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Monday, October 30, 2023

Antisemitism Madness > Dr Phil on America's attitude toward the Hamas Massacre; Islamic Hysteria in Dagestan; Madness at Columbia U.

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While the October 7th massacres by Hamas assassins and rapists stand as one of the darkest hours in the history of the world, America's top universities have quickly forgotten that Israel is our ally, and Hamas and Palestine Islamic Jihad are terrorist organizations.

Universities celebrate the horrific massacre, more fitting for the 7th century than the 21st. Top universities in the country are proving that they are not 'fit for purpose' as they become propaganda tools for dark ages ideologies and practices. 

Dr Phil is right on with this analysis. 





Dagestan: Jews describe horrors as Muslims screaming

‘Allahu akbar’ hunted, chased and menaced them at airport


Horror in Makhachkala: passengers from Tel Aviv spoke about their experience


Translated from “Ужас в Махачкале: пассажиры из Тель-Авива рассказали о пережитом,” 
by Daria Gershberg, Detaly, October 30, 2023:


Yesterday at the Makhachkala airport the world saw what seemed to be a recurrence from the times of Nazi Germany – a Jewish pogrom. An angry crowd of rioters broke into the terminal and onto the airfield, looking for passengers from a flight from Tel Aviv. “Defenders of Gaza Children” burst into all the premises, besieged passengers on other planes – the commanders closed the doors, fearing, as the Pobeda airline pilot put it, “getting caught.”



The police tried to control the crowd, but to no avail. The special forces of the Russian Guard arrived only more than an hour later. With great difficulty, the passengers were saved from the raging crowd – they were taken out by helicopter.

“Detaly” spoke with A., a passenger from Tel Aviv. Together with her son, she found herself in the midst of angry rioters. The woman and child were injured by shards of broken glass. Another passenger, N., arrived alone.

With their help, we reconstructed the picture of how those arriving from Israel were rescued.

Landing in the apocalypse


The flight from Tel Aviv landed at Makhachkala airport at 19:17. Unfortunately, it was not diverted to another airport as reported.

There were about 50 passengers on board, mostly women and children. One child was in a wheelchair, connected to a ventilator. He, too, was forced to hide, confirmed the general director of the airport, Said Ramazanov.

The passengers were put on a bus and taken to the terminal for passport control. But a raging crowd had already burst into the airport.

“We had already gone through passport control, and then they burst in,” recalls A. “We ran back to the bus.”

The bus appeared to be accompanied by several airport security guards. The passengers climbed inside. The driver pressed the gas pedal. The bus drove down the runway, the crowd chasing it, shouting “Allahu Akbar!

In the video sent by passenger N., the bus is leaving the terminal. Children are crying in the cabin. Passengers shout to the driver to close the doors. One rioter managed to stay on the bus outside – he rides and waves his hand at the others.

“The bus drove along the runway, then turned into a field. And there the crowd caught up with us. They had Palestinian flags. They started breaking windows. The fragments hit me and my son,” A. told Details. “They broke into the bus, I showed my Russian passport, they checked that I didn’t have [Israeli] citizenship.” There were a lot of people, they surrounded the bus, beat it, and shook it.”

N. sent Detaly a video in which the attackers can be heard demanding that people get off the bus. One of the rioters obscenely abuses the passengers, shouting: “What are you doing to Palestine, you f… oh!” They shout in response that they are Russians. One shouts that he has a Belarusian passport.

“We thought it was all over. We took out Russian passports and shouted: “We are Russians, we are Russians!” We told them: “There are no Israelis on the flight here. What are they, fools, to go anywhere at all in such a situation?” They looked at our passports, but still continued to storm the bus. It was a mad crowd that couldn’t be stopped,” another passenger from this flight, Oksana, told msk1.ru.

“Then we finally broke out. The driver stepped on the gas. We drove across the field again. They ran and caught up. They were shooting,” A. told Detaly. According to her, the pogromists may have taken several people from the bus (Detaly’s note: the information has not been verified; there have been no reports of abducted Israelis yet).

The bus arrived at the airport complex again. Airport employees hid passengers with Israeli citizenship in a technical room in one of the buildings (most, if not all, also had Russian passports, which saved their lives on the bus). At that moment there were police at the airport, but there were still many rioters around. They searched the premises, trying to find Jews.

According to A., passengers, including women and sick children, hid in the room for several hours until the Russian Guard forces arrived. A helicopter was sent for the besieged.

Passengers began to be taken out onto the field and led to the helicopter. The raging crowd, which the security forces had pushed behind the fence, saw that women and children were being taken away and began to try to break through to them. The security forces opened fire in the air. People were put into a helicopter to the sound of machine gun fire. According to A., some of the rioters managed to break through to the helicopter, and they clung to the landing gear.

This is another example of the sheer madness of Islamic Hysteria. Muslims are so easily triggered into hysteria. What does Dagestan have to do with the Middle East? Europeans will soon be asking themselves that question - what do France, Germany, and the UK have to do with Hamas?

Another passenger, Oksana, recalls that the passengers in the helicopter were accompanied by the head of the Derbent administration, Khizri Abakarov. “If it weren’t for him, I don’t know what would have happened. He protected us just like a father. He calmed us down and was with us everywhere: on the bus and in the helicopter.”

Upon arrival at the base, the passengers’ mobile phones were taken away so that they would not expose the light anywhere.

Or, could it have been so they would not publish their videos?

Dagestan, officially the Republic of Dagestan, is a republic of Russia situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, along the Caspian Sea. Dagestan covers an area of 50,300 square kilometres (19,400 square miles), with a population of over 3.1 million, consisting of over 30 ethnic groups and 81 nationalities. 83% of the population of Dagestan adheres to Islam, mostly Sunni of the Shafii school.




Of course, terrorism isn't military action, it's terrorist action.



Over 100 Columbia professors sign letter defending students

who supported Hamas’ ‘military action’

By Melissa Koenig, NYPost
Published Oct. 30, 2023, 12:54 p.m. ET

More than 100 Columbia University professors signed a letter Monday defending students who supported Hamas’ “military action” in Israel on Oct. 7 and called on administrators to protect those students from “disturbing reverberations” on the Manhattan campus.

As top donors vow to stop giving money to the university amid a swell of pro-Palestinian demonstrations, professors demanded that the administration protect demonstrators from doxxing efforts from trucks dubbing them “Columbia’s Leading Anti-Semites” and halt its educational outposts in Israel.

The Ivy League staffers also demanded that the administration “cease issuing statements that favor the suffering and death of Israelis or Jews over the suffering and deaths of Palestinians.”

“As scholars who are committed to robust inquiry about the most challenging matters of our time, we feel compelled to respond to those who label our students antisemitic if they express empathy for the lives and dignity of Palestinians and/or if they signed a student-written statement that situated the military action begun on Oct. 7 within the larger context of the occupation of Palestine by Israel,” the letter reads.

“In our view, the student statement aims to recontextualize the events of Oct. 7, 2023, pointing out that military operations and state violence did not begin that day, but rather it represented a military response by a people who had endured crushing and unrelenting state violence from an occupying power over many years,” they wrote of the brutal terror attack that killed more than 1,400 Israelis, most of them civilians.




The professors wrote in the letter on Monday that the students believe peace and safety will remain elusive “unless the illegal occupation of Palestinian territory ends and accountability for that illegal occupation is achieved,” which they claim is “not a radical or essentially controversial opinion,” noting it is supported by the United Nations and several human rights organizations.

Professors also backed the university’s Palestine Solidarity Groups label of conditions in Gaza as “apartheid,” noting that groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have agreed.

Faculty members conclude their letter by saying, “One of the core responsibilities of a world-class university is to interrogate the underlying facts of both settled propositions and those that are ardently disputed.



“As faculty, we are committed to the project of holding discomfort and working across difference[s] with our students,” it reads.

Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, executive vice president of New York Board of Rabbis, told The Post the letter from Columbia professors was beyond the pale.

“I guess the Columbia professors wouldn’t have a problem with the Ku Klux Klan or the Nazis,” he said sarcastically.

“What we expect in college is that students at some point would be taught about moral clarity.

“To describe Hamas as a legitimate group rather than as terrorists is beyond comprehension and beyond contempt.”

Columbia administrators declined to comment on the letter, but pointed to the existence of a separate faculty statement being circulated encouraging the university’s ties with Israel, which had been signed by over 200 staff by Monday afternoon.

It reads in part: “In the wake of this sobering conflict, we write to express our commitment to the University’s ties with Israel.

“Our research and teaching missions benefit from these ties, and we encourage the University to build on them.”

A spokesperson for the university told The Post last week that “antisemitism or any other form of hate will never be tolerated in our community,” as officials canceled an on-campus student group event that had disinvited Zionists.

The Monday missive came in response to backlash over a student statement that claimed Gaza is an “open-air prison.”

I wonder if the student knows of any prisons anywhere in the world that import or produce tens of thousands of rockets, and then use them on innocent civilians?



“The weight of responsibility for the war and casualties undeniably lies with the Israeli extremist government and other Western governments, including the US government, which fund and staunchly support Israeli aggression, apartheid and settler colonization,” it reads.

“The international judicial system must intervene and hold all parties, including the state of Israel, accountable for the violations it commits.”

Since the letter was written, a major New York City law firm rescinded job offers to those who signed.

A nonprofit news watchdog, Accuracy in Media, also sent a “doxxing truck” — featuring giant video screens on all sides, displaying the words “Columbia’s Leading Antisemites” in gothic script over a slideshow of the Ivy Leaguers’ headshots and names in red block letters — to the campus last Wednesday.

The display identified students allegedly involved in “a horribly hateful, antisemitic proclamation similar to the one signed at Harvard that blamed victims for their own death, rape and torture,” Accuracy in Media president Adam Guillette said in an interview with The Post on Thursday.

Jewish students had planned a rally Monday afternoon to “condemn recent acts of antisemitism displayed on campus by their fellow students and the University’s failure to act.”


Military Madness > Finland's long and peaceful border with Russia to be militarized, C'est de la pure folie

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Details of NATO's aggressive expansionism along Russia's

western borders being worked out in Helsinki


Anneke de Laaf
 

After NATO membership, now it’s time to allow those Yankee military bases.


The Helsinki regime is stupid. 



HELSINKI, October 30 – RIA Novosti. 

In the coming weeks, Finland will conclude a military cooperation agreement with the United States, the Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA), Finnish media reported.

“An agreement at the official level could be signed as early as this week,” sources told the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper.

As stated, the agreement will not specifically define the areas for the deployment of the American contingent, as, for example, in Norway, where only three zones are assigned to the US military. In the “Finnish” version, this issue will be approached more flexibly, the publication clarifies.

According to interlocutors of the YLE television and radio corporation, the agreement will be signed a week later.

On September 29, 2022, the Finnish government announced the start of negotiations on defense cooperation. The discussion process was expected to take one to two years and would determine the status of American troops when they operate on Finnish territory. The agreement will also regulate issues of taxation, customs duties and others.

Finland officially joined NATO in April this year. Moscow regarded this, as well as the intentions of Sweden, which has not yet joined the bloc, as a destabilizing factor on Russia’s western borders. Earlier, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the armed forces would strengthen the group in the region through the creation of the Leningrad and Moscow military districts.




Sunday, October 29, 2023

Is Turkey preparing to invade Gaza and then Israel? Talking Turkey - Understanding Erdogan's ambition and his distain for Ataturk

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Erdogan at pro-Hamas rally: ‘We can come at any night

unexpectedly,’ crowd chants, ‘Turkish military to Gaza’


Many years ago I accused Recep Tayyip Erdogan of having the ambition of rebuilding the Ottoman Empire with himself as Sultan. I have had no reason to doubt that accusation since. Erdogan hates the mainly secular society he inherited and is looking for an opportunity to advance his ambitions. He has found support from Azerbaijan as they have cleaned the Christians out of Nagorno-Karabakh, and he sees the Hamas War as an opportunity to rid the Middle East of Jews. 

Today, he threatened Israel with invasion. 

Bible prophecy describes an apocalyptic war of many nations against tiny Israel. It will be led by a country from the north, usually considered to be Russia. However, some scholars believe it to be Turkey. The 'many nations' that support the invasion are probably all Muslim countries. Erdogan's ambition will wreck itself on the hills of Israel, but not without much damage.



OCT 29, 2023 9:30 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER




An empty threat? Probably, but not necessarily. Erdogan has made no secret of his expansionist designs for years. Still, while the Turks may be eager to join the fight, the Arabs might not be so happy to see them. Memories of Turkish rule in the area are not pleasant.





Erdogan challenges Ataturk's secular legacy as Turkish republic turns 100


President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will mark Turkey's centenary Sunday by

 honouring the post-Ottoman republic's revered founder,

while chipping away at the foundation of his secular state.


Issued on: 26/10/2023 - 07:31
Modified: 26/10/2023 - 07:29
France24,  4 min

Turkish Presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish republic,
are the two seminal figures of post-Ottoman Turkey. © Adem Altan, AFP

By: NEWS WIRES

Erdogan and World War I-era military commander Mustafa Kemal Ataturk have become the seminal figures of modern Turkey, their contrasting styles and visions defining the shape of society and the country's place in the world.

Dubbed "reis" ("chief") by supporters, Erdogan is now Turkey's longest-serving leader, overseeing a massive modernisation drive that has sustained his popularity in poorer and more religiously conservative provinces since 2003.

Meaning the "father of all Turks", the surname Ataturk was bestowed on Mustafa Kemal by Turkey's parliament after the field marshal drove out foreign armies and built a new, staunchly secular republic from the Ottoman Empire's ruins.

Now, Erdogan is walking a fine line between paying respects to the man who created the country, and building his own legacy – one that critics fear is pulling Turkey back into its Ottoman past.

He peppers his speeches with proclamations about a new "Century of Turkey", which could include a revised constitution that protects women's right to stay veiled in public and defines marriage as a union between a man and woman.

State television is also rolling back coverage of the celebrations, citing Israel's war with Gaza militants.

A lack of foreign guests at Turkey's big birthday bash is adding to a sense of this being one party that Erdogan would prefer to skip.

Erdogan "didn't really want to celebrate the republic," said Soli Ozel, a professor of Istanbul's Kadir Has University.

"People are unhappy. Nothing has been done to create a festive atmosphere."

'Climate of fear'


Ataturk's lasting importance in Turkey is difficult to overstate, making any attempts by Erdogan to eclipse him particularly sensitive.

Historian, researcher and writer Ekrem Isin said Ataturk is still viewed by a vast strata of society as a liberator who both defended Turks from World War I invaders and ended the religious conservatism of sultans' rule.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has chipped away at many of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's secular reforms.
© Adem Altan, AFP


"Think of a people who had spent 600 years under dynastic rule," Isin said.

"Anyone who raised his head a little was hit with a stick. There was a climate of fear."

The new, secular and Europe-oriented republic formed by Ataturk allowed people "to stand on their own feet, granting them rights that they did not even ask for".

Some of the most sensitive reforms involved the stripping of religion from most facets of public life in the overwhelming Muslim state.

Political Islam



This may be exemplified best by the fate of Istanbul's Hagia Sophia, an ancient cathedral that the Ottomans converted into a mosque.

Built in the early centuries of Christianity, the Hagia Sophia was not only the largest building in the world, but was the centre of Orthodox Christianity for more than a thousand years. Ataturk treated the building with some respect, but Erdogan turned it into a mosque and preached from the pulpit himself.

For me, this was an abomination. Was it also such for God? Was this the fulfillment of the warning of the End Times given in Matthew 24:15,16 -  “So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains."

Is the Hagia Sophia the Holy Place? It seems that it was for more than a millenia. What other building can compare with such.


Ataturk turned the UNESCO-protected building – once the seat of Eastern Christianity – into a museum, bestowing it a religious neutrality that underscored his vision of modern "Turkishness".

Erdogan converted the Hagia Sophia back into a mosque in 2020, drawing international indignation and criticism from his secular rivals.

"Erdogan is very much interested in putting his mark in every important policy matter," said Berk Esen, an associate professor at Istanbul's Sabanci University.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants women's right to stay veiled in public enshrined into law.
© Ozan Kose, AFP


"I think Erdogan has anti-secularism in his veins," added political analyst and columnist Barcin Yinanc.

"Political Islam has a problem with secularism and the republic," she said.

"We are entering the second century of the republic with a government that is not at peace with the republic. Perhaps it does this consciously, because it feeds on polarisation."

Erdogan's underlying message Sunday, when he is due to deliver prepared remarks, will be that "he has done more in 20 years than was done in 100 years," Yinanc said.

'No excitement'


Sunday's celebration will still include a drone show over the Bosphorus and fireworks in Turkey's main cities.

The drones' inclusion is a tacit nod to the technological innovations being spearheaded by the Baykar company, founded by the president's popular son-in-law Selcuk Bayraktar.

The festivities could also be partially overshadowed by a million-strong rally in defence of Palestinian rights that Erdogan's AKP party has scheduled for Saturday in Istanbul.

"He could have organised this meeting for next week. This anniversary only comes once in a century," Kadir Has University's Ozel said.

"Our government is an (AKP) party government that has always opposed the republican project."


Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's honorary surname means the 'father of all Turks'. © Adem Altan, AFP


Turkey's TRT state broadcaster is also cancelling concerts and other entertainment broadcasts for the event, citing "the alarming human tragedy in Gaza".

The historian Isin said festive marching band parades would always commemorate October 29 in his youth.

This time, it will be "an unpleasant celebration with no atmosphere of excitement," Isin said.

(AFP)



Saturday, October 28, 2023

Islam - America > Antisemitism taught in Colorado; Antisemitism encouraged at UC Berkeley; NYC children terrorized by antisemites

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Colorado Imam Teaches Children At Mosque: Jews Cannot Be Trusted; 

Allah Turned Jewish Fishermen Into Monkeys; 

The Jews Killed Their Prophets, Tried To Kill Jesus


MEMRI, October 22, 2023:

An imam delivered an Islamic lesson to children at the Colorado Muslims Community Center (CMCC) on October 22, 2023, describing the “characteristics” of the Jews. Although the imam was not identified, comparison with other videos suggests it is Umar Mitchell, the imam of Masjid Umar Ibn Al-Khattab in Aurora, Colorado. 



The imam said that the Jews lie and break their contracts and covenants, and that they killed their prophets and even tried to kill Jesus. He recounted the story of Jewish fishermen who were turned by Allah into “literal physical monkeys” for fishing on Saturday. He said that Israel keeps defeating the Palestinians because the Jews trick them into trusting them

Those monkeys can be really tricky, or those Muslims must be really stupid.

The imam added: “It is not hate speech for you to be aware of these things.” He said that not every single Jew is like this – but that “a couple of them” are not. 

The lesson was livestreamed on various social media platforms, including that of the Colorado Muslims Community Center, SAFA USA, Al-Minhaal Academy, Authentic Ilm Mission, and Karim AbuZaid, who delivered a Friday sermon at the Colorado Muslims Community Center. The lesson was presumably delivered as part of the Taqwa Academy weekend school located at the CMCC.

Umar Mitchell: “[Descending] from the Israelites is what group that we know today? Israel – who do you call today? The Yahud. Who are the Yahud in English terms? Jews.

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“They were given covenants, promises, and agreements that they were supposed to follow. What did they do every single time? They don’t obey. They break their covenant. They lie and break their contract.

[…]

“So I’m going to ask you: If this is the group of people who broke their rules with Allah, should you trust these people today?”

Children: “No!”

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Mitchell: “The Israelites were sent many, many messengers and prophets. They killed some of them. They even tried to kill Jesus.

[…]

“If that wasn’t all bad enough, Allah had given them one day that they don’t do any business. What day was that? For the Jews, what is their day they don’t do anything – just devote it to worship? What day is it? Saturday. So the people were prevented from doing business. So there’s a group of fishermen… Who knows this story? You guys don’t know the story about the fishermen who were not supposed to fish on Saturday? In the Baqara Chapter of the Quran, they are told not to fish, so they say: ‘You know what, we’ll cast our nets on Friday, we’ll leave the nets out there all Saturday, we’ll do our worship – everything is good – then come Sunday, we’re going to eat.’ Does this sound like good worshippers?”

Children: “No.”

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Mitchell: “So what did they do? They went fishing and cast their nets. And they said: ‘We’re not fishing. Our nets are fishing, but we’re not fishing.’ What did Allah do to them as a punishment? Yes? Yes. He made them into monkeys. Literal physical monkeys. Monkeys. Does this sound like a people you want to do business with?”

Children: “No!”

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Mitchell: “What is one of the most major reasons why we keep losing in Palestine?

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“Why do they keep destroying them? No… Because they keep tricking us to trust them.

[…]

“Allah reminds you about nations that came before [Islam], and He reminds you about some nations that still are, and He tells you about their characteristics for two things: One, so that you don’t be like them, and two, so that you be aware of them. It’s important for you guys to know this.”

“Who has been watching the news? Who has been watching what Israelis are saying about you?

[…]

“They are calling anybody who disagrees with Israel a terrorist.

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“They are calling what’s happened to them [on October 7] a ‘holocaust.’ They are comparing our brothers and sisters [who are] being murdered to Nazis, to Adolf Hitler.”

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“We Have To Know And Understand Who These People Are”; “It’s Not Hate Speech For You To Be Aware Of These Things”

“We have to know and understand who these people are, so that we stop falling victim to them time and time again.

[…]

“It’s not hate speech for you to be aware of these things. Allah says: ‘Except for a small [group] about them.’ Are we saying every single one of them is like this? No. Except for a little bit from them. Except for a couple of them.”




Students can get extra credit for attending Palestinian march

says UC Berkeley


by Ben Clerkin, The JC, October 25, 2023:

UC Berkeley has endorsed an academic’s plan to offer extra credits to students who attend an anti-Israel protest or watch an anti-Israel documentary.



Outrage engulfed the Ivy League college after graduate student Victoria Huynh emailed students on her course, Asian American Communities and Race Relations, about the scheme.

The email contained a poster for the “National walkout against genocide, settler-colonialism and the siege of Gaza”. It showed a young man holding a slingshot and a Palestinian flag in the ruins of Gaza.

Huynh wrote: “Hi everyone, we’re offering a field trip and/or extra credit opportunity.

“Students can attend the national student walkout tomorrow against the settler-colonial occupation of Gaza OR

“Students can watch a short documentary on Palestine and call/email your local California representative.

“Doing so will either count as a field trip or an extra 5 points on the field trip category of your grade.”…

Someone needs to be fired!




Hateful teen shouts ‘I will kill you, Jew’ at 9-y/o boy at NYC playground


by Joe Marino and David Propper, New York Post, October 26, 2023:

A hateful teen threatened a young boy with a knife and yelled “I will kill you, Jew” in the latest antisemitic attack in the Big Apple, police and law enforcement sources said.


The sickening scene unfolded at a playground at KIPP AMP Middle School and MS 354 Monday evening in Crown Heights, according to the NYPD and the victim’s mother, who said her daughter was also targeted in the attack.

“My kids were shaking, they were crying,” Chaya Sundroy, who came to the US from Israel 10 years ago, said. “They asked why – we didn’t do nothing to him, why they say that, why they want to killed us. They were really, really scared about it.”

Police and sources said the man also screamed “Heil Hitler” at the boy, but Sundroy, who was at the park with her six children, said that was actually directed at her daughter.

During the attack, several people also shouted “Allah Akbar” in front of the children, according to Sundroy and police sources.

The initial attack occurred shortly after the family arrived at the park around 6 p.m., according to Sundroy.

The mother tried looking for the unknown man who spewed the hatred, but couldn’t find him. Soon after, a group of people showed up and directed another antisemitic comment at her daughter, she said.

One of the suspects flashed a knife during the attack, according to police and the mother.

“When the guy took out the knife I saw it,” she said. “It was very close to me. I saw it and heard it.”

The group fled after police were called to the scene. No one was injured, police said.

Cops said they are seeking one suspect and looking into the case as a “possible biased incident.”

Just a remote possibility, I guess. Good grief!



Thursday, October 26, 2023

Islam - Europe > Migrants cause explosion in Greek crime rates; Muslim beheaded 2 gay men - was not radicalized, apparently; Terrorist murders pensioner, UK

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Greece suffers crime explosion, and 55% of prisoners are migrants


OCT 25, 2023 9:30 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER

The Qur’an teaches that non-Muslims are the “most vile of created beings” (98:6) and that Muslims are the “best of people” (3:110). Did anyone really expect that the best of people would adopt the laws and mores of the most vile of created beings?



Crime explosion in Greece – 55% of prisoners are migrants


Greek City Times, October 25, 2023:

One of the biggest problems facing Greek society today is crime. Its increase in recent years is significant. Despite the long-winded announcements and plans we hear occasionally from the Ministry of Citizen Protection, the situation needs to improve.

Hundreds of thousands of migrants reside illegally in Greece, and in public opinion, there is a view that they are responsible for the increase in crime and that they are the perpetrators of most crimes.

But is it so, or is it a false impression?

We looked for official information from Ministries and the Hellenic Republic that gave answers.

Indeed, we found quite interesting data regarding the number of migrants committing crimes from 1998 to 2012, the participation of migrants in so-called “serious” crimes, and the number of migrants arrested for various crimes in 2022.

The numbers are relentless and revealing. But let’s not forget that in addition to migrants “arrested” for various crimes, there are also those who have not been arrested…

Also, migrants make up about 10% of the total population of Greece, at least according to the most recent data. According to official data quoted by Proto Thema, more than 55% of the prisoners in Greek prisons are migrants

But let’s see more details about the number of criminal migrants in our country and their nationalities.


From 6,094 in 1998, over 20,000 migrants perpetrators of crimes in 2012


The first and most interesting data we cite comes from 2013.

On 31/01/2013, the then Minister of Public Order and Citizen Protection, Nikos Dendias, in response to a question by the Member of Parliament Ilias Panagiotarou on the criminality of migrants, cited data from the Directorate of Public Security of the Hellenic Police Headquarters from 1998 (when statistics began) to 2012.

In 1998, the number of migrants perpetrators of crimes was 6,094. Their number slowly increased until 2010, when it skyrocketed to 27,016.

In 2012, it “fell” to 20,065. Be that as it may, we are talking about a tripling of migrants criminals in 15 years. If we look at the nationalities of the above, we find that the Albanians consistently hold the primaries.

The rapid increase in Pakistanis committing criminal acts is impressive. From 57 perpetrators of crimes in 1998, they exceeded 2,000 in 2009, reaching 2,612 in 2010….




Ireland: Cops say Muslim migrant who beheaded two

homosexual men ‘wasn’t radicalized’


OCT 26, 2023 12:30 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER

Maybe he wasn’t, but why did he behead his victims, which accord with the dictum “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (Qur’an 47:4)?

A hadith depicts Muhammad specifying the punishment for homosexual activity: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, ‘Whoever you find doing the action of the people of Loot, execute the one who does it and the one to whom it is done.’” (Sunan Abu Dawud 4462)




The story of Yousef Palani: A homophobic killer who sickened the nation


by Sorcha Crowley, Irish Examiner, October 24, 2023:


Described as “giddy” and “daft”, nobody thought Yousef Palani could murder and maim. And yet he did.

His gruesome murder and beheading of two gay men in Sligo last year, for which he was handed down two life sentences, has shocked and sickened a nation.

It was the worst homophobic attack in the history of the State.

Palani’s decision to plead guilty, to first stabbing Anthony Burke and then murdering Aidan Moffitt and Michael Snee, at least saved their families from having to sit through what would have been undoubtedly a traumatic trial.

Some suspect his decision was self-serving, and not made out of any consideration for his victims or their families.

Perhaps it was the weight of damning evidence against him. The prosecution’s book of evidence was so big it had to go to the printing section of Garda Headquarters in Phoenix Park.

The sentencing of the 23-year-old heard he was motivated by his hatred of and prejudice towards homosexual men.

The second eldest of eight children of an Iraqi-Kurdish family, Palani came to Ireland in 2006 under a UN protection programme when he was six years old. The family was provided with accommodation by the State in Sligo….

“It’s not that they were causing trouble all the time, but they would intimidate us subtly,” said one neighbour, speaking to this newspaper on condition of anonymity….

There are five different motives attributed to spree killings: anger/revenge, ideological reasons, desperation, mental illness or thrill.

Investigators were satisfied he wasn’t radicalised. He was driven by “hostility and prejudice” towards gay men. He denied being gay himself.

Of course, hostility and prejudice against homosexuality is obvious in Islamic scriptures. Was it just a spectacular coincidence that he followed scripture?

The Irish Council of Imams condemned the killings at the time, saying that “murder is a horrific crime that cannot be justified by any means irrespective of the alleged motive or the identity of the perpetrator. Islam values and cherishes human life.”

Islam values and cherishes human life - yes, we can see that in Israel and Gaza right now.




Moroccan asylum seeker charged with murdering pensioner

‘motivated by terrorism’, court told


by Martin Evans, Telegraph, October 19, 2023:




Police believe a Moroccan asylum seeker charged with murdering a pensioner in Hartlepool was motivated by terrorism, a court has been told.

Ahmed Ali Alid, 44, is accused of stabbing to death Terence Carney, 70, in the early hours of Sunday morning and also attempting to murder fellow asylum seeker, Javed Nouri, at the hostel where he was living….

Speaking through an Arabic translator, when he was asked to confirm his name, he replied: “I am sick. I cannot talk. I am very ill, I cannot talk.”…

The prosecutor went on: “While the investigation remains at an early stage, the police at this time consider the offending to be motivated by terrorism.”



Corruption is Everywhere > Did the FBI and the DoJ cover up dozens of accusations of corruption by the Bidens? Money Laundering is Oz

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Dozens of FBI sources gave ‘criminal information’ on Bidens

that DOJ tried to discredit as ‘foreign disinformation’: Grassley


By Victor Nava, NYPost
Published Oct. 25, 2023, 6:38 p.m. ET



More than 40 confidential sources provided “criminal information” related to the Biden family to the FBI — which the Justice Department tried to discredit as “foreign disinformation,” according to Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley.

The confidential human sources, managed by several different FBI field offices, supplied the bureau with details of potential crimes by Hunter Biden, James Biden and Joe Biden dating back to his time as vice president, according to a letter, obtained by The Post, that was sent by the Iowa Republican to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday. 

“This letter is based on years of investigation, including the provision of information, records, and allegations from multiple Justice Department whistleblowers that indicate there is – and has been –  an effort among certain Justice Department and FBI officials to improperly delay and stop full and complete investigative activity into the Biden family,” Grassley wrote. 

“An essential question that must be answered is this: did the FBI investigate the information or shut it down? Indeed, if those sources were improperly shut down, it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for the FBI,” he added. 

“Based on the information provided to my office over a period of years by multiple credible whistleblowers, there appears to be an effort within the Justice Department and FBI to shut down investigative activity relating to the Biden family,” Grassley continued. “Such decisions point to significant political bias infecting the decision-making of not only the Attorney General and FBI Director, but also line agents and prosecutors.”

The senator notes whistleblower allegations claimed that the bureau received information about first son Hunter Biden’s “criminal financial and related activity” in 2020, but “ultimately shut it down based on false assertions that it was subject to foreign disinformation.” 

The disinformation assessment was created by FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten, according to Grassley, who explains that the report was used by ”an FBI HQ team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease.”

“The precise basis for how the FBI HQ team selected the specific information for inclusion in Auten’s assessment is unknown, but the focus of the FBI HQ team’s attention involved derogatory information about Hunter Biden and Joe Biden,” Grassley wrote. 

Grassley also citeed whistleblower claims that FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Tim Thibault – the bureau’s “point man” on Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski – ordered that another 2020 probe into the first son’s alleged “criminal financial and related activity” be closed after pressure from “an FBI HQ and FBI Baltimore element.” 

The senator further revealed that in December 2019, the FBI Washington Field Office closed a “205B” kleptocracy case into Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings – at the same time Hunter Biden’s seat on Burisma’s board of directors was under heavy scrutiny as a result of former President Donald Trump’s impeachment over his infamous phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. 

Trump had asked Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden’s role in the firing of former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.

The probe into Zlochevsky had been ongoing since January 2016, according to Grassley, and was being investigated by a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act squad based out of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.

An FBI informant alleged in June 2020 that Zlochevsky described a $10 million bribery allegation against Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, which was memorialized in an FBI FD-1023 form. 

The informant recalled Zlochevsky claiming during a 2016 meeting that “it cost 5 [million] to pay one Biden, and 5 [million] to another Biden,” according to the redacted FD-1023 form.

After the kleptocracy case into Zlochevsky was closed, Grassley says, a “guardian” assessment was opened by the FBI’s Pittsburgh Field Office to analyze information about the Biden family provided by Rudy Giuliani, during which DOJ and FBI officials located an FD-1023 from March 2017 related to the closed Zlochevsky probe. 

The 2017 document contained a reference to Hunter Biden being on the board of Burisma, which “the handling agent deemed at the time non-relevant information to the ongoing criminal financial case,” according to Grassley. 

“When that FD-1023 was discovered, Justice Department and FBI officials asked the handler for the Confidential Human Source to re-interview that CHS,” Grassley writes, noting that the re-interview led to the creation of the June 2020 FD-1023 containing the bribery allegations against the Bidens. 

During the guardian assessment, run out of the FBI Pittsburgh Field Office, investigators were “limited in their investigative abilities,” according to Grassley, because it was only an “assessment.” 

The Iowan claims that Auten and the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force worked to “falsely discredit” the bribery allegations in August 2020 as “foreign disinformation” and  “attempted to shut down” further investigative steps. 

“It should be emphasized that the basis for trying to shut down the Biden family 1023 has been described to my office as highly suspect and is contradicted by other documents my office has been told exist within the Foreign Influence Task Force, FBI Seattle Field Office, FBI Baltimore Field Office, and FBI HQ holdings,” Grassley notes.

The Pittsburgh assessment was closed in September 2020 with its findings sent to the Justice Department by Scott Brady, then the US Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Brady’s report recommended that “additional investigative activity be done” on Biden bribery allegations.

“Notably, my office has been informed that, with respect to the CHS in the Biden family 1023, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania coordinated with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York in 2020 and found no hits to known sources of Russian disinformation,” Grassley wrote, adding that the information was transmitted to Delaware US Attorney David Weiss – the prosecutor overseeing the DOJ’s five-year-long criminal probe into Hunter Biden, which is ongoing. 

Grassley demanded a response to his letter from the FBI and DOJ by Nov. 17.

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This kind of gives you a new take on an old theme - Chinese Laundry



Australian Police charge 7 in money laundering scheme

for Chinese crime syndicate

By Clyde Hughes
 
Australian Federal Police officer watches a vehicle being towed way in Kew, Australia on Thursday
after arrests were made in a money laundering case. Photo by Australian Federal Police


Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Australian Federal Police on Thursday charged seven people for their involvement in a secret illegal billion-dollar money laundering enterprise.

Four Chinese nationals and three Australians were charged for their alleged involvement in the scheme to launder more than $145 million over the past three years and are set to appear in Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Thursday.

The AFP claimed the Changjiang Currency Exchange was run by the Long River money laundering crime syndicate, which laundered money acquired through cyber-enabled scams, trafficking of illicit goods and violent crimes.

AFP Eastern Command Assistant Commissioner Stephen Dametto said the syndicate allegedly purchased false passports for $126,000 each, which could have enabled members to flee the country in the event law enforcement agencies became suspicious.

"The AFP will allege the Changjiang Currency Exchange was able to hide its illegal behavior because it looked like a legitimate and lawful money remitter," Dametto said.

"The reason why this investigation was so unique and complex was that this alleged syndicate was operating in plain sight with shiny shopfronts across the country -- it was not operating in the shadows like other money laundering organizations."

The exchange has 12 shop fronts throughout Australia's mainland and is now subject to regulatory action.

Dametto said one of the tipoffs about the operation came during the COVID-19 pandemic when the Changjiang Currency Exchange appeared to be doing robust business despite global travel bans and lockdowns of many businesses.

Greed can make you really stupid!

"[The AFP] noticed Changjiang Currency Exchange opened and updated new and existing shopfronts in the heart of Sydney," Dametto said. "It was just a gut feeling. It didn't feel right. Many international students and tourists had returned home, and there was no apparent business case for Changjiang Currency Exchange to expand."

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