Month: December 2022
Germany’s pro-migrant churches block deportations with ‘church asylum’ scheme
Churches in Germany’s largest state, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), are increasingly turning into asylum centers by offering “church asylum” to hundreds of migrants.
With 1.2 million migrants entering Germany this year, and nearly 200,000 asylum requests made from migrants from non-European countries such as Iraq, Syria, and Pakistan, Germany is once again facing a migrant crisis. Now, churches are seeing a rise in requests by migrants seeking asylum, said the chairman of the ecumenical church asylum network in NRW, Joachim Poggenklaß, according to Christian news network Domradio.
Churches have increasingly become pro-migrant across Germany in recent decades, with Protestant churches openly funding NGO rescue boats, which have often been accused of being a “ferry” service for human smugglers. These churches have also begun offering “church asylum,” which is not actually covered by law, but which authorities appear to respect.
Now, the number of requests for church asylum are so high that there are not enough spots for everyone who makes a request. Nevertheless, church asylum can be highly effective. In the past 12 months, 200 of the 203 people offered church asylum were allowed to stay in Germany because authorities refused to deport them.
Currently, there are 166 people being offered church asylum, and authorities have also refused to deport this group. There are currently 220 open “church asylum” requests from asylum seekers seeking to avoid deportation.
These cases mostly have to do with people who would be deported back to other EU countries due to the Dublin rules, which stipulate that migrants must return to the first EU country they register in. In practice, this often means Greece, Spain, or Italy. In many cases, migrants are safe from war in such countries but still journey onward to Germany in order to secure better social and economic benefits.
Germany’s Church leaders have advocated for more immigration and a faster citizenship process. As Remix News previously reported, these top officials in Christian churches support “church asylum” and more “humanitarian” support for migrants:
Although the issue of migration is framed almost entirely as a humanitarian cause, Church officials are loathe to acknowledge that many Europeans have suffered due to the crisis, including through terrorist attacks, sexual assaults, and individual tragedies that have left deep scars on the continent. Despite these realities, Bishop Franz-Josef Bode claimed that the Church, via its pro-migration stance, stands on the side of the “oppressed.” He argued that churches across Germany must revive the “welcoming culture” that previously existed several years ago.
Recent polling shows that a majority of Germans have “big worries” about rising immigration numbers, suggesting there is growing unease as the country’s population soars to 84 million for the first time.
https://rmx.news/germany/germanys-pro-migrant-churches-block-deportations-with-church-asylum-scheme/
Italy: Pro-life group sues 150 schools over gender ‘alias’ policy
Italy’s biggest pro-life action group on Tuesday said it was suing 150 Italian schools over their ‘Alias Career’ policy allowing pupils to identify and give themselves identities according to the gender they felt they belonged to.
“We have launched the largest legal campaign against gender ideology in Italy, serving about 150 warnings to as many schools that have approved the so-called Alias Career for transgender pupils under the pressure of the LGBTQIA+ movement, calling for its immediate cancellation,” said Jacopo Coghe, spokesperson for the Pro Vita & Famiglia Onlus, urging intervention by Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara.
Netherlands Islamic Schools: Non-Muslims Deserve Death
Education minister Dennis Wiersma has been accused of breaking the constitutional ban on discrimination with his plan to target Islamic weekend schools suspected of fostering radicalism. An organisation representing Islamic institutions in the Rotterdam area, SPIOR, has filed a police complaint against the minister after he said last month he wanted to authorise education inspectors to take action against schools that breached the rules. Wiersma acted in response to an investigation by NRC and Nieuwsuur in 2019 into Salafi mosques that gave religious lessons at weekends. But the two media organisations also found last week that the minister had ignored warnings from his own civil servants that there was a strong risk the plan was impractical and unconstitutional. In the summer Wiersma told parliament that he was concerned about reports that ‘in at least 50 places of education throughout the country views that are anti-integrationist, anti-democratic and undermine the rule of law are imposed on more than 1,000 children.’ NRC and Nieuwsuur said children were taught at the mosques that people belonging to other faiths deserved the death penalty and learned about sharia law punishments for homosexuality including whipping, stoning and beheading. Said Bouharrou, leader of the Council of Mosques, described the findings as ‘horrifying’.
France is not an immigrant country, says French-Algerian author in response to Macron
Contrary to President Emmanuel Macron’s statement on Dec. 3 that France has always been a country of immigration, the phenomenon only began as early as the 1870s and was very limited, French-Algerian author and former politician Malika Sorel-Sutter said on television channel CNews.
As Remix News reported yesterday, French President Emmanuel Macron said that “France has always been a land of immigration,” and that “it is part of our DNA, it is the strength of our country, and we have always needed it for our economy.”
However, his remarks have been criticized, with many pointing out their historical inaccuracy, including from Sore-Sutter.
“The reasoning that Emmanuel Macron has presented is totally false. A French historian has made it especially clear that France has never been a land of immigration, that France has grown where it has always been and in reality the first migration phenomena began in 1870 with the arrival of Italian and subsequently Polish immigrants,” Sorel-Sutter said.
Sorel-Sutter also notes that much of the immigration has been limited in the past, and did not fundamentally change the demographics of France. Many of those immigrants were also skilled artisans and intellectuals who did not come in large numbers, were mostly European and Christian, and did not present a serious burden on state budgets.
The advent of non-European immigration is a greatly recent phenomenon, and only in the last decades has it reached enormous proportions that threaten to transform the country demographically.
“Thus, France has never been a land of immigration — there were here and there artists, scientists or cardinals who came to France, but this has remained a mostly anecdotal phenomenon, as intellectuals traveled towards ‘the Europe of light,’” Sorel-Sutter said.
Sorel-Sutter, who was born to Algerian parents, lived in Algeria for 15 years, and once served as a member of the French Integration Council, has become a prominent and outspoken critic against immigration. Just last month, she said that ethnic French people are headed towards minority status and it could have “serious” consequences.
“We are moving towards a minority of the historical people, of the French people, on French territory and it is very serious,” she said during an appearance on Sud Radio.
“The French government is making a series of decisions that go against the French population and its life, with (society) itself having a majority against immigration,” she added.
She noted during her interview with Sud Radio that the country’s changing demographics will not only drastically transform the country’s electorate, but will also have a knock-on effect on the country’s society, education system, and social programs.
“I would say this will impact the population, the composition of the population, because we see that (migrants) are being offered French nationality. This in turn alters the electorate, which will in turn decide on the social programs and the future values and morality of society. Schools are also important, not only as economic factors, but also in terms of way of life, co-existence, from which the French state is conspicuously missing, and this will have an impact on how we live together.”
Regarding the actual issue surrounding the economic benefits of migration, numerous studies have shown that immigrants incur dramatic costs for the French. As Remix News reported last year, French author and academic Jean-Paul Gourévitch, on an appearance on Sud Radio, said that employment data shows that it is a myth that immigration to France has economic benefits.
“I have studied this topic extensively, and today everyone in France, from the left to the right, agrees that immigration costs more than it brings in,” Gourévitch said. “There is a major difference between left and right (oriented) economists regarding the costs: The leftist economists say the deficit is 6 to 10 billion (euros per year), while those on the right say it is 40 to 44 billion. My own scientific research shows that the deficit is 20 to 25 billion (euros).”
Gothenburg wants to settle migrants in affluent neighbourhoods
In the Swedish city of Gothenburg, the red-green city leadership wants to mix the old-established inhabitants with migrants. That is why immigrants are now taking up residence in affluent neighbourhoods.
In Sweden’s second-largest city (population just under 600 000), the new city government of Social Democrats, Left Party and Greens has announced that immigrants will no longer be settled in the suburbs, as has happened so far, but in the “prosperous areas of the city that have a high socio-economic status”.
The aim of the city leadership is to prevent the further ghettoization of individual districts, especially in the suburbs in the north-east of Gothenburg.
The “newcomers”, as immigrants are called in Sweden, would have to be accommodated in residential areas with the highest status, where a high proportion of residents speak Swedish as their mother tongue and unemployment is low. In this way, the integration of “newcomers” and their children can succeed better, according to the red-green city government.
As in Denmark, enclaves with a particularly high proportion of migrants have taken shape in Sweden in recent years.
The project is viewed particularly critically by the Sweden Democrats (SD). Gothenburg SD representative Jörgen Fogelklou argued that it was the same policy with which the Social Democrats had brought Sweden into the present crisis.
Fogelklou quoted Churchill: “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of jealousy. Its real virtue is the equal distribution of misery.”
Swedish Twitter users commented on the decision with sarcasm: “Time to buy villas for Somalis? Abdirahman with his two wives and children is already waiting impatiently. The new, exciting Sweden…”
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/12/06/gothenburg-wants-to-settle-migrants-in-affluent-neighbourhoods/
India: Just 7 years jail for convicted jihadis?
A Special NIA Court in Bengaluru has awarded seven years’ rigorous imprisonment (RI) to three Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terrorists in connection with a case, pertaining to seizure of huge quantities of electrical and electronic items, tools, chemical apparatus, containers used for fabrication of bombs and IEDs, digital cameras and incriminating handwritten documents from the hideout of JMB in Bengaluru.
The court handed RI to Najir Sheikh, Habibur Rahman Sk and Mosaraf Hossain under sections 120-B, 395, 452, 397, 400 and 458 of IPC, sections 17, 18 & 20 of UA (P) Act, and section 25 (1) of the Arms Act.
The case was initially registered by Karnataka Police at Soladevanahalli PS in 2019 and later on, the probe was taken over by the NIA.
The accused were also found involved in four different dacoity cases. After completion of investigation, a consolidated chargesheet was filed in all these dacoity cases.
Later on, for trial, these four cases were clubbed to the present case.
Investigation had revealed that the accused persons had raised funds by committing dacoities at various places in Bengaluru with the intention of furthering the activities of JMB in India and also collected explosive materials and test fired a rocket launcher.
The ‘proceeds of crime’ in the form of gold was sold by Nazir Sheikh and other accused for raising funds for carrying out terror activities.
https://hindupost.in/law-policy/soft-republic-just-7-years-jail-for-convicted-jmb-jihadis/
Already in 2019: gang rape took place in incriminated refugee accommodation in Illerkirchberg, Germany
In 2019, an asylum seeker and resident of the refugee accommodation, which has now hit the headlines again, raped a 14-year-old girl in the company of three friends. On October 31, 2019, the men allegedly persuaded a schoolgirl, who had already consumed alcohol, to go with them to their refugee accommodation in Illerkirchberg in the city centre of Ulm.
There they would have forced the girl to drink a blue liquid containing a narcotic. They then raped her more than nine times.
The district court then sentenced the four defendants to prison terms of more than two years each.
(Bild) / https://unser-mitteleuropa.com/bw-messer-attacke-vor-schule-zwei-kinder-schwer-verletzt-mann-festgenommen/
Iranian activist calls out ‘propaganda’ by NYT, says Iran has not abolished morality police as previously reported
Masih Alinejad, the Iranian journalist and activist Tuesday slammed The New York Times (NYT) for spreading fake news that the Iranian regime has disbanded the country’s morality police. Several media outlets including The New York Times had reported that Iran had abolished the morality police which enforces the Hijab law in the country, after months of protests triggered by the death of Mhasa Amini.
Denouncing western media outlets for disseminating misleading information, the activist claimed that media outlets such as NYT were assisting the Iranian fascist government in spreading propaganda.
“The false news spread by @nytimes claiming victory for the so-called abolition of the morality police hurts the ongoing revolution. I told @ABCNewsLive that when dictatorships like the Iranian regime are in trouble, they spread propaganda and obfuscation,” Tweeted the Iranian journalist.
She also shared a snippet of her interview with ABC News where she said, “We were shocked when we saw the title of New York Times saying this is a victory. What kind of victory? It was a total lie and disinformation. It was a propaganda move by the Islamic Republic. When dictators are shaken, they know how to use disinformation to mislead the rest of the world or to calm down the protesters within the society.”
The journalist, while criticising the Iranian government’s fascism and the media outlets that support it, stated that on the same day when news organizations like NYT reported that the morality police has been repealed, the Iranian government, in fact, shut down an amusement park in Tehran simply because an Iranian woman present was not wearing a veil.
Masih also asserted that the protests in Iran where people are facing guns, and jailtime are not just about the morality police, but the people want to topple the Islamic regime.
The New York Times on December 4, 2022, quoted senior Iranian official Attorney General Mohammad Javad Montazeri as confirming that Iran had abolished the morality police.
Sharing the link of its report where it quoted the Iranian official as confirming that morality police in Iran has been disbanded, NYT also Tweeted on December 4, “The decision, reported by state news outlets, appeared to be a significant victory for feminists who have sought for years to dismantle the morality police. Abolishing the force would have a major impact on Iran’s ability to police what women wear.”
Following this, many media outlets worldwide reported that the Iranian government has decided to abolish its morality police, a piece of news which has now been refuted by the Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad.
‘Morality police NOT abolished, the statement was ambiguous ‘
It was later reported by some news outlets that the official whom NYT cited as saying the morality police will be disbanded has himself rejected the claims. “No official authority in the Islamic Republic of Iran has confirmed the closure of the morality police”, stated a media report.
Iranian officials later clarified that the statement was misconstrued by media houses and that the morality police was not established by the Islamic regime’s judiciary in the first place but was a special arm of the police, hence it was up to the police to intensify or ‘reduce’ their outreach.
Iranian women protest against the Islamic country’s draconian law of ‘Morality police’
Notably, Iran has been witnessing widespread protests against the Islamic regime.
The protests erupted on September 16 following the death of Mhasa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish descent who had been detained by morality police for allegedly violating sharia law.
According to the reports, the incident is said to have happened on September 13 when Amini, a native of Saghez, Iran, had travelled to Tehran for a pleasure trip. The woman was with her brother Kiarash at the entrance to the Shahid Haghani Expressway when the ‘Morality Police’ arrived and arrested Amini for a one-hour ‘re-education class.’
Following her death, widespread protests erupted in the Islamic nation protesting the Sharia laws and compulsory hijab for women. Women across the world supported the movement by chopping their hair and burning their headscarves.
What is the morality police which enforces the Hijab law in Iran?
The morality police, the formal name of which is Gasht-e Ershad or “Guidance Patrol”, were established in 2005 under hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to “spread the culture of modesty and hijab.” The police squad consisted of both male and female members that patrolled the streets and public places to monitor women’s attire. The Guidance Patrol teams arrest women they think are not appropriately dressed as per Islamic rules.
The women found violating the morality codes are slapped in the face and beaten with batons on the spot and pushed into police vans. They are taken to a correctional facility or police station, where they are lectured on how to dress appropriately and are released after recording the details. The detained women are also required to destroy their ‘inappropriate’ clothes if applicable.
Are Muslims Invading the UK? No, Britain is Committing Suicide
By RAYMOND IBRAHIM
The Secretary of the United Kingdom’s Home Office, which regulates immigration, recently caused a scandal by referring to the nonstop immigration of mostly Muslim migrants as an “invasion.” On October 31, 2022, Suella Braverman said:
The British people deserve to know which party is serious about stopping the invasion on our southern coast and which party is not … . Some 40,000 people have arrived on the south coast this year alone, many of them facilitated by criminal gangs, some of them actual members of criminal gangs. So let’s stop pretending that they are all refugees in distress: the whole country knows that that is not true … . I’m utterly serious about ending the scourge of illegal migration and I am determined to do whatever it takes to break the criminal gangs and fix our hopelessly lax asylum system…
Unsurprisingly, such frank assertions “sparked an instant backlash from all sectors of the globalist establishment in Britain, from the legacy media to politicians in both the Labour Party and the Conservatives.”
Demography as Destiny
Outrageous numbers of migrants, the overwhelming majority arriving from the Muslim world, have indeed flooded the UK. One report reveals that in just the first half of 2021, “an astonishing 1.1 million visas [were] granted for people to come and live in the UK … . It is the highest number of visas for people to come and live here ever issued in one year, suggesting that, despite repeated promises to control and reduce immigration, the government are delivering the opposite.”
Then there is the huge “number of applicants awaiting decisions on asylum” in the UK, which has risen by 300% in four years.
According to yet another source, “In 2021, the top five most common countries of nationality of people who applied for asylum in the UK were those from Iran, Iraq, Eritrea, Albania and Syria.” With the exception of Eritrea, which is roughly half Muslim, half Christian, every one of these nations is overwhelmingly Muslim majority.
Incidentally, these numbers are separate from the pre-existing Muslim population of the UK, which, in 2017 — before the recent migrant influx — was well over four million, or 6.3 percent of the entire, formerly Christian, population.
Little wonder that the name “Muhammad” is the most popular name for newborn baby boys in England; nor that Muslims in the UK and other Western European nations with large Muslim populations regularly boast of “demography as destiny.” As one report explained in 2008, “Muslim hate fanatics plan to take over Britain by having more babies and forcing a population explosion … . The swollen Muslim population would be enough to conquer Britain from inside, they claim.”
Entering Not By Force — But By Invitation
Despite all of this, is it correct to refer to this Muslim migrant explosion an invasion?
In fact, it is not. Consider some authoritative dictionary definitions of “invasion”:
- Merriam-Webster: an “incursion of an army for conquest or plunder … an instance of invading a country or region with an armed force … an unwelcome intrusion into another’s domain.”
- Cambridge: “an occasion when an army or country uses force to enter and take control of another country.”
- Oxford: “the act of an army entering another country by force in order to take control of it.”
Now, to be sure, as chronicled here and here, Muslims have for over a millennium launched countless military invasions into Europe, incursions that very much conformed to these definitions. They came as an “army,” used “force to enter and take control” of various nations, and all “for conquest or plunder.”
Some of these invasions saw the long term conquest of European nations — Spain, the Mediterranean islands, the Balkans. Other jihadist invasions did not lead to conquest but rake in massive booty. Raids were habitually launched against virtually every corner of Europe, as far as Iceland. Indeed, from 1627 to 1633, Lundy, an island off the west coast of Britain, was actually occupied by Muslim pirates from North Africa, who pillaged England at will.
Many of today’s Muslims who migrate to Europe harbor the same motives of “conquest and plunder,” which in Rotherham, England, for example, saw thousands of young British girls turned into sex slaves.
Britain’s Elite Enables this Influx. Why?
Even so, the all-important ingredient that would qualify what is happening today as an “invasion” is missing: Muslims are not entering the UK by “force,” against the UK’s will. They are being welcomed in by the government and authorities of the UK — those most charged with protecting and maintaining the national character of the UK.
Eastern Europe, thanks to its geographic proximity to Islam, historically bore the brunt of and suffered from invading Islam. But it is not suffering now. Unlike the UK and many other Western European nations, Poland, Hungary, and their like have simply said no to migration from Muslim nations. Their native citizens are thanking them for it.
In short, if you’re invited in, you cannot be called an “invader” — regardless of your intentions. Thus, at the risk of appearing to quibble over semantics, what is happening today all throughout the West in general and the UK in particular must be seen and called out for what it actually is: not an invasion, but an assisted suicide.
https://stream.org/are-muslims-invading-the-uk-no-britain-is-committing-suicide/