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Free Speech is not a part of Islam. Criticizing Islam, Mohammed, or the Quran is liable to instantly radicalize a moderate Muslim and turn him into a killer. This is what is so dangerous for Europe as they continue to let in Muslims who have no respect for the laws of the land, only Sharia.

“France charges teens for death threats over anti-Islam remarks”

Al Jazeera

Three teenagers have been charged in France after a high-school girl received death threats for expletive-laden social media remarks about Islam, according to a prosecutor.

The case of 16-year-old Mila – who made her remarks about Islam on an Instagram post that went viral – revived debate in France about freedom of speech, and highlighted deep societal divisions on the topic.

Mila’s family was placed under police protection amid the fallout, and she had to change schools.

On Wednesday, Vienne Prosecutor Audrey Quey said three teens – one aged 16 and two aged 17 – have been charged in the case.

The 17-year-olds admitted to investigators earlier this month that they had collected Mila’s private online data and passed it on to the younger boy.

In February, French President Emmanuel Macron came out in defence of Mila, saying the right to blaspheme was enshrined in the constitution and that she needed to be protected.

An investigation into possible charges of provoking racial hatred against Mila was abandoned in January.

The controversy came just over five years after gunmen shot dead a group of French cartoonists from the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which had poked fun at the Prophet Mohammed.

Vienne, FR

This Week's Global Terrorist Stories - 20-7 - Germany-3; Canada; Crimea; UAE; Pakistan

Suicide bomber kills at least 10 people in southwest Pakistan

Police officers guard a damaged vehicle at the site of a bomb blast in Quetta. © Reuters / Naseer Ahmed

An explosion has rocked a rally in Quetta, southwest of Pakistan, killing at least ten people and injuring many others.

The blast in the Balochistan province capital happened as demonstrators gathered outside the local Press Club on Monday. A suicide bomber set off a device near a police vehicle; two police officers are among the victims.

Medics told Reuters that they had “received ten bodies so far and 35 injured in Civil Hospital” after the incident.

Nobody has so far taken responsibility for the attack, but Islamic State, Pakistani Taliban and Baloch insurgent groups have been active in Balochistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan.

UAE Supreme Court upholds life sentences
for Hezbollah-linked terror cell

Abu Dhabi: Five people had life sentences upheld by the UAE’s State Security Court on Monday.

The Federal Supreme Court found them guilty of establishing a cell linked to Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

The court turned down an appeal filed by Ali N. D., Fadi A.S., and Abul Rahman T.S., all Lebanese, against their life imprisonment and upheld the lower court’s ruling.

The top court also upheld the 10 years’ jail sentence handed down to Hussain M.B. and Ahmad N. M., both Lebanese.

Ahmad N.M was also fined Dh3,000 for possessing a firearm without a licence.

The court cleared Moustafa H.K., Swedish, Hussain A. Z., Ali H.N., Mohsen Al Q, and Jihad M.A., all Lebanese, from all charges.

Last year, three men were sentenced to life in prison for setting up a terrorist cell with links to Hezbollah.

The Federal Court of Appeals sentenced another two men to 10 years each in jail and acquitted five others.

The men, described as Arab, were convicted on charges of planning to commit terrorist crimes and acts of vandalism against vital installations in the country.

The 11 defendants, all Lebanese except for a Swedish of Lebanese origin, all of whom have lived and worked in the UAE for more than 15 years, were arrested in late 2017 and early 2018.

They were charged with establishing a cell linked to the Iran-backed Hezbollah group.

The court ordered them to be deported from the country after their sentences end, confiscated all their communications equipment, computers and mobile phones and charged them with all the judicial expenses.

The State Security Prosecution charged members of the Hezbollah cell with spying for the intelligence of foreign countries to carry out terrorist acts in the UAE. They communicated pictures and maps of vital facilities to agent of Hezbollah, who handed them over to intelligence of a number of foreign countries.

The UAE, along with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait, classified Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation in 2016 and warned its citizens and resident expatriates against any links to it.

Home-made bombs tested on PETS:
Columbine-style school massacre thwarted
in Crimea, 2 teen suspects arrested

Operative shows home-made explosive devices, seized from the suspects in Kerch. © FSB

Two teenage fans of Vladislav Roslyakov, who killed 20 of his classmates in a Columbine-copycat shooting in the Crimean city of Kerch two years ago, were preparing similar school attacks, the Russian security service has revealed.

The suspects, who “were disciples of extremist ideology and followers of Vladislav Roslyakov” wanted to target two schools in Kerch, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement Tuesday.

Police discovered improvised explosive devices (IEDs) with striking elements at their homes as well as spare parts to make more IEDs, which the teens had purchased on the internet. Disturbingly, the two had already been testing their home-made bombs.

Pet animals were used to test the effectiveness of the trial versions of those explosive devices.

One of the arrested youths has been known to the FSB as he had praised the Kerch shooter, thus initiating an inevitable engagement with police. This did not prevent him from joining the same neo-Nazi internet community, of which his idol Roslyakov used to be a member.

The teens thoroughly prepared for their attack, not only making bombs, but also obtaining the layouts of the schools they’d planned to target. They also used to be the admins of so-called online ‘Death Groups,’ in which they tried to persuade others to carry out school massacres, the FBS said.

A classmate of one of the suspects told RT that he'd openly talked about his plans to stage a massacre, saying that he just liked what Roslyakov had done.

"He hates people. He was a pariah at school, after all," another student said, explaining the possible motives of one of the arrested teens.

In October 2018, Russia was stunned by a brutal massacre at the Kerch Polytechnic College, in which Roslyakov killed 20 people, students and teachers alike, and injured dozens of others.

He first set up an explosive device and then fired indiscriminately with a pump-action shotgun, duplicating the tactics of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who attacked their classmates in Colorado in 1999. Roslyakov was also dressed in black and white like Harris; and, just like him, he committed suicide at the college’s library after the heinous act.

Chechen exile's Berlin park killer linked to Russia's FSB - Bellingcat, Der Spiegel, The Insider

A person walks past The entrance to the Russian Embassy on December 6, 2019 in Berlin, Germany.

© Getty Images / Carsten Koall

By Bryan MacDonald

When a Chechen exile was shot dead in a Berlin park last summer it strained relations between Germany and Russia. A new investigation suggests his alleged killer may have been trained by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB).

A joint report from Germany's Der Spiegel magazine, the US-government funded Bellingcat website and Russian outlet The Insider claims to have obtained the phone records of "Vadim Krasikov," which they say is the real identity of Vadim Sokolov, the man German police accuse of carrying out the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili. 

Khangoshvili was regarded as a terrorist by Moscow for his role in conflicts in the Caucasus during the early 2000s. He moved to Germany after apparently surviving an assassination attempt in the Georgian capital Tbilisi in 2015. The deceased was born in Georgia and previously served in its military.

According to the probe, in 2019 Krasnikov/Sokolov visited training facilities belonging to the FSB Special Purpose Center at least eight times. The last trip supposedly took place just a few days before he traveled to the European Union. In April 2019, the investigators contend Krasikov spent four days at an FSB base near the village of Averkievo, which is used as a shooting range. Krasikov also supposedly twice visited Moscow building where the FSB's anti-terror center is located.

The team's research also asserts that Krasnikov/Sokolov traveled to Bryansk, near the Ukranian border, to pick up a passport before his departure. They say one of Krasikov/Sokolov's regular contacts was Eduard Bendersky, said to be "chairman of the Vympel Charitable Fund For Former FSB Spetsnaz (Special Forces) Officers."

From February to August 2019, the group alleges Krasikov/Sokolov and Bendersky spoke on the phone at least 20 times, with the frequency increasing as time passed. Bendersky told The Insider he didn't know Krasikov/Sokolov.

Khangoshvili was killed in the German capital's Kleiner Tiergarten Park last August, while traveling back from a mosque. Soon after, police detained Sokolov/Krasikov.

Der Spiegel is Germany's most famous news magazine, The Insider is edited by Roman Dobrokhotov, a Russian liberal opposition activist, and journalist who worked with numerous Moscow titles, and also contributed to US state broadcaster RFE/RL. Bellingcat's founder Eliot Higgins was previously a 'fellow' at pro-NATO pressure group Atlantic Council, which is funded by the British government, branches of the US military and various American defense contractors (IE, Deep State). Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has accused Bellingcat of being a front for Western intelligence services attempting to manipulate public opinion. (So have many other people, some of whom are not Russian).

Berlin's Foreign Ministry believes Russia hasn't fully cooperated with the investigation of Khangoshvili murder. It expelled two Russian diplomats in December. Moscow retaliated by kicking out a pair of German embassy staff. President Vladimir Putin denied the involvement of Russian special services in the murder, and claimed that Khangoshvili was involved in the fighting in the Caucasus on the side of terrorist forces. Putin called him a "cruel and bloodthirsty person."

"In just one of the attacks in which he took part, he killed 98 people. He was one of the organizers of explosions in the Moscow metro," said the President. Putin's first point referred to a June 2004 attack on Russian security forces in Ingushetia and Dagestan, in which 98 military personnel were killed. His second reference was likely to the 2010 Moscow metro bombings when 40 lives were lost, with over 100 people injured. No specific evidence was presented.

Interesting, Putin denies Russian involvement, and then justifies the murder. 

Canada set to deport 96yo ex-SS death squad member as
Russia probes massacre of disabled kids in 1942

Canada took 25 years to deport this guy, and he's not gone yet?

FILE PHOTO © Global Look Press / Scherl

Canada started a deportation procedure for Helmut Oberlander, an ex-member of the dreadful SS Einsatzgruppe, whose death squad have slaughtered 214 disabled Soviet orphans back in 1942. The heinous crime is now probed by Russia.

"The deportation process has begun but it is far from over," Ron Poulton, a lawyer for Oberlander, told RIA Novosti, adding, "there is no extradition proceedings." The country's Supreme Court has previously upheld the decision to strip the man of Canadian citizenship over war crimes allegations.

It comes days after Russia's Investigative Committee requested Canadian criminal files related to the 96-year-old man who enlisted as an interpreter in the SS Sonderkommando 10A — part of the wider Einsatzgruppe D deployed to the south of the Nazi-occupied part of the Soviet Union.

The notorious death squad was basically tasked with elimination of Soviet commissars, partisans Jews, Roma and other "racially impure" people — in line with Hitler's sick vision of clearing out the conquered lands for German colonists.

Back in 1942, when Soviet forces were still on defensive, Sonderkommando 10A descended on an orphanage in the southern city of Yeysk, forcing 214 disabled children into sealed trucks. The helpless victims died from the exhaust gasses and were buried in a mass grave uncovered after the Red Army liberated the surrounding Krasnodar region.

Now, Russian authorities, which relaunched a criminal investigation into the despicable murder last October, insist that such crimes have no statute of limitations. They point out that several interpreters and members of the Sonderkommandos acting in the Krasnodar area were arrested and convicted in the 1940s and 1960s.

Oberlander, an ethnic German and a native of Ukraine — part of the USSR back in the day —remained in the Sonderkommando from September 1942 up until July 1943, when it was disbanded. He immigrated to Canada in the 1950s, concealing his SS membership during naturalization process.

When Ottawa's immigration service learned of the cover-up, the former SS-man claimed he was merely an auxiliary, tasked with doing translation, polishing boots and protecting German communications.

The explanation didn't sit well with Canadian authorities, who launched de-naturalization and deportation process back in 1995. The fugitive lost and regained his citizenship several times during the decades-old proceedings, until the final decision was made last year.

And he may be deported this year if he lives long enough. Where, in the 25 years it took to process this deportation, is there any justice?

Shooting spree at two bars in German city of Hanau

leaves ‘multiple dead’

Shootings at two hookah bars in the German city of Hanau and nearby Kesselstadt have resulted in multiple deaths, local media reported. Police suspect they are related, and that the perpetrator is still at large.

Video of the mass police response was posted to social media on Wednesday evening local time, along with speculation that up to eight people may have been killed at the two locations. Those reports are unconfirmed as of yet.

Citing law enforcement sources, the tabloid Bild said eight people have been killed and five more injured.

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#BREAKING

Dead and wounded after two shootings in #Germany's #Hanau city; large number of police forces at the scene

German media reported that the first incident happened at Kurt-Schumacher-Platz, in central Hanau, and involved eight or nine gunshots fired from a moving car. The shooting in Kesselstadt happened shortly afterward and is being treated as related.

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Dude a guy in my little hometown Hanau Germany started shooting and already killed 7 people wtf is happening take care of each other guys!! #hanau #kesselstadt #amoklauf #mainkinzigkreis

A third shooting, in the Lamboy district, has been reported by the local TV Hessischer Rundfunk, but remains unconfirmed as of yet.

Hanau is a city of about 100,000 residents, located just east of Frankfurt on the Mein, in the German state of Hesse.

German shooting: Police ID suspected gunman;

cities hold vigils, protests

By Clyde Hughes & Danielle Haynes

People mourn as they gather at the Marktplatz in Hanau, Germany, on Thursday. Photo by Sascha Steinbach/EPA-EFE

Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Germany's federal prosecutor on Thursday identified the suspected gunman who attacked two hookah bars, killing nine people, as Tobias R.

Though officials declined to fully identify the suspect, local and international media, including Bild and CNN, determined his full name was Tobias Rathjen based on his age, place of birth and a website and YouTube channel on which he left xenophobic rants.

Authorities said he attacked two hookah bars in Hanau, Germany, late Wednesday and may have been motivated by xenophobia.

The shooting was classified "suspected terroristic act of violence" by regional interior minister Peter Beuth.

Rathjen's body was later found by authorities at his home, along with that of his mother. Police took his father into custody.

"This was a terrible evening that will certainly occupy us for a long, long time and we will remember with sadness," Hanau Mayor Claus Kaminsky said. Police said there are "no indications of further perpetrators."

Hookah bars are popular in Germany, authorities said.

A hookah bar is an establishment where patrons share shisha (flavoured tobacco) from a communal hookah or from one placed at each table or a bar.

A hookah and a variety of tobacco products are on display in a Harvard Square store window in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

In Western countries, shisha parlors are often owned and operated by people from the Arab world or South Asia where use of the hookah is a centuries-old tradition. Many shisha parlors incorporate such elements as Islamic decor and Arabic music or Indian music and have traditional decor.

Peter R. Neumann, the founding director of the International Center for the Study of Radicalization, said the shooter appeared to have had a hatred for foreigners and non-whites, according to his social accounts. The gunman called for the "extermination" of various Muslim-majority countries in North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia, according to a manifesto authorities believe belonged to him.

"He justifies his call for killing the populations of entire countries in explicitly eugenicist terms, saying that the science proves that certain races are superior," Neumann said.

CNN reported that Rathjen left a message on his personal website saying he felt an "aversion" to specific ethnic groups, including Turks, Moroccans, Lebanese and Kurds. Both his website and YouTube channel were removed from the Internet.

Police said he didn't have a criminal record.

Dozens of cities in Germany, including Hanau, held vigils to memorialize those killed in the attacks. The event in Hanau turned into a protest, with attendees holding signs decrying racism and xenophobia.

So, he sounds like a Nazi, but there doesn't seem to be any indication that he belonged to a far-right hate group. Curious. Far-right violence is a remarkably stupid way of expressing your racial bias. It invariably ends up with the victim's gaining sympathy, increased protection, and more rights.

Islamization Backlash - Slovakia Bars Islam

Slovakia Bars Islam From Country, Won’t Allow Mosques

PM said 'Islam has no place in this country'

Lionel Du Cane

Bratislava, Slovakia

Slovakia – along with many other Central and Eastern European countries–has repeatedly adopted a hard-line stance against the integration of Islam, perhaps overshadowed by right-populist countries such as Poland and Hungary.

According to Voice of Europe, Slovakia is the last EU member state without a Mosque within its borders.

At the inception of the 2015 Migrant Crisis, Slovakia refused a small quota of 200 Muslim migrants, according to the Telegraph.

An interior minister, at the time, said, “We want to help Europe with the migration issue. We could take 800 Muslims but we don’t have any mosques in Slovakia so how can Muslims be integrated if they are not going to like it here?”

Slovakia still doesn’t recognize Islam as an official religion; and the 5,000–or 0.1% of the population–who call the Central European country their home are of European descent, galvanizing the interior minister’s argument concerning integration.

Referring to Slovakia’s politicians’ view on the matter, Indian publication, The Youth, said, “In the year of 2007, politicians had changed the nation’s laws, rules and regulations so much so that 20,000 signatures from members were required to be recognized by the state.”

“In 2017, they were more than doubled the number of required signatures.”

Additionally, that small Muslim population is not afforded the same religious rights as 18 other groups recognized by the country’s government. This means that no religious leaders, marriages, or similar financial contributions are provided.

Following the 2015 anti-Muslim stance, the European Commission disapproved, saying, “We act here in the spirit of the treaty, which prevents any form of discrimination.”

In 2016, according to the Independent, Prime Minister Robert Fico said: “I’m sorry, Islam has no place in Slovakia. It is the duty of politicians to talk about these things very clearly and openly. I do not wish there were tens of thousands of Muslims.”

He also said, “I talked about this several times with the Maltese Prime Minister, who told me that the problem is not that they were coming, but they are changing the character of the country.

“And we do not want to change the traditions of the country, which is built on Constantine-Methodist tradition.”

The problem is not that they were coming,

but they are changing the character of the country. 

Maltese Prime Minister

Fico later implied that he wished to preserve his country’s cultural heritage–which he believed would be jeopardized by the inclusion of culturally incompatible migrants.

The anti-Islamic stance has not been met without resistance.

In an interview with the Slovak Spectator, the Islamic Foundation in Slovakia said, “The repeated statements of Mr Premier do not only harm Slovak Muslims but also the country’s interests as a sovereign country which is building its position on the international scene.”

Despite this, other politicians maintain their position on the topic. For example, MP Andrej Danko said: “Islamization begins with kebab and in Bratislava it has already begun. So understand what it could be like in 5-10 years.”

‘We Can’t Have Turkish Laws on French Soil’: Macron Vows to Fight Foreign Imams Preaching ‘Islamist Separatism’

Macron taking tentative steps to deal with France's

rapidly growing Islamic problem

Paris will clamp down on imams from Muslim countries that arrive in France to push worshipers into violating the law, the country's President Emmanuel Macron said, warning Turkey it can't "feed separatism" on French soil.

Macron promised to "gradually" end the program allowing Muslim countries to send imams and teachers to France in order to teach languages and culture unsupervised by the state. Speaking at the town of Mulhouse near the German border, he said that the influence of foreign imams leads some to "separate themselves from the Republic and therefore not respect its laws." 

The French leader singled out Turkey because, unlike Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, Ankara has not yet reached an agreement on the program with Paris. "Turkey today can make the choice to follow that path with us or not, but I won't let any foreign country feed a cultural, religious or identity-related separatism on our Republic's ground," he said.

We cannot have Turkey's laws on French soil. No way.

There are currently 151 Turkish imams in France, according to the Interior Ministry.

Macron stated that he was "not trying to offend anyone, but will not be complacent" either. In order to fight "Islamist separatism," he asked the French Muslim Council (CFCM) to improve the training of imams so they could "master" French laws.

Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said that the practice of sending foreign imams to France will end in 2024.

If there is anything left of France in 2024?

Turkish parliament speaker Mustafa Sentop blasted Macron’s words as “a sign of primitive Islamophobia.” In a tweet, the senior lawmaker accused Paris of “disrupting peace in [Africa’s] Sahel and Libya and creating chaos in the Muslim world,” as well as supplying arms to insurgent Libyan Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, who Ankara considers a “putschist.”

Putschist definition: 1. believing that a government should be removed by force

France participated in the 2011 US-led intervention in Libya, during which its longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi was toppled and killed. The North African country has since been devastated by a protracted civil war. Paris and Ankara clashed recently after Turkey threw its support behind the UN-backed Tripoli-based government against Haftar’s forces that have been closing in on the city.

Macron accused Turkey of undermining ceasefire in Libya. The officials in Tripoli, for their part, alleged that Paris has been supplying Haftar with weapons, after French-made missiles were discovered at a base belonging to the anti-government forces.

So long as the inventory keeps moving - that's all that seems to matter.

Two Stories - Swiss Backlash Against Islamization and EU Control

Backlash: Geneva's biggest mosque to be run by Swiss management after linked with terrorists

The Geneva mosque (Keystone / Salvatore Di Nolfi)

Switzerland’s largest mosque, which has been embroiled in various controversies, is to come under Swiss management.

“It is time to hand over the mosque in Geneva to a Swiss executive board, which is representative, with an elected president board: a mosque integrated into Swiss democracy,” Mohammad bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa, secretary-general of the Saudi Arabia-based Muslim World League, told Le Matin Dimanche newspaper.

Management and financing of the mosque, which is situated in the neighbourhood of Petit-Saconnex, should be ensured by Swiss Muslims, he said. Funding could some from member donations and private donations, he added.

The construction of the mosque was financed by Saudi Arabia. It was inaugurated in 1978 by former Saudi king Khalid bin Abdulaziz and is the biggest in Switzerland, being able to host 1,500 worshippers. MWL has been underwriting a substantial part of the mosque’s finances.

The mosque has however attracted scrutiny from French and Swiss authorities over possible links to extremists. 

‘Safe hands’

Similar measures to those in Geneva have been taken around the world in collaboration with national authorities, Al-Issa explained in the interview. “Foremost for security reasons. We have to ensure that the mosques are in safe hands, of course. After that we will not need to intervene.”

Hopeful, positive, but more than a little naive.

The Islamic Cultural Foundation of Geneva, which had been involved in the running of the mosque and which is linked to the MWL, will become a separate entity and work on dialogues between the religions, both in Switzerland and abroad, the former Saudi justice minister said.

At the end of 2017, four mosque employees were fired and the management changed after Al-Issa visited the institution. The four French employees, including two imams, had reportedly been placed by French officials on a backlist known as “Fiche S”. This is reserved for individuals who are considered potential threats to French national security.

In 2015, the Tribune de Genève reported that 20 young extremists had attended the mosque for several months, two of whom allegedly travelled to Syria.  

Al-Issa told Le Matin Dimanche that three essential objectives had not been achieved at the mosque. “The mosque should have become a cohesion factor. Representatives from other religions should have been able to rely on it. And finally, a place of worship shouldn’t keep on being a subject of concern and debate. So instead of closing it, we are giving it to everyone. That’s a better solution, isn’t it?”

I'm not totally convinced! It's impossible to integrate Islam into democracy, Christian or otherwise. You will find out. But, at least you are doing something.

Swiss to vote again on EU migrant curbs

EUA and EURACTIV.com with AFP

File photo. A photo made available 25 February 2016 shows a political advert (R), a montage of the white cross of the Swiss national flag and the Swastika symbol, at the SBB train station Cornavin in Geneva, Switzerland, on 23 February 2016. [Salvatore di Nolfi/EPA/EFE]

The Swiss will in May vote on a proposal that could dramatically limit immigration from the EU, six years after a similar referendum nearly destroyed relations with the bloc.

The Swiss government announced Wednesday (15 January) that the so-called “limitation initiative” would be one of the issues on the ballot for the year’s second round of popular votes, on 17 May.

The initiative, backed by the populist rightwing Swiss People’s Party (SVP) and opposed by the government, calls for the country to revise its constitution to ensure it can autonomously handle its immigration policy.

Anti-immigration; Eurosceptic

SVP, Switzerland’s largest party, has built its brand by condemning immigration as well as the influence of the European Union in non-EU-member Switzerland.

If the initiative passes, Swiss authorities would have one year to negotiate an end to its 1999 agreement with Brussels on the free movement of persons between Switzerland and the bloc.

The initiative goes even further than a similar initiative, also backed by SVP, that was voted on in February 2014. It demanded that Bern impose quotas on migration from EU countries.

EU-Swiss relations in turmoil after immigration vote

Swiss voters yesterday (9 February) narrowly backed proposals to reintroduce immigration quotas with the European Union. The European Commission regretted the result which it said contravened the principle of free movement of persons between the EU and Switzerland. “The EU will examine the implications of this initiative on EU-Swiss relations as a whole,” the EU executive said. 

That vote narrowly passed, throwing Swiss-EU relations into disarray, with Brussels warning that any curbs on immigration by EU citizens put in doubt a whole range of bilateral agreements.

SVP condemns compromise as ‘betrayal’

Bern struggled for years to find a way to respect the will of the people without permanently alienating the neighbouring EU, its main trading partner.

After lengthy negotiations, the agreement reached in late 2016 stopped far short of an initial plan to impose quotas on resident permits issued to EU citizens, which Brussels had fiercely rejected.

Instead Bern opted to merely require Swiss employers to jump through a few bureaucratic hoops before hiring from the bloc, and to prioritise Swiss job seekers, at least ostensibly.

SVP condemned that compromise as a “betrayal” and a capitulation to the EU.

The upcoming vote in May is part of Switzerland’s direct democracy system, in which voters cast ballots on a wide range of national, regional and local issues every few months.

Any initiative to modify the constitution that gathers 100,000 signatures is put to a popular vote, while 50,000 signatures are enough to call a referendum opposing a law voted by parliament.

Other questions on the May ballot will be whether childcare costs should be tax-deductible, and one on opposition to a recent revision of Switzerland’s federal hunting law, which conservationists say does not go far enough to protect wildlife.

Pakistan Summons Norwegian Ambassador Amid Outcry Over Koran Burning at Rally in Kristiansand

Islamabad expressed “deep concern” and launched a diplomatic action over the burning of the Koran in Norway, while the man who tried to save the book earned high praise on Pakistani social media.

Last week, a young Muslim counter-protester tackled Lars Thorsen, the head of the Stop Islamization of Norway (SIAN), after he set a copy of the Koran on fire at an anti-Muslim rally in the city of Kristiansand. The video of the incident caused a strong reaction in Pakistan, where the man reportedly named Ilyas Umer was hailed as hero on social media for trying to “save” the most-revered book in Islam.

Warning - the noises in this video are a little disturbing

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The nation’s Foreign Ministry even summoned the Norwegian Ambassador over the weekend to tell him that Thorsen’s actions “hurt the sentiments of 1.3 billion Muslims around the world, including those in Pakistan.”

The Ministry said that Koran-burning “could not be justified in the name of freedom of expression,” and urged Oslo to “prevent” such incidents from happening in the future.

An online petition was launched, calling on the police to release the man, dubbed “Ilyas the Koran Defender.”

The army’s spokesperson Asif Ghafoor also took to his personal Twitter account praise him for trying to stop Thorsen. “Salute to brave #Ilyas for displaying courage to stop an absolutely deplorable action,” he wrote.

Asif Ghafoor✔

@peaceforchange

Salute to brave #Ilyas for displaying courage to stop an absolutely deplorable action. Such Islamophobia based provocations only promote hatred & extremism.  All religions are and must stay respectable. Islamophbia is threat to global peace and harmony.#TheGloriousQuran#Norway

Meanwhile, protesters burnt Norwegian and US flags in Karachi, denouncing what they said was the desecration of the Koran.

Anti-Muslim actions overseas have in the past sparked demonstrations in Pakistan. In 2010, rallies were held in Pakistani cities after controversial Florida-based pastor Terry Jones announced plans to burn the Koran. Two years later, a massive protest was staged in front of the US embassy in Karachi against the American film ‘Innocence of Muslims’, which was deemed blasphemous by the local Muslim community.

Man Behind Anti-Islamic Film Sentenced To Another Year In Prison

November 7, 2012 • Mark Basseley Youssef admitted to violating four of eight conditions of his probation. He'd previously served 21 months in prison for bank fraud. His film, Innocence of Muslims, which depicted Prophet Muhammad as a fraud, sparked violence in the Muslim world.

Swedish Anti-Terror Cop to Lead Specialized Team Targeting Gangs After 15yo Shot Dead in Malmo

© TT News Agency / Johan Nilsson via REUTERS

Swedish police have set up a specialist task force to tackle the recent surge in violent crime including shootings and bombings. Cops currently have 100 ongoing investigations into explosions believed linked to gangs.

Mats Löfving, head of the force’s National Operations Department (Noa), has declared the ongoing spate of gang violence a “special national incident.”

The new crack team will be led by Stefan Hector, who headed up the anti-terrorism task force following the Drottninggatan truck attack in Stockholm in 2017.

The move follows the shooting dead of a 15-year-old boy in Malmo's Mollevangtorget square on Saturday evening. The temporary unit will have increased powers and resources, and will handle only “serious organized crime that culminates in homicides with shootings and the use of explosives.”

Malmo’s police force has pleaded with the government for more officers, investigators, interrogators and forensic technicians. The new task force will operate in tandem with the existing local police force, which is struggling under the weight of their increased caseload, including scores of ongoing investigations into bombings.

The national bomb squad has been called out to approximately 100 blasts this year alone, a massive uptick from 2018, though no deaths resulted from the blasts, with police describing it as "pure luck" that no one has been more seriously injured.

Despite the uptick in gang violence, Sweden's crime rate still remains among the lowest in the world.

Brief but Brilliant Rant by Swedish Woman Who has had Enough of Islamization

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COURAGEOUS SWEDISH WOMAN doesn’t care that she will be called a “racist” and a “fascist” for railing about the failure of Sweden’s mass Muslim immigration policies

BY BARENAKEDISLAM

Unlike this woman, most Swedes are afraid to speak out about the fact that the majority of Muslim migrants are young men, most of whom don’t work and are content to live on welfare, while selling drugs, raping women, assaulting and robbing pensioners.

It has to do with the far-left media and government in Sweden where #PCMadness reigns supreme.

Qudos to the unnamed woman who cried out, 'The Emporer has no Clothes'.

Terror-Free Slovakia Completely Refuses Islam and Won’t Allow a Single Mosque

By EMMA R., Voice of Europe

Screenshot of anti-Islam protest in Slovakia

Slovakia is the last EU Member State without a single mosque, TRT World reports. Previous attempts to build have been halted by politicians.

The country does not recognise Islam as a religion and only have a few thousand Muslim residents. Islam must not be taught in schools and the 5,000 Muslims, mostly European ones, who reside in the country are not officially recognised. They account for only 0.1% of the population.

In 2007, politicians changed the country’s laws so that 20,000 signatures from members were required to be recognised by the state. In 2017 they more than doubled the number of necessary signatures.

Not being officially recognised poses major difficulties for the group. Among other things, they are not allowed to have official religious leaders, conduct Muslim marriages or receive financial contributions from the State, rights which 18 other recognised religions have.

According to some of the country’s politicians, Islam is a serious threat.

“Islamisation begins with kebab and in Bratislava it has already begun. So understand what it could be like in 5-10 years,” says MP Andrej Danko.

“Every normal European, Christian or atheist fears this satanic pedophile creation of the devil,” rumbles another critical MP.

According to TRT, the situation was further complicated for the country’s Muslims in connection with the 2015 asylum wave. Slovakia then used the absence of mosques as an argument not to accept any migrants.

The TV channel also claims that Slovakia violates EU rights laws by not permitting the building of mosques.

60 Minutes Does 6.8 Minutes on Sweden's 55 No Go Zones

It took less than 10 seconds in a No-Go Zone in Sweden before the reporter's cameraman was deliberately hit by a car. When they called the police, and they came, the people were friendly and nice. As soon as the police left, they were attacked. 

These are Muslim migrants, welcomed by the hundreds of thousands by Sweden's uber-left wing government, with no concept of what to do with them or what they might do to Sweden.

These are just attacks on public transport in Sweden in 2017/18

This is the pattern with Muslim immigration.

Dr. Peter Hammond described it this way.

There is an update to this book

When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other components tend to creep in as well. Here’s how it works. As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs.

The UK's Muslim population was 2.7 million after the 2011 census, that's about 4.5%. No doubt it has exceeded 3 million and 5% by 2015.

From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply.

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. In Paris , we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam, and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam , with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections, in: France, Sweden, etc.

After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues.

At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:

From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels.

After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim.

100% will usher in the peace of ‘Dar-es-Salaam’ — the Islamic House of Peace. Here there’s supposed to be peace, because everybody is a Muslim, the Madrasses are the only schools, and the Koran is the only word.

Percentage of Muslims by country

Country                    % Muslim              As of

Sweden                            8.1                      2017            1.5-6%     2014
France                             8.8                      2017               7.2          2010
Germany                         6.1                      2016               4.1          2010
Netherlands                    6.0                      2016               4.7          2011
Belgium                           6.5                      2018
England                           6.0                      2017               5.0          2011
Norway                            5.7                      2016               3.7          2010
Finland                            2.7                      2016              15.0         2050

Canada                            3.2                      2011                2.0          2001
USA                                 1.1                      2017

Projections for some European countries is for Islam to make up 15-20% of the population by 2050. This is accomplished through immigration as well as much higher birth-rates as most European countries indigenous peoples have birth-rates well below sustainable levels.

There is also the consideration that Muslims congregate in communities and in major cities. In Muslim communities, non-Muslims become less and less welcome. In major cities, Muslims already make up significant percentages of the population - 15 to 50 %. 

Robaix, France                               53% Muslim
Shumen Province, Bulgaria          35%
Birmingham & Blackburn, UK      30%
Marseille, France                           25%

So, we see while none of the European countries has exceeded 10% Muslim population, the violent acts predicted by Dr. Hammond are happening in many cities where the Muslim concentration well exceeds 10%. And this doesn't even touch on the thousands of young girls being groomed, drugged, raped, and gang-raped by Pakistani gangs in many cities in England.

It also does not discuss the political changes that are happening with increasing Islamization. There is a dramatic increase in anti-Semitism in Europe which can be partly blamed on the increase in Muslims, and partly blamed on the rise of far-right extremists. Far-right extremism is, at least in part, a consequence of Islamization and government's Politically Correct madness in protecting them from the consequences of such things as the grooming and raping of young girls.

Europe is trying to close the doors, but it's too late! Propagation rates will put Islam in the majority in much of Europe before the end of this century. Sharia Law will replace Judeo-Christian based laws and our great grandchildren will be wearing burkas and not allowed out of the house without a male relative as an escort. Sounds like fun doesn't it?

Macron Accused of Treason by French Generals for Signing UN Migration Pact

The march toward One-World Government began with the Climate Accord

and is progressing with this migration agreement.

My question is - did the Gulf States that did not take a single migrant from Syria, sign on to this accord? Apparently! Will they accept Muslims from across Asia and Africa?

Not very likely!

By LAURA CAT

General Antoine Martinez has written the letter signed by ten other generals, an admiral and colonel, and also includes former French Minister of Defense Charles Millon.

They’ve given strong warning that Macron’s signing the U.N. Global Migration Pact strips France of even more sovereignty providing an additional reason for “an already battered people” to “revolt”.

The highly decorated military co-signees assert that the beleaguered Macron is “guilty of a denial of democracy or treason against the nation” for signing the migration pact without putting it to the people.

“The French state is late in coming to realize the impossibility of integrating too many people, in addition to totally different cultures, who have regrouped in the last forty years in areas that no longer submit to the laws of the Republic,” the letter advises, also saying that mass immigration is erasing France’s “civilizational landmarks”.

The pact, which has been protested in the Yellow Vest demonstrations in five countries, was signed by 164 nations, most against the will of the citizens as stated in dozens of country specific petitions, on Monday in Marrakech.

The immensely opposed and disastrous document declares unlimited migration to be treated as a human right and criticism of mass migration to be treated as hate speech.

Islamization Backlash - Austria Bans Headscarves in Primary Schools

©  REUTERS/Adrees Latif

The Austrian parliament has passed a law banning Muslim headscarves in primary schools. The legislation was met with skepticism on social media but drew support from European right-wing populists.

The new ban prohibits primary school children from wearing “ideologically or religiously influenced clothing, which involves covering of the head.” The legislation specifically notes that the ban covers only the garments that “either cover the hair entirely or to a significant extent.”

Medical bandages, as well as headgear worn as protection from rain or snow, do not fall under the new restrictions. The law also specifically exempts the Jewish kippahs and the Sikh patkas from the ban.

‘Populist stunt’ v ‘ivory tower view’

The legislation was supported solely by the MPs from the right-wing ruling coalition consisting of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s conservative People’s Party (OVP) and the right-wing Freedom Party (FPO), who retain a 60 percent majority in parliament. The opposition was unanimous in rejecting the measure they branded a populist stunt.

The former education minister, Sonja Hammerschmid, who represents the largest opposition party – the Social Democrats – said the move was “only about the headlines,” while questioning the ban’s effectiveness. Another MP from the green left-wing Jetzt (Now) Party, Stephanie Cox, called it a “populist measure targeting religious minority.”

The effectiveness should be obvious, one would think, to a former education minister. The headscarf marks a child as being different from all other children and defies inclusiveness which is so dear to liberal hearts. If children have the opportunity to 'fit in' with other Austrian children, they have a chance of 'fitting in' with society in general as they grow up. 

Is it racist? No, Islam is not a race! Is it biased against Islam? Certainly! Why is it alright to be biased against Muslim kids and not Jewish or Sikh kids? Because Jewish and Sikh kids don't grow up to be terrorists.

Irmgard Griss, an MP from the liberal Neos Party, warned that the potential drawbacks of the ban could be greater than the benefits as there is no evidence that wearing a headscarf somehow limits the girls’ learning capabilities. She also said that the ban makes the Muslim girls responsible for the policies of the governments of Iran and Saudi Arabia that make women and girls wear headscarves.

That's stupid! The government just took that responsibility away from the girls. At any rate, it has more to do with the children's parents than the children. Parents who are so devout, or radical, who refuse to allow their little girls to go into public places without a headscarf, are parents who have no desire whatsoever to assimilate into Austrian society. They are parents who are vulnerable to radicalization if not already radicalized. They are a danger to Austria, and if this causes them to leave the country, all the better.

The ruling coalition dismissed the criticism leveled by the opposition as a view “from an ivory tower,” which is “far from reality.” OVP MP, Rudolf Taschner, said that the law was about liberating the young girls from submission while denouncing the headscarf as a “symbol of oppression.” He also said that “commitment to enlightenment is not populism.”

MPs backing the new law did not dispute the fact that it is targeting a specific religious group. The FPO education spokesman, Wendelin Moelzer, openly said that the legislation is “about sending a signal against political Islam.”

Discriminatory in nature?

However, the ruling coalition arguments seemingly failed to strike a chord with the public as people on social media were mostly skeptical about the newly adopted measure and particularly criticized the government for singling out Muslims.

Many people pointed out that the government focuses on some virtually non-existent problem while overlooking the existing ones.

“A headscarf ban in primary schools? The schools actually have a lot of other, real, problems,” one tweet said.

Some people also ridiculed the new measure in various ways. Some drew attention to the fact that it is not only Muslims who wear headscarves. “A headscarf ban? It is already too late,” one tweet reads while featuring a picture of various Christian statues, icons and mosaics depicting female saints with their heads covered. A clearly satirical caption to the picture reads: “Women wearing headscarves everywhere: clandestine islamization discovered in churches and art.”

Meanwhile, the move quickly received support from various right-wing populist forces across Europe. A regional MP from Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party hailed the measure taken by Vienna and said “Germany should follow the lead.”

Similar sentiment was expressed by a member of Geert Wilders’ Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV), Marcel de Graaff, who is also a co-chair of the Europe of Nations and Freedom group in the European Parliament. “Bravo, Austria! Netherlands should also de-Islamize!” he wrote in a tweet.

It is not the first such measure introduced by the Austrian authorities. In November 2018, Austria also banned headscarves in kindergartens as part of the so-called ‘Child Protection Act.’ At that time, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz argued that it would prevent discrimination and the development of “parallel societies.”

In 2017, the Alpine nation also adopted ‘Anti-Face-Veiling Act,’ aimed at removing burqas and facial veils from public spaces. However, this measure apparently did not go as planned. Six months after the ban came into force, it was reported that very few people were penalized under the ban over actually wearing a religious veil. Most of those disobeying the law turned out to be protesters dressed as clowns, in animal costumes or wearing scarves.

“If this law was intended as a contribution in the fight against conservative Islam, I can only say that it didn’t work out well,” police commander Hermann Greylinger said at the time.

The future of the newly-adopted law seems to be somewhat uncertain as the ruling coalition expects it to be challenged in the Constitutional Court as it failed to win support of the two thirds of MPs, which would have made it unchallengeable.

The legislation already drew the ire of Austria’s official Muslim community organization, IGGO, which called the law “shameless and destructive,” and argued that it “discriminates exclusively against Muslims.” IGGO already vowed to take the issue to the Constitutional Court.