Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/29/2020

South Korea reported 800 new cases of the Wuhan Coronavirus in a single day, while the Italian total has risen over 1,100, with 29 deaths. Meanwhile, the first death from the disease in the USA was reported in Washington State, where the governor declared a state of emergency. However, no cases of the coronavirus have as yet been confirmed in Hungary or Poland.

In other news, border guards in Greece fired tear gas at a mob of migrants who attempted to surge across the border from Turkey.

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Murdered by an Immigrant in Borås

It should be noted that the following news story from Sweden states that the alleged murderer is a citizen of Czechia, but gives no indication whether his ethnicity is also Czech. The reader can only note the name “Mohamed”…

Many thanks to FouseSquawk for translating this article from Fria Tider:

Mohamed confesses — murdered pensioner with ten knife blows

February 24, 2020

A 20-year-old immigrant has now confessed that he stabbed a 70-year-old man to death in Borås last week. The older man had ten knife wounds in his back.

It was about 10:50 am last Tuesday when police were called to a stabbing in Borås.

At the scene, an older man in his 70s had been attacked outdoors He died from his wounds, and the incident is being handled as a murder.

According to information in Aftonbladet, the old man received ten knife blows to his back.

The victim had no criminal connections, and police referred to him as an ordinary person.

After the incident, the perpetrator quietly left the scene. Police put out an alarm, and two days later a person was arrested.

According to the arrest warrant, it concerns an immigrant named Mohamed. He has Czech citizenship.

The 20-year-old allegedly went to the hospital and admitted the murder, writes Borås Tidning. The prosecutor calls it a pure coincidence that the 70-year-old was attacked. The perpetrator also personally showed police where he hid the murder weapon. The newspaper reports that the man is mentally ill.

According to Expressen, the man was earlier convicted of a narcotics offense and was cared for in a lock-down psychiatric unit for a serious mental disturbance.

The Peaceful, Tolerant Muslims of India

The two videos below provide snapshots of Islamic ideology in India. They are particularly apropos today, given the recent violent Muslim riots in Delhi, in which dozens of people were killed. (See these articles from Struggle for Hindu Existence for detailed information on events in Delhi: Article 1, Article 2, Article 3)

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

The first video shows the communal response planned for a man who “insulted Islam”:

The second video is a more generalized death threat against Hindu political leaders in India:

Video transcript #1:

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In Bosnia, the Barbarians are Inside the Gates

I posted last month about a Serbian-German man named Irfan Peci. I gave a thumbnail bio of him then, but here it is again: Mr. Peci was born in Serbia, and in the early 1990s, when he was still very small, his family moved to Germany to escape the Balkan wars. As a young man he was recruited by the local Al Qaeda affiliate in Germany, and worked for their propaganda organization. He was eventually arrested and imprisoned by the German authorities. While he was still in prison he was de-radicalized, and when he left prison became an undercover agent within Al Qaeda for the German government. After he was exposed, he wrote a book about his experiences and started producing videos.

Mr. Peci understands Bosnian, so he is able to sift through videos and written material from Bosnia and present it to German-speaking audiences. For the following video he compiled a series of clips from Bosnia in which culture-enrichers vandalize property, take part in armed marches, and commit brutal criminal violence, including against each other.

The thousands of migrants now massed in Bosnia are attempting to force their way into Croatia, after which they will be in the EU, and can then proceed through Slovenia and Austria to get to the Promised Land in Germany.

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

Video transcript:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/28/2020

Two new Wuhan Coronavirus cases of unknown origin have been reported in the USA, one in California and one in Oregon. Meanwhile, Mexico reported its first two cases of the disease. Also, Democrat politicians blamed President Trump for the spread of the coronavirus.

In other news, Turkey announced that it would stop hindering migrants from crossing into Europe, prompting Greece to close its border with Turkey.

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No Free Speech For Islam Critics

If advocates of free speech forbid the criticism of Islam, are they truly in favor of free speech?

No Free Speech For Islam Critics

by Anne Marie Waters

The British journalist Toby Young is the front face of a new free speech campaign group just launched in the UK. Young presents as being on the conservative right, and has defended feminist writers, including Julie Bindel and Germaine Greer, both of whom were “deplatformed” for their radical view that a woman doesn’t have a penis.

The Free Speech Union claims on its website it “believes that if society doesn’t uphold the right to express controversial, eccentric, heretical, provocative or unwelcome opinions, then it doesn’t uphold free speech.”

Quite. So why then doesn’t Toby Young believe in the right to express controversial, eccentric, heretical, provocative or unwelcome opinions about religion? Because he doesn’t, as he has made clear. When questioned as to whether Tommy Robinson could join the union, Young batted the question away (it would be a matter for the board!) and then began to virtual-signal. In essence, he said the union would not tolerate criticism of a person because of their sex (agreed), or because of their skin colour (agreed), or because of their religion (no, that’s entirely different).

Religion is belief, and a person is answerable for what they believe. What they believe constitutes a large part of who they are, and as adults they are accountable for it. I maintain that free speech means criticism of the ideas people propagate, and, by extension, criticism of that person for propagating such ideas. This applies whether the beliefs are political or religious.

The Union goes on to state: “We take no position on the validity of others’ opinions, political or otherwise, whether expressed in speech, writing, performance, or in another form. However, we condemn all incitements to violence.”

But they have taken a position: they will not criticise religion. Or, doubtless more accurately, they will not criticise Islam. Islam remains untouchable, even by an organisation founded to fight for free speech. The fear of Islam in the UK is once again on show for all to see.

It isn’t only fear of Islam itself that causes this; it is fear of the law and fear of the Left. The law will punish those who are critical of Islam in the UK. This sharia-isation of the law means that while gang-rape and child marriage and FGM continue unimpeded, insulting Islam is more likely to bring the police to your door.

The most imminent threat, however, is from the Left. Toby Young must know that if he were to practice actual free speech (i.e. the freedom to criticise Islam), he would be accused of “hate” and his mainstream platform would disappear.

Furthermore, Young has no restriction on his speech. He enjoys regular mainstream media slots. If he allowed criticism of Islam, those slots would evaporate.

While Young has unfettered access to social media, I have had my Twitter account closed for criticising South Yorkshire Police (the account was heavily shadow-banned in any case, and my number of follower would drop on a daily basis). My view numbers on YouTube dropped by 60% overnight; I am now censored there as well.

Worse still, I am routinely described as a neo-Nazi or fascist by the mainstream press and am never given a mainstream right of reply. Wikipedia portrays me as both a monster and an idiot. I am unable to respond on that platform. Toby Young is backing off from criticising Islam because he doesn’t want this to happen to him.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/27/2020

The number of cases of the Wuhan Coronavirus in South Korea has risen above 2,000, and Italy reported its 17th death from the disease. Meanwhile, the Japanese prime minister asked all schools to close as part of the effort to limit the contagion. Also, the first coronavirus case has been reported in Nigeria.

In other news, former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has been sentenced in a Federal court to three years in prison for corruption.

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Stop Me Before I Vote Again!

The title of this post is an ironic slogan from the 1980s. It was coined to mock the “term limits” movement, which was (and is) a push to restrict senators, congressmen, and other elected politicians to a fixed, small number of terms in office.

The idea of term limits is absurd on the face of it. Just think — its proponents want to pass a law to prevent people from voting for someone they might otherwise prefer to vote for. And expect sitting politicians to pass legislation that would shortly put them out of office — how likely is that? As a strategy for civic improvement it seems at best quixotic, and at worst authoritarian.

Yet I can sympathize with the movement’s advocates. Once they are firmly ensconced in office, congressbeings continue for decade after decade. They accumulate power and perks, become part of the corrupt D.C. apparatus, and cease to represent the interests of their constituents. Name recognition, face time on TV talk shows, and the franking privilege — the perk that allows them to spam their constituents as much as they like via the U.S. Mail without having to pay postage — give them a leg up against any upstarts who might challenge their sinecures.

To attempt to fix this corrupt system with term limits would be analogous to putting a band-aid on a sucking chest wound. The problem is far deeper and more systemic than can be corrected with yet more freedom-limiting legislation. Something in our social and political systems is obviously badly broken.

A similar process is underway in Western Europe. Even though the situation there is quite different from the bizarre political circus on this side of the Atlantic, the two political cultures have a major commonality: the political elites remain firmly entrenched in power without regard for the interests of the electorate. And yet that same electorate keeps voting for them over and over again in Europe, just as American voters do here.

This phenomenon first drew my attention back in the 1980s, when I read the results of opinion polls on mass immigration. Voters were (and are) overwhelmingly opposed to mass immigration. A substantial proportion of them considered it an extremely important issue. Back then it seemed a wonderful opportunity for some savvy politician to take up the issue as a means to gain elected office. Yet it was another thirty years before Donald Trump beat the odds to get elected president, and even then it was with a minority of the popular vote.

Immigration is the most prominent issue in the populist program, but there are many more — gay marriage, gun control, the push to completely cleanse the public square of religion, and other battlefronts in the culture wars. Voters have strong opinions about those things, but for some reason keep voting for politicians that ignore their concerns.

What’s going on here? Why don’t they ever throw the rascals out?

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Over at Western Rifle Shooters they have a slogan: “There Is No Voting Our Way Out of This”, or TINVOWOOT for short. Empirically speaking, that seems to be the case: the rascals remain in power and continue their rascally ways, election after election.

Strictly speaking, however, voters do have the power to change their leadership. The German people can still mark their ballots for the AfD, and if enough of them did so, the political situation in the country would change dramatically. But that doesn’t happen. Despite their opinion about immigration (as revealed by opinion polls) voters keep voting for the same old establishment parties, all of which support the importation of migrants. In Germany, TINVOWOOT is definitely the rule.

Last September, when I was interviewed by José Atento in Quebec, he asked me what I would advise people to do in order to reverse the Islamization of the West. I said, “The steps [that should be] taken are the same as everywhere: the people should vote for somebody else than the people they are usually voting for. But they don’t…”

For more than I decade I’ve been emphasizing that Islam is not the problem. It is simply a virulent pathogen that is taking advantage of a severely weakened host. Our political and cultural leaders are enabling the destruction of our societies by Muslims.

Yet those treasonous politicians and media snoids are not the problem, either. We, the voters of the West, keep putting those politicians in power. And we, the media consumers of the West, keep turning on the TV and listening to the talking heads who explain to us why all of this is a good and moral thing. In the USA — where media outlets depend on viewership to maintain their advertising revenues — the viewers tune in to the propaganda in sufficient numbers to keep MassMediaCorp awash in cash.

Once again, what’s going on here? Why do we keep doing these foolish things?

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/26/2020

The number of confirmed cases in South Korea of the Wuhan Coronavirus has risen above 1,500. Meanwhile, the first case of the disease in the USA where the origin is not known was reported in northern California. Also, the first case of the coronavirus in Latin America was reported in Brazil.

In other news, an appellate court has ruled that YouTube is not a public forum, and therefore can regulate videos uploaded to the site in whatever manner it sees fit.

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A Designer Pandemic?

In the following video, the former CIA station chief Brad Johnson discusses the Wuhan Coronavirus with Vlad. The main topic of discussion is whether the pandemic is a genetically engineered bioweapon, and if so, what it was specifically intended to target.

Pay particular attention to Vlad’s annotations during the last two minutes of the clip.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for conducting the interview and uploading this video:

“You People Will Never Be Safe” — Jihad Killings in Islam

Michael Copeland has revised this article from 2013 (originally posted at LibertyGB) and brought it up to date.

“You People Will Never Be Safe” — Jihad Killings in Islam

by Michael Copeland

The killer of Lee Rigby in Woolwich, his hands dripping with blood, told the person filming him:

“You people will never be safe.

We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you.”

Why is that? It is Islamic teaching. Islam has standing instructions concerning non-Muslims, the filthy kuffar, the unbelievers. Many, many verses in the Koran — over 100 of them — command the fighting and killing of non-Muslims, or violence towards them, to establish the supremacy of Islam. The Koran — all of it — forms part of Islamic law. For example, from sura 9, the very chapter, “At Tawba”, specifically cited by the killer, verse 5:

“Kill unbelievers wherever you find them.”

The instruction is ongoing:

“Fight the unbelievers and kill them until all the rule is Islam” (8:39)

As the former terrorist Walid Shoebat asks (What the West Needs to Know video):

“My question for the West is this: what part of ‘kill’ don’t they understand?”

After all, only one “interpretation” is available.

Islam is not ‘pick your own’. The tenets of the ideology are expressed in the Koran, the hadith (traditions) and Islamic law, and the leeway is nil.

“It is not fitting for a believer, man or woman, when a matter has been decided by Allah and his Messenger, to have any option about their decision…”

says Koran 33:36. The Koran is promoted as “true from eternity to eternity”, explains Sam Solomon, former professor of sharia law. Every Muslim is required to believe the Koran: he is not permitted to want or believe anything different. Dr Salah al Sawy, Secretary General of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America, is emphatic. For matters that are in the scriptures, he rules:

“The Muslim community possesses no power except to acknowledge and obey.”

All have to submit. Islam means “submission”. “Submission” is code for Control.

Concerning violent jihad, killing to establish the religion, Melanie Phillips in The Mail makes a sweeping generalisation:

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Two More Deviations From the Hanau Narrative

Below are two new wrinkles to the story about the massacre at two shisha bars in the German city of Hanau.

The first video doesn’t question the core assumption — that the mentally ill “racist” Tobias Rathjen committed the murders — but reports a surprising twist: the alleged shooter’s father, a would-be Green politician, may have been complicit in the crime through his influence on his son’s opinions about migrants.

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

The second video is in Turkish, and is evidently from a news report on Turkish TV. It features an eyewitness who avers that the man he saw shooting up one of the businesses was definitely NOT Tobias Rathjen.

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

Video transcript #1:

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Hate Imam Testifies in Dutch Parliament

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

Fight! Hate imam looks for a fight with investigative committee in the Tweede Kamer hearing room: “You want to silence me”

by Bart Reijmerink
February 19, 2020

It went badly in the hearing of Imam Suhayb Salam in the Hague. It was also painfully clear that Salafists can easily abuse our constitutional freedoms to influence children with their hate preaching.

We cannot call it a very constructive hearing. Imam Salam clearly came to make war, and he knew better than anyone else how to play the victim role. That is good because his Alfitra mosque is surely not simon pure.

[Insert (Sonny Spek)

  • Salam hits the nail on the head
  • Salafists abuse Dutch freedom to teach hate to children
  • No celebrating birthdays, no Dutch holidays, no shaking hands, no tolerance, and no trust in “unbelievers”]

According to the imam, the entire hearing was a big puppet show, because the best man is unaware of any harm. Cutting Salam off made little sense because the man kept going on and on. Even after his microphone was cut off.

Alfitra and their board had no interest in the investigation because it would be unfair. Due to their “Islamic principles” they have signed an objection to this. The day after tomorrow we can see the lawsuit.

We will see how the judge rules on this.

What was a constructive day yesterday was, in that it turned 180 degrees. People’s opinions are directly opposite each other. This is going to “grow a tail”.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/25/2020

The Iranian death toll from the Wuhan Coronavirus has risen to fifteen, the highest outside China. Meanwhile, Iran’s deputy health minister self-quarantined after being infected with the disease. Also, the coronavirus has spread from Northern Italy to Switzerland, Austria, and Croatia.

In other news, a Palestinian woman who attacked an air marshal on a flight from Frankfurt was arrested when the plane landed in the USA.

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