19-year-old shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ attacks police officers with a knife in Bremen, Germany

An allegedly mentally unstable 19-year-old attacked police officers on Monday evening when they tried to check him in the Walle district of Bremen. He was provisionally arrested.

The adolescent ran past the police station in Waller Heerstraße at around 6.35 pm and shouted loudly, including ‘Allahu Akbar’. The officers approached the obviously confused 19-year-old and tried to calm him down. When the police officers tried to check him, he went berserk and apparently brandished a knife. He then managed to break away, dropping a kitchen knife on the floor. After a short escape, the police officers finally caught him nearby after he had run into a hairdressing salon. Here, too, he was difficult to calm down.

The officers had to threaten to use firearms at times as he kept putting his hands in his pockets. They eventually took him to the police station and he was then taken to a psychiatric facility. One police officer and the 19-year-old were slightly injured during the deployment.

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ARGENTINA: Trans-Identified Male Convicted Of Multiple Crimes Against Women Rapes And Impregnates Female Inmate After Being Housed In Women’s Prison

An Argentinian man convicted of violence against women who was transferred into a women’s prison on the basis of his self-declared gender identity has raped and impregnated a female inmate while detained.

Gabriel Fernández had been accused of violence by multiple former partners before changing his legal sex to female and renaming himself Gabriela Nahir Fernández in 2018. Last week it was revealed how, while serving a sentence related to a domestic abuse conviction, Fernández raped a female inmate in the women’s prison in Córdoba where he is housed, resulting in the victim becoming pregnant.

Following news of the sexual abuse and pregnancy, which initially came to light in July, Fernández, who was being held in the women’s ward of the Bouwer detention center, was relocated to an isolated area. News outlet Infobae obtained court records pertaining to the investigation. According to journalist Patricia Blanco, the decision to remove Fernández from the general female inmate population was done to belatedly defend “the rights of 481 women [who] were violated or put at risk” by his presence there.

A panel of judges at the Córdoba Chamber of Accusation has since ordered Fernández to be isolated from female inmates, calling the situation a “paradox” in the context of the nation’s gender self-identification laws.

“Paradoxically, we find ourselves facing a scenario contrary to what was anticipated. That is, the accused, who perceives herself as a woman and belonging to the LGBTI group, is the one who turns her colleagues into victims or prey of her needs… taking advantage, of course, of the fact that she is housed in an establishment that would not be prepared for these exceptional cases, at least for the moment,” said the judges, referring to Fernández with feminine pronouns.

News of the sexual abuse prompted a response from Argentina’s Vice President, Victoria Villarruel. From her official account on X, the Villarruel strongly condemned gender identity ideology, and referred to its supporters as “degenerates.”

“This is clear and simple, anyone who is in favor of gender ideology is a degenerate, and anyone who is in favor of sexualizing children is a potential pedophile,” said Villarruel. “Our government will fight them until we have no blood left in our bodies.”

Fernández was first arrested in October of 2016 and sentenced to three years in prison on charges related to domestic abuse. In November 2018, the national prison service relocated him to the women’s area of Carcel de Bouwer, or Bouwer prison, after he declared that he identified as transgender.

By April of 2019, Fernández had already been accused of assaulting and threatening a female inmate. But despite this, he was granted parole within days of the incident report and released from prison.

At the end of the year, another investigation was opened into Fernández after his then-partner reported him to authorities for abuse. Fernández was not arrested, and the investigation was suspended. Similarly, another report was filed in 2022, and authorities failed to take action.

In November 2023, yet another police report was lodged against him, and he was arrested. Unlike his first arrest, however, Fernández was held in the women’s ward of Bouwer, where he and his victim shared a room in annex A of Penitentiary Establishment 3 (EP3).

The judges of the Córdoba Chamber of Accusation reviewed Fernández’s case history, noting that he had a long history of being convicted of crimes involving violence against women prior to identifying as transgender.

“In that capacity, she managed to be transferred to an establishment exclusively for women, where she committed several crimes linked to gender violence, all of her victims being, of course, women who were in a relationship with Fernández. Other partners during that period of freedom also denounced her for acts linked to gender violence,” the court held.

After “deploying a long series of crimes against a former female partner,” the court stated, Fernández “was detained and housed again in EP3, where the prison authorities had requested her transfer, due to the accumulation of numerous disciplinary sanctions.”

Last Tuesday, Fernández’s legal representative, Alfonsina Muñiz told Cadena 3 that the rape and pregnancy was not “a question of gender” and that “the same thing happens in the men’s prison.”

Muñiz also argued that the sexual abuse was not an example of “gender violence,” a term used in Argentina to describe male violence against women, because both parties consider themselves women.

Just one month before the rape is said to have occurred, protests erupted across Argentina following President Javier Milei’s announcement that the government would be dissolving the department responsible for addressing violence against women, or the Undersecretary of Protection against Gender Violence. The decision was made as part of broader austerity measures in an attempt to lift Argentina out of its economic crisis.

Outside of Argentina, multiple nations with strong gender self-identification policies have reported instances of trans-identified male criminals sexually assaulting female inmates after being transferred to a women’s prison.

Last summer, a trans-identified male inmate impregnated a female inmate at the Alicante Cumplimiento Penitentiary Center in the Fontcalent region of Spain. The inmate was originally detained in the men’s ward of the Alicante prison for repeated violent criminal convictions, including kidnapping and robbery.

While incarcerated, he began using a feminine name, one which is reported to have been adopted from a popular Spanish singer, and declared that he identified as a woman. He did not undergo surgery, and was not known to be on any hormone regimen whatsoever. Despite this, his request for a transfer into the women’s ward was approved by prison officials.

In 2022, in the US state of New Jersey, two female inmates were confirmed to have become pregnant after a man convicted of murder was relocated to the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women. This year, Reduxx learned that the criminal responsible had mentored another convicted killer on how to gain access to the women’s prison.

https://reduxx.info/argentina-trans-identified-male-convicted-of-multiple-crimes-against-women-rapes-and-impregnates-female-inmate-after-being-housed-in-womens-prison/

Germany: 3000 euro fine for putting up a Christmas tree in front of a daycare centre that might not appeal to other cultures

Florian Schröder (53) from Pinneberg near Hamburg only wanted to do something good last year: to put daycare centre children in a festive mood with a beautifully decorated Christmas tree during the Advent season. But the management of the ‘Mobi’ daycare centre in Hamburg’s Lokstedt district reported the founder of a tree shop to the police.

Because Schröder had put up the tree and presents in a cloak-and-dagger operation without having agreed it with the daycare centre, the latter promptly called the police: trespassing! This was also the opinion of the Hamburg district court, which sentenced Schröder to a fine of 3,000 euros.
He had ‘trespassed on someone else’s property (…) to put up a Christmas tree there in the knowledge that the daycare centre management had deliberately not put one up and would not approve of it being entered or put up’, according to the reasons for the judgement, which the newspaper BILD has in its possession.

And indeed: the daycare centre, which belongs to the ‘Stiftung Kindergärten Finkenau’, had previously decided against a tree. The reason given in an email to the parents at the time: ‘We decided against it as a team because we don’t want to exclude any child and their faith – in the spirit of religious freedom.’
Unthinkable for Schröder, who is a supporter of Christmas trees. The managing director of the online shop pflanzmich.de refers to statements made by the daycare centre manager, who is said to have said that she had nothing against Christmas trees, but that not all traditions could be implemented.

Schröder does not want to accept the penalty order and has lodged an appeal. That is why the regional court in the Hanseatic city is now dealing with the case on Tuesday.

Schröder told BILD: ‘We wanted to make children happy at Christmas time – and that’s why we’re now back in court. For us, a Christmas tree and shining children’s eyes are not a criminal offence, but a sign of hope.’ No daycare centre in the world could have anything against Christmas trees: ‘Why would they?’

The daycare centre has not yet responded to a BILD enquiry.

https://www.bild.de/news/inland/hamburg-3000-euro-strafe-weil-er-christbaum-in-kita-aufstellte-673aeedea722687d00398c28

Germany: Foreigners commit 59% of all sexual crimes in trains and train stations, sexual crimes double since 2019

The German Green Party has proposed “female-only” trains in response to exploding sexual violence in Berlin train stations, but the real issue may not be the lack of female-only trains, but the radical demographic transformation Germany has seen over the last decade. The fact is that foreigners are behind the explosion of violence against women, and the data proves it.

While Berlin’s crime statistics obscure foreign perpetrators, Germany as a whole keeps such statistics, which reveal the overwhelming number of foreign suspects. Foreigners only make up about 15 percent of the German population, but these same suspects account for and tremendous 59 percent of all sexual crimes at German train stations, according to federal police data obtained by the NIUS outlet.

In short, foreigners are terrorizing the German populace through sexual violence, all during a time when the ruling left-liberal government has promoted public transportation as a “green” alternative to automobiles.

“The current figures confirm that staying at train stations and on trains is becoming increasingly dangerous. Every day, at least six sexual crimes occur in this environment, which is a dramatic increase of 30 percent compared to the same period last year,” said AfD politician Marin Hess. 

In total, German Federal Police tallied 1,125 sexual offenses at train stations in the first six months of 2024. However, five years ago, in 2019, the first year this data was kept, showed there were 1,184 sexual offenses in the entire year. That means that 2024 is on track to show sexual crimes will likely have doubled in German trains and train stations in just five years.

The German police are also often failing to catch these sexual perpetrators. In 2023, no suspect was identified in 676 cases from over 1,800 sexual offenses, representing about a third of cases. In the first half of 2023, there were 428 cases (38 percent) where the suspect remains unknown. In short, the German police are getting less efficient at catching sexual criminals.

The situation is deteriorating so quickly in Germany that the police are turning against the far-left interior minister, Nancy Faeser (SPD), who is responsible for security in Germany but appears to be focusing her efforts on fighting her political foe, the Alternative for Germany (AfD).

“It must not be the case that train stations become spaces of fear for women. Women must be able to travel safely in Germany. The risk of becoming a victim continues to increase every month. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser must finally wake up,” Heiko Teggatz, the federal chairman of the federal police union DPolG, told Bild newspaper in May this year.

When it comes to general violent crimes, there is also no doubt regarding the credible overrepresentation of foreigners in such serious crimes. Non-German suspects committed 46 percent of all violent crimes, which constitute robbery, dangerous and serious bodily harm, and assaults. Ten years ago, this proportion was 28 percent. The absolute number of foreign suspects in violent crimes at train stations has tripled from 2,670 in 2014 to 8,271 in 2023. Most perpetrators come from Poland, Syria, Afghanistan, Turkey, and Ukraine.

Overall, there were 13,543 violent crimes in the first six months of 2024 alone, which was 27 percent more than two years ago, and more than 9 percent higher than the same timeframe in 2023.

It is important to note that many people with a foreign background are counted as Germans in the crime statistics. Hundreds of thousands of foreigners have been granted citizenship in the past year. If any of these new citizens commits a crime, it is recorded as a “German” perpetrator.

While women have always faced a certain level of risk on European public transport, the migration crisis has turbocharged the threat. Some of the most absurd headlines out of Germany have to do with the country’s rail system and the daily terror inflicted on train personnel and passengers, largely due to mass immigration.

This has included everything from migrants masturbating on rail lines, resulting in regional traffic shutdowns, to German staff being terrorized to the point that they are not showing up for work, including due to physical assaults and sexual violence. There is now even a policy in place to not check train tickets for people who look to be foreign out of fear of assault.

https://rmx.news/article/germany-foreigners-commit-59-of-all-sexual-crimes-in-trains-and-train-stations-sexual-crimes-double-since-2019/

💩€600 fine for German who used poop emoji against Greens’ leader💩

Robert Habeck.

German media has revealed that a man was fined over a social media post that described Robert Habeck, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and Vice Chancellor of Germany, with a pile of poo emoji.

In April, 2023, the man, who lives in Saxony-Anhalt, had posted on X: “Mr Habeck, you are such a lying piece of 💩”.

On November 19, German news outlet NIUS reported that as a result, the man was later fined €600 after Habeck, who wants to become the next chancellor for the Greens, filed a criminal case over the post.

The comment related to a debate about the then-proposed “heating act” legislation championed by Habeck and aimed at phasing out oil and gas heating systems in buildings throughout Germany in favour of a switch to renewable energy.

On January 1 this year, the Building Energy Act (GEG) came into force. This policy has sharply increased costs, especially for homeowners and led to a rush on items such as heating pumps, leading to shortages in the market.

During the emoji case in the district court at Bitterfeld-Wolfen, the public prosecutor’s office had stated: “The witness Habeck feels his honour has been violated, especially by the use of the emoji, and is filing a criminal complaint for insult.”

According to the prosecutor, the man also knew “that the Habeck witness was a federal minister and that your comment was suitable for making its work as a federal minister more difficult in public”.

The district court issued a criminal order imposing a €600 fine for “insulting individuals in public office, slander and defamation” under Section 188 of the Criminal Code. The man accepted the penalty, telling NIUS that he did so “to avoid even higher legal costs”.

“The comment was intentionally written with the emoji to avoid a direct insult and to make it seem a bit less harsh,” the man claimed. As a property owner, he said he was personally affected by the heating law.

Habeck is known for being particularly sensitive to personal insults. Earlier in November, officers raided the home of a pensioner who had retweeted a meme deriding the politician.

Police confiscated the man’s tablet. His daughter, who reportedly has Down’s syndrome, was there at the time.

Also in April 2023, Habeck launched a criminal complaint against popular German journalist Rainer Meyer who had tweeted that the vice Chancellor’s appearance “would not stand out negatively in a group of train-station alcoholics”.

According to Apollo News, Habeck has filed at least 805 complaints in the current legislative period and his Greens colleague Annalena Baerbock made a similar number of complaints.

https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/11/%f0%9f%92%a9e600-fine-for-german-who-used-poop-emoji-against-greens-leader%f0%9f%92%a9/

Mad Britain: Nine-Year-Olds Being Investigated by Police for Non-Crime Hate Incidents

Mainstream Britain might finally be waking up to the fact that it elected a totalitarian government that increasingly seems to behave like the Chinese Communist Party.

Children as young as nine are currently being investigated by the police for non-crime hate incidents. According to the Daily Mail:

“A nine-year-old child is among the youngsters being probed by police over hate incidents… Officers recorded incidents against the child, who called a fellow primary school pupil a ‘retard’, and against two schoolgirls who said another student smelled ‘like fish’. The youngsters were among multiple cases of children being recorded as having committed non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs), The Times discovered through freedom of information requests to police forces.”

“Non-crime hate” is not exactly new. In 2014, the police introduced the Hate Crime Operational Guidelines, which have since been updated. According to the guidelines, any non-crime incident that is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice based on a person’s race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity must be recorded, even if there is no evidence of the hate element:

“For recording purposes, the perception of the victim, or any other person… is the defining factor in determining whether an incident is a hate incident… The victim does not have to justify or provide evidence of their belief, and police officers or staff should not directly challenge this perception. Evidence of the hostility is not required for an incident or crime to be recorded as a hate crime or hate incident.”

Since 2014, British police have reportedly recorded more than 250,000 non-crime hate incidents in England and Wales. The non-crime incidents, logged in a system, can even show up, when employers ask for a copy of a prospective employee’s criminal record.

In late June, a 12-year-old Jewish boy had counter-terrorism police come to interrogate him at his home for saying there “are only two genders'”and for saying that Hamas should be “exterminated.” ‘

His mother said the counter terror officers “raised concerns over the fact that her son, who is Jewish, harboured extremist views on account of his response when asked if there were any groups that shouldn’t exist… her son responded that ‘Hamas (the Gaza-based terror group) should be wiped out’.” He was also accused of “unhealthy interest in weapons” for owning a toy crossbow.

Mainstream Britain’s better-late-than-never acknowledgement of the tragic demise of sanity and liberty in the UK is recent, and has especially grown since Daily Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson was visited by police earlier this November, informing her that she was accused of a “non-crime hate incident.” A tweet she had posted more than a year ago, the police told her, was “stirring up racial hatred.” She asked who accused her and why, but the police told her she could not be told what her offending tweet was, nor the “victim’s” name. She is now under investigation for spreading material allegedly “likely or intended to cause racial hatred”.

“This is not what people fought and died for in the war,” Pearson wrote in the Telegraph about her ordeal, which she described as proof of Britain’s two-tier justice system.

There are lots of things that people did not fight and die for in the war but that the mainstream British media has ignored for decades: Mass migration from the Muslim world; rampant violence and terrorism; Muslim grooming gangs, raping, torturing, sometimes killing, hundreds of thousands of British children and young women while the police covered up their crimes.

One survivor, Ella Hill, wrote back in 2018:

“As a Rotherham grooming gang survivor, I want people to know about the religious extremism which inspired my abusers. Grooming gangs are not like paedophile rings; instead, they operate almost exactly like terrorist networks, with all the same strategies. As a teenager, I was taken to various houses and flats above takeaways in the north of England, to be beaten, tortured and raped over 100 times. I was called a ‘white slag’ and ‘white c***”‘as they beat me.”

“They made it clear that because I was a non-Muslim, and not a virgin, and because I didn’t dress ‘modestly’, that they believed I deserved to be ‘punished’. They said I had to ‘obey’ or be beaten.”

Hundreds of people were handed prison sentences for up to several years, for social media posts about the brutal murder of three little girls in Southport this summer. They were jailed for criticizing mass migration and Islamization, but the government said they were stirring up racial hatred. Now, it turns out that the murderer of the three girls, who still has not gone on trial, was in fact an Islamist terrorist, a fact that Starmer’s government covered up and lied about.

Will the British mainstream media fight to see that the many — who were jailed for speaking their minds about these murders on social media — are now freed?

Tommy Robinson was severely punished by British authorities for speaking out against and making documentaries about the grooming gang scandals. A few weeks ago, he was imprisoned, again, for refusing to be silenced, and moved to one of Britain’s most notorious prisons, which houses some of the most murderous Islamist terrorists. Nobody in mainstream British media seems the least bit concerned about his safety.

Meanwhile, actual crimes in the UK continue to soar. “According to the latest figures, the number of knife-related offences in England and Wales rose to 49,489 in 2023, up from 46,153 in 2022” along with a 20% increase in robberies involving knives. Police do not even bother to properly investigate crimes, such as burglaries –between 2015 and 2021, “police failed to solve one million” of them — whereas Allison Pearson’s lone non-crime tweet is being investigated by three of Britain’s biggest police forces.

The British justice system is highly dysfunctional, with victims of rape and sexual assault waiting up to more than five years for their cases to be heard in court. According to the Criminal Bar Association, “the backlog of criminal cases is on track to reach 80,000 by March 2025.” One rape survivor, Emmy Hemmins, waited five years and 11 months for her case to go to trial. It was postponed eight times, and in the meantime she was further traumatized by the extreme wait and suffered from anxiety attacks. The court found her rapist not guilty.

Scotland Yard also spent 15 months investigating Maya Forstater, the executive director of Sex Matters, which campaigns for clarity about sex in law and policy, after a complaint that a post she made about a transgender doctor was a “malicious communication.” She, too, was not told what tweet she was being investigated for or who had made the complaint until she agreed to turn up to an interview with police officers.

While middle-aged ladies and pensioners were handed speedy prison sentences for the lone social media post which they that they had gone on to delete and for which they had apologized, TikToker Fiona Ryan, celebrated October 7, compared Ashkenazi Jews to Nazis, made jokes about the Holocaust, claimed Jewish doctors carried out sex change procedures on children, and, according to the Court, “supported Hamas online”, was merely handed a suspended prison sentence of 20 She avoided jail altogether.

In the UK, evidently, supporters of terrorists do not need to fear any consequences for their actions.

Pro-Hamas, terror-supporting mobs in London continue to enjoy the protection of the police, while those who oppose them, and want to comment on their activities, are subjected to police violence, and arrested. Niyak Ghorbani, an Iranian podcaster, was kicked by police simply for filming a pro-Hamas protest. Ghorbani has probably been arrested more times for exposing terrorism in the UK than he was for protesting the Islamic regime while he still lived in Iran.

While Islam appears to have a special, protected status in the UK — Islamic preachers and worshipers are free to broadcast their prayers for everyone to hear — Christian street preachers in the UK, including pensioners, have for years been arrested for preaching the gospel in public.

Most recently, the police informed a man, a street preacher, that saying “God bless you” is a crime, if it causes “distress” to someone, who has a different belief – such as Muslims.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21122/nine-year-olds-investigated-by-police

Brussels book event on rise of Islamism in schools cancelled after threats

Poster of cancelled event

A public conference on Islamism in schools, scheduled to take place at a Brussels bookstore, has been cancelled after organisers received threats apparently from young Muslims.

In the Brussels municipality of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, the authors of the book Allah n’a rien à faire dans ma classe (Allah has nothing to do in my class), Jean-Pierre Martin and Laurence D’Hondt, were scheduled to present their work at the local Fnac book and technology store outlet on November 16.

The two journalists’ book covered the increasing pressure on teachers by Islamists, which the pair said made it difficult for educators to teach biology and history — in particular, the Holocaust — as well as discuss the radicalisation of their pupils.

On several occasions during the week leading up to the event, the store’s employees were the victims of verbal threats and on November 15, Fnac decided to cancel it, based on an internal security analysis.

Martin made the announcement on social media.

“The conference scheduled for this afternoon at the Fnac in Woluwé is cancelled. We understand that the Fnac is remarkable in its support for the authors and our book. ‘Youths’ threatened the staff. Thank you for your understanding,” he wrote on X.

Asked for further explanation, Martin stated: “Over the past three days, groups of ‘youths’ have repeatedly intimidated the staff, citing the ‘ban on mentioning the name of Allah’. They have demanded that the conference and book signing be cancelled and that the book be withdrawn.”

On Facebook he wrote: “Who is to blame? The Kingdom of Belgium is suffering from deep-seated ills: Deafness and blindness.

“For those who have not read our book, you should know that it is benevolent towards Allah and the other gods. It is benevolent towards those who have faith.

“Above all, our book is a plea for freedom of conscience, for freedom, for the future of your children and the love their teachers give them.

“Those who want to censor this book, and unfortunately will never read it, hate us and are trying to frighten us.”

D’Hondt also reacted to the cancellation.

“There are serious threats against anyone who wants to defend freedom of expression,” she said.

The publisher and the store announced on social networks that they had cancelled the event, without giving further details.

“The decision to cancel the event was taken solely by Fnac and was not taken on the orders of the police,” police chief Michaël Jonniaux told the daily La Libre Belgique.

Olivier Maingain, mayor of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert city, had asked the police to send several plain-clothes officers to the scene.

He said young people had wanted to provoke incidents at the store and feared they still would misbehave despite the event being cancelled.

Martin and D’Hondt’s book was seen as a warning about what was happening in classrooms and was presented as a “cry for alarm”.

The authors have collected testimonies from teachers revealing their fear in the face of Islamist ideology present in their classes.

“Teachers testify to the questioning of the teaching of subjects and values, such as equal rights between men and women, respect for individual freedom, freedom of conscience and religion …”, Martin said about the book.

According to the writers, teaching has become a dangerous profession and schools are no longer a sanctuary. Islamists, they wrote, consider classrooms to promote the school of disbelief, because that is where freedom of conscience is taught.

Teachers are not equipped to deal with the situation, the authors claimed.

The cancellation of the presentation of the book provoked much reaction on social media. Liberal budget minister Alexia Bertrand said it was” a new blow to our freedoms and freedom of expression”.

“We must never tolerate this. We will never tolerate it. I expect all political leaders to join me in strongly condemning these actions.”

Centre-right MEP Assita Kanko said it was “shocking” and called it “Islamic fascism at its finest”.

“This proves once again that it is impossible to talk about topics related to Islamic radicalisation in our schools,” she said.

“I hope the authors will want to present their book in the European Parliament. I am ready to welcome them and reserve a safe space for them so that people who are interested can attend and share views. This is a conversion we need to have.

“I refuse to accept the destruction of free thinking. Freedom of expression must be protected at all times. Also at school,” Kanko concluded.

Belgian Socialist politician and lawyer Julien Uyttendaele described the affair as: “Yet another warning signal. Politicians can no longer turn a blind eye.”

https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/11/brussels-book-event-on-rise-of-islamism-in-schools-cancelled-after-threats

UK college slammed for saying it will buy clothing, make-up for ‘transgender’ students

Sheffield College, Wikimedia Commons , Stephen Craven, CC-BY-SA-2.0

As the Cass Review released earlier this year noted, “social transitioning” — the practice of changing the given names, pronouns, and clothing of gender-confused youth to assist them in “presenting” as the opposite sex — is dangerous “because it may have significant effects on the child or young person in terms of their psychological functioning and longer-term outcomes.”

“Social transitioning” has become standard practice in many Western countries over the past few years, and that is why so many in academia have attempted to ignore the Cass Review’s findings entirely.  

Despite this comprehensive evidence, the U.K.’s Sheffield College is doubling down – and going further. Sheffield was the first college visited by the Labour Government education secretary Bridget Phillipson in July. According to the Daily Mail, the college is planning a “trial implementing a ‘gender affirmation fund,’ which will allow [so-called] trans and non-binary students to apply for financial support to buy ‘clothes and make-up.’” The phrase “gender affirmation” is trans-speak for “affirming” one’s desired gender in contradiction to one’s sex.  

Critics are condemning the move in harsh terms. “It is extremely concerning that Sheffield College leaders believe it’s acceptable to create a ‘gender affirming’ fund for students,” Lucy Marsh of the Family Education Trust told the Mail. “Most students will be under 18, so they are effectively socially transitioning children, which we know from the Cass Review is ‘not a neutral act.’ Instead of giving gender-questioning children and young adults money to present as the opposite sex, the college should be offering them counselling.”  

She added, “Further Education colleges are meant to provide fact-based education for their students, not indoctrinate them with contested gender ideology which can lead to a pathway of cross-sex hormone [drugs] and surgery which causes irreversible harm to their bodies.”  

Sheffield is set to provide thousands of pounds for so-called “gender affirming” grants, and there are other colleges doing the same. The University of Kent currently offers grants of up to £100 that contribute to “gender-affirming products” and even undefined “minor cosmetic procedures.” The University College London, the Mail reported, set aside close to £5,000 for gender-confused students to purchase “clothing, beauty products, or travel for medical or therapy appointments.” In short, educational institutions are literally funding cross-dressing. 

Angela Foulkes, chief executive and principal at Sheffield, stated that the new pilot project was intended to reflect that the college has “a diverse student community” and that they “are committed to inclusivity.” Foulkes detailed the plan in a statement:  

Funding has been allocated with the intention of running a pilot project to support our students. We anticipate that it will start by September 2025. The funds will enable disadvantaged [so-called] transgender and non-binary students access to financial assistance to buy gender affirming clothing and make-up with the aim of enhancing their wellbeing whilst promoting an inclusive and supportive college environment. We anticipate supporting a small number of students who would be referred by our pastoral support team on a case-by-case basis. 

These plans completely ignore the conclusions of the Cass Review, which observed that “social transitioning” “is not a neutral act, and better information is needed about outcomes.” Cass stressed that “transitioning” socially can profoundly alter the developmental trajectory of minors, and that it is likely a life-altering decision once embarked on. Many educators, however, appear disinterested in waiting for evidence on outcomes and more interested in kowtowing to transgender activists in the name of “inclusivity.” 

As always, the kids pay the price. 

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/uk-college-slammed-for-saying-it-will-buy-clothing-make-up-for-transgender-students/?utm_source=most_recent&utm_campaign=usa

Berlin police advise LGBTQ and Jews to avoid Arab-majority areas

Barbara Slowik,screengrab youtube

Some areas of Berlin are not safe for ‘openly gay’ and Jewish people, a local police chief has admitted.

Barbara Slowik, head of the police force in the German capital, said: ‘There are areas, and we need to be honest here, where I would advise people who wear a kippah or are openly gay or lesbian to be more careful.’

‘Unfortunately, there are certain neighborhoods where the majority of people live are of Arab descent, who also have sympathies for terrorist groups,’ she told local outlet Berliner Zeitung.

She added that ‘open anti-Semitism’ was shown against ‘people of Jewish faith and origin’ in those neighbourhoods. 

Slowik said that Berlin police have initiated more than 6,200 investigations since October 7, 2023, although most cases relate to hate messages online or graffiti. 

About 1,300 investigations are concerning violent incidents, although Slowik clarifies that the majority of these were directed against police officers at gatherings like protests against Israel.

‘[The number of] violent crimes against Jewish people is fortunately low, although every crime is undoubtedly one too many. I can understand that fear and concern remain,’ Slowik said.

The police chief’s comments come a week after a Jewish youth football team had to be put under police protection after it was attacked by a pro-Palestinian mob armed with sticks and knives in Berlin

Players from Makkabi Berlin’s youth team have said they were ‘hunted down’ by Arab youths after a game against their local rivals. The team is made up of teenagers aged between 13 and 16.

The game was played in Neukoelln, a neighbourhood in Berlin known for its large Arab and Turkish population.

A father of one of the players wrote on X that his son was deeply shaken when he was spat at during the game and was harassed by adults and children who followed the team off the pitch.

He also posted a screenshot by one of the players, who said that they were chased by ‘Arab youths’ who shouted ‘Free Palestine‘ and ‘F***ing Jews’ and threatened the players with knives and sticks.

The president of Makkabi Germany, Alon Meyer, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper that other witnesses have voiced threats, with some chasing others with knives. The opposition club said they would identify and throw out the people involved.

The police unit responsible for investigating politically motivated crime, the Staatsschutz, has begun an investigation into the incident. 

Makkabi Berlin was set up in the 1970s by Holocaust survivors and was the German capital’s first Jewish sports club after the Second World War.

Earlier this month, a fan of Makkabi Berlin wearing the club’s scarf – which has the club’s logo including the Star of David on it – was taken to hospital after a man in a café asked him whether he was Jewish and punched him in the face. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14098937/Berlin-not-safe-openly-gay-people-Jews-police-says.html

The Guardian: Greedy farmers ‘hoard’ land, but government has a new tax to solve that problem

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By Olivia Murray

Time for the British people to brush up on Karl Marx and communist history.

From Will Hutton at The Guardian comes a new editorial in which he identifies a problem, i.e. greedy farmers who “have hoarded land for too long”, before he announces the solution to break-up the control that these little menaces have over their own property, so they will no longer “be enabled to own it in perpetuity”… which is more government and taxation of course.

Naturally, the farmers and landowners aren’t sold on this Labour Party idea but as Hutton reports, this new progressive inheritance tax will really only affect about 500 individuals, and it’s quite a compromising tax after all, so all the fuss is just ungrateful grumbling. Here’s what Hutton writes, in his own words:

Half a million people die every year. Under the reforms to inheritance tax relief on agricultural land proposed in the budget, about 500 individuals who inherit land worth more than £2m (£3m if they were married to the deceased) will join the rest of society and have inheritance tax levied on their bequest – albeit at half the rate, with an enlarged exemption and 10 years to pay it, concessions not made to the rest of us. How fortunate and privileged are they?

What a generous government that fines people just for owning land but then gives them ten years to pay off the debt! Here’s what else Hutton has to say about the scheme:

The hoarding of land that has gone on since the bung was introduced by Margaret Thatcher in 1984, which has so steadily driven up land prices and farmers’ rents, will at last be checked as some of the larger estates are obliged to sell parcels of land to pay inheritance tax, as they did before 1984 without the world falling in, rather than be enabled to own it in perpetuity.

Will this also apply to the estates of Charles III and his progeny? No, no it won’t, at least according to a Daily Mail item published earlier this month. For context, Charles III is the world’s largest landowner, and the “royal family” combined owns “more than 6,600,000,000 acres of land around the world” which amounts to “1/6 of the surface of the planet.” Oh, and if you’re wondering why Charles and his descendants get a pass on inheritance tax, despite owning the most land out of any person or institution in the world with properties that are “cash cow[s]” and “money-maker[s]”, they cut a deal with the government back in 1993, because as “conservative” then-Prime Minister John Major stated at the time, “the monarchy being salami-sliced away by capital taxation through generations” is something that “few people” in England “would welcome.” But it’s okay to “salami-slice” away the wealth of the little guy, right?

Yeah, this isn’t about a wealth distribution from most privileged to least privileged, it’s about wealth distribution from the middle class to the uber-wealthy, using “the sores of discontent” (recall Saul Alinsky’s strategy) of angry, useful idiots as the vehicle.

As you might remember, one of the most revealing themes of The Communist Manifesto, the communist revolution can only “be effected … by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property,” which is why Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Che Guevara, and Fidel Castro all came for private property, and particularly farmers—farmers feed people, and controlling the food supply means controlling the population.

Hutton says this “hoarding” of land has gone on for too long, but you know what’s actually gone on for “too long” though? Repackaging the neverending war against farmers, and the general public failing to notice that it’s the same old communistic song and dance. Do the British people supporting these politicians and policies realize what comes next? Apparently not enough.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/11/the_guardian_greedy_farmers_hoard_land_but_government_has_a_new_tax_to_solve_that_problem.html