Fadila Khattabi, the newly appointed French Minister for the Disabled, wants to put the mosque (back) in the centre of the village

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She had just been appointed. In January 2023, as the then deputy of the Côte d’Or department and chair of the Social Affairs Committee in the National Assembly, she had made what she considered to be an ironic statement.

Translation: Fadila Khattabi (new Minister for the Disabled) in a committee of the National Assembly (01/2023)
“I will put the church back in the middle of the village, and if you allow me with a touch of humour, I would even say the mosque in the middle of the village, in the middle of the Douar”.

If I had been present, I would have asked him when in France the mosque had ever been in the centre of the village … never. Even when France ruled Algeria (fortunately for Algeria), the mosque was never in the centre of the village, and for good reason. It was French law that applied to everyone, not to the Qur’an. But no doubt Khattaby was conjuring up a dream behind her sentence, intended as a pun, which she applied to Macron’s France.

Macron, with whom she probably shares many of his values, otherwise he would not have appointed her as minister.

It must be said that she had served Macron well during the pension debate by rejecting amendments tabled by the left without scrutiny. She deserved a reward, a ministerial portfolio. Clear and simple. Macron’s simplified world: you help him, you build him a golden bridge … with taxpayers’ money.

This is the same woman who thought it was normal not to pay the overtime of a former employee and who was just convicted of this in the labour court.

https://dijon-actualites.fr/2023/07/13/fadila-khattabi-vient-detre-condamnee-par-le-conseil-des-prudhommes-limage-de-la-deputee-se-degrade-encore-un-peu-plus-avec-cette-condamnation/

Macron-Borne must have known, so she was deliberately appointed minister, and in the social field (we’re not kidding! ) she is more important to Macron because she flouts the law and above all, inevitably, because of her background than because of her “honesty”.

Like Avia and some others before her, some elected representatives with diversity backgrounds seem to have maintained a dictatorial attitude towards their employees… One wonders where this comes from!

https://resistancerepublicaine.com/2023/07/21/fadila-khattabi-ministre-des-handicapes-veut-remettre-la-mosquee-au-centre-du-village/

Europe is a Pompei under a multicultural volcano – Part 1 of 2

by Giulio Meotti

During last year, many large European cities, from France to England, from Sweden to Belgium, have caught fire. And in those flames we could see the end of multiculturalism crackling, a giant powder keg waiting for the spark.

“How can we avoid secession? Because that is what is happening: secession,” said former socialist president François Hollande. And if Gérard Collomb, Emmanuel Macron’s former interior minister, long-time mayor of Lyon and historic exponent of the Socialist Party, said before leaving that the communities, from “side by side”, have moved on to live “face to face, face to face” and that there is a risk of a “civil war”, in the Journal du dimanche an appeal by French generals and officers warned: “We have seen declared a hybrid and multifaceted war, which will end either with a civil war or with a defeat” .

When Kabul fell back to the Taliban two years ago, one of the most famous former FBI special agents and counterterrorism experts, Ali Soufan, who interrogated the 9/11 perpetrators, said the Islamist insurgents felt “like the barbarian tribes who devoured the provinces of the Roman Empire, until they were able to advance on the capital, Rome, which fell like a prune in 410”.

Judging by the map of the fires that have been raging in the Paris region for days, the next time the “barbarians” of France will storm the tourist center of the capital.

“The ferments of the civil war are just waiting to explode” commented on Causeur Ivan Rioufol. “Leaders (right and left) applied themselves to overestimating the open society, without thinking about the emergence of a new Islamic civilization with hegemonic pretensions. This choice to erase identity is a boon for political Islam, ready to fill the gaps of a nation conquered by abandonment”.

Like nobody had burned anything when Jews were killed by Muslim neighbors.

“The police error is just a pretext that has unleashed Pavlovian anger,” says Pascal Bruckner, essayist and philosopher, in Le Figaro. “It is a perfectly coordinated dramaturgy where the rioters respond to a script written in 2005. The violence is permanent in the neighbourhoods, it forms the soundtrack of daily life. Not all lives are the same: the death of a policeman or his burning with a Molotov cocktail does not arouse any emotion, except the applause of the cry of ‘grilled chicken’. It is a fire that spreads with astonishing camouflage. And the more it is tolerated, the more it becomes the only language of conflict.”

“What has changed in twenty years is the emergence of an insurrectionary extreme left, in solidarity with radical Islamists, the media, entertainment and many leftist intellectuals. This underclass seduces sociologists, actors, filmmakers, journalists. Violence, for them as for Marx, is the great midwife of history”.

“We are on the cusp of civil war,” Eric Zemmour, the man who warned the country and was not believed, said today. “In 2005, only the suburbs were affected. Now, all of France is affected, from Paris to medium-sized cities.”

This time the chaos starts from Nanterre, where there is the Défense and the road that leads to the Arc de Triomphe, after the police killing of a boy already known for 15 crimes at the age of 17. A mixture of post-George Floyd, ethnic racialism, communitarianism, Islamization and leftist insurrectionism.

No one expects justice. The French Intifada cannot wait.

A curfew was decreed to avoid a repetition of the guerrilla warfare that took place on the first night (Emmanuel Macron was dancing at the Elton John concert while the country burned, like certain kings of the past) .

But it didn’t help. The police station in Neuilly Sur Marne, a town where there will soon be no Jews left (the number of Jewish families has gone from 275 to 100 in just a few years), was burned.

The violence then spread throughout France, from the north to Roubaix (100,000 inhabitants, 40 per cent Muslim) to the south to Nice through the suburbs of Lyon and, obviously, the whole Paris region up to Nantes, so dangerous that even the nuns had to leave the city center.

The picture: Stolen buses speeding through the streets of Île-de-France and individuals shooting surveillance cameras with shotguns. In Toulouse a police squad is attacked by a group of individuals with a dog. The animal that “charged” is killed. And this poor man’s dog foreshadowed the violence that would be unleashed on the rest of the country from evening to early morning.

The Nice police station is the first of a long list to fall. The police stations of Roubaix, Montreuil, Gennevilliers, Meudon and Dammarie-les-Lys are stormed. Broken windows, burned cars, injured and besieged policemen. Then another symbol of the state is attacked – town halls. That of Mons-en-Barœul, in the north, was completely looted. In Evry-Courcouronnes it is set on fire. They set fire to a primary school in Bezons. One of many. In Asnières they knock down light poles with a grindstone.

The Interior Minister announces the deployment of 40,000 police officers across France. Testimony of Nicolas, a member of the “Bac de nuit” (criminal police) sent to Nanterre: “We no longer have the impression of being in France. We were quickly overwhelmed, the firefighters were attacked every time we moved”. Meanwhile, in the streets of Nanterre they shouted “death to the Jews” and some schools were set on fire.

The civil war lasts a few days, then it subsides, waiting for the next flame.

In Fresnes the rioters tried to attack the prison to free the prisoners. A prison known for the high number of Islamists. A witness of the assault said: “What is happening is incredible, the inmates are excited, it is incredible”.

Mosques and imams, as expected, offered to “mediate” and called for a “return to normality”.

Like in 2005, when for three weeks the country seemed on the verge of civil war. But it is worse. Years go by and the fire lights up again. In Nantes the violence lasted a week. The public library and other buildings burn. In Grenoble the violence lasted three days and hundreds of shops and cars were totally destroyed. Police and firefighters in Limoges were attacked by Molotov cocktails after being lured into a “sensitive” area of the city. A four hour battle. In Sevran, policemen and firefighters attacked by the local population. A video that has gone viral shows a crowd of “young people” savagely beating a policewoman, who had tried to disperse them in the Paris suburb of Champigny.

In Marseilles they set fire even to the library.

France is a gigantic multicultural volcano always ready to explode.

About thirty Catholic faithful in Nanterre were attacked in the street and threatened with death shouting “kouffars” (unbelievers), “this is not your home” and “we will slaughter your throats on the Koran”.

The former number two of the DGSE (French secret services), Alain Chouet, has published the book “Sept pas vers l’enfer”, in which he explains: “There are 1,514 neighborhoods where access to the security forces, emergency, medical and social services. These districts are in 859 cities and 4 million people live there, or 6 percent of the total population of France.

The Pablo Picasso district of Nanterre is one of these areas where the law no longer rules. In Vaux-en-Velin, a suburb of Lyon, 88 percent of the population is African or beur (French of North African origin).

The book “Et les Blancs sont partis” tells of ethnic secession in France thus:

“At one point in the conversation, Johannes stops answering my questions to ask one: ‘What is the difference between South Africa and France?’. When I returned to France, I started reporting in the suburbs. In prison, prisoners define themselves as follows: there are ‘the blacks’, ‘the Arabs’, ‘the nomads’ – that is to say the gypsies – and ‘the French’, the word used to designate the whites. Mantes-la-Jolie is a town 50 kilometers from Paris. Val Fourré represents more than half of the city: 25,000 people out of a total of 45,000. It is a city within a city, but physically isolated by two kilometers of no man’s land. This urban boundary is a constant in most cities. It is found in Amiens, Strasbourg, Orléans and in many cities of the pear Parisian fair. Neighborhoods where blacks and Arabs are concentrated are physically cut off from the rest of the cities. Quite often a railroad line, a freeway or a series of vacant lots isolate these neighborhoods. We arrive at a roundabout, the entrance to the city. We pass by the mosque in front of which palm trees have been planted. Then we go to the construction site of the new mosque. Europeans one day began to leave the city. They settled outside Mantes. And Malians, Moroccans, Senegalese began to arrive… A new Chicken Burger has just opened. ‘It’s halal!’. Like most shops in town. There is no way to find a beer here…”.

French cities are time bombs and like cluster bombs they will hit the rest of Europe. Didn’t Macron announce the “demographic transition”? And hadn’t the French generals warned in a letter to the Elysée two years ago of the risk of a “civil war”?

The situation is such that, as Eric Delbecque, former director of the Institut National des hautes études de la sécurité and head of security at Charlie Hebdo, explains in L’Express, “the state has not even put itself in a position to regain control of these neighborhoods and once it starts it can take up to ten years.”

Le Figaro on Nanterre takes up Georges Bensoussan’s definition of “lost territories”: “The emotion was great after the attacks, the beheading of Samuel Paty, the attack on Annecy. However, no one burned their neighbor’s car, set fire to garbage cans, threw Molotov cocktails. These lost territories where scores are settled in the open air, where police, firefighters, doctors suffer gratuitous attacks every day, where, in general abandonment, the forces of order remain on the front line: it is a powder keg awaiting a spark”.

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Germany’s AfD party rises in the west, hits record 19% in Baden-Württemberg

It seems there is not a month that goes by where Germany’s anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party does not achieve another record polling result, with the party now showing remarkable strength in the West of the country.

As Remix News already reported, the AfD is incredibly strong in the east of Germany, where it tops the polls in each eastern state except one where it sits in second. Support for the right-wing populist party has historically been far weaker in the west of the country, but new polling shows that picture is also rapidly changing.

In a poll out of the southern state of Baden-Württemberg, the AfD has hit a record 19 percent, rising seven percentage points since the last election. That puts the party in third place in that state, where it is behind the Green Party (24 percent) and the CDU (26 percent).

In the other western state of Rhineland-Palatinate, polling showed the AfD scoring a record 16 percent on Thursday, improving by four percentage points compared to the previous poll at the end of last year.

As Remix News reported earlier this month, the AfD achieved record-high support of 22 percent in a nationwide poll, causing the federal government, its official opposition, and the mainstream media to gulp at the prospect of the party gaining greater influence in Berlin.

The AfD’s new polling high of 22 percent came shortly after German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who belongs to the left-wing Social Democrats (SPD), described the record poll figures for the AfD as “worrying.”

During an interview with German public broadcaster ZDF, he stated that the party’s recent results “should not lead us to automatically classify every critical question as populism and right-wing extremism.”

However, Steinmeier did not hesitate to attack the party for contributing to what he called the “brutalization of debate.” He further said there is no room for the “business of fear-mongers in this society” and that Germans must learn to “conduct democratic disputes with each other without breaking out into hatred and agitation.”

https://rmx.news/germany/germanys-afd-party-rises-in-the-west-hits-record-19-in-baden-wurttemberg/

France: Because her top was too short, North Africans stab young woman 50 times

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— nissan (@_a_nissan) July 20, 2023

A young woman will probably be disfigured for life! The 19-year-old Nissan was walking in Toulouse, France, when she was attacked by four perpetrators aged 14, 15 and 17. Because her top was too short for them, the North Africans cut her face.

The 19-year-old victim was hospitalized after the attack and required 50 stitches. Credit: Twitter (@_a_nissan), https://rmx.news/

So far, no riots, no rioting, no burning cities in France. But the fate of the young Nissan is moving. She was out with her boyfriend in Toulouse on Wednesday night. There she was accosted by young North Africans, reports the French newspaper “La Depeche”. The perpetrators stabbed the woman 50 times with broken glass.

On Twitter, the young woman not only posted pictures of her injuries, but also a message. The fact that she told the media that the perpetrators were “Maghrebians” should not fuel hatred against foreigners. Nissan reminds us that other groups also commit crimes. In her post, she refers to the fatal police shooting of a North African.

https://exxpress.at/weil-ihr-top-zu-kurz-war-nordafrikaner-stechen-50-mal-auf-junge-frau-ein/

Over 2,300 people arrested for the riots in France, Muhammad emerges as the most common first name among them followed by the Arabic name Yanis

More than 2,300 people have reportedly been held in connection with the violent protests that gripped France earlier this month when a 17-year-old male Algerian migrant named Nahel Merzouk was shot and murdered in the Nanterre neighbourhood of Paris.

According to the French publication L’Opinion, which examined a sample of the most popular names among the people apprehended throughout the riots in late June, Muhammad emerged as the most popular name followed by another Arabic moniker, Yanis. Muhammad as the first name showed up 81 times, 50 times more frequently than Yanis with 31 appearances in the sample of 345 names of arrested people with the most common names. Moreover, Yacin was featured 11 times, Ali popped up 13 times and Ibrahim surfaced 10 times in the same.

In descending order- Muhammad: 81, Yanis: 31, Enzo: 25, Maxime: 21, Adam: 19, Lucas: 18, Jordan: 15, Rayan: 14, Bryan: 14, Nathan: 13, Nicolas: 13, Ali: 13, Hugo: 13, Alexis: 13, Yacin: 11, Théo: 11, Ibrahim: 10 and Paul: 10. Therefore, 345 people have the most common 18 names. The rest of the names were mentioned in much smaller numbers.

The media portal found that 160 of them had Arabic-Muslim names like Mohammed, Yacin, Yanis, Ali, or Ibrahim. The data is based on records collected by the national police, L’Opinion said.

Multiple individuals have theorised that there is a link between immigration and recent violence. Éric Zemmour, former presidential candidate specifically blamed French immigration policy in a recent interview. “France is on the verge of civil war. I’ve been saying this for a long time, and the recent guerrilla scenes prove it.”

He further added, “No one can ignore reality anymore. In spite of everything, most of the political class wants to believe that it is a social crisis when the root cause is obvious, immigration.” The politician forewarned, “No politician has taken the measure of what awaits us if we do nothing. These riots are just a glimpse of our future.”

On the other hand, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin refuted these assertions and claimed that many of the jailed rioters went by the names Kevin or Matteo, which are not typically associated with people from immigrant backgrounds. However, L’Opinion was able to access records from the French National Police regarding the number of those apprehended and revealed the actual statistics.

Moreover, even though there were a few Western names on the list, neither Kevin nor Matteo represented a sizable portion of the rioters that were taken into custody.

Mohammed has been identified as the most popular boy’s name in Seine-Saint-Denis, a Paris borough well-known for having a large proportion of individuals with a migrant background. Interestingly, Arab-Muslim names have grown in popularity in France over the past few decades.

More importantly, the violence has brought immigration issues to the fore of French politics, and based on a recently conducted poll, the French population favoured harsh punishments for immigrant offenders.

According to it, 73% of French people endorsed revoking dual-national rioters of their citizenship, a punishment that is often reserved for serious offences like terrorism. Men and women desired to strip rioters of their French citizenship, but there was a minor gender gap which disclosed that the former was more likely in agreement with the idea than the latter. However, both sexes were strongly in support of it.

There was widespread support for the notion across all age groups, with only 34% of people under 35 opposed and fiercely objected to the same. Meanwhile, pollsters anticipated that followers of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) and Éric Zemmour’s Reconquête would firmly promote robbing rioters of their citizenship, they were nonetheless intrigued to see broad approval even from the left, with 70% of socialists expressing identical views.

The riots and their fallout have mostly benefited Marine Le Pen and her party because more mainstream politicians have echoed her prior statements on immigration and criminality. The conservative senator from France, Bruno Retailleau voiced, “As soon as we want to be firm they say, ‘Oh la la. Scandal!’ The fascists are arriving. You are like the National Rally. We’re sick of being politically correct.”

French riots caused massive damages

French insurance estimated that the losses from the riots, which occurred in more than 200 places throughout France, cost €650 million, while other people believe the actual cost could be over 1 billion Euros.

Notably, 55% of damages are connected to personal or private property, whereas, 35% are claims for harm caused to public infrastructure. 90% of the costs associated with this urban violence are related to the 3,900 affected local communities and properties of the professionals.

Insurers estimated that 11,300 claims have already been filed, although additional lawsuits can also be launched. The amount of devastation is significant which comprised of 700 police officers being injured as a result of the chaos, 1,300 buildings were vandalised and damaged, and 5,600 automobiles were wrecked, the majority of which were set on fire.

Violence in France

Protests and unrest ensued in Paris suburbs after a teenager, Nahel Merzouk who was a delivery agent was killed by a police officer on 27 June. He was stopped by the police and was asked to show documents while he was driving when he tried to flee the scene during which shots were fired. One of the bullets hit him in the chest and he died on the spot.

The instruction to stop was issued under a routine traffic check. The victim was previously convicted of failing to stop at a signal as well as driving without a license. The accused official was detained on suspicion of manslaughter.

Soon after the tragic incident, demonstrations started in the western suburb of Nanterre, where the boy was killed. It quickly spread across other regions, including the Hauts-de-Seine and the eastern city of Dijon. Violence also flared in Marseille, Lyon, Pau, Toulouse and Lille as well as parts of Paris in the country.

Riots and chaos virtually took over France in less than a week, creating a situation that many compared to civil war. More than 45,000 police officers were stationed across the country. Protesters clashed with police, torched vehicles, looted stores and burnt them down. The largest library in Marseilles, Alcazar, also fell victim to the violence and was set on fire.

A memorial commemorating Holocaust victims and members of the French resistance in Paris was also vandalised and defaced by drawing graffiti on it. The act was denounced by the Jewish community worldwide.

The rioters also attacked the residence of Vincent Jeanbrun, a mayor of Paris’s suburban area. He was in his office at the time of the occurrence. However, his wife Melanie Nowak and their two children were at home. The mob tried to burn them alive. She suffered a broken leg while attempting to protect the children, one of whom received injuries.

PM Modi in France

Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently visited the country on a two-day visit which began on 13 July. He was conferred with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, France’s highest award by President Emmanuel Macron. The former also attended France’s Bastille Day Parade as the chief guest and the Indian Army contingent also participated in it.

He signed many crucial agreements with the European country including cooperation in defence, space, nuclear energy, climate change and green transitions as well as education and people-to-people ties.

https://www.opindia.com/2023/07/over-2300-people-arrested-for-the-riots-in-france-muhammad-is-the-most-common-first-name/

Study accidentally proves man-caused global warming not provable

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By Eric Utter

According to a study recently published in the journal Science, and latched onto by USAToday, more than 400,000 years ago, Greenland was actually green. Yes, scientists say, the massive island was an ice-free landscape, and was perhaps even covered with trees.

This is important to know, avers study co-lead author Paul Bierman of the University of Vermont, because it tells us “Greenland’s ice sheet is fragile.” Bierman stated: “All by itself, during a warm period very similar to today, the ice sheet melted away 400,000 years ago. That was without fossil fuel emissions into the atmosphere.”

An ice sheet melted “all by itself?” Here is a “scientist” telling us that we must immediately change our lifestyles and bankrupt our economies to prevent something that occurred naturally and without human influence 400,000 years ago!

After Greenland’s ice sheet turned to water, whined the climate alarmists, the sea-level rose at least 5 feet.

This caused the fish-wrap factory USAToday to solemnly observe: “This means that the ice sheet on Greenland may be more sensitive to human-caused climate change than previously thought – and will be vulnerable to irreversible, rapid melting in the coming centuries.”

Say what?! No, it means that the ice sheet on Greenland was provably sensitive to non-human-caused climate change (warming)…and that the melting is reversible…because that is exactly what occurred after the last melting, and why Greenland is more frozen than green today!

For some reason, the birdcage liner USAToday chose University of Pennsylvania meteorologist Michael Mann, who was not part of the study and whose “hockey stick” graph of global warming has been widely discredited, to review the “study.” Mann obligingly expectorated: “We are coming perilously close to some potentially critical climate tipping points.”

Bierman, however, told USAToday that the melting process is not instantaneous, noting that “it gives us a little time, not a lot.” He added that it’s going to take “hundreds to thousands” of years to greatly diminish the ice sheet, while simultaneously cautioning that this shouldn’t be a source of comfort to us. 

Thanks for pointing out that the melting process “is not instantaneous,” Paul.

Most of us thought, “poof, there go the ice sheets” in a matter of minutes. But hundreds to thousands of years is not a lot of time—and shouldn’t be a source of comfort to us? Really? Why? I mean, noted climate expert Greta Thunberg gave us 12 years to save the planet…about 4 years ago. Al Gore and others have made similar remarks. Thousands of years sounds better to me.

And the study’s authors aren’t prioritizing information well. Is it truly wise to worry about Greenland’s ice sheet being potentially greatly diminished in thousands of years in light of the fact that Russia and North Korea have threatened to use nuclear weapons? And that Iran may soon have one—or more—and may attempt to vaporize Israel? Or that global elites want to utilize the Great Reset to destroy the middle class around the world, rob them of ownership, freedom, and force them to eat bugs? Or that the percentage of people who identify as LGBTQ is exploding at the same time as birth rates in the Western world are plummeting? Or that many are concerned that artificial intelligence may make humans obsolete in the not-so-distant future? Shall I keep going?

On the other hand, given the rapid advances in certain technologies over the past 100 years (we have flying taxis above the streets of at least one American city right now), is it outlandish to believe we may be able to deal with a potential five-foot rise in sea-level in a thousand years or more?

But back to Bierman, who asserted that the study “is a real warning sign to us that we’re going to lose large parts of the ice sheet unless we decarbonize.” Nope. It tells us that we may lose large parts of the ice sheet no matter what we do…or don’t do.

Or not.

Bierman once more: “400,000 years ago there were no cities on the coast … and now there are cities on the coast.” Thanks for yet another piercing insight, Paul. You mean New York, San Diego, Vancouver, Miami, Honolulu, Oslo, and New Orleans weren’t there almost half a million years ago? Who knew?

Thank heavens for “experts.”

Of course, all the handwringing over melting ice could be for nought. Earth’s repeated ice ages tend to follow a 100,000-year cycle, during which ice sheets grow for about 90,000 years and then retreat or collapse in about 10,000 years during warmer periods. The last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago, meaning it could get chilly again soon.

Because, you know, the Earth is capable of doing that “all by itself.” 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/study_accidentally_proves_mancaused_global_warming_not_provable.html

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India: Aligarh Muslim University student Faizan Ansari arrested for ISIS links

Aligarh Muslim University. Image Source: The Dispatch

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday arrested a 19-year-old student of Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) for his alleged links with ISIS, a proscribed terrorist organization.

The accused, Faizan Ansari alias Faiz, was arrested after searches at his house and rented accommodation in Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh as part of NIA’s crackdown against modules of ISIS operating in the country, said the NIA. Faizan has been taken into custody in a case registered by the NIA on July 19 under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. The agency will be progressing with its investigations to unravel all the facets of the international conspiracy.

The searches at the house of the accused in Lohardaga district of Jharkhand and a rented room in Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh were conducted on July 16 and 17 and several electronic devices and incriminating materials and documents were seized, said the anti-terror agency.

As per the NIA, Faizan had hatched a criminal conspiracy along with his associates and other unknown individuals through social media platforms to support ISIS activities in India and disseminate the outfit’s propaganda over various social media platforms.

“The conspiracy was aimed at carrying out violent terror attacks in India on behalf of ISIS,” the NIA said.

Investigations have revealed that Faizan and his associates had pledged their allegiance to the Islamic State, stated the agency, adding “The accused was also actively in the process of radicalizing neo-converts and attracting them to the terrorist fold for enriching the cadre base of the ISIS in India.”

Faizan was in contact with foreign-based ISIS handlers who were guiding him on recruitment to the banned outfit, said the NIA. “Along with other members of the ISIS, he was planning violent actions and was contemplating doing ‘hijrat’ to an ISIS conflict theatre abroad.” 

https://www.opindia.com/2023/07/aligarh-muslim-university-student-faizan-ansari-arrested-by-nia-for-isis-links/

Germany: Chancellor Scholz’s cool demeanor hides deep coalition troubles

Halfway through its mandate, Germany’s traffic light coalition is beset with both internal strife and the fast rise of the opposition party Alternative for Germany (AfD), and Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s outwardly cool facade can only do so much to mask the problems, Hungarian news and opinion portal Mandiner writes.

Opinion polls show that voters are not very satisfied with the policies of the three parties.

Three-quarters of German citizens are not at all or only slightly satisfied with the work of the federal government, and it seems that if the elections were held now, the three parties would no longer be able to win a majority.

Scholz’s party, the Social Democrats (SPD), is only third in terms of popularity behind the conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the rapidly rising AfD. The Greens are at a five-year low, and the smallest party in government, the liberal FDP, has lost a third of its supporters since last year’s elections.

According to Péter Dobrowiecki, head of research at the Hungarian-German Institute, “up until the outbreak of the war, the coalition government had been working quite well, but the conflict in Ukraine has brought out the differences between the three governing parties.”

The reality is that the three parties represent quite different political orientations.

“Looking back over the past two years, we can say that at the end of 2021, they had an ambitious goal – with serious economic, social and structural plans. In 2022, they responded quite well to the crisis, and then as the war progressed, they found themselves in an increasingly difficult political situation. Now, they are effectively governing in a state of emergency,” the expert said.

He added that this year has been much more about intra-coalition disputes, and in many cases, the ruling parties have not responded well to the crisis situation.

While Scholz chose a calm, confident, contemplative stance, arguing that in the long run the government’s decisions would be vindicated, the other governing parties tried to respond to people’s discontent by pushing their own agenda even further to the fore and trying to create a more distinctive political image. Of course, this is not the best tactic for cooperation.

But Scholz’s watchful attitude could pay off in the future, the expert says, because neither of the three coalition parties has any incentive to abandon ship.

“With all three parties in a tailspin, it is in no one’s interest to break up the alliance,” says Dobrowiecki. However, he added that with the Greens and the FDP constantly at each other’s throats, it is clear that Scholz has a difficult road ahead.

https://rmx.news/germany/germany-chancellor-scholzs-cool-demeanor-hides-deep-coalition-troubles/