Month: May 2023

Following the taking into care of two children of a family in Bremerhaven, the police have denied rumours about the incident. Among other things, it was claimed on the internet that the children had been taken into care because the Muslim parents were teaching the children that the LGBTQ community was not accepted in Islam. “We can deny that, of course it is not true,” a police spokesman told the Deutsche Presse-Agentur on Tuesday.

🇷🇺⚡🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🇺🇸❗En Alemania, a los padres que se oponen a la propaganda LGBT les quitan a sus hijos y los entregan a "familias" homosexuales.

🔹Los servicios sociales para la protección de la infancia en Alemania, la ciudad de Bremerhaven, se llevan al hijo menor de la familia. pic.twitter.com/IFRbAdcjAY

— isabel lopez Lopez (@isabelvalenibi) April 29, 2023

The police did not give any information on when the forced removal took place.

A video of the joint operation of the youth welfare office and the police was published on social media, apparently filmed by a family member. It shows a boy being carried out of a flat. Meanwhile, he is screaming and trying to fight back. The family members discuss loudly with the police officers, who in turn try to explain that they are enforcing a sentence. According to the police, the video is authentic.

“We are aware that the said video is emotionally upsetting,” police informed. “Taking children into custody is always the last resort and only happens for serious reasons,” it added. According to the police, they assisted the Youth Welfare Office in taking the child into care, which had been ordered by the court.

Neither the police nor the youth welfare office gave any information about the actual reasons for taking the children into care, according to their own statements, in order to protect the family and the children.

https://www.merkur.de/deutschland/bremen/polizei-dementiert-geruechte-um-inobhutnahme-von-kindern-zr-92249419.html

After closing its last three nuclear plants, Germany continues to heavily rely on French power generated from nuclear plants.

In recent years, German system operators have very often instructed some large industrial consumers to reduce or completely stop their consumption during certain periods in order to guarantee system balance, nuclear energy expert Zsolt Hárfás told Hungarian newspaper Magyar Nemzet.

Such circumstances arise because the European electricity system is short of capacity and has limited capabilities to import electricity at certain times. Germany, however, accepts electricity imports from France, mainly from its nuclear power plants.

Hárfás added that two dozen scientists and Nobel Prize winners recently wrote an open letter to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz via Replanet, calling for the last three nuclear power plants to continue operating, citing the energy crisis, climate protection and the lack of Russian gas.

They also pointed out to the chancellor that the three nuclear power plants produced a total of 32.7 TWh of climate-friendly electricity in 2022, enough to power a quarter of Germany’s 10 million households.

Looking at the production data for the entire lifetime of the now closed Isar-2, Emstand and Neckarwestheim-2 nuclear power plants, they operated at an average utilization rate of 93 percent over their less than 34 years of operation. In other words, the units operated at almost peak capacity and had not even reached their 40-year operating life, and therefore were still in good condition. The scientists argue these plants could have been safely operated and would have had enough fuel to keep them running.

As a consequence of the increase in coal and gas power generation in recent years, German carbon emissions last year alone were 30 million tons more than in 2020, and Germany is steadily failing to meet its climate targets. At the same time, the demand for coal supplies has risen. Before the Ukrainian-Russian conflict, half of all coal imports came from Russia, but in the meantime, Brussels has also sanctioned Russian coal. German coal importers therefore source coal for power plants from South Africa, Australia, the U.S., Indonesia and Colombia.

https://rmx.news/economy/green-hypocrisy-germany-shuts-down-its-last-3-nuclear-power-plants-only-to-end-up-buying-nuclear-generated-electricity-from-france/

May Day Protests Become Violent in Paris (Video) https://t.co/jl3UsIB2Vx

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) May 1, 2023

In an interview published in “Freilich” magazine on Saturday, journalist Julian Marius Plutz also asked me about the future of Philosophia-Perennis, which turns seven in June.

So for the first time I had the opportunity to talk in a larger context about something I had only hinted at here so far.

Today us, tomorrow you!
What I absolutely have to bear in mind: This is not just about the fate of my blog or my private affairs. Rather, a precedent is at stake here: What is judged lawful for a blog critical of the government will soon be applied to all others as well, in order to tear down the foundations of the outside parliamentary opposition and bring the last remaining remnants of the “fourth estate” under control.

This is what a tax inspector writes?

I am quoting here from the last third of the interview:

Finally, a serious question. How do you see yourself and your blog in a few years?

I would like to add something to this that is a crucial point for me.

Go ahead.

Like any blog, I collect donations to keep the site going. In the middle of the Corona period I got a tax audit. Then came the notice saying that three years’ worth of donations could not be recognised as gifts because the blog was right-wing populist and critical of the state.

Wait a minute. The tax inspector wrote that?

Yes! I got a letter from the tax office. The official spends two whole pages on my blog. He said that it was “inflammatory”, that it was fake news and so on. I then hired a lawyer. But the tax office is sticking to its position. In the next few weeks or months I will receive an invoice for three years, even for VAT.

And what does your lawyer say?

This is a precedent. This procedure has never happened before. If the tax office had brought arguments that the amounts were not recognisable as a gift, then I, as a layman, would have said: “Okay, tough luck, I’ll just have to pay”. But the arguments are: The blog is ” critical of the government”, I am “agitating”, the blog is “critical of the government”. On top of that, the tax office wants to forbid me to publish this affair, which they are not allowed to do at all.

Unbelievable.

It shows how difficult it is for bloggers to be critics. If something like this is possible, what comes next? To me, these are all attempts to suggest that they have the upper hand. And they can make sure that for me everything will be off. In the meantime, when judges’ houses are searched because they made a wrong judgement, I don’t know when the police will be at my door for the first time. At the moment I live from day to day because I don’t know what will happen next.

https://philosophia-perennis.com/2023/05/01/gesinnungssteuerpruefung-pp/

Jihadi bride Aqsa Mahmood was deemed “a victim” after she joined Isis, official emails have revealed.

The Scottish Government was told the runaway teen was “a young girl who made a bad decision” during a meeting with her pals and cops.

There was also a plea for help to return her to Scotland after she fled to Syria in 2013, according to messages obtained by The Scottish Sun on Sunday.

The feedback, gathered amid fears for Mahmood’s life, emerged as Police Scotland said a probe into her disappearance is “ongoing”.

She is thought to be dead.

In one email, government officials discussed a 2014 summit with Home Office staff and members of Mahmood’s Glasgow community.

They said: “The perception is that she is very much a victim, a young girl who has made a very bad decision and now needs to be helped to return to Scotland (at worst).”

It came amid opposition to Westminster plans to strip jihadis who left the UK of their passports.

Officials added: “They do not see how this can help Aqsa Mahmood or others like her.”

IS bride Shamima Begum, 23, lost an appeal against the government’s decision to remove her British citizenship earlier this year.

Mahmood — thought to have been groomed by recruiter Adeel Ulhaq — was one of the first women to leave the UK voluntarily and join the caliphate aged 19.

Detective Chief Superintendent Stuart Houston said: “Our investigation is ongoing. It’d be inappropriate to comment further.”

Lawyers acting for Mahmood’s family were approached for comment.

The Scottish Government said: “Ministers haven’t taken a position on this case.”

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/10594359/isis-bride-aqsa-mahmood-victim-government-emails/

Sweden: Muslims screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ harass Christian preachers in central Gothenburg https://t.co/BnHMDtpYAl pic.twitter.com/FNLY38R689

— Robert Spencer (@jihadwatchRS) April 30, 2023

Islamists have leveled death threats at an influential French academic, forcing her to live under police protection after writing a hard-hitting book about the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategy to Islamize Europe. Muslim activists have, as expected, denounced her work as “Islamophobic,” but some Islamists and non-Muslim leftwing academics have on this occasion taken the invective to another level by falsely comparing the scrutiny of Islamism to Nazism.

Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, an anthropologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS), one of the leading research institutions in Europe, is a long-time observer of the Islamist landscape in the West. In January 2023, she published her magnum opus, The Brotherhood and its Networks: The Investigation (Le Frérisme et ses reseaux, L’Enquête), a 400-page book that meticulously dissects the Muslim Brotherhood’s efforts to spread Islamism in Europe.

Far from being an anti-Islam polemic, Bergeaud-Blackler’s book — whose preface was written by Gilles Kepel, a highly respected French political scientist who has authored more than a dozen books about Islamism and Jihadism — offers a dispassionate and scholarly presentation of the Muslim Brotherhood’s history, doctrine, structure, and modus operandi. She rigorously documents how the Brotherhood systematically extends its influence into the heart of Western societies through entryism, a strategy of infiltrating core governmental and non-governmental institutions to propagate its ideology, which Bergeaud-Blackler calls “Brotherism” (Frérisme) and describes as “an intellectual politico-religious project aimed at establishing an Islamic world.”

Bergeaud-Blackler also shows how the Brotherhood and its many affiliated non-governmental organizations have infiltrated key institutions of the European Union to divert millions of euros that were originally intended to fund studies on Islamism in Europe to focus on “Islamophobia” instead. She further documents how the Brotherhood has penetrated the French university system to influence future generations.

Bergeaud-Blackler’s book has received significant media attention and many positive reviews. The center-right daily newspaper Le Figaro described her work as “immensely meritorious” because it “reveals how the Muslim Brotherhood, the most secretive of Islamist organizations, succeeded in making the European Union the primary base of their project to conquer the world.”

The conservative news magazine Le Point interviewed Bergeaud-Blackler and boldly titled it: “The Muslim Brotherhood’s Weapon is Subterfuge.” The classical liberal Atlantico published a lengthy excerpt of her book that explains how “Islamophobia is the refined weapon at the heart of the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategy to conquer Europe.” The left-leaning news magazine Marianne, in a friendly interview with Bergeaud-Blackler, noted that “the Muslim Brotherhood wants to transform European society to make it Sharia-compatible.”

The smear campaign aimed at destroying Bergeaud-Blackler’s reputation and credibility began in earnest on March 7, when Mediapart, a leftwing online investigative journal, published a hit piece — “The Islamization of France: Actors and Sources of a Dangerous Refrain” — that accused her of “demonizing political Islam,” “criminalizing whole sections of French society for whom Islam is a component of their identity,” and “Nazism.”

The essay — co-authored by François Burgat, a 75-year-old apologist for the Muslim Brotherhood who is known for his radical anti-Zionism, and Souhail Chichah, a Belgian-Moroccan economist who doubles as an Islamist activist — compared Bergeaud-Blackler to Georges Vacher de Lapouge, a 20th century French anthropologist whose racial theories strongly influenced Nazi ideologues and culminated in the Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews.

“France was ‘threatened’ by the Jew yesterday, by the Muslim today,” Burgat and Chichah wrote. “In contemporary racist mythology, the networks of the Muslim Brotherhood are part of the continuation of international Jewry: a devious fifth column.” They accused her of “borrowing from the most uninhibited anti-Semitic rhetoric” which gives “racist expression the alibi of scientific research.”

Burgat — a former CNRS research director who is currently the president of the Arab Center for Research and Political Studies in Paris (Centre arabe de recherches et d’études politiques de Paris, CAREP), a group funded by the Doha Institute and Qatar Charity, which supports Brotherhood networks around the world — is leading the campaign against Bergeaud-Blackler because her book documents how Burgat and other French academics have been Brotherhood shills for many years.

Burgat has tweeted or retweeted more than 100 messages explicitly targeting Bergeaud-Blackler. They variously denigrate her work as “Protocols of the Elders of Zion 2.0,” “pseudo research that serves Islamophobia,” “nauseating,” an “intellectual scam,” a “scientific shipwreck,” and a “paranoid vision” riddled with “sectarian bias,” “criminalizing innuendoes,” and “obsessive anti-Islamism.” She is accused of using “despicable research methods,” promoting “the most radical and reactionary ideas,” and seeking the “indiscriminate criminalization of currents of political Islam” and the “sectarian criminalization of the so-called ‘Brothers.’”

On March 14, Rafik Chekkat, a French-Algerian anti-“Islamophobia” activist, published a lengthy review of Bergeaud-Blackler’s book on Orient XXI, a French online journal that focuses on Islam and the Middle East and is well known for its anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. He compared Bergeaud-Blackler to Édouard Drumont, a late 19th century anti-Semitic polemicist whose best-selling book, Jewish France (La France juive), argued for the exclusion of Jews from French society. Drumont subsequently was a leading protagonist in the Dreyfus Affair, in which a Jewish French military officer was wrongfully convicted of treason. “Florence Bergeaud-Blackler shares with Drumont an intention, a form, and a method,” Chekkat wrote, “to unravel the ‘Brotherhood’ element — which was once the Jewish element — in society.”

In a tweet, Chekkat added that Bergeaud-Blackler’s book is “a delirious work, which recycles all the clichés about the manipulative, lying and intriguing Jew, applied this time to Muslims. As Edward Said brilliantly noted, ‘Popular anti-Semitic animosity has passed smoothly from Jew to Arab, since the image is almost the same.’”

A day after Chekkat’s article was published, Bergeaud-Blackler’s lawyer, Thibault de Montbrial, revealed that his client had received death threats and was under police protection. “The public attacks by Islamists since the release of her book on the Muslim Brotherhood has reached a dangerous level,” he tweeted.

Bergeaud-Blackler told FWI that “these comparisons of my latest book with Nazism, the extreme right, [Édouard] Drumont or [Georges] Vacher de Lapouge come from academic spheres. They now circulate top-down in the most offensive strata of the internet.” She described the efforts to assassinate her character as “staggering” and “despicable.”

An open letter of support for Bergeaud-Blackler signed by more than 170 academics stated that “she now suffers the fate of the few researchers and scientists in Europe who openly expose the proselytism of the Muslim Brotherhood within the European Union. The Brothers and their allies do not like anything that attracts light to their affairs and are unhappy about the influence that her book enjoys.”

The Belgian-Moroccan anthropologist Fadila Maaroufi, in an article published by Atlantico, noted that Bergeaud-Blackler’s book “hit the nail on the head” and that those who are attacking her are paradoxically validating the thesis of her work. “What is at stake is freedom of conscience and academic freedom, which has been undermined for many decades,” she warned. “Silence makes us accomplices.”

https://islamism.news/2023/04/27/crisis-in-france-author-writes-on-islamism-needs-police-protection/

It is an election campaign in Turkey and the city of Nuremberg is supporting the Sultan of the Bosporus with great commitment. Erdogan election posters now hang in several migrant neighbourhoods (photo above). Smiling with his hand on his heart, the ruler is canvassing for the votes of his subjects using Turkish language. A bit of indignation is being expressed, but the city has officially approved the Turkish election campaign on German soil. A temporary measure? The posters are said to have been taken down again in the meantime.

1.5 million Turks entitled to vote populate Germany and they are supposed to vote for the “right” man. The incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan (69) wants to convince them once again with the slogan “Doğru Zaman, Doğru Adam”, which means “The right time, the right man”.

Nuremberg shows heart for the president, who has been in power since 2014, and approves “due to the election campaign, 25 posters outside the old town as part of a special use from April 22 to May 5”. And so the Turkish ruler beamed down on passers-by in several parts of Nuremberg, including St. Peter, where many people with a so-called Turkish migration background live. Travellers could feel like they were on holiday – posters of Erdogan’s AKP party were also hanging in the immediate vicinity of the main railway station.

A brief trial balloon – according to Cemal Bozoglu (62), a Green member of the Bavarian parliament, the AKP posters were taken down during Sunday. It is unclear whether the city has withdrawn its permission.
There are enormously strict regulations for domestic elections in Germany, but this apparently does not apply to foreign election campaigns in Nuremberg. For ex-Green spokesman Volker Beck, the writing is on the wall. He asks indignantly on Twitter: “Who allows this?” and reminds us of the promise made by the German Interior Minister in 2017 that there would be no such thing.

https://journalistenwatch.com/2023/05/01/tuerken-kolonie-nuernberg-haengt-erdogan-wahlplakate-auf/

A migrant attempting to cross the English Channel illegally on Saturday stabbed a French gendarme who was trying to block their group from setting sail.

In the early hours of Saturday morning, as people smugglers began to try to release the next wave of illegal migrants to the shores of Britain, a member of the gendarmerie tasked with patrolling a beach in the Calais region — a longstanding hotspot for migrant camps given its proximity to Dover — was stabbed with a knife by one of the migrants.

The gendarme suffered a wound in the hand during the attack, forcing him to receive surgery to repair the damage caused by the migrant knifeman.

At the time of the attack, the police officer was attempting to puncture an inflatable boat which was set to carry out a clandestine trip across the English Channel with around 60 migrants in tow.

According to a report from Ouest France, it was not immediately clear which of the dozens of mostly young male migrants was responsible for the stabbing.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage said that the incident confirmed that there are many dangerous people attempting to break into the UK illegally, saying: “A gendarme was stabbed in the hand by an illegal migrant on Saturday. This episode shows just how dangerous these young men can be.”

Commenting on the stabbing, General Frantz Tavart said that identifying the culprit was made more difficult by the deployment of tear gas against the crowd of illegals at the time his officer was stabbed.

Tavart said that there has been an “increase in violence against the security forces” in Calais, claiming that another officer of his was attacked by a migrant wielding a piece of wood just days prior.

It is common practice for illegal migrants to ditch any identification documents prior to attempting to cross the Channel illegally, as it makes it more difficult for the British government to deport them to their homeland. The prevalence of the tactic makes it a somewhat soft target for nefarious actors to enter the country.

Indeed, just last month it was revealed that a 42-year-old former ISIS fighter was being housed in a plush hotel for months at taxpayer expense. The migrant’s true identity as a terrorist was only uncovered because he unwisely tried to pass himself off as a 17-year-old  — despite having wrinkles, a beard, and faded tattoos.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/05/01/illegal-migrant-stabs-french-gendarme-for-trying-to-prevent-an-illegal-channel-crossing/

Some schools are ditching traditional grading.

Instead, they use “labor-based grading,” an idea promoted by Arizona State University professor Asao Inoue.

Labor-based grading means basing grades more on effort than the quality of work.

In addition, Inoue lectured a conference of rhetoric professors “stop saying that we have to teach this dominant English. … If you use a single standard to grade your students’ languaging, you engage in racism!”

So I reported that Inoue opposes teaching standard English. He complained that I was being unfair.

“What I’m saying is that students should have choices,” says Inoue in my latest video. “Is it possible that a student comes in who wants to learn the standardized English in my classes? Absolutely.”

My German-speaking parents made me learn proper English. Where would I be if they hadn’t?

“There are absolutely benefits to a standardized English,” says Inoue. “But that same world creates those same benefits through certain kinds of biases. Those can be bad.”

Lecturing to professors, Inoue says, “White people like you … built the steel cage of white language supremacy … handmaiden to white bias in the world, the kind that kills Black men on the streets!”

What? Teaching standard English kills Black men?

“I think it can,” says Inoue. “We have Eric Garner saying, ‘I can’t breathe.’ But no one’s listening and he dies. That’s the logics that we get.”

I still don’t get it. Eric Garner died because white people teach standard English? He uses words like “logics”? “Languaging”?

Much of the time, I don’t understand what Inoue is talking about. If this is how professors speak now, I see why students are bored and depressed.

Twenty-six years ago, a school board in Oakland, California, announced that its Black students were “bilingual.” They spoke both Black English (Ebonics) and standard English, and the schools should give “instruction to African-American students in their primary language.”

Ebonics advocates told teachers not to correct students who “she here” instead of “she is here.”

When many people, including Black parents, objected, Oakland officials said that they never intended to teach Ebonics, just to recognize it as a legitimate language.

Inoue says that the Ebonics movement didn’t do enough.

“Everyone says, yes, we believe in that, but they didn’t do anything in their classrooms.”

No wonder his students label him “easy grader.” I’m glad he doesn’t teach engineering.

Inoue identifies as “Japanese American.”

I tell him that Japanese Americans earn, on average, $21,000 a year more than average Americans, yet he keeps talking about America’s “white supremacy.”

“What kind of white supremacist country lets that happen?” I joke.

Inoue replies, “Japanese American communities wanted to be seen as more American” and made great efforts to join American culture.

Exactly! Japanese Americans prospered because of it. So do other immigrant groups. Several now earn more than whites in America. They succeed by speaking standard English, and because America is relatively color blind.

“I get a little uncomfortable with colorblindness,” replies Inoue, “That’s not how humans work … there’s no such thing as a neutrality.”

“But there is,” I say. “Hire people based on the highest test score, you’re being neutral about other factors.”

“Depends on how you see the test,” he answers. Tests may be biased. He also criticizes high school honors classes, calling them “pretty white spaces.”

Inoue says he believes in “Marxian” ideas, and asks things like, “Who owns the means of opportunity production in the classroom?”

“Where has Marxian philosophy ever helped people?” I ask.

Marxian philosophies “don’t give us a plan of action. They’re not socialism,” he says. As for capitalism, “I think we can do better.”

I doubt it. For years, intellectuals promised Marx’s ideas will work better than capitalism. Instead, socialism perpetuated poverty.

Nevertheless, on campuses today, Marx’s views thrive. Students often hear them unchallenged.

At least Inoue was willing to come on Stossel TV to debate. Most “Marxian” professors refuse.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/marxian-education/