Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/11/2020

It has been verified that more than 10,000 dead people in Michigan voted in the recent election using mail-in ballots. Meanwhile, the Trump campaign has filed a federal lawsuit in Michigan alleging election fraud.

In other news, Ahmed El-Tayyeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, promised to file lawsuits in international courts against people who insult the prophet.

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Thanks to Dean, JD, Reader from Chicago, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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USA
» 17 People Were Shot in Chicago on Monday Alone
» Alaskan Republican Dan Sullivan Wins Reelection to the Senate
» America is Worse Than Communist Venezuela
» America’s Divorce Rate Hits 50-Year Low, Likely to Continue Drop During Pandemic
» Analysis: 10,000 Dead People Voted in Michigan Using Mail-in Ballots
» Asking for People to be Peaceful is White Supremacy, BLM Protestor Shouts During Protest in Portland
» Biden Coronavirus Advisory Board Member Said Living Past 75 Has Virtually No Value
» Biden ‘Science’ Advisor Calls for 4-6 Week Nationwide Lockdown to Avoid “COVID Hell”
» Black Lives Matter Demands Meeting With Biden: “We Want Something for Our Vote”
» COVID Relief Grants Available for Oregon Sex Workers
» Cuomo Places New Restrictions on NY as COVID-19 Gets “Worse by the Day”
» De Blasio’s Daughter in Verbal Slip Up, Claims Biden “Was Able to Steal” Election
» DMCA Takes Down Trump YMCA Dancing Video
» Eventbrite Deletes “Women for America First” March for Trump, Alleging “Misinformation”
» Florida Governor Pushes Expansion of Self-Defense Laws to Defend Against Rioters
» Gab Experiences Record Growth After Big Tech Post-Election Censorship
» Georgia to Conduct a Full Hand Recount of Ballots in Presidential Election
» Jon Voight: ‘These Leftists Are Evil, Corrupt, And They Want to Tear Down This Nation’
» JPMorgan Finds No Benefits From COVID Lockdowns
» Kentucky Councilwoman Faces Calls to Resign for Anti-Biden Facebook Post
» Promise Broken: Biden Pledged Not to Declare Victory Until Election Independently Certified
» Public School Enrollment Plummets as Private Schools See Gains
» Sen. Thom Tillis Officially Wins NC Senate Race
» Skyrocketing Expressway Shootings a Uniquely Chicago Problem, Investigators Say
» Suspect AI Software Verified Mail-in Ballots With Little Human Oversight in Key Battleground States
» The New Yorker Fires Jeffrey Toobin After Probe Into Zoom Masturbation Scandal
» Trump Campaign Files Federal Lawsuit in Michigan Over Fraud Allegations
» Twitter Censors Twelve Trump Posts in One Day
» Twitter Says Its Block on Official South Dakota GOP Links Was a “Misunderstanding”
» Video: Obama CIA Head Wants Trump Stripped of Presidency Now
» Video: USPS Whistleblower Says Mainstream Media Lied, He Never Recanted Claims
» Wisconsin School Board Meeting Descends Into Chaos When Black Lives Matter Protestors Chant and Intimidate Board Members
 
Europe and the EU
» ‘A Strike Against Breeding Ground for Extremism’: Austrian Police Arrest 30 People With Suspected Links to Islamist Groups
» Al-Azhar Will Internationally Sue Those Insulting Prophet, Grand Imam Tells French FM
» Austria: Green Party Logo Discovered on Sponsor Board of Mosque Raided for Jihad Terror
» Austria to Ban ‘Political Islam’ After Terror Attack
» Cardinal Acquits Islam, Migrants of Terror
» Europe Considers Training Its Own Imams to Combat Extremism in Mosques
» Farage: Labour and Conservatives Competing to Lock Down UK Hardest
» France: School Bans Parents From Throwing Their Children Over Its 6ft Fence When They’re Running Late
» Germany: 17-Year-Old Halid S. Sentenced to Prison for Beating a 49-Year-Old Firefighter to Death in Front of His Wife
» Muslim Education Threatens French Identity, Author Eric Zemmour Says
» One Week to Agree a Deal? Brexit Talks Go to the Wire
» ‘Thousands of Foreign Fighters in EU’: Kurz and Macron Meet Over Fight Against Political Islam
» UK Police State Shaming: Force Scolds, Fines Man £200 for Cup of Tea With Friend
» UK: ‘Truly Shameful’: Extinction Rebellion Hangs Eco-Messages on Remembrance Day War Memorial
» UK: Government Advisers Suggest Giving Corona-Free Brits ‘Permission’ Wristbands
» UK: ISIS Supporter Who Planned to Behead a Soldier on an ANZAC Day Parade Aged 14 is Among 100 Convicted Terrorists Due to be Freed as Early as Next Month
» Vatican Releases Long-Awaited ‘Mccarrick Report’ Exonerating Pope Francis
 
Russia
» Ukrainian Police Close Criminal Case Against Joe Biden
 
South Asia
» Bangladesh: Murder of Jewel: Four More Suspects Held
» Pakistan Court Nullifies Teenage Christian’s Marriage to Muslim Man
 
Australia — Pacific
» ‘Absolute Sign of Disrespect: Outrage as Sydney Fans Boo During the Minute’s Silence for Remembrance Day at State of Origin
» NSW Official Says “Walk-in Culture” Is Over and a Digitally Tracked “Check-in Culture” Should be the Norm
» Police Expose Global Child Abuse Ring Centered in Australia
» Terrorist Screams ‘Islamophobic’ As He is Jailed for 12 Years for Planning a Knife Attack in Western Sydney When He Was Just 16
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Militant Islamists ‘Behead More Than 50’ In Mozambique
» Nigeria: Hisbah Enforces Sharia Law, Destroys 1.9 Million Bottles of Beer in Kano
 
Immigration
» As Pandemic Worsens, Italy Still Won’t Instate the Promised Maritime Blockade
» UK: Reading Park Terror: Libyan Refugee Admits to Three Counts of Murder
 
Culture Wars
» Alternative Social Network CloutHub Says it Has Been Deplatformed by IBM
» Belgian Progressive Government to Introduce Third Gender “X”
» Oxford Dictionary and Google Redefine the Word “Bigot” To Give it a Looser Meaning
» Polish Education Minister: Gender Theory is a Marxist Ideology and a False Vision of Humanity
 
General
» YouTube Went Down Around the World, But it’s Now Fixed
 

17 People Were Shot in Chicago on Monday Alone

We’re not sure what it’s going to take for Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot to realize that backing her city’s police department and enforcing the law, not avoiding it, is what’s going to make a difference in cleaning up her city.

Perhaps the following stat will be shocking enough for her to get a grip on exactly what is going on, though we don’t have any confidence that it will: 17 people were shot in Chicago on Monday alone this week. Four of those shootings resulted in fatalities.

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

Alaskan Republican Dan Sullivan Wins Reelection to the Senate

The Associated Press has officially projected that Alaskan Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan has won reelection, defeating Democrat Al Gross in widely-watched race that had significant implications on control of the U.S. Senate.

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

America is Worse Than Communist Venezuela

Now we have learned that Diane Feinstein’s husband Richard Blum is connected to the computer “glitches” switching Trump votes to Biden. A report from a neutral source confirms the suspicious nature of this arrangement.

We are no better than communist Venezuela. In fact, we are in worse shape, since America is supposed to be the leader of the Free World, an example to other countries.

Venezuela has one set of electronic voting machines, and we have another. That’s the difference. Plus, the mail-in voting schemes that President Trump warned about were utilized as well. That makes America’s elections even more suspicious.

In America we have an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth” which serves the Deep State. For example, if you go to this video about the election process, from the point of view of an attorney sympathetic to Trump, you will find this claim inserted by Facebook, “Election officials follow strict rules when it comes to ballot counting, handling and reporting.” The source is the “Bipartisan Policy Center.” Sounds impressive. Of course, the claim is false, since there are multiple reports of fraudulent vote counting.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

America’s Divorce Rate Hits 50-Year Low, Likely to Continue Drop During Pandemic

The U.S. divorce rate hit a 50-year low in 2019, according to recent census data.

Wendy Wang, director of research for the Institute for Family Studies says the data, derived from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, is “great news” for America’s families and children.

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

Analysis: 10,000 Dead People Voted in Michigan Using Mail-in Ballots

Analysis of the election data from Michigan shows thousands of people who are provably deceased voted in the November 3, 2020 General Election. This analysis proves that President Trump was spot on where the use of mail-in ballots in elections was concerned.

The analysis, provided by Richard Baris, the director of the Big Data Poll company, reveals that more than 10,000 people both confirmed or suspected dead returned mail-in ballots to vote in Michigan this past election.

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

Asking for People to be Peaceful is White Supremacy, BLM Protestor Shouts During Protest in Portland

A group of protesters marched on Portland’s streets on election night, reportedly shining lights into people’s apartments and asking them to come out into the streets. One of the BLM supporters even shouted at a White resident that asking for people to be peaceful is white supremacy.

As the KATU news portal reported, the rally was hosted by the All Power To The People group. Later that evening, the Portland Police issued a warning, noting that some individuals marching in the streets openly carried firearms.

A video post on BitChute shows the crowd of BLM protesters occupying the residential area. The owner of the house, who is also a Biden supporter, called on the protesters invading his lawn to not destroy anything and to be peaceful.

However, protesters rebuffed his peaceful warning, saying that no one cares about his opinion.

[Comment: A libtard rebuffed by BLM.]

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

Biden Coronavirus Advisory Board Member Said Living Past 75 Has Virtually No Value

One of Joe Biden’s recently announced coronavirus advisory board members, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, is facing criticism for remarks he made in a 2014 article from The Atlantic.

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

Biden ‘Science’ Advisor Calls for 4-6 Week Nationwide Lockdown to Avoid “COVID Hell”

Meet the esteemed Dr. Michael Osterholm, who serves as director of the Center of Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, and is the latest “scientist” to join Joe Biden’s “special coronavirus transition advisory team.”

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

Black Lives Matter Demands Meeting With Biden: “We Want Something for Our Vote”

In a letter written “on behalf of the Black Lives Matter Global Network,” BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors told Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris, “We want something for our vote.”

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

COVID Relief Grants Available for Oregon Sex Workers

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Strippers and sex workers around Oregon can now apply for federally funded COVID relief.

PDX Stripper Strike, the Portland chapter of the Haymarket Pole Collective, was recently awarded nearly $600,000 in a COVID-relief grant from the Oregon Health Authority. The organization is now seeking applications from sex workers who are Black and/or Indigenous, are transgender, live with a minor dependent at their home or are experiencing homelessness.

Meant to help mitigate sex workers’ financial hardships brought on by the pandemic, PDX Stripper Strike will distribute the money in the form of microgrants. Accepted applicants can receive $150 for internet access, $500 for utilities or $1,600 for rent relief.

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

Cuomo Places New Restrictions on NY as COVID-19 Gets “Worse by the Day”

A cap on the number of people allowed to gather in private homes and a curfew on bars, restaurants, and gyms are part of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s new coronavirus restrictions. The new rules, which will go into effect Friday, say that gyms and all businesses with a state liquor license must close by 10 p.m.

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

De Blasio’s Daughter in Verbal Slip Up, Claims Biden “Was Able to Steal” Election

Mayor De Blasio’s daughter was caught in an embarrassing on camera verbal slip up when she told an interviewer that Joe Biden “was able to steal” the election.

There were in fact two major gaffes, with Chiara de Blasio initially telling the interviewer how happy she was that “now we have the first black Asian female president in office elected,” referring to Kamala Harris.

Harris would of course become Vice President if Biden’s win is certified, although many have suggested that she could soon find herself in the Oval Office given Biden’s declining cognitive abilities.

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

DMCA Takes Down Trump YMCA Dancing Video

Twitter has now deleted more tweets by President Donald Trump, including one in which he was (kind of) doing the widely popular YMCA dance. The tweet was actually taken down due to a copyright complaint filed by The Village People’s publishers. Although the takedown is not surprising from the movie industry’s perspective, in this case, deleting only Trump’s tweet and not taking down others that have tweeted the same video and audio could be construed as selective censoring based on a political motivation.

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

Eventbrite Deletes “Women for America First” March for Trump, Alleging “Misinformation”

An event management and ticketing company has ended up shutting down an event organized in support for President Donald Trump. The group Women for American First are organizing a march on Saturday stating their support for Trump. While they had chosen Eventbrite to organize the event, the company backed out and shut down the event altogether.

The event was originally titled “March for Trump” and was to be organized by Eventbrite. But the company canceled the event as they say it violated their terms of service for “misinformation.” Chris Baron shared a screenshot of the email Women for America First received from Eventbrite. Here’s an excerpt from what Eventbrite told the pro-Trump organization:

“We do not permit events, content, or creators that share or promote potentially harmful misinformation. In this instance, we have determined that your event violates our Community Guidelines and is therefore not permitted on the Eventbrite platform.”

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

Florida Governor Pushes Expansion of Self-Defense Laws to Defend Against Rioters

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) has initiated legislation that would expand the state’s Stand Your Ground law to allow armed citizens to better defend themselves from rioters and looters within the law.

The proposal would justify the use of force against individuals committing arson or looting that “results in the interruption or impairment of a business operation.”

DeSantis’ proposal would also create additional criminal penalties for those engaged in “violent or disorderly assemblies,” make it a felony to stop traffic while protesting, and provide legal immunity to drivers who have unintentionally hurt or killed protesters.

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

Gab Experiences Record Growth After Big Tech Post-Election Censorship

The way Big Tech has handled itself and the role it has assumed in the US election process is now characterized by some critics as nothing short of election interference.

One of those spelling this out is Gab founder and CEO Andrew Torba, who now writes that the stringent censorship and the shoehorning of users towards “groupthink” has produced an extremely beneficial effect for his social network.

Namely, the current week has had the highest growth in the network’s history, with 7.15 million visits — and that came against a 99% rise (compared to September) and 7.7 million visits in the month of October.

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

Georgia to Conduct a Full Hand Recount of Ballots in Presidential Election

In the midst of allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, Georgia will carry out a manual hand recount of ballots.

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

Jon Voight: ‘These Leftists Are Evil, Corrupt, And They Want to Tear Down This Nation’

Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight has come out in support of Donald Trump’s claim that Joe Biden is falsely declaring victory in last week’s presidential election.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

JPMorgan Finds No Benefits From COVID Lockdowns

While the latest vaccine progress news out of Pfizer was welcome by the market (and its CEO who sold over 60% of his PFE stock on the day of the announcement) in a week where global infection resurgence continued with cases jumping 8% W/W last week (537k vs. 309k in Aug-Oct) and EU/ UK re-imposed lockdowns, considering that approximately 60% of population will need to be covered by a vaccine, near term pressure on infection curve/ hospital capacity, growing mortality tally, and stricter public

health policies to pull back secondary infection rate (or R0) below 1 will likely persist for the foreseeable future.

However, in a surprising report out of JPMorgan, the bank finds no meaningful curve development differences between countries with and without strong curve intervention. This makes the bank question if existing public health intervention (i.e., lockdown/ stricter social distancing) should remain in place next year, and leads JPM to conclude that “public health policy should consider approaches biased towards economic/pubic mental health over the urge to close the curve in 2021.”

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

Kentucky Councilwoman Faces Calls to Resign for Anti-Biden Facebook Post

Election day is over in the US, but the high drama and all sorts of controversies continue to play out on social media, where yet another official, a member of the Georgetown, Kentucky city council is now under pressure to resign for her Facebook post.

Karen Tingle-Sames posted on the giant social network this week, causing not only debates between people holding different opinions — but as has become customary, those disagreeing with the councilor are asking for her “head” — i.e., her resignation.

The post that caused the furor showed Joe Biden and members of his campaign celebrating their declared victory in the US election, as Tingle-Sames asked ironically if this is what makes Americans feel proud — and described some of the people in the picture as, “crack pot little girl Hunter and creepy sell out China Joe.”

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

Promise Broken: Biden Pledged Not to Declare Victory Until Election Independently Certified

With the media declaring Joe Biden president elect, and Biden himself forming a transitional team, it sure seems that his promise in September to allow the election to be independently certified before claiming victory was empty rhetoric.

During the first Presidential debate Biden was asked by Chris Wallace “Will you urge your supporters to stay calm while the vote is counted, and will you pledge not to declare victory until the election is independently certified?”

While the question was clearly aimed at Trump, both candidates gave responses.

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

Public School Enrollment Plummets as Private Schools See Gains

Ongoing and renewed shutdowns of public schools across the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in astonishing public school enrollment drops.

NPR recently reported that public school districts in at least 20 states have seen shrinking numbers of students this fall, with Orange County and Miami-Dade County in Florida down 8,000 and 16,000 public school students, respectively. Los Angeles public school enrollment has dropped by nearly 11,000 students.

Families are increasingly turning away from public schooling and toward private education options during the pandemic—a trend that is likely to continue even after the virus fades.

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

Sen. Thom Tillis Officially Wins NC Senate Race

Though polls showed him down just under three points heading into Election Day, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) has officially defeated his Democratic challenger, Cal Cunningham. According to the New York Times, Tillis led by fewer than 100,000 votes (a 2% lead) at the end of the most expensive Senate contest in the state’s history.

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

Skyrocketing Expressway Shootings a Uniquely Chicago Problem, Investigators Say

There have been 99 expressway shootings in the Chicago area so far this year, far exceeding the 52 seen in 2019, and 43 in 2018. And while no highway is immune, one stands out.

Just a few years ago, a shooting on a Chicago-area expressway would be a major event, the type of tragedy that would lead every newscast in the city.

Now they happen with such shocking frequency that road crews have standard procedures for blocking the highways so police can search for evidence. And drivers see them mostly as frustrating incidents that wreak havoc with their morning commutes.

And that’s wrong. Because it’s an escalation of Chicago’s violence, endangering the lives of thousands of innocent people.

“It’s collateral damage from gang wars that are occurring in the city of Chicago, and it’s spilling over into the interstates,” says Col. David Byrd, deputy director of the Illinois State Police. “When they see that person, they go after that person —they don’t care where he is at!”…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Suspect AI Software Verified Mail-in Ballots With Little Human Oversight in Key Battleground States

Untested AI software was used to verify mail-in ballot signatures in highly contested localities like Clark County, Nevada. The company that produces it has close ties to Lockheed Martin and Microsoft and its founder has a bone to pick with Donald Trump.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The New Yorker Fires Jeffrey Toobin After Probe Into Zoom Masturbation Scandal

Jeffrey Toobin was canned from the New Yorker on Wednesday over his caught-on-Zoom masturbation ordeal.

The 60-year-old staff writer was fired following a three-week probe into an incident where he was allegedly caught pleasuring himself during an election simulation work call with some of the magazine’s biggest names.

“As a result of our investigation, Jeffrey Toobin is no longer affiliated with the company,” a New Yorker spokeswoman confirmed to The Post.

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

Trump Campaign Files Federal Lawsuit in Michigan Over Fraud Allegations

The Trump campaign has filed a lawsuit in a Michigan federal court to keep the state from certifying its results before the voting process can be reviewed.

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

Twitter Censors Twelve Trump Posts in One Day

Twitter censored an unprecedented number of President Trump’s posts Tuesday, labelling no less than TWELVE tweets with warnings that Trump’s claims cannot be verified.

The majority of the warnings stated “This claim about election fraud is disputed.”

The posts contained videos and links to conservative news sources such as Newsmax and OANN.

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

Twitter Says Its Block on Official South Dakota GOP Links Was a “Misunderstanding”

Twitter temporarily blocked links to two official South Dakota GOP domains and branded them “potentially harmful” after the party attempted to share an official statement detailing its support for President Trump’s post-election lawsuits.

When the South Dakota GOP Twitter account attempted to tweet out the statement yesterday, it was told: “Your tweet couldn’t be sent because the link has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful.”

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

Video: Obama CIA Head Wants Trump Stripped of Presidency Now

John Brennan, the former CIA head under the Obama administration, has called for President Trump to be removed now, saying he is capable of ‘lashing out’ and releasing information that could endanger America.

Speaking on CNN, Brennan essentially called for a coup, reasoning that Trump could declassify and release all the data relating to Russiagate, the 2016 election, and the deep state’s efforts to delegitimise his presidency.

“I’m very concerned what he might do in his remaining 70 days in office,” Brennan told Chris Cuomo.

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

Video: USPS Whistleblower Says Mainstream Media Lied, He Never Recanted Claims

The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the US Postal Service worker who had alleged overhearing a plot to commit vote fraud had recanted his story and that there was nothing to the allegation. But that whistleblower is standing up to say “Not true!”

On Tuesday, The Post, citing three anonymous sources connected to the US Postal Services Office of Inspector General, reported that the whistleblower had admitted to making a fraudulent statement claiming a plot to commit vote fraud in the Erie, Pennsylvania postal facility.

Richard Hopkins, the whistleblower in question, had come forth with allegations that he overheard the postmaster and a supervisor at the facility scheming to backdate ballots that arrived after the deadline so as to make them eligible to be counted.

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

Wisconsin School Board Meeting Descends Into Chaos When Black Lives Matter Protestors Chant and Intimidate Board Members

Police had to come in and escort members out

Black Lives Matter protesters succeeded in disrupting and shutting down a local school board meeting in Wisconsin after they angrily confronted board members over an anti-racist curriculum.

The chaos unfolded at a meeting of the Burlington Area School District Board of Education in Burlington.

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

‘A Strike Against Breeding Ground for Extremism’: Austrian Police Arrest 30 People With Suspected Links to Islamist Groups

The Austrian authorities have conducted sweeping raids across the country against people with suspected ties to extremist groups. The operation took place a week after a deadly terrorist attack in Vienna.

As part of the action, dubbed Operation Ramses, police searched 60 apartments, houses, and businesses early on Monday morning. The raids were carried out in Vienna and the regions of Styria, Carinthia, and Lower Austria.

The authorities have arrested 30 people with suspected links to the Islamist groups Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. According to the prosecutor’s office in the city of Graz, more than 70 suspects are being investigated for possible ties to terrorist organizations.

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

Al-Azhar Will Internationally Sue Those Insulting Prophet, Grand Imam Tells French FM

The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, the world’s leading Sunni Islamic institution, Ahmed El-Tayyeb expressed categorical rejection of the act of insulting Prophet Muhammad and vowed to sue perpetrators at international courts, Al-Azhar said in a statement.

His remarks came in a Sunday meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who is visiting Egypt to help de-escalate tensions that followed France’s President Emmanuel Macron’s comments on Islam.

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

Austria: Green Party Logo Discovered on Sponsor Board of Mosque Raided for Jihad Terror

Leftist-Islamic alliance in plain sight

“Raid on Islamic center: logo of the Greens on sponsor board,” translated from “Razzia in Islam-Zentrum: Logo der Grünen auf Sponsorentafel,” Info-Direkt, November 9, 2020 (thanks to Medforth).

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

Austria to Ban ‘Political Islam’ After Terror Attack

In response to a jihadist terror attack in Vienna last week, the government of Austria will pass a law making it illegal to spread “political Islam” in the country.

The European nation’s capital was shook when a lone gunman killed four people and injured 23 others during a rampage that began in the city’s historic quarter. The culprit, 20-year-old Kujtim Fejzullai, was an ISIS sympathizer.

In response, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced new measures that would make preaching “political Islam” a criminal offense.

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

Cardinal Acquits Islam, Migrants of Terror

VIENNA (ChurchMilitant.com) — Europe’s top cardinal has rejected claims blaming Islam or immigration for jihadi terrorism, even as police revealed that the 14 suspects arrested for Monday’s Vienna massacre are all Muslim migrants.

In a Wednesday interview with SIR Agency, Cdl. Jean-Claude Hollerich, president of the Commission of the Episcopates of the European Union, asserted that incriminating Islam and immigration for French schoolteacher Samuel Paty’s murder and recent jihadi attacks in Nice and Vienna “does not reflect the truth.”

“Prophet Muhammad would have been ashamed of the attack in Nice,” Hollerich said quoting the imam of Bordeaux, “recalling that Muhammad had been criticized many times during his lifetime, but he never took these criticisms seriously and was never upset.”

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

Europe Considers Training Its Own Imams to Combat Extremism in Mosques

European Council President Charles Michel has announced support for a “European Institute for the Training of Imams” to combat the spread of radical Islamic ideologies in the European Union.

Mr Michel stated that the EU should look at creating an institute to train imams to ensure “that this message of tolerance, of openness, can be conveyed at a European level […], to ensure that the primacy of civil law is accepted.”

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

Farage: Labour and Conservatives Competing to Lock Down UK Hardest

Nigel Farage has criticised Labour and the Conservatives for competing with each other to lock down the country during the pandemic, with there being effectively no opposition in power to counter draconian social distancing measures.

“There are no easy answers to any of this, but what is remarkable is to see Labour and Conservative outbidding each other on how much we should lock down, and there has been no proper rational alternative debate. At least in Sweden, they’ve had this debate. At least in America, they have had this debate,” Mr Farage told Times Radio on Tuesday.

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

France: School Bans Parents From Throwing Their Children Over Its 6ft Fence When They’re Running Late

A school in France has banned parents from throwing their children over its 6ft fence when they’re running late.

Trillade primary school in Avignon, southern France, put up ‘no throwing’ signs outside the school entrance depicting an adult throwing a child.

It comes after parents running late reportedly resorted to throwing their children over the fence after missing the 8.30am deadline.

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

Germany: 17-Year-Old Halid S. Sentenced to Prison for Beating a 49-Year-Old Firefighter to Death in Front of His Wife

The Augsburg Regional Court sentenced 17-year-old Halid S. to 4.5 years in prison for killing 49-year-old firefighter Roland S. on St. Nicholas Day of 2019, Bild reported.

Judge Lenart Hoesch attested that the main offender from Königsplatz, Halid S., had harmful tendencies. The court granted his two accused accomplices, Gökalp A. and Kevin C., suspended sentences for injuring the companion of the victim Roland S.

On St. Nicholas Day 2019, after a visit to the Christmas market in Augsburg, a dispute between a group of young people and the fire inspector of the local professional fire department, Roland S., escalated. The young men attacked the fireman who then fell to the ground and died shortly afterward in front of his wife. Halid S. was arrested two days after the incident.

The now-convicted teenage offender has German, Turkish, and Lebanese citizenship. He was already known to the police before the brutal act in Augsburg.

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

Muslim Education Threatens French Identity, Author Eric Zemmour Says

As long as the Muslim minority in France is unwilling to accept the rules of the majority, the educational system will not able to integrate them, influential French philosopher and author Éric Zemmour said in a political talk show on French news channel CNews.

The fundamental problem is not about education but that this is a war of civilizations. You have people who consider that there is a Muslim civilization to which they belong and they are not part of the French nation,” Zemmour said. “It is that simple.”

“You have seen the latest opinion poll, according to which 75% of [Muslims] over the age of 25 think that Sharia law should apply to them rather than law of the [French] republic,” Zemmour said. “This is a very simple issue: There are people who prefer not to be subject to national law, but instead to Sharia law.”

He added that because the Muslim minority will not accept French norms, “living together does not work, there are limits to it.”

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

One Week to Agree a Deal? Brexit Talks Go to the Wire

Yet another Brexit deadline has been floated, this time by European negotiators who have called November 19th the absolute deadline for a draft Brexit deal.

Michel Barnier and his team of negotiators returned to London this week for yet another round of Brexit talks, parts of the final approach to Britain finally decoupling from the European Union. Although the UK officially departed the bloc in January 2020, it has remained a non-voting member of the Union in all but name since as part of the so-called transition period which expires at the end of the year.

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‘Thousands of Foreign Fighters in EU’: Kurz and Macron Meet Over Fight Against Political Islam

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz met with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss their mutual fight against political Islam.

Chancellor Kurz flew to Paris on Tuesday to meet President Macron in person. They then held a video conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, European Council President Charles Michel, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to discuss reforming the Schengen open border agreement.

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UK Police State Shaming: Force Scolds, Fines Man £200 for Cup of Tea With Friend

A British police force took to social media to shame a man for visiting his friend’s house for a cup of tea and fined him £200 for breaching lockdown.

England’s second lockdown prohibits the mixing of households. With five senior police officers vowing last week that those who break the rules would “face the consequences of greater levels of enforcement”, Greater Manchester Police held one Wigan man up as an example to others.

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UK: ‘Truly Shameful’: Extinction Rebellion Hangs Eco-Messages on Remembrance Day War Memorial

The eco-extremist group Extinction Rebellion staged a protest on Wednesday at Britain’s national war memorial, the Cenotaph, hanging a wreath and a banner on the monument which read “Honour Their Sacrifice, Climate Change Means War”.

On the 100th anniversary of the unveiling of the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day — a memorial day celebrated throughout the British Commonwealth to honour fallen soldiers — several eco-activists hijacked the proceedings in London to push their apocalyptic vision of supposedly man-made climate change.

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UK: Government Advisers Suggest Giving Corona-Free Brits ‘Permission’ Wristbands

Behavioral experts advising the British government have suggested giving people who test negative for coronavirus wristbands that would allow them to travel and enter venues, while those who didn’t have the wristband would remain under lockdown.

The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) produced a PDF report in which it praised the example of Slovakia, where 97% of people who the government wanted to test complied.

The figure was so high because health authorities told those who refused the test that they would continue to be subject to lockdown measures and curfews, while those who complied were given paper certificates allowing them to exercise their freedoms.

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UK: ISIS Supporter Who Planned to Behead a Soldier on an ANZAC Day Parade Aged 14 is Among 100 Convicted Terrorists Due to be Freed as Early as Next Month

An ISIS supporter who planned to behead a soldier on an Anzac Day parade when he was just 14 is among convicted terrorists who could be freed soon.

He is among more than 100 convicted terrorists that could be freed in Britain — some as early as next month — after becoming eligible for parole.

Others that are set for a potential release include two childhood friends who were trained with weapons in Syria, a Londoner who downloaded terrorist manuals with assassination instructions and a man who tried to join ISIS to marry a 9-year-old girl.

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Vatican Releases Long-Awaited ‘Mccarrick Report’ Exonerating Pope Francis

ROME — The Vatican has released its 460-page report on former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was found guilty of serial homosexual abuse in 2018 and subsequently stripped of the title of cardinal and reduced to the lay state.

The report contains significant archival data including numerous transcribed reports and written correspondence chronicling the history of accusations, denials, references, appointments, sanctions, and eventual punishment of the disgraced prelate.

Francis commissioned the investigation in 2018 following the publication of an 11-page exposé by the former Vatican nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò. In his affidavit, the archbishop denounced an ongoing McCarrick cover-up, accusing Pope Francis of lifting sanctions imposed by Pope Benedict on the wayward cardinal and making McCarrick a trusted advisor.

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Ukrainian Police Close Criminal Case Against Joe Biden

Ukrainian police have closed criminal proceedings against former Vice President Joe Biden, originally brought by former Ukrainian Attorney General Viktor Sokin, Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform said on Tuesday.

The news agency cited an unnamed source from the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office as well as a formal decision to close the case. Biden was prosecuted by the Ukrainian State Bureau of Investigation (DBR) for interfering in the work of an official, following an order in April by Sergei Vovk, a judge in the Pechersk district of Kiev.

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Bangladesh: Murder of Jewel: Four More Suspects Held

Police yesterday arrested four more suspects on charges of lynching and setting fire to Shahidunnabi Jewel, 50, in Patgram, Lalmonirhat.

They were arrested at different places in the upazila in the morning, said Omar Farooq, officer-in-charge of the Detective Branch in Lalmonirhat.

Twenty-nine people have been arrested so far over the murder and vandalism on October 29, he said.

Twenty-nine people have been arrested so far over the murder and vandalism on October 29, he said.

Yesterday’s arrestees are Hasanuzzaman, 25, Abdur Rahman, 22, Sohel Rana, 20, and Mainul Hossain, 26.

They are residents of Burimari area, where the grisly murder took place.

Mainul Hossain was arrested on charges of murder while the rest were arrested for assaulting policemen, Farooq told The Daily Star.

Of the 29 suspects, 13 have been accused of murder and the rest of vandalism and attack on police.

Main accused Abul Hossain alias Hossain Ali is being interrogated by the police, the officer said.

Meanwhile, Lalmonirhat Deputy Commissioner Abu Jafor gave Tk 20,000 to Jewel’s grieving family to assist the schooling of his two children.

Jewel’s elder brother Abu Yusuf, an associate professor at the Carmichael College, was present when the cheque was handed over in the DC office conference room.

Jewel’s daughter is an HSC examinee and son a sixth grader.

“We have become orphans. We are helpless without our father. We demand exemplary punishment for the killers,” the daughter told reporters.

Abu Yusuf said, “My brother did not demean the Holy Quran. He was brutally lynched because of spreading rumours.”

DC Jafor said Jewel’s family is being taken care of and the murder is being investigated with utmost importance.

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Pakistan Court Nullifies Teenage Christian’s Marriage to Muslim Man

A Pakistani high court nullified the claim of marriage that a Muslim man had made after allegedly abducting a 13-year-old girl and forcing her to wed him.

The court ruled that the underage Arzoo Raja — who comes from a Christian family — could not legally marry the 44-year-old Ali Azhar. The justices also ruled that the girl had the choice of returning to her family or staying in the girl’s home where she has lived for the duration of the case. After Raja indicated she did not want to live in either place, the court ordered her returned to the shelter, where she will be allowed to receive friends and family.

The court also directed police to arrest suspects in the case, including the cleric who conducted the wedding.

Similar cases where men abduct Christian girls and forcibly convert and marry them are common in Pakistan, with 156 cases reported between 2013 and 2019.

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‘Absolute Sign of Disrespect: Outrage as Sydney Fans Boo During the Minute’s Silence for Remembrance Day at State of Origin

Sydney fans have sparked outrage after booing during the minute’s silence for remembrance day at State of Origin.

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NSW Official Says “Walk-in Culture” Is Over and a Digitally Tracked “Check-in Culture” Should be the Norm

The hospitality industry in Australia’s state of New South Wales is being recruited by the local government to make sure that their patrons’ personal data like names and other details are logged and kept electronically via the use of a QR code.

The establishments who fail to “catalog” their customers in this way will face penalties.

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Police Expose Global Child Abuse Ring Centered in Australia

CANBERRA, Australia — A tip from U.S. authorities has exposed a major child sex abuse ring in Australia with links to the United States, Canada, Asia, Europe and New Zealand, police said on Wednesday.

A childcare worker and a children’s soccer coach were among 16 men arrested in the Australian states of New South Wates, Queensland and Western Australia in recent months on 828 charges of sexually abusing children, producing and distributing child abuse material and bestiality, Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Justine Gough said.

Investigators identified 46 victims in Australia aged 16 months to 15 years.

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Terrorist Screams ‘Islamophobic’ As He is Jailed for 12 Years for Planning a Knife Attack in Western Sydney When He Was Just 16

A young man who stocked up on knives in preparation for a terror attack throughout Sydney has been jailed.

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Militant Islamists ‘Behead More Than 50’ In Mozambique

More than 50 people have been beheaded in northern Mozambique by militant Islamists, state media report.

The militants turned a football pitch in a village into an “execution ground”, where they decapitated and chopped bodies, other reports said.

Several people were also beheaded in another village, state media reported.

The beheadings are the latest in a series of gruesome attacks that the militants have carried out in gas-rich Cabo Delgado province since 2017.

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Nigeria: Hisbah Enforces Sharia Law, Destroys 1.9 Million Bottles of Beer in Kano

BEVERLY HILLS, November 09, (THEWILL) — Kano State Hisbah Board has destroyed 1,975,000 bottles of beer, worth over N200 million, confiscated within Kano metropolis.

The state Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje who was represented by his Deputy, Nasiru Gawuna during the destruction exercise at Kalebawa in Dawakin Tofa Local Government, said consumption of alcohol and all other intoxicants that can distort mental capability and was forbidden in Islam.

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As Pandemic Worsens, Italy Still Won’t Instate the Promised Maritime Blockade

While the pandemic is forcing Italy to its knees, migrants continue to flow into the country. The right-wing opposition says it is outrageous that the government does nothing about the critical conditions that have developed on the islands, conservative Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap reports.

The occupation of the southern islands of Italy continues even though Sicily has already become an amber zone in terms of the severity of the coronavirus epidemic. It is forbidden to enter or leave the province, but this does not apply to immigrants. Another 400 illegal immigrants have arrived on the island of Lampedusa, and by Monday, the Contrada Imbriacola hotspot was filled to capacity. The reception center now houses 2,000 people under appalling conditions, but the left-wing government has still not ordered the ports to be closed. Local residents are outraged at the double standard applied to the province.

Giorgia Meloni, president of the Brothers of Italy (FdI), called Lampedusa a “duty-free area,” referring to the fact that immigrants can travel on the island without control and consequences. Mayor Salvatore Martello and Attilio Lucia, the local coordinator of the right-wing opposition League, consider the government — through its inaction — to be complicit in worsening the situation. They urge Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese to intervene immediately and make good on her recent promise to instate a maritime blockade. Incidentally, this is exactly what right-wing leading politicians Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini, the president of the League, have been demanding for years.

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UK: Reading Park Terror: Libyan Refugee Admits to Three Counts of Murder

Reading terror attacker Khairi Saadallah pleaded guilty to murdering three friends during a stabbing spree on innocent people enjoying a summer evening in the Forbury Gardens in Reading, near London.

The 26-year-old Libyan refugee admitted to fatally stabbing James Furlong, David Wails, and Joe Ritchie-Bennett, who were sitting together in the park enjoying a drink on June 20th. Saadallah stabbed U.S. citizen Mr Ritchie-Bennett and history teacher Mr Furlong each once in the neck, and stabbed Mr Wails, a scientist, in the back. The three men, all reportedly part of the local LGBT community, died at the scene.

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Alternative Social Network CloutHub Says it Has Been Deplatformed by IBM

Alternative social network CloutHub says its video hosting provider IBM has removed its video channels without warning.

CloutHub describes itself as a “next-generation social network for social, civic and political networking” and said that all 57 of its video channels were taken down by IBM on Friday.

CloutHub’s founder and CEO Jeff Brain told Reclaim The Net IBM “didn’t give us any heads up, no warning, and took a shotgun approach to remove everything.”

Brain added that the takedown impacted “faith groups, police groups, a national news outlet and many more.”

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Belgian Progressive Government to Introduce Third Gender “X”

The new Belgian government intends to introduce gender neutrality for so-called “non-binary” people. It wants to achieve this by introducing the official identification “X” to serve people who do not identify with being a man or a woman.

Belgian Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne said one of the goals of the new government was to establish the right for people to determine their gender for themselves. Van Quickenborne announced this through a program statement. Last year, the local Constitutional Court stated that there should be far more benevolent laws for transgender people than before.

The Constitutional Court announced that the current law, which has allowed people to change their gender since 2017, unreasonably continues to list only men and women, which is discriminatory according to the court’s decision; the law must therefore take into account individuals’ right to self-determination.

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Oxford Dictionary and Google Redefine the Word “Bigot” To Give it a Looser Meaning

The way things are going, we may soon need a new term for “Orwellian dystopia” when it comes to various manner of language distortion and manipulation we have seen of late.

It feels like the old one has been overused an no longer quite manages to vividly convey the unease and worry of being forced to witness a language moulded to fit a particular political, social or ideological narrative (like it is in “1984”) — and not through its natural, evolutionary process, but through a forced “revolution.”

We’ve seen many examples of “Orwellian language dystopia,” so for lack of a better option, we can stick with that one with the new definition of the word “bigot.”

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Polish Education Minister: Gender Theory is a Marxist Ideology and a False Vision of Humanity

Unlike many Western nations, the Polish government is increasingly critical of topics like LGBT, transgenderism and gender theory studies being inserted into the education system, a position backed by Polish Minister of Education and Science Przemyslaw Czarnek.

He said this week that he sides with scientists who are of the opinion that so-called gender studies are not a science.

“Gender is a Marxist ideology, a false vision of humanity. I’m on the side of scholars who declare that it is not a science,” Czarnek declared in an interview for Polskie Radio 24.

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YouTube Went Down Around the World, But it’s Now Fixed

YouTube has recovered from a seemingly worldwide outage that prevented videos from loading for roughly an hour. During the outage, many Verge staffers were unable to watch videos, and YouTube confirmed at 7:23PM ET that something was going on.

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11 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/11/2020

  1. Re UK: Police State Shaming: Force scolds, fines man 200 pounds for cup of tea with friend.

    This is too much; pouring hot tea on someone is a form of torture!

    • This is just heartbreaking, I blame the mother who is that stupid to live with this savages, !!! What a waste of time , and lost this little beautiful boy , RIP . Little one ..

  2. Very funny video from Turkmenistan.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN2A09W-V7I

    Turkmenistan leader unveils giant gold dog statue

    Turkmenistan’s president has bestowed his favourite dog breed with the highest honour – a giant golden statue.

    Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov unveiled the 19ft (6m) statue of the Alabay dog in the capital Ashgabat on Tuesday.

    The Alabay is a home-bred Turkmen variety of the Central Asian shepherd dog and is listed under the country’s national heritage.

    It isn’t the first time the breed has been honoured by the president – last year he devoted a book to the Alabay.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54894828

    Turkmens are a Turkic nomadic people. Despite the conquest of Islam, pre-Islamic traditions remained in their midst, I suppose that the Zoroastrian ones. Their women never wore a burqa, unlike neighboring Uzbeks.

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