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The media is <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/05/26/gun-deaths-children-america">pushing</a> this misleading CDC press release because it fits the gun control agenda after the latest school shooting.

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		Firearms were the&nbsp;leading cause of death&nbsp;for kids one and older for the first time in 2020, the most recent year for which&nbsp;CDC data&nbsp;is available.

	
		Why it matters:&nbsp;The firearm death rate among children is steadily rising, as more kids are involved in gun-related homicides like Tuesday's&nbsp;mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas,&nbsp;as well as suicides and accidents.
</blockquote>


	Yeah, no.


	The CDC <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2201761">release</a> to the New England Journal of Medicine, which normally loves to talk up racial demographics in the name of equity, buries them in its appendix. Here's what those look like.


	<img height="519" width="571" class="media-element file-default" data-delta="1" src="https://cms.frontpagemag.com/sites/default/files/uploads/2022/05/cdc_appendix_1.png" alt="" />


	Those aren't school shootings, they're the black nationalists of Black Lives Matter at work.&nbsp;


	Crime shot up due to pro-crime measures, like police defunding and bail elimination, as well as the massive BLM riots. But the impact among most groups, including white people, was limited.


	There was however a massive increase in the already staggeringly high death rate among black kids.


	But this just means that the CDC's numbers for black kids are in line with <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/09/black-lives-matter-killed-2000-black-people-daniel-greenfield/">black men in general</a>.

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		Homicide doesn't even make the CDC's&nbsp;top 10 causes&nbsp;of death for men in America, but it's number four for black men. In 2017, it caused 5% of the deaths of black men, more than strokes, diabetes, or most diseases. The only things more likely to kill black men than black-on-black crime are heart disease, cancer, and accidents.

	
		Among black men under the age of 20, homicide is the leading cause of death at 35.3%.

	
		It's also the leading cause of death for black men from 20-44 years old at 27.6%.

	
		Only at the age of 65 does homicide drop out of the top 10 causes of death for black men.
</blockquote>


	Since we can't blame "white supremacy" for this, we also can't talk about it.&nbsp;


	And the CDC buries this data inside the overall numbers for kids and then tries to act like school shootings, a rare event, have suddenly made guns a leading cause of death for kids.


	Look for the media to keep pushing this same lie, blaming guns, instead of crime and its BLM enablers.

CDC Releases Numbers Showing BLM is Killing Black Kids

The media is pushing this misleading CDC press release because it fits the gun control agenda after the latest school shooting.


	
		Firearms were the

CDC Releases Numbers Showing BLM is Killing Black Kids

Why did school shootings go from being a rare horror to an ongoing phenomenon? A big part of the puzzle is the Columbine Massacre.


	While there were school shootings before Columbine, the media frenzy, the live coverage, was a sea change, and police have often found that school shooters studied the Columbine psychos and wanted to be like them.


	We know mass shooters imitate each other and inspire copycat attacks. That's why school shootings<a href="https://www.center4research.org/copy-cats-kill/"> continue to pop up</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		In the month that followed, 400 related incidents were reported across the country. Students called in bomb threats and praised the shooters’ actions. Some schools feared additional shootings and shut down temporarily.

	
		In 2007, a Virginia Tech student killed 32 students and faculty at the university. Prior to the shooting, he expressed a desire in writing to repeat the shooting at Columbine. Since then, many shooters have cited the Virginia Tech gunman as an inspiration and others have threatened to kill more than the 32 victims killed.

	
		Studies indicate that the more media attention a shooter gets, the more likely the event will inspire a future mass shooter. For example, a 2015 study found that after a mass shooting, there was an increased chance of another one occurring in the next 13 days.&nbsp;A 2017 study found that media coverage of a mass shooting may increase the frequency and lethality of future shootings for much longer than two weeks.
</blockquote>


	The media knows perfectly well <a href="http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2013/02/the-wrong-track.html">the impact that it has</a>.

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		Suicides spike after front page coverage of a suicide. After Marilyn Monroe's death, 197 more people killed themselves than the statistical norm. Suicides rise even after fictional suicides on soap operas. And murders are also influenced by the coverage of real and fictional murders.
</blockquote>


	The internet makes the genie harder to put back in the bottle, but the media doesn't even try.


	Columbine broke the unspoken rule about covering teenage suicides to avoid the copycat effect. The media breaks it every time since while blaming Republicans for not abolishing the Bill of Rights. The media understands perfectly well that it's promoting similar mass killings and it wants that to happen because it helps its agenda.

The Media's Obsession With School Shootings is Killing Kids

Why did school shootings go from being a rare horror to an ongoing phenomenon? A big part of the puzzle is the Columbine Massacre.


	While there were

The Media's Obsession With School Shootings is Killing Kids

“The Second Amendment is not absolute. When it was passed you couldn’t own a cannon, you couldn’t own certain kinds of weapons. There’s just always been limitations," Biden <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/3501244-the-haunting-reason-congress-wont-pass-sensible-gun-laws/">insisted</a>, during remarks exploiting the mass shooting in Texas.


	The thing about Biden is that he tells the same lies, gets called on it, and does it again.&nbsp;


	He does it when talking about his own made-up biography and when discussing America.&nbsp;


	Biden's dumb "cannon" line has been repeatedly fact-checked to death even by mainstream media outlets.


	Here's Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/28/bidens-false-claim-that-2nd-amendment-bans-cannon-ownership/">dealing with</a> this same Biden line last year.

<blockquote>
	
		“And I might add: The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own. You couldn’t buy a cannon.”
</blockquote>


	As Kessler noted then, "In this case, he repeated a claim — that Americans were prohibited from owning cannons — that has already been&nbsp;fact-checked as false&nbsp;when he made it during the presidential campaign."


	Variations of this same lie had already been fact-checked by lefty fact-checkers like Politifact. That's how completely groundless it is.


	And yet it says something that Biden and, quite likely, his staffers won't stop pushing the same lie. And that there's no actual accountability for it. When the media disagreed with something Trump said, they made a spectacle of it, they would assemble lists of what they claimed were lies and declared that political norms were being violated.


	Nothing like that for Biden, who we're told never lies, just "misspeaks". Again and again and again.

Biden Lies About Gun Control Again

“The Second Amendment is not absolute. When it was passed you couldn’t own a cannon, you couldn’t own certain kinds of weapons. There’s just always been

Wokeness is a symptom of brokeness. The harder they virtue signal, the worse they are at doing their jobs.


	Anyone who thought that San Francisco schools were going to dump the absurd wokeness and focus on education has <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/SFUSD-drops-the-word-chief-from-job-titles-17199311.php">another thing</a> coming.

<blockquote>
	
		The word “chief” will no longer be used in reference to job titles in the San Francisco Unified School District in an effort, school officials said, to avoid the word’s connotation with Native Americans.
</blockquote>


	One can only imagine how the parents who watched their children's education<a href="https://sfstandard.com/education/new-data-show-s-f-public-school-students-slipped-further-behind-amid-pandemic/"> get nuked</a> feel about the exciting new SFUSD focus.

<blockquote>
	
		In math, every student group saw a drop in proficiency from the year prior, though some drops were more pronounced. Thirty-eight percent of African American students were marked “Proficient or above” in 2020-21, down from 46% one year earlier. Pacific Islander students with “Proficient of above” math marks dropped to 47% from 60%. District-wide proficiency was at 67%, down from 74%.
</blockquote>


	Now it's fixed though.


	If the scores drop anymore, teachers will get another raise, SFUSD will spend a fortune on equity consultants and rename some schools.&nbsp;


	That's bound to work, chief.

SF School System Solves 38% Black Student Proficiency Problem With Wokeness

Wokeness is a symptom of brokeness. The harder they virtue signal, the worse they are at doing their jobs.


	Anyone who thought that San Francisco schools

SF School System Solves 38% Black Student Proficiency Problem With Wokeness

Another way of reading this is that the majority party has abandoned its legislative agenda and will govern through executive orders while trying to hold test votes on whatever outrage is trending right now.


	Is this supposed to turn the public against Republicans?


	Since no one pays attention to Senate&nbsp;votes, mostly it's a stop-loss effort to placate furious Dem donors.


	Schumer tried this with abortion and it didn't go anywhere. Next up, <a href="https://thehill.com/news/senate/3502557-schumer-vows-to-force-vote-on-gun-control-legislation-after-memorial-day-recess/">guns, guns, guns</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		Senate Majority Leader&nbsp;Charles Schumer&nbsp;(D-N.Y.) told colleagues Thursday morning that they should be prepared to vote on gun control legislation when they return to Washington next month after the Memorial Day recess, promising a showdown with Republicans after mass shootings in New York and Texas this month left 31 people dead.
</blockquote>


	Next&nbsp;week, it'll be more BLM or #MeToo or whatever is trending in the media right now.


	This is what virtue signaling defeatism looks like.


	Schumer is announcing his own irrelevance.

Schumer Will Continue Holding Meaningless Votes on Whatever Issue is Trending Right Now

Another way of reading this is that the majority party has abandoned its legislative agenda and will govern through executive orders while trying to hold test

Schumer Will Continue Holding Meaningless Votes on Whatever Issue is Trending Right Now

Last December, vandals desecrated 107 Jewish graves with anti-Semitic inscriptions in Westerhoffen in eastern France. Anti-Jewish graffiti was also found in the nearby town of Schafhouse-sur-Zorn. No suspects were arrested. Earlier in 2019, in February in Alsace, also in eastern France, 100 Jewish graves were desecrated with Nazi symbols.


	The desecration occurred just hours before the French government’s lower legislative house was to adopt a motion modeled on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism which states that denying Jews their right to self-determination is anti-Semitic.


	In the same month, an Israeli student was attacked by two strangers on the subway for speaking Hebrew into a cell phone. His nose was broken. A 17-year-old, arrested with a stolen phone and known to police, was taken into custody. His ethnic origin was not given.


	And perhaps most frightening, U.K.'s leading freedom fighter Katie Hopkins stated in <a href="https://jamieglazov.com/2020/03/23/katie-hopkins-video-french-jews-in-paris-under-attack/">a recent Glazov Gang video</a> that 18 Jewish families in Paris had received letters telling them to “get out” or be killed.


	Perhaps to indicate the senders of these poisonous letters meant business, Hopkins also cited the case of the 82-year-old Jewish woman last year who lived in one of the poorer suburbs surrounding Paris. She was stabbed to death and thrown off her balcony by her Muslim neighbor.


	Anti-Semitic attacks are on the increase in France. According to Wikepedia, in 2018, they rose by 69 per cent amounting to about 500 assaults. Anti-Semitism surged during the Second Intifada from 2002-2004 to disturbing levels.


	Despite only making up one to three per cent of the population of France, Jews are subjected to 40 per cent of all racially or religiously motivated attacks. There are about 500,000 Jews in France and they make up the third largest number of Jews in the world after Israel and the United States.


	Anti-Semitism has a long history in France. From the Dreyfuss affair, in which a Jewish French officer was convicted of treason on false charges, through to the Vichy regime.


	But at no time did Jews feel they were in such danger as today with the Muslim immigration to France. Some Jews are now so concerned with their security that they have emigrated to Israel with their families. In 2014, the number of French Jews leaving for Israel for the first time exceeded the United States. Seventy per cent of Jews are concerned about anti-Semitic insults while 20 per cent are concerned about physical assaults. Prior to this, Jews never felt compelled by anti-Semitism to leave France.


	Muslim anti-Semitism is virulent and also deadly. The best proof of this occurred when Mohmmed Merah, a petty Muslim criminal, attacked a Jewish school in Toulouse and killed three students and a rabbi. There have also been numerous other attacks on Jews and against Jewish institutions, which are guarded by special security guards with some coming from Israel.


	Some of these, such as the one against Ilan Halimi, are notorious. Halimi was a French Jew of Moroccan descent who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by Muslims calling themselves “gang of barbarians.”


	The problem with anti-Semitism in France is, essentially, that hatred of Israel and the Jews has become a major part of the identity of Muslims of north African and African origin.


	“Hatred for Israel and for Jews has become a major component of the identity of French of Arab or African background; it is the cement of the second generation,” said Gil Mihaely, founder and director of the Causeur, a French magazine dedicated to intellectual debate.


	Mihaely further states that the anti-Jewish demonstrations of 2014 in France, in which two synagogues were attacked in Paris, “betray a profound need to identify oneself as an adversary of Israel and of the Jews.”&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;


	The French historian Georges Bensoussan also states about anti-Semitism in his country that Muslim families in France “drink it with the mother’s milk.”


	This does not augur well for the future of a Jewish presence in France. &nbsp;


	Anti-Semitism is so bad that Jewish students are avoiding going to public schools.


	In a “large number of schools” students are “beaten and insulted because they are Jews,” said the president of the council representing Jewish institutions in France in a story in Le Figaro.


	“In my time we all went to secular schools. Today not more than a third of third of Jewish children go to secular schools, the other two thirds go to private schools, either Jewish or Christian,’ said the president.


	One high school principal was reported to have warned Jewish students in 2017 not to attend his school for fear of harassment and assaults.


	It is also disturbing to see members of the French left ally itself with anti-Semitic Muslims. The Communist mayor of Valenton, a community near Paris, insulted France’s Jewish community in 2014 when he named a street after Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti. Barghouti was actually made an honorary citizen of Valenton five years earlier.


	Barghouti was sentenced by an Israel court in 2004 to multiple life sentences for planning deadly terrorist attacks. But that didn’t stop Valenton’s mayor from calling the terrorist “…the face of the of the resistance of the Palestinian people against the occupation,,,”


	As a counter, Sammy Ghozlan, founder of The National Bureau For Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, said: “The celebration of a murderer is unacceptable.”


	It is noticeable that Muslims in France become very agitated about what they regard as Israeli crimes but don’t utter a word about their 300,000 fellow Muslims killed in the war in Syria or about the thousands killed in Yemen or Libya.


	And when in 2012 a moderate imam tried to mobilize people, including Muslims, to demonstrate against Merah’s anti-Semitic crimes, only about 50 people showed up. But such apathy now appears among the entire population. In 1990, after a Jewish cemetery was desecrated, thousands of people showed up to protest against anti-Semitism. But after the Merah murders, only Jews showed up to demonstrate.


	As one writer stated about Muslims and non-Muslims in France, the sentiment today is that two communities are forming side by side who regard one another with hostility. One can see this, in one respect, with their different attitudes anti-Semitism. And this sentiment, the writer states, is shared by many. In other words, France is a fractured society.


	If the flight of French Jews, and Jews from other western European countries as well, is not stopped, then they all will wind up looking like the Muslim countries of North Africa and the Middle East whose Jewish communities were chased out decades ago. In other words, Hitler’s dream of a Jew-free Europe will finally be realized. Western Europe will be ‘Judenrein’.

Jew-Hate in France

Last December, vandals desecrated 107 Jewish graves with anti-Semitic inscriptions in Westerhoffen in eastern France. Anti-Jewish graffiti was also found in

It was about a hundred years ago and a period of history most people have forgotten.


	It was during the throes of the First World War that Iran, a militarily-weak country, watched helplessly as Turkish and Russian armies battled each other across its territory, leaving a trail of devastation in their wake and tens of thousands of refugees. Starvation and disease were soon decimating these poor victims of war.


	But into this huge humanitarian gap jumped, without hesitation, America’s Near East Relief organization, perhaps the greatest American humanitarian organization that ever existed. It would go on to be responsible for saving at least one million lives in the war-wracked Near East in Syria, Iran, the Russian Caucasus and Greece, especially those of children. At one time, Near East Relief was caring for, feeding and providing medical care to 132,000 orphans. And yet nowadays hardly anyone knows the name of Near East Relief and the great work it did.


	The Near East Relief got its start in September, 1915 when a telegram was received in the United states from the American ambassador to Greece, Henry Morgenthau, about the Turkish genocide against the Armenians. In it, he urged the formation of a committee to save the Armenians.


	“The destruction of the Armenian race is rapidly progressing,” stated Morgenthau.


	Morgenthau’s message was then given to James L. Barton, Foreign secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, who enlisted Cleveland H. Dodge to form a committee to address the Armenian crisis. Dodge was a personal friend of President Woodrow Wilson.&nbsp;


	Under the leadership of Dodge, Barton and Samuel Dutton with Henry Morgenthau, the Near East Relief was founded first as the Armenian Relief Committee, and then the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief. It was incorporated to be an act of Congress in August, 1919 as the Near East Relief.


	Former President William Taft was named in this act of Congress as an incorporating officer. The Near East Relief always received substantial presidential backing.


	Taft was the subject of a New Orleans newspaper story in which he made a Christmas appeal for Near East Relief. Wilson gave government money and food to the organization and ordered the army and navy to cooperate with Near East Relief, having the navy make ships available. Presidents Coolidge and Harding did the same, with President Coolidge writing the introduction to Story of the Near East Relief (1915-1930): An Interpretation, the excellent account of this splendid organization and its work. Future president Franklin Roosevelt was also listed as a trustee.


	What motivated the ten men of the founding committee, who were white and mostly of Anglo-American background (except for rabbi Nathan Wise), to act so promptly on behalf of peoples that most barely knew existed before the war was their Christian piety.


	“The Armenians have no one to speak for them and it is without question a time when the voice of Christianity should be raised,” stated Near East Relief founder James Barton.


	These men took their Christian faith so seriously that they even sang Christian hymns at Executive Committee meetings. Most remained Executive committee members until 1930, ensuring continuity. Three died while serving on the committee.


	The founders at first had no idea of the scale of the problem facing them. They first decided to raise $100,000 with some thinking that was too large a sum. The Near East Relief would go on to raise about $91,000,000, an enormous sum in 1920s dollars.


	It is inconceivable nowadays to imagine the national effort made by Americans to raise money for the Near East Relief. It seemed like everyone and every organization in the nation participated, especially religious ones. Sunday schools raised one million dollars. Children donated their daily school milk ration. Boy and Girl Scouts helped tremendously. Unions, the Rockefeller Foundation, and women’s organizations all donated, among many others. The head of the National Women’s Organization always was a board of trustees member. Subcommittees of the Near East Relief were set up in every state, including Honolulu and the District of Columbia, often chaired by governors.


	For Iran, the Near East Relief decided to send out a special commission, the only time it ever did so. It was headed by Dr. Harry Judson, president of the university of Chicago, who was received by the shah and highly decorated by him. Judson also met with the Secretary of State.


	Seventy-five relief workers were in Iran at war’s start, mostly missionaries. They knew the languages and local conditions and provided invaluable to Near East Relief for whom many of them eventually worked. Near East Relief workers’ salaries, were minimal. However, they weren’t there for money, but to serve.


	The commission had its work cut out for it. Due to the war, as one observer noted in the Story of the Near East Relief:


	“The country was in terrible state, and the peasantry was in the last stages of starvation.”


	There was “failure in crops and vast fertile districts abandoned because of insecurity” which brought “hunger and distress to great masses of people…” Marauding Kurdish tribes were also a danger. Dead bodies lay at street sides.


	And all the while “men…are praying for America to save them this winter from starvation, or death by cold.


	One American relief worker, a missionary, fled with the refugees when the Turkish army invaded. She estimates there were 70,000 refugees in her “endless human caravan,” many of them Christians with some Armenians refugees from Turkey, of whom 2,500-3,000 died during the flight.


	Her missionary husband, a doctor, died during the flight of cholera. At one point, thirteen of eighteen American relief workers contracted from the refugees typhus and typhoid. Three of these died in the service of the Iranian people and lie in Iran. Telegrams frequently brought news of American relief workers’ deaths.


	As stated about Iran at that time: “One calamity followed another in rapid succession.”


	But there was hope. Thirty thousand refugees were being helped in Tehran alone. This did not include the thousands of others in other Iranian cities, towns and villages.


	But it was America’s large heart and generous spirit that saved thousands of lives of Iranian refugees like these. Near East Relief, which was non-political, said its mission was to save life regardless of race or creed, which it did splendidly in Iran.


	It imported tons of food and medical supplies into the country to feed the desperate Iranian population. Near East Relief also provided much-needed quilts, clothing and charcoal for warmth and for fuel.


	A report of a local relief committee stated that from the money the Near East Relief had sent; “…many villagers have sown wheat and barley and thousands have been saved from starvation.”


	In the wake of war always come orphans. Iran was no different. Near East Relief ran there three orphanages for the destitute children, who arrived dirty, in rags and disease-ridden. The American orphanages cleaned them up, cared for them and provided education, so that they could later provide for themselves and become productive citizens.


	Near East Relief represents America at one of her greatest moments. It is a wonder Near East Relief is so forgotten today. Peoples of the Near East thought of America, as one reporter stated, “in terms of the Near East Relief activities.”


	Another reporter stated: “… the United States has given the world a fine exemplification of practical Christianity.”


	And still another wrote: “No relief in history has directly saved so many lives and put so many children on their feet and the management has won and deserved the thanks of humanity.”


	But where Near East relief and their supporters were mistaken is that they thought the gratitude of peoples like the Iranians would last for generations for saving so many of their citizens’ lives.


	It would be interesting to know what the hard-working Near East Relief officials and workers, especially those who gave their lives, would think of Iranians yelling “Death to America” in their streets today. But knowing them, their Christian piety, their self-sacrifice for their fellow man and the times they lived in, they would still do it all over again wherever humanity is suffering. Perhaps this is their greatest tribute.

When America Saved Iran

It was about a hundred years ago and a period of history most people have forgotten.


	It was during the throes of the First World War that Iran, a

When America Saved Iran

Last year, like preceding years, was a busy year for Islamic terrorists in Germany.


	Germany’s year of terrorism began in March with a lovely Muslim couple -- the husband a Tunisian, the&nbsp;wife a German citizen -- arrested for planning a chemical attack. The federal prosecutor’s office said the husband, 30-year-old Sief Allah A., had acquired knowledge of how to turn ricin into a weapon and had ordered 3,300 grams of the poison online.


	Arrested in Cologne, the married pair also face charges of planning attacks using metal balls and homemade explosives. They also both had sought membership in the Islamic State (IS). They had started planning their attacks in 2018 after Sief Ali had failed twice to cross over Turkey’s border into Syria.


	Also in March, German police raided and arrested 11 Salafists in the Hesse and&nbsp;Rhineland-Pfalz areas, two of whom were brothers. According to the Frankfurt prosecutor’s office, they “jointly agreed to carry out an Islamic terrorist attack employing a vehicle and firearms in order to kill as many ‘unbelievers’ as possible.”


	The men were between 20 and 42 years of age and had contacted weapons dealers, rented a large truck and gathered money for the attack, $22,000 of which was seized in the raid. They had even committed a crime to get money for their evil plan.


	The Rhine-Main area, according to German officials, counts as a main area of Hesse’s Salafist scene. Searches and razzias in connection with radical Islam have taken place many times in the past years. Hesse’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Germany’s FBI) estimates the number of Islamists in the state in 2017 as 4,170, of whom Salafists made up 1,650.


	In April, German police raided in nine of Germany’s 15 states the premises of what they considered an Islamist network. Particularly targeted were two supposed Islamic charities, Ansar International and WWR Help. Officials, apparently, had been watching Ansar for a long time.


	Both charities are suspected of helping Hamas “propagandistically and financially” under their charitable cloak, said the federal interior minister. Hamas is outlawed as a terrorist organization in Germany.


	“Whoever under the cloak of humanitarian help supports Hamas, despises the fundamental values of our constitution,” said the interior minister.


	Ansar in Germany was founded in Dusseldorf in 2012 and is active in over 50 countries, especially in the Middle East.


	In May, police arrested eight after a raid of apartments in Oberhausen by a special commando. They were not suspected of plotting a terrorist attack but rather of supporting the Islamic State, to which they sent money.


	Most of the arrested were from Bosnia and Herzegovina and were related. Four of the arrested were men, the other four women.


	In September, similar raids of 16 properties were carried out in Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany against 11 people also suspected of financially supporting the Islamic State. The group’s members came mainly from Syria.


	In October in Limburg, a man hijacked a truck and plowed into eight vehicles, injuring seven who were treated in hospital. The man was from Syria and arrived in Germany in 2015, the year federal chancellor Angela Merkel let one million refugees from Syria into Germany.


	The Syrian dragged the driver from his truck by force before hijacking it. The driver asked the man, “What do you want from me?” but the Syrian said nothing.


	After the crash, the Syrian was bleeding from his nose, had bloody hands, and said “My whole body hurts.” He stated his name was Mohammed.


	The next Islamic terrorist incident occurred in November in Offenbach. Three suspected members of the Islamic state were arrested after a raid of three apartments by 170 police officials.


	One of the suspects was of Macedonian heritage and was 24 years of age while the other two were Turkish citizens. The Macedonian had acquired parts for the manufacture of explosives and searched for weapons on the Darknet.


	All three were already known to police and were friends for many years, growing up in Offenbach. Police said it was unclear whether they were being guided by an Islamic State member in Syria or Iraq.


	Also in November, German police arrested a “radical Islamist” from Syria who had been living in Germany since 2014. Prosecutors said the man was planning an attack designed to “kill and injure a maximum number of people.” According to a German television station, the 26-year-old man was at the top of a federal police list of dangerous Islamist extremists. His name was not released.


	American intelligence had actually tipped off their German counterparts about the man. The Americans said the man “obtained information online on how to build bombs and talked in internet chats about planning an attack.” German prosecutors said the Syrian “had begun to acquire the requisite components and chemicals for the construction of an explosive device.” The man worked as a janitor in a Berlin elementary school.


	December saw the sentencing of a woman, Songul G., to five years and nine months in prison for attempting in a “highly conspirative” manner to smuggle IS terrorists into Germany.


	“She wanted to assist the bringing of terror to Germany,” said the judge at the sentencing. “You are not as naïve as you would make us believe.”


	The veiled woman defended herself by saying she acted out of naivete and perfidious propaganda. The judge, however, said she “acted highly conspiratively and from her radical Islamic conviction.”


	The lovely lady, who converted to Islam in 1999, dreamed of life in the “Caliphate” and of “death to the unbelievers.” She made preparations to travel to Syria with her three children, all the time wondering whether she could still receive German government money for her children in Syria.


	The judge found Songul wanting to take her three children to the Syrian war zone particularly reprehensible.


	“You knew exactly what to expect there, and despite this you wanted to take your three children,” said the judge, adding that in Syria, “children have to cut off the heads of prisoners or shoot them in the face.”


	Songul found a “vent” for her hate in planning a terrorist attack “against a large music festival in the Hildesheim area.” Women were being sought in Germany to marry IS terrorists who would carry out the attack. Marriage, it was hoped, would get them into the country. Songul said she was prepared to marry a potential attacker. Two such IS terrorists, camouflaged as refugees, were arrested in Turkey on their way to Germany.


	Songul took up training as a truck driver but became known for her radical statements. She once said, in answer to a question where she wanted to drive to: “I’m going to drive over the next Christmas market.” This was possibly in reference to the horrific Berlin Christmas market attack in 2016 in which a Tunisian deliberately ran over and killed 12 people with a truck.


	Besides all these Islamic terrorist incidents in 2019, police also had to deal with&nbsp;116 former members of the Islamic State returning from Syria. Returning IS members have been involved in terrorist plots in other European countries such as France. These Germans also have to be investigated for crimes they may have committed as IS members.


	“We are dealing with a high number of returners, who committed crimes in connection with the human-despising Islamic State,” said a federal member of parliament.


	Looking back at 2019, one thing can almost be known for certain: there will be no rest for German security forces in 2020.

Germany’s Year Of Jihad

Last year, like preceding years, was a busy year for Islamic terrorists in Germany.


	Germany’s year of terrorism began in March with a lovely Muslim

Germany’s Year Of Jihad

It’s a story for which police have no solution.


	Since the beginning of the year until last October there have been 237 police actions against mostly&nbsp;Muslim&nbsp;Arab and Kurdish criminal clans in Berlin alone. In the last&nbsp;one, 400 federal policemen searched&nbsp;clan members’&nbsp;residences and business premises.


	Clan criminality&nbsp;involves itself&nbsp;in Shisha-Bars, gambling offices and amusement arcades. But their more illegal activities concern protection money,&nbsp;bodily injury,&nbsp;extortion,&nbsp;drug dealing,&nbsp;money-laundering,&nbsp;control of the red-light scene,&nbsp;making false documents,&nbsp;murder and contract murders.


	A senior state prosecutor stated that there are 20 to 25&nbsp;clans in Berlin of whom seven to eight are criminal. All&nbsp;areas of Berlin are affected as well as all German states. Each clan also has hundreds of members with most living from welfare.


	“Their male members play a considerable roll in drug dealing and red-light criminality,” stated&nbsp;a state prosecutor.&nbsp;“However, there are also family members who are quiet&nbsp;that support the criminal structure.


	Besides&nbsp;their usual areas of illegal activity, clans commit sometimes spectacular crimes. One was the theft of a 100 kg&nbsp;gold coin from a museum. Another was the breaking into of 100 safety deposit boxes.


	After these crimes,&nbsp;it came up that&nbsp;a&nbsp;brother, who lived on welfare, of one of the criminals&nbsp;bought several condominiums. This caused police to begin “an intensive investigation.”


	The police are helped by a&nbsp;new law introduced in Germany in&nbsp;July,&nbsp;2017. According to this law, the clans must prove they acquired property and wealth legally instead of the other way around. The police&nbsp;can&nbsp;now&nbsp;seize&nbsp;property believed to have been illegally obtained.&nbsp;Many properties&nbsp;have since been&nbsp;seized by the state.&nbsp;In Italy, this has proven to be the most effective method to fight the mafia.&nbsp;But clan profits are also invested abroad.


	Last March, the cities of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim also experienced large raids by about 600 police, tax and customs officials against Muslim criminal clans&nbsp;at 70 different places.&nbsp;There were also raids in the states of Hesse, Baden-Wurttemburg&nbsp;and Rhineland-Westphalia. These criminal clans, like many others in Germany, are suspected of having&nbsp;criminal&nbsp;connections&nbsp;around Germany, in other European countries and internationally.But the German newspaper&nbsp;Die Welt&nbsp;states that little is known about their international connections.


	In the state of North Rhineland-Westphalia alone, police believe there are 108 criminal clans, who committed 14,225 crimes the last three years. Among them are 6,449 criminally suspect persons of whom 300 are responsible for about a third of the crimes. Every fifth suspect is also a woman, according&nbsp;to&nbsp;Die Welt. &nbsp;In the smaller North German city of Bremen&nbsp;live&nbsp;about 2,500 clan members who commit 900 crimes per year, about 3 per day.


	The clans stem mostly from Lebanon and their&nbsp;“core”members came to Germany about 30-40 years ago during the civil war there. They smuggle boys, called “little bullet boys,” in from their “expanded” clans in Lebanon, who must sell 10,000 Euros in heroin to cover the cost of their smuggling. The boys are 12 to 16 years old and their parents go along with it because they send money home.


	“Because they are so young, they don’t go to jail. That is their value. If they are convicted, there are enough reinforcements,” says writer Yassin&nbsp;Musharbash. “For the string-pullers, it&nbsp;is almost risk free – and the profits are tremendous.”


	The greatest advantage the clans have and “their most important capital” is their sticking together. That is&nbsp;“the knowledge that one can,&nbsp;in no matter what life situation, rely on one another.” Clan members never testify against one another, states one report. They would rather incriminate themselves.&nbsp;


	“They know what one can do with this. Breaking the law is easier and the fights against rivals more effective when one can count on one another,”&nbsp;states German writer Werner von Berber.&nbsp;


	According to&nbsp;Die Welt,&nbsp;the clan problem “has grown enormously the last ten years.”&nbsp;One of the reasons is the high&nbsp;clan&nbsp;birth rate. Each woman has about eight children, some 10 to 15, in some cases&nbsp;19. &nbsp;


	“Before the mother has her last child, she is already a grandmother,” states a story in North German Radio. “For this reason, clans grow at breath-taking speed.”


	In her book&nbsp;‘The End of Patience,’&nbsp;former&nbsp;youth court judge Kirsten&nbsp;Heisig&nbsp;states that these clans are also very dangerous.&nbsp;


	“When the drug or other illegal business is disturbed by another clan from another ethnic background, then the problem is solved by killing, or at least trying to,”&nbsp;Hiesig&nbsp;wrote.&nbsp;One story&nbsp;states&nbsp;the young men of these clans&nbsp;“again and again” have&nbsp;fought&nbsp;one another.


	Even when one wants to remove an abused&nbsp;child from&nbsp;a clan home there is&nbsp;danger.


	‘One cannot take by force a child from an Arab clan,”&nbsp;Heisig&nbsp;states. “The families will shoot those who try.”


	Sending these families back to their country of origin is also a&nbsp;“dead issue,”&nbsp;according to&nbsp;Heisig. She states there are already second and third generation members in Germany.


	Heisig&nbsp;was found hanging from a tree in a Berlin forest. The police ruled her death a suicide but her colleagues believe Muslim criminal clans&nbsp;may&nbsp;have been&nbsp;responsible&nbsp;because she was giving harsh sentences to their young members.&nbsp;Several judges and prosecutors in Germany live under police protection, fearing clan revenge.


	Clans have also tried infiltrating the police. One&nbsp;member of the police academy was accused of having contacts with a criminal clan while a student of Arab background doing an internship at a police station was caught&nbsp;photographing&nbsp;files&nbsp;of a Muslim clan she sent to an unknown recipient. The police union has warned of “targeted infiltration” of the public service.


	“They attempt to keep certain family members from criminal acts in order to bring them into public service,” stated&nbsp;Die Welt.


	The challenge to the state based on the rule of law by these Muslim criminal clans is a large and growing problem. No mafia organization, as is&nbsp;well known, respects the state based on laws.


	Udo&nbsp;Ulfkotte&nbsp;wrote in his book&nbsp;‘Beware! Civil War’&nbsp;that the problem with the Muslim criminal clans,&nbsp;and with Muslim immigration in general,&nbsp;is that Islamic culture has simply different civilizational standards. This has&nbsp;caused, he writes, “a fall of values that leads to the state&nbsp;order not being accepted anymore.”


	The president of the police union of Essen&nbsp;goes even further and states that the Muslim criminal clans see the German state only as “prey.”


	Everyone realizes, however, that the clans represent a total failure at integration.&nbsp;Essen’s&nbsp;police&nbsp;union&nbsp;president says integration has&nbsp;“driven direct into a wall”&nbsp;here, saying many&nbsp;members don’t want to integrate.&nbsp;They live in their own parallel criminal societies and have little to do with German society.


	“They destroy the trust in the legal state and undermine state structures…,” stated one politician.


	Many&nbsp;Germans believe the apparent powerlessness of the state against these Muslim criminal clans is “shameful.”


	“What kind of a state, based on law, is that where&nbsp;such families can do what they want,’ posted a commentator to the North German Radio story.


	Unfortunately,&nbsp;no solution appears in sight to this tearing apart of the German social fabric, although German politicians of all parties are very concerned about the problem.


	“The police union has scarcely any hope for a solution of the problem,” states&nbsp;Die Welt.

Germany vs. Muslim Criminal Clans

It’s a story for which police have no solution.


	Since the beginning of the year until last October there have been 237 police actions against mostly

Last month, a woman was attacked in Bavaria for being Jewish. A man heard her two sons speaking Hebrew and recognized them as being Israeli. He then yelled in Arabic “Jew” and threw a rock, striking the woman in the head. Fortunately, the woman was only lightly injured.


	A similar incident occurred before a discotheque in Germany. A man was speaking Hebrew with friends when a stranger, for no apparent reason, punched him in the face. The attacker fled.&nbsp;


	“On the continent things are happening we haven’t seen any more since 1933,” said Berlin lawyer Nathan Gelbert before a committee of the Israeli parliament in a special sitting, as reported in Die Welt newspaper.


	According to a study by the World Jewish Congress (WJC), which represents a hundred countries, “every fourth German harbors…anti-Semitic thoughts.” But the study does not break down by ethnic group or religion those who think thus.


	In July last summer, the study polled 1,300 people. Other results include 41 per cent think Jews talk too much about the holocaust, 28 per cent believe Jews have too much power in the economy, 26 per cent believe they have too much power in world politics and 48 per cent believe Jews are more loyal to Israel than to Germany.


	According to the study, “there is a growing anti-Semitism perceived in the overwhelming majority of the population.”


	“Anti-Semitism has reached a crisis point in Germany. It is time all of Germany takes a position and fights anti-Semitism head on,’ says the WJC president.


	While police classify the political motives for half of the attacks and expressions of anti-Semitism as unknown, many appear to be coming from the Muslim population.


	Such was the case with two attacks against rabbis in Berlin. One, a 55-year-old rabbi, easy to identify as Jewish because of his clothing, was beaten to the ground from behind by four youths police said had Arab backgrounds. He was one of three rabbis attacked within a few weeks.


	This rabbi was chairman of an education center and, ironically, a board member of Jewish Forum for Democracy and Against Anti-Semitism. The president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany called it “a vicious attack against Judaism in Germany.”


	The other rabbi, a 53-year-old Berliner, was walking along the street with his six-year-old daughter when four youths asked him “Are you a Jew?” And then physically assaulted him. They insulted him, his faith, his mother and made a death threat towards his daughter before leaving. Police believe these attackers were also of Arab background.&nbsp; Both attacks are being investigated as hate crimes.


	Anti-Semitism is becoming so prevalent in Berlin that for the first time ever an anti-Semitism official was assigned last September to the city’s prosecutor’s office. There were 1083 anti-Semitic incidents recorded in Berlin the past year, 14 per cent more than the previous year.


	“There is a growing and hardening anti-Semitism problem in Berlin,” said the city’s justice minister, Dirk Behrendt.


	Anti-Semitic acts in Berlin alone have apparently more than doubled since the last year, Die Welt reports, going up 155 per cent from 18 to 46. And threats increasing 77 per cent from 26 to 46. But these are only the reported ones. Police believe 18 per cent originated from the extreme right and nine per cent from anti-Israeli activists such as leftists.


	The attacks are many and are increasing. Such as the one against the woman who went shopping and the shopkeeper saw the Star of David on her key ring. He yelled at her “Piss off, you Jewish slut.” And then moved from behind the counter, causing the woman to flee. Another occurred in a fitness gym in Freiburg where a young man wearing a kippa was attacked from behind, being hit in the head. The attacker tore his kippa off and tried to tear it apart. When he didn’t succeed, he spit in it and threw it in the garbage.


	“I was afraid he was going to do me in,” said the young man.


	The attacker fled because he knew the police had been called. The victim said he always wears a hat over his kippa going through downtown Berlin where such things as “Free Palestine” and “You are dead” have been yelled at him.


	In another incident, in a subway in the early morning, two man started hitting the doors and glass, yelling “Israel must burn. All Jews must burn.” When a man tried to talk to them, he was attacked.


	Such developments are making “daily life for those affected particularly difficult….,” according to Die Welt.


	Moreover, it is Jewish and Israeli institutions that are most targeted for anti-Semitic attacks. People come in second, according to a report presented by the Information Place for Anti-Semitism Berlin.


	There is a large anti-Semitism problem among the Muslim population in Berlin as in other German cities. The Central Council of Jews in Germany has registered “an aggressive mood particularly among Muslims” towards Jews.


	“In the large, urban neighborhoods with an overwhelming Muslim population there is already for a long time a serious (anti-Semitic) problem,” states the Amadeu-Antonio Foundation.&nbsp;


	One reason for this is that hate-filled, anti-Israeli broadcasts, such as Hezbollah’s, are received via satellite into European living rooms from the Middle East, stating Israel has no right to exist.


	According to the German-Arab Center, Muslim hatred of Jews is also passed from the parents to the children.


	“The parents follow daily the conflict at home, also if they are living in Germany. They are enraged what’s happening in their homeland. This rage and hate they pass on to their children,” said a Center official.


	Such hatred exhibits itself in anti-Semitic slogans at anti-Israel demonstrations. Among the more charming are: Israel, killer of children; Death to Israel; Death to Jews; You Jews are beasts; Jews are pigs; and Jew, Jew cowardly pig. And there are always signs with the Star of David crossed out.


	Germany is not viewed by Jews as being an anti-Semitic country. The government, for example, supports Israel and has rebuilt synagogues destroyed by the Nazis such as the main synagogue in Mainz. It was destroyed by the National Socialists in 1938 and rebuilt by the government in 2010 in exactly the same spot.&nbsp;


	“New synagogues are a symbol of a trust for Jews in the federal republic,” said Germany’s president at the synagogue’s dedication, while the president of Central Council of Jews in Germany called it a “miracle of a living Judaism in Germany.”


	But government officials and police appear to be helpless against Muslim anti-Semitism. Police are often accused of just standing around when demonstrators break the law, yelling hate-filled anti-Semitic slogans.


	For this reason, a commentary in Die Welt states it is not possible everywhere in Germany to go to a synagogue waring a kippa on Friday afternoon. At the synagogue, Jews pray behind bullet-proof glass while police stand on guard outside.


	“Europe is overrun by anti-Semitism,” said the owner of a security firm that sends Israeli ex-soldiers to protect Jewish institutions in Germany… “I sometimes have the feeling that we find ourselves shortly before a new pogrom.”&nbsp;


	One Berlin synagogue member perhaps summed up the situation of Jews best when he stated:


	“Seventy years after the Holocaust we are living again behind ghetto walls; and indeed not to lock us up, but in order to protect us.”

Jew-Hate in Germany

Last month, a woman was attacked in Bavaria for being Jewish. A man heard her two sons speaking Hebrew and recognized them as being Israeli. He then yelled in

In what was thought to be one of the safest and most secure areas in France, Islamic extremism managed to extend its deadly tentacles on October 4.


	Mikael Harpon, 45, a computer information employee and convert to Islam, went on a deadly stabbing rampage at his place of work, Paris police headquarters, knifing three police officers to death as well as a civilian employee.


	“It was a deed without precedent in the history of Islamic terrorism,” wrote one observer in the French newspaper Le Figaro.


	Dead police officers include a captain and a policewoman, a mother of two small sons. Harpon <a>wounded</a><a href="#_msocom_1" id="_anchor_1" name="_msoanchor_1">[As1]</a>&nbsp; a fifth, a female human resources worker, severely to the throat.


	Harpon had worked for 16 years, since 2003, at the Intelligence Directorate of police headquarters where he was described as a “dedicated and efficient employee” and as a “model employee without history,” according to a union secretary. He had converted to Islam about a dozen years before the attack. But it was only during the previous four years he showed signs of radicalization.&nbsp;


	These signs included “approval of certain exactions committed in the name of this religion,” changing his attire to Islamic clothing and refusing to shake hands anymore with women.”


	But it was his praising of the murderous Islamic terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo publication in 2015 by Islamic terrorists that attracted the attention of his work colleagues. He said of the 12 people who died in that attack: “They deserved it.”


	This seems to contradict the French minister of the interior’s assertion after the attack that Harpon never “presented any behavioral difficulty” nor “gave the least sign for alert.”


	His work colleagues reported his words about Charlie Hebdo but nothing was done. It was said the matter was “handled internally.” And Harpon’s work colleagues said no other such radicalization signs ever arose again. Thus, Harpon’s personnel file “showed no signs of radicalization.”


	It was stated that Harpon, who was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique and was deaf (he wore a hearing aid), adhered to “a radical vision of Islam” and had contacts with “certain individuals of the Salafist movement.” French intelligence failed to notice this. It also didn’t notice that Harpon had married a Muslim woman from Madagascar, a practicing Muslim and also deaf, which should have prompted an automatic security background check.


	It was said the intelligence services had “weaknesses” in detecting Harpon’s radicalization, which is somewhat inexcusable, since the intelligence service Harpon worked for is charged with detecting “drifts towards radicalization.” Which is notable since some Islamic extremists try to hide their radicalism while Harpon “acted openly,” according to Le Figaro.


	All of this is causes concern considering that, in his intelligence work as an “information technology specialist,” Harpon had access to “a quantity of secrets” such as all undercover operations, and the agents’ names involved in these operations, against Islamic extremism across the capital. In fact, after the attack police found USB flash drives at his desk, one with “personal information of agents” and another with “violent Islamist propaganda.” Police are now investigating whether he revealed any identities to anyone.


	On the day of the attack, Harpon arrived at work at 8:58 a.m. as he usually did. He exchanged that morning before the attack 33 messages, described as being “of a religious character,” with his wife. The last one ended “Allah Akbar, follow our beloved Prophet and study the Coran.”


	At lunch time, he bought two knives, one a ceramic knife with a 20 cm. blade and the other an oyster knife. And after returning to work from lunch, Harpon began his killing spree. It lasted seven minutes.


	First, he went into one office where three male colleagues were getting ready for lunch and killed them. He tried to get into another office but it was closed.


	Harpon next went down some stairs where he met the two women, killing one and wounding the other.


	The terrorist then went out into a courtyard where a rookie police officer on guard duty confronted him. The officer had been warned about Harpon by a woman, “sobbing and terrified,” coming from the building. The rookie officer, fresh from the academy and on the job only eight days, ordered Harpon three times to drop the knife, but Harpon refused. The officer shot him once with an assault rifle in the torso but Harpon kept coming, so the officer shot him in the head, after which Harpon collapsed. One observer in Le Figaro reported Harpon “wished to die.”


	The night before the attack neighbors had heard Harpon yell "Allahu Akbar" between 3 and 4 in the morning. One neighbor said the yells definitely came from his apartment. His wife said her husband suffered a “demence” (attack of madness) that night and was hearing voices and seeing visions. On the morning of his attack, Harpon was seen going to pray at a mosque with two others, dressed in a jellaba.


	Whatever Harpon’s mental state, the upshot is that four more beautiful lives have been lost to Islamic extremism in France, adding additional names to the more than three hundred others Islamic terrorists have killed since 2015 in that country. As one observer notes, the list of people killed “a l’arm blanche” (with knives) in France is already very long. And a writer in Le Figaro describe police and military personnel as a “favored target” for Islamic terrorists. Before Harpon’s attack, seven had been killed in France since 2012.


	This attack follows on the heels of the stabbing to death of a nineteen-year-old French youth, Timothy Bonnet, by a Muslim Afghan asylum seeker in Lyon in another brutal attack last August, ending another beautiful young life.


	Since the Harpon attack, two policemen have been dismissed from service for radicalization. Police have also revealed they have “turned down several candidates for recruitment” because they presented “radical profiles.” About 30 police officers in total are reported to be under surveillance for radicalization among the almost 150,000 officers in France, according to an author on a parliamentary report on radicalization in the public service.


	Ironically, the attack took place the day after the police held a protest called the “march of anger protesting “working conditions, pension reform, the high number of police suicides and pension reform.”


	But a writer in Le Figaro raises the important question of how was it possible that Harpon was in such a sensitive post.


	“Do we have to dread that other profiles of this type are passing under the radar?” he asks.


	The answer, unfortunately, is yes. French leadership have told the people, such as the French government minister who told a crowd after the Nice attack and was roundly booed, that they will have to get used to terror attacks. Which means in the public service as well. There is no stopping Islamic extremist infiltration, which the government knows full well.


	But after the Harpon attack French people are probably left with a question of their own:


	“If Islamic extremists can kill, even in Paris police headquarters, one of the most secure and safest areas in the city with numerous armed policemen around, then where can one be safe?"


	Not an easy question to answer.

Muslim Convert Goes on Stabbing Rampage in Paris Police HQ

In what was thought to be one of the safest and most secure areas in France, Islamic extremism managed to extend its deadly tentacles on October 4.

The intellectual atmosphere in France suffered severe disruption last August when French philosopher Henri Pena-Ruiz set off a storm by stating, “One has the right to be Islamophobic.”


	Pena-Ruiz made this statement at a conference of the French political party France Insoumise (France Unbowed). France Insoumise is a socialist party with 17 members in the National Assembly.


	Pena-Ruiz’s statement appeared to cause dissension in the leftist party, arousing consternation especially among “les belles ames” (the beautiful souls). The philosopher, who is described as being close to France Insoumise, was strongly criticized on social media for his statement.


	What Pena-Ruiz actually said was:


	“Anti-Muslim racism is a crime. Criticism of Islam, criticism of Catholicism, criticism of atheist humanism is not one. One has the right to be an atheophobe like one has the right to be an Islamophobe.”


	But in a politically correct, western society like France, of course, where all criticism of Islam is almost taboo, there were, as to be expected, outcries against Pena-Ruiz’s statement.


	One municipal counselor for the Parisian suburb of St. Denis, for example, called the statement “shocking” because “Islamophobia is the hostility to Muslims and Islam.”


	“Stop seeming to understand that this situation is not just…,” he wrote on Twitter. “It is the result of two years of Islamophobic sallies, notably by certain elected representatives who have never failed to belittle veiled women.”


	French Minister of Housing Julien Denormandie also entered the melee against Pena-Ruiz, stating:


	“Even if it was not the intention of the author, the offered words give the sentiment that it is normal to be an Islamophobe, of which many French are victims. No, it is not normal, no, one does not have the right to be an Islamophobe.”


	But there were some who supported&nbsp;Pena-Ruiz, one of whom was the leader of the France Insoumise Party himself, Jan-Luc Melanchon, who said:


	“It is a total, complete error to confuse racism and Islamophobia as racism…One has the right, and even for some among you, the duty to criticize mercilessly religions that I consider are making an extraordinary contribution to the war between human beings and to mutual detestation.”


	Another who sensibly defended Pena-Ruiz was Marlene Schiappa, Secretary of State for Equality Between Men and Women, who believes: “It is not permitted to insult believers for reason of their religion. But it is permitted to debate and criticize religion. It’s the sense of his (Pena-Ruiz’s) expression. It seems necessary to me to defend these two assertions.”


	Pena-Ruiz went on to criticize those who dishonestly criticized him on social media.


	“Those who criticized me on social media passed in silence the fact that I put on the same plane ‘catholophobia’ or ‘atheophobia’ and Islamophobia. They made it like I set myself solely in the criticism of Islam,” he said.


	What Pena-Ruiz’s words center on is that all beliefs should be freely discussed in a free society no matter what they are. No religion should find shelter from criticism and be able “to expel its critics from public life” -- as appears to be happening now with Islam. As French writer Mathieu Bock-Cote notes:


	“In the measure where a religion is a system of beliefs and ideas, it should not oblige those who are strangers to love or respect it. One should be able to reject it, as one would with any ideology without fear of being called Islamophobic. The dogma of one should never become the forced belief of another.”


	But it is this fear of being called Islamophobic that is causing many people to censor themselves, to “forbid themselves to speak of Islam except to flatter it.” Bock-Cote sees in this “gestures of submission.” And as the Islamophobia concept advances among politicians, he sees them “kneeling and ceding to intimidation” that is “symptomatic of their intellectual destruction.”&nbsp; &nbsp;


	&nbsp;Bock-Cote goes further, accusing western intellectual elites of disqualifying themselves morally when they accuse their own people of racism because they simply “wish to conserve their right to criticize a religion which does not conform to the compatibility of their world.”


	A good definition of Islamophobia is given by the French social scientist Philippe D’Iribarne, a leading expert on Islamophobia, author of the&nbsp; book Islamophobie: Intoxication Ideologique (Islamophobia: Ideological Intoxication). D’Iribarne writes: “…the notion of Islamophobia is a deception forged to hinder the comprehension of reality and to prevent the critical spirit from exercising its rights.”


	D’Iribarne sees the present situation analogous to moments in history when there was “a delirium of persecution” against “the enemies of the people, the Kulaks, the Jews where a fantasy enemy is diabolized.” Orwell warned us, D’Iribarne says, that the “magical capacity” of language “loses its way” when its view of the world is “guided by manipulation and lie,” even to a fabrication of proofs “to have a cause triumph,” like in the Moscow show trials under Stalin. Islamophobia “obeys this logic,” D’Iribarne asserts.


	While the left passionately claims to support liberty and equality, they hypocritically and passionately denounce those as Islamophobic who point out that this is not the case in the Islamic world. The lack of freedom of conscience for those, for example, who wish to change their Muslim religion. The discrimination against women in inheritance laws and as witnesses in trials as well as the prohibition against their marrying non-Muslims. All these aspects of the Islamic world that contradict western values, which the left should be sharply denouncing, are not only conveniently ignored by it but believes that pointing them out is a “scandal” that unfairly stigmatizes a “group of citizens.”


	Islamophobia has also been described as “a manipulation that disturbs the civil peace.”&nbsp; One of these disruptions is that the Islamophobia accusation hinders integration, perhaps absolving Muslims of the “responsibility” to do so. They can dispense with the “laborious adaptation” process that all immigrants have had to undergo. D’Iribarne writes:


	“It [Islamophobia] conveys a message addressed to Muslims: the Occident is an evil empire blinded by bad passions; no matter what you do, your belonging to Islam will mark you with an indelible stigma under which you will never be accepted as a full member; the only honorable option which is offered to you is to reject a world that rejects you, refuse its seductions, gather yourselves in places where you will make the law.”&nbsp;&nbsp;


	The Islamophobia accusation today is promoted by “international organizations, by governments of Islamic countries, by militant associations, universities and journalists.” But all this has done is create a suffocating atmosphere of censorship which has permitted Islam “to advance in the public space and neutralize its adversaries.” All of which, unfortunately, is very detrimental to the West.

The 'Islamophobia' Accusation

The intellectual atmosphere in France suffered severe disruption last August when French philosopher Henri Pena-Ruiz set off a storm by stating, “One has the

It is a new, wonderful French cultural custom – to randomly attack and stab people to death in the street.


	And the latest person to partake in this charming form of multicultural enrichment was an unidentified young Afghan who, armed with a knife and a barbecue spit, randomly attacked people at a bus stop in the city of Villeurbanne in the Lyon metropolitan area, killing one and wounding eight.


	“There was a lot of blood. It was not a small cut,” said Nina, a witness, to Le Figaro newspaper. “There was a man wounded with three young children. He had blood on his face and on his tee-shirt.”


	The person killed was a young, nineteen-year-old Frenchman, Timothy Bonnet, whose love of music had brought him to Villeurbanne by chance that day to attend a music festival.


	A witness said Timothy was among the first who tried to reason with the Afghan. He said the killer “stabbed him and when he fell to the ground, he continued (to stab him)”


	Another witness reported Bonnet then “had trouble breathing.”


	The killer also wounded a woman who likewise fell to the ground, whom a passerby covered with her body to protect her. And still another witness told Agence France Press that “A man at the 57 (bus) stop started stabbing people left, right and center.”


	One can only imagine the terror and horror of those present.


	After his attack at the bus stop, the killer ran to a subway station where he wounded still another person. At the subway, four bus drivers and other passersby “isolated” the killer, persuading him to drop his weapons. One was a knife with an 8 cm. blade. Police later found a knife with a 20 cm. blade under a vehicle that also belonged to the killer.


	“His face was expressionless,” a bus driver said. “You felt he was stabbing away just for the sake of it.”


	When arrested, the killer, who had a short, well-trimmed beard and wore a hood and red sneakers with a stripe, possessed two different identifications and three different dates of birth showing he was 33, 31 and 27. He is believed to be about 30.


	The Afghan told police in his initial statements, which were described as partially “confused and incoherent,” that he was a Muslim “who had heard voices God had been insulted and instructing him to kill.” He had consumed “a considerable amount” of cannabis before the attack but acknowledged killing Timothy Bonnet.


	He said he killed the young Frenchman because he thought he recognized him as someone he had had a run-in with in England several years earlier.


	The Afghan was not known to the intelligence services and had no police record. Police are treating the case as a criminal and not a terrorist matter, since there were no signs of radicalization. He is charged with murder and attempted murder.


	Police also believe psychological problems are involved, which authorities often invoke after Islamic terrorist attacks. The case has been placed with “psychiatric profiles.”


	The Russian/Israeli writer Alexander Maistrovoy cites authorities’ use of the “psychological problems” alibi as one of the evasion methods those in power use to avoid having to confront the fact terrorist attacks by Muslims have something to do with Islam.


	On the other hand, one must question why Buddhists, Hindus and Christians with psychological problems never seem to stab and kill people randomly in terrorist attacks.


	Marine Le Pen, leader of the populist National Rally Party, strongly criticized French immigration policy after the Villeurbanne attack. She correctly stated “the laxity of the immigration policy” was a “serious threat to the security of the French people.”


	Le Pen’s words brought the usual counter reaction from the left.&nbsp; The socialist mayor of Villeurbanne, Jean-Paul Bret, called her words “disgraceful.”


	“It is the classic reaction of the extreme right, which tries to use a dramatic event for its profit,” said Bret. “There is little glory for those who use these words...”


	Bret further stated: “This terrible event cannot be confused with migration politics….”


	But despite what the mayor says, there are serious questions concerning the Afghan killer’s immigration status in France that are being asked.


	The Afghan was staying in France on a “temporary residence permit” that was to be renewed next January 31. Critics want to know how he got this permit when his identity wasn’t known for sure. And what were his activities when he was known under two different identities? And why was he still staying in an asylum-seeker hostel when he had a temporary residence permit?


	The Afghan had arrived in Europe as a minor in 2009 and made a long trip through the continent, staying in Italy, Norway and Germany before “running aground” in France in 2016. But a Le Figaro story states “elements of his journey remain obscure.”


	Although the Afghan could not prove any credible threat against him in his country of origin, French immigration authorities deemed the security situation in Afghanistan too dangerous and allowed him to stay.


	“The man was able de facto to kill and wound in France because France judged that he risked being killed or wounded in Afghanistan,” stated a Le Figaro story ironically.


	The true victim in this terrible tragedy, young Timothy Bonnet, deserves not to be forgotten. His friends described him as “playful and warm.” He had just graduated from high school in 2017 with a diploma as pastry chef and was working for a local catering company where, a friend said, “he worked hard” and “was determined to succeed in his career.”


	“He loved music enormously, reggae in particular, but equally the pastry shop,” stated one friend. “He likewise loved animals.”


	Besides going to music festivals, Timothy loved poetry. A local newspaper reported he had won a prize in 2016 for a poem written with two other students that included a pastry recipe.


	“Timothy was a merry-maker,” said his friend Florent. “A bon vivant, it’s the term that characterizes him best…He wanted to travel, discover the world, to crunch life between his teeth. To make the most of it, to enjoy it. One could count on him 100 per cent…I am truly under shock and devastated. He will always be in our hearts. He will not be forgotten.”


	Timothy’s last words before he died also deserve to be recorded. Witnesses say they were “19, 73, festival.” “Nineteen” was his age, “73” represents his native region, Savoy (it’s the department number), and “festival” for the Villeurbanne music festival he was to attend.


	Tragically, Timothy joins a growing list of young French men and women who have had their promising lives terminated before they had ever really begun by knife-wielding Muslims.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .


	Among these are two female cousins whose beautiful young lives were snuffed out in Marseille in 2017 by an illegal immigrant from Tunisia. He approached the two young women, aged 20 and 21, from behind at a train station and slit the throat of one and stabbed the other in the stomach.


	The one cousin was a medical student while the other was studying nursing. The Tunisian had been picked up the day before the murders by police for shoplifting. A stark contrast in lives.


	Another young French life extinguished by a Muslim terrorist was that of Ronan Gnoset, 29, an information engineer. He was killed during a knifing spree in Paris’s opera quarter in 2018 by a Chechen. Four others were wounded. The Chechen had been carded by French intelligence as possibly dangerous. A neighbor described Ronan as “the son that everyone wishes to have one day. Kind, polite, helpful, devoted and a good friend with everyone.”


	It is horrifying incidences such as these which make France a bleeding country that will, in all likelihood and partly due to migration politics, continue to bleed its young people’s lives. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

France Bleeding

It is a new, wonderful French cultural custom – to randomly attack and stab people to death in the street.


	And the latest person to partake in this

It is a very tragic story currently unfolding in America’s southern neighbor where deadly violence is now almost a way of life.


	According to data released by Mexico’s National System for Public Security, murders this year in the Latin American country are at an all-time high. Statistics show there has been more killings in the first six months of 2019 than ever before in the country’s history. (Mexicans started keeping records on their country’s murder rate in 1996.)


	The total number of victims for the first half of 2019 comes to more than 17,000 people, a new record. This represents a 5.6 per cent increase in killings over the same time period last year. And also amounts to about 90 people slaughtered per day.


	Three thousand murders were recorded in June, 2019, alone, which is an increase of 232 over the same month last year. This is the most murders ever recorded for a single month.


	These figures do not include victims of other serious crimes such as, for example, kidnapping, attempted murder or extortion.


	The Mexican 2019 six-month homicide figure almost matches the American figure for the whole year of 2017 at 17.234, according to the FBI. There was also about a 7.6 per cent drop in the American rate in 2018. But America also has, according to Wikipedia, a population of 327,167.434. By contrast, Mexico’s is 126,577, 691.


	Mexico’s horrifying figures stand in contrast to the 13,985 murders committed in the first six months of 2018, which was also a record year for homicides. The year 2018 also saw a 33 per cent increase in the murder rate over 2017, which, again, was yet another record year for killings in its own right.


	So far in 2019, Mexico is on pace to easily surpass the 29,111 killings for all of last year by several thousand.


	Much of the homicidal violence in Mexico is due to the notorious drug cartels which seem to murder with impunity. The homicide rate in Mexico had actually dropped between 2012 and 2015, causing people to think that the worst of the cartel violence was over. But this wasn’t so.


	“Security experts say fueling the violence is the fact that many cartels have splintered into factions that have engaged in increasingly bloody battles over control,” stated a Fox news report.


	The most violent state in Mexico, for example, is Guanajuato where the cartels Jalisco New Generation and Santa Rosa de Lima are fighting each other. There are currently 947 murders under investigations in this state. Cartel violence is usually about drug distribution and control of territory.


	“In 2011, the Jalisco cartel dumped 35 bodies on an expressway in the Gulf state of Veracruz,” stated an Associated Press report.” In 2012, the Zetas dumped 48 decapitated bodies on a highway in northern Mexico and left 14 severed heads near a city hall.”


	But the places in Mexico with the most homicides are the states of Veracruz, Chihuahua and Jalisco as well as Mexico City.


	One of the most violent cities in Mexico, however, is the city of Tijuana, just south of the Californian border. Tijuana had 2,519 murders in 2018, a 40 per cent increase over 2017, which was itself a record-breaking year. Just last month, Mexico’s Citizens’ Council for Public Safety deemed Tijuana the most “violent” city in the world.


	The violence in Mexico is simply reaching incredible dimensions, incomprehensible to most people.


	For example, earlier this month police found 19 bodies hanging from bridges or hacked up. Nine were hanging from an overpass.


	All had been shot to death. Some had their hands tied and some had their pants pulled down.


	“Two of the bodies hung by ropes from the overpass by their necks and one of the dismembered bodies were women," said Adrian Lopez Solis, state attorney general for the state of Michoacan where the killings took place.


	As well, the murderers hung a banner at the site of their killings with a message. The banner bore the initials of the very violent Jalisco New Generation cartel and the message read: “Be a patriot, kill a Viagra.” The Viagra is a rival drug cartel.


	“This kind of theatrical violence where you don’t just kill, but you brag about killing is meant to intimidate and send a message to the authorities,” said Mexican security analyst Alejandro Hope.


	Earlier, cartels did not make a show of publicly displaying their murder victims.


	“For years, cartels had seemed loath to draw attention to themselves with mass public display of bodies,” stated an Associated Press story. “Instead, the gangs went to great lengths to hide bodies in clandestine burial pits or dissolving corpses in caustic chemicals.”


	In another act of cartel violence, which would astound most Americans, last May the Jalisco New Generation gangsters, in a “particularly brazen attack,” drove one night “in a convoy of pickups and SUVs”, openly marked with the letters of their cartel, through the Michoacan city of Zamora. They shot up police vehicles and killed or wounded several police officers.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;


	This recent killing spree in Michoacan of 19 dead is similar to the 2006-2012 drug war in Mexico. The terror of those turbulent years in Michoacan state lasted until ranchers and farmers rose up in a vigilante group and drove the dominant cartel back then, La Familia, out of the state.


	One of the former organizers of the vigilante group, however, in a very telling statement, recently told the Associated Press he wants to see the army return to his state.


	“We’re worse off now than we were then,” he stated.


	The question remains now whether this slaughter and record-breaking growth in the Mexican murder rate year after year can be stopped.


	The president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who took office last December, “insists it is under control.” But Obrador has “clashed” with reporters about over this.


	One such reporter was Univision’s Jorge Ramos. According to Fox News, Obrador told Ramos: “Our data shows that we’ve brought this situation under control.”


	Ramos, however, didn’t let Obrador off the hook, correctly responding: “The data I have shows something else, you’re not controlling, to the contrary, many Mexicans continue to die.”&nbsp;&nbsp;


	However, to his credit, Obrador says he intends to establish a new, 18,000 member National Guard to combat the cartels. Whether this will have an impact remains to be seen but does indicate the seriousness of the situation.


	Perhaps a big reason for the extraordinarily high homicide rate in Mexico is that “nearly all such murders go unsolved and unpunished.”


	“The number one issue we are dealing with in Mexico is impunity. The impunity rate for regular crimes is 90 per cent…” said a human rights activist in The Guardian newspaper.


	Another possible reason is that this Latin American country, like many Arab countries, have not developed beyond the acceptance of such violence. They appear to have remained more violent than other societies and peoples. In order to deal with this, Mexicans probably will have to look inwards, do some soul-searching, in order to find answers in order to change this terrible situation plaguing their nation. Which is something they can only do themselves.

Mexico Bleeding

It is a very tragic story currently unfolding in America’s southern neighbor where deadly violence is now almost a way of life.


	According to data

“…civilization is precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.” 
	-Will Durant, historian


	It is a situation that the left-leaning German media averts its eyes from because it disrupts the multicultural idyll it promotes: that Germans are, overwhelmingly, the victims of migrant crime.


	But leftist journalists’ looking away does not prevent German police from putting the real face on this terrible situation.


	“Germans were more often the victim of a crime committed by a migrant than the other way around,” stated Germany’s Federal Crime Office in a publication titled “Criminality in the Context of Migration.”


	And crime statistics provided by the German national newspaper, Die Welt, unfortunately, bear this out. The Federal Crime Office stated that in 2018 230 Germans fell victim to the crimes of murder and manslaughter, committed by a least one migrant suspect, while 33 asylum seekers were killed by German suspects.


	The Federal Crime Office’s statistics in the area of sexual assault are even worse. In 2018, police recorded 3,261 sexual assaults against German women by migrants, a 21 percent increase over 2017, while 33 women asylum seekers were sexually assaulted by Germans.


	All this is in contrast to 2017 where 13 Germans were killed by asylum seekers, while others were victims of attempted murder. No asylum seekers were killed by Germans that year. Also in 2017, police recorded 2,706 German victims of migrant sexual crimes, while 74 asylum seekers were victims of sex crimes committed by Germans.&nbsp;&nbsp;


	These stats show with precision that the liberal/left wing assertion that migrants are threatened by right wing radicals or “those hostile to foreigners” is false and a “very narrow one.” As the stats prove, it is obviously the other way round. Anti-German leftists are probably also unhappy that these same statistics show the number of crimes committed by Germans has been going down for years.


	These migrant crime stats would not have surprised Karen Hiesig, a German youth court judge in Berlin.


	In her evaluation of migrant youth crime, which she documented in her 2010 book Das Ende der Geduld (The End of Patience), she found “that youths with a migrant background commit violent crime more often than German youths.” (Hiesig says her statement does not pertain to Asians.)


	"The criminals are overwhelmingly of Turkish or Arab background and the victims are overwhelmingly German,” noted Hiesig. “The brutality has increased extremely. I myself, who have been a judge for 16 years, have been in part alarmed in what form it has taken against the victim.”


	Hiesig goes on to state in her book that repeat criminals with 30 “serious” crimes are 90 per cent foreigners; 45 per cent are of Arab background, and 34 per cent are Turkish. &nbsp;&nbsp;


	“Arabs present by far, with their share of the population, the majority of serious criminals,” states Hiesig, noting that “the more serious the crime, the higher the portion of foreigners.”


	Hiesig also downplays the involvement of radical right-wing youth in crime, a view promoted by the left, observing that the right “does not by a long shot play the role that is attributed to it.”


	The problem with migrant crime, according to Hiesig, is that many migrants came to Germany with no intention of integrating. The city district Berlin-Neukolln, for example, which has the highest foreigner population in Germany that includes many Muslims, has a “large criminal problem.”


	“There are, moreover, in Germany migrants who never intended to adjust, but always to live in a parallel, in some cases, in a purely criminally arranged structure and, from my point of view, intend largely to continue so,” Hiesig wrote.


	Migrants are so violent, Hiesig writes, that it is very dangerous for authorities to take a child from the family of one of Berlin’s many Arab criminal clans.


	“One cannot forcibly take a child away from an Arab criminal clan,” Hiesig writes. “They will shoot you.”


	A major factor for migrant youth crime, Hiesig note, is the failure to get a school graduation diploma. Seventy percent of migrant youth don’t graduate due to absenteeism, criminal lifestyles and alcohol and drug consumption. Drug and alcohol consumption are also often factors in migrant crime.


	Other factors include migrant youths coming from homes where the boys are extremely spoiled by their mothers and boundaries are never set for them. Parents also fail in their supervisory duty, allowing the boys to hang around in the streets until all hours of the night where they fall under the influence of older, criminal youth gang members, thus spoiling their chances for a decent future.&nbsp;


	“There are youth gangs who make more and more monsters out of children,” wrote Udo Ulfkotte in his 2009 book Vorsicht Burgerkrieg! (Watch Out: Civil War!). “These multicultural primates then go like unleashed fighting machines on their environment.”


	Migrant youth also learn in their homes that violence is acceptable. According to Hiesig, they are subjected to domestic violence much more than German youths. And parents also convey to their children to respect only those who show “toughness.”


	Hieisg, who led a very courageous life, was noted for handing out tough sentences to migrant criminal youths, many of them repeat criminals convicted of serious crimes, when other judges were coddling them. Hence the title of her book, The End of Patience. She had personally run out of patience with migrant youth criminals.


	This may have been the cause of her death as she was found hanging from a tree in a Berlin forest. The police ruled it very quickly a suicide, but none of her legal colleagues believed it. They suspect one of Berlin’s Arab or Turkish criminal clans may have killed her in retaliation for the tough sentences she was giving to their younger members.&nbsp;


	But it also isn’t just ordinary Germans who are victims of migrant violence. Police have become a favorite target for migrant assaults. Ulfkotte has noted this trend.


	‘Police are attacked,” he wrote. “Everywhere in Europe we have gotten used to it. Respect for the police seems to be an antique relic of a greying generation.”


	German children also fear and are deeply affected by migrant violence though they don’t often figure into the crime statistics.


	“According to the victim protection organization 'White Ring,'” Ulfkotte writes, “every third German elementary school child goes to school with fear of mobbing, beatings, robbery extortion. And those who beat, rob and extort are often children of migrants."


	And while every school child should love recess, not so in Germany. Again, according to Ulfkotte, “every third pupil fears going to the schoolyard for recess” because of violence from mainly migrant children.


	Kurdish-German lawyer Gulsen Celbi probably summarizes correctly why Germans don’t criticize violent migrants. The Germans, she says, are suffering from a “Nazi defect.”


	“They don’t trust themselves to criticize violent migrants because they fear being called radical right-wingers,” she stated.


	Hiesig does not see things as improving for the native German population.


	“There is found in certain social hot spots a hostile, anti-society and increasingly anti-semitic way of thought that, in consideration of the long-term demographic development in Germany, can get out of hand against the non-migrant population,” she wrote.


	She names as an example a trial involving Turkish and Kurdish youths who told young German women in a bus that “One can only gas Germans.” The shock, Hiesig states, was “tangible.”


	Uflkotte is also pessimistic about Germany’s future because there is an “elevator effect” in his country.


	“But in a multicultural society it unfortunately does not travel upwards but constantly downwards,” he writes.


	And as far as migrant crime against Germans is concerned, Ulfkotte says it is better to look away.


	“We have accustomed ourselves to look away: with garbage, broken windows, and with passersby who are being beaten. As a normal citizen, it is better to look away. Otherwise, one can become a victim.”

Germans Under Siege

“…civilization is precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from

Last month saw the 29th anniversary of an Islamic coup attempt to take over the government of the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad and Tobago.


	It was the first and only such Islamic terrorist attack in the Western Hemisphere attempting to overthrow an elected government. At the time, the coup was much underreported by the media due to the First Gulf War in Kuwait, occurring simultaneously.


	On Friday, June 27, 1990, 114 members of a Trinidadian Islamic group, Jamaat al Muslimeen, stormed the Trinidadian parliament, also called the Red House, and Trinidad’s television and radio station.


	By the time it was over six days later on August 1, 24 people were dead, including one Member of Parliament, a policeman and security guards. Much of the country’s capital, Port-of-Spain, was left a burnt-out ruin. This tragic event has been called Trinidad’s “darkest hour,” shaking the country “to its foundations.”


	“The coup staggered the Caribbean country’s sense of itself as an easygoing land of calypso, cricket and British-style democracy,” stated an Associated Press report, sounding like Trinidad’s 9/11 moment.


	Forty-two rebels took over the parliament building, taking 50 people hostages including the prime minister, ANR Robinson, while another 72 seized the Trinidad and Tobago television and radio station. The television station was the only one in the country.


	The rebels also exploded a car bomb, blowing up Port-of-Prince police headquarters after first warning the police.


	“It was the last thing on the minds of anyone that individuals would arm themselves, storm parliament and claim the government,” stated one Member of Parliament who was taken hostage, saying he was “shocked” to see men walking into the Red House with guns.


	Shortly after taking over the Red House, the leader of the coup, Yasin Abu Bakr, a convert to Islam, went on television and announced that the government had been overthrown and called for calm.


	But his call had the opposite effect. His coup announcement set off massive looting with accompanying fires that reduced much of Port-of-Prince “to rubble and destruction.” Looters were also killed in clashes with security forces. The rest of the county, however, remained calm.


	Abu Bakr stated the reasons for the coup were “social conditions.” His Jamaat al Muslimeen is made up mostly of Trinidadian converts of African descent who are Trinidad’s most economically disenfranchised people. Trinidad’s population is evenly split between people of African and East Indian descent.


	Trinidad had been a relatively prosperous Caribbean country. It had oil reserves and had experienced prosperity in the oil boom of the 1970s and early 1980s. People got jobs and lived well.


	But with the collapse of oil prices in the 1980s, economic hard times began. Government ran up a seven billion dollar debt and unemployment soared to 25 per cent. Trinidad then appealed to the IMF for help, which imposed austerity measures. The government had to bring in a Value Added Tax and cancel the Cost of Living Supplement, probably angering many people who couldn’t believe they had “gone from riches to rags.”


	“These economic ills built up some kind of turbulence,” stated a government report, saying there was “widespread discontent.”


	It was this rich mine of anger and resentment among the general population that Jamaat hoped to exploit with its coup, although the Islamic movement was only “a sliver” of the population “with no real power.” But it didn’t work. The people did not follow Jamaat’s lead.


	“Abu Bakr saw this moment as is opportunity to get rid of the ineffectual leaders and thought the people would back him,” stated the government report.


	Jammat also had its own grudges against the government. It had squatted on government land and, although it wasn’t evicted&nbsp;the government wouldn’t allow Jamaat to build, angering the movement.


	Al Muslimeen was well known to legal authorities before the coup. In 1988, authorities had raided the Jammat compound and seized weapons and ammunition. They charged Jamaat members with “larceny, robbery, illegal possession of weapons, rape and murder.” This raid apparently caused Jamaat to think the government was against them.


	Abu Bakr himself had been acquitted in 2006 on charges of conspiracy to commit murder against two former Jamaat members. Weapons charge were also dropped against him. He was also subject to contempt of court charges.


	Jamaat’s disrespect for the law, though, did not stop Trinidad’s political parties from working with the extremist organization. They used Jamaat “to get the vote out.”


	“All the parties used Jamaat, all,” said Selwyn Reed, a Trinidadian political scientist.


	But the one factor that made the coup possible was weapons bought and imported from America. Many of the weapons used in the coup had been purchased in Ft. Lauderdale’s Broward County in Florida. Miami is only a three-hour plane flight from Trinidad.


	Trinidadian authorities had asked the FBI to investigate a Jamaat member, the organization’s number two man, when he was in Florida purchasing these weapons. But the FBI only responded to Trinidad’s request a week after the coup.


	“The FBI treated this, as far as I can tell, as a kind of routine request,” stated one observer in the Huffington Post. “They threw it into a big hopper with a lot of other requests and finally got him (the Trinidadian government) an answer about a week after the coup.”


	This late response was a big issue in Trinidad’s newspapers afterwards. Trinidadians believed that had the FBI responded to Trinidad’s request more promptly, the coup would never have happened.


	The Trinidadian authorities also come in for their share of the blame. The guns were apparently allowed into the country through a corrupt and sympathetic customs officer. But several weeks before the coup, a Trinidadian newspaper report stated “a container with arms and ammunition had landed and been allowed entry into Trinidad.” Surprisingly, security authorities failed to act on this.


	Beaten and brutalized, Prime Minister Robinson was described as acting heroically during the crisis. When ordered to tell the army to back off, which was shooting at the Red House, he instead ordered it to attack “with full force.” For this, he was shot in the leg.


	But the biggest factor in ending the coup was reported to be the army. Trinidad is a small country and has only one army regiment. But its colonel, Ralph Brown, was the man of steel in this crisis and much credited for ending it. While some wanted to give into the rebels demands, according to the Huffington Post, Brown said: “Forget it! We’re not giving into any of these things.”


	In his direct, blunt military manner Brown further told the rebels: “You guys either come out of there and surrender, or we’re going to kill you.”


	“And the rebels thought it over for a while and they came out and surrendered after six days,” stated one journalist


	Before their surrender, however, the rebels signed an amnesty agreement with the government. They only spent two years in jail before a court released them due to the agreement.


	The Privy Council in London, England, Trinidad’s highest court, annulled the amnesty agreement, but Trinidad’s government never pursued further prosecution despite security authorities accusing Jamaat of having received money and training from Libya and Sudan.


	This was probably a mistake. The serpent was still alive. As proof, a Jamaat member was sentenced to 12 years in prison in America for attempting in 2001 to buy and send 60 rifles and 10 submachine guns to Trinidad.


	Only by forceful use of all legal and law enforcement means against such extremist groups that ends in eradication will societies have peace and security. This, Trinidad failed to do.


	*


	Image Courtesy: Trinidad Express.

Trinidad’s Darkest Hour

Last month saw the 29th anniversary of an Islamic coup attempt to take over the government of the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad and Tobago.


	It was

Trinidad’s Darkest Hour

After airplanes, Islamic terrorists seem most fixated on attacking trains in their worldwide rampage to kill as many infidels as possible.


	This was again evident in a Russian courtroom this month where seven jihadists were sentenced to “lengthy prison terms” of between 15 and 21 years in maximum-security prison colonies for plotting to stage a collision on a high-speed railway line between Moscow and St. Petersburg.


	“…they were suspected members of the extremist group Islamic State and …they were being directed from abroad via the messaging app Telegram,” stated a Radio Free Europe report.


	According to the evidence presented in court, the jihadists “attached a brake holder block on the tracks aiming at crashing the high-Speed, German-built Sapsan train so that it collided into another train.” The Sapsan train carries the “business elite between Russia’s two largest cities at speeds up to 155 miles per hour.”


	Fortunately, the plan didn’t work. The train “rammed through the obstacle” without the engine derailing. But five railroad cars suffered damages totaling $850,000.


	The terrorists were arrested mid-2017 in the midst of carrying out a new plot to again bomb the same railway line. They said they were protesting Russia’s military involvement in Syria.


	The seven were citizens of Tajikistan living in St. Petersburg. Tajikistan is a former Soviet republic in Central Asia, but is now an independent, Muslim-majority country.


	Russia has experienced more than its fair share of train terrorism in the past. This is the fourth time since 2007 that Russia’s Moscow-St. Petersburg train corridor, the country’s busiest, has been targeted.


	In 2011, security authorities foiled a major plot to again destroy the high-speed Sapsan train. An explosive device, a fertilizer bomb, was supposed to be blown up on a deserted stretch of track twelve miles north of Moscow.


	The 22-year-old ringleader was from Kabardino-Balkaria, a Muslim political entity in Russia’s North Caucuses mountains in southern Russia.


	“The suspect had apparently done a stint in a terrorist camp in southern Russia last year,” stated one newspaper report.


	In 2009, the Moscow-St. Petersburg line experienced another terrorist attack, but this time with much more deadly results. Jihadists detonated a bomb under the high-speed “Nevsky Express” train about 200 miles from Moscow. The train was carrying 661 passengers in 13 carriages. The explosion derailed the train, killing 27 and injuring 95.


	A second bomb was detonated the following day, apparently by remote mobile phone, at the crash scene. It was allegedly targeting investigators, only one of whom was injured.


	Terrorism charges were laid against 12 Ingushes from Ingushetia, a Muslim political entity in the North Caucuses. Eleven had the same last name and were related. Their leader was “an Islamist preacher.”


	The fourth terrorist attack on the Moscow-St. Petersburg line occurred in 2007. Again, jihadists exploded a bomb on the railway tracks, derailing a train, And again, it was a Nevsky Express train. Through incredibly good luck no one was killed, but 60 of the 230 people on board were injured.


	“The train cars left the tracks and slid onto their sides without any of them falling down the steep slope or from the overpass to the road below,” stated the New York Times.


	The attack occurred in the Novgorod region about 100 miles southeast of St. Petersburg, damaging a half mile of track. No one ever claimed responsibility for the attack,


	Stavropol in southern Russia also saw one of its regional electric commuter trains bombed in 2003. A suicide bomber armed with 15 pounds of explosives blew himself up as the train was leaving a station, killing 46 and injuring 170. Chechen terrorists were blamed for the attack.


	Stavropol also experienced a second train terrorist attack that same year in which seven people died and 80 were injured. Unlike the first attack, in which no one was ever arrested, a Chechen official was sentenced to 20 years for the second.


	While Russia has been the worst hit of Western countries for terrorist attacks on its train system, other Western countries have not been spared.


	The worst terrorist train attack outside of Russia was the devastating commuter train bombings in Spain in 2004. Directed by an al-Qaeda terrorist cell, ten bombings occurred almost simultaneously on four commuter trains during peak rush hour traffic in Madrid, killing 193 people and injuring about 2,000. It was later stated that 13 bombs had been placed on the trains.


	Only through luck, Germany escaped a deadly terrorist attack on one of its own trains in 2006. Two suitcase bombs had been placed on two different commuter trains in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Luckily, both failed to explode.


	“If the bomb had exploded, the train would have been destroyed,” said an official of the Dortmund Federal Prosecutor’s Office of one of the bombs.


	According to a report that appeared in “Focus Online”, a German news publication, police suspect the only reason the bombs didn’t detonate was because the gas bottles that were to ignite them were too full.


	“With the Dortmund bomb, the gas bottle was filled to the brim and the gas concentration too high,” said one police expert.


	The two Muslims arrested in the case were from Lebanon.


	Another fortunate escape in Germany, and perhaps the strangest attack on a train of all, occurred on the high-speed Nuremberg-Munich line. “An Islamic State supporter” was arrested for a sabotage operation that saw him stretch a thick cable across the track. His first attempt was unsuccessful, but his second cracked a train windshield. The jihadist lived in Austria and was arrested in Vienna. He was an Iraqi father of five who had been granted refugee status 20 years earlier.


	Another deadly Islamic terrorist plot to destroy a train occurred only this time in North America. Two non-citizen Muslim residents in Canada had plotted to blow up the New York to Toronto Amtrak train as it passed over the Niagara Gorge near Niagara Falls, but the attack, fortunately, was foiled.


	The terrorists, one of whom was 30 years of age and the other 35, wanted to drop the train, its crew and passengers from a dizzying height to their deaths down into the gorge. One of the terrorists was reported to be from Tunisia and the other from the United Arab Emirates.


	“[The two terrorists] were receiving support from al-Qaeda elements located in Iran,” according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).


	The train was travelling from Penn Station in New York to Canada. There is one train making this 12-hour trip from New York every day with one going daily in the opposite direction from Toronto. The train crews change at the border.


	“These individuals had the capacity and intent to carry out these criminal acts,” said the RCMP, adding the two terrorists had been watching “trains and railways in the greater Toronto area.”


	Russia has been the worst hit of western countries for terrorist attacks against trains, losing dozens of her people. This does not include several, very deadly Islamic attacks against Russia’s subway train systems.


	Russia’s train and subway casualties dwarfs that in any other western county. And it is for this reason, combating Islamic terrorism, that a new start must be made in U.S.-Russia relations. The Russian collusion hoax and the anti-Russian Beltway types must be ignored. Russia, with its large Christian population and similar culture and outlook, is America’s and Western Europe’s natural ally in combating Islamic jihad and upholding civilization.


	Years ago, a deputy Russian foreign minister suggested a “northern alliance” of European and North American countries with Russia to combat Islamic terrorism, believing this was the way it could be stopped. Hopefully, President Trump can forge such an alliance, or at least a new, positive relationship with Russia. The times now require such a step. It is very necessary and may be civilization’s savior.


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	Photo Credit: Tass.

Russian Train Terror

After airplanes, Islamic terrorists seem most fixated on attacking trains in their worldwide rampage to kill as many infidels as possible.


	This was again

After a ten year battle, a top court in the Republic of Niger, a West African country, ruled earlier this year against the Muslim practice of taking a “fifth wife,” also called “wahaya.” This brings a legal end to a barbaric form of slavery in Niger, in which thousands of young girls have long and cruelly suffered as sex and domestic slaves.


	“This custom is contrary to the laws of the republic and the international conventions regularly ratified by Niger,” the Court of Appeals ruled.&nbsp;


	This ruling represents the end of a ten-year battle started when a former slave girl “fifth wife,” Hdijatou Meni, brought a lawsuit about the practice to an international court in 2008 and won. The Community Court of Justice, a branch of ECOWAS, a political and trade group of West African counties, ruled that Meni was a “fifth wife” slave for nine years despite “the legal prohibition on &nbsp;&nbsp;this practice.”


	‘I am very thankful for this decision,” said Meni of the 2008 decision. “It was very difficult to challenge my former master and speak out when people see you as nothing more than a slave. But I knew this was the only way to protect my child from suffering the same fate as myself.”


	One African newspaper reported Niger’s Court of Appeals that made the 2019 ruling based its decision on Meni’s case.


	While Muslim men are legally allowed under Islamic law to have four wives, many in Niger buy slave girls, most under fifteen years of age, as non-legal “fifth wives.” These men may have also multiple “fifth wives.” Wealthy men, it was reported, buy such “wives” as a sign of prestige. And while one anti-slavery activist states the exact number of “fifth wives” is unknown, it is “very common” in some areas of Niger.


	Besides “wahaya,” there are also two other kinds of slavery in Niger. One is chattel slavery, whose numbers are estimated between 43,000 and 133,000.


	The third is called “soft” or “passive” slavery, in which former slaves remain in a kind of “tributary and forced labor situation” with their former masters. Their “individual freedoms are still controlled” and a violation of this arrangement by a former slave could lead to his being severely beaten. It is estimated there are approximately 870,000 “passive” slaves in Niger, which has been called the country’s “most prominent” form of slavery.


	Slave children also work in Niger’s gold mines. Boys are also sometimes castrated, an old Islamic practice. Slave masters are also reported to sometimes separate slave children from their parents at a young age to break the parent-child bond.


	The “fifth wife” slave girls are made to work long hours in the fields, herd animals perform domestic chores and forced to have sex with their masters in a form of concubinage. Masters can also arrange the girls’ marriages without their consent. As non-legal wives, these young girls are also subservient to the legal wives and made to perform domestic chores for them. And perhaps most terrible of all, any children these slave girls bear belong to their masters who can dispose of them as he wishes.


	Meni, whose courage caused her to stand up against this modern-day barbarism, was born a slave, since her mother was also a slave, in the Tuareg tribe, a Berber people in Niger. But slavery, one report stated in 2005, also exists among Niger’s Arabs, Hausa and nomadic Fulanis. The Tuaregs sell these slave girls as “fifth wives” to “wealthy and prominent” Hausa tribal members. All slaves are black Africans, whose ancestors were captured in slave raids and who “remain trapped in hereditary slavery.” Black African slaves among the Tuaregs are called “black Tumacheqs” (after the language spoken by the Tuaregs).”


	At age 12, Meni was sold for $412 dollars to a Hausa.


	“I was negotiated over like a goat,” said Meni of the transaction that deeply affected her personal fate.


	As a “fifth wife” slave for her new master, Meni performed all the hard-labor tasks mentioned above. And as his sex servant, she was forced to bear him three children.


	“I was beaten so many times, I would run to my family,” said Meni. “Then, after a day or two I would be brought back. At the time I didn’t know what to do, but since I learned slavery had been abolished I told myself I will no longer be a slave.”


	Slavery had been abolished when Niger was a French colony. But an independent Niger only abolished and criminalized it in 2003. One anti-slavery activist said this was only a “charm offensive to please westerners.” Everything, apparently, stayed the same on the ground.


	An indication of government reluctance to enforce the new anti-slavery law is that despite the possible thousands of “fifth wife” girls in Niger, the first conviction for the now illegal practice only occurred 11 years later in 2014. The woman in the case “had faced a lifetime of physical and psychological abuse and forced labor.” Her 62-year-old “fifth wife” master was sentenced to four years in jail.


	An activist with Timidria, Niger’s indigenous anti-slavery group that took the 2014 case to court (Timidria means “solidarity” in Tuareg) called the decision “incredible.”&nbsp; Niger’s government once arrested Timidria activists in an effort to suppress the slavery issue.


	Meni’s master, apparently, initially kept the news of slavery’s abolishment from her but eventually he gave her a “certificate of liberation in 2005.”


	Meni’s legal troubles started when she then married the man of her choice. Her former master then brought her to court, charging Meni with bigamy, saying she was his still wife despite there never having been a marriage ceremony or contract (In Islam, women can have only one husband.).


	A local court in Niger found for Meni’s former master, declaring her guilty and sentencing her to six months in prison. Meni served two.


	It was after this that Meni took her case to the Community Court of Justice in 2008, her lawsuit being the first slavery case the court ever heard. &nbsp;It ruled “there is no doubt” Meni was held in slavery and stated the Nigerian government had failed to protect her from this cruel institution, awarding her $20,000.


	“With this compensation, I will be able to build a house and farm land to support my family,” said Meni at that time. “I will also be able to send my children to school so they can have the education I was never allowed as a slave.”


	Pressure had initially been put on Meni to drop her lawsuit. But instead, the 2008 court decision she instigated appeared to stun the Nigerian government. It had always insisted there was no slavery in Niger. In fact, when one tribal chief declared he was going to free his 7,000 slaves, since slavery was against the Koran, and invited government representatives to the ceremony, they declined. The reason surmised was their presence would contradict their assertion of slavery’s non-existence in Niger.


	But the ruling on Meni’s behalf in an international court in front of the whole world caused the Nigerian government to take the slavery issue “more seriously.”


	Despite the ruling, however, slavery still exists in some areas of Niger as it does in neighboring Chad, Mali, Mauritania and northern Nigeria. Anti-slavery activists will now focus on “raising awareness and enforcement.”


	“The fight is far from being won, but were in it for the long haul,” said Jeff Sobik of Anti-Slavery International, a partner in Meni’s anti-slavery fight.


	In 2012, Meni was honored by the United States by receiving the Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award in a ceremony attended by Hilary Clinton and Michelle Obama. This award was founded in 2007 by Condoleeza Rice on International Women’s Day.


	“Most of the awards honorees, past and present, come from Muslim countries and have experienced imprisonment and some form of violence,” stated one journalist. Meni was no exception.


	Nevertheless, her story is truly inspirational. Sobik, whose anti-slavery organization now employs Meni, calls her a “true anti-slavery hero.”


	“No one deserves to be enslaved,” said Meni. “We are all equal and deserve to be treated the same. I hope that everyone in slavery today can find their freedom. No one should suffer the way I did.”

Slavery Defeat In Niger

After a ten year battle, a top court in the Republic of Niger, a West African country, ruled earlier this year against the Muslim practice of taking a “fifth

Slavery Defeat In Niger

Mauritanian anti-slavery activist Biram Dah Obeid, a much-jailed human rights protester on behalf of his country’s approximately 500,000 chattel slaves, took second place in contested presidential elections in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania last month.


	Dah Obeid announced his candidacy for the president’s office only days after his being released from prison last December for once again angering the government. He had been incarcerated, and tortured, many times before.


	Dah Obeid won 18.75 per cent of the vote last month for his Radicals For Global Action Party, an increase of 10 per cent over his 2014 election showing. Presidential elections are held every five years in Mauritania. 
	 
	The third place opposition finisher, a former prime minister, backed by the country’s main Islamic party, received 17.87 per cent.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;


	The winner was former defense minister Mohamed Ould Ghazouni, a retired general, with 52 per cent of the vote. Ghazouni was handpicked by outgoing president Abdel Mohamed Ould Aziz, another general, leading Mauritanians to wonder whether their country will always have a military figure as leader. Ould Aziz couldn’t run again because the Mauritanian constitution only allows two terms.


	Ould Aziz seized power in Mauritania in a coup in 2008. He won an election in 2009 and again in 2014 -- where he received 82 per cent of the vote, not unusual in an African dictatorship. Dah Obeid hotly contested that result -- just as he is contesting the recent election.


	“We are launching an appeal to the Mauritanian people …to resist, within the bounds of the law, this coup d’etat against the will of the people,” Dah Abeid said of last month’s alleged irregular vote.


	Dah Abeid’s pronouncement against the 2014 results was just as vociferous.


	“If these elections are held under normal circumstances, I would get between 35 per cent and 40 per cent of the vote” he said at that time.


	Dah Abeid’s campaign position in 2014 was also just as valid in 2019:

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		“We are the only ones to have a different ideological position. We are fighting against slavery, racism, against government waste and against corruption. The true opposition, it’s us.”&nbsp;
</blockquote>


	Jeremy Keenan, a professorial research associate at the School of Africa and Oriental Studies at the University of London, agrees that previous elections in Mauritania were tainted.


	“Mauritanian elections under President Mohamed Ould Abdul Aziz are neither free, fair nor transparent,” said Keenan in 2014.


	And there is nothing to suggest things have improved in the 2019 vote. No foreign observers were allowed to monitor the election.


	Nevertheless, the 2019 election represents the first peaceful transition in power since Mauritania gained independence from France in 1960. Another positive is that the opposition gaining substantially in voting percentage from the 2014 election. But no opposition party acquired more than 20 per cent of the vote necessary to force a second-round run-off.


	Dh Abeid, a lawyer who was elected to the national assembly the last time he was behind bars, was born free as the son of a former slave. His father had been freed by his master but his grandmother and uncles remained slaves


	“I am from the servile community of Mauritania that makes up 50 per cent of the population,” Dah Obeid said in a speech at the United Nations Human Rights Summit in Geneva in 2014. “Twenty percent of the 50 percent have been born as property of other men. We were inherited by other people.”


	There have been several slavery bans in Mauritania. The first was under French rule in 1901 and the last in 1981. But slave-owning was only criminalized in 2007.


	There have only been a handful of prosecutions since 2007 in a country where indigenous anti-slavery groups, like SOS-Esclaves, say there may be 500,000 slaves. African-American scholar Samuel Cotton called the slavery bans “woefully ineffective mandates” that “were never enforced and slavery continued to exist.” Abolition decrees, observers say, were made for foreign consumption.


	All slaves in Mauritania are black Africans while their masters are Berbers and Arabs, or the “whites.” They are also, both masters and slaves, all Muslim.


	The “whites” form about 20 percent of the population and occupy almost all important military, business and governmental positions. And that is the problem. One can’t get people to abolish slavery who own slaves themselves.


	“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, written after an exploratory trip to Mauritania. “They believe that a black man, woman or child’s place in life is to serve an Arab master…”


	Cotton’s volume constitutes an excellent contribution to the fight against the scourge of contemporary black African slavery. It should be on every high school and university syllabus dealing with human rights. Black Lives Matter activists should also read it, if they truly wish to learn about a genuine and incredibly cruel, anti-black racism. But don’t hold your breath.


	Like in 2014, Dah Abeid presented in the election last month an unusual presidential candidate to Mauritanians. He is the son of a former slave, just released from jail, who was once under sentence of death from a Sharia court as an apostate for opposing slavery.


	Slavery is legal in all four Sharia law codes. The eminent historian of Islam, Bernard Lewis, said slavery is “elaborately regulated” under Sharia law. It is a centuries-old, ingrained Islamic institution that has created a racism against black Africans. It also allows slave owners to believe they are doing nothing illegal or immoral in owning slaves. As well, the Prophet Mohammed owned black slaves.


	Dah Obeid was declared an apostate after an attention-grabbing demonstration by his anti-slavery organization Initiative for Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA) before a mosque. There, the anti-slavery activist symbolically destroyed a copy of Sharia law after removing all references to the Prophet Mohammad and the Koran. Dah Abeid does not believe Sharia is divine law but simply outdated codes drawn up in the Middle Ages.


	After this courageous demonstration, the government reaction, as to be expected, was as overwhelming as it was barbaric. Dah Obeid’s home was violently raided and he and other anti-slavery fighters were, as per usual, imprisoned and tortured. But due to the international outcry, Dah Obeid was released.


	“There were TV programs broadcast that talked about how I was going to be hanged …,” Dah Obeid said. And they said on television “we will kill him, like we kill a cat.”


	The extent of the slavery tragedy in Mauritania is symbolized by the fact that the country was named in 2013 by Slavery International Index the worst slave state in the world.


	“We will never stop commending you on this enviable place on the international stage you have managed to achieve,” said Dah Obeid to his country’s rulers after this disgraceful designation.


	In the same year, Dah Obeid was awarded the prestigious UN Human Rights Prize by Secretary Ban as the world’s foremost abolitionist. His IRA has been credited for releasing 2,000 slaves. Past award recipients include Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, who is Dah Obeid’s hero.


	Dah Obeid finds it particularly difficult to understand the silence of western countries and the mainstream media on Mauritania’s terrible slavery situation. Western leftists and liberals, most of whom have never heard of Dah Obeid, worked themselves up into paroxysms of moral outrage over apartheid in South Africa, but remain hypocritically silent about Mauritania.


	A main reason for this is that leftists/liberals want to maintain the image they have carefully constructed that Israel and America are the only oppressors in the wrold -- while Islam and Arabs are the victims. One such leftist hypocrite was Obama who, when visiting Senegal, mentioned only the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, while disgracefully and hypocritically saying nothing about Islamic slavery in neighboring Mauritania.


	And while leftists/liberals and their media establishment smear President Trump as a “racist,” it is telling that the U.S. president has done what the black ex-president Barack Obama never did: he ended trade benefits to Mauritania last November “due to insufficient progress in eradicating forced labor and slavery.”


	With or without international support, one thing is certain: like Nelson Mandela, Dah Obeid will never give up. During one of his incarcerations, he wrote in Churchillian fashion:

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		“I refuse to throw in the towel. I refuse to be silenced. I refuse to abandon …those who have been ruined by slavery.”
</blockquote>

Slavery’s Decision Day In Mauritania

Mauritanian anti-slavery activist Biram Dah Obeid, a much-jailed human rights protester on behalf of his country’s approximately 500,000 chattel slaves, took

Slavery’s Decision Day In Mauritania

It is difficult to believe that a lush, tropical vacation destination like the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, a relatively prosperous country with full religious and legal freedoms, has produced more fighters per capita for the murderous Islamic State (ISIS) than any other country in the Western Hemisphere.


	But, unfortunately for Trinidad and the civilized world, that is the tragic fact of the matter. While Muslims constitute only five per cent of the country’s population, according to the CIA’s World Factbook, a portion is “causing outsized global security concern,” states Todd Benson in the publication Center for Immigration Studies.


	Unknown to most and largely unreported by the media, Trinidad, with only a population estimated between 1.2 and 1.5 million people, has sent at least 130 of its citizens to join the Islamic State. The United States, by contrast, with a population about 240 times larger than Trinidad’s, has sent about 250 to 300, about one per cent of the 30,000 foreigners who joined ISIS.


	T. and T. citizens in ISIS “are high up in the ranks, they are very respected, and they are English-speaking. ISIL have used them for propaganda to spread their message through the Caribbean,” said John Estrada, former U.S. ambassador, to Trinidad and Tobago, adding Trinidadians did “very well” in ISIS. &nbsp;


	Part of the problem was that no law existed in Trinidad that forbade joining ISIS until 2017; however, legislation was then introduced. But no reason has been given as to why Trinidad has such a strong, radical Islamic scene.


	However, Dr. Simon Cottee of England’s Kent University, who has studied this Trinidadian phenomenon, has attempted to explain the attraction ISIS has for some of the island’s Muslims.&nbsp;&nbsp;


	“Redemption through violent self-sacrifice is a pretty big draw,” Cottee said in Trinidad and Tobago News. “But I also think a lot of those Trinis who went truly believed that the ISIS caliphate was the real deal, a kind of Islamic utopia where they could go with their families and be spiritually saved.”


	Trinidad is a nation whose population is split almost evenly between those of black African descent and those of East Indian origin, most of whom are Hindus. Both groups largely form separate political parties and separate churches and temples. Cottee dismisses the notion, though, that the jihadists came primarily from the island’s black population.


	“Quite a few were Afro-Trinis who had converted to Islam,” Cottee said, “but many were born-Muslims from wealthy families of East Indian origin. Some had criminal records or pending court appearances while others were law-abiding and came from respectable families.”


	But there was one curious aspect of this migration of Trinidad’s citizens to ISIS not found in any other Western country, and it concerns the number of children the Trinidadian recruits brought with them to ISIS territory. They numbered about 42, constituting what has been termed a “unique situation.”


	“The most striking thing is the block recruitment of Trinis to ISIS,” said Cottee. “Entire families went. It was mothers, daughters, fathers and sons. According to my estimates about 30 per cent were men, 30 percent were women and the remainder – 40 percent were children. This is pretty unique because you don’t see this elsewhere in Europe.”


	In the main, Cottee says ISIS volunteers from Europe were young men.


	The United States' concern regarding Trinidad’s radical Islamic scene is not unwarranted. &nbsp;


	For example, two of the men wanted in the 2007 plot to bomb fuel lines that ran underground through populated areas of New York City to JFK airport were arrested in Trinidad where they visited a known, radical mosque. A U.S. Attorney called their homicidal plans “one of the most chilling plots imaginable.” (The two men arrested were not Trinidadians but Guyanese; a co-conspirator, however, was from Trinidad.) The New York Times (NYT) states United States authorities said the island’s radical Islamic community was “an obvious place…to turn when they were looking for Islamist support.”


	Rondell Henry, a native of Trinidad and naturalized U.S citizen, was planning last March a Nice-like, truck-ramming attack in Washington D.C. to kill as many innocent people as possible. But no connection has been established with his homeland’s radical Islamic scene.


	In 2005, a Muslim from Trinidad was convicted in Florida of trying to smuggle 70 machine guns and 20 silencers to Trinidad, while in 2017 U.S. authorities assisted Trinidad’s security forces in thwarting an Islamic terrorist attack on the island’s famous carnival.


	In the carnival plot, Trinidadian police said “several persons of interest were detained.” Eight were reported arrested, all connected to the island’s Islamic community. The U.S. embassy issued a security alert but the carnival went ahead as planned.


	In 2018, the Treasury Department also put two Trinidadians on its terrorism sanctions list for raising money for countrymen with ISIS in Syria. They joined eight other citizens of Trinidad and “enterprises” on the list.


	Besides directly assisting Trinidadian security authorities, the United States has taken other measures to confront Islamic radicalism in the Caribbean nation. In 2017, the NYT states President Trump spoke to Trinidad’s prime minister by phone about terrorism and common security concerns, “including foreign fighters.” The United States is particularly concerned about attacks against U.S. embassies in the region and against commercial concerns such as oil industry infrastructure.


	According to the NYT, the American government has also “hosted meetings with Muslim leaders at the U.S. embassy in Port of Spain,” the country’s capital, and paid some to attend workshops on “anti-extremism” in the United States.


	The United States is probably targeting the main problem with Islamic radicalism in Trinidad, namely, some Islamic leaders. Cottee states “there were some local clerics who promoted the idea of holy war.” The NYT states efforts to stop the flow of Trinidadian fighters to ISIS “have been complicated by some imams and parents.”


	Many of the Trinidadian fighters in Syria said they were “swayed” by certain imams. One ISIS volunteer said he was influenced by Islamic lectures and a Trinidadian Muslim leader. The father of another volunteer, killed in Syria, said he “welcomed his son’s death as a martyr.”


	“I feel elated. Speaking about it now, I am over-elated,” he said.


	At one mosque near Port of Spain, 15 to 20 ISIS volunteers spent two weeks there before leaving for the Islamic State where, one official said, they received an “orientation.” But the imam denied he was running “an Islamic State training program,” although two of his children and five grandchildren “are believed “involved with the Islamic State.”


	America and other nations should be very concerned about this island “breeding ground” for jihadists so close to the United States and its interests. For example, one Trinidadian ISIS volunteer, Shane Crawford, known as Abu S’ad al-Trinidadi, represents this jihadist danger. Crawford was given prominence in an ISIS publication calling for attacks on Western embassies.


	Of special concern are such radicalized jihadists, like Crawford, returning from Syria with combat and explosives experience. After all, one has to keep in mind it is only a three-hour plane flight from the island to Miami.

Trinidad: The Western Hemisphere’s Jihadist Hotspot

It is difficult to believe that a lush, tropical vacation destination like the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, a relatively prosperous country with

Trinidad: The Western Hemisphere’s Jihadist Hotspot

In a vastly under-reported story by the mainstream media, the capital of the United States barely missed being the target of a Nice-like terrorism attack that killed 86 people and plunged France into grief and shock.


	In that French city, in July, 2014, a Muslim terrorist drove a large truck down a popular promenade, deliberately smashing into as many innocent people out for a walk as possible, killing 86.


	Jihadists have a bitter history of using vehicles to kill infidels in the West. Besides Nice, the Berlin Christmas market truck attack in 2016, for example, left 12 dead, while in 2017 a jihadist drove a van down a pedestrian promenade in Barcelona, killing 13.


	It was now America’s turn.


	In Washington, D.C. last March, Rondell Henry, 28, a native of Trinidad inspired by Islamic State videos of violence and death, was planning a Nice-like attack by running over a crowd of innocent people.


	Henry, a naturalized American citizen who lived in Germantown, Maryland, had first driven to Virginia on March 26 where he stole a U-Haul truck he had tailed and which he intended to use as his murder weapon. He actually left his BMW parked near the parking garage where he stole the truck, probably considering it too small for his murderous purposes.


	“The defendant appears to have formed a plot to harm large numbers of people and taken concrete steps to execute that plot,” said the U.S. attorney for Maryland.


	With the truck, Henry next drove to Washington’s Dulles International Airport, expecting to find there large enough crowds he could mow down.


	Once there, Henry got out of the truck and, according to the New York Times, spent the next two hours trying to get through airport security, but was unsuccessful. The Washington Post stated he had tried “to access restricted areas” and “obtain paperwork from a check-in kiosk.”


	After his failure at the airport, Henry then drove to the National Harbor, a location just south of Washington along the Potomac River, again looking for a large crowd where he could kill “as many disbelievers as possible.”


	When he found crowds at the National Harbor “too thin,” Henry postponed his homicidal Harbor plan until the next day.


	The Trinidad native then broke into a boat where he spent the night. Henry was caught by police the next day when jumping over a security fence. Once in custody, police subsequently found out about his homicidal intentions and identified him through documents he had left in his BMW, found in Virginia.


	“I was going to keep driving and driving and driving. I wasn’t going to stop,” Henry was quoted as saying of his intended rampage in a motion filed by federal prosecutors.


	The media stated that Henry’s planned attack was to be a suicide operation. It was reported he had been spending a lot of time with family members probably knowing he wouldn’t ever see them again.&nbsp; He also broke his lease with his landlord only a couple of days before he embarked on his homicidal course. As well, he got up and left his place of work at noontime in mid-shift in the IT department of the company where he worked as a contract computer engineer. After this, police reported him as a “critically missing person’.” But, as regards his suicidal intentions, perhaps nothing is more indicative than the fact, as reported, that he had no escape plan.


	Authorities claim Henry chose a vehicle for his terrorist attack because he was not well versed in weapons and explosives. Nevertheless, prosecutors accused Henry of plotting to “commit mass murder.”


	“He wanted bloodshed, he wanted chaos, he wanted panic,’ said a U.S. District Attorney.


	The question remains, though, as to why a young man with a good education, a decent job, his own accommodations and driving a BMW, would turn his back on the life he had built, including his family, to become a mass-murdering terrorist?


	The answer Henry provided authorities perhaps supplies the answer as well as illuminates the twisted, hate-filled world jihadists live in and which most others can’t begin to comprehend.


	“He reportedly told investigators that he hated non-Muslims and that was the motive for his attack,” reported a Trinidadian newspaper.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;


	Perhaps as a secondary reason, the same newspaper reports Henry also wanted to gain more notoriety than Mohammed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, who drove a 19-ton cargo truck into a crowd in that barbarous Nice attack. As with most terrorists, Henry “wanted to garner as much media attention as possible.”


	After being taken into custody, Henry was taken away for psychiatric evaluation, although, as the Washington Post reported, he had no history of mental illness. Political commentator Alexander Maistrovsky said this is one of the most “common” methods, among the eight he lists, political elites use as a form of escapism to keep from admitting there is a problem with Islam, or, the “Arabian Nightmare,” as he calls it.


	French psychiatrist Yann Andretuan concurs, saying he does not believe that Islamic terrorists, like Henry, are insane in the “psychopathological sense of the term” and attempts by elites to prove otherwise simply allows them to evacuate the “political dimension” of the problem. After all, as French writer Gilles Nadel states, one doesn’t make war against “crazy people.”


	French commentator Shmuel Trigano adds that the psychiatric evasion tactic allows elites to refrain from asking hard questions about Islam and from fighting back. This leaves people without the security they deserve from their respective governments, offering them up as living sacrifices to Islamic terrorism.


	Henry spent six days in hospital and was then “picked up by the FBI” after release.


	Unfortunately, Dulles International airport was not the first airport in America targeted by Islamic terrorists – and most likely won’t be the last.


	Four Islamic terrorists, three from Guyana, one a former member of parliament, and the fourth from Trinidad, plotted in 2007 to blow up aviation fuel lines that ran under heavily populated areas of New York to JFK airport.


	Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian member of al-Qaida living in Montreal, was convicted of plotting to blow up Los Angeles International Airport on New Year’s Eve in 1999. He was driving to Los Angeles when he was caught by an alert border guard at the British Columbia border with Washington State with a trunk full of explosive materials.


	But according to the FBI special agent, Jennifer Moore, it is not foreign terrorists like Ressam that pose the greatest danger to America.


	“This case (Rondell Henry) emphasizes that our greatest threat right now is homegrown violent extremism,” she said.

Terror in D.C.

In a vastly under-reported story by the mainstream media, the capital of the United States barely missed being the target of a Nice-like terrorism attack that

Too often nowadays, after an Islamic terrorist attack, the perpetrator is almost immediately declared mentally ill. This is often stated before any psychological examination of the jihadist has been performed or any other proof offered. This conclusion is then presented to the world as fact and beyond discussion.


	For example, the jihadist/murderer who in France threw Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old retired Jewish doctor, out of a window in 2017 in an anti-Semitic attack after beating her was immediately placed by authorities “in a psychiatric establishment without passing through a prison cell.”


	And psychiatric care facilities have been set up in France for jihadists returning from fighting for the Islamic State in Syria. The French are given to understand their joining and fighting for such a genocidal organization was simply a mental aberration to be treated medically (Who is crazy here?).


	And French minister of the interior Gerard Collomb wanted “to mobilise the psychiatric hospitals in order to identify the radicalized individuals…for the purpose of spotting all of those profiles who tomorrow can proceed to carry out an attack.” &nbsp;


	French psychiatrist Yann Andretuan, head of the French navy’s psychological service who has practiced psychiatry in several French hospitals for more than a decade, refutes this psychiatric interpretation of Islamic terrorist attacks, regarding it as false.


	“I am a psychiatrist and I do not believe that terrorism is a madness in the psychopathological sense of the term,” Andretuan writes in an article in Le Figaro, a French national newspaper.


	First, Andretuan maintains that psychiatry and psychology are “saying nothing to explain this madness and to heal it,” indicating an absence of medical roots and hence the impossibility of a medical cure.


	Andretuan then goes on to relate his own experiences as a psychiatrist. In his 12 years of practice in different French hospitals he states he had to restrain a patient only once and had been assaulted, also only once, by a dementia patient in his nineties.


	“Psychiatric wards can be loud but rarely violent,” states the experienced psychiatrist.


	The French doctor then cites a study done in the 1990s, which showed that the probability of being attacked by “an individual who had consulted a psychiatrist is ten times less than by someone who hasn’t.”


	Some have argued that jihadists’ mental illness is evident in the fact that they are recruited, sometimes easily, to such a murderous cause as Islamic terrorism. Andretuan also demolishes this argument.


	“Some individuals will find a cause that will give meaning to their delirium…but how many?” he asks. “It is not necessary to fear an epidemic in the psychiatric services.”


	Andretuan then cites commando units the English established in the Second World War as an example of the difficulty and unsuitability of recruiting the mentally ill.


	“(The English) imagined to recruit sociopaths because of their absence of resistance to killing,” he stated. “This was a failure. They thus went looking for men, educated and often products of good English society, not presenting any psychiatric troubles…”


	Besides, Andretuan says, armies have always gotten rid of mentally unstable recruits, considering them too difficult to control.


	By designating the terrorists as madmen, Andretuan says, politicians like Collomb are not seeking an explanation for jihadists’ acts of terrorism, but “the consequence of these conclusions,” believing they can be healed, like the member of a sect.


	“All in all, if one can convince a victim of a sect to abandon it, then the same operation is possible with a terrorist,’ writes Andretuan of this false notion. “One can therefore ‘deradicalize’ terrorist candidates by psychological techniques, in reversing in some way the process of conditioning and thus transforming them into good citizens.”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;


	In other words, “science must not only explain…but also act,” which, Andretuan claims, is “the function of engineers.”


	Andretuan believes France is coming to represent the former Soviet Union in its misuse of psychiatry. The Soviet Union locked up the disrupters of its society, the dissidents, in psychiatric hospitals, while France is doing the same to its societal disturbers, the jihadists. And like the Soviets with its dissidents, French authorities appear to be treating jihadists’ reasons for their murderous behavior with a similar indifference, like a nuisance that will disappear someday, “like mosquitos in the summer,” even though the jihadists, unlike the Soviet dissidents, “kill without distinction.”


	Andretuan notices “a trend” on the part of the French government with the psychiatrization of the jihadists, namely, to “naturalize” their behavior, to seek in them “a biological or scientific truth.” In our time, he states, this naturalness immediately gives a “legitimacy.”


	“In naturalizing the problem of terrorism,” Andretuan states however, “one is evacuating its political dimension. One can’t be at war with crazy people.”


	And, very importantly, in evacuating the political dimension, French politicians, fearful of their own large, Muslim minority, don’t have to investigate the roots of the terrorist attacks which lie in Islam itself.


	The French writer Gilles William Goldnadel believes that this “thoughtless and reckless obligation” to regard Islamic terrorists as insane as “socially, politically and psychological madness in itself.” Goldnadel rightly believes Islamic terrorists do not belong under psychiatric care, but in prison.


	The French professor of psychiatry, Raphael Gaillard, also believes “the great majority of terrorists have no connection with psychiatry,” while the French terrorism expert, Romain Caillet, maintains the “majority of psychiatrists and terrorism specialists … “do not look to explain radicalization by psychiatry.”&nbsp;&nbsp;


	But the French government’s refusal to heed the words of its terrorism and psychiatry experts leads to disturbing conclusions. By “evacuating the political dimension” and attempting to explain the terrorist attacks by psychiatry, Caillet states this “avoids asking troubling questions.” Like, as already mentioned, the Islamic roots of the attacks.


	Just as importantly, Goldnadel also sees in the psychiatrization of Islamic terrorist attacks the attempt by the government to relieve the terrorists of all personal responsibility for their actions. After all, if one doesn’t make war against crazy people, as Adretuan maintains, one also does not hold crazy people responsible for their actions.


	But Goldnadel also sees something more dangerous, even perverse, in the psychiatric defense of Islamic terrorists.


	“I affirm…this tendency for the psychiatric excuse is hiding also an irresolution to defend oneself physically with lethal weapons and to prefer the use of deradicalization…”


	But as Andretuan rightly maintains, “to resist is to continue to live.” And the French people shouldn’t allow themselves “to be shattered by the fear the terrorists want to incite.”


	But it is in this refusal to fight the jihadists, treating them with psychiatric kid gloves and denying the French people the security they deserve and which is their job to provide that French politicians are committing their greatest crime. As the French writer Shmuel Trigano most aptly sums up: “They are sacrificing the victims in order not to have to give battle to the executioners.”


	However, in conclusion, Andretuan correctly points out: “It is not necessary to carry out a search for the primary causes of madness…to affirm that monsters exist and that it is necessary to fight them.”

The Myth Of The Mentally-Ill Jihadist

Too often nowadays, after an Islamic terrorist attack, the perpetrator is almost immediately declared mentally ill. This is often stated before any

In modern-day Germany, it is an all-too-common, and tragic, love story. Girl meets migrant. Girl dates migrant. Girl argues with migrant. Migrant kills girl.


	The victim this time was Cynthia, 21, a beautiful young woman and native of the cathedral city of Worms, who worked as a nurse and whose dream was to become a midwife.


	“She lived for her work,” said Cynthia’s uncle after her murder in early March. “She wanted to become a mid-wife. She was happy, loved parties, cheerful.”


	But Cynthia, whose last name can’t be revealed due to German law, won’t be realizing her life dream of delivering babies due to her boyfriend Ahmed, 22, a Tunisian.


	Ahmed had arrived in Germany in October, 2017, and applied for asylum. He had met Cynthia only four months before he murdered her. Cynthia lived in the upper story of the family home, which she had to herself. Occasionally, Ahmed stayed overnight. Police say Cynthia was murdered in her room.


	One night in early March, Cynthia and Ahmed got into an argument. The Tunisian then took a knife and stabbed Cynthia, apparently while she was lying on her bed, numerous times. She suffered 10-15 stab and cut wounds to her back, neck, hands and lung. &nbsp;


	Ahmed gave himself up to police the next morning, confessing his guilt without providing a motive. The police then went to Cynthia’s home and indeed found her body there.


	After they first met, Cynthia, according to one report, was so taken by her new Arab boyfriend that she started wearing the headscarf and learning Arabic. But only four days before the murder, on March 4, Ahmed was ordered deported. He wanted Cynthia to accompany him back to Tunisia, but she refused. It is speculated whether this was the murder’s motive.


	Police had been looking for Ahmed since his deportation order was issued but couldn’t find him. He had disappeared last October from the migrant hostel where he was registered.


	And like many of the migrants who murder women, Ahmed was already known to police for such crimes as assault causing bodily harm, drug offenses, threats and coercion. He was also in jail for three weeks last October for theft. Police also discovered Ahmed used different identities to get multiple welfare checks.


	But the shock to Worms did not end with Cynthia’s murder. Shortly before her memorial service began, a Pakistani, 29, added incredible insult to injury by standing by the altar with outstretched arms yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’.


	Some mourners, no doubt recognizing the cry Islamic terrorists make when they kill, understandably hurriedly left the church and contacted police. Police apprehended the Pakistani, but let him go. They are currently investigating him for “disrupting a religious service.” This incident was reported to have “deeply moved” the Worms area. (No wonder here.)


	The political reaction to Cynthia’s death is, as expected, the usual, pro forma response nowadays when Germany loses a precious young life to migrant criminals. Always, the political right is mentioned as the evil one.


	The mayor from Worms, a Socialist Party member, was no exception. He indicated “it can’t be allowed that such an event be misused by extreme right and populist right forces for their purposes.”


	It must be noted that such mainstream politicians never discuss whether it was a wise decision on their part to allow in hundreds of thousands of single, young men from patriarchal, women-despising, Muslim societies and what their responsibility is for this act and for subsequent murders like Cynthia’s. After all, it is not right wing Germans killing and raping women but the migrants.


	Another sterling example of a women-despising migrant/murderer allowed into Germany is Hussein Khaveri. Khaveri entered Germany in November, 2015, and less than a year later had strangled and drowned medical student Maria Ladenburger in a river in Freiburg, a crime that also rocked Germany.


	“He knew that she was alive as he laid her in the Dreisam (River), that she would drown, that she had to drown,” said the judge at his trial.


	Khavari arrived in Germany without documents, claiming to be a minor from Afghanistan. His Iranian father later said he had a document showing his son was 32 years old. A German medical examination proved he was at least 25.


	Before Germany, Khavari had landed first in Greece where he was convicted of attempted murder for robbing and throwing a young woman over a cliff. She fortunately survived.


	But unfortunately for Maria Ladenburger, Khavari was released after only a year and a half of his sentence in an amnesty for juvenile offenders. Khavari, however, had manifested his women-despising attitude to Greek police who testified at his trial that he said of his Grecian victim: “that’s just a woman.”


	In another familiar tactic, after Maria’s murder, mainstream politicians, again like in Cynthia’s case, sought to distract attention from the fact that it was once more a migrant who had committed the latest anti-woman horror by spreading culpability to include Germans.


	Sigmar Gabriel, then Chairman of the Socialist Party, said: “Refugees commit the same horrifying crimes as the people born in Germany.”


	Julia Klockner, then chairwoman of the Christian Democrats, Angela Merkel’s supposedly conservative party responsible for the mass migrant influx in 2015, echoed the socialist Gabriel: “Such cruelties are committed by natives and foreigners, this is no new phenomenon.”


	But these politicians, like some in the United States, are deliberately missing the point, made by America’s Angel Mothers, among others, whose children have also been murdered by illegal migrants: If these illegal migrants weren’t here, our children would still be alive.


	Besides Cynthia and Maria, there have been many more girls and women in Germany murdered and raped by migrants. For example, 14-year-old Susanna Feldman from Wiesbaden, whose body was dumped in an isolated area beside a railroad track. Her murderer was a 20-year-old Iraqi who had arrived in Germany in 2016 but had his asylum application rejected. &nbsp;


	Susanna’s mother had received a text message in bad German saying not to look for her and that she would be home in two or three weeks. By then, Susanna was already dead.


	In addition to all this, in Germany’s greatest ever sexual assault case on New Year’s Eve in Cologne in 2015, despite the 600 sexual assault complaints launched by women there were only three convictions. As reported, most of the perpetrators were North Africans and Iraqis. And the three convicted were found guilty only because they had made selfies of themselves and their victims.


	Germans must feel at a lost about their country.


	Only Germany’s Interior Minister, Thomas de Maziere, expressed German citizens’ confusion when he said: “It is completely incomprehensible that after such a large number of sexual assaults, so few of the culprits were convicted.”


	Rainer Wendt, head of Germany’s police union probably sums up best the feelings of the German people as regards migrant murder and sexual assaults against women when he said after Susanna’s death:


	“People feel that the state has lost control. There are thousands of people in the country and we don’t know who they are.”

Yet Again, Germany Horrified By Migrant Murder of Young Woman

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Yet Again, Germany Horrified By Migrant Murder of Young Woman

There are few people who announce their candidacy for their country’s presidency only days after being released from prison. But anti-slavery activist and slave descendant Biram Dah Abeid is an exceptional man facing exceptional circumstances.&nbsp;


	“I am from the servile community that makes up 50 per cent of the population (of Mauritania),” said Dah Obeid, a lawyer. “Twenty percent of the fifty percent have been born as property of other men. We were inherited by other people.”


	Abeid, a prominent and fearless anti-slavery activist who has been jailed and tortured numerous times in his struggle to abolish slavery in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, was released from prison last December 31, having been incarcerated on “an order from above.” Only days later, he again announced his candidacy, having also run for president in Mauritania’s 2014 federal election.


	At that time, Dah Abeid, who heads the anti-slavery organization Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA), presented Mauritanians with the extraordinary and ground-shaking sight of a slave descendant (his father was a freed slave while his mother and uncles remained slaves) under sentence of death of a sharia court and imprisoned numerous times standing for president. Nevertheless, he won eight per cent of the vote, coming in second. Abdel Aziz, a former army general, won with 81.94, not unusual for an African dictatorship.


	“We are the only ones to have a different ideological position,” Dah Obeid told Le Courier de Sahel during that campaign. “We are fighting against slavery, against racism, against government waste and corruption.”


	Jeremy Keenan, a professorial research associate at the School of Africa and Oriental Studies at the University of London stated the reason for Aziz’s overwhelming victory: “Mauritanian elections under President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz are neither free, fair nor transparent.”


	Dah Abeid agrees: “If these elections were held under normal circumstances, I would get between 35 and 40 per cent of the vote.”


	Estimates of the number of black African slaves in Mauritania range from 90,000 to 500,000 among a population of 3.1 million, possibly the highest number of chattel slaves in the world (Dah Abeid’s IRA has freed about 2,000 of them). But experts agree more exact numbers are difficult to arrive at because of slave-owning, nomadic tribes and those “hidden within mansions.”


	In 2013, indicating the extent of the slavery tragedy, Global Slavery Index ranked Mauritania number one in the world for its prevalence there. Which caused Dah Abeid, a constant thorn in the side of Mauritania’s leaders, to sarcastically praise them: “We will never stop commending you on this enviable place on the international stage you managed to achieve…”


	The slaves’ masters are Arab and Berber Mauritanians, or “whites,” who share only the same Islamic religion with their chattel. They make up about 20 per cent of the population and almost all of the political, business and military elite that controls the country. Therein also lies the problem. It is very difficult to get this elite class to abolish slavery when many of its members own slaves.


	“The problem is that Mauritania’s Arabs sincerely believe that blacks are inferior and are born to be slaves,” wrote African American scholar Samuel Cotton in his book Silent Terror: A Journey Into Contemporary African Slavery, written after an exploratory trip to Mauritania. “They believe that a black man, woman or child’s place in life is to serve an Arab master, and it does not matter to them whether that black is a Christian, or fellow Muslim.”


	Another problem is that this slave-owning class believes it is doing nothing illegal. The Prophet Muhammed owned slaves and Islam’s Sharia law justifies the practice. The eminent scholar of Islam, Bernard Lewis, wrote that “…the institution of slavery is not only recognized but is elaborately regulated by Sharia law.”


	Unlike in Sudan, or with the Boko Harem or Islamic State, where slaves are captured in violent slave raids, Mauritania’s slaves find themselves in this cruel, life-destroying institution because they are born into it and inherited as chattel. Some families have been slaves for centuries.


	African scholar Garba Diallo stated the slaves “are so brainwashed, that they would consider it a sin to escape from their masters.


	“Their ancestors were kidnapped into slavery long ago, and their offspring have been brought to believe Allah created two groups of people, slaves and masters, each playing specific and eternal roles in society,” Diallo said.


	Several times in the last century slavery was banned in Mauritania. The first time was under the French colonial government in 1901. But Mauritania became the last country in the world to formally prohibit it in 1981. Slavery was criminalized in 2007, but only four people have ever been successfully prosecuted. However, anti-slavery activists, like Dah Obeid, are often imprisoned.


	Cotton called the slavery bans “woefully ineffective mandates” that “were never enforced and slavery continued to exist.” The abolition decrees, observers say, were simply made for foreign consumption.


	“This is state racism that has become institutionalized, that has caused pogroms, purges, murdering of the black population…” Dah Abeid, whose last name means ‘slave’ in Arabic, at a UN conference.


	Abeid has staged attention-grabbing anti-slavery protests in the past. In one, held outside a mosque, Dah Abeid symbolically destroyed a copy of sharia law after first removing all references to the Prophet Mohammad and the Koran. Dah Abeid does not believe sharia is divine law but simply outdated codes drawn up in the Middle Ages.


	For this protest, as befitted a slave state, the government violently raided Dah Abeid’s home and imprisoned him. A sharia court declared him an apostate, which put him under a sentence of death. Mauritania’s president had also once called for his death.


	“There were TV programs broadcast that talked about how I was going to be hanged…,” Dah Abeid said. “And they said on television we will kill him, like we kill a cat.”


	For his struggle as the world’ foremost abolitionist, Dah Abeid was awarded the prestigious UN Human Rights Prize in 2013 by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New York. Past award recipients include Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, who is Abeid’s hero.


	Tragically, despite such international recognition, Dah Abeid’s anti-slavery struggle remains largely unknown and unsupported by the international community, especially by the mainstream media. Most people, including most African Americans, have probably never heard of the world’s foremost abolitionist.


	Leftists and liberals, for example, who worked themselves into paroxysms of moral outrage over apartheid in South Africa, have been hypocritically silent about this enslavement of hundreds of thousands of black Africans. This silence, especially on the part of Western countries, Dah Obeid finds, is particularly difficult to understand.


	One important reason for leftist/liberal silence is that they want to maintain the image they have carefully constructed that America and Israel are the world’s only oppressors. The Left promotes the Arabs as victims of Israeli violence. Admitting that Arabs are enslaving black Africans would only undermine this campaign.


	As well, liberals and leftists, like former President Obama during his visits to Africa, want to keep the attention focused on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. It has always been a useful weapon to attack the United States.


	Without the international media support that Nelson Mandela received, Dah Abeid has a hard road ahead of him. Fortunately, there are a few bright spots. When behind bars last year, he was elected to Mauritania’s national assembly, which, he says, will make it easier for him to move around the country.


	As well, while the leftist U.S. establishment media smears President Trump as a "racist", it is telling that the U.S. president has done what leftist black ex-president Barack Obama never did: he ended trade benefits to Mauritania last November “due to insufficient progress in eradicating forced labor and slavery.” Dah Obeid would now like Europe to follow suit. &nbsp;&nbsp;


	With or without international support, one thing, however, is certain: like Nelson Mandela, the heroic Dah Abeid will never give up. During one of his incarcerations, he wrote in Churchillian fashion:


	“I refuse to throw in the towel. I refuse to be silenced. I refuse to abandon…those who have been ruined by slavery.”

The Bravest Man In Africa?

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The Bravest Man In Africa?

It is not just a country’s worst nightmare but one that would, like 9/11, disrupt the whole world.


	There are perhaps few weapons in existence that could cause more confusion, sickness and death in a society, undermining its very foundations, than biological ones used by terrorists. (One only has to remember the fear caused by only a small number of <a href="anthrax%20letters">‘anthrax letters’</a> in the weeks after 9/11.)&nbsp; &nbsp;


	“Biological weapons are unique in their invisibility and their delayed effect,” wrote Stefan Riedel, a doctor, in an<a href="article%20on%20biological%20warfare"> article on biological warfare</a>.


	A biowarfare attack would not only cause “death in a large number of victims and a paralyzing uncertainty,” Riedel also claims: “It’s goal is disruption of social and economic activity, the breakdown of government authority, and impairment of military responses.”&nbsp;


	It is for these reasons, among others, that the United States is helping construct a safe storage facility, through its Defence Threat Reduction Agency, for Kenya’s Medical Research Institute in Kisumu City. America is <a href="paying%2090%20per%20cent">paying 90 per cent</a> of the costs.


	Kenya has “multiple biological organisms” in the institute, which pose “a great threat to the community” if released accidentally or on purpose. Overall, a 2015 survey found that “Kenya stores at least 16 dangerous pathogens.”


	Kenya has been a particular target of Islamic terrorist attacks in the past. Among the more spectacular and devastating ones have been the blowing up of the<a href="American%20embassy%201998"> American embassy in 1998</a> that cost 213 lives, mostly Kenyan embassy employees. Others were the Westgate Mall attack in 2013 in Nairobi, leaving 67 dead.


	Another, again in Nairobi, was the<a href="terrorist%20attack"> Islamic terrorist attack</a> last month on a hotel complex, killing 21, in which an American and Briton also perished. The American, Jason Spindler, had survived the 9/11 attack.


	But it was probably a thwarted Islamic terrorist plot in Kenya involving a planned biowarfare attack in 2016 that contributed most to America’s decision to help that country build the safe storage facility.


	<a href="The%202016%20plot">The 2016 plot</a>, a proposed “large-scale biological attack,” was led by a medical intern working in a Kenyan hospital. The intern headed a terror group that “included other medical experts who could help organize a biological attack using anthrax,” Kenyan security stated. The plot was apparently connected to the Islamic State


	“His network included medical experts with whom they planned to unleash a biological attack in Kenya using anthrax,” said Kenya’s <a href="Inspector%20General%20Joseph%20Boinnet">Inspector General Joseph Boinnet</a>, adding the attack aimed at “various targets.”


	Kenyan authorities said the plot was truly international in character stretching to Somalia, Libya and Syria. The intern’s wife was also arrested and police were searching for two other medical interns.


	But Kenya was not the only African country where a terrorist plot involving biological weapons was thwarted that year. In 2016, the Interior Minister of Morocco <a href="announced">announced</a> the arrest of ten ‘jihadists’. They were preparing to use “deadly toxic and biological substances” in a “terrorist project.”


	“Some of the substances seized are classed by international bodies specializing in health as biological weapons, dangerous for their ability to paralyze and destroy the nervous system and to cause death,” said the Minister.


	Again, like in Kenya, this cell was believed connected to the Islamic State.


	As a major target of Islamic terrorist groups’ worldwide jihad, Europe has also not been spared as a biological warfare target.


	Only last year, one such attack, described as “without precedent,” was <a href="foiled">foiled</a> by German security authorities in Cologne. A Tunisian was found in his apartment with about a thousand grams of highly poisonous ricin, deadly even in small doses.


	“The dose probably could have wounded, if not killed, at least several hundred people,” said Hans-Georg Maasen, president of Office for the Defense of the Constitution (Germany’s FBI).


	In the Cologne apartment, police also discovered material for making a bomb. Security officials also “found clues” the Tunisian had “concrete plans” for an attack in Germany.


	“If the project had been executed, it would have been the worst terrorist attack in Europe to this day,” said Herbert Reul, interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia where Cologne is located.


	Using biological weapons in a terrorist attack is not something new in Europe. In the 1970s, police discovered “large amounts” of the botulinum toxin in a safe house of the Red Army Faction, a German radical, leftist terrorist group, in Paris.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;


	Islamic terrorists’ attempts to use biological weapons in Europe, however, stretch back at least to 2002 with the <a href="wood%20green%20ricin%20plot">‘Wood Green’ ricin plot</a> in Great Britain. It was an al-Qaeda conspiracy whose goal was “to spread panic and fear right across Europe by means of a coordinated poison attack.”


	“British investigators stress that a row of poisonous substances like cyanide gas and diverse chemicals in connection with explosives were to be used in attacks at different places in Europe, such as near tourist attractions like the Eiffel Tower and Big Ben,” stated <a href="one%20newspaper%20story">one newspaper story</a>.


	Seven people were arrested and the apparent ringleader, Kamel Bourgass, was sentenced to seventeen years in prison “on the basis of his hand-written notes on how to make ricin, cyanide and botulinum.” Kamel and his co-conspirators had been trained in al-Qaeda camps on how to make poisonous materials and then sent to Europe to set up sleeper cells, including one in Slovakia.


	Europe, stated the story, had “stood on the abyss of disaster.”


	Biological warfare also has a long history in the United States. Besides the aforementioned ‘anthrax letters’ of 2001, as long ago as 1763, the British gave blankets, <a href="infected%20with%20smallpox">infected with smallpox</a>, to Indians. Confederate sympathizers also sold clothing infected with yellow fever to Union soldiers. One such Confederate plot may even have involved<a href="making%20a%20gift"> making a gift</a> to President Abraham Lincoln of fever-infected shirts.


	But probably the largest number of Americans ever to become casualties of a bioterror attack was 751 in 1984 in The Dulles, Oregon. They were victims of the <a href="Rjaneeshee%20cult">Rajneeshee cult</a> that had a commune in the area. Cult members had deliberately contaminated salad bars with salmonella in ten local restaurants. The group’s purpose was to incapacitate voters for the county election so their candidate would win.&nbsp;


	Biowarfare has been present in the world since biblical times from poisoning wells to <a href="selling%20infectd%20animals">selling infected animals</a> to enemies to the famous case of a Tartar army catapulting plague-infected corpses over the walls of the besieged Genoese fortress of Caffa (now Feodosia in Crimea) in 1346. It is believed the devastating Black Plague was carried back to Europe from this event.


	In more modern times, Japanese forces in World War Two launched airborne biowarfare assaults, releasing plague-infected fleas over Chinese cities and towns, killing perhaps as many as <a href="300,000%20civilians">300,000 civilians</a>.


	Thus, considering the lengthy presence and lethality of biowarfare in world history and the determination of Islamic terrorists to kill infidels with biological weapons today, America’s effort to supply Kenya with a secure facility for its pathogens is definitely money well spent.

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