The Christian Democratic Union (CDU)/Christian Social Union (CSU) parliamentary group in the German Parliament has called for action to be taken against “political Islamism” in Germany. It has “spread in various social milieus”, according to a position paper adopted by the CDU/CSU parliamentary group on April 20. It is entitled “Preserving a free society, promoting social cohesion, combating political Islam”.

According to the paper, this Islamism is ostensibly non-violent, but incites hatred, agitation and violence. It strives for an Islamic order “in which there is no equality, no freedom of opinion and religion, and no separation of religion and state”. It must be stated openly and clearly “that the spread of Islamist nationalism, incitement against Christians and Jews, the denial of Israel’s right to exist and the glorification of war have long been part of the sad everyday life in Germany”.

In addition, there are “cases of increasing direct influence of foreign governments on Muslims in our country”. This is partly done under the guise of religious freedom and by spreading Islamist and Islamist-nationalist ideas. The organisations mentioned in this context are the Turkish right-wing extremist “Grey Wolves” and the Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion (DITIB).

The group is also concerned about developments at the Islamic Centre Hamburg (IZH) and Salafist mosque associations, which are partly financed by donors from the Middle East. The IZH is under the influence of the Mullah regime in Iran and is the propaganda centre of Shiite extremism in Germany.

According to the paper, “political Islamism” also turns against liberal, secular Muslims. Prominent critics of this ideology such as Seyran Ates, Ahmad Mansour and Mouhanad Khorchide have been threatened from Islamist circles for years and can only now live under police protection. “This is an intolerable state of affairs that is unacceptable.”

According to the paper, Islamists “must be treated with the same distance and rejection as political extremists from the left and right”. In the future, all financial contributions, subsidies, contractual relationships and cooperation with Islamic associations and organisations that are being monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution must be reviewed and stopped at the federal and state levels.

The parliamentary group also calls for the establishment of professorships throughout Germany to deal with political Islamism. In addition, a documentation centre “Political Islamism in Germany and Europe” should be established.

https://www.idea.de/spektrum/cdu/csu-fraktion-politischen-islamismus-bekaempfen

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has just experienced the subtle effects of Islamised politics first-hand during her visit to Ankara – keyword: “Sofa-Gate”.

In future, she will no longer accept being sidelined when men push into the limelight.

The “EU Research Centre Islam & Democracy” could deal with the deeper causes of this diplomatic faux pas, if there were such a thing. A year ago, Members of the European Parliament Lukas Mandl ( Austrian People’s Party), Lena Düpont (Christian Democratic Union) and Monika Hohlmeier (Christian Social Union) had already applied to the EU Commission for the establishment of this pilot project.

The initiative was primarily intended to provide support for those Muslims who are attached to European values but are being pushed out of the picture by fundamentalist organisations. Thus, Hohlmeier regrets that “pro-European Muslims often have difficulties being perceived”.

On the other hand, there are “groups that clearly represent ideologies that are against basic European values”. Often these are groups with a Turkish connection.

The EU Commission rejected the project. The three Members of the European Parliament did not let up and renewed their demand in a letter to Von der Leyen. They also criticised the EU for supporting Muslim initiatives that “in reality spread extremist ideas or incite Muslims”.

The proposed centre, on the other hand, “aims to provide peaceful, open-minded Muslims with support and the opportunity to strengthen their integration work, as well as to promote an interpretation of their religion that is in line with the fundamental values of the EU”. In view of the many immigrant Muslims, it is “important to promote a clear demarcation from radical extremist tendencies and to support full inclusion …”.

In the meantime, the newspaper VOLKSBLATT has received the answer from Brussels. It is again negative. According to Von der Leyen, the Commission fears “that the pilot project would duplicate a multitude of activities with different orientations that are financed within the framework of different programmes”.

In plain language: there should already be programmes that pursue the formulated goal. The three MEPs, however, take a different stance. At least the head of the Commission promises to “examine funding possibilities for a more targeted initiative in the field of integration”.

For Mandl, this answer is “not entirely satisfactory”: “It is time that the Commission fully recognises the problem of political Islam in all its urgency”. However, Mandl wants to be constructive, which is why he “sees the glass half full” after Von der Leyen’s answer. There are at least possibilities in the form of individual projects.

Hohlmeier also finds it “a pity” that the Commission is apparently having a hard time with political Islam and does not want a separate centre for it.

https://volksblatt.at/bruessel-tut-sich-schwer-mit-klarem-kurs-gegenueber-politischem-islam/

French author, polemicist, and anti-liberal philosopher Eric Zemmour has drawn a parallel between “Islamo-leftists” and communists, asserting that the former have substituted their arch nemesis, the bourgeois, with White people – whom they would like to see replaced by the “Muslim proletariat”.

Zemmour, one of the preeminent thinkers on the French right, contends that the new political alliance formed between Islamists and leftists, called Islamo-leftism in France, is nothing less than the communist movement of the 21^st century, the political magazine Valeurs Actuelles reports.

French philosopher Pascal Bruckner has described Islamo-leftism as “the fusion between the atheist Far-Left and religious radicalism”. For Bruckner, many on the far-left aim to use Islamism as a “battering ram” to take down capitalism and cancel individual rights. On the other hand, Bruckner asserts that Islamists — purely as a tactical means to carry out their true goal of instituting an Islamist totalitarian theocratic government — pretend like they’ve joined the ranks of the left in its opposition to capitalism and racism.

During an interview segment on television program Face à l’Info, Zemmour, among other things, explained and defended the use of the term “Islamo-leftism”, describing it as “the conviction that Muslims, the Muslim proletariat, will replace the traditional workers’ proletariat, the French, of yesteryear and that will be the new revolutionary base”.

“These Islamo-leftist movements have taken up the methods of the communists,” he continued. “Islamo-leftism means making Muslims the new revolutionary base to replace the French proletariat. Before, the enemy was the bourgeois, today it is the White man.”

Zemmour then cited three main similarities shared by the 20^th century communists and the Islamo-leftists of today. First, he said, a victim group must be designated. For the communists it was the workers. For the today’s Islamo-leftists, however, victim groups are immigrants, Muslims, and even women.

The next step, he said, is to “identify the enemy: the bourgeois yesterday, today the White man” and lastly, “demand of this enemy, of class yesterday, of race today, that he submit and acknowledge his guilt”

“Today, we ask White men to put one knee to the ground for the crimes of their ancestors, which are eternal, inexpiable, exactly as the bourgeois or traitors to the communist cause were made to do in order to atone for their crime,” Zemmour said.

Recently in France, the term Islamo-leftism is not exclusively used by right-wing figures like Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour, but also by liberals and globalists like philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy, and prominent ministers in President Emmanuel Macron’s government.

Earlier this year, in mid-February, French Minister of Higher Education Frederique Vidal warned about the spread of Islamo-leftism in the country’s academic institutions, saying: “I think that Islamo-leftism is eating away at our society as a whole, and universities are not immune and are part of our society.”

During a television segment on CNews, Vidal announced that she would be ordering the Nation Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) to open an investigation into Islamo-leftism so as to “distinguish academic research from activism and opinion”.

For her comments, the French minister was lambasted by the French as well as the left-wing press. Days later, Bernard Henri-Levy penned an editorial in the French weekly political magazine Le Point, where he defended Vidal’s statements, warning that the ideology which unites the far-left and Islamist extremism is replacing the anti-totalitarian and progressive tendencies normally associated with the left, with ideas that are backward, anti-feminist, and obscurantist.

https://rmx.news/article/article/zemmour-islamo-leftism-means-making-muslims-the-new-revolutionary-base-to-replace-the-french-proletariat-before-the-enemy-was-the-bourgeois-today-it-is-the-white-man

The “Association of Bosnian Muslims” is said to be celebrating Ramadan in a room crowded with people at the street Arndtstraße 28 in the Meidling district of Vienna.

Raphael F. could watch this from his flat, directly opposite the mosque. He took pictures and videos and could not understand the gathering in Corona times.

To the internet portal unzensuriert he states:

After the decision to extend the lockdown, it is incredibly puzzling to me how it is possible that schools, commerce, gastronomy have to be closed, where livelihoods are at stake, and this association is allowed to be open.

Mr. F. is familiar with the event hall, which is why he informed the police, as in his opinion 50 people in a 200 square metre room cannot keep a two metre distance. According to Raphael F., the police officers who were called replied that religious events were exempt from all measures.

This answer, however, infuriated the man even more. He was not surprised, said Raphael F., that the hospital beds were mainly occupied by patients who had a migration background.

Unzensuriert made an effort to get a statement from the association, but did not reach anyone at the telephone number given on the homepage. When we asked the Vienna Provincial Police Directorate whether religious events are actually exempt from the CoV rules, we got the answer:

For information on the scope and exemptions of the current Covid-19-VO, we have to refer you to the health authority responsible for the ordinance (Magistrate of the City of Vienna) or the responsible BMSGPK.

An enquiry to the Vienna City Health Council remained without response. A look at the homepage of the Archdiocese of Vienna revealed the following:

A distance of at least 2 metres to other persons who do not live in the same household is required. Appropriate precautions are to be taken for this (e.g. cordoning off pews). The minimum distance stipulated in these framework regulations may be violated if this requires the performance of religious acts – however, an FFP2 mask must be worn when doing so.

In the video of the resident, it can be seen that the people leaving the mosque are at least wearing masks. The distance, however, will be impossible to comply with, given the number of participants in Friday prayers stated on the association’s homepage, namely 500.

https://www.unzensuriert.at/content/127520-anrainer-empoert-moslems-feiern-in-ueberfuellten-raeumen-ramadan/

Muslims around the world celebrate the month of Ramadan. This means that nothing may be eaten or drunk from sunrise to sunset. A 15-year-old boy from Brunsbüttel in Schleswig-Holstein also followed this rule. He held out for a week, then was too weak and collapsed on a pavement. Two women were able to come to the teenager’s aid.

The women, aged 41 and 55, found the boy lying unconscious on the street in Brunsbüttel on Monday and called 911, according to police on Tuesday. By phone, they were guided in resuscitating the boy. By the time the ambulance arrived, the women had managed it: the boy was back in a stable condition. He was taken to hospital.

According to the police, the 15-year-old boy from Syria had already been fasting for a week, according to his parents, and had apparently collapsed for this reason.

Doctors repeatedly appeal to Muslim parents not to let their children fast during Ramadan. From a medical point of view, fasting is harmful for children and adolescents, especially the lack of fluids, explained the President of the Professional Association of Paediatricians and Adolescent Doctors, Thomas Fischbach, in the medical portal “aerzteblatt.de”. According to Fischbach, paediatricians and adolescent doctors repeatedly spot very pale and unfocused children during Ramadan. “Some come to us straight from school because they have collapsed, because they have a severe headache or stomach ache,” says the paediatrician.

https://www.rtl.de/cms/ramadan-fasten-junge-15-kippt-in-brunsbuettel-auf-der-strasse-um-zwei-frauen-retten-ihn-4744327.html

Fred Alan Medforth

https://medforth.biz/germany-h….esses-ministry-of-ed

Germany: Hesse’s Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs warns teachers that using caricatures of Mohammed in lessons could be dangerous – Allah’s Willing Executioners

11:40 AM April 19, 2021

Migration researcher Ruud Koopmanns has warned against false consideration in dealing with Mohammed cartoons. He criticised a recommendation by the Hessian Ministry of Culture warning school headmasters that showing such images could have serious consequences. “No teacher will dare to show the cartoons after reading the letter,” he told the newspaper Welt am Sonntag. He called for the focus to be on the educational mission in democracy. Other opinions and statements must be tolerated.

Already in December, the ministry had warned that there were disturbing “indications in connection with the thematisation of the murder of the French teacher Samuel Paty”. He was beheaded by an 18-year-old Islamist in France on October 16. The teacher had previously shown cartoons of Mohammed in class. The perpetrator had felt offended by this.

The ministry warned that dealing with the caricatures in school lessons could lead to serious, legally relevant reactions from physical assaults to serious acts of violence, in addition to expressions of displeasure.

Previously, the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) had announced that showing the Muhammad cartoons or any pictorial representation of the Prophet could be interpreted as behaviour critical of Islam and could have a radicalising effect. The LKA had come to this danger analysis after reactions of pupils during a minute’s silence for the murdered teacher. Although there were no “concrete indications relevant to the danger”, the LKA believes that it makes sense to “deal with this topic in a de-escalating manner in the educational process”.

Koopmann criticised that the Hessian Ministry of Culture’s concession rewarded perpetrators and mocked the memory of Paty and other victims. This would promote intolerance towards criticism of faith. According to the newspaper Welt am Sonntag, Susanne Schröter, an Islamic scholar from Frankfurt, also called the recommendations an “unacceptable capitulation to political Islam”. The president of the Bavarian Teachers’ Association, Simone Fleischmann, reported that some colleagues no longer wanted to use the cartoons. ” There is fear.”

The Ministry of Education responded to the criticism and stressed that it was important to be able to deal with such situations preventively and, if necessary, intervene. In other federal states such as Hamburg, Berlin and Lower Saxony, students had also shown their lack of understanding during the minute of silence, justified Paty’s murder and threatened violence.

https://jungefreiheit.de/politik/deutschland/2021/mohammed-karikaturen-migrationsforscher-warnt-vor-falscher-ruecksicht/

People who immigrate to Denmark illegally and seek asylum will soon be transported 700 km away and placed in a Danish asylum centre in a Central African country.

For several years already, the Danish government has sought a country that is willing to accept immigrants seeking asylum in Denmark, while the asylum process is being processed. Jyllands-Posten announced that the African country Rwanda was ready to receive Denmark’s asylum seekers. Denmark’s integration minister Mattias Tesfaye said they were negotiating with several countries, but did not want to confirm whether Rwanda was one of these.

According to the Danish daily, Rwanda’s president Paul Kagame could be “the man who fulfils the Social Democrats’ asylum dreams’. The news came on April 1, but in Denmark there were few people who thought it was an April Fool’s joke. The Danish Social Democratic government has for several years had a very restrictive line on immigration and has also initiated an active return policy of Syrians. The government has been open about wanting to sign a bilateral agreement with another country, to receive Danish asylum seekers so that they removing them from Danish society while their asylum status is being investigated.

The government is currently said to be negotiating with several different countries on the issue. Jyllands-Posten, which is Denmark’s largest daily newspaper, seems to be at the forefront of advocating that Arab and African asylum seekers be sent out of the country. In the article, the newspaper writes that they themselves have contacted several countries requesting a piece of land to be able to build an asylum centre where asylum seekers are deported pending investigation.

Libya and Morocco have declined, but Rwanda says it is positive

“Rwanda already has facilities for asylum seekers and we appreciate the cooperation with Denmark in this area. We are open to more cooperation and new proposals, which can lead to offering suitable conditions for asylum seekers “, the Rwandan embassy responded to Jyllands-Posten.

Denmark and Rwanda’s cooperation in the area of ​​migration policy has been ongoing for several years. Among other things, Denmark has donated SEK 21 million to a project where refugees who are stuck in Libya on their way to Europe are instead transported to Rwanda. Last year, Denmark received 200 quota refugees from Rwanda. For several years, Denmark had refused to accept quota refugees at all, but it was resumed on a smaller scale a few years ago.

Whether the Danish government will actually sign an agreement with Rwanda is still unclear, but Integration Minister Mattias Tesfaye writes in a comment to Jyllands-Posten that Rwanda was a “progressive” country that played “an incredibly positive role”. He also confirmed that negotiations were underway with current countries, but did not want to reveal whether it was Rwanda.

“We have identified a handful of countries, where we see opportunities to enter into cooperation. Based on that, we will move forward with more concrete dialogue. For the time being, we would like to keep these conversations confidential,” he told the newspaper.

Rosa Lund, integration policy spokesperson for the left-wing party Enhetslistan, was furious and tweeted that she was “very worried”: “Rwanda is not directly known for its democracy. I am very worried about locating a reception centre there, when we could instead open all closed asylum centres in Denmark.”

Rune Möller Stahl, a researcher at the University of Copenhagen, pointed out that the Kagame government had attacked refugees in the Congo in the 1990s and killed tens of thousands. “Are we sure he is the one we want to outsource our refugee policy to?”

Meanwhile, Social Democratic Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that it was obvious and logical that Syrians who come from areas in the country that can now be considered safe enough to stay in should of course return home. According to the newspaper Jyllands-Posten, it is about hundreds of Syrians who in the coming months will return home to, above all, Damascus and surrounding areas. Prime Minister Frederiksen also engaged in some self-criticism and said that Danish refugee policy should have been clear and unambiguous from the outset.

In the coming months, Denmark will be the first EU country to start repatriating Syrian asylum seekers coming from the Damascus region. The areas around the capital are now considered by the Danish government to be so safe. On Tuesday 13 April, the PM made a statement that can not be understood in any other way than that the return policy was self-evident, surprising for a Social Democratic Prime Minister.

“For me, it is completely obvious and logical that they return home if the areas they came from are safe enough for that.” She continued: “I completely share that analysis! If you are a refugee, but no longer meet the requirements for protection needs and you are no longer personally persecuted, then you should go home, as simple as that.”

She also added that the Syrian asylum seekers should perceive it as a patriotic duty to return home to their homeland and use any skills they acquired during their stay in Denmark to rebuild their homeland.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/04/20/asylum-seekers-in-denmark-can-be-sent-700km-away-to-rwanda/