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		<title>France’s Anti-Semitic Nightmare</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The land of enlightenment becomes the land of darkness.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Paris_riots.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248056" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Paris_riots.jpg" alt="Paris_riots" width="295" height="166" /></a>The Land of Enlightenment is fast becoming the land of darkness for France’s Jewish citizens.</p>
<p>And many in the French Jewish community have been aware of this sad situation for some time, a realization that was reinforced by the attack on two synagogues by Muslim rioters in Paris last summer during the Gaza conflict. But the latest shocking, anti-Semitic crime that occurred early in December in the same city has deepened the community’s feeling that the possibility of living peaceful lives with a Jewish identity in France is rapidly disappearing.</p>
<p>The latest outrage produced by France’s growing anti-Semitic climate, found especially in its Muslim community, concerns the brutal and horrifying robbery of a Jewish family in their home in Creteil, a Parisian suburb. Three gloved and masked men, armed with pistols and a sawed-off shotgun, gained entrance to the family’s apartment after ringing the doorbell. Present in the apartment were a young man, 21, and his 19-year-old girlfriend, who answered the door. Both were immediately tied up and robbed of jewellery, cellphones, computers and bank cards.</p>
<p>“They said they knew we had cash in the flat ‘because Jews have money and they never keep it in the bank’,” the young man, identified only as Jonathan, said in an interview on French radio.</p>
<p>But the worst was yet to come. While one of the robbers left to use the bank cards, the man and his girlfriend were placed in different rooms, and the young woman was then raped.</p>
<p>Police arrested the suspects soon after the robbery, while a fourth accomplice is being sought. French law does not allow the immediate publication of their identities; but a German newspaper reported their first names as Ladji, Yazine and Omar, while a British publication stated two were “of African and North African origin.”</p>
<p>French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve stated the “anti-Semitic character” of the attack “appeared confirmed.” Unsurprisingly, the savagery perpetrated on the young Jewish couple also may not have been the gang’s first violent, anti-Semitic crime. Police suspect the criminals of having beaten a man in his seventies in Creteil in November because he was Jewish. Two young Jews, aged 18 and 23, were also viciously assaulted last May in the same suburb, which is home to many Parisian Jews. The two victims had just left their synagogue on a Saturday evening. Their assailants are unknown.</p>
<p>Regarding the home invasion, it was reported the gang had been monitoring their target for some time. It was reported that a couple of days before the robbery, one of the criminals had even gone to the apartment under a phony pretext to check whether Jews really lived there. The gang verified the family’s religious identity when the father appeared wearing a kippa.</p>
<p>“The horrible side of this aggression is its premeditation,” Haim Korsia, the grand rabbi of France, told <em>Le Figaro</em> newspaper. “It is not a crime of opportunity. It was thought through and reflected on. This act was ripened through a deeply rooted hatred over a length of time. It is therefore a very serious act that poses the question about the cohabitation of different persons in a same space.”</p>
<p>Some French Jews, however, have been answering with their feet the “cohabitation” question Korsia brings up. According to the German newspaper, <em>Die Welt</em>, immigration of French Jews to Israel is set to almost double over last year, when 3,280 left for the Jewish state, an increase of 70 percent over 2012. French Jews also formed the largest group of new immigrants to Israel this year. France has the largest Jewish community in Europe with an estimated 350,000 to 500,000 members.</p>
<p>According to <em>Le Figaro</em>, young, French Jewish families are also leaving France for Israel both because of the country’s increasing anti-Semitism, which, they believe, endangers their children, and the French economy’s poor performance. Parents fear putting their children into Jewish schools and summer camps because of anti-Semitic attacks. And who can blame them when one recalls French jihadist Mohammed Merah, who murdered four people, three of them children, at a Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012. Muslim rioters yelling “Death to Jews” in Paris during last summer’s anti-Israeli demonstrations have probably spurred others to head for France’s exits.</p>
<p>Former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky is the director of the Jewish Agency for Israel, the country’s official immigration organization. In an interview with <em>Die Welt</em>, he related a telling incident concerning anti-Semitism in France and the fear it has engendered.  Accompanying a plane full of French Jews immigrating to Israel last summer, he said he asked the passengers, after they had received instructions concerning how they should react to rocket attacks in their new country, whether they had any fear?</p>
<p>“And they answered me: ‘No, in France we had fear. That’s over with here; we don’t have to hide’,” recalled Sharansky.</p>
<p>Sharansky also stated in the interview that anti-Semitism in parts of Paris has become so prevalent, it is dangerous even to go for a walk wearing a kippa.</p>
<p>“The threat here in Israel is different. Here, one can fight for his home,” he said. “In Europe, on the other hand, especially in France, the feeling is becoming stronger and stronger among Jews that they don’t have a home there anymore.”</p>
<p>And they most likely won’t, at least in France, if the political reaction to the anti-Semitic outrage in Creteil is anything to go by. The right words of condolence and outrage were said afterwards by all officials about the tragedy, but solutions to counter France’s growing Jew hatred were noticeably lacking.</p>
<p>President Francois Hollande serves as a good example of this phenomenon. He called the rape and robbery “unbearable violence” and “an assault on all France holds dear,” adding it proves the “fight against anti-Semitism must be carried out every day.” However, what Hollande left unsaid was how this fight was to be conducted and how it could be won.</p>
<p>Moreover, while Hollande says anti-Semitism must be fought, his Socialist Party (SP) supports a pro-Muslim immigration policy, since the SP views France’s six million strong Muslim community as its voting and ideological constituency. An increase in Muslim immigration, however, is a disaster for any struggle against anti-Semitism, as Jew hatred is highest among French Muslims. Many arrive in France from North African and other Islamic countries already possessing a strong hatred for Jews.</p>
<p>Korsia found it encouraging that “the social body” in France felt revulsion over the crime in Corteil, which, to him, was a “note of hope.” France’s Grand Rabbi would now like to see both Muslims and Jews approach each other and “encourage dialogue between the religions …especially, to reinvest in the national community.”</p>
<p>“It is necessary to work ceaselessly to make France a place of intelligence, of sharing, of respect, and to fight against those who do not want this,” he said.</p>
<p>Despite Korsia’s excellent, humanitarian intentions, however, the cards appear to be stacked against him. It is difficult to see how civilised dialogue will ever stop Islamist brown shirts, steeped in a deep, SS-like Jew hatred, from committing future barbarisms similar to that in Creteil, if not worse.</p>
<p>But France’s people should take note. A similar, virulent and violent anti-Semitism destroyed another leading European state 70 years ago. And if Jew hatred in France is left unchecked, their country appears destined for a similar, tragic fate.</p>
<p>“The hate against Jews in France is only the beginning,” warns Sharansky. “History shows that there, where Jews are being excluded, other people later become victims of the same ideology.”</p>
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		<title>Saved by Love from the Islamic State</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 05:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dutch mother daringly rescues her daughter, and jihad-bride-to-be, from the claws of ISIS. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/nk.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246671" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/nk-450x299.jpg" alt="nk" width="286" height="190" /></a>There is nothing stronger than a mother’s love. And Dutch mother Monique Verbert proved this adage recently when she rescued her 19-year-old daughter from the Islamic State (IS) after traveling there disguised in Muslim dress.</p>
<p>Verbert’s daughter, Sterlina Petalo, had previously gone to Syria to marry a Dutch jihadist, a former member of the Dutch military. Verbert’s safe return to Holland with her child, a feat of bravery in and of itself, also represents the first time that a girl who had voluntarily gone to the Islamic State to marry a jihadist has returned home safely to the West.</p>
<p>“She basically saw him as a sort of Robin Hood …that he was a nice man and fought against Assad,” Verbert said in an interview on Dutch television that was reported in <em>Die Welt</em>. “She said again and again: “Mum, look at that guy. Isn’t it good what he does?”</p>
<p>Petalo’s story is not an unusual one for the dozens of girls from Western countries who have travelled the same path to the Islamic State to wed a jihadist. <em>Die Welt</em> relates the Dutch teenager converted to Islam at age 18 during a spiritual quest and soon became radicalised. She started calling herself ‘Aicha’, covered her hair, shunned friends, and read the Koran and Islamic websites, “hardly leaving her room.” Petalo’s mother, who is separated from her father, said her “greatest scare” occurred when her daughter appeared for the first time completely veiled.</p>
<p>“Then I truly asked myself: ‘girl, what are you doing’?”  Verbert said.</p>
<p>But <em>Die Welt</em> reports that the “decisive day” occurred last January when Petalo saw her future ‘husband’ on a television program. She contacted him via the internet and subsequently decided to travel to him in Syria. Warned by a friend of her daughter’s intended departure, Verbert was able to prevent this first attempt to leave the country by contacting the police, who put Petalo’s name on a list of potential terrorists and took her passport away. Petalo, however, successfully left Holland for Syria on a second try, using different identification.</p>
<p>Finding the police and Dutch authorities powerless to help get her daughter back, Verbert took matters into her own hands, appearing on a television show in an effort to contact her. Later, Verbert discovered her child had separated from the Dutch jihadist and was now together with another IS fighter in Raqqa, the IS’s main city. Verbert then travelled to Turkey, but could not get over the border to Syria and returned home.</p>
<p>After receiving a call for help from her daughter, <em>Die Welt</em> reports Verbert decided to return to Turkey to try and reach her again. After locating her child, she crossed into Syria, completely covered in Islamic dress, and successfully brought her out and back to Holland safely. Details concerning how this was accomplished, however, are unknown, since Dutch authorities are remaining silent. Petalo is currently in custody, as she may still pose a security risk and may also face charges for aiding a terrorist organization.</p>
<p>French anthropologist Dounia Bouzar has studied the phenomenon of young people in France who are suspected of wanting to leave, or have already, like Petalo, left their families and country to join the Islamic State. Last spring, Bouzar set up a center to prevent such departures and was also hired by French police, seeking assistance in this area.</p>
<p>From her work with the 130 families that have contacted her, Bouzar published a book last October titled, “<em>Ils cherchent le paradis, ils ont trouve l’enfer” </em>(<em>They Are Searching For Paradise, They Found Hell)</em>. Of the youths at risk, Bouzar told the French newspaper, <em>Le Figaro</em>, that as many as 80 percent were atheists with many coming from atheistic homes, an astonishing 60 percent of their parents were teachers, and 90 percent came from the middle and upper classes. Bouzar estimates about a dozen females have made it to Syria from France, but French authorities are monitoring 90 families of girls in danger of leaving. About half of these girls are converts and even include Jewish girls among their number.</p>
<p>Also in the <em>Le Figaro </em>interview, Bouzar gave a detailed account of the radicalisation process Petalo probably underwent and what she likely experienced in Syria as a jihadist’s bride. Bouzar related the radicalisation of these girls, some as young as 14, is “like lightening hitting the house.” The majority are not of North African origin, France’s main source of Muslim immigration, and “have nothing to do with Islam.” But they are “passionate.”</p>
<p>“These are brilliant girls, who are getting ready to study medicine, political science or altruistic professions…,” Bouzar stated. “They had the misfortune of talking about this on Facebook. It’s as if the terrorists have psychological head-hunters who locate the personality profiles of those who wish to change the world and fight against injustice. One would say that they are specifically looking for the elite.”</p>
<p>The same holds true for girls of all classes. Even among working class or less privileged sectors of French society, the jihadist “head-hunters” search out only “very good students.” As for the boys, it is just the opposite. Bouzar says recruiters look for unemployed males who have adjustment difficulties in society.</p>
<p>After contact, Bouzar states the girls are then methodically manipulated mentally over a period of time by their recruiters to the point where, almost cult-like, they become the only ones, with whom they communicate. First, all confidence in adults, including parents, and society is removed. Then videos are received, telling the girls that they are being deceived and “secret societies are manoeuvering to kill people in order to hold on to their power.” Societies that only Islam can destroy.</p>
<p>“It’s the theory of conspiracy,” said Bouzar. “They ask them ‘Which side are you on? Are you going to let people be massacred? Wake up?’ They make them reject the real world.”</p>
<p>Next, photos are sent of brutally killed babies, claiming they were murdered by Assad, and the girls are told to leave school and come and rescue them. They are also told their parents are not the “elect of God” and not to watch television any more. Eventually, the girls targeted are cut off from all their former bases of reference and come under the control of the recruiters, or “bearded prince charmings,” as Bouzar calls them. The mothers, Bouzar says, describe their daughters as having been “robotised.”</p>
<p>“When one analyses their telephones, one sees they receive 100 messages a day,” Bouzar told <em>Le Figaro.</em> “This starts at five o’clock in the morning. Sometimes, they don’t sleep anymore.”</p>
<p>Like Petalo, the girls eventually don the niqab or jilbab. Bouzar says the girls call it “my security blanket, my best friend, or my comforter and use it like a cocoon, in a form of regression.” She adds that, when deprogramming girls prevented from leaving France, the most difficult part is getting them to shed the Muslim dress.</p>
<p>“I counsel parents to search under the beds, since these clothes are the first signs of danger,” Bouzar warns.</p>
<p>Also included in the radicalisation process, the French anthropologist says, are promises of marriage. And this promise, Bouzar states, is acted on almost as soon as the girls arrive in the Islamic State. With marriage, a girl becomes her husband’s “inheritance,” living with three or four of his other wives in a house, polygamy apparently the norm. Her only job now is to look after the children under the supervision of a “boss” or older woman who monitors her telephone calls home.</p>
<p>“It’s all an organization,” said Bouzar. “When they are not married, they are herded together. One knows of a house where 17 girls are waiting for ‘distribution’. For some time now, it is worse, since they get them pregnant as soon as possible. They say they will be less tempted to flee, if they have a baby”</p>
<p>But, according to Bouzar, this tactic of quickly impregnating the girls in order to ground them in the Islamic State may sometimes backfire. She told <em>Le Figaro</em> that becoming pregnant is one of the three things that sometimes serve to shake girls out of their cult-like mindset.</p>
<p>“One notices that the moment the baby starts to move, they (the girls) once again have a normal voice on the telephone,” Bouzar says.</p>
<p>The parents’ repeated evoking of childhood memories can also lead to their daughters “de-programming themselves,” and to feeling and thinking again. The third factor that can lead to an awakening from the brainwashing, Bouzar says, concerns the girls having personally witnessed, or heard talk of, “the slitting of a Syrian Muslim’s throat.”</p>
<p>“They begin to cry and want to return (home),” Bouzar says. “It is at this moment that they speak of terrorists and realize the difference between the talk and the reality. But here, it is too late. In truth, no girl has yet succeeded in returning.”</p>
<p>Until ‘Aicha’.</p>
<p>It is not yet known what made the Dutch teenager reach out to her mother and call for help. Like Albert Speer, Hitler’s armaments minister and originator of the following quote, Petalo did not recognise “the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.” Hopefully, she will be allowed to tell her story soon. Petalo’s testimony would serve as a valuable aid to parents and a powerful warning to other suggestible and vulnerable young people, opening their eyes to that hand. But if she is ever permitted, and desires, to help prevent such evil from hijacking other innocent lives, Petalo should always emphasize in her story how love saved hers.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/PHO-09Apr28-159822.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245519" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/PHO-09Apr28-159822-450x334.jpg" alt="-" width="325" height="241" /></a>While many Germans are calling the sentences a Dusseldorf court handed down to four convicted al Qaeda terrorists last week <i>‘ein Witz’ </i>(a joke), it is no laughing matter.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And it is no wonder Germans are taking such a gloomy view of their justice system. This latest group of Islamist killers to appear before a German court received what many regard as ‘soft’ sentences, ranging from only four and half to nine years, for planning homicidal acts of terrorism that were aborted only by their arrests. In this case, the ‘Dusseldorf cell’, as the German media dubbed them, intended to massacre as many Germans as possible with ‘<i>splitterbomben’ </i>(anti-personnel bombs) in carefully prepared attacks.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The sentences handed out last week for plotting such horrific and deliberate acts of slaughter, as well as the perceived kid-glove treatment of other Islamist and non-Islamist violent criminals by German courts in general, have earned the German justice system the nickname <i>‘Kuscheljustiz’</i> (‘cuddly justice’) among more law-abiding Germans.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“This verdict is shameful and a punch in the face for all those who have been killed by such types,” wrote one upset reader in a German newspaper. “Here, there can and should be only one sentence: imprisonment and isolation forever.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“Not bad for planned mass murder of infidels,” sarcastically wrote another of the light sentences, while a third writer commented that “tax evasion is punished more severely” in Germany.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The leader of the terrorist cell, 33-year-old Abdeladim El-Kebir, received the longest sentence of nine years, despite having been described as the “highest-ranking al Qaeda terrorist (to appear) before a German court until now.” In 2010, El-Kebir, a native of Morocco who has German citizenship, travelled to an al-Qaeda training camp in Pakistan where he received his terrorist education and had “direct contact” with al-Qaeda leaders. After his return to Germany, he wrote in one of his emails to the al-Qaeda leadership: “Oh, our sheikh, we shall keep our promise. We shall start the slaughtering of the dogs.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And Germans are not expected to be angry about El-Kebir’s <i>kuschel</i> sentence after reading this?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The planned terrorist attack in Germany appears to have had the approval of Osama bin Laden himself, indicating its importance. The German newspaper, <i>Die Welt,</i> reports that among the documents US Navy Seals seized during the raid on the bin Laden compound in 2011 that resulted in the al Qaeda leader’s much unlamented death was an unfinished note, hand-written by bin Laden himself, which, purportedly, contained El-Kebir’s name.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“The USA supplied an English translation of the Arabic letter to several European intelligence services, among them also Belgian intelligence,” <i>Die Welt </i>reported. “The possible reason for this is that bin Laden speaks of several terror cells in the letter and mentions other terrorist suspects by name.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">El-Kebir was taken into custody just five days before the raid on bin Laden’s compound. But it was warnings in the fall of 2010 about possible terrorist attacks that first put German intelligence, assisted by the CIA and Moroccan security agencies, on his trail. Three of the four terrorists, including El-Kebir, lived together near the University of Dusseldorf, where authorities kept them under 24-hour observation for more than a year.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“When the activities in the apartment and the purchases made by the men indicated the building of a bomb, the three were arrested…,” reported <i>Die Welt</i>.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The fourth man, who was responsible for the cell’s financing and logistics, resided in Bochum, another Rhineland city near Dusseldorf. In doing his part to carry out the murder plot, he committed internet fraud with ebay accounts to raise money, rented several apartments, and obtained false identity papers, reportedly from Morocco. Strangely, he was not considered a member of the cell and received the lightest sentence of four years and a half years despite El Kebir having once emailed him: “Brother, let us carry through the work to the end.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Like El Kebir, the three other convicted Islamist terrorists are German citizens of Muslim immigrant background.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">German anger about the sentences is compounded by the fact that El-Kebir will most likely remain in prison only for six years, since he is eligible for a sentence reduction of about a third for ‘good behaviour’.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">But besides anger, there also exists a feeling of anxiety among Germans about the case. With good reason, some believe that after serving their short sentences, the four terrorists will simply take up where they left off in regard to trying to kill as many Bundesrepublik citizens as possible. After all, they will have plenty of time in prison to plan new strikes. America experienced a similar situation with some Guantanamo prisoners who returned immediately to terrorism upon their release. And such Islamist fanatics often leave prison angrier and more determined to kill infidels than before they went in.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In this particular case, it was reported none of the Dusseldorf cell members expressed any remorse for their homicidal actions. In fact, they remained silent during their two-year trial that saw 22 experts, including an FBI official, and 145 witnesses testify. No regrets and no admissions.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“In cases such as this one, our ideal of re-socialization is simply out of place,” commented one German observer.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And since it is all but impossible to integrate these Islamist criminals into German society and in order to protect themselves from possible future attacks, a growing number Germans are calling for two things. The first is that the Dusseldorf cell terrorists, and other convicted Islamists like them, be kept in isolation when in prison. This would help prevent them from both laying future plans for mass murder and from radicalising and recruiting other prisoners to help carry them out.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Such a move is not unprecedented in Germany. The Baader-Meinhof and other left-wing terrorists were isolated for similar reasons when imprisoned during their heyday in the 1970s. And while deadly, Germany’s leftist killers did not pose anywhere near as grave a threat to German lives and society as the Islamists do today.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The second measure concerned Germans want to see adopted is the immediate deportation of the four back to their countries of origin upon their release. Such a move would include stripping them of their German citizenship, a privilege they have more than abused. Only with permanent removal from their country would Germans know that they are safe from any further homicidal plots by these particular criminals.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">But besides security reasons, some maintain that deporting the Dusseldorf cell is the only measure that would remove somewhat the sting of the ‘soft’ sentences. As well, there are financial benefits for the German taxpayer in short sentences combined with deportation. Besides avoiding the obvious expense associated with longer prison terms, the Dusseldorf cell’s removal would save the taxpayer the costs of police observation upon their release, the social welfare benefits they will most likely receive, and the financial burden of any possible future trial and second prison term.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Unfortunately, sensible Germans are under no illusion that their government, tied down by the fallacies of multi-culturalism and political correctness, will act soon upon such urgent, possibly life-saving measures. Instead, they expect to see Islamist criminals, like those in the Dusseldorf cell, continue merrily on their way upon release from prison, happily plotting the murder of innocent people and the destruction of German society while their “cuddly” justice system hands out sentences that do not protect them from, let alone deter, Islamic terrorism, but rather serve to encourage it.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only months after giving children the right to ask to die, euthanasia claims yet another category of victims.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/eut.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241720" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/eut.jpg" alt="eut" width="292" height="219" /></a>Europe’s descent to self-annihilation and a holocaust of its own making continues unabated as a court in Belgium this month granted a convicted rapist and murderer the right to die under Belgian euthanasia laws. This latest destructive blow to Western civilization’s Judeo-Christian moral order comes only months after Belgium’s King Philippe signed into law last March a bill allowing euthanasia for children of any age and dementia sufferers upon request.</p>
<p>With this highly disturbing piece of legislation becoming law, Belgian opponents of euthanasia questioned who would be next after children were granted the barbarism to request their own deaths. They did not have to wait long for an answer. This month, Frank van Den Bleeken, 50, who has been incarcerated for 30 years for the rape and murder of a 19-year-old student, received the right to be euthanized from a court after claiming “unbearable suffering.” Intolerable physical or psychological pain is accepted as a grounds for euthanasia in Belgium.</p>
<p>Van Den Bleeken is not the first Belgian convict to ask to be put to death. Fifteen others have made the same request. But van Den Bleeken is the first to receive legal permission, thus establishing a new euthanasia category.</p>
<p>“I am a human being, and regardless of what I’ve done, I remain a human being. So, yes give me euthanasia,” said van Den Bleeken in a recent television documentary.</p>
<p>The convicted murderer, who is currently serving his sentence in a prison’s psychiatric wing, first requested euthanasia three years ago. Inadequate help from the state for the problem that, van Den Bleeken says, caused him to commit his crime and the chance he will reoffend if released constitute other reasons for his having asked to die.</p>
<p>The Belgian commission responsible for euthanasia stated it would not examine van Den Bleeken’s request until “all therapeutic possibilities had been exhausted.” But a court of appeal blocked the commission’s attempt to transfer van Den Bleeken to an institution for specialized treatment, after which he successfully fought the justice ministry in court for the right to be euthanized.</p>
<p>“My client can be transferred to a hospital for 48 hours to say his goodbyes to his family and can then die in a dignified manner,” said van Den Bleeken’s lawyer. “I am not able to say when nor where this will happen.”</p>
<p>Opinion on this specific case, on granting van Den Bleeken the right to be euthanized, is, as expected, divided and emotional. Since it involves incarcerated criminals, some of whom have committed terrible crimes, this case does not garner the same sympathy and support that the children’s did when the euthanasia right was extended to them, Belgium becoming the first country in the world to do so.</p>
<p>Some of those in favor of granting van Den Bleeken’s death request, for example, believe society would benefit economically from his demise, as taxpayers would no longer have to support him in prison, and would like to see the euthanasia right extended to other prisoners for the same economic reasons. Others are of the opinion that van Den Bleeken deserves death for the horrendous crime he committed, but only wish it was the state demanding an end to his life rather than the murderer (Belgium does not have capital punishment).</p>
<p>Many of those opposing van Den Bleeken’s request also do not do so on the grounds that euthanasia is morally wrong. Some maintain murderers like him forfeited all their rights when they committed their crimes, including the right to be euthanized. And if they are suffering in prison, then that’s too bad, since their victims, and the victims’ families, are also still suffering. Besides, the student van Den Bleeken murdered didn’t get to choose whether she wanted to die, so why should he? The justice system, some opponents argue, also prescribes a punishment for the crime committed, and some view van Den Bleeken’s request to die as an attempt to escape his punishment, thus undermining the rule of law.</p>
<p>But these arguments appear to have overshadowed the bigger issue in the van Den Bleeken case in that the boundaries for euthanasia in Belgium have once again been expanded. And in this case, a scant three months after their last enlargement.</p>
<p>Originally, Belgium’s euthanasia law, passed in 2002, was meant for gravely ill adults suffering unbearable physical pain.  Now, as mentioned, it includes those experiencing “unbearable psychological suffering.” So relatively healthy people suffering mental stress or disorders are now being killed, among them a 44-year-old person who had undergone a failed sex change operation. So it is no wonder the number of euthanasia victims in Belgium has grown from 24 people in 2002 to 1,807 in 2013, an average of five per day and a 27 percent increase from 2012. All of which proves that early Belgian opponents of euthanasia were right when they claimed its parameters would constantly expand, becoming a slippery slope.</p>
<p>“Can one truly believe that there was really such a strong rise in incurable illnesses in Belgium?” asked the coordinator of a Belgian civil organization that wants stricter control of euthanasia. “When the criteria become more and more flexible, one clearly sees that there is a drift.”</p>
<p>The trailblazer in modern-day euthanasia is actually Belgium’s neighbor, Holland. Holland was the first European country to betray its Judeo-Christian heritage regarding the sanctity of life when it legalized euthanasia in 2001. Holland also has the dubious distinction of leading the way in killing babies, as the Dutch euthanasia policy was expanded in 2006 to babies born with severe birth defects. But while killing children under 12 is still technically illegal, as long as doctors follow a certain protocol, the Dutch justice system leaves them in peace.</p>
<p>It therefore should not surprise that Holland is another country where euthanasia appears out of control. In 2011, 3,695 people were reported medically killed, including 13 psychiatric patients, while 4,188 were euthanized in 2102, accounting for three percent of all Holland’s deaths that year. And like in Belgium, the number continues to rise, setting a new record every year.</p>
<p>“The Dutch experience shows that euthanasia becomes routine,” said one British anti-euthanasia activist.</p>
<p>One would have to go back to Nazi Germany to find a European country where euthanasia was so triumphant. In October, 1939, Adolph Hitler signed an authorization on his own personal stationary allowing German doctors to murder ill and physically and mentally handicapped children. This authorization launched the infamous Nazi euthanasia program, T-4 (for Tiergarten 4, the Berlin address of the program’s headquarters), in which several hundred thousand disabled minors and grownups, classified as ‘<em>leben lebensunwert</em>’ (life unworthy of life), were eventually killed simply because of the way they were born. Their murder was the beginning of the Nazi genocide and was to be followed by the Jewish Holocaust. More than seven decades later, modern-day Belgium and Holland are reviving the nightmare.</p>
<p>A new and frightening part of this nightmare is the mobile euthanasia units a Dutch pro-euthanasia organization created in 2012. In their eagerness to kill, these supporters of death on demand send a medical team, equipped with a lethal injection, to the homes of people who legally qualify for euthanasia but whose family doctors refuse to do it. These ‘death on wheels’ teams are called, appropriately, “<em>Levenseinde</em>” (Life End) units.</p>
<p>This is quite a reversal of the traditional doctor’s house call.</p>
<p>The reason for Belgium’s ever-expanding euthanasia legislation that now even includes children is that Western civilization is in the grips of a death cult, like the Nazi, Communist and Islamist ones. As Judeo-Christian values recede in Western European countries, the more such abominations associated with death worship, such as abortion, pedophilia, bestiality and euthanasia, will appear, as the continent reverts back to a pre-Christian paganism (which was also a Nazi goal). It is therefore no coincidence that Holland and Belgium, two of Western Europe’s most secularized and de-Christianized societies, have legalized euthanasia. They and Luxembourg are the only ones &#8212; so far.</p>
<p>Belgian euthanasia opponents, who are once again left asking ‘who’s next?’ after the van Den Bleeken legal decision, will, again, probably not have to wait long for a possible answer. The Belgian Intensive Care Society released a document requesting authorization to euthanize without a patient’s permission, “even in the absence of discomfort.” It claims non-requested euthanasia is already being regularly practiced.</p>
<p>“These patients are not sufficiently conscious to make an explicit request. It’s not about increasing the medication to prevent pain but so to precipitate death when the quality of life has become deficient,” wrote Jean-Louis Vincent, a former society head, in a Belgian newspaper.</p>
<p>Already, doctors have such control over life or death in Belgium that sometimes they do not even tell family members that a loved one has requested to be euthanized. The relatives of the deceased are told only after the fact. Now, if the Belgian Intensive Care Society gets its way, they won’t even have to inform their victims.</p>
<p>But such a frightening, downward trajectory is not unexpected when a country progressively gives up its traditional religious faith and allows Marxist socialism to heavily influence its society and culture. By abandoning its morality, losing its sense of eternity and living only in the here and now, oblivious of past and future generations, Belgium has created a moral and spiritual vacuum conducive to euthanasia’s growth. And its expansion is now occurring with such speed that it no longer resembles a slippery slope but rather a steep drop off a cliff into a beckoning abyss.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of ex-Israeli military personnel now protecting European synagogues.]]></description>
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<p>This is the rallying cry Jewish communities worldwide have lived by since the Nazi Holocaust of World War Two. But the recent explosion of violent Jew-hatred among radical Muslims and their leftist supporters in Europe has caused European Jewry to adopt measures to ensure that ‘never again’ really means ‘never again’.</p>
<p>Perhaps the most important of these actions has seen Jewish groups hire former, elite, Israeli soldiers from private security firms to protect synagogues and other Jewish establishments.</p>
<p>“…in Germany alone, several hundred former, Israeli soldiers are charged with the protection of Jewish institutions,” Beni Tal, an Israeli ex-military security agent working in Europe told the German newspaper <em>Die Welt</em>. “In all of Europe, we’re talking thousands.”</p>
<p>Well aware of history, German Jewish associations know the first major step in any planned liquidation of Europe’s Jewish communities, especially of their own, is the destruction of their synagogues. This is what occurred in Germany in November, 1938, and later came to be called ‘Kristallnacht’ (Crystal Night). In one night, Nazi thugs destroyed all the synagogues in Germany and Austria as well as many Jewish businesses, homes, cemeteries and social meeting places. The ‘Kristall’ refers to the debris of broken window glass lying on the ground afterwards from destroyed synagogues and Jewish stores.</p>
<p>‘Kristallnacht’ was a turning point in the Nazi treatment of Jews. A scant few years later, they were deported to concentration camps, from which most never returned.</p>
<p>Nowadays, radical, anti-Semitic Islamists have replaced the brown-shirted thugs. And they are becoming just as violent as their predecessors in expressing their anti-Jewish hatred.</p>
<p>In Toulouse, France, for example, a man tossed two “firebombs” at a Jewish community center containing a synagogue, but, fortunately, they didn’t ignite. The attack occurred only an hour after an anti-Israel demonstration. Toulouse was also the scene of a horrifying anti-Semitic attack in 2012, in which a Muslim jihadist murdered four people, three of them children, at a Jewish school.</p>
<p>Synagogues were also attacked in Paris in July, while their patrons have been harassed, even attacked. Last May, Brussels witnessed a murderous, anti-Semitic attack on its Jewish museum by another French jihadist, in which three people died. Their killer was recently extradited from France back to Belgium to stand trial for murder.</p>
<p>Great Britain also experienced a synagogue attack in Belfast, while more than a dozen assaults have taken place against Jews in Denmark last month. In Sweden, the synagogue in Malmo was vandalised in July and the rabbi assaulted three days later.</p>
<p>But the most numerous anti-Jewish assaults in Europe, described as occurring daily, are physical and verbal ones against individuals. They are so prevalent, a German journalist wrote: “…it is not possible everywhere in Germany to go to the synagogue Friday afternoon wearing a kippa.</p>
<p>In France, the daily situation for Jews in the face of widespread anti-Semitism is deemed even worse.</p>
<p>“Our lives have become absurd,” said one French Jewish leader. “We endure daily insults and get spat on, a general feeling of anxiety because a part of the population has a poisoned mind that makes it their mission to hurt Jews, regardless of Gaza.”</p>
<p>But if any doubts existed about the Nazi-like virulence of the Jew-hatred now present in Europe, these were laid to rest in the demonstrations against Israel’s Gaza invasion. With no fear of arrest, the protesters openly expressed their extermination yearnings, shouting ‘Death to the Jews’ and ‘Jews to the gas’.</p>
<p>“Things are happening (in Europe) that we have not seen since 1933,” a German Jewish lawyer told a special sitting of an Israeli parliamentary committee.</p>
<p>Germany has also experienced synagogue attacks. Since the Gaza conflict began, a synagogue in Wuppertal was struck by incendiary devices, for which two men were arrested, one from Syria and a Palestinian. Four men, who had threatened on Facebook to attack a synagogue in Essen, were also apprehended. But perhaps the most disturbing anti-Semitic incident in Germany since the Gaza conflict began occurred in a Berlin mosque, patronised mostly by Arabs, where an imam from Denmark “openly prayed for the death of Jews.</p>
<p>“Oh God, exterminate the Zionist Jews. Count them and exterminate them to the last one,” intoned this ‘holy’ man before the congregation. (Watch video here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov00rNamNig.%29%20">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov00rNamNig.)</a></p>
<p>For some Germans, given their country’s history, such anti-Semitic incidents are intolerable in Germany today. To them, it is equally disgraceful that synagogues are once more being attacked on German soil, especially when the country marked the 75<sup>th</sup> anniversary of ‘Kristallnacht’ only last November.</p>
<p>During one ceremony to mark that event, in Hamburg’s old, Jewish quarter, candles were placed on the doorsteps of former Jewish homes to remember the murdered victims. In the same Jewish quarter, at the place where Hamburg’s largest synagogue once stood, a rabbi said a prayer and a remembrance watch was also maintained. Like its congregation, the synagogue was a victim of Nazi hatred.</p>
<p>To prevent a reoccurrence of a modern-day ‘Kristallnacht’, some Germans will not accept such scandalous incidents of Jew-hatred in their midst, as occurred in the Berlin mosque. One such German, a Berlin legislator, laid a charge against the Danish imam for violating a statute of the German federal constitution regarding hate-mongering against a people.</p>
<p>Another told <em>Die Welt</em> he did not want to see Jews leaving his country because of anti-Semitism, like they are doing in France and Holland, stating “our history forbids this.” The general- secretary of Germany’s ruling conservative party, Peter Tauber, added to this in expressing high esteem and a thankfulness for the Jewish presence in modern Germany.</p>
<p>“For us, it is a great gift that there are again active Jewish communities among us today,” Tauber said.</p>
<p>But with the rise of violent anti-Semitism in Europe, one now needs more than just laws and words to prevent a recurrence of ‘Kristallnacht,’ hence the stationing of thousands of ex-Israeli military personnel in Europe.</p>
<p>Tal told <em>Die Welt</em> that he never goes unarmed on the street, always carrying on his person a battle knife and a telescope riot baton. And since the Jewish museum attack in Brussels last May, he says he has been getting about 50 calls a week from Jewish establishments and individuals, inquiring about protection. Kidnapping has also become a major fear.</p>
<p>The fact that protection has to be imported from Israel for Europe’s synagogues and Jewish institutions, however, shows that European governments are failing their Jewish citizens as regards their security. One problem, a security agency owner noted, is diminishing police budgets. The less money, the less protection the state can offer.</p>
<p>Another problem is the quality of government-provided security. Tal regards, for example, the German police guarding Jewish establishments as “nice officers” nearly eligible to receive their pensions. But they are, he indicates, perhaps not really suited for this kind of work.</p>
<p>“If they have to run after a terrorist, then they will have to catch their breath before they fire, otherwise they will shoot down an innocent person,” he said.</p>
<p>Besides, unlike many European security providers, most Israeli ex-military security personnel are veterans with combat experience who can be counted on to react differently, and forcefully, “in a serious situation,” especially when their fellow Jews are endangered. One commented that if an ex-Israeli soldier had been providing security at Brussel’s Jewish museum last May, that particular jihadist “would definitely have been turned off, before he could have caused any damage.”</p>
<p>With Jew-hatred increasing in Europe, Jewish communities have adopted other security measures to ensure their safety besides hiring former Israeli soldiers. Some have formed self-defence groups, while young volunteers travel to Israel for security training. An Israeli agency is also helping out by funding security improvements, such as bullet-proof windows, security cameras and fences, for Jewish establishments worldwide.</p>
<p>“If Europe’s states do not protect the Jews who are living on their territory, Israel will do it,” said a deputy in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, a fear exists that all these security measures will still not be enough if a howling mob of several hundred radical Muslims and leftists attack a synagogue or Jewish school. This fear is more than justified, since anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic attacks can only be expected to increase as Europe’s Muslim population rises. One German Jew, living in Berlin, pointed out the current irony of his community’s situation in <em>Die Welt</em>.</p>
<p>“Seventy years after the Holocaust, we are living again behind ghetto walls, and, indeed, not in order to lock us in, but in order to protect us. That is no natural Jewish life any more.”</p>
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<p>The violent, anti-Semitic nightmare Europe thought it would never see again after the Nazi Holocaust is raising its ugly head once more, this time on French soil.</p>
<p>Jew-hatred, mostly among France’s six and a half million Muslims, is reaching such threatening proportions that an increasing number of the country’s 500,000 Jews feel forced to leave their native land to ensure their safety. At one Jewish agency that assists French Jews to emigrate to Israel the telephone, it was reported, “does not stop ringing.</p>
<p>“For 2014, one will have to register a record number of departures of French Jews for Israel since its creation in 1948,” the agency’s director told the French newspaper <i>Le Figaro</i>. “It will safely exceed 5,000 people. In 2013, there were already 3,300, an increase of 73 percent compared with 2012.”</p>
<p>And one can expect the numbers to climb even higher after the recent displays of Jew-hatred in France that “shocked” and “dumbfounded” the country’s Jewish community. In two demonstrations on successive July weekends in central Paris, demonstrators, mostly Muslims of North African and Middle Eastern descent, allegedly protesting Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip, shouted anti-Semitic slogans, attacked police, burned vehicles and damaged stores.</p>
<p>Authorities banned the second demonstration after the first one saw two synagogues and a kosher grocery store attacked, all accompanied by shouts of ‘Death to the Jews’. But the ban didn’t make any difference. The demonstration went ahead anyways. Mob rule and barbarism won out over law and order. And the government’s apparent powerlessness, or unwillingness, to enforce the ban was very noticeable.</p>
<p>“Saturday at the synagogue, there was only talk of packing one’s suitcases,” said the publication manager of a Jewish newspaper after the riots. “One has the feeling that this is only the start, that this is going to become more radical&#8230;”</p>
<p>According to <i>Le Figaro</i>, some young, French Jewish families are leaving both because of the country’s increasingly anti-Semitic climate, which, they believe, endangers their children, and the French economy’s poor performance. Representatives of France’s Jewish community told the newspaper parents fear putting their children into Jewish schools and summer camps because of possible anti-Semitic attacks. And who can blame them when one recalls French jihadist Mohammed Merah, who murdered four people, three of them children, at a Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012.</p>
<p>“In the face of civil society’s indifference, one senses a keen anxiety of some families concerning their ability to lead a quiet life of Jewish identity in France,” said the emigration agency director.</p>
<p>While this indifference is disturbing enough, the outright support the demonstrators receive from leftist segments of the French political class is equally disconcerting. France’s radical left parties, such as the Green, Communist and New Anti-Capitalist Party have made an alliance with the anti-Semitic demonstrators from the ‘banlieues’ (France’s immigrant ghettos). The New Anti-Capitalist Party, for example, helped organise the first demonstration, and a mayor, also a Green Party member, took part in the banned protest.</p>
<p>This alliance, according to French philosopher Robert Redeker, is due to radical leftists having abandoned their traditional hope of using the working class as the instrument to destroy society. To the radical left’s eternal disappointment, French workers were not revolutionary enough. But Muslim rioters are. In them, the extreme left sees the proletariat’s replacement in carrying out the historic duty of violent revolution.</p>
<p>Members of radical left parties have also made statements that are outrageous in content but nevertheless contribute to the increasingly poisonous and threatening anti-Semitic climate facing France’s Jews. For example, a French deputy to the Europe-Ecology-The Greens (EELV), another environmental political outfit, justified the attacks on the synagogues, claiming on Twitter they are like “embassies.</p>
<p>“When the synagogues are acting like embassies, it is not surprising that they are subjected to the same attacks as an embassy,” he wrote.</p>
<p>Unsurprisingly, the communists were also not behind in making similar, illogical claims to rationalise the violence and Jew-hatred. France’s Communist Party, along with the other radical left parties, was upset authorities banned the second demonstration. It issued a communique calling this measure a “very serious and extremely worrying hindrance concerning the right to demonstrate.” The communique also claimed “small, pro-Israeli groups” were the cause of the first demonstration’s “acts of violence and incitements to hatred.”</p>
<p>Well, one has to admit, it is nice to see someone finally calling for human rights and freedom of political expression while waving the hammer and sickle. But it seems to have escaped the French communists&#8217; notice, along with their party’s history between 1917 and 1991, that it was rioting, anti-Semitic Muslims attacking synagogues and not Jews attacking mosques that led to the ban. Besides, Islamists hardly need anyone to incite them to hate Jews. They’re self-starters.</p>
<p>One communist deputy to France’s national legislature even asked President Francois Hollande, in an open letter, to ban the Jewish Defense League (JDL), whose members defended the synagogues during the attacks. He called the JDL a “criminal, fascist organization,” since it was equally “responsible for the provocations” that led to the violence. Again, this particular communist politician needs a serious history lesson when it comes to “a criminal, fascist organisation.”</p>
<p>France’s mainstream Socialist Party (SP), which currently rules the country, is also a cause for concern. The head of France’s Jewish student union said Jewish students are still waiting for the government to “provide not only answers regarding security, but real proposals to re-establish co-existence in our neighbourhoods, our universities.</p>
<p>“We are posing questions on the ability of the Republic to protect its citizens,” he said.</p>
<p>These students might have to wait a while longer, however, if the SP’s left wing is charged with finding security and co-existence solutions, since it appears to be in the anti-Israel camp. Thirty-three SP deputies of the National Assembly signed a joint communique “for peace and justice in the Middle East” that was sent to media outlets. It called for “French and European authorities to use all their influence to stop immediately and without delay the violence which has been going on since July 8,” the date of Israel’s Gaza invasion. No mention was made of the rockets Hamas had fired at Israel prior to this date that brought about the Israeli military response.</p>
<p>“Together, we have the duty to use our freedom of expression and right to demonstrate peacefully,” the communique further stated.</p>
<p>Understandably, some editors took the communique as a SP call to demonstrate against Israel’s Gaza intervention at an upcoming protest march. Several signatories immediately denied this and blamed the media for misinterpretation, professing their opposition to anti-Semitism. However, about 30 SP deputies did take part in the authorised demonstration, which went off peacefully, possibly because the organizers had to put up security guarantees.</p>
<p>But the socialist deputies’ presence at the demonstration can be understood in a different, darker context as concerns France’s Jews. After the synagogue attacks, Francois Hollande, France’s president and SP leader, declared the fight against anti-Semitism “a national priority.” But the fact that a block of his party’s national deputies chose to be present at an event where anti-Semitic outbursts, possibly violent ones, could have occurred, shows they are not interested in any project that rejects this evil, even one initiated by their own leader. This also casts doubt on their professed anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Even worse, the Socialist deputies’ presence at the protest can be viewed as a silent endorsement of the previous demonstrations’ anti-Semitic violence. While the extreme left directly supports such vileness by openly blaming the Jews, mainstream socialists are doing the same, but indirectly and with subtlety. Which can only encourage further, anti-Jewish attacks.</p>
<p>France’s Jewish community should also not place much hope on their country’s political class resolving the deteriorating security situation, which, some believe, is now not only unresolvable but “explosive.” Hollande himself, for example, switched from a pro-Israeli position at the start of the Gaza conflict to one now termed “balanced.” This was obviously done to please France’s Muslims, which his party regards as a voting constituency. So after first appearing resolute in supporting Israel, he is now vacillating. France&#8217;s Jews can probably expect similar treatment in the future, especially around election time. Besides, one also must be quite cynical to begin with to be able to strike a “balanced” position between Israel and Hamas.</p>
<p>Considering the recent anti-Semitic riots and jihadist attacks their community has endured over the years, including murders, it is no surprise Jews are fleeing France in record numbers. And it is wise they do so, since, with increasing Muslim immigration, one can only expect a corresponding rise in anti-Semitism. No one speaks of a decrease.</p>
<p>But the best reason for France’s Jews to emigrate was revealed in the open letter the communist deputy sent to Hollande, calling for the JDF’s banning. By wanting to strip the synagogues of any defense, such as the JDF represents, the radical left displays its true goal, albeit its short-term one, which is for France to have its own ‘Kristallnacht’.</p>
<p>This also converges nicely with the aims of their anti-Semitic Muslim allies, already experienced in destroying synagogues and churches in Islamic countries. In a nice, Nazi-like touch, the radical left can also be expected to twist any future synagogue destruction to appear as the French Jews’ own fault. The two allies’ long-term goal, which, history has shown, occurs after a ‘Kristallnacht’, is a second Holocaust.</p>
<p>So when anti-Semitic demonstrators are yelling ‘Death to Jews’ on central Parisian streets, France’s Jews should realize they mean it. Some of those leaving now know that they do.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/gaza-paris-2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236993" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/gaza-paris-2-431x350.jpg" alt="gaza-paris-2" width="265" height="215" /></a>“Here is the new France, the one which is emerging, the one which is beginning, the one of the future. You the inhabitants, Islamic or not, of the housing projects, you are the future of France, you are the rising generation, the one which will save this country from ruin…”   </em></p>
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<li>President Francois Hollande in a speech to residents of an immigrant ghetto before France&#8217;s 2012 national election</li>
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<p>French President Francois Hollande was probably correct when he told the Muslim inhabitants of one of France’s suburban ghettos (known as &#8220;banlieues&#8221;) they were “the future of France.” This community’s high birthrate and his socialist government’s pro-immigration policies will see to that. But if last Saturday’s rioting in the center of Paris is anything to go by, that future will be a bleak and scary one of Clockwork Orange-type violence. And, contrary to the Hollande’s statement, this “new France” will not save the country from ruin, but rather lead to it.</p>
<p>Last weekend, for the second weekend in a row, the French public watched in exasperation while the city that represents the heart of their country and culture to the world was defiled yet again by several thousand rioters of mostly North African and Middle Eastern origin. Demonstrating, allegedly, against the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, over several hours and often to shouts of &#8220;allahu akbar&#8221; the rioters smashed store windows, burned vehicles and subjected the forces of law and order to a hail of bottles and rocks, injuring a dozen police officials.</p>
<p>“It was war, in the middle of Paris, in the city that receives the most tourists in the world,” said one upset storeowner, whose shop windows were broken, to the French newspaper <em>Le Figaro</em> the next day. “Why isn’t there a (government) minister here this morning to say that these guys who smashed everything are going to go to prison?”</p>
<p>During another “pro-Palestinian” demonstration the previous weekend, rioters had even attempted to attack two Parisian synagogues. But these failed assaults only served to display the protest&#8217;s true motivation, which was anti-Semitism and Jew-hatred rather than opposition to Israeli policy. Besides the synagogue attacks, the demonstration’s anti-Semitic overtone was also more than evident in the slogans the rioters were yelling, which included such civilized gems as “death to the Jews” and “Hitler Was Right.”</p>
<p>“[H]atred for Israel and for Jews has become a major component of the identity of French of an Arab or African background; it is the cement of the second generation,” said Gil Mihaely, founder and director of <em>Causeur</em>, a French magazine dedicated to intellectual debate.</p>
<p>Mihaely states the recent Paris demonstrations, “without a doubt,” are about “hatred of Jews and not the taking of a political position.” He cites the fact these rioters do not demonstrate and become violent about the 200,000 Muslims killed in the Syrian or other ongoing conflicts as further proof that the Paris riots were primarily about anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>“I believe that these demonstrations betray a profound need to identify oneself as an adversary of Israel and of the Jews,” Mihaely said.</p>
<p>The anti-Semitism was so evident in the first protest that French authorities banned last weekend’s second, anti-Israel &#8220;manif,&#8221; as the French call a demonstration. Nevertheless, several thousand people still gathered to wreak havoc and express anti-Jew hatred, the rioters somehow believing that attacking police in France and sacking a part of central Paris will bring peace to Gaza. It is interesting to note no such rioting is occurring in Islamic North African countries, where many ‘manif’ participants have their origins.</p>
<p>Besides the acts of anti-Semitism and destruction that occurred in their greatest city, law-abiding French citizens were more than disturbed by the fact that a prohibited demonstration actually was able to take place at all. To them, this signals a frightening weakness, even a powerlessness, on the part of President Hollande and his socialist government, from which planners of future, violent mayhem will expect to profit. The French government appears incapable of getting these &#8220;residents &#8230;of the housing projects” to obey the law. Rather, it is the people of Hollande’s “new France” who were dictating to lawful authorities by holding the banned demonstration, telling government officials, in essence, that they are “prohibited from prohibiting.”</p>
<p>Many French were also put out that so few rioters were arrested after so much violent lawlessness. From the demonstration that saw the synagogues attacked, only five people were turned over to the courts, charged with “violence against security forces” and “rebellion.” One of their number was acquitted of the violence charge but was jailed for four months for “rebellion.” The others had yet to have their day in court.</p>
<p>Last weekend’s riot saw 44 arrested, of whom only 19 were kept in police custody.</p>
<p>Some in France regard these numbers as disgraceful, especially when one considers that in 2013, French security forces arrested about 1,000 people protesting at different demonstrations the Hollande government’s pro-gay marriage law. With their children present “in the thousands,” these protesters behaved like angels compared to last weekend’s criminals. Nevertheless, at one anti-gay marriage demonstration alone, in central Paris where the recent anti-Semitic riots occurred, police arrested 293 people.</p>
<p>“Police determined to clear the area seized unarmed people and used brutal violence to force them into vans,” stated one report. “They were taken to police cells where they were left in dirty conditions for as much as 17 hours without charge and access to lawyers.”</p>
<p>It’s a shame that such firmness wasn’t shown towards those gathering for last Saturday’s illegal demonstration before any destruction of private property took place and streets were torn up for projectiles to throw at and wound police.</p>
<p>Besides the small number arrested, the sentences the rioters are expected to receive are already a topic of ridicule among those unhappy with the government’s tepid response to the law-breaking. People can’t understand, for example, why one rioter, as mentioned, received only four months in jail for his violent actions, while a member of the populist National Front Party was sentenced recently to nine months and fined $100,000 for stupidly and inexcusably comparing on Facebook France’s justice minister, who is black, to an ape.</p>
<p>But the discrepancy in numbers concerning those arrested in the recent anti-Semitic riots and last year’s anti-gay marriage law demonstrations is probably a reflection of the political interests and beliefs of France’s ruling Socialist Party. And most likely the same holds true concerning the different sentence lengths meted out to the rioter convicted of “rebellion” and the person who made the asinine, racist comparison.</p>
<p>On the socialist list of unpardonable crimes, racist and anti-gay beliefs probably rank number one and two, and are greater sins in some socialists’ eyes than attacking synagogues and ransacking central Paris. Besides, as indicated in the quote above from Hollande’s 2012 pre-election speech, French socialists regard the Muslim citizens of France’s banlieues as their ideological, and voting, constituency, which may also account for the lenient treatment rioters receive.</p>
<p>“We are encountering in the left of today (the view of) immigrants as being the new face of the group charged with carrying out the downfall of history,” said French philosopher Robert Redeker.</p>
<p>Redeker states immigrants, both legal and illegal, the youth of the banlieues and Roma have replaced the native French proletariat as the socialist weapon to transform French society, because French workers, not being revolutionary enough, were not up to the task. Interestingly, Redeker adds leftist promotion of immigration is also the punishment the Left &#8220;inflicted on the proletariat for having failed in its historic duty.”</p>
<p>This socialist partiality for the Muslims of the banlieues was also evident in Hollande’s statement about the synagogue attacks. While he stated he would not tolerate anti-Semitism, Hollande also said he does want the Israeli-Palestinian conflicted brought to French soil. This reprehensible equating of Israel with the terrorist organization Hamas was probably made with his party’s Muslim constituency in mind.</p>
<p>But Hollande’s opposition to Jew-hatred on the one hand and catering to the Muslim vote on the other will not keep the peace. While he tells France’s national Jewish council he supports it in its fight against anti-Semitism, the Socialist Party is pro-Muslim immigration. This is a recipe for disaster. The only hope for France&#8217;s future, if there still is one, is to restrict such immigration and adopt a tough, zero-tolerance policy toward all civil disturbances, especially those of an anti-Semitic nature.</p>
<p>If the current situation continues, one only has to look at what happened to the Jewish communities in Islamic countries after the Six Day War in 1967 to predict the fate of France’s 500,000 Jews, Europe&#8217;s largest Jewish community. Under severe persecution, their members were forced to flee North African and Middle Eastern states, never to return.</p>
<p>And since Holland and his fellow French socialists do not appear to want to learn from history, then this tragic historical lesson is doomed to be repeated in “the new France,” of which he and his fellow socialists are so proud.</p>
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		<title>Professors For Pedophilia</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Europe suffers horrific turn in its cultural landscape.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Academia.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236230" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Academia.jpg" alt="Academia" width="270" height="198" /></a>As Christian religious belief declines in Europe, the continent’s pagan heart comes more and more to the fore, and England, is only the latest European country to witness this growing phenomenon.</p>
<p>A major pedophilia scandal is currently rocking British society, in which as many as 20 prominent politicians, judges and other members of the British establishment are suspected of having abused children in the 1980s and 1990s as part of a pedophile ring. The victims were among society’s most vulnerable, being mostly boys from state children’s homes. And such abuse, it is suspected, may have been going on for decades.</p>
<p>“We are looking at the Lords, the Commons, the judiciary- all institutions where there will be a small percentage of pedophiles, and a slightly larger percentage of people who have known about it,” former child protection manager Peter McKelvie told the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), calling the predators “an extremely powerful elite” who have been abusing children “for as long as I have been alive.”</p>
<p>This latest episode involving sexual exploitation of children comes on the heels of other, jarring, pedophilia scandals to stun Britain this year. One involved the BBC itself.</p>
<p>BBC star entertainer Jimmy Savile, now deceased, was one of several BBC employees suspected of having molested literally hundreds of children and teenagers, some on BBC premises. Perhaps most shockingly, 28 British hospitals reported Savile may have molested patients on their wards, to which he was allowed access, sometimes even possessing hospital keys.</p>
<p>Another scandal saw artist and “iconic” children’s entertainer Rolf Harris, who once painted Queen Elizabeth’s portrait, found guilty this month of 12 counts of indecent assault on children and teenagers. Harris was described as a “part of millions of British childhoods” and was viewed as “a national treasure.”</p>
<p>One can correctly say pedophilia was not invented in Western countries in our times. But what differentiates the current climate concerning this once very taboo practice from earlier decades is the equally reprehensible movement underway in the West involving some academics, among others, to minimize its devastating effects on children, garner sympathy for the perpetrators and make the practice acceptable to the public. All of which is allowing pedophilia to creep into the cultural debate.</p>
<p>Journalist Andrew Gilligan recently pointed out in England’s <i>Daily</i> <i>Telegraph</i> an example of this gradual, ongoing promotion of pedophilia in mainstream society. Gilligan writes that only last year in July at a conference at the University of Cambridge, one of Britain’s most famous institutions of higher learning, pro-pedophilia positions were put forward. The conference was about classifying sexuality in “a standard international psychiatric manual used by the police and courts” that is produced by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).</p>
<p>One attendee was Ken Plummer, an emeritus professor of sociology at Britain’s Essex University. Plummer had previously stated he was once a member of the Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE), a British pro-pedophilia group, which advocated lowering the age of consent to ten. But Plummer said he had joined the now defunct PIE only for research purposes.</p>
<p>The results of Plummer’s &#8220;research,&#8221; however, was to produce such disturbing statements as: “The isolation, secrecy, guilt and anguish of many pedophiles are not intrinsic to the phenomenon but are derived from the extreme social pressure placed on minorities.” And another gem: “Many adult pedophiles say that boys actively seek out sex partners …&#8217;childhood’ itself is not a biological given but an historically produced social object.”</p>
<p>Former PIE chief Tom O’Carroll was also in attendance at the Cambridge conference. O’Carroll was once convicted for distributing 50,000 images of child abuse. BBC news stated: “Children, mainly boys and some as young as six, had been filmed and photographed being raped and tortured.”</p>
<p>But the most &#8220;interesting&#8221; academic at the Cambridge conference was Philip Tromovitch, a professor at Japan’s Doshisha University. In his presentation, Trofomich stated:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Pedophilic interest is natural and normal for males. At least a sizeable minority of normal males would like to have sex with children…Normal males are aroused by children.”</p></blockquote>
<p>It is not surprising that, according to Gilligan, Tromovitch and O’Carroll went together for drinks afterwards.</p>
<p>But what is surprising, though, is that persons of O’Carroll’s and Tromovitch’s ilk are even present at such a prestigious international conference alongside such reputable organizations as the APA, discussing important topics like psychiatric classifications &#8212; and at Cambridge University at that. The fact alone that Tromovitch and Plummer have positions at universities is viewed by many as a sign of serious civilizational decline.</p>
<p>There were other, similar enlightening presentations at the Cambridge function, such as “Liberating the pedophile: a discursive analysis” and “Danger and difference: the stakes of hebephilia.”</p>
<p>The APA representatives at the conference tried to have hebephilia (attraction to early pubertal children) listed as a disorder in the manual’s new edition but failed. Gilligan wrote that one American academic attending the conference believed such a listing would be abused in the United States, as convicted sex offenders would not be released after completing their sentences and be detained as “mentally ill” under “US sexually violent predator laws.”</p>
<p>The possibility of these offenders, once released, harming more children appears not to have merited the slightest consideration.</p>
<p>One APA attendee stated, however, that a way had to be found to include hebephilia as a disorder in the manual or that was “tantamount to stating that the APA’s official position is that sexual preference for early pubertal children is normal.” Which is probably what some at the conference want and why the APA proposal was voted down.</p>
<p>The attempt to normalise adult-child sex is not only limited to certain academics and paedophile groups in the West but has had its political supporters as well.</p>
<p>Germany’s Green Party more than outdid the Cambridge conference last year in notoriety for having once pushed for pedophilia’s acceptance. In 2013, shortly before Germany’s federal election, it was revealed the party had, at least in one German state, officially adopted in 1985 a position calling for the abolishment of the German law that criminalised adult-child sex. The party’s tolerance for pedophilia was such that it had a “Queer and Pederast” working group inside the party, promoting this position.</p>
<p>Even the Green candidate for chancellor in last year’s German federal election, Juergen Trittin, a city politician for the Greens in Goettingen in the 1980s, had signed a party platform statement calling for the decriminalization of child-adult sex acts “that occur without the use or threat of force.”</p>
<p>“This formulation makes a mistake. It is simply false. There are no consenting forms of sexual relationships between adults and children,” said Trittin, when forced to address the issue during the election campaign.</p>
<p>Trittin also regretted that it took his party so long to disown its pedophile past. But if it had not been for the revelations, one wonders whether the Greens would ever have recanted their previous child-adult sex position.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, the Green Party, despite the revelations’ shock to the German public, still received eight percent of the national vote. In the past, despite its small size, it has played an important part in German politics, having been the junior partner in a federal coalition government with Gerhard Schroeder’s Socialist Party between 1998 and 2005 as well as serving as a coalition partner in several state governments.</p>
<p>And some Greens not only supported their party’s outrageous position, but acted on it. An openly pedophile member of the Green Party’s executive committee for Germany’s most populous state, North Rhineland-Westphalia, formed a commune in the 1980s, visited by prominent Greens, where he and others molested minors living or visiting there. He justified his abuse of the children by saying the Greek philosophers also had their “lust-boys” and sexual contact with their pupils.</p>
<p>“These were sentences that, for me, were quite unusual, facts, as it were, since no one contradicted them,” remembered one former abuse victim last year in a newspaper interview. Now an adult, he was 12 when living at the commune and said he never realized the abuse, which occurred daily, was wrong.</p>
<p>Other Greens attended party conferences where members of invited anarchist communes, called “City Indians,” were openly affectionate with their boy lovers.</p>
<p>“There were also 30-year-olds there; they played with the children,” remembered one Green Party member in an interview with <i>Die Welt</i> last year. “Sometimes I felt rotten there.”</p>
<p>Interestingly, none of these “progressive” politicians at these Green party conferences, whose stated mission is to save the world from capitalist oppression, especially American, ever thought to call the police or a children’s protection service. Ironically, it was also the Greens who, years later, were to scream the loudest and the longest in Germany against the Catholic Church’s child sex scandals. Like many leftists, the Greens are used to pointing out, in paroxysms of outrage, the moral failings of others while ignoring their own. One can only be thankful the Greens never controlled any schools back then.</p>
<p>The unstated end game of those involved in making pedophilia acceptable for public consumption is to eventually have this immoral practice legalized, as in pagan Rome and Greece of antiquity (pedophile groups’ favourite reference point). But rather than from the past, it is from the present, in the form of sympathetic academics and modern “Greens,” that the pedophile movement currently gets its intellectual support, its ideological armor and tools to promote and justify its anti-child cruelty.</p>
<p>It has been pointed out, by Gilligan among others, that professors who sympathise with this deviant behaviour pose more of a threat than pedophile groups themselves, since academics are on the forefront of making child-adult sex at least presentable, if not acceptable to the public, and, perhaps, even eventually fit for polite society. And it is this eroding of moral barriers that could ultimately lead to pedophilia’s legalization.</p>
<p>But what stands out the most in the statements and research of academic sympathisers of pedophilia, like those at the Cambridge conference, is not just the immorality of their positions but also the inhuman lightheartedness with which they trample on children’s souls. There is no realization of the damage their pedophilia madness will do to “these frail beings,” as Victor Hugo once so compassionately called children.</p>
<p>Even in Juergen Trittin’s statement, like those of other Greens, there was never any admission of immorality on his part or on the party’s. They had simply taken a false position.  All of which shows, without a doubt, that the emerging pagan heart of Europe is definitely a heartless one.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/biram-dah.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235738" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/biram-dah-362x350.png" alt="biram-dah" width="294" height="284" /></a>While the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls into slavery by the Islamic terrorist group, Boko Haram, received abundant media coverage, and deservedly so, the mainstream media regrettably failed to bestow similar attention on an equally newsworthy and globally important anti-slavery story occurring simultaneously nearby in Mauritania.</p>
<p>In a national election last June, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, a West African country like Nigeria, re-elected President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, a former army general, to a second five-year term with 81.94 percent of the vote despite accusations of extensive voter fraud. The dubious distinction of a Third-World ruler getting himself re-elected dictator is, unfortunately, nothing new. But what distinguished markedly this particular Mauritanian election from previous ones was Aziz’s main opponent, Biram Ould Dah Abeid, a remarkable and fearless Mauritanian anti-slavery activist whose <em>Radicals For Global Action (RAG) </em>party came second.</p>
<p>“We are the only ones to have a different ideological position,” said Dah Abeid in an interview with <em>Le Courier de Sahara</em>. “We are fighting against slavery, against racism, against government waste and against corruption. The true opposition, it’s us!”</p>
<p>Though largely unknown in the Western general public, Dah Abeid was recognized in 2013 by the United Nations (UN) as one of of the world’s foremost abolitionists, receiving the prestigious UN Human Rights Prize from Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon last year in New York. Reflecting his human rights stance and his <em>Le Journal de Sahara</em> statement, Dah Obeid’s <em>RAG</em> ran on an anti-slavery, anti-racism, anti-corruption platform in the recent election. Dah Abeid himself is the son of a slave; his father was freed by his grandmother’s master, but his grandmother and uncles remained slaves.</p>
<p>“I am from the servile community of Mauritania that makes up 50 percent of the population,” said Dah Abeid in a speech at the UN Human Rights Summit in Geneva earlier this year. “Twenty percent of the 50 percent have been born as property of other men. We were inherited by other people.”</p>
<p>And Mauritania is direly in need of such dauntless slavery opponents. Through his own research, Dah Abeid believes his country possesses the highest number of chattel slaves in the world, to which he estimates 20 percent of his country’s 3.3 million people belong (Most observers admit, however, that an exact number is difficult to determine).</p>
<p>Mauritania’s slaves are black and their owners are Arabs or Berbers, called “whites,” who constitute about 20 percent of the population and almost all of the political, business and military elite class that controls the country. Like most other Mauritanians, both slaves and masters are Muslim, enmeshed in a cruel, life-destroying institution that dates back centuries in Mauritania, with some slave families remaining trapped in this evil for generations.</p>
<p>“This is a state racism that has become institutionalised, that has caused pogroms, purges, bloody purges, murdering of the black population, of different groups like the Wolof (a black African people)…” Dah Abeid said in his Geneva speech.</p>
<p>Dah Abeid belongs to the Haratin class, an oppressed group of people composed of freed slaves and their descendants, while members of black African groups, like the Wolof, form another 20 percent of Mauritania’s population. But all “free” black Mauritanians suffer discrimination based on race and live in what Dah Abeid calls “sub-citizenship.” Some “free” black Mauritanians’ slave origins can be identified in their names, like Dah Abeid’s, whose last name is Arabic for “slave.”</p>
<p>“The proverbs of our masters say that the difference between a slave and one who is freed is the distance which separates the tail of a cow from the ground. In Mauritania, our cows have very long tails,” Dah Abeid said in a <em><a href="http://slate.com">slate.com</a></em> interview.</p>
<p>In 2013, indicating the extent of the slavery tragedy in Mauritania, Global Slavery Index ranked the country number one in the world for its prevalence there. Slavery was abolished in Mauritania in 1981 and criminalized in 2007, but only one person has ever been convicted and jailed for owning a slave. Local and foreign observers of Mauritania’s human rights situation generally regard these decrees as having been made solely for foreign consumption. The slavery situation remains the same despite government denials that only “vestiges” remain.</p>
<p>However, Dah Abeid, a constant thorn in the ruling Arab-Berber class’s side regarding slavery, used Global Slavery Index’s announcement to “congratulate” in a sarcasm-laden speech his government’s winning “the trophy and the title of the first slave state in the world.”</p>
<p>“We (anti-slavery activists) have been working towards the re-foundation of a Mauritania without masters and servants but, once again, you have beaten us,” he said. “We will never stop complimenting you on this enviable place on the international stage that you have managed to achieve, after a hard fight, for our country…Your leader, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz deserves to be re-elected in the first round of the presidential election in 2014…”</p>
<p>With other members of the Mauritanian anti-slavery group <em>Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA) </em>he founded in 2008, Dah Abeid has undertaken several public actions to embarrass the government into freeing slaves and to abolish slavery. In 2011, for example, he and several others staged a protest demonstration to obtain a ten-year-old slave girl’s freedom from her mistress. The Mauritanian government reacted accordingly for a pro-slavery regime. It didn’t arrest the mistress under its 2007 law and free the girl but rather punished the protesters with jail terms.</p>
<p>In 2012, Dah Abeid and other IRA activists staged a sensational (for Mauritania) anti-slavery protest on a Friday outside a mosque. There, Dah Abeid symbolically destroyed a copy of the Sharia law code used by Mauritania’s ruling class to justify slavery. According to the eminent scholar of Islam, Bernard Lewis, “…the institution of slavery is not only recognized but is elaborately regulated by Sharia law.”</p>
<p>Dah Abeid said he made sure he first removed the pages referring to the Koran and those containing the names of the Prophet Mohammad and Allah before carrying out this provocative and symbolic act. The anti-slavery activist does not believe Sharia is divine law, as more fundamentalist Muslims do, saying it is simply outdated codes drawn up during Islam’s Middle Ages.</p>
<p>“In the Constitution of Mauritania, they are the primary source of law. But it completely contradicts the letter and spirit of the actual Quran, which is in its nature egalitarian,” he said.</p>
<p>The government reaction to the anti-Sharia demonstration was as overwhelming as it was barbaric. Dah Obeid’s home was violently raided and he and other anti-slavery activists were imprisoned and tortured. But due to the international outcry, President Aziz had him released from jail. A Sharia court, however, declared Dah Abeid an apostate and he is currently under sentence of death.</p>
<p>“There were TV programs transmitted that talked about how I was going to be hanged…,” he said. “And they said on television we will kill him, like we kill a cat.”</p>
<p>But Dah Abeid says what disturbed him the most about this grisly affair was the silence of “ambassadors of democratic countries” who “did not speak up about freedom of speech and worship.”</p>
<p>Dah Abeid and other Mauritanian anti-slavery activists have been arrested, imprisoned and tortured multiple times. Both his anti-slavery group and political party were banned almost the moment they were announced. Dah Obeid’s non-violent protest activities, sense of justice and self-sacrifice for the most powerless in his country remind one of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela, who, Dah Obeid says, is his role model. Fittingly, both Mandela and King were previous recipients of the same UN human rights award bestowed on Dah Abeid. But Dah Abeid’s struggle is probably fraught with more obstacles, since he is confronted with an established slave system, backed by Sharia law, and a slave-owning political class that supports both.</p>
<p>So it is all the more remarkable, and probably unprecedented, that the son of a slave, under sentence of death and heading a banned party, ran in a presidential election against the incumbent representative of his country’s slave-owning class. Despite the alleged voter fraud, <em>RAG </em>still managed to receive 8.72 percent of the vote. The other three presidential candidates all received under five percent. Some opposition parties boycotted the election to protest expected voting irregularities.</p>
<p>“If these elections were held under normal circumstances, I would get between 35 and 40 percent of the vote,” said Dah Abeid after the election.</p>
<p>Jeremy Keenan, a professorial research associate at the School of Africa and Oriental Studies at the University of London and author of several books on Africa, agrees. Before the election, Keenan wrote that “Mauritania’s elections under President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz are neither free, fair nor transparent.”</p>
<p>“If all Haratin (freed black slave class) and blacks were registered on the voters role, which they are not, and if Mauritanian elections were 100 per cent free and fair, which they are not, and if all Haratin-blacks voted on racist-ethnic lines, which is conceivable, then Biram Dah Abeid would be president,” wrote Keenan.</p>
<p>The mainstream media’s neglect regarding Dah Abeid and the Mauritanian election story is all the more curious when one considers the story’s heroic nature as well as its far-reaching implications that could eventually end the suffering of hundreds of thousands of enslaved black African Mauritanians, whose same sad fate the young Nigerian women are now experiencing. Already, Dah Abeid’s and <em>IRA’s</em> efforts are reported to have led to the release of two thousand slaves.</p>
<p>And that, definitely, is news worth reporting.</p>
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		<title>Syrian Jihad Comes to France</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[French jihadists return home.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/nemmouche534.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-226859" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/nemmouche534-450x253.jpg" alt="nemmouche534" width="322" height="181" /></a>Last February, French authorities broke up a terrorist plot they described as “imminent,” seizing nine hundred grams of explosives from the apartment building of a twenty-three year-old Islamist recently returned from Syria where he was suspected of having waged jihad. Two men escaped the police raid, in which several wills were also found, one belonging to a 25-year-old man described as “a candidate for the jihad.”</p>
<p>“This case is emblematic of that which one has always feared,” a police source close to the investigation told the French newspaper, <i>Le Figaro, </i>at the time, explaining that young French Muslims who had participated in the Syrian jihad and returned “radical, trained, hardened” with a terrorist project in mind are France’s newest terrorist threat.</p>
<p>This fear became a reality for French authorities when Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, a French Muslim and veteran jihadist of the Syrian war, was arrested Friday in southern France “in possession of firearms and large quantities of ammunition.” Nemmouche is suspected of having killed three people in a shooting rampage in Brussel’s Jewish museum on May 24. After the arrest, police apparently found a video he made, claiming responsibility for the attack.</p>
<p>The French government’s growing concern about the danger posed by returning jihadists to France (and now to other countries) manifested itself last April when Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced a plan to prevent young French Muslims from leaving home for Syria. Once there, they join the al-Qaida-connected al-Nusra Front to battle the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Some also enlist in the even more extreme terrorist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). All of which only deepens their radicalization and hatred for the West.</p>
<p>The French government’s plan contains about 20 measures, chief among which is a “green number”, active since April 29, which people can privately inform authorities about potential jihadists. In its first ten days of operation, the anti-jihad “green number” was reported in the French media to have registered 24 cases (18 by phone and six by internet) of interest to authorities. They involved people between the ages of 14 and 34, of which eight were women and 16 men.</p>
<p>“These calls have already established five actual departures for Syria,” an interior ministry source told <i>Le Figaro</i>.</p>
<p>But opposition political leader Marine Le Pen of the National Front Party called Cazeneuve’s plan “cosmetic.”</p>
<p>“It does not attack the root of the problem, the speech in some mosques that are genuine calls to jihad,” Le Pen told a French radio station. “Nor does the plan attack recruiters and funding from foreign countries known to support terrorist fundamentalism, such as Qatar.”</p>
<p>What triggered France’s sudden concern for citizens and residents taking part in the Syrian war three years after its outbreak was not security issues but rather the deaths of two young brothers killed there last December. They were part of a group of 12 young French Muslims that had left France to fulfill their jihad duty in Syria. The brothers’ deaths and this group’s departure “unleashed a mobilization against jihadist indoctrination” in France early this year.</p>
<p>But another, perhaps more important, reason regarding the French government’s sudden interest in returning French jihadists concerns numbers. Cazeneuve revealed the disturbing fact that the number of Syria-bound French jihadists has increased 75 percent over the past few months. Security officials are calling this “an unheard of exodus.” Altogether, according to Cazenueve’s figures, 285 French Muslims are currently involved in “the Syrian quagmire,” 120 are in transit, a further 100 had returned to France and about 30 have perished in the conflict.</p>
<p>These are astonishing numbers when compared to the approximately 50 French jihadists intelligence officials identified as having taken part in the Afghanistan jihad from 2001 to 2011. In total, about 2,000 European Muslims are believed to have reached the Syrian battlefields, according to the military news website <a href="http://strategypage.com/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>strategypage.com</i></span></a>. About 100 Americans jihadists are also believed to be in Syria, one of whom last week became the first American suicide bomber there.</p>
<p>And as if all this wasn’t cause enough for concern, French authorities have admitted they will not be able to keep track of the expected large numbers of returning jihadists, stating that surveillance “is going to cost a fortune.” In other words, they will be overwhelmed &#8211; if they aren’t already. One observer perhaps illuminated this unsettling situation best when, using dark humour, he commented that, at this rate, there will be so many former French jihadists from the Syrian war the government will have to build a veterans homes for them.</p>
<p>The extent of the France’s jihadist problem is actually worse than Cazeneuve portrayed. There are also French citizens waging jihad in North Africa as well as in Yemen where two French nationals were recently arrested in connection with the war al-Qaeda is waging against Yemen’s government. So the number of current and former French jihadists is actually estimated by some at about 800. But this may not include those flying under the radar and as yet unknown to authorities.</p>
<p>To give an idea of the extent of the European jihadist phenomenon, according to <a href="http://strategypage.com/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>strategypage.com</i></span></a>, Turkey, a major entry point to Syria, currently has a list of about 4,000 European Muslims that their governments believe are jihad bound and have asked be detained. Turkey has caught and returned about 500 so far.</p>
<p>Some of the French jihadists have been arrested upon their return to France and put on trial for associating with a terrorist group. But, if convicted, the punishments they receive are usually light. And if they are minors, then none at all.</p>
<p>One of the problems the French legal system faces in prosecuting returned jihadists is that they have not committed a crime on French soil. It is also sometimes difficult to establish whether they actually joined a banned terrorist group when abroad. Some of the accused have said they had left France simply to go on holidays<i>. Le Figaro</i> reports that there are currently 40 cases before the courts regarding French jihadists. Some concern crimes, such as armed robbery, committed by jihadi hopefuls before leaving France to finance their trip to the Syrian battlefields.</p>
<p>Some of the reasons offered for jihad’s attraction for young French Muslims range from poor integration into French society (between 50 and 60 percent of men in French prisons are Muslim, although Muslims make up only ten percent of France’s population), testing the limits of authority of a society that has set few for young people, and the doctrine of Islamic supremacy. The latter is inculcated by radical preachers who do not like non-Islamic societies and do not accept that other religions are equal to Islam. Rather, France and other western countries must become Islamic, by force if necessary.</p>
<p>Because of the large numbers of French Muslims taking part in the Syrian jihad and the resulting danger they represent, many in France are now questioning the meaning of French citizenship. This issue may now become a burning one after Nemmouche’s arrest.</p>
<p>It is currently argued that returning jihadists may be French nationals, but are citizens only on paper. In addition, many French jihadists, like the two arrested in Yemen, possess dual citizenship, often from an Islamic state. As one observer commented, they are not French “neither by culture, nor by their mode of living, nor by any attachment to France.”</p>
<p>“They have only a French identity card,” stated another. “It is the difference between being and having.”</p>
<p>As a result, it has been proposed that French jihadists not be allowed to return to France because of the increasingly visible security risk. Some believe they should not even be prevented from leaving the country, only prevented from returning. This argument was given a boost when four French journalists, kidnapped and held eleven months by ISIL, said after their release last April that some of their captors spoke French. This topic will probably receive greater attention after the Brussel’s tragedy.</p>
<p>Gilbert Collard, a National Front federal parliamentarian, put forward the non-return argument on French television last April after the kidnapped journalists’ homecoming. He prophetically stated it is necessary to prevent the jihadists’ re-entry into France in order to avoid more killings like those committed by Mohammed Merah, a French Muslim terrorist who murdered three Jews and four soldiers in France in 2012. Regarding the danger these jihadists pose, Collard said one would have to be “completely mindless, decerebrated, not to be worried.”</p>
<p>“One is going to have …people who have left to conduct holy war return to French territory trained, equipped and who are going to be unmanageable,” he said.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, due to an unshaken belief in multiculturalism and an attachment to the Muslim vote, France’s socialist government will most likely never adopt Collard’s common-sense, life-saving proposal, especially since he belongs to the party French socialists love to hate. But this unwillingness and inability to look reality in the face and confront the danger radical Islam and jihad pose to France, insures that returning jihadists do not have much to fear in the future, while law-abiding French and European citizens, especially Jewish ones, do.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Kaweesi.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224397" alt="Kaweesi" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Kaweesi-450x279.png" width="315" height="195" /></a>With Russia threatening Ukraine’s sovereignty, Iran readying a nuclear weapon and China threatening America-friendly neighbors, the White House has indicated its true foreign policy priorities by denying a top Ugandan police official’s entry to the United States. The Ugandan official was on his way to attend an FBI anti-terrorism training course, but he is not welcome due to his government’s anti-homosexual policy.</p>
<p>According to a report in the Ugandan newspaper, <i>The</i> <i>Observer</i>, the barring of the police official has its roots in the controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill that Uganda’s President, Yoweri Museveni, signed into law last February, making homosexuality a crime with a possible life sentence for offenders. The bill has been roundly &#8212; and justly &#8212; condemned internationally, especially by the United States, the United Nations and Western European countries.</p>
<p><i>The</i> <i>Observer </i>reports that the officer in question, Police Commander Andrew Felix Kaweesi, police chief of Kampala, Uganda’s capital city, was denied an American entry visa. He was slated to take a three-month training course, located at the FBI’s junior academy, meant “to re-skill Kaweesi in investigating and handling new terrorism threats.”</p>
<p>The American embassy informed Kaweesi of Washington’s decision in a letter which cited the anti-homosexual law and “dampened American relations with Uganda” as the reasons for Kaweesi being denied the entry visa. The “dampened relations” referred to “opposition-led protests” that Ugandan police violently suppressed.</p>
<p>“It’s true that the American ambassador has written to me over the matter,” Kaweesi told <i>The</i> <i>Observer</i>, calling the decision “unfortunate,” saying the anti-gay law was meant “to protect Uganda’s cultural interests.”</p>
<p>With America herself having experienced terrible tragedies at the hands of Islamic terrorism, and with the anniversary of the Boston Marathon having just passed us,  the Obama administration’s treatment of Uganda, an ally in the worldwide battle against Jihad, in this recent episode is problematic, to say the least.</p>
<p>Along with other American-allied countries, Uganda has long shared the burden of the anti-jihad struggle, building a credible reputation in the process. The East African country has had troops stationed in Somalia for several years now, suffering casualties, as part of the African Union contingent fighting the Islamist terrorist group al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda-connected outfit. As a result of its anti-Islamist efforts, Uganda has also, like America, experienced deadly Islamist terrorist attacks of its own.</p>
<p>The worst such attack on Ugandan soil took place in 2010 during soccer’s World Cup. Al-Shaabab sent suicide bombers into two venues, a restaurant and a rugby club, where people had gathered to watch a game. The resulting carnage left 74 dead and 70 injured. It was al-Shaabab’s first terrorist attack outside of Somalia.</p>
<p>“Uganda is one of our enemies. Whatever makes them cry, makes us happy,” al-Shaabab leader, Sheik Yussa Sheik Issa, told Reuters after the attack, calling the East African nation “a major infidel country.”</p>
<p>Uganda has been targeted by Islamist terrorists since the 1990s. From 1998 to 2001, a homegrown Islamist terrorist group, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), conducted a bombing campaign that reached its climax in Kampala in 1999. The ADF’s deadliest attack, however, occurred a year earlier when it set fire to the dormitories of a technical college, killing 80 students. A further 80 were abducted. The ADF was also suspected of plotting to kill Britain’s Queen Elizabeth when she came to speak to Uganda’s parliament in 2008.</p>
<p>With such solid, anti-Islamist credentials, “infidel” Uganda is obviously four-square in the fight with America against Islamic terrorism and deserves all the help America can provide. An enemy of al-Shaabab is definitely a friend of America’s.</p>
<p>While Uganda’s anti-homosexual law is clearly a reprehensible violation of human rights that should be rescinded, the question remains: is combating Islamic terror not a vitally important matter for all concerned, including homosexuals, due to the terrible death and destruction it leaves in its wake? Islamic ideology, after all, calls for the execution of homosexuals.</p>
<p>Denying a top Ugandan police official high-level, American anti-terrorism training may very well actually cost Ugandan homosexuals their lives. It is Ugandan security officers, like Kaweesi, after all, who are in the frontline of stopping Islamic terrorist attacks and the advent of Sharia Law. The better trained they are, the better they can combat Islamic terrorism and save all lives, including homosexuals. Jihadist bombs and bullets do not discriminate when it comes to sexual orientation.</p>
<p>One also can’t help asking whether a double standard exists in Washington’s banning of Kaweesi. It would be interesting to discover, for instance, whether the White House is treating Saudi Arabian officials in a similar manner, coming as they do from a country that persecutes and executes homosexuals under Sharia Law.</p>
<p>In the end, it’s not just African lives that the Obama administration’s foreign policy priorities, in this context, are endangering, but American ones as well. In the sizeable number of Islamic terrorist attacks East Africa has, and is still, experiencing, Americans have also perished. The best example is the American embassy bombings of 1998. More recently, in the 2010 Kampala attacks, an American was killed and several were wounded.</p>
<p>Former CIA director George Tenet adds his voice to the danger Americans have faced from Islamist terrorism in East Africa, stating in his book, <i>At the Center of the</i> <i>Storm: My Years at the CIA</i>, that the US embassy in Kampala was a Jihadist terrorist target. A Southeast Asian terrorist organization, Tenet writes, brought in “four trucks filled with C-4 explosives” only two months before 9/11 to destroy the building and its occupants. But Egyptian intelligence tipped off the CIA, which then informed Ugandan security officials, preventing the disaster.</p>
<p>East Africa is an important front in the anti-jihad struggle. By training security officials from the region’s countries to the highest standards possible, America, as it should, is contributing to and helping ensure the safety and preservation of both African and American lives. In an interview with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) after the 2010 terrorist attacks in Kampala, President Obama, America’s first black president with family roots in East Africa, appeared to indicate that saving African lives was a high priority with him when he criticized Islamic terrorist organizations, like al-Qaeda and al-Shaabab, for not regarding “African life as valuable in and of itself.”</p>
<p>“They see it (Africa) as a potential place where you can carry out ideological battles that kill innocents without regard to long-term consequences for their short-term tactical gains,” he told the SABC.</p>
<p>Ironically, it is now Obama and his leftist supporters who are waging an “ideological battle,” disregarding the “long-term consequences” their politically correct decision regarding Kaweesi may have. In the end, their decision may cost more African “innocents” their lives, just the opposite of what President Obama is supposedly intending with his foreign policy decisions.</p>
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		<title>Africa’s Sorrow, Obama’s Shame</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2013 04:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama ignores modern-day Arab slavery victims during his African odyssey.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/slave55.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-196051" alt="slave55" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/slave55-450x298.jpg" width="270" height="179" /></a>It was another devastating blow for black Africa’s most powerless from the world’s most powerful black American. Like in his 2009 African visit when he visited a former European slave depot in Ghana, during his recently concluded 2013 African tour U.S. President Barack Obama again deemed that the defunct trans-Atlantic slave trade was the only past black African slavery worthy of his attention.</p>
<p>While paying homage to the victims of the trans-Atlantic trade is obviously necessary for myriad reasons, the U.S. president failed once more not only to mention Africa’s other historical slave trade, Arab slavery, that also involved millions of black Africans, but also to speak up against its thriving and equally savage, modern-day version. And what makes this grievous omission on Obama’s part even more glaring is that it did not occur through lack of opportunity.</p>
<p>On the contrary. Obama’s first stop on his three-country African tour was the West African state of Senegal, where he took time to visit a former slave fort on Goree Island, a World Heritage site located just offshore from Dakar, the country’s capital. In an image that went around the world, he was photographed framed in the fort’s infamous Door of No Return, through which untold numbers of black African captives went to board the slave ships bound for the Americas. Obama described his Goree Island visit as “a very powerful moment.&#8221;</p>
<p>“This is a testament to when we’re not vigilant in defense of human rights what can happen,” said Obama afterward. “Obviously, for an African American president, to be able to visit this site gives me even greater motivation in terms of human rights around the world.”</p>
<p>It is tragic, however, that the “greater motivation in terms of human rights” his Goree Island visit gave him did not motivate Obama to take the opportunity to denounce the inhuman Arab slave trade that currently plagues Africa, thereby promoting the human rights of its black African victims as well as giving them hope.</p>
<p>Ironically, Obama would not have had to stray far from his African tour’s itinerary to do so. Just across Senegal’s northern border in Mauritania, for example, the anti-slavery organization SOS Esclaves estimates that there are about 500,000 black African slaves in the country’s population of 3.1 million. Their masters are the Arab and Berber Mauritanians, who share only the same Islamic religion with their chattel. Unlike the slaves who went through the Door of No Return, though, who were often captured in the old-fashioned, village-burning slave raid (as currently occurs in Sudan), the Mauritanian African slaves are the product of a system that has kept them in a state of bondage going back, in some cases, several hundred years.</p>
<p>Mauritania has banned slavery several times in its history, indicating its prevalence; the most recent anti-slavery law was issued in 2007. But Samuel Cotton, an African-American writer who investigated slavery in Mauritania in the 1990s, called these decrees “woefully ineffective mandates,” observers saying they were made for foreign consumption. An indication of the Mauritanian government’s insincerity regarding slavery’s abolition occurred in 2011. Four Mauritanian anti-slavery activists were sentenced to six months in jail for protesting the enslavement of a ten-year-old girl. No punishment was ever handed out to her female master and the girl disappeared.</p>
<p>Even more ironic, if Obama truly was interested in the issue of black African slavery and promoting human rights, as he stated he was, all he had to do was look over his shoulder when he was on Goree Island. According to Cotton’s book, <i>Silent Terror: A Journey Into Contemporary African Slavery</i>, the result of his trip documenting slavery in Mauritania, Mauritanian Arabs and Berbers bring their black slaves with them to work in Dakar almost within sight of Goree Island. Cotton quotes from a book by an African scholar, Garba Diallo, who spoke with two such slaves working in their master’s store in Dakar.</p>
<p>“Shockingly, no one seems to notice that a black slave is still being kept in bondage, right in the heart of Dakar, by his Moorish master,” Diallo stated. Apparently, Obama didn’t either.</p>
<p>Obama’s other lost opportunity to be “vigilant in the defense of human rights” and draw the world’s attention to the evil of the Arab slave trade, both past and present, occurred in Tanzania, the last stop of his 2013 African tour. However, while Obama made time to visit Goree Island, he never ventured near Zanzibar, an island belonging to Tanzania and a former bastion of the Arab slave trade in East Africa. At its slave-trading height in the 1860s, Zanzibar disposed of 20,000 slaves annually. Some were exported to Arabia, the Persian Gulf, India and European plantations on Indian Ocean islands. Thousands more stayed in Zanzibar to work on cloves plantations or were sent to farms on the East African coast.</p>
<p>If Obama had visited Stone Town, the slave trade’s former center on Zanzibar and now a World Heritage site, it would have been an eye-opener. He would have learned that while Goree Island had its Door of No Return, Stone Town had its equally infamous “whipping post.” It was here that the slaves, when being auctioned, were tied and whipped. The point of this cruelty was that the slave dealers received a higher price for those unfortunate black Africans who didn’t cry out, their silence being regarded somehow as an indicator of strength. And the whip used was reportedly the tail of a stingray.</p>
<p>An Anglican church now occupies the spot of the old Stone Town slave market, built with the help of former slaves, to mark the end of slavery in Zanzibar and the slave market’s closure, under British pressure, in 1873. Its altar stands over the spot where the whipping post was located. But the most remarkable tribute to the suffering of the former slaves is the stunning monument constructed, near the church, above the 15 damp, bare underground cells where they were kept in cramped conditions until their sale.</p>
<p>The monument consists of five stone figures in a pit, representing captured slaves, who appear to be rising out of the earth. They are wearing original shackles around their necks that were once worn by the humans they portray. And while Obama, whose focus on the trans-Atlantic slave trade and lack of interest in Arab slavery probably has much to do with catering to the African-American vote, did not consider it fit to recognize the suffering of the millions of black African victims of Arab slavery, an African-American traveler managed, however, after she had visited the site, to capture in words the essence and the horror of this slave trade the monument so powerfully depicts:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Male and female figures jut out of the earth like cement plants, sunflowers without a sunny story to tell. The humaneness of their features and the abject expressions on their faces made me feel like they were real, standing there, chained forever to one another and to the earth. They looked tired and weary, but still strong, like they really walked all the way from Lake Tanganyika to stand in this cement box and remind you what had happened before it was a grassy patch outside an unassuming church. The artist knew what he was doing when he made those penetrating, yet lifeless cement eyes, protruding collar bones and muscular deltoids. I can’t help but hope the lasting, stinging impression left on me is felt by every visitor…”</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Al-Qaeda’s Anti-Black Racism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 04:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some jihadists are more equal than others.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/stephenbrown/al-qaedas-anti-black-racism/jihadimage-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-176175"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-176175" title="jihad+image" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/jihad+image1.jpg" alt="" width="306" height="203" /></a>George Orwell’s famous statement that some pigs are more equal than others can also be applied to al-Qaeda today.</p>
<p>The premiere Islamist terrorist organization that all others try to emulate has always prided itself on welcoming equally as brothers all those who adopt its narrow and violent version of Islam. But the current conflict in Mali, where al-Qaeda attempted to take over an African country in a military offensive, has helped reveal the falsity of its equality claim, exposing on closer inspection the Arab racism against black African jihadists in Al-Qaeda’s North African franchise, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).</p>
<p>The current battle against Islamists in Mali that saw their gunmen advance several hundred miles south, dangerously close to the country’s capital, before French intervention forced them back involved fighters from three different jihadist groups. One, Ansar Dine (Defenders of the Faith), is made up of Mali’s native Tuaregs who inhabit the country’s northern part. Another is the more famous AQIM, while the last is the relatively unknown Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA), which broke away from the AQIM in 2011.</p>
<p>Largely unnoticed by the mainstream media, the reason MOJWA splintered off from AQIM was due to the marginalisation of its black African members and the contempt in which AQIM’s Arabs hold blacks in general. For example, AQIM is definitely not an equal opportunity employer. No black African is known to hold a leadership position in the terrorist organization.</p>
<p>Robert Fowler, a former Canadian diplomat, witnessed up close this Arab racism against black jihadists in AQIM when he was an AQIM hostage for 130 days in the Sahara Desert in 2010. Fowler was on special assignment for the United Nations when kidnapped with another Canadian diplomat in Niger. He recorded his experiences in his book A Season In Hell: My 130 Days In The Sahara With Al Qaeda. Fowler noted that “there was a big gulf in the AQIM between those who were black and those who were not,” observing that Arabs, primarily Algerians, were the AQIM leaders, while blacks and young Arabs composed the rank and file.</p>
<p>“They preached equality, but did not practise it,” records Fowler. “Sub-Saharan Africans were clearly second class in the eyes of AQIM.”</p>
<p>AQIM’s anti-black racism even appeared when one of his Arab kidnappers tried to get Fowler to convert to Islam, emphasising as a positive point his religion’s egalitarianism regarding other races. Using blacks as an example, the jihadist explained to Fowler: “No matter how black they are, how ugly, how flat their noses, or how much their sweat smells, God considers them equal.” The irony of his choice of words somehow escaped their speaker.</p>
<p>Fowler encountered a possibly more telling example of Arab racism against blacks when an Arab jihadist saw Fowler and his fellow Canadian captive washing their clothes. The Arab asked whether their wives did this at home. Upon receiving a positive response as well as an explanation that they sometimes did it together, the Arab appeared both amazed and disgusted. This prompted the two hostages to ask their captor whether he performed this chore in his household. Genuinely horrified, the jihadist responded: “Of course not! We have slaves for that!”</p>
<p>While the jihadist did not tell Fowler whether his slaves were black, there is a good chance that they are. Arab and Berber enslavement of black Africans is well entrenched in Africa’s Sahel region, the continent’s worst area for this inhuman activity. It is estimated there are between 300,000 to 500,000 black African slaves in Mauritania, about 200,000 in Mali and a further unknown number in Niger that could encompass between one and eight percent of the country&#8217;s population. True numbers are nearly impossible to obtain since many slaves belong to nomads or live in areas where government institutions are weak or non-existent.</p>
<p>One Arab jihadist, however, did admit to Fowler during his captivity the existence of anti-black racism in AQIM, calling it “a problem.” And it became so big a problem the black Africans split off from AQIM and formed their own al-Qaeda-loyal jihadist outfit the year after Fowler’s unexpected and unpleasant stay.</p>
<p>The roots of Arab anti-black racism in AQIM, and elsewhere in the Arab world, are to be found in the centuries-old abomination of Islamic slavery of black Africans that continues to this day. It has created a mindset of racial superiority among some Arabs that views blacks as scarcely human and enslaving them as the natural order of things. Although they insist their religion commands equality, for them that is laughable, even for the religious purists of al-Qaeda, when it comes to blacks. African-American Samuel Cotton encountered this horrifying mindset when he explored the Arab/Berber slavery of black Africans in Mauritania in the 1990s.</p>
<p>“The problem is that Mauritania’s Arabs sincerely believe that blacks are inferior and are born to be slaves,” wrote Cotton in his book Silent Terror: A Journey Into Contemporary African Slavery. “They believe that a black man, woman or child’s place in life is to serve an Arab master…”</p>
<p>But one shouldn’t feel sorry for MOJWA’s black jihadists and rush to launch anti-discrimination complaints on their behalf. Just because it has a black leadership doesn’t mean MOJWA is any less ruthless or bloodthirsty than AQIM. It has the same hatred of ‘infidels’, interest in spreading jihad and uses the same bloodthirsty methods. It has kidnapped aid workers, diplomats (executing one), set off a car bomb and recently tried to overthrow the Malian government by force. It was MOJWA leader Omar Ould Hamaha, for example, who warned France that she had “opened the doors of hell” by intervening in Mali.</p>
<p>But the lesson to be learned in the formation of MOJWA is that anti-black racism cancels out religion, even in al-Qaeda. This crack in al Qaeda’s armour is, hopefully, a weakness that can be exploited as the worldwide jihad continues apace.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 04:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frontpage editor Jamie Glazov's new book issues a dire warning.]]></description>
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<p>With Obama now heading into his second term and clearly intent on giving the Middle East away to Islamists and allowing the Muslim Brotherhood to infiltrate his own administration, a new book has arrived to diagnose this dire situation and offer potential remedies that Americans can apply.</p>
<p>Dr. Jamie Glazov’s <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/High-Noon-America-Coming-Showdown/dp/0986941433/?tag=wwwbreitbartc-20" target="_blank"><em>High Noon For America: The Coming Showdown</em></a></em> dissects how and why this administration is severely undermining American national interests and leaving us vulnerable to penetration and attack. In so doing, High Noon is an extremely relevant read, since it underscores exactly what is flawed with Obama’s foreign policy and what policies must be adopted for America to regain its security.</p>
<p>It is not often that one comes across a book like <em>High Noon</em>, consisting solely of symposia. And it is rarer still to find a work of this kind that contains so many absorbing, profound and thought-provoking ones. But Dr. Glazov, who serves as the editor of David Horowitz’s Frontpagemag.com, has accomplished this feat in this, his latest tome. In <em>High Noon</em>, there are 28 symposia, divided into eight sections. They cover topics ranging from the war in the Middle East and Islamic radicalism to the former Soviet Union and its current incarnation, the question of America’s decline, and even a discussion on faith. Soon after opening the book, the reader perceives that it is permeated with an undercurrent and concern for freedom, both for societies and individuals. And like a philosopher-journalist, Glazov guides these profound discussions with a sure touch as the symposia’s moderator, skilfully handling an immense mass of detail.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Besides his position as FrontPage editor, which keeps him in constant connection with the critical and ominous issues facing America, as well as Western civilization today, Glazov’s other qualifications make him well-suited for producing a work of such admirably conceived and deeply interesting symposia. He holds a Ph.D in history with specialties in U.S., Russian and Canadian foreign policy. He is also the author of the critically-acclaimed <a href="http://www.amazon.com/United-Hate-Romance-Tyranny-Terror/dp/1935071602/?tag=wwwbreitbartc-20" target="_blank"><em>United In Hate: The Left’s Romance With Tyranny and Terror</em></a>, in which he documents the Western Left’s alliance with radical Islam.</p>
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<p> And lastly, as regards <em>High Noon</em>’s undertone of freedom, as the son of Soviet dissidents who fled to safety to the United States, Glazov possesses an instinctive understanding of this unassailable virtue (in the book’s acknowledgements, Glazov writes poignantly about how the family’s flight to America saw him, at age 5, cut off forever from his beloved grandmother).</p>
<p>As attractive as the topics are, the real strength of this singularly important book, and its chief selling point, lies in the outstanding and independent-thinking intellectuals, many of them experts in their fields, that Glazov has assembled to dissect the important and relevant issues presented. Former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky and Lt. Gen. Ion Pacepa, a top security official in Ceausescu’s Romania before defecting to the United States, Nonie Darwish and Robert Spencer, both acknowledged experts on Islam, and Robert “Bud” McFarlane, Ronald Reagan’s national security advisor, to name only a few, all help make <em>High Noon For America</em> an intellectually stimulating book of high order and a work of substance.</p>
<p>In ‘The Shadow of the KGB’ symposium, for example, Pacepa succinctly describes the political process in Russia after 1991 that led to the appearance of Putin’s KGB regime as “…like democratizing Germany with Gestapo officers at its helm.” Continuing on that theme, David Satter, a senior fellow of the Hudson Institute, warns that a KGB-dominated Russian government will not only lead “to an aggressive and unpredictable Russian foreign policy,” it will cause “an intellectual and moral stagnation that makes Russia the scene of possible future horrors.”</p>
<p>In the symposium ‘American Economic and Military Decline,’ James Carafano, the Deputy Director for the Davis Institute for International Study at the Heritage Foundation, makes two salient points. He states that rather than talk aboutAmerica’s decline, “it might be better to talk about the rest of the world ascending.” But, just as incisively, Carafano does perceive “America’s traditional model of immigration,” an area of concern, as being “under assault.”</p>
<p>“Mostly what we do today is import poverty and generations are not assimilating as they did in the past,” he states.</p>
<p>And it is statements like those above that give Glazov’s symposia an attractive bluntness, free of any political correctness that surrounds most discussions on political issues today.</p>
<p>While all the symposia are an achievement, two in particular stand out: ‘Remembering the Dissident: Alexander Solzhenitsyn’ and ‘The Fear That Wilders Is Right’. In ‘Remembering the Dissident,’ former Russian dissidents and Western experts on Russia discuss Solzhenitsyn’s overall importance and the role he played in bringing down the Soviet empire, ending that threat to civilization. In this respect, Solzhenitsyn’s classic work, <em>The Gulag Archipelago</em>, is given its proper due in this discussion.</p>
<p>In the symposium ‘The Fear That Wilders Is Right,’ Roger Simon pointedly enlightens the reader as to the reason why the Dutch politician Geert Wilders is demonized for his well-known warnings about the danger radical Islam poses to the West. Those doing the demonizing, Simons maintains, are simply “living in fear” that Wilders is right.</p>
<p>“They have to hate Wilders,” states Simons, “because if he is correct, their whole world disintegrates.”</p>
<p>So there is something for everyone in <em>High Noon For America</em>, especially for those who want to delve into previously unknown areas or wish to expand their knowledge about subjects they may already be familiar with. And the person who does so will be well rewarded. Very few volumes on political topics nowadays, especially ones surveying today’s ominous events, are as muscular as Glazov’s symposia. Also, in very few volumes will one find such abundant knowledge, clear, deep thought, and precise speech espoused by people who possess such outstanding intellectual qualities and fearless character.</p>
<p>To a leftist, this book is a heresy that should never appear on a college course reading list. That should tell thinking people that <em>High Noon For America</em> is a work of high value that contains discussions and ideas from which a reader may acquire an entirely new outlook on life, America, and the world today. More importantly, High Noon issues an urgent warning to Americans, illuminating the threat we face and the catastrophe that masquerades as Obama’s foreign policy. It also makes clear to the reader that there is no time to waste. And in seeing this horror, the reader is able to gauge what arsenal America needs to equip itself in the face of the enemies that fervently seek to destroy it.</p>
<p><em>Stephen Brown is a freelance journalist and has a graduate degree in Russian and Eastern European studies from the University of Toronto.</em></p>
<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note: Don&#8217;t miss Josh Brewster&#8217;s Blockbuster one-on-one exclusive interview with Dr. Jamie Glazov about <em>High Noon For America: The Coming Showdown</em>. See the two part video series below:</strong></p>
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		<title>Woman Exercises Her Rights – And Some Lefts – Against Iran’s Veiling Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cleric badly beaten, sent to hospital for three days, by woman he told to cover up.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/burqa_prison.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-146002" title="burqa_prison" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/burqa_prison.gif" alt="" width="375" height="239" /></a>A woman in the Iranian city of Shamirzad, angered earlier this month by a cleric who told her she was insufficiently covered, decided that enough was enough with such religious street harassment and took matters into her own hands. Or rather her fists and feet, to be more exact.</p>
<p>Women in Iran are required to be covered up in public in accordance with a law introduced after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, causing most never to leave home without first wrapping themselves up in a body-encompassing black hijab. Women appearing in public deemed improperly covered are warned, and sometimes even beaten, by an assortment of morality guardians that include a morality police, regular police, busybody clerics or general, run-of-the mill religious fanatics.</p>
<p>But this apparently fed-up Iranian female was obviously not in the mood for any more religious street bullying, at least on this particular day. After the admonishment about the state of her dress, she abruptly told the intrusive cleric, Hojetoeslam Ali Beheshti: “You should close your eyes.”</p>
<p>“Not only didn’t she cover herself up, but she started shouting and threatening me,” said Beheshti after the brush off.</p>
<p>Beheshti should have taken the woman’s hard-line refusal and behavior as a warning sign. But his supposedly divinely-ordered duty to keep the streets of the mullah state safe for Iranian men who might lose all sexual self-control at the sight of a bare, well-turned ankle and other such horrendous, woman-derived, society-threatening evil appears to have overridden all common sense and he unwisely repeated his admonishment. Bad mistake.</p>
<p>“She pushed me and I fell to the ground on my back,” Beheshti related. “From that point on, I don’t know what happened. I was just feeling the kicks of the woman who was beating me up and insulting me.”</p>
<p>The price of the poor cleric’s martyrdom for the cause of “commanding right and forbidding wrong,” as his moral guardian duties are officially called, was a three-day stay in the hospital.</p>
<p>Golnaz Esfandiari, a correspondent for Radio Free Europe, wrote about the incident on her blog, saying the story appeared in the semi-official Iranian news agency, <em>Mehr</em>. An Iranian woman herself, Esfandiari says she does not support violence but has an understanding of the cleric-beating woman’s actions.</p>
<p>&#8220;[A]s a woman who grew up in Iran and was harassed many times for appearing in public in a way that was deemed un-Islamic, I understand the frustration that that woman in Semnan (Province) must have felt and why she lashed out at the cleric,” Esfandiari wrote. “For the past 30 years, Iranian women have been harassed by the morality police, security forces, and zealots over their appearance[.]&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Europe’s Multicultural Nightmare</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outbreaks of violence rising to levels rarely seen in the modern era. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/1246048009563l.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-144493" title="1246048009563l" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/1246048009563l.gif" alt="" width="375" height="249" /></a>“The festival gives expression to our demand for a peaceful coexistence of all humans with their different cultures, languages and traditions.”</em></p>
<p>- Proclamation of the festival’s organizers.</p>
<p>The beautiful, rosy multicultural paradise Europe’s leftists promised in the 1960s and &#8217;70s manifested itself brilliantly again recently at a Kurdish festival in Mannheim, a German city in the south-western state of Baden-Wurttemberg. Almost as soon as the festival began, German police were set upon by hundreds of young Kurds who were encouraged “with words and applause” by thousands of others. When the shocking, hours-long savagery ended, eighty policemen were injured, one seriously, while “more than a dozen vehicles were destroyed” before order could be restored.</p>
<p>Martin Boll, a spokesman for Mannheim’s police, said he had never seen such violence in his 30 years of police service.</p>
<p>“The outbreak of violence by the attackers was enormous,” said Boll, who was described by German newspapers as “visibly shaken” by the events. “Hundreds, if not more than a thousand Kurdish assailants stormed towards the police and threw stones at officials.”</p>
<p>One German newspaper said policemen had to “throw themselves down behind vehicles” in order to avoid the pavement stones, glass bottles, bricks, barricades and even firecrackers that were being thrown at them.</p>
<p>It was estimated 40,000 people, of whom 2,500 were regarded as “violent or violence-prepared,” attended the twentieth holding of this annual “multicultural” event. Most of the previous 19 Kurdish festivals had been held in the German state of Rhineland-Westphalia. An estimated 600,000 to 800,000 Kurds live in Germany, but Kurds had travelled from all over Europe for this year’s festival in Mannheim.</p>
<p>The riot began when officials of a security firm contracted by the festival’s organizers asked two policemen for assistance with a 14-year-old Kurdish youth who was refusing to give up a flag he was carrying of the banned Kurdish terrorist group, the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK).  Apparently angry at the police intervention, about 100 young Kurds “suddenly attacked the two policemen from behind and kicked them in the back.” The violence escalated from there as more police and thugs were drawn in.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the Mannheim riot is not an isolated incident. Germans and other Europeans are becoming more accustomed to seeing their municipal police forces attacked by people who, for the most part, had been allowed into Europe under the multicultural banner or asylum laws.</p>
<p>Last May, for example, three German policemen were injured when Salafists, adherents of a violent, ultra-conservative strain of Islam, attacked police in Solingen with stones. The Salafists were staging a counter-demonstration against a rally by members of the Pro Rhineland-Westphalia Party (PRO NRW), a group that is protesting the Islamization of Germany. The Salafists, some of whom were German converts, said they were provoked by caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad the PRO NRW demonstrators were carrying. But since there were no stones in the demonstration area, police believe the Salafists had brought them, indicating their violent intentions. There were 40 arrests.</p>
<p>Also in May, hundreds of Salafists fought “a brutal street battle” with police in Bonn after PRO NRW demonstrators again held up caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad outside the King Fahd Academy. During the riot, a policewoman and a policeman were seriously injured by a Salafist in a knife attack, suffering “severe cut and stab wounds.”</p>
<p>“The radical Islamists attacked (police) officials with roof laths, stones, steel balls, and even knives,” reported the German newspaper <em>Die Welt </em>of the Bonn violence. “Altogether, 29 policemen were injured and 100 Islamists arrested.”</p>
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		<title>Muslim Axe-Murderer Freed After Killing Armenian Officer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 04:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Criminal receives hero’s welcome in native Azerbaijan.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/gurgen-margaryan.jpeg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-142901" title="gurgen-margaryan" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/gurgen-margaryan.jpeg" alt="" width="336" height="224" /></a>A Muslim Azeri did not have to wait for death and Allah’s promised paradise to receive his rewards for killing a Christian. Only eight years in prison was sufficient for that.</p>
<p>The early release from a Hungarian prison of axe-murderer Rami Safarov, 35, a native of Azerbaijan and an officer in that country’s military, has not only seen a terrible injustice done but has resulted in a criminal being well rewarded for his barbaric crime. The Hungarian government, for reasons that have yet to be discerned, released Safarov after he had served only six years of a 30 year sentence for having murdered 26-year-old Armenian army Lt. Gurgen Markarian in his sleep with an axe in 2004 in Budapest. Safarov had also spent about two years in jail before a verdict was rendered.</p>
<p>Upon his return on August 31 to Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital, on <a href="http://www.armenianweekly.com/2012/09/01/praise-rewards-and-promotion-for-pardoned-azeri-murderer/">“a special flight,”</a> Safarov was feted as a national hero and amply rewarded for his savagery. Once safely on Azeri territory, Safarov was immediately pardoned by Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev; he was also promoted two ranks and received eight years of back-pay as well as an apartment.</p>
<p>“With their joint actions the authorities of Hungary and Azerbaijan have opened the door for the recurrence of such crimes. With this decision they convey a clear message to the butchers. The slaughterers hereafter are well aware of the impunity they can enjoy for murder driven by ethnic or religious hatred,” <a href="http://www.armenianweekly.com/2012/09/01/praise-rewards-and-promotion-for-pardoned-azeri-murderer/">said</a> Armenia’s president, Serge Sarkisian, to foreign diplomats at a meeting called to address the travesty.</p>
<p>When the crime occurred, Safarov and Markarian were attending English language courses at the, considering the turn of events, ironically-labelled Partnership For Peace, a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation-sponsored event. One night, while Markarian was sleeping, Safarov took an axe and hit him 16 times, <a href="http://www.armenianweekly.com/2012/09/01/praise-rewards-and-promotion-for-pardoned-azeri-murderer/">“almost decapitating him</a>.” But the psychopathic Safarov’s bloodlust was not sated with just one foul murder. He then went to another sleeping Armenian officer’s room, intent on repeating his evil performance. But fortunately the door was locked and a double murder averted.</p>
<p>Azeri sources are <a href="http://www.armenianweekly.com/2012/08/31/armenia-suspends-ties-with-hungary/">excusing </a>Safarov’s murder, blaming his unbalanced emotional state on the 1988 to 1994 war between Azerbaijan and Armenia-supported Nagorno-Karabakh, in which he and his family supposedly suffered severely (along with tens of thousands of other Armenians and Azeris). Both sides engaged in ethnic cleansing during the conflict, but it started, according to writers Caroline Cox and John Eibner, when Azeris first cleared 40,000 Armenians out of Kirovobad, Azerbaijan’s second-largest city, in 1988. An Azeri pogrom against Armenians preceded this in Sumgait followed by another in Baku.</p>
<p>“The Armenians were not quick to retaliate to the Sumgait massacre,” wrote Cox and Eibner in their 1993-published book <em>Ethnic Cleansing In Progress: War in Nagorno-Karabakh</em>. “But Armenian restraint crumbled in response to the Kirovabad pogrom and the anti-Armenian demonstrations in Baku.”</p>
<p>Armenia and Azerbaijan, a Turkic-speaking country, are both former Soviet republics and neighbors in the southern Caucasus Mountains. Nagorno-Karabakh was an Armenian enclave inside of Azerbaijan that sought secession and reunification with Armenia in the dying days of the Soviet empire. The Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians, perceiving themselves as victims of the Soviet Union’s nationalities policy, believed they were righting a historical wrong. In 1921, the Bolsheviks had first awarded the enclave to Armenia but later reversed that decision, giving it to Azerbaijan. Stalin was reportedly responsible for this fateful verdict.</p>
<p>In the 1988-1994 war, the outnumbered Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians not only won their independence, defeating the Azeri forces, they also occupied some adjoining Azeri territory which they refuse to return until it can be guaranteed that this territory will not be used to stage attacks on their land. In this respect, Nagorno-Karabakh has adopted a position similar to Israel’s regarding the Arab territories it captured in 1967: it will trade land for peace. Nagorno-Karabakh is now an independent political entity, calling itself Artsakh, its former name in the ancient kingdom of Armenia.</p>
<p>Azerbaijan’s ally, Turkey, became so angry when the Nagorno-Karabakh forces were winning that it threatened to attack Armenia, which was not officially a combatant. However, a warning from the Kremlin that a Turkish attack on Armenia would mean war with Russia caused Turkey to climb down, averting a regional war.</p>
<p>Since then, Turkey and Azerbaijan have maintained a crippling economic blockade on Armenia and Artsakh. Also like the Arab states in regard to Israel,Azerbaijan has promised to retake its lost territories, including Artsakh. To this end, the Azeris have recently used their oil wealth to make large weapons purchases. Last January, it bought $1.5 billion worth of arms from Israel alone as well as weapons from Russia.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seventy Muslim men invade emergency area to “finish off’ victim shot during Eid al-Fitr celebration.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120821-odense.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-141516" title="20120821-odense" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/20120821-odense.gif" alt="" width="375" height="248" /></a>It is a very dark, but little known, underside to the multicultural nightmare that western European societies are fast becoming. Hospitals, among the most respected institutions in Western societies due to their compassion and care of the sick and vulnerable, are turning more and more into places of immigrant violence.</p>
<p>The latest incident of such inexcusable savagery within the walls of a European public medical facility occurred last week in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. Danish newspapers report that about 70 men, some armed with “cudgels,” <a href="http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/ECE1726763/odense-hospital-invaded/">invaded</a> the Odense University Hospital emergency ward, looking to further harm, even possibly kill, a man who had just been admitted in critical condition with a gunshot wound. Luckily, no hospital staff member was injured, and it was most likely the heroics of the police officers present that prevented the intruders from reaching the injured patient.</p>
<p>“There were pictures torn down from the walls. There were vases knocked into pieces. It was quite intimidating to both staff and police there, and several officers had to fire their guns to get them to disappear,” <a href="http://www.cphpost.dk/news/national/shooting-leads-chaos-odense-hospital">said</a> one Danish police official in describing the chaos.</p>
<p>Another police official stated: “They poured in with clubs into the emergency room…The staff at the hospital had to jump for their lives, and several police officers had to pull their service weapons to force the group out…”</p>
<p>Frustrated at being unable to reach their target, the vandals then took their anger out on ambulances and police vehicles. In all, the <em>Copenhagen Post</em> <a href="http://www.cphpost.dk/news/national/shooting-leads-chaos-odense-hospital">reported</a> that “one ambulance and four police cars were destroyed in the night’s events.”</p>
<p>The trouble apparently began earlier that evening between rival immigrant groups when two members of one group drove up to the other’s Eid al-Fitr celebration that was being held in a shopping center parking lot. After being identified as an enemy, one report states the 26-year-old victim wound up being shot at least twice in one leg and stabbed several times in the other, but several shots were fired at the car the two were in. It is also at the crime scene that two of the four police cars may have been destroyed, while an ambulance summoned for the injured man was also reportedly attacked.</p>
<p>The hospital invasion was so barbarous and disturbing to the Danish public that a <a href="http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/ECE1728250/prime-minister-shocked-at-odense-case/">“shocked”</a> Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt was compelled to comment on it, calling it “serious criminal behavior” at a news conference. But noticeably, although the Eid al-Fitr is a Muslim celebration that marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, it does not appear she nor any police official, politician or newspaper identified the culprits as such. They limited their identification vocabulary simply to the word “immigrant.”</p>
<p>But there was no need for Thorning-Schmidt to be so “shocked,” if she had been observing the happenings in hospitals in other Western European countries the past decade or more. In Iserlohn, a city in Germany, the death of a Turkish man of heart failure in a hospital there, according to a report in the German newspaper <em>Die Welt</em>, caused the 40 members of his family, “out of rage and grief,” to lay waste to the facility’s Intensive Care ward. The reception area was ransacked, pictures torn from walls, chairs and treatment tables overturned, and medical equipment destroyed by wooden clubs.</p>
<p>The first police to arrive were greeted with “kicks and punches” and had to withdraw, using pepper spray and under “threats and insults,” to await reinforcements. Only a heavier police presence was able to calm the situation, after which charges were made.</p>
<p>Doctors and other hospital personnel are often victims of individual attacks as well. In his book <em>The Spread of Islamikaze Terrorism In Europe: The Third Islamic Invasion</em>, author Raphael Israeli writes: “In 2004, there were 145 attacks in hospitals in France, rising to more than 200 in 2006 in which medical staff had been attacked by Muslims.” A story in <em>Le Figaro</em> this year maintains that French hospital personnel are becoming “more and more victims of violence,” citing a report from the health ministry agency responsible for keeping track of violence in healthcare facilities.</p>
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		<title>Down&#8217;s Syndrome Girl’s Arrest for Blasphemy in Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Brown]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A symptom of a sick and deformed culture.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/men1.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-141209" title="men1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/men1.gif" alt="" width="375" height="249" /></a>It is a country that appears to have lost all connection with humanity.</p>
<p>The latest human rights outrage in Pakistan, a country that produces so many of them, concerns the recent arrest in Islamabad of an 11-year-old Christian girl, Rimsha Masih, who reportedly has Down&#8217;s Syndrome. Masih is accused of having violated Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy law, which carries the death penalty. The girl, according to the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/world/asia/christian-girls-blasphemy-arrest-incites-a-furor-in-pakistan.html?_r=1&amp;ref=world"><em>New York Times</em></a>, had allegedly burned pages of a “religious textbook used to teach the Koran to children” and was imprisoned with her mother for this unproven allegation. The usual Muslim mob then gathered outside the jail she was in, demanding that Masih be charged, while her Christian neighbors fled their homes, fearing attacks by those same mobs.</p>
<p>The whole farcical <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/world/asia/christian-girls-blasphemy-arrest-incites-a-furor-in-pakistan.html?_r=1&amp;ref=world">incident</a> started when Masih&#8217;s landlord’s nephew apparently saw her carrying the offending pages that <a href="http://dawn.com/2012/08/21/france-decries-blasphemy-charge-against-pakistani-girl/">contained verses</a> from the Koran. She intended to use the paper for cooking. The nephew then informed one of those tolerant, compassionate Muslim Pakistani clerics the world is now accustomed to reading about who then incited people to take action. The nephew’s uncle said few people cared about the matter until the cleric got involved, which is reminiscent of the Danish cartoon affair that was instigated by a Danish imam who flew to the Middle East to inflame passions there.</p>
<p>“He (the cleric) tried to shame people by saying, ‘What good are your prayers if the Koran is being burnt,” the uncle said.</p>
<p>The uncle also stated he was the one responsible for having the girl imprisoned, but for her own safety. Even in prison, however, Masih may not be secure, since others who have run afoul of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws in the past have been killed while behind bars by frenzied religious mobs storming the jails. Only <a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/404076/burnt-alive-for-blasphemy-president-shocked-over-mob-justice/">last month</a>, a rabble seized a mentally unstable man accused of blasphemy from a police station and burned him alive.</p>
<p>If Masih was in possession of the burnt pages, it may have occurred during the course of her duties as a street sweeper, a job usually performed by poor Christians in Pakistan. Whatever the facts are, “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/world/asia/christian-girls-blasphemy-arrest-incites-a-furor-in-pakistan.html?_r=1&amp;ref=world">senior leaders agreed</a>…the accusations…were baseless” and the case “would ultimately be dropped.” This admission, however, has not stopped foreign governments from wading into the affair. The <a href="http://dawn.com/2012/08/21/france-decries-blasphemy-charge-against-pakistani-girl/">French government</a> has called on “Pakistani authorities to free this young girl,” while the US State Department has called the arrest <a href="http://dawn.com/2012/08/21/us-disturbed-by-pakistan-girls-blasphemy-case/">“deeply disturbing.”</a></p>
<p>Such foreign pressure may not have been in vain and may have helped goad Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari into action. Possibly embarrassed by Western criticism, Zardari has <a href="http://dawn.com/2012/08/20/president-zardari-seeks-report-on-girls-blasphemy-case/">called for a report</a> about the affair from the interior ministry. Western nations have always harshly condemned Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, which are often used simply as a tool of personal revenge or to persecute religious minorities who compromise about 5 percent of the country’s 160 million people. But even if foreign pressure does help get Masih released, she probably will never be able to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/world/asia/christian-girls-blasphemy-arrest-incites-a-furor-in-pakistan.html?ref=world">return home</a> due to waiting religious fanatics.</p>
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		<title>Bin Laden Bodyguard Discovered in Germany</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Brown]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Active jihadist agent has been operating freely and converting others to the cause.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/German-Muslims2.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-141035" title="German-Muslims2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/German-Muslims2.gif" alt="" width="375" height="237" /></a>Those wishful-thinking diehards who believe Europe will eventually come to its senses regarding its security interests and reverse its suicidal tolerance of militant Islamists in its midst received a ringing slap in the face earlier this month.</p>
<p>The latest occurrence indicating the Old World is sliding into a bloody nightmare of Islamist violence with little desire to defend itself comes this time from Germany where news reports announced that bin Laden’s former bodyguard, who was discovered residing in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), has been busy recruiting young Muslims for the jihad. It is also believed the 36-year-old native of Tunisia, identified in newspapers in accordance with German law only as Sami A., is responsible for having radicalized two members of the Dusseldorf terrorist cell.</p>
<p>An al-Qaeda affiliate, the Dusseldorf cell was broken up in April of 2011. Three Islamist cell members are currently on trial, charged with planning a bomb attack in Germany.</p>
<p>“We have clear indications that he [Sami A.] tried to radicalise young people with his intellectual assets,” said Ralf Jaeger, the socialist interior minister for NRW.</p>
<p>And as if that wasn’t enough, the news publication, <em>Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ)</em>, revealed last week that the former bin Laden employee and hardcore Salafist was actually planning to open his own mosque in Bochum, a city in NRW where he has lived the past eight years with his wife and three children. It was also <em>WAZ </em>investigators who revealed to the German public Sami A.’s presence in NRW and jihad recruitment activities.</p>
<p>The <em>WAZ </em>revelations, understandably, have sent shock waves across Germany. This is the country where some of the 9/11 suicide bombers lived and plotted their day of infamy against America. Due to this connection, many Germans are simply incredulous, as well as very embarrassed, that a bin Laden associate, who knew 9/11 plotters like Guantanamo prisoner Ramzi Binalshibh, was even in Germany let alone carrying on terrorist activities. <em>WAZ</em> states that Sami A. is “connected worldwide” to terrorist networks and also knew the terrorist who helped plan the synagogue attack on Tunisia’s Djerba island.</p>
<p>“In the terror scene, he is considered a bright light,” states <em>WAZ.</em> “Radical Islamists pay homage to him. For young people who seek direction, a person like Sami A. can be a fixture point.”</p>
<p>According to <em>WAZ</em>, Sami A. first came to Germany as a student in 1997. He travelled to Pakistan in 1999, remaining for seven months, staying also in an al-Qaeda guest house in Kandahar, where he met top al-Qaeda officials. In addition, Sami A. received 45 days of military training in an al-Qaeda camp. After returning to Germany, the al-Qaeda veteran resumed his studies, eventually moving to Bochum in 2005 to study electronics and take up jihadi activities. “The weapon,” <em>WAZ</em> reports, “with which he fights here (in Bochum) for the victory of radical Islam is his hero’s reputation.”</p>
<p>Not unexpectedly, the NRW branch of the German intelligence service responsible for keeping tabs on terrorists, the Verfassungsschutz (Germany’s FBI), is at pains to explain how a man who used to personally protect Osama bin Laden with a rocket propelled grenade launcher in Pakistan in 2000 could for years radicalise and recruit unimpeded young people for the jihad. All that a spokesman for the NRW Interior Ministry would say was that they had the dangerous Islamist in their sights since his move to Bochum.</p>
<p>What is perhaps even more embarrassing for the security agencies is that they apparently had no idea that Sami A. was intending to open his own mosque until a 61-year-old woman tipped them off. The former bin Laden bodyguard had set up a prayer house, also without officials knowing, in an empty building on a Bochumer street that he wanted to rebuild into a mosque, using a front man to do so. But the woman, who worked nights at a nearby residence for the mentally handicapped, informed police of, as one neighbor described them, “the Islamists who come out of the mosque sometime between midnight and two o’clock” and who were “unbearably loud.”</p>
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