Month: May 2021
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Islamist soon to be released in Germany: Does the next terrorist attack take place in Saxony?
At the beginning of June, another dangerous Islamist will be released from a prison in Saxony. The Syrian asylum seeker is considered a dangerous person. Experts believe the IS sympathiser to have committed “crimes of considerable significance”, reports the newspaper WELT. The authorities are now discussing “security measures” such as probation officers and reporting requirements.
Carsten Hütter, security policy spokesman of the AfD parliamentary group, comments:
“Apparently, Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Minister of the Interior Wöller has learned nothing from the dastardly knife murder in Dresden. At that time, too, the Islamist perpetrator was released from prison and allowed to keep residing in Saxony. The domestic intelligence service was supposed to monitor the Islamist, but failed all along the line.
I await from the governing parties that they finally deport Islamist terrorists to Syria as well. So far, they have always refused with the argument that they would be threatened with death there. This means, however, that the government prefers to accept victims among its own citizens in exchange for protecting foreign perpetrators and potential terrorists.This hostile policy against indigenous people must be stopped. Other European countries like Denmark even deport rejected asylum seekers to Syria.”
https://www.journalistenwatch.com/2021/05/31/islamist-droht-terroranschlag/
Switzerland ends negotiations with EU over differences on immigration and wages
After seven years of talks, attempts to establish closer ties between the EU and Switzerland have failed. The government in Bern ended the negotiations due to insurmountable differences in opinions on immigration and wages, with the end of talks likely to have a relatively significant impact on the Swiss economy.
In recent years, Switzerland has built a reputation as a world leader in medical technology. In Basel, St. Gallen, Bern, and near Lake Geneva, there are over 1,600 companies that produce everything from joint replacements to sophisticated ovulation bracelets.
Now, however, the heads of companies, which employ over 55,000 people and account for 5 percent of Swiss exports, are full of worries. From Wednesday, Swiss pharmaceutical certificates will not be recognized in the EU, which greatly complicates exports. It is estimated that new administrative barriers for the whole sector will cost €61 million a year.
Switzerland’s Health Valley thus became the first victim of the long dispute between Bern and Brussels. On Wednesday, Switzerland ended years of negotiations on an umbrella agreement to replace dozens of bilateral agreements from the past. The aim was also to set the framework for Switzerland’s participation in the single market and set up a dispute settlement mechanism.
The failed negotiations will probably have a significant impact on the Swiss economy. The EU market is the largest market for the rich alpine federation, with mutual trade amounting to about €230 billion a year.
The health technology sector is probably just the first victim. As individual agreements with the EU approach the end of their validity, a similar impact awaits the energy market, the pharmaceutical industry, and engineering.
“It’s as if a minefield suddenly appeared in front of us. And each of those mines will explode,” says political scientist Rene Schwok of the University of Geneva, assessing the new trade barriers.
According to The Financial Times, the special relationship with Switzerland has been a source of frustration for the European Commission for years. The ties are based on around 120 treaties covering a range of areas from industry standards to civil aviation and guarantees that the country has access to a large part of the single market in exchange for the free movement of people.
Such an arrangement gives Switzerland a significant degree of flexibility and freedom.
“Basically, it chooses only those areas of common interest in which it wants to participate, and decides, which European legislation it voluntarily implements,” explains Monika Brusenbauch Meislová from the Prague’s Institute of International Relations.
However, the administration of such a large number of agreements, which sometimes contradicted each other and required frequent updating, became increasingly complicated, and so in 2014, both parties began to negotiate an overarching contract. Then Brexit happened, and there were fears that the Swiss model would become the British argument for getting more benefits.
Experts agree that Brussels, after the Brexit experience, pushed Switzerland quite a bit to accept the offered conditions. Two years ago, it blocked trading in Swiss shares on European markets, and this spring, it stopped the participation of the SBB railway carrier in European research projects.
“The European Union has no reason to make concessions, and that’s because of Brexit. The EU must now think carefully about what it means to be part of the single market and what rights and privileges are associated with it,” analyst Nicolas Veron of the Brussels-based Bruegel think tank told Bloomberg.
Switzerland was reluctant. It did not like that in the future, it would almost automatically adopt EU directives and that EU citizens would be more entitled to social benefits. Nationalists from the Swiss People’s Party spoke of a “colonial treaty,” with unions warning of the influx of cheap labor and falling wages.
Although polls have shown that the agreement would probably pass the necessary referendum, the negotiations have waned. The EU ambassador to Switzerland has even recently described the talks as a “chronicle of the announced death.”
On Wednesday, Swiss President Guy Parmelin announced that the government could not accept the demands of the EU negotiators and ended the negotiations. The European Commission has said it regrets this conclusion. However, the European Commission emphasized that access to the single market must be accompanied by the adoption of uniform rules and obligations.
As Swiss opponents of immigration celebrate along with union supporters, economists say the end of talks will be damaging.
“If someone claims that the new administrative costs are bearable, they do not fully understand how tough international competition is today,” said Beat Vonlanthen, head of the MedTech medical technology association.
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Vienna student reading Jewish book attacked on subway
Police in Vienna have come under criticism for their lack of response to a recent incident where a 19-year old female student was subjected to anti-Semitic harassment and assault, and two street level police officers failed to respond.
According to Austria’s Kronen Zeitungnewspaper, the student, who is from the Carinthia region, is a Jewish Studies major at a Viennese university. Last week she was travelling on the U-Bahn subway reading the book “The Jews in the Modern World,” whose title was clearly visible.
Three men in the same car saw that she was reading a Jewish book. They approached her and began to yell insults at her, including “child murderer.” They also pulled her hair.
The student got off the train at the next station and approached two police officers. She told them about the attack. Instead of coming to her aid, the officers chastising her for reading the book during a “time of such conflict.”
They also asked her if the was Jewish. When she replied that she wasn’t, the officers falsely told her she wasn’t entitled to file an anti-Semitism complaint.
Her attempt to file a case at a police station also resulted in a similar lack of response, with police telling she that she would be advised to forget the incident.
After media reports of the incident began to circulate, the Austrian Ministry of the Interior reportedly instructed local police to investigate.
Merkel’s state broadcaster denies Muslim anti-Semitism in Germany
You can see better with the Zweites? Not at all: Muslim anti-Semitism is consistently overlooked on public broadcaster Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF).
In a report, ZDF news programme “heute” called a Syrian-Palestinian refugee a champion “against Jew-hatred”. Yet the man is an open Israel-hater. “His” country has been occupied “for 73 years”, he declares on Facebook: “We are against Israel.” In other words, the founding of the Jewish state 73 years ago is already an illegal act for him!
But the ZDF report denies the anti-Semitic statements. “He condemns anti-Semitism, but Israel as well,” it says distortingly. His hatred of Israel is not classified. The absurd headline of the article: “Muslims against anti-Semitism.” ZDF did not answer a enquiry from the newspaper BILD about the programme.
ZDF comedian Jan Böhmermann (40) also does not want to know anything about Muslim anti-Semitism. “The only ‘imported anti-Semitism’ that really exists is that which is imported from the past,” he tweeted.
The reality of life for Jews in Germany looks different: in 2018, 41% of German Jews surveyed in an EU poll said that the perpetrators of anti-Semitic attacks were Muslims (right-wingers 20%, left-wingers 16%).
The satirical programme “heute show” drew a clear distinction on Twitter between “criticism of Israel” and anti-Semitism. Bitter: The ZDF programme ignores that there is a separate term only for criticism of the Jewish state. The words Syria-criticism, North Korea-criticism do not exist in German usage.
The “heute show” does not want to realise that the so-called “criticism of Israel” is not criticism of the Israeli government, but criticism of the Jewish state as such. Otherwise it would simply be called criticism of the Israeli government.
Kassel region infiltrated by Islamists? As in Austria, a map in Germany also provides new clues
For their “Islamism Map Kassel”, a research group has gathered a lot of information about political Islam. Is the German Kassel region infiltrated by Islamists?
On the “Islamism Map Kassel”, the city of Kassel looks like a centre of Islamism in Germany. It displays information about allegedly Salafist mosques, the far-right Grey Wolves and actors close to Muslim Brotherhoods.
When asked, the initiators do not want to reveal who is behind the research group. The Hessian Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies them in the “left-wing extremist-antifascist movement”. For their map, the group has gathered detailed information on organisations and associations of political Islam. According to the group, it used information from groups such as the Alliance against Anti-Semitism.
For example, it says about the Mevlana mosque in Oberzwehren, which belongs to the controversial Turkish-Islamic organisation Ditib: “The sermons are centrally dictated from Turkey”. An article is also quoted about an imam who called for martyrdom for the Turkish nation at a rally on Königsplatz square in 2016. The Sultan Alparslan Mosque in Nordstadt district of Kassel is also listed, which belongs to the umbrella organisation of the far-right Grey Wolves.
For Lino Klevesath, the group’s findings are obviously “based on solid research”, as the expert from Göttingen University says. However, he considers the classifications to be questionable: “The term Islamism conceals more here than it explains. Here, almost everything that is somehow political is assessed as problematic by Muslim actors. But isn’t every religion political?” To some extent, the map is scaremongering, Klevesath says.
However, the employee of the Institute for Democracy Research also takes a critical view of Ditib, Germany’s largest mosque association. Ditib imams are Turkish state officials: “This is problematic, because Turkey is acting in an increasingly authoritarian manner.” And not only the Grey Wolves, but also the split-off umbrella organisation Avrupa Türk-Islam Birligi (ATIB) express themselves inhumanely, the expert emphasises. “In any case, nationalist-chauvinist content is widespread in parts of the ethnic Turkish milieu. The articulation of such statements lowers the inhibition threshold for violence,” says Klevesath.