Month: December 2022

A novel case of Love Jihad has been reported from Deopur village of Maharashtra’s Dhule district. On Thursday, the Dhule Police registered an FIR against Arshad Malik and his father Salim Malik for trapping a Hindu woman (24) in a relationship under a false name and sexually assaulting her for around two years. The police have booked the accused under sections 376(2)(n), 377, 327, 504, 506, 34, and 323 of the Indian Penal Code and have launched an investigation into the case.

The complaint was filed by the victim woman on December 1, 2022, a copy of which has been obtained by OpIndia. The woman in the complaint said that the accused Arshad Malik had introduced himself as a Hindu person named Harshad Mali and then persuaded her to get married to him. The complaint read that the victim woman was also raped by Arshad’s father, Salim Malik who is named as the second accused in the case.

According to the complaint, the accused have been harassing the woman and raping her since January 1, 2021. The saga began in the year 2016 when the victim woman first got married to Gaurav in the year 2016. The duo also had a child together but the circumstances for the woman happened to change after her husband died in a road accident in 2019.

Her deceased husband had sold their house already and left the woman with just Rs 2.5 lakhs. The woman then decided to study for a government job and so she joined Maharashtra Police Bharti classes at Khandesh Academy in the year 2020. There she met prime accused Arshad Malik who introduced himself as a Hindu named Harshad Mali. The duo became friends and exchanged phone numbers. They began chatting and talking over the phone while they also met each other daily at the academy.

The victim woman in the complaint added that the accused one day took her on his bike to the nearby jungle and raped her. “He forced himself upon me. I kept on refusing, opposing but he sexually assaulted me. He also video graphed the incident and used the tape to blackmail me later,” the woman said in the FIR filed on December 1.

“After that incident, I stopped talking to him. But he blackmailed me saying that he would distribute the video to the public if I stopped talking to him. He later confessed that he was in love with me and that he wanted us to stay together. He also said that he was ready to get married to me but then he proposed for a live-in relationship. I was scared that he would blackmail me again so I agreed to a live-in relationship,” she added.

The 24-year-old complainant said that it is during their live-in stay on July 2, 2021, that she discovered that Harshad was a Muslim man and that his original name was Arshad Malik. “On asking about his identity, he shut me up saying that these things hardly mattered in love and relationships. I thought he was madly in love with me so I trusted him. Later we shifted to Amalner and Ulhasnagar cities of the state. I also had my son named Vivek from the first marriage with me,” she narrated.

The woman said that she gave Arshad Rs 2.5 lakhs that she had attained from the will of her first husband. She also mentioned in the complaint that Arshad had demanded the gold chain which her deceased husband had gifted to her. “I refused to give the ornament to him which enraged him. He then hit me and also gave me motorbike silencer burn wounds on my hand. He snatched the chain and informed his parents in Dhule about me and my son,” the complaint read.

The victim woman and the prime accused happened to stay in Ulhasnagar city for around 4 months in a rented apartment. However, later Arshad’s father arrived at the residence and brutally raped the woman with permission of Arshad, as per the woman’s complaint. “Arshad and his father raped me for several days. I got pregnant. Later they took me to their home in Dhule and got me married to Arshad according to the Islamic rituals. After the wedding his father kept on sexually assaulting me several times despite knowing that I was pregnant with a child,” the victim stated.

According to the complaint, the woman was given a new Islamic name and was forcefully converted to Islam. The family members of Arshad including his mother Taslim and sister Arsheen also began pressuring the woman to perform ‘khatna’ (circumcision) on her small son named Vivek. On refusing the family members physically assaulted her amid her pregnancy. The woman then sent her son Vivek to his grandmother’s home in Dhule.

Adding the dreadful details to the case, the complainant said, “I gave birth to my second child in August this year. But I was not getting proper healthcare. Instead, my father-in-law and my husband continued to rape me together. My mother-in-law also tortured me mentally.” She said that after the Shraddha Walkar murder case happened, Arshad and his father would issue her threats saying that “Aftab cut Shraddha into 35 pieces but we would cut you into 70 pieces.”

The woman somehow managed to flee from Arshad’s home after she was issued death threats by both the accused on November 29. She reached out to her earlier mother-in-law (deceased husband Gaurav’s mother) and sought help. Meanwhile, she and her family member continued to get death threats from Arshad and his family including his father Salim and mother Taslim.

The woman reached the Deopur Police station on December 1 and lodged a police complaint against Arshad and his father Salim. The police have booked the accused under sections 376(2)(n), 377, 327, 504, 506, 34 and 323 of the Indian Penal Code and have launched an investigation in the case.

Earlier a similar case of love jihad was reported from Shrirampur area of Maharashtra, where Aman Sheikh (24) who posed himself as Amrut Ram Khairnar had lured a 17-year-old Dalit girl and abducted her from Shirdi where she had gone with her family to visit the Sai Baba temple. The accused also had forged documents, including Aadhaar Card, to convince the victim girl that he was a Hindu, reports said.

Also on November 12, a minor tribal girl was abducted by a person named Imran Sheikh from Malegaon, Nashik. The girl had disappeared from her home while she was alone. The family of the girl and several Adivasi and Hindu organisations then alleged that the police were not taking the case seriously as the victim girl belonged to the tribal community.

https://www.opindia.com/2022/12/maharashtra-arshad-malik-poses-as-harshad-hindu-woman-raped-assaulted-for-years-threatened-to-cut-into-70-pieces/

By Michael Egnor, M.D.

Over the past several years there has been an explosion in the number of children who are confused about their sexual identity who have been brought under the care of gender medicine doctors. I am a pediatric neurosurgeon with 35 years of experience in patient care and teaching, and I am deeply disturbed by two aspects of gender medicine, especially gender medicine for children.

First, gender medicine is the only medical specialty that is based not on medical science but on ideological pseudoscience. Transgender activists assert that women can become men and men can become women— ‘a trans-man is a man, and a trans-woman is a woman’— and that gender identity is ‘assigned’ by doctors at birth. Neither of these assertions is true.

Sexual identity is established at conception, it is binary (we are either male or female), and it is permanent. Sexual identity is recognized at birth. Sexual identity never changes and can never change. A ‘trans-man’ is not a man. A trans-man is a woman who wants to be a man. Every cell in her body is female, every cell in her body was female when she was conceived, and every cell in her body will be female for her entire life. Transgender medical treatment with hormones or surgery don’t change her female sexual identity. She can play the role of a man— with the help of cosmetics, apparel, hormones or surgery, she can look and act (somewhat) like a man, but she is a woman and always will be a woman.

Second, gender medicine is the only medical specialty in which doctors deliberately provide treatments that damage or destroy the normal organs of children. Gender medicine entails the administration of puberty-blockers and cross-sex hormones as well as so-called ‘top surgery’ and ‘bottom surgery’, which are operations that remove the breasts of girls, place breast implants in boys and amputate the genitals of boys and girls.

These treatments are not rare. The news agency Reuters recently commissioned a study of gender medicine treatments for children in the United States. They used medical insurance claims based on the diagnosis of ‘gender dysphoria’, so the actual numbers of children subjected to these treatments is undoubtedly considerably greater, because many gender treatments are paid for out of pocket and doctors may not code the diagnosis as ‘gender dysphoria’. 

In the Reuters study, during the past three years, 10,430 children ages 6-17 were placed on cross-sex hormones by gender doctors. 776 girls aged 13 to 17 underwent bilateral mastectomies with a diagnosis of ‘gender dysphoria’ (i.e., the girls were physically normal), and 56 children (boys and girls) had their genitals surgically removed.

Only gender medicine doctors deliberately damage normal bodies of children. No medical specialty other than gender medicine would damage the normal organs of a child. As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I would never deliberately damage a child’s normal brain. A pediatric heart surgeon would never damage a child’s normal heart. Such deliberate harm to normal children’s bodies would never even be considered, let alone tolerated, in any other medical specialty besides gender medicine.

Children who are confused or unhappy with their real sexual identity are mentally ill and deserve compassionate high-quality psychiatric care. They do not deserve to be chemically and surgically castrated by gender doctors who practice far outside of the bounds of ethical medical practice.

Gender ideology is a political ideology, not medical science, and it has no place in medical practice. The medical profession needs to renounce gender medicine and the ideologues who practice it, and we need to protect confused and suffering children from physical harm at the hands of their deeply misguided doctors.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/12/transgender_medical_care_is_unethical_pseudoscience.html

Leading British politicians have lionized an Islamist group blacklisted by the government because of its officials’ support for terror and anti-Semitism.

On November 25, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, addressed the 25^thanniversary dinner of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), one of Britain’s leading Islamist organizations.

Speaking to a crowd of current and former MCB officials and the group’s supporters, Mayor Khan declared: “Since its founding, the MCB has realized its vision of helping to shape a more just and fairer society. I want to pay tribute to all the Secretary Generals this evening, to all the elders who recognised the importance of establishing the MCB.”

The MCB’s “elders,” however, are prominent Islamists with a long history of spouting and encouraging extremism. Most were part of an Islamist network known as Jamaat-e-Islami.

Writing in the Guardian in 2005, journalist Martin Bright warned that the leaders of MCB and many of its affiliate organizations were inspired by Maulana Mawdudi, an Islamist ideologue from South Asia whose writings “call for a global Islamic revival” and influenced Sayyid Qutb, “usually credited as the founding father of modern Islamic radicalism and one of the inspirations for al-Qaeda.”

Indeed, a report published by the British Government’s Department for Communities and Local Government explicitly noted the MCB’s “linkages to Islamist movements like the Muslim Brotherhood and the Jama`at-i Islami.”

Founded in 1997, the MCB has kept true to its extremist roots. Over the past decades, it has organized boycotts of Holocaust Memorial Day, its officials have openly expressed support for the Hamas terrorist group, and the organization has even successfully used its influence over government to exclude moderate Muslims from government programs and events.

Even today, the organization’s loyalty to its radical founders is clear. Founders and MCB luminaries at this year’s anniversary dinner included Sir Iqbal Sacranie, a key organizer of the protests and threats against novelist Salman Rushdie, who once said: “’Death, perhaps, is a bit too easy for him … his mind must be tormented for the rest of his life unless he asks for forgiveness to Almighty Allah.”

Sacranie was joined by former MCB secretary-general Muhammed Abdul Bari, once chair of Jamaat-e-Islami’s European arm, the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE). According to documents uncovered by the Telegraph¸ the IFE has told its members that through Islamic law and “jihad,” the IFE aims to build an “Islamic social and political order,” free from music, television and “free mixing with women.”

These organizations are closely interconnected. The IFE is based at the East London Mosque, which is a close partner of the MCB and sponsored the anniversary dinner at which Mayor Khan spoke.

It is noteworthy that Khan, a leading official of Britain’s Labour Party, agreed to speak, given that, in 2009, it was a Labour government that finally severed relations with the MCB, after journalists uncovered that MCB officials and affiliates were among signatories to the Istanbul Declaration, a document that advocated attacks on British soldiers and Jewish communities.

Now under Conservative rule, the government’s blacklisting still remains in force, with Downing Street recently stating: “The UK government has a long-standing policy of not engaging with the MCB and that has not changed.”

Despite this position, Mayor Khan was joined at the 25^th anniversary dinner by Ed Davey, leader of Britain’s Liberal Democrat Party, and Assistant Commissioner the Metropolitan Police, Louisa Rolfe.

Other senior politicians were also seemingly present, including Anas Sarwar, leader of the Scottish Labour Party, Afzal Khan, a Labour MP (and an Islamist), and another Labour MP, Naz Shah.

The senior policewoman thanked the MCB (which she referred to as the “Muslim community”) for its “wise counsel” and told the crowd “We must do better to reflect the communities we serve.”

Indeed, Rolfe, and the leading British politicians present, would have been wise to choose a Muslim organization partner that reflects British Muslim communities at all. A 2016 report by the thinktank Policy Exchange revealed that “Groups like the Muslim Council of Britain enjoy the support” of just “2 to 4% of Britain’s Muslims.”

https://islamism.news/2022/11/29/leading-british-politicians-honor-hateful-islamist-group/

Michel Houellebecq has come out and said the Great Replacement, which describes the replacement of European natives with non-Europeans across the West, is a “fact” during a wide-ranging discussion with influential French philosopher Michel Onfray.

“The Great Replacement, I was shocked it’s called a theory. It’s not a theory, it’s a fact,” said Houellebecq. “When it comes to immigration, nobody controls anything, that’s the whole problem. Europe will be swept away by this cataclysm.”

“It’s objectively what the figures say,” added Onfray, who said he thinks that the decline of the West is primarily a demographic decline. 

Houellebecq / Onfray (Front Populaire)

Le grand remplacement, j'ai été choqué qu'on appelle ça une théorie, ce n'est pas une théorie, c'est un fait.

En matière d'immigration personne ne contrôle rien, c'est bien là tout le problème
L'Europe sera emportée par ce cataclysme pic.twitter.com/4ebZA3KLgB

— David Dobsky (@dobsky33) November 30, 2022

The fact that France’s greatest living writer, as he is often described by the mainstream press, has said the Great Replacement is fact will only add to the growing body of intellectuals, academics, and politicians who have increasingly been willing to describe the Great Replacement in public forums.

Both thinkers also discussed Islam, but had different opinions on its trajectory. Onfray said he believes that Islamism “is not such a powerful phenomenon” but rather “a reaction to American power. He said that Muslims will eventually line up in the West under the banner of consumerist materialism and cast off their religion, just as many other peoples, such as Europeans, have already done to a large extent.

Houellebecq believes otherwise, saying, “When entire territories are under Islamist control, I think acts of resistance will take place. There will be attacks and shootings in mosques.” He then went on to add that he predicts “reverse Bataclans” — a reference to the Islamists who killed over 100 French people in the Bataclan nightclub in Paris. Houellebecq seems to be implying that White Europeans may partake in such attacks against Muslims, such as was seen with the Christchurch shooting in New Zealand.

“You think the civil war is coming, I think it’s already here, quietly,” Onfray replied.

Houellebecq and Onfray, addressed a range of topics, including the European Union, God, immigration, and euthanasia in a 45-page dialogue.

“I want to defend the West, but it must be worth defending,” Houellebecq is quoted as saying in the French magazine Front Populaire, as he describes the contents of his paper co-written with Michel Onfray, warning “lovers of positive psychology and resilient nonsense to go the other way!”

The philosopher and the writer, both convinced of the inevitable decline of the West, discuss in depth the perils that await Europeans, including transhumanism, the Great Replacement, Americanization, European bureaucracy, de-Christianization, ecologism, and the ongoing war in Ukraine — all the subjects that affect our time.

The discussion, turned into an essay, has already won plaudits, being described as an “exceptional dialogue (that) is not depressing, nor even apocalyptic. It is brilliant, profound, often funny, and in every way fascinating. Houellebecq’s genius for the absurd is wonderfully emulsified with Onfray’s rhetorical force.”

“Houellebecq and Onfray not only share the accusation of being reactionaries, which the media left often labels them as. They are, each in their own way, the haruspices of our decadence. They examine the entrails of our civilization with frankness and insight. They are also both very different,” writes Le Figaro.

Both authors are also described as being “attached to the people.”

“You are like me. You are a populist!” Onfray says, to which Houellebecq replies: “That’s fine with me. From the right, I have my doubts, but ‘populist’ suits me.”

https://rmx.news/france/top-french-intellectuals-debate-god-the-eu-euthanasia-and-immigration/

The Ukrainian government is teaming up with American investment firm BlackRock to “reboot its economy”. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on November 10, the Ukrainian Economy Ministry announced the next day. This agreement concerns the creation of a platform to attract private capital.

The Memorandum of Understanding, which was signed in Washington, means that an investment platform is made available to the Ukrainian government. The establishment will take place according to “a roadmap that Financial Markets Advisory, a company in the BlackRock group, will develop in consultation with the Ministry of Economy”.

The statement stated that BlackRock’s advice will focus on the “platform structure, mandate and governance”. The platform “will focus on mobilizing investments in key sectors of the Ukrainian economy,” the statement continued.

“It is very important for us to show the whole world that war does not prevent investment in Ukraine. After all, investments are the key to a future rapid and effective economic recovery,” says Ukrainian Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko. “We expect a lot from the collaboration with BlackRock’s FMA division [Financial Markets Advisory]. We hope that this restart platform will be an effective mechanism to mobilize investment in key sectors of our economy,” she added.

Investments in wartime

This Memorandum of Understanding follows the discussion between Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink in September 2022. They discussed the possibility of a “pro-bono” advisory assignment by Blackrock’s FMA for the benefit of the Ukrainian government. The mandate will focus on “the structuring of a reconstruction fund, the investment process, governance and use of the funds raised for the fund,” it said.

BlackRock’s subsidiary quickly came to the rescue. Barely a week after the agreement was signed, the fund manager participated in a so-called “due diligence”, a corporate inspection, of a $500 million commitment from Australian iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest to start a $25 billion international investment fund to help Ukraine.

This fund will be used to finance “energy and communication infrastructure, including a green energy grid”.

According to Zelensky, “Andrew and I agreed that we will not replace the Russian infrastructure from the communist era, but rather take a step forward to the latest technology”. He added: “We will benefit from the fact that what the Russians have destroyed can easily be replaced by the latest and most modern green and digital infrastructure.”

Ukraine ‘sold’ to Blackrock

BlackRock created the Financial Markets Advisory after the “financial crisis of April 2008 to provide dedicated support to governments, central banks and financial institutions worldwide”. It is a “separate and independent business from BlackRock’s traditional asset management business,” according to the US company’s website.

In the first weeks of the war in Ukraine, BlackRock recorded a loss of $17 billion. According to the Financial Times, the valuation of Russian securities managed by the global asset management giant fell from 18,2 billion at the end of January to 1 billion on February 28, 2022.

The signing of the memorandum of understanding between BlackRock and Ukraine went almost unnoticed. On Twitter, netizens accused Zelensky of having “sold” Ukraine to the United States. “That was what lay behind the ‘struggle for the freedom of Ukraine’”, the French politician François Asselineau noted.

The announcement of this agreement between the Ukrainian government and BlackRock also comes at a time when European countries accuse the US of profiting from the war at the expense of Europe through the sale of weapons and gas exports at high prices.

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/12/01/zelensky-entrusts-management-of-private-investments-in-ukraine-to-blackrock-2/

On Thursday, the Jharkhand High Court referred to the Muslim Personal Law and ruled that a Muslim girl who has attained 15 years of age or above has the liberty to marry the person of her choice without any interference from their guardians. The Court said this while it was hearing a criminal case lodged against a Muslim person who married a 15-year-old girl from within the community.

According to the reports, the Court dismissed the proceeding and ordered the cancellation of the FIR which was filed by the girl’s father. The father in the FIR had accused Mohammed Sonu (24) of persuading his daughter to marry him. The girl belongs to the Jugsalai area of Jharkhand’s Jamshedpur. Sonu then challenged the FIR and approached the Jharkhand High Court.

However, during the hearing, the father of the girl stated that he was no more opposed to the marriage. He also thanked Almighty for arranging a suitable match for his daughter and said that he had filed FIR against Mohammed Sonu due to some misunderstanding. He added that his daughter had found the right match by the grace of Allah and that there was no other perfect match than the petitioner.

“In view of this judgment, is clear that the marriage of a Muslim girl is governed by Muslim Personal Law. As per Article 195 from the book ‘Principles of Mohammedan Law by Sir Dinshah Fardunji Mulla’, the girl is approximately 15 years of age and was competent to enter into a contract of marriage with a person of her choice,” the Court said in its order.

“The petitioner is stated to be more than 24 years of age. Thus, both the petitioner and the girl attained marriageable age as defined by Muslim Personal Law. Article 21 of the Constitution of India provides for the protection of life and personal liberty and further lays down that no person shall be deprived of his or her life and personal liberty except as per the procedure established by law,” Justice Dwivedi added.

The Court referred to Yunus Khan v. State of Haryana & Ors., 2014 (3) RCR (Criminal) 518, wherein it was held that the marriage of a Muslim girl is governed by personal law.

This comes after a similar judgment was passed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court reaffirming that a Muslim girl who reaches the age of 15 can marry whoever she wants, and such a marriage would not violate the Prohibition of Child Marriage (PCM) Act. Notably, according to the personal laws in Islam (Sharia), the age of attaining puberty is 15. The High Court also reassured that Muslim girls would continue to be governed by Islamic personal laws. Several other High Courts have passed the same verdict in several other cases earlier.

However, two contrasting verdicts were delivered by two high courts, ruling that having sex with minors is still an offence under POCSO. Last month, Karnataka High Court ruled that POCSO Act overrides Personal Law, and declared the marriage of a minor Muslim girl invalid as it violates the POCSO act. The High Court said that POCSO is a Special Act and it overrides the personal law which is based on Sharia Law.

Just three weeks later, Kerala High Court passed a similar judgement, saying that a marriage between Muslims under personal law cannot be excluded from the Protection Of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The court said that if one of the partners in the marriage is a minor, offences under POCSO Act will apply. The validity of the marriage would not be considered in such cases.

https://www.opindia.com/2022/12/jharkhand-hc-says-muslim-girls-can-marry-after-attaining-15-years-of-age/

Violent clashes took place in Belgium after the Morocco-Belgium football match during the World Cup in Qatar.

Riots took place in Brussels, Antwerp and Liege, where a police station was attacked by about 50 “youths”, and also in several cities in the Netherlands. Beyond these incidents, the popular jubilation in the predominantly Moroccan neighborhoods of Brussels, especially in Molenbeek, revealed that in these areas, the Moroccan identity has remained much stronger than the Belgian one, even though most of the inhabitants have dual nationality.

One would have to be blind and trying to fit reality into the ideology of “living together at all costs” not to see that the sympathies of Moroccans in Belgium were with the Moroccan team and not with the team of their “second homeland”. Some journalists tried to do so, with headlines like “No matter who wins between Belgium and Morocco, it will be a party”.

The party did take place, in Molenbeek, Anderlecht, Schaerbeek and Brussels, municipalities where Moroccan immigrants and their descendants are more numerous than other people, including the native Belgians. One could see the enthusiasm of these supporters honking their horns and displaying Moroccan flags in the streets of the capital in their cars with Belgian plates.

For many native Belgians, this spectacle broke the myth of integration into the host country, perhaps because the celebrations may have seemed excessive and even indecent for Belgium, which has allowed these Moroccans to live in a prosperous country and to benefit from the advantages of the welfare state.

The television channels did not show images of a man taking down a Belgian flag from a building to the applause of the crowd, nor a striking face-to-face between hundreds of Moroccans dancing and singing just a stone’s throw from the Grand-Place in Brussels, blocked by a cordon of police officers, helmeted and baton-wielding, blocking them from access to the city center.

According to Statbel, the official Belgian statistics office, 46% of the population of Brussels is now of non-European origin (in the sense of the European Union plus the United Kingdom) and only 24% of Belgian origin. Moroccans represent 7% of the population of Belgium, but 12% in the Brussels-Capital Region, most of whom also hold Belgian nationality. The growth in the number of Moroccans in Belgium has been exponential: only 460 in 1961; 39,000 in 1970, and 800,000 forty years later; a large number for a country of only 11 million. As a result of this demographic evolution and the ease of acquiring Belgian nationality (in some instances after three years of residence without any other conditions), the country now has 26 regional or federal deputies of Moroccan origin and several mayors, who often encourage communitarianism, or “belonging to one’s community.”

In Brussels, Moroccans outnumber people of Belgian origin in the under-18 age group; many schools are attended exclusively by children of non-European origin. In those public schools where parents have the choice of religion classes, Islam is now followed by a majority of pupils. Whether one describes these changes as “diversity” or as a “great replacement” is of little importance; over a few decades the evolution has been considerable and has modified the social fabric of Belgium’s cities.

The hijab (Islamic veil) is increasingly present and is worn by a majority of women in some municipalities. During the month of Ramadan, almost all shops and restaurants are closed during the day in some areas. The number of mosques is exploding and all currents of Islam are represented in Brussels, where tensions between Sunnis and Shiites, or even between Moroccans and Turks, are sometimes high, especially within the Muslim Executive of Belgium, a structure that the federal government set up in order to have a single interlocutor for the Muslim community, but which has been going from crisis to crisis.

While the slaughter of animals without first stunning them is forbidden in Flanders and Wallonia, the Muslim lobby in the Brussels Parliament has succeeded in blocking a legislative proposal in that direction. During trials or elections, it is common to see women arriving with their husbands, and explaining that they cannot be retained as jurors or assessors because they do not speak any of Belgium’s official languages, thus attesting to a completely failed policy of integration. The “vivre ensemble” (“live together”) praised by the Belgian political world is a myth, with communities living side by side but not mixing with each other. Moroccans marry Moroccan women and Turks marry Turkish women, whom they often bring over from their native country. Family reunification is now the primary source of immigration in Belgium, as in France.

In France, the country’s colonial past is regularly evoked to justify the anger of young North Africans. It is an explanation that does not hold: similar incidents take place in Belgium, a country that has no historical link with North Africa. It was a 1964 convention that paved the way for economic immigration, the need for which has long since ceased to exist, but which continues indefinitely through family reunification, which the Americans rightly call “chain migration”.

What is most distressing is the denial and the total absence of debate on the issues of immigration and integration, mainly on the French-speaking side of the country. Neither the media nor the political parties talk about it. Sunday’s riots were attributed by the mayor of Brussels to “thugs and scoundrels”, a discourse that was widely repeated without any precision or analysis. The link with excessive immigration, proportionally greater than that of France, is never made again. While in France and elsewhere in Europe there is a lively debate around this theme, it is as if Belgium has given up, accepting its destiny as a multicultural country with a Muslim majority in its capital and from time to time a “new normal” made up of urban riots, shootings and terrorist attacks.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19178/belgium-world-cup-riots

Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) has campaigned for a reform of citizenship laws and easier naturalizations, but has argued in favor of this with extremely exaggerated figures. At an event organized by the federal government’s integration minister, Reem Alabali-Radovan (SPD), entitled “Germany: An immigration country,” he doubled the number of foreign nationals actually working in Germany, according to a fact-check by German newspaper, Junge Freiheit.

Scholz said, “Nine million citizens live and work in our country without having German citizenship.” Subsequently, almost all media have adopted this claim. But in fact, according to the Federal Statistical Office, only 4.5 million foreign nationals living in Germany are employed, and are thus subject to social insurance contributions. This is only half as many as the German chancellor claimed.

Scholz: “Those who work here should be able to vote”

The figure is significant because Scholz linked it to his main argument that “those who live and work here permanently should also be able to vote and be elected.

“They should be part of our country with all the rights and duties that go with it – and completely independent of origin, skin color or religious confession,” he added.

According to official figures, a total of 11.8 million foreigners currently reside in Germany. If 9 million were actually working here, this would equate to an employment rate among migrants of 76.3 percent. However, in Germany as a whole, only 40.7 percent of all residents are employed and subject to social insurance contributions. The rest are children, pensioners, the unemployed, and welfare recipients.

Only 38.5 percent of foreign nationals work

According to the Federal Statistical Office, the rate of non-Germans working in Germany is below average at 38.5 percent.

Plans put forward by Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) would see foreign nationals naturalized after five years of residence in Germany, instead of the current eight years. In addition, it is to be generally permitted in the future for them to have multiple citizenships. This was also emphasized yesterday by Chancellor Scholz in the matter of naturalizations: “As far as multiple citizenships is concerned: I have never understood why we insisted on (just one). After all, belonging and identity are not a zero-sum game,” he said.

https://rmx.news/germany/german-chancellor-falsifies-data-to-defend-pro-migration-policy/

The Dresden Regional Court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the alleged sea rescuers from Mission Lifeline based in Dresden, Germany. In the election campaign for the office of Dresden mayor, the AfD-Dresden had criticized the “funding of smuggling organizations with tax money” in a leaflet, among other things.

The text went on to say: “With this money, this organization finances the passage of North Africans across the Mediterranean Sea into our social systems.”

The association wanted to have these statements banned in court. This week, they were defeated by a ruling which dismissed the lawsuit as unfounded. The statements were “not objectionable” the court found.

In addition, the “text passage does not constitute an inadmissible factual statement” and the terms “smuggler” or “smuggler organization” fall under the “protected area of ​​​​freedom of opinion”.

The Dresden AfD candidate and EU parliamentarian Maximilian Krah commented on the outcome: “A ray of hope in terms of freedom of expression. The so-called sea rescuers consciously endanger human life in order to be able to feel like a rescuer. Anyone who actually wants to help people should create the opportunity to apply for asylum in Africa. As the UK is already doing.”

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/12/01/dresden-mission-lifeline-is-a-smuggler-organization/