“Disinformation” is Whatever Goes Against the Narrative

Rob Roos is a Dutch politician who formerly represented FvD (Forum for Democracy) and then the party JA21 (Right Answer 21) in the European Parliament. He is now an independent. In the following video Mr. Roos speaks in the EP in Strasbourg about the EU’s attempt to censor Elon Musk’s platform X (formerly Twitter).

Many thanks to the anonymous translator, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

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Getting Rid of the Danes

It’s hard to believe that almost eighteen years have passed since the onset of the Danish Mohammed Cartoon Crisis. Kurt Westergaard’s “Turban Bomb” was the iconic image for the affair, but it’s important to remember than twelve cartoons were actually commissioned and published by Jyllands-Posten, and one of the others is shown at the top of this post.

Dymphna and I covered the Motoons — for that was the shortened version of the name that rapidly emerged in the blogosphere — in the early days of this blog. Then, a couple of years later, when I became more closely involved with the European Counterjihad, I was able to make the acquaintance of some of those doughty Danes, and got to know the Scandinavian scene fairly well.

Back then Denmark was refreshingly different. Not only did the Danes tolerate political incorrectness, they even celebrated it on certain occasions. And freedom of speech was vigorously defended, even by government ministers.

That was then; this is now.

The Danish government is planning to reintroduce a blasphemy law so that the burning of Korans can be forbidden. They have been successfully mau-maued by Muslim leaders — including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — who demand that the Danes and the Swedes forbid their citizens to engage in activities that Islam deems offensive.

This is a watershed moment in the history of the West. It marks the beginning of the official transfer of power from the secular humanists to the proponents of sharia. The process will be slow, but inexorable. It will probably take a couple of decades before it is complete. In the end, the tenets of Islamic law will reign supreme in what were formerly known as the Western democracies. Savvy and cynical politicians and bureaucrats will convert to Islam in order to enjoy the privileges and perquisites of the new system. Those who don’t will become second-class citizens.

It will take a while, but we’ll get there in the end.

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One of the people I was privileged to meet during my involvement with the European Counterjihad was the redoubtable Mark Steyn, who has been untiring in his struggle against sharia and in support of free speech. His latest essay is a retrospective on the Motoon crisis, and a somber recognition of the emergence of a dhimmi government in Denmark — The Danes, Gelded. Below are some excerpts:

Many years ago, my compatriot Ezra Levant observed that one day the Danish Mohammed cartoons would come to be seen as a more consequential event than 9/11. Not in the overall death toll, obviously — although the corpse count of the Motoons continues to rise (Charlie Hebdo et al) — but in its lessons for a free society’s enemies. 9/11 led to two decades of ineffectual warmongering in Afghanistan and elsewhere, and the goatherds with fertilizer soon had the measure of that. But the cartoons and the west’s reaction to them told the world that we would not defend core liberties such as freedom of speech. You don’t need to blow up our skyscrapers; we’re happy to surrender to subtler pressures.

And here we are eighteen years later, with the Danish Government proposing to criminalize the burning of the Koran and make it an offense punishable by fines and/or imprisonment.

So:

~In 2005 Jyllands-Posten, one of the biggest-selling newspapers in Denmark, as part of an exploration of the state of free speech, was willing to publish a dozen cartoons of Mohammed by prominent cartoonists.

~In 2010, on the fifth anniversary, I was given an award by the Danish Free Press Society and appeared on stage with the society’s founder Lars Hedegaard and fellow freespeechers from across the Continent: the Norwegian comedienne Shabana Rehman, the Dutch cartoonist Nekschot, the Swedish artist Lars Vilks and the Danish-Iranian actor Farshad Kholghi.

If those names don’t ring a lot of bells for you, here’s the scorecard so far:

  • Shabana Rehman’s family restaurant was firebombed, and she was forced to live under 24/7 police protection, which is not terribly conducive to a career in observational comedy. She died of cancer last year at the age of forty-six;
  • Nekschot was already under so many death threats that he could only appear at public engagements with his face obscured and unidentifiable. So in Copenhagen that day he chose to wear a burqa. Funny, but not quite secure enough. He had already been arrested for “hate speech” with the Dutch authorities openly taunting him about the impending loss of his anonymity. The year after our appearance in Denmark, he gave up cartooning and went into hiding. I assume he is still alive;
  • Lars Vilks was speaking at an event on art and blasphemy when a Muslim opened fire with a semi-automatic. A Danish film director was killed and three police officers. The jihad boy then went to a nearby synagogue and killed a second man. Lars retired from public life, and died in 2021 with two of his security detail when their unmarked police car crashed;
  • oh, and our host Lars Hedegaard was shot at point blank range, but fortunately by an incompetent. So Lars survived, but his opponent managed to flee to Turkey.

Most of the above did not impinge on the media in a big way: There were no celebrities wearing #JeSuisLars buttons. Nevertheless, of the six who were on stage that day in 2010, there would be only two of us today: me and Farshad Kholghi, last men standing in an Agatha Christie for the jihad set — And Then There Were None. Come to think of it, that might make a blackly comic play, or novel, or film… But good luck finding a publisher or producer.

~In 2015, on the tenth anniversary, I was back in Copenhagen, this time with Douglas Murray:

Like Mark Steyn I’ve been doing these ‘defend free speech’ gigs for some years now and as Mark recently mordantly observed, I also sometimes wonder why I keep ascending up the running order only to realise that it’s because everybody who used to be ahead of me is either in hiding or dead.

As Douglas also remarked:

The event will be in the Danish Parliament apparently because it’s the only place in Denmark sufficiently secure enough that — we hope — the now traditional gunmen won’t be able to get in and shoot everyone.

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As Marie [Krarup] said, the walls of Christiansborg are “thick and massive”. However, I woke up on the morning of the event to find that both the US State Department and the British Foreign Office had issued travel advisories warning their nationals to steer clear of both Copenhagen in general and Christiansborg Palace in particular.

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The Forbidden Video

In my previous post, I reported on an unsuccessful attempt by a purported legal firm to get me to take down this post from 2015. It had to do with an Israeli psychologist who spoke at a PEGIDA rally in Germany. The post mostly just consisted of an embedded video, which has since disappeared. Vlad’s YouTube channels have all been deleted, one by one; that’s why the video is gone.

Fortunately, Vlad still had the video file, and has now restored it on Rumble. It features Heidi Mund and Dr. Rotem Avituv. Many thanks to RAIR Foundation for uploading this video:

Dr. Avituv spoke in English, with interspersed translations into German, so I don’t have any transcript for the video.

My guess is that he has since encountered professional difficulties due to his association with German “neo-Nazis”, and I can sympathize with that. If he had come to me himself and explained his problem, I might well have quietly removed the post. I’ve done it two or three times in the past for people who were on our side, but were facing difficulties trying to get or keep a job, or who wanted to get into a doctoral program or something similar. As cancel culture has become more pervasive, people have belatedly discovered the totalitarian reach of political correctness, which can now easily ruin their lives if they depart from the Narrative.

As I said, I can sympathize with someone who suffers from that sort of suppression, and would have seriously considered helping him out if he had brought his problem to me.

However, when someone throws lawyers at me from the get-go, they foreclose all chance of getting an empathic response. That sort of heavy-handed coercive behavior awakens the Scot in me, and prompts me to absolute DEFIANCE.

The [epithets] should have left well enough alone.

For links to previous articles about PEGIDA (Patriotische Europäer Gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes, Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West) and related movements, see the PEGIDA Archives.

We Lawyers Want to Silence You

Remember PEGIDA (Patriotische Europäer Gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes, Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West)? It’s been eight years since their heyday, although it seems like a lot longer, given all that has happened in the interim. I haven’t heard anything about it for awhile, and I’m not sure if the organization still exists. There were multiple franchises in various European countries, and some of them may still be extant.

Anyway, the reason I bring all of this up is that I received the following email this morning:

Dear Gates of Vienna Team,

We are contacting you regarding the following URL for your website: https://gatesofvienna.net/2015/01/an-israeli-addresses-pegida/

We are submitting this request to report the breach of Mr. Rotem Avituv’s privacy. Your website is found to be in violation of the European GDPR regulation.

We kindly request that you take steps to remove the URL completely for the following reasons:

  • The information is displayed from 2015, i.e., more than 8 years ago, and is, therefore no longer true. Thus, this information has lost its social relevance and is irrelevant today. As a result, the personal data of Mr. Rotem Avituv are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were originally collected or otherwise processed.
     
    Please note that the Federal Data Protection Act(BDSG), Section 58, states: (2) The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without delay where processing such data is unlawful, knowledge of the data is no longer necessary for the performance of tasks, or the data must be erased to comply with a legal obligation.
  • Personal information was gathered and disclosed without the explicit consent of the data subject.
  • This information is considerably damaging Mr Rotem Avituv, on a personal, family and professional level, as it continues to expose him to this situation via the Internet and people who come to read this article are left with the wrong profile. Therefore, it is not fair that his full name remains linked to this URL, which affects both his daily life and that of his family.
  • This situation prevents him from having a normal use of the Internet, because his name is exposed and associated with these events, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and it becomes a painful and complicated reality for him and his family.

This request is legally founded on the General Data Protection Regulation in the European Union (hereinafter referred to as “GDPR”) and the Legislative Decree 10 August 2018, No. 101, which encompasses provisions for the alignment of national legislation with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council, dated 27 April 2016. This regulation deals with the protection of individuals regarding the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data, while also repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).

Your cooperation is highly appreciated, and we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

I look forward to your response. If you require any clarification or information, please do not hesitate to contact me.

[Logo for WeLawyers law firm]

legal@welawyers.net

The information contained in this email is confidential and intended for the recipient specified in the message only. Sharing any part of this message with a third party without the written consent of the sender is strictly prohibited. If you received this message by mistake, please reply to this message and delete it to prevent any future mistakes.

I feel compelled to point out that I have violated the stern warning at the bottom of the email against sharing it with anyone without WeLawyers’ written consent. It is absurd to assert that the sender of an unsolicited email has the right to forbid its being shared. Especially given Gates of Vienna’s policy on unsolicited emails, which is posted prominently on the sidebar just below the email link, and is where the esteemed gentlebeing of the bar acquired my email address.

For your edification, here is the text of the caveat:

Our policy on unsolicited email is the following: The general rule is that we keep it confidential. This rule has two exceptions: 1) If the sender indicates otherwise; and 2) The content of an email is threatening, malicious, obscene, insulting, or vituperative, in which case it may be published in full or in part, including the name and email address of the sender, at our discretion. You have been warned!

Exception #2 definitely applies to the above email. The sender failed to heed my warning.

This was my reply to the email:

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The Perils of Non-Compliance

Te Tari Taiwhenua — the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs — won’t let bygones be bygones. To quote the Grateful Dead, “it gets to wearing thin/They just won’t let you be.”

Te Tari Taiwhenua began their work week by sending me a notice of my non-compliance with their earlier demand that I take down Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto (see my most recent post on the New Zeal of the New Zealand government). Here’s what the email said:

Dear Mr May

Re: Non-Compliance Warning — 2022/10 Gates of Vienna — The Great Replacement Manifesto

Thank you for your email dated 20 June 2023 in response to the Take Down Notice ‘2022/10 Gates of Vienna
— The Great Replacement Manifesto’.

We acknowledge your views about publications that are not considered illegal in the US and observations on focusing internally. The Notice does provide the opportunity to geo-block the objectionable content from New Zealand as an alternative.

We are obligated to serve a Non-Compliance Warning as the final stage of our Notice issuing process, and as such, attach the same. This now closes our file.

For your ease of reference, here is a link to the Department’s Take-Down Notice guidance.

Please contact us if you:

  • require any additional information or if you reasonably believe you will not be able to comply within the required period;
  • have removed or prevented New Zealand public access to the objectionable online publication from your platform;
  • would like to provide us with additional or updated contact information, such as group emails, for your company.

Regards.

Inspector of Publications
Warrant Card [redacted]
Digital Violent Extremism, Digital Safety
Toi Hiranga | Regulation & Policy
Te Tari Taiwhenua | The Department of Internal Affairs

Notice that they are “provid[ing] the opportunity to geo-block the objectionable content from New Zealand”. That is, they expect me to use my precious time to enforce their tomfool laws against their own citizens! The chutzpa is astonishing.

Below is the email I sent them in reply:

To whom it may concern:

Thank you for your considered response to my most recent email.

Your note that your office will “provide the opportunity to geo-block the objectionable content from New Zealand” means, I assume, that you would expect Gates of Vienna itself to do the geo-blocking on behalf of the New Zealand government. Unfortunately, I have neither the time nor the resources to take such an action, even if I thought that doing so would be a good idea.

Therefore, pursuant to the first item in your bulleted list, I am required to notify you that I reasonably believe that I will not be able to comply within the required period, or indeed within any time period.

Please feel free to contact me again if you deem it necessary.

Cordially,

Ned May
a.k.a. “Baron Bodissey”
https://gatesofvienna.net

The fact that they’ve closed their file on me may indicate an end to their harassment of me, but I wouldn’t count on it. The worst thing they could do would be to contact the State Department and demand that the U.S. government do something about my heinous offense — have my whole site taken down, for example. I consider that very unlikely, though.

In any case, I recommend that anyone who has their own website upload the manifesto, if you haven’t already. Anything a government wants taken down that badly is something that we should make available. You can’t stop the signal!

As I’ve often said in the past, this sort of behavior by a government brings out the Scot in me. At my core is an atavistic kilt-wearing claymore-waving red-bearded brigand who screams in defiance against any so-called government that would coerce him into doing something that goes against his nature.

For those who are interested, I’ve extracted the first two pages from the PDF file attached to the email and formatted the text in HTML:

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Rumor Control Central

The Food and Drug Administration is asking American citizens for their assistance in fighting “misinformation” about health. And — as we have learned over the last thirty years since Hillary Clinton began the process of nationalizing the health care system — that means misinformation about anything, because everything can be re-cognized as concerning health. The food you eat, the places you go, the people you associate with, how you spend your money — all of these can be related to your health, and each choice can be ranked according to how good or bad it is for your bodily well-being.

It goes without saying that the FDA will do the ranking of all activities as they pertain to health, and then define anything that deviates from that schema as misinformation.

In order to help ensure that everyone’s health is optimized, the FDA will make it easy and convenient to report misinformation — that is, what they consider unfounded rumors and inaccurate information about anything they deem health-related. At this particular historical moment, COVID-19 and the “vaccines” are obviously their main concerns. But other unhealthy behaviors will also come under scrutiny. We can already catch a glimpse of some of the general topics that will at some point be considered relevant: “climate change”, eating the bugs instead of meat or dairy, not using the internal combustion engine, adopting a digital currency, getting chipped, and so on. All of these will fall under the rubric of “health”, and therefore be subject to regulation by the national socialist federal health care system.

Citizens will be strongly urged to report anyone who propagates “misinformation” on any of these topics. Furthermore, when the system is fully mature, we may expect that the reporting of information criminals will become mandatory — the duty of every civic-minded person. Those who peddle misinformation are a danger to our democracy, which depends on the universal acceptance of a single truth in order to be able to function. Propagators of false information must be exposed and silenced.

That’s what the FDA’s “Rumor Control” site is aiming at:

Find the Truth

Get the latest fact checks and help stop the spread of false rumors.

The growing spread of rumors, misinformation and disinformation about science, medicine, and the FDA, is putting patients and consumers at risk. We’re here to provide the facts.

Watch how to identify and help stop the spread of health misinformation. [YouTube video]

After that come these features:

  • Learn the Facts
  • Health Information For You
  • What the FDA Does For You
  • Share the Facts

Next you can download a pdf document by means of which you may “Learn about how you can identify and address misinformation.”

It’s mostly in graphical form, and is designed in a grade-school format. It’s available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Korean.

No French, German, or Italian. Hmm…

Finally, and most importantly:

How to Report Misinformation Online

We face the challenge of an overabundance of information related to our public health. Some of this information may be false and potentially harmful.

Inaccurate information spreads widely and at speed, making it more difficult for the public to identify verified facts and advice from trusted sources, such as the FDA.

However, everyone can help to stop the spread. If you see content online that you believe to be false of misleading, you can report it to the applicable platform…

Then it has icons and links for the following platforms:

  • How do I mark a Facebook post as false news? Click here
  • Reduce the spread of false information on Instagram. Click here.
  • LinkedIn: Recognizing and reporting spam, inappropriate, and abusive content. Click here.
  • Report inappropriate content on TikTok. Click here.
  • Report a tweet, list or direct message on Twitter. Click here.
  • How to report a contact or a group on WhatsApp. Click here.
  • Report inappropriate content on YouTube. Click here.

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The normal reaction to all of the above would be one of outrage, but I recommend tamping down that instinctive response, if you can, because outrage at this point serves no useful purpose.

You can contact your elected representative, and it will make no difference whatsoever. For that matter, voting itself will make no difference whatsoever. You can vote for whomever you like, and the federal government will continue doing this stuff, no matter what.

Outrage is a waste of psychic energy. Pointing out the hypocrisy and double standards is a waste of time. Identifying all the ways in which these actions violate the Constitution is pointless — the Constitution has been dead for a long time now, and “our democracy” keeps chugging along just fine without it.

At one time I would have recommended that we attempt to break the system by overloading it — posting as much controversial material as possible, making stuff up, signing off on any paranoid lunacy that comes along, etc. We might thus make it impossible for the tech monitors to keep up with all our “misinformation” — there would simply be too few employees to handle it.

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Why Does Biden Want to ‘Include’ People Who Want to Kill Us?

The following report by Clare Lopez was published earlier this month by Sharia TipSheet.

Why Does Biden Want to ‘Include’ People Who Want to Kill Us?

by Clare M. Lopez

Our articles this month focus on the Biden administration’s embrace of Islamic Movement/Muslim Brotherhood pet themes timed for the end of Ramadan on 21 April 2023. As many of us may know — but the Biden administration seems not to — the last day of Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr, is the Islamic commemoration of the 624 CE Battle of Badr, in which Muslim forces defeated Jews on the field of battle for the first time. President Biden’s announcement of a new inter-agency task force to tackle ‘Islamophobia’ was timed to mark this occasion along with a statement congratulating Muslims on their month of Ramadan. Although FBI ‘hate crime’ statistics show that Jews and other groups are far more often targeted than Muslims in America, the Biden administration seems determined to demonstrate its ‘inclusivity’ credentials.

Biden Establishes ‘Interagency Task Force With Senior Government Officials’ to Stop ‘Islamophobia’

In other news:

All the President’s Islamists

  • A good, comprehensive listing of the Biden administration’s extensive team of Muslim staffers, many of whom have long been affiliated in one way or another with Muslim Brotherhood front groups
  • Editor’s Note — With all due respect to the author, there are no ‘Islamists’. Jihad and sharia supremacy come straight from standard Islamic doctrine, not from fringe or ‘Islamist’ interpretations of Islam. As Turkish President Erdogan put it: “Recently the concept of ‘moderate Islam’ has received attention. But the patent of this concept originated in the West… Islam cannot be either ‘moderate’ or ‘not moderate.’ Islam can only be one thing.”

Biden Regime Taps Ilhan Omar to Speak at Religious Freedom Event, Then Hides Invitation

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Think Bosnia, Not Gettysburg

A reader who goes by the nom de guerre fred333 sends the following observations on the current Culture War underway in the USA:

The US is NOT headed for Civil War!

However, we’re definitely on a crash course for armed conflict, just not one separated by a geographic dividing line. Think: Bosnia, not Gettysburg.

During the US Civil War, the country was severely divided over three principal issues: states’ rights; the right of individual states to secede from the union; and “Bleeding Kansas” — whether new states would be permitted to choose whether to implement slavery or not. On virtually all other issues of law and morality, the country was in complete — Judeo-Christian, constitutional — lock-step.

Today, however, hyphenated and non-hyphenated Americans can’t even agree on the definitions of “victim” and “victimizer” — the basic building blocks of law and morality, and the foundational moral and legal tenets around which healthy civilizations must coalesce. And therein lies the difference… and the great danger. When civilizations forced to live amongst one another lack any shared foundational understandings — with radically contrasting and, on one side, ever-”evolving” views of right versus wrong, good versus bad, success versus failure, legal versus illegal — they must inevitably and unavoidably find themselves confronted with three options: Assimilate, Separate or Assassinate (i.e., go to war). History offers no other solutions that I’m aware of.

With one side armed with the Bill of Rights and the rule of law, and the other actively working to erase them, I fear we’re on a divisive and chaotic carnival ride that isn’t likely to end where it began.

Watch this space…


(PAA = President Affirmative Action, paraphrasing Thomas Sowell’s description of former President Obama)

How Our Military Crumbles

Readers may remember Bret Weinstein from the great culture wars during the halcyon pre-Corona days of 2017.

Mr. Weinstein was a professor of biology at Evergreen State College in Washington State until he ran up against the woke madness that had infected his campus. White people were requested to stay away from campus for the annual “Day of Absence”, to highlight the struggle of people of color against discrimination and white supremacy. Or something similar. Professor Weinstein declined to participate, which placed him at the center of an enormous storm of controversy. He and his wife were eventually hounded into resigning their positions (see the précis of what happened at the bottom of this post).

After the COVID-19 madness had set in, Mr. Weinstein made himself even more of an outcast by speaking out against vaccine mandates and related issues. He is now described as an “anti-vaxxer” and “COVID denier”, and has been relegated to the Outer Darkness of popular culture.

The funny thing is, as I recall, he used to be more or less a regular liberal in his political opinions. He just happens to be one of those rare liberals who (like Bill Maher) is a First Amendment absolutist. And that makes him a “right-wing extremist” in the view of the degraded political culture of 2022.

In the following video Bret Weinstein leads a discussion about the military mandate that requires service members to be injected with the experimental mRNA treatment intended to mitigate the effects of infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus. The policy has effectively caused the attrition of around 80,000 active duty service members, and has had a devastating effect on military readiness. In Mr. Weinstein’s view, the only possible conclusion is that the vax mandate is a deliberate act of sabotage of the American military.

In addition to Bret Weinstein, this video features:

John Bowes is a lieutenant in the US Air Force. He is a student F-16 pilot who has been grounded over the COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Olivia Degenkolb has been in the US Navy for 20 years as an active-duty service member. She is a foreign area officer, and was selected by the Secretary of the Navy to represent the United States as an Assistant Naval Attaché (Designate) to China. After completing training and moving preparations, her diplomatic assignment was withheld due to her COVID-19 vaccination status.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video:

Videos featuring additional excerpts from discussions among the same group may be seen at Vlad’s channel.

Below the jump is a summary of what happened to Bret Weinstein at Evergreen State College:

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Sharia on the Federal Bench

Below is the latest from Sharia TipSheet.

Is the Second Muslim Federal Judicial Nominee a Sharia Supremacist?

January 31, 2022

The first Muslim federal judicial nominee, Zahid Quraishi, skated to a federal judgeship last year without any serious inquiry into his personal beliefs regarding sharia supremacy, jihad, or the obvious conflicts between sharia law and the U.S. Constitution. He was asked, perfunctorily, what he knows about sharia law, and he claimed not to know anything about it. His answer, which was not believable, was allowed to stand, untouched.

This set a very bad precedent that, if left unchallenged, will allow all future Muslim nominees for federal judgeships to evade critical questioning and ascend to the bench even if they believe in sharia supremacy with violent jihad as the means to achieve it in accordance with the dictates of standard Islamic doctrine.

Any observant Muslim nominee will hold these beliefs, because these beliefs come straight from the Quran, hadith, and Islamic scholarly consensus. There are many passages in the Quran calling for violent jihad. Here are just three:

  • Make war on them until idolatry shall cease and God’s religion shall reign supreme. Quran 8:40
  • I shall cast terror into the hearts of the infidels. Strike off their heads; strike off the very tips of their fingers. Quran 8:12
  • If you encounter the disbelievers in a battle, strike-off their heads. Take them as captives when they are defeated. Quran 47:4

Moreover, several passages in standard Islamic doctrine call for sharia supremacy, that is, world domination and the forced conversion of all humanity to Islam. Here are just three:

  • Muhammad said: “I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify to the fact that there is no god but Allah, and believe in me (that) I am the Messenger and in all that I have brought.” Muslim: C9B1N31 (hadith)
  • The only religion acceptable before God is Islam. Quran 3:19
  • He it is who has sent his Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to make it victorious over all religion even though the infidels may resist. Quran 61:9

We must summon the political will to reverse the precedent set in the Quraishi nomination and engage subsequent Muslim nominees on their personal beliefs. Their personal beliefs are consequential because sharia poses an existential threat to the United States and conflicts with the U.S. Constitution, the supreme law of the land, in numerous ways.

The time to reverse that precedent is now. A second Muslim has been nominated for a federal judgeship. Nusrat Jahan Choudhury is the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Illinois. If confirmed, Choudhury would become a federal judge for the Eastern District of New York.

Because standard Islamic doctrine — the direct unchangeable word of Allah in the Muslim belief system — espouses sharia supremacy and violent jihad as the means to achieve it, and because sharia law conflicts with the U.S. Constitution in fundamental ways, Choudhury should be asked the questions set forth below at her confirmation hearing.

Because lawmakers fell down on the job the first time, we really have no idea whether or not the first Muslim federal judge is a sharia supremacist. Is the second Muslim federal judicial nominee a sharia supremacist? This time, and every time, our elected representatives owe us an answer. This time, and every time, the ‘I don’t know anything about sharia law’ dodge from nominees who freely say they are Muslim just won’t cut it.

These questions will be communicated to lawmakers and to the nominee. If she responds directly, the Sharia TipSheet will print her answers verbatim.

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Lies of Omission 2021

TL Davis has updated his important documentary “Lies of Omission” for 2021. The full movie may be watched on Rumble; see the links below.

Lies of Omission 2021

by TL Davis

Due to a technical problem with the file stored with the distributor we had to do an update on Lies of Omission. In review, there was so much good information still relevant on the film, especially in the wake of the 2020 election and the pandemic (plandemic/scamdemic), that we decided if we were going to go through the headache, why not update the film?

A “director’s cut” so to speak. We called it Lies of Omission 2021 and added, never-before-seen footage from the original interviews. At the same time, we went to a studio and enlisted the help of their staff to increase the production quality.

All in all, though a bit shorter, Lies of Omission 2021 is a better film with a cleaner storyline and smoother, better graphics. It tells a slightly different story from the original, too. What was relevant in 2017, is no longer, and what was not readily apparent, like tyranny and communism, is.

This issues are now openly recognized by a greater share of the world’s population. Governments worldwide have made Lies of Omission 2021 more relevant and with a much wider market than it ever would have had independently. It wasn’t until the governments demonstrated every aspect of communism and tyranny that it came into its own.

Just before the last quarterly report, Lies of Omission had been seen in 12 countries on 5 different channels. An increase in countries and channels from before. We think, with your help, it can finally be used for the red pill film it was intended to be.

It’s free on Rumble, but let the ads run to help us recoup a little bit of what is still in the red on this project. If you watch this version and agree that it’s much more polished than the original and equally as valuable, push it out to friends and family, share it on social media everywhere. Link it on your sites and help us get the word out.

The more views it gets and the longer the ads run, the better it is for us, but really, this is the sort of film right now that can truly make a difference. Of course, people still have to stand up for their rights, but we feel this offers enough of a consolidation of thought that it edges them ever closer to that position.

Hat tip: WRSA.

Pollyanna — Please Come Home

In the following essay MC tackles the dire state of affairs in the fragmented country formerly known as the United States of America.

Pollyanna — Please Come Home

by MC

I truly believe that Communism/Nazism/Socialism is Satanic. Whilst the useful idiots may actually believe that they are doing the “good works” of Socialism, to Yah they are as “filthy rags” (in the Hebrew this is understood as “used sanitary towels”): “All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.” (Isaiah 64:6)

Socialists of all stamps seem to feel righteous and superior when they inflict their ‘good’ doctrines upon us. But their coercion and forcible conversion are essentially meaningless in the realm of Yah’s knowledge of Good and Evil, and they too will be judged against the Ten Commandments. They will be held accountable for their theft (redistributive taxation) and their murder as well as of throwing their ‘gods’ in Yah’s face (first commandment in Hebrew).

In Acts we read of a community of “followers of the WAY (of Yah)”. The important thing to understand is that this was a totally voluntary community, no coercion; people were happy to share what they could bring to the community. Anas and Safira sought to deceive and were struck down, not by the community, but by God himself.

But this Acts community is not Socialism or Communism where the community is not voluntary and the ‘pigs’ exploit Snowy — Snowy must join the bread queue whilst the ‘pigs’ have their food brought to them by servants.

Many point out the nasty side of the Bible, the death penalty for sodomy, adultery and fornication, for example. But this was for the same voluntary community structure that we read about in Acts. You keep the Commandments, leave and go to one of the refuge cities, or be put to death.

What is missing from Socialism is the “voluntary” element. The few who believe themselves ‘enlightened’ and thus qualified to dictate to the rest of us how we should live. This is forcible conversion, not to a ‘religion’ as such, but to a much nastier and more ruthless political religion.

The COVID-19 vaccine mandate falls into this category of forcible conversion. Everything about the SARS-COV-2 saga is a lie. But an effective one that has panicked half the world into compliance.

I have never been a fan of vaccination. From the days of Edward Jenner it has been a huge revenue-earner, and this always seems to have been of greater priority to medical professionals and their Big Pharma owners than the safety and effectiveness of the products.

This link sums up the Naturopathy view of vaccines: dangerous biologicals for the treatment of non-dangerous (in clean and well fed-people) diseases.

If the Covid vax were safe and effective, then why worry about a so-called “pandemic of the unvaccinated”? Why are the unvaccinated deemed to be a danger to the vaccinated? Is this a political stunt rather than a medical one? The evidence that it is becomes more and more convincing as we listen to the vaccine effectiveness countdown, now at 3% and dropping.

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New Zealand Asks For My Help With Their Memory Hole

Well, there goes my planned vacation in New Zealand!

A lot has happened in the nearly two and half years since the Christchurch massacre. Cast your mind back through the Corona fog, if you will, to March 15, 2019, when a young man named Brenton Tarrant massacred fifty-one people in two different mosques in Christchurch, the largest city on South Island in New Zealand.

Mr. Tarrant’s evil actions prompted a renewed push against “Islamophobia” all over the world, but especially in New Zealand.

The killer left behind a manifesto, copies of which immediately began disappearing from the Internet. As is my usual practice, I made it available [pdf] to those who wished to download it and read it.

When New Zealand cracked down on anyone who possessed a copy of the manifesto, making it a jailable offense, I warned our Kiwi readers that they should not avail themselves of that link if they wanted to stay out of prison.

Dymphna posted her own inimitable take on what happened in “Pigs and Monkeys and Mossad, Oh My!” (It was one of the last major posts she wrote before her death.)

A couple of days ago, just before my phone and Internet went out, I received an email from a fellow in the Department of Internal Affairs in New Zealand. Before you read the text, I must respectfully request that you refrain from contacting the department to complain. There’s no need to intervene on my behalf. I have nothing to fear from the New Zealand government, but there’s no sense in poking the beast excessively in his lair.

Here’s what the email said:

Dear Gates of Vienna

Good afternoon,

I am an investigator within the Digital Safety, Digital Violent Extremism Team at the Department of Internal Affairs in New Zealand. The Digital Violent Extremism Team is dedicated to preventing the spread of unlawful online content that promotes, supports or encourages violent extremism. We strive to keep New Zealanders safe from online harm, such as content relating to the Christchurch attacks which deeply affected NZ communities.

Recently, we received information regarding a PDF document hosted by your website: https://gatesofvienna.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/tarrant-manifesto.pdf The PDF is the Christchurch terrorist’s manifesto.

The Christchurch terrorist published a manifesto containing his beliefs and plans online, the same day he livestreamed the Christchurch mass shooting attacks that took place on March 15th 2019. Tragically 51 people were killed and 50 were injured that day.

Following the tragic events, various Heads of State, Government and Leaders from the tech sector around the world have committed to what is known as ‘The Christchurch Call’.(1) The ‘call’ rests on the conviction that a free, open and secure internet offers extraordinary benefits to society and that respect for freedom of expression is fundamental, however no one has the right to create and share terrorist and violent extremism content online.

The Christchurch terrorist’s manifesto has been classified as ‘objectionable’ (banned) under New Zealand legislation.(2)

We have confirmed that the PDF document hosted at the aforementioned link is the manifesto, which is objectionable in New Zealand.

Could you please advise me of whether you can assist with having this file taken down from your site or alternatively blocking visibility of the PDF from New Zealand in order to comply with our law?

We would greatly appreciate the assistance you can provide in reducing the harm to the New Zealand public, the victims and their families.

I hope you are willing to assist us and look forward to hearing from you in due course.

With best regards,

(1)https://www.christchurchcall.com
(2)NZ Films, Videos and Classifications Act 1993

Ngā mihi nui

[Name redacted]
Inspector of Publications
Warrant Card [redacted]
Manager: Digital Violent Extremism, Digital Safety
Toi Hiranga | Policy, Regulation and Communities
Phone Work [redacted]
Te Tari Taiwhenua | The Department of Internal Affairs

This was the text of my reply:

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The Besmirching of That Star Spangled Banner

Our Israeli correspondent MC takes another look at the Bizarro World of American politics since the investiture of the Puppet on January 20.

The Besmirching of that Star Spangled Banner

by MC

If President Biden and his Democrat party really did steal that election by malice aforethought then the banner is irrevocably soiled — the land of the slave and the home of the snowflake.

It is sad for a foreign fan of all things American, like myself, to see the nation taken over by criminals: Bidens, Clintons, Capones, Parkers and Barrows rather than the Reagans, Kennedys and Kings — true Americans despite their faults.

I have a nightmare: that all Americans hate each other, that skin colour is more important than achievement and character. That accusation, that bigotry, that cancel culture, that Trump-hatred, that they dominate the District of Columbia.

That the Supreme Court Judges are so obsessed with politics and the orange-man-bad cult that their decisions are totally biased and irrational and that “they, the people” are so emasculated and leaderless that “we, the elite” can just walk all over them.

But most of all, we must ask ourselves: what happened to the Republican opposition?

They caved. They have allowed the USA to become a one-party state. Their leaders were and are pathetic. They allowed the pseudo-assassination of their own guy; worse, they were Brutus: they, too, drove home the blade, and then stood by as “Cassius” Soetoro undid all that was achieved in four years with just a few strokes of the pen.

Can a dim-witted old man really stand the test of time, or is he just a puppet of all that is worst of the “Bandung Generation”?

Of course, if the election was straight and fair, then none of this applies.

Americans, especially Democrats, need to ask themselves: is hatred of Trump worth destroying the nation for? It’s that Russian Roulette with an automatic pistol again. Socialism is not an ‘empty chamber’, and a blank is also lethal at short range. Trumpophobia may be fashionable, but it is not worth committing national seppuku over.

With the censorship, digital book-burning and ‘no platforming’ solidly in place, the USA is a few steps away from a helter-skelter (British : a spiral slide around a tower at an amusement park) slide into full scale Communism and poverty — yes, poverty, your poverty, you queuing for food for 12 hours a day.

Growing up in 1950s Britain, one of the cultural nuances we missed in American film and TV was the visual clues to what was considered ‘poor’ in the USA, what was considered poverty in the USA was normal middle class in UK. Poor people in the USA had old 1940’s Fords, in the UK few had any car whatsoever!

In the aftermath of WW2 the UK socialists gained power and built a welfare state in four years, a welfare state that cost the taxpayer dearly, in reality, up to 70% of their earnings, much of it through indirect taxation. This has crippled Britain. It is a national ball and chain locked firmly to the leg of economic mobility. I am also of the opinion that it was Bismarckian socialism that drove Bethmann-Hollweg into the WW1 debacle; Germany could not compete with the evolving (Czarist) Russian economy.

What was President Trump’s crime that he faced such hostility?

Firstly, and importantly, it was a negative crime, the crime of not being part of the clique; although successful, he did not come from the correct lineage and was therefore despised. He was despised and hated by everybody from mild conservatives leftwards, he was the symbol of failure to all those closet admirers of Marx.

Mild conservatives hate taking action. Tommy Robinson was also despised by the soft conservatives because he was not one of them and was outspoken when he had no ‘right’ to be. Class bigotry is alive and well in the UK today.

Marxism has failed. 150 years later the middle classes have still not risen and taken over the means of production; Marx’s historically inevitability has proven to be elusive. In its place we have had attempts to re-engineer Marxism, attempts that lead Russia through Marx-Leninism (a short circuit where a coup d’état leads to the unwelcome imposition of Soviet tyranny), Fascism (Mussolini’s rationalization of Marxism into Statism) and Nazism (Hitler re-initializing Marxism, but focussed on race rather than class).

The flavours of the tyrannies varied. We have Stalin’s Marxism in one country, a form of nationalist socialism, and Mao’s nationalist/racist Han-corporatist-Marxism — and Pol Pot’s feudal Marxism. All of these (except Mussolini) used mass extermination techniques to ram through their politico-religious doctrines. Of course, with mass media constantly at hand, we now only need to murder a few, and cancel a few, and over-publicise the hype.

Nasty, unpleasant governments for all, except for those few at the very top, and those for whom it was a wonderful opportunity to satiate their illicit and depraved sadistic desires on vulnerable people.

And now, we can welcome the USA to ‘Club Gulag’ at a FEMA camp near you.

The rule of law broke down years ago, maybe epitomised by the Rambo movies, where the illegal action of a rogue but unaccountable sheriff against a psychologically challenged Vietnam Special Forces vet, now hobo, triggers a slide into extremes of violence.

The Rambo scenario, triggered by policing authorities taking ‘shortcuts’, is now familiar. Do the ends ever justify the means? In defending the ‘rights’ of the hobo, one upholds rule of law. The hobo, too, is innocent until proven guilty, but when the elite are guilty, they now seem to be able to make the burden of proof impossible. The dry rot in the deep state has penetrated right to the very core.

Innocent? guilty of non-wokism — punish — kill, that is the real historical inevitability. For ‘woke’ substitute ‘Islam’ or ‘Spanish Inquisition’ or ‘Nazi’ or ‘Hun’ or whatever is current.

The moment anybody, including Christians, leaves the ten Commandments behind, the amoral warlord culture once more takes over and the rule of terror is once more released on the masses.

So here we are today, uncertain as to the legitimacy of the Administration.

If the Administration were innocent of electoral fraud then one would expect them to not only be open to independent investigation, but to positively encourage it in order to establish true legitimacy.

So the flag droops, tarred and feathered, lacking credibility.

“Land of the Free” — only as long as you take the vaccine, wear the mask, social distance etc., etc.

“Home of the Brave” — Now just cower in the corner and do as you’re told and the covid boogaloo will pass over — you are safe as long as you do as we say (not as we do).

What just happened?

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