Internal Belgian police e-mail: Great fear of arriving Afghan jihadists
An email from the Belgian police revealed that Afghan refugees arriving in Belgium will include traffickers, extremists, terrorism recruiters and violent criminals. In addition, according to the Belgian police, “some young Afghans, already in the country’s reception centers, behave very violently”.
As reported by the Flemish newspaper Het Nieuwsblad, there are groups on the social media platform Tiktok that call for violence. The worrying thing is that some individuals are involved with Islamic religious recruitment, claiming to be adherents of a strict Islam to be introduced to Belgium. The federal police and Minister of the Interior Annelies Verlinden (CD&V) fear that extremely violent or fundamentalist persons could travel with the Afghan migrants who are expected in Belgium. This was apparent from an internal email reported by the Mediahuis newspapers.
The mail was specifically addressed to the services that have asylum centers under their supervision. The same e-mail also showed that some of the Afghans who were already housed in the asylum centers were behaving very violently.
Belgium has meanwhile stopped evacuations due to an “imminent threat of a suicide attack”. The Belgian government was informed on Wednesday that there was an imminent threat of a suicide attack at the airport in the Afghan capital Kabul. Information about this had arrived “at the military level” from American and other sources, after which the federal government decided to stop the ongoing evacuations via operation Red Kite, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said at a press conference on Thursday.
Prime Minister De Croo also tried to calm fears of possible Taliban jihadists entering Belgium. He said that anyone who is transferred from Kabul to Islamabad and from there to Melsbroek and Peutie in Belgium was checked four times: Each name is checked against the lists of the Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis, the State Security Service, the military intelligence service and the federal police. “It is important that the people we take with us have a right to that, but of course we don’t want to take anyone who could pose a danger.”
Vlaams Belang politician Filip Dewinter mocked the government’s notion of “Flemish families” returning to Belgium, tweeting a clip of Muslims arriving in the country from Kabul.
The Flemish Member of Parliament warned that “the demise of Afghanistan can indeed have an impact on our security”. The chaos at the airport of the capital of Afghanistan obstructs the operations of identification of the Afghans before embarking on the Western military flights.
For example, in Antwerp, where 8000 Afghans live, there is also a fear that conflicts will be imported from the Asian country, Dewinter pointed out. “A more than justified fear, in a city where figures such as Abdul Hameed and Mohammad Khalil, who are part of the Pakistani jihad movement Khatme Nubuwwat, are allowed to quietly and undisturbedly recruit supporters for the Taliban and for Muslim terrorists in Kashmir,” said Dewinter, who also a municipal councilor. “And from the jihad mosque Khatim-Ul-Anbia in Biekorfstraat, young people recruited every year leave for Pakistani Peshawar, more specifically to Madrassa Darul Uloom Haqqania, a training camp for Taliban terrorists.”
The Vlaams Belang member demanded the ban on the Pakistani jihad movement Khatme Nubuwwat. “That movement organizes an annual conference in our country,” said Dewinter. “And they have a department in Antwerp to which the jihad mosque Khatim-Ul-Anbia belongs.”
Since the change of power in Kabul, increased vigilance against terror was absolutely necessary he said. “Where the Taliban in Afghanistan previously used Chinese Kalashnikovs, the terrorist organization now has American M4 and AR-15 rifles at its disposal,” Dewinter continued.
“Modern weaponry with which Islamic terrorism can henceforth not only equip itself on the spot, but which can also be used in the training of terrorists. The Taliban may thank the US military for the $83 billion it has spent over 20 years building and equipping the Afghan military.”
It is therefore strictly necessary that those who give sermons in the Afghan and Pakistani mosques are screened, “something that should have happened much sooner,” Dewinter concluded. “In addition, Taliban members and sympathizers should be actively tracked down by the police, including through online monitoring and local neighborhood searches, and deported without mercy.
According to German Refugee Minister Joachim Stamp from then federal state of North Rhein Westphalia (NRW), “individual cases” of returning jihadists will not deter the Merkel administration from welcoming Afghans. According to its own information, the ministry still has no evidence that such people have come to NRW.
It is sadly these “individual cases” that have been responsible for terrorist attacks on EU soil. And these jihadists have been transported to Germany already.
The Federal Ministry of the Interior in Berlin announced on Monday that there were Afghans who had come back to Germany via evacuation flights who had previously committed serious crimes and had been deported. Only “low single-digit number” were noted by the police, a spokesman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior said.
Eight-metre-high cross opposed to mosque construction erected in Vöcklabruck, Austria
Despite opposition from the population, a mosque is being built in the Upper Austrian district capital of Vöcklabruck. Christian activists have now erected a cross on the building site and made a protest in the form of a banner.
Last Sunday, August 22, an eight-metre high wooden cross was erected on the construction site of a planned large mosque in Vöcklabruck. The unknown perpetrators, who can probably be attributed to Christian activism because of the cross, additionally placed a 17-metre long banner in front of the cross, which read “Islamismuszentrum OÖ entsteht hier” (Islamism centre Upper Austria is being built here). Furthermore, a quotation from the Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz was attached to a sign, which was supposed to show his alleged fight against Islam:
In the fight against political Islam […] in order to be able to take action against those who are not terrorists themselves, but who create the breeding ground for such.
The construction of the Islamic “Culture and Education Centre”, which is also to serve as a mosque, has been the subject of political debate in Upper Austria for years. In 2017, agreement was reached on the planned location in Vöcklabruck. The owner is the Bosniak religious community in Austria. Bosnia is a majority Islamic state with more than 50 per cent Muslims. As reported by the radio station Deutschlandfunk, the Bosniak religious community is particularly supported with funds from Saudi Arabia.
The newspaper Oberösterreichische Nachrichten refers to this as an action by “Islam-haters” and puts the peaceful activists on the same footing as the Ku Klux Klan:
The action is reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan in its viciousness and stupidity.
Mayor Elisabeth Kölbinger ( Austrian People’s Party) is also outraged:
I am shocked that hatred is being spread in our city in this way.
Even the State Security Service has been called in and is now investigating. It’s encouraging when they have nothing else to worry about than persecuting those who put up a cross.
Germany: Tunisians and Moroccans attack each other armed with axes
Appalling incident at Holländischer Platz square in Kassel (Hesse) at night. A fight between two groups, an axe attack and people jumping from the second floor.
This is what happened at around 0.30 a.m., according to the police’s initial findings: Five men clashed with two others in a block of flats. The larger group was carrying an axe, which was being wielded threateningly.
Panic-stricken, the defeated duo fled to an empty flat and were trapped there. The only way out was to jump out of the window – on the second floor!
In the process, a 26-year-old man from Landau was seriously injured, both arms broken. His companion from Kassel (22) suffered minor injuries.
A short time later, numerous police officers were on the scene and were able to arrest the five attackers.
They were all homeless, between 16 and 31 years old, Tunisians and Moroccans, probably all illegally in Germany. Two arrest warrants have been issued for a 26-year-old Moroccan.
It is still completely unclear what the fight was about. It is possible that it had something to do with the drugs found on two suspects.
We need 400,000 immigrants a year, claims the head of German labor office
Despite evidence that Germany’s exisiting migrant population is poorly integrated and costing the state billions in taxpayers’ money, the head of the country’s Federal Labor Office, Detlef Scheele, claims that Germany needs around 400,000 immigrants a year to have a sufficient workforce.
Scheele, in an interview with the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, made his case by saying he was talking about targeted immigration to cover gaps in the labor market, not about granting asylum to refugees.
“From nursing services to air conditioning technicians to logistics and academics – there will be a shortage of manpower everywhere,” Scheele said. “We can stand up and say we don’t want any foreigners, but it doesn’t work,” he said, addressing possible resistance to immigrants.
“The fact is that Germany is running out of labor,” he added.
The former SPD politician also specifically addressed migrants from Afghanistan.
“When refugees from Afghanistan set off, Germany should do its part to take them in.” For him, it is not about asylum, “but about targeted immigration to fill the gaps in the labor market.” In addition, the federal government must ensure that unskilled workers are qualified and employees who involuntarily work part-time can work longer.
Does Scheele’s argument add up?
Scheele’s idea that 400,000 migrants can head to Germany every year and save the economy may be overly simplistic and is most certainly not taking all potential factors into consideration. For example, the German government’s own statistics show that a majority of migrants already in the country are not entering the job market. Those that do are often in part-time jobs, many of which migrants only hold for short periods of time.
The idea that they will also make up for the shortfall in pension budgets may also be misleading. The German government is spending billions to integrate the migrants already in the country. In 2018, the German government spent a record €23 billion on migrants, including rent subsidies, jobless payments, language lessons, and other benefits. That figure does not account for what individual states spent either, with Hamburg’s government releasing data showing it spent €5.35 billion on asylum seekers between 2015 and the end of 2019.
Other hidden costs include more crowded hospitals, increased housing and rental prices for Germans, larger class sizes, increased crime, and expensive terrorist investigations that have saddled Germany’s security services. For example, in Berlin, the capital of Germany, half of all rape suspects are migrants, underlining that the costs of migrants are not only financial, but touch on issues of public safety and the trauma that can follow from being the victim of a serious crime.
Germany is not the only country facing these issues. Norway has reported that many of its migrants may never be self-sufficient, with only half working despite the country spending over €6 billion on workforce integration. Sweden also reported the same problems, pointing out that the number of foreigners living on benefits has risen dramatically and that many of them may never become productive members of society.
Sweden, once the most welcoming country in Europe to refugees, now warns against accepting Afghans, pointing out in a new major report that only one-third of the Syrians in the country are self-sufficient, with many of them costing billions in taxpayer benefits. Austria itself has pointed to tremendous problems with integration, including surging crime from the migrant community and many households not speaking German at home. The country’s leader, Sebastian Kurz, has rejected the notion that his country will receive any more Afghan migrants.
These countries, which are facing the same employment shortfalls as Germany, are, unlike Scheele, saying no to Afghan migrants even if they would theoretically skew the demographic profile lower. The same thinking also applies to peoples from a range of countries from Africa and the Mddle East.
Scheele does, however, point to real problems. He predicts that the number of potential workers in the traditional productive age would fall by almost 150,000 this year in Germany.
“It will be much more dramatic in the coming years,” he said. “Germany can only solve this problem by training unskilled people and retraining those whose jobs have been lost, by allowing women who work involuntarily part-time on a full-time basis and, above all, by bringing immigrants into the country,” he added.
Unlike Germany, Hungary has embarked on a program to shore up its own labor market by promoting large families through government incentives, with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stating in 2018, “In all of Europe there are fewer and fewer children, and the answer of the West to this is migration. They want as many migrants to enter as there are missing kids, so that the numbers will add up. We Hungarians have a different way of thinking. Instead of just numbers, we want Hungarian children. Migration for us is surrender.”
The Federal Statistical Office announced in March that 11.4 million foreigners lived in Germany at the end of last year. Year-on-year, their number increased by 204,000, by 1.8 percent respectively, which was the least in the last ten years. The reason is the lower number of immigrants who come to Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic. In connection with the effects of the pandemic, the Office pointed to the temporarily closed borders and complicated conditions for immigration.
https://rmx.news/germany/we-need-400000-immigrants-a-year-claims-the-head-of-german-labor-office/
Europe Braces for Tsunami of Afghan Migrants
The Taliban conquest of Afghanistan is poised to trigger an unprecedented wave of Afghan migration to Europe, which is bracing for the arrival of potentially hundreds of thousands — possibly even millions — of refugees and migrants from the war-torn country.
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, expressing an ominous sense of foreboding, has estimated that up to five million people will try to leave Afghanistan for Europe. Such migration numbers, if they materialize, would make the previous migration crisis of 2015 — when more than a million people from Africa, Asia and the Middle East made their way to Europe — pale by comparison.
Since 2015, around 570,000 Afghans — almost exclusively young men — have requested asylum in the European Union, according to EU estimates. In 2020, Afghanistan was the EU’s second-biggest source of asylum applicants after those from Syria.
Afghan males, many of whom have been especially difficult to assimilate or integrate into European society, have been responsible for hundreds — possibly thousands — of sexual assaults against local European women and girls in recent years. The arrival in Europe of millions more Afghans portends considerable future societal upheaval.
The 27 member states of the European Union are, as usual, divided on how to prepare for the coming migratory deluge. The leaders of some countries say they have a humanitarian obligation to accept large numbers of Afghan migrants. Others argue that it is time for Islamic countries to shoulder the burden.
Ursula von der Leyen, head of the European Commission, the administrative arm of the European Union, said that the EU has a “moral responsibility” to take in those who are fleeing the Taliban. The leaders of many EU member states disagree.
In Austria, which in recent years has taken in over 40,000 Afghans (the second highest number in Europe after Germany, which has taken in 148,000 Afghans), Chancellor Sebastian Kurz vowed that his country will not be accepting any more. In an interview with Austrian broadcaster Puls 24, he said that Austria had already made a “disproportionately large contribution” to Afghanistan:
“I am clearly opposed to us now taking in more people. That will not happen under my chancellorship. Taking in people who then cannot be integrated is a huge problem for us as a country.”
Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer, in a joint statement with Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg, called for Afghans illegally in Austria to be deported to Islamic countries, now that they cannot, according to EU law, be deported back to Afghanistan:
“If deportations are no longer possible because of the restrictions imposed on us by the European Convention on Human Rights, alternatives must be considered. Deportation centers in the region around Afghanistan would be one possibility. That requires the strength and support of the European Commission.”
Nehammer, in an interview with the APA news agency, insisted that deportations should be viewed as a security issue rather than as a humanitarian matter:
“It is easy to call for a general ban on deportations to Afghanistan, while on the other hand ignoring the expected migration movements. Those who need protection must receive it as close as possible to their country of origin.
“A general ban on deportation is a pull factor for illegal migration and only fuels the inconsiderate and cynical business of smugglers and thus organized crime.
“As minister of the interior, I am primarily responsible for the people living in Austria. Above all, this means protecting social peace and the welfare state over the long term.”
Schallenberg added:
“The crisis in Afghanistan is not unfolding in a vacuum. Conflict and instability in the region will sooner or later spill over to Europe and thus to Austria.”
An opinion poll published by Österreich 24 showed that nearly three-fourths of respondents back the Austrian government’s hard line Afghan migration. The poll linked the support to a high-profile criminal case in which four Afghans in Vienna drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl who was strangled, lost consciousness and died.
In Germany, migration from Afghanistan has emerged as a major issue ahead of federal elections scheduled for September 26. Paul Ziemiak, general secretary of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, said that Germany should not adopt the open-door migration policy it pursued in 2015, when Merkel allowed into the country more than a million migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. In an interview with German broadcaster n-tv, he said:
“It is clear to us that 2015 must not be repeated. We will not be able to solve the Afghanistan issue by migration to Germany.”
CDU chancellor candidate Armin Laschet has remained silent on the Afghan issue, as has the chancellor candidate for the Social Democrats (SPD) Olaf Scholz. By contrast, the chancellor candidate for the Greens party, Annalena Baerbock, calledfor Germany to take in well over 50,000 Afghans. “We have to come to terms with this,” she said in an interview with ARD television.
Meanwhile, Afghan criminals, including rapists and drug traffickers, who previously had been deported to Afghanistan, have now returned to Germany on evacuation flights. Upon arrival in Germany, they immediately submitted new asylum applications. “It is not a completely new scenario that people come to Germany who previously had been deported,” said an interior ministry spokesman.
In France, President Emmanuel Macron has called for a coordinated European response to prevent mass migration from Afghanistan:
“The destabilization of Afghanistan will likely increase the flow of irregular migration to Europe…. Europe alone will not be able to assume the consequences of the current situation. We must plan and protect ourselves against large irregular migratory flows that endanger those who are part of them and fuel trafficking of all kinds.”
Marine Le Pen, who is running neck and neck in the polls with Macron ahead of French presidential elections set for April 2022, said that France should say “no” to massive migration of Afghan refugees. A petition on her party’s website — “Afghanistan: NO to a new migratory highway!” — stated:
“We are fully aware of the human tragedies and the obvious distress of some of the legitimate refugees. But the right of asylum must not continue to be, as it is now, the Trojan horse of massive, uncontrolled and imposed immigration, of Islamism, and in some cases of terrorism, as was the case with certain jihadists involved in the attacks of November 13, 2015 [date on which a series of coordinated jihadist attacks took place in Paris in which more than 130 people were killed and more than 400 were injured.]
“The mayors of certain large cities have already announced their intention to welcome refugees. It is in our opinion an obvious risk to their fellow citizens.
“What matters to us first and foremost is the protection of our compatriots.”
Meanwhile, five Afghans who were airlifted to France have been placed under counter-terrorism surveillance for suspected ties to the Taliban, according to the French Interior Ministry. One of the men, who worked for the French embassy in Kabul, admitted, under questioning, to have previously managed a Taliban checkpoint. Another 20 Afghans taken to France are being investigated for asylum fraud.
In Greece, the government, fearing a repeat of the 2015 migration crisis, has erected a 40-km (25-mile) fence and installed a new surveillance system on its border with Turkey to deter Afghan migrants from trying to reach Europe. In recent years, Greece has been a key gateway to Europe for migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Public Order Minister Michalis Chrisochoidis said:
“We cannot wait, passively, for the possible impact. Our borders will remain safe and inviolable.”
Greek Minister for Migration and Asylum, Notis Mitarachi, added that the EU needs to send “the right messages” in order to avoid a new migration crisis “which Europe is unable to shoulder.” He stressed: “Our country will not be a gateway to Europe for illegal Afghan migrants.”
In Italy, Prime Minister Mario Draghi called for the Group of 20 major economies to hold a summit on the situation in Afghanistan. The Italian newspaper La Repubblica noted:
“The G20, for Draghi, has a strategic value: it is in that forum that one can and must reach a commitment that binds not only the forces of a West that has come out battered from its twenty-year mission in Afghanistan, but also and above all those countries such as China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey which have interests and influence on the self-proclaimed Islamic state.”
In the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in a statement to Parliament, announced a plan to take in 20,000 Afghan migrants:
“We must deal with the world as it is, accepting what we have achieved and what we have not achieved….
“We will not be sending people back to Afghanistan and nor by the way will we be allowing people to come from Afghanistan to this country in an indiscriminate way.
“We want to be generous, but we must make sure we look after our own security.”
In Turkey, the government is building a 295-km (180-mile) wall along its border with Iran to prevent a new influx of migrants from Afghanistan. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that a new wave of migration is “inevitable” if Afghanistan and Iran fail to secure their borders. He added that Turkey will not become a “refugee warehouse” for fleeing Afghans:
“We need to remind our European friends of this fact: Europe — which has become the center of attraction for millions of people — cannot stay out of the Afghan refugee problem by harshly sealing its borders to protect the safety and wellbeing of its citizens. Turkey has no duty, responsibility or obligation to be Europe’s refugee warehouse.”
Meanwhile, thousands of Afghan migrants are arriving in countries across Europe, including Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia and Sweden, among others.
Albania, Macedonia and Kosovo (here, here and here) agreed to temporarily shelter hundreds of Afghans who worked with Western peacekeeping military forces and are now threatened by the Taliban.
Spain said that it would temporarily host up to 4,000 Afghan migrants at two military bases used by the United States.
Slovenia, which currently holds the EU’s six-month rotating presidency, said that the European Union will not allow a surge in Afghan migration. Prime Minister Janez Janša tweeted:
“The #EU will not open any European ‘humanitarian’ or migration corridors for #Afghanistan. We will not allow the strategic mistake from 2015 to be repeated. We will only help individuals who helped us during the #NATO Operation. And to the EU members who protect our external border.”
Meanwhile, dozens of Afghan migrants are trapped along the border between Poland and Belarus. Poland and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s practice of sending migrants across their borders is an act of “hybrid warfare.” Lukashenko is accusedof seeking revenge for sanctions the EU imposed over his disputed reelection and a crackdown on dissent.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that although he sympathized with the Afghan migrants, he said that they were “a tool in the hands of Mr. Lukashenko” and that Poland would not succumb to “this type of blackmail.”
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17680/europe-afghan-migrants
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“If there are Afghans who are potential terrorists, it is better to have them in France to monitor them,” said French Green politician
Until now, no one had gone that far. For a while, advocates of immigration tried to defend themselves against the suggestion that terrorists and refugees were linked. It was an assertion that hardly anyone in Europe dared to make, given the tragic evidence of the link between immigration and terrorism on the Old Continent. As a result, even the most ardent open borders advocates had begun to admit that refugees suspected of terrorist intentions should be kept out of European welfare benefits. Not to mention Sandrine Rousseau (EELV), who has been attracting attention in the media lately with her lunatic statements. The latest news comes from Wednesday morning, August 25, and refers to the presence of Taliban among the Afghan refugees who have arrived in France – in a few days, almost a dozen of them have already been detected, one of whom has been placed under surveillance.
On the television channel BFM TV, the candidate for the Green Party candidacy proposed by the EELV was not particularly concerned about the presence of the Taliban on French soil. On the contrary, Sandrine Rousseau finds the matter… reassuring. “If there are potentially terrorist Afghans, it is better to have them in France to monitor them,” she told Channel 15 journalists.
A baffling remark, immediately followed by an untruth. Not content with bringing potential terrorists from their new Afghan reception centre to France, Sandrine Rousseau believes that France is lagging behind in taking in Afghan refugees. “We are now at almost 600 refugees, compared to 10,000 in Germany and 20,000 in Canada,” says the Green candidate. This way of looking at things overlooks the fact that France is actually the main host country for Afghans: 100,000 of them are already living there, more than half of them illegally.