Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/18/2018

Jimmie Åkesson is the leader of the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, the party that stands to make significant gains in next month’s elections. Mr. Åkesson said that his party wants to withdraw from the European Union, that no international entity should be able to override Sweden’s national sovereignty.

In other news, the call of “Allahu Akhbar” rang out at the Italian state funeral for the victims of the bridge collapse in Genoa, due to the fact that two of the 38 victims were Albanian Muslims.

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Financial Crisis
» Fresh Call for Snap Elections in Greece
 
USA
» 14 Hours in Chicago: 25 People Shot, Including 3-Year-Old Boy
» Authorities Destroy New Mexico Compound Where Islamists Trained Kids to Carry Out School Shootings
» Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Facts — the Q “Conspiracies”
» Facebook Censors Brigitte Gabriel Post Calling Accused Terrorist ‘Sick and Depraved’
» FBI Dealt Blow by DC Judge; Must Address Measures Taken to Verify Steele Dossier
» John Brennan: Give it a Rest Already
» John Brennan’s Useful Idiocy for Stalinism and Sharia
» Judicial Watch Demands Re-Opening of Hillary Email Probe After More Classified Info Found
» NYT Editorial Board’s Mara Gay: ‘America Was Never Great’ Is ‘Honest, ‘ Not a ‘Gaffe’
» Return of the Blacklist: The Left Shuts Down Free Speech
» To Survive the Midterms With Your Mental Health Intact, Turn Off the “News” & Social Media Now
» Trump Slams Social Media Censorship of Conservatives; Files Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook
 
Europe and the EU
» Catalans Unveil Memorial to Victims of Radical Islamic Terror Attack
» ‘Far-Right’ Swedish Party Poised to Make Historic Dent in Country’s Socialist Government
» Greek Warning That No-Deal Brexit Could Cause Financial Instability Hands Britain Trump Card
» Italy: Imam Chants ‘Allahu Akbar’ At Genoa Bridge Funeral
» Populist Swedish Leader Doubles Down on Wanting Out of European Union
» Putin Dances at Austrian Foreign Minister’s Wedding
» Recalcitrant Muslim Couple Denied Swiss Citizenship Over Handshake Refusal
» UK: 3-Year-Old Needed Emergency Surgery After Botched Female Genital Mutilation Operation in London
» UK: Farage: I’m Back and Will be Campaigning Nationwide
» UK: Westminster Crash: Salih Khater, 29, Charged With Two Counts of Attempted Murder
 
Middle East
» An Iranian Dream: “Why Can’t I Dance?”
 
Australia — Pacific
» Islamic Leader Accused of Illegal Land Clearing Claims His Group is Exempt From Australian Law
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» South Africa Farm Seizure Horror: List of White Farmers Facing Expropriation ‘Exposed’
» South Africa Farm Seizure: Terrified White Farmers Plot Escape as Crackdown Looms
 
Latin America
» Ecuador Tightens Entry Rules for Venezuelan Migrants
 
Immigration
» 65% of Scottish Youngsters Against Increasing Immigration
» Denial: UN High Commissioner Says No ‘Real’ Migrant Crisis in Europe
» EU’s Schengen Crisis: Germany ‘Considering Proposal to Impose Border Controls’ With France
» Germany: Doctor Stabbed to Death in His Own Surgery by Somali Asylum Seeker
» Lack of Integration of Migrant Children Sees German School Standards Decline
» SJWs Flip Over “Doom: Eternal” As it Mocks Leftist Political Correctness on Immigration
» Turkey’s Economic Collapse Could Send ‘Millions’ Of Migrants Into Europe, Analysts Warn
 
Culture Wars
» Cardinal Burke: ‘Very Grave Problem of Homosexual Culture in the Church’
» Satanic Temple Sparks Uproar by Unveiling Statue of Goat-Headed, Winged Creature Called Baphomet in State Capitol
» Yale Honors Prof Who Enraged Students by Defending Free Speech
 

Fresh Call for Snap Elections in Greece

As Greece prepares for its official exit from its third bailout program on Monday, the country’s conservative opposition on Saturday renewed its call for snap elections.

In an interview with Parapolitika newspaper published on Saturday, New Democracy spokesperson Maria Spyraki said that “the crucial issue for Greece, now that the bailout loans are over, is to move ahead without looking back.”

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

14 Hours in Chicago: 25 People Shot, Including 3-Year-Old Boy

In a span of about 14 hours between Friday afternoon and early Saturday morning, 25 people were shot in Chicago, including a 3-year-old boy who was among seven wounded in a single attack.

One person was killed in a shooting attack — a 27-year-old man shot in the chest and arm just before 3 p.m. Friday on the South Side, Chicago police said.

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

Authorities Destroy New Mexico Compound Where Islamists Trained Kids to Carry Out School Shootings

In a move that has caused further controversy, authorities have partially destroyed the compound in New Mexico where a group of alleged Islamic terrorists were training children to carry out school shootings.

“The remote New Mexico compound police believe was a school-shooter training ground has been partially destroyed, burying in rubble the underground tunnel at the location where the remains of a young boy were found,” reports Crime Time, noting that the move came after a court order was released allowing for the seizure of a stolen trailer that was located on the compound.

Some have questioned whether the destruction of part of the compound will eliminate vital evidence.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Facts — the Q “Conspiracies”

In the 1997 movie Conspiracy Theory starring Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson’s character Jerry is an ardent believer in conspiracies. As it turns out, Jerry stumbles onto a real conspiracy — and the real conspirators did not like it one bit.

There have been so many conspiracy “theories” used to explain the “real story” behind a real-world event, such as the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations (e.g., everyone but Lee Harvey Oswald was taking shots at Kennedy in Dealey Plaza, according to the multiplicity of conspiracy theories of that event), that the very term “conspiracy theory” has come to mean, to many people, something that is believed in by either a small group or even by a large group, but is not true, and is somehow “silly.”

The recent Q-anon Theory, known for the name of the anonymous poster “Q,” seems almost designed to promote the view that all conspiracy theories are just totally fabricated.

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

Facebook Censors Brigitte Gabriel Post Calling Accused Terrorist ‘Sick and Depraved’

Facebook censored the account of ACT! for America founder Brigitte Gabriel for publishing a post which called an accused terrorist who allegedly trained children to go on school shootings “sick and depraved.”

“This is the smile of a sick and depraved Muslim terrorist who is back on the streets (on bail) after training children to shoot up schools,” posted Gabriel in response to alleged terrorist Siraj Ibn Wahhaj. “The judge who allowed this to happen should be removed from their post ASAP. If he harms anyone while on bail, the blood is on their hands.”

Though the post was also published on Twitter without being censored, Facebook allegedly removed the post from Gabriel’s account for “hate speech.”

“Facebook took this EXACT post down under the claim of ‘Hate Speech’,” claimed Gabriel on Twitter. “Shameful that they hate the truth so much they will resort to censorship.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

FBI Dealt Blow by DC Judge; Must Address Measures Taken to Verify Steele Dossier

The FBI has been dealt a major blow after a Washington DC judge ruled that the agency must respond to a FOIA request for documents concerning the bureau’s efforts to verify the controversial Steele Dossier, before it was used as the foundation of a FISA surveillance warrant application and subsequent renewals.

US District Court Judge Amit Mehta — who in January sided with the FBI’s decision to ignore the FOIA request, said that President Trump’s release of two House Intelligence Committee documents (the “Nunes” and “Schiff” memos) changed everything.

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

John Brennan: Give it a Rest Already

John Brennan’s security clearance has finally been revoked. Now he is playing the victim card, but per usual, there is more than meets the eye. American Thinker interviewed a number of former CIA directors while Obama was president. Although they may have vehemently disagreed with policy, they did it in a civil manner, without the disgusting hyperbolic language and name-calling. Brennan should take his own words and reflect upon them.

The argument by a former CIA operative: “Traditionally, since 1947, former directors have kept their security clearances with the idea that the seniors could provide advice, counsel, and become red teams for the current director. The benefit comes with the different perspectives as they sit in a room together offering a diversity of opinions about any strategic issues. The only way they could have these conversations is having their clearance maintained.”

Brennan served as President Obama’s chief counter-terrorism adviser from 2008 until he was confirmed as CIA chief in 2013, holding that position until 2017. Yet, since he did not do a very good job in keeping Americans safe, who would really want to consult with him? Taking a stroll down memory lane, there were numerous terrorist attacks and attempts in the U.S. under his watch:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

John Brennan’s Useful Idiocy for Stalinism and Sharia

Five years before the October, 1917 Bolshevik Revolution would begin to impose Communist totalitarianism on Russia, Henry C. Vedder, observed in his 1912 study of Socialism, that the Marxist Social Labor Federation of Britain had adopted Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital” [Capital] as their infallible authority, “an article of faith from which they will permit no dissent, on pain of excommunication.” Vedder, a Professor of Church History at the Upland, Pennsylvania Crozer Theological Seminary, added that this British Marxist organization rejected the orthodoxy of its own votaries unless they professed as their creed, “There is no God, and Karl Marx is his prophet” — mirroring the Islamic declaration of faith, or “shahada”. The late doyen of Islamic studies, Bernard Lewis, underscored how this summation of the Communist creed captured the “real affinity” between totalitarian Communism, and Islam, in a 1954 essay…

           — Hat tip: Andy Bostom [Return to headlines]
 

Judicial Watch Demands Re-Opening of Hillary Email Probe After More Classified Info Found

Authored by Joseph Jankowski via PlanetFreeWill.com

Judicial Watching is calling for a re-opening of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails after finding more classified information on the former Secretary of State’s non-”state.gov” email system.

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

NYT Editorial Board’s Mara Gay: ‘America Was Never Great’ Is ‘Honest, ‘ Not a ‘Gaffe’

Mara Gay, a member of the far-left New York Times editorial board, believes Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) was being honest when he said America “was never that great.” She also agrees with the sentiment.

During a speech before supporters Wednesday, Cuomo was very clear about why he does not believe America has ever been great.

After criticizing President Trump’s “Make America Great” slogan, Cuomo laid out his reasoning.

“We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great,” he said, as his supporters laughed and gasped.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Return of the Blacklist: The Left Shuts Down Free Speech

It was only a matter of time. Mimicking what leftists themselves might call McCarthyism, the left is demanding a blacklist of those who oppose its political ideology. Dani Rodrik, professor of international political economy at that bastion of leftism, Harvard University, has urged the academic world to stop offering jobs or honors to anyone who has served in the Trump administration. This ought not to come as a surprise. It reflects what author Mark Levin calls “the fascist, totalitarian mindset that is modern academia.”

Rodrik insists that universities “should uphold both free inquiry and the values of liberal democracy.” Then, in a clear demonstration of leftist hypocrisy, he insults those values by demanding that Trump’s supporters be placed on a blacklist. They should be prohibited, he says, from receiving “even a semblance of honor or recognition” from “the gatekeepers of higher learning.”

Rodrik, who advocates income redistribution and opposes the free market system, accuses Trump of running an “odious presidency.” “We do not, after all, have a normal administration that can be served honorably[…] … Those who serve with him are necessarily tainted by the experience.” No exceptions. “Having served in this ‘odious’ administration,” reports HotAir.com, “you should now be barred for life from any form of service in academia.”

Like its fellow travelers the New York Times and the Democratic Party, Harvard has lost its credibility. These organs of the left have one thing in common: they are against free speech.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

To Survive the Midterms With Your Mental Health Intact, Turn Off the “News” & Social Media Now

If you want to preserve your sanity and avoid unhappy derangement, turn off all corporate and social media from now to Thanksgiving.

Since elections are extremely profitable for traditional media / social media corporations, your sanity will gleefully be sacrificed in the upcoming election—if you are gullible enough to watch the “news” and tune into social media.Elections are extremely profitable because candidates spend scads of cash on media adverts.

The greater the discord and derangement, the higher the media profits. The more outraged you let yourself become, the more time you spend online, generating insane profits for the corporations that own whatever platforms you’re addicted to…

Given the Corporate Media spews the same tired, Soviet-style narrative with increasing desperation, it’s no wonder than public trust in the mainstream media is plummeting to all-time lows. The “news” isn’t just “fake”: it’s designed to push narratives that benefit self-serving elites at the expense of non-elites.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Slams Social Media Censorship of Conservatives; Files Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook

“Social Media is totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices,” and “the Trump Administration … won’t let that happen.” So wrote President Trump on Twitter Saturday, in a shot across the bow of increasingly Orwellian social-media companies. This comes on the heels of a Friday discrimination complaint the administration filed against Facebook alleging that “the way the company targets ads can be used to screen out people based on race, sex or other protected categories,” reports the Washington Times.

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

Catalans Unveil Memorial to Victims of Radical Islamic Terror Attack

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A Catalan seaside resort has marked the anniversary of a terror attack that killed one and injured six following deadlier violence in Barcelona’s Las Ramblas.

Catalonia’s regional president, Quim Torra, and other officials took part in the unveiling of a mosaic located where a car struck a group of pedestrians in Cambrils. The 20-minute event Saturday included a flower-laying ceremony.

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

‘Far-Right’ Swedish Party Poised to Make Historic Dent in Country’s Socialist Government

The Sweden Democrats, a far-right party with an anti-socialist platform that seeks to limit immigration to the Scandinavian country, could win up to 25 percent of the vote in Sweden’s upcoming September elections, NBC reports.

Should that happen, such a result would “likely earn the Sweden Democrats more seats in Parliament than any other single party,” NBC’s Alexander Smith said.

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

Greek Warning That No-Deal Brexit Could Cause Financial Instability Hands Britain Trump Card

The Greek government has warned that it could face “increased financial and political instability” in the near term if the United Kingdom left the European Union without a deal, handing British negotiators potentially useful leverage.

The claim comes in a Greek government paper which points to the hole in the European Union budget that could be created if the commission fails to offer Britain a good deal — precipitating Britain leaving the EU without paying the so-called Brexit divorce bill.

In the case of the UK leaving the EU without a deal — and therefore not paying an estimated £40 billion as a parting gift to Brussels — other European nations would have to increase their contributions, given the European Commission has failed to make savings, and is actually boosting spending at a time its income is to fall instead.

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

Italy: Imam Chants ‘Allahu Akbar’ At Genoa Bridge Funeral

Chants of “Allahu akbar” rang out on Saturday at a solemn Catholic state funeral in the Italian city of Genoa for the victims of a bridge collapse, who included two Albanian Muslims.

They were among at least 38 people to have died in Tuesday’s tragedy.

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

Populist Swedish Leader Doubles Down on Wanting Out of European Union

Populist Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Akesson has reinforced his stance on wanting to see Sweden leave the European Union, saying that no supranational body should have authority over the Swedish parliament.

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

Putin Dances at Austrian Foreign Minister’s Wedding

BERLIN (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin made a flying visit to Austria to attend the wedding of the country’s foreign minister Saturday before heading to Berlin for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Austrian authorities imposed tight security measures around the site of the ceremony near the southern border with Slovenia, where Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl married her partner Wolfgang Meilinger, a businessman. Kneissl, an independent, was nominated by the pro-Russia Austrian Freedom Party, whose leaders also attended the wedding.

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

Recalcitrant Muslim Couple Denied Swiss Citizenship Over Handshake Refusal

The Swiss city of Lausanne has blocked a Muslim couple’s bid to become Swiss nationals over their refusal to shake hands with members of the opposite sex.

The municipality said it refused to grant the couple’s citizenship application over their lack of respect for gender equality, Lausanne mayor Gregoire Junod told AFP.

He said a municipal commission had questioned the couple several months ago to determine if they met the criteria for citizenship, but had determined in the ruling made public Friday that they missed the mark on integration.

He refused to divulge the couple’s nationalities or other identifying details, but said they “did not shake hands with people of the opposite sex.”

They also “showed great difficulty in answering questions asked by people of the opposite sex,” he said.

Some devout Muslims argue that Islam does not permit physical contact with a person of the opposite sex, with the exception of certain immediate family members.

Junod pointed out that freedom of belief and religion is enshrined in the laws of the Canton of Vaud, which encompasses Lausanne.

But “religious practice does not fall outside the law,” he stressed.

His vice-mayor, Pierre-Antoine Hildbrand, who was on the three-member commission that questioned the couple told AFP he was “very satisfied with the decision” to deny the couple’s application.

“The constitution and equality between men and women prevails over bigotry,” he said.

The couple has 30 days to appeal the decision, Junod said.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: 3-Year-Old Needed Emergency Surgery After Botched Female Genital Mutilation Operation in London

A three-year-old girl was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery after a botched female genital mutilation procedure in Sadiq Khan’s London.

A 42-year-old man and a 36-year-old woman, both understood to be of African background, are due in court to be charged with FGM offences after the incident was investigated by the Metropolitan Police Child Abuse and Sexual Offences Command, according to the London Evening Standard.

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

UK: Farage: I’m Back and Will be Campaigning Nationwide

Nigel Farage has announced that he’ll be hitting the road and campaigning across the country, hitting out at Project Fear and saying: “Our complacent MPs need to understand just how strongly people feel about being lied to while their wishes are blatantly ignored.”

Writing in The Telegraph, Nigel makes clear that he “will go back on the road to campaign once again” for the pro-Brexit group Leave Means Leave.

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

UK: Westminster Crash: Salih Khater, 29, Charged With Two Counts of Attempted Murder

A 29-YEAR-OLD accused of driving through a crowd of people outside of the Houses of Parliament in Westminster has been charged with attempted murder.

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

An Iranian Dream: “Why Can’t I Dance?”

To people in the West, it may seem impossible for dancing to become a crime. But as sharia laws get imposed, before you know it, any innocent act of “fun” can suddenly become a crime.

Maedeh Hojabri posted video clips of herself dancing on Instagram. For this “crime,” the 19-year-old woman was arrested, jailed without due process and without an opportunity to defend herself, and publicly shamed with a televised confession of her “crime.”

Who will the morality police come for next?

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

Islamic Leader Accused of Illegal Land Clearing Claims His Group is Exempt From Australian Law

A religious leader accused of illegal land clearing on a rural property used for religious prayer has claimed a Western Sydney council is infringing on his group’s religious freedoms by pursuing him over the allegations.

Hawkesbury City Council has launched civil action against Dr Mustapha Kara-Ali and Diaa Kara-Ali in the Land and Environment Court, alleging they carried out illegal land clearing, earthworks and built gates, fences and driveways without seeking any of the relevant development approvals at a property in Colo, in Sydney’s north west.

Mustapha Kara-Ali, a former member of then Prime Minister John Howard’s Muslim Community Reference Group and past postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, is the Imam of religious guild Diwan Al Dawla.

A letter he wrote to a council staff member, filed in the court documents, says the members of the guild live “separated from secular lifestyles to pursue a religious mode of worship and an ascetic lifestyle under an oath of self-sacrifice and dedication to the purposes of Diwan Al Dawla”.

The Colo property was owned by the members of Diwan Al Dawla and used “for the carrying out of religious activities of devotion, self-discipline, ritual baptism, inter-community prayers, contemplation and religious study,” the letter said.

A council compliance officer visited the property in October last year following an anonymous complaint to find land clearing, including a number of large native trees and the removal of metal waste, according to court documents.

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The conflict between council and the Kara-Alis came to a head last month when three council officers visited the property to provide them with court papers.

A dashcam video tendered to the court shows a man, standing beside Mustapha Kara-Ali, spitting on council staff and attempting to throw a large rock, which hits the fence and then falls to the ground.

“Both men were repeatedly yelling obscenities from the other side of the gate, calling out ‘you dogs, I step on your cross’,” one of the council staff alleged in an affidavit.

“The unknown male person said ‘I spit on you’. He then lunged his head forward towards me and spat at me.”

When the council wrote to Mustapha Kara-Ali directing him to remove a boat ramp and retaining walls at the property, he responded by claiming his organisation was exempt from Australian law because it was classed as a basic religious charity…

           — Hat tip: DS [Return to headlines]
 

South Africa Farm Seizure Horror: List of White Farmers Facing Expropriation ‘Exposed’

South Africa’s government has been accused of drawing up a list of almost 200 farms it allegedly wants to seize from white farmers

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa recently unveiled plans to allow white people’s land to be taken without compensation.

Now a lobby group claims to have obtained a list of 195 farms “identified for this purpose”, reigniting the controversy over the proposals.

The AfriForum group said the document was being circulated by ministers as the government prepares to implement the policy.

But the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform denied the list was real.

A spokeswoman for the department told News24: “We don’t know where they got it from. There is no truth to this document.”

In response, AfriForum’s deputy CEO Ernst Roets accused the government of lacking transparency.

He said: “The problem is this strategy of secrecy. The department has to prove they are acting in good faith.”

He insisted the list was “definitely being circulated” and said he received it from a “confidential source”.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

South Africa Farm Seizure: Terrified White Farmers Plot Escape as Crackdown Looms

A RECORD number of white South African farmers have put their land up for sale amid fears the ruling party is considering confiscating properties bigger than 25,000 acres.

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

Ecuador Tightens Entry Rules for Venezuelan Migrants

Ecuador has brought in new rules to stop Venezuelan migrants entering the country without a passport, leaving many stranded in neighbouring Colombia.

Thousands of Venezuelans fleeing their country’s economic and political crisis have been crossing into Ecuador from Colombia using only identity cards.

Most are heading south to join family members in Peru and Chile.

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

65% of Scottish Youngsters Against Increasing Immigration

Flying in the face of the usual guff about all young people backing mass migration in Britain, a new study commissioned by the Scottish government has found that 65% of young Scots are against increasing immigration.

Research carried out by Ipsos Mori spoke to 1,700 secondary school students, cover ages raging from 11 to 18.

They found that 30% of those asked want immigration levels to go down or be stopped completely.

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

Denial: UN High Commissioner Says No ‘Real’ Migrant Crisis in Europe

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has claimed that while Germany saw a migrant crisis in 2015, there is currently no crisis in Europe, and some are over dramatising mass migration.

Mr Grandi said that despite a continued flow of migrants from North Africa and elsewhere, Europe is not undergoing a “migrant crisis,” saying: “the real refugee crises were and are in Africa, in the Middle East, [and] in Asia,” German newspaper Die Zeit reports.

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

EU’s Schengen Crisis: Germany ‘Considering Proposal to Impose Border Controls’ With France

GERMAN interior ministers are considering imposing border controls with France it has been claimed, in what would be an unprecedented move in the era of the EU between the two powers.

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

Germany: Doctor Stabbed to Death in His Own Surgery by Somali Asylum Seeker

The mayor of Offenburg has cautioned against anti-migrant sentiment after a doctor was reportedly stabbed to death in his own surgery by an asylum seeker, with his 10-year-old daughter forced to watch.

In what was a seemingly unprovoked attack, a 26-year-old Somali man is reported to have stormed a family doctor’s surgery at 8:45 a.m. without an appointment and stabbed the doctor, named by local media only as Joachim T., who died in one of the practice rooms shortly after.

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

Lack of Integration of Migrant Children Sees German School Standards Decline

A new report has revealed that the standards of the German school system are in decline as teachers struggle with many migrant children who speak poor, and sometimes no, German.

A new study released by the Initiative New Social Market Economy (INSM) claims the quality of German education has decreased across almost every region in the country, citing several key issues from deficiencies in digitization to the problems of integration of migrant-background students, Die Welt reports.

[Comment: They should not be going to school until they become fluent in German.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

SJWs Flip Over “Doom: Eternal” As it Mocks Leftist Political Correctness on Immigration

Nothing makes me giggle more than a brand flagrantly doing something to make social justice warriors angry, and Bethesda’s newest installment of their DOOM franchise has me in stitches.

During the recent QuakeCon in Grapvine, Texas at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center, Bethesda Software gave a 25 minute presentation of their new game “DOOM: Eternal.” It was during the uninterrupted game play footage that we’re introduced to a holographic “greeter” artificial intelligence.

While this AI only appears several times throughout the gory video, when she does she spouts things that sound an awful lot like what a politically correct, sterilized, social justice figure would say. Apparently, her job is to encourage humans to greet the monstrous demons that have found their way into our realm with kindness and acceptance.

Within the video she can be heard rattling off phrases such as “my brothers and sisters, let’s help to make our friends transition into our world a comfortable one,” or “remember: ‘Demon’ can be an offensive term, refer to them as ‘mortally challenged.’“

You can watch the DOOM: Eternal game play reveal yourself, but be warned that it’s not a game for kids.

While everyone was cheering at the game’s mechanics, and signature brutality, social justice warriors were apparently losing their minds over the obvious comparisons to the left’s political correctness and attitudes about immigration as evidenced by Twitter.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Turkey’s Economic Collapse Could Send ‘Millions’ Of Migrants Into Europe, Analysts Warn

Millions of people could pour into the European Union from Turkey in “another wave of migration” if the country’s economic crisis escalates into a full-blown collapse, some observers have claimed.

Mainstream media periodical Newsweek suggests such a scenario “could have major political consequences” for globalist leaders such as Germany’s Angela Merkel, who effectively opened the EU’s borders unilaterally in 2015 but has been under pressure since the onset of the subsequent migrant crisis and a historically poor performance in the 2017 federal elections.

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

Cardinal Burke: ‘Very Grave Problem of Homosexual Culture in the Church’

Cardinal Raymond Burke has called for “open recognition” of the Catholic church’s homosexual culture in light of recent revelations of sexual abuse.

“I believe that there needs to be an open recognition that we have a very grave problem of a homosexual culture in the Church,” Burke said in an interview Thursday, “especially among the clergy and the hierarchy, that needs to be addressed honestly and efficaciously.”

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

Satanic Temple Sparks Uproar by Unveiling Statue of Goat-Headed, Winged Creature Called Baphomet in State Capitol

Satan worshippers turned out to cheer the unveiling of a bronze statue dedicated to a goat-headed, winged creature called Baphomet in Little Rock, Arkansas.

The Satanic Temple organisation arranged the rally outside the Arkansas State Capitol building to protest a Ten Commandments monument already on the grounds.

Although the striking, eight-and-a-half foot tall icon was only allowed to be on display temporarily, Satanists argued they should be allowed to erect the winged-goat effigy on a permanent basis under freedom of religion rights outlined in the US constitution.

Satanic Arkansas co-founder Ivy Forrester, one of the rally organisers, said: “If you’re going to have one religious monument up then it should be open to others, and if you don’t agree with that then let’s just not have any at all.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Yale Honors Prof Who Enraged Students by Defending Free Speech

Nearly three years after being hounded by mobs of student protesters, Nicholas Christakis has been awarded the Sterling Professorship, Yale University’s highest faculty honor.

In 2015, students demanded that Christakis and his wife, Erika, resign after Erika wrote an email arguing that college students are old enough to choose their own Halloween costumes and cope with costumes that they might find offensive.

At one point, a mob of angry students even surrounded Mr. Christakis on campus and berated him for defending his wife’s free speech.

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

5 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/18/2018

  1. That’s the end of South Africa and 4 million of us. Who gives a damn in the political circles anyway?

    No foreign politicians are intervening and as a result, it has now become everything or nothing. The desperation of the people due to unemployment (53 %), rotten government corruption, pension schemes cleaned out, collapse of agriculture from the already 4000+ farmers murdered, the illegal immigration of 17 million additional mouths to feed from other parts of Africa, denial of white employees, collapse of education system (2nd to last in the world after Yemen which is at war), Military collapse, veterinary disease control of farming has collapsed, 3rd grade imports of chicken from Brazil as well as 3rd grade wheat for bread (good for animal feed only) from Argentina, etc., etc.

    Infrastructural collapse including roads, electricity supplies, Medical hospitals, water standards and supplies, railways, etc.

    I am sure that with the world turning its back on us, all war protocols will be broken and the UN is going to have a party. Don’t be surprised when chemical and biological weapons are used. There is too much at stake and millions of lives, too. The powers from outside the country are pulling the strings and our president is their puppet. Who are they? Multinationals, bankers, etc. They will be targeted for sure.

    Genocide will get a new meaning.

    • Make no mistake, Michael, I and many other people are well aware of your problems in SA. I’ve been following developments for some years now and the future does not look good.
      I hate to break it to you but don’t expect anything from the politicians on the Northern Hemisphere.
      To them, you are a NIMBY problem.
      As before you, people are on your own again.
      My advice; arm up or get out.

    • It’s been open season on whites for years in South Africa…and in the US’s urban areas. Now, the SA genocide swings into a New Apartheid based on the Marxist-driven beliefs of Mandela.

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