Austria: Iranian bearded trans woman as “Peeping Tom” in Viennese ladies sauna – threatening lawsuit

The Austrian media tabloid is deliberately careful in its wording and speaks of a “controversial incident in a Viennese ladies’ sauna” that is “causing a stir.” (oe24)

A biological man – bearded and with other typically male external genitals – claimed to belong to precisely this female gender on the occasion of a visit to the Viennese ladies’ sauna and “triggered heated discussions.”

Bijan Tavassoli, 1991 native Iranian and party member of the well-known extremist Hamburg LINKE has found – thanks to Trans-Gender-ism again a stage to cause scandal:

On vacation in the well-known transgender-affine Vienna, he decided to take a detour in the Tröpferlbad – just on Ladies’ Day, which was actually conceived to protect women.

At first, the lifeguard reacted dismissively due to Tavassoli’s external masculinity characteristics. However, due to the so-called DGTI ID card, which officially proved Tavasolli’s female identity, the transgender was finally allowed to enter – loosely based on the motto from Petraca’s “Divine Kömödie.”

“Whoever enters here, abandon all hope.”

Trans woman threatens lawsuit

In any case, the whole stunt was balm for the trans woman’s queer soul.

“It was just time for a rehash, and some women didn’t want to let me into the sauna. They kept claiming that I was a man and should leave, shouting, ‘Outrageous!’ and ‘Insolence!’ Only when the lifeguard explained to the women that I belonged to a discriminated minority did the women see it. They then praised me for my courage, showed compassion and complimented me. That made me very happy!’ “According to Tavassoli’s own version (pleiteticker.de).

And in the chest tone of utter conviction of a dictatorship of the minority it sounds like it goes on::

“Whoever doesn’t let me enter the women’s sauna, I’ll sue them! A women’s sauna must be trans-inclusive!”

Because:

“Biological gender is just a construction in our heads, it’s part of patriarchy. Just because I have a beard doesn’t mean I’m a man. And what is a man supposed to be anyway? By the way, dividing people according to biological criteria is strongly reminiscent of the Nazis’ race theory. All this still has to be worked out. Unfortunately, many people are not yet ready to understand these connections.”

https://unser-mitteleuropa.com/irre-bart-trans-mann-frau-als-spanner-in-wiener-sauna-klagsandrohung/

India: Teacher instructs college girls how to perform Islamic prayer in classroom, video goes viral

Video of schoolgirls doing namaz practice in Baghpat goes viral (Image via Twitter @jaikumarHJM)

A video from a school in the Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh has gone viral on social media. In this video, some female students are seen in a posture as if performing namaz inside a classroom. In the video, a teacher can also be seen, in front of whom all of this is taking place. As the video went viral online, several Hindu organisations have called for action against it. In a statement issued by the school, it was referred to as part of a rehearsal of a play in the month of October last year. The police are currently investigating the matter.

According to current information, the viral video is of Hoshiyari Devi Girls Inter College Rathida, which is located in Baghpat’s Chhaprauli police station precinct. It was first circulated in a WhatsApp group by a state-level office bearer of a Hindu organisation. After then, the video went viral on social media and netizens started demanding action. A teacher is seen sitting on a chair in this 33-second video, while some schoolgirls in uniform rehearse performing congregational namaz. Someone made this video secretly from behind.

In the video, the teacher is seen instructing the pupils on how to perform the namaz properly. On Saturday (May 27), the Baghpat police took cognisance of the video in question and directed the Chhaprauli police station in charge to take necessary action. Reportedly, the school’s principal Munesh Chaudhary has claimed that the video dates back to October last year. He also stated that the girls seen in the video were rehearsing for a play, but the sequence was eventually removed from the play.

Baghpat police had shared a newspaper cutting in a tweet, however, deleted it later.

https://www.opindia.com/2023/05/up-teacher-instructs-college-girls-how-to-perform-namaz-in-classroom/

India: Politician who questioned Muslim doctor for wearing burqa in govt hospital arrested 

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In Tamil Nadu, BJP functionary was hunted down like a criminal and arrested for questioning a Muslim doctor why she was wearing burqa instead of white coat and id card. The doctor works at a government hospital and rudely replied, “Hijab is my right. This is my uniform”. It is alleged that she didn’t even provide first aid to a patient brought by the BJP functionary.

Bhuvanesh Ram, a functionary of the BJP Nagapattinam unit went to the government hospital in Thirupoondi on May 24. He brought one Subramaniam, a relative who complained of chest pain for treatment. Janneth Firdhouse, the doctor on duty in the hospital allegedly asked him to take the patient to the Nagapattinam General Hospital.

Media reports say that he immediately started questioning the doctor on why she wasn’t wearing a uniform and id card and was in a burqa instead. He kept asking for Dr Aravind, a senior doctor. As no one gave any answer he started recording a video of the attending nurse and the doctor. A subtitled version of the video filmed by Bhuvanesh can be watched above. Nowhere is he seen or heard asking the doctor to remove her hijab.

He only wondered how he can believe that she is a doctor when she is neither in uniform nor wearing an identity card. The doctor also filmed a video alleging that he used obscene language and filmed her without her permission. But even in that video, no abusive language can be heard. It is unclear whether something transpired before or after the videos were shot. From what is available on social media and other platforms Bhuvanesh only questioned her etiquette as a government doctor.

Yet every media spun it as a BJP functionary harassing a Muslim woman to remove her hijab. The other side alleges that the doctor didn’t even come near the patient and advised to take him to the Nagapattinam General Hospital without even examining him. Facebook posts narrating the sequence of events say that only a nurse and assistant were present in the hospital when the patient arrived. He was given first aid reportedly after wasting 20 minutes.

When Bhuvanesh enquired where the senior doctor was the nurse said that he advised them to offer first aid and that he would arrive in a few minutes. Dr Jenneth Firdouse reportedly arrived after 40 minutes in burqa and hijab without a doctor’s coat and identity card. She allegedly didn’t even go near the patient and looked at him from a 4 feet distance. Then she advised that the patient should be taken to the other hospital.

Wondering who she was, owing to her appearance and attire, Bhuvanesh enquired who she was. The woman acted arrogantly and called someone on her phone following which Muslim organisation gathered at the hospital. BJP people allege that she said, “Hijab is my Uyir(lifeline). Government job is Mayir(hair). I would leave this job at this moment. My religion is most important to me”.

It is said that Bhuvanesh immediately informed the chief doctor, filed a complaint at the local police station and took the patient to the general hospital. He died the next morning reportedly due to negligence and belated first aid. The doctor also had filed a complaint against Bhuvanesh based on which he was booked under sections 294 B(using obscene words in public space), 353 (Assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 298 (Uttering words with deliberate intent to wound the religious feelings) and the IT act. A special team was formed to ‘catch’ him and he was arrested today. 

TN Health Minister Ma Subramanian assured that action will be taken against the doctor if she is found to have violated the rules of conduct. Meanwhile, social media is flooded with abusive messages against Bhuvanesh, BJP and Hindus in general and accusations that he asked the doctor to remove her hijab fly high even though there is no evidence to suggest that. On the contrary, the doctor can be seen behaving rudely instead of allaying a common man’s doubts.

https://hindupost.in/news/bjp-functionary-who-questioned-muslim-doctor-for-wearing-burqa-in-govt-hospital-arrested-in-tn/

Elon Musk withdraws Twitter from European Union’s ‘voluntary Code of Practice on online disinformation’

By Thomas Lifson

With no pesky First Amendment to deal with, the bureaucrats of the European Union have a relatively easy time dictating what the truth is, and what is not allowed to be part of the public conversation. But “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk wants nothing to do with it and has withdrawn Twitter from the EU’s “voluntary Code of Practice against disinformation,” as if the “voluntary” part of the that name is not itself disinformation.

But that may not be the case, as EU Commissioner Thierry Breton is already issuing not-so-veiled threats.

Natasha Lomas reports for Tech Crunch:

Twitter has withdrawn from the European Union’s Code of Practice on online disinformation, per the bloc’s internal market commissioner, Thierry Breton.

In a tweet last night — which confirmed earlier reports of Twitter’s impending exit from the EU Code — Breton issued the social media platform with a blunt warning: Telling Twitter it cannot hide from incoming legal liability in this area.

The DSA [Digital Services Act] that Monsieur Thierry references took effect last November and allows the bureaucrats to classify certain platforms as VLOPs (very large online platforms) or VLOSEs (very large online search engines), and subject them to extra stringent reporting and regulatory supervision.

Ms. Lomas notes:

Previous management at Twitter signed the platform up to the voluntary EU Code on Disinformation back in 2018. But Twitter’s current owner, billionaire Elon Musk, looks intent on picking a fight with the EU over speech moderation — belying early remarks he made to Breton in person when Musk had claimed to be on board with the bloc’s digital rulebook.

This is an expensive fight for Musk to pick. Breaches of the DSA can attract penalties of up to 6% of global annual turnover.

The Commission has also warned that serious, repeated non-compliance could lead it to block access to a service — which dangles the prospect of Twitter losing access to a region with some 440 million consumers.

Musk appears to be defiant and may be preparing to pull Twitter out of Europe, which has always been a “secondary market” for it, according to Lomas, who, incidentally, terms Twitter under Musk as “far right.” According to her,

A request for comment emailed to Twitter’s press office returned an automated reply containing a poop emoji.

Pixy Misa of Ace of Spades Headquarters sums it up:

The media, and the bureaucrats, who believe they have the sole right to spread disinformation, are taking this about about as well as can be expected, with Thierry Breton, head of the European Union’s Josef Goebbels Memorial Happy Fun Time Administration, issuing unveiled threats.

What they’re really upset about is that Twitter isn’t playing the game

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/eon_musk_withdraws_twitter_from_european_unions_voluntary_code_of_practice_on_online_disinformation.html

Under Macron, France brings back preventive censorship after more than 140 years

The symposium that was to take place on Sunday aimed to honor the memory of Dominique Venner, a historian who took his life exactly 10 years ago in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris as a “sacrifice” to “break with the lethargy that is overwhelming us,” to “awaken slumbering consciences.”

“I rebel against fate. I protest against poisons of the soul and the desires of invasive individuals to destroy the anchors of our identity, including the family, the intimate basis of our multi-millennial civilization,” he said in a message read after his death.

In one of the six decisions taken by the police prefect in Paris last weekend to comply with the order of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne’s government, an administrative court overturned the ban against a conference and a march organized by the royalist organization Action Française to commemorate Joan of Arc. It was thus allowed to proceed and did so without disrupting public order, just like in previous years.

The organizers of the Iliade Institute’s symposium, however, were informed so late – less than 24 hours before their planned event – that it was impossible to obtain an interim measure in their favor by a court. Hence, when the persons invited to the symposium turned out at the venue rented out by the Iliade Institute in Paris, a police cordon barred their entry.

Laurent Nuñez, the police prefect of Paris, motivated the ban by stating in his decision that: “There is a serious risk that, on the occasion of this tribute, statements inciting hatred and discrimination against a group of people because of their origin or their membership or non-membership of an ethnic group, nation or religion will be made (…) of such a nature as to call into question national cohesion and the principles enshrined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen.”

This is exactly what preventive censorship is about: Nothing has yet been done or said by the Iliade Institute or any participant to the banned symposium, but this might happen, so it should not take place at all.

This type of censorship was previously eliminated in France with the 1881 law on freedom of the press and up to now it was only re-established in times of war.

However, in 2014 the president of the Conseil d’Etat, France’s top administrative court which is closely linked to the executive branch, as its judges are often rewarded for their services with top posts in ministries, created precedence by validating a ban against a show by Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala, a French comic owing his African name to his father from Cameroon, who had been previously convicted several times of inciting racial hatred because of his anti-Zionist jokes, which were said to be anti-Semitic.

But the May 9 decision by Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin goes even further because it targets organizations that have not necessarily been convicted in the past but belong to the “far right” or “ultra-right” in the eyes of French authorities.

Darmanin made his decision after a march by some 500 young people dressed in black with Celtic crosses, often described as a neo-fascist symbol in France, took place on May 6 as it does every year – always legally and peacefully – to commemorate the death in 1994 of a young far-right activist who was fleeing the police during a banned protest. However, organizations like the Royalist Action Française or the identitarian Institut Iliade have no links with those marching on May 6.

Even a very politically correct commentator like Jean-Yves Camus, who is often invited by the overwhelmingly left-leaning French mainstream media as an expert on the far right, expressed dismay at the Paris police prefect’s decision concerning the Iliade Institute: “There was no real risk, if any, of things getting out of hand,” he said, as “the Iliad’s conferences are filmed and posted on their website fairly quickly.”

About the risk of racist remarks being heard at the Sunday symposium, Camus said that one could assume there is such a risk only “if talking about the Great Replacement is racist.”

It was in fact a point made in the motives given in writing by the police prefect of Paris for his decision to ban the event: “This meeting is not a simple tribute event but rather ‘a celebration to continue the actions against the acceleration of the great Afro-Maghrebi replacement.’” The police prefect used quotation marks in this sentence as he attributed those words about “the great Afro-Maghrebi replacement” to the Iliade Institute, although its director, Jean-Yves Le Gallou, denied at a press conference those words came from his organization.

The Iliade Institute also contested the assertion by the authorities that the Sunday symposium was a public event, as it was to be held in a privately leased venue for invited participants only.

It looks as if the French authorities wanted to ban any discussion about the ongoing population replacement linked to ever-greater mass immigration, both legal and illegal, which a large majority of French citizens see as a cause for worry.

Le Gallou, a former high-ranking civil servant, says this reflects a much wider political tendency: “The government is weakened by its policies that go contrary to the aspirations of the French, in particular on two major subjects: the massive immigration being distributed, little by little, in rural France… and the limitation of private property in relation to the development of wind power.” So the political leaders have only two solutions left, Le Gallou thinks: “massive propaganda and censorship. There are two forms of censorship, which are the direct censorship we have experienced and censorship by intimidation. This is what I call the ‘totalitarian pincer movement.’”

The return of preventive censorship targeted at those who oppose mass immigration or defend conservative, patriotic values comes after President Emmanuel Macron acted through his Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin to ban the non-violent, law-abiding youth organization Generation Identity in 2021 for its peaceful protest actions against the lack of controls by authorities to stop the influx of illegal immigrants at France’s borders with Italy and Spain.

The police prefect’s decision to ban the Iliade Institute’s symposium was preceded by an article published on the left-wing website Médiapart. It was written with information on the late historian Dominique Venner that could only have been leaked to the author by the authorities, so it seems that this publication was part of the authorities’ plot to ban the event.

The article was published on Friday at 5 p.m. Only a few hours later, the police prefect decided to ban the event that was planned for Sunday at 3 p.m., but apparently his services waited until Saturday afternoon to inform the organizers about his decision so that they could not have the ban overturned in time by a judge.

In the 2017 presidential campaign, which brought Emmanuel Macron to power, Médiapart was one of the two left-wing media portals that regularly received documents illegally leaked by the police and judicial authorities in the case mounted against center-right candidate François Fillon to derail his campaign and make room for the heir of Socialist President François Hollande, i.e., his former special counselor for Europe and former Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron.

So it appears the same media outlet is still being used by the executive power to attack its opponents in a very unconstitutional way, and one may wonder in this situation if France is still a full-fledged democracy.

https://rmx.news/france/under-macron-france-brings-back-preventive-censorship-after-more-than-140-years/

Austria: Iranian couple holds daughter (23) captive like slave in Vienna

Karl Marx Hof in the Döbling district of Vienna, C.Stadler/Bwag, Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA-4.0

They allegedly severely abused their own daughter (23) for years and locked her up like a slave. Now the Vienna police put an end to the horror and arrested the parents. The Iranian couple (53, 52) is in custody.

On Saturday evening, an Iranian man (53) and his wife, who is one year younger, were arrested in the Döbling district of Vienna. According to the police, they are said to have abused their daughter (23), who had lived with them until the end, for years. The victim had filed a complaint.

The victim is believed to have suffered from the strict rule of her parents since childhood and to have suffered violence. Police spokesman Philipp Haßlinger said that she had been regularly beaten and tortured for around ten years. Verbal humiliations were apparently on the agenda. The father is said to have torn earrings from the girl’s earlobe as punishment or chastised the daughter with a belt if she did not conform to his guidelines and values. She is also said to have been locked in the apartment for several days and deprived of her freedom.

“It cannot be ruled out that religious and ideological backgrounds played a role,” Haßlinger said. The parents are formally stateless, but are originally from Iran. The daughter also accuses the two of having taken out loans for them using her name at a bank under threat of violence.

The parents deny the accusations made against them. Following questioning by the criminal investigation department, they were taken to the Josefstadt Prison. In addition to the continued use of violence and deprivation of liberty, they are also being investigated for aggravated extortion and aggravated coercion. The State Criminal Police Office (LKA), West Branch, is conducting further investigations. The 23-year-old is now in a women’s shelter.

https://exxpress.at/iranisches-ehepaar-haelt-tochter-23-in-wien-wie-sklavin-gefangen/

Kafka Comes to College – Opposing the racist DEI agenda gets you thrown into a surreal judicial nightmare

On Friday, April 14 2023, Ohio Northern University law professor Scott Gerber and his students were shocked and alarmed to see campus security officers, backed up by armed local police, unceremoniously enter the classroom, remove Gerber, and escort him to the Dean’s office. There the professor with 22 years experience, a history of excellent evaluations, and courses filled to capacity was immediately barred from teaching, banished from the ONU campus, and told that if he didn’t sign a separation agreement and release of claims by April 21st, the university would commence dismissal proceedings against him. On what grounds? Insufficient “collegiality.”

The real reason, as Gerber went on to explain in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece published a few weeks later, titled “DEI Brings Kafka to My Law School,” was insufficient compliance with the school’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, to which he had objected publicly and in newspaper op-eds and television interviews.

The mission of DEI, of course, is the implementation of social justice revenge. It has metastasized throughout every institution of society: government agencies, the military, corporations, the legal and medical fields, law enforcement, the entertainment industry, literally every Human Resources department anywhere. But perhaps nowhere is it more deeply entrenched than in the field of higher education, where Critical Theory – the subversive ideology behind DEI – originated and was developed.

It is hardly news anymore that university administrations and faculties skew far left politically and are dominated by a totalitarian degree of wokeness. Lockstep conformity to political correctness is expected or persecution for your lack of “collegiality” will ensue: at best, being ostracized by one’s peers, and at worst, being exiled from a career you trained for, excelled in, and loved. “And more than anything else, I love teaching,” Gerber wrote.

As he details in his WSJ piece, in the week prior to being essentially frog-marched out of his classroom in the middle of a lecture – an outrageously unnecessary measure clearly intended to send an intimidating message to any other professor who might step out of line – he had published an op-ed at The Hill defending Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s “right to have friends – even rich ones,” referring to the Left’s recent attempt to manufacture a corruption scandal involving the black conservative Justice whom the Left considers a race traitor.

The week before that, Gerber gave a TV interview in which he “criticized DEI programs that discriminate against white men in the name of ‘racial and social justice’ and for being indifferent to the type of diversity higher education should value most: viewpoint diversity.” In the week before that, he published op-eds in a national newspaper and in Ohio reiterating his argument.

During a meeting earlier this semester of the University Council, a faculty governance body of which Gerber was vice chairman, he had requested that the school’s DEI program address this issue of viewpoint diversity. The administration replied bluntly that diversity of viewpoints “is not part of our diversity, belonging and inclusion plan.”

And there you have it: diversity of viewpoints, which is the only diversity that should matter, is precisely the kind that is anathema under the racist DEI agenda, which values diversity of skin color and gender identity but uniformity of viewpoints above all else.

ONU has launched an investigation into Gerber but refused to supply him or his lawyers with any specifics. Denied even the basic right to know his purported transgression, He racked his brain “to think of rules I might have broken.” In his Wall Street Journal article, Gerber likened himself to Josef K, the protagonist of Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial, a young bank cashier who is arrested one day by emissaries of an unnamed agency, trapped in a surreal judicial nightmare, and ultimately executed without ever even being told the nature of his crime.

“Perhaps decency is a sacrifice ONU is willing to make to grease the wheels of the DEI agenda. It looks like the law is, too,” Gerber lamented. The school is unambiguously guilty of violating his rights. The American Association of University Professors even notified ONU on two separate occasions that “an absence of collegiality ought never, by itself, constitute a basis for non-reappointment, denial of tenure, or dismissal for cause.” Dr. Melissa J. Baumann, President of Ohio Northern University, doubled down on the school’s passive-aggressive silence by informing AAUP that “ONU will not be providing a response.”

GoFundMe page in his support has been created, and Gerber has secured legal assistance from FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Harvard Law school professor Randall Kennedy composed a letter signed by more than fifty other professors expecting “a proper resolution of this distressing situation.” On May 18 Peter Wood, President of the National Association of Scholars, sent a fiery letter in defense of Gerber to President Baumann. In it he wrote,

I am appalled by the treatment ONU’s senior administrators have meted out to Professor Gerber. His account published in The Wall Street Journal and the statement issued by FIRE are powerful indictments of the unfairness, callousness, and abuse of process that ONU has exhibited – I would say “in this case,” but in fact there is no case. As far as we on the outside can tell, there was only administrative whim.

[…]

What could possibly justify interrupting a professor’s class in order to take him under escort to the dean? In the real world we call this bullying. Then to demand his capitulation on the spot without naming charges or following the university’s written procedures? In the real world we call this contempt and intimidation.

He goes on to urge Baumann to “apologize publicly to Professor Gerber and explain to your board that you made a grave mistake,” though Wood acknowledges that this is “unlikely to happen,” given the unapologetic nature of authoritarian regimes.

Gerber’s story echoes that of many other professors around the country (and elsewhere in the Western world) who have run afoul of the Campus Diversity Gestapo and been summarily cast out of “decent” society as what George Orwell called an “unperson.” This unconscionable bullying, as Peter Wood labeled it, must never be allowed to stand – for the sake of academic freedom, for the sake of viewpoint diversity, for the sake of a civilization that values freedom of thought, due process, and human rights.

Ohio Northern University must reinstate Gerber immediately and make public restitution, including the apology Wood demanded. And every other institution of higher learning around the country must be put on notice that the racist, totalitarian Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion scam must end.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/kafka-comes-to-college/