UK: Muslim teen accused of aiding al-Qaeda
gets harsh punishment: limited PlayStation use
Teen Accused of Helping Al Qaeda Raise Funds in Crypto Faces Limited PlayStation Use as Punishment
by Sebastian Sinclair, GG, October 31, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A 16-year-old from East London, accused of raising crypto and offering cyber expertise to Al Qaeda, has been granted bail with restricted digital access, allowing him to use his PlayStation offline only.
Prosecutors allege the teen, who cannot be named for legal reasons, attempted to raise approximately $1,300 in crypto for extremist groups, including Al Qaeda and the Pakistani Taliban, according to a Wednesday report by The Standard.
Appearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, the teenager pleaded not guilty to five charges, including fundraising for terrorism, providing training, and possessing documents of a nature useful for terror-related purposes.
Under his bail conditions, the boy must adhere to a night-time curfew, avoid social media, and restrict laptop use to educational purposes only.
However, he retains limited use of his PlayStation console, with conditions prohibiting online multiplayer or any interactive gaming platforms….
Wouldn't it be better to stop his PS and laptop use altogether and force him to read some history books?
France: Muslim father goes on trial for spreading lies
that led to jihadi beheading teacher for blasphemy
It’s unlikely that this trial will lead to any discussion of the larger issues involved, concerning the freedom of speech and the extent to which a radically intolerant group can and should be tolerated. Yet that is the discussion that France, and the West in general, needs to have.
French pupil’s father to go on trial for spreading lies that led to teacher’s Islamist beheading
by Kim Willsher, Observer, November 3, 2024:
It was a killing that started with a lie. In October 2020, an Islamist terrorist tracked down and decapitated professor Samuel Paty as he left school on the last day before half-term holidays.
In the days preceding his murder, Paty, 47, who taught geography and history, had been the subject of an intense campaign of online harassment sparked when a 13-year-old student claimed he had discriminated against his Muslim pupils during a class on moral and civic education.
The girl told her father Paty had instructed Muslim students to leave the classroom at the Bois-d’Aulne secondary school at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine in the Paris suburbs while he showed students caricatures of the prophet Muhammad from the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
In truth, the girl was not in Paty’s class that day and had made up the story to cover the fact she had been suspended from school for bad behaviour.
Paty had used the images as part of an ethics class to discuss free speech laws in France and the question of “dilemmas”. He posed the question “to be or not to be Charlie?”, referring to the #JeSuisCharlie hashtag used to express support for the paper after a terrorist attack on its offices in January 2015 that killed 12 people.
But Paty had not ordered any children to leave the room – instead he had told them they could turn away if they thought they would be offended by the images.
The teenager could not have known that the story she told her father would spark a chain of events that would lead an 18-year-old Chechen, Abdoullakh Anzorov, to travel 100km (62 miles) from his home in Normandy to kill the teacher after her furious father posted the lie on social media.
On Monday, the father, Brahim Chnina, will be one of eight adults – seven men and a woman – on trial in connection with the murder. Chnina is accused of association with a terrorist organisation after allegedly launching a social media campaign against Paty, including publishing videos online attacking Paty and designating him as a target by giving precise information about his identity and place of work. Prosecutors say Chnina was in contact with Anzorov nine times before the killing. He has denied the charge….
Germany: Police attacked, 36 criminal investigations
in pro-Hamas protest with
‘outsized dedication to their cause’
Despite Germany’s strict speech control laws, a pro-Hamas march saw “forbidden slogans” chanted and police overwhelmed as glass bottles were thrown at them. The violence of pro-Hamas protests will escalate, since the West still has not woken up to the strength of the Palestinian “cause” (jihad). Their “outsized dedication to their cause” is far greater than the will of Western leaders.
Hamas Political Bureau member and former Minister of the Interior Fathi Hammad stated unequivocally the intention of the Palestinian “resistance” from the River to the Sea. That is, that the Palestinians are “preparing to establish an Islamic caliphate with Jerusalem as its capital.”
The scene in Germany is but a small sample of the Islamic supremacist quest to “globalize the intifada.”
Protestor Tried to Take Police Sidearm at Violent Pro-Palestine Demo
by Oliver JJ Lane, Breitbart, November 4, 2024:
A pro-Palestine march through the Kreuzberg district of Berlin on Saturday may have been small with an estimated 720 attendees, but its attendees apparently had an outsized dedication to their cause, with police attacked and 36 criminal investigations launched.
Local newspaper Berliner Kurier states police officers at the demonstration were attacked, had glass bottles thrown at them, with eight injured through the night. It is stated “forbidden slogans” were chanted several times — Germany has strict speech control laws compared to many western states, a legacy of its 20th century experience — prompting police to exclude 95 from the march altogether for antisemitic statements.
In cases where police arrested protest participants, other marchers attempted to free their compatriots from police custody, Die Welt reports, creating another flashpoint. Eventually, police attempted to shut down the march altogether in the early evening, before its originally stated end time, with many refusing to comply and having to be “pushed and shoved” by officers to get the point across.
Later that evening, around 35 participants of the original protest gathered again and attacked police when told to disperse. One attempted to snatch “an officer’s service weapon”.
Police said in a press conference about the violence on Sunday that they had launched 36 criminal investigations, including “attempted aggravated theft of firearms” — for the would-be pistol snatcher — as well as physical harm, attacks on law officers, aiding and abetting the escape of a prisoner, the use of symbols of unconstitutional and terrorist organisations, and incitement to hatred….
Pro-Palestine protests at Amsterdam
University caused €4.1 million in damages
Pro-Palestine protests, occupations, and barricades at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in May and June caused 4.1 million euros in damage, the university reported on Wednesday.
Protesters occupied three UvA locations in May and June - the Roeterseiland, the Binnengasthuis, and Amsterdam Science Park. They damaged rooms, windows, and doors, erected barricades, and defaced walls. The University also has to replace coffee machines, furniture, and cameras.
But the bulk of the damage comes from delays in the construction of the new university library. According to the university, the financial consequences of the delayed construction amount to 2.8 million euros.
The UvA said it would recover the costs incurred from the perpetrators where it can. “Unfortunately, in this situation, it is not always clear who is responsible for which destruction or consequential damage,” the university said.
