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German-Iranian man faces execution in Iran for being a journalist
With the leaders of Russia, Iran and Turkey set to meet in Tehran Tuesday to frame up their plans for the Mideast, a legal U.S. resident and German citizen Jamshid Sharmahd faces public execution for being a journalist.
Speaking from California, Sharmahd’s daughter Gazelle told Fox News Digital that a Tehran regime lawyer told the family a “death sentence is certain.” Gazelle said a sixth hearing of her father’s “sham trial” might unfold this week. Iran’s regime refused to allow an independent lawyer to represent Sharmahd.
The clerical regime kidnapped the 67-year-old Sharmahd in July 2020 while he was staying at a hotel in Dubai. Sharmahd has lived in California since 2003.
Tehran’s opaque justice system claims Sharmahd played a role in a 2008 terrorist attack at a mosque in Shiraz, Iran that left 14 dead and more than 200 injured.
However, the regime-controlled media outlet Fars News quoted the Iranian National Security Council in 2008 as saying, “The explosion of a bomb or any explosion carried out by opposition elements, be they internal or foreign, is ruled out. The blast was caused by some munitions used in an exhibition for the [Iran-Iraq War] martyrs in the mosque.”
Gazelle said the trial is designed to find a scapegoat for the 2008 blast and to “persecute dissidents and activists.”
Sharmahd worked as a radio journalist in California exposing the high levels of Iranian citizens’ dissatisfaction with the theocratic state. “My dad created a website where activists [in Iran] could post articles, and he would talk about it on his radio show,” Gazelle said.
Germany, which has been Iran’s most important trade partner over the decades, has faced widespread criticism for failing to prioritize Sharmahd’s case and win his freedom.
“I don’t see true actions from Germany. If Germany wants to rescue my dad, they can. They have the resources,” said Gazelle.
The “true actions” she demands include support for calls from Iranian-Americans and German-Iranians to apply maximum pressure on the regime to secure her father’s release. Iranian-American human rights activist Lawdan Bazargan said Berlin should pull the plug on its diplomatic relationship with Tehran to send a message to Iran’s rulers about Sharmahd’s dire plight. “Germany should have broken its ties to the Islamic Republic of Iran years ago,” she said.
Bazargan, who was imprisoned by the regime in the 1980s for dissident activity, said Germany continues to refuse to see “the big picture that the IRI [the Islamic Republic of Iran] is a state-sponsor of terrorism and is a danger for humanity.”
Kazem Moussavi, a German-Iranian dissident and spokesman for the Green Party of Iran in exile, told Fox News Digital, “The regime in Iran is determined to execute the Iranian opposition figure and German citizen Jamshid Sharmahd.
“I’ll say frankly: His only chance of survival is if the [Berlin] federal government acts consistently and immediately. I call on Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock to unequivocally demand that the ayatollahs release Jamshid Sharmahd immediately and to stress that Germany will sever relations with the regime and severely sanction it if there is an execution.”
Lisa Daftari, an expert on Iran and editor-in-chief of The Foreign Desk website, told Fox News Digital, “The U.S. and Germany should absolutely use whatever diplomatic leverage they have to sanction the regime over Sharmahd’s case.”
She continued, “The recent uptick in human rights abuses by Iran’s regime, particularly in the targeting of foreign nationals, is a consequence of weak policies against the mullahs. They want to show the world that they have the upper hand and the more dominant negotiating position vis-à-vis the West, and taking hostages and making examples out of them has been their modus operandi since they came to power in Tehran [in 1979].”
Jason I. Poblete, Sharmahd’s U.S.-based lawyer, told Fox News Digital: “If there is going to be a release of hostages in Iran that includes U.S. nationals – and it seems that there will be – then Jimmy [Jamshid] must be on that list. Mr. Sharmahd was kidnapped, paraded on Iranian state television by the supreme leader, and is being held hostage. The Americans, Germans and other stakeholders must do a whole lot more than what they have been doing.”
When Fox News Digital asked the German Foreign Ministry if it would announce that it would cut diplomatic and economic relations with Iran’s regime if the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentences Sharmahd to death, a spokesman dodged the question and said: “The death penalty is a cruel, inhuman and degrading form of punishment which the federal government, under all circumstances and unreservedly, opposes. We keep telling Iran this clearly in connection with Mr. Sharmahd.”
For Gazelle, the foreign ministry statement was yet another platitude that she and her family have been hearing for the 720 days her father, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, has been held in isolation.
“All of his teeth, with the exception of two, have fallen out. They are emotionally and psychologically torturing Jimmy. And the German government just says we condemn the death penalty in general. They have to do something.”
The U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to a Fox News Digital press query.
https://www.ifmat.org/07/20/california-faces-execution-iran-being-journalist/
Austria: After crash with police car, eight refugees in getaway car ask for asylum
After a chase, a trafficker crashed into a police car at the small border crossing in Halbturn. The Serb was arrested afterwards, eight refugees immediately applied for asylum.
Still on the Hungarian side, police officers tried to stop the suspect vehicle around 6 am. However, the trafficker accelerated and sped across the border to Austria, where officers were following him. In the process, the 18-year-old crashed into the police car. He was smuggling migrants from Pakistan and India in his car. The trafficker was arrested.
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Muslim dating app wants to pay the fine for Muslim women in France if they swim dressed in a burkini
The Muslim dating app “Muzz” has offered to pay fines for wearing burkinis. The idea is to achieve by provocation or by creating the conditions for a violent confrontation what the rule of law forbids, argues essayist Céline Pina.
The ban on the burqini or bathing burqa in swimming pools was considered a defeat by the Islamists, who tend towards the Muslim Brotherhood, as they tried, with the help of associations, to impose this garment, which was supposed to mark civilisational separatism, even in places of leisure. Since, for the Islamists, respect for the law does not count, when the struggle is lost in the realm of legality, it is shifted back to the streets and the calls to disobey the rules continue. The idea is to achieve by provocation, tension or by creating the conditions for violence what the rule of law forbids. Hence the proposal by Muzz, a UK-based dating site, to take over the fines of those who refuse to abide by French law: “Muslim sisters, it’s hot outside, go for a swim. Don’t worry, Muzz will reimburse you if you get fined for wearing a burkini”.
This marketing campaign caused quite a stir in the networks. The hashtag #freetheburkini quickly became a trend. So the search for buzz worked well and fulfilled its function as an identity-creating call to order and victim-oriented lament. To justify its positioning, the website seizes on Islamist rhetoric, declaring that Muslim women are “condemned to an unfair choice – escape the heatwave by swimming in a bikini or pay a fine for choosing a plain outfit”. This is how Islamists portray the ban on full-face veils on the beach, when one is forced to dress like an immoral “whore” because one cannot wear shameful clothing.
Not all who wear a headscarf are aware of it, but they participate, even if they do not want to, in the rejection of equality.Le Figaro
Biden, the most unpopular president ever
Never before has a US President met with so much rejection in such a short time. And he has managed this with full mainstream media backing.
According to a recent CNBC All-America poll, just 36 percent of US voters are overall happy with Biden’s performance. That’s one percent below Trump’s worst approval rating. An even smaller proportion, 30 percent, approved of his economic performance, more than 10 percent down from Trump’s worst rating of 41 percent. Other polls have come to similar conclusions.
In several swing states that voted for Biden in the 2020 presidential election, only 40 percent of voters are satisfied with Biden’s performance, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Biden’s approval ratings in the second quarter of 2022 are lower in 32 states than Trump’s in the same period four years ago, according to the renowned market research institute Morning Consult.
The fact that US presidents lose approval in the early years is nothing new. This has been proven by many surveys in recent decades. But never before has a US president faced as much rejection as Biden. This is illustrated, for example, by surveys by the US news website FiveThirtyEight, which used a particularly large set of statistics.
Not a single one of his predecessors since Eisenhower has received so much rejection in such a short time. As comparisons show, dissatisfaction with Biden has been rising faster than with any of his predecessors in decades. Conversely, no one’s popularity sank as quickly and as deeply as Biden’s, especially among his own supporters from the Democratic Party.
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/07/23/biden-the-most-unpopular-president-ever/
Wolves reliably predict ‘far-right voting’
In Germany, “the wolf revival was accompanied by electoral gains for far-right parties,” according to a new study by social scientist Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg (University of Amsterdam).
The AfD won between one and five percentage points in elections in municipalities that had been attacked by a wolf. Why is there a connection?
First of all, the Alternative für Deutschland party is not happy about the return of the wolf. Not because the party is against “undesirable migrants” in this case, but because of another reason: “The wolf is a predator, which leads to the loss of livestock among farmers”. The AfD has actively campaigned against the animal.
While von Hohenberg could not establish a causal relationship between AfD’s anti-wolf stance and election success, there is a correlation, stemming from voters’ economic and environmental skepticism.
This is how it works: the loss of livestock among farmers is seen by residents as a threat to the local economy. At the same time, the return of the wolf is due to the Green party’s meatless environmental policy of inviting back nature at the expense of farmers. But voters who end up in the AfD corner tend to value economic conservation over environmental and climate conservation.
The researchers collected detailed spatial data on wolf attacks on a municipality-level in Germany. Using difference-in-differences models, they found that wolf attacks were accompanied by a significant rise in conservative voting behavior, while the Green party suffered electoral losses.
In all municipalities after a wolf attack, the AfD gained between 1 and 2 percentage points in voting. In state-level elections, the coefficient was significantly larger, suggesting gains of over 5 percentage points. As one AfD ad stated: “More biodiversity? Sure, if it makes sense. But, our farmers are also part of the environment and farmers need space to live and work.”
Survey data suggested that US Republicans are also more likely to hold anti-wolf attitudes. “In short, the evidence points to wolf attacks being a potential driver of electoral radicalization,” the authors lamented.
Unlike the AfD however, fascists everywhere are still fond of wolves. Adolf Hitler was affectionately referred to as “Uncle Wolf” by the children of Joseph and Magda Goebbels, and several of Hitler’s headquarters were named after a wolf: Wolfsschanze, Wolfsschlucht I, and Wolfsschlucht II. In Ukraine, the Wolfsangel is the emblem of President Zelensky’s Nazi Azov enforcers.
After the novel Werewolf by German author Herman Loens was published in 1910, the Wolfsangel became a popular symbol among German nationalists and was used as a symbol of resistance against the victors of World War I.
The Wolfsangel was widely used in Nazi Germany. It was the symbol of several Nazi organizations and military units, including the 2nd SS Panzer Division “Das Reich,” the 4th SS Police Panzergrenadier Division, the Nazi guerrilla movement “Werewolf,” as well as a number of Wehrmacht units.
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/07/23/wolves-reliably-predict-far-right-voting/
Would you send your child to a genderless pre-school?
by Giulio Meotti
A preschool in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, has become “completely gender neutral,” says the Telegraaf. “Would you send your child to a gender neutral primary school?” asks the Telegraaf.Not I.
-Teachers are called “tutors”.
-No more “boys” and “girls”, just “children”.
-Genderless toilets and toys.
-On the other hand, why should a country that legalizes euthanasia of children not build schools that erase biological sex?
For many years, the Church of England has been sending out recurring signals to comply with the injunctions of progressive thinking. St. Albans Cathedral, the oldest and most continuous Christian place of worship in England, has even installed a Leonardo’s Last Supper with a colored Jesus in homage to Black Lives Matter.
Now the Church of England has decided that there is no “official definition” of what a “woman” is. Meanwhile, 360 million Christians in the world suffer a brutal form of persecution, but in the free West there is a state Church that does not know what a woman is. If not the Bible, for which people are persecuted today from China to Africa to the Middle East, these “bishops” could have followed biology. But the woke religion doesn’t need to become a recognized church, as we often read. It will simply take the place of a British church destined to disappear within the next 40 years.
The Biden Administration, Democrats in Congress, and liberal movements in America have all dropped the word “mother” to appease the transgender community. The National Education Association, the largest teachers union in the country, replaces “mother” with “person who gives birth”. Meanwhile, Jill Biden has just attended the Latinx conference, the horrible gender-neutral neologism to indicate Latinos. But Latinos don’t like being called a name that sounds like it needs a kleenex and so they’re moving right to the GOP.
She wanted to talk about how there are only two sexes in biology. But a group of students announced protests and biologist Marie Luise Vollbrecht’s lecture at the famous Humboldt University in Berlin (where she taught Hegel and studied Albert Einstein and Max Planck) was canceled,
The Welt said the lecture’s title was “Sex, gender and why there are only two sexes in biology”. The university justified the censorship with “security problems” ahead of the protest. Vollbrecht told Bild that cancellation “is giving in to radical and violent activists who have no understanding of biology.” We can no longer speak of a debate “when events are canceled out of fear of violence”. The incident is another example of the “radical means used by gender ideologues”.
All these stories happened over the last few weeks and that means that the West is disintegrating very rapidly along its decadent lines. What kind of world are we leaving our children?