A 27-year-old woman has been arrested at Frankfurt Airport on suspicion of membership in the terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS). The German, who has been the subject of an arrest warrant since November 2021, is said to be a follower of Salafist Islam and to have operated a donation network for female members of IS, among other things. On Saturday, she was brought before the investigating judge at the Federal Supreme Court (BGH) and remanded in custody, the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office further announced. According to the accusations, the accused had left for Syria with her husband in 2013 and joined the IS at the latest at the beginning of 2014. After her husband – the nationality of the German-born IS fighter was not disclosed – was killed in 2015 in battles on behalf of the terror organisation, she married two other IS fighters in succession and lived in Iraq and Syria until the beginning of 2019. From 2020 until her return to Germany, she was in Turkish custody.
If there’s one constant with leftists, it’s that they’re humorless. In 1939’s Ninotchka, Greta Garbo played a relentlessly serious Soviet commissar who heads to Paris, where she leaves communism behind—and, with that, she laughs. In 2022, leftist humorlessness has extended to censoring one of the funniest men alive, John Cleese. His sin? Pointing out that Blacks are not the only people who have experienced slavery.
John Cleese appeared in Austin, Texas, at the South by Southwest festival. He was on stage participating in a “comedy panel” with other comics when he pointed out, accurately, that we are currently witnessing cultural “competition” with the winner emerging as the most oppressed thanks to colonization. The comic, educated at Oxford back in the day when students actually learned things, pointed out that the history of the world is that the strong have dominated the weak:
History is a history of crime. It’s a history of people who were stronger beating up people who were weaker and it’s always been that. It’s deeply, deeply distasteful. But to pretend that one lot were worse than another – you do know the British have been slaves twice, right?
At this point, the other “comics” on the stage, tried desperately to keep Cleese from talking. The 82-year-old comic legend, however, had a riff and he wanted to complete it. Undeterred by their humorless interjections, Cleese continued. The Hollywood Reporter, which believed that something that would have made a perfect Monty Python sketch was “super cringey,” describes it this way:
“[People] get competitive about this business of being oppressed,” Cleese said (seemingly unaware he was doing exactly that). “We were oppressed, the English, by the Romans for 400 [years], from about 0 to 400.”
“This is getting so uncomfortable,” [Ricky] Velez said dryly. “[Is this the new] Dave Chappelle special?”
“I don’t want to have a struggle competition,” [Dulcé] Sloan said.
“I want reparations from Italy,” Cleese said drawing shocked gasps. “… and then the Normans came over in 1066 … they were horrible people from France and they came and colonized us for 30 years – we need reparations there too, I’m afraid.”
I can’t even imagine an audience gasping in horror over what’s a damn good joke. Perhaps I like it because I often point out that I too am the descendant of slaves. After all, there’s a whole book in the Bible devoted to my ancestors’ escape from bondage. Personally, I don’t have to go back that far for my borrowed victim status. My mother was a slave in a Japanese concentration camp…and never got reparations either. (Rim shot.)
Pasternack then made a joke, which The Hollywood Reporter did not transcribe, about “playing the Jew card.” (Here’s an older post of mine about the incredible self-loathing that characterizes America’s modern Jewish comics.) When Cleese would have responded (and the story doesn’t say how), “Sloan stood up and confiscated Cleese’s microphone (temporarily, at least).” She justified it by claiming “I saved a comic whose career I respect.” She and Cleese hugged later.
I decided to check out the woman who would seize John Cleese’s microphone and discovered that she’s mildly amusing, incredibly vulgar and, to the extent she’s sharing a stage with John Cleese, really is, as she said of herself, “an affirmative action hire.” That she would grab the microphone of a man so senior to herself and one of the geniuses of modern comedy tells you everything you need to know about her. That Cleese would handle it graciously tells you everything you need to know about him.
The most ridiculous thing about all of this is that Cleese, although a leftist, has made it clear that he has no patience with the world of woke:
John Cleese has criticised the “stifling” effect of political correctness on creativity – saying there is no such thing as a “woke joke”.
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He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “PC stuff started out as a good idea which is, ‘Let’s not be mean to people’. and I’m in favour of that… despite my age. I think Jesus Christ would have agreed.
“The main thing is to try to be kind.
“But that then becomes a sort of indulgence of the most over-sensitive people in your culture, the people who are most easily upset.
“I don’t think we should organise a society around the sensibilities of the most easily upset people because then you have a very neurotic society.”
Leftism is a completely puritanical religion, the goal of which is to control people. In fact, it’s more puritanical than the Puritans themselves were, for it offers no hope to sinners. The concepts of remorse, repentance, and redemption don’t exist. Transgressors are dispatched instantly and forever. There is no oxygen for comedy in this world.
As a palate cleanser, here are two of my favorite, very politically incorrect, John Cleese moments:
On March 1, the groups of professors “Universitas” and “Ratio” active at Goethe University Frankfurt invited to an online event. It was discussed whether some topics are now taboo for research and teaching.
Professor Susanne Schröter, the head of the Frankfurt Research Centre Global Islam and professor at the Institute of Ethnology, reported, according to the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, that the political stance of a young researcher now plays a major role in his or her career.
She herself is defamed by some leftists at universities as an alleged “racist” because she speaks critically about the Muslim headscarf and examines connections between integration and cultural imprinting. Professor Schröter denounced the excesses of “cancel culture”, which seeks to ban politically or morally unpalatable positions from universities.
She reported on doctoral students whose dissertations were not accepted because they had dealt with the “wrong” topics. For example, “honour killings”. She also knew of students who had not been able to realise the projects they had chosen for their Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis: The supervisors found the projects too “hot”. This is true for her own subject:
“If an anthropologist deals with Islamism, his career is over.”
Professor Schröter sees such tendencies, regardless of which political direction they come from, as a threat to academic freedom.
The political scientist and publicist Hamed Abdel-Samad already reported in 2016 that the universities in Augsburg and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich did not allow him to hold a discussion event on Political Islam and present his research results on the Quran. Hamed Abdel-Samad said:
“The University of Augsburg, which once honoured me with prizes as a role model Muslim, now refuses to allow me to discuss the Koran critically. The University of Munich, which once trusted me to teach German and foreign students about Islamic history, now refuses to let me discuss the results of my research on the Quran in an open dialogue with students and citizens of the city.”
Since these research results are critical of Islam, and that is quite obviously undesirable at German universities. Hamed Abdel-Samad also sees a worrying development in freedom of expression in Germany:
“Universities, intellectuals, Islam functionaries and politicians of the centre parties refuse to face an honest and open debate about Islam. And then they all whine that this debate is being conducted on the right-wing fringe!”
Criticism of Islam is not only fought at universities. Mainstream media are self-censoring, it is taboo for the traditional political parties to criticise Islam, in society one is ostracised and excluded if one expresses one’s opinion openly, and the judiciary threatens to throw one into prison even if one limits public criticism to political Islam.
A cross-party initiative of 36 European MEPs has now launched an initiative to demand the full disclosure of the EU Commission’s contracts with the manufacturers of Corona vaccines. This also concerns EU Commission head Ursula von der Leyen as she is suspected of having benefited from certain contracts.
The initiative was launched by AfD MEP Christine Anderson and Romanian Christian Democrat Cristian-Vasile Terhes. Other representatives of the AfD, EPP, FPÖ, but also the Greens and the Left are also on board. The cross-party initiative demands, among other things, the resignation of EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. She is accused of having been involved in a “gigantic Covid 19 scientific fraud”. The EU’s vaccination campaign, they say, threatens democracy, freedom and human rights in Europe.
The European policy spokesman of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament, Martin Böhm, sees the initiative in the larger context of the staged “pandemic” of the last two years. Böhm explained: “The exclusion of the unvaccinated, the threat of compulsory vaccination, the restrictions on freedom of work, movement and education, and the violation of patient confidentiality have undermined the trust of millions of people in democratic institutions.
Now more and more details from the prehistory of the global pandemic scandal are coming to light. Apparently, a kind of vaccination business plan was coordinated privately between the Pfizer CEO and von der Leyen before the EU Commission began to promote the Covid-19 vaccines as – allegedly – the only remedy against Corona. At the heart of this plan may have been private business interest rather than concern for public health.”
The activities of the EU Commission President’s husband, Heiko von der Leyen, as a consultant in the pharmaceutical industry and medical director of a biopharmaceutical company strengthen the “suspicion of serious conflicts of interest”.
The head of the Commission must now make public her correspondence with Pfizer and clear up all misunderstandings, he said. “If she does not succeed in this, she must resign,” Böhm underlined. “The European public has a right to know the real reasons behind the vaccination campaign.”
Her extremely racist words brought this resident of the Valibout neighbourhood in Plaisir (Yvelines) straight to prison.
She can no longer be restrained. Dalila was led away from the Versailles courthouse on Friday March 11, 2022. She could not last more than five minutes without shouting, screaming and raving in front of her judges.
The 47-year-old woman, who lives in the Valibout neighbourhood in Plaisir (Yvelines), was brought to court for her racist remarks. She had racially insulted her caretaker and an employee who cleaned the common rooms.
The crime had taken place on February 2 this year. Dalila is on her way home and encounters her caretaker. It is 11 am. The latter is putting the mail in the boxes. The attack will be immediate. Violent. “Why did God give birth to black people. You dirty black people. Get out of here!” she shouts at the caretaker. She also scolds the pregnant woman who is busy cleaning the common areas.
The two women decide to ignore her. Dalila speaks up again. “You are here to clean. Get on with it! And besides, if you’re making babies, it’s because of welfare.”
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Behaviour that, according to the Republic Prosecutor, deserves an appropriate response. “These outrages are as intolerable as the statements you made. I demand 12 months in prison, 3 months suspended and immediate arrest warrant, a no-contact order and a ban on going to Plaisir.”
Dalila was taken back to the courtroom and had to watch as the judges handed down the sentence: 18 months in prison, revocation of probation, a no-contact order and a ban on travelling to Plaisir. The whole thing delivered with an arrest warrant.
“I am outraged! I am Algerian and you have sentenced me like a Frenchwoman! This is not right,” she shouted as the police escorted her into the courthouse’s detention area.Actu.fr
