Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/26/2018

The Somali-American Minneapolis cop Mohamed Noor will plead not guilty to murdering Justine Damond. Mr. Noor’s lawyer said his client will cite self-defense to justify his shooting of Ms. Noor. Possibly the policeman feared that the dangerous woman at the window of the police vehicle might strangle his partner with her pajama sleeve, or something similar.

In other news, the Norwegian Progress Party will call for a ban on the Islamic call to prayer in Norway.

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Financial Crisis
» Job Market Remains Strong; Unemployment Rate at 50-Year Low
 
USA
» ‘Cosby Show’ Pulled From Network Following Guilty Verdict
» ISIS-Loving Staten Island Man Gets 17 Years for FBI Knife Attack
» JFK Assassination Files: Nearly 20,000 Released Under Trump’s Orders
» Minneapolis Cop Will Plead Not Guilty to Murder After He Shot Yoga Teacher Dead After She Called 911
» Reactions to “Chappaquiddick” Movie Vary
» Research Shows Google’s Search Manipulations Tried to Rig Election for Hillary
 
Europe and the EU
» 280 Suspected Jihadists Apprehended by Spanish Police Since 2015
» 416 Who Gave Money to ISIS Identified in France, Says Top Anti-Terror Prosecutor
» Austria: Uber Suspends Operations in Vienna After Court Ruling
» Danish Inventor Peter Madsen Jailed for Life Over Submarine Murder
» Founder of “Islam” Party Treats Belgian Women Like Trash During TV Debate
» German Police Study Finds Africans Most Criminally Prone Asylum Seekers
» German is Becoming a ‘Foreign Language’ In Germany’s Prisons
» Govt Stats: UK Knife Crime Highest on Record
» Italy: Rome Jews Say Won’t Take Part in Liberation Day March
» Italy: Sana’s Father, Brother and Uncle Arrested — Media
» Italy: Berlusconi Compares M5S to Nazis, Salvini Says Enough Insults
» Italy Reports ‘Positive’ Talks on 5-Star-Democratic Alliance
» Leftist Radicals Want to Disrupt Official Dutch Remembrance Day Ceremony
» Neanderthals May Have Crossed the Seas Thousands of Years Before Modern Humans, Researchers Say
» New UK Musical Calls for “The Assassination of Katie Hopkins” — So the Rebel Pushes Back!
» Norwegian Ruling Party Aims to Ban ‘Annoying’ Islamic Call to Prayer
» Sweden: Stockholm Terror Attacker Expressed Support for Islamic State a Full Year Before Attack
» UK: Accused Fraudsters, Anti-Semites, And Terror Apologists Standing for Birmingham’s Labour Council
» UK: Networks Fawn Over Royal Child While Ignoring Dying Toddler Alfie Evans
» UK: Rotherham Child Rape Scandal: 100 Investigations Into Police, ‘Potential Misconduct’
 
Middle East
» Far-Left Antifa Militants in Syria Vow to Fight French State Following Evictions of Anarchist Groups
» Hungary to Finance the Construction of a New Hospital in Syria
 
Far East
» Watch Live: Historic Summit Between North and South Korea
» White House Releases Photos of Pompeo Shaking Hands With Kim Jong Un
 
Australia — Pacific
» ‘Hopefully Your Replacement Isn’t White-Hating’: Race Discrimination Commissioner is Slammed as Government Says They Want His Replacement to Have ‘Middle Australian Values’
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Academics Find ‘Climate Change’ Not Responsible for Displacement, Conflict in Africa
 
Immigration
» Bosnia, Facing Influx of Migrants, Says Will Tighten Borders
» Five Migrants Found Dead En Route to Spain as Police Arrest 19 Smugglers
» France: Front National Politicians Face Hate Speech Trial for Discussing Alleged Migrant Attack at Hospital
» Italy: Migrant Arrested Near Naples Over Terror Plan to Drive Into Crowd
» UN: Islamic State ‘Partnering With Extremists in Africa to Push Millions More Migrants to Europe’
 
Culture Wars
» Trudeau: “Free Speech” Demands Funding Pipeline Protesters But Not Pro-Lifers
 
General
» ISIS Holiday Warning: Fanatics Vow to Bring Bloodshed to Skies With Aircraft Attacks
» The Mysterious Disappearing “Reliance [Of the Traveler]”
 

Job Market Remains Strong; Unemployment Rate at 50-Year Low

Unemployment claims for the week ending April 21 fell to new lows, according to the Department of Labor. On Thursday it reported that new claims fell to 209,000, far below forecasters’ expectations of 230,000. It also was the 24th week of jobless claims fewer than 250,000 and the 164th straight week of claims below 300,000.

Even more remarkable is that the last time jobless claims were this low was during the first term of President Richard Nixon, nearly 50 years ago, when the country’s labor force was just 153 million, compared to today’s work force of 162 million. Translation: Not only is the latest report from the Labor Department impressive, reflecting a vibrant and dynamic labor market, it’s even better when viewed through the lens of a smaller total labor market back then.

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

‘Cosby Show’ Pulled From Network Following Guilty Verdict

Bill Cosby’s legacy may not be around for much longer.

On Thursday afternoon, Bounce TV announced it would be pulling “The Cosby Show” from its network entirely. This decision comes as Bill Cosby was just found guilty on three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault on Thursday.

“Effective immediately, Bounce is removing The Cosby Show from our schedule,” Bounce TV announced in a statement on Thursday afternoon.

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

ISIS-Loving Staten Island Man Gets 17 Years for FBI Knife Attack

A knife-wielding ISIS wannabe is getting a 17-year term for his terrorist aspirations and attack on an FBI agent.

Fareed Mumuni and his associates were plotting a pressure-cooker bomb attack in the New York area and trying to get ISIS sympathizers to Syria, according to Brooklyn federal prosecutors.

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

JFK Assassination Files: Nearly 20,000 Released Under Trump’s Orders

THOUSANDS more top secret documents about John F. Kennedy’s assassination have been declassified and released today under the orders of US President Donald Trump.

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

Minneapolis Cop Will Plead Not Guilty to Murder After He Shot Yoga Teacher Dead After She Called 911

A Minneapolis police officer, Mohamed Noor (right), who shot dead an unarmed Australian yoga teacher, Justine Damond (left), in her pajamas after responding to her 911 call intends to plead not guilty.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Reactions to “Chappaquiddick” Movie Vary

No normal-length movie could possibly cover the complexities of the event in the summer of 1969, known simply as “Chappaquiddick,” after the island off the coast of Massachusetts, where Senator Edward Kennedy’s presidential ambitions vanished after he left a young woman, Mary Jo Kopechne, to die in his submerged Oldsmobile in a tidal pond. Yet, this film, through the expert cinematic efforts of director John Curran and screenwriters Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan, comes as close as one can expect from a movie attempting to explain an event that is still shrouded in mystery.

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

Research Shows Google’s Search Manipulations Tried to Rig Election for Hillary

Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,

New research shows just how much Google’s search manipulation affects voters when making decisions. During the 2016 election, it was obvious that Google manipulated searches to favor Hillary Clinton while showing disproportionately negative stories about Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

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

280 Suspected Jihadists Apprehended by Spanish Police Since 2015

Two men arrested in three days in separate incidents for allegedly spreading Islamic extremist propaganda has brought the total number of jihadists apprehended by Spanish police since 2015 to nearly 300.

A Spanish national and German resident accused of spreading ISIS propaganda has been arrested in Palma, Spain, Spanish police said in a statement on April 26th.

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

416 Who Gave Money to ISIS Identified in France, Says Top Anti-Terror Prosecutor

PARIS (AFP) — French authorities have identified 416 people who gave money to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group, France’s top anti-terror prosecutor said on Thursday (April 26) as dozens of ministers met to discuss how to cut off funds for extremists.

Mr Francois Molins said that French security services had identified 416 French donors to ISIS and had also detected 320 fundraisers mainly based in Turkey and Libya who transferred the money to the militants.

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

Austria: Uber Suspends Operations in Vienna After Court Ruling

Ride-hailing service Uber said it was suspending operations in Vienna on Wednesday after a court upheld a complaint against its business practices brought by a local taxi company.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Danish Inventor Peter Madsen Jailed for Life Over Submarine Murder

Danish inventor Peter Madsen has been sentenced to life in jail over the murder of Swedish freelance journalist Kim Wall.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Founder of “Islam” Party Treats Belgian Women Like Trash During TV Debate

Redouane Ahrouch, the founder and the president of Belgium’s “Islam” party, refused to look women in the eye during a TV debate. He also didn’t shake their hands. One of the women said she felt “humiliated” and “worthless” afterwards, Belgian newspaper Gazet van Antwerpen reports.

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

German Police Study Finds Africans Most Criminally Prone Asylum Seekers

A study conducted by the German Federal Police (BKA) on migrant crime has found that African asylum seekers are far more prone to criminality than their Middle Eastern counterparts.

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

German is Becoming a ‘Foreign Language’ In Germany’s Prisons

The number of foreigners in German prisons is increasing and as a result, the use of German language is becoming problematic, the Berliner Morgenpost reports.

In Hamburg, 58 percent of inmates are of foreign origin, and in Berlin, their proportion is at 47 percent. Horst Hund, chairman of the prison committee, thinks the migrant crisis is partly responsible:

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

Govt Stats: UK Knife Crime Highest on Record

There has been a 22 per cent surge in knife crime and an 11 per cent increase in gun crime, with offences “disproportionately concentrated in London” and other cities, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has said.

The numbers mean knife crime is at its highest ever recorded level, and murders were also up by nine per cent in England and Wales, with a total of 653 recorded by police across last year.

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

Italy: Rome Jews Say Won’t Take Part in Liberation Day March

ANPI ‘hasn’t taken stance against Palestinian groups’

(ANSA) — Rome, April 24 — Rome’s Jewish community said Tuesday it would not take part in a Liberation Day march with partisans’ association ANPI Wednesday accusing ANPI of not taking a clear stance against Palestinian groups who said they would attend waving Palestinian flags and wearing the keffiyeh.

“The ANPI, despite the agreements, did not decide to take a definitive stance about the organised presence of Palestinian and pro-Palestinian associations with symbols extraneous to the spirit of April 25,” the community said in a statement.

Instead of attending the march, the Jewish community will pay a visit to the site of WWII massacre the Ardeatine Caves and then to the site of Rome’s Nazi HQ in Via Tasso, now a museum, the community said.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Sana’s Father, Brother and Uncle Arrested — Media

Pakistani-Brescian ‘killed for refusing arranged marriage’

(ANSA) — Rome, April 24 — The father, a brother and an uncle of Sana Cheema, the 25-year-old Brescian of Pakistani origin killed in Pakistan on April 18, have been arrested, Pakistani journalistic sources said Tuesday.

The young woman is believed to have been killed for refusing an arranged marriage.

The father, brother and uncle have been charged with murder and unauthorized burial.

Another two people are involved, the doctor who signed the death certificate and the driver who drove a car to the burial site.

Sana’s cousin was said to be the driver.

On Monday Pakistani authorities said they were investigating Cheema’s death.

Cheema, who became an Italian citizen in September after living for years in the northern city of Brescia, had returned to her birth country two months ago where she died of “natural causes”, according to initial reports from Pakistan.

However, members of the Pakistani community in Italy have said she was “killed by her father and brother because she refused an arranged marriage”.

Local media outlets also said she had a boyfriend in Brescia.

Raza Asif, the national secretary of the Pakistani community in Italy, on Sunday said prosecutors in the Pakistani district of Gujarat, where the young woman died, are investigating and “we will know the truth in 48 hours”.

The Italian foreign ministry is following the case through its embassy in Islamabad.

Cheema had opened an automotive office in Brescia but shut it down at the end of last year.

The Pakistani community in Brescia received a medical certificate stating that the young woman was taken to hospital on April 11 after feeling unwell, reportedly due to a heart attack.

They also said that her father and brother had not been arrested, as previously claimed by unconfirmed reports.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Berlusconi Compares M5S to Nazis, Salvini Says Enough Insults

FI leader says many feel like Jews when Hitler appeared

(ANSA) — Rome, April 26 — League leader Matteo Salvini has called for an end to insults after his coalition partner, ex-premier and Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi, compared the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement to Nazis.

Berlusconi said that many people felt like “jews when Hitler appeared” with respect to the M5S.

The M5S refused to negotiate on forming a new government with the centre right after last month’s inconclusive general election as Salvini rejected their call for him to dump Berlusconi to make a deal possible.

“It’s better to be silent and respect the vote of the Italian people instead of talking nonsense,” said Salvini. “I want to give Italy a government. I’m fed up of insults, tantrums and quarrels”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy Reports ‘Positive’ Talks on 5-Star-Democratic Alliance

ROME (AP) — Italy reported the first glimpse of progress on forming a possible government after inconclusive March 4 elections, with the latest round of exploratory talks between the populist 5-Star Movement and the center-left Democrats yielding a “positive outcome.”

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

Leftist Radicals Want to Disrupt Official Dutch Remembrance Day Ceremony

Remembrance of the Dead is held annually on May 4 in the Netherlands. It commemorates all civilians and members of the armed forces of the Kingdom of the Netherlands who have died in wars or peacekeeping missions since the beginning of the Second World War.

Throughout the country several ceremonies are being held. A leftist protest group has now threatened to disrupt the official Remembrance Day Ceremony in Amsterdam, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reports.

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

Neanderthals May Have Crossed the Seas Thousands of Years Before Modern Humans, Researchers Say

  • Discoveries of tools dating back 130,000 years are evidence of early sea travel
  • Tools were found in Crete, which separated from mainland 5 million years ago
  • In recent years, ancient tools have been found in several other islands as well
  • Suggests human ancestors had cognitive and technological means for sea travel

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

New UK Musical Calls for “The Assassination of Katie Hopkins” — So the Rebel Pushes Back!

Tonight, at the Theatre Clwyd in Wales, the press will gather to watch The Assassination of Katie Hopkins.

This new musical has been billed as an attempt to explore the politics of outrage in the age of social media, and has received huge attention from the liberal press and the state broadcaster, finding the musical’s title to be in jolly good taste and hugely entertaining.

In fact, The Assassination of Katie Hopkins also benefits from state funding. Which is a curious way to spend taxpayers cash at a time when we can’t afford hospitals or police.

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

Norwegian Ruling Party Aims to Ban ‘Annoying’ Islamic Call to Prayer

One of Norway’s ruling parties has plans to ban mosques from broadcasting the call to prayer in the country. The Progress Party will have a vote on the issue during its national meeting this weekend.

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

Sweden: Stockholm Terror Attacker Expressed Support for Islamic State a Full Year Before Attack

Rakhmat Akilov, the failed asylum seeker currently on trial for killing five and injuring 14 others in the Stockholm terror attack, allegedly expressed Islamic State sympathies well before the incident, according to a witness.

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

UK: Accused Fraudsters, Anti-Semites, And Terror Apologists Standing for Birmingham’s Labour Council

Candidates who have denied the existence of Islamic State, spread anti-Semitism and homophobia online, and have been convicted of serious voter fraud are set to stand for Labour and as independents in Birmingham council elections, one of the UK’s most corrupt local authorities.

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

UK: Networks Fawn Over Royal Child While Ignoring Dying Toddler Alfie Evans

The three mainstream U.S. television networks have heaped attention on the new little British prince while silencing the heartbreaking story of little Alfie Evans who is fighting for his life against attempts by the British state to euthanize him.

On April 23, the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, gave birth to her third child with Prince William, an event that electrified American news channels. The three major networks—ABC, CBS, and NBC—devoted a combined total of more than 28 minutes to the royal news, while completely omitting mention of another baby who languished in a UK hospital after officials removed his life support against his parents’ wishes.

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

UK: Rotherham Child Rape Scandal: 100 Investigations Into Police, ‘Potential Misconduct’

The number of investigations into the police response to allegations of child abuse and Muslim grooming gangs in Rotherham has increased to nearly 100, the police watchdog has revealed.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said they had identified “potential misconduct”, and at the beginning of April, they were overseeing 98 investigations into the response of South Yorkshire Police, compared with 62 at the same point last year.

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

Far-Left Antifa Militants in Syria Vow to Fight French State Following Evictions of Anarchist Groups

Far-left extremists fighting alongside Kurdish militia groups in Northern Syria have expressed support for their fellow far-left compatriots in France who have been recently evicted from several major squats, saying they may return and help fight the French state.

The group “Antifascist Forces in Afrin” released a video statement, which has since been removed, on their Facebook page claiming that they were willing to engage and resist the French government following clashes between French police and anarchist squatters in Notre-Dame-des-Landes and Tolbiac University over the last month.

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

Hungary to Finance the Construction of a New Hospital in Syria

Hungary plans to contribute 5 million euros towards building a hospital in Syria and construction will go ahead once the security situation allows, Peter Szijjarto, the foreign minister, said at a donor conference in Brussels on Wednesday.

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

Watch Live: Historic Summit Between North and South Korea

Update 2: A live feed from inside the room, as Kim Jong Un, seated next to his sister, offers opening remarks to Moon Jae-in, together with intelligence chief Suh Hoon to his right and chief of staff Im Jong-seok to his left.

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

White House Releases Photos of Pompeo Shaking Hands With Kim Jong Un

Several weeks before he was sworn in as the new US Secretary of State, then CIA-Director flew to North Korea with a secret mission: to break the ice between “short and fat rocket man“ Kim Jong Un, and “mentally deranged dotard” Donald Trump.

Secretly flying to Pyongyang over Easter weekend visit at Kim’s invitation, Pompeo’s visit — which was not disclosed until days later— was a major step toward a planned meeting between Kim and President Donald Trump, which is scheduled to take place in the coming months, and which many have said may have guaranteed a Nobel Peace Prize for Trump and Kim.

And today, to celebrate Pompeo’s official confirmation by the Senate as Trump’s new Secretary of State, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders tweeted out two remarkable photos of Pompeo and Kim, which show the two unsmiling representatives of their country, both in dark suits, firmly gripping the other’s hand in an ornate room in an undisclosed part of North Korea.

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

‘Hopefully Your Replacement Isn’t White-Hating’: Race Discrimination Commissioner is Slammed as Government Says They Want His Replacement to Have ‘Middle Australian Values’

Tim Soutphommasane, who has born in France to Laotian parents, said he hoped his replacement would have a ‘fierce commitment to combating racism’.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Academics Find ‘Climate Change’ Not Responsible for Displacement, Conflict in Africa

Academics at University College London (UCL) have said there is little basis to justify terms like ‘climate refugee’ after finding that the majority of conflict in Africa and forced migration has been as a result of rapid population growth.

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

Bosnia, Facing Influx of Migrants, Says Will Tighten Borders

SARAJEVO (Reuters) — Bosnia’s central government said on Thursday it would step up border controls to prevent a further influx of migrants and try to accommodate those already in Bosnia in the face of criticism that it is failing to adequately protect their rights.

Hundreds of men, women and children are sleeping in parks in the capital Sarajevo and in two towns in the western Bosnia bordering Croatia, a European Union member state, which they are trying to reach on their journey to western Europe.

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

Five Migrants Found Dead En Route to Spain as Police Arrest 19 Smugglers

Five migrants have died trying to cross the Mediterranean, the Spanish coastguard said Thursday after rescuing more than 180 others, while they searched for another two boats with dozens aboard.

Rescue boats, helicopters and planes from southern Spain carried out a series of rescue operations late Wednesday and Thursday, a spokeswoman said. Since Wednesday evening, 185 people in five boats had been rescued.

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

France: Front National Politicians Face Hate Speech Trial for Discussing Alleged Migrant Attack at Hospital

Three Front National municipal councillors in the French city of Limoges are to be prosecuted after writing an article in a local magazine highlighting an assault on a hospital worker allegedly committed by a newly arrived migrant.

The three politicians were charged with “provocation to racial hatred” this week after the case was brought to court by the International League Against Racism and Antisemitism (Licra), Franceinfo reports.

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

Italy: Migrant Arrested Near Naples Over Terror Plan to Drive Into Crowd

Gambian national ‘pledged allegiance to ISIS leader al-Baghdadi’

(ANSA) — Naples, April 26 — State and Carabinieri police arrested a Gambian national in an antiterrorism operation in Naples on Thursday, sources said.

The arrest comes after investigators found evidence the suspect was planning an attack, the sources said.

Alagie Touray, 21, admitted to investigators that he had received a request to drive a car into a crowd, the sources said. The evidence against him includes a video published on Telegram in which he allegedly pledges alliance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

He was detained as he left a mosque in Licola, in the province of Naples. Touray landed in Messina along with over 100 other asylum-seekers in March 2017.

He had been living in Pozzuoli, near Naples, for a year. The arrested man had made a request for political asylum and the application was still being considered by the authorities, according to the sources.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

UN: Islamic State ‘Partnering With Extremists in Africa to Push Millions More Migrants to Europe’

The director of the UN World Food Programme has warned that jihadists leaving Syria are working with Islamists in Africa to push a massive new migration wave towards Europe.

David Beasley urged leaders in Europe to “wake up” to the fact that Islamic State fighters forced out of the Middle East are now in sub-Saharan Africa and plotting with local militants from radical Islamic groups to exploit food shortages and create further instability in the region.

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

Trudeau: “Free Speech” Demands Funding Pipeline Protesters But Not Pro-Lifers

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his government’s funding of an anti-oil pipeline protest group on the grounds of “free speech” — even as that same government is denying funding to organizations that oppose abortion and the LGBT agenda.

During Wednesday’s question period in the House of Commons, Conservative Members of Parliament took the Liberal prime minister to task for his seeming hypocrisy.

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

ISIS Holiday Warning: Fanatics Vow to Bring Bloodshed to Skies With Aircraft Attacks

ISIS have vowed to bring bloodshed to the skies in a chilling warning to holiday-makers as the jihadis warn tourists “you will be easy prey” in a terrifying online poster showing what appears to be an image of the inside of an aircraft cabin.

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

The Mysterious Disappearing “Reliance [Of the Traveler]”

This is a follow up to a recent blog post about Nuh Ha Mim Keller’s translation of the Reliance of the Traveller.

In it I gave a link to a copy of the PDF version of the Reliance on Archive.org which has since gone down, leaving an error message about missing metadata files. That sounds like a technical fault but Archiv.org have not responded to queries and some people who are familiar with the Reliance had predicted it would not last long.

Over the last two or three years I can think of at least three copies of the PDF which have disappeared from the internet. One hosting site left the explanation that the copyright holders were threatening legal action. It seems likely then that the Archiv.org copy, which was the last version left, has joined the list and will not be reappearing any time soon.

Moreover, an Islamic book site (also now apparently taken down) left a curious message against the entry for the book:

“Reliance of the Traveller (‘Umdaat Ul Salik)

TEMPORARILY REMOVED BY REQUEST OF NUH KELLER

until we provide a better translation than Nuh Keller’s”

What does he mean by a better translation? There certainly are those who question its accuracy. In his book The Third Choice Mark Durie gives examples of Keller putting a deceptively positive spin on items in the text, eg:

“Keller reports that a ‘non-Muslim may not enter the … Haram’ (the sacred precinct in Mecca). What the Arabic actually says is ‘idolater’ (mushrik) (o11.7), which is a more offensive term.”

Perhaps Keller regretted misleading Western readers by softening the text and wishes to put things right. Perhaps, but more likely he just realised that his book, giving such a clear view of the horrors of Islamic Law, is more useful to the counter jihad side than to the fellow Muslims he wrote it for, and simply wants to remove it from critical eyes. This could be a rare example of an Islamic apologist no-platforming himself. […]

[See author’s listing of the three most important books for understanding Islam at his link, above]

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

32 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/26/2018

  1. I assume there is going to be a follow-up article on the Prague waiter attack, but to sum it up for anyone interested: two out of the group of seven were set free as they, acording to the police, weren’t involved in the attack and rather tried stopping the others, they are already back in the Netherlands. Other three, involved in the attack but not leading it, received 8 months probe time and were banned from the country for 5 years. The remaining two, who did most of the damage, were taken into custody for now. Aparenty one of them is an officer in Amsterdam, but the media, to my knowledge, didn’t specify if he tried to calm the situation or was one of the attackers. The two in custody are brothers and own a fitness studio, where they also work as personal trainers. Aparently they feel sorry about the attack and offered financial help to the victim, but I’m sure all regular readers of GoV suspect this isn’t an honest plead, it’s an attempt to lower their sentence. On a conspiracy theory note it wouldn’t surprise me if the attack was planned beforehand to check and see how our police, justice and nation as a whole would react.

    • As much as I also am a conspiracy theorist, this doesn’t look like any conspiracy to me. Drunk idiots do these kind of things everywhere, although 99% of Czechs would never go after one that fell to the ground – this just proves that these idiots came from different ‘culture’.

      Don’t forget that Prague is a place to go for drugs, whores, and heavy drinking. This alone can make inexperienced self-intoxicators mad.

      Most conspiracy I see in this is that one of them is a cop in Netherlands. If true, than that is an outrage!

    • Hi Baron..Why did you remove my comment ?
      If my present doesn’t suit profile of your site ,just say so… and I wont trouble you anymore by commenting or visiting your side..

      • hmmm Perhaps it just get lost in virtual space .. Please disregards my earlier comment. Regards..Max

      • I didn’t remove any comment by you, nor did Dymphna. Whatever happened, the moderators didn’t do it.

        • One of the Virtual World oops.I trust your word. Just disregard what I said. Regards and my profound respect for you and your wife!

  2. Considering the situation of little Alfie Evans and his parents, I am of the opinion that when the State decides who shall live and who shall die then the dystopian philosopher Nietzsche’s “transvaluation of all values” has come to pass. This is the inversion of nature expressed as “hostility to life” to the point where it reverses the natural relationship between conscious perception and subsequent control of actions.

    Decades of subliminal conditioning have brought us to the point where this perverted philosophy has become the guiding rule of Western elites and their enforcement arms. There can be little doubt that the end times are close and thus, to survive, we must identify, locate, isolate then destroy the core practitioners of this abomination. If we do not we will cease to exist. the Four Horsemen can be heard on the near horizon.

    • Thank you.Your comment is highly valuable !
      …”relationship between conscious perception and subsequent control of actions.

      Decades of subliminal conditioning have brought us to the point where this perverted philosophy has become the guiding rule of Western elites and their enforcement arms”..
      This should be thought in Schools and Universities…
      Profoundly Thank you !!

    • The poor lad was totally incapable of responding to stimuli, or surviving without mechanical support. It would have been gratuitously cruel to keep him “alive”.

      • “Cruel” to whom? The parents wanted to leave with him weeks ago. At least if he’d died in Italy, Britain’s NHS would look less thuggish than it does now.

        I fear things like that will happen here with ObamaCare. Already, the influx of Canadian doctors to the U.S. has slowed.

  3. If Reliance of the Traveller is to be retranslated the section on slavery (k32) should be translated as well.

  4. Why is the Catholic church in Canada mute before the anti-Christian values funded and supported by their sketchball PM? Cowardice? Demonic possession? Blackmail?

    • why ia the Catholic Church mute everywhere? Because Vatican II. Eventually, that led to Pope Frankie, the Argentinian communist.

      • ..”why ia the Catholic Church mute everywhere?”..
        Dear and Loved Dymphna…It’s overstatement..
        CC is deeply divided from sometime..
        There is a ” noisy wing ” of CC…I represent here :-))
        Polish CC is also “noisy” and can be strongly heard ..
        It looks like there will ne next “Polish Pope” I short (let’s hope) time
        It’s his dossier :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Ry%C5%82ko
        Hi is NOT Wishy-washy like present one..

  5. With regard to Officer Noor in Minneapolis, I have never, ever, once, read of a Muslim defendant say “I did it. I’m so terribly sorry. How can I make amends?” Always some lie or excuse. Gang rape? “But she pleaded with the six of us to let her have it.” Or the rape of a ten-year old boy: “I didn’t hear him say ‘no’ “. And so it goes on and on and on. No honour, no remorse. And in this trial in Minneapolis, jurors – if any of them are Somalis or other Muslims – might well reach their decision along sectarian/religious lines rather than on the basis of truth, honour and what is right.

  6. ..”acording to the police, weren’t involved in the attack and rather tried stopping the others, they are already back in the Netherlands “..
    This should give you some clarity on social and political order in Czechia..
    We do have similar problems in Poland..Police Pretorians like in Communist time ,serve theirs political Masters..not a taxpayers and Citizens..

    • We do have remember that so call “Westerners” feel Superior to Us and this Superiority give them sens of entailment and being about the Law..
      In this case “Dutch” value with theirs Muslim backgrounds support theirs false convictions …(we are also for them Kafirs and Infidels )..

  7. The article on Crete is interesting, but boating may not have been nescessary.

    During the ice ages land bridges may have formed to crete

    https://en.m.wikiversity.org/wiki/File:Mediterranean_Bathymetric_map.png

    Orange stated as land.

    There was a glaciation around 150 000 bp also

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_period

    Though the Messinian salinity crisis ( Med. evaporated) was 5 million years ago, others think the similar may have occurred during low sea level of recent glaciation

    http://atlantipedia.ie/samples/gibraltar-landbridge-or-dam/

    is contemplative, not extreme.

    This page looks at some possible previous landmass arrangements

    https://en.m.wikiversity.org/wiki/Atlantis/Location_Hypotheses

    And some ice maps for an extra

    http://www.donsmaps.com/icemaps.html

    Just caught my attention as I was studying ivory trade between Iberia and Asia/ Africa just now, in third milenium bc.

  8. I found this on a Muslim website with the tag #Islamophobia
    I do not know the French language, I can not say what it is about.
    —————————–
    A French doctor refuses to treat/see a child because her mother wears a #Hijab…

    “You are not integrated, I don’t want to help women who wear the Hijab. You’re not allowed dress this way outside.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Wcq2dBiZM

    • Well the mother comes across as primed on the matter, does not take no from the doctor without unloading her opinion. She starts by accusing the doctor of prejudicing her daughter via her, or more precisely her dress, she says her hijab is legal, that she is 100% French and born there, that she is accepted everywhere as she is. The doctor does not get much say in ( that you can here), but at one point it seems she tries to explain that she herself has been discriminated against by Islamic patients ( for being a woman or non muslim is not clear) . The mother says that only because the setting is private does the doctor have any choice, the doctor says that the mother is not representative of French custom.

      The duty of of medical workers is quite a topic. In principal the basis is complete non discrimination, with exemption on few grounds ( e.g. detracting from serving others), but in reality it could be argued that at the least the doctor feels compromised in the circumstance and therefore cannot centre herself morally or be of proper service. Though the standards aimed for are high, you cannot force a doctor, and ” do no harm” is a guiding spirit that might recommend a doctor abstain, for her patient or even for her own sanctity.

      It is a theme that is much argued nowadays, not just on grounds of religion.

      • Also, from a wider ethical standpoint, doctors pledge not to release detail on their patients of any kind.

        Here you have a doctors interaction recorded and purposefully released/used by a patient. If there was malpractice maybe that would be acceptable, but here there is simply no practice. Somehow this strikes me as unbalanced, even if we were to accept that rejection of patients on religious grounds was not acceptable. It turns the patient doctor relationship into a political battleground, meaning doctors would feel obliged even before they considered, and that would necessarily interefere with the intuition of their practice, an intuition they alone are subject to on so many levels and trusted alone to find their way through.

        What is also noteworthy is that the mother “lets off” the doctor because it is a private practice. This in turn suggests that public practice is ruled by obligatory ethics first, that is to say it demonstrates how the politics of public enterprise have taken over any independent decision by those on the front line, those that carry all the responsibility – the staff. Add to that that discrimination openly exists in the public service based on nationality etc. – so there is hypocrisy to be found.

        Even simpler – if you ask from someone and they say “in this manner” and you say ” no”, then you go ask someone else, you don’t spend your time giving them an earful on politics or religion.

        Some people don’t like hijab, some people don’t like western dress, so?

        In a western country western dress is default…let us see the mother go to Saudi in western dress and see how she is treated by people there, and then place her insistance on a hijab into perspective…in certain places she would not even make it to the doctor.

  9. “The Somali-American Minneapolis cop Mohamed Noor will plead not guilty to murdering Justine Damond. Mr. Noor’s lawyer said his client will cite self-defense to justify his shooting of Ms. Noor. Possibly the policeman feared that the dangerous woman at the window of the police vehicle might strangle his partner with her pajama sleeve, or something similar.”

    Well, obviously Noor’s lawyer will claim that Noor saw himself as being threatened by a mysterious body that appeared suddenly in the dark outside. I would see them as trying to get the charge of first-degree murder down to manslaughter. I doubt that even a Muslim lawyer would be able to argue that Noor was genuinely threatened. Noor obviously violated police rules by firing at someone he had not seen. And if he did admit to seeing her, he did, indeed, open himself up to a first-degree murder charge. But, Noor wisely, for himself, declined to cooperate with the investigators. In fact, anyone who knows what is good for him will refuse to give testimony to police about his own actions, under any circumstances whatsoever. If police question you about your movements or actions, lawyer up, and refuse any information. I’m afraid the legal system has become a conveyor belt to criminalize those whom the investigators have a reason to damage. Let a lawyer negotiate immunity for you if you want to help with an investigation by giving information about yourself.

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