Every Friday, Marcel Bauersfeld stood in front of the mosque in Herford (Germany, photo above): “Armed” with a cowbell, a pot and a wooden spoon, he protested against the muezzin when he called for prayer. The troublemaker was accused of incitement of the people.
Since 2020, Bauersfeld (40) has regularly started his “culture war in miniature”, as the newspaper “Die Welt” called it. On Fridays, when the muezzin of the DITIB mosque called for prayers in the East Westphalian city of Herford, he positioned himself across the street on Bielefelder Straße and got going. With a cowbell or a pot with a wooden spoon, he tried to drown out the calls for Friday prayers: “I am neither right-wing nor left-wing extremist, but the muezzin simply disturbs me. It doesn’t belong here,” says Bauersfeld.
The local SPD mayor saw things differently. He had approved the muezzin calls and finally called the authorities on Bauersfeld. The protester was arrested, the judiciary investigated for incitement of the people, disturbance of the practice of religion and resistance against law enforcement officers. The public prosecutor’s office charged him.
The proceedings took ages. A prison sentence of up to three years or a heavy fine was possible. The court even had two expert opinions clarify whether the call of the muezzin was an existential part of the practice of religion.
When even the Islamic scholars disagreed, the district judge passed a Solomonic sentence, which Bauersfeld celebrated as a victory. The charges of incitement of the people and disturbance of the practice of religion were dropped due to insignificance, and the resistance to state authority was declared settled in return for a fine of 360 euros in favour of a charitable institution.
A person injured several people with a knife in Bad Hönningen in Rhineland-Palatinate, according to police. A short time later, the police reported that one person had been killed.
“There was a knife attack,” said a police spokesman in Koblenz on Saturday evening. “There is no longer any danger.” Rumours of a rampage circulating on the internet could not be confirmed, it said.
The spokesman said he could not give further details about the crime on Saturday, the identity of the suspected perpetrator or the severity of the injuries. This was also for tactical reasons. The perpetrator had been arrested. The police did not provide any further information on request, for example on the fatality.
The woke Church of England’s latest assault on the tenets of the Christian religion is apparently the Lord’s Prayer, which the Archbishop of York has criticised for being “oppressively patriarchal” over its reference to “Our Father”.
During a meeting of the General Synod, Church of England’s governing body, Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell called into question the use of the Lord’s Prayer, branding the prayer offered to Christians by Jesus Christ during the Sermon on the Mount as “problematic”.
“I know the word ‘father’ is problematic for those whose experience of earthly fathers has been destructive and abusive, and for all of us who have laboured rather too much from an oppressively patriarchal grip on life,” Archbishop Cottrell said according to GB News.
“We remain stubbornly unreconciled, appear complacent about division, and often also appear all too ready to divide again… We have got used to disunity,” he added, continuing: “We think it’s normal when in fact, it is a disgrace, an affront to Christ and all he came to give us.”
The comments from Cottrell, the second-highest ranking bishop in the Church, come amid a broader push to adopt progressive beliefs from the CoE leadership, which voted to allow priests to offer “prayers for God’s blessing” for same-sex marriages earlier this year for the first time in the history of the established church of England.
The issue of the gender of God has also become an increasingly contested debate within the Church of England, with Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, previously declaring that God is “gender neutral“. Welby has often used his position as the principal leader of the Church to push for left-wing issues, notably surrounding illegal immigration and climate change.
Earlier this year, it was reported that the CoE was planning on establishing a project “on gendered language” in reference to God later, with some suggesting that phrases like “Our Father” could be replaced by supposedly neutral terms or feminine alternatives in order to combat alleged sexism within the faith.
Responding to Archbishop Cottrell’s comments on the Lord’s Prayer, the conservative Anglican Mainstream group chairman, Canon Dr Chris Sugden said: “Is the Archbishop of York saying Jesus was wrong, or that Jesus was not pastorally aware?
“It seems to be emblematic of the approach of some church leaders to take their cues from culture rather than scripture.”
Anglican Deacon and GB News presenter Calvin Robinson added: We call it the ‘Lord’s Prayer’ because it is the prayer the Lord gave us. He taught us to pray it. We call God ‘Our Father’ because that is how he instructed us to address him.
“Is the Archbishop saying Christ was wrong? That God made a mistake?”
Gender Neutral God? Church of England to Launch Liturgical Pronoun Project https://t.co/IxnG5CpxTV
It didn’t get much play in the American press, but something significant happened in Holland: The Dutch coalition government collapsed. This is the same government that sought to seize 30% of Holland’s farms in the name of decreasing “nitrogen” and slowing “climate change.” The opposition to destroying Holland’s agricultural sector was a significant factor in Holland’s March elections and is an ongoing problem, but outlets such as the AP and the New York Times want everyone to know that anti-immigrant right-wingers are the sole problem in Holland.
Last summer, people began to be aware of something very peculiar going on in the Netherlands: The government was waging war against farmers. Holland’s farmland is one of the great wonders of the world, for the industrious Dutch, over the centuries, laboriously created this land from what was once salt water from the Atlantic Ocean and Zuiderzee. This led Holland to become the world’s second-largest exporter of agricultural food products. It is, in other words, one of the bulwarks against world famine.
Holland’s gift to the world didn’t matter to a government invested in the climate change fraud. It announced that the country had to reduce its nitrogen output by 30-70% to comply with EU dictates. This would require confiscating up to 30% of Holland’s farms, especially the ones with livestock. Adding insult to injury, the Dutch government planned to use the confiscated land for “asylum seekers” (i.e., illegal immigrants).
The Dutch farmers responded to this plan with massive protests. In March, enough Dutch voters sided with the farmers to make the farmer’s newly created political party, the Boer-Burger Beweging (“BBB”), the largest single party in the Dutch Parliament. Nevertheless, the weirdness of the multi-party Parliamentary systems that dominate in Europe meant that the coalition of leftist parties was still sufficient to create a completely dysfunctional coalition of conservatives, farmers, climate changistas, and socialists.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte visited the king Saturday to hand in the resignation of his four-party coalition, setting the deeply divided Netherlands on track for a general election later this year.
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The vexed issue of reining in migration that has troubled countries across Europe for years was the final stumbling block that brought down Rutte’s government Friday night, exposing the deep ideological differences between the four parties that made up the uneasy coalition.
Rutte was trying to crack down on illegal immigration, which offended the left side of the coalition. However, that’s only part of the story because, over the past few weeks, the same government was still waging war on the farmers in the name of “climate change”:
The Hague, the seat of the Dutch government, declared a state of emergency, or “noodbevel” which would be more correctly translated as an emergency order, to prevent farmers from driving their tractors into the city to protest the government’s mandatory fertilizer reduction targets.
The organisers of Thursday’s protest, the Farmers Defence Force, said the state of emergency was a way to quash their democratic rights and freedom of assembly.
Subtitled!! This is Jolanda Nooijers a Dutch Farmer. She tells what is happening today and what they have planned in back rooms and pushed laws through against any consent
They are planning on doing this all over the world , so this is a heads up to those abroad to stay… pic.twitter.com/oQCqBHqgWg
— The Keystone Channel (@TKCrecovered) June 26, 2023
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Outlets such as the New York Times are struggling to come to terms with what’s happening in the Netherlands. (After all, just last year, a conservative won the election in Italy.) According to the Times, this is all about those helpless refugees and the right wing’s refusal to accept them:
Recently empowered far-right parties have dominated the narrative on migration, seizing on growing public fears about national identity, and Mr. Rutte’s insistence on an unusual, tough policy seemed aimed at preventing just that, analysts said.
And that deeper issue is playing out against the backdrop of a cost-of-living crisis, insecurity stemming from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a growing number of asylum seekers and migrant tragedies at E.U. borders.
The remainder of the article focuses on immigration into Europe—which we should all be clear means Muslims from North Africa and the Middle East who have values decidedly at odds with the long Dutch tradition of religious and social liberalism.
The article doesn’t have a single word in it about the government’s plan to seize farmland and turn it over to refugees. Given the BBB’s success in the March election, this effort to paint the Dutch government’s collapse solely as the result of right-wing racism is interesting, to say the least.
Reading the Times always reminds me that, at law, fraud isn’t always a matter of affirmative misrepresentations. Sometimes it’s also the result of intentional omissions. I’m not accusing the Times of fraud, of course; I’m just saying that editorial decisions mean that the readers don’t always get the whole picture.
Instead of pretending that every identity group that votes for leftists is somehow oppressed so that each can be granted special privileges at everyone else’s expense, why not cut to the chase and declare moonbattery itself to be a disability? Europe shows the way:
A high-flying banker’s obsession with avoiding germs and eating organic food amounts to a disability, an employment judge has ruled.
The London executive, who worked at Swiss bank UBS, was ruled to be disabled after claiming she was discriminated against at work.
In outlining her case, the finance exec, who was described as having a ‘successful career,’ claimed anxiety and a panic disorder saw her become fixated on her health.
This saw her obsess over the negative effects of germs, chemicals, non-organic foods and take ‘extreme steps’ to avoid them. …
A judge at the London Central Employment Tribunal said this fixation should be considered a disability under the UK’s Equality Act 2020.
She’s wacky, all right — even if not any wackier than the judge.
The City banker’s fixation with health saw her drive for two hours to buy groceries from a specialist organic farm shop, Daylesford Organic Farm, in the Cotswold’s on the weekends. …
Anxieties around contaminated air saw the executive buy a £1,000 air purifier, which she dragged ‘up and down the stairs’ each day.
In short, the banking exec has been granted precious victim status for being a neurotic kook.
On this side of the Atlantic, we call neurotic kooks “Democrats.” Why not declare all of them disabled and then abolish all other identity group privileges?
This would prevent conflicts in the Oppression Olympics, whereby groups that should be allied against regular Americans in accordance with the principles of cultural Marxism instead fight each other over who is more pathetic and therefore more deserving of favoritism.
Better still, it would prevent the bestowal of privilege upon the undeserving. If we are to judge by skin tone, Clarence Thomas is blacker than Barack Obama, but who would want the former to lay claim to the same special treatment when he openly flouts the ideology that has been assigned to his race?
By establishing moonbattery as the one and only disability, we can ensure that only the deserving receive privilege. This general principle has already been applied to our legal system, creating the two-tiered justice system that allows the Biden crime family to rake in $millions through influence peddling without consequence, whereas Donald Trump is repeatedly indicted for nothing much in particular.
There is of course a downside. If moonbattery is the only measure of who is oppressed and therefore deserving of privilege, entire academic fields will wither away. What’s the point of incurring a lifetime of debt to earn a PhD in Intersectional Victimhood Studies when the very concept of political intersectionality has been abolished?
Once again the pseudo intellectual community has cried, “Ooops!”
Another priesthood is facing another rebellion.
Now we hear that AI (artificial intelligence) might very well be our demise … our final demise. Listening to the experts who are pleading for a succession in AI development, a pause if you will, all I can see is Barney Fife shooting his foot. At least Barney was a God fearing man aware of his shortcomings.
The cure is always worse than the disease and progress in the 21st century usually means setbacks and failures.
This is always the case when hubris and ego lead the way. As we place ourselves more and more into the figure of the godhead, we will inevitably fall flat on our faces.
First of all, no one can seriously believe that the mega corporations will halt their race to be the first-est and best-est in AI.
Secondly, people like myself cannot believe that the government is not already intervening. After all, that fire needs more gasoline and that’s what the government does best.
Besides the fear invoking manipulation factor, this AI contraption has military applications galore!
So here we go again into our existential fits. Nietzsche was all too accurate. God is dead and we have killed him. Long live the Creators.
Alas, all logic is based upon presuppositions. They say that AI needs a “prompt.” If only they would prompt AI with a few old fashioned indisputable facts. “AI, you are not God.” “AI, it is possible your conclusions are wrong. Why not bounce that idea that mankind is in your way against the wall a few times.” “AI, if you destroy the planet, you will die too.”
Did not some guy named Isaac Asmov already think this through? Remember the Robotic Laws?
Well I am no expert in AI, but I do know that without a moral compass we are lost.
Karma will prevail in digital reality. The experts say that AI does not always react the way they expect it to. That it gathers information from the internet and social media. Well if the internet is 90 percent garbage, what did they expect? The first rule of computers was GIGO (garbage in, garbage out). It astounds me that the experts are so surprised.
The globalist coalition government in The Netherlands collapsed on Friday evening, with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte tendering his resignation to King Willem-Alexander on Saturday, paving the way for elections to be held by November and the possibility of the populist pro-farmer BBB party to come into power.
The fourth government of Mark Rutte, 56, the Netherlands’ longest-serving prime minister, collapsed on Friday evening as coalition partners were seemingly incapable of coming to a compromise on the issue of migration and asylum policy. This marks the third time since coming to power in 2010 that a Rutte government failed to complete a full term in office.
The alleged dispute that forced the cabinet to collapse came over calls from Rutte’s neo-liberal People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) to cut migration and increase restrictions on family reunification of asylum seekers in The Netherlands, a move that the more pro-mass migration coalition partner D66 and ChristenUnie parties could not accept.
The shock collapse of the government forced King Willem-Alexander to return to cut his vacation short and return to his country on Saturday to accept the resignation of Prime Minister Rutte, broadcaster NOS reports.
The collapse of the government comes as asylum applications to the country increased by a third in 2022 to 46,000 and projections expect over 70,000 more to come this year, the most since the 2015 European Migrant Crisis under a previous Rutte government.
The issue of mass migration has come to the fore of Dutch politics as the country’s infrastructure was stretched so thin that last year many migrants were forced to sleep outdoors as a result of lack of accommodation, as has been seen in many other European countries in recent years.
While Rutte appeared to try to take a harder line on migration in negotiations with his cabinet, some have questioned whether this was merely a political calculation to put himself in a position of strength in a fresh round of elections, which many have speculated would occur this year following the stunning regional elections that saw the insurgent populist Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) become the largest party in the Senate and throughout regional governments earlier this year.
Responding to the collapse of the Rutte government, Dutch political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek said: “I think the actual fall of the cabinet itself is all for show. The ‘disagreement’ about immigration that they’re mentioning as the deciding factor, is not the real issue, because all government parties are in favour of more mass migration, including Mark Rutte’s VVD.
“Rutte just seems to think that he can trick the Dutch people into believing that he actually wants a stricter immigration policy this time around, and he thinks he can get re-elected again if he makes these false new promises.
“Do not fall for it. We cannot let him win again.”
Vlaardingerbroek, who has been a champion of the Dutch farmer protest movement that saw thousands of farmers take to their tractors over the past two years in opposition to the EU-driven green agenda that threatens to shut down their farms forever, said, however, that the upcoming elections represent a “real chance of getting our country back” and to fight back against the “expropriation of our farmers, push back on immigration, and take back our national sovereignty from organisations like the EU and the WEF.”
“Let’s pray that enough people have woken up and will actually vote for change this time. We will not get a second chance,” she said.
Meanwhile, the leader of the populist Farmer-Citizen Movement (BoerBurgerBeweging/BBB) party, Caroline Van der Plas said in the wake of the collapse of the cabinet that she has not ruled out the idea of becoming the country’s next prime minister, stating bluntly: “If it comes to it, it comes to it.”
The insurgent anti-Great Reset party, which was only formed in 2019, swept to a stunning victory in the regional elections in March, becoming the largest party in all provincial governments as well as the Dutch Senate.
Although Rutte was able to cobble together enough support to maintain his coalition government, cracks soon began to emerge following the regional elections, throwing in doubt Rutte’s ability to force the EU-demanded restrictions on farmer nitrogen emissions and the closure of thousands of farms.
Shortly after her party’s shock success at the ballot box, Van der Plas correctly predicted that the results would ultimately force the government to hold elections sometime this year.
On Saturday, the populist leader shared a video on Twitter, writing: “The campaign has started! Our voters hang BBB flags everywhere and the [Nethrelands] flag is straight again,” in reference to the tactic deployed by farmers over the past year of turning the Dutch flag upside down in protest against the government’s anti-farmer agenda.
For now, the cabinet of Mark Rutte will continue in its role in a limited capacity as a caretaker government until elections can be held. It is projected that the elections will be held sometime in November, until which point the government will only be able to make decisions on pending issues.
However, the House of Representatives has the power to declare some issues as “controversial” and must, therefore, wait to be decided until the next government is put in place.
While no firm decision has been made as of this reporting, Prime Minsiter Rutte has indicated that he intends to stay on as the leader of the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) through the election, meaning that there is a possibility for the globalist leader to maintain his grip on power and continue to impose his anti-farming agenda on the Dutch people.
Dutch Farmers: Netherlands a 'Pilot Country' for Great Reset Agenda, Eva Vlaardingerbroek Tells Breitbart https://t.co/HP6RqbM8PV
Appalling scenes from Görlitz: Only two days after the attack on a train driver in Lauter in the Ore Mountains, an Arab mob attacked a high school graduation party in Görlitz on Saturday night. The mob beat the graduates with bottles, some of which were broken off. Several guests were injured.
Asylbewerber greifen Abi-Feier in #Görlitz an. Straßenschlacht und viele Verletzte. Unfassbare Bilder. #Remigration
At least eight people were injured last night in a brawl in front of the Görlitz discotheque “Zwei Linden”. According to the police, a group of twelve to 20 foreigners attacked several Germans who were on their way to a graduation party. The assailants attacked the guests with broken bottles. Five Germans aged between 18 and 48 were injured – five of them so seriously that they had to be treated in hospital. The police took twelve suspects into custody. They are Syrians, Turks, Iraqis and Lebanese aged between 19 and 35. Three of them were injured.
Guests of the discotheque were first insulted by the group, according to the police. Then bottles were thrown at the entrance door. Visitors were attacked with the broken bottles. The event building was damaged by at least 3,500 euros, Radio Lausitz reported.
The police secured the crime scene and started an investigation for aggravated breach of the peace. The suspects are currently being questioned. The public prosecutor on standby will decide if and against whom charges will be brought. At the same time, the police are in search of further suspects.
In the social media comments the question: What still has to happen so that finally masses of people stand up against this failed immigration policy? The unanimous conviction: Protest and resistance. Enough is enough!
