The veterinary department of the Rhein-Sieg district has attempted in vain to spare 66 pregnant cows the transport to Morocco and possible agony. The Higher Administrative Court (OVG) in Münster has overturned a contrary decision of the Administrative Court in Cologne in an urgent decision.As a result, the animals were shipped on Friday. The veterinarians in Siegburg have repeatedly refused to issue papers to hauliers for animal transports to Morocco and were supported by the Cologne Administrative Court. In November, the court banned the transport of 132 pregnant cows to North Africa, citing reports from animal welfare organisations about “brutal medieval methods”. For example, animals’ legs were tied together so that they could be pushed over. Then a slaughterer climbs on top of the animal and cuts its throat. Animals are also hung by one leg while fully conscious.Now the Higher Administrative Court (OVG) overturned such a decision made in Cologne. According to the Münster judges, possible slaughtering in Morocco in violation of animal welfare was not the responsibility of the carrier. There was also nothing concrete to suggest that the cows were treated in a manner contrary to animal welfare immediately after arrival. The veterinary department relied on “general knowledge” about the treatment of cows in Morocco and not on “neutral opinions of state authorities”. Furthermore, a veterinary department has no competence to issue general transport bans.  

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On October 16, an 18-year-old Chechen Abdullakh Anzorov beheaded the 47-year-old French history teacher Samuel Paty for showing caricatures in class critical of the Islamic prophet Mohammed. German tabloid Bild-Zeitung called it “A barbaric crime near Paris, in the heart of Europe”.

Many people around the world were shocked and showed their sympathy. Minutes of silence were also observed in schools in Hamburg. But Muslim students refused to pay tribute to the teacher and defended the Islamic terrorist. A few young Muslims even disrupted the ceremonies held on school grounds.

Several teachers who had seen the behavior of the Muslim students were at a loss. Ten teachers turned to the city-state’s teacher training institute and reported a need for advice.

This institute has of course often demonstrated in the past that it has a great deal of understanding for “multiculturalism”.

The CDU member of parliament, Dennis Gladiator, made a small request to the Hamburg Senate about the alarming events in Hamburg schools in order to obtain more information about the scandal. Apparently the school authorities have been trying to “explain” the behavior of young Muslims – to avoid conflict.

The authority for schools and vocational training said in its answer to the CDU parliamentary group that in one case, students “felt harassed by the teachers after the minute’s silence and in the emotional situation defended the murder of the teacher in France out of religious conviction”.

In another case, “after the minute’s silence, students criticized the minute’s silence in an emotional turmoil and defended the murder”.

The CDU parliamentarian Gladiator said he was alarmed by both “about the education authority and the students”. He told Bild-Zeitung: “You don’t know which is more disturbing: the contrived, trivializing attitude or the radical incidents involving young people and children”.

But the MP from Chancellor Merkel’s party did not comment on the fact that for many years now civil servants with a strong left-green inclination have dominated the upper and higher management levels of the education authority and have been striving to diligently promote “multi-culturalism”. The ever bigger problems arising from their ideological blindness are often suppressed – and often even actively concealed.

Moreover, a minute of silence for victims who were killed by Muslims have been held in several schools in German cities, also in Berlin. But such schools have seen similar reactions from Muslim students, according to the Berliner Zeitung.

In Berlin, several Muslim students at several schools demonstratively boycotted the minute’s silence for the decapitated history teacher. There was a boycott at the Gustav Freytag School, an integrated secondary school in Reinickendorf. “Instead of quietly commemorating the murdered man, Muslim students boycotted and disrupted the ceremony,” the BZ reported.

The teacher got what he deserved, a Muslim eighth grader is said to have shouted according to the Tagesspiegel. The teacher “should be executed. He had insulted the prophet!” Four other teachers at this one school alone reported similar incidents.

In mid-November, in Berlin-Neukölln, the headline of BZ read: “A Muslim student (11) from Morgenstern elementary school threatened his teacher with beheading her”. Several politicians expressed indignation about the scandal, but nothing was done about subsequent concrete measures.

At primary schools in Hamburg, students with a migration background already are in the majority. Also, the majority of the migrant students in the Hanseatic city are Muslims.

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Christian refugees have reported discrimination by Muslim refugees in the initial reception centre Rotenburg on the river Fulda in Hesse. The two Iranians Hamed F. (24) and Morteza G. (33), who were accommodated there from February to August, said they were insulted as ” unclean” in the facility and locked out of the communal showers several times. Their statements are in a report by the organisation Open Doors, which works for persecuted Christians worldwide.

” An unclean person is not allowed to take a shower,” he was told, said Morteza G. He reported this several times to the security guards, but received the answer: “If nothing bad happens, we can’t do anything.

According to their own statements, both refugees had come to the Christian faith in Iran and fled from there because of reprisals by the police. “At first everything was good,” said Hamed F. “But when we started going to a church service on Sundays, the abuse started.” The hostility by some of the Muslim housemates also escalated into assault, he said. One Christian friend had a tooth knocked out and another had his hand broken, Hamed F. said.Morteza G. reported an incident when he heard some of his flatmates say: “We beat the Iranians outside”. When he told this to an interpreter, the latter replied that there was nothing he could do about it. During the night, Christian residents were indeed attacked. Both asylum seekers attributed the attacks to anti-Christian attitudes. Muslim Iranians had not had any problems.He had also been threatened outside the accommodation, Hamed F. reported. While shopping in the local grocery shop, three asylum seekers had made fun of his necklace that had a cross on it, saying: “He wears a necklace like a dog collar”. When he asked them about it, they replied, “We don’t want to see you.” From then on, he did not dare to go shopping alone. He no longer showed his cross necklace and did not dare to say that he was a Christian, even in his new accommodation.Morteza G., who now shares a flat with other asylum seekers, also said he remained afraid. “I thought Germany was a free country where you can live your faith freely,” he said, disappointed. He tries not to leave the flat without distress and not to go out on the street at night.Last July, conflicts between Muslims and Christians in the accommodation became known, confirms the Gießen Regional Council. The police were called in the night of June 2 to 3 – there was a mass brawl. The background remains unclear, the police headquarters of Eastern Hesse informs. Hamed F. reports that it started with three to four men attacking a fellow resident wearing a necklace with a cross, who were soon joined by other men carrying weapons.After the incident, the Central Council of Oriental Christians in Germany, on behalf of the organisation Open Doors and with the approval of the Regional Council, questioned the Christian refugees in the facility from June 10 to July 6. According to the authorities, 49 of the 622 residents at the time were Christians. 32 of them individually filled out a multilingual questionnaire. According to the data published by Open Doors on the internet, many respondents expressed fear for their well-being and even their lives.On the 10th of July, the police were called again. Christian residents returning from a church service found a graffito on the wall of their unlocked room, according to police headquarters. The Arabic characters said “God is great” and “It is time to kill”. Next to the death threat, a cross was crossed out, report Hamed F. and Morteza G. The police only arrived after the second call and only photographed the graffito. After three weeks, a police officer came back and asked the residents if they had done the graffiti themselves.After this incident, according to information from the regional council, the 49 Christian refugees at the time were offered accommodation in a separate part of the building. More than half of them had made use of the offer.According to Open Doors, the reports from Rotenburg are not isolated cases. At the end of November, there were 136 such reports from refugee shelters in Hesse and 39 from Rhineland-Palatinate. In October, the organisation spoke of 743 cases of discrimination, threats or violence against Christians and Yazidis nationwide.

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On Friday, the Austrian Constitutional Court annulled a law passed last year banning the wearing of the headscarf in primary schools, saying the measure was unconstitutional and discriminatory.

In a statement explaining the decision, the court said that the law “violates the principle of equality with regard to freedom of religion, belief and conscience.”

The law prohibited girls younger than 10 from wearing the headscarf, and two children and their parents had challenged it.

The measure was passed in May 2019 under the former alliance of the right-wing People’s Party (OeVP) and the far-right Freedom Party (FPOe), just days before that government collapsed over a corruption scandal.

Both parties had made anti-immigration rhetoric and warnings against “parallel societies” a major part of their political messages, and their spokesmen made it clear at the time that the law was targeting the veil.

However, the provision of the legislation attempted to avoid charges of discrimination by prohibiting “creedal or religiously influenced clothing associated with the head covering”.

However, the court said that the law could only be understood as targeting Islamic head coverings.

The OeVP-FPOe government itself said that the batka headdress worn by Sikh boys or the Jewish kippah would not be affected.

The new OeVP-Green coalition that took office in January had planned to extend the ban for girls under the age of 14.

The current OeVP Education Minister Heinz Vasman said the ministry “will take note of the ruling and consider his arguments.”

“I regret that girls will not have the opportunity to make their way through the education system without coercion,” he added.

In its statement, the court said that, far from promoting integration, “the ban … could lead to discrimination because it risks making Muslim girls difficult to get an education and socially excluded.”

IGGOe, the body officially recognized as representing the country’s Muslim communities, welcomed the ruling and said the court had ended the “populist prohibition policy.”

“We do not condone degrading attitudes towards women who make a decision against headscarves … nor can we agree to restrict religious freedom for Muslim women who understand that the veil is an integral part of their living religious practices,” IGGOe President mit Voral said in a statement.

At the time of the ban, IGGOe said that in any event only a “small number” of girls would be affected.

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