Month: April 2022
Move out of the way, Europe, Islam is taking over – Germany as a prototype:Christian symbols disappear as Europeans discard them, but there is no vacuum. Islam takes their place
by Giulio Meotti
Cologne Cathedral, known as the “German Rome”, is the landmark of the city and has been declared a World Heritage Site since 1996. It is one of the most visited places in Germany and one of the most important in Christianity (it was visited by Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI). The first stone of the cathedral was laid in 1248. On old black and white photos you can see how the towers of the cathedral protrude from the rubble of the historic center completely destroyed during the Second World War.
Now the city of Cologne is deleting the iconic cathedral from its new logo. “My 92-year-old mother is stunned, my 11-year-old son is crying and my friend in London doesn’t understand it,” writes sculptor and painter Cornel Wachter.
Die Welt explains that even the head of the Jewish community, Abraham Lehrer, also spoke out in favor of keeping the spires in the city logo. And the president of the German-Hungarian Society, Gerhard Papke, commented on Twitter: “Cologne’s choice to remove the cathedral from the city logo is not surprising, since recently mosques have been expressly authorized to call the muezzin.” Papke refers to the decision by the mayor of Cologne last October to allow the “call to prayer” in the city. from its 50 mosques.
Beatrix von Storch, the deputy of the right-wing AfD party, also commented: “The mayor removes the Cologne Cathedral from the city’s logo because it is ‘outdated’. Nobody conquers our country. It is we ourselves who voluntarily erase our culture. We create a void that others are happy to fill.
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.(Faz) had just informed us that the Minister of Culture and former leader of the Greens, Claudia Roth, had a famous quote from the Bible “contextualized” on the dome of the Berlin Palace of the Hohenzollern royal family, destroyed in the Second World War, satin ground by the GDR of East Germany and rebuilt in 2020 as the Humboldt Forum. In 1844, Prussian king Frederick William IV had chosen a phrase from the Bible.
And, after the defeat in the elections, in Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) discussions began about whether to delete the “C” and the reference to Christianity, says the Faz.
t’s not just Cologne. In the Willy-Brandt-Platz in Leipzig, the municipality has allowed huge green banners with Arabic writing to be posted: it tells the BILD that they are used to celebrate Muhammad’s birthday.
But basically the mayor of Cologne is right. That cathedral is really “out of date”. “The removal of the cathedral from the logo of the city means nothing but submission and is a logical consequence of the call to prayer of the muezzin, now allowed in Cologne,” writes the famous essayist Peter Hahn in the magazine Tichys. “The cathedral is obliterated, leveled to the cultural ground, sacrificed to the woke rage. And in Cologne it can only happen because Woelki’s Catholicism is defenseless right now. A Cardinal Meisner would have intervened with his flaming sword ”.
A tourist brochure aimed at the Arab world caused a sensation in “Catholic” Bavaria. Germany’s highest mountain, the Zugspitze, is without the large golden cross on the summit. According to the Bavarian Tourism Association, wealthy sheikhs pay 1,000 euros per person per day for their stay at the mountain. Why offend them by showing them the cross?
In Jerusalem, the two leaders of German Christianity, Catholic Cardinal Reinhard Marx and Lutheran Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, hid the cross when they visited the esplanade of the Mosques, the Temple Mount of the Jews. Another scandalous sign of submission embarrassingly embellished. Even Der Spiegel, a German liberal weekly historian, criticized the bishops with an article entitled “Submission”: “How can it be called anything other than denial of faith when two prominent representatives of Christianity lay their crosses in consideration of the irritability of Muslim believers? Capitulation”.
But there is another reason. Christianity is dying in Germany. The archdiocese of Cologne, which is the largest in Germany, plans to reduce its parishes from 500 to 50 by 2030. A preconomic problem? No. The German Church is richer than the Vatican. Martin Struck, diocesan building director in the archdiocese of Cologne, has just revealed: “Since 2000 we have desecrated 28 churches. Seven were demolished. The last archbishopric church that was built was in 2003 with St. Catherine in Köln-Blumenberg. Not building a church for 20 years is something that has never happened in history, not even during the Second World War ”.
If the diocese of Aachen wants to reduce its churches by 30 percent, the archdiocese of Berlin has decided to drop by a quarter. A study by the Dresdner Bank predicts that over the next few years, half of Germany’s churches will have to close or be converted to other uses. The German Church is a sinking boat. The number of faithful in Cologne is also collapsing. As in the title of the Rundschau a few days ago: “Never have so many people in Cologne left the Church”.
If even the bishops no longer believe in it, why should the secularized and semi-Islamized European elites – who are only managing the transition of civilization – do so?
UK: MP David Amess is killed in a church by a man of Somali origin (The killer wanted to stop him “causing harm” to Muslims by authorising the bombing of Syria)
The suspect in the murder of British MP David Amess, who was stabbed to death in an attack that shocked Britain in October, said on Thursday April 7 that he had targeted the MP to prevent him from “causing harm” to Muslims by authorising the bombing of Syria.
Ali Harbi Ali, 26, who has been on trial for murder and preparing terrorist acts since March 21, told the Old Bailey criminal court in London that he killed the Conservative MP because the latter had voted in favour of air strikes on Syria. “I killed him because he was harming Muslims,” he said during his 80-minute testimony, guarded by three police officers. “I felt that if I could kill someone who decided to kill Muslims, it could prevent more harm being done to those Muslims,” he continued. “Maybe this will also send a message to his colleagues”. The accused was frustrated at not being able to go to Syria and fight with the Islamic State group himself, and had told himself that he should “try to do something here to help the Muslims there”. He had also considered killing the minister, Michael Gove. The man from London claimed to be a “moderate Muslim” and asserted that he had no regrets: “If I thought I was doing something wrong, I wouldn’t have done it.(…) Le Figaro
‘We are not overwhelmed!’ — left-wing Macron buries head in sand over mass migration
France is not a country overwhelmed by mass immigration, and a policy of “zero immigration” is not one that should be taken seriously, left-wing French President Emmanuel Macron has claimed.
The incumbent president was speaking to French tabloid Le Figaro, a matter of days before the first round of the French presidential elections due to take place on Sunday.
In response to concerns put to him about the rate and success of France’s immigration policy during his presidency — a key battleground in the election — Macron hit back at claims from a number of his electoral rivals that France is saturated, claiming the country is “not submerged.”
“Our country is not overwhelmed, as some claim, and ‘zero immigration’ is neither realistic nor desirable,” Macron told the publication.
Pressed on campaign promises made in 2017 to “do everything” so that there is “no longer any reason to vote for the extremes,” the latest polling which puts the sum of conservatives Éric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen, and the far-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon in excess of 40 percent, was put to Macron who admitted “in the field of immigration, the results are insufficient.”
“When one leads, governs or presides, one always has a share of responsibility,” Macron admitted, however he stopped short of taking the blame for France’s continuously high levels of immigration, insisting his presidency had resulted in the strengthening of border protection and “greatly tightened the conditions for entering our territory in a context where flows have increased considerably following the deterioration of the international context.”
However, those claims are generally untrue. One political activist group that highlighted just how porous France’s borders are, was banned by the government and threatened with prison.
Anti-mass immigration rhetoric has fueled much of the recent presidential election debate, with French citizens growing disillusioned with the numbers arriving predominantly from northern Africa, and the lack of assimilation that takes place upon their arrival.
According to the latest poll conducted by Sciences Po researchers, 63 percent of respondents think there are “too many immigrants” in France. Another IFOP poll found that 70 percent of French believe all immigration should be halted, while another recent one from Harris Interactive found that 61 percent of French believed the Great Replacement was occurring which is the ongoing displacement of European populations with non-Europeans. An even higher amount, 67 percent, believe the Great Replacement is not only occurring, but could occur in the future.
The problem for Macron is reconciling his reassuring message that France is not being overwhelmed by immigration with polling data showing the exact opposite sentiment is felt by the French population from some of France’s most prestigious polling firms.
Out of the 5.2 million foreign nationals currently residing in France, which accounts for 7.7 percent of the entire population, half are from Africa. However, there are many others with foreign-origin backgrounds that are not accounted for in the data. For example, third-generation individuals with a foreign background are only counted as French, and there are other tricks and forms of subterfuge used to hide demographic replacement. Birth data also shows that nearly a quarter of all newborns received Muslim names and that share is increasing every year.
On the right, conservative populist Éric Zemmour has used this sentiment to turn the screw on the incumbent Macron, choosing aggressive yet popular immigration proposals to bring the numbers down. Zemmour has promised voters he will expel up to one million illegal migrants during his presidency if elected.
Le Pen, who ran against Macron in the second round of the presidential election back in 2017, has sat back somewhat on the immigration rhetoric, with commentators suggesting she is seeking to appeal to a wider percentage of the electorate and to appear more moderate. Her polling numbers show she is likely to face Macron in the second round.
Both Le Pen and Zemmour however commented on a news item this week which gained traction in the French press regarding the death of Jewish man Jeremy Cohen, who was killed after running into a tram in a bid to escape a violent attack by a gang in the Bobigny commune of Paris.
Bobigny is a region of the Seine-Saint-Denis department which has been dubbed the poorest area in France with the highest levels of violent crime — Zemmour has previously regarded it “a foreign enclave” and a symbol of the “colonization” of France by immigrants.
Bobigny is part of the Seine-Saint-Denis department, France’s poorest area with the highest levels of violent crime on the mainland, according to official statistics.
Zemmour has called it “a foreign enclave” and a symbol of the “colonisation” of France by immigrants, the sort of rhetoric that Macron claims in incendiary and unhelpful. Asked by Le Figaro for his assessment of the right-wing candidates’ campaigns, Macron claimed they were inspired by “a very clear xenophobia and a desire for ultra-conservatism.”
French voters head to the polls on Sunday for the first round of the presidential election. Macron is currently the odds-on favorite to retain the position, but it could come down to a repeat of the 2017 second round run-off between Macron and the nationalist Marine Le Pen.
The French Minister of the Interior had announced the closure of an anti-Semitic mosque in Cannes, another in Pessac and a Salafist website: all are not closed yet
Too much in a hurry? Too eager to demonstrate its determination in the fight against radical Islamism? At the beginning of January, Gérald Darmanin declared on a TV stage: “We are closing one of the mosques in Cannes because we accuse it of anti-Semitic statements, support for CCIF (Collectif contre l’islamophobie en France) and BarakaCity”. No conditional, no future tense. Two months later, however, after the conclusion of the adversarial procedure required by law, the prefecture backed down and refrained from closing the mosque in question because the mosque’s leaders had given guarantees.
Another place, another case. On March 14, the prefecture of the Gironde department issued a decision to close the mosque in Pessac, near Bordeaux, for six months. Their reasoning is clear: the mosque “spreads hateful publications against Israel. It calls for identitarian closure and […] supports terrorist organisations or institutions or persons promoting radical Islam.” A week later, the prefecture was dismissed by the Administrative Court of Bordeaux: “Despite their condemnable content, the publications that justified this closure were not of such an extremist nature that they would incite the perpetration of acts of terrorism through hatred and violence”. The prefecture appealed, but the mosque remains open for the time being.
On January 23, Gérald Darmanin announced that the website La Voie droite would be closed down “in the next few hours or days” because it spread “Salafist content” that incited “hatred and jihad”. However, the site was still accessible at the end of March. According to the Ministry of the Interior, the procedure has not yet been completed.www.lexpress.fr
Greece Using Other Migrants to Expel Asylum Seekers
Greek security forces are employing third country nationals, men who appear to be of Middle Eastern or South Asian origin, to push asylum seekers back at the Greece-Turkey land border, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
The 29-page report “‘Their Faces Were Covered’: Greece’s Use of Migrants as Police Auxiliaries in Pushbacks,” found that Greek police are detaining asylum seekers at the Greece-Turkey land border at the Evros River, in many cases stripping them of most of their clothing and stealing their money, phones, and other possessions. They then turn the migrants over to masked men, who force them onto small boats, take them to the middle of the Evros River, and force them into the frigid water, making them wade to the riverbank on the Turkish side. None are apparently being properly registered in Greece or allowed to lodge asylum claims.
“There can be no denying that the Greek government is responsible for the illegal pushbacks at its borders, and using proxies to carry out these illegal acts does not relieve it of any liability,” said Bill Frelick, refugee and migrant rights director at Human Rights Watch. “The European Commission should urgently open legal proceedings and hold the Greek government accountable for violating EU laws prohibiting collective expulsions.”
Human Rights Watch interviewed 26 Afghan migrants and asylum seekers, 23 of whom were pushed back from Greece to Turkey across the Evros River between September 2021 and February 2022. The 23 men, 2 women, and a boy said they were detained by men they believed to be Greek authorities, usually for no more than 24 hours with little to no food or drinking water, and pushed back to Turkey. The men and boy provided firsthand victim or witness accounts of Greek police or men they believed to be Greek police beating or otherwise abusing them.
Sixteen of those interviewed said the boats taking them back to Turkey were piloted by men who spoke Arabic or the South Asian languages common among migrants. They said most of these men wore black or commando-like uniforms and used balaclavas to cover their faces. Three people interviewed were able to talk with the men ferrying the boats. The boat pilots told them they were also migrants who were employed by the Greek police with promises of being provided with documents enabling them to travel onward.
A 28-year-old former commander in the Afghan army who was pushed back to Turkey in late December, said he had a conversation in Pashto with the Pakistani man ferrying the boat that took him back to Turkey: “The boat driver said, ‘We are … here doing this work for three months and then they give us … a document. With this, we can move freely inside Greece and then we can get a ticket for … another country.’”
An 18-year-old Afghan youth described his experience after the Greek police transported him from the detention center to the river: “At the border, there were other people waiting for us.… From their language, we could recognize they were Pakistanis and Arabs. These men took our money and beat us. They beat me with sticks. They dropped us in the middle of the river. The water was to my chest, and we waded the rest of the way [to Turkey].”
Ukraine is the corruption champion of Europe
While the EU is obviously grasping at any straw to scare Hungary out of the EU community, it is apparently completely indifferent to corruption in other countries which it wants to welcome into the block. Ukraine comes to mind.
Ukraine’s current application for membership to the EU and NATO is apparently worth risking a world war, shedding blood for the country which is generally considered to be the most corrupt in Europe.
With a CPI score of 32 on the database transparency.org, the Zelenski regime comes in at number 122 – tied with Swaziland and right between Algeria, Gabon, Mexico and Zambia.
Hungary – now facing harsh EU sanctions – is 49 places ahead of Ukraine. Incidentally, Bulgaria with the worst ranking within the EU, will be spared the wrath of Brussels. At the top of the world’s least corrupt countries are the Nordic countries Denmark and Finland and New Zealand, closely followed by Norway, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland.
The EU Commission has argued that alleged misappropriation of EU funds in Hungary was a major concern. It declared: “With Hungary, we have made ourselves very clear, the problem is corruption,” said Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
In 2012 Ernst & Young put Ukraine among the three most-corrupt nations of the world and in 2015 The Guardian called Ukraine “the most corrupt nation in Europe”.
According to a poll conducted by Ernst & Young in 2017, experts considered Ukraine to be the ninth-most corrupt nation in the world. A 2008 Management Systems International (MSI) sociological survey, noted that the highest corruption levels were found in the police, health care, the courts and higher education.
United States diplomats have described Ukraine as a kleptocracy, according to WikiLeaks cables.
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/04/07/ukraine-is-the-corruption-champion-of-europe/
France: 3 North Africans arrested after an explosion that killed 8 people
On February 14, eight people, including two children, were killed in an explosion and fire in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque. On Thursday April 7, three people were arrested by the investigating gendarmerie.
The investigation into the tragic fire and explosion on February 14 in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque points to a criminal background. At the very least, three people were arrested in the Eastern Pyrenees and in Montpellier and taken into police custody at around 10 am on Thursday April 7, as confirmed by the public prosecutor of Perpignan, Jean-David Cavaillé.
Among the suspects is a 43-year-old shopkeeper of Tunisian origin living on the street where the tragedy occurred. He could be the manager of the grocery shop that was destroyed that evening. Two other men of Algerian nationality, believed to be in the country illegally and aged 27 and 28, were also arrested.(…) L’Indépendant
Scholz Defeated as German Lawmakers Reject Mandatory Covid Shots
German lawmakers rejected legislation imposing a Covid-19 vaccine mandate on people ages 60 and older, a setback for Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his health minister, who had backed compulsory inoculation.
After a testy debate in the lower house of parliament, 378 lawmakers voted against the law and 296 in favor, a result that prompted cheers from the ranks of the far-right AfD party who had bitterly opposed it. Lawmakers were free to choose without necessarily following their party line and some members from Scholz’s ruling coalition voted against the law.
The mandate, which would have gone into effect in October, had been presented as a way to avoid further lockdowns and protect vulnerable segments of the population from the potential of another wave of infections.
“This is a very important decision, because now the fight against the coronavirus will be much more difficult in the fall,” Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said in a tweet. “Political finger pointing doesn’t help,” he added. “We will carry on.”
Germany’s latest wave of the coronavirus, driven by the fast-spreading omicron variant, appears to be ebbing from a peak at the end of last month.
Authorities are still registering more than 200,000 cases and some 300 deaths on most days, however, and some 15 million residents eligible for Covid shots haven’t been vaccinated. Almost three million of those are 60 or older.
Because it was considered a “matter of conscience,” the government opted not to impose a vaccine mandate itself, instead encouraging lawmakers to draw up legislation.
Scholz took the unusual step of asking Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, a member of the Greens party, to return early from a meeting Thursday with NATO counterparts in Brussels so she could cast her ballot.
‘Contagious vaccines’ coming soon!
By Eric Utter
Free will and bodily autonomy are soon to be quaint memories of a bygone era, fleeting, sepia-toned visions hovering somewhere in the dusty attic of our minds.
Scientists are currently developing “self-spreading vaccines” that could transmit themselves to others in close proximity. According to National Geographic, they are feverishly working, engaged in experiments to come up with a vaccine that will spread to unvaccinated people—or even animals—as if by osmosis.
The report states that the scientists are currently developing “contagious vaccines” for Ebola, bovine tuberculosis, and Lassa fever, a viral disease spread by rats. The scientists are also planning to expand their studies to other diseases– including rabies, West Nile virus, Lyme disease, and the plague.
The goal is to create a vaccine that would “infect” its recipient in such a way that they could pass on vaccination to others around them, in much the same way that they could pass on a disease. Thus, one vaccinated person or animal in a given community would spread the purported benefits of the vaccination to those around them. With or without them knowing that fact. Full disclosure?
These new vaccines would be so-called recombinant viruses and use a cytomegalovirus, or CMV, proud member of the herpes family of viruses.
National Geographic reported:
Imagine a cure that’s as contagious as the disease it fights—a vaccine that could replicate in a host’s body and spread to others nearby, quickly and easily protecting a whole population from microbial attacks. That’s the goal of several teams around the world who are reviving controversial research to develop self-spreading vaccines.
Advocates for the infectious vaccines claim the goal is to revolutionize public health by disrupting infectious disease spread, potentially preventing the next pandemic.
But skeptics argue that the viruses used in these vaccines could themselves mutate, jump species, or set off a chain reaction with devastating effects across entire ecosystems.
For example, Jonas Sandbrink– a biosecurity researcher at the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute—noted: “Even if you just start by setting it out into animal populations, part of the genetic elements might find their way back into humans.” He added, “Once you set something engineered and self-transmissible out into nature, you don’t know what happens to it and where it will go.”
Oh, don’t be such Debbie Downers! Experts would make sure nothing like that could possibly happen, right? Right?
I’m old enough to remember when vaccines were supposed to preventtransmission, infection and contagion, not promote them.
And I can’t help but think these vaccines are being developed to make it impossible for people to avoid getting vaccinated, impossible to choose not to be infected with a given vaccine/experimental gene therapy. “Deniers” would be effectively, and perhaps unknowingly, forced to cede their own bodies to the vaccines—and the will of the government or other entity. Shades of the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
As of this writing, no one has yet conducted any field or laboratory studies assessing the impact and safety of these self-spreading vaccines.
The Canadian rock band Rush wrote a popular song (released in 1980) called Freewill, the last line of which reads: “I will choose a path that’s clear, I will choose free will.”
Soon, we may no longer have that choice.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/04/contagious_vaccines_coming_soon.html