“Of all the people claiming to wage a war on wokery, Professor Eric Kaufmann has arguably gone the furthest – by setting up an academic faculty dedicated to the pursuit.” (Telegraph). On this week’s #NCFWhittle, Prof. Kaufmann discusses his new course: “Woke: the Origins, Dynamics and Implications of an Elite Ideology” “Following a 20-year career at London’s Birkbeck University – of which he says the past five years involved multiple “Twitter mobbings” and investigations with “zero credibility” due to his views – its former head of politics last week announced the launch of the brand new Centre for Heterodox Social Science (CHSS), where freedom of expression won’t be “distorted by ideology”, as he believes is the now the case on campuses across the UK. “Based at the University of Buckingham, its first course, “Woke: the Origins, Dynamics and Implications of an Elite Ideology”, will launch as a 15-week online programme open to all in January, with a Master’s degree to follow in September. Access to the course materials will cost £80 (rising to £480 for students who want a 90-minute seminar with Prof Kaufmann), with topics to include the origins of liberalism, the rise of “cultural socialism” in the 1960s, and the “public opinion dynamics” driving groups that “support woke ideas”, such as “putting pressure on JK Rowling’s publisher to drop her”. “The Master’s will focus on “the intersection between the woke left and the populist right” [charged at standard UK university fee levels]. (Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education…)
Month: February 2024
Islamists attack cricketer Irfan Pathan for sharing a picture with his wife without burqa
Cricketer Irfan Pathan was at the receiving end of Islamist fury after he shared a picture of himself with his wife without a burqa. This is the first time Pathan has shared a picture of his wife with her face uncovered.
On his eighth anniversary, Pathan shared a picture with his wife with the caption, “Infinite roles mastered by one soul – mood booster, comedian, troublemaker, and the constant companion, friend, and mother of my children. In this beautiful journey, I cherish you as my wife. Happy 8th my love.”
However, no sooner did the former Indian cricketer share an unveiled picture of his wife, than scores of Islamists descended on his timeline, attacking him for uploading the picture in which his wife has covered herself in a burqa.
“Muslim khatoons ko hijab mein rehna chaye,” replied one of the X users.
Another one replied, “Being a Muslim, you should not reveal her publicly.”
Yet another user shared a picture of Irfan’s brother, Yusuf Pathan and his wife, who was wearing a burqa, and said, “That’s why your brother is better than you.”
One X user asked if he had kept his wife under purdah for so long, what was the need today that he had to show her face to everyone today.
Irfan Pathan married Saba Baig, a former model born and brought up in Saudi Arabia, on 4 February 2016. Baig gave up her thriving modelling career after her marriage with the cricketer.
As per reports, she encountered Irfan Pathan in 2014, initiating a romantic relationship that culminated in marriage in 2016. At the time of their union, she was merely 21 years old, presenting a decade’s age difference with her spouse, Irfan Pathan. The couple welcomed their son, Imran Khan, in December 2016.
Irfan Pathan had thus far always refrained from sharing pictures of his wife’s face online. In the pictures he had shared before, his wife was either spotted in a burqa or with hands covering her face.
According to the Muslim fundamentalists following the puritanical strand of Islam, their religious scriptures ordain women to remain under a hijab in a public place.
In 2022, a controversy erupted in Karnataka over the hijab ban in schools and colleges that had uniforms. The ban was upheld by the Karnataka High Court which observed that wearing a hijab is not an essential practice in Islam. A large number of Muslim fundamentalists had protested against the then BJP government in the state, accusing them of Islamophobia for enforcing the rules of uniform in schools and colleges. Several so-called liberals had then sided with the fundamentalists, contending that wearing a hijab was a ‘choice’ and the government was infringing upon the individual rights enshrined in the constitution.
Today Pakistanis plan to protest the Indian Embassy in Athens
Pakistanis in Athens will protest the Indian Embassy on Sunday over Kashmir
The Pakistani community in Greece will protest again outside the Indian embassy on February 4.
According to the announcement:
“Breaking news. An important message about Kashmir to the Pakistani community of Greece. The organisation ‘Friends of Kashmir in Greece’ has announced that it will protest in front of the Indian embassy on February 4 regarding Kashmir Day. Appeal to Pakistani and Kashmiri community to fully participate in this demonstration. Remember, let the voice of the oppressed Kashmiris be heard in front of the Indian Embassy, Athens, on Sunday, February 4, from 4-6 pm.”
Check out what they uploaded:
According to Directus: “The show of force with the Pakistani marches in the centre of Athens is a dangerous signal that we should not ignore. The Greek government bears the ultimate responsibility for this incredible provocation against India, and immediate action must be taken!
“It is a given that some Pakistanis in Greece are related to the intelligence service (ISI). The Turkish intelligence agency MIT works closely with the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI. A brake must be put on the parallel state they are building before it is too late.
“Turkey and Pakistan have embarked on a joint (dis)information strategy in the media to create a narrative that fits their geographical, political and defence interests in the Mediterranean and South Asia like a glove.
“It is clearly a Turkish-Pakistani information alliance in the context of the Turkish hybrid war, which Ankara has been waging against Greece in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean for at least two years.”
What was Article 370?
Article 370 gave Jammu and Kashmir its own Constitution and decision-making rights for all matters barring defence, communications and foreign affairs. Its removal ended the special status to the state.
Contained within Article 370 was Article 35A, which allowed the erstwhile state to define who it acknowledged as permanent residents and gave special rights, such as government jobs and owning property.
However, as mentioned in the constitution, and pointed out by the court during the judgement, Article 370 was a temporary measure.
In 1951 a Constitution Assembly was elected for Jammu and Kashmir to formulate the constitution of Jammu and Kashmir within the ambit of Indian Constitution, and ‘subjects in respect of which the state should accede to the Union of India.’
And it was understood that this Assembly would have the authority to determine the future course of Article 370.
On 5 August 2019, the Government of India issued a Presidential Order superseding the 1954 order, and making all the provisions of the Indian constitution applicable to Jammu and Kashmir. The order was based on the resolution passed in both houses of India’s parliament with two-thirds majority. A further order on 6 August made all the clauses of Article 370 except clause 1 to be inoperative.
In addition, the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 was passed by the parliament, enacting the division of the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories to be called Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Union Territory of Ladakh. The reorganisation took place on 31 October 2019.
DIRECTUS: Pakistanis plan to protest the Indian Embassy in Athens on Sunday – Greek City Times
The Sexual Predators of the WHO
By John Klar
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recently complained about the citizens who are skeptical to cede national sovereignties and individual rights to his global agency, under the pending expansion of WHO powers through a revised Pandemic Treaty, and accused them of spreading disinformation. This rings hollow because such valid legal concern should be a top concern for all of humanity following the botched WHO response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet an even greater hollowness echoes behind such claims—the shocking sexual predation of vulnerable women under Mr. Ghebreyesus’s authority in Congo during the Ebola crisis, for which there has been no meaningful response.
Reports about rape and sex trafficking in Congo originated from The New Humanitarian, an independent non-profit news organization initially created by the United Nations; Congo’s 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak, and the pernicious sexual exploitation of vulnerable women by WHO workers, display a complete failure of any such accountability by the WHO.
Shocking WHO Sex Abuses
WHO’s failures in Congo are epic: it did not train workers to avoid sexual exploitation; of 80 cases of sexual abuse reported in an independent investigation, 21 involved WHO employees. Women reported being exploited with bribes or threats of retaliation, plied with alcohol, or paid for sex. Nine victims reported being raped, including a 13-year-old girl. Twenty-two women were impregnated and delivered their babies; others were forced by their abusers to abort. Perpetrators refused to use protection during intercourse, infecting women and spreading STDs. (So much for the agency’s disease prevention response!)
Investigations have shown that WHO staff were well aware of these allegations by early May 2019, but did nothing to initiate an investigation until October 2020—after an article was published exposing the abuse. Similar abuses were reported during the WHO-directed response to the West Africa Ebola outbreak between 2014 and 2016, yet by 2020 Ghebreyesus had done nothing.
Shielding Alleged Rapists Instead of Victims
The independent commission that established the latest abuses did not investigate higher-level involvement by WHO leadership. WHO promises of “internal investigations” have yielded nothing. Four people were fired, but some of the worst offenders (especially Doctor Boubacar Diallo, who “often bragged about his connections to … Tedros”) simply deny their DNA-provable criminality with impunity. According to internal emails reported by the Associated Press:
Over 2018 and 2019, three Ebola experts, including two who worked for WHO at the time, told the AP they raised concerns about sex abuse in general, and Diallo in particular, with senior managers. But they said they were told that controlling the Ebola outbreak was more important, and two said Diallo was considered ‘untouchable’ because of his relationship with Tedros.
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Two WHO officials with knowledge of the situation said the agency investigated complaints that Diallo acted unprofessionally, including an alleged sexual assault, and there was insufficient evidence to corroborate the charges. But investigators failed to interview any of the women involved or the whistleblowers who flagged the harassment claims, according to a senior WHO official who didn’t want to be identified for fear of losing his job.
A Corrupt Response
The story that emerges is that the WHO disregarded these women’s complaints, no rapists or abusers have been held to criminal account, WHO leadership has failed at every turn, and nothing has changed. The independent commission pointedly observed that the WHO was “completely unprepared to deal with the risks/incidents of sexual exploitation and abuse” during the Congo Ebola emergency. The WHO’s “pandemic response” in Congo ignored background checks, punished whistleblowers, empowered unaccountable sexual predators over marginalized victims, and then let them off scott-free. It now seeks to scale up its operations and powers.
In a press conference acknowledging the abuses, Ghebreyesus apologized to victims, stating:
What happened to you should never happen to anyone. It is inexcusable. It is my top priority to ensure that the perpetrators are not excused, but are held to account. As the Director-General, I take ultimate responsibility for the behaviour [sic] of the people we employ, and for any failings in our systems that allowed this behaviour [sic]. And I will take personal responsibility for making whatever changes we need to make to prevent this happening in future. The commission has done outstanding work to get the voices of victims and survivors heard. But the investigation is not complete, and will require further work.
Congo’s sex-trafficking victims are not persuaded. The WHO issued $250 payments to some claimants, and according to one victim, “soap, underwear, and a bucket for use for the bathroom.” Ironically, the WHO boasts a $50 million budget “for the prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment.” Ghebreyesus acknowledged the Congo abuses were a “sickening betrayal” of the people they ostensibly serve, even calling the revelations “a dark day for WHO.” He also promised “severe consequences” for the perpetrators, and accountability for “all leaders” who failed to act; yet no one appears to have been criminally charged in all this violence and chaos, and internal WHO “investigations” have yielded no announcements of any accountability, by anyone.
It is hard to imagine a more dramatic breach of trust than WHO’s Congo conduct. No safeguards to ensure such grotesque abuses do not recur have been provided. Indeed, WHO’s Kafkaesque bureaucratic deceptions and foot-dragging reveal what an incompetent, unaccountable, crony criminal operation it has become.
Globalist Predators Unloosed?
Recent revelations that UN workers in Gaza participated in attacks against Israel mirror the same pattern of ineptly permitting the infiltration of relief operations by criminal actors as was committed in Congo—and also in Haiti, where more than 100 UN workers were implicated in a child sex ring which operated over a ten-year period. The WHO, and its parent UN, have proven that they are clumsy bureaucratic juggernauts with no credibility.
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus now strives to dramatically expand WHO powers over the entire world’s children for pandemic response, and scoffs at anyone who asks sensible questions about the protection of individual liberties. If the WHO dispatches teams of sexual predators to third-world countries as a “pandemic response” and then covers for them, it can hardly be trusted to protect the world’s children from Pfizer, China, or other actors for whom it may simply be a proxy.
Perhaps the WHO should be defunded, instead of American police—the savings could be used to hire detectives to prosecute the WHO’s child rapists and paid sex traffickers, in the absence of any hope for justice otherwise.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/02/the_sexual_predators_of_the_who.html
Museum Cancels Art Show Because the Artists Aren’t Diverse Enough
DIE is everywhere and if you aren’t DEI enough, well then you just have to DIE. Every other value, accomplishment, merit or talent, will take second billing to the only value that now matters.
It’s happening all over so this is just one story in a million of ’em.
The new director of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA), whose tenures at previous institutions were punctuated by controversy, has abruptly canceled a major upcoming exhibition over a lack of diversity among the two dozen represented artists. Director Amada Cruz also eliminated the position of the museum’s longtime chief curator, Eik Kahng.
The decisions by Cruz prompted a searing response from the affected artists, who called her actions “outrageous” and “appalling” and said they continued “Cruz’s pattern of controversial leadership.”
“We consider these recent developments not only alarming but also insulting — to us, to the Santa Barbara art community, and indeed to all artists,” eight members of the group wrote in a formal letter of protest to the museum’s Board of Directors. “What is happening at SBMA now threatens the institution’s public and scholarly missions.”
In a statement to the Independent, Cruz defended her decisions. “When I joined the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in October 2023, one of the first priorities set together with the Board and senior leadership was to review the ways in which our Museum and programming can be more inclusive and more reflective of Santa Barbara County’s diverse community,” she said.
“In reviewing the exhibition plan, the checklist of around 20 living artists and estates slated to be included in the exhibition, and the catalog essays,” Cruz continued, “it was determined that it fell short from a diversity perspective. The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, like other museums of our size, has limited resources. So, it was decided to focus our resources elsewhere.”
Santa Barbara is almost entirely white and Hispanic. There’s pretty much no one else there. And while Hispanic is treated as a minority, and therefore oppressed, take a look up above at what Amada Cruz looks like. She’s a white lady born to two laywers. So are a lot of Cubans like her (not necessarily the lawyer part of that.) So are a lot of Hispanic descendants of Spanish settlers.
Cruz has done the ‘diversity’ thing everywhere she’s gone with usually unhappy results. This is nothing new for her. Staff leave, there are protests and accusations, and she claims that she’s promoting diversity.
And diversity means that somehow Amada Cruz, whose artistic accomplishments are of the bureaucratic kind, matters more than the artists because she, being a white lady from a Spanish-speaking country, is diverse, and they, being American, are not.
That’s DEI. And it’s another reminder of why DEI kills merit, accomplishment and talent while rewarding racial hucksters and grifters, many of them white.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/museum-cancels-art-show-because-the-artists-arent-diverse-enough/
Italy: 13-year-old girl raped by seven Egyptian migrants
Another horrific incident, another young victim of sexual violence. Catania is shocked by what happened to a 13-year-old girl who was raped by a group of seven Egyptian boys in the communal gardens of Villa Bellini, one of the two oldest gardens in the Sicilian city. According to information, the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office have already ordered the arrest of the seven suspects, three of whom are minors, and enforced it by the Carabinieri. The seventh wanted man, who had initially evaded arrest, was tracked down at 1.30pm in Piazza Dante as he was collecting his personal belongings and then fled while the police were trying to track him down in the municipality where he was staying.
The violence against the 13-year-old girl dates back to the evening of January 30: according to a very first reconstruction of the facts provided by the Carabinieri of the Catania provincial command, the young girl and her 17-year-old boyfriend were approached by the gang near the toilets of the Villa Bellini municipal garden, which was almost deserted at that time. Later, the foreigners allegedly threatened the couple: while the boy was beaten, restrained and kept away, the 13-year-old girl was raped by two of the suspects under the eyes of the other five. Panic-stricken and in pain, the young girl after the second abuse found the strength to free herself from her tormentor and escape together with her boyfriend.
According to the newspaper Repubblica, the victims screamed, but no one came to their aid. After the violence, the two were rescued by passers-by in the nearby Via Etnea. It was the two friends who reported the violence, triggering the investigation by the Catania Carabinieri. Thanks to the testimonies of the rape victim and the boyfriend and the officers’ enquiries – starting with the images from the CCTV cameras installed in Villa Bellini – the police managed to identify the seven suspects. The carabinieri of the Investigation Unit and colleagues from the Scientific Investigations Department also collected several genetic samples. Arrest warrants were issued for the seven young men. Three of them were taken to the Catania prison in Piazza Lanza, one was placed under house arrest and the other three were taken to the initial reception centre in Catania.
The crime has also affected politics, as the recent cases in Caivano and Palermo show. Today, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed her solidarity with the young victim during a visit to Gigafactory 3Sun in the Etnian capital: “It strikes me that on the day we celebrate a very young martyr of the Christian tradition, we are witnessing another very young victim of sexual violence. With these words, I would like to express my solidarity with her and her family. The state will be there to ensure justice”. Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini was extremely harsh: “Don’t come and talk to me about ‘tolerance’ or ‘mistakes’. In the face of such atrocities, there can be no mercy, but only one remedy: chemical castration. I expect the proposal put forward by the League to be voted on as soon as possible”. Annalisa Tardino, regional commissioner and Lega Salvini Premier MEP, called for exemplary punishments: “We stick to the idea that chemical castration for rapists and paedophiles, life imprisonment for similar cases and more security in our cities are necessary. For foreigners: immediate repatriation! They would never have allowed themselves such behaviour in Egypt. The safety of our children must be a priority throughout Italy.”
Up-to-date information on the ongoing investigation is expected shortly: Deputy Public Prosecutor Sebastiano Ardita and Deputy Public Prosecutor Anna Trinchillo are coordinating the investigation at the Public Prosecutor’s Office, while Public Prosecutor Carla Santocono is coordinating the investigation at the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office. The news of the gang rape of the young girl comes in the days when Catania is celebrating the city’s patron saint, St Agatha, whom Proconsul Quinziano had martyred by even having her breasts ripped off with pliers because she refused to marry him.
Catania, 13enne violentata da 7 egiziani: lo stupro choc davanti al fidanzato – ilGiornale.it
TWO POLANDS: Farmers From ‘Solidarity’ Union Call For General Strike, Blockage of Ukraine Border – Globalist PM Tusk Bows to Brussels and Failed Climate Policies
Two different Reuters dispatches show a growing disconnect between the people of Poland – as represented by the farmers and truckers – and the newly-installed Globalist-Eurocentric intelligentsia in Warsaw.
In many ways, Poland is moving against the nearly complete continental push to the rightwing-populist parties, as the returning PM Donald Tusk – accused by former PiS government of being a German ‘plant’ – came to power to implement the whole package of failed EU policies.
While the former president of the European Council Tusk is bowing to the crippling EU climate policies – and withdrawing the Polish court cases against Brussels – the farmers, the ones who suffer the biggest brunt of the insane green regulations, are promising to go on strike and close the border with Ukraine.
We are talking about the legendary ‘Solidarity’ trade movement, who famously took on Jaruselski and the Polish Communists in 1980’s – so maybe Tusk should wise up.
‘Covid changed EVERYTHING’ – ‘Stockpiled absurdity was pushed like knock-off watches!’ | Neil Oliver
Covid changed everything – the green light for the roll out of all the absurdity in the world. Stockpiled absurdity was pushed like knock-off watches and handbags out the backs of lorries. Healthy people shut in their homes. Gyms closed but fast-food outlets open.’
Paris (UPDATE): 3 injured, one of them seriously; perpetrator is Kassogue S., a Malian who “hates all French people” and spreads Salafist content on his Tiktok – He arrived in France 2 days ago to commit his attack
According to our information, he had arrived in France by train from Italy on 1 February, specifically to “commit his crime”, as he admitted to investigators, and had been sleeping on the street since his arrival in Paris.
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According to a police source in the newspaper Le Parisien, the suspect explained in French that he wanted to “kill people” without mentioning religious motives.
At his hearing, however, he blamed France’s colonial past and its involvement in Mali, where he comes from.
However, investigators have urged prudence, as the investigation has only just begun. And because Salafist content has since been discovered on his TikTok account, which is currently being analysed.
The suspected perpetrator of the attack at the Gare de Lyon railway station, in which three people were injured, one of whom suffered life-threatening injuries, is called Kassogue S. He is a 32-year-old Malian who is legally resident in France. After his arrest, he produced an Italian driving licence to the police officers.
According to Prefect of Police Laurent Nuñez, the person “has been legally residing in Italy since 2016, with a permit issued in 2019 that is perfectly valid”, as can be seen from the documents in his possession.
Syrian family kidnaps African voodoo sorcerer who ran off with €15k after promising to double their money with magic liquid
A Syrian family kidnapped a voodoo sorcerer from Cameroon after he stole €15,000 given to him on the promise that he’d double their money using dark magic, a court in Germany has heard.
The migrant family living in Magdeburg was arrested last month on suspicion of unlawfully detaining 31-year-old Cameroonian priest, Lionel N., who allegedly took a cash payment from the father and vowed to make them rich.
He told the family to leave the money with him for a couple of days and he would use a magic liquid to double the sum.
He gave them a location for a rendezvous a few days later, however, when the Cameroon national failed to show, the family tracked him down at his apartment on Jan. 4.
The Leipzig regional court heard on Thursday how the head of the family, 48-year-old Jamal M., kidnapped the priest with the aid of his two sons, Muhamad, 26, and Fadi M., 23, and two other family members.
Masked with balaclavas, the group dragged the priest out of his apartment on Langen Lene, and kidnapped him. He was allegedly beaten by the group as they demanded the return of their money, but the African priest refused to divulge its location.
Suspecting the lump sum was hidden in his apartment, the family returned to Langen Lene two days later where they were met by police officers and arrested.
The priest, Lionel M., has also been charged with fraud and is due to stand trial.
The funds have still not been recovered.