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Migrant Rape
Epidemic Reaches Austria
by Soeren Kern
• May 5, 2016 at 5:00 am
Left: The area around Praterstern train station in Vienna
is overrun by shiftless migrants from Afghanistan and North Africa who are
selling drugs, fighting turf battles and assaulting female passersby. Police
were dispatched to the area 6,265 times in 2015. Right: The left-leaning
magazine Falter was accused of "blanket discrimination"
against Muslims, after it ran a cover with a drawing of five "light
skinned" European women surrounded by large numbers of "dark
skinned" Arab males. The image evoked the mass sexual assaults in
Cologne on New Year's Eve.
The brutal gang rape of a woman by three Afghan asylum seekers in
central Vienna on April 22 has shocked the Austrian public and drawn
attention to a spike in migrant-related rapes, sexual assaults and other
crimes across the country.
The migrant crime wave comes as the anti-immigrant Freedom Party of
Austria (FPÖ) has surged in opinion polls. The party's candidate, Norbert
Hofer, won the first round of Austria's presidential elections on April 24,
and is on track to win the presidency in the second round, run-off
election scheduled for May 22.
The three Afghans — two 16-year-olds and one 17-year-old — followed the
woman, a 21-year-old exchange student, into a public restroom at the
Praterstern train station, one of the main transportation hubs in Vienna. One
of the migrants held the woman down while the other two took turns raping
her.
Iran Comes
Clean on Banking Problems
by Lawrence A. Franklin
• May 5, 2016 at 4:30 am
Central Bank of Iran (CBI) officials have admitted that the regime's own
financial policies, and not the United States, are responsible for some of
the country's banking problems. CBI governor Seif Valiollah admitted recently
that Tehran's failure to reap more economic benefits from the JCPOA agreement
is, at least in part, Iran's own fault.
These revelations by Iran's top banking officials refute charges by
Iranian hardliners that the United States has been orchestrating a toteyeh
bozoorg ("grand conspiracy") to deny Iran access to
international banking networks.
CBI officials and others have detailed the shortcomings of Iran's own
banking system. These CBI statements challenge the skewed comments in the
Iranian press that America's refusal to grant foreign banks access to U.S
financial services is what is responsible for Iran's bank problems. Some of
the negative commentary came from economists disappointed with President
Rouhani's management of the economy.
Should the U.S.
Build an "ISIS Wall"?
by Raymond Ibrahim
• May 5, 2016 at 4:00 am
The Israeli-built border fence between Israel and Egypt,
completed in December 2013, put a complete stop to illegal infiltration from
Egypt into Israel. Before the fence was built, many terrorists, traffickers,
and drug smugglers crossed the border each year. (Image source:
Idobi/Wikimedia Commons)
Of all the reasons a majority of Americans support the plan of
businessman and U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump to "build a
wall" along the U.S.-Mexico border, perhaps the most critical is to
avoid letting terrorists into the country. Drugs enter, the victims of
traffickers enter, but the most imminent danger comes from operatives of the
Islamic State (ISIS) and like-minded groups that are trying to use this
porous border as a way to smuggle weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) into the
United States and launch terror attacks that could make 9/11 seem like a
morning in May.
Just last week, "One of the American men accused in Minnesota of
trying to join the Islamic State group wanted to open up routes from Syria to
the U.S. through Mexico... Guled Ali Omar told the ISIS members about the
route so that it could be used to send members to America to carry out
terrorist attacks, prosecutors alleged in a document."
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