Islam and violence – Page 229

Prevent accused of treating Islamic terrorism like a mental illness rather than a threat in official report

Islamic extremists are being treated as victims rather than the public being protected from the threat they pose, an official review into the Government’s anti-radicalisation programme will warn.

The report into Prevent, due to be published on Wednesday, is expected to find that officials have been too focused on addressing the “personal vulnerabilities” of extremists, with terrorism treated as a mental illness.

William Shawcross, the review author and former chairman of the Charity Commission, is set to say this “mischaracterisation” of radicalisation has meant officials have failed to tackle the ideological beliefs behind Islamist extremism with “potentially serious consequences”.

by Blazingcatfur•February 7, 2023February 6, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Germany: Train and Station Knife Attacks More Than Doubled in 2022

The number of criminal offenses, including violent knife attacks and sexual assaults, rose considerably on trains and at train stations in Germany over the past year. Official government figures reveal that incidents involving knife attacks more than doubled compared to the previous year.

While the federal police registered 398,848 criminal offenses on trains and at train stations in 2022, an uptick of roughly 12% compared to the previous year, 336 knife attacks—82 on trains and 254 at train stations—were recorded, representing an increase of 102% year over year, the Hamburg-based newspaper Der Spiegel reports.

According to the statistics collected by the federal police last year, 71 suspects were investigated for violent crimes involving the use of knives on trains, 36 of whom were classified as “non-Germans”—just over 50%. In the previous year, that figure was six of 25, or 24%.

by Blazingcatfur•February 6, 2023February 6, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Ilhan Omar sponsors bill condemning antisemitic tropes she promoted

The resolution is called “Recognizing Israel as America’s Legitimate and Democratic Ally and Condemning Antisemitism,” and its cosponsors are a who’s-who of the pro-Israel Democrats, including leading Jewish lawmakers.

Also on the sponsor list: Rep. Ilhan Omar, who has been one of Israel’s harshest critics in Congress and who Republicans on Thursday kicked off the Foreign Affairs Committee over her history of anti-Israel and antisemitic comments.

by Blazingcatfur•February 6, 2023February 5, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Just Deserts for Ilhan Omar

“I declare herewith once more and most emphatically that the guilt of the German people in this war — into which they were forced by you — consists solely in trying to end the eternal difficulties to their national existence, which you artfully instigated and continued.”

Hermann Göring wrote these words to Winston Churchill just a few days before his death sentence for crimes against humanity was to be executed.

by Blazingcatfur•February 5, 2023February 5, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Sweden hits out at ‘disinformation’ on Mohammedan child kidnappings

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Swedish government again sought Friday to discredit claims that Swedish social service agencies kidnap Muslim children, saying Sweden was again seeing a “systematized” and “extensive” disinformation campaign.

“This campaign has now gained momentum again,” said Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.

“This is false. This is not true. Sweden does not kidnap children. The social services do not kidnap children,” Kristersson told a press conference. ”Neither Muslim nor other children.”

He said that social workers and other employees are being “exposed on social media and are being threatened.”

Seriously they’d be doing the poor kids a favour.

by Blazingcatfur•February 5, 2023February 4, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Sweden

Iran behind hack of French magazine Charlie Hebdo, Microsoft says

An Iranian government-backed hacking team allegedly stole and leaked private customer data belonging to French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, security researchers at Microsoft said on Friday.

The magazine was hacked in early January after it published a series of cartoons that negatively depicted Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. The caricatures were part of a media campaign that Charlie Hebdo said was intended to support anti-government protests in the Islamic nation.

by Blazingcatfur•February 5, 2023February 4, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Charlie Hebdo, France, Iran, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Quebeckers expose Trudeau’s anti-racism performance art

By standing up to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Quebeckers have exposed a striking truth: modern race politics in Canada is mostly elitist performance art.

This week, in an effort to quell the uproar caused by his appointment of Amira Elghawaby as the government’s special representative on combating Islamophobia, the Prime Minister declared that “Quebecers are not racists.” He went on to explain, “Quebecers are among the people who are the strongest defenders of individual rights and freedoms, along with a lot of other Canadians.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 5, 2023February 4, 2023•0•"Identity Politics", "Islamophobia", Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

The entrenchment of Western Jew-hatred

As the culture hurtles towards the precipice, Diaspora Jews are like rabbits caught in the headlights.

In Britain’s House of Commons this week, MP Kim Johnson launched an attack on the “fascist Israeli government” and its “apartheid” policies.

Johnson is a Labour Party MP. You know, the same Labour Party whose current moderate leader, Sir Keir Starmer, has reputedly cleansed it of the Jew-hatred that exploded under its previous hard-left leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Following Johnson’s remarks, the Labour leadership leapt into immediate action. Within hours, Johnson was ordered to make a groveling apology.

by Blazingcatfur•February 5, 2023February 4, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Anti-Semitism, Anti-Semitism and the Left, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Leon de Winter:’In 2048 the last Jews will leave Europe’

“It’s over,” said the late Hebrew U. antisemitism expert Robert Wistrich. “It’s a slow death.” It is actually speeding up.

“With the number of Jews plummeting from 3,000 to 600 in just a few years, the Swedish city of Malmö is the barometer of the slow demise of European Jews after the Holocaust,” wrote the late great Holocaust historian Robert Wistrich.

He continued: “It is not for nothing that former European Commissioner Frits Bolkestein advised the Jewish community of Holland to emigrate to avoid harassment by young Muslim fanatics. The prospects in Belgium and Norway are no better. The verdict is on the wall, for anyone with eyes to see. The reward for Europe’s regrettable and cowardly appeasement of Islamism will, however, be short-lived. Because bowing down and willful blindness come at a high cost in the long run. Muslims will eventually take their revenge on a European society that the most fanatical among them already loathe.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 4, 2023February 4, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and hatred of Israel, Islam and hatred of Jews, Islam and the Left, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Justin Trudeau’s anti-Islamophobia disaster reveals a government dangerously out of touch with voters

MONTREAL—By appointing Amira Elghawaby as his lead representative on the Islamophobia file, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has thrown the equivalent of a political grenade into his Quebec trenches.

The damage to his party and to the cause she is tasked with advancing could be consequential.

Here is an early assessment.

At week’s end, Elghawaby’s appointment had been disavowed by most of the leading figures of Quebec’s political class.

by Blazingcatfur•February 4, 2023February 4, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's 5th Column, Islam's incompatibility with Western values, Islam's Useful Idiot Apologists, Islamization of the West

Jihadi Jack’s Mom Writes Book To Drum Up Sympathy For Idiot Convert Son

‘I’m putting all my secrets out there’ With new book, mother of so-called Jihadi Jack seeks redemption for her son

The last nine years of Sally Lane’s life have been a cascade of crushing disappointments.

In 2014, her son, Jack Letts, a British-born Muslim convert, travelled to the Middle East to study his faith. His quest led him astray, to Syria and Iraq, the lands controlled by the Islamic State terrorist group.

Lane sent her son, who has Canadian citizenship, the money he sought to escape the war-ravaged territory only to be charged and convicted along with her husband, under U.K. terrorism financing laws in 2019.

She sought out allies to help Letts only to have them turn up as prosecution witnesses against her.

by Blazingcatfur•February 4, 2023February 4, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Shamima Begum: ‘I’m ashamed of myself. I made excuses’

For more than a year, I’ve been coming to sit in the same featureless, white, air-conditioned room. Cheap, stiff, bulky armchairs are positioned against the walls. In the centre is a long glass coffee table covered in refreshments – everything from bottled water to those fruit juices that contain enough sugar to dissolve your teeth. The room is in a Syrian detention camp. And it’s where I meet Shamima Begum for the ten-part BBC investigative podcast and feature documentary, The Shamima Begum Story.

by Blazingcatfur•February 4, 2023February 3, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

Man convicted of repeatedly raping 4 and 9-yr-old girls cries foul when judge gives him meager 180 days in jail

Mohamed Bakari Shei enjoys raping children

The public is in an uproar over news that a convicted 20-year-old Rochester, Minnesota rapist must serve only 180 days in jail for raping two young girls when he was around 16 years old.

One of convicted rapist Mohamed Bakari Shei’s victims was reportedly nine years old, while the other was four or five at the time.

by Blazingcatfur•February 4, 2023February 3, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

André Pratte: Did no one vet anti-Islamophobia rep’s past?

We were told by the Prime Minister’s Office that Amira Elghawaby was appointed as Canada’s first Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia “following an open, transparent, and merit-based selection process.” It is beyond my comprehension how such a process would not have involved a simple web search to see whether Elghawaby had said or written something that could be embarrassing for the government or her, or both. For instance, writings that would have revealed a simplistic view of Islamophobia in Québec?

by Blazingcatfur•February 4, 2023February 3, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

The Spanish Samuel Paty

What would it take for Spain—or any society, for that matter—to reassess the scale at which it welcomes immigrants from Muslim-majority countries? Not that such a reassessment would necessarily make a practical difference, since most such immigrants (primarily from neighboring Morocco in Spain’s case) file asylum claims underwritten by EU protocols over which the member states have entirely given up their sovereignty. Though such claims are often long shots, the mere act of filing one immediately shields the applicant from deportation pending a judge’s ruling on whether to grant or deny it. Those immigrants who come in a plainly illegal manner, meanwhile, or those who overstay the denial of their claim, are admittedly a population which, if public opinion supported such a move, the state could more swiftly deport than it currently is.

by Blazingcatfur•February 4, 2023February 3, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Spain