Month: August 2022

By Thomas Lifson

It’s getting harder to keep the populace in a state of panic (and therefore attempt to justify mass mail in voting and other election security diminishments) now that Covid is following the path of most other viral epidemics. The virus evolves into a less lethal form (that doesn’t kill off the hosts, in other words) that spreads even more easily.

That seems to be the case with the Omicron Variant of Covid, as Shauneen Miranda of NPR reports:

Researchers at Cedars-Sinai, a nonprofit health organization based in Los Angeles, examined the infectious status of individuals during the omicron surge in the U.S. (snip)

The study analyzed 2,479 blood samples from adult employees and patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center around the time of the omicron variant surge.

Of the 210 people who likely contracted the omicron variant — based on antibodies in their blood — 56% percent did not know they had the virus, the researchers found.

They also found that only 10% of those who were unaware reported having any symptoms relating to a common cold or other type of infection.

At Meaning in History, Mark Wauck comments:

Of course, the article being posted by NPR, they try to make this story fit within the continuing official narrative, but it’s hard. The best they can do is to try to raise some sort of scare about Omicron spreading “at lightning speed,” so, gosh, everyone should get an “Omicron specific booster”. But the real question, given that it’s so mild that most people don’t even know when they’ve got it, is: Who cares?

Indeed.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/08/study_finds_that_over_half_of_people_with_omicron_variant_of_covid_dont_even_know_they_had_it.html

by Giulio Meotti

Swedish Prime Minister (1946-69) Tage Erlander in 1967 declared in response to the racial riots in the slums of Los Angeles that “we Swedes live in such an infinitely happier situation. The population in our country is homogeneous, not only in terms of race, but also in many other aspects ”.

In 1975 the country introduced multiculturalism with Social Democratic Prime Minister Olof Palme rejecting assimilation in favor of policies that encouraged minorities to maintain separate identities. It was part of the famous “freedom” of the Swedes, free to do and undo everything, from the family to the nation.

Now, like a drunkard in the morning, Sweden wakes up to the sad reality, but doesn’t know how to get rid of the hangover. Ghettos, crime, segregation and ethnic-religious conflicts are now the hallmarks of the “quiet laboratory of the world”. The inevitable happened. The system is collapsing and reality can no longer be ignored. Large areas of the country are more similar to the Middle East and North Africa than to Sweden.

And the main ruling party and the largest political party, the Social Democrats, also made a breakthrough in just a year. As champions of open borders, international solidarity, multiculturalism and free immigration, the Social Democrats are now the party of restrictive immigration.

Sweden is only the portal to Europe’s future.

In an interview with the newspaper Dagens Nyheter, the Swedish Minister for Immigration Anders Ygeman announces that Sweden has a big problem: too many areas where most of the inhabitants come from outside the Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden , Iceland, Finland and Norway). “I think it’s bad to have areas where the majority have a non-Nordic origin,” Ygeman said.

Ygeman suggested a “50 percent” limit when pressed by reporters if he believed Sweden should have a similar target to that of Denmark, where the Social Democrats have set a ceiling of 30 percent of the population of non-Western origin by 2030.

Denmark had announced that it will try to limit the number of “non-Western” residents in neighborhoods with a high migration density. The Minister of the Interior, Kaare Dybvad Bek, indicates the share of 30 percent, because too many non-Western foreigners in an area “increase the risk of the birth of parallel religious and cultural societies”. According to Statistics Denmark, 11 percent of Denmark’s 5.8 million inhabitants are of foreign origin, of which 58 percent come from a country considered “non-Western”. 30 suburbs mostly inhabited by Muslim foreigners. Neighborhoods like Mjolnerparken, nicknamed “little Damascus”.

Swedish Green Party spokesperson Märta Stenevi is shocked by the proposal of her old government mate Ygeman: “I think it’s incredible that a Social Democrat minister suggests that we should conduct an ethnic-based policy.” It wasn’t just any Viktor Orbán, right? “Swedish immigrant integration policy has failed, leading to parallel societies and gang violence,”

Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said in May after dozens of police were injured and cities were thrown into chaos over Islamic riots. “Segregation has been allowed to go so far that we have parallel companies in Sweden.”

In Sweden there are hundreds of suburbs and neighborhoods where Swedes are a minority. Alby, in Stockholm, is known as the “little Baghdad” (title contended with Sodertalje) for the percentage of Iraqis. There are suburbs where only one in ten inhabitants is Swedish. Or Rinkeby, the district with the highest immigration rate in Stockholm, known as “little Mogadishu” (Somalis are the majority). In Rinkeby 95 percent of the people come from abroad. It is a kaleidoscope of 60 ethnic groups and 40 languages: Somalia, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Turkey, Bosnia …

To read the international press, these looked like golden Ikea ghettos: public libraries, green gardens with playgrounds, clean streets, good schools and public transport. Areas where the word “multicultural” meant “exchange”, “workshops of coexistence” and “global villages”. The Swedish police have a list of 60 “vulnerable areas”, which translated means abandoned by the state.

Uppdrag Granskning, a television investigative journalism program, has just visited the Tjärna Ängar district in the town of Borlänge, also known as the “little Mogadiscio “, where more than half of the residents come from Somalia. Attacks and violence against journalists, SVT Nyheter reported. Ukrainian women at the Galaxen refugee center in Olofström have just been told not to dress to “provoke men from other cultures “, reports the daily Nyheter Idag.

From Abba to Allah – and one day we will read about cities in Sweden known as “little Sweden”.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358467

By Andrea Widburg

Lately, conservatives (me included) have become highly focused on so-called “transgender” madness. Part of it is because we’re witnessing leftists aggressively try to sever children’s relationship to their bodies’ reality through schools, books, and entertainment, and partially because the medical establishment is equally aggressively pushing highly profitable toxic hormones and mutilating surgery on young people. But a lot of what is getting conservatives upset is the fact that a society that is untethered from reality cannot survive. Pretending that human biology does not exist is the path to madness and existential destruction.

Even Japan is struggling to deal with the madness, although it’s trying to draw bright lines that have some relationship to reality. It turns out that, in Japan, where same-sex marriage is illegal, if someone wants to identify as the opposite of their biological sex, they need to go the full route of surgery (and, presumably, chemicals) before being allowed to make a legal change to their sex.

What this means is that, as a man, you can’t merely say “I am a woman,” while being a fully equipped male. If you want to say, “I am a woman in Japan,” you’ve got to cut it all off. You’re still a man, but at least you sort of look like a woman.

So, what happens when a man saves his sperm before castrating himself (whether chemically or via surgery), and then, because he’s still heterosexual, uses that frozen sperm to conceive two children with his female partner? (Yes, that’s confusing too because I can’t figure out if that means the female partner is heterosexual or a lesbian.)

One Japanese court has held that, once a man legally changes his sexual identification to woman, he’s no longer capable of fathering children. Even if the sperm came from the scrotum he once possessed, he’s not the daddy (or the mommy).

All of this, of course, is ridiculous. The anonymous man, despite castrating himself, is the children’s father. But now, thanks to Japan’s effort to deal with gender lunacy, he has no relationship to the children at all, despite 50% of both children’s DNA belonging to him.

The Daily Mail report on this Japanese attempt to deal with modern gender delusions is noteworthy, not just for its substance, but for the incomprehensible writing that gender madness produces. The Daily Mail eschews the use of “he,” “she,” “him,” or “her” lest it “misgender” someone—and “misgendering” is entirely possible when you have a man so mentally ill he cuts off his penis, something that’s usually viewed as an unbelievably cruel punishment.

That sensitivity on the Daily Mail’s part is how you end up with this headline: “Japanese transgender woman who froze their sperm when they were a man cannot be recognised as the legal parent of the child they helped produce, Tokyo high court rules.”

That’s all gibberish. There is no such thing as a “transgender woman” because people cannot cross-over from one biological sex to another. All that a man can do is make cosmetic changes to mimic a woman. A woman cannot have sperm. A man is not a “they” or “their.”

Translated into sanity, the headline is “Japanese man who froze his sperm before castrating himself and pretending to be a woman cannot be a child’s legal parent, despite his sperm fathering the child.”

The truth shall set you free—and the lies our modern world is telling itself will surely destroy us. 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/08/the_lefts_gender_madness_leaves_us_completely_untethered_from_reality.html

According to the EU statistics authority Eurostat, the number of insolvency applications in the EU has risen for the fourth quarter in a row. In the past three months bankruptcies are up by almost 12 percent in Denmark, 14,7 percent in Belgium and 74,4 percent in Latvia.

The measures imposed in the wake of the Corona pandemic have hit the hospitality industry, among others, hard. According to the statements of the representatives, the industry is now confronted with exploding costs in the areas of energy, food and personnel.

Overall, the number of bankruptcy filings in the EU area rose by 2,2 percent in the period April-June 2022, according to the latest data from the European statistical agency Eurostat. The agency stated in a report released on Wednesday:

“In the second quarter of 2022, the seasonally adjusted number of insolvency filings in the EU increased by 2,2 percent and in the euro area by 2,5 percent compared to the first quarter of 2022.”

The agency does not indicate the exact number of applications, only the percentage. According to Eurostat, however, the number of insolvencies has risen for the fourth quarter in a row.

Filing for bankruptcy is usually the beginning of a process aimed at declaring a company insolvent. It is a request made to announce a company’s financial shortfall, but it is often only temporary and does not always lead to the cessation of the company’s activities.

According to the report, Latvia recorded the largest increase during the said investigation period. In the EU country, for example, the number of companies that had filed for bankruptcy in the second quarter of 2022 rose by 74,4 percent. Belgium followed with an increase of 14,7 percent and Denmark with 11,9 percent.

Not only companies from a certain industry are affected. According to Eurostat, companies from almost every economic sector in the EU filed for bankruptcy during this period. Compared to the period before the Covid-19 “pandemic”, the number of applications increased, especially in the areas of transport and logistics and, for example, in the hotel and catering sector.

In view of the sharp rise in costs, companies are threatened with the third year of losses in a row, the Dehoga Federal Association warned on Friday in Berlin. Above all, the exploding costs in the areas of energy, food and personnel directly threatened the industry.

According to the Federal Statistical Office, in June of this year the hospitality industry in Germany returned to the pre-Corona level for the first time. However, the statistics authority pointed out in its report that this was mainly due to the significant price increases among innkeepers and hoteliers.

In Germany, representatives of the hospitality industry recently warned that despite a recovery in sales in June, the crisis is still deep. Economists are warning that skyrocketing energy and food costs are threatening many more industries, a trend that could spell deindustrialization.

In the near future, the increase in electricity prices in particular could mean the end for many companies. Some even predict that Germany will therefore face a wave of bankruptcies among medium-sized companies from 2023 onwards.

Industrial companies in the EU, which require large quantities of natural gas, are also coming under increasing pressure. According to a report by the dpa news agency, the Budel smelter, a zinc smelter in the Netherlands, will temporarily stop production from September due to the high gas price.

According to dpa, data on the development of German producer prices on Friday showed how strongly the high gas price is affecting companies. The prices that companies charge for their goods rose by 37,2 percent year-on-year in July, the strongest ever. Energy continues to be primarily responsible for the boost in commercial producer prices, the news agency added. According to the Federal Statistical Office, one of the strongest influences is the price development for natural gas with an increase of almost 164 percent year-on-year.

Economist Paul Craig Roberts expressed incomprehension at the EU and Germany’s suicidal policies: “The European benchmark price of electric power has risen 500 percent to $509 per megawatt hour. The European natural gas future price is ten times higher than it was a year ago. The idiot German government is ‘helping’ the situation by placing additional taxes on natural gas.”

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/08/21/bankruptcies-in-europe-are-exploding/

By Alexsandar Markovic

Frederick Taylor’s “scientific management” was all the rage when fascism and totalitarianism was on the rise in the 1920s–30s. It sounded good — people with pertinent knowledge and skills would occupy positions in logically designed organizations in which those qualities would be optimally employed.

In practice, the most common quality of scientifically managed firms was intense dissatisfaction among their workers.  That’s mostly because, in reality, people’s family, political connections, and willingness to “play ball” with the powerful and wealthy overshadowed everything else when it came to filling positions.  That’s why the purest expressions of scientific management — communist countries — failed and continue to fail so spectacularly on all metrics of popular well-being and welfare.

America’s founders recognized that human nature predisposed people to abuse power to serve their own interests, and designed checks and balances into our government to make such abuse difficult.  In the 233 years since we ratified the Constitution, those interested in subverting it have made substantial progress.

In communist societies, people in power act to preserve their best interest and the interests those closest to them, which screws everybody else and gives rise to a bifurcated society of “haves” and “have-nots.”  This happens every time socialism/communism is implemented — without exception.  It ultimately led to the deaths of over 100 million people in the 20th century alone.  We’re seeing the same trends in our country simply because power-holders here have surreptitiously implemented some of the defining characteristics of those collective societies.

The purest form of this in the West today is the U.S. federal government.  The higher the position, the more its occupant got there as a result of enabling his superiors, benefactors, and family to siphon off as much as they could from the public till.  This has been the case since World War 2, which was the event that precipitated the metastatic expansion of our federal bureaucracy.  After all, who could resist or object to something that was part of the “war effort,” even if that something was completely outside the range of authority of the bureaucrat who thought it up?  That’s how it was done then and how it’s still done today — just like the “temporary expedient” of employer tax withholding, which brings home the bacon and, therefore, has been with us ever since.  Someone publicly unaccountable decides unilaterally what ought to be done and bakes it into a regulation, which puts the force of “law” behind it.  Except that no legislature was involved, and therefore, the public interest was not a prominent concern.

Our Constitution places the sole authority to enact such requirements with the Congress.  Legislation begins in the House of Representatives, by design, because that body most closely reflects the populace.  Decades ago, cowardly and corrupt, but elected, legislators decided that they’d have a much easier time getting re-elected if they delegated tough decisions to regulatory bodies.  That way they could deflect responsibility from themselves for unpopular outcomes, commiserate with those who elected them about how unresponsive and ill advised a particular regulation or agency was, and promise to look into it.  Naturally, the latter happens rarely and always ineffectively.  Impeding them would defeat the entire purpose of creating regulatory agencies in the first place.

With the last five years’ worth of blatant “in your face” middle-fingers from the government to the American people, the country is finally — finally — approaching a point where it will reform the government.  There is absolutely no chance of that happening from within the government — it is simply too corrupt and too powerful.  The squeals about reform you’re hearing from government apparatchiks like CDC director Walensky need to be seen as the political theater they are, and that is all they are — kabuki intended to tone down popular resentment over gross power abuse but without changing anything that matters one whit.  If the government is going to change, We the People are going to have to change it.

Get it through your head: nobody high up in any government bureaucracy has any intention of altering government for the benefit of the average American.  Nobody.  They’ve grown so wealthy, so entitled, and so full of hubris that they believe they are uniquely suited to determine what is in the interest of the “Greater Good.”  They believe they should be able to constrain all of the pivotal decisions in everyone’s life.  They are the few who ought to determine the substrate in which everyone else exists, and thereby curtail their options to those few that are acceptable to Those Who Know Best.  That is the goal toward which they have been and are working.

On the other hand, look at it from their perspective.  They’ve been double-dealing the public for over 50 years and been wildly successful.  Where else can someone without any perceptible talent or skill spend decades doing virtually nothing for a $100K+ annual salary, and leave that position a mega-multi-millionaire?  That is one of the most common stories among our legislative class.  They like to call themselves “public servants” and “guardians of democracy.”  If only there were a kernel of truth to either term.

Do you know when Congress last passed a budget?  (Jeopardy music here…) It was 2009.  The nation has been living on continuing resolutions ever since.  Why is that the case?  Fundamentally, it’s because the public has let it be so.  There are many adjectives for a group of people who’d let such a situation persist as long as Americans have; none of them is flattering.

Of course, we also see hard evidence of our election results having been altered and do nothing.  We see people stuffing ballot boxes, entering phony ballots, violating laws left and right — and still do nothing.  It’s hard to muster sympathy for people who consistently fail to do anything to stop such obvious and widespread corruption.  We’ve got a serious, perhaps life-threatening, problem and do nothing about it.

When a pet gets a parasitic infection, it exhibits symptoms that prompt you to treat that infection.  There’s discomfort involved all around, but the infection is resolved when the parasites are gone, and your pet’s health improves noticeably.  Well, we’ve got a national parasitic infection.  In fact, we’ve got an entire class of people who satisfy the definition of being a parasite: “someone or something that resembles a biological parasite in living off of, being dependent on, or exploiting another while giving little or nothing in return.”  Those so often know as “The Elite,” “The Ruling Class,” “The Anointed” have, in plain fact, become our very own Parasite Class.

One thing is certain about serious parasitic infections: if they’re not treated, the host eventually dies.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/08/the_parasites_and_the_havenots.html

Austrians, especially in view of the exploding energy prices, are threatened with a winter of misery and time is running out to avert this. FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl is now campaigning for a referendum on the sanctions regime.

Current surveys suggest that the majority of Austrians are fed up with the ineffective sanctions and would rather overturn them today than tomorrow. But the people’s call for help is ignored by the aloof political elite. “Great Reset” Minister Karoline Edtstadler declared that there was “no alternative” to sanctions, while the ruling ÖVP negates reality and considers sanctions to be “effective”.

The leaders of the Greens and NEOS denounce critics as uncritical of president Putin or “traitors” or “useful idiots” of the Kremlin. Some even consider the majority of citizens to be “Russian collaborators”.

FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl said that in terms of ending sanctions,  time was of the essence: “We have no time to lose. The heating season is fast approaching.” A referendum on anti-Russian sanctions, which the Austrian leaders are currently supporting to the country’s detriment, was needed as soon as possible, he added.

Instead of lifting sanctions, the government has so far relied on absurd energy saving tips for people.

According to Kickl: “These sanctions have no effect on the war, but they fuel inflation and hurt the local economy.” The situation reminded him of the Corona crisis: “Here, too, the government talked people into things that weren’t right for two years before they finally switched to the FPÖ line of reasoning.” Recently, not least because of the resistance of people on the streets, the government has had to recognize reality and stop the harassing compulsory jabbing and the absurd quarantine rules.”

But “in the case of sanctions, we no longer have two years, but a maximum of two months,” Kickl said. “If sanctions, which amount to a gunshot in the knee, are not ended, then the coming winter threatens to be very uncomfortable for many people.” The proposed referendum is also intended to give the “reasonable forces within the ÖVP” the chance to show their colours and act for the benefit of the people.

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/08/21/austria-fpo-demands-speedy-referendum-on-sanctions/

“Salman Rushdie is a champion of free speech, bravely standing up for Western ideals when so many shy away from the fight. If only more people could follow his example, instead of taking the path of appeasement in the name of cultural sensitivity, the long years of murder and mayhem wrought by the Islamists on the West might come to an end… I know all too well the threat Islamism poses. After I came out as an apostate, I was forced into a bubble of protection that still surrounds me to this day. I have 24-hour security. I still receive death threats. My friend, the sweet, vulgar, brilliant Theo Van Gogh was murdered simply for making a film with me. His attacker used a knife to stab a letter into Theo’s chest: it said that I would be next”.

That is how Ayaan Hirsi Ali reacted to the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie in Chautauqua, New York.

Many of the slogans, paraphrases on “free speech” and demonstrations of solidarity to the author of The Satanic Verses hide a terrible and different reality: the fatwa is gaining ground, and more and more people have to live under protection due to criticism of Islam. In the words of the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal writing for L’Express last week:

“[T]o speak only of France, the police will soon no longer be enough, it will be necessary to recruit battalions or form a new body of bodyguards, who know Islam and can recognize under which dress it is presented.”

Islamic extremists in 2012 published a terrifying “most wanted list”, like those of the FBI. Title: “Yes we can. A bullet a day keeps the infidel away…” What happened to the faces and names on that list? They have been killed, left the public arena to protect themselves, or died under police protection.

The Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks died with his police guards in a terrible car accident. As journalist Douglas Murray explained:

“Lars Vilks was a man and artist of enormous courage. He should never have been in this situation, and if other artists and others across Europe hadn’t been so cowardly then he never would have been”.

Carsten Juste, who as editor of the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten published the cartoons on Muhammad in 2005, apologized and left journalism. Flemming Rose, the editor of the Jyllands Posten who commissioned the cartoons (the Taliban put a bounty on his head), resigned and published a book with the eloquent title The Tyranny of Silence. “The drama and the tragedy is that the only ones to win are the jihadists,” Rose told the Danish newspaper Weekendavisen.

Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist of the most famous of the Danish cartoons, passed away in his “bunker house” where Islamists had tried to assassinate him.

Molly Norris, a Seattle Post cartoonist, became a “ghost”. She changed name and disappeared. Nothing is known about her after the FBI put her in the witness protection program.

Geert Wilders is alive only because he is protected by a military unit of the Dutch army generally assigned to ensure the security of the embassy in Afghanistan. Wilders still lives in safe houses and must wear a bulletproof vest during televised debates.

Stéphane Charbonnier, editor-in-chief of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, was murdered along with eight of his colleagues.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali left the Netherlands and sought asylum in the United States, where she is under around-the-clock protection.

Now there was the attempt to assassinate Salman Rushdie. “The lesson of this story is atrocious: Rushdie is alive, but the camp of the killers has not completely lost, it has even won a little”, wrote Etienne Gernelle, the editor of French weekly Le Point. British columnist Kenan Malik told the BBC that if Salman Rushdie’s critics “lost the battle”, they “won the war”.

The Egyptian-German scholar Hamed Abdel-Samad just recalled his meeting with Rushdie:

“‘So, you are the Egyptian Salman Rushdie everyone is talking about?’, Salman Rushdie said with a smile during our first and only meeting in Berlin three years ago. It was a celebration of the thirty-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and coincided with the 30th anniversary of the fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini against Rushdie. ‘Thirty years ago, there was a single Salman Rushdie in the world, today there is at least one Salman Rushdie in every Islamic country not to mention those in the western countries. That should please you’, I replied”.

We do not even know they exist: our fearful conformist media never tell their amazing stories. They live among us, in Paris, London, Oslo, Copenhagen, Berlin, Amsterdam and all the other European capitals. They live according to a strict security protocol: they have to tell the police in advance what they will do during the day, who they will see and where they will go, and if any place is not considered safe, these captives are forced to change plans. Often, if there is a not a new threat, they change homes, and disappear for a while to be protected by anonymity. They are not “repentants of the Mafia”, mobsters turned into witnesses for the state prosecution. No, they are academics, activists, writers, journalists, intellectuals. We are talking about more than a hundred personalities in Europe. Their “fault”? They criticized Islam. Their precautions to protect themselves are never too many. Rushdie had ceased to be protected for many years.

A professor of Iranian origin and a critic of Islam, Afshin Ellian, works at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, where he is protected by bodyguards. On the second floor of the Law Department, where he teaches, Ellian can be reached through a corridor with electronic access and armored glass. The place looks more like a bank vault than a normal law department.

In Denmark, Lars Hedegaard, director of the International Free Press Society, who miraculously survived an attack at his home, is under police protection. An assassin dressed as a postman came to Hedegaard’s front door in Copenhagen and shot at his head, missing him only narrowly.

The Turkish writer Lale Gül is under protection for having denounced Koranic schools in the Netherlands.

French journalist Zineb El Rhazoui has more bodyguards than many Macron ministers. “Zineb El Rhazoui must be killed to avenge the Prophet,” reads a fatwa.

The new address of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper offices is secret and it has six armored doors and a safe room that the journalists can enter in case of attack. The entire editorial office of Charlie Hebdo is now protected by 85 police officers. Former Charlie Hebdo director Philippe Val lives in a house with bulletproof windows, police officers and an armored safe room where there is a special telephone line to call for help. Each Charlie Hebdo employee is always accompanied by a car with two policemen. If the need arises, another police motorcycle or armored car should arrive.

Mina Ahadi, who founded the Council of Former Muslims in Germany, does not move without an escort, and like the novelist Fatma Bläser, who was the victim of a forced marriage, is protected by the police.

Turkish-born lawyer Syran Ates, in Berlin, is protected by six police officers. “She receives three thousand threats,” her lawyer said.

When Can Dündar, the bravest Turkish journalist, who as the director of the newspaper Cumhuriyet expressed solidarity with Charlie Hebdo, left Turkey for Germany, he would never have imagined that he would need the police protection. The biggest difference is that in Turkey, policemen searched his house looking for items to compromise him, while in Berlin they are guarding his home.

“Critics of Islam must fear for their lives: death threats and attacks,” notes the German website Tichys Einblick.

“Anyone who criticizes Islamism must expect to be violently attacked in this country and without anyone being offended,” said journalist Jan Aleksander Karon. “In Germany it is increasingly dangerous to criticize Islam”.

In Denmark, the editorial office of Jyllands Posten today resembles a military bunker. With a razor wire barrier, bars, metal plates and cameras that surround the newspaper for a kilometer, the office is now protected by the same mechanism as river locks. A door opens, a car enters, the door closes and the one opposite opens. Journalists enter one at a time, typing in a personal code (a measure that did not protect Charlie Hebdo reporters). The Jyllands Posten cartoonists have escaped numerous attacks, including at home. Even after the January 7, 2015 massacre in Paris at the Charlie Hebdo office, which was targeted partly because it had republished the Danish Mohammed cartoons, Jyllands-Posten announcedthat, out of fear, it would not republish its own cartoons, saying:

“We have lived with the fear of a terrorist attack for nine years, and yes, that is the explanation why we do not reprint the cartoons, whether it be our own or Charlie Hebdo’s. We are also aware that we therefore bow to violence and intimidation.”

Also under protection is the French-Algerian journalist Mohammed Sifaoui. His photograph and name are published on jihadist websites next to the word “apostate”. Many people under protection are women, such as Marika Bret, a Charlie Hebdo employee who was “exfiltrated” from home, and the French television presenter originally from Turkey, Claire Koc. Or the journalist Ophélie Meunier, the reporter from Zone Interdite who reported on the Islamization of Roubaix in prime time with the French politician Amine Elbahi, of the Républicains Party, who received threats of beheading.

Threats and intimidation demonstrate the tenacity of the journalistic work done by these courageous people. They demonstrate a commitment to show the Islamization by force and terror of sectors of French society, while the Islamists answer them: Do you disagree with me? Do you criticize me? I will kill you, slit your throat, behead you.

Meanwhile, the states and institutions, which find themselves trying to protect dozens of people, prove to be paper tigers. Terrorism works. Nobody wants to live between two cops or see his name on the internet. Meanwhile, the journalistic class goes looking somewhere less hazardous.

The French state has to protect simple teachers such as Fatiha Agag-Boudjahlat, who reproached some students for not respecting the minute of silence during the homage to Samuel Paty, a high school teacher who was beheaded by an Islamist.

Imams such as Hassen Chalghoumi are included in “Uclat 2”, the protection program enjoyed by the ambassadors of the United States and Israel in Paris. Chalghoumi, protagonist of many battles in favor of the French Republic and against Islamic fundamentalists, told BFMTV that he has not slept more than three nights in the same place and that he wears a bulletproof vest during prayer:

“I never talk about it, but I have been wearing it for years. I take care of my life. I have responsibilities towards my family and myself. I continue to fight at a very high price. I cannot be at my mosque every day, it is impossible”.

Professor Didier Lemaire recounted his last visit to Trappes for a TV documentary:

“I was only allowed a five-minute filming in front of the police station, surrounded by a dozen officers. The rest of the time I had to stay hidden in the car. One of the policemen told me: ‘If they bring out the Kalashnikovs, we have nothing to answer with, so we won’t stay long.’ The reporter wanted me to say a few words in front of the school, but the police refused for security reasons. I was allowed to pass by without stopping. I was escorted to a hotel, whose entrance was guarded by four police officers, to conduct the interview”.

“Give us his head,” Islamists shouted outside a British school in Batley. They wanted to murder a teacher whose name we do not even know and who was forced to leave the school after heavy death threats. What was he guilty of? Having shown in class some of the Muhammad cartoons during a lesson on freedom of expression. He now lives in a safe house with his wife and children, out of fear of being killed. The threat is deemed so serious that not even the family’s relatives know where they live. “The windows of the house where the teacher lived for more than eight years are covered with white sheets”.

All decent people should stand with Salman Rushdie and against his persecutors. Is it now a little bit clearer that radical Islam is today one of the biggest threats to Western culture and that we are not winning, but instead becoming like turkeys celebrating Thanksgiving?

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18815/free-speech-rushdie-fatwa

The clashes first started in Albertpark and then continued in an apartment building in Rue d’Ostende in Molenbeek this Friday evening.

On Friday evening, a brawl broke out involving about 50 to 100 Syrians. The altercation started in Albertpark, located at the intersection of Avenue Joseph Baeck and Boulevard Edmond Machtens, and continued in a house on Rue d’Ostende in Molenbeek.

We remember that a Syrian man was stabbed to death in Schaerbeek at the beginning of June and that it was an act of revenge in connection with a wedding. SudInfo

https://www.fdesouche.com/2022/08/21/bruxelles-impressionnant-deploiement-policier-dans-le-quartier-de-molenbeek-suite-a-une-bagarre-impliquant-50-a-100-syriens-suite-a-un-conflit-entre-deux-famille/