Author: fredalanmedforth

The Dutch public prosecutor’s office (OM) has appealed against the sentences handed down last week by a Dutch court to five former ISIS brides who were repatriated to the Netherlands in February 2022.

The convicted terrorists were handed prison sentences between 16 months and three years after being found guilty of membership in a proscribed terrorist organization, namely the Islamic State, and for participating in the preparation of acts of terrorism.

The women each fled the Netherlands separately back in 2013 to join the Islamic State in Syria at the peak of its power. They married Islamic State fighters and lived in the caliphate for six years before being apprehended by Kurdish forces in 2019 and detained at the al-Roj Kurdish refugee camp in northern Syria.

Four of the women received prison sentences of between 30 and 36 months, of which 12 to 15 months were suspended, while a fifth woman was ordered to serve 16 months in prison, nine of which were also suspended.

The sentences were considerably less than the 42 to 48 months called for by the OM, with the court claiming to have taken into consideration the squalid conditions the women had lived in during their time in Syria.

The OM had previously stated that their sentences should be longer due to the length of time they had remained affiliated with the Islamic State; it claimed that all five women had made “an important contribution to the realization and maintenance of the caliphate.”

Additional aggravating factors used by the OM to justify their position include the fact that two suspects are understood to have taken their children to the conflict zone, and another traveled while she was knowingly pregnant. One woman’s decision to travel ultimately led to the death of her 16-year-old son.

The court ruled on all five cases on April 13; however, an appeal hearing may now be scheduled to determine whether the sentences imposed were proportionate to the severity of the offenses.

https://rmx.news/crime/dutch-prosecutor-appeals-against-lenient-sentences-of-jihadi-brides-who-fled-the-netherlands-to-join-isis/

Great commotion over videos from a Viennese school: Muslim pupils want to roll out the prayer rug in class and pray. Because a teacher does not tolerate this, he is now the subject of a shitstorm on the internet. The clips have already been viewed 300,000 times.

A teacher in Upper Austria wanted to decorate the class with palm branches for Easter. After massive protests from non-Christians, the teacher was finally forbidden to teach our customs in school. Religion is a private matter, argued the director of the high school. An argument that is currently giving a Viennese teacher a shitstorm – he wants to forbid Muslim pupils to pray in class.

The newspaper “Heute” reported on Thursday about a teacher who unintentionally went viral on the platform TikTok. The clips have already been clicked on 300,000 times. On it, the teacher can be heard explaining to a pupil why he should not roll out his prayer rug in class. “We don’t care what religion. Religion is a private matter. You can do it at home, but not here. I don’t care if you do it in the park, if you don’t disturb anyone,” says the teacher in one of the three videos.

In the second, he continues: “It’s also a bit strange when you come in and someone is praying. Those are just our rules. It’s the same for all religions. It doesn’t matter if it’s Islam, Christianity or Judaism. Is that clear to everyone? And if I tell you to stop doing something, then you should stop doing it.”

In the third video clip he scolds: “You made me wait two minutes and I really don’t like to wait. This is my break and I have to wait two minutes until you finish praying? Surely not. This is about respect and you haven’t understood that yet because you’re still arguing with us.”

The pupil then explains that he cannot stop the prayer. In the comments under the clips, expressions of solidarity for the Muslim pupils are collected – and the call for more tolerance. “Our school has even made a room available during the breaks. Just like my workplace. Respect and tolerance is something so important.” Pedagogue Ali Dönmez is also quoted in “Heute”: “The teacher’s statements are humanly & factually wrong. If religion were a private matter, there would be no religious education at school, no Christmas parties & Christmas holidays, Christmas trees, Advent calendars and religious songs being sung, no school masses, no crosses.” An argument that did not apply to the teacher from Upper Austria who wanted to teach our Christian customs.

https://exxpress.at/konflikt-in-wien-muslimische-schueler-wollen-in-klassen-beten/

DISCORD LEAK: US Spying on the UN – Secretary General Guterres Said To Be Soft on Moscow, Frustrated With Zelenskyhttps://t.co/HUqY9OZ6Q3

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) April 19, 2023

The cases of Ralph Yarl and Kaylin Gillis are all over the news now.

Both Ralph and Kaylin were shot by elderly homeowners who were overreacting to what they may have thought were trespassers.

Both cases are in the news. But they’re getting a very different treatment. One guess as to why.

Ralph Yarl armed only with ‘black skin,’ family lawyer says – AP

That’s true, insofar as Ralph’s skin color was the only reason his case is being blown up and treated as a racist attack despite the lack of a single shred of supporting evidence.

While Ralph was only wounded, Kaylin is dead. But it’s okay. As a white woman in the BLM era, her life officially matters less.

Had Kaylin been black, she’d no doubt be getting the Black Lives Matter treatment. Since she was unfortunate enough to be born without black nationalist skin privilege, it’s just being covered as a tragedy.

But what’s the difference between the two cases?

Ralph’s shooter was in his eighties, Kaylin’s in his sixties. Kaylin was part of a larger group that was lost and the property was more isolated. But basically the cases are fairly similar.

Kaylin’s case is more damning because she was actually killed and the shooter, who was younger, left his house.

Ralph’s case is weaker because the shooter is much older and was in his house.

The only reason to privilege Ralph’s case is that manufacturing racism is the tainted oxygen that sustains leftist power and mythology.

The differing treatment of Ralph’s case and Kaylin’s case shows what a separate and unequal system looks like.

And that’s what we have.

“Doug and I are praying for Ralph Yarl and his family as he fights for his life,” Kamala Harris tweeted. “Let’s be clear: No child should ever live in fear of being shot for ringing the wrong doorbell. Every child deserves to be safe. That’s the America we are fighting for.”

Every child. As long as the child isn’t white.

Halle Berry, Kerry Washington and other millionaire celebrities soon joined the lynch mob. And segregationist pal Joe Biden, who has yet to see a racism claim he couldn’t jump on, has pounced on this one.

President Joe Biden spoke with Ralph Yarl and his family on Monday amid a national outcry over the shooting of the 16-year-old Black high school student, a White House official confirmed.

Yarl’s attorneys, Ben Crump and Lee Merritt, said Biden offered prayers for Yarl’s health and justice. Yarl left the hospital on Monday and is recovering at home, after suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.

President Joe Biden has invited Ralph Yarl to the White House when he recovers.

No calls to Kaylin’s family. BLM means her life did not matter.

The boyfriend of a New York woman who was killed Saturday after the couple pulled into the wrong driveway while searching for a party recalled her final moments Tuesday, saying in an interview that his life was shattered.

Walsh said the four friends were traveling with another vehicle that also pulled into the wrong driveway. The group realized they were at the wrong home and were leaving.

We thought we were at the right address,” Walsh said. “We didn’t have any cell service to figure it out. As soon as we figured it out that we were at the wrong location, we started to leave, and that’s when everything happened.”

Walsh said what occurred next was a blur.

“My friend said, ‘They’re shooting — go!’ I tried to step on the gas as fast as I could, and that’s when the fatal shot came through,” Walsh said.

Walsh said he met Gillis, an animal lover and aspiring marine biologist who graduated from Schuylerville High School in 2021, when he was a sophomore in high school.

The couple often spoke about being the “2%,” he said, citing an apparent statistic that indicated only 2% of high school sweethearts get married.

They had been a couple for more than four years.

“I had high hopes, and I had plans,” Walsh said. “I didn’t want to be with anybody else, and I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her.”

He said of Gillis: “I want the world to know how good of a person she really was and how much she impacted everybody who had the fortunate opportunity to be in her life.”

Walsh said he’ll miss “her smile,” “her eyes” and “how happy she was able to make me.”

He added, “My world was taken from me Saturday.”

Sorry, doesn’t matter. Wrong race. No call from Joe Biden. Try losing the love of your life while being black next time.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-shows-white-lives-dont-matter/

France: ‘Climate of insecurity’ in Nice as drug dealers terrorize population, scrawl ‘Allahu akbar’ on walls https://t.co/CkMf5ymLcF pic.twitter.com/PB2PR0GSP0

— Robert Spencer (@jihadwatchRS) April 19, 2023

The Guardian has been scrutinized frequently over its uneven and, at times, outright partisan reportage on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In the last month alone, HonestReporting has called out and complained about numerous pieces published by the left-wing British newspaper, including an “investigation” that simultaneously sought to downplay Palestinian terrorism and conflated the deaths of terrorists with that of their victims, and a story comprising mostly agency copy that had been carefully edited to twist the facts.

Our latest analysis of The Guardian’s Israel-related output has uncovered another disturbing finding: the outlet has worked with a Palestinian journalist with a history of praising terrorists who were behind several horrific terror attacks that killed dozens of innocent Israeli civilians.

Gaza City-based Aseel Mousa was bylined alongside The Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent Bethan McKernan on an April 3 piece, “‘I am proud of my work’: the women pushing boundaries in Gaza,” which tells the story of women seeking employment opportunities in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, which is farcically labeled a “highly conservative Palestinian territory” — an interesting way of describing a place where LGBT+ individuals are jailed and where marital rape is legal.

Mousa, whose work has been featured in the Palestine Chronicle and Electronic Intifada, has posted numerous messages of support for terrorists on her personal social media accounts, such as one in which she described the Gilboa prison escapees as “brave heroes,” and another which said that Arabs should be “liberate[d]” from “Jews.”

The Gilboa prisoners, who escaped the maximum-security Israeli penitentiary in September 2021, included five members of the Iranian-backed terror group Islamic Jihad,and a former commander in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades.

One of the five Islamic Jihad members, Eham Kamamji, was imprisoned for his role in the kidnapping and murder of an 18-year-old Israeli, while Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades’ member Zakaria Zubeidi was jailed for overseeing terror attacks against Israelis during the Second Intifada, including a suicide bombing that killed an Israeli woman, as well as multiple counts of attempting to intentionally cause death, preparing explosives, membership in a terrorist group, and the selling of weapons.

Mousa’s inclusion in The Guardian is somewhat unsurprising given the newspaper’s own unfortunate past of turning a blind eye to antisemitism and anti-Israel bias among staff members. But at what point do we acknowledge the publication has lost any remaining shred of credibility?

https://honestreporting.com/the-guardian-features-gaza-journalist-who-wrote-pro-terrorist-antisemitic-social-media-posts/

For the United States to use the 1956 symbol of the Hungarian uprising as a poster propaganda campaign for its proxy war against Russia is as insulting to us as if we Hungarians were to depict their national symbol, the American eagle, in underpants with a sickle and hammer in its claws.

America is the grand master of lying propaganda and false promises, the grand master of disrespect for other nations. It has a rich history of this. Even during World War I, every possible means was used at a government level to influence the population. During this period, an intensive propaganda campaign was waged to reshape public opinion in the country to justify going to war and emphasize the sense of mission. Nothing new under the sun, and today is no different.

As early as the autumn of 2022, Croatian President Zoran Milanovic openly declared that there was a proxy warbetween America and Russia in Ukraine and that it was time for the United States and the West to stop lying about it.

Now, the United States, with its financial support through its embassy in Budapest, has, as a foreign ideological invader, started a poster invasion on our own territory of the Hungarian government’s pro-peace stance. The posters draw a parallel between the situation in Hungary in 1956 and the current situation in Ukraine. They use the iconic graffiti of the time, which has become our national symbol: “Russkies home!” The U.S. government, which is interested in the escalation of the war and openly opposes peace negotiations, is using every means at its disposal to influence the Hungarian population in our own country.

It does so without, on the one hand, having the faintest idea of the unique, world-famous singularity of the events of 1956 and, on the other, being morally incapable of appreciating that it was not only a question of the independence of a nation, but also of the liberation of souls.

However, let us not forget: Had the United States and the West recognized back in 1956 the Imre Nagy government, and if the U.S. administration had not sent messages to the Soviet Union, the Soviets would have withdrawn for good, and we would have won. However, we know that this is not what happened, we were betrayed and sold out.

The situation today is more complicated than it was during the fight against communism. Back then, the statements, “They do not look at us favorably” and “They do not consider us a potential ally,” were a dagger wound in the body of a Hungarian nation that was already bleeding from many wounds, but we survived. America may have stolen our freedom, but at least it did not attack us.

Now, as an ally, the ruling Democratic government in Washington is launching a campaign on our home soil against the Hungarian government’s position of seeking an immediate ceasefire and peace. Really, why do we need an enemy when we have such allies? Just because the allied United States of America has entered the Russian-Ukrainian conflict as a death broker does not make their proposition of joining their effort

https://rmx.news/hungary/the-american-eagle-and-the-buzzard/