Month: November 2021

There was great surprise when the administration announced on October 7 that mosque congregations would be allowed to call for Friday prayers in the future. “When we hear the call of the muezzin in addition to the church bells in our city, it shows that diversity is appreciated and lived in Cologne,” said Mayor Henriette Reker. With this, she started a debate that the Catholic Education Centre, the Melanchthon Academy and the Catholic Committee now used as an opportunity for an open discussion in the Cathedral Forum.

Actually, everything was quickly said after the professor of public law and religious law, Stefan Muckel, clarified: “The muezzin call is a confession of faith and is therefore protected by the Basic Law, which the state cannot restrict without further ado – whether one likes it or not.” Bettina Baum, who will soon head the Office for Integration and Diversity, added that the city can, however, create the framework conditions to balance interests, for example to protect residents from excessive noise and at times that disturb sleep.

However, the reference to the freedom of the mosque communities in Cologne does not appease the emotional debate. Lale Akgün, a former member of the Bundestag, claimed that most of the approximately 2000 congregations in Germany are “more or less aligned with the politicised Islam of Turkey”. And this persecutes dissidents like the ex-Muslim Mina Ahadi, who had to be placed under police protection after protesting against the muezzin call in front of the Ditib mosque in Ehrenfeld.

Several attendees who had fled their Muslim-majority country spoke up. They reported that they had to listen to prayers while being tortured. They felt that muezzin calls were a reminder of the trauma.

Abdassamad El Yazidi, spokesperson for the Coordination Council of Muslims in Germany, warned against blaming religion for human rights violations. Pastor Dorothee Schaper suggested creating forums for people to have their say who have been hurt by abuses committed by religion. The focus was also on Düren, where the muezzin call has long been part of the city.

https://www.rundschau-online.de/region/koeln/debatte-im-domforum-muezzinruf-in-koeln-ehrenfeld-sorgt-fuer-diskussionen-39159306?cb=1637778545005&

Euthanasia and the attendant preparations require “human closeness,” which is a prerequisite and breeding ground for coronavirus transmission, according to a statement made by the group. As numerous European countries proceeded to impose new limitations aimed at limiting the spread of COVID-19, the German Euthanasia Association (Verein Sterbehilfe) declared that it will now only help those who have been vaccinated or recovered from the disease. The Euthanasia Association said in a statement put on its website that both euthanasia and the preparatory study of the voluntary responsibility of our members wanting to die requires human closeness.

The statement read, “human closeness, however, is a prerequisite and breeding ground for coronavirus transmission. As of today, the 2G rule applies in our association, supplemented by situation-related measures, such as quick tests before encounters in closed rooms.”

Germany’s acting chancellor Angela Merkel and the country’s 16 state premiers, last week, agreed on several measures to combat the pandemic. The leaders emphasised the importance of COVID-19 vaccination for all hospital and nursing care personnel. They also decided to impose “2G” limitations on the unvaccinated in areas where a particular hospitalisation rate is exceeded. “2G” refers to a system that only allows geimpft oder genesen (vaccinated or recovered) free movement for leisure activities.

The request for information on the shots would have been a great opportunity for vaccine manufacturers and advocates to demonstrate the success of their products with the data that exists on vaccine safety, effectiveness and “rare” side effects.

But according to documents filed in a district court for the Northern District of Texas, the US federal government plans only to share the data it relied upon in licensing Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, in the year 2076.

If the judge approves the FDA’s request, the plaintiffs, Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency, would have to wait until the United States celebrates its 300th anniversary to see the full report. Waiting for more than half a century to publicize the data does not bode well for transparency in government.

The plaintiffs, a group of more than 30 professors and scientists from universities including Yale, Harvard, UCLA and Brown, filed suit in September, seeking expedited access to the records.

The group had originally asked for documentation after the Comirnaty vaccine was approved in August, but the FDA has not yet provided any material.

The plaintiff’s attorneys say the FDA must provide the information to “resolve the ongoing public debate” over the agency’s review process and to confirm their conclusion that the Pfizer vaccine is safe, effective, and worthy of public trust.

Vaccines were approved within a short time

After a month of no response from the FDA, the group filed a lawsuit against the agency, demanding that all documents and data submitted by Pfizer be submitted within 108 days. That was the same amount of time it took the FDA to carry out the much more consequential review of Pfizer’s data for the emergency approval and licensing of its Covid-19 vaccine.

To meet that deadline, the FDA would need to process approximately 80 000 pages a month. It was simply not feasible, the DOJ lawyers claimed.

“Reviewing and editing documents for exempt information is a time-consuming process that often requires government information specialists to review each page line by line,” the defense said in the court application. “When a party requests a large amount of data, as the plaintiff did here, the courts usually establish a schedule where the processing and production of the non-secret parts of the documents is done on a rolling basis,” they said.

The time it takes for an authority to process a FOIA request varies “depending on the complexity of the request and the possible delay of requests made to the authority”, according to the information on an official fact page about FOIA.

Instead, the FDA has proposed releasing 500 pages per month. “By processing and making interim responses based on 500-page steps, the FDA will be able to provide more pages to more customers, avoiding a system where some large inquiries monopolize finite processing resources,” the agency’s defense attorneys said.

The FDA breaks its own rules on transparency

But the plaintiffs pointed out that the FDA was breaking its own regulations on data transparency as Title 21, subchapter F of the FDA’s own regulations stipulates that the agency “is to make ‘immediately available’ all documents underlying licensure of a vaccine”. The FDA “should have been preparing to release [the data] simultaneously with the licensure. Instead, it has done the opposite.”

The plaintiff’s request covers about 329 000 pages, which must first be processed and edited before the FDA can submit them, said the US Attorney General (DOJ) lawyers representing the FDA.

US District Judge Mark Pittman has decided on a scheduling hearing on December 14, 2021, to consider the timeline for the plaintiff’s request, Reutersreported.

The FDA had previously claimed that the examination and analysis of the documents had been intensive, reliable, thorough and complete in order to guarantee the safety and effectiveness of Pfizer’s Covid-19 treatment. However, if they do not respond, US federal authorities will make it clear that they have cleared Pfizer of any responsibility and liability for their product.

The data being investigated comes not only from Pfizer/BioNTech, but also from the Israel Ministry of Health, the University of Bristol, UK, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, part of the US Health authority).

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/11/24/not-very-confident-fda-to-publish-info-on-pfizers-covid-19-jab-in-55-years/

The quarrels of a larger group in the area of the Offenburg railway station led to several emergency calls to the police shortly after midnight on Tuesday morning. On the phone, there was talk of a mass brawl between about 50 people in front of a bar in the street Hauptstraße, which is why police forces from Offenburg, Haslach and Lahr had to be called in to assist and to calm the tension, according to the police report.

The police reported that it was initially difficult to investigate the incident due to the raging mood. Almost exclusively Iraqi nationals were identified at the scene. The altercation may have been preceded by family disputes at a wedding in Achern, where, according to police investigations, all participants had previously been guests.

In the end, a total of four injured persons had to be admitted to the local hospital. The exact background of the assaults and the possible use of weapons are now the subject of police investigations.

https://www.badische-zeitung.de/massenschlaegerei-mit-rund-50-beteiligten-in-offenburg-endet-mit-verletzten

The Austrian Medical Association seems to have noticeably forgotten its actual mission, namely the well-being of all patients in Austria, in the wake of the Corona propaganda of the governing parties. For months, the Chamber has been unabashedly agitating against unvaccinated citizens, i.e. more than two million people in this country – from compulsory vaccination to “lockdown for the unvaccinated”. The medical association in Lower Austria took the cake by seriously demanding monthly fines for the unvaccinated.

Under a so-called “pandemic tax”, the Lower Austrian representation of the Chamber dared to propose that people unvaccinated against the coronavirus should in future pay monthly penalties. These should be approximately the amount of tobacco tax that an average smoker pays per month through his cigarette consumption. That would currently be between 90 and 100 euros.

All those who have a valid “vaccination protection” and have received two or already three jabs should be exempt from this, according to the medical association.

The absurd demands were immediately criticised by the leader of the FPÖ (Austrian Freedom Party), Herbert Kickl. In a statement, he reminded the Medical Association of its actual tasks and demanded better concepts for people affected by the coronavirus:

The medical association should rather ensure that those people who are tested positive for the coronavirus receive immediate medical treatment. This is the only way to prevent overloading the intensive care units. But you don’t have any information on this from the Chamber bosses. They have made themselves comfortable in the wake of the perfidious vaccination propaganda of the federal government and have restricted themselves to threatening doctors who deviate from the government’s policy with disciplinary proceedings. That is the real scandal!

https://www.unzensuriert.at/content/138082-voellig-irre-niederoesterreichische-aerztekammer-will-100-euro-strafe-pro-monat-fuer-ungeimpfte/

With the changes to the German Infection Protection Act, the Bundestag decided on the so-called surcharge for clinics. This means that hospitals that treat Covid patients will again receive money from the federal budget.

The system of the surcharge is based on the previous compensation payments: Depending on the effort and number of Covid 19 patients, this surcharge is 360, 560 or 760 euros per hospital day. The hospital can now multiply this sum by 0.9 and 13.9 (currently the average length of stay of Covid-19 patients) and bill it.

The care surcharge is only paid to clinics that treat Covid patients for more than two days. In addition, the payments must be offset against Corona-related revenue declines for full compensation of the 2021 pandemic year.

Criticism in this regard comes from large clinics. The Alliance of Large Municipal Hospitals (AKG), for example, called for the minimum length of stay to be increased to five days and for the care surcharge not to be offset against the year-round compensation. The reporting and control of the number of cases, as well as the rapid flow of money, should be handled by the federal states as with the previous compensation payments.

The German Hospital Association and the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds must submit a verification procedure by the end of November. The regulations apply retrospectively from November 1 to March 19, 2022.

There is also good news for rehab clinics: The possibility for the federal states to designate rehab facilities as auxiliary facilities in which Covid patients can be admitted who require acute inpatient treatment that cannot be postponed will be reactivated and extended until March 19, 2022.

In addition to the Corona surcharge in SGB V, the SodEG will also be extended until March 19. With the Social Service Provider Employment Act (SodEG), the prerequisites were created to cushion the economically disadvantageous consequences of the Coronavirus pandemic through subsidy payments for social service providers.

This is the background against which intensive care physicians are claiming that the situation is spiralling out of control, federal states have hardly any free intensive care beds left, intensive care beds are becoming scarce and the situation in hospitals is dramatic. The lies are intended to scare the population into getting the useless jab.

Health Minister Jens Spahn just a few days ago warned that patients may have to be moved abroad or die. Instead, it now turns out that the Netherlands are moving Covid-19 patients to German clinics.

Die Welt reported that because of increasing patient numbers, Dutch hospitals are again relocating Covid-19 patients to clinics in North Rhine-Westphalia. The first ambulance left Rotterdam on Tuesday morning, said a spokeswoman for the national organization for the distribution of patients. The patient should be admitted to the BG University Hospital Bochum. Another patient transport should follow during the day.

In hospitals in North Rhine-Westphalia there is space for a total of 20 patients from the Netherlands. The patients are transported in specially equipped ambulances (Mobile Intensive Care Units) and accompanied by a doctor and a nurse.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/11/24/german-clinics-get-up-to-e9500-per-covid-case/

The “House of Integration” in Bonn-Duisdorf has served as a contact point for young people and people with a migration background since 2012. Various courses are offered, and migrant associations are also active there. However, a Salafist imam has been preaching in the associated mosque since 2017. Together with him, a nationwide known hate preacher is now giving ” lessons for young people” there.

The “House of Integration” in Bonn-Duisdorf, which also includes a mosque, has existed since 2012. Initially, it was accepted extraordinarily well by the local press. However, a specific sponsoring association is not registered for this institution. However, the association BASUG – Diaspora and Development also resides in the same building, which probably has some similarities to the “House of Integration” in terms of its active members. Since its opening, the house has been under the direction of Juboraj Talukder from Bonn, who is of Bangladeshi origin. Talukder is also president of the German-Bengali Society Cologne-Bonn, is close to the “Awami League” party and has been a Christian Democratic Union (CDU) member in Bonn for many years. An office of the “German Awami League” was opened there in 2017, according to information on Talukder’s Facebook page. The Awami League is a political party in Bangladesh. Like many parties in the region, the Awami League is tribal-hierarchical and identitarian rather than democratic.

The visit of the chairman of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind, one of the most important Islamic organisations in India, Maulana Arshad Madani, to the “House of Integration” in 2017 gave a first indication of the spirit in the institution. Madani is an influential Deobandi, i.e. a representative of an Islamist ideology that, mixed with some Wahhabi elements, makes up the foundation of the Taliban ideology.

The preacher Abdul Alim Hamza has been active for years in the prayer centre, which is part of the “House of Integration”. A video he himself published on the internet in 2012 indicates that Hamza, who says he comes from Peja (Kosovo), was deported from Germany at the time. Years later, however, he returned to Germany and was active in Euskirchen, Münster and Bonn, among other places. According to his own information, he holds Friday prayers in the “Bangladesh Mosque”, which is the name of the mosque belonging to the “House of Integration”. He also calls himself the imam of this institution.

Hamza belongs to the Salafist spectrum. This is because Salafists strictly reject innovations in their religion and always refer to the so-called ancients, meaning the first three generations after Mohammed. And it is precisely this body of thought that Abdul Alim Hamza follows again and again in the video sermons he has uploaded on his own YouTube channel.

But that is not the only reason why the imam should be assigned to this spectrum. At least as serious is the fact that Hamza appears in a video from the end of September together with Said El E. from Bonn. This gentleman has been known nationwide for years as a hate preacher under the name “Abu Dujana”. He became known because he supported the Koran distribution campaign “LIES!”, which was later banned by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, in terms of content and organisation. For the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, Abu Dujana was even “one of the most prominent preachers of the German Salafist scene” in 2018.

It is also significant that the currently penultimate joint event of Alim Hamza and Abu Dujana published on the internet, which probably took place on November 1 in the “House of Integration”, was not published on Hamza’s YouTube channel, but on that of “Habibiflo Dawah Produktion”. This is a well-known YouTube channel on which videos of radical and fundamentalist preachers from the grey area of Salafists, hardcore Salafists and Muslim Brothers have been published for years. “Normal” preachers are not involved at all. And this was not an isolated case, because on November 14, a video of a joint event by Alim Hamza and Abu Dujana in the “House of Integration” was again uploaded to “Habibiflo”. This time it was about the “honourable woman” being afraid of Allah and being obedient to her husband. “In a few years she will be rubbish,” Imam Alim Hamza said about women who appear on television and have neither husbands nor children.

According to the Salafist reading, this is not misogynistic. Within our value system, however, it is deeply misogynistic. And the really dangerous thing about these events is that Hamza and Abu Dujana are not speaking to other Salafists here, but are teaching young people. They may be sent there by gullible parents, unaware that they are being taught radical fundamentalist ideas by Salafists. And that this is taking place in an institution that calls itself a “house of integration” is bizarre. According to Hamza, more than 70 young people were present at one of these “teaching sessions”. There are also conversions on his YouTube channel, evidence of the imam’s missionary activities. It seems to me that this institution will have to be looked into more closely by the authorities, especially those responsible for the protection of minors.

https://hpd.de/artikel/bonner-haus-integration-salafisten-treff-19900

A recent case in Sweden could explain why politicians and human rights activists often claim there is no scientific evidence for higher criminality within immigrant communities in Western societies.

A recent case in Lund University is now serving as a clear-cut example of what happens when researches try to gather scientific evidence regarding issues that might not support the officially sanctioned political narrative. It also demonstrates that how funds are restricted for studying the impact of immigration, how research into the subject is not permitted by universities, and how scientists who disobey the restrictions face serious persecution.

This is what has happened to Professor Kristina Sundquist from Sweden’s Lund University, who alongside two other colleagues, conducted detailed research into the profile of those who commit sexual violence in Sweden. The research was not aimed at racially profiling the offenders, as the scientists themselves put it, but they nevertheless have discovered some facts about the ethnic profile of rapists by accident.

Sundquist, who is the most cited professor at her university regarding social research, is now being investigated for publishing an unauthorized research report, and may face prosecution for coming to the conclusion that the vase majority of rapes are committed by immigrants to the country.

But what does the research show? The published results show that immigrants are not only disproportionately overrepresented in rape cases, but despite being a minority in Sweden, they commit the vast majority of sexual violence. This is despite the fact that the study only analyzed cases between the period of 2000 and 2015, that is, before the enormous 2015 influx of migrants from the Middle East and Africa.

They based their study on a sample of 3,000 convictions in rape cases. As mentioned above, the goal of the study was not to inquire into the perpetrators’ ethnic background, but to see if there are common denominators in health issues, social status, employment, etc. The revelations about the ethnic profile were only an ancillary finding, but they were impossible to ignore.

“Immigrants were just a variable, and it turned out to be quite a remarkable discovery as there were many immigrants and foreign-born people in this group,” said Kristina Sundquist.

The scientific research was conducted because, as the paper says in its introduction, “Sweden has witnessed an increase in the rates of sexual crimes including rape. Knowledge of who the offenders of these crimes are is therefore of importance for prevention.”

During the data analysis, information on substance use disorders, previous criminality and psychiatric disorders was retrieved from Swedish population-based registers. A total of 3,039 offenders were included in the analysis. A majority of them were immigrants (59.2 percent) of which a majority (47.7 percent) were born outside of Sweden. The study recommended that the finding that a majority of the offenders were immigrants warrants further investigation and more studies that take into account the contextual characteristics among these offenders.

The study also points out that types of sexual crimes are highly underreported. According to data from the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention, there were 23,200 sexual crimes reported to the police in 2019, of which 8,820 (38 percent) were rapes and aggravated rapes. According to the annual Swedish Crime Survey for 2019, it was estimated that 5.6 percent of the total population between 16 and 84 years old had been a victim of sexual crimes.

Not surprisingly, more females (9.4 percent) than males (1.4 percent) stated that they were victims of sexual crimes. Rape, which is the most serious sexual crime, increased by 45.4 percent between 2008 and 2018. However, despite these apparent increases, the number of offenders found guilty of sexual offenses have been quite stable between 2008, as the rate of solved rapes by the police has significantly diminished since 2009 (31 percent). In fact, in 2016, the rate was as low as 11 percent.

Close to half of the offenders were born outside of Sweden (47.7 percent) followed by Swedish-born offenders with Swedish-born parents (40.8 percent). A part of the cohort was constituted of offenders being born in Sweden with at least one parent being born outside Sweden (11.5 percent).

Regarding Swedish-born offenders with no parent born in Sweden, a high proportion of the mothers and fathers were born in Western countries (40.7 percent and 33.9 percent) followed by the Middle East/North Africa (19.8 percent and 24 percent). The largest group of the study population was found among offenders born outside of Sweden; a significant part was from the Middle East/North Africa (34.5 percent) followed by Africa (19.1 percent). A not negligible part of the offenders (32.5 percent) received social welfare and over a third had low education (37.3 percent). IQ and school achievements were only available for part of the cohort and these variables showed low levels for each of these respectively.

The findings of the study actually align with the same trend found in other reports and studies conducted in the past in Sweden regarding sexual assault and gang rape. Even in other crime areas, such as murder, migrants are vastly overrepresented. Such studies have been rare, but to date, nobody has been threatened with prosecution for conducting scientific research up until now.

The research report conducted by Sundquist and her colleagues was submitted to the Board of Appeal for ethical review — a body reporting to the Swedish Ministry of Education. They will investigate whether Sundquist and Prof. Ardavan Khoshnood, the co-author of the paper, were given an “ethical license” to handle “sensitive data.”

Prof. Khoshnood responded by saying to Swedish portal Samnytt:, “It’s a shame,” and added that they are accused of “conducting and publishing illegal research.”

“The purpose of the study was not to find out what immigration is like. Surprisingly, this variable turned out to be quite important, and we didn’t know in advance what the study would show. We wanted to create a profile of the perpetrator, to know who the typical perpetrator is,” he said.

However, the ethical authority appears to be gearing up to issue some form of punishment related to the case.

“I don’t see anywhere that ethical permission is sought to test the hypothesis if immigrants are overrepresented in statistics on convicted rapists,” the body said. The scientists were also criticized for insufficient evaluation as they failed to indicate how their research should “reduce exclusion and improve integration.”

In terms of integration, it is unclear how concealing the social and ethnic background of rapists will “reduce exclusion and improve integration.” However, these scientists, one of whom is himself of an immigrant background, must now actively prove their innocence.

As it stands, the case against these scientists may be designed as an intimidation tactic on behalf of Swedish political and academic authorities to silence science-based evidence that severely harms the open society narrative championed by mainstream Swedish political parties. and that the increasingly uncontrollable violence, including sexual violence spreading through Swedish society is a direct result of policy decisions by a succession of pro-migration, and anti-law-and-order governments.

https://rmx.news/article/swedish-scientists-prosecuted-for-finding-that-most-rapes-are-committed-by-immigrants/

A 30-year-old man stabbed himself in the fountain in the Plaza Roma in Zaragoza, right in the city centre, on Tuesday and died in the end. The deed occurred at around 11.45 a.m., when the man came into the gardens adjacent to the square completely naked and stabbed himself about ten times before falling into the fountain.

After being informed of a naked man armed with a knife, eight officers from the Citizen Security Brigade of the Aragón Police Headquarters went to Roma Square, where they appeared shortly before the man, whose identity is unknown, put an end to his life.

Furthermore, the “Periódico de Aragón” reported that although the officers asked the man to drop the knife and stop his actions, he finally stabbed himself in the stomach before the police could do anything. Ambulances later arrived and shortly after 12.05 p.m. the dead person was taken away.

Eyewitnesses reported that before stabbing himself in the fountain, the young man was walking naked along Calle Santander, and although he was carrying a knife, he did not try to attack people in the square.

The owner of the neighbouring Rio de la Plata café, David, said that “there was a very strong gush of blood” and that an unidentified woman jumped over the police barrier and jumped into the pond.

https://www.fdesouche.com/2021/11/23/espagne-un-homme-nu-et-arme-dun-couteau-deambule-dans-la-rue-et-se-tue-lui-meme-de-plusieurs-coups-de-couteau-aux-cris-de-allah-akbar/