Month: February 2024

On 3rd February, a controversial Islamic cleric and chief of the Ittihad-e-Millat Council party, Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan criticised the recent decision of the central government to award Bharat Ratna to veteran politician Lal Krishna Advani.

Tauqeer Raza, known for his incendiary remarks, expressed his views during a press interaction. He accused Advani of playing divisive politics and spreading hatred in the country. In a shocking conclusion to the remarks, Maulana threatened a civil war in the country.

Tauqeer Raza claimed that if the Rath Yatra that Lal Krishna Advani took in the 1990s was for progress, prosperity, peace, and brotherhood in the country, he deserves the award. However, according to him, Advani was awarded for playing politics of division and spreading hatred in the country. He termed it as an “insult to Bharat Ratna”.

He said that the current political situation in the country is overshadowed with “hatred, dishonesty, and injustice”, and awarding someone “involved in creating such an environment was an insult to the prestigious award”.

He said, “If anyone is responsible for these issues, it is Lal Krishna Advani.” He continued to express his dismay over awarding Advani. He said that the award should be given to those accepted by all sections of the society and whose actions are admired by the nation.

“The one who has divided the country, spread hatred, and created an atmosphere of hatred in the country should not be given Bharat Ratna,” the Maulana said.

The irked Islamic cleric did not stop there and warned of a civil war in the country. He said that it is due to the patience practiced by Muslims that religious tensions are not escalating. Cautioning against Muslims losing control, he said, “If our youth go out of control, then no one can save India from a civil war.”

He claimed that Muslims want peace and do not want an atmosphere of religious fanaticism, demolitions of mosques, lynching of Muslims and destruction of their cultural symbols.

The controversial remarks by Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan are not new. Tauqeer Raza, who came out in support of Congress in the 2022 Assembly Elections in Uttar Pradesh, has repeatedly warned of riots.

In April 2022, irked by the bulldozer action against criminals in UP, he said, “If this government continues to do such injustice, the countrywide Jail Bharo Andolan will become so big that government will be unable to contain it. And the day Muslims come to the streets, one must understand that they will be uncontrollable. Therefore, I warn the government and Narendra Modi in particular that if he fails to correct this way of taking action with immediate effect….. And his silence. You are the Prime Minister for all of us. Such acts are taking place in your country, and you remain silent?”

In January 2022, he made similar remarks while addressing a crowd of 20 lakh Muslims. He said, “I see the anger within my Muslim youths, and I am afraid that the day this anger bursts out, the day I lose control over them… I want to warn my Hindu brothers that I’m scared that the day my Muslim youths are forced to take the law into their hands, you will not find a place to hide anywhere in India.”

Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan has allied with Congress on multiple occasions. He also supported the party in the 2009 General Elections in UP.

https://www.opindia.com/2024/02/controversial-maulana-tauqeer-raza-khan-warns-of-civil-war-over-bharat-ratna-to-lk-advani/

There is evidence to support protesting farmers’ claims that they are drowning in EU regulation, according to economists surveyed by Brussels Signal.

Above a certain threshold, regulatory costs outweigh their benefits, says Ana Boata, head of research at multinational financial services company Allianz.

There is evidence this is true for farmers, she said.

Europeans have been enduring record high food-price inflation, but EU farmers’ real incomes have dropped by 12 per cent between 2022 and 2023, according to Allianz.

In France, where there is relatively more regulation than the rest of the bloc, farmers’ remuneration dipped by 22 per cent in real terms.

Regulation has hit farmers’ productivity, which declined rapidly over the past five years across the EU – most notably in France.

“For instance, the Common Agricultural Policy [CAP] is increasingly imposing mandatory constraints in exchange for subsidies,” Boata said.

“Along with regulation, market forces also explain why so little of the increased costs we pay for food ends up in farmers’ pockets.

“Farmers are un-concentrated [i.e. fragmented] and, therefore, have low bargaining power,” she added.

“The extra euros we pay in food are more likely to stay with the supermarkets, which can drive hard bargains with the farmers they buy food from.

“Animal growers – producing meat, milk, and eggs – have held up better here than growers of non-animal products like wheat, grain, and oil,” Boata continued.

“Despite not getting more money for the food they sell, farmers have still needed to fork out more, in higher costs for energy, fertiliser, transportation, storage and their workers’ wages.

“While this is hardly the first time that Europe has faced farmer protests, they could play a role in the upcoming European elections,” she added.

There is a “rise of a new kind of agrarian populism” in Europe, Boata contended.

As an example she pointed to the Netherlands, where the BoerBurgerBeweging, or Farmer-Citizen Movement, grew out of protests in 2019 on its promises to address farmers’ issues.

After gaining the highest number of seats in May 2023’s Dutch Senate elections and 4.7 per cent of votes in November’s General Election, the party is now in talks to be part of the ruling coalition.

Boata said that governments could increase their efforts “to ensure that farmers are paid fairly along the distribution chain”.

The EU, for its part, could look for ways regulations could be “simplified and streamlined”, she added.

Oxford Analytica predicted on January 31 that Farmer protests in Paris and Brussels that began on January 18 “are likely to spread to more countries, such as Spain and Portugal”.

The French protests are the country’s Prime Minister Gabriel Attal’s first crisis since taking office January 9.

Attal has responded by addressing grievances of small farmers in France’s Southwest, promising to abandon new diesel taxes, simplify environmental rules and pressure supermarket chains to offer “fairer prices” to farmers for their produce.

Those farmers with larger cereal holdings nearer Paris, especially the Fédération nationale des syndicats d’exploitants agricoles (FNSEA), or National Federation of Agricultural Holders’ Unions, rejected French President Emmanuel Macron’s promises. They launched the recent tractor-powered “siege of Paris”.

Their beef is more with the EU, especially rules restricting use of pesticides near private housing, and a new policy requiring them to leave 4 per cent of their land fallow to permit nature to “recover”.

These grievances are harder for Attal to address, although Macron attempted to raise farmers’ concerns at an EU leaders’ summit on February 1.

The French farmers’ relative success in gaining concessions from Attal is likely to encourage agricultural workers elsewhere to protests, according to Oxford Analytica.

Spanish farmers have announced demonstrations, which likely will spill over to neighbouring Portugal ahead of its general election on March 10.

Such protests are growing more widespread – and inventive.

Dutch farmers sprayed liquid manure at the entrance to the Utrecht provincial government building on February 2 and did the same at an Aldi supermarket on February 3.

https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/02/success-of-french-farmers-will-encourage-spread-of-protest-movement-across-eu/

We launched this Democracy Watch column last year to follow “the battles between the EU elites and the peoples of Europe.” If you ever wonder what we are talking about, look no further than the contrasting battleground scenes in Brussels last week.

While all the EU heads of government were locked in secret talks in the Council chamber about how to run the continent from above, farmers were outside the European Parliament protesting against the impact of their rulers’ destructive Net Zero policies on Europeans’ everyday lives.

It was a stark illustration of the clash between the elites and the peoples of Europe. A civil war between the two constituent parts of democracy, as originally defined by the ancient Greeks; on one side demos—the people—on the other kratos—power and control.

Some 2,500 years later, the stage is set for a struggle over the future of democracy in Europe, in the run-up to June’s European elections.

Inside that European Council summit meeting in Brussels, the heads of government of every EU member state were meeting behind closed doors to discuss how to give another €50 billion to embattled Ukraine, without ever considering that they might consult European taxpayers. They were pressing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary to withdraw his veto and agree to the huge hand-out, despite recent polls that show most Hungarian voters don’t want to get involved in the Russia-Ukraine war.

Meanwhile, just around the corner from the power summit, crowds of furious French farmers blockaded the square outside the European Parliament with their tractors, lit bonfires of tyres, and clashed with water cannon-wielding riot police.

Remember, these were hard-working farmers who rarely take a day off, not the leisure class of professional green protestors who normally bring chaos to Europe’s cities. They were moved to come to Brussels to protest against the green austerity measures imposed under the EU elites’ irrational Net Zero policies, which mean lower incomes for farming communities and higher food prices for the rest of us.

One banner on display in Brussels, as reported by The European Conservative on Thursday, captured the underlying complaints of farmers who are now protesting across Europe, and of the millions of other Europeans who back them. It declared: “This is not the Europe we want.”

No, this is not the Europe we want. It is the political Europe built by EU elites who believe that they know better than, and what is best for, the rest of us. Elites who prize their ‘ever-closer Union’ over national sovereignty and democracy; who impose high-minded green austerity policies to ‘save the planet’ with no thought about the damage they will do to the lives of millions on the ground; who force Europe’s nations to accept mass migration, not so much because they love migrants, but because they hate national borders and the notion of a sovereign people having control of their own destiny.

This is the Europe that has led many Europeans to reject the old political parties that built it. It is why populist and national conservative parties have been surging in elections almost everywhere and are predicted to do well in June’s elections to the European Parliament.

Outside that monstrous Parliament building in Brussels, briefly illuminated by the farmers’ bonfires last week, huge adverts earnestly call on Europeans to “Use Your Vote” in June. Inside its citadels, however, the EU political establishment is not so sure about that, increasingly worried that millions will use their vote in the ‘wrong’ way, by voting for anti-migration, EU-sceptical upstarts.

The response of the EU elites is to attack the revolting voters of Europe, by branding them as ‘far right’ or, when that is not considered extreme enough, ‘ultra far right.’ This is a thinly coded way of saying that these people are outside the narrow confines of ‘respectable’ debate.

Instead of being engaged with, the ‘far right’ should be censored, cancelled or banned altogether, as many now want to see happen to the populist and increasingly popular Alternative for Germany (AfD). In the double-speak of the elites, this assault on democratic rights is all justified in the name of ‘saving democracy’ of course. Thus, in order to save the people from themselves, woke elitists would deny millions of Germans the right to vote for the party of their choice.

The EU elites’ response has exposed that fact that real threat to European democracy, to the ability of people to control their own destiny, comes from above.

You might imagine that many are now voting for populist parties because of the failings of the EU establishment. Apparently not. To pillars of that establishment, it is because the voters are irrational, over-emotional children, afraid of the dark. This was what Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, spelt out to an elite audience at an Italian five-star hotel just before Christmas.

Fresh from his efforts to sell out Israeli democracy in its war against Islamist autocracy, Borrell had a message about the dangers of too much democracy in Europe today. The ‘extreme right’ could do well in the European elections, he admitted. Why? “I’m afraid that Europeans will vote based on fear,” prompted by scaremongering about migration. “Fear in the face of the unknown and uncertainty,” the EU’s top diplomat continued, “generates a hormone that calls for a security response.” This fear may cause ‘hormonal’ Europeans to vote for ‘the extreme right.’

Never mind that worries about mass migration are entirely real and rational, based for example on the fact that the EU received more than a million claims for asylum in the first 10 months of 2023.  In Borell’s view the real problem, as captured by Bruno Waterfield of The Times (London), is that “populism has an irrational biological basis.”

The genuine ‘fear’ on display here is the EU elites’ fear and loathing of the people, which they feel in their bones. They are terrified that voters are out of their control, that the demos are slipping free from their kratos. For the likes of Borell, this is the wrong kind of democracy, something verging on madness. And they will go to any lengths to prevent the ‘lunatic’ electorates from taking over their personal Brussels-based asylum.

Here the battle over democracy in Europe becomes part of a far wider struggle across the world. In 2024, some four billion people across more than 60 countries are due to vote in national elections, and the ones for the European Parliament. We might imagine that the world’s biggest-ever carnival of democracy is something to celebrate. But not, apparently, for the political and media elites atop our alleged Western democracies.

Instead they greeted the new year with doom-laden headlines such as “2024 is the year of elections and that’s a threat to democracy” (Bloomberg), “Can democracy survive 2024?” (Financial Times), “Democracy is in peril in the world’s bonanza year of elections” (Politico) and “Make or break for the EU … with far right on the rise” (The Guardian).

These elitists are terrified of the prospect of billions of people refusing to do as they are told and instead voting as they see fit. ‘Democracy’ is all very well so long as it suits the interests of those with the kratos; but if the demos take democracy too literally seeks to assert their will, that’s an entirely different matter. As one former member of President Barack Obama’s administration put it, they believe that you can have “too much of a good thing” and that Western society “might be a healthier democracy if it were a slightly less democratic one.” For some liberals in high places these days it seems that, where popular democracy is concerned, less really could be more.

It should now be clear that, yes, democracy is indeed under threat in 2024. But the danger to European democracy comes from above, not below. The Brussels elites are determined to hold back the democratic tide.

That’s why they have spent years politically threatening and financially blackmailing democratically-elected conservative governments in Hungary and Poland, hiding behind talk of the ‘rule of law’ to disguise the attempt to enforce the rule of unelected judges and bureaucrats. Having played their part in installing EU lackey Donald Tusk as Poland’s prime minister, and turned a blind eye to the new regime’s purge of its political opponents, Brussels officials are now making plans to wreak havoc on the Hungarian economy in order to bring its prime minister Viktor Orbán to heel; and if that fails, to strip Hungary (and any other dissident nation) of its democratic right to vote ‘no’ in European Council meetings. In the eyes of the high priests of EU conformism, Mr. Orban has committed the cardinal sin of repeatedly winning elections on a platform of ‘illiberal democracy’ that refuses to accept mass migration at Hungary’s borders or LGBTQ ideology in its schools.

Nor are the EU elites about to give up this year’s elections without a dirty fight. They have passed their Digital Services Act as part of a crusade to counter ‘hate speech’ and ‘misinformation’ online, particularly around election campaigns. These are code words for containing freedom of speech for anybody they brand as ‘far right.’ As Democracy Watch has already warned, in the run-up to the elections, Big Brussels is watching you.

For all that, however, democracy is today our best hope of bringing change to the Europe we don’t want. Despite all of the conspiracy theories about dumb voters being manipulated by the media and social media, the electorate remains smart enough to make up its own mind. The elites may control the institutions of the European Commission and the courts, but they cannot force the democratic genie back into the bottle. The European elections are a key battleground for the future—and one we can win.

A footnote. In between worrying about the death of democracy, Europe’s anti-democratic elites have been mourning the death of former European Commission president Jacques Delors, praised as the architect of the European Union. Hearing all the eulogies here in the UK reminded me of a famous speech by left-wing Labour MP Tony Benn from back in 1991, during the parliamentary debate about the Maastricht Treaty. Benn, a veteran of the time when the left still believed in national sovereignty and democracy, dissented from the cross-party support for the coming of the EU. “Some believe that we shall never get justice from the British government, but we shall get it from Jacques Delor; they believe that a good king is better than a bad parliament. I have never taken that view.” And nor should anybody, whether left, right or ‘far right’, who pays more than lip service to democratic politics.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/democracy-watch/the-danger-to-democracy-comes-from-above-not-below/

Akron, Ohio’s first Pakistani Muslim mayor is convinced that America is racist.

Despite winning a challenging mayoral election by 97% in which he was the only candidate on the ballot after the Republican candidate was disqualified, Shammas Malik has never stopped talking about how racism is everywhere in the country and the city that elected him.

“He’s going to be the face of equity and diversity,” a Malik ally claimed.

And the face of diversity believes that everything about Akron, including its Innerbelt defunct highway system, is racist. “The choice to build the Innerbelt is a great example of systemic racism,” he claimed. “Projects like the Innerbelt explain our sickening racial wealth gap,” he contended elsewhere. And “one great example” of Akron’s racism, he lectured, was the Innerbelt which “was designed to help suburban commuters get to downtown Akron quicker.”

Malik’s solution to most problems, from highways to law enforcement, is to blame racism.

In 2022, Jayland Walker, who had led police on a chase the previous night, shot at officers and then tried to flee while wearing a ski mask, was shot and killed leading to BLM race riots.

Malik showed up at a protest against the grand jury’s refusal to indict the 8 police officers for shooting a man in a ski mask who had opened fire at them and was reaching into his waistband and then raising his arm before they finally opened fire on the suicidal man.

“There can be no justification for the brutal amount of force in the video of Jayland’s last moments,” Malik insisted while not making it clear what the correct amount of force police should use when they think a man wearing a ski mask in June is about to shoot at them.

Malik started his time in office by appointing a Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and doubling down on his claim that the country and the city are deeply racist hellholes.

“The very real history of racism in America is more than just history, it shapes the systems and institutions around us today,” Malik claimed.

Those are the same systemically racist institutions which allowed Shammas Iqbal Qammar Malik, the 32-year-old son of a Pakistani immigrant, to head one of the largest cities in Ohio. Institutions so deeply racist that they elevated him above all the other white primary candidates and then gifted him an uncontested election after less than four years on the City Council.

Malik claimed that the “history of racism means that the race of a baby born in Akron today will have a huge impact on their life experience – from the likelihood that they will live past infancy, to the amount of money they will earn in a lifetime.” What did Malik’s own race determine?

Mayor Shammas Malik’s father, a Pakistani immigrant, who used different names, left him and his American mother, a liberal University of Akron professor, had other secret kids, and was later arrested for wire fraud and impersonating an Air Force officer.

Despite that, both Malik and his brother Najim were able to intern at the Senate. Malik went on to intern at the Department of Defense, attend Harvard Law School and get the highest possible position in city government after only a few years on the job.

That is how incredibly racist America and Akon are.

As a student, Shammas Malik had been a member of the terrorist-linked Muslim Student Association before graduating to intern at the terrorist-linked Muslim Public Affairs Council. Multiple MSA leaders and officials have gone on to fight for Al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist groups. MPAC’s leaders have defended Hamas as well as other Islamic terrorist groups.

After working as a government and policy intern for MPAC, Malik moved on to the leftist Center for American Progress and then as an intern in the Pentagon’s legal office working on federal litigation involving national security and military commissions trials for Al Qaeda terrorists.

And he has learned one thing from all his experiences. America is terrible.

Malik Shammas claimed that America “killed thousands of civilians through drone and airstrikes across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, etc. across the last 20 years – feeding into the recruitment of horrific terror groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS.”

White people, like his mother and her family, an environmentalist who married his wealthy Pakistani dad, according to Malik, have far too much money because of systemic racism.

“White families have almost 10 times as much wealth as black families, in large part because of systemic barriers that prevent black families from accessing home ownership and creating intergenerational wealth,” Shammas Malik argued.

One reason Shammas Malik is the mayor is that he dominated the Democrat party mayoral primaries by outraising all the other candidates with over $300,000: a record setting amount for a local election. Wealth is evil and racist except when it comes from his old law firm.

Malik claimed white people suffer from “implicit bias” to be remedied with critical race theory.

“The reason we need a true and accurate teaching of race in school is because there’s unconscious bias,” Malik argued. “When folks talk about critical race theory being taught in public schools, we know by now that they’re not actually talking about critical race theory,” he argued another time. “What they’re alarmed about is a more honest, fuller accounting of race in our history.”

By “our history”, he doesn’t mean the incredibly racist system in Pakistan where a foreigner of another religion would never have a chance at a top position, and would be lucky not to be killed for even trying, but in the country that gave him every possible opportunity and advantage.

During the pandemic, Malik’s priority was racism. “Certainly it will be very important to find out how much race and class plays into this virus, here and nationwide,” he urged.

After the Supreme Court outlawed racial discrimination in college admissions (known by the misleading name of ‘affirmative action’), Malik, a Harvard Law alum, complained that, “systemic racism is real. To fix it, we have to be willing to acknowledge the problem in the first place. Today’s decision is a huge step backwards in the fight for freedom and justice for all people.”

Even the rising crime caused by pro-crime activists like him, was blamed on systemic racism.

“Like many cities, Akron is facing a crisis of gun violence, with 26 homicides so far this year, as well as necessary calls for reimagining our policing and oversight processes to address systemic racism and increase public trust,” the future mayor contended.

Ending the murders would require empowering the police to fight crime. Instead, Mayor Shammas Malik appointed a new DEI director and blamed systemic racism and the cops.

There was a time when immigrants would be grateful for the opportunities of this country, but many have since learned that it’s much more effective to be ungrateful and hateful instead.

“The vote for someone who is not the traditional white male profile is something that we as a community should celebrate,” a Malik ally claimed.

In politics and in so many other areas, merely not being white is its own achievement. And by being only half-white, Malik has achieved half of something.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/racist-mayor-shammas-malik/

The Information Services of the National Police believe they have aborted what would have been the largest terrorist attack in recent years in Spain with the capture last Sunday in the Sevillian town of Montellano of a young Syrian refugee, only 16 years old, who intended to immolate himself this week at the school he attended, the Castillo de Cote Secondary Education Institute (IES) in that Seville municipality.

The order of José Luis de Castro, head of the Central Juvenile Court of the National Court, with which he has sent S.T. to six months at a “closed center,” reveals that this minor managed to manufacture “Mother of Satan,” the very unstable and deadly explosive that jihadist groups have been using in the last decade. The same explosive that blew up the house in Alcanar (Tarragona) in August 2017 where the terrorists of the Catalonia attacks were preparing their bombs.

Spain: Muslim migrant teen manufactured 'Mother of Satan' explosive, plotted major jihad massacre at his school – https://t.co/Zn4SiLKeGy

— Robert Spencer (@jihadwatchRS) February 4, 2024

Asylum seekers are exploiting loopholes in human rights legislation by ‘converting’ to Christianity to prevent being deported back to their home countries — a move facilitated by the Church of England, prominent U.K. politicians have claimed.

Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman shone a light on what she described as churches around the country aiding “bogus asylum claims” on an “industrial scale” by providing corroborating evidence for Muslim asylum seekers who were confirmed by the Church of England to support their asylum applications.

“Attend mass once a week for a few months, befriend the vicar, get your baptism date in the diary, and, bingo, you’ll be signed off by a member of the clergy that you’re now a God-fearing Christian who will face certain persecution if removed to your Islamic country of origin,” Braverman wrote in a Telegraph article published on Saturday.

“It has to stop,” she added.

'Many churches around the country are facilitating bogus asylum claims'

Suella Braverman calls it a 'gross insult to genuine Christians' that the Church is 'rubberstamping' claims, as she calls for automatic deportation for convicts. pic.twitter.com/sALif0nKR6

— GB News (@GBNEWS) February 4, 2024

Such asylum scams have risen to the top of the political debate in Britain following last week’s heinous attack in London by Afghan ‘refugee,’ Abdul Ezed, for whom a manhunt remains underway after dousing a woman and her two young daughters with a corrosive substance and injuring nine other people in the process.

Ezed arrived in the U.K. on the back of a lorry back in 2016 from Afghanistan and had two asylum applications refused before being successful on his third attempt after ‘converting’ to Christianity from Islam and using human rights laws to claim he would not be safe back in his home country were he to be deported.

A Church spokesperson released a statement claiming the institution did not know “which Christian church received him nor which Christian minister gave him a reference,” adding that it is “the role of the Home Office, and not the church, to vet asylum seekers and judge the merits of their individual cases.”

Ezed, however, isn’t the first notable case to exploit such a loophole.

Another former home secretary, Dame Priti Patel, highlighted the case of Emad Jamil Al Swealmeen, the Jordanian national who moved to Britain and claimed asylum after being confirmed at Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral in 2017.

Four years later, he blew himself up using a homemade ball-bearing suicide vest in a taxi outside the Liverpool Women’s Hospital’s neonatal unit on Remembrance Sunday.

“It is right that these cases are scrutinized and that there is a degree of honesty in establishments, including the Church of England as to what their motivations were,” Dame Priti said.

She claimed that religious leaders within the Church of England are “constantly speaking out against any reforms and work introduced by Conservatives in this area,” accusing the increasingly left-wing institution of “political activism.”

This allegation is evidenced by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby’s vocal opposition to the U.K. government’s asylum policy to send applicants to the African nation of Rwanda for processing. Welby has teamed up with fellow opponents of the policy in the House of Lords, Britain’s upper parliamentary chamber, to table amendments designed to frustrate its passing through parliament.

The archbishop has claimed the policy is “leading the nation down a damaging path,” sparking a response by Home Secretary James Cleverly who recently warned: “There is nothing honorable, there is nothing righteous, about removing one of the tools to break criminality.”

The Church of England has even published guidance to its clergy on how they can assist asylum seekers with their applications which specifically states that if an applicant “has converted to Christianity after a previous refusal, that may be the basis of a fresh claim.”

It continues to provide criteria required for a second claim to be successful, including the submission of “convincing evidence” such as “testimony from a church leader” or “other testimony confirming their faith or conversion.”

Conservative broadcaster Nigel Farage recently drew attention to the guide and accused the Church of England of being “complicit in the Clapham acid attack.”

The Church of England were complicit in the Clapham acid attack. How many more?

➡️ https://t.co/9pLY7dCWNY pic.twitter.com/OxatPH9xP8

— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) February 3, 2024

The ‘Pray to Stay’ scam appears to be increasing in popularity. A Sky News report over the weekend revealed that almost two dozen asylum seekers currently residing at RAF Wethersfield, a military base-turned-asylum center in southeast England, had been baptized by local vicars in the last week alone.

Absolutely outrageous, a Sky News reporter revealed that the local vicars are “kept busy” with “around 20 of the men baptised just last weekend."

Converting to Christianity is deemed a reason that it’s unsafe to return to some countries. These sickening loopholes must end! pic.twitter.com/FUD2EYDNC0

— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) February 3, 2024

The loophole was enshrined into European case law in 2022 when the European Court of Human Rights ruled that an asylum seeker who converted from Islam to the Salvation Army could not be deported from Switzerland to Pakistan due to fear of persecution, despite the Swiss authorities rejecting his asylum application.

https://rmx.news/migration/church-of-england-accused-of-facilitating-bogus-asylum-claims-after-dozens-of-applicants-convert-to-christianity-to-exploit-human-rights-loophole/

A trans-identified male from Colorado is seeking asylum in Canada on the basis of his gender identity. Daria Bloodworth arrived in Canada in 2019 after claiming to have been the victim of “transphobic” crime in the United States.

Bloodworth applied for refugee status in Canada, seeking protection on the basis of transphobic persecution by Americans, American society generally, and specific individuals including a debt collector and a former roommate at Colorado State University.

In his asylum application, Bloodworth claimed that he was the victim of a transphobia-motivated crime in May of 2019 after his roommate brandished a gun at him while making transphobic statements. The asylum application states that Bloodworth feared for his life after a court refused to grant him a protective order following the incident.

“With no protection orders in place, Ms. Bloodworth states the roommate stalked her, including by standing outside her residence with a gun, and he pursued her despite changing residences twice.Ms. Bloodworth states she called the police or went to the police station to report events of stalking behaviour, but did not receive protection. She was told her former roommate had the right to open carry a firearm. Eventually, she stopped calling the police,” the Citizenship and Immigration case reads.

Reduxx has reviewed bodycam footage showing the Fort Collins Police Service responding to the purported transphobic incident in 2019.

The 2-hour long video starts by showing Bloodworth being interviewed by police at the station after coming to report the crime himself. In the interview, the three police officers appear visibly confused and express difficulty in understanding Bloodworth’s account of events after he claims his roommate had threatened him “with a gun.” His story appears to change somewhat every time an officer asks him to clarify details of his claims.

Following the initial interview with Bloodworth, police go to the residence to speak with the roommate, a young male who identifies himself as a military veteran. The man reveals that Bloodworth had been a problem roommate as he did not pay his bills, frequently stole from the other residents, and would often come home in the middle of the night without informing the others he would be out.

This had led to concerns about the roommate’s PTSD being triggered, as he would often be woken up at early hours to find the front door handle being jiggled and become anxious, unsure if the home was being broken into.

The roommate says that they had been struggling with Bloodworth’s behavior for months and actively attempting to evict him from the residence. He explains that an argument had finally broken out that day after his frustration reached a tipping point with respect to Bloodworth’s conduct. Specifically, Bloodworth’s lack of financial contribution to the household, and his tendency to come home during the night with no notice or consideration for his roommate’s anxiety.

“I said — there’s a gun in the basement, you could get shot not addressing coming home at 4 in the morning through the door I sleep 30 feet from. Could you at least give us a heads up [when you are coming home]? Can you not be weird and sneaky like this?” the roommate says to police, obviously exasperated.

“So you were saying, ‘if I don’t know you’re coming home at 4 in the morning, you could end up getting shot?” police clarified.

“Yes! Because it’s kind of crazy,” the roommate insisted. “I just want a heads up.”

“So you don’t think you are getting burglarized, right?” the officer asks, to which the roommate says “yes.”

The roommate notes there was an old hunting rifle in the home’s basement, but said it was not loaded and there was no ammunition in the residence.

During the police interview, the roommate refers to Bloodworth by “she/her” pronouns and his preferred name. He also calls Bloodworth a “woman” at various points during the interview. This calls into question Bloodworth’s claims to both police and Canadian immigration officials that he had been subjected to a transphobia-motivated crime.

The roommate also states that Bloodworth had frequently become enraged at the other residents in the home when they requested he pay his portion of the bills, and suggests that Bloodworth threatened to sue them for “pain and suffering” when they changed the WiFi password.

The young man later concedes to having been wrong to refer to the gun in the basement during their argument, and calmly offers himself up to any charges. The case against him would be dismissed less than two months later.

Though Bloodworth told Canadian immigration officials that the roommate “open carried” a gun, the roommate told police he did not own one himself. Bloodworth also stated that the roommate later “stalked” him, but there is no substantiation to support that claim. However, following the “threats” incident, Bloodworth repeatedly posted the roommate’s full name to social media, along with videos showing his face.

Bloodworth continued to live and work in Colorado until November of 2019, when he arrived in Canada and filed for refugee protection.

In October of 2022, the Refugee Protection Division (RPD) rejected Bloodworth’s claim for asylum, determining he had adequate rights and protection back in the United States. He then appealed the decision, and the Refugee Appeals Division (RAD) ruled in his favor.

RAD member Dilani Mohan concluded that “the RPD failed to consider how Colorado’s open carry gun laws combined with the general climate of anti-trans hatred growing in the US could make [her] perpetually vulnerable and at risk to her life.”

Mohan also noted high rates of “discrimination and violence” in Maine, New Jersey, Illinois and Nevada and said that while New York City might be an option, the move would force Bloodworth into poverty.

“The RPD failed to consider how Colorado’s open carry gun laws combined with the general climate of anti-trans hatred growing in the US could make [her] perpetually vulnerable and at risk to her life,” Mohan wrote.

But Bloodworth’s victory was short-lived, as this week, a Federal Court ruled that the RAD incorrectly claimed that Colorado authorities were incapable of protecting Bloodworth, or that he couldn’t safely reside elsewhere in the United States.

Bloodworth — who now lives in the Yukon Territory — says he plans to appeal the ruling to the Federal Court of Appeal in hopes of being formally granted refugee status.

Since arriving in Canada, Bloodworth has changed his legal name from Véronique Marie Bellamy in an apparent effort to obscure his identity in the event his immigration attempts did not go in his favor.

On his My Little Pony-themed social media feed, Bloodworth advertises himself as an “exile from America” and an “author of queer fiction.” He states he is “trying to pursue a quick bachelor’s degree to be able to get into medical school,” and is also investing in cryptocurrency in an effort to make enough money to fund his gender transition.

Bloodworth claims to have been fired by TD Canada Trust bank in 2023 for being a “whistleblower” but it is unclear what he blew the whistle on. His LinkedIn shows he worked at the company for approximately 1 year as a Lead Customer Experience Associate.

His social media feed includes snipes at Harry Potter author JK Rowling and those who participated in last year’s march against gender ideology.

In July of 2023, Bloodworth credited seeing the Barbie and Oppenheimer movies with providing him motivation to continue fighting for refugee status in Canada.

https://reduxx.info/transgender-american-seeking-refugee-status-in-canada-due-to-transphobia/

When I was a child, the BBC was unquestionably the home of quality television. Who can forget the magical 1984 Christmas treat, “The Box of Delights,” or the comedy genius of “Blackadder” and “Only Fools and Horses”? “Doctor Who” even had my father glued to the screen back in the 1980s.

Times change, however. Thanks to liberal progressivism, quality output at the BBC has been jettisoned in favour of ridiculously exaggerated ethnic quotas (non-whites already constitute 22% of screen roles, despite making up only 12% of the population); BBC ‘Diversity Tsars’ on £1,700 a day, offering up paradoxical aphorisms such as ‘White people are never judged on their race’; the dismissal of white men (no matter how well they perform); the continuous blackwashing of history; and the self-satisfied victimhood paraded by non-whites, forced to suffer the indignity of sharing the office with the few remaining white employees the Beeb has not yet managed to sack.

The pages of The Guardian may cheer the diversity push, but there are predictable consequences to such meddling. And although you’d be hard pushed to find anyone more liberal than my dad, even he had to admit that “Doctor Who” had lost its way. “It’s not as good as it used to be,” he remarked to me once, though he refrained from ascribing the demise to the plot playing second fiddle to the timelord’s sudden black, non-binary gayness.

Much like those strangers to Whitehall, the beach-bound civil service, and the genuflecting Old Bill who couldn’t find a jihadi sympathiser at a Jeremy Corbyn wreath-laying, working at the BBC has become less of a haven for media types and more of a graduate scheme for far-left political activism.

Many have long-since argued that the BBC is unfit for purpose, but this week’s diversity farrago takes the biscuit—an excellent précis of which was covered earlier in these pages. As reported by The Telegraph on Monday, BBC managers are now being instructed not to hire candidates who are ‘dismissive’ of diversity and inclusion. Instead, leaked recruitment guidelines demand applicants be asked to “explain what diversity and inclusion means to (them),” and (should they be offered a position) to expand on what opportunities they perceive to “celebrate or encourage diversity and inclusion in (their) role?”

No one could sincerely pass such a test—and, more to the point, no one should aim to either. If you’re a white male applicant genuinely in favour of ‘diversity’ at the BBC, surely you should not be showing up to the interview in the first place? If you’re a non-white pushing for ever more stringent diversity quotas, it’s hard to conclude that you’re not aiming to get where you don’t deserve to be on merit, or perhaps that you’re simply anti-white. Who in their right mind would be supportive of such motives?

As former BBC journalist Robin Aitken pointed out, “These guidelines illustrate just how embedded DEI [Diversity, Equality and Inclusion] ideology is in the BBC. The rules act as a mechanism to maintain groupthink and screen out anyone who is skeptical of this novel doctrine of diversity and inclusion.” However, Aitken’s subsequent observation is flat wrong: “The BBC is now hiring not on the basis of skill or merit, but instead on people’s political attitudes to diversity.” No! The BBC is not hiring on the basis of genuine political attitudes; it is hiring on the basis of feigned attitudes, and that’s the most egregious part.

As an aside, the BBC recruitment guidelines advised that applicants be given ten minutes to answer questions on diversity and inclusion. On a personal note, I have just endured the most in-depth interview of my professional life—a 25-minute grilling from three interlocutors, encompassing everything from my school days to my ‘vision’ for the future. At no point did any of the very senior figures enquire as to my attitude towards diversity; had they done so, they’d have got very short shrift indeed.

Force-feeding lies and demanding their regurgitation is a dangerous business, not without historical precedent. Sir Thomas Moore famously refused to recant his Catholicism and was burned alive for the privilege. Alas, we do not live in such heroic times, and although our equivalent auto-da-fé is merely to face the flames of cancel culture, few are prepared for that firewalk either.

It is clear that the BBC does not believe its own propaganda on diversity; why else would you need to enforce something so self-evidently true or popular? I can’t help making the comparisons with COVID here and the state mendacity that forced most of us to toe the line: vaccines so effective you lost your job if you refused them, and social distancing so necessary, those pushing it were disinclined to participate.

As a publicly funded broadcaster, the BBC has an express duty to be politically neutral (a laughable concept granted, when one considers their refusal to call Hamas ‘terrorists,’ or the bias of their Brexit coverage), but now it seems they aren’t even pretending. There is of course nothing wrong (beyond the obvious) with a channel that wishes to indulge in a strong left-wing political slant; GB News, after all, appears to manage this reasonably well from the other side; however, if this is the route the BBC ostensibly wishes to go down, then (like the competition), it must do so on its own dime.

What is not acceptable is the charade of neutrality—Auntie foisting her political motives upon new employees and demanding the taxpayer fund it on pain of imprisonment. Perhaps BBC Verify could be persuaded to look into the matter—just as soon as they’ve finished investigating their own grand inquisitor?

The BBC claims it “reflects and celebrates the diversity” of the audiences it serves; if that’s the case, then that audience is about as diverse as a Remain convention in Kensington & Chelsea. With half a million cancelled licences in the last year alone, it is clear that the BBC is in fact no longer meeting the demands of its audience and, if truth be told, has failed to do so for quite some time. It ought now to be scrapped, or at the very least to have its charter revoked and face the full force of the open market. If the public genuinely desires a small-screen version of The Guardian, let them pay for it honestly.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/diversity-such-a-strength-the-bbc-has-to-enforce-it/

by Giulio Meotti

Katharine Birbalsingh, known as “Britain’s strictest headteacher”, has just been forced to ban Muslim prayers at her school after teachers were attacked. This time we are in London.

The head teacher ended up in the High Court in a lawsuit brought by Muslim students at Michaela School. Birbalsingh decided to stop the prayer rituals after “violence, intimidation and appalling harassment of our teachers”.

In this state school in Brent, north-west of London, the Telegraph informs us that “half the pupils are Muslim”. Last year the school was ranked first in the country for ‘Progress 8’, which measures how much a secondary school has helped pupils improve compared to primary school.

Death threats to staff for preventing Muslim pupils from praying, a girl forced to leave the choir because “her religion forbids her to sing” and another forced to wear the hijab.

The school received a bomb threat via email.

Meanwhile, a second school in London was accused of “Islamophobia” and may be forced to close due to the headteacher’s decision to ban children from wearing pro-Palestinian badges. Barclay Primary School in Leyton, east London, has sent a letter to parents warning that it may need to “return to online learning” if the safety of children and staff cannot be guaranteed after receiving bomb threats.

Imagine that poor headmaster in Odensee, Denmark’s third largest city, who advised Jewish students not to enroll in his immigrant-heavy school.

Balwant Bains was a school principal in Birmingham. A second-generation Indian Sikh, Bains explained that when a Muslim student threatened his classmates with a knife, the principal expelled him. The board revoked the suspension accusing the principal of being “Islamophobic and racist.” Bains resigned and was replaced by a friend of the head of the school board.

The principal of a high school in Drammen did not want Muslim students to leave class to pray. She apologized when several of them reacted violently and now she is facing death threats. Hanne Merete Hagby is the principal of the high school, which has 30 percent Muslim students. “It’s not okay to leave class or be late for this reason,” she wrote. She deleted the post after two hours.

An appointment to “lynch” the principal was published on social media. The police had to be there to protect her.

In Germany, a principal has banned Islamic prayers in a school in Wuppertal. In Belgium, however, private Catholic schools, which now have more Muslim students than Catholics, have allowed them.

Frédéric Mortier ended up in court as a teacher at the Wresinski high school in Angers, France, for “racist comments against students”. “This is a man who spreads hatred,” attacks SOS Racisme. What did Mortier do that was so bad? During a lesson at his Catholic school, the teacher said that “France is a Catholic country”.

The director of the children’s organization “Arche”, Wolfgang Büscher, who looks after 7,000 young people every day in 33 facilities across Germany, many of them with a migrant background, reveals to BILD: “We are facing a catastrophe”. It emerges clearly from the declaration of the young Arabs cited by Büscher: “First let’s cut the throats of the Jews, then the gays and finally the Christians!”. Says Büscher: “I have never experienced anything like this. A 12-year-old boy came to me and said, ‘I hate you. We will take back the country’. They reject our culture, our values. Their hatred is unimaginable.”

Muslim students gathered in prayer on the premises of the Free University of Brussels, founded by Freemasons in the 19th century. It all started with the complaint of a secular activist, Nadia Geerts, who in an opinion published in the newspaper La Libre revealed the existence of a prayer room. “It is in complete tranquility that, for eight years, students have met every day to pray. First the men, then the women.” The activist then said that inside the room there are “clothes for women, carpets, plastic cards” together with “invocations to recite”, including the one which reminds us that “There is no god but Allah”.

The principal of a school in Florence, Italy, the Marco Polo Technical Institute, offered Islamic students a classroom to gather in prayer.

We posit that Europeans – who no longer take anything seriously – are like the Pompeians who have forgotten wisdom, ignored the dangers and have moved ever closer to the slopes of Vesuvius.

Europe’s schools now bow in prayer toward Mecca | Israel National News – Arutz Sheva

A Labour MP has sparked outrage after calling for a change in the law to allow people’s gender to be changed on official records after their death.

Warrington North MP Charlotte Nichols called for the change in a written parliamentary question to the Cabinet Office last month.

She asked if the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) 2004 could be amended to allow for “transgender people who are deceased to be legally remembered by the gender they lived by”.

It would mean that those who had not undergone surgical treatment could be identified as a different gender.

“The genesis of the petition was the murder of my constituent Brianna Ghey, whose life was brutally cut short before she was old enough to have formal legal recognition of who she was and how she will be remembered by her family, friends and our community,” Nichols told The Telegraph.

“At that time, the Government said they did not believe any reforms were necessary, but it is something I continue to have raised with me by my constituents and will continue to raise with the Government accordingly so that this can be an option available to bereaved families should they so wish.”

Equalities minister Stuart Andrew had replied saying there were no plans for the Gender Recognition Act to be altered.

The Conservative MP added that organisations such as the NHS could assess whether a different gender was being used prior to death and decide for themselves what pronouns would be best to use.

He said: “Where a person was using their new gender with an organisation prior to their death, and that was on their personal records, then we anticipate that the organisation would engage with their family members using the new gender.”

Nichols’ request has sparked outrage, with some campaigners accusing the Labour MP of attempting to find a way to introduce gender self identification into law.

Lucy Marsh, a spokesperson for The Family Education Trust, said: “It’s extremely concerning that Labour appears to be pushing towards introducing gender-self-ID through the back door.

“If coroners are allowed to lie on public record about the sex of deceased children, this will surely be a slippery slope towards self-ID becoming normalised in the NHS.

“If this is legally allowed, what’s to stop deaths being recorded as ‘non-binary’ or babies being registered as the opposite sex?

“The Government needs to crack down on this and make sure the NHS is based on reality rather than fantasy.”

North Somerset MP Sir Liam Fox added: “It is patently absurd, factually inaccurate and a statistical distortion.

“We should not be encouraging the idea that people can simply choose to change their biological status nor should we bend truth to accommodate an ever more extreme and dangerous ideology.”

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/trans-news-labour-mp-charlotte-nichols-gender-change-dead