Month: July 2022
German commissioner blasts art exhibit over antisemitism claims
Germany’s antisemitism commissioner has voiced grave concerns with the Documenta art exhibition over antisemitims claims.
Felix Klein, the federal commissioner on combating antisemitism, referred to the manner in which Documenta, a contemporary art show that takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany, handled the allegations as “devastating,” the Augsburger-allgemeine news site reported.
“It is completely incomprehensible that the offers of support from the state of Hesse and the federal government to change the structures, especially with regard to the international effects, were rejected,” Klein said.
He added that Documenta’s reaction to the controversy demonstrated “a lack of respect for the German Bundestag that none of the responsible persons appeared before the culture committee and replied the legitimate questions of the parliamentarians.”
This year’s festival faced multiple claims of antisemitism by some of the exhibition’s artists, including an incident on June 18 in which Indonesian art collective Taring Padi unveiled art which featured alleged antisemitic symbolism and stereotypes.
Forced marriage in Germany: “That’s the way things are in Islam”
Yasmin (name altered) has a presentiment. She has just turned 16. In the past weeks, she was not allowed to take a single step on her own. Her brothers picked her up from school and her parents forbade her to meet her friends. Now the whole family is going to visit relatives in Lebanon during the holidays. The parents have given a cousin’s wedding as the reason for the trip. But Yasmin fears it will be her own. She does not know to whom she was promised.
Myria Böhmecke from the women’s rights organisation Terre des Femmes knows of many cases that have happened in this or similar ways. In big German cities like Berlin, Hamburg or Frankfurt, forced marriages of girls and young Muslim women are no longer a marginal phenomenon but widespread.
The last nationwide study on forced marriages was commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs in 2008. It surveyed counselling centres: 3443 people, mainly young women, had asked for help there in the course of a year because of a threatened (60 percent) or already enforced (40 percent) forced marriage. “We assume that the number of unreported cases is much, much higher,” says Böhmecke. Especially minors do not dare to seek help in counselling. “There is the extreme relationship of dependence on the parents.”
Imke Steinberg (name changed) is a teacher at a secondary school in the Neukölln district of Berlin and reports similar experiences. For more than ten years, she has been looking after the girls at the school together with social workers. She has often accompanied schoolgirls who have decided to be taken into care because of a threatened forced marriage, i.e. they have left their families and been accommodated in protected flats of the Youth Welfare Office. However, it is always a long way until such a step is taken. “About 90 percent don’t make it the first time,” Steinberg knows. For many, breaking off contact with the family is unbearable. When talking about forced marriage, she often hears the remark: “That’s the way things are in Islam.”
Steinberg reports that she once discovered engagement photos from Turkey of one of her students on Facebook. The parents had previously declared that the 15-year-old girl was ill. “We built up pressure,” she says. Again and again she called the family and had to listen to absurd excuses. “Then we said that if the girl was not back in school in three days, we would call the police.” The threat was effective, and the family did indeed travel back. This was especially important because there were other daughters in the family, says Steinberg.
In general, it is the positive experiences that give her strength: when Steinberg was able to bring a student to safe accommodation and then hears that she has started an education and is going her way. Or when a conversation with the parents is held and a possible forced marriage is at least questioned. But she also knows how traumatic such situations are for the girls. “There is always a blind spot.
Girls account for about 90 per cent of forced marriages. But there are also cases of boys and young men like that of the German-Lebanese Nasser. When Nasser was 15, his parents found out about his homosexuality. His father considers this a disgrace to the family and abuses him severely. In a cloak and dagger operation, the father and two uncles drag Nasser into a car and try to get him to Lebanon to marry him off, as he himself says. But the plan is discovered. The Youth Welfare Office had already been informed. The car is stopped at the Romanian-Bulgarian border. Nasser made his fate public and in 2015 denounced his father and uncles for abducting minors and depriving them of their liberty. The accused have to go to court and get off with a fine of 1350 euros – a verdict that many people observing the trial consider too lenient.
Against opposition from the Austrian population: Vöcklabruck mosque soon to open
Many residents are anxiously awaiting the imminent opening of the new Islamic mosque opposite the Don Bosco schools in Vöcklabruck because they fear that it will not only be used for prayer.
For this new building of the Bosniak religious community in Austria will also be an Islamic cultural and educational centre, presumably built with financial support from the Saudis, which will also serve the immigrant Muslims “as a sealing-off space against the secular dominance culture of the infidels”, as the Islam expert Irfan Peci points out. Furthermore, mosques, which are called “masjid” (“places of submission”) in Arabic, also function as gender-segregation sites. “This makes them reproductive institutions of authoritarian Islamic patriarchalism.”
Early protests by the population against the Islamisation of their district town, which included the erection of a large cross, ultimately came to nothing. Not only were people left alone with their justified concerns, but even the State Security Service was called in against the cross erectors and the mainstream media put these people, all peaceful activists, on a par with the Kuxklux clan. “We can only hope,” says a Vöcklabruck resident standing thoughtfully in front of the mosque building, “that one day the people of Vöcklabruck will not regret not having taken more decisive action against it.”
France: “I didn’t know the laws of your country”, defends himself this Afghan who has already been convicted of raping a child and has been convicted again of two sexual assaults on minors – One victim tried to commit suicide after the crime
An Afghan national was convicted of two sexual assaults in Saint-Brieuc. He had previously raped a twelve-year-old boy.
(…) Completely relaxed, smiling and accompanied by his interpreter, the accused takes the witness stand at the Saint-Brieuc criminal court to give his testimony. He is accused of sexually assaulting and molesting two underage girls in 2018. These crimes took place a few days before the rape of the little boy.
On trial, he tries to justify himself: “In my country, it is normal to have sex with young boys because women are impossible to contact. When I came to France, I didn’t know your laws, but I have since learned that it is forbidden”.
A few days later, the young victim was hospitalised for a suicide attempt, where she repeated this desperate act five times.
“I tried to touch her a little, but she wouldn’t. If she was a decent girl, she would not have come into my room”. The girl sits right behind him and listens weeping as her tormentor drags her into the mud even more….
On May 22, another young woman files a complaint. She recounts her ordeal on the witness stand: “He said to me Miss, Miss, come and have sex with me. I was very scared, I notified my parents who called the police” .(…) Actu.fr
Sweden’s National Institute of Economic Research notes a recession which politicians ignore
Olle Felten, a former member of the Swedish Riksdag’s tax committee and the Riksbank’s General Council, analyses the state of the Swedish economy. Felten also noted the complete lack of political will to address the crisis.
The National Institute of Economic Research’s latest report on 21 June states that Sweden is now heading into a recession. The forecast for Sweden’s GDP growth was significantly lowered for 2022 and 2023, from 3,3 and 2,1 percent respectively in March to 1,9 and 1,2 percent respectively in the June report.
The energy issue is becoming increasingly clear as a driving force for inflation, as energy prices are spread across the economy. In several countries, measures are being taken to reduce the effect of primarily the rapid increase in energy prices, but the majority of Swedish politicians have not defined the problem, let alone announced measures to solve it.
The National Institute of Economic Research warns of stagflation
In the National Institute of Economic Research’s (KI) latest report on the economic situation, which was published on 21 June, KI warns that GDP growth is slowing down. It states: “The soaring inflation for the Swedish economy leads into a recession”. The indicator is down to the same level as during the financial crisis of 2008/2009.
KI thus makes the assessment that Sweden is heading into a strong recession, which means a sharp deterioration in GDP growth. The peak of inflation, according to KI, will come sometime in 2022 and then be reduced to more normal levels in 2023 or 2024.
Swedish self-harming behavior
The Swedish increase in inflation is driven by both external parameters and domestic political decisions. The rapid price increases for energy, which are being propagated in all sectors, are putting strong pressure on the Riksbank to raise interest rates faster than previously announced.
The pressure from the outside world is also increasing. On June 23, the Central Bank of Norway also raised the rate by 0,5 percentage points to 1,25 percent. The increase puts further pressure on the Riksbank to raise the Swedish rate.
In Sweden, the debate about the fundamental factors that push up domestic inflation in the energy sector is marked by its complete absence. Electricity prices are currently so high that they are a strong driving force for both the rise in inflation and for sharply exacerbating the recession that KI has described.
In the debate in the Riksdag on the spring budget, the lack of measures and proposals on how to solve the energy crisis, is unfortunately not being discussed by politicians or the media.
Reasons for high Swedish electricity prices
There are two main reasons, both with domestic roots, for Swedish electricity prices rising. It is partly about the prematurely decommissioned nuclear power plants in Ringhals and Oskarshamn and the hard investment in intermittent wind power. The second main issue is the EU’s internal energy market.
The internal energy market, which Sweden has joined, means, among other things, that Swedes are forced to price Swedish electricity consumption according to how much electricity costs in Europe, and not what it costs to produce in Sweden. Sweden’s combination of hydropower and nuclear power has made Swedish electricity production very cheap, but Swedish electricity consumers will no longer benefit from this. Instead, the price is largely governed by rampant gas and coal prices, not a real factor in Sweden’s consumption.
The internal energy market is an EU directive that requires transposition into Swedish law. However, Sweden could decide not to adjust the price of electricity in Sweden to the price in Europe. It would certainly irritate the federalists in the EU, if it were to happen, but the current system means that Swedish consumers are hit extremely hard, in stark contrast to the purpose of the directive, to “strengthen the position of consumers”. Prices are largely driven by Germany phasing out its nuclear power to switch to green alternatives. But Russian gas is rapidly being phased out and replaced by coal, resulting in further price increases.
If the Swedish electricity market had instead been adapted to Swedish conditions and possibly the Nordic neighboring countries, electricity prices would have been much more stable at a reasonable level. When electricity producers supply overcapacity, it could be exported to other consumers, such as other EU countries. But pricing in Sweden should not have to depend on how much energy costs the most in the EU.
Swedish consumers have to pay for other market participants that profit from destabilizing the Swedish economy with high electricity prices.
What do politicians do about the situation?
The Social Democrats ‘ explanatory model for the high electricity prices has been presented in two points:
• During the autumn, we have seen high electricity prices in Sweden. This is a result of, above all, high prices for natural gas in Europe. It affects us all, we work to have a good electricity supply and good prices for electricity in Sweden.
• Sweden is part of the common internal market for electricity within the EU. When the price varies on the continent, it also affects the price of electricity in Sweden. However, there is no indication that they will be high over a long period of time. Last year we had very low prices in Sweden.
The Moderates, Christian Democrats, Liberals and Sweden Democrats present a plan to strengthen electricity production in Sweden: The parties agree: in the first hundred days, a bourgeois government will begin work to secure and expand nuclear power in Sweden with 3 reasons proposed to build new capacity:
- Nuclear power means cheap electricity for households and companies.
- Nuclear power is carbon dioxide-free and climate-smart.
- Nuclear power works even when it is not windy.
The Moderates and several of the other parties have also put forward proposals for temporary reductions in the tax on electricity, but have no proposal that affects the internal energy market.
The Sweden Democrats have started an investigation, led by climate skeptic Elsa Widding, who will come up with proposals that contribute to solving the Swedish energy supply. The inquiry will submit a report on August 16. This will likely be the basis for SD’s election game on energy issues. At present, there is no information on how to ensure that Swedish electricity prices are not governed by the highest prices in the EU.
The Center Party has a text from 2014 on its website about the importance of Sweden joining the EU’s internal energy market: “A better functioning internal market within the EU countries would automatically mean that Europe becomes more energy efficient and that we get more rational investments”. But this has primarily driven up the price of electricity for Swedish consumers, even if high prices force consumers to become more “energy efficient”.
The Left Party is the only party that points out the EU’s internal energy market as the reason for the high Swedish electricity prices. Its press spokesman Örjan Rodhe, however, refused to answer questions about the proposal, because they were posed by a “rightwing” publication.
The Green Party maintains that Sweden has “among the lowest, or even the lowest electricity prices in the EU”. Statistics from Eurostat show that this is wrong and that Sweden is instead in 14th place, in the middle of the list of consumer prices for electricity.
Several EU countries, including Spain, Malta and Greece, have reduced VAT on electricity to the lowest EU tax rate. In Sweden, such a measure (6 percent VAT instead of 25) would mean a price reduction of 15,2 percent. It would be interesting if the pricing mechanism within the framework of the EU’s internal energy market, and other measures to reduce the price of electricity, were raised to a larger election issue.
Then the parties would have to confess their beliefs and explain whether they want to take advantage of all the opportunities that exist to strengthen the position of Swedish consumers and lower the price of electricity. In that case, it would affect inflation in Sweden in a positive direction and reduce financial risks in the next few years.
The revolt against green tyranny has toppled its first government, as farmers’ protests spread across Europe
By Thomas Lifson
Green tyranny has finally provoked mass reactions, and the first government has fallen after imposing insane policies that wrecked the food supply for its people. Both the president and the prime minister of Sri Lanka are resigning in the wake of massive mobs storming and occupying their residences, burning the PM’s private house and refusing to leave the presidential palace until both men are out of office. The BBC reports:
Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has confirmed he will be resigning, the prime minister’s office has said.
It comes two days after crowds stormed the official residence of both leaders. Demonstrators are still occupying the buildings and are refusing to leave until both leaders are gone.
The parliament Speaker had earlier said the president would resign on 13 July.
Mr Rajapaksa’s current whereabouts are unknown. The BBC has been told that he is on a navy vessel at sea.
His resignation was first announced by the parliament Speaker on Saturday, but many Sri Lankans responded with scepticism to the idea that he would relinquish power.
On Monday, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s office said in a statement it had been informed by Mr Rajapaksa that he would step down on Wednesday.
However, there has still been no direct word from Mr Rajapaksa.
This Rumble video shows the incredible size of the crowd storming the presidential palace:
Sri Lanka foolishly signed on to the green initiative in farming, going organic and limiting the importation and use of chemical fertilizers. Food production, including tea, a vital export earner of foreign exchange, collapsed, and now the government is broke, people are hungry.
The crisis there may get worse before it gets better, since there is no money to import food or fertilizer, and international aid may be less available than normal, as worldwide food shortages loom.
But it is not just third world countries that are experiencing mass revolts against top-down green policies. Farmers in Holland, in open revolt against government plans to destroy their livelihoods by limiting nitrogen application for fertilizer, are tying up that country’s roads and cities. And the revolt is spreading to Germany, Italy, Spain, and Poland.
If you have 12 minutes to spare, I highly recommend this video segment from Sky News Australia that includes a long interview with an articulate spokesman for the Dutch farmers, who maintains the public there is solidly behind the protestors.
William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection sees the populist revolts spreading, and invokes the basic wisdom of:
The 9-Meal Rule, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy,” which boils down to the fact that food shortages are different. In that post, I traced the history of The 9-Meal Rule, dating it back to Alfred Henry Lewis in the New York Journal in 1896 (pdf.):
“the only barrier between us and anarchy is the last nine meals we’ve had. It may be taken as axiomatic that a starving man is never a good citizen.”
Elsewhere on these pages today, J.B. Shurk writes:
There’s a storm coming. That’s for sure now. The question is whether the small group of people allied together these last few years to unleash so much misery for the rest of us really appreciate the mercurial nature of an outraged citizenry at their wits’ end. Are the violent revolts in Sri Lanka today part of a test run in squashing future rebellions for the globalist wardens who seek our imprisonment, or are they the eerie harbingers of what lies in store for the Build Back Better boobs who wish to rule the world at our expense? Hungry, desperate populations tired of “official” government lies and driven to fury by their Marie Antoinette tormentors don’t tend to stop for arbitrary “executive orders” and capricious “health mandates” on their way to the guillotines. When the mild-mannered choose to take a stand, then violence becomes the order of the day, and heaven help those who get in their way. When the obedient become irrepressible, calls for revolution spread like embers in the wind. And like those uncontrollable infernos, once people rise up against those who wish to keep them down, the heat of their passions does not easily die away.
What have the Davos Death Cult’s machinations wrought? We will soon see, but I think John Fogerty may have said it best: “I hear the voice of rage and ruin.” Those voices are not so very far away.
We are cursed to live in interesting times.
Brussels: Capital of Europe or Eurabia?
While Lieven Verstraete, an acclaimed Belgian journalist who hosts the program, “De Zevende Dag” (“The Seventh Day”), was recently interviewing two members of the Green Party, he raised the issue of immigration and called Brussels “the perfect example of a city whose neighborhoods are conquered one by one by newcomers”.
Newcomers? Conquered?
“How?” replied Nadia Naji, a politician of Molenbeek’s Green party.
“Well,” Verstraete, visibly uncomfortable, tried to explain, “more and more people with immigrant origins come to live there and claim their place. Do you feel Belgian in Molenbeek?”
A few hours after the broadcast, he apologized.
“In twenty years”, the French newspaper Le Figaro predicted about Brussels, “the European capital will be Muslim”.
“Almost a third of the population of Brussels already is Muslim”, stated Olivier Servais, a sociologist at the University of Louvain. “Practitioners of Islam, due to their high birth rate, should be the majority ‘in fifteen-twenty years’. Since 2001, Mohamed has been the most popular name among babies in Brussels”.
Verstraete had told the truth — but, as is said, in the time of universal deception, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
“Molenbeek would love to be forgotten, because it is the very example of the failure of the multicultural society, which remains an untouchable dogma in Belgium”, wrote Alain Destexhe, an honorary Senator in Belgium and former Secretary General of Doctors Without Borders. He was talking about the case of Conner Rousseau, president of Vooruit, the Flemish socialist party, who recently told Humo magazine, “When I drive around Molenbeek, I do not feel [as if I am] in Belgium”.
“I no longer dare to walk hand in hand with a man in Molenbeek”, Gilles Verstraeten, a gay parliamentarian, confessed.
“[I]n the Brussels region as a whole”, Destexhe noted, “only a quarter of Belgians are of Belgian origin, 39 per cent of Belgians are of foreign origin and 35 per cent are foreigners.”
“Molenbeek is in fact only the tip of the iceberg of the progressive Islamization in all the major Belgian cities. Islam is increasingly visible in the public space of Molenbeek, and in the month of Ramadan almost all the shops and restaurants in the city are closed during the day. In many neighborhoods, women are no longer able to dress however they want or go out at night, and homosexuals have no right of citizenship. There are, however, hardly any voices to worry about this development, as if French-speaking Belgium, anesthetized in unison by the multicultural media, had resigned itself”.
It is true not just Brussels. Antwerp, the country’s second-largest city, is now 25% Muslim. Another parliamentarian, Herman de Croo , revealed that 78% of Antwerp’s children aged 1-6 are foreigners.
The former Brussels Secretary of State Bianca Debaets recently said, “there are too many areas where it is difficult for women and homosexuals to walk”.
The Chief Rabbi of Brussels, Albert Guigui, was attacked by a group of Arabs. They insulted him, spat on him and kicked him. Since then, Guigui has not worn his skullcap in public.
No Jew lives in the Gare du Nord district anymore. “There are hardly any Jews left in this neighborhood,” remarked Michel Laub, founder of the Museum of Deportation in Malines. “Yet this part of Schaerbeek near the Gare du Nord was once an important Jewish quarter.”
For women, too, Brussels has become dangerous. “The Belgian political-media elites have surrendered in the face of the spread of Islamic fundamentalism”, Fadila Maaroufi, a Belgian-Moroccan social worker and founder of the Observatory of Fundamentalisms in Brussels, told the French magazine Marianne.
“I grew up in a Moroccan family in a neighborhood near Molenbeek. In the 1980s, it was still quite cosmopolitan. Then, little by little, we saw the native Belgians leaving. I witnessed the rise of Islam, my sisters veiled while my parents wore flared pants. I myself have come under pressure, including from my family. It had become inconceivable that I did not veil myself …. When I tried to alert public authorities and associations, I found myself facing a wall. There have been attacks in Paris and attacks in Brussels, yet I had the feeling that we still did not grasp the extent of the problem”.
In such an environment, freedom of expression also finds itself in dramatic retreat.
Belgian student associations protested the arrival in the capital of the publisher of satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, “Riss”, who survived a 2015 Islamist massacre in the paper’s office.
The Filigranes bookshop in Brussels, the largest in the country, canceled a meeting with the journalist Éric Zemmour for “security reasons”.
Demonstrations against Zemmour had been planned and a group, “Collective Against Islamophobia”, had filed a complaint. The Hergé Museum took back its tribute to Charlie Hebdo by censoring itself. An exhibition that had been planned was canceled “for security reasons”.
“Today the Muslim Brotherhood, spearhead of political Islam and of the insidious soft Islamisation of Western societies, continues its lobbying and blame games with its imaginary Trojan horse: Islamophobia”, wrote a Belgian MEP, Assita Kanko, who fled Burkina Faso to look for freedom in Europe.
“The aim is clear: normalise radical Islamic codes and ways of life in order gradually to transform our Western societies instead of adapting to our European way of life. As a black woman and a secular Muslim, I know what it is to live under Islamic pressure and I know what it takes to emancipate oneself in order to finally live in dignity. The fight to preserve European civilisation is a fight to preserve humanism …. Two stones support the European temple: the Judeo-Christian heritage with the idea of human dignity and the Enlightenment, with the intellectual effervescence that accompanied it. It is from this subtle alchemy that European culture was born. European Judeo-Christian civilisation has created for itself over the centuries the conditions for its intellectual emancipation, and it can be proud of this …. Europe must urgently pull itself together and reaffirm its commitment to its own values….”
Destexhe, in his book “Immigration et Intégration: avant qu’il ne soit trop tard” (“Immigration and Integration: Before it will be too late”) , recalled that from 2000 to 2010, Belgium welcomed more than a million migrants into a population of eleven million. It was a demographic tsunami that would forever change the face of Belgian society.
“Belgium was the first to recognize and subsidize Islam; it also elected the first veiled parliamentarian”. Canadian journalist Djemal Benhabi told L’Echo,
“Of all the European capitals, Brussels is the one through which the Islamist project intends to spread to Europe. Their lobbies are powerful there, so it is much easier for Islamists to break into the system and gradually transform it”.
Journalist Marie-Cécile Royen also described the same collaboration in an article, “How the Muslim Brotherhood took Belgium hostage”.
We recently saw what the “left’s” alliance with Islam means in Brussels. Socialists and Greens just voted in the Brussels Parliament not to ban the ritual slaughter of animals. Le Monde called it the “community phenomenon”: Brussels elects representatives who benefit from the support of one community or another in this highly multicultural region and are sometimes forced to abandon some of their convictions, or a facet of their identity, in order not to alienate voters.
Djemila Benhabib, in Le Point, noted that “in Brussels half of the Socialist electorate is Muslim.” “[I]n Brussels now”, she reported, “politics is in the hands of conservative Muslims”.
As they say: It’s the demography, stupid.
According to French demographer Michéle Tribalat, in the Brussels region (1.2 million inhabitants), 57% of those under 18 are of non-European origin; in the city of Brussels 68.4% of those under 18 are of non-European origin and in Antwerp (529,000 inhabitants), 51.3% of those under 18 are of non-European origin.
De-Christianization accompanies Islamization. 36 out of 110 churches in Brussels are destined to change their use in the face of the dramatic decline of the faithful. According to an Rtbf dossier, this is the plan of the archbishop of Brussels: “Homes, museums, hotels, climbing walls… What to do with our deconsecrated churches?”
Jean-Pierre Martin and Christophe Lamfalussy in their book “Molenbeek-Sur-Djihad” disclosed that “in Molenbeek, in an area of just six square kilometers, there are 25 mosques”. What is that, if not Islamization?
Professor Felice Dassetto , in his book, “L’iris et le croissant”, wrote that with more than 200 organizations that explicitly refer to Islam, it, after football, is the most mobilizing organized reality in Brussels — more than more than political parties, more than trade unions, more than the Catholic Church. “41 percent of public school students,” noted Le Figaro, “take the Muslim religion course”.
Welcome to the “European capital .. of the Muslim Brotherhood” — and the Muslim Brotherhood know it. “Where will we be in 50 years?” the president of the Islamic Cultural Center of Belgium felt free to declare. “All of Europe – inshallah – will be Muslim. So, have children!”
The greatest form of cultural racism in Europe today is that of EU elites who censor or support this spectacular change of civilization.
Meanwhile, discussion of Islam has become a “taboo” in the European capital, Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, CNRS researcher and anthropologist, told L’Express. Certain districts of Brussels have become “a kind of sanctuary of Islam in Europe”.
The answer is in Professor Felice Dassetto’s book: in the mid-1970s there were only 6 mosques and Koranic schools in Brussels, in the early 1980s there were 38, now they are 80. And so, headlines Le Vif, “mosque projects are flourishing in Brussels”.
How did we get here?
In the midst of the 1973 oil crisis, Belgium turned to Saudi Arabia for supplies. Muslims in Belgium were of the first generation: they worked in the mines and wanted spaces to pray. Belgium’s King Baudouin, in exchange for oil supplies, offered the Saudis the Pavillon du Cinquantenaire in Brussels, along with a 99-year lease. The building stands two hundred meters from the Schuman Palace and the headquarters of the European Union. Saudi Arabia soon transformed it into the Grand Mosque of Brussels, which has since been the de facto Islamic authority of Belgium.
As Alain Chouet, the former “number two” of the DGSE, the French counterintelligence service, recounted in his newly published book “Sept pas vers l’enfer” (“Seven Steps to Hell”), “in exchange, the Saudi king asked the Belgian king Baudouin to grant Arabia a monopoly on representing Islam and appointing imams in Belgium”. The Belgian government officially recognized the Islamic religion. It was the first European country to do so. There followed the inclusion of the Islamic religion in the school curriculum.
“Eurabia” was born in those years, the years of an energy crisis, European weakness and the great rise of Islam. Sound familiar?
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18695/brussels-europe-eurabia
Vast majority of Swiss citizens don’t buy into vaccine PR
Corona is still dividing society to a considerable extent. This was shown by a recent survey from Switzerland. The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences wanted to find out how the Swiss rate communication regarding the “pandemic” – and to what extent they trust the authorities.
The results make one sit up and take notice: 17 percent of those surveyed were dissatisfied with the government, the media and the communication of the authorities during the “pandemic”.
They believe the campaign had been a targeted control of the population by “powerful people”. Another 24 percent were satisfied with the communication from the federal government and the media, but could imagine that “there was a larger secret plan behind the global events surrounding the pandemic”.
Notably, another 24 percent were not satisfied with the crisis communication of the authorities and the media. They did not rule out the possibility that the government had deliberately concealed information in some cases.
Only the remaining 35 percent apparently had no worries, were basically satisfied and did not believe that certain issues had been kept secret. Some 65 percent, on the other hand, were suspicious and considered that secret intentions on the part of those in government were at least conceivable.
This survey is a resounding slap in the face for the state and the media.
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/07/11/vast-majority-of-swiss-citizens-dont-buy-into-vaccine-pr/
Freedom of speech victory: German court rules Facebook deleted ‘hate speech’ content ‘without legal basis’
In a new judgment seen as a major blow to Facebook, Germany’s Hamburg Higher Regional Court ruled that Facebook deleted a post it did not approve of and blocked a user even though “there is no legal basis” for such actions.
The post in question was from the Catholic publicist Johann Joseph Görres (1776-1848), who wrote:
“There is no more good-natured, but also no more credulous people than the Germans. I never had to sow discord among them. I had only to stretch out my nets and they ran in like shy game. They choked each other and thought they were doing their duty. No other people on earth more foolish. No lie can be made up grossly enough: the Germans believe it. For a slogan given to them, they persecuted their compatriots with more bitterness than their real enemies”
Facebook labeled the quote “hate speech” and a “violation of community standards” The company then deleted the post and banned the user from the platform.
Instead of accepting the ban, the user reached out to Joachim Steinhöfel, a lawyer who specializes in free speech and freedom of expression issues in Germany. The court ruled in favor of the user, ordering Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to restore the post and the user’s account.
“According to the Hamburg Higher Regional Court, Facebook is a deliberate, serial breacher of the law. The IT giant is leveling freedom of expression on its platforms, disregarding the principles of the rule of law,” Steinhöfel told German tabloid newspaper Bild.
The lawyer is now calling for more government action against the company, saying, “Where is the legislature? Why does the Network Enforcement Act still exist? Why not think about a lump sum compensation per unjustified deletion and for each day of unlawful blocking?”