Germany arrests two Syrians for aiding Islamist execution

Two Syrians have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of helping to carry out an execution by an Islamist terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda, prosecutors said Monday, according to AFP.

Named only as Khedr A.K. and Sami A.S., the men are accused of having “jointly killed a person protected under international humanitarian law”, prosecutors said.

The men were arrested and their apartments searched in Naumburg, near Leipzig, and in the western city of Essen.

Khedr A.K. joined the Ghurabaa Muhassan group in Syria, part of the Jabhat al-Nusraterrorist organization, some time before July 2012, prosecutors said.

At that time, Jabhat al-Nusra was Al-Qaeda’s sister organization in Syria.

On July 10, 2012, Khedr A.K. was involved in the execution of a lieutenant colonel with the Syrian army who had been captured by the group, they said.

He is accused of guarding the prisoner, who was bound by his hands and subjected to severe mistreatment, as he was transferred to his place of execution in Syria.

Sami A.S. filmed the subsequent shooting of the victim and commented on the video “in a glorifying manner” for propaganda purposes, prosecutors said, according to AFP.

Khedr A.K. is suspected of membership in Jabhat al-Nusra and Sami A.S. of having been a supporter of the group.

Both men appeared before the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) on Monday and are now in custody.

The first court case worldwide over state-sponsored torture by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime opened in April in Germany after the suspects were brought to the notice of the authorities by their victims.

Al-Nusra Front was the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda before the two groups cut ties in late 2016. The group now goes by the name Fateh al-Sham.

Al-Nusra Front is designated a “foreign terrorist organization” by the US. In 2017, the State Department offered a reward of up to $10 million for information about the whereabouts of the group’s leader, Abu Mohammed al-Golani.

The group is a rival of the Islamic State (ISIS), with Golani saying in 2015 that ISIS’s self-proclaimed caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria is “illegitimate.

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German gov’t removes Taiwan flag, permits Palestinian flag

The foreign ministry of Germany deleted the flag of the state of Taiwan from its website while allowing the non-state of Palestine to remain on its homepage, sparking outrage on social media and from Taiwan’s government about bias.Taiwan News reported on Monday that “Germany was found to have unceremoniously replaced Taiwan’s flag with a blank, white banner under its listing for the country on the foreign ministry website — prompting one reporter to ask if it was a white flag of surrender to China.”

According to Taiwan news, a reporter asked a German foreign ministry spokesman Rainer Breul, “Since when did the official website of the German Foreign Ministry no longer use Taiwan’s flag?” He then further queried why the Palestinian flag can still be found on the website even though it is not an officially recognized country.Breul could not provide an answer.The German Free Democratic party MP Bijan Djir-Sarai tweeted about the removal of the Taiwan flag: “I cannot believe that. That would be embarrassing and unworthy of the Federal Foreign Office.”The article added that “The Federal Foreign Office website recently deleted the flag of Taiwan and replaced it with a plain, white rectangle. During a press conference on Friday (July 10) the foreign ministry representative claimed the change was in keeping with Germany’s ‘one China policy.”’When asked at a press conference about the deletion of Taiwan’s flag,  Breul said that “it isn’t a current change.”

Breul added: “You know Taiwan’s special status, you know our position, our ‘one China policy,’ we have no diplomatic relations with Taiwan, and Taiwan is not a country we recognize, so this is not surprising. When we introduce regions of the world, we distinguish them from countries with diplomatic ties.”Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Joanne Ou said on Monday, according to Taiwan News, that the ministry finds Germany’s action unacceptable and it “will only cause unnecessary misunderstandings with the people of all countries.”Ou added that “We express our hope that the German side can properly adjust the web design of the German Federal Foreign Office in a more equitable and consistent manner to avoid discriminatory misunderstandings.”Taiwan News wrote that Twitter user “Chiang Kai Shek” pointed out the flag of Palestine does indeed appear, while for Taiwan the website displays the white flag, the international symbol for surrender. He then asked, “Germany thinks Taiwan surrendered?”

https://www.jpost.com/international/german-govt-removes-taiwan-flag-permits-palestine-flag-634951?fbclid=IwAR3QUERgtzerV7Q26oMXc79SH3EsL5EmNOTbo1gzpY-wHQaZ47WX3puySSo

The Latest ‘Racists’: White Rape Victims of Muslims

The widespread notion idea that, whenever the races clash only minorities can ever be victims, is hardly limited to the recent protests/riots in America.  Elements of such thinking often appear in other, especially bizarre contexts.

For example, British women, including actual rape victims, who draw attention to the phenomenon of “Asian” (Muslim Pakistani) sex grooming gangs, are also under attack by the “woke” establishment.

Recently in the UK, Sarah Champion, a Labor politician and MP for Rotherham (the epicenter of sex grooming), was accused of “fanning the flames of racial hatred” and “acting like a neo-fascist murderer.”  Her crime?  She had dared to assert that “Britain has a problem with British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls.”

The same elements accusing Champion of being a “murderer” also characterized the UK’s anti-extremism program, Prevent, as being “built upon a foundation of Islamophobia and racism.”

A few weeks earlier, an article titled, “I was raped by Rotherham grooming gang—now I still face racist abuse online,” appeared.  In it, a British woman (alias, “Ella”) revealed that her Muslim rapists called her “a white c*nt, a white wh*re, and a white b*tch,” during the more than 100 times she was raped in her youth by the Pakistani grooming gang.

“We need to understand racially and religiously aggravated crime if we are going to prevent it and protect people from it and if we are going to prosecute correctly for it,” she said in her recent interview: 

Prevention, protection and prosecution—all of them are being hindered because we are neglecting to properly address the religious and racist aspects of grooming gang crimes….  It’s telling them that it’s OK to hate white people.

Ella’s attempts to highlight the “religious and racist aspects” of her and many other girls’ similar abuse led only to “a lot of abuse from far-left extremists, and radical feminist academics,” she said: such groups “go online and they try to resist anyone they consider to be a Nazi, racist, fascist or white supremacist”:

They don’t care about anti-white racism, because they appear to believe that it doesn’t exist.  They have tried to floor me and criticise me continually and this has been going on for a couple of months. They tried to shut me down, shut me up … I’ve never experienced such hate online in my life. They accuse me of “advocating for white paedophiles” and being a “sinister demonic entity.”

Placing the blame or at least responsibility on the victim is not limited to the UK.  According to an August 9, 2019 report, “in the Swedish city of Uppsala … four women were raped in as many days.” Although police failed to issue descriptions of the rapists—usually a sure sign of their origins—they did issue warnings for women to “think how they behave,” to “think ahead,” and not “go out alone.”

In Germany, seven Muslim migrants raped a teenage German girl in a park, after drugging her at a disco in Freiburg.  The police chief went on to warn German women not to “make yourself vulnerable by using alcohol or drugs.”

Advice against alcohol, drugs, and reckless behavior would be more welcome and sincere were it not made under duress.  As things stand, it is a copout.

For example, after mobs of Muslim migrants sexually assaulted as many as one thousand women on New Year’s Eve 2016 in Cologne, Germany, its mayor, Henriette Reker, called on women to “be better prepared, especially with the Cologne carnival coming up. For this, we will publish online guidelines that these young women can read through to prepare themselves.”

Similarly, in Austria, after a 20-year-old woman waiting at a bus stop in Vienna was attacked, beat, and robbed by four Muslim men—including one who “started [by] putting his hands through my hair and made it clear that in his cultural background there were hardly any blonde women”—police responded by telling the victim to dye her hair:

At first I was scared, but now I’m more angry than anything. After the attack they told me that women shouldn’t be alone on the streets after 8pm. And they also gave me other advice, telling me I should dye my hair dark and also not dress in such a provocative way. Indirectly that means I was partly to blame for what happened to me. That is a massive insult.

In Norway, Unni Wikan, a female professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo, insists that “Norwegian women must take their share of responsibility for these rapes,” because Muslim men found their manner of dress provocative. So much for the feminist claim that women are free to dress and behave as promiscuously and provocatively as they want—and woe to the man who misinterprets this (unless he is from a racial or religious minority group, that is).

Professor Wikan’s conclusion was not that Muslim men living in the West need to adjust to Western norms, but the exact opposite: “Norwegian women must realize that we live in a Multicultural society and adapt themselves to it.”

Even when it comes to rape, then, if the victim is white and the rapist is not, she is no victim at all; worse, she is a “racist” and “hater” who, if anything, apparently deserves what she got and more.  “Blame the victim” is back with a vengeance and gaining ground throughout the West.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/07/latest-racists-white-rape-victims-muslims-raymond-ibrahim/

Oliver Stone: Hollywood is “Politically Correct (Expletive)”

The revolution devours its own children. Or, more aptly, its own grandfathers.

Alternately, for a more Hollywood reference, “You die a hero or live long enough to be the villain.” Or, “No country for old lefties”.

After Noam Chomsky came under attack for signing on to a letter against cancel culture, here’s Oliver Stone blasting Hollywood political correctness.

” The Academy changes its mind every five, 10, two months about what it’s trying to keep up with. It’s politically correct [expletive], and it’s not a world I’m anxious to run out into. I’ve never seen it quite mad like this. It’s like an “Alice in Wonderland” tea party.”

The irony of Hollywood’s preeminent leftist complaining that he can’t and doesn’t want to keep up with the current party politics is funny. 

And then, even more hilariously, when asked a follow-up, Stone claims that he was just talking about how difficult it is to film during the coronavirus.

Uh-huh.

At least Comrade Stone has enough historical experience to know how the game works and not to say anything too offensive.

And then he switches over to the safe stuff, JFK conspiracy theories, which are safe to talk about, and how great Putin and Castro, unlike the unsafe stuff, criticizing political correctness.

What could Stone possibly be talking about?

A new wave of what has been termed by some as anti-white prejudice is causing writers, directors and producers to fear they will never work again. One described the current atmosphere as ‘more toxic than Chernobyl’, with leading actors afraid to speak out amid concern they will be labelled racist.

Dozens of producers, writers and actors have spoken to The Mail on Sunday about the wave of ‘reverse racism’ pulsing through the industry.

speaking on condition of anonymity, the executive confirmed that the climate is now toxic for any ‘white, middle-aged man in showbusiness’. Their careers, ‘are pretty much over’. 

They continued: ‘We’re only hiring people of colour, women or LGBT to write, star, produce, operate the cameras, work in craft services. If you are white, you can’t speak out because you will instantly be branded ‘racist’ or condemned for ‘white privilege’.

‘The pendulum has swung so far, everyone is paralysed with fear by the idea anything you say could be misinterpreted and your career ended instantly. There are a lot of hushed conversations going on, but publicly everyone is desperate to be seen to be promoting diversity and too terrified to speak out. It’s imploding: a total meltdown.’

The latest buzzword in Tinseltown is ‘Bipoc’ – an acronym for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour – and ‘Menemy’, which means a white, male enemy of the diversity movement. ‘Everyone wants to be able to check all the boxes for each new hire,’ according to one Oscar-nominated insider.

‘Directors normally have a say about who is in their project. Not any more. It’s all about ‘Bipoc hiring’. And it’s coming directly from the heads of the studios who know their jobs are on the line. White middle-aged men are collateral damage. They are the Menemy.’

Now Oliver Stone is the Menemy.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/07/oliver-stone-hollywood-politically-correct-daniel-greenfield/

Did saying ‘all lives matter’ to a group of blacks get a mother of a young child shot and killed?

By Thomas Lifson

The demonization of the commonsense expression “all lives matter” has reached the point of lethal violence against those who utter it, if an eyewitness account of a murder in Indianapolis is true.  This deeply distressing story of an incident on Independence Day weekend had received zero coverage in the mainstream media until Fox News picked it up a few hours ago.  Bradford Betz writes for Fox:

An Indiana woman was fatally shot earlier this month following an alleged argument between her family and a group of Black Lives Matter supporters, her family says.

The woman, 24-year-old Jessica Doty Whitaker, was walking along Indianapolis Canal Walk with her fiancé, Jose Ramirez, and two other people around 3 a.m. on July 5 when someone in their group used a racial slur, Fox 59 reported.

A group of nearby strangers overheard the comment and confronted Whitaker’s group, according to the station.

Ramirez alleged that the group shouted “Black Lives Matter,” to which either Whitaker or someone else in their group reportedly responded with, “All Lives Matter.”

A brief argument ensued until both sides separated after realizing the other was armed, Fox 59 reported. Ramirez claimed that both sides managed to resolve the argument before separating.

But minutes later, someone reportedly opened fire from a nearby bridge, striking Whitaker, before running away, the station said.

“It was squashed, and they went up the hill and left we thought, but they were sitting on St. Clair waiting for us to come under the bridge and that’s when she got shot,” Ramirez said.

Ramirez admitted to returning fire but did not hit anyone. He told Fox 59 that he has had to explain what happened to Whitaker’s 3-year-old son.

Jessica Doty Whitaker (photo via GoFundMe).

Early accounts of the incident in local Indianapolis media did not mention the expression “all lives matter” as a trigger, but then Cassandra Fairbanks of Gateway Pundit reported on Saturday:

Her father, Robert Doty, told the Gateway Pundit that the BLM supporters had walked by her and her fiance and said “Black Lives Matter,” to which Jessica responded that “All Lives Matter”….

The U.S. conservative blogosphere started to pick up on the story, followed by the U.K. Sun and then the Daily Mail, and now Fox News.  The story has already gained enough traction that a GoFundMe account established for Jessica’s family has already raised more than five times the goal of $10,000, with the story now breaking wider on a Monday morning.

If anything good can be salvaged from this awful killing, it would be a pushback against the demonization of “all lives matter.”  Claims that those three words are racist are self-evidently ridiculous.  If it is untrue that all lives matter because “black lives matter” is trendy and being pushed heavily, then some lives logically do not matter.  Because of race.  That position is abhorrent.  And it may have led to murder.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/did_saying_all_lives_matter_to_a_group_of_blacks_get_a_mother_of_a_young_child_shot_and_killed.html

A new scandalous judgement by a German court: Muslim Mohammed brings ICE Intercity train to a halt after bomb threat – Only 900 Euro fine for fare evasion

900 euros for the terrorist act that terrorized hundreds. After the evacuation of more than 300 passengers, the special unit GSG 9 overwhelmed the Algerian-born Frenchman. The consequence: 59 delayed, 11 cancelled and 19 diverted trains.

Mohammed T. (born on February 19, 1990 in the Algerian town of Ain Beida) had been caught fare evasion by the German Federal Police five times since May 22 alone. He has a long criminal record in France, including for receiving stolen goods, assault, burglary, fraud, embezzlement, damage to property and violation of the narcotics law (drug possession).

T. did not have valid papers with him when he was arrested, his passport and identity card in France have long since expired. In Germany, according to his own statements, he lives in a demolition house in Diepholz, Lower Saxony, from collecting bottles. In the interrogation, T. stated that he had been in psychological treatment in France since 2009 and had smoked cannabis for many years.

However, he was neither employed nor looking for a job and did not have “sufficient financial resources and the necessary health insurance”, according to an application by the Federal Police ( according to the tabloid BILD) for the “deprivation of the right to freedom of movement”, which was intended to lead to T.’s expulsion.

According to newspaper reports, the Federal Police responded without understanding, demanding deportation to France and charges of endangering the public peace, threatening and threatening to explode explosives.

By the way: T. declined the offer to be taken to the German-French border by the Federal Police. Instead, after the hearing on Friday, he said goodbye with the destination Diepholz, Berlin or Cologne “to the train station”. The next fare dodge announced: his found cash amounted to less than one euro.

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Iranian Quds Force spy captured in Germany, says intel agency

The federal German police caught a suspected spy for Iran’s terrorist Quds Force in the state of Hesse, according to a review of the new national intelligence report released by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s interior minister on Friday.“In February 2019, the Federal Criminal Police Office carried out an executive measure against a person in Hesse who was suspected of deploying intelligence activities in the Federal Republic of Germany on behalf of the Quds Force. The investigation is ongoing.”

Germany has long been a hotbed of Iranian regime espionage activities, including scores of regime attempts to procure illicit nuclear goods and weapons of mass destruction technology since the Iran deal was reached in 2015.The federal intelligence service report also said that investigations initiated in 2017 by the attorney-general against 10 suspected Quds Force agents affected by executive measures in January 2018 are ongoing.The Russian Federation, the People’s Republic of China, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Turkey are the “key players in espionage and influence directed against Germany,” wrote the federal intelligence officers in the new document.The report added that “Spying and fighting opposition movements and actors at home and abroad continue to be the focus of the work of the Iranian intelligence services. In addition, the services in western countries collect information from the areas of politics and the military as well as business and science.”The Quds Force is a US-designated foreign terrorist organization. Germany has declined to classify the Quds Force a terrorist entity.

A Pakistani man hired by the Quds Force sought, according to German media, to carry out an assassination attempt either in Germany or France. In 2017, the Pakistan man Mustufa Haidar Syed-Naqfi was sentenced by a Berlin court to four years and three months in prison “for working for a foreign intelligence service.”The Jerusalem Post reported last month that the intelligence service for the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg  said Iran’s clerical regime has continued its illicit proliferation activities in the federal republic during 2019.The report declares in a section titled “Proliferation” that the states “Iran, Pakistan, North Korea and Syria are still pursuing such efforts. They aim to complete existing arsenals, perfect the range, applicability and effectiveness of their weapons and develop new weapon systems. They try to obtain the necessary products and relevant knowhow, among other things, through illegal procurement efforts in Germany.”

https://www.jpost.com/international/iranian-quds-force-spy-captured-in-germany-says-intel-agency-634845