From March 23 to April 21, Muslims will celebrate their fasting month of Ramadan this year. During this time, the migrant party SÖZ (Social Austria of the Future) demands that the city of Vienna decorate the streets in the heavily Islamised district of Favoriten with “appropriate decoration”.
This Ramadan decoration was proposed by Hakan Gördü, the SÖZ club chairman in the 10th district of Vienna, in a statement. “We hope,” it says, “that the city of Vienna will comply with our demand and decorate the streets of Favoriten appropriately”. Gördü also stressed that this action would be a wonderful way to celebrate the diversity of the city and raise awareness of different cultures and religions. The demand of course also applies to the religious holidays of other faith communities (Christmas, Hanukkah, Diwali or Vesak).
So the migrant party SÖZ wants to use the tax money of the Viennese citizens to have the streets of Vienna decorated according to their faith on their feast days. Under SPÖ mayor Michael Ludwig, this could probably even be implemented. His political pandering to Muslims is similar to that of Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen, who never forgets to congratulate “all Muslims” on the occasion of the fasting month. See “Twitter” post.
Zum Beginn des Fastenmonats #Ramadan wünsche ich allen Musliminnen und Muslimen eine friedvolle Zeit der Begegnung und der Gemeinschaft, in der man aufeinander achtet, miteinander gestaltet und voneinander lernt. (vdb) pic.twitter.com/tkovUGNhQN
According to Maximilian Krauss, chairman of the Viennese FPÖ parliamentary group, and Stefan Berger, member of the regional parliament, the demand for a Ramadan decoration is an “inconceivable provocation by the Islamist lobby”, which should be rejected in the strongest possible terms. In a statement they said:
While the discussion about crosses in classrooms flares up regularly, people now want to hang Muslim festive decorations in Vienna. Austria, and thus also the federal capital, is a Christian country in which religious freedom is very important. However, this freedom must not be abused for radical religious reasons.
Rashmi Samant presented the CDPHR report in House of Commons
On Thursday (March 23), the Centre for Democracy, Pluralism and Human Rights (CDPHR) tabled a fact-finding report [pdf] on the anti-Hindu violence, which took in Leicester last year, before the UK’s House of Commons. The report, prepared by activist Rashmi Samant and political analyst Chris Blackburn, highlighted how the Leicester attack on the Hindu community was a direct assault on “democratic institutions and rule of law.”
It pointed out how the Islamists weaponised misinformation to undermine freedom of expression, committed human rights violations by targeting practitioners of Hinduism and attempted ethnic cleansing that resulted in the temporary displacement of Hindu families.
On March 23rd, 2023, we published a report on human rights concerning the 2022 Leicester violence @HouseofCommons. The report details the emergence of territorial majoritarianism and hinduphobia in the UK prior to, during, and after the violence. @BobBlackmanpic.twitter.com/X2YSkJm0Id
To ascertain the reasons and key circumstances that led to the anti-Hindu Leicester violence, CDPHR sent a team of researchers to ground zero. In their report, Rashmi Samant and Chris Blackburn found that the unrest took place primarily in the East Leicester area.
The findings reveal that East Leicester is a Muslim-dominated area with a minority presence of the Hindu community. The report noted that the attack on Hindus was a direct fallout of territorial tensions and localised majoritarianism (of the Muslims in East Leicester).
“Symptoms of territorial ethnic cleansing were found through the analysis of the different slogans and speeches made by the majority community of East Leicester and the temporary displacement of Hindu community as a result of the unrest,” CDPHR said in its report.
Screengrab of the CDPHR report
The report also found that a concerted attempt was made to defame the Hindu community as ‘Hindutva nationalists’ and nationwide mobilisation outside of Leicester (only succeeded in Birmingham)
“There was an increased misuse of law enforcement and security measures and appropriation of public good by false reporting to the police and local media bodies regarding the actions of the Hindu community,” CDPHR emphasised.
“Institutional Hinduphobia and bias was deduced through the analysis of the reporting of the Leicester unrest by the media houses BBC and the Guardian when compared to the verified police reports, witness accounts and corroborating reports from think tanks,” it added.
Recommendations given by the fact-finding report
The fact-finding report by Chris Blackburn and Rashmi Samant gave 4 recommendations to prevent unrest and targeted violence, as witnessed in Leicester between August and October 2022.
The report emphasised the need to tackle misinformation on social media by promoting media literacy among the general public and increasing collaboration between social media platforms, governments and civil society organisations.
It further stated that biased media reporting must be curtailed by holding media outlets accountable, supporting independent media that report facts, enforcing regulations to promote impartial reporting and encouraging transparency.
CDPHR sought curtailing sentiments of majoritarianism and transnational political externalities by promoting tolerance, and pluralism and educating the public about democratic values and the dangers of majoritarianism.
Lastly, the report highlighted the need to stop growing Hinduphobia and secure the vulnerable mico-minorities by developing laws that prohibit hate speech, and discrimination, providing legal recourse to victims and adopting the definition of Hinduphobia.
Think tank found no evidence of RSS, or Hindutva gangs in Leicester
In November 2022, a UK-based think tank debunked the false claims made by Islamists about the presence of ‘RSS terrorists’ and ‘Hindutva extremist organisations’ in Leicester city.
The disinformation was peddled by Islamists to rationalise their targeting of the Hindu community and camouflage their acts of aggression as violence perpetrated in self-defence.
The Henry Jackson Society (HJS), founded in 2005, released a 39-page report [pdf] on November 3 and concluded that the false allegations had exposed the Hindu community in Leicester to hate, vandalism and assault.
“Contrary to press reports at the time, the investigations did not find Hindutva extremist organisations operating in Leicester, but instead discovered a micro-community cohesion issue falsely presented as an issue of organised Hindutva extremism and terrorism,” the summary of the report read.
HJS emphasised, “It finds that false allegations of RSS terrorists and Hindutva extremist organisations active in the UK has put the wider Hindu community at risk from hate, vandalism and assault.”
“Some members of the Hindu community in Leicester imposed a voluntary curfew, some relocated to stay with family or friends until they felt safe to return, while still others were unable to return to work owing to fears for their personal safety,” it further added.
28-year-old Sudanese migrant, Mohammed Abbkr, appeared before Birmingham Magistrates Court on Thursday charged with two counts of attempted murder
Two grotesque acts of violence against elderly Muslims as they returned home from prayers have taken place in England’s two largest cities in the last two months.
Both the Metropolitan Police and West Midlands Police were reluctant to jump to conclusions regarding the perpetrator’s motive for the attacks, which any right-minded individual will regard as abhorrent.
Some, however, decided to jump the gun and use the opportunity to push their own dangerous agendas, namely that Britain is a violent country with a deep-rooted hatred of Muslims.
Iranian diplomat and foreign ministry spokesperson, Nasser Kanaani, took the opportunity to accuse the West of “breeding hate-mongering and gross violence,” describing the shocking news as evidence of Britain’s “systematic Islamophobia” and calling on the British government to order a public inquiry.
Setting a Muslim old man on fire on the street and in public in the British city of Birmingham while he was leaving a mosque is horrible and shocking. Systematic #Islamophobia in the West breeds hate-mongering and gross violence. 1/2#HumanRights
Dr. Shabina Qayyum, a Labour party councilor, tweeted about the news: “Call Islamophobia out for what it is. Call out Terrorism against Muslims for what it is.”
Journalist Maryam Jameela, writing for the left-wing news outlet, The Canary, chose to report on the attack in the same article as she discussed a recently published report on Islamophobia. While acknowledging she was not yet in receipt of all the facts surrounding the case, she decided to brand Britain as “violently Islamophobic” regardless:
The very fact that, when reporting on a story about a man being set fire outside a mosque, we had to distinguish from a similar incident earlier in the year says much about Britain’s attitude towards Islamophobia.
The motivations of this particular attacker are not yet clear, but what is clear is that Britain is violently Islamophobic. Whilst it may be tempting to attribute blame for the problem of Islamophobia on a handful of wrong-headed individuals, this would be a mistake.
Shaheda Dewan, who describes herself as an advisor for Unicef, tweeted: “Absolutely horrifying attack, upsetting that Islamophobia still remains so low on the political agenda. Unacceptable.”
Hifsa Haroon-Iqbal, who received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) last year for her work delivering counter-terrorism strategy across universities and colleges in Britain, tweeted her ridicule at a police statement in the aftermath of the attack, which said officers were “keeping an open mind” about the potential motivation. “And you wonder why confidence in the police is so low. It’s called Islamophobia.”
Bushra Shaikh, a political commentator tweeted: “Angry is an understatement. This is an Islamophobic HATE CRIME. Now tell me Islamophobia isn’t real.”
Ayisha Muhamad, an “activist against Islamophobia,” added: “The prevalence of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hatred in the UK is alarming and must stop.”
The only issue with jumping the gun is that sometimes your argument can fall flat on its face and you look like a moron, because on Tuesday, West Midlands Police arrested a 28-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder who they believe to be responsible for both attacks.
And on Thursday, that man appeared before Birmingham Magistrates’ Court. His name is Mohammed Abbkr, a 28-year-old Black Muslim originally from Sudan, a country whose religious demographic is 91 percent Muslim.
Not quite the White, benefit-scrounging, heavily tattooed, “Britain First” yob those above were hoping for…
Dramatic scenes took place at Cologne/Bonn Airport on Friday morning. A man (57) suspected of being mentally ill deliberately drove into people and other cars in the P2 multi-storey car park at 9.30 a.m., according to police.
Several people were injured in the crime, most of them slightly, police said. Most of them suffered from shock.
“The perpetrator kept driving back and forth,” police spokesman Christoph Gilles tells BILD. “He rammed several vehicles with a black rental van.”
There was an inconceivable brutality in the act: the man rammed an Audi A5 with full force, hurled it against the driveway until the entire barrier system was torn out of its anchorage.
He also rammed the van into a Kia and a Volvo parked in the car park.
The man resisted when the police overpowered him. Two officers were also injured. The driver was taken to hospital for a doctor to decide on his mental condition.
A Syrian has been arrested in Essen who allegedly belonged to a killer squad of the jihadist militia Islamic State. The arrested IS terrorist is the asylum seeker Asmael K. (32) from Syria, who, according to BILD information, is said to have been living undisturbed with his brothers in the Frohnhausen district of Essen for several years.
The Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office announced in Karlsruhe on Wednesday that the combat unit had kidnapped and executed enemy fighters and other people. Asmael K. is said to have joined ISIS in Syria at the end of 2013 and sworn allegiance to the terror organisation.
The ISIS executioner was arrested on Monday by officers of the Federal Criminal Police Office and brought before the investigating judge on Tuesday, who ordered that he be remanded in custody. According to the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, K. is “urgently suspected” of membership in a terrorist organisation abroad.
Before his arrest, he had already been under surveillance for several days by special units of the Federal Criminal Police Office. It is about membership in a terrorist organisation, i.e. the Islamic State.
According to BILD information, Asmael K. belonged to a particularly brutal IS combat unit in Syria, but has not attracted attention in Germany for Islamism or state protection offences, but only for minor drug offences.
ISIS had taken control of large parts of Syria and Iraq in 2014 amid the civil war in Syria, but gradually lost these areas. After a US-led coalition expelled the terrorist militia from its last bastions in Syria in March 2019, most remaining ISIS Islamists retreated to the Syrian desert.
From there, they continue to attack Kurdish fighters as well as soldiers of the Syrian government army. The US forces, in turn, are targeting the jihadists and their leaders in operations.
Political correctness and woke virtues are like neatly-laid pavers, creating a path that can only lead to tragedy and death; news broke today that a young man named Kyle, who was obviously suffering tremendously from debilitating mental illness, has killed himself.
But Kyle’s heartbreaking story has some rather concerning and extenuating circumstances:
Kyle had abandoned his birth name and instead, was living as Kayleigh Scott…he was “transgender.”
More than that though, Kyle was a poster child for the “trans” movement and corporate “inclusion” policies like DIE. In 2020 United Airlines celebrated “Kayleigh” in a woke public relations campaign video:
The first words Kyle utters in the video? “Don’t let that smirk fool you. There was so much pain behind that sweet boy’s eyes.” However, thanks to the “support from the company” and his “loving coworkers” Kyle became “Kayleigh” — but shortly after his “transition” he committed suicide. Coincidentally, “progressive” narratives don’t align with truth and reality.
The message at the end of the video is this:
I was able to break free from the chains that held me, and to this day, I am living confidently as my true self. I was able to glow-up and let go of the past. So here’s to all the pain that Kyle went through, so that Kayleigh could live today. I am trans, and I am proud.
In response to Kyle’s suicide, Pink News, a leftist and pro-LGBT outlet, printed the following:
The piece included a statement from Carrie Davis of the LGBT activist group The Trevor Project which read:
We hope that fellow researchers, lawmakers, youth-serving professionals and allies in every state will use this data to uplift LGBTQ+ young people and advocate for policies that celebrate and support them – not isolate them further[.]
But the truth is, Kyle was celebrated and supported as a “trans” person — so news of his suicide begs the question: why?
Researchers at the Iran University of Medical Sciences found that 81 percent of people who say they are transgender are experiencing major personality disorders.
According to the study, 57.1 percent of transgender individualshave narcissistic personality disorder, while the overall average number of psychiatric diagnoses for transgender patients is three.
The study concluded: ‘Personality disorders are common in patients with Gender Identity Disorder who are candidates for sex reassignment. As a result, the assessment of Personality disorders before sex reassignment surgery and offering psychological and medical intervention care, if needed, is strongly suggested.’
Of course, no one needed to tell us that destructive ideations of self-harm indicate intense mental anguish; from outside the leftist box, we can see right through the phoniness. Mentally well people don’t kill themselves, and feeling as if you’re trapped in the wrong body with a desire to chop up your sex organs screams of mental illness. It ought to go without saying, but people who think they’re “trans” are suffering from delusions, and need proper psychiatric care, not validation.
Kyle’s story is just another data point in a trend showing how evil and calamitous leftist policies and ideas really are. The mitigating factors surrounding his death are an inconvenient truth bound to be brushed under the “progressive” rug, and an unwanted “told ya so” moment for conservatives like me.
“It is an action that is neither commercial nor missionary,” emphasises the city. Only a few traders will offer their wares at the 25 stalls. The vast majority will be run by associations from the community of 42,000 inhabitants with a large Muslim community and five mosques.
This event is supported and encouraged by the municipality. “It’s something that has come up time and time again in discussions with residents and elected officials. So this year we went for it,” explains UDI Mayor Benoît Jimenez. Just as we offered a Christmas market in December and will soon celebrate the Hindu festival Holi, this fits completely with our secular principle of discovering cults and cultures”. Le Parisien
A stampede broke out on Wednesday during the distribution of subsidised wheat flour outside the offices of Razaar tehsil’s headquarters in Pakistan’s Swabi. No one was injured in the stampede, Dawn reported.
Residents said that mismanagement marred the distribution of subsidised flour. Riaz Khan said people queued up for flour outside the THQ offices and a stampede occurred when they jumped the queue. He said many people attempted to get more flour.
On Wednesday, the Jamaat-i-Islami workers held a protest against the “unjust and mismanaged” distribution of subsidised flour. The protesters shouted slogans and called on the district administration to ensure the provision of flour to deserving people only.
Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) spokesperson Zafar Bukhari claimed that the district naib emir of the party Mian Iftikhar Bacha held a meeting with the assistant commissioner of Razaar tehsil on the issue. However, the latter misbehaved and threatened the former with “serious consequences,” as per the Dawn report.
The JI workers held a sit-in on the Swabi-Mardan Road. However, the protesters dispersed soon after administration officials promised fair flour distribution, as per the news report.
Last week, the price of 50 kilograms bag of wheat reached Pakistani Rupees (PKR) 6,000 in the Swabi district, Dawn reported citing traders and consumers, Dawn reported.
Speaking to Dawn, the consumers called it an alarming situation as they had never witnessed such a high price of grain, making it difficult for them to meet their basic staple needs.
Traders said that they could not rule out further rise in the price of wheat as the wheat harvesting season was still two months away, leading to an increase in the rate of flour. Sher Khan, a trader in Maneri Bala village, said, “The cost of a 50kg wheat flour bag may rise to PKR 6,600.”
Traders stressed that the survival of poor sections of society was difficult amid the record inflation, which could further rise in Ramzan, as per the news report. The consumers urged the provincial government to increase the subsidised wheat flour supply in Ramazan, allowing them to address their basic food needs.
The Dutch government needs to acquire 2,000 more asylum reception centers across the country just to cater for last year’s influx of new arrivals as contracts for temporary accommodation with private entities begin to lapse.
During a recent digital consultation between the Secretary of State for Security Eric van der Burg and the 25 mayors who sit on the Dutch Security Council, tens of thousands of asylum seekers in the country will soon be displaced should the government not find suitable accommodation.
“About 60,000 permanent places for asylum seekers are needed in the Netherlands, but structural shelter has not yet been arranged. It is, therefore, clear that emergency shelter is still unavoidable,” Council Chairman, Hubert Bruls revealed.
Dutch authorities are now under pressure to find alternative accommodation with a number of temporary taxpayer-funded fixes agreed last year expiring on April 1. Renewal agreements may be able to be reached with some private entities, but a number of temporary shelters including hotels and cruise ships will soon revert back to be used for their original purpose.
The government, however, is still receiving high numbers of asylum applications each month, placing even more pressure on a system already crumbling. Although a 7.7 percent decrease on December, the Netherlands still received 2,991 asylum applications in January and currently has a huge backlog similar to that experienced during the migrant crisis of 2015.
“The longer asylum seekers have to wait for their procedure, the more reception places are needed,” said Martijn van der Linden, spokesman for the Dutch Council for Refugees, late last year.
“That the backlog is now almost a new record while the shelter is overcrowded is a crisis after a crisis,” he added.
Government regulations for the rehousing of asylum seekers are too restrictive in the eyes of the local municipalities, which is making the procurement of alternative accommodation even more difficult. Strict rules in relation to education, medical care, and welfare are meaning that some local authorities are finding it impossible to relocate their share of asylum seekers into more permanent residence.
The inability to relocate new arrivals has led to significant overcrowding at the country’s largest asylum reception center in Ter Apel, a village in the Groningen province of the country which made headlines last year as hundreds were seen sleeping rough outside the center without adequate medical care of hygiene facilities.
“It seems to me that accommodations are really more important than having the right teacher in front of the class,” Bruls said last month. “Any accommodation is preferable to sleeping outside.”
The government is hopeful it can push back a number of expiring contracts to at least July 1 to give municipalities a little more leeway to find alternative accommodation, but critics believe this is simply kicking the can down the road, and with more applications being made every day, the asylum crisis in the country is a ticking time bomb.
