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Arab clan of a Muslim Berlin secretary of state suspected of involvement in controversial hospital deals – Among other things, also deals with Corona face masks
Nizar Maarouf, businessman and spouse of the Berlin State Secretary for Civic Engagement and International Affairs, Sawsan Chebli ( Social Democratic Party of Germany), was involved in controversial business deals with partners in Gulf states for years. Research by the newspaper WELT AM SONNTAG reveals this.
According to the report, Maarouf earned commissions for placing patients for the municipal Berlin hospital group Vivantes in 2008, which are considered “immoral” according to a court ruling and expert opinion. In one case, documents show that Maarouf thus received 27,000 euros from Vivantes. Shortly afterwards, the former medical student became vice-director of the hospital group’s foreign division.
According to the research, two nieces of his wife Sawsan Chebli were hired at Vivantes International under Maarouf’s leadership. In the summer of 2017, the two women and another employee came into the focus of the internal audit. Together, they allegedly paid out money totalling more than 100,000 euros from patient accounts to themselves over a longer period of time.
Vivantes basically acknowledges the cases. The employment relationship of the women was terminated. As a result, the company revised its compliance regulations. Maarouf and Chebli did not comment on the allegations when asked.
Maarouf also mediated the two Christian Democratic Union (CDU) MPs Nikolas Löbel and Mark Hauptmann to the management of his then employer Sana in the spring of 2020. The deals offered by the MPs to the hospital group, in Löbel’s case a procurement of face masks against commission, did not materialise. Löbel and Hauptmann later had to resign because of controversial deals with other partners. Maarouf’s lawyer stated that his client had not been responsible for such transactions at Sana.
Erdoganistan: The New Islamic Superpower?
“It was a very special day, July 24 [2020],” said France’s leading expert on Islam, Gilles Kepel.
“It was pilgrimage time to Mecca and, due to the pandemic, no one was there! It was the anniversary of the Treaty of Lausanne, the origin of modern Turkey within its current borders. Erdogan was about to twist the arm of the secular Ataturk, who had turned the old Hagia Sophia basilica into a museum that he had donated ‘to humanity’. Erdogan… turned it back into a mosque”.
This was the moment, remarked Kepel – who just published a new book, “Le Prophète et la Pandémie” [“The Prophet and the Pandemic“] — that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan became the new leader of the umma, or global Islamic community. “Erdogan is trying to appear as the champion of Islam, just like Ayatollah Khomenei in 1989”.
Both Khomeini and Erdogan seem to have been committed to erasing secularism and ties with Western culture from their respective countries; to heading a battle against Saudi Arabia for supremacy of the Islamic world and to re-Islamizing their societies. Veiled women, for instance was rarely seen in Tehran before Khomeini, and Erdogan reintroduced it into Turkish society.
The Iranian mullahs were also able to impose on the international arena the use of the word “Islamophobia”, but now it is Turkey that is leading the ideological persecution of the “Islamophobes”. Under the auspices of Turkish diplomat Volkan Bozkir, President of the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, the UN just celebrated the “International Day against Islamophobia” and Secretary General Antonio Guterres himself strongly denounced an “epidemic of Islamophobia“. Erdogan was promoting his global campaign of victimization by “Islamophobia”, while in fact it is the critics of extremist Islam who are in dangerand frequently killed.
This grotesque and shameful conference was organized by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), an entity made up of 56 mainly Muslim countries, plus “Palestine”. In the OIC, states such as Pakistan punish “blasphemy” with death; Saudi Arabia flogs and jails liberal bloggers such as Raif Badawi, and Turkey fills its jails with writers and journalists, to mention just a few of members.
On that July 24, in 2020,, Erdogan challenged Europe and the West by re-appropriating what had been, for a thousand years, the largest church in Eastern Christianity. The lack of response on the part of the West most likely convinced him that the moment was right. No one paid attention or countered the act.
Unlike Iran and Saudi Arabia, Turkey is a democracy. It is in talks with the European Union about its possible membership; it is pampered in Washington; it is the second-largest army in NATO, and stands as Asia’s gateway to Europe.
The Financial Times (FT) has dedicated a series of analyses to Erdogan’s grand plan for hegemony. In Africa, for the past 15 years, for instance, the Turkish president has spearheaded a mega-relaunch of his alliances. Since 2009, Turkey has increased the number of embassies there from 12 to 42. Erdogan has even been a frequent visitor, making trips to more than 20 capitals. The government has set itself the goal over the next few years of doubling Turkey’s trade volume with Africa to $50 billion, about a third of its current trade with the European Union.
Turkey has also chosen the Balkans as a battlefield — “the region,” according to the FT, “is symbolically very important, since much of it was ruled by Istanbul during the Ottoman Empire”. Then, there is Europe:
“Several European countries have voiced concern over activity by Turkey’s intelligence service on their soil and the use of state-trained Turkish imams to spy on the diaspora”.
Erdogan’s goal in Europe seems to be to use the Turkish diaspora as a political instrument of pressure on states (in particular Germany, France, Austria, Belgium and Holland) and as the base for his hegemony.
In the Caucasus, Turkey supported Azerbaijan’s war against Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh presumably to create a Turkic-Islamic corridor between Azerbaijan, Turkey and other Muslim countries. Erdogan also apparently makes use of mercenaries. The Indian media reported a contingent sent to Kashmir to support Pakistan. Turkey has also previously used “Sadat” mercenaries against the Armenians, as well as in the Libyan and Syrian civil wars.
In the latest issue of the Reveue des deux mondes, the French philosopher Michel Onfray remarked that there is a clash of civilizations and that Erdogan now leads the Islamist side. “It began in 1989 with the fatwa against Salman Rushdie,” he wrote.
“No Western country reacted except with words – as if they thought a verbal spell might work! With the beheading of Professor Samuel Paty it is this Judeo-Christianity that is being attacked — in Armenia, Islam is attacking the oldest Christianity in Europe …. Europe is afraid of Erdogan and his ability to cause damage. This Tamerlane in the making threatens, insults, attacks, [and] supports those who threaten us, insult us and attack us”.
That, Onfray continues, was the meaning of the Turkish aggression against Karabakh:
“Armenia is being attacked by Azeris and Muslim Turks who want its total disappearance. It is the result of a war of civilizations. What is happening in this country, which is the cradle of Christian civilization, is what awaits us here, in the tomb of the Judeo-Christian civilization itself. The battle lost in Armenia is the first of a war waged in the West against the Judeo-Christian civilization”.
Erdogan has not even tried to hide his ideological vision. “The crescent and star embellish the skies of Karabakh now thanks to the efforts of our Azerbaijani brothers and sisters”, the Turkish president proclaimed after the war. “The Azerbaijani flag flies proudly over Nagorno-Karabakh as a symbol of our martyrs’ valor”.
One of Erdogan’s advisors, the retired Turkish general Adnan Tanrıverdi, who founded the mercenary agency “Sadat”, articulated the vision of a unified Islamic superpower. His Justice Defenders Strategic Studies Center called it “Asrica“, the union of Africa and Asia, 61 countries whose capital is Istanbul and under the aegis of this “Erdoganistan”. They include 12 countries of the Middle East, namely Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Palestine, Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Jordan and Yemen; eight in Central Asia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkey and Turkmenistan; four in the Near East, namely Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran and Pakistan; three in Southeast Asia, Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia; six in North Africa, namely Algeria, Chad, Morocco, Libya, Egypt and Tunisia; six in East Africa, including Djibouti, Eritrea, Comoros, Mozambique, Somalia and Sudan; ten in northwestern Africa and South America, ie Western Sahara, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guyana and Suriname; eight in South West Africa, namely Benin, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and Togo; and four in Europe, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Macedonia.
Turkey evidently wants to be a great neo-Ottoman Emipire and the only one capable of leading the Muslim world. The conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque seems to have been intended as a watershed in Islamic history that heralds the establishment of a powerful league of Muslim nations to face the West under the Turkish leadership.
Three seas surround Turkey: the Eastern Mediterranean, the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea. Turkey recently launched a large naval exercise. The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced that 82 warships, 17 naval aviation craft, amphibious forces, air force units and special operations teams engaged in exercises that ended on March 8.
“Blue Homeland” — Mavi Vatan in Turkish — is the geopolitical concept that marks Erdogan’s agenda for the coming years. Conceived by nationalist Admiral Cem Gurdeniz, it is the “diplomacy of drills and warships” that pursues “the return of Turkey to the sea, the union between Anatolia and the eastern Mediterranean”. The goal is clear: to control the sea, to control energy resources and to impose its influence. Erdogan announced that it will no longer be called “Aegean”, but the “sea of islands”.
Ankara is on a collision course with Greece and Cyprus over who has the right to exploit the eastern Mediterranean’s oil and gas deposits. “They will understand that Turkey has the political, economic and military power to tear up immoral maps and imposed documents,” Erdogan said.
Turkey has problems with Cyprus, which, unlike the Turks, belongs to the European Union but not to NATO. Turkey, which invaded the island in 1974, remains the only country to recognize Turkish-occupied Northern Cyprus as a state. The Republic of Cyprus, which is majority-Greek Cypriot, wants to make deals with foreign energy companies, while Turkey, to the island’s north, wants economic rights in the waters that Cyprus considers its own.
While the new sultan extends his influence to Syria, Libya and the Caucasus, he also extends it within the Mediterranean. For pacifist Europe, that sea only exists when it comes to bringing in migrants.
President Erdogan, in an official visit to Paris on January 5, 2018, proceeded to launch this provocative phrase to the leaders of the French Council for Muslim worship: “The Muslims of France are under my protection”. Those were the first lines of an inquiry by the France’s Journal du Dimanche. Several reports sent to the Elysée Palace by the Directorate General for Internal Security (DGSI), which the newspaper was able to consult, reveal the scope, forms and objectives of a “real infiltration strategy” through networks managed by the Turkish embassy and the Turkish spy agency, the MIT. “They act mainly within the Turkish immigrant population, but also through Muslim organizations and also recently in local political life, through the support given to elected officials”.
“These actions have different objectives,” commented the journalist Mohamed Sifaoui.
“First, to improve the image of the Turkish regime in the diaspora and in French society. Then, to defend Erdogan’s image at all costs. And finally, of course, the spread of an Islamist vision of Islam”.
Sifaoui cites as an example the latest charter wanted by French President Emmanuel Macron, the charter of principles present in the law that strengthens “republican principles,” and is currently being examined by Parliament:
“It was not signed by the two Turkish federations, at the request of Ankara, because it is a charter that recalls the fundamental principles important for the Republic and which the Turkish regime clearly opposes… What the Turkish regime is doing is using its diaspora as a Trojan horse.”
The Brookings Institution wrote in 2019:
“According to the [French] ministry of interior, 151 imams have been sent by Turkey (which has undertaken a spate of religious outreach to Muslims across Europe over the past decade)…”
Just as Turkey controls 400 mosques out of 2,500 in France. It is Ahmet Ogras, apparently close to Erdogan, who for two years occupied the symbolic position of president of the French Council for Muslim Worship — as Turkish voters in France are generally more pro-Erdogan than in Turkey. During the presidential elections of 2014, Erdogan won 66% of the votes cast by Turkish citizens in France, compared to only 51.79% in Turkey. First- and second-generation Turkish immigrants in France continue to watch Turkish television, which is extremely submissive to Erdogan’s power. In French public schools, 180 teachers, directly appointed by Ankara, are responsible for teaching the Turkish language.
These efforts make up the great project of conquest by Erdogan the Islamizer.
Erdogan recently withdrew Turkey from an international treaty on preventing violence against women. With this decision, it seems that the president is determined to increase impunity around murder of women and “honor killings”, which common in Turkey.
In Erdogan’s Turkey, school textbooks have been rewritten to refer to Jews and Christians as gavur, “infidels,” according to a new study published by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se). Earlier Turkish textbooks referred to the members of the two religions as the “peoples of the Book”. “School books have been used as a weapon in Erdogan’s attempts to Islamise Turkish society and to trace back to a nostalgic era of Turkish domination,” wrote IMPACT-se’s CEO, Marcus Sheff.
These are some of the findings of the study: Jihad was introduced in textbooks and transformed into the “new normal”, with martyrdom in battle glorified. Ethno-nationalist religious goals of neo-Ottomanism and pan-Turkism are taught. Therefore, Islam is described as a political issue, with science and technology used to further its goals. There is an emphasis on concepts such as “Turkish world domination” and “Turkish or Ottoman ideal of world order”. According to the curriculum, the “Turkish basin” extends from the Adriatic Sea to Central Asia. The curriculum adopts an anti-American stance, and shows sympathy for the motives of ISIS and al-Qaeda. Turkey takes anti-Armenian and pro-Azerbaijani positions. The identity and cultural needs of the Kurdish minority continue to be largely neglected. The pogroms of 1955 against the Greek community in Istanbul are ignored.
At schools, during the term of Erdogan, maps showing Turkish power have appeared. Reference is made to the “Turkish heritage from the Adriatic Sea to the Great Wall of China”: “Turkish cultural artifacts can be seen in a vast region, starting with the countries of Central and East Asia, such as China and Mongolia, and extends to Herzegovina and Hungary…”
“We are a large family of 300 million people from the Adriatic to the Great Wall of China,” Erdogan said in a speech from Moldova.
Europe, the US, NATO and the Free World might start worrying. Erdogan seems aiming to be the new Islamist wolf in sheep’s clothing.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17202/erdogan-turkey-islamic-superpower
Nike condemned for putting hijab on Iranian mathematician who chose not to wear one

Nike has been condemned for depicting a celebrated mathematician in a hijab, despite the fact she chose not wear the garment while she was alive.
Maryam Mirzakhani, who died of breast cancer in 2017, was the only woman to date to have won the Fields Medal, one of the highest awards in the field of mathematics.
She left Iran after graduating university in 1999 and moved to the US, where she chose not cover her hair.
But screenshots of an internal Nike newsletter sent to staff in its Ascend employee network were shared by a number of social media users.They display a drawing of the mathematician wearing a white hijab, which some on Twitter suggested was based on an image first doctored by Iranian officials for propaganda purposes.
The headscarf is often worn by Muslim women, but many choose not to use the garment.
“Welcome to Women’s History Month!” the email from Nike reads, before going on to detail various upcoming events and promotions.
“Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win the prestigious Field Medal, might describe it as Y + Z = Σ,” it adds.
The drawing of Mirzakhani can be seen below the text, a decision that has attracted widespread criticism.
“This is how @Nike decided to portray Maryam Mirzakhani who was the first woman to win the Fields Medal,” wrote Amir Sariaslan, one of the people who shared the images online.
“She never wore the hijab once she had left the country that enforced it. You should be ashamed of yourselves.”
While not offering an apology, a Nike spokesperson told The Independent: “Nike respects all people, culture and religions and we take concerns of this nature seriously.
“This employee-led, internal communication was intended to celebrate Maryam Mirzakhani and her accomplishments. It was not intended to offend anyone. We’re reviewing our internal processes.”
Women who live in Iran are required by law to wear the hijab and are harshly punished for rebelling against the rule.
When Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal in 2014 some newspapers in the country digitally altered her photos and added a hijab to her image.
Others used sketches of her wearing the hair covering or used older photographs of Mirzakhani, dating from the time she lived in Iran and had to wear the hijab.But multiple Iranian newspapers broke a taboo when the mathematician died in 2017 and published images of her with hair uncovered.
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Germany: Afghan drug dealer on trial for sexually assaulting two children
It must have been a shock for the children. In the park, two 13-year-olds were suddenly groped and even kissed by Karim H. (22). Now the sex offender was before the district court. Also because the children helped to catch the perpetrator quickly.
According to the indictment, the Afghan-born man sat down on the bench with the children, who were completely unknown to him, in People’ Park Heinrich-Greif-Straße in December 2020.
Saying he wanted to see what she was wearing, the man tugged at the girl’s clothes and groped her buttocks.
The children immediately fled, but Karim came after them. And grabbed the boy, kissed him and reached into his trousers, offering 160 euros for another kiss.
The children ran away, and called the police. “They were able to give a detailed description,” said a detective, who first spoke to the victims, then went to look at the crime scene with his colleague.
“When we arrived, we recognised him immediately from the description. Black cap, white Lacoste jacket, black shoes, Gucci bag and shiny gold watch. We checked him immediately.”
And while the policewoman was calling the police car, Karim also tried to run away.
But the officer chased him all the way to Räcknitzhöhe. “Then he must have run out of breath…”.
Since then Karim H. has been behind bars. He has a criminal record (drug offences), is on the police register (sexual offences) and also had to answer for giving drugs to a 17-year-old girl.
He remains in prison for the time being. Sentence: two years in prison.
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President of Millî Görüs Grand Est tells representative of RN to leave France
The financing of the great Eyyûb Sultan mosque in Strasbourg continues to arouse controversy. On Thursday, March 24, members of the government and other political figures continued to question the decision of the ecological municipality of Bas-Rhin to grant a subsidy for the future building whose project is supported by the Turkish association Millî Görüs.
On Wednesday evening on the set of Morandini live, on CNews, Sahin was invited once again by the media to explain his version of the facts. And Sahin, the president of the Islamist Confederation Millî Görüs Grand-Est, once again congratulated himself that his association had not signed the charter of the principles of Islam in France. “We refuse to sign this charter because this charter was not prepared, worked on by Muslims, mosques and federations and then finalized by the CFCM.” Following the journalist’s insistent question: “So you refuse to sign it?” Sahin confirmed his refusal clearly with a “yes”.
Sahin’s attitude riled Gaëtan Dussausaye, one of the representatives of the National Rally (RN). On the set, the latter invited him to leave the country if he did not respect its laws: “If he does not want to sign it in agreement, as in this case, he will do his business in a country other than France. Either we respect French law and we respect signing the charter or we go away.” Visibly not affected by these words, Eyup Sahin retorted in a threatening tone: “He has the right to say what he wants. And I say to him: Either he respects me or he leaves France.”
Since the municipality’s decision, the President of the Confederation has repeatedly said that his association respected only the values of Islam and that it had no connection with Turkey. The Minister of the Interior blasted him for “financing foreign interference” and asked the Bas-Rhin prefecture to refer the decision to grant a subsidy to an administrative judge.
The Deputy Minister in charge of Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa, on Wednesday evening on BFMTV questioned the attitude of the ecological municipality which “visibly has problems with the principles of the Republic”, accusing it of “making a pact with political and radical Islam”.
Germany: Dark-skinned men attack mother, knock over pram – baby seriously injured
The crime was committed yesterday at noon in Lengefelder Street in Korbach (Hesse). According to the mother, the two strangers first tried to tear off her mouth and nose protection. When she resisted, one of them kicked the woman and slightly injured her. The other pushed the pram over. The six-month-old baby inside fell to the ground and was seriously injured. A rescue helicopter took the infant to a special clinic. It is not yet known how the baby is doing and whether there are any possible consequential damages.
The perpetrators fled after the crime. According to the mother’s description, they are both between 15 and 20 years old and have dark skin. They were both wearing a baseball cap and dark clothes.
The police are asking witnesses who have clues about the perpetrators or the crime to contact the police in Korbach by calling 05631-9710 or any other police station.
Sweden Democrats politician receives threatening letter with a 9mm bullet
A Sweden Democrats (SD) politician in Ljungby found an ominous letter and a bullet when he returned home on Wednesday. The Smålänningen daily, which was the first to report on the matter, wrote that the police are investigating the incident as a death threat.
Although the SD politician in question does not want to comment at this time, the SD’s party leader in Ljungby, Jan Lorentzon, shared what he has learned about the incident.
“When he came home after work, there was a letter on the stairs and on it was a 9mm bullet,” Lorentzon told Nyheter Idag.
The police arrived quickly and seized the evidence. Lorentzon says the content of the letter was related to the man’s political activity.
“There was something about SD being racists,” he explained.
When asked if there were any death threats in the letter, Lorentzon said he was not sure.
“But when there is a nine-millimeter bullet on the letter, you can probably interpret it that way,” noted Lorentzon, adding he has no idea who is behind it all.
It is also the first time something like this has happened in Ljungby.
“Frankly, you get so angry. It is damn unpleasant because it is an attack on the democracy we have here in Sweden, which we have defended for quite a few years. But some will then take liberties and disrupt it to get their agenda through,” said Lorentzon.
Although it may have been the first such threat issued to Ljungby, his party’s leader, Jimmie Akesson, has been the target of a range of threats, including a letter with an ISIS flag on it in 2018 threatening to behead Akesson and his son.
“We will behead you if you do not withdraw from the election by the end of this week,” the letter read, and then added a similar threat against Akesson’s son, who was four at the time.