A request from the German Greens parliamentary group to the federal government has raised the issue of “ISIS returnees” to Europe once again.

As the answer from the federal government shows, the Federal Criminal Police Office is aware of 148 people who had joined ISIS, fought in the former territory of this terrorist organization in the Middle East and are now living in Germany again. The vast majority of them are still dangerous, as they are believed to have committed “serious, politically motivated crimes”.

Most recently, 42 of the returnees were detained for crimes related to their emigration to Syria or Iraq. Some of them will be released in the near future. This means a lot of work for German law enforcement as they have to be constantly monitored.

The knife murder in Dresden in October 2020 showed what the so-called “de-radicalization measures” in which some of these prisoners were taking part, really amounted to. The alleged perpetrator who killed a tourist from the Rhineland was a threat who had taken part in a deradicalization program in prison.

But that’s not all, because 71 German nationals and 30 foreigners from Germany who are suspected ISIS terrorists in northern Syria and imprisoned, are currently waiting to be admitted to Germany.

According to its own statements, the federal government has so far brought three German women and twelve children back to Germany from custody – seven of them orphans. These retrievals were fought in eight legal proceedings against the federal government. Another nine proceedings were in favour of Germany, while four more are still pending.

In December, the Foreign Office announced that it was working flat out to enable especially German children to leave the northeast of Syria. The dpa (German Press Agency) thus reported: “A particularly large number of supporters and former supporters of ISIS live in the Al-Hol refugee camp in Syria. Fanatics – including women – kill people who think differently there time and again. In 2020, the federal government declared that the ISIS ideology was being passed on to minors there in particular by foreign ISIS supporters in organized teaching groups.”

In addition, according to the dpa , the minors were radicalized by their mothers.

The security of the population in Germany is being jeopardized almost deliberately. Ordinary good people are currently discouraged from entering Germany “because of Corona” but at the same time, potential future threats are being brought into the country as a result of a focused media campaign.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/02/18/isis-returnees-raise-questions-in-germany/

I used to admire the American culture and its spirit. City on the hill, civic religion, free speech, rule of law, hard work, protection of Europe in hard times, an indomitable spirit of resistance…The new woke religion is turning me into an anti-American.

A New York public school just sent a list to parents encouraging them to become “white traitors” and “white abolitionists”. Christopher Rufo, a journalist specializing in “critical race theory,” explained that the principal of New York’s East Side Community School sent in the list detailing the eight types of “whiteness” from good to bad. The author of the graph, Barnor Hesse, is a professor at Northwestern University.

It starts with the “white supremacist” and ends with the “white abolitionist”. There is “white voyeurism”, like those who are fascinated by black culture. The “white privilege” type is someone whose rethorical goal is diversity, but who in fact benefits from supremacism. The “white benefit” is described as someone who sympathizes with black issues, but only in private. The “white confessional” is someone who seeks validation from people of color. Redemption is reached by the “white abolitionist”. It is those who change institutions, work to dismantle whiteness and will not allow white to “reassert itself” in society.

This “whiteness” junk will soon arrive in Europe. Days ago, the New York Times ran an article about how the French are already very worried about that.

For those who love freedom, American culture was once a model.

This racial and censorious neo-religion of whining Americans, who seek power through propaganda and brainwashing, who are becoming hegemonic in every cultural field, is making me hope that Europe will not be contaminated from McDonald’s in racial sauce.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/297015

Six residents of a accommodation for asylum seekers in Ofterschwang ( in the Upper Allgäu region of Bavaria) placed two rubbish containers across the county road OA5 on Monday morning. According to the police, they apparently wanted to draw attention to the fact that the gas heating in their accommodation had broken down over the weekend – and that in partly double-digit sub-zero temperatures.After consultation with the district office of the Upper Allgäu, the police reported that the failure of the heating system was already known to the district office. The repair was ordered for Monday and has been carried out in the meantime. Until then, the asylum seekers were offered alternative accommodation, but the residents refused without any explanation. As a result, they were temporarily provided with mobile heating units, which led to power cuts in some places due to possible overloading. The frustration about the situation apparently led to the protest action with the rubbish containers.

Winter continues to have a heavy impact on Germany. But it is not only icy outside: for many people, a heated home is not a matter of course. This is shown by the latest data from the Federal Statistical Office.

According to the report, there are around two million people in Germany who are unable to heat their flat or house adequately due to financial hardship. This corresponds to 2.5 percent of the population. The data was already collected in 2019.

Single parents and their children often have to suffer from cold: seven percent of people in single-parent households lacked the money to heat their home properly. Those who live all alone in their home are also affected more often than average.

https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/deutschland-zwei-millionen-menschen-frieren-in-den-eigenen-vier-waenden-a-2e265d76-18bb-4929-8b21-429c211f03a5 – https://www.all-in.de/sonthofen/c-polizei/asylbewerber-im-oberallgaeu-protestieren-gegen-ausgefallene-heizung_a5105145

By Dennis Sevakis

The very green Germans have major concerns regarding their dependence on renewables:

‘Die Welt’ Commentary: “Europe Can’t Bail Out The German Power Supply”…Calls Strategy “A Dangerous Miscalculation”
Germany has seriously overestimated how much its neighboring countries are able to help out in the event wind and solar energy fail to deliver, thus putting its power supply at risk.
By P. Gosselin on 11 September 2018

Little attention is paid to the question of just how much “climate change” is a result of human activity, i.e., CO2 emissions into the atmosphere resulting from the burning of fossil fuels. Does anyone have a handle on this?

A comparison of tropical temperature trends with model predictions

ABSTRACT:We examine tropospheric temperature trends of 67runs from 22 ‘Climate of the 20th Century’ model simulations and try to reconcile them with the best available updated observations (in the tropics during the satellite era). Model results and observed temperature trends are in disagreement in most of the tropical troposphere, being separated by more than twice the uncertainty of the model mean. In layers near 5 km, the modelled trend is 100 to 300% higher than observed, and, above 8 km, modelled and observed trends have opposite signs. These conclusions contrast strongly with those of recent publications based on essentially the same data. 

Copyright 2007 Royal Meteorological Society 
Received 31 May 2007; Accepted 11 October 2007

I’ve sent that around before, and here’s one of the replies I received in response to the question:

“So, you think the following (‘A comparison of tropical temperature trends with model predictions’) is b.s.? You don’t understand it? Or something else? Just asking.”

Answer: “So tilts the narrative that conclusions are not credible. (can collect enough isolated facts to prove almost anything – in this case, I just don’t agree with premise.)”

… which indicates absolutely zero understanding of the issue. The degree of warming in the tropical troposphere resulting from an increase of CO₂ is the central premise behind the climate change hoopla. The fact that such warming is not occurring to the degree predicted by the climate models is not an ‘isolated fact,’ it is a very strong indication that there is a real disconnect between theory and reality. The linchpin is weak or missing.

Whatever observed changes are taking place, they are probably not primarily the result of CO2 “pollution.” 

What’s also missing is any great awareness of this by the general population. Try asking friends or acquaintances what their understanding is of the connection between human activity and “climate change.” A blank stare is often the result.

As far as our climate crisis leadership elites are concerned, I have little idea how many are merely ignorant, or lying, or both. Whatever the case may be, it’s misdirection on steroids. 90% politics, 10% science.

For more on the issue of what’s “science” and what’s “denial,” spend some time browsing the “Science and Environmental Policy Project” website.

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” 
– Physicist Richard Feynman, Nobel Laureate.

I occasionally remind myself of that.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/02/as_germans_freeze_leading_newspaper_calls_green_energy_strategy_a_dangerous_miscalculation.html

The National Counterterrorism and Security Coordinator (NCTV) is concerned about the rise of the influence of the Turkish leader among Dutch people of Turkish origin. In an internal memo that HP/De Tijd has in its possession, the NCTV reported that Turkish President Erdogan is implementing a strategy of conscious Islamization in the Netherlands.

Erdogan supports Salafist organizations, sometimes jihadists, linked to Turkish-Dutch institutions and this could affect Dutch security, the service believes.

But Turkey’s Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun criticized the NCTV report, saying that it was biased and mimicked the ideology of neo-Nazis.

In the confidential memorandum, a possible link is made between “anti-Western rhetoric” of the Turkish President and the terrorist attack on a tram in Utrecht in 2019. Four people were killed in that attack. The day before this attack in Utrecht, Erdogan had mentioned the terrorist attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, which left 49 dead. Erdogan placed it “in a context of war between Muslims and Christians,” according to the HP, citing the report.

The NCTV confirmed the existence of the memorandum to Dutch public broadcaster NOS, but did not wish to comment on its content.

The report states that the Turkish community is “vulnerable to the influence of Turkey”. Ties with Turkey are strong, and many Turkish Dutch people vote for Erdogan in Turkish elections. They are also associated with foundations which are in contact with the Turkish government.

The Turkish-Dutch youth organizations in particular are said to be affected by the fundamentalist movement of Islam. The memorandum warned against radicalization, also online.

From various walks of life, there have been criticisms against the “factually incorrect analyzes” or at least some improbabilities contained in the report. For example, the Utrecht tram attacker has been associated with statements made by Erdogan in the NCTV report. However, Gökmen T. is a supporter of the extremist cleric Metin Kaplan, who is pursuing an Islamic caliphate. His movement and Erdogan’s AKP are at odds. The attacker had called Erdogan “an American dog”.

The fact that the report pointed out that Erdogan has been allowing the spread of Salafi organizations, has been debated. The Salafists are rivals of the Muslim Brotherhood and it is precisely this movement which is supported by Turkey. Although they are both conservative Islamic movements, there are important ideological differences between the Salafists and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Turkey and Qatar are important pillars of the Muslim Brotherhood, while Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States support the Salafist movements. Turkey and Saudi Arabia have been rivals for years vying for influence in the Middle East.

The memorandum is not yet “analytically mature”, Dutch Justice and Security Minister Grapperhaus complained. This means, among other things, that the security services AIVD and MIVD and the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Social Affairs and Employment have yet to give their opinion on this subject. These services are currently reviewing the report. The NCTV then decides whether the report still needs to be amended and published or whether it remains confidential.

The substantive analysis of the report is included in an overview of security threats that is published three times a year, said the NCTV. The service expects the next version of it to be released in late March, early April.

Dutch PVV leader Geert Wilders has meanwhile called the Turkish leader a “terrorist” in a tweet. Wilders urged Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to “show courage” to oppose the Turkish president, expel the Turkish ambassador and expel Turkey from NATO. Wilders shared a drawing of Erdogan with the ISIS terrorist flag in the background.

Erdogan supporters soon fired back: They denounced Wilders as a pig and a devil and said he was racist. “Erdogan is democratically elected by the Turkish people and is the leader who fights the terrorist organization DAESH the most in Syria,” one Turkish supporter said, adding that Wilders was the “real terrorist”.

The report underscored that Turkish citizens in the Netherlands were likely to be manipulated by Erdogan, because he wanted to become the leader of Sunni Muslims around the world.

Turkey’s presidential spokesperson also slammed Wilders, calling the Dutch politician an “imbecile” while the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) spokesperson Ömer Çelik said Wilders was a “cursed Nazi”.

“If he lived in the Middle East now, he would have been a Daesh murderer, but because he lives in the Netherlands today, he has become an ugly anti-humanity fascist,” Çelik said, adding that Wilders would kill innocent migrants if he had the chance to do so.

“It is only natural for this fascist to attack our president, who has embraced migrants fleeing death,” Çelik concluded, claiming that Wilders was the enemy of “humanitarian values”.

Turkey’s chief public prosecutor’s office issued a statement announcing a probe against Wilders for “including a photograph and written insult about President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Feb. 15”.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/02/17/netherlands-national-counterterrorism-and-security-coordinator-concerned-about-erdogans-influence/

On Friday, the French government announced the dissolution of the anti-mass-immigration, identitarian movement Génération Identitaire, also known as Generation Identity in the English-speaking world, after its recent protest action at the French-Spanish border, which exposed the government’s lack of control of illegal immigration, despite its previous statements to the contrary. Remix News spoke on Monday by phone with Jérémie Piano, the spokesperson for the organization, which calls itself a “right-wing Greenpeace” because of its actions devised to attract media attention.

The French Interior Minister wants to dissolve your movement. What reason is given in the notification you received on Friday?

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin wants to dissolve us for two reasons: incitement to hatred and the formation of militias. For his accusations, he relies in particular on the actions that Génération Identitaire has carried out in the Alps and the Pyrenees. For the 2018 Defend Europe mission in the Alps, we were fully absolved by a court of appeal. Concerning our last action, last month in the Pyrenees, the prefect himself acknowledged that we had not done anything illegal. For the charge of incitement to hatred, Gérald Darmanin’s services also rely on the occupation of the roof of the Poitiers mosque construction site in 2012, for which, similarly, we had no conviction. The file is quite empty legally, and if we are judged according to the law, we will win because it is mostly a political move on the part of the government.

It also seems that the French government is resorting to judicial harassment against Génération Identitaire.

That is exactly right.

What do you think is the real reason for this relentlessness?

The true reason is that Darmanin has announced a law on Islamic separatism with some timid measures against Islamists. Because of this, he has been subject to criticism and pressure from the left and the far left. Thus, in order to rebalance somewhat the perception that the left has of the government, Darmanin attacks the French who are fighting against immigration. He is going after Génération Identitaire. We could see that the first to rejoice at our dissolution were the militants of [the far-left parties] France Insoumise and Printemps Républicain as well as the Socialist Party.

Are you going to challenge the minister’s decision in court?

Of course, we are going to fight to the bitter end. We will have a long court battle to overturn the dissolution proceeding. Dissolution will take place by decree next week, and so for months our lawyers – among whom there is the famous lawyer Gilles-William Goldanel – will be fighting to dismantle the government’s accusations point by point and cancel the decree of dissolution.

Concretely, this decision to dissolve your movement will block you for a while, will it not?

Yes, it is going to hold us up because the appeal does not equate to a suspension [of the dissolution decree]. Therefore, for several months, Generation Identity will de facto no longer exist. We will no longer be able to carry out any actions or receive any funds, and so on. This will last until the decision to cancel the dissolution is made by the courts.

So it is a way to block you, hoping maybe you will give up your fight.

Yes, but we will not give up.

Following your action at the Col de l’Échelle and the uproar it generated against you in the media and among the ruling political class, some of your activists lost their jobs. Can you confirm this?

I can confirm to you that this was the case, for example, of Romain Espino, who worked in a bank and was under pressure from the left on social media, and he lost his job as a result of that legal and peaceful action.

You define yourselves as a “right-wing Greenpeace” and the trials that have been held against you have indeed confirmed that your actions were peaceful and legal. Why do you think the interior minister is not targeting violent ultra-left groups instead?

The French government has a multiculturalist political agenda. It sometimes finds itself obliged to take small measures against the Islamists, which provokes criticism on the left flank, and so he tries to redress the balance by attacking Génération Identitaire, which represents the opinion of the French. Indeed, three-quarters of French people are against illegal immigration, they want a referendum on mass immigration and think that the fight against immigration should be a priority.

Do you accept the “ultra-right” label used against you by the public media and which was picked up by Darmanin in a tweet?

No, we do not recognize ourselves in these “ultra” or “extreme” type labels. They are used only to denigrate our group and to denigrate the French who are mostly against immigration.

There was already an attempt to dissolve your movement in 2019. Did it go that far?

Our dissolution has been under consideration several times, but governments have never found any legal grounds that would make it possible to ban us. However, this is the first time the government has formally notified us of our dissolution, yet they have no more legal basis today to justify our dissolution. But they do not care and are attempting a political coup against Génération Identitaire’s activists.

Does this mean that, in France, people no longer have the right to oppose immigration in the public debate?

That is clearly the case. One of the things we are being accused of is that we had on our banner, for the Defend Europe Pyrenees mission, words that were, quote, “clearly anti-immigration”. The French government considers it a crime to be against immigration. It is just amazing! This is an extremely serious infringement on freedom of expression and freedom of association, and this is a worrying drift by the government of Emmanuel Macron.

Social media systematically blocks you, and they block media that talk about you in too positive a tone. Do you think they are acting on their own or under pressure from the French government?

They did not need the French government to remove the account of US President Donald Trump, but the French government and the boards of directors of companies like Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram share the same totalitarian multiculturalist ideology and want by all means to silence their opponents. 

Do you still feel you live in democracy despite all this?

Increasingly less so. If the decree of dissolution is not overturned by judges, then it will mean that we are moving towards a very authoritarian regime. If it is canceled, it will mean that we are not in a great democracy, but a democracy nonetheless, because we will still have been able to defend ourselves in courts and reverse the government’s unjust decision. In any case, we are going to fight this battle on the legal and the political front, and we will be holding a demonstration in Paris on Saturday against the dissolution of Génération Identitaire.

Generation Identity banned – ‘The French government considers it a crime to be against immigration’