Our Lady of Allahu Akhbar

When the Ottoman hordes under Sultan Mehmed II overran Constantinople in 1453, they sacked the great cathedral of Hagia Sophia and converted it into a mosque. A necessary prerequisite for this conversion was the military conquest of the city — Hagia Sophia became a mosque at the point of an Islamic sword.

A Catholic church in Montreal has just begun its own conversion into a mosque, but no military conquest was necessary — a mujahid simply walked into the church and politely asked permission for his “Allahu Akhbar”, and his request was just as politely granted by the priest.

I don’t know exactly what the next steps in the conversion process will be. Maybe the guy will return later with several fellow mujahideen, who will lay down their prayer rugs and begin elevating their fundaments without even bothering to ask permission. Maybe the priest will take down the cross, and request that parishioners refrain from wearing any Christian religious symbols so as not to offend the sensitivities of the new members of the congregation.

Oh, and ladies — please cover your hair and move to the back of the nave behind the screen…

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

Video transcript:

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Color Blind Crime Reporting

Below are excerpts from an intermittent conversation between Vlad and me on Skype. It began early last week and went on for several days. I’ve edited out extraneous material on unrelated topics:

Baron:   There’s still no name for the perp in the Macy’s stabbings. Makes me suspicious.
Vlad:   No name nearly always means Muslim.
Baron:   Yes, or possibly Afro-American. Jakwan Johnson or something.
Vlad:   Yes, exactly.
Baron:   I keep reading news stories about appalling violence, no indication of ethnicity, and then see that the perp is named D’Shawn Evans, and his girlfriend is called Shaneese Richards. Or something like that.
The next day, after the Macy’s killer was identified:
Baron:   The perp in the Macy’s stabbing is named Tyrone Tunnell.
    So it looks like they were obfuscating negro, and not Muslim.
A couple of days later:
Baron:   The young woman who tried to burn down Martin Luther King’s birthplace is named Laneisha Shantrice Henderson. I’m trying to guess her ethnicity.
Vlad:   LOL
    Why did she do that?
Baron:   It says she may be Antifa.
Vlad:   Makes sense.
Baron:   Looks like a white supremacist to me.
The next day:
 

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But He Was Such a Good Boy!

Imagine a young man who grew up in a “moderate Muslim” culture — that is, a nominally Muslim community where Islamic practices are observed only minimally, where people may wear secular apparel without fear of abuse, where women appear in public unveiled, and where “violent extremism” is very rare.

The young man’s parents were largely secular. Their relationship with their local mosque was pro forma, for appearances’ sake only. He was educated in secular schools.

Then, after he grew up, he moved to a country where the fundamentalist version of Islam was dominant, where Muslims were taught to observe strictly the practices described in the Koran, the Hadith, and the Sunnah. He attended a mosque where the imam was a firebrand zealot who exhorted his congregation to wage jihad in the way of Allah. The young man became “radicalized”, and went on to join a group of dedicated mujahideen, with tragic consequences.

Such was the case of young Chiheb Esseghaier, who grew up in the mildly Islamic culture of Tunisia, but became a terrorist after moving to… Canada.

In 2013 young Mr. Esseghaier was apprehended and prosecuted for his part in the Via Rail Canada terror plot. He was sentenced to life in prison, but his conviction was later overturned. A final decision on the issue of retrial has not yet been reached.

In the following video from a French source, a reporter interviews the parents of Chiheb Esseghaier, who simply cannot believe that their son could possibly have committed the crimes he was charged with, because he had always been such a good, studious boy.

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

Video transcript:

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The Dialectics of the Communist Revolution in North America

Last month our friend Vlad Tepes spoke at Rally in the Valley in Pembroke, Ontario. His topic was the Communist revolution that has already taken place in Canada and the USA, and the role that Hegelian dialectics plays in it.

The video below contains the audio of Vlad’s talk. Note: The date that appears on the screen while the video is playing is incorrect; the rally took place on August 25, 2023.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for uploading this video:

The Demonic Convergence of Communism and Islam

In the following video Major Stephen Coughlin (U.S. Army, retired) is interviewed by Vlad Tepes about the convergence of Islamic ideology — coordinated by the Muslim Brotherhood — and the ideology of Communism, as traced through the writings of Hegel, Marx, Lenin, and Mao.

In order to understand what is being done to us — the deliberate deconstruction of Western Civilization by the Demonic Convergence — it is necessary to pull our minds away from the narratives that have been thrust upon us by our governments, the media, and academia.

The task we face is described in this brief summary by Maj. Coughlin:

STOP — seeing what you know.
START — knowing what you see.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for conducting the interview and uploading the video:

See the accompanying article at the RAIR Foundation website.

Transgenders are the Vanguard of the Socialist Revolution

Yesterday a group of people who opposed the mutilation of children in the service of “transgender” ideology attempted to mount a peaceful street protest in Ottawa, but were blocked by a much larger group of counter-protesters. Vlad was there, and wrote an excellent account of what happened, along with an analysis of the revolutionary communist methodology behind it. Below is a slightly different version of Vlad’s report.

Friday’s demonstration against the mutilation of children, and the Marxist counter-demo in Ottawa

What is obvious at first is that had the usual suspects in Ottawa’s far left extremist community not bothered to show up, Billboard Chris and Josh Alexander’s march would have been ten minutes up Broadview and ten minutes back, maybe a few speeches and everyone off in time for lunch. The media could do what it does second best and ignore the very real concerns of people who think children too young to buy a beer or cigarettes shouldn’t be persuaded by teachers to have their genitals mutilated and become sterilized for life. Instead, the media does what it does best, and foments conflict and then presents it in exactly the opposite way that it really happened. Just as an example — and this happens nearly every time ANTIFA or its sympathetic groups are involved — the media reports that there were X number of arrests, but usually fails to mention they are on the side of the left who typically initiate violence at these sorts of things. This goes back to pre-BLM demonstrations but was common during all of those. Watch older Tim Poole videos from when he used to go out and actually report on demonstrations for court-worthy evidence of exactly this.

First, a few words about Marxist tactics and why the “trans” thing is such a big deal when just a few years ago, there just wasn’t any.

It was a non-issue. A very tiny number of people felt they would be better off being surgically altered into the other sex, and did it. Some were OK with the results, some less so. But today what we have is quite something else. Johns Hopkins actually stopped doing trans surgeries until very recently because they noted that it never actually alleviated the symptoms which the surgeries were supposed to cure. Obviously the reasons for resuming the practice is likely more political than medical. Such is the nature of a communist state.

Here is a possible explanation:

Those who have read this site for a few years or more, or Gates of Vienna, or Robert Spencer, or Bill Warner, or Stephen Coughlin and many others, might appreciate the way Islam uses mosques as beachheads. The way it works is a clever inversion of the concept of defence. They build a mosque in a place symbolically important to the enemy, either after conquest in the traditional sense, or taking advantage of the enemy’s tolerance and building it as if it were the same as any other religious building. Then they consider it Islamic territory, and after that any objection to what they may say or do in or around that mosque becomes grounds to “defend religion” as the Koran instructs. We see that across Europe — although not many new videos have surfaced recently, but we have published many — where near a mosque, there will be Islamic patrols harassing homosexuals, people with a drink in their hands where that is legal on the street, and women who are dressed immodestly as Islam decides at that moment and place what immodest may be.

Islam spreads out from the mosque that way. At least in theory. But it’s no accident that mosques are built on strategic locations. The Temple Mount, for example, is the most sacred place to Jews as it is alleged to hold the Ark of the Covenant. The Muslims are in complete control of that area, as it’s right next to a mosque they use as a beachhead to justify claiming Israel is somehow legitimately Islamic. The same with the Cordoba mosque in Spain, which is what they named the Islamic Centre built as close as they were able to the Twin Towers in NYC after 911. That also is not a coincidence.

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Illegal Immigrant Canadian Smoke

This is what it looks like here in Central Virginia today:


(article here)

The Canadian smoke is really thick right now. I noticed the smell of it for the first time today, acrid and unpleasant. The sunlight is quite muted and orange, and I can’t see the mountains.

We had a lot of rain last night, and I thought that might wash some of it out, but it doesn’t seem to have had an effect.

My original plan was to mow the lawn today, but I think any sustained exercise outside is probably a bad idea.

This is a useful website: AirNow.gov. It has a map that shows the air quality zones, and the locations of all the wildfires. You can zoom out, and it even includes Canada and Central America.

As of right now my AQI is 216, down a bit from the highest reading I saw, which was 229. I checked out a bunch of locations on the East Coast, and the Charlottesville area had the highest reading of any of them, higher than New York, DC, or Richmond. We drew the short straw this time.

There’s an area up by the Hudson Bay that has the worst quality of all. Fortunately, almost nobody lives up there.

From the Nation Weather Service air quality alert:

Due to Canadian wildfires, smoke is prevalent in the Mid-Atlantic region, including the greater Baltimore and Washington metropolitan areas. Under northerly winds, smoke will continue to be pushed south over our area. Thicker smoke will continue to overspread portions of the area, resulting in poor air quality and visibility potentially less than 1 mile. Some improvement is likely through the day, but the smoke likely will continue to affect the area at times until a front on Friday potentially brings some reprieve to fine particle concentrations.

I’m going to stay in the house with the central air on, and be glad I don’t have to work outside in this.

Your Secret Decoder Ring

The following text by Vlad Tepes appeared in his links post last Wednesday in a slightly different form:

This one [video] might deserve a few words though. One of the issues that comes up now and again is the confusion people have with the notion that the left is somehow hypocritical. They are not. They are using Marxist dialectics to achieve a certain outcome. This isn’t hypocrisy because it isn’t a moral failing on their part (from their perspective), or a lack of vision.

A couple of recent examples of dialectics could be when Trudeau went to Japan and lectured Italy’s newly elected female Prime Minister on her quite rational policies concerning group rights for people with non-standard sexual practices. Trudeau publicly admonished her for failing to deconstruct and ultimately criminalize the values that made her country the source of Western Civilization in many ways. He did this in Japan. Probably the least diverse nation on Earth with policies of both systemic racism and racism by cultural norms. Not that I am judging that. Japan has a right to protect and enjoy its own culture, which clearly works for them as they have a staggeringly successful nation with low crime, massive trust, efficient operations, clean streets, low drug use and so on and so on and so on. But it is interesting that Trudeau did not attempt to lecture the Japanese leader on his failure to destroy his own country with Marxist policies of diversity, equity and inclusion, deciding to focus on Italy instead.

Also we have not heard Trudeau comment on the Chinese policy of not allowing effeminate men to appear on television. I think Canada should send the entire CBC to China. That’ll learn ‘em. If CBC can benefit China half as much as it benefits Canada, Canada won’t have to worry about Chinese influence anymore or Marxist manifest destiny, and China won’t be a threat to anyone much longer.

Another example is the designation of “oligarch” to a person as opposed to “philanthropist”. Bill Gates and George Soros are somehow philanthropists while any rich, powerful and connected person who uses his wealth for the counter-revolution is an oligarch. So this is dialectical. Not hypocrisy, because it is the weaponization of concepts and language through multiple means to create an outcome which always moves the culture and nation to the left. Always more state control. Islamophobia as a pejorative is usually used when someone says something true about Islam. It shuts people up and moves the focus of evil intent to the messenger. This is not hypocrisy. This is dialectics. Like “climate denial”, “transphobia” and many other devices intended to be destructive to every aspect of our civilization.

The host of this video may also be shy of the whole nature of his own point in his analysis of what Democrats mean when they say “democracy”. This is a dialectic term as well. They are using what Stephen Coughlin refers to as “initiate language”. They are using the term “democracy” as Lenin did when he named his party “The Socialist Democrat Party” in Russia. The US Democrats have a core that is called the DSA or Democratic Socialists of America. They know perfectly well what they mean when they use the term. They also know how we hear the term and what we think they mean.

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Stenographers to the Apocalypse

Earlier today there was a discussion on Skype between Vlad and HeHa, one of the translators, about a video Vlad had found on Twitter (which will be posted here shortly with English subtitles). He asked HeHa what it was about, and the following brief conversation ensued:

HeHa:   A Moroccan is so joyous to see how Bruxelles has become a Moroccan city. A Muslim city.
Vlad:   Can we do that one, please?
HeHa:   Sure.
Vlad:   Although, to be honest, more and more it feels like we are all stenographers to the apocalypse. Still, someone has to do it.
Baron:   That’s exactly how I feel: someone has to do it. It’s a dirty job, but necessary.
 

It’s been clear for at least ten years that the current dystopian trajectory of Western culture can’t be corrected by the electoral process — or by any other peaceful means, for that matter.

Every day I curate and edit text and video reports about various aspects of the horror that has engulfed our society. “Apocalyptic” somehow doesn’t seem to do it justice. If I weren’t able to talk to Vlad about it regularly — he and I share the same general take on the likely trajectory of and prognosis for our societal illness — I don’t know how I’d cope with the sheer toxicity of all the information that passes through my hands.

Vlad and I discussed it some more later on, and he added:

There are times where instead of feeling like we are doing something to wake the public up to vast existential problems so that we may fight back in whatever way, instead, we are merely chronicling our demise. Creating a running colour commentary on our destruction, which will itself be destroyed.

I agree with him on that last point: all these digital archives are unlikely to survive the Collapse that lies ahead. Unless someone has printed out hard copies on non-acidic paper, these chronicles will disappear.

Nevertheless, the chronicling must go on.

VIA Con Dios… NOT

The first time I heard about Gates of Vienna being blocked by the government was back in the fall of 2006, when the Department of the Interior installed blocking software that excluded us and numerous other deplorable websites (see my reports on the incident here, here, and here).

Since then, of course, there have been many other instances of governmental and corporate suppression of this site, too numerous to mention.

I received the most recent report a few days ago. VIA Rail is the Canadian intercity rail service, kind of like the Amtrak of Canada. A reader in Canada sent me the following note:

FYI, I tried to access your page using the “free WiFi” on board VIA trains here in Canada, and got the attached censorious result.

Here’s a detail from the screen cap he sent:

He added:

Curiously, Vlad’s page wasn’t censored.

That last part is curious, because Vlad has greater reach than I do, due to his emphasis on videos. But don’t tell anyone — especially not VIA Rail.

Semantic Marxism

The culture war we’re currently embroiled in is part of a process of Marxist dialectics that aims to negate all significant characteristics of Western culture. We are being targeted by a host of lytic agents that serve to break down our traditional structures. When everything we know and love has been razed, then a new world can be built on the ruins by those who destroyed the old one.

The following short video is a trailer for a three-hour presentation by Stephen Coughlin and Veterans4Freedom, which will be released soon:

Hat tip: Vlad Tepes.

And Now… UFOs!

Forget about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Forget about the collaboration between the US government and Twitter to censor Americans. Now we have UFOs to preoccupy us!

If I’ve been counting the incidents correctly, in the past week there have been no fewer than four intruders into American airspace that were shot down by the USAF: the notorious Chinese spy balloon, followed by three other “objects”, one over Alaska, one over Canada, and the latest over Lake Huron.

Are these UFOs being served up to distract the viewing public from various scandals and political disasters that the FedGov would rather see buried? Or is there really something new going on?

I don’t have any opinion on the whole business, but there’s been some interesting discussion about it on various social media platforms. Consider the following thread (hat tip WRSA) that jumped back and forth between Twitter and Telegram.

First, Lucas Tomlinson on Twitter:

A senior U.S. official confirms the ‘object’ shot down over northern Alaska Friday was able to penetrate U.S. airspace before being picked up on radar. @nancyayoussef and WSJ colleagues first to report.

Next, Intel Slava Z on Telegram:

If Balloons can get into U.S. airspace undetected, I’m really curious what they think they can do to stop Russian or Chinese hypersonic missiles?

Then Big Serge on Twitter:

My theory about the airspace closures and intercepts is that the DoD cracked open that first Chinese balloon and found sensory capabilities that really freaked them out, so now they are being hyper-vigilant about any and all radar anomalies.

Finally, Intel Slava Z again, on Telegram:

Comment: The USAF pilots who intercepted the one shot down over Alaska said the object inferred [sic, should be “interfered”] with their sensors and the object itself was initially undetected by Radar. Apparently the one over Montana has been doing the same, so this does seem a valid theory.

If PLAAF tech is such that even balloons can go undetected by and mess with the electronics on an F-22, that’s an extremely ominous sign for the U.S. in the case of a Taiwan War where the J-20s get deployed…

A Victory in Ontario for the Vaccine-Hesitant

A schoolteacher named Rich Daly won an important vax-related case in an Ontario court. A judged ruled that he, rather than his ex-wife, was the most qualified and knowledgeable person to decide whether or not his 8-year-old daughter should be injected with the experimental mRNA treatment intended to mitigate the effects of infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus.

Mr. Daly says the ruling is now being used as a precedent in other cases.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for conducting the interview and uploading this video:

Alberta First

Danielle Smith is the Premier of Alberta and the leader of the United Conservative Party. In the following video Ms. Smith discusses the sovereign rights of Alberta in its relationship with the federal government in Ottawa.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video:

These remarks by Danielle Smith were made last week. As she promised, yesterday her government introduced a sovereignty bill to clarify the constitutional relationship between the provincial government in Edmonton and the central government in Ottawa (hat tip Reader from Chicago):

‘Ottawa is not our ruler’: Alberta government introduces sovereignty bill

EDMONTON — The Alberta government has introduced a bill that would grant Premier Danielle Smith and her cabinet broad powers to rewrite provincial laws behind closed doors in an effort to push back against Ottawa.

The proposed legislation would also allow cabinet to direct “provincial entities” — Crown-controlled organizations, municipalities, school boards, post-secondary schools, municipal police forces, regional health authorities and any social agency receiving provincial money — to not use provincial resources to enforce federal rules deemed harmful to Alberta’s interests.