Amed Sherwan (22) is vocal. Time and again he raises his voice and expresses criticism of Islam in Germany. He is a refugee and ex-Muslim from Iraq.

In December, Sherwan published a photo montage with a waving rainbow flag as a symbol. The picture shows him and Mohamed Hisham (29), another activist from Egypt, kissing in front of the Islamic shrine Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to draw attention to homophobia in the Muslim community.

As a result, Sherwan was threatened with death and Facebook deleted not only a post in which he defended the photo, but also his profile. Sherwan did not want to accept this: He brought an action against Facebook in court. He wanted to know the reasons for the blocking and to make an example of freedom of expression. In fact, Facebook suffered a defeat in court on Wednesday.

The BILD newspaper reports on Sherwan’s fight for freedom of expression. A story of TORTURE, FLIGHT and FREEDOM around a photo montage.

Sherwan is excited because the next day is the trial date at Flensburg District Court.

“I posted a photomontage of me kissing with an activist, a friend of mine, Mohamed Hisham, in front of a photo background of the Kaaba in Mecca. With the photo, I wanted to show my solidarity with LGBTQ people in the Muslim community. I wanted to draw attention to the issue of being gay in the Muslim context. Because of that, I received quite a lot of death threats, most of them were from Pakistan. They also reported my profile. Then Facebook removed my post (defending his post, ed.) and deleted my Instagram profile completely,” Sherwan tells BILD.

After his lawyer asked Facebook about this blocking, Sherwan got his Instagram profile back, which had also been blocked, as well as the post on Facebook. Nevertheless, with the support of the Giordano Bruno Foundation and the Institute for Worldview Law (ifw), he filed a lawsuit against Facebook – in what is known as summary proceedings.

“It’s not just about my account, other activists are also experiencing this. Their platforms are blocked, posts deleted, because other religious persons don’t like it and they feel hurt in their religious feelings,” Sherwan tells BILD. He thinks it is problematic when large digital corporations like Facebook take action against a post based on the number of messages alone, without properly checking it. This, he says, is an attack on freedom of expression.

The 22-year-old blogger started his struggle in his home country Iraq when he was 15 years old. Because of his criticism of Islam, he had to go to prison as a minor in Iraq. Sherwan grew up in a Muslim family in Kurdish northern Iraq.

“I was very devout as a child. By chance, I saw texts critical of religion on the internet, which seemed like blasphemy to me at the time because I was a devout Muslim. I kept reading and that was a new world to me, it made more sense to me than Islam,” Sherwan describes his experience to BILD. “When I questioned my faith, criticised it even in public, my father reported me to the police under pressure from neighbours. I ended up in prison at 15 and was tortured – with all kinds of methods: beatings, whippings, electric shocks.”

Due to his age and a dedicated lawyer, his case received greater media attention. After his uncle paid bail, Sherwan was released.

“After that, it was not safe for me in Iraqi Kurdistan. I could not live there as an infidel, so I had to leave my country later.”

Sherwan came to Germany at the end of 2014, he was 15.

A blog and social media are Sherwan’s platform to question Islam.

“I have actually also experienced physical violence here in Germany after I showed up at a demo of a Palestinian association in Flensburg with a photo of two men kissing – Israelis and Jews. I was then beaten in the middle of the street and had to go to hospital,” Sherwan recalls.

Sherwan has already experienced a lot and wanted to share his story with everyone in Germany. In October 2020, his book “Kafir Allah sei Dank bin ich Atheist” (Thank Allah I’m an Atheist) was published, which he wrote together with Katrine Hoop.

Because of his kissing action, Mohamed Hisham, participant of this photo montage, is on the run again. He could no longer live in his refugee center: He received insults and threats from other refugees. Once he was even beaten up.

“Because of the photo, I was tortured in my refugee home, I had to leave the center. I also experienced so much hate from people because of this photo,” Hisham tells BILD.

He is also a well-known blogger, from Egypt. He fled to Germany in 2019 and later met Sherwan.

Not only in front of the holy Kaaba in Mecca did Sherwan make this photomontage, but also in front of other religious symbols.

“I posted this photo montage in front of different religious places, there is not a single death threat in the others. But when I get death threats, they are from Muslims,” Sherwan says.

On Wednesday, Sherwan is sitting with his lawyer Joachim Steinhöfel in courtroom A 409 in the summary proceedings against Facebook Ireland Ltd. The original aim was to obtain an injunction against Facebook. But because Sherwan had already achieved his goal, he and Facebook declared the matter closed. The court only had to decide on the costs of the proceedings. In such a case, it makes a prognosis as to which party would probably have lost the legal dispute.

The result: Facebook bears the costs of the proceedings.

Sherwan considers it a victory because Facebook could not properly justify why they blocked his profile. He wanted to achieve exactly the same thing, that his posts would not be considered violations of Facebook’s community rules.

“I think the court ruling against Facebook’s censorship is a win for freedom of opinion and speech and a direct implementation of the values of enlightenment,” his friend Hisham comments to BILD about the decision.

https://www.bild.de/politik/inland/politik-inland/fluechtling-zog-wegen-homosexueller-postings-gegen-facebook-vor-gericht-75790228.bild.html

The young woman of English nationality was beaten up in the middle of the city, in broad daylight. Nobody lifted a finger to help her.

On a Twitter video relayed by the Info Rodéo media on March 19, a young woman was violently attacked by a group of immigrants in Bordeaux. The facts took place Thursday, at the corner of rue Chantre, in the heart of the Gironde city. The images show how passers quietly continue on their way, while the victim, of English nationality, is beaten by African and Arab men – called either “youths” or “scum” in France to avoid mentioning their ethnicity – who wanted to steal her bag and her phone.

The individuals, some five men, surrounded her and took turns to hit the victim. They did not hesitate to pull her hair and assault relentlessly. While the woman is on the ground, the attackers forcefully pick her up and punch her in the head. Visibly unsatisfied and even less moved, several of them then lead her a few steps away, behind a wall, where the scene continues outside the field of the camera.

However, we see the attackers continuing. On the right, a man runs to kick the lower part of the woman’s body. The individuals then begin to discuss their assault, pointing the body of the young woman on the ground after the extreme violence of the blows. No witness to the scene intervened to assist the victim.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/03/21/young-english-woman-savagely-assaulted-by-youths-in-bordeaux/

Please check the Reader’s Links post for many amazing videos of the event in Germany and elsewhere. Ill post a few below but really the meat is in today’s Reader’s Links comments post.

Police in Germany appear to be abusing German Citizens in a fairly fascist manner for being there. And much more to come Im sure. One march in the UK is ENORMOUS. There will be no policing it.

Related: Ontario went into a red alert state today. Expect plastic pipes to break from the walls and steam to pour out any second.

In a dramatic video segment that’s currently circulating on social media, a Greek shepherd living on the island of Lesbos — not far from one of the migrant camps — breaks down in tears at one point as he describes how his life’s work has been destroyed a result of migrants repeatedly stealing and slaughtering his sheep.

The shepherd, Fotis Giounis, lives close to the Kara Tepe migrant camp, which presently houses around 7,000 migrants. During the video clip, Giounis says that gangs of migrants have recently repeatedly trespassed on his land, grabbing his best animals, then slaughtering them before taking the meat back with them to camp.  

“I have created all this by riding a bike and selling milk. I have lived in tents for five months… And they destroyed everything in two hours.”

The shepherd also described how he had found carcasses of his goats and sheep tossed into a nearby stream and field. Giounis says that the migrant gang trespassed onto his property while he was away for two hours and slaughtered five sheep. A similar attack took place the week before, he added.

“I wonder, do [the authorities] see people with big bags of meat — over 100 kilos — and they do not stop them? Aren’t they looking to find where the meat comes from? I am desperate,” Giounis told the Greek news agency StoNisi.

“I am horrified by the fact that groups of armed people are wandering here in the mountains, looking for our farms — and apparently they are familiar with the use of knives.”

During the interview, Giounis expressed that he has feelings of desperation since his animals take several years to raise and that his family is heavily dependent on them for their survival. Ten of his lambs are now without parents. The shepherd also told the journalists that now he is forced to spend his days away from his children so that he can guard his animals from the migrants who stay in high-priced tents nearby.

“I do not want compensation. I just want to be at peace — to be able to go home and not be worried,” he says.

Unfortunately, this is hardly the first time that migrants living on the Greek island of Lesbos have had run-ins with the local population. Illegal migrants living on Lesbos have been repeatedly accused of damaging the islands delicate ecosystem, usually at a high cost for those who have lived on the island for many years.

Last year, illegal migrants staying at Moria — a migrant camps which is also located on Lesbos — chopped down around 5,000 olive trees on private property for reasons that remain unclear. 

Olive oil is Greece’s fourth highest export, with sales abroad totaling nearly €525 million in 2018.

At present, more than 7,000 illegal migrants are currently being held at the Kara Tepe migrant camp, which is situated about three miles north of Mytilene, the capital of Lesbos.

The island’s largest and most notorious camp Moria was decimated in a fire last September, leaving 13,000 illegal migrants without shelter. Five Afghan migrants in the shelter were arrested and accused by police of setting their own camp on fire. 

Migrants were also accused of vandalizing churches on a number of Greek islands. In 2020, Hungary donated €30,000 to help refurbish the churches. 

https://rmx.news/article/article/greek-shepherd-says-migrants-destroyed-his-lifes-work-breaks-down-crying-during-interview

Two University Professors at the Grenoble Institute of Political Studies (IEP) in eastern France have been placed under 24-hour police protection after being smeared as “Islamophobes” and “fascists.” The teachers’ lives are under threat after an Islamo-leftist student group, National Union of Students of France (UNEF), led a dangerous campaign against the professors for simply trying to question the concept of “Islamophobia”.

Despite the danger the professors are facing, the radical student union continues to incite violence towards them and is lobbying the school to have them sanctioned.

For two months the teachers have been dealing with harassment and denigration from the student group for simply wanting to discuss the validity of the concept of “Islamophobia”. On March 4, the words “Fascists in our lecture halls. Islamophobia kills” were plastered on the building housing the premises of the Grenoble IEP, accompanied by the names of the two professors.

The Grenoble branch of the National Union of Students of France (Unef) posted the vandalism and implied threats on the front of the establishment via social networks.

Below is a picture taken of the student unions’ dangerous smears towards the teachers – their names were blurred by a media outlet. Under Sharia, those who insult Muhammad or Allah are to be executed, as are those who desecrate the Quran or commit other acts of blasphemy.

One of the professors, Vincent Tournier, is in charge of a course called “Islam and Muslims in contemporary France;” while the other, Klaus Kinzler, is a lecturer in German and has taught at the facility for 25 years.

The student union and their President, 23-year-old Thomas Mandroux, have been fighting for months to “remove” Professor Tournier and his course from the University. The union has accused the teacher and his course of spreading “Islamophobic” remarks during classes. Facebook and Instagram pages were launched asking students to report all “problematic comments” that might have occurred in class, with expectations that the reports could be used to cancel the course and the teacher. 

The teacher responded to pressure by the student union by requesting a ban on the union’s members from his course. This caused an uproar among the jointly leftist and Islamic students looking to make trouble in his class. The targeted protests and smears against the teacher intensified.

The other teacher placed under police protection, Klaus Kinzler, is a 61-year-old German teacher who has been at at IEP Grenoble for 25 years. It is important to note that Professor Kinzler labels himself as a liberal from the “extreme center” who believes in freedom of speech.

The controversy arose at the end of November during an informal working group to prepare for the school’s annual “week of equality” which also focuses on ending “discrimination”. The teacher was asked to prepare a thematic day under the title: “Racism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism”.

During a discussion with teachers and student, Professor Kinzler questioned “the alignment of these three terms in one theme”. He questioned whether the term Islamophobia has real meaning or “is just a propaganda weapon of extremists smarter than us”. The professor suggested the title be changed to “Racism, anti-Semitism and other forms of contemporary discrimination”.

This very small request, however, was perceived as a declaration of war by the Islamo-leftist students who quickly had the Professor excluded from the group. The students claimed to be “injured” by the professor’s suggestions.

The professors have had little support among their colleagues who have feared speaking out or are upset over the attention the University is receiving. As Professor Kinzler explains, “On a human level, this is shocking to me. There’s a majority of my colleagues who hate me now. Because in their eyes – I’m dragging the establishment through the mud – While I’m the one risking my own skin”

The following video is a combination of two separate clips taken from a TV talk show featuring Prof. Kinzler:

This incident with the French school teachers is just the latest attempt by Muslims and leftists to force Western nations to submit to Islamic Blasphemy laws via political correctness. In France, accusations of alleged Islamophobia have resulted in citizens to be slaughtered, live in hiding, lose their careers, and live every day of their lives with targets on their backs.

This past October, history teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded by a Muslim outside his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. Paty was decapitated after an Islamic student, her father and powerful Islamic leaders relentlessly smeared and maligned him on social media, ultimately leading to his assassination by decapitation.

The French government was condemned for not protecting Paty and ignoring the radicalisation signs exhibited by those leading a smear campaign against him. Furthermore, French authorities not only ignored the threats being lodged at Paty but instead, investigated Paty for potential “thought crimes” against Islam.

RAIR foundation USA recently reported on Didier Lemaire, a teacher for twenty years in the French city of Trappes, who must live under 24-hour police protection. In addition, he must leave his profession after his life was threatened for honoring the memory of the beheaded history teacher, Samuel Paty, and for defending the values of the Republic. Instead of denouncing the threats of violence against the philosophy teacher, Ali Rabeh, the Muslim mayor of Trappes, further incited those threatening his life. 

Unlike with Samuel Paty, the French government condemned the threatening campaign being led by the

Islamo-leftist student group. State officials believe those targeting the professors could put the lecturers in danger.

The professors also received the support of the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer. Junior interior minister Marlene Schiappa said the posters and social media comments recalled the harassment Samuel Paty faced last October. “These are really odious acts after what happened with the decapitation of Samuel Paty who was smeared in the same way on social networks,” she said on the BFM news channel. “We can’t put up with this type of thing.” 

The Director of Sciences Po Grenoble, however, judged the words of one of the professors as “problematic” while strongly condemning the dissemination of his name and that of his colleague.

A tough new security law is being discussed in the French parliament that would make publishing personal information about a public servant punishable, if done to cause them harm. This law would make the offence punishable by up to three years in prison.

This would be in effect, a much needed kind of anti-doxxing law, which should also be in place in The United States after similar tactics had been used on this articles author, TV host, Tucker Carlson along with many others.

Meanwhile, students at the University continue to malign the teachers and hold protests against “Islamophobia”.

All over the Islamic world, and now the Western world, secular thinkers (Mila), clergy, teachers, politicians(Geert Wilders), artists, poets, writers, journalists (Lars Hedegaard), bloggers (Bangladesh), and cartoonists (Charlie Hebdo) are threatened and/or targeted for death because they dare to be critical of Islam.

Leftist activists, politicians and organizations assist this jihad on free speech by calling all who openly criticize Islam of being guilty of “hate speech” or “Islamophobia”. This is a secular equivalent of “blasphemy” and is rapidly working its way into Western law.

As one Charlie Hebdo journalist stated, “The more of us who choose to stay silent, the more dangerous it becomes for the few who continue speaking out.” The fact is that where critical thinking & free speech end, the West ends as well.

https://rairfoundation.com/sharia-alert-police-protection-needed-for-additional-french-teachers-accused-of-insulting-islam-video/

It was 29 March 2019 when a 19-year-old man sped across the city centre of Essen (North Rhine-Westphalia) in his Opel car on that Friday morning. The police had been searching for the man with Tajik roots with a large contingent; he had been noticed for his “suspicious driving”. He was caught and arrested.

A few days later, there were large-scale raids in ten cities in North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg – eleven men, nine of them with Tajik roots, were arrested. The suspicion was that they all belonged to an ISIS terror cell planning terrorist attacks in Germany.

In April 2020, the next successful police investigation: special police forces once again uncovered an ISIS terror cell. This time, four Tajiks from North Rhine-Westphalia, aged 24 to 32, were arrested. Their leader has already been in custody since March 15, 2019 for illegal ownership of weapons. Again North-Rhine Westphalia, again suspected Islamists who have Tajik roots. So is North Rhine-Westphalia targeted by this group?

In fact, this ISIS splinter group seems to want to gain a foothold in North Rhine-Westphalia. According to the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office, the foursome arrested in 2020 planned to attack US army facilities in Germany as well as individuals. The suspects had already had weapons, ammunition and components for explosive devices. The five men had already joined ISIS in January 2019 and had been directed by leading terrorists from Syria and Afghanistan.

According to the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, the group was first supposed to travel to Tajikistan to fight in the “Holy War” against the government there. But then the plans changed and attacks were to take place in Germany. Two US air force bases were spied on for this purpose. Security circles have stressed to the newspaper DER WESTEN that the case shows a continuing danger of ISIS – even if the terrorist group has largely lost its territory in Syria and Iraq.

Islamism expert Sigrid Herrmann-Marschall (57) on the “Tajik phenomenon”, especially in North Rhine-Westphalia: “In my estimation, Muslims of Tajik origin are more at home in institutions that are close to the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. There they meet like-minded people. The background to this is that their own places of prayer are not available.”

The expert continues: “It depends on both the local conditions and the vigilance of the imams that radical Tajiks do not congregate in these mosques. There is a latent danger. I hope that it will be possible to determine from the soon to begin trial how the structures of such terror cells are set up.”

The Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office now wants to take these men out of circulation and brought charges against the five men on February 1, 2021. One of the men is said to have carried out terror propaganda from North-Rhine Westphalia, especially in the Russian- and Tajik-language online network of the “IS province of Khorasan”, he had ideologically trained followers and interested parties worldwide, radicalised them. This network was significantly involved in the radicalisation of the Stockholm attacker, who killed four people and injured numerous others with a truck on April 7, 2017, according to the Office of the Attorney General.

Funds were also allegedly collected to expand propaganda and recruit more members in Germany. Their goal was to take up armed struggle against “infidels”. They also trained themselves in physical training for this, including paintball games. Among the participants of this “training” were also Islamists who had contact with the assassin of Vienna on November 2, 2020.

It is indeed to be wished that the trial will bring more clarity….

https://www.derwesten.de/region/nrw-terrorgefahr-von-dieser-isis-gruppe-islamismus-expertin-schlaegt-alarm-id231843909.html?fbclid=IwAR2_s9yd75UZesRnH1MfM87kLfyVNlU67MPML-QL1ewj_yOKME4fLf5JWyw