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There is an elevated threat of terror attacks on French soil by Islamic extremists coming from Iraq and Syria, France’s national anti-terrorism prosecutor warned Friday.

Jean-Francois Ricard said in an interview on French news broadcaster BFM TV that terrorist acts carried out “by individuals coming from areas where terrorists are operating, especially the Iraqi-Syrian area” cannot be ruled out.

Ricard’s comments come ahead of the opening of the trial of eight suspects in connection with the 2016 Bastille Day truck attack in Nice that left 86 people dead.

Ricard said the extremist threat has increased since 2020. “For two years, we’ve been able to see how the Islamic State group was regaining some pieces of territory, was restructuring itself” in Iraq and Syria.

He pointed to the January attack in Syria by Islamic State jihadists of a prison holding suspected extremists in the northeastern city of Hassakeh.

Individuals convicted in France on terror-related charges and are set to be released pose another threat, Ricard said.

“Very often they have abandoned none of their convictions,” he said, adding however that France’s judicial and intelligence services will keep a close watch on that released inmates.

The prosecutor said French authorities will “need to do everything we can” to prevent determined terrorists from committing attacks.

“It’s a true problem that we must certainly not deny,” he said.

The Islamic State group had claimed responsibility for the July 14, 2016 attack in Nice. The attacker, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who plowed a 19-ton truck into a crowd assembled for the fireworks display, was shot dead by police.

French authorities said Bouhlel, a Tunisian with French residency, was inspired by the extremist group’s propaganda, but they say no evidence has been found that IS orchestrated the attack. The trial is to take place at a special court for terrorist cases in Paris.

In June, 20 men were convicted in connection with the 2015 Paris terror attacks on the Bataclan theater, Paris cafes and the national stadium that resulted in 130 deaths. Most attention had focused on the lone surviving member of the Islamic State attack team, Salah Abdeslam. The other suspects were found guilty of assisting in the preparation of the attacks or hiding Abdeslam from police. Some are presumed dead in Syria and were tried in absentia.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/france-warns-of-elevated-terror-attack-threat-by-jihadists-from-iraq-syria/

A huge political scandal is causing a stir in Hungary: A foundation run by critics of Hungary’s leader Viktor Orbán and prominent American regime-change leftists provided significant financial support to the Hungarian opposition in the run-up to the last parliamentary elections in April in order to ensure a change of government in Hungary is brought about in Budapest. But foreign donations to Hungarian parties are forbidden.

In circles of the ruling Fidesz party, allegations of abuse are already being raised. István Hollik, the Communications Director of the ruling Fidesz party, accused Peter Márki-Zay of lying to his voters and added that the funding came with strings attached: “What did the donors ask for in exchange?”

Márki-Zay, mayor of Hódmezővásárhely (south-eastern Hungary) and former presidential candidate for the parliamentary elections in April, drew attention to the process himself. While perusing the detailed statement of his campaign costs, which he has only just received, Márki-Zay admitted that he was given several million forints from the US in July, which are now being used to settle his campaign bills.

He made it clear that all donations would be used to try to “overthrow” Prime Minister Orbán – and that this effort would continue.

According to Márki-Zay, the donations came from a US foundation called Action for Democracy, which was only established in February 2022, just before the Hungarian elections. He claimed that billionaire George Soros was not among the donors, since the donations came from “Americans and Hungarians living in America”. The foundation insisted that they had had an “intense online fundraiser” and received money for this cause from thousands of people whose names they do not want to publish in order to “protect their privacy”.

Meanwhile, Action for Democracy no longer focuses exclusively on Hungary. The foundation’s website lists “the main contested countries in the world where we see the greatest threats to democracy and where elections will be held next year that will decide the fate of these democracies”. These include Italy, Brazil, Hungary, Poland and Turkey. In all of these states, national-conservative parties are either in power or – as in the case of Italy – are very likely to win the next elections.

Although the Foundation Advisory Board is headed by Hungarian-born writer Kati Marton, more prominent members include numerous other Advisory Board members, including British historian Timothy Garton Ash, US historian Anne Applebaum, former NATO Commander-in-Chief General Wesley K. Clark, the liberal US political scientist and author Francis Fukuyama, American historian Timothy Snyder, former British Foreign Secretary David Milliband and Hong Kong activist Simon Cheng.

Fidesz communications chief István Hollik told the media that it was illegal in Hungary for a party to receive funds from abroad. According to him, Márki-Zay and his team “abused the law” by receiving the funds into their party’s account. Hollik also pointed out that Action for Democracy literally has “thousands of connections” to George Soros.

Action for Democracy told Magyar Hang that contrary to what Márki-Zay maintained in a podcast, the foundation did not give campaign funding to anyone – they supported the politician’s MMM movement “as a civil organization”.  There is – as of August 30 – a link to a fundraiser called #HungarianSpring on their website, but it no longer works.

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/09/02/leftwing-us-foundation-plotting-to-overthrow-orban/

Confidence in German politics has reached a new low. Only 29 percent of Germans believe that the state can fulfill its tasks, and two-thirds consider it overwhelmed, according to the annual survey by the opinion research institute Forsa on behalf of the German Association of Civil Servants (DBB).

Not even the voters of the governing parties believe in the system’s ability to act: 53 percent of the SPD, 52 percent of the Greens, and even 80 percent of FDP supporters think it is overwhelmed to fulfill its tasks. They feel they are in opposition, because even out of left-wing and CDU/CSU sympathizers, only 78 and 73 percent, respectively, believe this. Only AfD supporters are even more critical at 90 percent.

A comparison with previous years shows how serious the fall in reputation among citizens is. In 2020, 56 percent said the state was able to fulfill its tasks. In the second pandemic year, it was only 45 percent. The survey has been taking place for 16 years. Never before has such a poor value been measured as in the summer of 2022, reports the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

DBB boss Ulrich Silberbach is concerned about the figures. He comments that the civil service is not adequately equipped to deal with crises. Citizens’ confidence in the ability of the state to act is gone, he claims. Forsa Managing Director Peter Matuschek attributed the survey debacle to the so-called crises triad of the pandemic, Ukraine war, and inflation.

According to the energy supply, the state is overwhelmed — 17 percent mentioned this issue. Climate protectionfollowed with 15 percent. Interviewees believe either that the state exaggerates the matter or does too little about it. However, 84 percent are convinced that investments in climate protection are a crucial or significant government task.

Social justice surpasses this value, with 94 percent considering this a crucial or significant task for the state. Arms deliveries to Ukraine, on the other hand, are only considered important by half of the respondents.

https://rmx.news/article/trust-in-the-german-state-is-at-rock-bottom-new-polling-shows/

The Khekra police in Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, on Friday (September 2) arrested one Mohammad Rahees, following a complaint by a Hindu family on August 31, accusing him of threatening them with death. The family, in their complaint, said that the accused issued ‘sar tan se juda‘ threats and also threatened to make their daughter’s objectionable images viral on social media if they ‘do not send her to him’.

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— Baghpat Police (@baghpatpolice) September 2, 2022

Prior to this, in the month of May, the family had submitted another complaint against the same person, accusing him of kidnapping their daughter.

Based on the first complaint, the police had booked Md Rahees under IPC section 366 (kidnapping a woman and compelling her for marriage or to cause her defilement). Later the police registered another FIR against the accused under IPC sections 506 (criminal intimidation) and Section 67 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (Publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form).

According to the second complaint filed with the Khekra PS, the girl’s father allegedthat Md Rahees had been pressuring them to ‘send their daughter to him’ or face dire repercussions. The father further said that the accused had threatened to behead his entire family if they did not agree to his demands.

The accused, as per the girl’s father, had put up an objectionable picture of his daughter as his Whatsapp status on August 23, 2022 and further threatened to leak her obscene pictures on social media when the family did not concede to his demand.

The girl’s father confirmed that Md Rahees was a resident of Ghaziabad. He recalled how on July 18, the accused accosted him and his wife when they were on their way to Delhi on their bike. He added that Rahees threatened his wife by saying, “Send your daughter to me, or I will chop off your head and your husband’s body.” His family has been terrified since then, said the father.

The girl’s father said that seeing the commotion, when the passers-by started gathering near his bike, Md Rahees fled. However, he has been relentlessly pressuring his family to send the girl ever since.

According to a report by Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar, the victim’s father stated that his daughter used to teach in a school. Meanwhile, that boy used to put up a stall in the Friday weekly market held near the school. On May 30, his daughter suddenly went missing. She left without informing her parents. The distraught parents approached various Hindu organisations for help. They filed a complaint regarding the same at the Khekra PS.

Following the outcry from Hindu organisations, the police recovered their daughter after a month and returned her to the family.

The police confirmed that in her statement before the magistrate, the girl stated that she had that she was in a love affair with the youth and had left with him on her own free will.

However, ever since she was recovered and send back home by the police, Md Rahees had been hounding and harassing the Hindu family. He has been issuing ‘sar tan se jida’ threats and warned of serious repurcussions if they do not send back the girl back to him.

https://www.opindia.com/2022/09/uttar-pradesh-md-rahees-threatens-to-kill-hindu-family-for-not-sending-their-daughter-to-him/

The Lionesses (note: nickname of the English national football team) won their opening match at Old Trafford against Austria 1-0, and although there was cause for celebration, it also highlighted a long-standing problem in women’s football: the lack of diversity.

The team that faced Austria was all white. Through her work, Fadumo challenges these structures.

In a recent article, Fadumo wrote about the Senate vote to ban Islamic veils:

“As a Muslim woman, I know the power of sport, I have seen this in the youth I have worked with. But when a law like this is passed without outcry or opposition, it feels like we can never win.”

“When Muslim women remain silent, we are seen as victims of our faith, shackled in our hijabs and oppressed. However, when we speak or stand by our decisions, we are perceived as imposing Islam on the rest of the world. A woman’s strength and her ability to perform are not minimised by the clothes she chooses to wear”. Women in journalism

https://www.fdesouche.com/2022/09/02/sky-sports-uk-recrute-fadumo-olow-une-journaliste-musulmane-qui-milite-pour-davantage-de-diversite-dans-le-sport-feminin-elle-avait-signe-une-chronique-au-vitriol-sur-linterdiction-du-port-du-hija/

More and more German celebrities are distancing themselves from the gender madness in language. Just recently, the German cabaret artist Harald Schmidt explained that he basically does not read texts with (gender) asterisks. Now the writer and singer-songwriter Heinz Rudolf Kunze has followed suit.

He recently appeared on Stern TV and explained: “I have a feeling and a thought on the subject of gender. The sensation is this: whenever I hear or read gendered language, I get physically nauseous – I think like Eric Clapton gets nauseous when he hears wrong notes on his guitar.”

He considers gender language to be a “post-enlightened, neo-medieval form of rabies and hopes that it will soon go away like a plague or a fad”. Kunze pointed out that Peter Sloterdijk, “the most important philosopher alive today”, and 99 percent of Germans see it that way.

This was contradicted by the moderator and cabaret artist Sarah Bosetti (who is anything but squeamish when dealing with those who think differently – during the Corona “pandemic” she denounced opponents of vaccination on ZDF as a “appendix” of society, which one could do without). The linguist Reyhan Şahin, who was also involved in the discussion, was also “disappointed” with the statements made by Kunze, who actually “should be on the right side”.

A survey of the audience, and around 20 000 callers, made it clear later in the show that Kunze was right in his assessment. Only 6,68 percent spoke out in favor of gender language, with 93,32 percent against it.

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/09/02/german-celebrity-calls-gender-language-neo-medieval-form-of-rabies/

France: Muslim confesses to killing man because he was Jewish, authorities discount confession and search for motive https://t.co/JhPQtzDXq8 pic.twitter.com/APiT9QWgJP

— Robert Spencer روبرت سبنسر रॉबर्ट स्पेंसर 🇺🇸 (@jihadwatchRS) September 1, 2022

The Swedish Labor Court on Thursday ruled that a doctor who claimed he was discriminated against and let go by Karolinska University Hospital because of his Jewish heritage was wrongfully fired from his post and must be reinstated.

The Swedish Medical Association had sued the hospital in June on behalf of the doctor.

On Wednesday, the doctor received word that the hospital had admitted in court that his dismissal had been without basis. The court subsequently ordered that he be reinstated and that the hospital compensate him for 32 months of work.

The case began in 2018, when the doctor began stating that he was suffering harassment as a result of his Jewish identity, The doctor filed a lawsuit against the hospital over this harassment in October, 2021. The hospital subsequently fired the doctor, despite the fact that he is a well-known and experienced physician in his field of practice.

According to the lawsuit, the doctor and other Jewish employees were subject to antisemitic harassment on Facebook, including jokes about his nose, and was told he “whined like a Jew,” according to the Jewish News Syndicate.

The lawsuit also alleged that the doctor was prevented from carrying out his research, reassigned, and given a lower salary than less qualified colleagues solely because of his Jewish identity.

The World Zionist Organization (WZO), which supported the doctor in his lawsuit, hailed the verdict as a victory against antisemitism.

“This is a very important victory in the fight for awareness and narrative, and an important message to government institutions around the world that Jews should not be harmed,” said Raheli Baratz-Rix, head of the department for combatting antisemitism at the WZO.

The Lawfare Project called it “unusual” and “stunning” that the employer admitted in court to wrongfully terminating an employee,

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/359130