Leicester police stop extremists from attacking Hindus, screen grab youtube
On Friday (January 13), a man by the name of Arslan Ibrahim confessed to issuing a death threat to the ‘rival group’ (Hindu community) in Leicester in September last year.
As per an exclusive report by the BBC, the accused yelled ‘I will kill you’ twice and provoked the Hindu community into a fight. The incident had taken place on Harrison Road in Belgrave.
Soon after, the 28-year-old man was detained. On Friday, Ibrahim’s counsel told the Nottingham Magistrates’ Court that he made the death threats in response to supposed ‘racist chanting’ on the street and apologised for his actions.
The accused was then handed out a conditional discharge and made to pay a paltry sum of £26 and £85 as victim surcharge and court costs respectively.
Five suspects identify themselves after police releases pictures of 10 accused
On January 10, the Leicester Police released photographs of ten suspects of anti-Hindu violence in the area and sought help from the public to identify them. As per the latest update, five out of ten suspects identified themselves, and the hunt for the remaining six is still on.
In a statement, Leicester Police said that the officers working on the investigation sought help in identifying the suspects. The detectives checked hours of CCTV and body cams to identify the miscreants involved in the violence.
While over 100 were arrested, many others remained unidentified and escaped incarceration. It is unclear how many more suspects are still unidentified, and the police may release more images in the coming weeks.
Since August last year, the anti-Hindu attacks in the United Kingdom, especially in Leicester and Birmingham, increased by several folds. What appeared to be a reaction to the defeat Pakistan faced in the T20 Asia Cup match against India, it was later found that Islamists were just using the match as an excuse to attack the Hindus as they did not stop even after Pakistan defeated India in the same series a week later.
The French sociologist, historian and publicist Emmanuel Todd spoke in an interview with a Swiss weekly magazine about an interim assessment of the current East-West conflict. He also commented in detail on the situation in Germany, whose sovereignty has almost completely disappeared under the tutelage of the US.
Asked for an overall assessment by Weltwoche, Todd first noted that the US was in many respects on the decline, while Russia is doing better than Western media coverage suggested.
According to Todd: “The US withdrew from Afghanistan and Iraq. They could not stop the rise of Iran. Just as little as that of China. The Saudis no longer take the US seriously. In America, mortality is rising and life expectancy is falling. All the newspapers are writing: the West is normal and Putin is insane. The Russians are bloodthirsty monsters. Demographics say otherwise: Russia has become more stable and its society more civilized.”
The Europeans find themselves in a particularly regrettable position in the current conflict – they are practically defenseless and beyond that without orientation: “They have lost their geopolitical thinking. Between the offensive strategy of the Americans and the defensive strategy of the Russians, the Europeans are in a breathtaking state of mental confusion.”
This applies not least to the Germans, who are currently having to awaken from the illusion that they are being protected by the US. In reality, they are the main victims of US geopolitics, according to Todd. Washington has not forgiven Berlin for relying on cheap Russian gas to supply its industry and for striving for a rapprochement with Russia.
“The fight against this rapprochement became a priority of American strategy. The USA had always made it clear that they wanted to torpedo the gas agreement. The expansion of NATO in Eastern Europe was not primarily directed against Russia, but against Germany. Germany, which had entrusted its security to America, became a target for the Americans. I feel a lot of sympathy for Germany”.
Besides, the Germans “know only too well that Nord Stream was destroyed by the Americans. Through a joint military action by the Americans, British and Poles. Against Germany. But they can’t tell.”
Against this background, Todd, who dedicated a much-noticed “obituary” to the USA back in 2002, considered German China policy under Chancellor Scholz to be one of the last domains of an independent German policy: “Scholz traveled to Beijing. Germany refuses to cut the cord off from China.”
Europe as a whole is now coming under increasing American control and is also suffering from its devastating demographics. But even Russia, although it has rejected Western “values”, is not in a better position demographically. “In Ukraine they are at war with each other. If it’s not stopped, everyone will lose,” warned Todd.
The French publicist and scholar graduated from the Institut d’études politiques de Paris and received his PhD in history from Cambridge. From 1977 to 1984 he was literary critic for the French newspaper Le Monde. Since then he has been working at the Institut national d’études démographiques.
Predicting the fall of the US Empire
Todd attracted attention in 1976 when, at age 25, he predicted the fall of the Soviet Union, based on indicators such as increasing infant mortality rates: La chute finale: Essais sur la décomposition de la sphère Soviétique [The Final Fall: An Essay on the Decomposition of the Soviet Sphere].
In a later book After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order(2001), Todd argued that many indices that he had examined (economic, demographic and ideological) showed both that the United States has outlived its status as sole superpower, and that much of the rest of the world is becoming “modern” (declining birth rates etc.) far more rapidly than predicted.
Todd outlined the fundamental weaknesses of the United States to conclude that, contrary to American conventional wisdom, America is fast losing its grip on the world stage in economic, military and ideological terms.
Controversially, he proposed that many US foreign policy moves were designed to mask what he sees as the redundancy of the United States. In his analysis, Putin’s Russia emerges as probably a more trustworthy partner in today’s world than the US.
In late 2002, he believed that the world was about to repeat the same mistake that it had made in regard to the Soviet Union during the 1970s – misinterpreting an expansion in US military activity as a sign of its increasing power, when in fact this aggression masks a decline.
According to him, the United States became an empire not by strategy but by accident, following the sudden collapse of its main adversary, the Soviet Union. With the globalization of investment, it then indulged in the luxury of conspicuous consumption using incoming capital while going deeper and deeper into debt.
In reality America is like a crumbling Roman Empire – overextended with excessive arms spending, inequality and disgruntlement at home. To keep the rest of the world in line, and prevent its creditors calling in their debts, all America needs to do then is to wield a big stick.
“The real America is too weak to take on anyone except military midgets,” Todd believes. This is why there is such hostility to states such as North Korea, Cuba, and Iraq, an underdeveloped country of 24 million exhausted by a decade of sanctions. Such “conflicts that represent little or no military risk” allow a US presence throughout the world.
Further, the “theatrical media coverage…must not blind us to a fundamental reality: the size of the opponent chosen by the US is the true indicator of its current power”. Todd argued that America would be incapable of challenging a more powerful country, and that “only one threat to global stability hangs over the world today – the United States itself, which was once a protector and is now a predator.”
Todd is above all a demographer, and he bases much of his opinion on statistical elements. Therefore, Todd notes some disturbing American trends, such as rising stratification based on educational credentials, and the “obsolescence of irreformable political institutions”.
She should know her place as a woman and be happy that she is allowed to walk around outdoors at all, two men allegedly said after physically attacking a woman. According to the victim, she was walking on the pavement of Heidener Straße in the direction of Ahauser Straße in Borken at around 4.25 p.m. on Tuesday when the two men approached her. She had to swerve onto the cycle path because the persons made no effort to let her pass, the woman said. When a cyclist also travelling in the direction of Ahauser Straße approached, she stepped back onto the pavement and inadvertently touched one of the men. Initially, there was a short verbal argument. As the pedestrian continued to walk, one of the men approached from behind and kicked her to the ground, then kicked her again. The woman suffered injuries in the process. The victim described both perpetrators as 17 to 18-year-old men with dark hair and a dark complexion. One of the unidentified men was about 1.85 metres tall. He was dressed in a white quilted jacket and dark jeans. The second offender was about 1.80 metres tall. He had a three-day beard and was dressed in a black jacket, dark blue trousers and black and white Nike shoes. Both spoke German without an accent. The police are looking for witnesses. Please send any information to the Borken police by calling (02861) 9000.
Hello, Berufskolleg Tecklenburger Land of the district of Steinfurt in Ibbenbüren, one of your teachers has just been killed by a pupil of ” a different culture” with a knife, which he apparently did not use for cooking, and you are spreading the following message on your homepage:
The Biden administration recently announced that it has extended the COVID-19 public health emergency until the sun expires April, ostensibly due to a highly transmissible omicron subvariant stoking concerns that the U.S. may face another wave of illness from the disease this winter.
A spokesperson for the Health and Human Services Department stated, “The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency remains in effect, and as HHS committed to earlier, we will provide a 60-day notice to states before any possible termination or expiration.”
The first emergency was declared in early 2020. In September, President Biden declared, “The pandemic is over.” In fairness to the Addled One, he might have been referring to the Swine Flu Pandemic of 2009-2010…or possibly the Plague of Justinian circa A.D. 541–542.
Expect the administration to keep extending the “emergency” as it has repeatedly for the past couple of years. I fully expect them to extend the emergency in 2024 before leaving office, due to the sub-subvariant MICKEYMOUSE.1984.666.
Even authoritarians can wax nostalgic. So “one more time for all the old times.”
In Mosbach, a man was killed by a gunshot during a police operation. The 46-year-old man had attacked the officers with a knife. The allegedly mentally ill man was staying near the flat of his ex-girlfriend.
In the evening, the public prosecutor’s office in Mosbach and the State Criminal Police Office of Baden-Württemberg released further details about the operation in Mosbach. According to the report, on Friday afternoon, “in the course of a threatening situation”, a police officer fired his weapon in the Neckarelz district. A 46-year-old man was critically injured.
According to the current report, the police were called around 1 p.m. by several calls reporting a man “who appears to be in a state of mental emergency and is armed with a knife”. He was also reportedly on foot in the area of his ex-partner’s flat.
The arriving police officers were attacked by the 46-year-old with a knife. According to the public prosecutor’s office and the police, irritant gas was first used to subdue the man – without success. It continues: “In the further course, a police officer made use of his service weapon.”
The officers immediately administered first aid until the rescue service and emergency doctor arrived. However, the 46-year-old man died of his injuries on the spot. It turned out that the man already had a police record for domestic violence, among other things. According to current knowledge, he was undergoing psychiatric treatment.
As a result, the crime scene is widely cordoned off. Two public prosecutors from the Mosbach public prosecutor’s office are on site. The investigation of the police use of firearms is being conducted by the State Criminal Police Office of Baden-Württemberg. Further information on the background and the exact course of action will be determined in the coming days.
