Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/31/2021

Pope Francis cancelled his visit to the Nativity scene in St. Peter’s Square, due to fears of the Omicron variant. Meanwhile, the Austrian government announced an extension of the lockdown imposed on the unvaxed until at least January 10, due to fears of the Omicron variant.

In other news, Germany shut down three of its six remaining nuclear power plants today. The other three are scheduled to go offline in 2022.

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A Forced Sabbatical for the Great Mosque of Beauvais

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Le Monde:

The prefecture of l’Oise orders the temporary closing of the Great Mosque of Beauvais

The religious establishment will be closed for 6 months due to sermons “inciting hate”, “ violence”, and “defending jihad.”

December 28, 2021

The prefecture of l’Oise has ordered the closure of the Great Mosque of Beauvais for 6 months, specifically due to sermons “inciting hate”, “violence”, and “promoting jihad”, it announced Tuesday, December 28.

“The prefecture of l’Oise has issued a decree Monday for the closure of the Grand Mosque of Beauvais for 6 months. This decree is enforceable after 48 hours,” stated the prefecture. This religious site serves some 400 faithful.

The association Hope and Brotherhood, which operates the mosque, deplored an “unjust and unjustified decision,” because it “shows, by all evidence, a will to harm the Muslim community by highlighting some elements taken out of their context and thus, deprive hundreds of the faithful,” of a religious site. Samim Bolaky, the association’s lawyer, announced to Agence France Press that he had petitioned the administrative court of Amiens for a temporary injunction against this decision. A hearing must take place within 48 hours, according to the lawyer.

On December 14, Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin announced that the procedure of administrative closure of this mosque had been initiated — because of, according to him, the radicalism of the sermons. “We have initiated the closure of the Beauvais mosque, which is completely unacceptable, which attacks Christians, homosexuals, Jews,” the minister stated on the CNews TV channel.

Support for jihad and incitement to hate

Attorney Bolaky had then claimed that the authorities targeted “certain remarks made during sermons by one of the imams of the mosque — since suspended — who spoke on an unpaid basis.” The Hope and Brotherhood association has always advocated living together. “It is a respectable mosque,” he insisted.

The sermons of this imam, “described as an occasional speaker,” but, “in reality, a regular imam of the Great Mosque of Beauvais,” the decree reads, “promote jihad as a ‘duty’ and glorify the combatants, whom he describes as ‘heroes’, in the service of protecting the Muslim religion, which, according to this speaker, is threatened by Western societies.” Also according to the decree, his sermons “defend a rigorous and radical practice of Islam and the superiority of religious rules over those of French law, to which disobedience is legitimate.”

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A Bone Fragment From Saman Abbas?

I have reported several times previously on the case of Saman Abbas, a young Pakistani woman in Italy who disappeared and was thought to have been a victim of an “honor killing” (see here, here, here, and here). Various of her male relatives have been detained by authorities, some of them after absconding to France. However, as of my most recent post on the topic, her body had not yet been found.

All that may now have changed. A bone has been found that may be a fragment of Ms. Abbas’ skull.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from La Stampa:

Saman case: Bone fragment of human skull recovered in Lido Po. RIS [Scientific Investigation Department] trying to isolate DNA.

It may belong to the 18-year-old Pakistani girl of whom there has been no news since last May and who is believed to have been killed at Novellara, in the Bassa Reggiana region, for refusing an Islamic marriage.

December 29, 2021

The prosecutor’s office of Reggio Emilia has assigned the Scientific Investigations Department of Parma to do the analysis of a bone fragment, presumably of a human skull, which may belong to Saman Abbas, the 18-year-old Pakistani girl, of whom there has been no news since last May, and who is believed to have been killed at Novellara in Bassa Reggiana for refusing an Islamic marriage arranged with a cousin in her homeland. Reporting the news is the local edition of Resto del Carlino.

The bone fragment was discovered in the area of Lido Po di Boretto by the Carabinieri on November 3. Deputy Prosecutor Laura Galli, the assigned prosecutor of the investigation, has ordered the specialized examination to extract the biological profile of the DNA to determine whether it may be comparable to that of the young girl.

The searches were concentrated in the riparian areas of the Po after the younger brother of Saman told the investigating judge — during a preliminary hearing behind closed doors — that during a family meeting he had heard a cousin talk about “putting her in small pieces” and “throwing her away” at “Guastalla, where there is a river,” the daily reports.

The Scientific Investigation Department of the Carabinieri will also analyze clothes from Danish Hasnain, the uncle of Saman, believed to be the material perpetrator of the crime, and who is now, after being arrested on 22 September in France, in jail in Paris awaiting extradition. The clothes were seized last November 6 at Novellara, in the cottage where the entire Abbas family worked as laborers and custodians of a farm.

Five people are accused of premeditated murder, kidnapping, and concealment of a cadaver: In addition to the uncle, the cousin Ikram Ijaz is in jail in Italy. Among the fugitives, meanwhile, are the other cousin, Nomanhulaq Nomanhulaq, and the parents, Shabbar and Nazia Shaheen, who fled to Pakistan on a flight from Malpensa [Milan airport] last May 1, and of whom there is no further news.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/30/2021

In an effort to curb the spread of the Wuhan Coronavirus, Quebec Premier François Legault announced a 10pm to 5am curfew, the closure of all restaurant dining rooms, and a ban on all private gatherings. Meanwhile, the Dutch government announced that citizens may be required to get as many as six injections of the “vaccine” that will allegedly protect them against COVID-19.

In other news, the conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell has reportedly caused apprehension among celebrities who availed themselves of the amenities of Jeffrey Epstein’s private island. Prominent among those allegedly affected by the verdict is Prince Andrew, the younger son of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Tyneside: Death by Vax

The following report is not current, but it’s worth revisiting. It originally appeared last August, after the coroner’s verdict on the death of Lisa Shaw, a presenter for BBC Radio Newcastle. Ms. Shaw died as result of her first injection of the AstraZeneca “vaccine” against COVID-19.

I’m surprised the BBC was even willing to air this report. Maybe they didn’t want to be scooped by Sky News.

Deaths from cerebral thrombosis — blood clots in the brain — were forecast by dissident scientists even before the vax was rolled out to the public. There are thousands of other cases like Lisa Shaw’s, but because the victims don’t enjoy the prominence that Ms. Shaw had, their faces don’t appear in somber news reports about their deaths.

To my mind, the most important thing about Lisa Shaw’s death is that she had virtually zero chance of dying from COVID-19 if she happened to contract it, but her chance of dying from the jab was significantly greater than zero. Therefore the people — political leaders, scientists, and medical practitioners — who push the vax are guilty of crimes against humanity if they urge the jab on anyone under the age of fifty who has no significant medical issues.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video:

Below are excerpts from the Beeb’s article about the coroner’s report:

Lisa Shaw: Presenter’s death due to complications of Covid vaccine

A radio presenter died due to complications from the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, a coroner has found.

Lisa Shaw, who worked for BBC Radio Newcastle, died at the age of 44 in May after developing headaches a week after getting her first dose of the vaccine.

Newcastle coroner Karen Dilks heard Ms Shaw suffered blood clots in the brain which ultimately led to her death.

The inquest heard the condition linked to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was very rare.

The coroner said: “Lisa died due to complications of an AstraZeneca Covid vaccination.”

Ms Dilks said Ms Shaw was previously fit and well but concluded that it was “clearly established” that her death was due to a very rare “vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia”, a condition which leads to swelling and bleeding of the brain.

‘Severe headache’

Ms Shaw, a mother of one from Consett, received her first dose of the vaccine on 29 April.

On 13 May she was taken by ambulance to University Hospital of North Durham after having a headache for several days.

In a statement, Dr John Holmes who treated her said she complained of having a “severe headache shooting and stabbing” across her forehead and behind her eyes.

Tests were carried out and blood clots were found in her brain, prompting her to be moved to the neurology specialist unit at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI).

The clots are considered extremely rare — there have been 417 reported cases and 72 deaths — after 24.8 million first doses and 23.9 million second doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the UK.

Dr Christopher Johnson, a consultant in anaesthetics and intensive care at the RVI, said Ms Shaw had been conscious for several days and had been treated for the clots with drugs which seemed to be successful.

But on the evening of 16 May Ms Shaw said the headaches were worse and she had difficulty speaking.

Scans showed she had suffered a haemorrhage in the brain and after her condition deteriorated, part of her skull was removed to try and relieve the pressure inside her head.

Her condition continued to worsen and despite more surgery and treatments, she died on 21 May.

Baby Doc’s Two Minutes Hate

Yesterday Canadian Prime Minister Justin “Baby Doc” Trudeau went on TV in Quebec and did a Two Minutes Hate on behalf of the Quebec Soviet. In this fast-paced Internet age it had to be shortened, however, so he crammed all the hate into just forty-five seconds.

Instead of Emmanuel Goldstein, the object of Mr. Trudeau’s hate was the cohort of Quebecers who have not been “vaccinated” — that is, 20% of the population. He called them “misogynists” and “racists”. I guess he forgot to include Holocaust denial, transphobia, and climate denial in the litany of their sins.

And, ominously, he said they were “taking up space”. It may be time for fully-vaxed Quebecers to hide their unvaxed relatives under the floorboards…

Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/29/2021

England is expecting a surge of “COVID refugees” from Wales and Scotland on New Year’s Eve, because lockdown rules are less strict there, and people can gather to celebrate. Meanwhile, France is reinstating a work-from-home order in an attempt to mitigate the spread of the Omicron variant.

In other news, Ghislaine Maxwell, the long-time girlfriend of the late Jeffrey Epstein, has been found guilty on five of the six charges against her.

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Quiz VI: Twenty Clues

Quiz VI: Twenty Clues

By Michael Copeland

incompatible with any free society
Viktor Orbán

[Its] world-view is very similar to ours.
— Heinrich Himmler

attracts violent people.
— Ali Sina, quoted by Geert Wilders, Berlin, Oct 2010, www.AtlasShrugs2000.com

attracts the scum of the Earth
Aussie Infidel, comment Dec 25, 2021 at 4:09 pm

light-years removed from the modern world.
Hamed Abdel-Samad, author

dragging everything it pollutes back into the stone age.
— Keith O, comment Dec 25, 2021 at 4:02 pm

an anti-modern, tribalist and sectarian mentality
Rogers Emerson

cannot peacefully coexist with the rest of humanity.
Peter Burrows

what a curse [it] is to all mankind
— Wellington, comment Nov 2, 2021 at 4:57 pm

It has nothing but misery and strife to bring…
— tim gallagher, comment Sep 2, 2021 at 5:21 pm

NO upside whatsoever
— Wellington, comment Dec 15, 2021 at 5:18 pm

a shackle on the stride of mankind
— Hellequin, Gentleman Bastard December 13, 2021 at 7:48 am

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Dangerous Vax Skeptic Defies the “Sanitary Dictatorship”

Spain has instituted a strict vax passport system, which is required to eat indoors in restaurants. In the following news report from Andalucía, a man sitting outside on a restaurant terrace displays a defiant attitude when interviewed by the TV reporter.

Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

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Beware of the Naked Man!

The following culture-enriching news from Italy includes a video, but it is without sound, and thus there is no need for subtitles.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from La Stampa:

Turin: Fear in the downtown: Nude and drunk man threatens police with knife

A man was arrested by police after stealing a large kitchen knife in a restaurant and then threatening passersby. It happened in the center of Turin around 11pm on Santo Stefano [the feast of Saint Stephen, December 26]. The man, 25, of Moroccan (or North African) origin, who suffers from psychiatric problems, first stripped naked and then lashed out against police. The owner of the establishment, located in Vittorio Square, and other restaurant employees alerted the police. The patrol officers reached him at Maria Teresa Square, and before being stopped, the man grabbed an abandoned stick and threw rocks at parked cars.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/28/2021

A man named Lyndon James McLeod went on a shooting spree in Colorado, killing five people and wounding several others in Denver and the suburb of Lakewood before being shot dead in a firefight with police. Mr. McLeod was a tattoo artist, and allegedly knew his victims, several of whom were also in the tattooing business. Mr. McLeod is said to have been an extremist and a white supremacist with a history of mental problems.

In other news, 558 illegal migrants ferried by NGO migrant-rescue vessels were granted a safe port in Sicily.

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Éric Zemmour: “We Will Replace Little Macron by This Great Nation”

Earlier this month I posted a video of the opening of the speech given by Éric Zemmour in Villepinte to launch his candidacy for president of France as the leader of a new party, Reconquête (Reconquest). The following video shows the entire speech given by Mr. Zemmour in Villepinte. It runs for an hour and nineteen minutes, but much of that time is taken up by applause, chanting, singing the Marseillaise, etc. I’d estimate the actual speech to be about forty-five minutes long.

Mr. Zemmour has attracted an impressive audience that seems to consist mostly of Millennial and Generation Z supporters. The setup at the venue demonstrates that there is a significant amount of money behind his candidacy.

I’ve been watching his videos for long enough to be fairly sure that he is sincere in his “far right” beliefs. The big money behind him, however, may be promoting his candidacy out of entirely different motives. I can’t discount the possibility that he’s being pushed forward with the goal of splitting the vote of the Right, and thereby assuring the re-election of President Emmanuel Macron.

The last poll I saw showed that Éric Zemmour was significantly more popular than Marine Le Pen, the leader of Rassemblement National (National Rally, formerly Front National). Ms. Le Pen condemns “Islamism”, rather than Islam itself, without qualifiers. Mr. Zemmour is not so skittish — he doesn’t hesitate to target Islam itself. Which may be one of the reasons he’s so popular.

If Marine Le Pen withdraws from the race and endorses Éric Zemmour, then we may conclude that his candidacy is the real deal, and he may well become the next president of France. If, however, she stays in the race and campaigns against him, then in my opinion we may assume the fix is in. In that case, we can expect to say “French President Emmanuel ‘Toy Boy’ Macron” for another five years.

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

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Honor Killing in Berlin

Two culture-enriching brothers from Afghanistan who now live in Berlin are facing trial for killing their sister, whose lifestyle they disapproved of. They allegedly killed her, cut her body up, and carried the pieces in a trunk to Bavaria by train.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Berlin Morgenpost:

Murdered Afghan female in suitcase. Charges against brothers

by Philipp Siebert
December 27, 2021

The accused brothers reportedly rode to the Sudkreuz train station with the body of their sister in a suitcase. Both brothers reportedly killed their sister and took her in a trunk on the train to Bavaria.

Berlin — Five months after the death of the Afghan woman Maryam H., the Berlin prosecutor’s office has brought charges against both of her younger brothers, Sayed and Seyed H. The 26- and 22-year-old men are accused of reproaching their 34-year-old sister for minor reasons. They reportedly killed the mother of two because they did not approve of her Western life style — especially after her divorce.

According to the indictment, both brothers lured their sister to a meeting under a pretense and killed her. Maryam died from beating, choking, and having her throat slit. Then they reportedly cut up the body, packed it in a trunk, and rode in a taxi to the Sudkreuz train station. Images from a surveillance camera show both of them with the trunk upon boarding the train amidst many other passengers.

Body was found in August in Bavaria

The destination of the two alleged murderers was Neuburg an der Donau in Bavaria, where the older of the two lived. The body of the 34-year-old was discovered buried there on August 5. The two brothers have been in custody since August 3.

The three siblings came to Germany from Afghanistan as asylum seekers in 2013. Maryam H. was forcibly married at the age of just 16 and had two children by her husband. The marriage was allegedly marked by violence, and so, on 2017 she was divorced under German law and took up with another man.

Lifestyle not compatible with “archaic ideas of honor and morality”

Her brothers obviously did not want to accept that. According to the indictment, they wanted “to punish their sister, by this act, for her Western-oriented lifestyle, which did not correspond to their archaic ideas of honor and morality and their image of women.” According to earlier statements by investigators, she was especially put under pressure and controlled by one of the brothers, who also lived in Berlin.

The 13-year-old son and the 10-year-old daughter of the murder victim will appear at the trial as co-plaintiffs, whereby they will be represented by the Berlin victim attorney, Roland Weber. Weber is also the victim representative of Berlin Regional State.

If You Don’t Obey the Corona Rules, We’ll Take Your Kids Away

The following video was recorded by a German woman whose children were taken away by social services because she had kept them home from school to protect them from the masks-and-testing regimen they would have had to endure.

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling.

The translator summarizes the woman’s situation, based on the descriptions on Telegram, where the video originally appeared:

In the video she gives the latest update. She and her supporters have been singing (as she said she would) and she posted at Telegram a short video of that. The children’s home/facility where her children are located is at the opposite end of the city from where she lives. She thanks supporters who drive her there. In her opinion, this is done purposefully (the distance). Police were present while they were singing with one police car and five cops without masks, but they were friendly. She thanks them for that.

For unexplained reasons, she is only allowed to officially speak with her children twice a week. She was informed just before Christmas Eve about that. So regardless of the Christmas holiday or the fact that her children are under quarantine, she is only allowed two phone calls. There hasn’t been an explanation for this or any written confirmation, and the administration of the facility is unreachable.

She is only able to speak to facility employees who answer the phone. The evening before, she had to call back, because the children were eating [dinner?]. When she called back, she was told that she was only granted ten minutes and not permitted to speak about the actions she had been taking outside the facility. After questioning that, she was told if she insisted on discussing that topic [with the children], there would be no phone call. She said she wouldn’t mention it, but if the children spoke to her about she would answer their questions.

On the phone with her children, she asked how they were doing. She explains that they answered with an automatic “good”, but she could hear in their voices whether this is true or not. She explains that now she has to be cautious about what she asks them because it could be interpreted as manipulation. (For example: She can’t say, “you sound nervous or stressed” etc.)

The phone conversation was short because she was too upset and overwhelmed to continue. She told them that she is doing everything she can to get them out of there. Following that, they were able to watch her and the group of supporters sing to them from a window. She waved to them.

She addresses all the advice she’s been getting recently. The suggestion of breaking her kids out and leaving the country and “just do what you are told — wear the masks, do the tests and send them back to school” were not an option. Many have suggested organisations and lawyers. She is thankful for all the advice and support. She explains that she has been trying to speak with child protective services to find a compromise, such as another school, but they aren’t cooperating.

She isn’t permitted to find another school because they claim the children need to have an aptitude test before that happens. They’re stalling, and the test hasn’t happened. Her son has told her that they were told that they will now go to school at the location where they currently are — without testing. She receives no information, verbal or written, from the authorities. Lastly, she recently found out that the facility receives €15,000 a month for both her children. She says that pretty much explains it all.

She ends by saying singing in front the Children’s home is the only was she is able to see her children, even at Christmas time, and thanks everyone again for listening, support and caring.

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