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European Commission concerned as Denmark passes new law to deport asylum seekers to non-EU states for processing
3 Jun, 2021 12:04
near Kelebija, Serbia, (FILE PHOTO) © REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
The European Commission has said it has “fundamental concerns” about a new Danish law, passed on Thursday, which will allow the state to deport asylum seekers to non-EU countries for processing.
Speaking on Thursday, the spokesman for the European Commission, Adalbert Jahnz, said Denmark’s new law was not possible under existing EU rules on migration and asylum, adding that the right to claim asylum was a fundamental one within the bloc.
“External processing of asylum claims raises fundamental questions about both the access to asylum procedures and effective access to protection,” he stated. Denmark’s parliament passed a new bill that allows the state to deport migrants to non-EU countries while their asylum cases are reviewed. MPs voted for the bill by 70 votes to 24.
The project, proposed by the Social Democrat-led government, will look for partner nations to run asylum camps in their own countries. In practice, the new law means an asylum seeker would need to submit their application at the Danish border before being transported to a third-party nation. If their application is successful, they will then be allowed to return and live in Denmark.
If their application is not successful, the migrant may be granted asylum in the third-party state where he or she has been during the processing, according to migration expert Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, who spoke to AFP.
No country has cooperated with Denmark on the project but the government says it’s in talks with five to 10 nations who may host such camps. One of the nations is believed to be Rwanda.
Denmark has attracted increasing attention for its hardline policies on migrants, including its decision to revoke the residence permits of Syrians living in Denmark after deeming it safe for asylum seekers to return to parts of Syria.
Seattle: Man converts to Islam, plots to drive semi truck through gay pride parade and then open fire on crowd
JUN 2, 2021 5:00 PM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
A Seattle-area mosque tipped off the feds to this clown, which is good, but will also probably preclude the clueless and corrupt FBI from even bothering to investigate the possibility that Williams also learned at a mosque or from his fellow Muslims that jihad violence was a good thing. Meanwhile, as Williams is white, expect his jihad massacre plot to be classified as “white supremacism.”
“Seattle man arrested at Sea-Tac Airport, accused of trying to join ISIS,”
Breaking 911, June 1, 2021:
WASHINGTON – A Washington man was arrested on Friday, May 28, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on criminal charges related to his alleged efforts to join Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization, in order to engage in violent acts of terrorism in the Middle East or the United States.
According to court documents, Elvin Hunter Bgorn Williams, 20, of Seattle, was arrested as he prepared to board an international flight following a lengthy investigation into his efforts to join ISIS.
“As alleged, Williams was determined to support ISIS either by traveling overseas to join and fight with the terrorist organization, or by conducting an attack here in the United States,” said Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers for the Justice Department’s National Security Division….
“This defendant proved persistent in his efforts to join ISIS – speaking with enthusiasm about acts of horrific bloodshed in the Middle East and here at home,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman for the Western District of Washington. “I want to commend those citizens who contacted law enforcement – including his family and faith community – expressing concerns about the defendant’s radicalization. Their courage to speak up and work with law enforcement was important to ensure public safety.”
“This individual self-radicalized, pledged loyalty to ISIS, and became consumed with activities to join the cause overseas,” said Special Agent in Charge Donald M. Voiret of the FBI Seattle Field Office. “We are grateful for the concerned citizens and family members who reported his behavior on multiple occasions and all of the law enforcement agencies who worked tirelessly on this case. These combined efforts no doubt saved lives.”
KOMO News reported: “It’s one of the biggest pride parades in the United States. Plus, after COVID hits, there is going to be tons of people wanting to go to the gay pride parade,” Williams allegedly said, according to the case file.
His plan was to get a semi truck and drive straight through the parade, mowing down marchers and spectators, then jumping out of the semi and opening fire on the crowd, the court documents show. The friend declined to join him and Williams gave up on the idea.
In November 2020, a member of a Seattle-area mosque contacted the FBI with concerns about Williams. The mosque had attempted to provide support and guidance to Williams, but members became aware he was deeply involved in ISIS propaganda. Williams was using mosque-provided electronic devices to engage in online chats with ISIS radicals and to view ISIS propaganda videos of beheadings and other acts of violence. In November 2020, Williams allegedly swore an oath of allegiance to ISIS.
Using confidential sources close to Williams, the FBI monitored his activity and became aware of his efforts to travel to the Middle East and join ISIS. Williams expressed to his associates that if he could not travel overseas, he would commit an attack in the U.S. on behalf of ISIS. Williams began communicating with those he believed were ISIS recruiters who could get him to an ISIS terror cell in the Middle East or other parts of the world.
In early May 2021, Williams booked airline travel from Seattle to Amsterdam and on to Egypt to join ISIS. On Friday May 28, 2021, he went to Sea-Tac Airport to catch the first leg of his international flight. Williams was arrested at the departure gate….
India: Violent Muslim mob again storms into hospital
and beats up doctor, 24 arrested
JUN 2, 2021 4:00 PM
BY ASHLYN DAVIS
On the evening of June 1, a disturbing video surfaced on Twitter, and in no time, all the major social media outlets were awash with its graphic visuals. The viral video showed a Muslim mob breaking into the Udali Covid Care Centre in the Indian state of Assam, while security personnel and staff members struggled to stop them. The mob then attacked Dr. Seuj Kumar Senapat and thrashed him, leaving him black and blue all over his body.
These hoodlums were relatives of a critically ill Covid patient who had succumbed to the viral disease. The video triggered massive outrage on social media, with users tagging the Chief Ministers and administrative higher-ups and calling upon them to take exemplary actions against the perpetrators. Condemning the attack, the Indian Medical Association wrote to Home Minister Amit Shah and demanded immediate strict action on the culprits.
According to the latest reports, 24 people have been arrested for planning and executing the brutal assault on one of India’s frontline defenses against Covid, damaging the Covid care facility and destroying medical equipment.
A Twitter user by the name of Dr Syed Faizan Ahmad made a sly attempt to provoke anti-Hindu sentiments by holding a famed Hindu Yoga practitioner-cum-business tycoon, Baba Ramdev, responsible for this mayhem, as the latter is known to trust Ayurveda more than allopathy. To Faizan Ahmad’s dismay, the hooligans were actually all Muslims, none of whom, of course, followed the Hindu Yogi. The mob was only looking to avenge the death of their relative. The arrested perpetrators include men as well as women, including MD Kamaruddin, Rahim Uddin, Misba Begum, Rajul Islam, Tayebur Rahman.
This is not the first time that the furious relatives of dead Muslim patients mobilized massive mobs to take down hospitals and care centers in India, where they constitute the second-largest religious group. Two years ago, in June 2019, a 200-strong-Muslim mob descended on the busy Nil Ratan Sarkar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata after an ailing septuagenarian, Mohammed Sayeed, passed away after a prolonged illness while receiving treatment in the hospital. It is reported that his grandson Ali planned the mob attack on the NRS hospital and mobilized the mob by writing provocative posts on Facebook. (It’s interesting how the social media giant allows such provocative posts by Muslims on its platform.)
The mob, which had gathered within hours, vandalized the landmark hospital, threw brickbats at the staff, and hit staff members with batons. Two young and promising doctors, Paribaha Mukhopadhyay and Yash Tekwami, were severely wounded in the melee. One had to be rushed to the operating table; the other was admitted to the critical care unit. Mukhopadhyay, who suffered a fracture in the right frontal lobe of the skull, will not be able to be a surgeon due to this injury.
Just a month later, in July 2019, a major furor ensued after the death of Saira Bano from a heart attack in the Lari Cardiology Centre in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Her enraged relatives, accompanied by 100-odd people, stormed into the hospital and started a brawl at the Emergency Ward; medical staff had to halt operations for 5 hours due to the ongoing fracas. The residential doctors were forced to hide in bathrooms as the mob resorted to violence. The hospital authorities were compelled to shift emergency services to the Trauma Centre. There was a delay in starting OPD services due to the commotion, which added to the distress and prolonged the suffering of several other patients at the Lari Hospital. The crowd remained at the ward until the police arrived, and it was only with great effort that the police were able to move the mob out of the emergency ward.
These mobs seem to follow the same script in a recurring fashion, in different cities, troubling different hospitals. Back in 2017, following the same pattern, an angry mob of around 100 people from Kolkata’s Muslim-dominated Khidirpur ransacked the CMRI Hospital at Ekbalpore and hounded staff members after the death of Muslim teenager Saika Praveen during treatment.
Medical professionals were abused and assaulted at various Covid care facilities last year, after the Tablighi Jamatis incited country-wide unrest in the middle of the Covid-19 upsurge. When medical staffs were sent to an area within the proximity of a local mosque where twelve Jamatis had tested positive for Covid, they were beaten up and chased away. Even female staffers were not spared.
Another group of 26 Jamaat members created a disturbance at Ahmedabad’s Sola Civil Hospital that led to hours of high drama. In Uttar Pradesh’s at MMG District Hospital, six Muslims associated with the Tablighi Jamaat were booked for loitering around the wards naked and making lewd gestures at the nurses. In Indore’s Tatpatti Bakhal, Tablighi Jamaat members were accused of spitting on the medical staff, while in Delhi’s Narela quarantine station, two Jamaat members were reportedly found defecating in the corridors.
Some of these Muslims were refusing medication, alleging that the government was conspiring to execute them. One may overlook these comments, thinking that they are being made by people of meager education who do not know any better. But how should one react when trained medical professionals prove themselves to be equally spiteful and dangerous for the society of which they are a part?
Recently, Niha Khan, a nurse in Aligarh of Uttar Pradesh state, was found guilty of not injecting Covid vaccines into recipients’ bodies after inserting the needles. She would trash the loaded syringes in the dustbin. UPHC Doctor Afreen Khan has also been found guilty of working hand-in-glove with the nurse. Allegedly, she was aware of the actions of nurse Niha Khan and was purposely hiding the facts. A FIR has been registered against the two, and investigations are underway.
Calais migrant camp dismantled by police after early morning raid
as number of Channel crossings to Britain skyrockets
4 Jun, 2021 10:56
on June 4, 2021. © AFP / DENIS CHARLET
A makeshift migrant camp in the northern port of Calais has been dismantled by French police, removing several hundred people, including around 30 minors, in one of the largest such operations in months.
The French authorities stated that the operation started at around 6am on Friday morning, with migrants being taken to several reception centers around northern France. “Several hundred migrants were identified on the premises, including about 30 children,” the police said in a statement. A sizeable police presence can be observed in footage online.
The number of migrants in makeshift camps around the port city of Calais has increased dramatically in recent weeks. There has also been a surge in the number of migrants crossing the English Channel to Britain.
Friday’s raid, the biggest in months, comes after clashes between migrants and police earlier this week. Since the so-called Calais Jungle camp – where around 9,000 migrants had lived – was dismantled in 2016, makeshift migrant camps have sprung up around the city. Authorities have repeatedly cleared smaller camps only for them to appear elsewhere.
A recent surge in migrant movements towards the UK from France has caused outrage in Britain, with politicians such as Nigel Farage calling on the government to do more, and others calling on France to stop the migrant boats embarking. According to the Daily Mail, 1,619 migrants arrived on UK shores illegally in May – a figure that shows a considerable increase on previous years.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, increasingly anti-migrant Denmark introduced a new law giving the government power to deport asylum seekers to third-party nations for processing. The EU said it was concerned by the move.
Some in the UK are wondering why they aren't doing the same thing. Then UK doesn't have the EU to answer to anymore, so it would be easier for them than for Denmark.
EU looked at ‘importing 70 million Africans’ by 2035, says German MEP
Gunnar Beck, denouncing ‘disastrous’ new migration pact
4 Jun, 2021 15:40
FILE PHOTO. African immigrants wait in a row as they enter the immigrant center CETI in the Spanish
enclave Ceuta, after some 200 refugees crossed the border fence between Morocco and Ceuta.
© Reuters / Fabian Bimmer
By Damian Wilson, a UK journalist, ex-Fleet Street editor, financial industry consultant and political communications special advisor in the UK and EU.
A leading figure in Alternative for Germany, tipped for victory in a German election this week, Gunnar Beck is attacking the EU’s ‘deeply dangerous’ migration pact before it’s enacted under cover of a feelgood summer.
As Germany’s ‘super election year’ focuses on the state of Saxony-Anhalt this Sunday, the disruptors in the nation’s biggest opposition party, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), are poised for a shock win as its anti-immigration message resonates in the heartlands of former East Germany.
Sitting top of the most recent INSA opinion poll with 26% and having just announced its two lead candidates for September’s federal elections – both supporters of a hard line on immigration – AfD is not about to soften its message.
Senior AfD figure and Euro MP Gunnar Beck said a strong election result would prove a useful weapon in his party’s battle against the European Union’s controversial proposed Pact on Migration and Asylum that looks to enlist its members in a centrally-run redistribution of asylum seekers across the bloc.
“I have myself been working on the EU migration pact for some time and for me the enactment of such a pact would be disastrous,” Beck told RT.com. “Because the EU not too long ago was talking about importing up to 70 million Africans into Europe by 2035. In my humble opinion this is not what we need to modernise our economy.
“And while the figure seems high, when the members of our migration pact campaign - including delegates from Denmark, Estonia, France and Belgium – met with the Commission just last year, that migration figure was brought up but no one at the Commission chose to deny it. “
That suggestion of actively encouraging inward migration to the EU has been floating around Brussels for a while, as governments across the bloc look at ways to address the phenomenon known as the ‘greying of Europe’ where ageing populations aged 65 or older and low birthrates pose ‘considerable social, economic and political challenges in countries such as Germany and Italy’ according to the Pew Research Center, a Washington-based think tank.
Some politicians, such as former European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker believe an influx of younger workers from Africa is the solution.
Meanwhile, the migration pact currently appears stuck in parliamentary committees, the received wisdom is that it’s being deliberately stalled until the outcome of the German federal elections is known in September.
Beck suggests an alternative reason for the unusual delay.
“It's not gone through all the committees in the European Parliament and the negotiations of the Council [of Europe] haven't started but I think the EU would like to push the legislation through from July onwards,” he said.
“Now that all the countries are phasing out the lockdown and people are generally feeling better about themselves and able to leave their homes again. So the possibility is that they’ll try to use the general feelgood atmosphere – summer combined with corona relaxations – to push ahead with this deeply dangerous legislative package,” Beck said.
And maybe Beck’s right. Because the European Parliament’s final plenary session is early July and then it doesn’t sit again until mid-September. If the pact proposals are put to MEPs in July and inevitably passed, there is plenty of time for it to lose its sting over the extended summer break. It will be just like it was there all the time.
That should play well for AfD in the federal elections, which are slated for September 22, but Beck is not so sure.
“It's possible that migration will become an important issue in the federal election,” he said. “And the EU migration pact to those of us in the EU delegation is an important campaign but whether that can be turned into an election campaign is a different story.”
Nevertheless, a win on Sunday for AfD would indicate that despite a huge surge in Green Party popularity nationwide, Germans are interested in more than climate change, particularly in states such as Saxony-Anhalt, home to one of Germany’s three main coal mines. A recent poll there found that climate change was considered important by just 6% of respondents, whereas a national survey found 75% of folk were concerned for the planet.
Observers liken the voters of Saxony-Anhalt – which has a population of 2.2million – to those ‘left-behinds’ who Donald Trump wooed, and the so-called ‘Red Wall’ voters in the UK who felt their traditional party no longer represented them. Beck agrees.
“The election this week will probably be the first time that we become the strongest single party and that will be a huge success,” he said. “There’s widespread dissatisfaction in east Germany about the state of politics in this country and that dissatisfaction can translate very frictionlessly into increasing support for the AfD because our party is not stigmatised there. In west Germany it’s distinctly more difficult there. The campaign to stigmatise us has been more successful and some of the other parties profit from that dissatisfaction. But not us.”
Those efforts to discredit a party, which would most likely sit alongside the Conservative right in the UK, take a huge electoral toll. Despite coalitions being commonplace in Germany, no one dares buddy-up with AfD.
So, despite topping last week’s poll in Saxony-Anhalt, even if AfD wins the greatest vote share on Sunday, it will be relegated to the opposition benches, thanks to a cosy three-party so-called ‘Kenya’ coalition agreement between the Greens, Social Democrats and Christian Democrats, nicknamed as such because their respective party colours of green, red and black echo the African nation’s flag.
But an AfD victory will have some impact. It would prove no small embarrassment to the ruling establishment, particularly the CDU, who will be facing September’s elections without Angela Merkel and face their own internal battles as some members urge a tilt towards the right under the leadership of charisma-free Armin Laschet.
At least for the time being, however, AfD will take the win and, while it will irk the party to be denied the seat of power, at least its supporters can be sure that they are making a difference.
Saxony-Anhalt, GDR
Muslim neighbourhoods in British towns are ‘no-go areas’
for white people, new book claims
5 Jun, 2021 10:37
The central mosque is seen in Birmingham, central England, January 31, 2007. © REUTERS/Darren Staples
An academic who studied Muslim integration in Britain has revealed in a new book that women and children in some communities are subjected to Taliban-like rules, and non-Muslims face threats of violence.
Ed Husain, professor at the Walsh School of Foreign Service in Georgetown University, visited mosques across Britain, speaking to businesses owners, imams and locals about life in predominantly Muslim neighbourhoods. He used his on-the-ground research to write a book, ‘Among The Mosques: A Journey Across Muslim Britain’, which is set for release next week.
The Muslim author grew up in a Bangladeshi family in London and was radicalised in his youth before renouncing extremism. According to the professor, integration issues in the UK continue to persist.
One man in Blackburn told Husain that “Asian” teengers repeatedly “jumped” his 12-year-old son simply for “being white.” Another local told the author that certain parts of the town had become “no-go areas.” Blackburn has the largest Muslim population in the UK outside of London, and is a major hub for ultra-orthodox Islamic sects.
Husain also learned that one school in the town had barred girls from participating in swimming lessons, saying that it was inappropriate for them to be seen in bathing costumes.
While visiting a bookstore in Blackburn, the author stumbled across several volumes advocating strict restrictions and dress codes for women, as well as copies of a book which argued that it is sinful to enjoy dancing and listening to music. The town also reportedly has restaurants that provide gender separation for their clientele.
While visiting Bradford, Husain was amazed by how few white residents there were, and was reportedly told by a taxi driver that they had “gone with the wind.” He noted that mosques were on nearly every corner and that even private homes served as places of worship and religious schools. The professor also learned that some Muslim parents in the area had prohibited their children from going to drawing and dance lessons.
An imam in the city confided that there was “widespread abuse of disabled children in the Muslim community,” and that parents were pocketing social welfare money while neglecting their children.
In Didsbury, the author came across a sign for a local ‘Sharia Department’, which deals with marital issues and other disputes through the lens of Islamic law.
He reported similar interactions and situations in places like Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow.
One woman told him that some Muslim communities in the UK had become a “different universe” from the rest of the country.
Like other European countries, the UK has struggled with integrating immigrants from Muslim-majority nations, sparking concern about radicalisation. At the same time, reports suggest that there is a rise in anti-Muslim sentiment in the country. During Husain’s trip to Bradford, a local predicted that anti-Muslim sentiment could lead to “an apartheid city” within 30 years and give rise to Nazi-like political parties that would persecute immigrants.
I don't think it will take 30 years!
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