The Media is the Message > CBS hides Nashville shooter's transgenderism; Dutch TV takes hatchet to interview with Hungarian Minister

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CBS execs bar the word ‘transgender’ from reports on Nashville shooter: 

‘This is not journalism’

By Alexandra Steigrad, NYPost

March 30, 2023 4:33pm  Updated

Top executives at CBS News have banned staffers from using the word “transgender” when reporting on the Nashville shooter — despite the fact that police have said Audrey Hale was just that and cited it as a key point in the case, The Post has learned.

“The shooter’s gender identity has not been confirmed by CBS News,” the network’s executives insisted in a Tuesday memo obtained by The Post. “As such, we should avoid any mention of it as it has no known relevance to the crime. Should that change, we can and will revisit.”

The CBS News directive was delivered on a Tuesday morning editorial call by Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, the executive vice president of newsgathering, and Claudia Milne, the senior vice president of standards and practices, according to sources close to the Tiffany Network.

“Right now we advise saying: POLICE IDENTIFIED THE SUSPECT AS A 28-YEAR-OLD AUDREY HALE, WHO [sic] THEY SHOT AND KILLED AT THE SCENE,” the Tuesday memo said. “And move on to focus on other important points of the investigation, community and solutions.

CBS asked employees to avoid identifying shooter Audrey Hale as transgender in its reporting, even though the police provided the information as part of the investigation.

Linkedin/Audrey Hale

Sources said Ciprian-Matthews and Milne spent 15 minutes on the Tuesday call discussing the directive — which bewildered many journalists, given that Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake said Hale was transgender and that her identity may be relevant to the motive.

“This is absurd because the police identified Hale as transgender,” a CBS insider said. “If the cops didn’t address it, maybe you could avoid it, but withholding information is not journalism.”

The decision has since been reflected in the network’s coverage. Hours after the shooting on Monday morning, correspondent Janet Shamlian reported on “CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell” that Hale “identifies as transgender.”

Following CBS’ Tuesday call, however, the mentions of Hale’s gender identity stopped.

Norah O’Donnell’s “CBS Evening News” program stopped mentioning Hale’s transgender identity after CBS News execs made a network-wide decision.

CBS via Getty Images

“We are waiting to see the manifesto [written by Hale] and any details about motive,” a CBS spokeswoman told The Post. “As we say in our guidance, we will then review and revise our reporting.”

The CBS spokeswoman declined to comment further.

The Tuesday call with the CBS News execs left the network’s roughly 150 staffers stunned into awkward silence, according to a source who was on the call. 

The source noted that the two CBS News execs appeared to be “twisting themselves in knots” by censoring the reporting over their own “liberal bias,” which is ultimately a “disservice” to the network’s audience.

CBS News execs Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews (above) and Claudia Milne held a call to tell staffers to avoid reporting Hale’s transgender identity.

CBS News

“You need to look at all the facts of the case,” the angry CBS source told The Post. “Everyone should be invested in understanding what happened. I don’t know how you do that without understanding the full scope of the situation.”

Rivals including NBC News, ABC News, CNN and the New York Times have all reported that police said Hale was transgender and used he/him pronouns and the name Aiden.

On NBC News, anchor Lester Holt on Tuesday interviewed Drake, Nashville’s police chief, noting that police had said Hale “identified as trans” and asking, “Do you believe there is a connection to that?”

Drake, who earlier in the day had told reporters that Hale “does identify as transgender,” responded that “we’re still in the initial investigation into all of that and if it actually played a role into this incident.”

CBS News’ Claudia Milne told one employee that the network would evaluate facts about Hale’s identity on a case-by-case basis, a source said.

CBS News

Nevertheless, sources said CBS execs are refusing to report on that aspect of the investigation of the shooting, in which Hale allegedly killed three children and three adults. 

“Are we communicating to our readers and viewers that they cannot handle the basic facts of the case?” the source added. 

When CBS on Wednesday reported on Twitter’s suspension of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s account over a “vengeance” post, it merely mentioned Hale’s treatment for an “emotional disorder,” citing information that was released a day earlier.

A still image from surveillance video provided by the Metro Nashville Police Department shows mass shooting suspect AUDREY ELIZABETH HALE, 28, a former Covenant School student, carrying out a shooting at Covenant school on March 27, 2023. (Credit Image: © Metro Nashville Police Department via ZUMA Press Wire)

During Tuesday’s call, one employee asked how to navigate the transgender issue during the news-gathering process if reporters interviewed friends and family of Hale and the subject came up. 

Milne said each situation would have to be assessed individually, which one insider said sounded like those details would be “eliminated” from the report.

The network may run into scrutiny when more details of Hale’s manifesto, “struggles” and “emotional” issues are released, a second source added. 

“You can’t avoid who this person is,” the source said, before turning to Ciprian-Matthews and Milne. “This is not an editorial decision. They made a judgment based on personal feelings.” 

They are deliberately protecting the reputation of a transgender from the reality of her life. Transgenderism is a mental illness. That plays a role in this case regardless of what other motives they come up with. Women who transition to men have an astonishing rate of attempted suicide. Suicide is a big part of school massacres.

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I wonder who is pulling the strings of Dutch TV? Not someone interested in the truth!

Hungary's Foreign Minister criticizes Dutch TV for editing hatchet job

BUDAPEST, March 26 - RIA Novosti. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations of Hungary Peter Szijjarto said that the Dutch television channel, to which he gave an interview, cut out episodes in preparation for the broadcast, which dealt with corruption in the European Parliament and support for Hungary's position in the international arena.

The head of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry wrote on Facebook* that a fragment was cut from his interview "for a Dutch public channel", replaced by "sentences like "Hungary is a good friend of Putin" and everything else that we are already used to." Szijjártó also posted on social media a cut excerpt that was about four minutes long.

"It's a fact (that the European Parliament is - ed.) one of the most (corrupt organizations - ed.) in the world, that's for sure. There was systemic corruption based on EP members, their assistants, someone else who is now detained and in who is under investigation. And there was no methodology to avoid this and deal with such a situation," Szijjártó said in a cut episode.

Islam - Current Day > Pakistanis in Greece offered €15,000 per dead in massacre; Terrorist confirms PA leadership orders terrorism; Scotland's FM met Hamas Exec; Israeli Arab Corrects Tlaib's lies

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Greek police uncover Pakistani plot to attack Jewish synagogue

in Athens – ‘€15,000 per dead'

Greek City Times, 

March 28, 2023:

A Pakistani jihadi group operating in the Greek capital was unveiled to be masterminded by a man who is wanted for murder in Iran and who recruited two men aged 27 and 29 to carry out a series of targeted terrorist attacks against innocent civilians and a Jewish restaurant/synagogue.

The terrorist organisation was dismantled by Greek police and intelligence officers.

The first target for the series of attacks, and in which the planning was almost completed, was a Jewish restaurant which also functioned as a synagogue. The restaurant-synagogue is in the central Athens neighbourhood of Psirri.

The would-be terrorists had chosen to attack either with weapons, explosives, or setting fire at a time when there would be more than 50 people in the building. In other words, the goal was a mass bloodbath.

For each dead person, the two Pakistani perpetrators would receive 15,000 euros from the Pakistani mastermind of the terrorist network, Proto Thema reported.

The case began to unfold two months ago when information about the network’s activity reached the National Intelligence Service (EYP) of Greece. The Anti-Terrorism Department were also informed.

The two Pakistanis, who worked in various manual jobs in Attica and the countryside were immediately observed by intelligence officers and on February 15th and 16th they were arrested as they did not have the necessary papers to stay legally in Greece.

From their mobile phones, communications with the leader were found. The pair had carried out surveillance on Aesopou Street in Psirri. They then received the final instructions for carrying out the attack and began looking for more people to help carry out the terrorist attack….

It was recently revealed that up to 50,000 Pakistanis are living in Greece with fake papers, most having entered posing as Syrians during the 2015-2016 refugee crisis and without any real formal documents or identity papers.

Released jihad terrorist says jihadis ‘carried out the orders

of the leadership’ of the Palestinian Authority

MAR 30, 2023 5:00 PM 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

Jihad Watch

That’s right, the same leadership that the Biden regime is funding, and pressuring Israel to appease and accommodate.

Released terrorist confirms: Terrorists ‘carried out the orders

of the [PA] leadership

by Nan Jacques Zilberdik, 

Palestinian Media Watch, March 29, 2023:

Senior PA official and terrorist Fuad Al-Shubaki has confirmed Palestinian Media Watch’s findings that Palestinian terrorists are seen by the PA and by themselves as soldiers carrying out “orders” of the PA:

Released terrorist prisoner Fuad Al-Shubaki: 

“[The prisoners] have sacrificed that which is most precious and carried out the orders of the [PA] leadership. The leadership. Now we need to find a solution for them…”

[Official PA TV News, March 13, 2023]

Al-Shubaki made this statement upon release after 17 years in prison for his role in the attempt to smuggle 50 tons of illegal weapons to the Palestinian Authority aboard the Karine A weapons’ ship, during the PA’s terror campaign, the second Intifada, in 2002.

In addition, Al-Shubaki indirectly called for kidnappings of Israelis as he advocated for “deals” to “release our prisoners.” Complaining that some prisoners have been in prison for several decades, he joined others who have recently called for kidnappings, as PMW has documented:

Released terrorist prisoner Fuad Al-Shubaki: 

“Everyone says that we need to make [prisoner exchange] deals and release our prisoners. We need to make sure that they will be released. There are those who have been [in prison for] 34 years, 37 years, or 38 years. What is going on?”

[Official PA TV News, March 13, 2023]…

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Scotland’s new First Minister Humza Yousaf met with senior

Hamas terrorist, called for arms embargo against Israel

MAR 31, 2023 1:00 PM 

BY VIJETA UNIYAL

Jihad Watch

With the mainstream media overjoyed at the appointment of Humza Yousaf as the First Minister of Scotland after winning the leadership contest of the Scottish National Party (SNP) on Monday, troubling facts about the country’s first Muslim national leader are coming out.

While The Los Angeles Times ran the headline declaring: “Muslim leader for Scotland a sign of U.K. political diversity,” other news outlets questioned Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf’s alleged links to the Gaza-based Islamic terrorist group Hamas and his hostile stance towards Israel.

Yousaf “has a history of meeting with Hamas and has called for an arms embargo against the State of Israel,” the Jewish News Syndicate reported March 29.

In 2008, Yousaf met senior Hamas operative Mohammad Sawalha, recent media reports reveal. Sawalha is a known Hamas operative, who was formerly the West Bank military chief for the Islamic terrorist group and was on Israel’s wanted list.

Sawalha also held a leadership position at London’s jihad-linked Finsbury Park Mosque. Sawalha was “one of Finsbury Park Mosque’s six trustees,” the UK newspaper Independent reported on November 7, 2017.

Scottish First Minister hopeful Humza Yousaf met former Hamas chief

by David Rose, 

Jewish Chronicle, March 2, 2023:

Humza Yousaf, a contender to replace (he has now replaced) Nicola Sturgeon as Scotland’s First Minister, met Holyrood officials with a former senior Hamas commander, the JC can reveal.

Yousaf, 37, now the Scottish Health Secretary, attended the high-level meeting with Hamas leader Mohammad Sawalha, also known by nom de guerre Abu Obada.

Despite Sawalha’s history — he had been named by BBC Panorama in 2006 as having “masterminded much of Hamas’ political and military strategy” — a meeting was secured with a SNP cabinet minister and government officials at the Scottish Parliament.

The meeting took place in 2008, when Yousaf was 22 and working as a parliamentary assistant for the late-Bashir Ahmad, Scotland’s first Muslim MSP.

Sawalha had been Hamas’ West Bank military chief and was then appointed to its political leadership. He reportedly had fled in 1990 after being placed on a wanted list by Israel. Hamas had at the time been proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the US, but the UK did not follow suit until 2021.

Scottish parliamentary questions reveal that Sawalha attended the meeting at Holyrood as a representative of Islam Expo, which was funded by a £2 million grant from Qatar and held in London in 2006 and 2008. (…)

The JC asked Yousaf about the meeting and if he was aware of Sawalha’s background. Yousaf did not respond on those points but said he himself had a “strong track record of standing up against every form of hatred, including antisemitism”.

Lord Carlile, the former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said: “Yousaf must address the circumstances in which he judged it appropriate to have close contact with Hamas supporters. He has to face these questions head on were he to become First Minister.”

So, he has become First Minister, but where are the questions coming from?

THE VIRAL LIE ABOUT ISRAEL THAT WAS DEBUNKED

BY AN ISRAELI ARAB

written by Leah Rosenberg 

March 29, 2023 1006 views

There is nothing more perfect than an Israeli Arab proving Rashida Tlaib wrong. Let’s hope she saw this video.

Israeli Arab Shares the Truth About Israel

Yoseph Haddad is constantly trying to share the truth about Israel. He’s an Israeli Arab who is proud to call Israel his home. He knows that Israel is not an apartheid state, and he makes sure the world knows it too. Haddad fights against the hate that is spread on social media.

When lies are spread about the one and only Jewish state, Haddad is there to tell the truth. In this case, Rashida Tlaib shared a lie that was posted by an anti-Israel page. She is one of the most antisemitic congresswomen in the US government. It is truly shameful. Tlaib is always finding opportunities to lie about Israel and the Jewish people. She is filled with hate and wants to spread it to the world.

What does Rashida Tlaib have to say to the fact that an Israeli Arab who knows what it’s like to live in Israel and knows the truth is saying “shame on you?” What does Tlaib have to say to the fact that an Israeli Arab himself is telling her she is sharing lies? She definitely can’t continue to say Israel is an apartheid state when Yoseph Haddad is an ARAB and lives in ISRAEL happily. An Israeli Arab would know better than Rashida Tlaib.

Too many people saw the fake news that Tlaib shared. Let’s show the world the truth from the people who know it.

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Ozzone 7-28 > Is Jesus walking on the Sea of Difficulties in your life?

 

Surely, the disciples thought Jesus had sent them to the other side of the sea to accomplish something there. But Jesus accomplished His purpose on the way. He revealed something magnificent about Himself to the startled disciples. He frequently sends us on a journey, not so much to reach our destination, but to experience something of Him along the way.

American Politics > Democrats Supporting anti-democratic movements in Israel - Sen Tom Cotton

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This is a must-see video! US Senator Tom Cotton exposes a long-running campaign by the Democratic Party and several Democratic Presidents to undermine Benjamin Netanyahu - Israel's longest-serving Prime Minister.

This is disgraceful interference against one of our best allies, the only democracy in the Middle East, makes one wonder what America does to her enemies? 

Democrats should be made to explain why they support Netanyahu's enemies and not Netanyahu. They should be made to return the tax dollars they wasted supporting his enemies and the PLO's Pay-for-Slay program.

US SENATOR EXPOSED DEMOCRATS IN A SPEECH

THAT LEFT CONGRESS IN SHOCK

written by Phil Schneider 

March 28, 2023. 5743 views

Tom Cotton is right on when he exposes that US taxpayer money is working to bring down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under the guise of support for “democracy in Israel.” Actually, what US taxpayers are funding are demonstrations by misguided Israelis to keep Israel from becoming a true democracy.

Climate Change > Lies my climate industrial complex scientist told me

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‘Wind Power Fails on Every Count’: Oxford Scientist Explains the Math

A wind farm outside of Palm Springs, Calif., on May 26, 2018. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times)

Having been to Palm Springs several times, I can tell you that there are always several windmills

that are not operating at any one time.

By Naveen Athrappully

March 27, 2023, Updated: March 28, 2023

Epoch Times

Wind power has been historically and scientifically unreliable, claims an Oxford University mathematician and physicist, with his calculations revealing the government to be pursuing a “bluster of windfarm politics” while discarding numerical evidence.

After the decision to cut down on fossil fuels was made at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, the “instinctive reaction” around the world was to embrace renewables, Professor Emeritus Wade Allison, who is also a researcher at CERN, said in a 2023 paper (pdf).

Allison noted that because solar power is “extremely weak,” it was inadequate to “sustain even a small global population with an acceptable standard of living” before the Industrial Revolution.

“Today, modern technology is deployed to harvest these weak sources of energy. Vast ‘farms’ that monopolise the natural environment are built, to the detriment of other creatures. Developments are made regardless of the damage wrought. Hydro-electric schemes, enormous turbines and square miles of solar panels are constructed, despite being unreliable and ineffective; even unnecessary,” Allison said in the report, published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

“In particular, the generation of electricity by wind tells a disappointing story. The political enthusiasm and the investor hype are not supported by the evidence, even for offshore wind, which can be deployed out of sight of the infamous My Back Yard,” he wrote. “What does such evidence actually say?”

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, wind power generated more than 9 percent of the net total of the country’s energy in 2021 and is the largest source of renewable power in the country. Over 70,000 turbines generate enough power to serve the equivalent of 43 million American homes, the department says.

There are 120,000 jobs related to wind energy in the United States, the Energy Department says, and it’s one of the fastest-growing jobs in the country.

That all sounds very good, but is it true, or a bunch of BS?

The Evidence

Allison explained that wind energy is measured based on the amount of moving air and the speed of the air as it reaches the area swept by the turbine blades.

The scientist calculated that, at 100 percent efficiency, if the wind blows at 10 meters per second (about 22 mph), the power is 600 watts per square meter. Hence, to deliver 3,200 million watts, the same output as Hinkley Point C—a planned zero-carbon nuclear power station in England—there would need to be 5.5 million square meters of turbine swept area.

“That should be quite unacceptable to those who care about birds and to other environmentalists,” Allison wrote.

The actual performance of the technology is much worse than the calculations made based on 100 percent efficiency, he said.

“Because the power carried by the wind depends on the third power of the wind speed, if the wind drops to half speed, the power available drops by a factor of 8,” he said. “Almost worse, if the wind speed doubles, the power delivered goes up 8 times, and as a result the turbine has to be turned off for its own protection.”

One would suspect that they would overheat and burst into flames.

Allison noted that fluctuations are considerable as he pointed to a WindEurope Report that showed the installed nominal generating capacity across the European Union and United Kingdom on a daily basis was 236 gigawatts (GW). However, the highest output in 2021 registered at 103 GW on March 26 of that year.

The unreliability extends to offshore windfarms as well. Batteries used to store power are also severely restricted by current technology. In spite of such evidence, the government keeps ignoring the numbers, said Allison.

“With general energy shortages, the war in Europe, high prices and the likelihood of failures in electricity supply, many popular scientific presumptions underlying energy policy should be questioned. Wind power fails on every count,” he concluded.

A tired or failed windmill must be removed and buried. These are monstrously large machines that will require an extraordinary amount of land to bury, unless they are thrown into the sea. Who thinks that is a good idea?

Failing Turbines, Carbon Dioxide Demonization

Wind turbines across the United States have been failing more frequently in recent times, triggering concerns about additional costs resulting from such failures as well as their impact on power projects. Offshore windfarms, deployed in the name of environmentalism, are now seen as disastrous for ocean life.

Malfunctions in wind turbines range from small issues, like some key components becoming faulty, to full-blown collapses.

According to a 2022 paper published by Wallace Manheimer in the Journal of Sustainable Development, even as modern society depends on reliable sources of energy, the “climate industrial complex”—a powerful lobby of politicians, scientists, and media—pushes climate-related falsehoods into the popular perspective.

“It has somehow managed to convince many that CO2 in the atmosphere, a gas necessary for life on earth, one which we exhale with every breath, is an environmental poison. Multiple scientific theories and measurements show that there is no climate crisis,” said Manheimer, a retired U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientist.

“Over the period of human civilization, the temperature has oscillated between quite a few warm and cold periods, with many of the warm periods being warmer than today,” he wrote. “During geological times, it and the carbon dioxide level have been all over the place with no correlation between them.”

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Islam - Current Day > Son chained, beaten to make him Muslim; Brits complain - Migrants complain - Nobody is happy; Belgian police arrest 8 terrorists

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Sweden: Muslim migrants send their son back to Somalia, 

where he is chained and beaten to make him a ‘true Muslim’

MAR 28, 2023 1:00 PM 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

Jihad Watch

“They thought that it is better that their son was there than in a destructive environment here,” says Mohamed Hassan Alim, who clearly agrees. Now, it is certainly true that no good would have come from Mohamed Hassan Alim turning to a life of crime. But what is the likelihood that he will grow up to be a loyal, stable, productive member of secular Swedish society?

Mohamed was to be ‘raised’ in Somalia – chained and beaten

Translated from “Mohamed skulle ”uppfostras” i Somalia – kedjades fast och misshandlades,” 

SVT, March 25, 2023:

Mohamed Hassan Alim from Rinkeby was on the way to a life of crime – then his family sent him to a notorious educational institution in Somalia. There he was chained up and subjected to abuse, he tells SVT. Despite that, he defends his parents.

“I blame my relatives, but not my parents.”

Mohamed thought he was going to stay with relatives, but when he arrived in Mogadishu, he was put into a car and driven to the detention center. The beatings began immediately.

“They hit you under the heel, they hit you in the palm of the hand, in the back of the head – at points that hurt extremely.”

According to him, he was put in chains for a year and a half. It was all about breaking down the youth who were there and through fear making them susceptible to being converted into “true” Muslims.

Known to the authorities

Mohamed is not alone in being sent abroad to get away from a backsliding existence. A recent study from the Gender Equality Authority covers roughly 140 cases of children and young adults who have been taken out of Sweden against their will in recent years. Of those abducted, around 28 percent are young men who are sent on an educational journey.

It is common for the family to want to punish the children, or it is done out of goodwill. It could be that they think the child has been “Swedish,” ended up in crime or broke the family’s rules.

“Many who are abducted have been known to several authorities. But they have been too passive and have not carried out risk assessments. Or it has not been understood what measures are required. A passive approach by authorities often leads to an active approach by family and relatives,” says Mikael Thörn, head of unit at the Equality Authority.

Defending the parents

The study is based on interviews with people who have worked with young men who have been abducted. It does not provide a national picture, because it does not cover all municipalities.

“The majority of the cases that I have encountered have been of such a caliber that they may have been locked up, beaten and subjected to torture,” says Thörn.

Despite everything Mohamed Hassan Ali was subjected to on site, he defends his parents’ decision to send him away.

“They thought that it is better that their son was there than in a destructive environment here.”

Do they still think that? Maybe it's time to move back to Somalia?

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UK: Migrants have ‘nice iPhones and smart clothes.

They are all men. You do not see any women or children.’

MAR 28, 2023 2:00 PM 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

Jihad Watch

They’re upset about the quality of the accommodations and food, also. Non-Muslims paying for the upkeep of Muslims is a Qur’anic dictate:

“Fight against those do not believe in Allah or the last day, and do not forbid what Allah and his messenger have forbidden, and do not follow the religion of truth, even if they are among the people of the book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued” (Qur’an 9:29).

The caliph Umar said the jizya payments from the dhimmis were the source of the Muslims’ livelihood:

“Narrated Juwairiya bin Qudama at-Tamimi: We said to `Umar bin Al-Khattab, ‘O Chief of the believers! Advise us.’ He said, ‘I advise you to fulfill Allah’s Convention (made with the Dhimmis) as it is the convention of your Prophet and the source of the livelihood of your dependents (i.e. the taxes from the Dhimmis.)’” (Bukhari 4.53.388)

UK jihad preacher Anjem Choudary said in February 2013:

“We are on Jihad Seekers Allowance, We take the Jizya (protection money paid to Muslims by non-Muslims) which is ours anyway. The normal situation is to take money from the Kafir (non-Muslim), isn’t it? So this is normal situation. They give us the money. You work, give us the money. Allah Akbar, we take the money. Hopefully there is no one from the DSS (Department of Social Security) listening. Ah, but you see people will say you are not working. But the normal situation is for you to take money from the Kuffar (non-Muslim) So we take Jihad Seeker’s Allowance.”

Asylum seekers say they are bored, the food is bad and it is ‘like living in jail’ in

three and four-star hotels where taxpayers are footing their bill – 

as number of hotels filled with migrants nears 400 across Britain

by Andrew Young, James Fielding and Tracey Kandohla, 

Daily Mail, March 25, 2023:

The number of hotels being used to house asylum seekers in the UK is about to reach 400 as migrants continue to cross the Channel in small boats, MailOnline can reveal.

The milestone figure for Home Office contractors taking over hotels is likely to be reached imminently as efforts to convert redundant military bases into alternative accommodation centres.

Currently 395 hotels in the UK are understood to be being used to accommodate more than 51,000 people at a reported cost of £6.8million a day – but the number is constantly increasing as the Government battles to start moving some asylum seekers to Rwanda while their applications to stay in the UK are processed.

The use of hotels continues to create controversy with residents of cities, towns and villages upset about local beds being turned over to refugees instead of paying guests.

And asylum seekers themselves are also frequently unhappy about languishing in sometimes isolated hotels, and unable to work due to strict rules, a MailOnline investigation has found.

Typical were asylum seekers staying at the three-star Grosvenor Hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, who told of their unhappiness about their living arrangements.

A family of four Sri Lankans (declined to be fully named) who are squashed into one small room – mum and dad, who is trying to work to support his family, and their six-year-old daughter and son, aged two-and-a-half.

Iraqi mother Neshteman Tahir, 37, said: ‘It’s awful here and there are too many problems. We don’t want to be living all together in a hotel, we want a house so we can be independent.’

Speaking in the grounds of the hotel which had a multi-million-pound refurbishment before closing to paying guests five months ago, she moaned: ‘No one likes living here.

‘We all hate it and we are shut in our rooms all day with nothing to do. The hotel is very, very bad. We want a proper home.’

Her eight-year-old son told how he went to a local school for five hours a day but had been unable to make friends.

He added: ‘I want a big house with a swing and trampoline in the garden and want to make friends. It is really boring here! Me and my mum need our own home.’

Did he come to the UK thinking everyone gets a big house? 

We also found refugees kicking their heels this week in the four star Great Hallingbury Manor Hotel near Takeley, Essex, with little to do apart from walking half a mile to buy snacks and drinks at a nearby Esso garage.

Scores of young men from Africa and other countries including Afghanistan have lived since last October at the Tudor-style hotel which describes its 43 rooms and suites on its website as being ‘progressively stylish, immensely comfortable and pristinely maintained’.

The arrival of the migrants has dismayed some residents of the new Mead Field Drive housing development, overlooking fields next door to the hotel.

One resident Kamila Kardzis said: ‘It seems wrong that they are getting a free roof over their head in a nice hotel.

‘You see them walking around with nice iPhones and smart clothes. They are all men. You do not see any women or children.’

Ms Kardzis who is Polish and has lived in the UK for 17 years, added: ‘I came here as a migrant as well – but I am working and pay taxes. I don’t claim benefits.

‘It would be better if they were allowed to work. Instead they have nothing to do all day and just sit around. It is not a good life for them.’

Ms Kardzis said she believed her security camera had captured footage of one of the migrants creeping around her back garden and looking through a window while she was decorating her home before moving in.

Refugee mum and her daughter (both unnamed) who moans: ‘We’re bored here, the rooms are too small and the food is very bad.’

She added: ‘I saw another guy wandering around outside our house just before 1am about a month ago. I asked him what he was doing and he didn’t reply. I just told him to get back to the hotel.’

Refrigeration engineer Ayden Yilmaz, 29, said he was angry about migrants being accommodated in the hotel while council officials had refused to house him after he split with his girlfriend who lives on Mead Field Drive.

The father-of-three said: ‘I have been sofa surfing, sleeping in my car and splashing out on the occasional night in a Travelodge. When I went to the council to try and get some help, they told me to rent privately, which I simply cannot afford.

‘I mentioned the migrants in the hotel when I spoke to the council, but it didn’t do me any good. It is just annoying that they come here and get a nice hotel room, while I was born here, work hard, pay tax and National Insurance and get nothing….

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Threat of terrorist attack in Belgium: eight people arrested

Translated from “Menace d’attentat terroriste en Belgique: huit personnes interpellées,” 

Le Soir, March 28, 2023

This Monday evening, the federal police carried out several searches in Flanders and Brussels as part of a terrorism case.

On Monday evening, the Antwerp Federal Police carried out five searches in Merksem, Borgerhout, Deurne, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean and Eupen. According to a press release from the federal prosecutor’s office, five people were deprived of their liberty and taken for questioning. Two of them are suspected of preparing a terrorist attack on Belgian territory.

Three other people, also suspected of preparing a terrorist attack, were deprived of their freedom during searches this time, in Zaventem, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean and Schaerbeek.

“There are links between the two cases, but further investigation will reveal the extent to which the two cases were intertwined,” the statement said. In addition, the target is not known and “nothing can be communicated as to the results of these searches” for the moment, insists the prosecution.

Islam - Current Day > ISIS Executioner hid in Germany; IS slaughters truffle hunters in Syria; Syrian war criminal surrenders in Sweden; Man kills 2 women in Lisbon Islamic Centre

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ISIS executioner hid in Essen, Germany for several years

Translated from “ISIS-Henker versteckte sich seit mehreren Jahren in Essen,” 

by Frank Schneider, 

Bild, March 22, 2023

A Syrian has been arrested in Essen who is said to have belonged to a killer commando of the jihadist militia Islamic State. The arrested IS terrorist is Asmael K. (32), an asylum seeker from Syria, who, according to BILD information, has lived with his brothers in Essen Frohnhausen for several years without being molested.

The combat unit kidnapped and executed opposing fighters and other people, the federal prosecutor said on Wednesday in Karlsruhe. Asmael K. is said to have joined ISIS in Syria at the end of 2013 and swore allegiance to the terrorist organization.

The ISIS executioner was arrested by officers from the Federal Criminal Police Office on Monday and brought before the investigating judge on Tuesday, who ordered the prison officer to be held in custody. As the Federal Prosecutor’s Office further announced, K. is “strongly suspected” of membership in a terrorist organization abroad.

Before he was arrested, he had been under surveillance for a few days by special units from the Federal Criminal Police Office. It is about membership in a terrorist organization, i.e. the Islamic State.

According to BILD information, Asmael K. belonged to a particularly brutal IS combat unit in Syria, but has so far not been conspicuous in Germany for Islamism or state security offenses, but only for minor drug offenses.

In 2014, in the midst of the Syrian civil war, ISIS took control of large parts of Syria and Iraq, but gradually lost these areas again. After a US-led coalition drove the terrorist militia out of Syria’s last bastions in March 2019, most of the remaining ISIS Islamists retreated to the Syrian desert.

The US-led coalition was in Syria for several years and accomplished nothing until Assad invited Russian forces to come and fight ISIS.

From there they keep attacking Kurdish fighters and soldiers from the Syrian government army. The US forces, in turn, target the jihadists and their leaders during operations.

Islamic State Group Kills 15 Truffle Hunters In Syria: Monitor

Agence France Presse, March 24, 2023

The Islamic State group killed 15 people foraging for desert truffles in conflict-ravaged central Syria by cutting their throats, while 40 others are missing, a war monitor said Friday.

Since February, at least 150 people — most of them civilians — have been killed by IS attacks targeting truffle hunters or by landmines left by the extremists, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Syria’s desert truffles fetch high prices in a country battered by 12 years of war and a crushing economic crisis.

“At least 15 people, including seven civilians and eight local pro-regime fighters, were killed by IS fighters who slit their throats while they were collecting truffles on Thursday,” said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.

Forty others are missing following the attack in Hama province, he added….

Between February and April each year, hundreds of impoverished Syrians search for truffles in the vast Syrian Desert, or Badia — a known hideout for jihadists that is also littered with landmines.

The monitor said that IS was taking advantage of the annual harvest of the desert fungus delicacy to carry out attacks in remote locations.

Foragers risk their lives to collect the delicacies, despite repeated warnings about landmines and IS fighters.

The Syrian Desert is renowned for producing some of the best quality truffles in the world.

The prized fungus can sell for up to $25 per kilo ($11 per pound) depending on size and grade — in a country where the average monthly wage is around $18….

Syrian migrant requested to be detained for serious war crimes in Syria

Translated from “Syrisk migrant begärs häktad för grova krigsbrott i Syrien,” 

by Mattias Albinsson, Samnytt, March 23, 2023:

A 49-year-old Syrian is wanted in custody for serious war crimes committed in Syria. This is evident from a detention petition from Blekinge district court.

The man was born in Palmyra in Syria and came to Sweden together with his then wife in connection with the migrant crisis. He received a residence permit in December 2016.

According to the Swedish Tax Agency’s population register, the man is now remarried to one or two other women from his home country. The case officer at the authority does not know how many, because two different dates of birth have been registered on the wife or wives.

Now the 49-year-old Syrian has been requested to be detained for two serious war crimes which, according to the prosecutor’s arrest petition, he committed in his home country before he came to Sweden. The timing of both crimes is stated to be from May 15, 2015 to June 30 of the same year.

According to the arrest warrant, the penalty for the crime the 49-year-old committed is at least two years in prison. The custody hearing will be held on Friday morning. The suspect is not a Swedish citizen.

He turned himself in? His marriage, or marriages, must have been something less than 72 virgins in Paradise.

In January of this year, the Blekinge district court sentenced a 45-year-old man for international human rights violations in Syria. According to his own statement, that man was helped by the Security Police to get to Sweden.

Two dead women and several heroes in a knife attack 

in a Muslim center in Lisbon

Translated from “Dos mujeres muertas y varios heridos en un ataque con cuchillo en un centro musulmán de Lisboa,” 

El Mundo, March 28, 2023 

One of the fatal victims of the attack on the Ismaili center in Lisbon perpetrated today was a teacher of the attacker and the other a colleague of the attacker of Afghan origin, announced local media.

The attacker, a 40-year-old Afghan, has lived in Odivelas — in the Lisbon metropolitan area — since a year ago, he is a father of three children and his wife died in a refugee camp in Greece, according to the Correio da Manhá.

The man, who knew the Ismaili center well because he received classes at the institution, showed up today in the armed enclosure with a large knife, killed the women and left several serious injuries.

Is it an armed enclosure because of fear of anti-Islamists? Yet, the danger came from Islam itself.

The two victims are the attacker’s English teacher, 40 years old, and a partner of the aggressor, also of Afghan origin and 20 years old, according to CNN Portugal.

Omed Taeni, a member of the Afghan Community Association in Lisbon, pointed out to the media that the attacker did not associate with Afghan residents and that it “seems that he had psychological problems” after the death of his wife in Greece.

He's a Muslim, of course he has psychological problems.

The Portuguese police disclosed that they received the first warning of the aggression minutes before 11:00 local time, when classes and other activities were taught in the center.

The agents found a man armed with a large knife.

“Orders were given to the attacker to stop the attack; he disobeyed and advanced with the knife in his hand in the direction of the police,” who “resorted to the firearm, reaching and neutralizing the attacker,” said an official statement.

The attacker was injured in the legs and was admitted to a hospital under police custody.

The Portuguese Prime Minister, António Costa, announced that “everything indicates that it was an isolated act, but,” he qualified, “we are not going to assume that.”

The Lisbon Ismaili Center was built by the Aga Khan Foundation and opened in 1998.

The police have cordoned off the area with a strong security device in which the counter-terrorist unit of the Judicial Police participates, although the Portuguese government has not confirmed whether the attack can be classified as a terrorist attack.

Whatever it was, the victim's families and the man's three children will pay the price for his madness. 

Islam - Current Day > Denmark Supreme Court sides with ISIS Bride; Spain will be a Muslim country in 30 years; Manhattan Jails first Terrorist

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Denmark Supreme Court: It is illegal to deprive an IS woman of her citizenship

It was invalid to strip the citizenship of a Danish woman who had joined the Islamic State

Ekstra Bladet

It was invalid when, in 2020, the Ministry of Immigration and Integration revoked the Danish citizenship of a woman who years ago had traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State.

The Supreme Court decided that on Wednesday.

The decision is because, according to the Supreme Court, the ministry's decision was not in accordance with the requirement of proportionality.

The Ministry of Immigration and Integration can only remove Danish citizenship if it does not make the person stateless.

The woman was born in Denmark and was given both Danish and Iranian citizenship at birth by virtue of her father.

But, according to the Supreme Court, she has 'neither had a residence in Iran nor otherwise stayed in Iran for a long time, nor has contact with relatives in Iran, just as she does not speak Farsi, which is Iran's official language'.

- The Supreme Court then determined that A (the woman, ed.) only has a very weak connection to Iran, writes the Supreme Court.

It was in 2015 that the woman, aged 20, traveled to Syria to join the self-proclaimed caliphate Islamic State.

She married in Syria a man who was a member of the organization. They had children together.

She stayed in an area controlled by the Islamic State until she was captured in March 2019.

Since then she has stayed with her children in the al-Hol camp and later in the al-Roj camp.

The woman has not denied having joined the Islamic State, and on that basis she could well be deprived of her Danish citizenship.

On the other hand, she argued that it was contrary to the principle of proportionality.

Earlier this week, the Ministry of Immigration and Integration was acquitted by Copenhagen City Court in a similar case.

In that case, two twin sisters had been stripped of their Danish citizenship.

According to TV 2, the women were born in Denmark to Somali refugees, but grew up in England and do not speak Danish.

According to the media, they went together to the Islamic State in Syria as 16-year-olds in 2014.

I guess the safety of law-abiding Danish citizens is not considered in the requirements of proportionality. Only the criminal's rights are important.

Spain: Muslim population increases ten times in the last 30 years

MAR 27, 2023 1:00 PM 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

Jihad Watch

What could possibly go wrong? Sure none of the new Muslim arrivals in Spain hold to Hassan al-Banna’s adage that “Islam must dominate, and not be dominated,” right? Any concern about them is solely “Islamophobia,” right?

“Fight them, till there is no persecution and religion is all for Allah; then if they give over, surely Allah sees the things they do.” (Qur’an 8:39)

Muslim population in Spain increased 10 times in last 30 years

by Senhan Bolelli, 

Anadolu Agency, March 25, 2023:

Secretary of the Islamic Commission of Spain said that the Muslim population living in Spain has increased 10 times in the last 30 years, exceeding 2.5 million.

Mohamed Ajana told Anadolu that according to official records, 2.5 million, and according to unofficial figures, about 3 million Muslims live in Spain….

So, the question now is, how much will the Muslim population in Spain increase in the next 30 years? Is there any reason why it will not increase 10 times again? If it does, that means there will be 25 to 30 million Muslims in a country of about 50 million. From 5-6% to 50 to 60% of the population. Spain will be a Muslim country by 2055. Then, how long before Sharia is brought in?

He stated that more than one million Muslims in the country are Spanish citizens, some of them are immigrants and others are of Spanish origin.

Explaining that Muslims from Morocco, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Senegal, and Algeria are in the majority, he shared the information that the majority of the Muslim population in Spain lives in industrialized regions such as Catalonia, Valencia, Andalusia, and Madrid.

Ajana also said that there are currently 53 Islamic federations serving the Muslim community in Spain, and that there are about 2,000 mosques.

He said the main problems that Muslims face are obtaining permits and licenses for the construction of mosques, the existence of only 40 Muslim cemeteries despite the increase in population, education, and Islamophobia.

ISIS Matchmaker Gets 18 Years in First Trial Under N.Y. Terrorism Law

by Colin Moynihan, 

New York Times, March 23, 2023:

After ISIS promised in 2014 that the world would “hear and understand the meaning of terrorism,” fervent western support came from a Jamaican preacher once imprisoned in Britain for urging violence, and later expelled from Kenya by officials fearing he would encourage radicalism.

Over the next three years, according to the Manhattan district attorney’s office, the preacher, Abdullah el-Faisal, helped ISIS any way he could, praising its ideology in lectures, publishing propaganda online and even acting as a marriage broker for its fighters.

Mr. Faisal was convicted this year of conspiracy and supporting terrorism after prosecutors presented evidence that he had discussed ISIS with an undercover New York City police officer and given her a phone number for a fighter in Syria.

On Thursday, Justice Maxwell Wiley of State Supreme Court in Manhattan sentenced Mr. Faisal to 18 years in prison, saying he had “continually advocated for murder, kidnapping and other violent crimes.”

Mr. Faisal’s trial marked the first time a defendant had faced a jury after being charged under state antiterrorism laws adopted in 2001, a week after the destruction of the World Trade Center. A handful of others have been charged under those laws and pleaded guilty.

Mr. Faisal was not accused of planning violence in New York City and had not set foot there during the period covered by his indictment. But undercover police officers with the Intelligence Bureau, whose members typically do not wear uniforms or badges, and communicate with other officers through handlers, exchanged messages with him from Manhattan, establishing jurisdiction for prosecutors.

Investigators’ testimony provided an unusual window into the secretive Intelligence Bureau, which has been criticized at times for compiling information on antiwar protesters and spying broadly on Muslims in New York and New Jersey.

“Manhattan will continue to be a target for those who want to harm this country,” said District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg. “Working with our federal and state law enforcement partners, our office stands at the ready to continue combating terrorism.”…

European Politics > The Scottish National Party picks new leader - a Muslim

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Scotland elects far-Left Muslim as new leader

MAR 27, 2023 2:00 PM 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

Jihad Watch

Leftists everywhere, as drunk as ever on identity politics, are celebrating this, and that’s fine. There will certainly be many, many more Muslim officials in the UK after Hamza Yousaf, and eventually there will be only Muslim officials. But Yousaf himself is likely only to exacerbate divisions in Britain, and certainly, nothing will be done to stem the tide of mass migration. Note also that only Western countries have to prove they’re not racist and celebrate diversity in this way. No one expects Pakistan to elect a Scots Christian prime minister.

I'm a little confused about the term far-left Muslim, especially from Pakistan. They tend to be pretty strong followers of the Quran which is by no means far-left. It is Pakistani immigrants who lead the way in grooming and gang-raping little British girls because the Quran gives them permission to do so. 

Scotland’s new leader, Hamza Yousaf, is pro-independence and Muslim

by William Booth, 

Washington Post, March 27, 2023:

LONDON — Humza Yousaf, the grandson of a Pakistani immigrant who arrived barely speaking English to work in a sewing machine factory in Glasgow, was named as the new leader of the Scottish National Party on Monday.

Because of his party’s majority, Yousaf will be almost certainly be chosen as first minister — the leader — of Scotland by the Parliament on Tuesday.

At age 37, Yousaf will be the youngest first minister of Scotland and the first Muslim to run the nation. His mother, wearing a headscarf, dabbed a tear as he spoke after the vote results were announced.

His ascension as Scottish leader comes alongside the premiership of Rishi Sunak, a Hindu, whose parents are also South Asian. London’s mayor is Sadiq Khan, a Muslim and son of Pakistani immigrants. Today, Sunak, Khan and Yousaf are three of the most prominent — and powerful — leaders in Britain.

And don't forget Suella Braverman, probably the best Home Secretary in this century.

On the other hand - The Scottish Justice Secretary, Humza Yousaf, rejected a request from the UK government to implement polygraph tests for terrorists...

He promised Monday to continue his party’s push to leave the United Kingdom and become a fully independent nation. “We will be the generation that delivers independence,” he vowed. But the way forward is unclear….

Feed him some haggis, and let's hear his brogue. I just hope I don't ever have to watch Scots men in kilts praying to Allah with their faces on the ground and their bums in the air.

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