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Berlin police investigating Abbas’ Holocaust comments

 August 19, 2022

Berlin police investigating Abbas’ Holocaust comments. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas

speaking in Paris, July 20, 2022. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP )

Palestinian leader to be investigated for possible incitement to hatred, but would have diplomatic immunity from prosecution.

By Associated Press

Berlin police have opened a preliminary investigation against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over his comments this week that Israel had committed “50 Holocausts” against Palestinians.

There are fewer than 6 million people who call themselves Palestinian in the entire world. One holocaust would entirely wipe them out.

The remarks, during a news conference in Berlin alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, sparked outrage in Germany, Israel and beyond. The Palestinian leader walked back his comments without actually apologizing.

Scholz should have walked Abbas back to his plane and sent him home. 

British Islamic State 'Beatle' is sentenced to life in US prison

for his role in plot to kidnap and behead American hostages

El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, was sentenced to life in US federal prison on Friday

Elsheikh, a former British citizen, was found guilty of all charges in April

He conspired to kill James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller

Was one of four 'ISIS Beatles' who brutalized and executed foreign hostages 

Now he will likely serve out his life sentence in harsh supermax confinement 

Families of the victims, as well as US and UK officials, praised the sentence 

By KEITH GRIFFITH FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and REUTERS

PUBLISHED: 06:04 EDT, 19 August 2022 | UPDATED: 13:43 EDT, 19 August 2022

Read the complete story on the Daily Mail.

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Malmo, Sweden is probably the Islamic capital of Europe. Their crime statistics increase in direct proportion to the number of Muslims taking residence in the city. They form gangs and take over parts of Malmo. If the arrested teen isn't the shooter in this apparent gang war, then he was probably one of the targets. At any rate, none of the news reports are mentioning Islamic involvement as Swedish media has learned nothing in the past 7 years.

Swedish police arrest teenage boy for shopping centre shooting

Reuters

A view of a cordoned off area as emergency personnel work at the scene of a shooting at Emporia Shopping Center

 in Malmo, Sweden, August 19, 2022. Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency/via REUTERS

STOCKHOLM, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Swedish police on Friday arrested a teenage boy for killing one person and injuring another in a shooting at a shopping centre in the southern city of Malmo.

A man died from his injuries and a woman is being treated in the hospital after the incident at the Emporia centre, the police said.

"The immediate danger to the public is judged to be over," the police said in a statement. "At present, the incident is considered to be connected to the criminal environment."

The police were on the scene questioning witnesses and going through material from surveillance cameras.

Murders due to gang violence has been on a rise in Sweden and is topping voters' concerns ahead of elections next month. 

So far this year, 44 people have been shot dead in Sweden, almost all of them in connection with suspected gang crime, according to police. That compares to 46 for all of 2021.

Representatives from the police and the city of Malmo will hold a news conference on Saturday morning.

Earlier, police said they had cordoned off the area and asked the public to avoid going to the shopping centre.

The police did not immediately respond to requests for further comment.

Reporting by Simon Johnson and Supantha Mukherjee in Stockholm Editing by Gareth Jones and Alistair Bell

Sweden's Uber PC Church Would Rather Offend God Than Transgenders

‘Many unanswered questions’: Swedish church removes LGBT-

themed altarpiece… but NOT for the reason you may think

Main image © Facebook / S:t Pauli kyrka, Malmö; inset: LGBTQ altarpiece "Paradise" created by artist Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin at its place in the St. Paul church in Malmo, Sweden. © AFP / TT News Agency / Johan NILSSON

After two weeks of deliberation, a church in Sweden decided that a newly-acquired LGBT-friendly painting was too problematic to serve as its altarpiece. Its depiction of Adam and Eve as two same-sex couples was not the issue.

The St. Paul’s Church in the southern city of Malmo accepted the painting as its altarpiece on the first day of Advent two weeks ago. The artwork by Swedish photographer and artist Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin was meant to symbolize inclusivity. It predictably generated a lot of buzz, attracting both praise and controversy online.

After analyzing the feedback, the church has decided to take down the painting and move it to a “different location” outside the altar room, pastor Per Svensson revealed on Wednesday.

And no, it was not the re-imagining of the Biblical story of Adam and Eve as a tale of two nude same-sex couples in the Garden of Eden that pushed the church officials to move the painting. That part is “completely uncontroversial,” Svensson said.

I guess you haven't been listening to God lately, if ever.

The pastor, however, had an issue with the serpent that tempted Adam and Eve to try the forbidden fruit. In the painting, it was depicted as a transgender person. “The serpent traditionally symbolizes evil, and turning it into a transgender person can mean that a transgender person is evil or is the devil,” Svensson explained.

“The Church of Sweden certainly cannot stand by that.”   - Astonishing!

Furthermore, the painting contains apples, a Biblical symbol of knowledge, the pastor added. This invites a question about the kind of knowledge the painting portrays, along with “so many different interpretations” that make the imagery problematic, Svensson said.

I really want to be there when this pastor stands before Jesus Christ. Although, I seriously doubt he will be able to stand.

The War on Christianity Comes from Within the Swedish Church

Church of Sweden unveils altarpiece of paradise featuring

gay couples and transgender serpent

“Paradise” by Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin. Photo taken by author.

A church in Malmo has a new altarpiece meant to celebrate inclusivity by replacing Adam and Eve in paradise with gay couples in suggestive poses, while depicting the serpent tempting them as a transgender woman.

The controversial work of art is not new. Photographer and artist Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin painted it in 2012 and tried to donate it to the Skara Cathedral just before the church was preparing to conduct the first same-sex wedding in its 1,000-year history.

The openly lesbian artist, who has a history of blending religious imagery with pro-minority activism, said at the time that she wanted to test if the Church of Sweden was as gay-friendly as it claimed to be when it embraced same-sex marriage in 2009. The Skara Cathedral politely declined the gift, saying it was about political activism and not faith.

And what did they call same-sex marriages?

But over seven years have passed, and now Wallin has got her way, even if it isn’t in her home city. St. Paul’s Church in Malmo accepted the painting called “Paradise” as its new altarpiece and unveiled it on Sunday, the first day of Advent. Helena Myrstener, the pastor, said that “history was written” in the hanging of the “LGBT altarpiece” as she tweeted a photo of the painting.

Wallin’s reimagining of paradise was inspired by one of the works by Renaissance master Lucas Cranach the Elder. The artist/activist said she wanted to show that, since the beginning of time, the place for gay people was in paradise rather than hell. The modern interpretation interestingly seems more prudish in terms of nudity than the 16th century originals as both “lesbian Eves” have their breasts covered by leaves rather than concealing only their genitals, as is traditional.

But it’s probably not because the artist has problems with nudity. After all, her most famous photo exhibition – the 2012 Bible-inspired “Ecce Homo” – featured an image portraying the baptism of Jesus with the model standing for Christ having his penis fully exposed.

The Church of Sweden, the state Church of the Scandinavian country until 2000 and still by far its largest denomination, prides itself on embracing a laundry list of woke agendas. Despite this, Swedes have been leaving the Church in record numbers lately, according to surveys.

Judging by some comments on social media, the new altarpiece won’t help much with stopping the exodus. “The politization has gone too far,” one member commented on the news as she announced leaving the Church. Another one said that while there were plenty of enlightened priests in the Church of Sweden, radicals from a “PC-pack” have turned it into their own arena.

Sweden may be the only country in the world more absurdly PCMad than Canada. The stupidity of this painting and others by this anti-Christian woman is almost beyond belief. If Adam and Eve were gay, that would have been the end of the human race right there. 

The blasphemy of paintings like this reveal a complete disbelief in God or the Bible. For to read the Bible and to know God on any level, is to know that He is holy and that we will all stand before Him in judgment one day. And although He is loving and merciful, I suspect there will be little mercy for the likes of Wallin and Myrstener.

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.

Two Killed & 4 Injured in Mass Shooting in Malmo, Sweden

Swedish police not trained or properly equipped to handle the growing violence

Malmo, Sweden June 18, 2018. © Johan Nilsson / Reuters

Two young men were killed and four people were wounded in a shooting in the Swedish city of Malmo. Up to 20 rounds were fired, according to witnesses, and police are still looking for the perpetrators.

The attack happened around 8pm local time (6pm GMT) in the Drottninggatan area of the city, which has been described as "quiet" place by local media. Two of the six people wounded in the shooting – men aged 18 and 29 – later succumbed to their injuries in hospital, police said in a statement. 

Witnesses told the Aftonbladet newspaper that they heard what sounded like up to 20 gunshots at around 6pm in the center of the city. The paper also reported that the shots had been fired outside an Internet cafe close to a police station, and that officers were therefore quick to arrive at the scene.

Police are currently investigating the attack. Investigators suggest that automatic weapons were used, and are searching for a dark car that was seen leaving the scene at high speed, Aftonbladet reports. At least three of the wounded were previously known to police in relation to criminal activity, according to Sydsvenskan daily newspaper.

Malmo has seen a wave of crime in recent years, which has included shooting attacks. It has “significant” potential for violence, Chief of the Swedish National Police Dan Eliasson said in January, as cited by The Local.

Last year, the country saw more than 300 confirmed shooting incidents, which left 41 people dead and 135 injured.

“Things move fast when criminal networks start shooting each other. We do not want to see that. We want to stop it,” said Eliasson.

The police lacks adequate resources to combat the scourge of crime that is sweeping parts of the country, Swedish Democrats party member Nima Gholam Ali Pour told RT. He also said that the influx of migrants has badly affected the social and criminal situation in the country.

“We have new kinds of criminals in Sweden that are much rougher, and the Swedish police are not trained enough, they don't have the equipment or the resources to do their job adequately,” he said.

Migrant Gang Beats and Robs Old Women in Sweden

This article is from Samhallsnytt and was translated from Swedish by Google

I've cleaned it up a little

Haiderat Salim in the far right. Photo: Police

Above is the immigrant crowd that battered and robbed 97-year-old Elsa.

The brains in the gang, which consisted mainly of so-called "street kids" originating in North Africa, specializing in older women, was a well-established man from Iraq. The man came to Sweden ten years ago, had an apartment and a job. "He is a very kind person," his father told him.

On the night of August 31, 2017, 97-year-old Elsa woke up that several men were in her bedroom on Marieholmsvägen in Malmö. Elsa, who lives alone in the house, first thought it was the home service that came to visit to replace her injured finger. And, in part, she was right - when 28-year-old Haiderat Salim previously worked as a home assistant in Elsa's area. This time, however, he came in the company of three asylum seekers of North Africans to rob her.

"You must not scream because I'll cut it!"

One of the perpetrators threatened her with a screwdriver that he held against Elsa's throat. In connection with this he said, "You must not scream because I'll cut it!", According to the police's preliminary investigation. The gang was looking for money. They threw Elsa on the floor to search through her mattress.

However, there was no money. Maybe that was why she was beaten by disappointed perpetrators.

"I have osteoarthritis in my spine so it hurt very much," Elsa later told the police. Pictures from the preliminary investigation show big bruises on Elsa's body.

The gang worked calmly and methodically during the time they were in the woman's house. They went through all the cabinets, carried out her old TV, and took wedding rings - a memory she had left behind her passing husband. Early in the morning they left the house. It took an hour for a passerby to hear Elsa's call for help and summoned the police. Here's how her house looked after the visit:

The crime was remarkable even for Malmö, which was the victim of crime, so the police put a lot of resources on getting the perpetrators.

A special dog trained to search for DNA traces searched through Elsa's garden. There were several DNA traces, because the perpetrators smoked in the house and left fimps on the spot, but none of them matched Swedish criminals in the police database. In other words, there were weak prospects to cope with the crime.

According to the police documents, Haiderat Salim's car was under guard by the police's team of forces two days after the robbery made the following observation:

"TTC783 enters Lektorsgatan and into the parking lot at number 6. Two men and at least three women and at least two children are around the car. Some of these rotate among things in the car."

Later it will turn out that the car was used at the robbery and for the transport of support goods.

Eventually, several other perpetrators joined the group who appear to be known by the team of names. Their behavior seems so suspicious to the police that they summon the intervention force that controls the car's passengers. For some reason, however, the car is not searched.

"There are four Arabs in the car"

Early in the morning of September 4, the police get a warning that some men shattered a box on a house on Regementsgatan - where another elderly woman lives. The men were scared away by a careful neighbor who called the police.

The gang was arrested thanks to a police who reported the event as follows:

"I see that a car crosses the street just in front of us. I notice that there are four Arabs in the car and find it strange that they drive around in the middle of the night in this area. We pull it over at the parking lot at Rönneholmsparken. "

The policeman speaks with the driver who is "significantly nervous". The patrol visits the gang and finds the drug Tramadol as well as hash. A short while later, Elsa's ICA card is found in the car, which makes it possible to connect the company to the previous robbery.

"The car also found various tools commonly used for crashes of this character along with goods that should typically not be in a car with young foreign men," the policeman wrote in his reporting PM.

It turned out that the three other men involved in the robbery were 20-year-old Mohammad Al Agawi, 18-year-old Alladin Al Arabi and Mansour Alzafiri with unclear age. All three were asylum seekers in Sweden with background in Morocco or other countries in North Africa. El Arabi and Alzafiri have already received expulsion decisions in their cases from the Migration Board and were thus in Sweden without permission.

"Haiderat is very kind and helps others"

The brains in the gang was, however, 28-year-old Haiderat Raad Salim - a Swedish citizen originating in Iraq and the only one who spoke fluent Swedish. 

The debate on immigrant crime often indicates that it is due to socio-economic factors - including so-called exclusion. However, when looking at Haiderat Salim, he does not seem to have been in any exclusion. He lived with his wife in a separate apartment at a good address in Malmö - far from the badly notorious Rosengård. He had a job as a home assistant - that's how he found out where the oldest and most helpless women lived.

Here lived Haiderat Salim. Photo: Google Maps

According to documents from the Swedish Migration Board, which Social News has learned, Haiderat came to Sweden 10 years ago in connection with his father. The rest of the family followed.

When social news calls Haiderat Salim's father it turns out that his Swedish is not good enough to understand questions and answer them - despite the 17 years he spent in Sweden. A moment later, he will call back using a friend who translates from Arabic.

The father confirms that he received asylum in Sweden and that the rest of the family was associated with him.

What do you have for comment on the judgment against Haiderat?

- Haiderat is very kind and helps others all the time. Should you stop him on the street in Malmö and ask for an address, he would make sure you find it right! He never did such things.

Do you mean the sentence is wrong?

- I do not know. I'm just saying that he is very kind as a person and I can not imagine he had committed what he was accused of.

In December 2017, Malmö District Court judged Haiderat Salim for 5 years and 6 months in prison. The rest of the gang was sentenced to shorter prison sentences by reference to their age. Mansour Alzafiri was sentenced to end youth care for 1 year and 10 months as the district court chose to believe that he was under 18 at the time of the crime. This despite the fact that Alzafiri left conflicting information about its age during the asylum process.

The whole age thing is a big joke in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe. Men in their late 20s claim to be teenagers to get better treatment and lighter sentences when they are caught breaking the law. Age can be determined by the courts if they had the will to, but they seem to rather let the criminals off with much lighter sentences and allow them back on the streets of Sweden to harass old women and rape young girls.

2nd Explosion Rocks Malmo, Sweden in Less Than a Week

3rd explosion in Sweden this year

The New Normal - Exploding Sweden

© Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency/via / Reuters

Another explosion has rocked the Swedish city of Malmo, just days after a grenade attack directly targeted a police station.

No injuries have been reported in the blast that happened around 9pm local time outside a restaurant located in an office building in the Rosengard city district, police said. The facade of the building was damaged in the explosion, the Aftonbladet reported.

Police secured the area and a bomb squad was sent to the scene. An Audi was seen close to the area moments before the blast, according to reports.

The office building is located near the police station in Rosengard where an explosion rang out Wednesday. Several cars were damaged when an assailant detonated a hand grenade outside a precinct.

Malmo waterfront

Rosengard is one of the locations in Sweden described as “a geographically-defined area characterized by a low socio-economic status where criminals have an impact on the local community.” Authorities have long struggled to quell the violence associated with conflicts erupting between various gangs and ethnic groups in recent years.

Rosengård is to a high degree populated by minorities. In 1972, the percentage of immigrants was around 18%, with the majority of inhabitants being working-class people from rural Sweden. Since 1974, there has been a "white flight" out of the suburb as more immigrants were assigned there. By 2012, the figure for those of "immigrant background" was given as 86%.

In other words, it is rapidly becoming a 'no-go zone' right in the middle of Malmo, Sweden's 3rd largest city. Stefan's legacy?

So far, they seem to be just practicing. I fear much worse is yet to come.

Two weeks ago on January 7, an explosion at a suburban Stockholm subway station left a man dead after he picked up a hand grenade which exploded in his hand. A 45-year-old woman was also injured in the blast.

16 Cars Torched Overnight in Malmo, Swedish Police Puzzled for Motive

Maybe the police need some serious help

Sixteen cars have been set alight overnight in Malmo, taking the total number of arson attacks in the Swedish city to over 70 since July 1. Despite calling in reinforcements, police still have not been able to catch any of the perpetrators.

The vehicles were torched at various locations around the city, with the first reports of arson attacks taking place at 20:00 local time. Within an hour nine cars were left burnt out in various neighborhoods. 

“All our stations are overloaded and the whole of the Malmo force is out extinguishing the car fires,” fire commander Magnus Johansson told SVT. “It is a burden for our organization, but also for other people who really need our help,” he added.

The burning of cars continued into the early hours of Friday morning, with a further 11 vehicles torched. A total of nine neighborhoods were affected by the arson attacks.

“This kind of pace [of attacks] won’t be sustained indefinitely,” Southern Sweden Police information officer Calle Persson told the TT news agency, as cited by the Local.

Persson added that no disturbances were reported around the locations where the vehicles were set alight, leaving the police scratching their heads about why the spate of arson attacks are taking place.

“A lot of cars have been burned in a short time now. We don’t know why it’s happening right now. We haven’t had any major social unrest,” Malmo police spokesperson Ewa-Gun Westford said, according to the TT agency.

Over 70 cars have now been targeted in arson attacks since July and the city’s police have drafted in a helicopter from Gothenburg to try and help them capture those committing the crimes. So far police have not made any arrests.

Arson attacks have not only taken place on cars. In April, an Arab school in the city was set on fire by arsonists. The perpetrator almost ran over police in his vehicle as he attempted to flee the scene. The school was opened in 1996, with around 300 children attending the learning facility.

Meanwhile in late July, an explosion at an apartment block rocked the center of Malmo. However, the cause of the blast was unclear. 

The city’s police commissioner Mats Karlsson spoke to the Local in the wake of the explosion and said the authorities were “not been able to see any connection to terrorism.”

"It is unclear who is using that apartment, because it is not the people who are registered at the address, but we have an idea of who it might be. It is still very serious, but these incidents are criminals attacking criminals, it's not something directed at outsiders, at ordinary people," he said.

Nevertheless, it was the 31st explosion in Malmo this year. 

In July 2015, Malmo was rocked by four grenade attacks in the space of a week, which continued a pattern of explosions, shootings and arson attacks which had affected Sweden’s third-largest city. Gang violence was once again blamed for these incidents. 

Gang violence is a pretty ambiguous term. What kind of gangs? Criminal gangs, Muslim gangs, right wing extremists? Police have had over a year to get a grip on this and they, apparently, still have no idea who is doing it. Maybe the police need some serious help.

According to statistics provided by the local authorities in 2015, 31 percent of the city’s 300,000 residents were born abroad and nearly 43 percent of residents have a foreign background.

Immigrants have normally come from countries that have been plagued by conflicts, with sizeable migrant groups from Iraq, Syria, the former Yugoslavia and Somalia. Data from the city’s authorities also states that around 20 percent of Malmo’s population is Muslim.

This is from Peter Hammond's book Slavery, Terrorism and Islam. It is a compilation of observations Hammond has made with reference to the percentage of Muslims living in a given country. It may also be somewhat relevant to city populations:

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.

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

With Malmo being a city not a country, it would appear that they may be functioning at a level closer to 10%. Nevertheless, the 20% level may give us a glimpse of what is coming if massive immigration of Muslims continues.