The following video features the appearance of the Imam of Bologna on the Italian television talk show “Dritto e rovescio”. The remarks by the esteemed Islamic cleric reminded me of the line from William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice: “The devil can quote Scripture for his purpose.”
Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
Seneca III sends this update from the nook-shotten isle of Albion on the latest political doings of the Islamic-Socialist Labour Party.
Going, Going, Gone?
by Seneca III
The latest internecine convolutions of the British Marxist-Socialist-Muslim Party, known colloquially as the Labour Party, are a pleasure to watch. Today the media are slavering at the rumour that four Labour shadow cabinet members are on resignation watch over the senior leadership’s stance on Gaza.
It appears that the party is about to implode and eat itself in an ideological feeding frenzy after Sir Kneelalot Starmer appeared to back Israel’s cutting off of power and water to the baby-murdering terrorists in Gaza. This was followed by a meeting with Muslim MPs and other Hamas-loving members of Labour’s principle voting base, a meeting that is reported ‘‘to have made things worse”. All the usual Allahu Akhbar suspects involved, of course.
There are said to be four shadow cabinet members about to leave the front bench, but so far only three names have been mooted as below:
| 1. |  Sarah Mei Li Owen, born 11 January 1983, is a British politician and trade unionist serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Luton North since 2019. A member of the Labour Party, she has served as Shadow Minister for Local Government and Faith since October 2022 having previously served as Shadow Minister for Homelessness, Rough Sleeping and Faith in the same shadow department between December 2021 and October 2022. Owen is of mixed heritage and the first MP of South East Asian ancestry. She states that her “mother’s side of the family are Malaysian and a mix of Singaporean and Nonya with Chinese ancestors.” |
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| 2. |  Rachel Louise Hopkins (born 30 March 1972) is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Luton South since 2019. A member of the Labour Party, she has been a Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office since 2021.
Hopkins was a Member of Luton Borough Council from 2011 to 2021, on which she served as Executive Member for Public Health. FYI, Luton, both North and South, is Tommy Robinson’s and the EDL’s home town, so no surprises there, either.] |
Luton
Since the 2011 census, Luton has had a white British population of less than 50%, one of three towns in the United Kingdom along with Leicester and Slough; London likewise, but it is designated a city, not a town.
Consequently, Luton is a majority minority town in which no single ethnic group make up the majority of residents. However, by broad multi-ethnic groups, Whites make up 54.7% of the population, a decline of 25.5% from 1991 when Whites made up 4 out of every 5 residents (80.2%). Asian British people have grown in proportional size, having gone from 14% in 1991 to nearly one third of the town’s population (30%) in 2011. Black British residents have also increased from nearly 5% to nearly 10% in two decades as well as Mixed residents who have gone from 2.6% in 2001 to 4.1% in 2011.
In a follow-up to his previous post, Seneca III considers the possibility that the plain of Megiddo may lie just ahead of us.
Ragnarök?
by Seneca III
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.’s changing tone concerning the Israel-Hamas conflict and his latest oblique comment to try to restrain Israel’s intent to enter Gaza in force, attempt to recover the hostages and destroy Hamas in totality, is disturbing on several levels.
We know that whatever that near brain-dead old fool says is not of his own making, but that of whomever is pulling his strings behind the scenes, and they, being deep in the shadows, are virtually impossible to identify.
Nonetheless, do not his puppet masters understand that if Israel is not permitted to end this conflict with a victory achieved by the use of conventional means and weapons and is thus faced with inevitable extinction, it will not go meekly into oblivion but will do its damnedest to take all of its Muslim enemies with it?
Israel is understood to be in possession of somewhere between 100 and 200 nuclear warheads and a variety of means to deliver them, including advanced IBCMs. (Iran also has nukes, thanks to Obama et. al., but in limited numbers and with relatively unsophisticated delivery systems.)
The denizens of Washington DC and their doppelgangers in the rest of the Western capitals are but idiot children at play in the fields of the Lord if they are not focussing on that possibility, which could indeed be initiated by the demented Ayatollahs of Iran and their Republican Guard enforcers who have seized absolute control of that ancient kingdom and remain a global threat, always with one eye on an eternity of boozing and debauchery with self-replicating virgins forever on tap in the weird Muslim Paradise.
However, a contrary assessment might well be that Western governments, and, indeed, some Muslim ones, are fully aware of the possible ramifications of Iran’s pre-medieval mindset, and are also prepared to sacrifice Israel in order to avoid a wider nuclear conflict on a much larger scale.
These are tense times indeed, because the historic mental instability of the followers of the prophet knows no bounds.
— Seneca III, late evening in a dark and damp Middle England on this 23rd day of October in the year of our Lord 2023.
For links to previous essays by Seneca III, see the Seneca III Archives.
MC sends the latest grim news from the border with Gaza.
Report From Sderot: Day 15, and Hamas is Winning
by MC
Sad to say, Hamas is wining. They are winning because whatever Israel does, the world hates Jews and regards them with deep, deep suspicion. They will say nice words, and do all they can to make sure Israel cannot win.
The Lutheran Church openly despises Jews and supports Hamas’ atrocities because they believe Israelis have kept Gaza penned up for decades (they forgot to tell us that the Egyptians too, have closed their border with Gaza). Martin Luther hated Jews, so it is inevitable, I suppose.
The Ivy League hates Jews, and will take no action against students and faculty supporting Hamas terrorism.
The Roman Catholic Church, and especially its revolutionary Pope, appears to have a very ambivalent attitude towards Jews. Even after Vatican II declared that the Jews were not “Christ Killers” that doctrine persists. One must asked oneself why Jesus was tried (by the Herodian ‘Jewish’ elite in the middle of the night). Was it to ensure that the average ‘Jew in the street’ who supported Yahushua (Jesus) was presented with a ‘fait accompli’ come the next morning?
And those awful left-wing Jews who are so arrogant and ignorant. Do they not realize that they are next on the butchery shopping list? The DNC needs their money, and it is probably the only reason that Brandon is making a lot of noise (and screwing the process through his inaction).
Hamas is winning because of the hostages. They are the ace of trumps, providing a lever that can be twisted and turned to squeeze White House policy any way but win.
My son has now been at the Northern Border for two weeks, all of it on the front line. In civilian life he is one of an elite squad clearing mines, of which there are many in Israel going back to 1916. Sometimes he brings back little bits of military antiquity.
But two weeks in the front line without relief is not good news in military terms, and Sleepy Joe seems to be insisting that Israel hold back on its proposed invasion of Gaza. Ostensibly this is to enable further hostage negotiations. With 200+ hostages, that could mean that he never needs to authorise the invasion, and we all sit comfortably and do nothing.
President Jefferson was faced with the same problem. The Barbary Pirates (also Muslim fundamentalists) were commerce-raiding and taking hostages/slaves in exactly the same way as Hamas (they had read the same book, of course). But President Jefferson was a man of integrity and action. He created the USMC and put them ashore at Tripoli. The Barbary Pirates quickly surrendered. Muslims have no stomach for a real fight against hardened troops. Martell and Sobieski demonstrated this.
The Muslim way is to attack a soft target and brutalize the victims in a way that will intimidate all those in the immediate area, such that they will surrender without a fight. This is all chronicled in the Koran. The book of war, occupation and submission.
The following report by Clare Lopez was published earlier this month by Sharia TipSheet.
Women Under Sharia
Hamas Sexual Abuse of Israeli Women Follows Islamic Doctrine as Night Follows Day
by Clare M. Lopez
In recognition of the horrific HAMAS jihad massacre of Israeli civilians on 7 October 2023, this set of links will be dedicated to highlighting the barbaric way that these savages abused women. This is not to detract from the equally barbaric treatment of the elderly, men, children, and even babies, but to note how women and girls in particular were assaulted in a sexual way. Unfortunately, as Robert Spencer has pointed out in recent interviews, this is entirely in keeping with Quranic references that legitimize polygamy, sex slavery, and the taking of sex slaves as spoils of jihad.
Among those references are the following.
Now here are the links to statements & reports of HAMAS jihadi behavior in keeping with these Quranic Surah.
“Iranian TV Host: ‘There Should Be No Mercy For Israeli Women Or Old Ladies Wounded Or Killed In The Hamas Invasion Of Israel — To Hell With Them!’”, Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), October 16, 2023
“‘Her Belly Was Cut Open, Baby Stabbed’: Israeli Rescuer Shares SHOCKING Details Of Barbaric Hamas Attack”, by Ritesh K Srivastava at Zee News, October 13, 2023
“Israeli forensic teams describe signs of torture, abuse” at Reuters, October 15, 2023
“Girls ‘raped next to their dead friends’ at rave massacre” by Orlando Radice at The Jewish Chronicle, October 9, 2023
Salah at the Brandenburger Tor? Say it ain’t so!
When I saw the above photo, it brought to mind the words spoken by Riddley Walker (in the eponymous novel by Russell Hoban), upon seeing the “shyning of them broakin machines” at Fork Stoan: “O, what we ben! And what we come to!”
Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the online news portal Nius:
Show of power in the capital: Islamists pray in front of the Brandenburg Gate!
It is a demonstration of Islamist power in the heart of the German capital! Strictly believing Muslims knelt in prayer in front of the Brandenburg Gate on Saturday evening.
Numerous social media accounts from the Islamist scene called for this.
Pray together for our dead brothers and sisters… bla, bla, bla… bring your prayer mat.
On Instagram, many accounts celebrated the prayer campaign by singing Quranic suras — another clear sign of Islamism.
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“With Sheikh, we would like to peacefully raise our voices against the suffering of our brothers and sisters and perform the Isha prayer together,” the announcement said.
Participants were asked to bring Palestine flags or something similar. As can be seen from the pictures, the predominantly young Arab men complied with this request. Videos also show passers-by watching the scene in disbelief and then moving on.
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It is a particularly cynical symbolic act: The Islamist prayer rally took place in exactly the same place and just one day before the planned expression of solidarity with Israel and all the victims of Hamas. This will happen on Sunday in front of the Brandenburg Gate.
Afterword from the translator:
The view from Blighty, as sent by our English correspondent Seneca III.
Reality Bleeds to Death as the Ummah Celebrates
by Seneca III
In this once green and pleasant land where reality and truth are now under attack from every quarter there are few voices brave enough to speak out publicly. One of them is (was?) the relatively new Broadcaster GB News, which is rapidly overtaking the long-standing BBC in viewership. Since its inception GBN has had to exist under the axe of impending closure (i.e., having its broadcasting licence withdrawn by the Quangonistas of Ofcom, the Broadcasting Regulator staffed almost exclusively by ex-BBC apparatchiks who are determined to protect their mentor’s tax-funded monopoly).
As a consequence, GB News has to tread very carefully indeed, particularly with what it posts in the comments section below each programme.
As I write, the programme still being presented by the charming and erudite Emily Carver is dealing with the horrendous ‘demonstrations’ that took place in several major British cities yesterday, where howling mobs of Muslims of various flavours, including ‘Palestinians’ (to whom we have granted asylum, residency, free accommodation and endless handouts), vented their blood lust, both verbally and with banners, and called for another holocaust, essentially, the extermination of all Jews in general and Israelis and Israel in particular.
Our governing classes have since postured and snivelled in the public media, both broadcast and in print, in essence claiming that that these savages haven’t actually broken any laws and that is why the police were extremely limited in any actions that they could take.
Make of that what you will. I present it is as the background to the short story which follows and which illustrates what a collection of angst-ridden wet wipes some of us are becoming. Aux armes, mes amis!
To continue. I have an old friend, not just old in friendship but older in years as well, which is quite remarkable in view of my increasing decrepitude. That said, he is an acute observer of our troubling times, and occasionally posts in the comments section following GB News programmes. This morning he attempted to post a comment re. the Emily Carver presentation, but was knocked back twice without explanation, despite having asked why it had been knocked back in the first case.
He received no reply, so I will reproduce his comment below as a public service, but first I will tell you that he asked me if I could hazard a guess as to why this had happened. All I could offer was to suggest that his comment was both reasonable and correct in all particulars but that such things no longer carry any weight in public discourse, for the fearful and the treacherous now have full control of the levers of power and the mainstream media are fully complicit therewith.
Here is what he said:
Our Dutch correspondent H. Numan sends his analysis of the ongoing war in Gaza between Hamas and Israel.
The Gaza war — no worries
by H. Numan
We’re hearing very bad news from our highly biased media. Sure, they don’t (openly) approve of Hamas’ attack, but Israel had it coming! Of course they report everything. But they’d much rather publish unproven accusations about Israel than proven war crimes by Hamas. One of the latest hoaxes that goes around is that the war might spread to the entire region. That’s a real New York sandwich (baloney)!
All support for Hamas or the Palestinians rests on woefully naïve presumptions. For example: “Israel should respond proportionately”. Really? When did that ever happen? The US fleet should have sailed from Pearl Harbor, and sunk a number of Japanese battleships? That’s ranting nonsense. It’s not just ranting, it goes much further. It’s insane. If Israel should respond proportionately, they have to intentionally rape and kill Palestinian babies, torture Palestinian women and children, and intentionally kill 1,600 civilians. Then call it a day. Anyone using that argument has no idea at all what he or (usually she) is talking about. I don’t doubt that many more Palestinians are being killed right now, and will be killed. That’s what happens in war. The difference is the intention. The Israeli army takes great pride and care in trying to reduce the number of victims, while Palestinians take as much pride and care in maximizing the number of victims. As far as I know, the Israeli army is the only army that sends SMS to occupants of a building that’s going to be bombed.
Another unreasonable worry is Iran. “Israel has to restrain itself, otherwise Iran might have to act.” Really? With what? They are already involved up to their eyeballs. Just about every weapon, explosive or piece of munition used by Hamas comes from Iran. They can’t get any more involved unless they send in the Iranian army! There are three very good reasons why Iran will not do that.
| 1. | It’s a pretty long march to get there. Walking, driving, flying. Doesn’t matter. The Iranian army isn’t capable of doing that. | |
| 2. | Supporting the most vicious beasts since WW2 is one thing, actively siding with them quite another. The moment Iran openly sides with Hamas and declares war on Israel, they lose whatever support they had worldwide. And become the real pariah of the Middle East. | |
| 3. | Iran jumping in means that America has to jump in too. Something that worries Tehran a lot more than anything else. All America has to do is precision bomb the oil distribution facilities in the Persian Gulf and Iran is out of money and out of the war. Even better: America can do that with no US casualties, and very few on the Iranian side. |
“Israel has to be careful of Hezbollah!” warn progressive liberals. You can read also: fashionable anti-Semites. Hezbollah is a terrorist organization in Lebanon, it is not the Lebanese government. Israel made it very clear to the Lebanese government that they would be personally held responsible if Hezbollah goes to war. Personal means exactly that. The people who actually are in charge. Not institutions, no letters of complaint. They themselves. There is no love lost between Lebanon and Israel, but this warning is something that the Lebanese government takes pretty seriously.
“Israel is depopulating Gaza, and drives them into the Sinai to die!” — another silly claim from our progressive media. They continue by insinuating Egypt is complicit. Wrong. Egypt HATES Hamas and wants nothing to do with Gaza. Nothing at all. Except using it for target practice, if that were possible. Before the Israeli withdrawal they offered control of it to Egypt — which Egypt refused.
Many thanks to Nash Montana for translating this article from Bild:
Gruesome details about Hamas: “Terrorists ate dinner while they tortured children.“
Tears running down his face, an employee of the relief agency “Zaka” reveals the gruesome details of the murder of an entire family.
You gruesome murderers!
Every single day, new atrocities come to light from the insidious attack on Israel by Hamas almost two weeks ago, which left in its wake 1,300 dead people and more than 200 kidnapped hostages.
And now, as a volunteer for the relief agency “Zaka” reveals details at a press conference about the murder of a family of four, this barbarity has reached the highest level ever.
Tears running down his face, this man retells the moment he reached a house: “We saw a pair, a father and a mother, on their knees on the floor. Their heads hung down, their hands were tied behind their backs. At the other end of the dining room we found a 7-year-old boy. Next to him was a girl, about 6 years old.”
Horror! The volunteer for “Zaka” speaks in an interview
The children were tied up in the same position as the parents on the other side of the room. “Their bodies were tortured”, says the man, and then he states he doesn’t know who was tortured first and who had to watch whom being tortured. “The parents or the children?”
What then follows is heart-wrenching.
“When I speak of torture, I am talking of missing body parts. An eye, fingers…”
In the middle of the room was a dining table, the volunteer explains: “These terrorists sat there and they ate the Saturday meal that the family had prepared. They had eaten while they tortured the children of this family.”
“Zaka” is an organization whose volunteer members are mostly Orthodox Jews. They clean up bodies and body parts after accidents and suicide bombings.
Threats and bullying against Jewish schoolchildren in the Netherlands have increased since the war between Hamas and Israel began earlier this month, to the point that some parents are transferring their kids to Jewish schools.
Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from De Telegraaf:
“No words for what is now happening”
CJO [Centraal Joods Overleg, Central Jewish Consultative Committee]: Jewish children threatened and bullied from school
by Vincent Lengkeek
October 20, 2021Amsterdam — Jewish children are being threatened and bullied now that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has flared up. Dozens of parents have held discussions about transferring to one of the three Jewish schools in Amsterdam-Buitenveldert, reports the Central Jewish Consultative Committee. The organization speaks of a “troubling trend”.
“Six children have already made the change this week,” says Chairman Chanan Hertzberger, Thursday to De Telegraaf. “We hope this won’t become common, and we ask for action from the government. This is not just Amsterdam, but rather a national problem. That children must leave their school because they are threatened. I have no words for it. At least in France, they are taking tough action against it.”
According to the CJO, the Jewish community in the Netherlands is devastated by the “lack of support” from society after the bloody terror attack by Hamas last week in southern Israel and the anti-Semitic reaction to Jews abroad. “That one cannot make the distinction between Israel and Jews. A schism has arisen: You are for or against. This is how it gets completely out of hand.”
The CJO is unhappy with the action of Rotterdam city council members over a motion on Jew-hatred. According to Hertzberger, the news that the motion failed to pass hit the Jewish community like a shock. “Just that such a motion is necessary, but that several parties subsequently decided to walk away…We find it unbelievable.”
Here’s MC’s latest report, two weeks into the war between Hamas and Israel.
Report From Sderot: Two Weeks
by MC
So we are at the stage where, as usual, Hamas is manipulating the world media and plucking at the heartstrings of the gullible. The BBC’s excuse for disseminating Pallywood fiction is that the ‘explosion’ at the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City was too big to be a Quassam…
Unfortunately, at the time the PIJ were shooting the bigger Grad missiles, longer range with larger warheads. Grads are a WW2 missile and likely to be some 6o years old and somewhat rusty, it is no surprise that Hamas and PIJ have had hundreds of misfires so far. Much of the past destruction in Gaza has been caused by Hamas’ relentless and ruthless obsession with its jihad against Israel.
Hamas took power when elected by the Gazan Palestinian ‘civilians’ in 2006. The election manifesto was to pursue aggression against Israel and Jews as a perpetual ‘holy war’.
Hamas has no mandate of care for Gazan civilians, and are quite happy to dig up water and sewage pipes to make missiles, and then blame Israel for insanitary conditions. They used conscripted slave labour to construct extensive terror tunnels, and then executed the labourers so they would not tell the world of their plight.
In other words, Hamas is a vile dictatorship, as bad as any of the vicious regimes that had to be put down in the 20th century. There is now not one thing that the Nazis did that Hamas has not done, too. But Hamas is a victim of the West’s ‘Islamophobia’, and thus a woke special case…
To be Muslim is to be above criticism. To be Jewish is to be despised (and envied).
But the BBC, Harvard students, the Democrats, and the left generally all support Hamas against the “filthy, vile, Jewish capitalists”.
Of course, this time these lefties cannot yell their usual “disproportionate response” mantra. What is a proportionate response to rape, murder and torture of children and babies?
What kind of person rapes a young woman then stands up and shoots her?
What kind of person beheads a baby with an entrenching tool?
Israel is angry, but the rest of the world seems to be more concerned that poor ‘innocent’ Palestinians are hungry and thirsty.
The following video is a German report on the Israeli effort to identify the hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza. The German portions have been subtitled in English; the English portions have the German subtitles that were included in the original clip.
From the text of the video description:
Hundreds of volunteers are investigating the locations of kidnapped Hamas hostages with the help of artificial intelligence and social media. One mother is begging the world for help — her daughter appeared in a Hamas propaganda video.
Many thanks to Nash Montana for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
MC is still in Sderot, and the missiles from Gaza are still falling on the city.
Have you noticed that the tide of public opinion is changing, as it usually does, from all-out support to the usual cries of “don’t hurt (Muslim) civilians”?
When Hamas hides behind civilians, then civilian casualties are Hamas’ responsibility. Except, it seems, where Israel and Jews are concerned.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken now appears to be setting conditions.
In a recent X (twitter) catfight two conservatives had a scrap over the fate of Harvard students who signed that infamous letter of support for massacring jooz. “Silly ignorant students,” said one. “Malicious anti-Semites,” said the other.
The real point is that there need to be consequences if freedom of speech is to be viable. If one supports a holocaust-like event, then one is probably a Nazi of some kind. In my experience, Nazis remain Nazis until terminated.
The Left, including Nazism, is a nasty political disease that has brought cruelty and mayhem beyond belief to this world. My wife’s sister has emailed us three times so far to express her support for Hamas against Israeli ‘apartheid’.
Most people are totally ignorant of the inner workings of the original apartheid in South Africa, and the dire consequences of its dismantling.
Apartheid means separation in Afrikaans (die taal), and was an experiment in trying to get differing cultures to live in harmony. It was partially successful until the socialists got hold of it. They turned it into a catastrophe for all concerned.
For example, the African tribesman straight from his kraal expects to be able to defecate anywhere there is room to squat (a bit like San Francisco). This behaviour is not acceptable for the white European-based culture, as they have to deal with the mess. Apartheid dictated that high walls make good neighbours and that these cultural points of friction could be mitigated by ‘separation’.
Unfortunately for South Africa it became all about skin colour, not culture, and the rest is history.
Israel is the most (skin colour) un-racist country I have ever been in. As immigrants from the UK, we stand out as ‘white’ (Anglos), and most Israelis assume that I am American.
Muslim Israelis have exactly the same rights under Basic Law as I have. However, in the areas supervised by the PA (and Hamas) under the Oslo Accords, the same is not true.
Sawsan Chebli is a well-known apparatchik for the Social Democrats in Berlin. She was born in Germany, one of thirteen children sired by a Palestinian asylum seeker. She has made herself a career as a functionary for the SDP.
She’s not the only member of the Chebli family to have political pretensions. The following video was recorded by Sawsan Chebli’s niece, who advises the parents of Palestinian-German schoolchildren to teach their kids to stand up for their rights as oppressed Palestinians.
Horst Rübenhouse introduced the video with this tweet on X: “May I present: Nesrin Asamum, niece of Sawsan Chebli.”
Many thanks to Nash Montana for translating the video, the tweets, and the article, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:
For more background on the Chebli family, see this tweet by Annabel Schunke:
I would like to state this one more time:
The Chebli family was deported back to Lebanon three times because they showed no legal claim for asylum in Germany. But they kept returning over and over, and were ultimately tolerated.
Sawsan Chebli’s father never bothered to learn German. He remained illiterate, living on German social benefits, which did not stop him from fathering 13 children, who subsequently also were all financed by the German taxpayer. Chebli’s older brother, now deceased, was an imam who regularly agitated against Israel.
This is Sawsan Chebli’s niece, Nesrin Asamum. Chebli herself repeatedly attracts attention through posts in which she tries to relativize anti-Semitism by presenting it as if the criticism of it was primarily anti-Muslim racism. To this day, Chebli has a career in the SPD; she also served as spokeswoman for the Foreign Office of intercultural affairs.
If we don’t pay attention to who is coming to us now, we will soon be able to look forward to thousands more Cheblis who apparently have not yet arrived in this society even after decades.
Here’s some commentary by Manfred Rouhs from Politically Incorrect about Nesrin Asamum’s video: