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Sweden: Islamic party declares that is on the way
‘to taking over all of Skåne’
FEB 11, 2022 4:00 PM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
Oddly enough, Sweden’s celebration of diversity is quickly becoming rather monochromatic.
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“Islamist party promises ‘to take over Skåne,’”
translated by Gary Fouse from “Islamistparti lovar ”ta över hela Skåne,””
By Isac Boman, Nya Dagbladet,
February 9, 2022:
In a Twitter posting, the Islamist party Nyans declares that is on the way “to taking over all of Skåne” and that Malmö is the first.
Nya Dagbladet has earlier drawn attention to the party which, among others, demands that Islamophobia should become its own crime classification and that Muslims should receive a special minority position in Sweden. They have also accused all other Swedish parties of being racists.
Founder and party leader Mikail Yüksel has a past in the Center Party but was forced out of the party after it was discovered that he had close contacts with the pan-Turkish, extreme right organization, Grey Wolves, and the party is believed to have close contacts with the Turkish dictator Recep Erdogan.
In a posting on Twitter, Mikail Yüksel posts a photo from the party’s candidate meeting and writes that, “Soon we will take over all of Skåne with Malmö at the top.”
Thus far, the interest on the part of the mass media for the party that describes itself as the obvious alternative for the country’s Muslims has been relatively cool, but the party, which among other things, wants to make it illegal to criticize religious extremism, has still received a certain space in which to market itself in both the tax-financed SVT (Swedish State TV) as well as the evening newspapers.
In Muslim-dominated and immigrant-dense areas, the Social Democrats till now have been the most popular party by far.
Remember, Muslims have a much higher birth rate than Europeans. And many European still have a protectionist attitude toward Muslims in spite of the skyrocketing criminal activity they bring and the dramatic loss of freedoms that will come with increasing political clout.
I'm inclined to believe that Islam's plans to take over Sweden are not a matter of if, but when, unless something dramatic changes.
Presidential candidate makes ‘Great Replacement’ comment
France’s Valerie Pecresse later said she had only used anti-immigration rhetoric
to show voters “another path is possible”
February 13, 2022. © AFP / Alain Jocard
Conservative French presidential candidate Valerie Pecresse has come under fire for using language linked to the far right and making references to border walls and the ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy theory at her first major campaign rally on Sunday.
Addressing thousands of supporters at the Paris event, Pecresse – nominated by the center-right Republicans party – questioned whether France would “still be a sovereign nation” or would become a “US satellite or a Chinese trading post” if President Emmanuel Macron stayed in office for another decade.
“In ten years, will we still be the seventh power in the world? … Will we be a united nation or a fragmented nation? Faced with these vital questions, neither the great downgrading, nor the Great Replacement, are inevitable,” Pecresse was reported as saying by multiple news outlets.
According to Politico, it marked the first time that Pecresse has publicly referred to the far-right doctrine that white French Christians are being supplanted by Muslim immigrants at the direction of the country’s elites.
It's higher than the country's elites, it's at the level of George Soros and other oligarchs who control those 'elites'.
Far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour has previously voiced support for the theory, which influenced Christchurch, New Zealand mosque shooter Brenton Tarrant. The outlet noted that Pecresse is currently battling two other right-wing candidates, Zemmour and Marine Le Pen, to secure a place in the run-off vote against Macron.
In her speech, Pecresse also reportedly referred to “overflowing” immigration having created “zones of non-France,” and supported building border “barriers” and “walls” requested by European countries that are “on the front line in the face of migratory blackmail.”
Political opponents and anti-racism groups slammed her remarks, with socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo accusing her of “[crossing] yet another Rubicon.” Meanwhile, Francois Patriat, a senator for Macron’s party, tweeted that the comments marked a “great disenchantment” for the “republican right.”
Facing criticism over the rhetoric, Pecresse appeared to walk back some of her comments on Monday, telling the RTL network that she had meant she would not “resign myself to Zemmour’s theories and extreme-right theories, because I know another path is possible.”
“It’s something I’ve been saying for months, so I don’t even understand this uproar,” Pecresse added, while maintaining that immigration had created “non-France” areas in the country.
Valerie, why would you expect the media to present your words in any kind of context? They are not smart enough to do that.
EU nations lose legal battle in bloc’s top court
The European Court of Justice has ruled that the EU may cut funding
to member states that violate its ‘rule of law’ standards
The EU’s top court has dismissed a complaint filed by Poland and Hungary against a mechanism allowing Brussels to punish member states it deems ‘rule-of-law violators.’ The so-called “conditionality mechanism” gives the bloc the right and power to withhold aid funding from a member that is found to be failing to adhere to the union’s democratic principles.
"The court dismisses the actions brought by Hungary and Poland in their entirety," the European Court of Justice (ECJ) said in a statement on Wednesday.
The ECJ also argued that the democratic values countries should comply with to join the EU cannot be simply “disregarded” after accession. It also said that a member state committing rule-of-law violations might “seriously compromise” what it called the “sound financial management” of the EU budget and the bloc’s “financial interests.”
The court’s decision might see Hungary and Poland losing tens of billions of dollars in aid from Brussels. Warsaw and Budapest argued that such a move on the part of the EU is devoid of any proper legal basis. Both nations, each of which receives large portions of EU funding, have been at odds with the bloc over what the EU calls violation of its democratic principles, ranging from consolidating the government’s control over the judiciary to cracking down on the freedom of the media.
The mechanism, essentially designed to punish rule-of-law violations among the EU member states, has been in place since early 2021 but the EU Commission said it would wait for the ECJ decision before taking any action. The delay was agreed with Budapest and Warsaw in 2020 and secured the two nations’ consent for some EU budget decisions at that time.
Now, the court has said that “the European Union must be able to defend those values, within the limits of its powers.” It also ruled that the EU budget “is one of the principal instruments for giving practical effect, in the European Union’s policies and activities, to the fundamental principle of solidarity between member states.”
The court ruling was immediately welcomed by the EU Commission. “The Commission will defend the Union’s budget against breaches of the principles of the rule of law. We will act with determination,” its head, Ursula von der Leyen said. Other EU politicians also called for immediate action.
Guy Verhofstadt, the former Belgian prime minister and a longtime MEP, said on Twitter that von der Leyen “has to act now” and can no longer “hide behind the court.”
Budapest blasted the decision as a “political judgement.” “The ruling is another application of pressure against our country because we passed our child protection law during the summer,” Hungary’s Justice Minister Judit Varga wrote on her Facebook page, referring to new legislation in Hungary that bans the depiction of homosexuality and gender change to children in the media.
Warsaw blasted the decision as a “dark day” that “will be remembered in the history textbooks.” Poland’s Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro slammed the ECJ as a “political tool” of Brussels serving the interests of the EU elites, and accused the “largest EU countries” of attempting to transfer “sovereignty” from the member states to Brussels.
Poland has also reportedly said it would stop paying contributions to the EU budget if cut off from the bloc’s aid funding.
Poland and Hungary had previously argued that the “conditionality mechanism” was not included in any of the EU treaties. They also said the ECJ would be overstepping its powers in approving such a mechanism.
I wonder if George Soros has any influence over the ECJ? Like he does over the EU.
I wonder if any EU country surrendered its moral or spiritual authority when it joined the EU?
Russia mocks UK over latest ‘invasion’ claim
Russia’s Foreign Ministry jokingly responded to the top UK diplomat’s claims
that the Baltic states may be the next aim for Putin
Moscow mocked the latest British "Russian invasion" claim on Sunday, with the Foreign Ministry taking a swipe at London's top diplomat. Liz Truss had suggested that Russia would not be satisfied once it invaded Ukraine, but rather would shift its focus to the Baltic states and even the western Balkans.
According to Truss, speaking in a Mail on Sunday interview, President Vladimir Putin “wants to turn the clock back to the mid-1990s or even before then.” Truss stressed that “it’s so important that we and our allies stand up to Putin,” because, in her view, “it could be Ukraine next week but then which country will it be next?”
Russia's top diplomatic spokeswoman Maria Zakharova gave a tongue-in-cheek response to the allegations on Telegram, writing that Truss “has nailed our insidious plans to invade the Kaliningrad region,” referring to the Russian enclave on the Baltic coast.
Her response is also an apparent nod to Truss’ talks with her Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov earlier this month, when Russian media revealed that the foreign secretary, replying to a question from Lavrov, said the UK would “never recognize Russia’s sovereignty over” the Rostov and Voronezh regions. British Ambassador Deborah Bronnert reportedly had to intervene, informing her boss that the two regions in fact belong to Russia.
Western leaders have been claiming for months that Russia is planning to attack Ukraine – an accusation that has been repeatedly denied by Moscow.
In recent days, tensions in eastern Ukraine have escalated. The Ukrainian government and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk republics blame each other for the flare-up. On Friday, the two breakaway regions began evacuating civilians to Russia. On Saturday, they issued a mobilization order, claiming that Kiev’s forces are poised to intervene.
Le Pen suspends presidential bid
The right-wing candidate is struggling to obtain sponsorship from local leaders
National Rally candidate Marine Le Pen has suspended her campaign for the French presidency as she is struggling to obtain enough support from local leaders, her spokesman said on Tuesday. Le Pen’s press conference on Wednesday concerning education has been cancelled, as has her trip to the Somme at the weekend.
She told RTL on Tuesday morning that she lacked “just over 40” signatures of support from local elected officials.
Presidential candidates require the sponsorship of 500 local officials, such as mayors, in order to run for the top office.
Le Pen has seen her support from local officials dwindle amid competition from other right-wing candidates. The influential mayor of Beziers, Robert Menard, had given his support to Le Pen despite flirtations with ultra-right polemicist-cum-politician Eric Zemmour.
The National Rally candidate has sought to sanitize her party’s image in recent years despite making it to the presidential run-off in 2017, losing to the country’s current leader, Emmanuel Macron.
She changed the party’s name and moved her politics towards the center, ridding it of the jackbooted imagery that clung to her Holocaust-denying father, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Flying under the radar is OK if you don't fly too low and crash. I expected this would be Marine's last election, but I expected her to be in it. It must be heart-breaking for her.
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