Month: July 2022
In France, a man who recently converted to Islam threatens to “blow himself up” using an explosive belt against his wife: “Allah has told me to do it”
It is 1.20 a.m. on this July 14 when one mother receives a video call from the man she recently separated from after 25 years together having four children. The man, who is still her husband, threatens to come to the small party she is having next Saturday with an explosive belt and “blow himself up”.
“Allah told me to do it,” justifies the 40-year-old, who is said to have recently converted to Islam. The next day, the wife filed a complaint with the police in Beaurepaire. She had already filed a first complaint at the end of May. On the evening of the party, her husband, who now lives with his cousin in Saint-Priest, did come to Saint-Barthélemy and sneaked around her house, which is now for sale. But he does not carry out his threat. Armed with an axe, he “contented” himself with smashing a tile that still had their names on it. On Wednesday July 20, he was brought before the court in Vienne, where he was immediately charged.
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As he planned to return to his home country of Portugal, the 40-year-old was given 14 months probation for two years, with an obligation to pay maintenance and a ban on contacting the woman, soon to be his ex-wife, and on staying in Isère. The court also ordered the fitting of an electronic tag to protect the victim. Le Dauphiné
Ex-Muslim threatened in Berlin: “How dare you insult the Prophet!”
Amed Sherwan starts running when the traffic light at Hermannplatz switches to red. It is 12.30 p.m., Tuesday lunchtime, he is walking south on Kottbusser Damm, before that he had eaten rice with okra pods at his favourite Kurdish restaurant and now he wants to go on towards Sonnenallee, to drink Arabic coffee, with cardamom. As he runs through the traffic lights, a man overtakes him and starts shouting at him: “I saw you in the documentary on Arte, how dare you insult the Prophet!” This is how Sherwan tells it on the phone the next day.
Sherwan’s life story is well-known, he wrote it down in a book: “Kafir: Thank Allah I’m an Atheist”. At the age of 15, the Iraqi Kurd wrote on Facebook that he wanted to live as an atheist, when he was still living in the capital Erbil. His father denounced him, Amed Sherwan was sent to prison, tortured, convicted of blasphemy – and finally fled to Flensburg via detours. He has lived there since 2014 and also visits Berlin from time to time.
Normally, he says, the capital is a place where he is submerged in the crowd. “I am one of many here,” he says. “I never have the thought that anyone could recognise me here.” He likes drinking Arabic coffee in Sonnenallee, he says, but that’s over for now. “The man accused me of inciting against Muslims,” Sherwan says, “I was in shock and couldn’t say anything.” He began to react as he was used to in his torture prison: “I apologised.
For a while, Sherwan was frequently invited to appear on platforms and talk shows, where he was able to do well for a 23-year-old who does not even speak German as his mother tongue. But in the past few months, he had noticed that after these performances, he struggled to shake off the memories as easily as he would have wished. He therefore wrote a month ago that he wanted to withdraw from the public eye for a while.
“Situations like the one on Sonnenallee always make me very concerned,” he says the day after the incident. “On the one hand I want to de-escalate, but on the other hand it annoys me that it is impossible to criticise Islam without it immediately being considered an insult.” In addition, the man had mentioned a knife, he said. “I apologised to him and hoped that more people would not recognise me and join in.” He was afraid, he said.
Sherwan knows Berlin. Four years ago, he marched during the CSD wearing a T-shirt that read: “Allah is gay”. He himself lives in a relationship with a woman, but shows solidarity with the LGBT community’s fight for tolerance.After the CSD, he had to endure a lot of hostility from fundamentalist groups, both online and offline, he says. It happened that cars slowed down next to him, people rolled down their windows and threatened him.
The incident at Herrmannplatz lasted only five minutes. “I put on a mask and then got on the next bus that was stopping there and drove away.” He said he would avoid Neukölln for the next few days, the district that actually reminded him so much of home. “That was my last day in Sonnenallee.” He visits friends in the north of the city, and soon returns to Flensburg. A life without publicity awaits him there. “I want to move to another city and then start an apprenticeship.”
Bring Boris back?!
Saving the Planet, or Themselves?
By Jeffrey Folks
Since well before the publication of Al Gore’s Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit in 1992, we’ve been told we can “save the planet” by eliminating fossil fuels. Many environmentalists ride bikes to work, refuse plastic bags at stores, and vote for more solar and windmills, but is any of it “saving the planet”?
Bjorn Lomborg’s book False Alarm exposes a host of false claims by environmentalists, including the notion that warming has been producing more storms, drought, and floods. In fact, all of these have remained at the same level over the past 100 years. As Lomborg writes, “deaths caused by climate-related disasters have declined precipitously over the past century” (p. 73) — not because of fewer storms, but because increasing wealth has made it possible to protect ourselves from climate events. The real danger lies in useless spending on climate change that will bankrupt societies and make it impossible for their people to protect themselves.
The global economy has now constructed an entire edifice atop the myth of catastrophic man-made global warming, and activists like Gore collectively have made billions if not trillions of dollars off their predictions of doom. Environmental activism became a lucrative business, in the form of non-profit revenues and income from corporate consulting.
Now under Biden, activists promise to transform the global economy at a cost of hundreds of trillions. An SEC proposed rule on “climate change reporting and control” would, if enacted, lower profits and productivity for large businesses and bankrupt smaller ones. And the SEC is just one among hundreds of federal agencies targeting fossil fuel emissions and exposing the private sector to huge reporting and legal costs. According to the National Law Review, “companies will likely need to consider and quantify the impact of environmental factors on both the upstream and downstream aspects of their business.”
Ironically, the global warming edifice is beginning to crack as European nations reverse their behavior, if not their rhetoric, on warming. Germany never fully complied with the Paris Agreement to begin with, but on May 24, it announced that it may use idled coal-fired power plants to compensate for lost Russian natural gas supplies. Maybe California’s Gov. Newsom needs to take a tip from Germany, since California has warned of “possible summer blackouts” for at least the next three years.
All of this government action, in the U.S. and abroad, is avoidable. The reality is that wind and solar supply only 1.1% of global energy needs at present and will not supply more than 5% by 2040 (Lomborg, p. 104) — and this at a cost of trillions of dollars in subsidies and credits. It is madness for politicians and corporate leaders to promise “net zero” by 2030 or even 2050. We must face reality and insist, for both strategic and economic reasons, that an adequate supply of fossil fuels is produced in our own country.
Fortunately, there is no pressing need to “transition” to wind and solar. Environmentalists present a doomsday scenario of rising seas, catastrophic storms, and worldwide drought — none of which is happening. A simple test is to examine the number of major hurricane strikes on the U.S. soil. According to NOAA, with data going back to 1850, that number has remained entirely stable: 27 from 1850 to 1900, 32 from 1900 to 1950, and 28 from 1950 to 2000. The deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history occurred in 1900, 1919, and 1926, not in the era of so-called global warming: Katrina, the only devastating 21st-century storm, was the 33rd deadliest storm in our history — and it was devastating because of inadequate government preparation and response.
Climate alarmists also point to purported drought as evidence of warming. During the 1950s, I lived in central Oklahoma during one of the worst droughts in the state’s history. Examine the evidence: a chart showing wet and dry periods in Oklahoma shows beyond all doubt that Oklahoma was far drier in the period from 1900 to 1980, and greener from 1980 to the present — just the opposite of what alarmists claim it should be. The fact is that the Central Plains, our country’s breadbasket, has become greener precisely during the period of greater warming.
Even if we wished to change the climate, there’s little we could do about it. That’s not my assessment: it comes from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which has admitted in the past that a portion of recent warming is due to natural causes and that even a complete global transition to “net zero” would have not prevent further temperature increases, or declines for that matter. In any case, why would we wish to return to cooler “pre-industrial” levels when there are many advantages to warmer temperatures, including higher agricultural productivity.
Today’s warming of one degree Celsius is not an “inconvenient truth” — it is, for some, a minor inconvenience. But for most of us, it is not even that; it is an opportunity, as, with warmer temperatures and higher CO2 levels, plants grow more quickly and in regions where they could not have grown before. Warming increases the Earth’s productivity, making it possible to feed the 10 billion persons expected by 2050. If the Earth entered a period of sudden cooling, as it well might, the Earth’s poor would be at risk of starvation.
Our values with regard to climate, as with regard to so much else, have been twisted by a nihilistic generation that prefers enslavement and government control to freedom and opportunity. In the 1930s, there were millions of compulsive Nazi sympathizers living in the U.S. They enjoyed dressing up in brown uniforms and marching around like robots programmed by a charismatic leader.
Today, those compulsives wear green and agonize over consuming too much of the world’s resources and burning fossil fuels in any amount. They march around in asinine protests that are intended to “save the Earth” when they could be saving it, and themselves, by getting a job and working 40 hours a week. Like the brown-shirts of an earlier era, whom they so closely resemble, today’s radicals employ violence and intimidation to impose their warped vision on those who disagree with them.
It is the ordinary American who is the loser in environmental politics. Radical environmentalists have expressed pleasure at seeing working Americans paying $5 and $6 for gas and seeing the price of natural gas, which heats half of homes and offices and most electricity production, rise from an average of $2.03 per m Btu in 2020 to $6.07 in 2022.
Environmentalists celebrate the harm that comes to others who disagree with them, even as they relish their own power and control. In the end, it is a matter of who thrives and who does not. Once we realize this fact, it becomes clear that we must reject the myth of climate catastrophe and return to a rational policy allowing for the unrestricted production of fossil fuels.
The truth is that we are facing a climate catastrophe — in the form of trillions of worthless spending on so-called renewables. Our economy is already beginning to collapse under the burden of this spending, but it is not too late to save it. One must question and oppose all spending on climate change and support rational policies that include reliance on fossil fuels.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/07/saving_the_planet_or_themselves.html
Switzerland: Court Rules Man Faked Hate Crime, Carved Swastika on his Own Face
A Swiss court has found a 28-year-old man guilty of inventing a hate crime after the man had falsely claimed to have been attacked but actually carved a swastika into his own face.
The 28-year-old mixed-race man had claimed in January to have been attacked by a group of German-speaking individuals who approached him in the city of Neuchâtel, pushed him to the ground, beat him and carved a swastika into the side of his cheek and made monkey noises toward him in an apparent hate crime.
The man posted a picture of the alleged result of the attack on social media along with his story, prompting police to investigate the alleged assault.
However, according to a report from 20Minutes, the investigators found that there had been no attack on the man, a French national living in Switzerland, and that the man had invented the entire ordeal. The court ruled he had carved the swastika into his own cheek, with investigators noting that the carving had been done before the alleged attack reportedly took place.
The Neuchâtel Public Prosecutor’s Office charged him and he was found guilty of a false criminal report the court imposed a fine of 30 Swiss Francs for 30 days suspended. The man will, however, have to pay 200 Swiss Francs (£172/$206) to the court.
Hate crime hoaxes are not unheard of in Europe, and often make national news or fool mainstream politicians, as was the case last September when a man lied about an alleged anti-LGBT hate crime in Madrid.
The 20-year-old had claimed eight hooded men had attacked him and even carved a homophobic slur into his buttocks. Later, it was revealed the man had made up the story because he had been unfaithful to his partner and that the carving on his buttocks had been a consensual act.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/07/21/court-rules-man-faked-hate-crime/
Germany: Climate Activist Glues Herself to the Road with Cement to Protest Climate Change — Police Forced to Chisel Her Hand from the Cement (VIDEO)
Liz Truss was on GB News this morning setting out her stall for PM – how well did she do though?
Germany: African sets fire to a department store and also tries to set customers on fire – He shouts when he is arrested: “This is abuse, racism, kidnapping”
Augustine M. (27) was born in Ghana. No profession, one child. The charge: In autumn 2021 he is accused of setting fire to beds in a Berlin department stores’.
October 30, 2021 is a Saturday. The Galeria Kaufhof in the Mitte district is very busy. There are about 50 people on the 4th floor at 2.30 pm. Suddenly beds are on fire everywhere.
“The air was shimmering with heat,” remembers Gerald S. (57). “A shop assistant shouted: He’s setting fire to everything! I fetched a fire extinguisher. But the man took a burning bedspread and tried to put it over me!” The sales representative defended himself (burns on his hands). The suspected arsonist flees via the cafeteria and the 3rd floor, continues to set fire to the building.
After ten days in hospital, he is free again. Arrested six weeks later. Instead of prison, however, he is now in a psychiatric clinic. The public prosecutor wants him to stay there. Augustine M. rages: “This is abuse, racism, kidnapping.”
Judge (softly): “Do you say anything about the fires?” M.: “I announce that these proceedings will be stopped! Immediately! Corruption, manipulation! The clinic is not even cleaned, the lemon tea has also expired!”
Judge (patiently): “Did you set fire?” The accused (angry): “I demand respect! I want my own doctor! A lawyer who will listen!” Judge: “That’s not the way to do it. Constable, take him out of the hall.” M. (yelling): “I coming to you!” The defence lawyer: “He has already threatened me too…”
The trial continues without him. Verdict September 6.
WATCH: Columbiabad or Islamabad? Once again, Arab migrants start a mass brawl in a German open-air swimming pool
Anyone who thought the fierce brawl in a Berlin open-air swimming pool that made headlines all over the world not so long ago was an isolated incident is now being contradicted:
“On Tuesday evening, an argument in Neukölln’s Columbiabad heated up to the point of a brawl. Police and fire brigade deployed a large contingent.”
But see for yourself:
https://philosophia-perennis.com/2022/07/20/columbiabad-oder-islamabad-die-party-geht-weiter/
