Month: September 2023

UK: Hindu celebration disrupted in Leicester after Muslim police officer manhandles Hindu priest and devotees

Leicester Police officer Adam Ahmed misbehaved with Hindu devotees celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi. Ahmed has been seen indulging in such activities second time since July this year. (Image: SS from viral videos)

On 19th September (local time), a police officer identified as Adam Ahmed used excessive force on an elderly Hindu priest of Indian origin during the Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations in Leicester in the UK. The videos of the incident went viral on social media, where Ahmed was seen behaving rudely with the priest and the Hindu devotees who tried to stop him.

Sharing the video of the incident, Insight UK, a social movement of British Hindus and Indians, questioned Leicester Police if the behaviour of the police official was acceptable. Notably, this was not the first time Ahmed was found manhandling Hindu devotees in the name of maintaining law and order. In July this year, videos of him harassing Hindu devotees who went to attend Ram Katha by Pandit Dhirendra Krishna Shastri of Bageshwar Dham.

Insight UK said in a post on X (formerly Twitter), “Disruption of Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations in Leicester with the use of excessive force by officer Adam Ahmed of Leicestershire Police. We condemn the actions of the officer and believe that the actions by Mr Ahmed were uncalled for. Interestingly, Officer Ahmed was the same Policeman that created controversy outside the Prajapati hall on 23rd July 2023.”

Leicester administration has not issued any statement as of now. However, several videos showed Ahmed not only manhandling the Hindu priest but also confronting another person of Indian origin. A woman who tried to argue with him that he could not take the priest away was ignored by the police personnel.

A popular X user, Jix5A, shared more videos of the incident. She mentioned that a Somali Muslim police officer from Leicester police harassed the elderly priest. She wrote, “This police Muslim officer has no right to lay a finger on anyone! Yet, here he is manhandling all the peaceful Hindus celebrating their religious day .. Arrest this Somali Muslim police officer! He clearly has a hatred for Hindus! Why has he not been suspended from the police force? Hindu minority are no longer safe in Leicester.”

In another post, Jix5A said the person manhandled and handcuffed by the police was Dharmesh Lakhani, owner of Bobby’s restaurant on Belgrave Road. It was the first Indian restaurant in Leicester.
Talking about the history of the restaurant and Lakhani’s family’s contributions to the city, she mentioned that the Indian restaurant owned by Bhagwanji Lakhani and located on Belgrave Road in Leicester is a significant cultural symbol as it was the city’s first Indian eatery. The legacy of Bhagwanji’s family continued with his son, Dharmesh Lakhani. Unfortunately, there was an unexpected incident where a Somali Muslim police officer arrested Lakhani without evidence of wrongdoing. This arrest was due to Lakhani’s celebration of #Ganesha Chaturthi, which confused the community.

The release of Lakhani was secured by local elected councillors, which prompted reflections on the challenges that the Hindu community faces. The struggles of Bhagwanji Lakhani, who fled Uganda due to Idi Amin’s expulsion of Asians and rose to prominence in Leicester, were mirrored by this incident. The return of racism and Hinduophobia raised concerns, leaving British Hindus to ponder their future without a dedicated homeland. This situation has caused worry among the community.

Ahmed manhandled Hindu devotees in July during Ram Katha event

In July this year, Jix5A had shared videos of Adam Ahmed misbehaving with Hindu devotees who went to attend Ram Katha by Pandit Dhirendra Krishna Shastri of Bageshwar Dham. She wrote, “Crowds of Devotees in Leicester coming for Dharshan and to listen to Ram Katha by Pandit Dhirendra Krishna Shastri of Bageshwar Dham. at Prajapati hall this morning. First they had to brave the heavy rains , then manhandled and beaten by an M police officer. There was poor management and not enough police. Was this deliberately done? That Hinduphobic police officer needs to be suspended and criminal charges brought against him! Leicestershire police have shown over and over again, how Hindu-phobic they are! What was the need for such aggression?! We all know the reason!”

The anti-Hindu attacks in the United Kingdom – Leicester and Birmingham

Since August last year, the anti-Hindu attacks in the United Kingdom, especially in Leicester and Birmingham, increased by several folds. What appeared to be a reaction to the defeat Pakistan faced in the T20 Asia Cup match against India, it was later found that Islamists were just using the match as an excuse to attack the Hindus as they did not stop even after Pakistan defeated India in the same series a week later.

The attacks intensified to the extent that Hindu families left Leicester, and some reportedly have not returned. The houses, businesses and properties of Hindus were vandalised. Contrary to what was happening, mainstream media and Islamists tried to cover up the anti-Hindu attacks and blamed Hindus for the clashes.

In Birmingham, they used an event where Sadhvi Ritambhara was scheduled to appear as an excuse to attack a Hindu temple. The event was postponed owing to Sadhvi’s health. However, the Islamists did not back off and attacked the temple. It was evident that they were well aware of the fact that not only that particular event but the whole tour was postponed, but they moved ahead and called to circle the temple to intimidate Hindus. More such so-called “peaceful protests” at Hindu temples and establishments in the UK have been planned by the Islamists in the coming days.

https://www.opindia.com/2023/09/cop-adam-ahmed-manhandles-hindu-priest-and-devotees-at-ganesh-chaturthi-in-leicester/

Bombs, Rockets and Torture Cells: The EU is an Islamic Narco-State

The Muslim immigrant drug gangs transforming European cities.

Less than an hour from the capital of the European Union, gangs fight gun battles in the streets or bomb each other’s outposts. Crime reporters, police and prosecutors are bought off or killed. Torture cells are set up in shipping containers and bodies can be cleanly disposed of, but when the gangs really want to send a message they set up a public execution or fire off a rocket.

That’s the way things are done, not in Bogota or Beirut, but in Antwerp.

Europe’s initial Islamic migration followed port cities. Among those leading port cities were Rotterdam and Antwerp which have become the hubs of Europe’s cocaine crisis. The Moroccan Muslims who came to the quintessentially European cities used them as links to their relatives who were growing marijuana back home. While Islam ruthlessly suppressed the use of alcohol, hashish use became widespread among the invading armies of the new religion. Islamic terrorists nourished on the drug became some of the most useful Jihadis carrying out attacks against Christian knights during the Crusades. Morocco was one of the world’s largest producers of hashish and the new Muslim immigrants established local drug empires.

The drugs grew harder and so did the gangs. Marijuana made way for cocaine in Rotterdam and Antwerp. The gangs became organized crime syndicates whose power rested on control of the docks. The docks in Antwerp are under the control of a hard leftist Belgian union that gleefully shuts down the country and violently clashes with the police during its strikes, but it knows better than to stand up to the Muslim gangs. Leading union figures have allegedly been bribed and ordinary dock workers who refuse to transport the cocaine off ships disappear.

A 2020 bust turned up a secret torture room in a shipping container with a dentist’s chair, handcuffs, pliers and scalpels. And cameras set to record it all as a lesson to others.

The Muslim gangs aren’t subtle. That we hardly hear about them is due to politics and terror.

In the Netherlands, they sent a message to the media by firing an anti-tank rocket at one magazine and then smashing a van through the lobby of the country’s biggest newspaper and setting it on fire. Reporters and bloggers have been killed, and abduction threats have been issued against everyone from the crown princess to the prime minister.

The terror is obvious, but so is the politics.

The Mocro Maffia, which controls a third of Europe’s cocaine market, was built by Moroccan immigrants to the Benelux countries. Media accounts make a point of describing most of the perpetrators in an attack as being “of Dutch origin” or from some other part of Europe to obfusticate the immigration issue. With a Moroccan Muslim criminal organization whose roots in Europe go back to the 1960s, it stands to reason that many of its younger members were already born in Europe: some even to second generation immigrants also born in Europe.

But that doesn’t make them European. And even Europe’s native criminal population is becoming Arabized and Islamized from prison level converts to more elite figures.

When Robert Mink Kok, a major Dutch drug trafficker who had considered becoming a lawyer before turning to crime, was targeted, authorities raided his compounds in Lebanon, including in Hezbollah’s drug hub in the Bekaa Valley where they found anti-tank rockets. Kok had married into a Lebanese Arab Muslim drug clan with its own drug labs and private army. The Lebanese drug clan and Kok had allegedly been working to bring two metric tons of cocaine into Europe.

The majority of drug kingpin figures, like Ridouan Taghi, once the most wanted man in the Netherlands, are North African Muslims and, when they go to ground it’s either in Muslim countries (Taghi was identified in Dubai) or, like Taghi’s associate, Sayid Razzouki, head for the shelter of the Latin American cartels whose drugs they move into Europe.

The immigrants, some of whom have been in Europe for 60 years, others who were born there, are not becoming integrated, instead parts of Europe are turning into Lebanon or Morocco. The same ports that once brought Muslim immigrants to Europe are now controlled by immigrant crime bosses who are making Europe play by their rules.

It’s not just Belgium and the Netherlands: Sweden had 90 gang bombings last year.

While the media harps on gun ownership in the United States, Muslim gangs in Sweden have taken to throwing hand-grenades and home-brewed explosives at each other. While the Muslim gang members still shoot at each other, they also like hurling explosives at apartment buildings.

At the end of August, there were four blasts in one hour at different buildings in Gothenburg where 10% of the country’s Muslim settler population lives. Unlike Belgium and the Netherlands, Sweden’s gangs and their weapons come from the shattered remnants of the former Yugoslavia: Bosnians and Albanians brought as refugees formed gangs and smuggled weapons from family members in their own homelands. They were joined by the Black Cobra gang: an Iraqi, Lebanese and ‘Palestinian’, organization expanding out of Denmark.

Authorities blame some of the infighting in Sweden’s Muslim gang scene on Rawa Majid, also known as the ‘Kurdish Fox’, who operates out of Turkey. Majiid had come to Sweden as a refugee baby only to build a massive criminal empire and plan RPG attacks. The killers are particularly indiscriminate. “If there are more than one on the scene, shoot all of them. Women, children, it doesn’t matter,” one gang member ordered.

The state of terror is serious, but perhaps even more serious is the growing role of the Muslim mafias in politics. Some gang bosses bribe everyone from police officers to inspectors to local politicians. Other gangs have been getting their members involved in elections, delivering votes, and even moving their members into public office. It’s unknown to what degree elected public officials have been compromised, but some are beginning to call localities and even entire cities, narcostates.

Some of the Benelux countries, always prone to financial corruption, have become hubs for drug smuggling, human trafficking, and organized crime. Muslim gang members openly battle for territory. And the proceeds of the money are laundered through local family businesses. Rising businessmen financed by drug money are getting involved in politics. Hip-hop gang culture crossbred with Korans and mosques is transforming European cities into Islamic narco-states. The next Afghanistan or Beirut may turn out to be in Europe after all.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/bombs-rockets-and-torture-cells-the-eu-is-an-islamic-narco-state/

Asylum seekers should have right to vote after only 6-month stay on German soil, says far left interior minister

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With Germany’s left-wing government sinking in the polls over a spiraling migration crisis and an economy in free fall, the left is starting to run low on voters. German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser may have the solution to the problem: Give asylum seekers the right to vote in local state elections after just six months in Germany. The program, if implemented, would translate into millions of new voters overnight.

“We want to work hard at the federal level and in the Bundesrat to ensure that all people who live in Hessian municipalities for more than six months are given the right to vote in local elections,” describes the election program from her Social Democrats (SPD) in the state of Hesse where Faeser is currently up for election.

According to the government’s own data, the over 1 million people who arrived in Germany from Ukraine, the MIddle East, Asia, and Africa, would immediately gain voting rights across Germany.

Currently, the right to vote in local elections only applies to citizens from other EU countries.

Bild newspaper asked the SPD to clarify what the massive expansion of voting rights would actually mean. An SPD spokesman responded that the party’s statement should have specifically defined the new voters as those “who have a permanent residence permit.” However, this would still apply to a range of asylum seekers from countries such as Syria, Afghanistan and Eritrea.

Faeser is known for her hardline left-wing political positions, persecution of conservatives, and calls for mass censorship; she was also previously revealed to have written for Antifa magazine shortly before becoming interior minister.

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party was immediately critical of what it describes as an attempt to stack the vote with migrants, releasing a statement that read: “Interior Minister Faeser (SPD), as the top candidate in the Hessian state elections, is campaigning for local voting rights for all people who have lived in Germany for ‘longer than six months.’ This means that supposed ‘refugees’ from Afghanistan, Syria or Turkey would also be allowed to vote – even without German citizenship.

“The German passport is thus turned into a piece of junk. But above all: Faeser and the SPD want to attract people who have no connection to Germany at all as new groups of voters. This is not surprising, because the locals who are ridiculed as ‘non-migrants’ are running away from (Chanceller Olaf) Scholz’s SPD.”

https://rmx.news/article/asylum-seekers-should-have-right-to-vote-after-only-6-month-stay-on-german-soil-says-far-left-interior-minister/

Italian MEP receives death threats over anti-Islamic headscarves T-shirt

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Italian MEP Silvia Sardone is reportedly receiving death threats after she recently wore a T-shirt in the European Parliament that read, “No to the Islamic Veil”.

Sardone has published some of the vile messages sent to her on social media.

These included: “I’ll cut your throat”, “I’ll stab you”, “die”, and “you’re worth burning”, “I’ll kill you”, “I’d suffocate you”, “explode”. Other hateful posts included: “I’ll break your face”, “it ends badly for you”, “you disgusting b*tch you have to die”.

There were also a number of messages aimed at her children, with some posters saying they would “catch them”.

Silvia Sardone et Mattéo Salvini., https://resistancerepublicaine.com/

Another sent to her read: “You will become Muslims like us, or there will be no place for you.” The Arabic phrase “Allahu Akbar” was also used often.

Asked if Sardone now required extra protection, European Parliament officials told Brussels Signal they do not comment on security measures.

If requested, security services of the Parliament can assist MEPs and can support them in their contact with legal or national authorities.

Sardone has been in the sights of enraged radical Islamists since she wore the controversial T-shirt in the plenary of the Parliament in Strasbourg last week.

She lambasted the “pretend” support from Europe for women in Iran while at the same time, the veil or hijab is being hailed as a positive symbol in advertisements by European institutions. In her view, the European Union is “submitting to Islam by considering hijabs are instruments of integration and diversity while it oppresses women”.

The Lega politician has been a vocal critic of Islamism. She has been fighting against the spread of illegal mosques and against headscarves for women.

This has made her the target of verbal attacks for a while but since wearing the T-shirt in Strasbourg, the tone has become more hostile.

She remains defiant, saying she will not change her mind. “I will not bend, I will not take steps back, I will not stay silent, I AM NOT AFRAID!

“I want to be clear,” Sardone said, “I will continue to express my ideas and opinions in Italy and in the institutions where I am elected, with my head held high and without fear.

“I will continue to say that the European Union should not promote the Islamic veil in its communications as a tool of freedom and integration because I consider it instead a tool of subjugation for women.

“I will continue to fight for the many women who want to be free and not oppressed for religious reasons. I will continue to denounce the increasing Islamisation of Europe, the spread of Muslim ghettos, and Islamic courts that want to impose Sharia law,” she added.

“I will continue to point out the worrying backwardness of our identity and culture.”

https://brusselssignal.eu/2023/09/italian-mep-receives-death-threats-over-anti-islamic-headscarves-t-shirt/

Art With Politics, But Without Aesthetics, is Nonsens

If all art is, is the act of making statements, then all of politics is art.

What happens when art becomes purely a means of social critique detached from aesthetic values?

The Royal Academy of Arts is hosting a tribute to Marina Abramovic, most famous for her ‘piece’, The Artist is Present, in which she sat looking at people, and in Denmark, one artist took the money and ran. Literally.

In autumn 2021, a Danish museum opened two large crates to inspect two works it had commissioned from the artist Jens Haaning.

But when museum staff pulled out the canvases — a new work the artist had informed the museum was titled Take the Money and Run — the canvases were completely blank.

The museum, the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, had given Haaning a loan of 532,549 Danish krone, the equivalent of about $76,400. The money was to be used to recreate two earlier works by Haaning that depicted — in actual cold, hard cash affixed to canvas in a frame — the average annual income of a Dane and an Austrian, and the sizable gap between them, reflecting wage differences within the European Union.

The intended work of art was idiotic and so was the final product. If there were aesthetic standards, the museum might have some grounds for complaint, but they don’t exist, and the best evidence of that is that the museum turned around and exhibited the blank canvasses as a commentary on capitalism.

The museum nonetheless exhibited the blank canvases in its “Work It Out” show…

“Haaning’s new work Take the Money and Run is also a recognition that works of art, despite intentions to the contrary, are part of a capitalist system that values a work based on some arbitrary conditions,” the museum says in its exhibition guide. “Even the missing money in the work has a monetary value when it is called art and thus shows how the value of money is an abstract quantity.”

Do you know what is a commentary on capitalism? Every single thing in the world.

If attaching an abstract value to objects is capitalism, then everything is capitalism and you could just as easily stick a pile of sugar packets in the museum and call it social commentary (of course it’s been done already) or a banana (done also) or a golden toilet (done and stolen).

When art consists of using everyday objects to make sophomoric statements about life pitched to an idiot leftist audience, then everything is art and nothing is art.

That’s what happened to modern art which abandoned aesthetics and now consists of social justice lectures embodied in everyday objects, random scrawls or even less accessible and more pointless exhibitions.

Art without aesthetics which is then reduced to politics is nonsense.

Is a blank canvas art? Sure. It’s making a statement, isn’t it. And if all art is, is the act of making statements, then all of politics is art, and art is politics, and we don’t need art, we just need politics.

That is what the Left has done to literature, movies, (and most forms of entertainment), religion, art, and anything it gets its hands on. It eats out the substance and leaves nothing.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/art-with-politics-but-without-aesthetics-is-nonsense/

Weeds Return to Choke Germany

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As Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr observed, the more things change, the more they stay the same. For example, Leipzig used to be in the communist German Democratic Republic, were brainwashed students were forced to attend political demonstrations in support of leftist ideology. Now it is in the Federal Republic of Germany, where everything is different and the same:

Last Friday, participation in the “Global Climate Strike” of the radical organisation “Fridays for Future” was compulsory for tenth graders at a Leipzig grammar school. …

[P]articipation was declared compulsory as part of a “sustainability project day”. Morning and afternoon classes were cancelled for this purpose. …

Four days earlier, at the parents’ meeting of the Gerda Taro School in Leipzig, some mothers and fathers were said to have protested vehemently. “It’s just like in the GDR,” complained one father. At that time, the pupils were also sent to demonstrations.

Germans were not liberated once and for all when the Nazis lost or when the Berlin Wall fell, because no one is ever liberated once and for all. Weeds start returning to choke the garden the moment you stop pulling them.

Moonbattery Weeds Return to Choke Germany – Moonbattery

UN globalists descend upon Gotham City for crisis talks as ‘progress’ of Sustainable Development Goals backslides

Image: YouTube video screen grab.

By Olivia Murray

“But as we gather this weekend, the goals are in trouble.”

—United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres September 18, 2023

This is music to my ears.

There’s a scene in the 1992 film Batman Returns in which Oswald Cobblepot, also known as Penguin, ostentatiously pulls up to his cold lair where a diabolical mob is waiting, ready to hear Cobblepot’s “plan” to wreak havoc on the innocent citizens of Gotham City.

As they say, life imitates art, and this Hollywood production just became reality; yesterday, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and an entourage of fellow globalists descended on the real Gotham City to devise a “plan” because frankly, their old one doesn’t seem to be working out that well. Guterres is Cobblepot, and the attending figureheads at the 2023 Sustainable Development Goals Summit are Cobblepot’s villainous collaborators—the similarities are striking.

This year’s two-day event comes at the midpoint of the Agenda 2030 scheme, which officially began on January 1, 2016. According to a summary statement posted to the organization’s website:

But the Agenda is a promise, not a guarantee. At the halftime mark, the promise is in deep peril. For the first time in decades, development progress is reversing… 

Then, in an address delivered before the attendees yesterday, Guterres said, “Today, only 15% of the targets are on track, with many going into reverse,” and issued a call for a “global rescue plan” to pull the SDGs back from the brink of uncertainty.

Prior to the event, Guterres sat down for an interview with Mita Hosali, the Deputy Director of UN News; Hosali opened with this:

We’re speaking here on the cusp of the 78th General Assembly Session, where a record number of world leaders are expected, but from the P5, only one head of state … What does this say about the U.N. as a center of diplomacy, at a time when there are crises on so many fronts?

(The P5 refers to the “Permanent Five” nations to hold permanent seats on the Security Council established by the charter in 1945.)

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out the answer to Hosali’s question—clearly “the U.N. as a center of diplomacy” is a rapidly diminishing prospect, along with the successful implementation of Agenda 2030 and the SDGs. That singular head of state? The Gaffetastic Joe Biden—no wonder no one else cared to come!

So are the rest of the “world leaders” even heads of state? Or are these “world leaders” just bureaucratic figureheads? Guterres responded to Hosoali in agitation (defensive much?), noting “first of all” that the Summit “is not a vanity fair”… but I’m going to have to stop him right there because that’s exactly what the U.N. summit is.

These “leaders” aren’t elected, but they’re gathering in New York on their own dime to pretend they’re legitimate policy-makers and political dignitaries? And, furthermore, the only actual P5 head of state that made it to this “very important” summit is Joe Biden, who, on top of being a complete dumpster fire, is himself illegitimately occupying the head of state role? How mortifying.

To echo the opening quote at the outset of this blog, Guterres then states that “unfortunately” at this point in time, the SDGs are “not moving in the right direction.”

I myself could not be happier.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/09/un_globalists_descend_upon_gotham_city_for_crisis_talks_as_progress_of_sustainable_development_goals_backslides.html

France’s Le Pen slams Meloni’s handling of Italy’s migrant crisis, refers to ‘cowardice’

Marine Le Pen, who leads the National Rally’s parliamentary faction in France, joined her Italian ally Matteo Salvini during a rally in Italy where she slammed Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni over her handling of Italy’s raging immigration crisis.

“(There is) trouble, trouble for those leaders who don’t realize there are signs of alarm and danger from the massive arrival of migrants on Lampedusa. An island of 6,000 people, where more than 6,000 migrants arrived in a single day — trouble for the population in which the leaders don’t take action immediately to face this giant challenge,” said Le Pen. Although Le Pen never mentions Meloni by name, the Associated Press characterized the comments as a “swipe” at Meloni during the rally in Pontida, Italy, where thousands gathered to watch Le Pen and Salvini, leader of the Leauge party, speak.

However, in even more shocking terminology, Le Pen referred to Meloni and what she described as “cowardice,” saying that there are those leaders “who justify their cowardice by claiming there is no alternative.”

It is not the first time that Le Pen has lambasted Meloni. Last June, Le Pen said that she recognized Meloni was “hindered” by the budget situation in her country, but that according to Le Pen, “everything is a question of political will.”

With Italy’s borrowing costs soaring, some analysts are saying Meloni is at the mercy of the EU and, perhaps more importantly, the European Central Bank (ECB) to remain in power due to Italy’s delicate economic situation. Just last summer, yields on Italian debt were a mere 0.4 percent and have since jumped close to 4.4 percent and hovered there for months.

Nevertheless, many conservatives in Europe are beginning to sour on Meloni as well, with Hungarian media running critical stories on her handling of the migrant crisis.

Le Pen, who has long backed Salvini, told the audience that European parties must defend “our people, as Matteo (Salvini) did so brilliantly with courage and pugnacity when he had the power to do so (…) by dramatically reducing the number of migrants.”

Le Pen was directly referring to when Salvini served as minister of the interior (2018-2019) when he effectively brought migration to a standstill with his tough immigration policies.

France’s opposition leader referred to that time as a moment when “the whole of Europe looked towards Italy with admiration” due to the determination Salvini and his League party demonstrated.

After Salvini’s party fell from power in 2019, he became the target of a range of court cases that labeled his refusal to allow migrants to dock in Italian ports as a “kidnapping.” Despite the judges in the cases admitting they were bogus and a form of political retribution, the court trials continued to proceed until Salvini’s League came back into power with Meloni in a three-way coalition. However, the reality is that Salvini’s power within government is greatly diminished, and he holds a far inferior ministerial position to the interior minister position he once held.

His position on migration also appears to have been rejected by Meloni, who toured Lampedusa on Sunday with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen after 10,000 migrants landed on the island in just three days. While Meloni is championing the idea of a naval blockade to protect Europe’s borders, there are doubts whether the EU will ever back such a policy due to both legal restraints and the pro-migration ideology prevalent among the ruling left-liberals in Brussels.

In April, Le Pen also expressed her preference for Salvini, saying, “Politically, I feel closer to Matteo Salvini. I don’t adapt my speech to the election results: I am a loyal person.”

“I am not Meloni’s twin sister, I remain faithful to Salvini,” she added.

https://rmx.news/trending/tension-on-the-right-frances-le-pen-slams-melonis-handling-of-italys-migrant-crisis-refers-to-cowardice/

“I planted a bomb in your school”: A school in Saint-Denis, France, was evacuated after a person threatened to “wipe out all the kuffar with his Kalashnikov”

In an email addressed to the Lycée Paul Eluard, a person claimed to have planted a bomb in the school and threatened to eliminate the “kuffars” with his “Kalashnikov”.

The students of the Lycée Paul Eluard in Saint-Denis were evacuated on Tuesday morning because of a bomb threat, as Le Figaro learned from police sources.. The school had already been the target of threats the day before, but they had gone unheeded. In an email sent to the school, the perpetrator stated that he had “planted a bomb in the school” and that he would “come to exterminate all kuffar with [his] Kalashnikov, which originated from Yemen”. The message, obtained by Le Figaro, was attached with a photo of a firearm.

On Tuesday, these threats were taken very seriously. “As a result of this bomb threat, a prospection was carried out by specialised dogs. Another school near the high school was also evacuated for security reasons,” a police source said. By noon this Tuesday, the measures were to be lifted and students were to return to their schools. The Public Prosecution Service (SDPJ) took action over death threats. (…) Le Figaro

https://www.fdesouche.com/2023/09/19/jai-pose-une-bombe-dans-votre-etablissement-un-lycee-de-saint-denis-93-evacue-apres-les-menaces-dun-individu-qui-declarait-vouloir-exterminer-tous-les-kuffars-avec/

Irish Government’s anti-racism pledge could ‘undermine academic freedom’

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An Irish Government’s anti-racism pledge for universities runs the risk of endangering academic freedom, a lecturer has warned.

Dr Tim Crowley, a lecturer in ancient philosophy at University College Dublin (UCD), has warned that his college’s decision to sign up to the government’s “Anti-Racism Principles for Irish Higher Education Institutions” could have a “chilling” effect on freedom of speech.

Penned by Ireland’s Higher Education Authority, the pledge mandates that universities back achieving “greater ethnic diversity among students” while tackling so-called “microaggressions”.

It also includes a line forcing universities to promote “anti-racist policies and actions across broader Irish society”.

Writing to UCD President Orla Feely, the lecturer said that he was “disappointed” by her announcement she was looking to sign the document on behalf of the university.

Crowley went on to cite a report from the University of Chicago which, he says, “warns that taking a position on a social or political matters by the university, and then demanding its members support this prescribed view, will chill the environment for free expression and undermine academic freedom”.

“A university, if it is to be true to its faith in intellectual inquiry, must embrace, be hospitable to, and encourage the widest diversity of views within its own community,” he said.

“It is not a club, it is not a trade association, it is not a lobby … it is a community which cannot take collective action on the issues of the day without endangering the conditions for its existence and effectiveness,” he added.

“There is no mechanism by which it can reach a collective position without inhibiting that full freedom of dissent on which it thrives.”

Speaking to Brussels Signal, advocacy group Free Speech Ireland also expressed concerns that the pledge could have a chilling effect on academic freedoms.

“Universities should be an open space for the battle of ideas. A place for the most pressing and important issues of our time to be debated,” a spokesman for the group said.

“The University subscribing to this deeply charged understanding of anti-racism is deeply disconcerting within the context of widespread clampdowns on freedom expression in Ireland,” he added.

“It’s vital that universities endeavour to cultivate an environment for free expression and academic freedom.”

Warnings over the threat to academic freedom posed by the document appear to have fallen on deaf ears, with Feeley signing the government document regardless.

https://brusselssignal.eu/2023/09/irish-governments-anti-racism-pledge-could-undermine-academic-freedom/