Following an explosion in a backyard in Berlin’s Schöneberg district, police have arrested two men. A pipe bomb allegedly detonated directly in front of a residential building on the street Eisackstraße at around 8.30 pm on Thursday evening. Residents called the police. Investigators searched the yard and found a second explosive device that had not exploded.

According to the police, police officers were able to arrest a 29-year-old suspect after a short investigation when he tried to escape from the apartment building. Since the door to a flat was locked and the officers assumed that a second suspect was hiding there, a special task force was called in.Special forces police officers are said to have then stormed the flat and overpowered a 27-year-old man. “For the safety of the residents, the neighbouring houses were evacuated for about an hour,” a police spokesperson explained. They were temporarily accommodated in busses provided by the Berlin public transport company (BVG). Forensic technicians confiscated the remains of the explosion, the second explosive device and chemicals found in the suspects’ flat in the courtyard.Both suspects were handed over to the specialised department for bomb-related offences at the State Criminal Police Office. According to the newspaper Berliner Zeitung, the two men are Gregor D. and Claudio C. From police circles it was said that they had good contacts in the left-wing scene. According to his own statements, C. studied political science at the Free University of Berlin. Among other things, he was involved in an association against right-wing extremism financed by the Berlin Senate. He also heads a media education project against anti-Muslim racism. Investigators are now puzzling over what the two men intended to do with the explosive devices.According to the police spokesperson, investigators are looking into a connection to other crimes committed with such explosives in the area. Just on January 20, 2021, a similar explosive device had exploded on a construction site sign in the street Fritz-Reuter-Straße in Schöneberg. Pieces of debris were blown around, damaging several window panes and cars. Around 50 residents had to leave their homes in the middle of the night.

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/explosion-im-hinterhof-sek-stuermt-wohnung-li.137852

An Iranian diplomat has been sentenced to 20 years in jail by a Belgian court for masteminding a bomb attack targeting a meeting of 25,000 opposition exiles. Assadollah Assadi was attached to the Iranian mission in Vienna/Austria when he supplied explosives for the planned attack. The STOP THE BOMB campaign calls for decisive consequences from the German federal government and the EU.

Spokeswoman Ulrike Becker explains: “We are calling for the closure of all institutions that are connected to the Iranian state in Germany and the EU. The trial and the verdict show that the Iranian regime is persecuting opposition members with terror – not only at home but also abroad and that the regime has no respect for diplomatic customs or rules-based order. The process shows that Assadi was particularly active in Germany. The federal government is responsible for protecting everyone who lives here. The closure of the Iranian embassies is urgently needed to prevent further terrorist attacks. The verdict demonstrates that Iranian embassies are not places of diplomacy, but planning centers for terrorist activities.”

The scientific director of STOP THE BOMB Austria, Stephan Grigat, demands: “It is high time to close the Iranian terror embassy in Vienna. Why should Austria maintain diplomatic relations with a regime that uses its mission and staff in Vienna to conduct terrorist attacks in Europe?”Assadi was registered as the third counselor at the Iranian embassy in Vienna. A note from Belgium’s intelligence and security agency identified Mr. Assadi as an officer of Iran’s intelligence and security ministry who operated undercover at the Iranian Embassy in Vienna, according to The Associated Press. Under the protection of diplomatic immunity, he was the operational commander and planned the attack on a gathering of exiled Iranian opposition members of the National Council of Resistance (NCRI). Assadi belonged to the “Directorate for Internal Security” of the Iranian domestic and foreign intelligence service Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS). After the failed attempt, he was arrested in Germany and extradited to Belgium. According to a report by WELT, security authorities have no doubt that the decision to commit the attack was made at the highest level of the Iranian leadership, the National Security Council and revolutionary leader Ali Khamenei. [1]

On February 2, 40 members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe called for the expulsion of regime agents and the closure of Iranian institutions promoting the terrorist agenda of the Islamic Republic. [2]

Assadi’s notebook proves that he was particularly active in Germany. [3]

[1] https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/plus217990342/Codename-Daniel-die-Spur-des-Terrors-fuehrt-ins-Zentrum-Europas.html
[2] https://iranintl.com/en/world/forty-european-lawmakers-call-expelling-irans-intelligence-mercenaries, https://iran-tc.com/en/2021/02/03/forty -members-of-parliamentary-assembly-of-the-council-of-europe-call-for-revision-of-iran-policy /
[3] https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1391415/iranian-spy-assadollah-assadi-germany-paris-bombing

For some years now, the police and the judiciary have been increasingly taking action against criminal members of German-Arab extended families. This is usually referred to as clan crime. The term is clearly defined by the Federal Criminal Police Office, but it remains controversial in the political arena because it could possibly stigmatise members of the extended families who are not guilty of any crime.

Representatives of well-known Berlin clans are now fighting back, and there is talk of a counter-public. On several occasions, the authorities’ actions have been compared to the Holocaust and the genocide of the Jews. And the men from Berlin’s best-known extended family have made use of right-wing conspiracy theories.

It all started on Instagram on Wednesday. There, a member of the Remmo clan posted: “Those who persecute us today are the descendants who persecuted and destroyed our Jewish fellow citizens back then.

In another text, he showed a photo of the Auschwitz death camp and compared the treatment of criminal clansmen to the beginnings of Nazism: “It didn’t start with gas chambers. It started with a policy that spoke of “us” against “them”,” wrote the man of the Neukölln extended family, who had been known to the police for years.The reason for this was a report in the newspaper “Berliner Morgenpost” about a villa of the family in the south of the district of Neukölln, which has been confiscated by the judiciary. The Court of Appeal confirmed this in September: according to the report, the property was apparently acquired in 2012 with loot money from an almost penniless son of clan leader Issa.The Shoa was also trivialised elsewhere, this time in front of a larger audience.

The Shoa was also trivialised elsewhere, this time in front of a larger audience. Arafat Abou-Chaker, one of the best-known underworld bigwigs, invited people to a virtual conversation on the audio app Clubhouse on Thursday night, which had up to 5,000 listeners. The audience included rapper Fler, cabaret artist Idil Baydar, a lawyer and many journalists.

Abou-Chaker complained about the clan coverage. One user literally said: “This reminds me very much of, what’s it called, World War II history, here, where they came after the Jews.Cabaret artist Baydar reacted and said: “It’s the same thing”. And Abou-Chaker agreed: “The same thing, wallah.” Another said, “In a modern and legal way.” There was also talk of alleged “collective punishment”.Later, Baydar, who was born in Celle, discovered critical comments on the short message service Twitter. There she was accused of comparing the handling of clan crime with the Holocaust. She had not said anything like that, i.e. the Holocaust comparison. That was a “decontextualised distortion”. And Abou-Chaker explained afterwards: “No one wants to compare themselves to Jews, that’s not the point”.

On Twitter, Baydar later even threatened to sue for injunctive relief, writing of “character assassination”. Then, on Thursday morning, she came to her senses. “In the heated debate, I said things that should not be allowed to stand. Of course, reporting on ‘clans’ is not comparable to the anti-Semitism of the Nazi era. I am very sorry if it sounded that way in the heat of the moment.”

Baydar also seems to have a special view on dealing with clan criminals in other ways: The police fill “clan computer files” with “all names that somehow sound Arabic”, even if “you stole a Snickers pack”.Baydar also agreed with underworld bigwig Abou-Chaker’s notions on “freedom of the press”.

He and three of his brothers have been on trial at the Berlin Regional Court for months. They have to answer for attempted serious blackmail, dangerous bodily harm, coercion, insult and embezzlement. Their victim is said to have been the rapper Bushido.

In June, Arafat Abou-Chaker was sentenced to a fine of 14,850 euros at the regional court for assault and threatening behaviour. In a commercial building in March 2018, he had pressed two fingers into the eyes of a caretaker and headbutted him.This previous conviction is recorded in the Federal Central Register. His brothers are on record for various charges such as racketeering, robbery, money laundering, drug and arms trafficking.

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/berliner-clan-groessen-laden-zum-clubhouse-abend-remmo-und-abou-chaker-vergleichen-kampf-gegen-clankriminelle-mit-holocaust/26885304.html

by Giulio Meotti

The Chinese Cultural Revolution was a violent sociopolitical purge movement in China from 1966 until 1976. Launched by Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party of China (CPC), its stated goal was to purge remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society, and to re-impose Mao Zedong Thought (known outside China as Maoism) as the dominant ideology in the CPC.

Mao soon called on young people to “bombard the headquarters”, and proclaimed that “to rebel is justified”. In order to eliminate his rivals within the CPC and in schools, factories, and government institutions, Mao charged that bourgeois elements had infiltrated the government and society with the aim of restoring capitalism. He insisted that they be removed through violent class struggle, to which China’s youth responded by forming Red Guards and “rebel groups” around the country. (Paraphrased and abridged from Wikipedia).

Fast Forward to 2021:

At least 70 monuments have been removed or renamed in the UK in the name of Black Lives Matter. For the first time, the Guardian has drawn up a list of symbols eliminated in the name of anti-racism.

Victims of the progressive purge include not only Edward Colston, a Christian philanthropist, MP and revered merchant who, having been born in 1636, had business ties to the slave trade and who saw his statue torn down in Bristol by a crowd, but also Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume, deleted from his alma mater for expressing views considered politically incorrect by 21st century standards, and Sir William Gladstone, one of Britain’s greatest prime ministers canceled because his father had a stake in the slave plantations.

Imperial College London eliminated its Latin motto “scientific knowledge, supreme glory and safeguarding the empire”. It is a movement that in America has just led to the removal of the names of Lincoln and Washington from the schools of San Francisco.

They want to turn our story into a blank page. They want to educate the new generations to have no memory of what the West has given to humanity, from art to scientific knowledge, from the rights of the citizen to the dignity of man.

They are scenes reminiscent of Mao’s “Cultural Revolution” in China, when the Red Guards sacked the temples, knocked down the statues and finished them off with a pickaxe and citizens suspected of “revisionism” were taken in the streets with placards with the words “I am a land owner”.

And as today journalists and intellectuals support the assault on the Western past, even then not a few Westerners sang the exploits of the Red Guards.

The inhabitants of Liangjiahe, in northern China, remember well that tall, pale man who worked with them in the fields and slept on a straw mat in a flea-infested cave. It was the “Cultural Revolution” and Mao sent that young man to be “re-educated” in the countryside for seven years.

From that cave, which the man who became president for life visits from time to time, Xi Jinping today looks at the West and thinks about Sun Tzu’s quote: “If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by”.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/296299

A man (37) in handcuffs tried to flee from a police checkpoint at a rest area on Sunday evening. He ran across the motorway and was hit by a car. He died at the scene of the accident.

At around 6.20 p.m., federal police officers checked a VW Golf car with three occupants at the Königberg rest area between the Aachen motorway intersection and the Aachen-Brand junction. Among the occupants was an Algerian, who later became the victim of the accident.

“The latter suddenly tried to escape control, ran across the three-lane carriageway, climbed over the central crash barrier and was hit by the Opel on the carriageway in the direction of Liège,” a police spokesman said. The man died at the scene of the accident.

A police spokesman said on Monday that 200 grammes of hashish had been found on the dead man. In addition, the man had a residence permit from France that was no longer valid. “He obviously wanted to flee,” said the spokesperson.A family was inside the Opel Corsa – the driver (23), his heavily pregnant female passenger (21) and a daughter (3). The young woman lost her unborn baby in the accident.

https://m.bild.de/regional/koeln/koeln-aktuell/a44-bei-aachen-mann-bei-flucht-vor-polizei-angefahren-tot-75156682,view=amp.bildMobile.html

Instead of providing assistance, two men took advantage of the helplessness of a 33-year-old man from Rheda-Wiedenbrück at Bielefeld main station and stole his mobile phone.

On Wednesday evening ( February 3), the man fell on a staircase due to an epileptic seizure and fell down some stairs. After recovering from the seizure, the man noticed that he had lost his mobile phone and went to the police station in Bielefeld about 30 minutes later.

After a first review of the footage taken by the surveillance cameras, the officers found out that two men had noticed the fall and went to the man who had fallen. One of them bent down, picked up something and ran towards platform 8. The second man followed him and was handed a mobile phone on the staircase to platform 8, which he put in his jacket pocket.

On Thursday afternoon (4 February), officers of the Federal Police first recognised one of the two men during a police patrol in front of Bielefeld Central Station.

While the latter did not comment on the course of events, the second suspect, who was spotted at Bielefeld main station on Friday night, immediately confessed that he had already sold the mobile phone for 40 euros. After their personal details had been established, the men, a 46-year-old Moroccan and a 50-year-old Algerian living in Bielefeld, were released from the Federal Police station. They will have to answer to the court for the particularly serious case of theft.

https://polizei.news/2021/02/05/epileptiker-waehrend-eines-anfalls-bestohlen-marokkaner-und-algerier-gefasst/?fbclid=IwAR2fuz5oJ4BxfNg1O3HwO5zVYWmnZcZlPQt3pgwEDOp23wisDe4DzgQaFyQ

By Raymond Ibrahim

Few relationships feature one party that freely gives and another party that only takes as blatantly as the relationship between the West and Islam.  Thus, according to a Feb. 1, 2021 report, “The British taxpayer has shelled out over £15,000 to the widow of the mastermind behind the 2017 London Bridge terror attack, while the families of victims were denied similar financial support.”

During that attack, Zahrah Rehman’s husband, Khuram Butt, and two other Muslims, killed eight people and injured another 48, by running over them with a van and stabbing them with knives.  If police had not managed to shoot and kill the three terrorists, many more passersby would likely have been killed.

The distaste felt by some Brits at learning that their taxes are going to the wife of a savage terrorist is further soured by the fact that — and despite her claims otherwise — evidence suggests she knew and may even have shared in his “ISIS” worldview: “I knew it was a possibility that he wanted to go to Syria,” she confessed, “but he never told me that he hates this country and wanted to attack this country.” Such a defense is beyond silly: wanting to go and fight for the Islamic State in Syria is synonymous with hating Britain and any “infidel” nation.  Moreover,

In video evidence provided to the hearing, Ms Rehman is seen talking with her extremist husband about naming British airports after radical Islamists….  Another video presented before the inquiry showed the couple on their honeymoon in Pakistan and her husband hailing “Dawlat al-Islamiyah” – a monicker for Islamic State. Rehman denied that she understood what Butt was saying, claiming she could not understand Arabic.

At one point in the video, she even suggested renaming a London airport after Britain’s most notorious hate-preacher, Anjem Choudary, a man who helped “radicalize” her murderous husband and who spent five years in prison for his ties to ISIS.  When confronted about her suggestion, Rehman shrugged it off as “just a stupid joke.”

It is further ironic — or rather telling — that she mentioned Anjem Choudary (whom I once debated here).  He is the same man who — while holding all of the usual beliefs currently styled as “extremist” — also encourages Muslims to receive welfare at the hands of their hated enemies, the infidels, just as Rehman is benefiting.

In 2013 Choudary was secretly videotaped telling a Muslim audience to follow his example and get “Jihad Seeker’s Allowance” from the government (a pun on “Job Seeker’s Allowance).” The father of four, who was then annually receiving more than 25,000 pounds in welfare benefits, referred to British taxpayers as “slaves,” adding,

We take the jizya, which is our haq [Arabic for “right”], anyway. The normal situation by the way is to take money from the kafir[infidel], isn’t it? So this is the normal situation. They give us the money — you work, give us the money, Allahu Akhbar! We take the money.

According to Koran 9:29, jizya is monetary tribute subjugated non-Muslims (dhimmis) are required to pay to Muslims as the price for not killing them.  This practice was only (and formally) abolished in the nineteenth century, thanks entirely to European intervention.

Choudary’s position on accepting infidel money — and Rehman’s acceptance of it — is not out of the Islamic mainstream.  Sometime back, for instance, I watched aroundtable discussion on U.S. foreign aid to Egypt on Al Hafiz TV, an Arabic-language Islamic station.  At one point, one of the guests, a cleric, insisted that the U.S. must be treated contemptuously, like a lowly and downtrodden dhimmi; that Egypt must make the U.S. conform to its own demands; and that, then, all the money the U.S. offers to Egypt in foreign aid can be taken as rightfully earned jizya.

The Muslim cleric further recommended that Egypt be less cooperative with the U.S. — while simultaneously demanding more monetary aid.  Then, “America will accept; it will kiss our hands; and it will also increase its aid.  And we will consider its aid as jizya, not as aid.  But first we must make impositions on it.”

When the host asked the learned cleric, “Do the Americans owe us jizya?” he responded, “Yes” — that is the price Americans have to pay “so we can leave them alone!”

At any rate, here, then, is yet another way that the liberal Left and the illiberal Islam complement one another: the one stupidly gives, while the other selfishly takes — all while despising and plotting the destruction of its benefactor.

Britain, especially, thrives on conforming to this model.  According to a recent report, a ban preventing Anjem Choudary from preaching — he had “radicalized” several other Muslim murderers aside from Butt — is set to be lifted in May, 2021, “and now security sources fear that Choudary will immediately resume his campaign to radicalise young Muslims.”

Duh.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/02/britains_jihad_seekers_allowance.html