On Wednesday 30 November, the figures for complaints of sexual violence were made public by feminist associations. According to them, these complaints increased by 24 percent in 2021.
In France, there has been an explosion in sexual violence complaints. This week, figures from the Ministry of the Interior on complaints of sexual violence, outside the family, were made public by feminist associations, reported Le Figaro. The police and gendarmerie services recorded 71 835 complaints last year for sexual crimes or offences committed outside the family, an increase of 24,1 percent compared to 2020, according to these figures.
After a stagnation between 2019 and 2020, a year marked by the Covid health crisis, the number of complaints is resuming its very strong increase that began in 2017. The vast majority of reported incidents (73 percent) are physical sexual violence (rape or attempted rape, assault or sexual abuse) and the victims reported are mostly women (86 percent) and more than half are minors (55 percent), according to the study by the Ministry’s statistical service (SSMSI).
These figures must be put into context in view of the low propensity of victims to report the events they have suffered. “Less than 10 percent of victims of sexual violence committed outside the family framework file a complaint”, the SSMSI points out.
Instead of linking the increase to immigration, the rise is said to be associated with the “Metoo” movement. Feminist associations consider that it resulted in a greater awareness among the public and in particular among women.
This increase in the number of complaints is part of “the context of freedom of speech spurred on by the #Metoo movement from 2017/2018”, the study noted.
Day two in the terror trial at the Regional Criminal Court in Vienna. Six young men, who allegedly supported the Vienna assassin Kujtim F. in the run-up, have to answer to a jury.
Adam M. (32) is questioned first. He is said to have provided the assassin with the weapons. “I did not know Kujtim F.. But I have seen him,” he says. He was supposed to introduce “someone” to a Slovenian arms dealer. He says he did not think about the reason for buying a rapid-fire rifle. “You must be thinking of something,” the judge inquires.
“The assassin came to me. He told me what he needed – a Kalashnikov – and I relayed that to the Slovenian.” What impression had he had of Kujtim F.? “A lot of Muslims look like that. Long hair. Dressed normally.”
What he doesn’t say: Kujtim F. worked in the same security company as he did. “But there are 2,000 people there. I never saw him there.” Other defendants were also employed by the company. He does not know them either.
Once again, he affirms that he did not think about the reason for buying the weapon. “You hand over a Kalashnikov to a complete stranger, then also ammunition and a pistol. You didn’t care what he did with it,” the judge says. “No, I didn’t,” says Adam M. But why didn’t he ask? “I can’t answer that. But that was the biggest mistake I ever made. Unfortunately, I can’t undo it.”
Many Austrians would also have weapons, the accused says. “I don’t think there are that many,” counters the prosecutor. “Above all, they don’t have Kalashnikovs.”
The 22-year-old Ishaq F. is the second to be questioned. He knew the later assassin from childhood days. “We played football together.”
Ishaq F. had already been convicted twice in this regard. He had shared IS propaganda and recruited for the terrorist organisation. Today in court he calls IS a “gang of murderers”. When he was in custody in the Josefstadt district of Vienna, Kujtim F. texted him on an illegal mobile phone. “He wanted to know if I knew anyone who sold a Kalashnikov,” says the 22-year-old.
He put him in contact with Adam M. Ishaq F. explains that he was very concerned about what Kujtim F. needed the gun for. “He told me he wants to resell it. As long as he has no ammunition, he can’t do any harm with it, I thought.”
In court, the accused wants to show that he has reformed. He had nothing to do with the IS. He explains that in prison he also had to deal with people who ate pork. However, a lot of radical Nasheeds were found on the 22-year-old’s mobile phone. The texts read, among other things: “Slaughter with a knife!” They were downloaded after the attack. “I don’t know if something is radical until I listen to it. I can’t know,” the young man says.
In a chat, the man also posted: “I am not ashamed that my religion is allowed to kill.” “It’s in the Koran,” says the accused. “I am a Muslim! Not Christian or Jewish!”
On November 29, Tuesday, a Muslim trader who had set up his shop near Harihara Subramanya Temple in Ponnampet in Karnataka’s Kodagu district, was stoppedfrom conducting business near the Hindu temple.
In a video doing rounds on social media, Ambika, a college professor and the district coordinator of the Durga Vahini, said that the Muslim trader could have come here with his real identity card. “Despite being told that non-Hindus will not be allowed to do business here, they are doing so using fake ID cards such as Aadhaar cards with Hindu names.”
A Mooslim trader was caught allegedly carrying a fake Hindu ID card as the Hindu groups have boycotted Muslim traders around Temple fairs across Karnataka
In Bengaluru’s VV Puram locality, Hindu rights groups called for a boycott of Muslim traders during the religious fair at the Subramanya Swami temple. On November 29, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal submitted a memorandum to Tushar Giri, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner and South Bengaluru DCP P Krishnakant, seeking a ban on Muslim traders near Hindu temples.
Notably, three Hindu activists were taken into preventive custody on Tuesday, after they warned to stage a protest against the decision to allow Muslim vendors to do business near the Hindu temple.
Uday Garudachar, BJP MLA for Chikpet, stated that Hindu traders could conduct business near dargahs and mosques. “The Hindu community does not bother others; a few individuals cause problems and raise objections,” he explained.
He clarified that no new rules would be imposed as a result of the Hindu activists’ demands. People of all faiths were granted permission.
“The old rituals will be followed. Giving opportunities only to Hindu traders is not feasible. If anyone attempts to cause problems in the fair, legal action will be taken against them,” he said.
The Federation of Street Vendors Union in Bengaluru hitting out at the state government said that “banning of vendors from a particular religion is unconstitutional and the government’s silence reflects that their stance is anti-constitutional.”
Notably, the Hindu activists were opposed to the decision of allowing Muslim traders near Hindu temples. They argued that when Muslims do not allow Hindu traders to conduct business near Mosques and Dargahs, then why should such rules be imposed on Hindu fairs? Hindu activists also challenged the Chikpet MLA Garudachar to allow Hindu vendors near Mosques, to which the MLA responded saying that Hindu traders will be allowed to open shops in his constituency in surrounding areas of Mosques. He also assured legal action against those who bar Hindu traders from doing business.
Speaking about the boycott calls, Hindu Jagran Vedike leader, Shrikanth told the media that the group demands a ban on non-Hindu traders from doing business near Hindu temples including Anjanadri Hills.
Shrikanth while referring to the recent arrests in terror accused cases said that “Hindu temples are on target of anti-national elements.”
Notably, On November 19, an auto-rickshaw exploded in Mangaluru, Karnataka’s coastal town. The accused terrorist Mohammed Shariq was carrying a pressure cooker, and police found that there was an improvised explosive device (IED) inside the cooker which exploded. Recently, an Islamist terrorist outfit Islamic Resistance Council (IRC) claimed responsibility for the blast and also stated in a note that went viral on social media that the “Hindutva temple” in Kadri, Dakshina Kannada district was the target of the blast. The Karnataka DGP had called the blast as an “act of terror”.
Germany has banned farmers in one of its federal states from properly fertilising large swathes of land at the behest of the EU’s green agenda.
As of Thursday, the use of nitrate fertilisers has been greatly restricted for large swathes of farmland in North Rhine-Westphalia, with the green agenda change greatly angering farmers as it is likely to drastically reduce yields.
While implemented by authorities in Germany, the ban is ultimately at the behest of the European Union, which is pushing to reduce the amount of nitrogen in certain parts of Europe as part of its green agenda.
The policy has already wreaked havoc in the Netherlands, with the Dutch government now looking to either buy out or forcibly close up to 3,000 farms to meet targets set by Brussels.
Despite the impact this could have on food security in Europe, the push appears to have firmly extended itself into Germany, with Bildreporting that farmers will now be forced to use 20 per cent less fertiliser in any area deemed to have problematic levels of the chemical.
Overall, the publication claims that a third of the total usable farmland in North Rhine-Westphalia — Germany’s most populous state — falls under this new restriction.
“If a wheat field needs 200 kilos of fertilizer for optimal yield, farmers would now be forced to use 40 kilos less,” one local farmer, Erich Gussen, explained. “That means a drop in yield and the quality of the wheat will suffer!”
Gussen noted that there is “great indignation” amongst farmers in the state, many of whom will see their bottom lines severely suffer at a time when fertiliser and fuel prices are already at major highs.
With the European Union reportedly threatening to fine Germany if it does not act to reduce nitrogen levels, other federal states in the country will also soon be forced to act to reduce farmers’ fertiliser usage.
Such a move could detrimentally affect the country’s food production at a time when food insecurity is growing worldwide as a result of the ongoing war in Ukraine, which has seen the global supply of wheat and other grains contract.
Despite this, the EU appears to be pushing ahead with its great reset goals, with the Dutch government now threatening to shutter up to 3,000 farms in their country in service of their overlords in Brussels.
Farmers in the member state have been actively resisting the measures with countless protests which have seen motorways blockaded and events disrupted, though such demonstrations have so far been unable to curb the government’s enthusiasm for closures.
“What this shows you is that the will of the people means nothing to our government,” political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek told Breitbart. “Despite all of the protest and (inter)national backlash, they’re pushing through with what I think are criminal policies.”
“Our government doesn’t cater to the wishes of its own citizens, it caters to globalist institutions whose interest it is to control the food supply, so they can control us,” she continued. “It’s the great reset in full force.”
The entire German political establishment went into a rage after FIFA banned the pro-LGBT “OneLove” armband at the World Cup. Germany’s economics minister, Robert Habeck of the Green Party, told the German national team they should defy the threat of sanctions and wear the armband anyway. Various government officials protested the move, including Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, who wore a OneLove armband during the opening game while cheering on the German national team.
Now, immediately after the “scandal,” Germany is proudly announcing a new gas deal with none other than Qatar — a deal Habeck has labeled as “super.” The deal may represent an energy coup for the new government, but perhaps just as important is that the deal demonstrates the German left-liberal establishment’s raw political and social engineering power — the amazing ability to virtue signal and then completely contradict that same virtue signaling a week later with zero repercussions.
It is important to remember that European foreign and energy policy is value-based, and while Qatar’s actions last week were abominable, Germany is forward-looking. Yes, Sharia-run Qatar is still known for its persecution of women and LGBT groups, and sure, Qatar has a far more oppressive, non-democratic system than Russia, and yes, there are still plenty of instances of outright slavery in Qatar, but in the words of Habeck, “15 years is great.”
He is, after all, referring to the fact that the LNG contract will begin running in 2026 and end in 2041.
How will Germany respond to future violations of human rights by Qatar? Will Germany pick up its gas in rainbow-colored tankers? Will it print special edition rainbow-colored euros to send to Qatari banks? Of course, this is all a bit of mockery, but the meaningless sentiment behind the “OneLove” armband is in essence the same strategy, and in reality, one could imagine such stunts at least being proposed by the “Twitter class” running PR for Germany’s current government.
The left is aided by the fact that the majority of German population continuously fails to process any contradiction in the German government’s smug support for “OneLove” armbands in Qatar while at the same time signing a gas deal with Qatar worth billions. While there may be some isolated grumblings in German media and the political classes, nobody in the left-liberal establishment, especially anyone with any real power among the Social Democrats or Greens, will truly dare to call out this absurdity.
The same element is at work as when the liberal darling Justin Trudeau crushed the trucker protests in Canada by literally freezing protesters’ bank accounts and seizing their property and then comes out in support of Chinese protesters; or when Gavin Newsom dined at California’s finest restaurant without a mask in violation of lockdown rules while calling those protesting lockdowns as dangerous and heartless. These politicians, just as the left-liberals in Germany, can blatantly violate the standards and values they pretend to promote because they can — because Big Tech, the media, academia, and the West’s various cultural establishments have created a force field around, rendering them nearly impervious to being held accountable for their hypocrisy.
As N.S. Lyons writes, “Hypocrisy… is simply a display of power, so the more blatant it is the better. Hypocrisy is a concrete demonstration of living without having to fear consequences.”
The reality is the gas deal with Qatar is an example of hypocrisy, but also realpolitik, even if the left-liberals would never admit it.
Germany needs gas, but it cannot obtain the amount it needs without violating its own so-called moral standards, which is why it is reaching out to all those “detestable” countries such as Qatar, which are extremely anti-gay, but also quite Brown, a combination which creates a great deal of confusion in the German mind. Interestingly, the realpolitik deal with Qatar was necessitated by Germany actually ignoring realpolitik and abandoning Russian resources, but Russians are unapologetically White and not very happy about gay people, which is far easier for the German mind to process.
Overall, there is a remarkable lack of realpolitik from the German political establishment, and some German industrial leaders, watching their fortunes potentially slip away, understand this. They may have been the ones whipping the inept Habeck to do something, anything, to secure Germany’s energy supply. However, this one act of realpolitik with Qatar will not save Germany, and a general inability to pursue national interests across a Europe still beholden to not only U.S. interests but also America’s cultural hegemony, is costing Europe dearly.
Russia and its resources are still there, and while what has happened to Ukraine is a tragedy, there are still those begging Europe to reverse course. If Germany’s Qatar gas deal flies in the face of the “liberal values” Germany portends to promote, then what real moral basis does Germany have for extending sanctions against Russia? It is a fair question. In Qatar, after all, they do not even bother with elections, and as independent opinion polls have historically shown, Putin is truly a popular leader who is legitimately elected time after time — far more popular than many of the leaders in Europe’s “liberal democracies.”
The reality is that Germany could, for the most part, avert its entire economic crisis by reverting to cheap Russian energy and resources. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been ridiculed for calling an end to sanctions on Russia, arguing that Europeans are suffering more than Russians due to these sanctions. In light of the Qatar deal, Germany has little in terms of moral ground to stand on when it comes to its criticisms against Hungary, but it will continue to pretend like it does. In fact, it will likely double down on trying to remove Orbán from office. Deflection can do wonders in politics.
What is now quite clear is that Russia is not even capable of taking over Ukraine, let alone invading Germany or any other NATO country, and this war has proven it. Armed with this incredible knowledge, and with Russia’s glaring weakness on display, now would be the opportune time to press for peace and restore economic relations. Deals with Russia may not be in Europe’s “moral” interest, but neither are deals with Qatar. The U.S. has long partaken in illegal invasions of other countries, coup plots, and false flag operations, and all of this has never been a basis for Europe to stop doing business with the U.S.
Of course, the U.S., and in turn, the German media, would fight tooth and nail against such a dramatic foreign policy turnaround vis-à-vis Russia, even if some within Germany’s political establishment are secretly hoping for the war to come to an end without Ukraine necessarily pushing the Russians back to their border.
For now, moral grandstanding trumps raw national interest across Europe, and the German and European populations, even with gas deals from Qatar and the United States, will continue to pay for this new paradigm.
