Allah's Willing Executioners

Did Saber Lahmar incite Muslim believers to go to jihad for Daesh, or not? This is the question that the Paris criminal court will have to decide from May 10 to 13, as Sud-Ouest reports. The imam from Bordeaux is charged with organising a “terrorist criminal organisation” and is said to have assisted in the departure of several Islamists to the Middle East. In particular, of a family that had left for Iraq via Greece in the summer of 2015. The issue for the judiciary is: How much was the accused preacher actually involved in the departure to Islamic State-controlled areas? His lawyer answers that his client never called for “hijra”, emigration to an Islamic country, which is the duty of every good Muslim according to Sharia law. While there are no records to prove such statements, Saber Lahmar’s sermons were very radicalised. It could be a hidden call to jihad.

Saber Lahmar has had a special background. He was a member of the GIA (Groupe islamique armé, an Algerian jihadist movement responsible for numerous attacks, particularly in France) and subsequently lived in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). There he was arrested by the Americans and spent eight years in the high-security Guantanamo prison before being released for lack of evidence against him. Saber Lahmar, who came to France after his release, is said to have never broken his ties with radical Islam, having made contact with two notorious Islamists who were imprisoned: Lionel Dumont of the Roubaix gang and Mohamed Achamlane, the leader of the jihadist group Forzane Alizza.

https://www.valeursactuelles.com/regions/nouvelle-aquitaine/gironde/bordeaux/faits-divers/a-bordeaux-limam-venu-de-guantanamo-renvoye-devant-le-tribunal-pour-incitation-au-depart-en-syrie/

Ukraine’s defense ministry has been using the facial recognition software of the company Clearviewsince Saturday to identify Russian soldiers.

A Clearview spokesperson confirmed this to Reuters. The technology can be used, among other things, to find out the names of Russian soldiers, combat misinformation and the identities of the dead. Clearview can also be used at checkpoints to recognize “persons of interest”.

According to Lee Wolosky, a company spokesperson, Clearview will offer its services to the country for free. The program will not be provided to Russia, he added.

The company will use a database of more than two billion images from the Russian social network VKontakte. That data can be used, among other things, to identify Russian soldiers.

This method is more efficient than using fingerprints, it said. Moreover, this can be done even if there is damage to the face.

For the time being, however, it is unclear for what exact purposes Ukraine intends to use the technology. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has not yet responded to questions.

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/03/22/ukraine-uses-facial-recognition-to-identify-russians/

By Andrea Widburg

I’ve long known about hydrogen peroxide’s antibacterial properties.  When I was a kid, my mother always had a bottle of Gly-Oxide in the house for cold sores, bitten tongues, and other minor mouth ailments.  And since I’m a bit nervous about E. coli and salmonella (long, irrelevant story), I usually have some vinegar and hydrogen peroxide under the kitchen sink for rinsing fruits and vegetables.

Recently, I got a letter from a friend about the fact that both he and his wife had pneumonia that wouldn’t retreat even with a hospital stay and antibiotics.  What finally ended the pneumonia was a nebulizer with saline solution and food-grade hydrogen peroxide.

Intrigued, I investigated and discovered myriad articles (purportedly from doctors) discussing hydrogen peroxide and respiratory health (e.g., Nebulizing Hydrogen Peroxide for Respiratory Health and Dr. Mercola’s Nebulized Hydrogen Peroxide — A Simple Remedy for COVID-19, from March 2021).

However, and this is very important, I also discovered mainstream media articles, complete with quotations from doctors, saying that whatever you do, don’t nebulize hydrogen peroxide.  This September 2021 Reuters article is a good example:

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does not list hydrogen peroxide as a treatment for COVID-19 (here).

Hydrogen peroxide is traditionally used for minor cuts and scrapes (here).

These rumors prompted organizations like the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) (www.aafa.org/about-aafa.aspx) to post an advisory on their website, seen bit.ly/3APNtWa and on the organization’s Facebook page (here) warning against inhaling hydrogen peroxide. “DO NOT put hydrogen peroxide into your nebulizer and breathe it in. This is dangerous. It is not a way to prevent nor treat COVID-19,” they warned, in response to the social media trend.

According to AAFA, “Hydrogen peroxide can be used as a cleaner and stain remover and can cause tissue damage if you swallow it or breathe it in.” The organization cites toxicology records (here) from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

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Dr Jamie Alan, associate professor of pharmacology and toxicology at Michigan State University told Health.com, “Hydrogen peroxide is a free radical, meaning it’s an unstable atom that can damage cells. If it’s inhaled, it goes to the lungs where it can damage cell membranes.”

Panagis Galiatsatos, M.D., an associate professor at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, shared Alan’s sentiment. Dr. Galiatsatos told Reuters via phone that claims regarding hydrogen peroxide as an effective treatment for COVID-19 “are all false.”

At this point, I was stymied.  Do I believe the traditional medical establishment, or do I trust random people, including random doctors, giving their opinion on the internet?  Once upon a time, trusting the medical establishment would have been a no-brainer.  Now, though, given that the establishment hasn’t covered itself with glory and has aggressively rejected any early treatment for COVID…let’s say my trust is diminished.  Still, those warnings are scary.

However, with hydrogen peroxide now stuck in my brain like a burr, I was fascinated to learn that a recent medical study identifies aerosolized hydrogen peroxide (presumably the food-grade kind) as a new weapon in the war against one of the most pernicious infectious diseases in care facilities such as skilled nursing facilities or old age homes:

New data published today suggest that adding aerosolized hydrogen peroxide (aHP) to hospital infection prevention protocols can effectively reduce Clostridioides difficile infections (CDI), one of the most common healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), among patients in large, acute-care facilities. The findings, which offer the first, long-term evaluation of an aHP disinfection system for reducing CDI in a clinical setting, appear in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC), the journal of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).

“Our study showed that persistence in utilizing an aerosolized hydrogen peroxide system had a significant impact on reducing C. difficile infections hospital-wide,” said Christopher L. Truitt, Ph.D., Wayland Baptist University, and the paper’s lead author.

Individuals infected with C. difficile can be asymptomatic or have symptoms ranging from mild diarrhea to severe and life-threatening inflammation of the colon. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and The Joint Commission, C. difficile is responsible for 223,000 HAIs resulting in more than 12,000 deaths and $6.3 billion in costs in the United States annually.

Why do I hear echoes of stories about hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin in the above report?  Could it be that’s because it involves a commonly available, affordable substance that seems to have amazing properties but that is completely frowned upon by the establishment, especially when it comes to treating COVID before a hospital stay is necessary?

Given the warnings against inhaling hydrogen peroxide, I’m not about to start sucking it in on a daily basis.  However, I am going to keep an eagle eye out for medical journal studies announcing that hydrogen peroxide does indeed have anti-viral properties.  I’m willing to bet that the odds are good that precisely such an article will appear in the next year.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/03/hydrogen_peroxide_the_stuff_sitting_under_your_kitchen_sink_may_be_a_lifesaver.html

German as well as French mainstream media has ignored the issue completely. France may be facing a major change regarding German-speaking Alsatians. In a large-scale referendum held in recent weeks, the overwhelming majority of Alsatians voted in favor of leaving the current French administrative region Grand Est and for an independent region of Alsace.

The initiator of the poll, Frédéric Bierry, announced the result last month: Some 92,4 percent of Alsatians voted for an independent Alsace in the almost two-month survey. “This February 21st is historic,” Bierry commented. There is already talk of an “Alsace exit” in France.

Although the result of the survey is not binding on anyone, it does send a clear signal to Paris, even if less than ten percent of Alsatians (around 168 000 citizens) actually took part.

Bierry, who is driving the exit plan, spoke of a great success to which he felt committed. The vote set a movement in motion that can no longer be stopped. “Alsace wants and will return to a autonomous region,” announced the conservative politician. He will personally work to implement the will of the people so that the Alsace region is reborn. He urged French politicians to comply with the request.

Founded in 2016, the Grand Est region includes the former regions of Alsace, Lorraine and Champagne-Ardenne. In Alsace, there were protests against the merger from the start. Also as a result of the dissatisfaction, the two departments Bas-Rhin (67) and Haut-Rhin (68) have merged to form a “European regional authority Alsace”, which was launched in January 2021. Bierry was elected joint president. From his point of view, the citizen survey is now the next step towards leaving the Grand Est. The government in Paris must present a law to transfer all competences from the greater region back to Alsace.

There were hardly any official reactions at first – probably also in order not to give the vote too much weight. The established media ignored the “historic day”.

Grand Est President Jean Rottner meanwhile rejected the poll. “Before 2028 there will be no changes in the regional layout.”

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/03/21/alsatians-mulling-independence-from-france/

The man, who had been taken into police custody on Thursday evening for glorifying terrorism – he shouted Allah akbar – was taken to hospital, according to the Reims public prosecutor’s office.

Trains were no longer running at the Reims train station. The reason for this was the arrest of a person by the police. All entrances to the station were then closed.

One round trip between Reims and Épernay was cancelled. Nine trains were waiting to enter the station.L’Union

https://www.fdesouche.com/2022/03/21/reims-le-trafic-des-trains-interrompu-apres-larrestation-dun-individu-qui-criait-allah-akbar-dans-la-gare/

Mental disorder” my ass!

The knife attacker Abdalrahman A. (27) stabbed three passengers on the high-speed train ICE 928 Passau-Hamburg on November 6, 2021 (BILD reported).

Investigators quickly assumed that the Syrian had a mental disorder – but that has now turned out not to be the case!

According to the expert, Abdalrahman A. is culpable, said Klaus Ruhland, spokesman for the Munich Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.

The senior public prosecutor told the newspaper BILD: “There are also indications from evaluations and witness statements that he has an Islamist-extremist background.” Initially, the newspaper “SZ” had reported.

According to BILD information, the investigators found propaganda videos of the Islamist terrorist organisation belonging to A.. In addition, he is said to have stated to a witness that he wanted to commit a crime.

The allegedly mentally disturbed knife attacker apparently turns out to be an Islamist assassin after all. According to the SZ, this is the only case of this kind in Bavaria in 2021. Now the Federal Prosecutor General has taken over the investigation.

Abdalrahman A. had arrived in Germany as a refugee in 2014. On that Saturday in November, halfway between Regensburg and Nuremberg, he pulled out his knife. Three men (26, 39, 60) were seriously injured by him. At the time, there were around 300 passengers on the high-speed train.

The man was overpowered. During interrogation afterwards, he stated that he thought a victim in the ICE had wanted to attack him.

First diagnosis: The Syrian suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and paranoia.

It turned out to be wrong.

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Unknown persons tried to break into houses where Ukrainian women and children were staying.
At least two different groups of men tried to break into an apartment building in Örebro where Ukrainian families were living. Two people managed to get into the accommodation and then tried to break into a room where a Ukrainian woman was sleeping with her two children.

“They said that Sweden is a safe country, but I haven’t experienced anything like this,” Oksana said.

“It is dangerous here (…) The men then aggressively knocked on our room door and demanded to be let in (…) I was very scared (…) In Ukraine such things never happen”.

Sverigesradio

The newspaper Samnytt interviewed one of the Ukrainian women in the hostel. We also spoke to a volunteer counsellor in Örebro who accompanies refugee women. None of them wanted us to print their names.

The first incident happened around 3 am. Two Somali men started knocking on the front door of the hostel. Without opening the door, the Ukrainian woman tried to talk to the men outside.

“They looked like African Americans, if I may put it that way. They were black people,” she told Samnytt.

She explained to the men that only Ukrainian women and children lived in the home, but they claimed that a friend of theirs lived there. After asking for the friend’s name, she found out that this person did not live in the hostel.

However, the men did not give in. After a while, a third Somali showed up in front of the hostel. The women found the situation very unpleasant and went to their rooms to lock themselves in.

Several Somalis eventually managed to break into the hostel.

“They started knocking on the door of a woman staying with her two young children, aged two and four. They were terrified,” says the volunteer.

Around 5am, a group of Arabs came and tried to enter the residence.

“However, they did not manage to enter,” says the volunteer. “I talked to the women. They are afraid. In Germany, a Ukrainian refugee was gang-raped.

The hostel now deployed security staff to ensure surveillance. The Ukrainian refugees were also informed that they could contact the hostel staff or call the police on 112 if they did not feel safe.

According to the volunteers, many of the women were so shaken by the events that they regretted having fled to Sweden. Some would even have liked to stay in Ukraine despite the war.

“I am so scared that I would like to go home,” said one of the women. “If the bombs fall, at least I know I can go to the basement and hide.” Samnytt.se

https://www.fdesouche.com/2022/03/20/suede-des-groupes-de-migrants-ont-tente-de-penetrer-dans-une-residence-ou-sont-logees-des-refugies-ukrainiennes-des-somaliens-les-ont-terrorisees-jusque-dans-leurs-chambres-jetais-terrifiee-e/

Ten years after the attacks committed by Mohamed Merah in Toulouse, which killed seven people and foreshadowed the wave of attacks that followed, France is still threatened by “Islamism”, according to Jordan Bardella, interviewed by France Inter on Sunday March 20.

The acting leader of the Rassemblement National believes that “our enemy is Islamism”. “What threatens France today is Islamism. Islamism killed in the Hyper Cacher, at Charlie Hebdo and the Jewish children in the Ozar Hatorah school. Islamism is causing many of our fellow Jews to be forced to leave Seine-Saint-Denis to flee a mass immigration that expresses a willingness to use violence against them. The concern is the rise of Islamism,” he said.

.@J_Bardella : "Emmanuel Macron a eu la main qui tremble à l'égard de l'islamisme" #QuestionsPol pic.twitter.com/SgnalMm4FL

— France Inter (@franceinter) March 20, 2022

In light of this phenomenon, the MEP denounced the head of state’s performance during his five years in office. “Emmanuel Macron’s record in this area is to be faulted. He has had a trembling hand in the face of Islamism,” he said.

The Île-de-France regional council accused the LREM presidential candidate of failing to act in the face of the rise of this ” threat “. “There are 4,500 foreign individuals registered for radicalisation. The President of the Republic has not deported them. There are 540 radical mosques that have still not been closed. Dozens of Islamist associations that have refused to sign the Charter of Secularism have still not been dissolved,” he stressed, adding that “places of worship identified as practising radical Islam are still funded with public money, especially the great mosque in Strasbourg.”

https://www.valeursactuelles.com/politique/video-jordan-bardella-denonce-la-main-qui-tremble-demmanuel-macron-a-legard-de-lislamisme/