Terrorists and Europe's "Newspeak"
When Is Hate Crime Not Hate Crime?

by Peter Martino • June 2, 2014 at 5:00 am

Britain strips British nationality from immigrants with dual nationality who go to Syria to fight. This act allows British authorities to ban them from re-entering the country. Why don't European countries do the same?

Yvan Mayeur, the Socialist Mayor of Brussels, said that to combat anti-Semitism and racism, his city needed more "diversity." But diversity does not mean diversity. Diversity is the new code word for more Islam.

An image of the terrorist, identified by French police as Mehdi Nemmouche, firing his rifle at the Brussels Jewish Museum, taken from security camera footage.

Yesterday, French police arrested the terrorist accused of murdering three Jews in Brussels, Belgium on the eve of the European elections. The killer, 29-year old French citizen Mehdi Nemmouche, a son of Muslim immigrants, had gone to Syria in 2013, where he joined the rebels against President Bashar al-Assad and was trained as a jihadist.

On Saturday afternoon, May 24, Nemmouche walked into the Jewish Museum in Brussels, armed with a pistol and a Kalashnikov assault rifle. He killed three Jews, including two Israeli tourists, and seriously wounded another, who is still fighting for his life in hospital. Then Nemmouche calmly walked out of the museum.

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Baroness Nicholson and Iran's Iraq

by Samuel Westrop • June 2, 2014 at 4:00 am

Baroness Nicholson's defense of the Iranian regime first became apparent after the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa and the Iranian government's offer of a $2 million bounty to anyone who would murder Salman Rushdie for his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses. At the time, Nicholson said Rushdie's "blasphemy" -- not Iran's order to murder him -- was "intolerable."

"[Iraq is in] one way or another, subject to the control of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its ideas." — Qassem Soleimani, Commander of the Quds Force, a division of Iran's IRGC that conducts operations outside Iran.

Exactly whose interests will Baroness Nicholson be serving? Her pattern of support for the Iranian regime clearly indicates that her appointment should be opposed and that Britain's program of trade envoys must become accountable so that other politicians with connections to extremist groups or despotic regimes will not be appointed to represent Britain's interests.

After the fatwa of Ayatollah Khomeini (right) against Salman Rushdie (center), Baroness Emma Nicholson (left) labelled Rushdie's "blasphemy" as "intolerable".

Why does the British Prime Minister appoint politicians with links to violent regimes as trade envoys?

On January 30, Prime Minister David Cameron selected Baroness Emma Nicholson as Britain's trade envoy to Iraq. Questions have now arisen about the nature of her connections to the Iranian regime, and what, if anything, these connections might mean as a result of her appointment as trade envoy.

Before 2003, Nicholson spent many years highlighting the cruelties of Iraq under its former President, Saddam Hussein. Her charity, the AMAR Foundation, provided support to the Marsh Arabs and other Iraqi victims of Saddam Hussein's regime. Although Baroness Nicholson was a steadfast opponent of Saddam -- and did much to highlight the plight of his regime's victims -- she has repeatedly defended its neighbor, Iran, which has previously provided "considerable help" to Nicholson's AMAR Foundation.

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French Jihadist Arrested For Brussels Jewish Museum Attack

by Soeren Kern • June 2, 2014 at 3:30 am

Still another proposal involves making changes to French law that would enable police to confiscate the passports and seize the assets of suspected would-be jihadists, and to deport those foreigners found to be recruiting jihadists in France.

However, Hollande's anti-radicalization might turn out to be a case of too little too late.

A French former jihadist in Syria has been arrested over the fatal shooting of three people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels on May 24.

The arrest, announced by French and Belgian prosecutors during simultaneous news conferences in Paris and Brussels on June 1, confirms the worst fears about the security threat posed by battle-hardened European jihadists returning from the fighting in Syria.

Western security officials estimate that up to 2,000 Europeans—including 800 from France and 200 from Belgium—have traveled to Syria in the hopes of overthrowing the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and replacing it with an Islamic state.

Mehdi Nemmouche, a 29-year-old French national from the northern town of Roubaix, was arrested at the Saint-Charles train and bus station in Marseille on May 30 during a random search for illegal drugs. He was a passenger on an overnight bus that was travelling from Amsterdam to Marseille via Brussels.

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