Month: June 2022

The Hamburg State Office for the Protection of the Constitution has long considered the Islamic Centre Hamburg (IZH), which runs the Blue Mosque on the Alster, to be an outpost of the Iranian Mullah regime in Europe. Iranian Islamists” are at work here. The city is partnered with the centre via a state contract.

This is the subject of frequent criticism. Now the interior authority is taking action against a leading cadre of the centre. The deputy head, Seyed Soliman Mousavifar, will be expelled, the interior authority confirmed. He maintains close contacts with terrorist organisations, it said. The authorities are basing this on findings of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. First, the newspaper “Bild” reported on the case.

After Mousavifar was issued with an order, he now was given three months to leave the country. If he does not leave the country, he could be deported to Iran.

Since November 2012, the city and the Turkish mosque association Ditib, the Shura (Council of Islamic Communities in Hamburg), the Association of Islamic Cultural Centres (Verband der Islamischen Kulturzentren e.V.) and the Alevi community have been linked by a state contract. With the agreement, the city granted the associations more rights at the time. In return, they expressly declared their support for the Basic Law, took on integration tasks and fought against radicalism, also financed with federal and state funds. The agreement was that after ten years the contract would be evaluated in November. Initial talks are underway nearby.

At least one member of the Shura has repeatedly violated this commitment to loyalty to the constitution, so far without consequences for the contract: the Islamic Centre Hamburg. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution is said to have presented clear evidence in the case of the leader that he has close ties to several terrorist groups. Specifically, it is about donation associations attributed to Hezbollah, which is now banned in Germany. He is also alleged to have participated in the anti-Semitic Al-Quds Day in Berlin in 2018, a Germany-wide gathering of Israel-haters.

It is doubtful whether this further incident will have a decisive influence on the debate about the State Contract. The signs for the evaluation in November 2022 are “keep it up”. The government faction considers the contract “an important link between the city and the religious communities”, as Ekkehard Wysocki, spokesperson for religious policy of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), finds. Individual extremist members have not yet led to a rethink.

Already last summer, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution presented new evidence that the mosque was controlled by Tehran. The IZH rejected the accusations. At that time, the umbrella organisation Shura stood in front of the centre. A Shura board member said last summer that they believed IZH rather than the security authorities.

After the latest findings, Fatih Yildiz, chairman of the Shura, told the newspaper Abendblatt: “We take the accusations very seriously and will discuss how to proceed.

https://www.welt.de/regionales/hamburg/article239483189/Extremismus-Vorwuerfe-gegen-das-IZH-Vizechef-des-Islamischen-Zentrums-Hamburg-wird-ausgewiesen.html

Visiting the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi was a breathtaking experience.

One feels small and humble in this beautiful place, which embodies Islam’s message of peace, diversity and tolerance. pic.twitter.com/oEV3xnb16W

— Jutta Urpilainen (@JuttaUrpilainen) June 8, 2022

Who is Jutta Urpilainen ?

Jutta Pauliina Urpilainen (born 4 August 1975 in Lapua) is a Finnish politician. She was the first female chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, which she led from 2008 to 2014. She was the Minister of Finance of Finland from 2011 to 2014.^[1] As of 1 December 2019, she is a commissioner in charge of international partnerships in the European Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen.^[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutta_Urpilainen

https://www.fdesouche.com/2022/06/21/la-commissaire-europeenne-jutta-urpilainen-enflamme-les-reseaux-sociaux-finlandais-avec-une-photo-delle-voilee-dans-la-grande-mosquee-dabou-dhabi-eau-ce-lieu-incarne-le-message-de-paix-de-d/

Could this lifeguard have prevented something worse?
In the open-air swimming pool in Kaufbeuren (Bavaria), teenagers surrounded three girls (12, 13, 13) and groped them. Now the lifeguard who scared the perpetrators away is speaking out!

The disgusting incident happened last Tuesday. Elmar Gailhofer (60) saw a group of teenage troublemakers on the surveillance camera. When he ran to the pool, the boys had surrounded three girls in the water. “It looked like the girls felt harassed,” Gailhofer said.

The group was expelled from the swimming pool by the management. Only later was it revealed that they had apparently even groped the girls! A mother filed a complaint with the police, and in the meantime two Syrians (11, 17) suspected of the crime have been identified. The search is on for their accomplices.

The problem: The perpetrators could be spotted on CCTV, but due to data protection regulations, the recordings may not be stored.

https://archive.ph/44QfU#selection-2807.0-2807.142

At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), according to the Kremlin, an “extremely important” speech was delivered on the state of the world and Eurasia in particular.

According to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the future world order, which is taking shape today, will be formed by strong sovereign states. Those who fail to follow this path will remain disenfranchised colonies.

The main points of his speech could be summarized as follows:

1. The break with the West is irreversible and final. No pressure from the West will change that.
2. Russia has regained its sovereignty and will not give it back to anyone. Strengthening political and economic sovereignty are top priorities.
3. The old world is collapsing and the era of American dominance is over. Now a new world is being formed.
4. Despite all the support from the West for Ukraine, the operation in Ukraine will continue until all the goals are achieved.
5. Economically, Russia will not close itself off from the world – the emphasis will be on domestic economic development and the reorientation of trade to countries independent of the US.
6. The EU is no longer seen as a subjective player – solely as a collection of American vassals devoid of military-political subjectivity.
7. Large corporations are once again offered to make a choice – either “nationalization” in Russia, or deprivation of assets in the West.

In general, the main leitmotif of the entire speech is that the ship is on the same course, there will be no turning back. Those who are still waiting or are afraid of the upcoming changes in Russia and in the world are once again offered to make a choice – with whom they want to side.

Putin once again confirmed that his position has not changed since February. The decision to start a Special Military Operation in Ukraine was forced and necessary. All assigned tasks will be completed, he said.

The Russian president also said that sovereignty in the modern world could not be limited. Countries are either sovereign in their decisions, or they are not.

Russia will not see to the closure of their economy and will not strive for complete autarky. Instead, cooperation with countries pursuing an independent policy will be increased. The key tasks are the preservation of political and economic sovereignty, he highlighted.

Putin announced that the EU had completely lost its political sovereignty. For that reason, the actions of the current elites have led to a deepening economic crisis in the EU, huge financial losses, the loss of the Russian market and increased internal tensions.

In fact, the EU did not have much military-political subjectivity before, representing a collection of states and structures dependent on the United States. The presence of individual countries did not cancel the general nature of Europe’s dependence on the United States. And the current crisis has perfectly shown that the EU was not ready to act as a subjective player.

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/06/21/era-of-the-unipolar-world-is-over/

A man has been arrested by authorities after a knife attack at a Swedish mall saw at least two people rushed to hospital with serious injuries, according to local media.

The attack took place at around 8.30 a.m. on Tuesday morning at the Kvarteret Igor mall in Västerås, a city in central Sweden around 100 kilometers west of Stockholm.

Local police responded to the incident, cordoned off the crime scene and hold one individual in custody, whose identity has not yet been reported.

Magnus Jansson Klarin, a police spokesman, confirmed that authorities do not suspect anyone else of involvement in the incident, and are not currently clear as to the motive for the attack or whether the assailant knew his victims. According to the Swedish news outlet, Aftonbladet, authorities are treating the attack as attempted murder.

“It is clear that they used some form of sharp object, but I can not say exactly what,” Klarin told local media.

“We cannot rule out that more people have been injured. It has been blocked off and the police has a large presence at the scene.

“The person was arrested fairly immediately, a few minutes after we received the alarm,” he added.

The victims, aged 45 and 54, remain in the emergency room at the local hospital, according to Region Västmanland. One is understood to have suffered life-threatening injuries while the other is said to be in a stable condition.

A major police operation is now underway at the Kvarteret Igor shopping mall and the area remains closed to the public.

https://rmx.news/crime/several-people-injured-after-stabbing-spree-at-swedish-mall/

During an ongoing trial against members of the Al-Z clan that began in Düsseldorf district court, German taxpayers are learning that they financed the extended Lebanese family with hundreds of thousands of euros in social benefits despite the family having millions in assets.

Currently, alleged clan boss Badia Al-Z., along with his wife, four sons, and his daughter-in-law are standing trial, with prosecutors revealing they have received €456,000 in social benefits under Hartz IV welfare program, according to the Bild newspaper.

The public prosecutor has made serious allegations against the clan, accusing them of money laundering, extortion, tax evasion, hostage-taking, dangerous bodily harm, exploitation, coercion, and organized welfare fraud.

Between 2014 and 2021, Germany supported the family’s luxurious lifestyle with almost half a million euros. Prosecutors are now working to reveal how the clan raked in the enormous sum of money, and why the country’s job center kept public money flowing despite clan members openly flaunting their with wealth with luxury cars and mansions.

In most cases, for Germans to be eligible for unemployment and other social benefits, they need to first prove they have no personal assets they can rely on for funding. For those with luxury cars or high-end housing, the state will sometimes force them to sell and downgrade their lifestyle before gaining access to Hartz IV.

Badia Al-Z., who came to Germany without identification in 1990 and married a 12-year-old girl inside the country under Islamic law a year later, was arrested a year ago. The 47-year-old stateless person has been in custody the entire time, along with his two sons. The rest of those who stand accused, such as his wife, remain at large. She has nine children with Badia Al-Z.

Despite barely having a record of any work in his life, Badia Al-Z led a luxury lifestyle. When police first arrested him on June 8, 2021, they stopped him in a Mercedes S-Class vehicle and found €17,830 in cash in the vehicle. They then conducted a raid on the clan villa in Leverkusen, where investigators discovered another €341,415 in cash and jewelry worth around €200,000.

The trial is seeking to reveal how the clan came into so much money, and they are pointing to a long list of crimes as the source of the clan’s revenue.

So far, Badia Al-Z. has never been convicted. In previous trials, witnesses tend to back out from testifying. For example, in 2019, after a restaurant was robbed and Badia Al-Z. was suspected, witnesses backed out of coming to court or withdrew statements.

Now back in court, Badia Al-Z does not appear concerned, often waving to his supporters or clenching his fist in defiance in front of the courtroom audience.

His lawyer claims it is all a “politically motivated” trial.

“There is a lot of political pressure on the public prosecutor,” he said.

It won’t be clear until November at the earliest what the court will decide in the current case, however, migrant clans have been implicated in murders, organized crime, and large-scale instances of violence.

Migrant welfare fraud a major problem in Germany

German taxpayers have long been on the hook for the country’s rapidly growing migrant population, with at least €64.5 billion in education, housing and integration benefits earmarked for migrants over the next four years, which also includes hundreds of millions of euros going to children of migrants living outside the country.

Welfare fraud plays a major role in these ballooning costs, especially given that German authorities have routinely displayed their ineptitude when it comes to detecting migrant fraud schemes, with such crimes routinely reported in the nation’s news media. For example, in the small German city of Braunschweig, asylum seekers, mostly from Sudan, were accused of committing benefit fraud worth millions. The “record holder” in that case had 12 identities which he rotated to receive benefits under each new name. Authorities in the city were pursuing 300 different cases just in 2017 alone.

According to the government report, the refugees registered several times at the state reception center in Braunschweig. Realizing they could gain benefits under different names, they would give themselves at least three to four different identities.

“Sometimes they grow a beard, sometimes they put on glasses, sometimes their hair is shorter — they always have different surnames,” said SOKO director Jörn Memenga. 

In another case from 2018, a criminal syndicate helped Nigerian immigrants gain residency by offering Berlin authorities fake papers. Despite repeated internal warnings, the immigration reportedly continued approving the applications for years.

https://rmx.news/article/germany-sent-e456000-worth-of-social-benefits-to-criminal-migrant-clan-worth-millions/