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Thursday, May 30, 2024

Islamization in Europe > Denmark bans burqa in public; Migrants attack cops in Austria; Christian Democrats need to drop the 'Christian'; 2/3rds of German unemployment benefits go to migrants;

 

Denmark bans wearing the burqa in public



Danish minister calls facial coverings ‘incompatible with Danish values.’








Austria: Muslim migrants attack police officers,

injure six

Should criminal migrants be allowed to remain in the countries where they have settled? Why?

Young thugs injured six police officers in Salzburg

translated from “Junge Schläger verletzten in Salzburg sechs Polizisten,” Salzburger Nachrichten, May 17, 2024 (thanks to Medforth):

Several acts of violence by Syrians against police officers occurred on Thursday evening after an official act in Salzburg’s Elisabeth suburb. An Afghan (26) called the police – several perpetrators wanted to steal his cell phone. The police met seven Syrians (15 to 34) on site. When clarifying the facts, they behaved extremely aggressively, resulting in the arrest of an 18-year-old Syrian, in which a policewoman was injured. A 23-year-old Syrian subsequently injured two police officers by kicking them. In total there were four arrests. The quartet were taken to the police detention center. Violence broke out there again – a third, 35-year-old Syrian injured another three officers. Further investigations are ongoing.

Attacks on or acts of violence against Salzburg police officers are anything but rare. In 2022, for example, a total of 212 suspects were reported for (suspected) violent attacks on police officers in the state of Salzburg alone.

These attacks often have very painful consequences for the executive branch: In 2022, no fewer than 69 Salzburg police officers were injured while on duty due to “external violence.”

Why does the government tolerate this madness? Attacking a police officer is attacking the state. They should be deported after a single incident and regardless of the situation in their home country. Protect Austria first, not criminal migrants.

 



Perhaps Christian Democrats need to change their name.


Germany: Christian Democrats nominate Sharia-adherent,

Erdogan-linked Muslim for local elections

It has reached the point in Germany and elsewhere in Europe where politicians depend on the Muslim vote, and so they don’t dare do anything effective to halt mass Muslim migration, or to stop jihad activity, mass sexual assaults of non-Muslim women, or Islamization.

Every vote is right for the CDU: Pirmasens is fielding hardcore Muslims and DİTİB officials in local elections

translated from “CDU ist jede Stimme recht: Pirmasens stellt Hardcore-Muslima und DİTİB-Funktionärin bei Kommunalwahl auf,” Journalisten Watch, May 20, 2024 (thanks to Medforth):

The CDU seems to be entitled to every vote. In the local elections in Rhineland-Palatinate, Akgül Yazici is running for the Christian Democrats in the southwest Palatinate town of Pirmasens. Interesting: The headscarfed Muslim woman is also an official in Erdogan’s fourth column, the DİTİB. The CDU doesn’t care at all about this open Islamization. The main thing is to stay in power.

The DİTİB, the extended arm of the Islamic despot Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Germany, is – thanks to Islamic mass migration – the largest Islamic religious association in this country. Critics repeatedly accuse the store of tolerating Israel-related anti-Semitism and promoting a fundamentalist understanding of Islam.

At least the latter is undoubtedly demonstrated by Akgül Yazici. The Muslim woman, wearing a correctly fitting headscarf, is running for the Christian Democrats in the southwest Palatinate town of Pirmasens in the upcoming local elections. It’s not enough that the CDU is promoting a candidate who wears the fighting symbol of political Islam on her skull. The Turkish-born, 44-year-old Yazici – listed in 44th place – is also an official of the aforementioned DİTİB. The force whose chief, Diyanet chairman Ali Erbas, described Israel as a “rusty dagger stuck in the heart of Islamic geography.” “Zionist Israel,” said Allah Fighter Erbas, “is committing genocide in Gaza with its attacks based on a dirty and perverted faith.”

This is, of course, a Satanic Reversal. A Muslim accusing Israel of doing what Hamas has done and will do again. The dirty and perverted faith is not Judaism. 

The fine CDU should be aware that the Muslim Yazici, who plays local patriots, is a hardcore Islamic official. Because: In 2020, the devotee of Allah ran as the “new chairwoman of the Advisory Board for Migration and Integration”. The local newspaper Rheinpfalz openly wrote at the time that “the aspiring nurse” was involved with the DİTİB. There the association runs the Anadolu Mosque and a cultural center on the parade ground. It was not until April 2024 that Yazici organized a joint breaking of the fast in front of the Johanneskirche in Pirmasens, also as a representative of DİTİB.

But perhaps the CDU is more than aware that Islamization is making giant strides in this best of Germany and that they are just trying to hold on to power and the meat pots for as long as possible. A look at the highly Islamized Gießen makes the conditions clear.

There the Ditib is happy about another Allah hole in the Islamic belly: “We want to start work this summer,” said the Turkish-Islamic society about the construction of a monster mosque. Because the population exchange in Gießen has now progressed so far, the Muslim prayer houses are bursting at the seams and a new mosque for 650 Muslims is to be built there. A community center with a café, a large conference hall, six seminar rooms and 21 apartments will be built adjacent to the mosque. For visitors with cars, the project is supplemented by an underground car park. burst, a demonstration of power is now to take place in the form of a gigantic mosque.

What life is like for the unbelievers in such Islamized areas can currently be seen in Datteln in North Rhine-Westphalia. A primary school there was smeared with “Islamist” slogans – i.e. sayings that come directly from the Koran – and anti-Semitic slogans. First, a school window was smashed. Later, slogans such as “Only Allah is true God” and “No German teacher’s wife has anything to say to you” were sprayed on the wall of the building in garbled German.

Rhineland Palatinate





Two-Thirds of Unemployment Benefits in Germany

Go to Migrants

Wir schaffen das!” — “We can do this” — was former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s claim in 2015, when she opened wide the doors to more than a million Muslim immigrants that year. In other words, “we can integrate these people, we can make them part of our society.” One more bit of evidence that Merkel was woefully wrong in her cheery optimism: it turns out that instead of those Muslim migrants becoming productive citizens contributing to the country’s economy, many of them instead have remained recipients of welfare benefits of all kinds for years beyond what Merkel anticipated. They receive free or greatly subsidized housing, free medical care, free education (or vocational training), family allowances, unemployment benefits (even without an employment record in Germany) and more. It has now come to light that migrants now receive two-thirds of the unemployment benefits paid out by the state. More on this disturbing statistic can be found here:


Two-thirds of unemployment benefit recipients in Germany are migrants as cost to taxpayer skyrockets by 122% since 2010


by Thomas Brooke, Remix News, May 21, 2024:

Nearly two-thirds of German residents receiving unemployment benefits have a migration background, new figures from the Federal Employment Agency have revealed.

The statistics published by the federal agency and cited by the Die Welt broadsheet showed that 63.1 percent of those in receipt of the so-called citizen’s income, or “Bürgergeld,” are of migrant origin, and “most do not have a German passport.”

The German newspaper explained that while employment figures are increasing year-over-year, “because the Federal Republic has long allowed very high immigration of low-skilled people, the number of migrants who are unemployed and receiving social benefits is also increasing.”…

Why did the German government allow in the low-skilled and uneducated migrants, who were almost certain to fail in an advanced economy like that of Germany? These are the people least likely to be hired, most likely to be fired, and consequently those most likely to be unemployed. The Federal Republic could have required would-be immigrants to have attained a certain educational level, or proof of vocational training in certain skills needed in the German economy, but instead the government let in, without distinction, anyone able to make it across the German border.

In 2013, the percentage of the German population with a migration background was 20 percent, with 43 percent of benefit recipients being migrants. Today, 29 percent of the German population are foreign-born and 63 percent of unemployment benefits are handed to migrants….

The foreign-born population in Germany inexorably rises: from 20% in 2013 to 29% today, or a 50% rise in little more than a decade. And there is a concomitant rise in the percentage of benefit recipients who are foreign-born, from 43% in 2013 to 63%— nearly two-thirds — today.

The number of German recipients of welfare benefits has been halved since 2010. The Germans are famously hard-working, unafraid to retrain where necessary in new fields, like solar energy and the production of electric vehicles, so as to possess the skills necessary in a rapidly changing economy. But the largely unskilled foreign nationals seem stuck in a rut of their own making. They are happy to pocket the generous welfare benefits provided by the state, which only decreases their motivation to work. During the same 15-year-period when German unemployment has halved, the number of foreign nationals receiving welfare payments has doubled. Clearly, the Germans have been admitting the wrong kind of immigrants.

Instead of admitting immigrants without distinction, René Springer of the anti-mass migration party AfD says that the government needs to change its immigration policy, to admit only the educated and the highly skilled, who can at once become productive members of the society. The guiding principle, he suggests, is to make sure that the government’s immigration policy does not allow in those who will at once be recipients of the cornucopia of welfare benefits that the generous German state provides. He also suggests that the guaranteed income known as “Burgergeld” should be abolished, as it acts merely as a “magnet” for more immigrants to choose to come to Germany.

The German immigration policy should also take into account those who, experience shows, have the most difficulty in integrating into Germany society. Muslims by and large do not integrate into Western societies; they regard the indigenous Germans as Infidels who, as the Qur’an instructs, are “the most vile of created beings.” How can they, the Muslims who know that they are the “best of peoples,” possibly want to live according to laws and rules set down by such people? They pocket every welfare benefit they can, unashamedly, for they regard those benefits from the German state as a kind of proleptic jizyah.

Here is how Germany might reform its immigration laws:

First, it could insist that immigrants have at least a high-school education, and proof of a marketable skill, such as is needed in electrical work, plumbing, construction.

Second, it could make immigrants ineligible to receive the “Burgergeld.”

Third, it could restrict access to welfare benefits, by prohibiting immigrants from receiving them during the first five years of their residence in Germany.

Fourth, the state should end the policy of family reunification, that has allowed Muslims in particular to bring in their large extended families. No “anchor” immigrants will be allowed to bring in, after they have been admitted, dozens of people who are claimed to be family relatives.

Fifth, quickly deport back to their countries of origin any migrants convicted of a crime, after they have served their sentences. If the sentence is a short one, less than three years, don’t even bother to imprison them; just deport them. That will be punishment enough.

That’s what I would call a good start.



Thursday, March 11, 2021

Islam - Current Day - Swiss Voters Narrowly Approve Burqa Ban in Attempt to Rescue Culture

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Switzerland: Voters Approve 'Burqa Ban'
by Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute
March 10, 2021 at 5:00 am

The referenda reflect the determination of a majority of Swiss voters to preserve Swiss traditions and values in the face of runaway multiculturalism and the encroachment of political Islam.

Switzerland now joins Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands and Sweden, all of which currently have full or partial bans on religious and non-religious face coverings.

"In Switzerland our tradition is that you show your face. That is a sign of our basic freedoms." — Walter Wobmann, member of the Swiss People's Party, the biggest political party in Switzerland.

"Some Muslims also understood that the niqab is a clear symbol of radical Islam." — Jean-Luc Addor, member of the Swiss People's Party.

"Saying yes to the ban on veiling is saying no to a totalitarian ideology that has no place in a democracy." — Saïda Keller-Messahli, founder and president of the Forum for a Progressive Islam.

"The full veil, which turns the woman into a faceless being without an identity, is a symbol of misogynistic political Islam. It is the most visible symbol of an overall fascist ideology, which includes gender apartheid, but also anti-Semitism and gay hatred...." — Gisela Widmer, Swiss author and playwright.


Swiss voters have narrowly approved a proposal to ban face coverings in public spaces, popularly known as the "burqa initiative," reflecting a determination to preserve Swiss traditions and values in the face of runaway multiculturalism and the encroachment of political Islam. Pictured: Posters in favor of the burqa initiative, in Zurich, on March 3, 2021. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)

Swiss voters have narrowly approved a proposal to ban face coverings in public spaces. The measure comes just over a decade after citizens voted to ban the construction of minarets, the tower-like structures on mosques that are often used to call Muslims to prayer.

The referenda reflect the determination of a majority of Swiss voters to preserve Swiss traditions and values in the face of runaway multiculturalism and the encroachment of political Islam.

Switzerland now joins Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands and Sweden, all of which currently have full or partial bans on religious and non-religious face coverings.

The binding referendum, approved on March 7 by 51.2% of voters, is popularly known as the "burqa initiative," although the proposal does not specifically mention burqas or niqabs, the face-coving garments worn by some Muslim women. The ban encompasses most face coverings, including the bandanas and masks sometimes used by violent street protesters, and applies to all public spaces, including parks, restaurants, shops, and public transport.

The measure allows for some exceptions: health (anti-Covid masks); weather (scarves), safety (motorcycle helmets) and local customs (carnival costumes). Face coverings may also be worn inside houses of worship.

In line with the Swiss system of direct democracy, the country's constitution will now be amended to incorporate the ban. The government has two years to draw up the necessary legislation.

The initiative was sponsored by the so-called Egerking Committee, a political group linked to the conservative Swiss People's Party (Schweizerische Volkspartei, SVP), the biggest political party in Switzerland.

Referendum committee chairman and SVP member Walter Wobmann described Muslim face coverings as "a symbol for this extreme, political Islam which has become increasingly prominent in Europe and which has no place in Switzerland." He added: "In Switzerland our tradition is that you show your face. That is a sign of our basic freedoms."

Fellow SVP member Jean-Luc Addor attributed the success in the referendum to the party's ability to promote its ideas outside of its core electorate, including among feminists and progressive Muslims. "Some Muslims also understood that the niqab is a clear symbol of radical Islam," he said.

Elham Manea, a Yemeni-Swiss political scientist who has long warned of the dangers of Sharia law, told Swiss Radio that the niqab is clearly a "symbol of a religious fundamentalist ideology." She added: "In a free society, women must be respected, and their rights and dignity protected."

As opposed to being made invisible!

Mohamed Hamdaoui, an Algerian-Swiss counselor in the canton of Bern, described the outcome of the vote as "a great relief." He said that the vote was "an opportunity to put a stop to Islamism" and not "the Muslims who obviously have their rightful place in this country."

Saïda Keller-Messahli, founder and president of the Forum for a Progressive Islam, agreed that the approval of the referendum was a positive development. A native of Tunisia who for years has warned of the dangers of an Islamist subculture in Switzerland, said that "saying yes to the ban on veiling is saying no to a totalitarian ideology that has no place in a democracy."

Swiss feminists are divided on the issue, with some saying that burqas and niqabs are oppressive, and others arguing that women should be free to choose what they want to wear.

Swiss writer and playwright Gisela Widmer criticized some feminist groups for opposing the ban:

"The full veil, which turns the woman into a faceless being without an identity, is a symbol of misogynistic political Islam. It is the most visible symbol of an overall fascist ideology, which includes gender apartheid, but also anti-Semitism and gay hatred....

"[Some feminists say that] the fact that the initiative comes from the SVP is a mockery. Correct! Because the initiative should not come from the SVP, but from committed feminist circles. Even more unforgivable than this failure on the part of the left is that they are now also fighting the 'Burqa Initiative.' A little less naivety and a little more international women's solidarity would suit the SP [Socialist Party] women. If we approve the 'Burqa Initiative,' we cannot change the reality of women in the Sharia states, but we can set an example and say that we are very serious about a woman's right to self-determination."

Maya Graf, a co-president of the feminist group Alliance F, countered:

"Feminists stand up for the rights and freedoms of women. This also includes the free choice of clothing."

Emrah Erken, a lawyer and member of the Forum for Progressive Islam, tweeted:

"Sharia and feminism are opposites. You cannot wear the hijab and claim that you are a feminist. Such a claim is simply not true."

The Swiss government opposed the measure. Justice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter argued that full-face coverings are a "marginal phenomenon" (Randphänomen) and that a ban could harm tourism because, according to the government, most Muslim women who cover their faces in Switzerland are visitors from wealthy Persian Gulf states.

The Swiss tourism sector also opposed the proposal. "The burqa ban would damage our image as an open and tolerant tourist destination," said Nicole Brändle Schlegel of HotellerieSuisse, a coalition of hoteliers and tourism groups from Bern.

The Director of the Swiss Tourism Association, Barbara Gisi, added: "We want to show the countries from which many fully veiled tourists come to Switzerland that we are still a hospitable country." She said she hopes that the Swiss government will launch an "explanatory and charm offensive" in the relevant countries.

The Federation of Islamic Umbrella Organizations in Switzerland (Föderation islamischer Dachorganisationen Schweiz, FIDS) stated:

"We are very disappointed with the result of the vote. The disappointment is mixed with great indignation. It would have been expected that the Swiss people would not allow symbolic politics to be carried out on the backs of some Muslim women. This symbolic policy is directed against Muslims.... Anchoring dress codes in the constitution is not a struggle for freedom of women, but a retreat into the past."

Ferah Ulucay, general secretary of the Central Council of Muslims in Switzerland (Islamischer Zentralrat der Schweiz, IZRS) said that approval of the referendum was "a dark day for Switzerland" because it "succeeded in anchoring the prevailing Islamophobia in the constitution." She vowed to challenge to the ban in court and to pay the fines for women who are prosecuted for violating it.

The referendum was approved by majorities in 20 out of Switzerland's 26 cantons; it was rejected in six cantons, including those that include the country's three biggest cities, Basel, Geneva and Zurich, and the capital, Bern.

Two Swiss cantons — Ticino and St. Gallen — already have local bans on face coverings. Face coverings at protests and sports events are currently banned in 15 of 26 cantons.

Minaret Ban: A Decade On, Mixed Results
The Egerking Committee was also the driving force behind the 2009 referendum on banning the construction of minarets. The ban was aimed at slowing the growth of political Islam in Switzerland by curbing the influence of Turkey and other Muslim countries in the affairs of Swiss Muslims.

A decade later, the referendum's impact has been mixed. No new minarets have been built in Switzerland since the ban entered into effect, but the foreign influence on Swiss Islamic communities appears to be greater than ever.

The minaret referendum, held on November 29, 2009, was approved by 57.5% of Swiss voters and resulted in an amendment to Article 72 of the Swiss Constitution, which now states: "The construction of minarets is prohibited."

The SVP argued that minarets are "beacons of jihad" and a "symbol of a religious-political claim to power and dominance which threatens — in the name of alleged freedom of religion — the constitutional rights of others."

The SVP backed its claim by citing a remark by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who once implied that the construction of mosques and minarets is part of a strategy to Islamize Europe. Reciting a poem by the Turkish nationalist writer Ziya Gökalp (1876-1924), Erdoğan said: "The minarets are our bayonets, the domes our helmets, the mosques our barracks and the faithful our soldiers."

The minaret controversy was sparked in September 2005, when the Turkish cultural association in Wangen bei Olten, a small town in northern Switzerland, applied for a permit to erect a minaret on the roof of the local mosque. The project to build the minaret, opposed by a majority of local residents, was rejected by the town's building and planning commission in September 2006.

The Turkish cultural association — possibly with encouragement from the Turkish government — subsequently filed an appeal; it claimed that the local building authorities were motivated by religious bias. The case eventually made its way to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland (Bundesgericht), which in July 2007 ruled that construction of the minaret could proceed. The six-meter (20-foot) tower was erected in January 2009. This chain of events led to the formation of the Egerking Committee and prompted campaigners to gather the 100,000 signatures needed to launch the popular initiative against minarets.

Since then, the influence of Islam in Switzerland has steadily increased. The Muslim population of Switzerland has grown by more than 30% during the past decade and now exceeds half a million people, or approximately six percent of the total population, according to the Pew Research Center. If current migration trends continue, the Muslim population of Switzerland is set to more than double by 2050, to more than one million, according to Pew forecasts; with a high migration scenario, it is set to triple to more than 1.5 million.

The number of mosques in Switzerland has also increased since the 2009 referendum. The country is now home to at least 240 mosques, according to the University of Luzern. Some of the larger mosques are believed to be financed by foreign governments, including those of Turkey, Saudi Arabia and some Gulf Arab states:

June 2020. Saïda Keller-Messahli, one of the most prominent Islam experts in Switzerland, revealed that an Albanian-Islamic mega-mosque being built in Reinach, a small town in northern canton of Aargau, was being financed by Turkey and Kuwait. She said that dozens of Albanian mosques were springing up across Switzerland and being used by Turkey and other Muslim countries to spread an "arch-conservative Islam."

January 2020. A Swiss-Muslim board of directors assumed management of the Geneva Mosque, the largest mosque in Switzerland, after Swiss and French authorities determined that four imams employed there were Islamic extremists. The mosque was built by Saudi Arabia and financed by the Muslim World League. Henceforth, the mosque is to be financed by exclusively by Muslims from Switzerland.

November 2019. Research by the Swiss Center for Islam and Society (Schweizerischen Zentrum für Islam und Gesellschaft, SZIG) at the University of Fribourg found that 130 foreign imams are active in Switzerland. Almost all are Sunni Muslims, and nearly half are of Turkish origin. The Albanian-speaking community — mainly from Kosovo and northern Macedonia — are catered to by 40 imams, 30 of whom work full-time. There are also 13 imams of Bosnian origin, and 15 to 20 from the Arab world.

April 2019. French journalists Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot, in their book "Qatar Papers," reported that between 2011 and 2014, Qatar Charity, an NGO funded by the Qatari royal family, provided more than 4 million Swiss Francs ($4 million) to finance five Islamic megaprojects in Switzerland. The projects include the 22-million-franc Museum of Islamic Civilizations in La Chaux-de-Fonds (Neuchâtel canton), the Lausanne Islamic Cultural Center (Vaud canton) and the Islamic Center of Biel (Bern canton).

After the scope of Qatari involvement in Swiss Muslim affairs became public, Qatar reportedly stopped funding Islamic projects in Switzerland. Mohamed Karmous, founder of the Swiss Muslim Cultural Institute, the organization through which the Qatari funds were apparently being channeled, said that such financing had ended.

September 2018. Swiss Radio and Television (SRF) reported that the Islamic Community of Zurich (Stiftung Islamische Gemeinschaft Zürich, SIGZ) was receiving 200,000 Swiss Francs ($200,000) annually from the United Arab Emirates. The mosque is owned by Abu Dhabi, which also chooses the mosque's imam.

SRF also reported that the Turkish government is paying the salaries of 35 full-time imams in Switzerland. The imams are coordinated by the Turkish Embassy in Bern and the Zurich-based Turkish-Islamic Foundation for Switzerland (Türkisch-Islamischen Stiftung für die Schweiz, TISS), which is controlled by the Turkish government's Directorate for Religious Affairs, known in Turkish as Diyanet.

May 2018. The lower house of the Swiss parliament narrowly rejected (96 to 90 and seven abstentions) a motion to outlaw the direct or indirect financing of mosques, Islamic prayer rooms and other Islamic centers in Switzerland by states that are alleged to support terrorist groups or violate human rights. The Federal Council, the seven-member executive council that constitutes the federal government of Switzerland, argued that such a ban would place all Muslims in the country under a general suspicion and that Muslim communities "must be able to exercise their right to freedom of religion and association under the same conditions as the other religious communities."

Foreign imams in Switzerland have also been under increased scrutiny:

December 4, 2019. The public prosecutor in Bern opened a criminal investigation into a 66-year-old Libyan imam, Abu Ramadan, for allegedly committing welfare fraud. He was sued by the municipality of Nidau after receiving more than 590,000 Swiss Francs ($590,000) in social welfare assistance between 2003 and 2017. He is accused of concealing income worth tens of thousands of francs that would have led to a lower allocation of welfare benefits.

October 15, 2019. The Federal Supreme Court upheld a decision by a court in St. Gallen to not renew the residence permit of an imam from Kosovo who was found guilty of physically and sexually abusing his wife and prohibiting her from venturing out of the home without his consent. The court judged that the imam had not assimilated Switzerland's social and legal values and did not respect them.

October 8, 2019. The Office of the Attorney General of Lucerne launched an investigation into a 38-year-old Iraqi imam at the Dar Assalam mosque in Kriens. He is alleged to have advised his followers to beat disobedient wives. The investigation was launched after the newspaper SonntagsZeitung reported that the man allegedly suggested disciplining women with physical violence if non-violent methods fail. He also reportedly called for respect for Sharia law. The investigation was later dropped due to a lack of evidence.

In the wake of the incident, the Dar Assalam organization, which represents the Islamic community in central Switzerland, recommended that all sermons and prayers be recorded and stored for 12 months.

Soeren Kern is a Senior Fellow at the New York-based Gatestone Institute.