Brexit Compels Somali Family to Come to the Netherlands

Many thanks to FouseSquawk for translating this article from De Dagelijkse Standaard:

Judge rules: Somali “Brexit-returnees”

Somali family gets house

A Somali-Dutch family has “fled” from Birmingham. According to the court in Utrecht, they must immediately receive a house. Fortunately the new, gas-free residences are unaffordable and unpurchased, so they can immediately move into these expensive properties.

Apparently, even more — as many as 25,000 — Somalis want to make the crossing to our little country. This way it will be pleasantly busy on the already tight housing market. Various ministries have even run a campaign to combat the flow of ‘refugees’. It is no problem if we have courts that will place these people directly in homes. This signal is there is still a license come here. The British must be happy, I suppose.

The Somalis were already here in the Netherlands in the 1990s, but they made the choice to move to England. In England they could live in their own enclaves, something that the Netherlands tried to prevent. Various municipalities refused to offer housing to the family that arrived here. This is because they would be ‘homeless due to their own fault’. What it comes down to is that they didn’t actually think about the crossing. They have left an excellent — and safe — residential area to be able to benefit more here. According to various municipalities, this is not how it works.

But the judge thought differently. All the trouble from our government, and then the court decides to announce permission for immigration.

“They get signals that there were problems, so we have sent them a message in Somali that there is no reason for panic. We have told them that for them nothing has changed after Brexit. They are fine there.”

This time the government had good intentions, but the court decision did the opposite. We shall see if more now come, surely with the fear of Brexit in mind.

— Geert Wilders: Sure, first 50,000 homes for fortune-seekers, and now they go to Somalis. Our own people last.

Matteo Salvini: “Only those who have permission to enter will come to Italy”

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has resigned. The government of Italy is in limbo. The populist 5-Star Movement (M5S) is negotiating with the leftist Partito Democratico (PD) about a possible new coalition. But Matteo Salvini is staying firmly on-message.

The following video is in Italian, but was translated from the German subtitles. Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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A Letter From Tommy Robinson

Tommy Robinson’s latest letter from Belmarsh Prison has been made available by TR.News (hat tip JJ).

TR.News has obtained another letter from Tommy Robinson with further updates. Tommy addresses the reasons behind the cancellation of the demonstration planned for the 24th August and all the unbelievable support he has received while incarcerated in solitary confinement…

Click here to view the handwritten version.

My name is Tommy Robinson, and I am 2 inches taller than Avi Yemini.

Hello people, a quick letter to explain my thinking on cancelling the demo planned for the 24th as I know some people won’t be happy. But before I get started on that Ill give a quick update, I got a DAB radio a few days ago, I’m so f***ing happy. MELLOW MAGIC is back, the days will now fly, I have 3 1/2 weeks left and I’ll be singing along to mellow magic, all I’m missing is Kev Carroll to sing along with.

I sat and thought the other day as I was missing my kids that I was offered twice the opportunity to plead guilty and escape aprisonsentence, if I could turn back time I’d do exactly the same again, NOT GUILTY. I believe the establishment imprisoning me again tells the public more about them than it does about me, yeah, it’s s*** in here, I hate it I should be with my family but people can now see the way our judiciary is used to silence people, to anyone with half a brain this sentence is a total abuse of their power, the public wants the government to get tough on criminals, murders, rapists, terrorists etc not to imprison journalists for reporting, civil offence = solitary in Belmarsh Ha Ha, speaks for itself. I’ve included in here my receipts for canteen so you can see what I spend my weekly money on, pork scratchings ha ha.

Thank you to all those who have wrote to me and sent me books, my cell has more books in it than the prison library. I’m now receiving all the snail mail it’s unreal the support I have, I’ll be honest, reading your letters make such a difference, I laugh out loud, I get angry, I cry, I love reading the difference my story has had on you, I love reading what moment was your awakening. I love reading about your struggles and the courage you personally show, I’ve had some absolutely beautiful letters, I’ve had 1000’s of cards from all over the world, I sit and read from 11-4 each day.

One lady who has wrote to me, she said a prayer for me in her church, they have kicked her out and banned her from the church because of it. I’m outraged, she has sent me the email correspondence from the church over it. I’m also upset as I can see by her emails that the church was an important part of her life. I generally believe that many of our churches are used by people for their politics, I doubt many in charge even believe in Jesus, but use the church to push their own political agenda. I hope that church leader is ready for Tommy Robinson and his camera being released from prison soon.

I’m also reading more clearly how far our message has gone and the fact it’s reaching all classes, the amount of support letters I’ve received from classical liberals, so many on the left outraged by my treatment, so many middle class, and so many mums and grannies. I’d say now my average supporter is a 60-year-old lady ha ha, so much for Nigel Farage’s tattooed thugs. To read the letters I’ve read of how many people care and the love they show me is unreal love it, makes me feel so positive about continuing my work. In reading these letters I’ve read from women who were scared in London on the 3rd of August, many of these have come to our events because we have proved we are peaceful and we have family events where people bring children.

Every demonstration we plan working with the police, we work out where our opposition will be so we can minimise any risk to our supporters. I’m already furious reading of elderly women attacked by London police on August 3rd. Neither Danny Tommo or Richard were available for the 24th. I’ve read lots of people saying we shouldn’t liaise with the police on future demo’s, that’s actually what they want, we have worked hard over the years to move away from confrontations, we already know the system is stacked against us, without a key organiser/stewards and no idea of any plans I wouldn’t want people young and old turning out in London for me and risking getting hurt or getting in trouble, I know people are angry, I’m angry.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/22/2019

A Syrian “refugee” named Alaa Sheikhi has been convicted of murdering a German man named Daniel Hillig in Chemnitz last year. The murder of Mr. Hillig sparked a series of demonstrations in Chemnitz, followed by the false reports of a “manhunt” of foreigners in Chemnitz. Mr. Sheikhi was sentence to nine and a half years in prison.

In other news, almost fifty illegal migrants were intercepted off the coast of Sussex and Kent after crossing the English Channel in boats.

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Killing Someone Who Deserves to Die

The following essay by Michael Copeland was originally posted at LibertyGB.

Killing Someone Who Deserves to Die

by Michael Copeland

[The scene, pixellated, outside the supermarket at Prien, Bavaria, Germany (Daily Mail)]

[Fatima S., murdered outside the supermarket]

[See The Daily Mail for the photos]

Another day, another stabbing: Europe today.

The Afghan mother Fatima S. was just leaving the supermarket in Prien, Germany, with her children in April this year. Another Afghan, who had been waiting on a bench opposite, rose up and attacked her, shouting that she had to die for leaving Islam. He stabbed her in the head and then slit her throat as her cries were heard for hundreds of feet around. A horrified eye-witness said:

“It was bad. A brave citizen tried to intervene and save the woman, everything was full of blood. It was inconceivably terrible.”

Brave shoppers overpowered him. Police were called, and he was detained.

Fatima S. had left Islam. As a result she had to be killed. This is commanded in Sharia, the body of rules which define Islam. Leaving Islam is “the ugliest form of unbelief (kufr) and the worst” (Manual of Islamic Law, Reliance of the Traveller, o8). All four of the main schools of Islamic jurisprudence agree that leaving Islam — apostasy — brings death.

In Sharia, “since it is killing someone who deserves to die”, there is no penalty for killing an apostate (Manual of Islamic Law, Reliance of the Traveller, o8.4). Anyone may freely commit such a murder: it is part of Islam’s authorised vigilante killing system. Every brother doubles up as executioner. The victim had left Islam while in Afghanistan. She fled that country in 2011 because of the murder that awaited her there, and obtained asylum in Germany. Her killer was known to her, and had sought her out, arriving in Germany in 2013.

Unfortunately, we Europeans are not acquainted with these rules: the attacker was initially detained in a psychiatric hospital. Authorities are not yet familiar with Sharia, but we all need to give it some attention. This is because Islam’s mission is to impose Sharia on all the world, in a Global Caliphate, by force if needed. Osama bin Laden explained, but no-one took any notice:

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Another Day, Another Riot at the Asylum Center

This time it was in Lower Bavaria, and required thirty police cars to contain. Some of the boisterous “youths” may even be prosecuted! I can’t wait to see how many hours of community service they get sentenced to…

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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We Don’t Want to be Rescued!

The original of the video below was apparently in Arabic, but has been given a German voice-over. I presume the fishermen are Libyans, so when they say “our coast guard”, they mean the Libyan coast guard.

The migrants in the overloaded boats have no interest in being “rescued”, unless it is by one of the migrant-ferry NGOs sent out for the specific purpose of bringing the “refugees” safely to Lampedusa or other Italian ports.

Bear in mind that somebody besides the migrants pays the traffickers to get them to the Libyan coastline and put them on the boats. And somebody funds those NGO vessels, which are expensive to staff and operate.

In other words, organizations and/or governments are expending a lot of resources to make sure these “refugees” get to Europe. This migration is not a spontaneous self-organizing phenomenon.

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/21/2019

A police building in the Swedish town of Linköping was destroyed when the bomb squad did a controlled detonation of a motorbike containing a nail-filled bomb. The explosive bike was discovered in a stolen-property room in the building, and caused an evacuation of the area, so no casualties were reported.

In other news, the Democrat presidential candidate Marianne Williamson says she will create a Department of Peace when she is elected.

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More on the Vehicular Jihad in Östersund

Last Friday I posted about a thwarted episode of vehicular jihad in the Swedish city of Östersund. The two TV news reports below contain additional details about that culture-enriching incident.

Many thanks to Kronans Martell for the translations, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling.

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A Culture-Enriching Riot in Regensburg

A group of culture-enrichers went on a rampage in the German city of Regensburg, attacking police and throwing paving stones. The motive for the riot is not stated — perhaps the supply of Nutella at the asylum center had been interrupted, or their phone chargers were substandard.

The news report below refers to the rioters as “German and Iraqi”. It’s not clear whether the “Germans” involved were in fact native Germans of European stock, or “people who have arrived here more recently” who have been issued German passports. My bet is on the latter.

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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The Wall in Our Heads

JLH has translated an interview (published last winter) that focuses on the persistent East-West divide in the minds of Germans.

The translator includes this prefatory note:

This interview is with Frank Wolff, an “historian and academic associate at the Historical Seminar (recent history) and at the Institute for Immigration Research and Intercultural Studies at the University of Osnabrück, Lower Saxony.” In other words, a (converted) Wessi academic, whose doctoral thesis, to be published this Fall by Suhrkamp is entitled “The Wall Society: The Social History of the German-German Migration 1961-1989”

Note how the “before-and-after the Wende” experiences emphasize the older generation’s embrace of the authoritarian GDR, and that the younger generation are traumatized by economic reality in the West.

When Easterners move to the West, they acquire the term Ossi, says the interviewer. Yes but, replies Wolff and proceeds to say that when the newly joined East acquired new leadership, then “suddenly” the term Wessi arose, along with “Besserwessi.”[1] So, no matter what the Ossis may think, they and their leadership are even more responsible for the split feelings.

There is also the problem of City vs. Country, and the almost inescapable conclusion that rural = yokel = rightist = Ossi. Especially since apparently the author had a very uncomfortable youth, when everything around him was overwhelmed by rightists who took over clubs and centers in a way that is reminiscent of the leftist “march through the institutions.”

His suggestion for concentrated German history, especially of the Cold War era, has real possibilities, but his own, well-meant attempt to be objective is weighted in favor of the West, and it is difficult for me to imagine how to identify and assemble the truly neutral people for a commission to agree on a curriculum.

The translated interview from Cicero, the monthly German magazine of politics and culture:

The Wall in (Our) Heads is Being Rebuilt Right Now

The Journalist Chiara Thies interviews Frank Wolff

February 13, 2019

Thies: Mr. Wolff, we are now in the super-election year 2019, with three state legislative elections in the East. Many parties are campaigning with supposedly “East” issues. Does the much-evoked “wall-in-the-head” still exist, West here, East there?

Wolff: It is being built again right now. The Wall is no more, except in various worlds of recall. That is both the advantage and the disadvantage of the discussion. With a leap into the present, we automatically jump forward two generations. Multiple levels of experience are mingled in the present perspective. On one side, that of the older generation which grew up in the GDR and — we must not forget — were to some extent positively inclined toward the state.

And the generation after?

They are on the other side; they grew up in the nineties, and therefore in this extreme economic disruption. They experienced it directly, seeing their parents having trouble finding their footing. The Wall’s fall was less the problem than that the new states were the first subjected to the extreme new liberalization (deregulation), which then occurred later in other European countries. This strongly shaped identities, and so before-and — after-Wende experiences overlap in today’s perspectives.

How did this “Wall-in-the-head” begin?

It was a long process that had begun before the building of the Wall. The division became evident for the entire society with the building of the Wall. In the process, the border — East and West — was forcibly acquired, and with it, a certain pattern of thought. And there was more, for example, in the Cold War, separation as a way of thinking by the West about the East. But this is not just a history of division. At the same time, an increasingly intensive communication developed between West and East. Travel increased greatly after the breaks caused by the Wall. So these two processes of separating and moving toward one another happened simultaneously.

Many people who moved from the East to the West report that they had never before identified as “Ossi,” but in the West they were made into that. So the problem of the East was made by the West and thus made a problem for the East. Can you confirm this subjective perception with you research?

Definitely. But there is also its opposite. As the new positions of leadership in the East were freshly occupied — that is, government, economy, etc. — suddenly the Wessi was created. Then it was the “Besserwessi.” We have these two pictures circling around each other in our heads. What we should not forget in this discussion is that people were very much on the move at that time. It is not only those who live in the East and see themselves as East Germans with a specific experience who actually represent the East German experience.

How do you mean that?

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Strangers on a Plane

The video below is not from a current news story; the incident occurred back in January on a Transavia flight from Paris to Tunis. The first part of the video is featured in the Daily Mail article and other contemporaneous news accounts. However, Vlad has found a security camera clip of what seems to be the event that triggered the culture-enricher’s arrest: the suspect is seen praying next to the cockpit door before starting a fight with some of the stewards. Vlad has appended the footage at the end of the video.

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/20/2019

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has resigned, bringing the coalition government between the Lega and the 5-Star Movement (M5S) to an official end. M5S is negotiating with the left-wing Partito Democratico (PD) about the formation of a new governing coalition that would exclude Matteo Salvini and the Lega.

In other news, Planned Parenthood has been forced to pay $3 million in damages to a whistle-blower that a jury determined to have been wrongfully terminated.

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Open Arms Runs the Blockade at Lampedusa

Last night I reported on a migrant-ferry vessel owned by the NGO Open Arms, which has been anchored off the coast of Lampedusa, trying to get into the port. That story was translated from an Italian source, but the two videos below are French, and are essentially anti-Salvini propaganda.

If I am not mistaken, since these two videos were made, an Italian judge lifted the ban that prevented the boat from docking at Lampedusa, and now the puir wee bairns have at last been able to make landfall on Italian territory (see this story from ANSA, hat tip Insubria).

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translations, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling.

The first video focuses on the heart-rending plight of the migrants, and in particular a man who wants to return to Algeria because the food isn’t any good and he can’t take a proper shower:

The second video is a made-for-TV drama. Several migrants jump into the sea for the cameras in an staged attempt to swim to Lampedusa:

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