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A Hate Crime? Or Self-Porking?

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An unknown person or person put pig parts on the door handle of a mosque in Austria, and a predictable rush to cry “hate crime” about the incident ensued. However, given that the recent “attacks” on mosques in Fresno, California (vandalism by paint and bleach) and Eskilstuna, Sweden (a kitchen fire) turned out to have been caused by Muslims themselves, one has to question whether the same may be true of the Austrian pig-distributor.

In his post about the incident, Vlad makes an important point:

Given that the two recent ‘attacks’ on mosques were both initially reported as hate crimes but then turned out to have been done by members of their own congregations, one in Sweden and the other in California, it does beg the question as to whether or not this was a self-porking job.

In case anyone is interested, the scientific term for self-porking is autochoirosis. Onomatopoeically speaking, of course, it’s sui generis.

Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for subtitling this news report:

Transcript:

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The Future Cyberwar

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The following article about the implications of the cyber attack on Sony — regardless of who the real perpetrators turn out to be — was published recently by the Center for Security Policy.

Warnings of Post-Sony Cyber Attacks on U.S. Grid Underscored by Penetration of South Korean Nuclear Plants’ Computers

(Washington, DC): In the aftermath of the devastating attacks on Sony Pictures computers, there is a heightened recognition that other information technology systems may be at risk of what President Obama last week depicted as “cyber vandalism.” Others call it an act of war in the new domain known as the cyberbattlespace.

Increasingly, national leaders are recognizing that one of the prime targets for such attacks in the future may be the control systems of the U.S. electric bulk power distribution system, better known as the electrical grid. The salience of those concerns has only been intensified by today’s news that computers have been hacked at the company that runs South Korea’s nuclear power plants.

A report from Reuters quotes a South Korean specialist in nuclear designs, South Korea University’s Su Kune-yull, as saying: “This demonstrated that, if anyone is intent with malice to infiltrate the system, it would be impossible to say with confidence that such an effort would be blocked completely. And a compromise of nuclear reactors’ safety pretty clearly means there is a gaping hole in national security.”

The Secure the Grid Coalition — a group of American national security practitioners, scientists and engineers co-chaired by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Clinton Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey — has long believed that the vulnerabilities of the U.S. grid pose an existential threat to the United States. That is a finding confirmed by no fewer than eleven different studies performed or commissioned by the federal government over the past decade.

Unfortunately, cyber attacks are not the only manner in which large regions of the country could be subjected to disruption or destruction of the electric grid. These include: physical sabotage of the kind seen notably at the PG&E Metcalf Substation outside of San Jose, California on April 16, 2013; the danger of strategic electromagnetic pulse (EMP) strikes involving the detonation of one or more nuclear weapons high above the United States; the use of radio frequency weapons (RFW) to do locally what an EMP would do over large areas, weapons that can be built using readily available hardware or adapted from commercial technology; and naturally occurring intense geomagnetic disturbances (GMD) that produce potentially devastating electromagnetic solar storms.

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Australian Terror Suspects Arrested

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Back in August we featured a culturally enriching young “Australian” fellow named Sulayman Khalid, who appeared on the “Insight” television program in support of the Islamic State, and wearing an ISIS flag.

Just before Christmas Mr. Khalid got himself into a spot of trouble with the law in Sydney for planning terrorist attacks on government targets and so on. I’m sure it’s all just a misunderstanding, and I don’t think there’s any doubt that the incident had nothing to do with Islam.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this TV news report:

Below are excerpts from the Sydney Morning Herald about the arrests:

Two Men Arrested in Sydney in Counter-Terrorism Operation

A man has been charged after he allegedly was found with documents designed to facilitate a terrorist attack against potential government targets in Sydney, police say.

Sulayman Khalid, 20, from Regents Park in Sydney’s west, faced Parramatta Local Court on Wednesday after he was charged by counter-terrorism police overnight.

A second man was also charged by counter-terrorism police overnight with breaching a control order.

Mr Khalid appeared via video link, running his hands through his hair and leaning back in his chair.
Five members of his family sat in the public gallery as lawyer Adam Houda told the court his client would not be applying for bail.

He will remain behind bars for Christmas and will next appear before Central Local Court on February 18.

Outside of court Mr Houda said his client had been accused of serious offences.

“My client has been charged with a very serious offence but I remind you that authorities have got it wrong in the past many times and all that we ask is that the court process be respected and for this matter to be determined on the evidence and not by politicians and the media.”

Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan said officers seized a significant amount of material during a raid on a property on Thursday last week.

And from NineMSN:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/28/2014

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The news feed is very light tonight. Perhaps our tipsters — Islamophobes that they are — have been out putting pigs’ heads on the door handles of mosques. Or setting mosques on fire. Or splattering mosques with paint and bleach.

Oh, wait — it was Muslims that did those last two… Never mind. The pig’s head on the door handle of the mosque in Austria? Too early to tell.

Meanwhile, two nautical disasters are dominating the news: an AirAsia jet that went down off Indonesia, and hundreds of passengers trapped in a burning car ferry off Corfu.

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Schizo Mo in Fresno

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On Christmas Day someone vandalized a mosque in Fresno. The police and the media immediately labeled the incident a “hate crime” against Muslims, before they even had time to dust the doorknobs or check the surveillance cameras at the mosque.

Yesterday they had to start walking their stories back when it emerged that the confessed perpetrator of the vicious Islamophobic attack was one Asif Mohammad Khan, giving the crime a Mohammed Coefficient of 100%.

Maybe it was a self-hate crime…?

Fortunately for all the gutmenschen on the force and on the tube, Mr. Khan — like so many other devout Muslims these days — has a documented history of schizophrenia.

Phew! We can all breathe a sigh of relief — he’s just another Muslim lunatic! And thank goodness the incident had nothing to do with Islam!

When everyone thought the evil vandal liked Geert Wilders and Robert Spencer, they were looking at a hate crime. When he turned out to be a practicing Muslim who was also a fan of Osama and Hitler, the police and the media fell all over themselves to point out that he was a loony.

Not only that, he was a victim of bullies, which gives him at least two pair in politically correct poker. Maybe tomorrow we’ll find out he’s gay, making it a full house. Throw in the fact that he’s brown, and you’re looking at a royal flush.

Below is an article with more details (including the juicy parts about Osama and Hitler) from The Fresno Bee. Notice that the Fresno police can’t be absolutely certain the incident wasn’t a hate crime until they get final confirmation from the FBI:

Man arrested in Islamic center vandalism was targeting a bully, Fresno police say
by Marc Benjamin

The man who vandalized the Islamic Cultural Center on Christmas Day also vandalized and burglarized a business about two miles away because he thought he was getting back at the family of a girl who he believed had disrespected and bullied him, police said Saturday.

Asif Mohammad Khan, 28, who is Muslim, was arrested the day of the burglaries and vandalism at the Fresno Digestive Center, 7405 N. Fresno St., and the Islamic Cultural Center near Nees and Maple avenues.

His older sister describes Khan as having schizophrenia. She said he is a big National Basketball Association fan and was surprised not to see him in the family home Thursday while NBA games were being broadcast.

He was arrested at the Fresno Digestive Center on Thursday afternoon as he tried to run from Fresno police officers. Detectives interviewed him Friday evening. They then went to his home in Clovis, where they recovered a Philadelphia Eagles jacket and baseball cap that matched the clothing worn by the man who was seen on the Islamic Cultural Center’s video surveillance.

Khan told detectives that the crime was not meant as hateful to the Islamic Cultural Center, where he had at one time attended mosque programs. His crimes were targeted at a young woman who had bullied him and her family, Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer said.

“He did say this is not a hate crime, although he was angry and perhaps had some hatred toward individuals,” the chief said. “It was not geared towards the Islamic community, it was not geared to the Islamic faith or any of those things and was simply to get back at a few people at the center who had belittled him and in his eyes bullied him.”

Police theorize that Khan went to both locations because he knew nobody would be there Christmas Day.

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The Christmas Junta

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Yesterday’s political agreement in Sweden would have been labeled a “coup” had it occurred in some Third-World backwater. The seven mainstream political parties got together and agreed to ignore the wishes of their respective voters, and will act in unison from now until 2022. This wholesale abandonment of democracy was undertaken in order to maintain (or increase) the current unsustainable rate of mass immigration into Sweden, and to keep the Sweden Democrats from increasing their presence in parliament.

The agreement guarantees that Swedish voters will not get a chance to repudiate the new junta until the next general election in 2018. However, given the current rate of political self-destruction in Sweden, there may no longer be a functioning polity in four years in which meaningful elections can be held.

The establishment leaders from the press conference yesterday morning. From left to right: Gustav Friolin (Consol Green Party, Minister of Education), Åsa Romson (Consol Green Party, Vice Prime Minister), Stefan Löfven (Leader Social Democrats, Prime Minister), Anna Kinberg Batra (Acting Leader Moderate Party), Annie Lööf (Leader Center Party), Jan Björklund (Leader People’s Party), Göran Hägglund (Leader Christian Democrats).

Our Swedish correspondent Alfred Fredriksson has translated and subtitled a news video about yesterday’s events, and sends an explanatory article to help non-Scandinavian readers understand what just happened in Sweden.

The December Agreement
by Alfred Fredriksson

Yesterday the Swedish establishment presented their solution for assuring that the Sweden Democrats do not achieve political influence, and that the extra (“snap”) elections scheduled for March 22nd will not occur.

First some background information: Sweden has eight parties in parliament, divided up into three political blocs:

Red-Greens (Socialists, communists, and greens)
    The Social Democrats
    The Left Party
    The Green Party
The Alliance (Liberal)
    The Moderates
    The Center Party
    The People’s Party
The Christian Democrats

All of the above parties together form the seven-clover (sjuklövern), a term for the entire political establishment which has mass third world immigration and the destruction of Swedish civilization and culture as its primary aims.

The third block is what I like to call the Patriotic bloc and consists of the Sweden Democrats, whom the entire political establishment calls racists and fascists, and miss no chance to spit on, and by no means want to discuss anything with.

For the last eight years Sweden has been ruled by the Alliance, first a majority government between 2006 and 2010 and then in minority when the Sweden Democrats entered parliament as kingmakers between 2010 and 2014. During this time Sweden has increased its immigration by more than 200%, giving it the largest immigration in Europe in absolute numbers. This means even though Sweden has a population of nine million, we take in more immigrants than Germany. This is the central issue in Swedish politics, and no one is allowed to have a deviant opinion on or question mass immigration. Even wanting not to increase immigration will brand one a “racist”.

The problems immigration causes have become more and more obvious in the last four years, when it has increased in tandem with regular riots, widespread segregation, skyrocketing rape, robbery, murder and organized crime. Another consequence of open borders has been the enormous influx of gypsies from Romania and Bulgaria who sit on every street corner in every Swedish city and beg, and build makeshift cities which destroy wildlife and the local society. I will return to the gypsy situation in a later post.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/27/2014

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In a surprise move, Khaled Mashaal, the political leader of Hamas, expressed his strong support for Turkey and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Mr. Mashaal said that Turkey’s help will guarantee the victory of the Palestinian people.

In other news, an AirAsia jet with 162 people on board disappeared during a flight from Java to Singapore.

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Apologize to Muslims, Infidel Boy!

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Yves Francoeur, the president of the police union in Montreal, has gotten himself in trouble for publicly pointing out certain facts about mosques and Muslims that everyone knows, but no one is allowed to talk about.

The following news video from Quebec discusses the controversy over Mr. Francoeur’s statements. Vlad points out:

The last person interviewed in this video, a certain Amir Khadir, is well worth independent research. Check YouTube for him and some of the protests he led against his own constituent, a shoe store in Montreal where he led regular marches against the owner because he sells a brand of Israeli shoes among other things.

Many thanks to C.B. Sashenka for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

The accompanying article, also translated by C.B. Sashenka:

The Canadian Muslim Forum demands an apology from Yves Francoeur

MONTREAL – The Canadian Muslim Forum demands an apology from the President of the Montreal Police Brotherhood, Yves Francoeur, after the remarks he made earlier in the week.

Last Monday Mr. Francoeur said that the presence of mosques in an area means the increased presence of extremists.

He also said that the “multicultural character” in Montreal was one of the reasons that made him believe that Montreal Police Service officers could “be the target of attacks.”

Faced with such an outcry to his remarks, Yves Francoeur made his position clear by saying that the multicultural character of Montreal was not a problem in itself, but an important aspect of reality that must be considered.

This explanation is, however, not sufficient for the Canadian Muslim Forum.

“We ask Mr. Francoeur to apologize because he does not speak for himself. He’s a union representative. What he does, what he says, affects my community. Clarifying what he means is not enough,” reported Jebbari Samah of the Forum.

The president of the Montreal Police Brotherhood did not react to this new demand.

He said a few days ago that his remarks had been interpreted simplistically.

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Finding PEGIDA

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JLH has translated a series of articles and opinion pieces about PEGIDA (Patriotische Europäer Gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes, Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West), the anti-Islamization movement whose meteoric rise over the past two months has earned it daily headlines in the German news media.

The translator includes his own commentary in italicized blocks interpolated within the text below.

Finding PEGIDA

This project began when I finally began to ask myself, “Why is this happening in Dresden? Why is it so much more successful than even the most successful HoGeSa demos in former West Germany? Why are its western spinoffs not as fabulously successful as those in Dresden? What foreseen and unforeseen weapons will its opponents bring to bear?”

The answer is complex and perhaps not entirely satisfactory. There is an element of magic in the Dresden demonstrations. Magic, however, can be transformative, or chimerical. Or both. So this is an inquiry into the elements that comprise — as the old film title said — “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”

First, two quick notes from ZUERST — a steadily right-leaning blog — to set the stage.

1. PEGIDA Demonstration: 17,500 Participants on the Streets of Dresden

December 23, 2014

Dresden. Police estimated the tenth PEGIDA demonstration at 17,500 people.

So the organizers achieved another increase over their last number of 15,000. The head of PEGIDA, Lutz Bachmann, declared a hiatus for next Monday. The next demonstration is set for January 5th — one day before Epiphany. The group will announce time and place on Facebook.

2. Battling the PEGIDA Organizers: ANTIFA Targets the Right Name and the Wrong Man

December 22, 2014

On January 12th, PEGIDA intends to demonstrate for the first time in Leipzig. The left-extremist group ANTIFA has committed a major error in its battle against one of the organizers who is located there.

A man named Silvio R. was briefly mentioned on the leftist extreme internet portal “Indymedia” as the presumed leader of the LEGIDA demonstration. Thereupon, his house in the city’s Connewitz district was hit by a paint bomb; front door and mailbox smeared with tar. This “R.” was not the alleged organizer — just someone with the same name. In fact, someone with leftist sympathies: “I am absolutely the wrong guy,” he said to the Leipzig Internet Newspaper, and pointed out that he is in regular contact with the left-alternative scene in his district. This was confirmed by a local legislator of the Left party, Juliane Nagel. “He is not part of LEGIDA,” said the politician.

That was a preview of the Good and the Ugly. Now for a look at the Bad. How much will the leader’s past haunt him and the movement? Is he what seems to be, or what he once was? Is he a rascal in disguise or a redeemed sinner? Elmer Gantry or Paul on the road to Damascus? A mildly but palpably hostile review from t-online.de. This article refers throughout to “Pegida” rather than PEGIDA, and I have “normalized” it.

3. Trained Cook With Criminal Past: Lutz Bachmann Is the Leader of PEGIDA

December 16, 2014
(German Press Agency, French Press Agency)

[Photo caption: PEGIDA founder Lutz Bachmann acts middle class. He says he is not a racist. (source: Reuters)]

On Monday, 15,000 people followed the call of PEGIDA. More than ever before. Criticism from established political parties seems to have garnered the anti-Islam movement and its initiator more rather than fewer supporters. Who is the man who weekly draws thousands of demonstrators to the streets? Details about the trained chef — including his criminal past — have come to light gradually. Bachmann is now attempting to present them in the framework of PEGIDA.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/26/2014

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Initial reports about a mosque fire in Eskilstuna, Sweden indicated that it was caused by arson, and there was a widespread media uproar over the likelihood that right-wing anti-immigration activists or neo-Nazis had set the fire. However, 24 hours later the police say that it is not even definite that the fire was caused by an attack.

In other news, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that Turkey has the most press freedom of any country in the world.

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Death of a Berlin Welfare Recipient and ISIS Minister

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A prominent “German” mujahid is no more. To paraphrase Monty Python, he has rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible.

The name of the late jihad fighter was Reda Seyam. At the time of his death in Mosul on December 6 he was known as Dhul Qaranain, and served as the “education minister” for the Islamic State.

Rembrandt Clancy has translated an article about Mr. Seyam by Michael Stürzenberger, and has subtitled an accompanying video showing the mujahid in all his glory back in 2012, roughing up a Spiegel cameraman.

Reda Seyam: The Berlin Welfare Recipient and “Education” Minister for the Islamic State, Now Dead

In Berlin, Reda Seyam was a very diligent Mohammedan: As welfare recipient he sired one child after another (after all, the unbelievers paid out plenty of booty for them); and on top of that, he then named one of the children “Jihad”, or “holy war” (photo above). As well, the completely idiotic Berlin Superior Court awarded him the right to do it. Wonderful, so he is allowed quite officially to raise fighters who will later be obliged to wage war against us and subjugate us. But Reda Seyam will no longer bring Jihadists into the world, for now he has ridden off to the 72 virgins.

by Michael Stürzenberger

Source: Politically Incorrect
Translator: Rembrandt Clancy

25 December 2014

In Berlin Seyam had palmed €2,000 for his six children from the kafir-city, inclusive of social welfare and Hartz IV. When the lawsuit over giving the child the first name of “Jihad” was in progress, he brazenly lied that he had “nothing to do” with Osama bin Laden and al Qaida (where have we heard that maxim before?). At the same time he was considered to be a close confidant of the terrorist prince and was also supposed to have been deeply embroiled in the Bali attacks which took the lives of 202 people. In a consistent manner he then attacked a Spiegel TV film crew who wanted to film him; and while beating up on them, he demolished their camera, giving rise to damages in the amount of several thousand euros.

In 2013 the peace religionist moved to the Islamic State and made a career as “Minister of Education”, in which capacity he was the highest-ranking German there. According to FOCUS, he immediately provided Islamically correct directives for the un-“education” of the unfortunate IS children.

“Documents available to the Research Co-operative prove that Dhul Qaranain [his battle name] had given directives to the IS controlled University of Mosul in Iraq as well as to schools controlled by the Islamic state. For example, he prohibited music, art, geography and social studies instruction.”

Unfortunately, his promising Islamic career came to an end precipitously on 6 December, on St. Nicholas’ Day no less. Was Knecht Ruprecht [Servant Ruprecht, companion of St. Nicholas] underway then?

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“I Don’t Want Them in my Country”

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On Christmas Eve, in the Vesterbro district of Copenhagen, a group of teenaged culture-enrichers set upon a young Danish couple and beat them severely for no apparent reason. The young woman, Nanna Skovman, suffered serious damage to her face and head.

She decided to post the story of what happened on Facebook, and from there it made it into the newspapers and Internet news sites. The story is currently “most read” on both of the main tabloids BT and Ekstra Bladet, as well as on the TV2 news site.

Below is the Facebook entry on which the news stories are based. Many thanks to Haensel Klein for the translation:

Christmas Eve. The day which has joy, roast pork and presents at the centre. But that wasn’t to be for me and Mads. I’d like to tell you how our Christmas was turned into a nightmare.

After getting out of a taxi, we’re walking along our street when a young second-generation immigrant approaches us. He is very unappealing and clearly wants conflict. Without any reason at all, he hits Mads on the head with a bottle. Mads defends himself, but now two or three more second-generation immigrants come running towards us along with a Somali. They are coming out of the basement of a building carrying the kind of chain locks used for scooters and motorcycles. The are attacking Mads together, kicking him and hitting him with the chains. Mads screams that I must run away.

In the end they get him down on the ground, and at this point I start panicking. I believe they are really going to kill him. So, I jump in and try to drag Mads away. I shouldn’t have done that… This little creepy, cowardly boy who started it all pushes me head first into the tarmac and begin to hit me in the back of the head repeatedly with an iron chain. Then everything turns black.

As I regain consciousness I find myself in a big pool of blood. My blood. And I can feel that there is something wrong with my face, something is in the wrong place, but I don’t dare to look. Blood is running out of my mouth, from the back of my head and from other injuries.

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An Opportunity for Cultural Dialogue in Mönchengladbach

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Four out of the five culture-enrichers who disturbed a Christmas Eve service in Mönchengladbach, near Düsseldorf, were not even “youths” — they were little boys.

The priest at least saw fit to call the police. However, his proposed solution to the problem was tiresomely predictable: “dialogue”. Right. That’s bound to fix everything.

Many thanks to JLH for translating this news article from the Rheinische Post:

Priest Sees Complaint to Police as a “Signal”

Mönchengladbach. Children and one youth, evidently Muslim, disturbed the crèche ceremony in Rheydt’s St. Mary’s church and insulted members of the congregation. The priest has already spoken to two of the five. Saturday, he will make contact with the parents.

Eyewitnesses report that a group of apparently Muslim children and youths stormed into the church on Christmas Eve and allegedly shouted “S–t Christians.” The sexton was able to catch two of the five interlopers. Manfred Riethdorf, the priest at Rheydt, has already questioned these two. “I explained to them how you are supposed to act in a church. Probably tomorrow, I will contact their parents to discuss the incident with them and the young people,” Riethdorf told us on Friday.

Police were informed of the incident just before 3:20 PM. The police took custody of the two children in the parking lot of a McDonald’s and delivered them to their parents.

Talking with the parents of the two children, the officers were able to identify the three other interlopers. There were two children and a fourteen-year-old. The police made no statement on the religious affiliation of the five.

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Éric Zemmour — The New Dreyfus?

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Éric Zemmour is a French author and journalist who has caused a lot of controversy in the past with his principled stance against mass immigration and Islamization. The French establishment seems determined to bring him down and end his career. The latest media frenzy directed at him was obviously conjured out of thin air, putting words into his mouth and condemning him for things he did not say.

Many thanks to Oz-Rita for translating this interview from French television, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

The translator includes these background notes:

The TV chain where this interview was aired was RTL, the French BBC. Éric Zemmour had a daily editorial on this leftist taxpayer-funded chain. Then, in a heated discussion some two years ago, he said that “most of the inmates in prison are from Arab/sub-Saharan background and culture.”

He was factually right, and it was a heated discussion. He was taken to court by those fake “anti-racist” organisations, the main one of them in France taxpayer-funded. Ironically one of these serial litigants against Islam-critics is Jewish (as is Zemmour). He was convicted of something (all this from personal memory), but the amount he had to pay was only €100 instead of thousands they asked for. After this, he was more or less sacked from that channel. The same chain also reduced his weekly editorials from five days to one.

After this new false accusation and witch hunt against him, he was sacked (affiliated chain, but more conservative).

Éric Zemmour is a brilliant writer (even fiction). He is Jewish. He was born in the Maghreb, and grew up in the “problematic” areas of Paris which are now exclusively Arab/Muslim.

His big sin is: he is conservative. His deadly sin is: He sees Islamisation as bad for his country. He is fiercely protective of the France he loves — he is French first, Jewish second.

Ives Calvy, the interviewer: I ran into him a few years ago, when he was still quite objective. I told him: you are good, because I don’t even know if you are right or left. His partner whispered to me “He is certainly not of the right”, wink wink.

Today it’s obvious. I have stopped watching his nightly political round-table discussions, filled with leftist commentators.

Education Minister Jean-Luc Mélenchon: The Deadly enemy, a slimy [redacted]. He is the leader of the Communist Party, and says (literally) that his idea of happiness is to live with Arabs/Muslims etc. During the last elections he was the main adversary of Marine LePen. He is a dirty fighter, but she had him for breakfast.

He is now a has-been, but tries to slime where he can. He discovered the interview with Zemmour in Italian, and started this renewed media campaign against Zemmour. The hatred by the Left, ergo the Government, against Zemmour is violent. They want him dead, and not only metaphorically.

This campaign has gone nationwide. His latest book Le suicide Français – although a 500-page doorstopper and not an easy read — is the bestseller in France, hence the renewed and continued pack-attacks on Zemmour. Among other affronts he gets insulted (and was physically attacked) for being Jewish. I don’t know how he keeps going.

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