The following video is an excerpt from another documentary by Zvi Yehezkeli, the Israeli journalist and filmmaker who is fluent in Arabic. In his latest undercover operation, Mr. Yehezkeli posed as a Palestinian in France. The segment below examines the French halal racket.
Many thanks to RL for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
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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The following essay by El Inglés is the second of a three-part report on the Pakistanis (previously: Part 1). It is being posted this week to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the publication of Surrender, Genocide… or What?, which caused the ejection of Gates of Vienna from Pajamas Media. For more on the memorable events of 2008, see this post.
Against the Murdering, Thieving Hordes of Pakistanis
Part 2
by El Inglés
Women and Girls — UK
To illustrate the broad psychic continuity that exists between Pakistanis in Pakistan and the Pakistani diaspora in the UK with respect to attitudes towards the gentler sex, we turn, of course, to the mass, systematic rape, enslavement, and torture of white British girls at the hands of Pakistani filth over recent decades in Britain.
It is not possible for us to identify the extent to which this phenomenon has exact parallels in Pakistan itself. For reasons that should be obvious by now, Pakistanis are not very forthcoming about such matters, and the radically different way in which girls and women are able to freely move around doubtless reduces the opportunities for Pakistani men in Pakistan itself to attack and deprave Pakistani girls in this fashion. Nonetheless, we will have more to say on this subject later on.
Returning to this phenomenon as it exists in the UK, we must first say that, for a considerable stretch of time, we closely followed developments on this most depressing of themes with a growing sense of horror. At times, this sense of horror threatened to overwhelm us. Detailed investigation of the current state of play would inflict on us a mental burden that we are not prepared to bear.
For this reason, those readers who wish to further acquaint themselves with our beliefs on and analysis of this matter are invited to refer to our earlier document A Consideration of Muslim Crime in the UK. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4). Those who wish to read more broadly on the subject will find an abundance of material online, including the excellent and far more up-to-date work Easy Meat, by Peter McLoughlin. Suffice it to say that the adult male Pakistani population of the UK seems to have spent the last three decades treating white British girls little better than ISIS treats captured Yazidi girls in Iraq. The joys of multiculturalism, reader!
Rather than retread old ground, let us adopt a new line of analysis to drive home the general point. It is often suggested that Pakistanis engage in the mass, systematic rape, enslavement and torture of white British girls because of a racial and/or religious hatred for the white infidels. We are not at all sure that this is true. A truly pestilential people must be a pestilence upon itself, eating its own intestines with gay abandon. And indeed, evidence has come to light that the extent to which Pakistanis prey on their own girls was being radically understated.
The Guardian newspaper, not conspicuously interested in the mass, systematic rape, enslavement, and torture of white British girls while it was being exposed by The Times, displayed a change of policy once it became clear that the problem was very real and very widespread. Desperate to defuse the angle suggesting that this epidemic of sexual abuse was somehow racially motivated, it started to suggest the possibility that the Pakis preyed on their own just as voraciously as they did on ours.
A little more reflection on the part of the editors of The Guardian would doubtless have made it clear to them that their claims, if true, would in fact establish that the Pakistanis were more of a pestilence than had previously been understood, not less of a pestilence. Nonetheless, in pursuit of this rather odd end, they did present us with a very interesting article, for which we thank them.
On August 29th, 2014, The Guardian published a piece by one Ruzwana Bashir, which readers are encouraged to read in its entirety. It laid out in detail her own experience of having been raped and sexually assaulted growing up in Skipton, in Yorkshire. What stands out more than the details of the sexual abuse itself is the response of the small Pakistani community in which she lived.
Bashir explains that, at the age of 10, she was sexually assaulted by a (Pakistani) neighbour. Many years later, she summoned up the courage (for which we commend her) to return to Skipton and testify against the man who had preyed on her as a child. Bashir writes:
When I first told my mother about the abuse I’d suffered, she was absolutely devastated. The root of her anger was clear: I was heaping unbound shame on to my family by trying to bring the perpetrator to justice. In trying to stop him from exploiting more children, I was ensuring my parents and my siblings would be ostracised. She begged me not to go to the police station.
Having laid out the horrors to which she was exposed by her Pakistani rapist and the warped cultural norms of the Pakistanis more broadly, she then, however, unaccountably jumps the shark by making the following eye-opening claim:
The Asian [i.e. Pakistani] community isn’t unique in having evil-doers, and the overwhelming majority of its men and women are good people who care about protecting others.
Having made it abundantly clear that the entire Pakistani community in which she lived despised and condemned those who came forward to testify, Bashir beclowns herself with her contradictory claim that the overwhelming majority of the Asian (i.e. Pakistani) community are ‘good people.’ Just not in Skipton, apparently, where they are, to a man, evil scumbags.
Is Skipton a magnet for evil Pakistanis? Why do no members of the great galactic ocean of good Pakistanis seem to have settled there? If one flips a coin a hundred times in a row and it comes up heads every time, an enquiring mind will consider the possibility that it has a head on both sides. If you pick a Pakistani out of a hat several hundred times and get an evil scumbag every single time, an enquiring mind will draw its own conclusions.
Though blessed with wonderful green eyes, Ruzwana is clearly not blessed with an enquiring mind. No sooner had she established the consistently low moral character of the Skipton Pakistani community than she started adding to the endless sea of politically correct white noise we are exposed to every time the nature of these people threatens to push through into the public consciousness.
We will not criticize Ms. Bashir any further here. She obviously suffered horribly at the hands of her abuser and her community, and she does have the most wonderful eyes. For our own part, we consider it highly probable that the Pakistanis do in fact prey on their own every bit as avidly as they prey on everybody else. The Guardian may very well have been correct in this regard. It would, after all, explain a great deal. Indeed, it would lead us to a great epiphany.
We still remember our own moment of epiphany, when everything slotted into place. Here, we refer to the apparent outrageous overprotection of females in the Pakistani community, under which, it seems, they are to be chaperoned everywhere by male relatives at all times. Though it is tempting to see this apparent overprotection of females in the Pakistani as the outward manifestation of a peculiar patriarchal outlook, our moment of epiphany flipped this perception on its head and laid the truth bare.
Pakistanis insist on being so protective of their young women precisely because their behavioural norms are predicated on being in close proximity to large numbers of other Pakistanis, whether in Pakistan or in the UK. This necessitates constant vigilance to ensure that one’s young women are not depraved the instant they are out of sight.
Pakistanis know very well how they treat unprotected young women. The most damning evidence against them with respect to the sexual abuse scandals of the last several years in Britain is their own hyper-vigilance with respect to their girls and women. Pakistanis know themselves. They know what they are like. They know what they do to unprotected girls and women. Of course they endeavour to make sure their own female family members are accompanied.
One realizes that those British populations living in close proximity to areas of severe Pakistani infestation must, in this regard, gradually be being Pakified. The horror of it! I had the good fortune to grow up in the rural UK, where, as children, we roamed free without the slightest concern as to the possibility of being attacked or preyed upon by anybody. In the Britain of today, vast numbers of young children are exposed to every horror the ever-expanding horde of Pakistani jabberwocks can visit on them. The state takes twenty years to respond, if it responds at all.
No, if I had both a daughter and the misfortune to live in proximity to Pakistanis, I would never let her out of my sight unless I knew she was with male relatives who could and would protect her against marauding Pakistani filth. Which is to say, I would start to act like a Paki myself, at least in this regard. How else could one behave when surrounded by Pakistanis?
For our own part, we consider it highly probable that an outright majority of the adult male Pakistani population of the United Kingdom has actively participated in some fashion in the mass, systematic rape, enslavement and torture of white British girls. There are, of course, those who would object to this claim about the Pakistani population of the UK. How outrageous to suggest that so very many Pakistani men have raped, enslaved, and tortured white British girls! But a brief glance at the behaviour of apologists for the Pakistanis will make it clear that their outrage is misdirected.
In the clip below from the Bundestag, Jürgen Braun of the AfD speaks out against the focus on the Rohingya “refugees” in Burma, quoting Aung San Suu Kyi to highlight the association of the Rohingya with Islamic terrorism.
Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
Last weekend members of the Génération Identitaire in France set up a border barrier in the Mediterranean Alps and patrolled it in order to highlight the failure of the French government to close that route to illegal migrants. Their action got the authorities’ attention: early this week the government established border controls in the same area.
Romain Espino is a spokesman for Génération Identitaire. In the following video he is interviewed by a hostile panel on a TV talk show about the events of last weekend.
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A thoroughly multicultural European crime was foiled by alert Italian police. A Bosnian man was arrested in Gorizia with an arsenal of weapons in his car, which was registered in Switzerland. He had come from Slovenia and was headed for Barcelona.
In other news, as the “caravan” of migrants approaches the southern border of the USA, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen has announced that any who manage to make it across the border illegally will be arrested and prosecuted.
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The following op-ed by Zsolt Bayer discusses the aftermath of the recent general election in Hungary, in which disappointed and angry Progressives have taken to the streets to bring down the “regime” of the victorious prime minister, Viktor Orbán.
CrossWare, who translated the essay, sends this explanatory note:
This article by Zsolt Bayer is about the liberal protests, similar to what happened in the USA after the election of Donald Trump, when screaming liberal lunatics and BLM terrorists tried to generate a “revolution”. The similarity between the two cannot be denied; it’s almost as if the same organization was using the same script in both locations…
The title refers to Ferenc Gyurcsány, an ex-Socialist former Prime Minister, who gave the famed: “we lied day and night” speech. Since little Frank lost himself in the bottle, with increasing frequency he has been saying the darnedest things. (We do not need a kids’ show to do that). First he said in a press conference that he is an excellent mathematician, and to demonstrate it, he stated that the number 11 is the largest prime number. Then he corrected himself, saying it’s the smallest, and then he lost his train of thought… Then on election day, in a similarly limited mental capacity, he wanted to complain about the lines at the voting booths, and he got into a long explanation about how the snakes are slithering (he meant the queues are like snakes, but whatever).
The translated op-ed from the Hungarian daily Magyar Idők:
Snake soup with prime number noodles
by Zsolt Bayer
April 14, 2018Before the election Ferenc Gyurcsány (snake soup with prime number noodles) warned everyone that the right will not accept their election loss, and will create riots in the streets where blood will flow because the right is like that, and especially Orbán…
Then came the election, where the right achieved a two-thirds super-majority victory for the third time, and the losers are not capable of enduring the election loss, screaming about cheating and planning street riots. They now say they will turn out, they will turn out so much that they will never go home again from the streets. The leader of a party that received only 2% stated on the night of the election loss that the “regime” will not remain till 2022, and while he is saying this, in his hipster beard the nothing makes a noise.
So many black knights! [Referring to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Black Knight Scene — translator] Their arms and legs are cut off, but they are still on the ground screaming hysterically to stop, come back, because they will bite off our heads. It’s pitiful, but it’s infinitely annoying too. It is infinitely annoying to prove again and again that the Bolsheviks are eternal and indefinable. The term itself and its historical background are marvelous: majority, majority.
This is what they called it; they named themselves that and were always in a minority. Moreover, their most important features are: total inactivity, the cult of force, and “everyone outside of us is stupid, everyone is guilty, everyone is wrong” mentality. They brought their usual shape on the eighth of April [election day] as well. As the people began to flow to the polling booths, they talked about the celebration of democracy; they praised the voter, who was coming, flooding, as a tsunami to dismiss and replace the dictator.
Then it turned out that the people really poured out, but to give two-thirds to the current set-up (the “dictator”), and to send this opposition back to their mothers… at last! And you see a miracle: in a moment everything has changed! Suddenly it was the darkest dictatorship instead of the celebration of democracy, and the people, in a blink, became uneducated, uninformed, stupid villagers. Of course, immediately the electoral system has become unfair and undemocratic.
About this last one [electoral system]: based on the results on Sunday, in the United Kingdom the Fidesz-KDNP would have got 86% of the seats in Parliament; in France this would have been 72%; in Italy 63%; in Germany, Romania, and Slovakia it would have translated into 53%. In Hungary this number is 67%.
That is, with this election result, Fidesz-KDNP would certainly form a government everywhere, but according to them, the British and French electoral systems are even more anti-democratic than the Hungarian, since there would be almost no opposition.
Below is the latest essay from the inimitable Hans Heckel, this time on the financial shenanigans of the EU elites.
JLH, who translated the piece, includes this note:
This is an analysis of, among other things “European” versus “German,” a rather different view of Macron than we are getting here, and a continental view of educational “mainstreaming” (and fun with politically correct euphemisms).
The translated essay from Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung:
State of Fools
How the sand got into the gears, why we can’t waste time, and why the schools are expected to produce idiots.
The Satirical Week in Review
by Hans Heckel
April 21, 2018Everything used to be simpler. 10, 20 or 30 years ago, when the EU wanted more money from German taxes, it only had express the wish to Bonn — later Berlin. The reply was friendly, and possibly with a solicitous query, “Could you use a little more?” The Bundestag politely stifled any objections. Basta.
Sand first drifted into these well-oiled gears with the save-the-euro shields. Resistance stirred within the Union [CDU/CSU], but even more within the FDP. Nonetheless, the party heads put their agenda through. For the Liberals [FDP], with a deadly result: So many FDP voters defected to the brand new AfD in the 2013 Bundestag elections that the FDP dropped out of parliament. When French President Emmanuel Macron announced his next big fishing expedition in German financial waters a year ago, the FDP remained reserved. Shortly thereafter it returned to the Bundestag with fanfare, while the Union fared badly and, to top it all off, the AfD took over as lead opposition.
That is the situation everyone has to adjust to. Everything mixed up.
Macron wants a European finance minister with an independent budget and a European currency fund. Further on the wish list of the southern European countries led by Paris are a bank union, a debt union and especially a common deposit protection fund through which Germans with savings accounts would help failed Italian banks.
Should the Grand Coalition simply agree to this, as it has done before, AfD and FDP would be the big winners. This calls for skillful handling. CDU/CSU say they want to put on the brakes. The Greens leader Annalena Baerbock sees this as sacrificing European solidarity, and so does the Euro-politician Elmar Brok and his party friend and EU commissioner, Günther Oettinger (“unacceptable”). Even the SPD has a part in the drama: Andrea Nahles is with Macron, while the new minister of finance, Olaf Scholz, on the contrary cites the doubt about what the skeptical voters would perceive and reward as a defense of German interests. To all the theatrics Angela Merkel says nothing, as usual.
From a distance, this looks like a real disagreement. And it is intended to, so that no one who voted for the Grand Coalition parties senses betrayal of his interests as a German taxpayer and savings account holder, and drifts into opposition.
Closer inspection reveals a significant detail. The critics within the Grand Coalition are only asking that satisfying Macron’s appetite, i.e., putting the Paris proposals into effect, should be slowed down. There is no question of a simple “No.”
In other words, the “critics” want to chop this indigestible entree into little bites and offer it to the German mouth piece by piece. That way, it won’t stick in the throat and the Germans will swallow it down. The end result is the same.
It works! So why are Brok, Baerbock and Co, so excited? It is the time problem. There may not be much time left for the bite-size method. Italy’s banks are teetering. Like the “Monte dei Paschi.” Which is said to have loaned an estimated 50 billion euros to people whose names no one knows. The word is, the money is as good as gone. At some point, the time will come when schlepping bankruptcy along will no longer work. Other Italo-banks are said to be deep in the debt morass — as good as done for. When there is a crash, which can happen at any time, someone has to pay the piper. And what does Macron need? He wants to make big reforms, but doesn’t have the money to soften it so his people don’t climb all over him. So he badly needs money, too.
There is no time to waste. Oettinger and Brok know that. They are sitting in Brussels and nervously watching the sweat-covered foreheads of their Italian colleagues.
And these two are Germans, which makes a significant difference. If an Italian politician goes to the EU, he acts as an Italian who wants to get as much from the EU as he can for Italy. If a German politician goes to Brussels, he acts as a “European,” who can get from Germany as much as he wants to for the EU.
As things are now, whenever the failing Italian banks go under, they should be “saved” by Rome or their Italian shareholders. What a scandal that would be! What an uproar! It would be good only for the populists. It would be far more “European” and far more “common-good” to take the money from a security fund made up of rock-solid German savings accounts. Right?
The photo below was taken in Copenhagen by Steen:
The soldier in the picture is guarding a synagogue. Steen says: “There are two soldiers on the street, but much more security is invisible.”
Maybe it’s just me, but the “Ankara Café” sign in the background seems to make the scene simultaneously poignant and ominous…
The Generation Identitaire operation on the French border in the Alps has had an effect. GI used a helicopter, vehicles, and a barrier to symbolically close the border and demonstrate that the government was failing to do its job. The government has now moved to increase border security in the area.
In other news, a British diplomat on a visit to India was forced to apologize after he referred to the Golden Temple in Amritsar, a holy shrine for the Sikhs, as a “mosque”.
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The following essay by El Inglés is the first of a three-part report on the Pakistanis. It is being posted this week to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the publication of Surrender, Genocide… or What?, which caused the ejection of Gates of Vienna from Pajamas Media. For more on the memorable events of 2008, see this post.
Against the Murdering, Thieving Hordes of Pakistanis
by El Inglés
Introduction
It will not have escaped the attention of anyone likely to read this essay that the last few years have seen a sharp increase in the severity of the problems created in European countries by Muslims. Developments have, we feel, reached a point where we need to commit the unforgivable offence of stating the obvious: certain populations currently resident in certain European countries need to leave. Given that they will not leave willingly, they will have to be forced out.
Of course, we are not so arrogant as to make any concrete suggestions as to who exactly these peoples might be in European countries other than our own. This is a matter for the respective peoples of those countries to decide for themselves: the Dutch in the Netherlands, the French in France, the Germans in Germany. Being British, we will limit ourselves to considering courses of action that should be taken by the British people. In this particular document, we advocate more specifically the driving out of the Pakistani Muslim diaspora of the United Kingdom. Readers should note that this term includes all people of Pakistani Muslim origin in the UK, irrespective of the citizenship they might hold.
We will start by looking at the country of Pakistan itself, in an attempt to root it more firmly in our minds. Here, we apologize in advance for any psychological damage inflicted upon our unsuspecting readers by this sudden, up-close-and-personal exposure to the horrors of this deeply unpleasant country. Spoiler alert: it is precisely the type of place one would expect, given the assiduously pestilential and malevolent diaspora it has bestowed upon us.
Having given the reader some sort of grounding in what Pakistan actually is, we will draw out certain key themes to demonstrate the cultural, religious and psychic continuity of Pakistanis in Pakistan and the Pakistani Muslim diaspora in the United Kingdom. This will allow us to illustrate what a damaging and contaminating presence they are. It is worth pointing out here that a small fraction of the population of Pakistan consists of non-Muslim groups such as Christians, Sikhs, and Hindus. These people are not the focus of our analysis; the term Pakistani should not be taken as referring to them unless specified; and, for what little it is worth, we extend to them our heartfelt sympathies that they should be exposed, day in, day out, to the tender mercies of Pakistani Muslims.
Next, we will lay out in some detail just what sort of policies we believe a future British government could and should implement in order to force out the Pakistani diaspora of the UK. Let us be clear — we are not engaging in some sort of blue-sky thinking about what the government could do in principle to achieve this objective. We are explicitly advocating everything we discuss in the section in question, unless we specify to the contrary. This point will become clearer during the relevant discussion.
Welcome to Pakistan
Such are the horrors and madness it encompasses that one must occasionally, as one reads about Pakistan and its multifarious peoples, stop and remind oneself that the country is, in fact, real; that it does, in fact, exist. It is not a satirical construct created to warn us of the dangers of certain courses of action, or modes of thought. Nor is it a light-hearted alien world dreamt up by the creators of a piece of science fiction. We know that it is real for two reasons: a) its people increasingly infest our own country, the United Kingdom, and logic dictates that they must have originated somewhere; and b) the current author actually read a book on Pakistan by way of basic research for this essay — Pakistan, A Hard Country.
Yes, reader! Lest you convince yourself that we writers are an effete and weak-willed bunch, we would point out that this particular writer read the best part of an entire book on the subject of this nasty, depressing dirthole. Such is his dedication to the cause of learning and reflection. Admittedly, he skipped most of the section on Balochistan, which was even more disturbing and depressing than the rest of the country. Nonetheless, the reader should not conclude on this basis that this author’s commitment to excellence in research is anything less than total.
Here I must apologize to the author of this reference work, one Anatol Lieven. He would doubtless be dismayed to discover that the fruit of his labours was to be used as fuel for the arguments of those who believe that the Pakistani population of the UK is a fifth column that deserves only to be driven out with all haste. This is, nonetheless, a pressing matter, and his sensibilities will not lead us to refrain from looking at Pakistan and its diaspora in the UK with a sceptical eye and rendering such judgement as we deem appropriate.
Let us then throw together a brief and eclectic country summary for Pakistan, a sort of through-the-looking-glass travel guide for those with an interest in the country. Pakistan came into existence in 1947, when British India was partitioned to create two new countries: India and Pakistan. That the two countries grew out of British imperial history has allowed the denizens of the Indian sub-continent to blame the white man for every affliction they have suffered in the last 70 years, even when the affliction in question consists of their murdering each other, with no obvious reluctance, over such things as: their freely-chosen religions; a cow; a pig or part thereof; damage inflicted upon a book; conflicting interpretations of the mutterings of a mad 7th-century Arab; illicit love between boy and girl; or, in extreme cases, illicit love between boy and livestock (though this last occurs relatively seldom and is usually hushed up before it hits Instagram). Verily, the powers of the white man are all-encompassing!
The proud new country of Pakistan consisted of modern-day Pakistan (then West Pakistan) and modern-day Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) as well. What, precisely, these two groups of people saw in each other that should have led them into this unhappy union remains a profound mystery. Regardless, the new country disintegrated in 1971 as the Bangladeshis (which is to say, the East Pakistanis) rose up against Pakistani (which is to say, West Pakistani) rule, were horribly brutalized, and were then rescued by the Indians. East Pakistan thus became Bangladesh, a country afflicted to this very day by two apparently insoluble problems: firstly, the country was built in the middle of a river; and secondly, it is full of Bangladeshis. Bangladesh and its UK diaspora will be subjected to analysis in future works. Here, we must satisfy ourselves with the observation that the country is not on our bucket list.
West Pakistan had now been shorn of its Bangladeshi ballast by an Indian Army that, though no match for the inscrutable Orientals on the other side of the Himalayas, could still at the very least give the bally Pakis what for. Before this second great partition of India, East and West Pakistan together had constituted a desperate, pre-modern, sectarian, tribal, Muslim hellhole that had a disconcerting tendency to be devastated by floodwaters coming down from the Tibetan plateau. Radically transformed by the war of 1971, West Pakistan (henceforth simply Pakistan) now stood ready to embrace a brighter future as a desperate, pre-modern, sectarian, tribal, Muslim hellhole that had a disconcerting tendency to be devastated by floodwaters coming down from the Tibetan plateau. Only one thing stood in its way: it was soon discovered that the country was full of Pakis, and therefore doomed.
The official languages of Pakistan are Urdu and English. The latter is the language of a now-despised group of ex-colonial overlords known to history as the British. The former is an Indian language brought to Pakistan around the time of Partition in 1947 by the northern Indian Muslim elites who, in a huff over not being granted what they saw as equal rights in what would have been a united India, engineered the creation of Pakistan itself. These people, referred to collectively as the Mohajirs, settled largely in the city of Karachi, which is the capital city of the state of Sindh. The Mohajirs, coming from India, are some of the truest believers in the political project that is Pakistan. Reader, one’s belief in the political project that is Pakistan must be profound indeed if one is actually motivated to go and live there; all the people who are already there want to live in Bradford.
Despite being the capital of Sindh, Karachi has few Sindhis in it, as it was largely overwhelmed by said Mohajirs. These people have come to be despised as invaders and oppressors by the Sindhis, who are numerically dominant in Sindh outside of Karachi. This means that both official languages of Pakistan are the languages of peoples despised as invaders by a substantial fraction of the population. Imagine Chinese having two official languages, English and Japanese, and you will be on the right lines.
The other main group of people in Karachi is the Pathans, whose generally florid and pleasant nature quickly reveals itself to those who peruse the news coming out of the Afghan-Pakistani border area. Other Pakistanis love the Pathans when they, the Pathans, are killing Americans in Afghanistan, and despise and fear them at all other times, viewing them as sensible Western peoples tend to view Pakistanis more generally: primitive, barbaric, fanatical, rapidly-reproducing savages with whom some sort of Ragnarok-style battle will eventually be inevitable. The Pathans are convinced they are an inoffensive, decent people who are inexplicably loathed despite their contribution to the vibrant, multicultural tapestries that are Karachi and Quetta.
Today is the 103rd anniversary of the start of the genocide against the Armenians in Ottoman Turkey. The essay below by Jen L. Jones was originally published in a slightly different form at a website that has since closed down. It is reproduced here with the permission of the author.
The Ottoman Armenians: The Fate of Christians in a Muslim Land
Against the combined forces of Turkish nationalism and Islam, the Christian Armenian minority’s struggle for equal rights and reform met with disaster on a massive scale. We now identify that time of their persecution and suffering as the Armenian Genocide
by Jen L. Jones
Genocides in human history are thankfully rare — modern genocides even more so, since we now have the will and the means to end them. Or so we think.
No doubt in our distant past, before recorded history, genocides occurred but left little trace. In more recent times, say 1915, for example, news of genocide in the Ottoman Empire could be and was telegraphed around the world and its harrowing images published in such newspapers as The New York Times. One might think that knowing about atrocities would spur action — that the world would care. But for the most part the world just sighed and looked away. That particular genocide, brought to the front pages of the Western press, then proceeded apace.
April 24, 2018 is the 103rd commemoration of the beginning of the Armenian Genocide, carried out mostly in the lands now known as Turkey. Millions of words will be written about this event; tears will be shed; denials will rage.
Yet, despite the worldwide ceremonies and events marking this, how many of us really understand the nature of this massive atrocity?
For most of us, placing these Armenians in space and time is a fog-shrouded exercise which reveals the weakness of our educations. Yes, most of us have heard about this, but how many of our university youth could quickly point out on a globe where these events happened? How many could name the powers that orchestrated this? How many would know of the historical precedents in the 19th century that foreshadowed the genocide of 1915?
And if this weren’t the 103rd anniversary, how many would know how long ago this happened?
Imperatives to Understanding
Placing the land known as Armenia, both then and now, within its geographical context is crucial to understanding this genocide. Knowing the religion of the Armenians, their long history of Christianity, the deep nature of their faith — all are vital to comprehension.
Knowing the extent of the Ottoman Empire, its history, and the primacy it placed on Islam are all further crucial steps to full understanding — as is knowing how and why the revolutionary Young Turks had seized power from Sultan Hamid in 1908.
Chancellor Angela Merkel recently acknowledged that a new form of Jew-hatred has entered Germany during the last three years with the wave of Muslim migrants she invited. I don’t know if the TV documentary below has anything to do with her surprising admission, but it certainly illuminates the extent of the problems that Jews now face in Berlin.
Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
The suspect who mowed down pedestrians in Toronto, killing 10 and wounding 15, has been named as Alek Minassian. That’s definitely an Armenian name — does anyone know of any Armenian Muslims? I’ve never heard of any.
In other news, Travis Reinking, the gunman suspected of killing four people in a Tennessee Waffle House yesterday, has been arrested and is being held on $2 million bond.
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