/18/2018

Seven pupils in an elementary school in Prince Georges County, Maryland cut their wrists using the blades from pencil sharpeners. The county school board responded by banning pencil sharpeners in schools.

In other news, authorities in the French city of Orléans were forced by a public outcry to crack down on public Muslim prayers that blocked the streets of the city.

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USA
» 7 Prince George’s County Elementary Students Cut Wrists at School, Officials Say
 
Europe and the EU
» Fewer People Moving Between Denmark and Sweden: Report
» France: Police Forced to Act Against Mass Muslim Street Prayers After Residents Complain
» Germany: Teenager Jailed for Planning Terror Attack Using 12-Year-Old as a Suicide Bomber
» Hungary Election: World Leaders Congratulate and Criticise Viktor Orban
» Macron Calls for ‘European Sovereignty’, Urges EU to Purge ‘Populism’ Across the Continent
» Muslims Reach Out to Catholic Priests to Request Exorcisms
» Poles’ Spending on Luxury Goods Growing Twice as Fast as GDP
» Politico: Shootings in Sweden ‘So Common They Don’t Make Headlines’, Cities Rocked by Bombs, Grenade Blasts
 
Middle East
» Macron: Syria Strikes Were ‘For Honor of International Community’
 
South Asia
» Meo Muslims Are Criminals, Trap Hindu Women: Rajasthan BJP Mla Banwari Lal Singhal.
 
Australia — Pacific
» ‘Change Your Western Mentality or I’ll Get Another Wife’: Australian Muslim Women Are Being Trapped in Abusive Relationships as Sharia Imams Refuse to Divorce Them From Their Husbands
» Exclusive: ‘This is Probably Going to be an Unpopular Thing to Say’: Meshel Laurie Reveals What She Really Thinks of the Project Co-Host Waleed Aly
» ‘I Fully Understand What He’s Saying’: Former Wallabies Captain Nick Farr-Jones Supports Israel Folau After He Said Gay People Will Go to Hell if They Don’t Repent
» ‘Islamic State Commander’ Who ‘Ordered His Brothers to Blow Up an Etihad Airways Flight From Sydney to Abu Dhabi Using a Bomb Hidden in a Barbie Doll’ Is Arrested in Iraq With Australian is Fighter
» Massive Surge in Chinese People Coming to Australia for University as International Student Numbers Soar to Record Heights
» ‘To Have to Play Against Israel Folau Disgusts Me’: All Blacks Star Slams Israel Folau for Saying All Gays Will Go to Hell — and Says Sportsmen Should Keep Their Opinions to Themselves
» When Will She Drop it? Muslim Activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied Brings Up That ‘Disrespectful’ ANZAC Post Again Just Days Before the National Day of Remembrance
 
Immigration
» Germany: More Migrants Reporting Themselves for Terrorism to Avoid Deportation
» German Authorities Raid 62 Properties Connected With People-Trafficking Ring
» Illegal Aliens Caught Near Border With ‘Assault-Style Firearms, ‘ Says Border Patrol
» Migrant Groups Fight at Greek Tourist Hotspot in Athens — Tourists Among the Victims
» Taxes Will Rise in Sweden as Half of All “New Swedes” Remain Unemployed After Eight Years
» UK: Illegal Migrant Uses Fake ID to Get NHS Transplant While Locals Die on Waiting List
 

7 Prince George’s County Elementary Students Cut Wrists at School, Officials Say

HYATTSVILLE, Md. — Seven students at an elementary school in Prince George’s County cut their wrists at school using blades from pencil sharpeners, according to officials.

Officials with Prince George’s County Public Schools said a concerned parent at William Paca Elementary School in Hyattsville came forward on March 29 and an investigation was launched.

It was revealed that the students used blades out of pencil sharpeners to cut themselves, officials stated.

All seven students were seen by the school nurse and none of the children were taken to the hospital, according to officials. School counselors were brought in to speak with the students.

Officials announced a ban on pencil sharpeners at the school in a message sent to parents on March 29 and said they worked to contact the families of students involved over spring break, which was between April 2 and April 6.

Several concerned parents questioned why the school waited until Tuesday to alert all parents of the incident.

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

Fewer People Moving Between Denmark and Sweden: Report

Despite a small recovery in 2017, the number of people relocating across the Öresund between adjacent regions in Denmark and Sweden has stagnated in recent years.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

France: Police Forced to Act Against Mass Muslim Street Prayers After Residents Complain

Police in the French city of Orléans will be making sure that Muslim worshippers cease using the public street to pray after residents wrote to the city’s government to complain.

The main complaint against the street prayers came from an angry resident living on the Rue de Limare on which the Ibn-Badis Mosque is located, Magcentre reports.

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

Germany: Teenager Jailed for Planning Terror Attack Using 12-Year-Old as a Suicide Bomber

A TEENAGER who planned a terror attack in Germany using a 12-year-old child as a suicide bomber has been jailed for nine years.

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

Hungary Election: World Leaders Congratulate and Criticise Viktor Orban

French President Emmanuel Macron, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and Bechara Boutros Rai, the Patriarch of the Syriac Meronite Church of Antioch, congratulated Viktor Orban on his victory in Hungary’s April 8 parliamentary election.

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

Macron Calls for ‘European Sovereignty’, Urges EU to Purge ‘Populism’ Across the Continent

Stating that policy disagreements are causing “civil war” in the EU, France’s Emmanuel Macron said Brussels must purge “populism” from the continent.

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

Muslims Reach Out to Catholic Priests to Request Exorcisms

Students learning to cast out demons were told to expect Muslims among their future clients at a week-long course on exorcism in Rome this week.

One of the speakers for the course, 89-year-old Cardinal Ernest Simoni of Albania, told the nearly 300 students that in his decades of experience as an exorcist he had performed the ritual on Muslims. “Jesus came for everyone,” he said.

“The grace of the Holy Spirit will redeem us all,” he said.

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

Poles’ Spending on Luxury Goods Growing Twice as Fast as GDP

Poles’ expenditures on high-end jewellery grew 10.6 percent in 2017, more than double the country’s GDP growth rate of 4.6 percent last year.

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

Politico: Shootings in Sweden ‘So Common They Don’t Make Headlines’, Cities Rocked by Bombs, Grenade Blasts

(POLITICO) STOCKHOLM — Sweden may be known for its popular music, IKEA and a generous welfare state. It is also increasingly associated with a rising number of Islamic State recruits, bombings and hand grenade attacks.

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

Macron: Syria Strikes Were ‘For Honor of International Community’

STRASBOURG, France (AFP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday launched into a spirited defense of his decision to launch airstrikes alongside Britain and the United States against alleged regime chemical weapons sites in Syria.

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

Meo Muslims Are Criminals, Trap Hindu Women: Rajasthan BJP Mla Banwari Lal Singhal.

Muslims have the tendency to trap non-Muslim girls and women to marry them for using as baby production machine…..

ENS | Jaipur | April 12, 2018:: BJP’s Alwar Urban MLA Banwari Lal Singhal has said that most people from the Meo Muslim community are criminals and he would never ask for their votes. Speaking to The Indian Express on Wednesday, Singhal stuck to the statements he made to reporters in Alwar.

“There is absolutely no doubt that most people from the Meo community are involved in criminal activities, be it grabbing lands or trapping Hindu girls as part of a planned strategy of love jihad. I have never asked for their votes and neither will in future, as otherwise I might be morally bound to protect them from legal action for their criminal acts,” Singhal said.

The MLA had recently told the media that in his constituency “love jihad” is a big issue, mostly perpetrated by people from the Meo community. He had also said that he always maintains a distance from people of the community.

“Jo ek anpadh ladki Muslim samaj ki hai usko to ye pata hai ki apne dharam ke mutabik ki Hindu samaj ke ladke se na pyar karna hai na shaadi karni hai. Aur hamare Hindu samaj ki most talented most intellectual bahut padi likhi ladki, wo aisi dharm nirapeksh ho jati hai ki wo araam se Meo ke sath chahe wo fake id ke aadhar par usse sambandh ho jate hai, ya kaise bhi puri janch ki padtal kiye bina Meo samaj ke logo ke saath shadiyan kar karke aise shaan se ja rahi hai (An illiterate Muslim girl knows that according to her religion she should neither love or marry a Hindu boy. And the highly talented, intellectual and educated Hindu girls are becoming secular and going with Meos, whether the relationships start on the basis of a fake id or without proper investigation, they go with people from the Meo community),” Singhal had told the media in Alwar.

He had also claimed that later, after the Hindu girls are disowned by the Meo families, they ask for help from politicians such as him…

           — Hat tip: Upananda Brahmachari [Return to headlines]
 

‘Change Your Western Mentality or I’ll Get Another Wife’: Australian Muslim Women Are Being Trapped in Abusive Relationships as Sharia Imams Refuse to Divorce Them From Their Husbands

A parallel system of Sharia law operating in Australia is trapping wives in abusive relationships, for years, as male religious leaders refuse to recognise a women’s right to end a marriage.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Exclusive: ‘This is Probably Going to be an Unpopular Thing to Say’: Meshel Laurie Reveals What She Really Thinks of the Project Co-Host Waleed Aly

She regularly appears as a guest panellist on Network Ten’s The Project.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

‘I Fully Understand What He’s Saying’: Former Wallabies Captain Nick Farr-Jones Supports Israel Folau After He Said Gay People Will Go to Hell if They Don’t Repent

Folau was widely condemned for claiming on Instagram in April that gay people were destined for hell unless they ‘repent their sins and turn to God’. The star will not be sanctioned.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

‘Islamic State Commander’ Who ‘Ordered His Brothers to Blow Up an Etihad Airways Flight From Sydney to Abu Dhabi Using a Bomb Hidden in a Barbie Doll’ Is Arrested in Iraq With Australian is Fighter

Alleged IS commander Tarek Khayat, who is accused by authorities of conspiring with his brothers in Sydney to blow up a plane last year, and Australian Ahmed Merhi, have been arrested in Iraq.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Massive Surge in Chinese People Coming to Australia for University as International Student Numbers Soar to Record Heights

The international student business is booming for Australian universities with numbers now at record levels. The country with the highest number of visiting students is China with 160,000

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

‘To Have to Play Against Israel Folau Disgusts Me’: All Blacks Star Slams Israel Folau for Saying All Gays Will Go to Hell — and Says Sportsmen Should Keep Their Opinions to Themselves

All Black Brad Weber hit out at Israel Folau on Twitter, saying he is disgusted at having to play rugby with someone who thinks gays will go to hell, as the Australian said earlier this month.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

When Will She Drop it? Muslim Activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied Brings Up That ‘Disrespectful’ ANZAC Post Again Just Days Before the National Day of Remembrance

The 27-year-old reminded Australians of her controversial statement despite her news program being axed from the ABC network last year as a repercussion.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Germany: More Migrants Reporting Themselves for Terrorism to Avoid Deportation

The number of migrants reporting themselves to German police claiming to be members of terrorist groups in order to avoid deportation is on the rise.

Public prosecutors’ offices in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe are claiming that the number has surged, saying they had seen 300 cases of migrants claiming to be members of terror groups for the entire year in 2017, compared to 159 cases in just the first three months of this year, Die Welt reports.

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

German Authorities Raid 62 Properties Connected With People-Trafficking Ring

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say they have raided 62 properties and arrested seven people in an investigation of an alleged trafficking ring set up to bring Thai women and transsexuals to Germany to work as prostitutes.

Prosecutors in Frankfurt said raids were conducted across Germany on Wednesday. They said the chief suspects are a 59-year-old Thai national and her 62-year-old German partner, who are suspected of setting up the network.

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

Illegal Aliens Caught Near Border With ‘Assault-Style Firearms, ‘ Says Border Patrol

Border Patrol agents arrested a group of heavily armed Mexican nationals who illegally crossed the border into southern Arizona. The agents found three Mexican nationals who were carrying multiple weapons—including “assault-style firearms.”

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

Migrant Groups Fight at Greek Tourist Hotspot in Athens — Tourists Among the Victims

Monastiraki is one of the most crowded squares of Athens, with millions of tourists visiting every year to enjoy the sun, food and local markets.

On April 12th, about 60 migrants from Algeria and Pakistan started fighting with each other. Some of them were carrying huge sticks, or even knives. As a shop owner complained to the newspaper “I Efimerida”, the fierce fight started for unknown reasons.

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

Taxes Will Rise in Sweden as Half of All “New Swedes” Remain Unemployed After Eight Years

Chief forecaster of Sweden’s Economic Research Institute, Ylva Hedén Westerdahl, points out that unless more immigrants enter the labour market in Sweden, taxes will have to rise. Sweden has a “rights-based” welfare system, which she calls “generous”, which includes healthcare and education.

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

UK: Illegal Migrant Uses Fake ID to Get NHS Transplant While Locals Die on Waiting List

An illegal immigrant from Albania who used a fake ID to get a kidney transplant, costing the National Health Service (NHS) more than £72,000, has been imprisoned.

Fatmira Tafa, 31, came to Britain in 2014 in the back of a lorry to be with a man she met on the internet.

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

5 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/18/2018

  1. Seven pupils in an elementary school in Prince Georges County, Maryland cut their wrists using the blades from pencil sharpeners. The county school board responded by banning pencil sharpeners in schools.

    Can’t you just hear the hysterical shrieks already? “Sharpener control!”

  2. ‘Despite a small recovery in 2017, the number of people relocating across the Öresund between adjacent regions in Denmark and Sweden has stagnated in recent years.’

    That might be because we all like to take the ferry instead 🙂

  3. In the latest news from Capital Hill, Senator Diane Feinstein has joined forces with Moms Demand Action to call for a ban on assault weapons, high capacity lethal bullet containers and things that go up in an effort to counter the epidemic of pencil sharpener wrist slitting plaguing our vulnerable schools.

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