Islam - Current Day > Drunken Muslim shakes up Neighbourhood; Sweden - The Suicide of a Nation; 11 Terrorists get Life; Fulani Herdsmen Terrorize Farmers

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France: Muslim screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ threatens

his neighbors with death

“Perpignan: he threatens his neighbors and shouts ‘Allahu Akbar’ before escaping

through his balcony and being arrested”

Translated from “Perpignan : il menace ses voisins et crie « Allahou Akbar » avant de s’échapper par son balcon et d’être interpellé,” 

L’Independant, 
December 28, 2022 

The young 30-year-old accused was placed under judicial supervision before having to answer for his actions in court.

Not far from the aquatic area in the Moulin-à-Vent district of Perpignan, part of the night from Monday December 26 to Tuesday December 27 was rough. Around 11 p.m. on rue de Théza, residents call on the city police to intervene with a neighbor who, from his balcony, insults them, threatens them with death and shouts “Allahu Akbar.” During these events, his companion was present inside the home.

When agents from the Anti-Crime Squad (BAC) arrive, the 33-year-old man climbs the facade of the building where he lives to reach the balcony of one of his neighbors on the lower floor. This is where he will be arrested. During the arrest, he reportedly resisted the police.

During his police custody, which lasted two days, he admitted some of the facts and claimed to have suffered from memory loss due to excessive alcohol consumption.

This Tuesday, the defendant, already known to the police, was referred for an immediate appearance and placed under judicial supervision.

Sweden: The Suicide of a Nation?

DEC 30, 2022 10:00 AM 

BY HUGH FITZGERALD

Jihad Watch

For most of the 20th century, Sweden was held up as the very model of a modern welfare state: prosperous and peaceful, a example of social cohesion that was the product not of “diversity,” but of the very lack of “diversity.” 

One caveat here: Sweden, like Denmark and Finland suffer from something called the Nordic Paradox - The most gender equal states are also guilty of the highest rates of intimate partner violence, a good 40% higher than less gender-equal countries in the EU. Sweden is also known for having a low number of female top executives.

That homogeneous Sweden is no longer. The description of quite a different Sweden, the result of more than 1.2 million immigrants, mostly from Muslim countries, can be found here: 

Suicidal Sweden: Woman Gang-Raped in a Park by 

Five Teenage Syrian Muslim Migrants

by Amy Mek, 

RAIR Foundation, 

December 26, 2022

(also, a Jihad Watch report on this incident, featuring a translation from a Swedish news source, is here).

Five teenage Syrian Muslim “migrants” have been charged on suspicion of gang-raping a young woman in a park in Malmö, Sweden. The brutal assault was interrupted by two police officers who happened to be patrolling the area. The victim’s attorney said her client experienced every woman’s worst nightmare.

It was around eleven o’clock in the evening on October 22, 2022, when a police patrol passed Kungsparken park in Malmö.

Police saw a group of young people near a casino located in the park. As the patrol officers approached, the gang dispersed. Only after the woman approached the police and told them she was gang raped did they realize they had interrupted a brutal attack.

Four Syrian migrants were arrested on the evening of the assault, while the fifth was taken into custody the day after. The suspected Islamic rapists are all young migrants; an 18-year-old, two 17-year-olds, a 16-year-old, and a 15-year-old.

They all have been charged with aggravated rape of the woman, who is said to be a young woman in her 20s.

According to the indictment, the migrants pinned the woman down, raped her repeatedly, and severely abused her. During the rape, the accused men are suspected of jointly holding her down. Four of the five deny the crime, and the fifth admits the course of events but denies doing anything wrong.

Of course, raping non-Muslim women is highly recommended in the Quran by Mohammed himself.

Though only one of these Muslim assailants said he had done nothing wrong, the other four, who simply denied the crime, no doubt felt the same. After all, the Infidel woman, out alone at night, and dressed as Swedish women in their 20s now dress was, according to their Muslim moral code clearly “asking for it.” Why should they be punished for remaining true to their own traditions and understandings? It doesn’t seem fair.

The police have found the woman’s DNA on four of the perpetrators. Belongings from the woman have also been found on one of the boys, and there are images from surveillance cameras showing how they moved around the crime scene.

“My client has experienced a woman’s worst nightmare, being raped in a park by five guys. She has felt, and still feels, very bad from this,” said her lawyer Kristina Bandrup.

Sweden’s Mass Immigration

Sweden has, in just two generations, gone from being one of the safest countries in the world to one of the most dangerous countries in Europe. Meanwhile, mass immigration has dramatically altered Sweden’s population, reports Gatestone.

While Sweden’s population remained almost exclusively Swedish for most of the 20th century, the share of migrants and their descendants has quickly soared to about a third of a total population of roughly 10 million.

Sweden has one of the world’s worst recorded rape rates. In 2018, the state broadcaster SVT revealed that 58% of men convicted in Sweden of rape and attempted rape over the previous five years were born abroad. Some of the most brutal rape cases have involved Muslim or African immigrants.

The foreign-born are responsible for 58% of those in Sweden who are convicted of rape and attempted rape, while making up only 17% of the general population. That means those foreign-born, almost all of them from Muslim countries, are more than three times as likely to be convicted of rape and attempted rape than native Swedes. Yet the Swedish authorities take care not to publicize these and related figures on general criminality, fearing that the so-called “far-right” members of the Swedish Democrats would cite them as reasons for cutting down on the number of Muslim immigrants. Stockholm’s political and media elites continue to deny a worrisome reality, because they don’t want to be blamed for having caused this mess in the first place, by their criminal laxity on immigration.

If the Swedish public had any idea how dangerous these migrants are, they would not be walking alone in a park at 11 o'clock at night. The government and media are complicit in every rape committed by these degenerates.

Globalists’ multicultural experiment in Sweden has resulted in Swedes no longer being safe in their own country. The journalist Ingrid Carlqvist explains that immigrants have been destroying “our country”:

They are destroying our country and making us terrified of everything. It’s the violence from these immigrants, it is the rapes, the killings, and you know, just not being safe in your own country that makes people very, very scared and desperate, and they lose hope.

Swedish children are being tortured and abused in school and in the evenings throughout the country. There are constant cases of immigrant kids, mainly Muslims beating up, raping, and torturing Swedes. Carlqvist reports that the Islamic immigrants and their children “have a very aggressive culture, and they hate us.” She goes on to explain:

They think that they have a mission from Allah to take over this country. So they really enjoy humiliating and beating up young Swedes.

Is there anything here that has been exaggerated? Don’t Swedes now feel, in Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö and a half-dozen other cities, much less safe than they did 20 years go? Don’t Swedish women now fear to go out alone at night? In Malmö, once a center of Jewish life, now the few hundred Jews who still live in the city must worry about street attacks on them by Muslims. They are especially vulnerable to attacks by Muslim gangs, who simply beat up Jews for the sheer fun of it. These immigrants, taught in the Qur’an to despise Infidels, are quite unlike those placid and industrious and grateful migrants who arrived in Sweden earlier from eastern Europe.

In the now familiar approach to these issues, the left-wing Swedish rulers and their media refuse to address the underlying cause of the phenomenon of Muslim rapists – Islam’s canonical intrinsic devaluing of women. Islam teaches that a woman is worth less than a man. And a non-Muslim woman is worth less than an Islamic one. According to the words of Muhammad and the Quran, men are in charge of women. Prophet Muhammad actually encouraged the rape of women captured in battle. He even provided instructions on how women should be raped after capture, telling his men not to worry about coitus interruptus since “Allah has written whom he is going to create.” Allah also told Muslim men to rape women captured in battle; they were told to do it in front of their husbands.

The migrant rapist’s treatment of women is learned from the Islamic faith and his Prophet’s example. There is nothing unusual or deviant in how the Swedish woman was treated in Islamic terms. Instead of the Swedish left-wing politicians and media condemning Islam’s view on women, they will insist the migrant’s crimes are isolated and protect their socialist and sanitized reconstruction of Islam, created for Western consumption. The cost of covering for Islam continues to put Westerners in great harm.”

Sweden’s welfare system is now wobbling, and may collapse as a result of the staggering sums the government must now expend on these Muslim migrants, who are masters of taking advantage of every benefit the generous Swedish welfare state offers. They live in free or greatly subsidized housing, receive free food, clothing allowances, enjoy free medical care and free education, including language lessons and lessons in “Swedish culture.” These lessons in language and Swedish culture are intended to provide Muslim migrants with the tools that will allow them to better integrate into society, but these last lessons have been singular failures. Why should a Muslim migrant who, as the Qur’an tells him, belongs to the “best of peoples,” want to integrate into a society fashioned by and for Infidels who are – again according to the Qur’an – “the most vile of created beings”? It is only when Muslim migrants stop thinking in such terms that there may be hope for some of them to integrate into Swedish society. How likely is that to happen?

Meanwhile, the Swedes themselves should recognize that their naive dream of integrating Muslim migrants is incapable of being realized, not for want of trying on the part of the indigenous Swedes, but because of the attitudes of the Muslims themselves, who are in no hurry to be employed, but are happy to pocket whatever they are offered by the welfare state, aid which they regard as a kind of proleptic Jizyah. It would be folly for the Swedes to blame themselves for this state of affairs. In fact, much the same outcome can be observed in all the European countries where large numbers of Muslims have been allowed to settle. But Sweden’s elites have been particularly naïve, and allowed into their country, during the last two decades, immigrants who mow make up close to 20% of the current population (and the Sweden-born children of migrants make up another 12%).

At the very least, one hopes that a sufficient number of Swedes will come to their senses, and work to halt all further Muslim immigration into their country. If some feel there is an economic need for migrants to perform menial tasks, instead of letting in Muslims who, in any case, are not eager to work hard, and feel only contempt for and resentment of the Infidel Swedes, the Swedish government can bring in more of the millions of Ukrainian refugees now clamoring to be let in. These Ukrainians are the real refugees, fleeing possible death in a war zone, unlike the Muslims from North Africa and the Middle East who are only economic migrants, hoping to batten on the offerings provided by European welfare states. Many of those Orthodox Ukrainians differ from the largely Lutheran Swedes in sect, but share the same religious heritage (Christianity), and have the same views about the equality of men and woman, about the natural political, civil, and religious rights of all people, and about the desirability of democracy, none of which are shared by the Muslim migrants.

If Sweden can do these things, it should still be possible for the country that gave the world King Gustavus Adolphus, Linnaeus, Ingmar Bergman and Ingrid Bergman, smorgasbord, glög, and Akvavit, and Raoul Wallenberg, to step back from the brink. Swedish elites made a big mistake in opening their doors to Muslim migrants. But all is not lost. There is still time, by voting in the Swedish Democrats, to reverse course.

11 convicted over deadly extremist attack in Ivory Coast

Associated Press, 

December 28, 2022 

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Eleven people were sentenced to life in prison in Ivory Coast on Wednesday after being convicted of carrying out an Islamic extremist attack that killed 19 people and injured dozens more on a tourist beach nearly seven years ago.

The killings in the Grand-Bassam resort area by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb were the nation’s first extremist attack of its kind and one of the bloodiest in the region.

The long-awaited verdict was read by Judge Charles Bini in a packed courtroom in the capital Abidjan where 18 defendants have been on trial since November. Only four of the accused were physically present, each of whom was sentenced to life in prison. Seven of the accused were found innocent, said Bini. The families of the victims were awarded varying compensation of up to $81,000.

Grand-Bassam is linked by highway to Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s largest city, and is a popular weekend destination. When gunfire broke out on the beach that Sunday afternoon in March 2016, many holidaymakers initially thought they were hearing fireworks. But when the armed jihadis approached, terrified tourists and workers tried to seek refuge in nearby hotels. Some beachgoers who were in the ocean at the time of the attack swam out beyond the waves to safety.

The victims included 11 Ivorians, four French nationals, one German, one Lebanese, one person from North Macedonia and one from Nigeria.

The whereabouts of Kounta Dallah, a Mali national and the alleged mastermind of the attack, are unknown. An international warrant has been issued for his arrest, the court said.

Since the Grand-Bassam killings, jihadi attacks in West Africa have spiked. The Sahel region in neighboring Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso has been overrun by violence, which is now spreading to coastal states, including Ivory Coast. Between July and December there were three jihadi attacks in the country, compared to none in the same period the year before, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.

Herdsmen invade Ondo community; destroy farmlands, 

kidnap, rape women

by Dayo Johnson, 

Vanguard, 

December 29, 2022:

Residents of Ijagba, Imoru, and Arimogija in Ose Council area of Ondo state, have started fleeing the community to neighbouring towns and villages over an incessant attack by suspected herdsmen.

The (Fulani) herdsmen have warned the residents who are mostly farmers, to vacate their farmlands peacefully for them, failure of which they should be ready to lose their lives in return.

Reports had it that, the residents out of fear, fled their homes to neighbouring towns and villages to avoid being murdered in cold blood by the rampaging herdsmen.

A local, who spoke with newsmen in confidence, alleged that the armed bandits have been terrorizing them for over two weeks despite reporting them to security operatives.

According to him ” ln the last two weeks, they have killed so many of our people, who are farmers right inside their farms and set many farmlands ablaze.

”Our farms which contain yam, maize, cassava, and other crops were destroyed by their cows.

”ln some cases, they have even abducted farmers and have demanded for ransom before their release.

”They have instructed us to vacate our farmland for them and many farms have been taken over by these bandits.

“They will move into houses and kidnap. A young girl was recently abducted few hours after they released a farmer.

”They collected huge sum of money before they released the farmer, who has since fled the community….

Contacted, the state police command spokesperson, Funmi Odunlami, claimed ignorance of the attack.

Odunlami said that ”we are not aware of such an attack. But l will get across to the Divisional Police Officer DPO in the area for briefing."

Good grief!

The Media is the Message > Ukraine - The First Casualty; Brian Kilmeade and Truth in the Media

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Ukraine: the battle to report the war

Remember - The First Casualty of War is Truth

16 December 2022

Dodging incoming shells is one thing, but AFP journalists covering the war in Ukraine have had to deal with a whole host of other threats, from attempts to control what they report to a civilian pulling a knife on them.

Here nearly a dozen of our special correspondents, many veterans of several conflicts, reveal the difficulties and frustrations of reporting from the front lines

There is the obvious and ever-present danger. That never goes away. Yet what also worries AFP journalists covering the war in Ukraine is the obstacles they face in getting to the front, and what they are allowed to show when they get there.

First they have to deal with the Ukrainian army, which gives – and sometimes withdraws – the passes they need to get through the checkpoints to the battle zones or into newly-liberated areas.

Ukrainian soldiers receive medical treatment in an abandoned building near Kramatorsk after fighting

on the front line in the east for two months. April 30, 2022 (AFP / Yasuyoshi Chiba)

 

“It’s really difficult to work,” said Dimitar Dilkoff, a Bulgarian photographer who was based in Moscow until the Russian invasion, and has done several stints in Ukraine since.

Just “taking a photo can get very complicated”, he said. “If you take a photo or video and publish it, it is very easy for the other side to find the exact location and shell the place.” Sometimes you have to spend a “lot of time explaining that you’re not planning to use the photo, that maybe we will keep it for our archives.”

“The (Ukrainian) army wants you to record what they want,” said Aris Messinis, an AFP photographer in Athens, who has worked in Ukraine on and off since 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea. And that usually is some “success”.

Of course, this is true in every war. Embedded journalists are very one-sided.

 

‘Constant threat’ of losing accreditation

But when they are “losses, they won’t let them be seen, even if it’s injured soldiers, not just dead ones. They don’t want to harm the morale of the public or of the rest of the army,” he said.

“There’s a constant threat that if you go somewhere they don’t want you to go, or if you're reporting where they don't want you to report, that you could lose the accreditation,” said Dave Clark, AFP’s Brussels deputy bureau chief, who has covered numerous conflicts over two decades.

Ukrainian troops help wounded comrades not far from the front line in the Donbas, eastern Ukrainian,

on May 21, 2022 (AFP / Aris Messinis)

 

To protect its journalists, and lower the risk of losing the accreditations they need, AFP sometimes waits before putting out some images, hazes their exact location or finds other ways to work around the army, said Arman Soldin, a video journalist normally based in London.

“You have to walk a fine line, pushing to get as close as possible to the story while not burning bridges with the Ukrainian army,” said Dylan Collins, another video journalist based in Beirut.

Relationships have been built up over time with some army units, allowing access that would have been impossible before.

“We now have an excellent relationship (with some), including with commanders and ordinary soldiers on the ground,” said Daphne Rousseau, a text journalist based in Paris who has done three reporting stints on the front since February. “We follow them, we stay in touch, we send each other Signal (messages),” she said.

It was thanks to such contacts that an AFP team managed to go on a mission to recover the bodies of dead Ukrainian soldiers with a specialised unit in October in Svyatogirsk in the Donetsk region. Another team followed paramedics bringing injured troops back from the “meat grinder” around Bakhmut, the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting in the Donbas.

Ukrainian experts exhume the body of a dead soldier in the backyard of a house in the village of Oleksandr,

eastern Ukraine, on October 16, 2022 (AFP / Dimitar Dilkoff)

 

But for Emmanuel Peuchot, who has coordinated the work of AFP’s Kyiv bureau since October, these hard-won concessions are too rare to truly show the scale of the “butchery” on the battlefield, with neither side forthcoming with overall casualty figures.

Tensions with civilians

Dealings with civilians can sometimes also be very tense, particularly in the Donbas region, which has endured eight years of fighting, and where many locals are pro-Russian.

It's a pity the journalists never explained that sentence. Eastern Ukraine, mostly Russian speaking, has endured fighting for 8 years - since the American-backed Maidan coup when an elected government was overthrown by an unelected government. The first Russo-friendly, the second NATO-friendly. The Maidan coup was a direct violation of agreements between Europe and America with Russia, not to recruit neighbouring countries into NATO. In 2014, NATO said emphatically that it was going to do just that. The same year, Ukraine sent troops, including the infamous Neo-Nazi Azov Batallion into eastern Ukraine in an attempt to force out Russian-speaking people. They were brutal and relentless, it's surprising Russia didn't formally enter Donbas until Feb 2022.

All AFP journalists working in eastern Ukraine have come across hostility at one time or another, regardless of their nationality, with some locals blaming reporters for their areas being bombarded.

Video journalist Ionut Iordachescu runs for cover during Russian shelling near Bakhmut on July 31, 2022

after which a local attacked reporters with a knife (AFP / Bulent Kilic)

 

Istanbul-based photographer Bülent Kilic and video journalist Ionut Iordachescu, based in Romania, were attacked by a man with a knife in August after a cluster bomb landed close by. “It was scary,” said Iordachescu. “But in a way I cannot blame him. They’re traumatised.”

“To be honest, when the media arrive, they expect something to happen and maybe to see dead people,” said Kilic. “Being angry I can understand, (but) attacking with a knife is not acceptable.”

Fortunately, such animosity is not widespread. Indeed Collins found some locals are so accustomed to artillery fire they even stop “to answer (reporters’) questions despite the dangers of incoming shelling.” 

And even in places like Bakhmut, where Clark said  “a lot of people shouted at us, you would always find somebody” willing to talk.

Civilians from the eastern Ukraine city of Lyman are evacuated on May 2, 2022 during a Russian push

into the Donetsk region (AFP / Yasuyoshi Chiba)

 

The ambivalent east

In eastern Ukraine the conflict is less black and white than in Kyiv, Lviv or Odessa, where patriotic rhetoric is everywhere, said Cécile Feuillatre, who works in AFP’s international service in Paris. The line between friend and enemy is much less clear cut. “It’s what makes the Donbas so interesting; there are nuances,” she said.

The difference between “collaborators” and “patriotic” Ukrainians can be equally blurred, said Rousseau. In the Donbas town of Lyman, she was once introduced to a pillar of the local “resistance” by a Ukrainian police officer. But on her next trip there Rousseau learned the woman had later collaborated and left for Russia. Such about-turns can come down to which side is giving desperately needed aid. 

In some recently-liberated towns such as Kherson, the search for “collaborators” can create a “really heavy atmosphere”, said Peuchot, when in reality ordinary people are much more ambivalent and “just want (the war) to finish”.

Locals near the front line in the Donbas region pick potatoes in a field near the village of Zarichne,

eastern Ukrainian, on November 10, 2022. The woman in red was initially hostile to AFP journalists,

saying both Ukraine and Russia had abandoned them (AFP / Bulent Kilic)

 

To understand the nuances, you have to talk to enough people, and that takes time, particularly when working with an interpreter. These nuances are all the more important when it is impossible to report directly from “the other side”, the Russian side, to balance our sources. 

Russia has severely restricted access to its front lines. Despite having a bureau in Moscow for decades, repeated efforts to get authorisation to follow their troops or get access to their side of the front have failed. Even so, AFP journalists in Moscow continue to cover the conflict with Russian sources, but under tightened restrictions from the Kremlin.

“I would like to see the other side, but of course it’s impossible,” said Yasuyoshi Chiba, AFP’s chief photographer in Nairobi, who shot Ukrainian soldiers near Kharkiv. “But I think we are 100 percent doing what we can.” 

A Russian soldier photographed in the ruins of Mariupol's theatre on April 12, 2022 during an organised Russian

media trip to the Ukrainian port on the Sea of Azov (AFP / Alexander Nemenov)

 

Moscow did organise some press trips to a few “conquered” towns such as Mariupol, Berdyansk and Kherson, before the latter was retaken by Ukraine. AFP took part in these as we were unable to enter those areas by any other means. All the visits were tightly-controlled and our stories made it clear how they were organised.

However, Ukrainian authorities made it plain they were “really upset” that we had gone on them, said Clark. You must not forget that an information war is going on between Moscow and Kyiv, said Rousseau, who said her seven years covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict had been “hugely useful” in helping avoid being “taken in by what one side or the other are saying”.

Reporters on the ground are helped by AFP’s digital investigation service which checks, and often disproves, misinformation peddled on social media.

People cross a blacked-out street in downtown Kyiv on November 10, 2022 as weeks of Russian strikes

on Ukraine's electricity grid cause power cuts in the capital (AFP / Dimitar Dilkoff)

 

‘Kyiv is another world’

In comparison with the heavy fighting in the south and east, Kyiv – where correspondents usually finish their reporting trips – is another world. Those who didn’t know Ukraine before the war often say how struck they are by the capital’s modern European feel, with hipster districts just like Paris or Berlin.

That relative normality has been shaken since Russian strikes began to intensify again, with Chiba’s photos of the first drone attacks on the capital in October going around the world.

A man falls to the ground during a Russian drone attack on Kyiv on October 17, 2022 (AFP / Yasuyoshi Chiba)

 

With power and water supplies often cut, Kilic had to work by candlelight during his last trip in November. Yet he was still able to go and see young Ukrainians dancing in a nightclub.

“I have been searching for a picture of people kissing, showing their love for each other. Because in the conditions they face – with no electricity, no water, and missiles coming in – I see young people taking shelter in love.”

Like other photographers, he is trying to capture moments that will endure, that will tell us what it was like to live through this war years from now.

A young couple in a Kyiv nightclub on November 26, 2022 (AFP / Bulent Kilic)

 

Not that anyone is expecting peace anytime soon. Even if the war no longer dominates the front pages of Western media as it once did,  most of the correspondents are eager to go back. “I feel guilty at the end of each mission because I can leave,” said Chiba. “People living in the basements – they can’t be released from that fear.”

Iordachescu has the same guilt. “There is news fatigue and I think that’s normal, because people cannot stay connected 24/7 to what’s happening in Ukraine.

“I see that even in my country, Romania, which is so close… But it’s a luxury that people in Ukraine don’t have. We need to continue to cover this war, and we have to be relentless in our efforts.”

A flock of crows circle central Kyiv on December 6, 2022 (AFP / Dimitar Dilkoff)

 

Interviews by Catherine Triomphe, 

Agence France-Presse

THE MEDIA IS USING THIS TACTIC TO HIDE THE REAL DISASTERS FACING AMERICA

written by Leah Rosenberg 

August 25, 2022

Israel Unwired

For the last few decades, the media has not been anything close to objective. It’s true that some broadcasters had biases back in the 50’s and 60’s, but they at least knew how to hide it and gave off the aura of objectivity. In today’s day and age, this has largely been tossed. Nearly every network hires anchors based on their beliefs and not based on the quality of their reporting. Yes, the media landscape has gotten worse over time – not better.

Whether you like Trump or hate him, this should be very disturbing to anyone with faith in the news media. They have sacrificed the lives of, only God knows how many people, for the sake of politics. What madness!

The distrust of the media has grown in recent years due to the press coverage during the coronavirus pandemic. On an issue that was clearly not black and white, the press took a clear side – the side that was against Donald Trump. If Donald Trump said something about coronavirus, it had to be wrong. So, even if it meant that potential controversial treatments needed to be ridiculed as Trump-touted treatments, and dismissed as ineffective – that was fine. Never mind how many people could have been helped. The main thing was to discredit Donald Trump in an election year.

This is not new - this was obvious to those of us who were watching.

That is just one of many examples that has led to the press becoming discredited in the minds of so many. Documentary type shows such as 60 minutes have become rare, and largely not on TV and cable channels. But that is exactly what is needed. The more that investigative reporting becomes the exception and not the rule, the more people will lose trust of the media.

We need a reset. A total reset in order to restore the trust of the masses in news reporting.

News would have to return to being news rather than entertainment and propaganda.

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Islam - Current Day > Denmark Jihadist gets 16 years then deportation; Lockerbie Bomb-Maker on trial in US; Jihadist who stabbed 4 on German train gets 14 years

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Denmark: Muslim migrant plotted jihad massacre, gets 16 years prison,

must avoid ‘radicalized people’ for ten years

DEC 22, 2022 2:00 PM 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

Jihad Watch

Apparently he can consort with “radicalized people” to his heart’s content after the ten years are up. What can possibly go wrong?

Note also the Danish authorities’ sympathy for the perpetrators rather than the potential victims: Al Masry’s wife will not be deported because she has lived in Denmark for years and knows Danish better than Arabic. Again: what could possibly go wrong?

“Syrian national sentenced to 16 years in prison in Denmark

for preparing bomb terror attack,” 

by Thomas Brooke, 

ReMix News, 

December 21, 2022:

A Danish court sentenced a 35-year-old Syrian national to 16 years in prison on Tuesday after finding him guilty of attempted terrorism and of financing and promoting a terrorist organization.

The court in Holbæk, in the suburbs of Copenhagen, found it had been proven that Ali Al Masry had planned and prepared a terrorist attack either in Denmark or abroad.

He was tried alongside his Iraqi-born, 31-year-old wife and his 37-year-old older brother, both of whom also received minor custodial sentences of nine and six months in prison, respectively, for financing terrorist activity after transferring funds to Al Masry.

The sentence is the most severe punishment imposed by a Danish court in a case of terrorism to date, with some of the presiding judges and jurors believing the sentence should have been even higher….

After conducting a search of his villa in the town of Holbæk, Danish authorities recovered 16 kilos of chemicals that can be used to make bombs, in addition to parts of a remote-controlled car that was capable of transporting a bomb weighing up to 20 kilos.

A scan of Al Masry’s computer and personal cell phone recovered bomb manuals and a large quantity of Islamic State propaganda materials, including a number of suicide videos and writings about jihad, according to Danish media….

In addition to his incarceration, the court imposed on Al Masry a contact ban, meaning he must not have contact with other radicalized people for a period of 10 years, as well as a deportation order requiring his removal from Denmark after serving his sentence.

Is that even possible in prison? Aren't prisons where a lot of Muslims are radicalized?

Al Masry’s Iraqi-born, 31-year-old wife was convicted of transferring $750 to her husband, who is understood to have been on the Islamic State’s payroll at the time of the transfer.

The court agreed with the woman’s defense attorney that she should not be deported back to Iraq because she has nothing there for her to be able to cope in the country, despite the protestations of the prosecution.

Astonishing!

“There is no family in Iraq that can take her in and help her. She has lived in Denmark for more than 23 years of her 31-year-old life, speaks fluent Danish and poor Arabic. It would be equivalent to sending me to Iraq,” said her defense attorney during the sentencing hearing.

I'm OK with that!

Al Masry’s older brother, who is 37 years old and was also found guilty of assisting with money transfers to his brother, will be deported following his six month sentence.

It is understood that with the inclusion of time already served, the terrorist’s brother will remain in custody until Jan. 17, when it will again be assessed whether his detention should continue. Upon his release, he will be expelled from Denmark for six years.

Huh? 6 years? And then he can come back. Is he going to learn to be a good Danish citizen after 6 years in Iraq?

Libyan accused in Lockerbie bombing appears in US court

By ERIC TUCKER

December 12, 2022

Associated Press

The artist sketch depicts Assistant U.S. Attorney Erik Kenerson, front left, watching as Whitney Minter, a public defender from the eastern division of Virginia, stands to represent Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi, accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, in federal court in Washington, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022, as Magistrate Judge Robin Meriweather listens. (Dana Verkouteren via AP)

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than three decades after a bomb brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing everyone aboard, a former Libyan intelligence official accused of making the explosive appeared Monday in federal court, charged with an act of international terrorism.

The extradition of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi marked a milestone in the decades-old investigation into the attack that killed 259 people aboard the plane and 11 on the ground. His arrival in Washington sets the stage for one of the Justice Department’s more significant terrorism prosecutions in recent memory.

“Although nearly 34 years have passed since the defendant’s actions, countless families have never fully recovered,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Erik Kenerson said during a court proceeding attended by victims’ relatives.

The Justice Department announced Sunday that Mas’ud had been taken into U.S. custody, two years after it revealed that it had charged him in connection with the explosion. Two other Libyan intelligence officials have been charged in the U.S. for their alleged involvement in the attack, but Mas’ud was the first defendant to appear in an American courtroom for prosecution.

The New York-bound Pan Am flight exploded over Lockerbie less than an hour after takeoff from London on Dec. 21, 1988. Citizens from 21 countries were killed. Among the 190 Americans on board were 35 Syracuse University students flying home for Christmas after a semester abroad.

The bombing laid bare the threat of international terrorism more than a decade before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and produced global investigations and punishing sanctions. Several victims’ relatives who weren’t sure a criminal case would ever be brought described as surreal the news that Mas’ud was finally in American custody.

Stephanie Bernstein, whose husband, Michael, was a Justice Department prosecutor returning from England aboard Pan Am 103, said she felt a “tremendous amount of satisfaction.” She said her husband prosecuted Nazis and felt strongly that there was no statute of limitations for murder.

“He had a fortune cookie adage on his door that said, ‘The law sometimes sleeps, but it never dies.’ This shows that the law never dies, that the United States government is going to take care of its citizens in life and in death and that the government has not forgotten,” Bernstein said.

There is more to this story at APNews.

Jihadist who stabbed four people on a German train is jailed for 14 years

after court dismisses insanity plea and rules his Islamist views were to blame

By AFP and JAMES CALLERY FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 09:49 EST, 23 December 2022 | UPDATED: 10:04 EST, 23 December 2022

A German court sentenced a Syrian-born man on Friday to 14 years in prison for an Islamist knife attack on a train in which he injured four passengers.

The superior regional court in Munich convicted the defendant identified only as Abdalrahman A., 28, of attempted murder and grievous bodily harm for the November 2021 assault.

Why do German courts continue to hide the full names of convicted, adult criminals?

Defence lawyers had argued their client, a Palestinian who grew up in Syrian refugee camps, suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and should be placed in psychiatric care.

As I have mentioned many times here, radicalized Muslims are by necessity insane. Search - Dr Wafa Sultan.

But the presiding judge, Jochen Boesl, rejected a defence of mental illness on the basis of seven expert evaluations of the accused, and identified a jihadist motive.

Pictured: The defendant, front, stands together with his lawyers Martin Gelbricht, rear left, and Maximilian Baer,

rear second left, in the courtroom in Munich on Friday, December 23

Boesl said the defendant had frequently listened to radio programmes 'with Islamist content' and from May 2021 'at the latest' began envisioning 'taking part in jihad, or armed combat'.

'These views led him to this act,' Boesl said of the sudden and unprovoked attack on a high-speed train between the Bavarian cities of Regensburg and Nuremberg.

'He wanted to kill non-Muslim passengers because they were in his view non-believers and thus had no right to live.'

According to the  Quran!

Islamist extremists have committed several violent attacks in Germany in the past several years, the deadliest being a truck rampage at a Berlin Christmas market in December 2016 that killed 12 people.

The Tunisian attacker, a failed asylum seeker, was a supporter of the Islamic State jihadist group.

More recently, a Syrian jihadist was given a life sentence in May 2021 for stabbing a German man to death and severely wounding his partner in a homophobic attack in the eastern city of Dresden.

Police and emergency services on the secene in Seubersdorf In Der Oberpfalz, between Regensburg and Nuremberg,

on November 6, 2021

The number of people on the Islamist extremist spectrum in Germany fell to 28,290 in 2021 from 28,715 in 2020, according to a report from the BfV federal domestic intelligence agency.

Wow! That should feel a lot better!!!

However, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has said the 'potential threat remains high' from Islamist extremism.

The stabbing took place near Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate, and the train was stopped at Seubersdorf,

southeast of Nuremberg

Ozzone 7-18 > Jesus will never insist that I obey, but “Woe is me” if I see the Light and refuse it.

 

Islam - Current Day > 'Honour Killing' of 17 y/o for excessive talking on phone; ISIS Kill 9 Iraqi Police; Muslim trashes Nativity scene; Palestine's Teen Martyrs; 39 More Slaughtered in Nigeria

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India: Muslim kills his daughter for constantly talking on the phone

DEC 20, 2022 3:00 PM 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

Jihad Watch

In the Qur’an, a mysterious figure, known as Khidr in Islamic tradition, kills a boy in an apparently random and gratuitous attack. He then explains: “And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief. So we intended that their Lord should substitute for them one better than him in purity and nearer to mercy.” (18:80-81)

And according to Islamic law, “retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.” However, “not subject to retaliation” is “a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring’s offspring.” (Reliance of the Traveller o1.1-2).

Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. Syria in 2009 scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences for honor killings, but “the new law says a man can still benefit from extenuating circumstances in crimes of passion or honour ‘provided he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing.’” And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that “Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values.”

Hyderabad: Man kills daughter for constantly engaging on phone

Telangana Today, 

December 18, 2022 

Hyderabad: A man killed his daughter at their house in Musheerabad as she was constantly engaged with her phone.

According to the police, the girl aged 17 years lived along with her father Sadiq and other family members.

“On Saturday night, Sadiq scolded the victim as she was constantly speaking and chatting over phone despite his objection. Later, in early hours he killed her by strangulation,” said Musheerabad police….

Muslims have a severely distorted view of what honour is. Killing your children is never an honourable thing. It is an admission of complete failure as parents and a complete failure of Islam. 

Islamic State claims bomb attack on Iraqi police near Kirkuk

By REUTERS 

Published: DECEMBER 18, 2022 18:31

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the killing at least nine Iraqi federal policemen on Sunday in a bomb attack on their convoy near the oil city of Kirkuk, the militant group said on its Telegram channel.

The blast occurred near the village of Safra, some 30 km (20 miles) southwest of Kirkuk in the Kurdistan region, two security sources told Reuters, adding that two other policemen were critically wounded.

Spain: Muslim migrant takes a hammer to a Nativity display

- No one minds

In Calahorra, northern Spain a Moroccan migrant desecrated a nativity display with a hammer.

Police are seeking his arrest. 

Comments:

Westman says

Dec 20, 2022 at 5:13 pm

If that happened in our Christmas Village display, the fellow and his hammer would meet each other at the intellectual level.

“Seeking his arrest”???

The Spaniard, “men”, walk away across the street in this video and do nothing, not even yelling at the criminal to stop. They just watch the destruction of quality crafted miniatures. There are even 2 police cars which arrive and no police jump out to arrest the criminal. 

While it is disappointing that no one confronted him, he is a big man with a big hammer in his hand. Did this threat keep police from stopping him?  Can you imagine if a Christian trashed the Quran and spoke something nasty about Mohammed? There would be hell to pay from both Muslims and the government. 

Palestinian Parents Alarmed as Their Minor Children

are Recruited to Be ‘Martyrs’

DEC 20, 2022 10:00 AM 

BY HUGH FITZGERALD

Jihad Watch

For many years, the armed Palestinian factions have been in the business of forcing others to “sacrifice for the cause.” In the Gaza Strip, for example, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine have for many years been hiding their weapons in and near civilian structures – schools, hospitals, office buildings, apartments – so as to ensure that civilians will also be put at risk if, and when, Israel attacks those weapons hideouts. Of course, Israel does everything it can to warn civilians away from buildings about to be targeted, by emailing, telephoning, and making use of the “knock-on-the-roof” technique. Still, there will always be those who do not leave in time, and despite Israel’s best efforts, there are Palestinian civilians who are wounded and killed.

Another practice of the Palestinians is to recruit minors, filing them with dreams of becoming “shahids” or “martyrs” for the cause of Palestine. More and more parents of such children have been expressing their alarm over this practice; they don’t want their teenage sons to become cannon fodder. 

Nablus residents worried about minors joining clashes with IDF

by Khaled Abu Toameh, 

Jerusalem Post, 

December 17, 2022

Some Palestinians in Nablus have expressed concern over the recruitment of minors by armed groups in the city and the nearby Balata Refugee Camp.

Some of the minors have been tasked by the groups, the Lions’ Den and Balata Battalion, with preparing explosive devices that are being used against the soldiers, Palestinian sources said. Others have been armed with rifles.

Preparing explosives for others to use against IDF soldiers is itself a very dangerous task. So is arming these minors with rifles, which will make them even more ready and willing to participate in battles, to fight and die for Palestine. And it also makes them, carrying their rifles, more likely targets of IDF snipers.

The recruitment of minors by Palestinian armed groups is not a new phenomenon. In fact, the practice has existed for decades.

But in recent weeks some residents of Nablus criticized the armed groups for allowing boys aged 15-17 to take part in the clashes with the IDF. The residents also attacked the groups for using the boys to prepare explosive devices and monitor the movements of IDF troops….

A school headmaster from the city said he received complaints from many parents about the “exploitation” of their children by the armed groups. “We are working closely with the families and the Palestinian security services to solve this problem,” he said. “We don’t want to endanger the lives of our children.”

Aside from using teens as weapons against IDF, when teens get 'neutralized' by the IDF, Palestinians use that in their propaganda to show how terrible Jews are for killing Palestinian children.

For much more on this story, please visit The Jerusalem Post.

Terrorists Kill 39 in Two Nigerian Communities, Raze Houses

Several others were said to be missing while many houses were reportedly burnt.

08:34, 20th Dec, 2022 

BY ARISENEWS

At least 39 people have been killed in an attack on Malagum 1 and Sokwong communities of Kagoro Chiefdom, Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna state.

It was learnt that among those killed, were a man, his wife and son.

Several others were said to be missing while many houses were reportedly burnt.

Earlier reports had put the number of deaths at 28.

However s source in the area said the 11 corpses were discovered in bushes while others died of injuries sustained

A community leader in the area told THISDAY in a telephone chat that the attack occurred on Sunday at about 11pm and lasted for over an hour.

He said there is serious tension in the communities as angry youths were insisting that they be allowed to go into the bushes to search for those missing.

The community leader who pleaded anonymity said he counted eight corpses when he visited Malagun 1 this morning. “I personally saw eight corpses myself this morning in Malagun 1.

“I also counted up to six burnt houses before some youths started to protest and I left immediately because I didn’t want to be caught in any fracas.

This is the community leader?

“But the report that is reaching me now is that 21 corpses were picked in Malagun 1, some people are still missing. Nobody knows where they are.

“It is possible that they could have ran to some other houses or to the bushes for safety”, he said.

He said, “Women were crying following the killing of their children or husbands.

“I know somebody whose father, mother and brother were killed”, said.

He added that the police and operatives of the joint task force had been deployed to the affected places.

According to agency reports, the Council Chairman of Kaura LGA, Mathias Siman, confirmed the incident but said could only confirm the killing of seven people in Sokwong community.

The attacks came barely five days after three people were killed in a similar manner in Malagum 1.

Obviously, 3 is not enough to satisfy the Islamic bloodlust.

The council chairman said almost all the houses in Sokwong Community were completely razed down by the terrorist adding that he was yet to confirm the killings in Malagum 1.

The council chairman called on residents of the areas to remain calm as security agencies were being deployed to carry out investigation in to the attacks .

However, the speaker of Kaura I Legislative Council, Atuk Stephen, according to reports, confirmed that 22 people were killed in the attack on Malagum 1, while eight were said to have been killed in Sokwong.

Atuk described the killings as barbaric and called on the federal government and security agencies to redouble their efforts in curtailing renewed killings in the area.

The spokesman of the Kaduna State Police command, Mohammed Jalige, could not be reached when contacted as his mobile phone was switched off.

Meanwhile the Kaduna state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has condemned the killings.

Joseph Hayab, state chairman of the association, described the action as barbaric and a strategy to scared the people from exercising the rights.

Hayab said urged the government to ensure that those who committed the evil must be fished out and brought to justice.

The statement said, “The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Kaduna State Chapter is mourning the death of over 28 innocent defenseless people of the Mallagum community in the Kagoro area who were brutally slaughtered last night.

“This massacre has further proven that the killers of the Southern Kaduna people have not yet been neutralized as claimed.”

“The federal government and the security agencies must not let the killers escape. Those who committed this evil must be fished out, arrested, and brought to face justice.

“These renewed killings may be a strategy to scare the people from exercising their rights and to further increase fear and impoverish them.

“Accordingly, CAN condemn this barbaric act in the strongest terms but appeal for calm, calling on the government and security to rise to the duty of protecting lives and property”.