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by Soeren Kern
• October 26, 2016 at 5:00 am
- Despite the
mounting human toll, most of the crimes are still being downplayed
by German authorities and the media, apparently to avoid fueling anti-immigration
sentiments.
- "The
police are not interested in stigmatizing but rather in educating
the public. The impression that we are engaging in censorship is
devastating to the public's confidence in the police. Sharing
information about suspects is also important for developing
prevention strategies. We must be allowed to talk openly about the
problems of this country." — Arnold Plickert, director of the
GdP Police Union in North Rhine-Westphalia.
- "The Press
Council believes that editorial offices in Germany should ultimately
treat their readers like children by depriving them of relevant
information. We think this is wrong because when people realize that
something is being concealed from them, they react with mistrust.
And this mistrust is a hazard." — Tanit Koch, editor-in-chief
of Bild, the most-read newspaper in Germany.
- On October 24,
a YouGov poll found that 68% of Germans believe that security in the
country has deteriorated over the past two or three years. Also, 68%
of respondents said they fear for their lives and property in German
train stations and subways, while 63% feel unsafe at large public
events.
An angry crowd of German protestors in Cologne
repeatedly yell "Where were you New Year's Eve?" at police on
January 9, 2016, referring to the mass sexual attacks perpetrated in the
city by migrants on New Year's Eve, in which more than 450 women were
sexually assaulted in one night.
A group of Serbian teenagers in the northern German city of Hamburg
were handed suspended sentences for gang-raping a 14-year-old girl and
leaving her for dead in sub-zero temperatures.
The judge said that although "the penalties may seem mild to
the public," the teens had all made confessions, appeared remorseful
and longer posed a danger to society.
The October 24 ruling, which effectively allowed the rapists to walk
free, provoked a rare moment of public outrage over the problem of
migrant sex crimes in Germany. An online petition calling for the teens
to see time in prison has garnered more than 80,000 signatures, and
prosecutors are appealing the verdict.
Thousands of women and children have been raped or sexually
assaulted in Germany since Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed into the
country more than one million mostly male migrants from Africa, Asia and
the Middle East.
by Burak Bekdil
• October 26, 2016 at 4:30 am
- Erdogan fights
anyone and anything outside the sphere of his understanding of Sunni
Islamism. His arguments typically reflect an Islamist's angry inner
thoughts, feelings of "defeat against the non-Muslim West"
and a "powerful urge to reverse the world order in favor of
political Islam."
- Erdogan is not
honest even when he insists on a Muslim contingent in the UN
Security Council. He would be angry if the UN, as he passionately
suggests, agreed on a Muslim seat and gave it to Shiite Iran. No, he
wants a Sunni seat.
- That is at the
core of Erdogan's not-so-silent (and never-ending) war with the
West: (Sunni) Muslim nations should be deciding on matters shaping
world politics, not others.
- Erdogan's
Turkey is a solitary nation. It does not belong to Europe, hence its
failure to join the EU. Theoretically it is a NATO ally and a
"strategic partner" of the US. In reality, it is hostile
to Western civilization and the US is only a tactical partner -- as
long as it helps Islamists advance their political ambitions, not a
partner with shared democratic values.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan now insists on
a (Sunni) Muslim contingent in the UN Security Council. Pictured: Erdogan
addresses the UN General Assembly on September 23, 2011. (Image source:
United Nations)
It is true that the worst enemy of Turkey's Islamist President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan is another Islamist who was Erdogan's best political ally
for several years. It is also true that Erdogan, publicly or privately,
feels hostility against a number of Muslim communities in the Middle
East, including secular and Alevi Muslims in Turkey, the Nusairi
(Alawites) in Syria and the Shiite in Iran, Lebanon and Bahrain.
It is not a secret, either, that Erdogan does not admire Jews, to
put it mildly. But essentially, his strict adherence to political Islam
often reveals his war of domination with non-Muslim Western civilization
in a broader context. Erdogan fights anyone and anything outside the
sphere of his understanding of Sunni Islamism.
by Denis MacEoin
• October 26, 2016 at 4:00 am
- The Palestinian
"resistance" is not a struggle to create a Palestinian
state next to the state of Israel.No group or leader within
the "resistance" movement has ever considered that their
goal. Their position is summed up in the slogan chanted by many
students and pro-Palestinian groups, "Palestine will be free,
From the river [Jordan] to the [Mediterranean] sea".
- It is not, in
fact, illegal in the slightest for the Jews to be in a country in
which they have continuously lived for 3000 years. The only title to
the land the Palestinians seem to have is that under the Ottoman
empire, the land had been subject to Muslim governance; and if one
applies Islamic law, rather than common law, any land that has once
been under Muslim control must stay that way forever -- including of
course "el-Andalus," all of southern Spain and Portugal.
- Seamus Milne
added that Palestinians in Gaza have the right to "defend
themselves" and claimed: "It isn't terrorism to fight
back. The terrorism is the killing of citizens by Israel on an
industrial scale." No, the terrorism is the tens of thousands
of rockets and missiles fired from Gaza into Israel for more than a
decade.
- Given that Gaza
had long been unoccupied by anyone at that date and that Israel had
never killed "citizens" on an industrial scale, we can see
something at play totally at odds with reason, fact, and political
knowledge. That something is creeping out from beneath an unpleasant
rock, and that it has a deep connection with anti-Semitism, if it is
not anti-Semitism in its purest modern form.
In 2009, Jeremy Corbyn (left) said: "It will be my
pleasure and my honour to host an event in Parliament where our friends
from Hezbollah will be speaking. I also invited friends from Hamas to
come and speak as well." Pictured in the middle is Hezbollah leader
Hassan Nasrallah. Pictured at right is Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
A central feature of Labour's anti-Semitism is a staggering failure
to understand the difference between traditional hatred of Jews from some
religious and far-right sources, and modern expressions of that hatred
through the medium of Zionism. The Labour enquiry into anti-Semitism
entirely ignored several important definitions of anti-Semitism that
included the singling out of Israel for condemnation, the use of double
standards for Israel, and delegitimisation of Israel by negation of
Zionism as the movement for self-determination of the Jewish people. The
U.S. Department of State issued just such a new definition in 2010.
Several of its clauses mention anti-Israel charges, including this:
"Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, and denying
Israel the right to exist".[1]
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