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Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/14/2014

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The big news tonight is of course the culturally enriched hostage situation in Sydney (where it is now late afternoon). But that story isn’t in the news feed; scroll down for the Sydney posts. After I go to bed, check with Vlad — he may have more recent updates. The latest word: “The cops have just confirmed that they are talking to the hostage taker.”

Meanwhile, China’s foreign minister has offered to help Iraq in its fight against the Islamic State. Also, Molotov cocktails were thrown at a Serbian home in the city of Gnjilane in southwest Kosovo.

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Thanks to C. Cantoni, Gaia, GMcD, Insubria, TW, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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The Lone Wolf Terrorizes Sydney

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From an Australian reader:

If the Muslim(s) inside the coffee shop is going to harm the hostages (my bet is that he’s got explosives, perhaps even a machete in his back pack) he’ll probably do it when Europe/Syria wakes up in a few hours, maximizing the shock effect by carrying out his grizzly deeds on live TV for audiences overseas.

Maybe he’ll behead as many hostages as possible and then set off the explosives when the SWAT team/SAS team enter the premises.

I’ve been watching the rolling live TV coverage for the last couple of hours, and all the “expert commentators” keep parroting the lone wolf nonsense. Funny then that the authorities have shut down half of Sydney and increased security all over Australia.

I guess the guy must come from a pretty big pack, eh?

Also: a radio host apparently spoke with one of the hostages.

Intellectual Gangsterism

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Our Israeli correspondent MC returns with an essay on the elevation of science to Science, a corpus of dogmas that cannot be questioned.

Intellectual Gangsterism
by MC

Welcome, everybody, to the age of the Intellectual Gangster. The age in which we are browbeaten into submission to the intellectual consensus. The place where, if we try to break free, the bully boys are waiting to accuse us of that major perversion: thought. One must not think, one must ‘just do it’ where ‘it’ is the acceptable prescribed behavioural formula.

Deviation from this formula is punishable by exclusion, by verbal and physical violence, by imprisonment on trumped up charges, and finally by elimination.

The formula comprises of a set of shibboleths: climate change, tolerance, evolution/crypto-eugenics, white humiliation, male humiliation, ‘modern medicine’, human deification/celebrity worship, redistribution of wealth by forcible taxation/theft, and probably many others.

Now, I am not saying that any of these are necessarily right or wrong, it is just that they are not open for debate or question.

When the ‘AIDS’ tsunami broke in the mid-eighties, we were all going to die unless we used condoms etc. One could write a book on the ‘madness of crowds’ syndrome once again invoked by AIDS hysteria. A virologist named Peter Duesberg nailed the myth very early on. He diagnosed AIDS as a lifestyle-related issue amongst a specific (and protected) community. The related African version being the same symptoms brought on by malnutrition. Dr. Duesberg lost all credibility within the establishment, and if he had not been tenured he would have lost his job. Almost thirty years down the line, he is mostly vindicated, medically and scientifically, but he remains unforgiven for his dissent.

The mature human mind/body is a wonderfully resilient bit of biological engineering, it is self-sustaining to a remarkable degree, and, if kept free of poisons, and well nourished, can reasonably be expected to last three score years and ten without serious overhaul. GM, eat your heart out!

The first poisons introduced into the environment were innocuous, things such as soap, teething powders, sleeping draughts etc. Soap contains molecules that are hydrophilic at one end, and hydrophobic at the other end, when in contact with water and (chemically) soft matter (dirt), the hydrophobic end buries itself in the ‘dirt’ and so physically attacks it structural integrity.

Of course soap molecules do not know the difference between ‘dirt’ and the natural oils that keep our skin functioning. So whilst cleanliness may well be next to godliness, soap is an active chemical with a disruptive effect on the skin. But, our bodies are beautifully engineered, and can cope with soap under normal circumstances. But the marketing guys got clever, and started ‘enhancing’ the soap with other, not so mild additives, and at the same time started intimating in the media that ‘body odour’ could be overcome by their product. By implying that we are the last to notice our own odour, they created an almost universal market based on fear.

In the early fifties, the word ‘science’ was re-defined. The root meaning of the word is ‘knowledge’, but the redefined meaning was ‘physical knowledge’. Suddenly, and at a stroke of the intellectual pen, a whole swathe of unexplained but demonstrable natural phenomena were recast as ‘not science’. This was a momentously illogical and unscientific step to take. Essentially, from that point on ‘Science’ became a religion.

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Sydney Held Hostage

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This is breaking news from Australia: at least two Islamic terrorists have taken hostages in a Lindt Café in Martin Place, Sydney. Twenty or more customers (some reports on social media go as high as forty, according to Vlad) are being held by the gunmen. Thirteen of them were forced to stand with their hands against the display window.

The black flag of jihad is also on display in that window.

The only demand that I have heard of so far is that the terrorists be granted a conversation with Prime Minister Tony Abbott, and that it be broadcast live on the radio.

Vlad just told me: “September: Martin Place was where Islamic terrorists planned to behead people.”

The likely outcome? The mujahideen will gin up the drama until they have maximum media attention. Then they will explain the reasons for their actions, using terms drawn from authoritative Islamic law. Then they will kill as many hostages as they can before they themselves are killed, possibly beheading some of the victims.

Australian authorities should keep this likely scenario in mind. Any demands other than those that raise the level of publicity will be bogus. Everything is designed to bring the spotlight to bear on the execution of the hostages, and then the martyrdom of the mujahideen.

Whether they are from the Islamic State or some other group, that is the only game they play.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/13/2014

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Dymphna and I were out most of the day at a family get-together. That’s why posting has been light.

A group of Al Qaeda activists disguised as women in niqabs were shot and killed today on a bus in Yemen. The militants were on their way to Saudi Arabia when a soldier boarded the bus, causing the extremists to shoot at him. Other soldiers opened fire in return, killing five of the disguised men and wounding one. The rest of the passengers on the bus were reassured to learn that the incident had nothing to do with Islam.

In other news, recent successful attacks by Islamic State forces against aircraft in Iraq are raising concerns that ISIS may now have the capability of shooting down civilian passenger planes. They are thought to have acquired advanced anti-aircraft weapons when they overran military bases in Syria and Iraq.

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Al-Azhar: No Takfir Against the Islamic State

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The following pronouncement originated with Al-Azhar University in Cairo. Rulings by Al-Azhar are instructive, because there is no higher authority on Sunni Islamic doctrine. The institution is the closest equivalent to the Vatican that can be found in Islam.

Al-Azhar has now declined to pronounce takfir against the Islamic State, which would have placed the Caliph and his followers outside of Islam. This raises an important question: if Al-Azhar — whose scholars know more about Sunni Islam than anyone else in the world — will not anathematize ISIS, how can dilettantes such as Barack Obama and David Cameron declare so confidently that the Islamic State “has nothing to do with Islam”?

Al-Arabiya published an article about the ruling by Al-Azhar. Ritamalik has kindly translated it from the Arabic, and includes this introductory note:

Al-Azhar refused to pronounce takfir (Islamic anathema) on ISIS. However, their reasoning is really creative.

They basically say that nobody is outside of Islam unless he himself says he is. But the funny thing is, all these restrictions that they now suddenly feel in the business of anathematising ISIS because of have in the past always been completely absent whenever they rushed to pronounce takfir on anyone who wanted to somehow “reform” (water down) Islam or modernise the Quran or the Hadith. They just pronounced the takfir with no qualms about it, and the poor “reformer” fellow usually was put in prison or killed by vigilantes or went into hiding.

But now suddenly “moderate” middle-of-the-road Al Azhar cannot pronounce takfir on any ISIS member unless he renounces his shahada, the declaration that “There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet”!

Below is the translation of the article. Ritamalik’s comments and explanatory remarks are in parentheses:

Al Azhar refused to pronounce takfir (anathema) on the group ISIS, and stressed the fact that a Muslim can not be denounced as kafir, regardless of his sins. Al Azhar announced on Thursday that during his speech in the assembly against violence and extremism at Noble Al Azhar, Sheikh Ibrahim Salih Al Husseini, the Mufti of Nigeria, didn’t agree to pronounce takfir on ISIS and groups like them, but explained their actions are not actions of the followers of Islam, but come forth from those who are not Muslims.

The statement pointed out that ISIS is neither explicitly nor implicitly anathematised by Sheikh Al Husseini’s phrase. All that he said was that: “Those (religious) innovators who act in a an extremist fashion are tainted with corruption, and the extremists and ISIS contrary to their claim to the Caliphate are nothing but muharibun (literally meaning ‘fighter’, but in Islamic lingo it means ‘fighters against Allah and his religion’) who spread corruption, indecency, and murder, and then they proceed to pronounce takfir on other people who try to check their thuggery and prostitution. And indeed their (religious) innovation is greater than those of the ‘Kharijites’ (a group among the first generation of Muslims who turned on and were put down by Ali Ibn Abi Talib, the fourth Caliph, and were famous for pronouncing takfir on other Muslims and killing them under that pretext), who fought Musilm/Kafirs, and killed Muslims, and pronounced them kafir because of their actions.”

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/12/2014

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The municipal authorities in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Province in western China, are planning to ban the burqa. City leaders see the garment as a symbol of religious extremism.

In other news, the editor of the Jakarta Post is facing a possible blasphemy charge for allowing the publication of a satirical cartoon that criticized the Islamic State.

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Thanks to C. Cantoni, Fjordman, Insubria, K, Papa Whiskey, RR, Vlad Tepes, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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A Moderate Muslim Speaks

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Yesterday Rick Gibbons, an Ottawa talk show host on CFRA radio, featured an interview with Imam Mohamad Jebara, the Head Master and Resident Scholar at the Cordova Academy in Ottawa.

Imam Jebara is a calm, reasonable, well-spoken “moderate” Muslim, just the sort of Islamic guest that most media people are eager to interview. Mr. Gibbons was no exception, and he lavished a lot of uncritical gushing attention on his culturally enriching interlocutor. His guest reassured him once again that Islam is really A-OK, and that he and other kuffar have nothing to fear from it. The radio host seemed relieved to learn that all the horrors loosed on the world in the name of Allah actually have nothing to do with Islam.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for annotating and uploading this video:

The Red and Black Fashion Statement of Jew Hatred

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Below is the latest newsletter from the Tennessee Council for Political Justice.

Newsletter #157 — The Red and Black Fashion Statement of Jew Hatred

Students at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville with the help of their faculty advisor Brian Barber established the first Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter in Tennessee. Their alumnus, Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, was the keynote speaker at SJP’s 4th annual conference held this year at Tufts University.


Sekou at 2014 SJP conference

It’s fitting that an organization focused on the destruction of Israel would choose Sekou to speak. He and his wife Karlene Griffiths Sekou are both involved with the U.S. BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) against Israel, the end goal of which is to eliminate the Jewish homeland.

Speaking at the SJP conference, Sekou wore the red and white keffiyeh which is associated with Saudis, Palestinians and terrorists.

The red and white keffiyeh is popular with Somali al-Shabaab jihadists.


al Shabaab in Somalia

Members of the al-Farooq mosque in Nashville, also wear the red and white keffiyeh, while some opt for the black and white keffiyeh popularized by Yasir Arafat’s Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).


al Farooq mosque in Nashville Aug. 2014

Jew-haters at the pro-Hamas rallies in Nashville wear both the black and white and the red and white keffiyeh.


pro-Hamas rally Nashville 2014

Muslim Brotherhood/CAIR Michigan Director Dawud Walid who was brought to Nashville by Remziya Suleyman to train Muslim high school students in political activism sticks to the message of Jew-hatred.


Dawud Walid, CAIR-Michigan

So does Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri and Hamas jihadis:

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Islamization: The Thousand-Year Crime Against Germany and the Peoples of Europe

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The following essay was originally published in German at
Michael Mannheimer’s website. Many thanks to JLH for the translation.


How Socialists intend to destroy Europe with Islam’s help

Islamization: The Thousand-Year Crime Against Germany and the Peoples of Europe

A Reckoning With the Responsible Parties

Cicero on the betrayal of people and country:

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not as a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. Fear the murderer less. Fear the traitor. He is the true plague.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

by Michael Mannheimer November 27, 2014

Germany and Europe: In the Stranglehold of Socialism for over 100 Years

For 100 years now, a fight to the death has been raging in Germany and Europe. This battle is broken up into discrete, historical episodes by the responsible parties, so that it cannot be discerned as such. Yet these episodes are all closely interwoven, and have only one aim. That is, the destruction of Germany, the defeat of European nationality and the dissolution of the nucleus of all societies — the family. What is responsible for this life-and-death battle is an ideology which portrays itself to the outside world as an ideology of peace, of social well-being and of the end of exploitation of people by other people.

But everywhere where this ideology has come to power in its diverse experiments, it has spread nothing but misery, poverty, fear and horror. This ideology began its victorious march in Germany at the end of the 19th century, spread across half the world and has ruled Germany and half of the European continent almost uninterrupted, except for a few years, since 1918-1919. Its name is socialism.

Arch Traitor August Bebel: His Treason and the SPD (Social Democrats) led Germany into the First World War

August Bebel, chair of the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany) was already anticipating the defeat of Germany as a nation state. In his capacity as a Reichstag deputy and party head, he betrayed sensitive military secrets to England — at that time, the arch-rival of the German Empire. In 1911, he passed on the false (!) information that a German surprise attack was planned against the British fleet, which led to frantic political activity and a fleet-building program of unprecedented scope. Bebel hoped to force Germany into a conflict with the world power Great Britain, from which Germany, by his calculation, would emerge so weakened that it would be “ripe” for a socialist revolution.

Which indeed happened. With no good cause, the SPD signed the war credits authorization in 1911, and opened the way to the bloodiest war to date — the first World War in history. A war which would presumably never have happened — or at least not in the form it did — absent Bebel’s high treason and his party’s signature on the war credits authorization. And the leftist powers knew, as always, how to make the German Empire responsible for the outbreak of this war.

After the end of the war, Germany had to accept a humiliating peace treaty which imposed the loss of great portions of its territory, as well as a war indemnity the like of which — qualitatively and quantitatively — had never before been seen, and which a “re-united” Germany paid off just a few years ago. The Treaty of Versailles prepared the way for the next catastrophe of the century — the Second World War — and made the First and Second World Wars in hindsight the equivalent of a second Thirty-Years’ War in German history.

Already in the Weimar Republic, the Left Intended to Bolshevize Germany


Photo from Kiel municipal archives most likely depicts the funeral ceremony for those who fell in the revolution on November 10, 1918.

The left — consisting largely of adherents of the SPD and USPD (Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany) — went to work immediately after the end of WWI in 1918/19 (the “November Revolution”) to “bolshevize Germany in the image of the Soviet Union, establishing “workers’ and soldiers’ councils” in numerous Germany cities (the Bremen Council Republic, the Munich Council Republic, the Soldiers’ Council of Ludwigsburg, etc.), with the goal of making all of Germany into an autonomous soviet republic.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/11/2014

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After receiving a complaint from a customer, Hallmark withdrew a line of wrapping paper that the offended customer said contained “swastikas”. The design was in fact a classical meander, one of a number of similar motifs that began in prehistory and were made into formal designs by the ancient Greeks.

In other news, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the recent fall in oil prices is a conspiracy against Islam.

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Thanks to AL, C. Cantoni, DS, Fjordman, ICLA, Insubria, Jerry Gordon, K, LI, Phyllis Chesler, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Al-Nusra Leader Swears Allegiance to Caliph Al-Baghdadi

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Note: This video of Abu Ali al-Shishani was originally posted last night (or rather early this morning) on a different channel, and was subsequently taken down. The new version is hosted by another service. Let’s hope it stays up for a while this time.

The Al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State are the two most powerful jihad groups in Syria. Until recently they were rivals, and sometimes fought against each other.

On November the 13th 2014, the two groups declared themselves in operational alliance. They promised to stop fighting each other, and said they would coordinate their attacks in some areas of northern Syria, in alliance against the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

Their cooperation fell short of unifying the rival groups, and experts on the conflict in the Middle East expected that the alliance would in all likelihood soon fall apart.

However, the opposite seems to be the case. In the following video you’ll hear Abu Ali al-Shishani (“The Chechen”), a leader of the Al-Nusra Front, declare his allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Caliph of the Islamic State.

The context for the clip is that Mr. al-Shishani is threatening Lebanon and the Shiites for the arrest of his wife and children. In the original news stories about the arrest published early this month, the Muslima in question was said to be the wife of al-Baghdadi. But Abu Ali al-Shishani says that the woman being held in detention is in fact his wife.

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

See last night’s post for the complete video transcript.

Vienna Protests the Persecution of Christians

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This time last year we reported on the march for solidarity with persecuted Christians, organized by Christian Solidarity International in Vienna. This year’s reprise of the march occurred yesterday, December 10. Henrik Ræder Clausen was on hand, and sends the following report.

A subtitled video will be available later.

Vienna protests the persecution of Christians
By Henrik Ræder Clausen

On December 10th, the United Nations Human Rights Day, more than twenty Christian organisations in Austria took to the street protesting the sharply increasing persecution of Christians throughout the world. In the morning, a press conference about the situation was organized, and at nightfall there was a torch- and banner-bearing march through the heart of Vienna. The march went from the famous Opera House to the equally famous St. Stephen’s Cathedral, which hosted a prayer mass for the persecuted Christians.

A mixed bag press conference

The key organizer Christian Solidarity International (CSI) was the host of the press conference in the morning. Here Dr. Elmar Kuhn (CSI), Kurt Igler (Open Doors), Johann Marte (Pro Oriente), Herbert Rechberger (Kirche in Note) and Martin Kugler (OIDAC) explained the plight of Christians in various countries. For obvious reasons the newly Islamic State and its systematic cleansing of Christians from the Middle East was in focus, but the panelists also discussed the situation in North Korea, as well as other challenging trends for Christians these days.

After the interventions about the sufferings of the Christians, CSI expressed their great joy in having a Muslim on the panel, specifically Dr. Ednan Aslan, a well known professor of Turkish origin. Dr. Aslan spoke in great detail about various Islamic topics, and stressed that what Islamic State does in Syria and Iraq is a perfect match with the teachings given by Saudi-sponsored imams and mosques. There is no significant ideological difference between IS and the Saudi interpretation of Islam.

He went on to reject the idea of the Koran as being literally a perfect, divine scripture, and said that the complicated origins of the book in Arabia mean that it contains omissions and mistakes, and that while it is inspired by Allah, it remains the creation of humans. It is precisely this, according to Dr. Aslan, that provides a source of hope: By investing sufficient resources in new Islamic organisations, it is possible that the Koran and the other Islamic scripture (the Bukhari hadith collection was mentioned as an example) can be reinterpreted to fit into modern, liberal societies. But when questioned by the CSI about it, he could give no actual suggestions on how to reinterpret words such as ‘decapitate’, not to mention how to give any such new interpretations of clear and literal words real authority. He was also not able to explain why scripture with such obvious contents should be permitted in religious organisations.

A march with clear messages

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