Can anything be done about immigration policy in the Netherlands? The answer to this question was found in the policy directive sent on July 3 from the ministry to the Tweede Kamer.

It was written in response to the investigation into the revision of the UN Migration Pact. Because the conclusions were disheartening, the advice was sent on July 3, which also happens to be the day on which the summer recess starts. “We can’t do anything; it is too expensive.”

Dutch daily, De Dagelijkse Standaard reported that in the document, numerous fallacies are found, mixed with half-truths. The conclusions drawn are the following: “To adjust immigration policy costs a lot of money and is not worth it. Adjusting the UN Migration Pact would entail too much diplomatic effort, so it should be avoided. And actually, we are all delivered to our fate, and migration is a kind of natural force that we can’t do anything about.”

The notion of border control is accompanied by images of North Korea, dangerous military zones, and the Iron Curtain. Also, it is falsely suggested that border control actually means “permanently closed borders”.

It makes no sense, of course, but the message is clear: Border controls are very scary and dangerous. Therefore, the Netherlands must continue to try to make agreements with untrustworthy countries to solve the crisis.

The cabinet will therefore in future do nothing about illegal entries.

Thierry Baudet, leader of the Dutch party Forum for Democracy (FvD) denounced the government’s pro-immigration policies. According to new figures, native Dutch people become a minority in their own country before the end of the century.

“That is not the Netherlands in which we feel at home – and not the Netherlands that we want to pass on to the next generations,” Baudet noted on Facebook. The governing VVD and CDA have refused to pursue responsible policies, while the FvD continues to commit itself to a strict immigration policy and an active remigration policy.

“We have seen for years that a blind eye is turned to violence from the left,” Baudet recently said on Dutch television. Baudet is 37 and holds a PhD in law.

The FvD has grown rapidly since its founding in 2015, to become the party with the largest official membership in the Netherlands. The party’s voters consists of young and well-connected professionals and university students, the country’s rightful cultural elite.

The party also has a large youth wing (JFVD), with around 4 000 members who participate in guest speaker events, a summer camp, and lively online discussions: Its recent membership surge came as a result of a popular Facebook campaign in late 2019, and its YouTube channel, “FVD Journaal” (FvD News), regularly broadcasts well-produced videos in which Baudet presents the party’s views.

Baudet has not only denounced the Rutte administration’s pro-immigration policies, but has also denounced academia as a swamp of leftist professors indoctrinating students with cultural Marxism; the judiciary as biased and subverting the democratic will of the people; globalists threatening national sovereignty; and immigration as a form of “homeopathic dilution” of the European population.

“If the cartel continues with uninhibited immigration, nearly half of the workforce will have a migration background in thirty years. That will make a huge stamp on our society and our identity. And with 20 million inhabitants, our little Netherlands is even more full. We must prevent this,” his party said in a statement.

“Why do VVD and CDA think they can turn the the thermostat of the earth when it comes to climate, but pursuing an active population policy is supposedly ‘impossible’? It’s five to twelve. We need to end mass immigration.”

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According to results provided by the National Electoral Commission (PKW) on Monday morning, from 99.97 percent of voting centers, President Andrzej Duda won the election with 51.21 percent of the vote.

His opponent, Rafał Trzaskowski received 48.79 percent. The difference in the votes between the candidates is approximately 500,000. Duda received more than 10.4 million votes and Trzaskowski more than 9.9 million.

The turnout was a record high for Poland at 68.7 percent.

Andrzej Duda emphasized during his post-election speech that winning the elections at such a high turnout was incredible news.

“I would like to thank my countrymen with all my heart. I am very touched by all of this,” the re-elected president said.

Supporters gathered at his rally in Pułtusk (Central Poland) chanted “Long live Poland” after the first results from the exit poll were announced.

Duda thanked not only his voters, but also those of his opponent, Rafał Trzaskowski, as in his opinion, they pointed him to the areas which require his attention.

The president also stressed the support he had from his closest family – his wife, daughter and parents – during the election. “If someone has strong support back home, then they can win anything. They can overcome even the heaviest burdens. This is the power which comes from love and a sense of belonging,” he declared.

Trzaskowski also held a rally and despite his close loss, he stressed that merely two months ago, Poles were convinced that the result of the election was a certain thing.

He stated that a civic society was awakened, which is why in the end, they would succeed.

“It is Poles, men and women in all of Poland who gave us hope for an open, happy, tolerant and European country. A Poland in which balance and common sense were most important,” said the opposition candidate.

Trzaskowski underlined that no matter the result, he and his supporters had already won because they managed to “create hope through constructing a civic campaign”.

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She came to the Rhineland from Eritrea five years ago. A young woman who had big plans. Hanna attended a language course, she learned German, dreamed of a good job and, one day, of a family. But Hanna was murdered. A stalker (47 years old) wiped out her life.

In a state of shock, the friends and members of the Ethiopian Protestant community sit together in the living room on Wednesday (July 8th). They are sitting at a small memorial altar with photos of their dead girlfriend, have lit candles. Hanna’s best girlfriend struggles to control her composure as she talks about her dead roommate. “For months, Hanna lived in fear. “She dared to come out the door only with an escort. “because the man chasing her was always waiting for her.Every day the 47-year-old man, who lives just one street away in Schlebusch, bombarded the young woman with messages, phone calls and e-mails. “He became more and more aggressive, threatened Hanna more and more. She was intimidated and restricted in her life.”Hanna refused to have a relationship with the significantly older man, who has already been married twice and has three children in Ethiopia.”About three months ago, the situation escalated completely,” the girlfriend remembers. “Then he ambushed Hanna and threatened her with a hammer.” The 47-year-old allegedly asked her to marry him in the end, otherwise he would hurt her.Hanna went to the police, told them about the incident and the ongoing terror and also showed the officers hundreds of text messages.The officers told her to file a criminal complaint. This was the only way they could help her – and give the man a so-called warning, seriously admonish him. But Hanna was too afraid that her tormentor would only then become really angry – and do even worse to her as soon as the police had disappeared again.Hanna tried to bear the terror. But on Friday of last week tragedy struck. Cold-blooded murder was committed.

The stalker armed himself with a knife and ambushed Hanna in the hallway. When she came back from shopping, the killer pounced on her and stabbed the defenseless woman several times. Hanna collapsed. She died in the hallway.

The killer fled. A short time later, a special squad stormed his apartment and temporarily arrested his roommate. The Cologne homicide squad questioned him. He knew nothing about the crime.

One day after Hanna’s death, the police arrested the perpetrator in the Leverkusen district of Steinbüchel – for murder. The public prosecutor’s office assumes that he planned the crime intentionally.

In the coming days, members of the Ethiopian community will bury Hanna. The young woman has no relatives.Her best female friend has only one wish: “I don’t want Hanna’s death to have been in vain. Politics, society and justice must review the legislation on stalking. There is a loophole that needs to be closed. Much earlier than before, more action must be taken in the interests of the victim, not the perpetrator. Because the fact is that the police can only act ex officio when it is almost too late. Only if this is changed, perhaps the lives of other women can be saved in the future.”

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Literally a few weeks after the riots in Stuttgart, police chief Frank Lutz is considering publishing the suspects’ family trees, according to a media report. The chief of staff of the Stuttgart police announced that investigators would also find out the exact origin of the suspect from a German passport through the district office,Stuttgart newspaper“Thursday night at the local council.

At the request of the CDU, Lutz reported on the current state of unrest on June 21.

Clashes broke out again in the capital of Baden-Württemberg on Saturday night. Several people were temporarily arrested. More than 200 officers were also stationed in central Stuttgart.

Among other things, a 16-year-old drunk boy resisted after a check and suffered minor injuries to four police officers. Another man was seriously injured in another fight.

In mid-June, heavy riots in Stuttgart made headlines across the country. Hundreds of people were outraged in the city center and attacked police officers. Forces were thrown at them with bottles and stones, and a number of businesses were looted. On Sunday night, Stuttgart remained calm.

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Friday noon, at 1:30 pm sharp: When the muezzin calls for prayer in the Ditib Mosque, Marcel Bauersfeld is standing on the sidewalk of Bielefelder Strasse in Herford – once again. He hammers on a cooking pot with a spoon without ceasing. Shortly afterwards the police come and demand that he leave.Is this freedom of expression or is the 37-year-old’s action disturbing the freedom of religion? “Two basic rights collide,” says police spokeswoman Simone Lah-Schnier. However, as soon as there is suspicion of a crime, the police may – as in this case – issue a sending-off order. According to the spokeswoman, the man who has never been reported to the police, has already been charged with violating religious freedom.On July 3, Marcel Bauersfeld had also made a lot of noise in front of the mosque. But a week ago he used a cowbell. “It was confiscated by the police. That’s why I’m here with the pot today,” he says. The case is currently with the Bielefeld public prosecutor’s office. There, Simone Lah-Schnier says, it is being examined whether it is a crime. In the meantime, the cowbell that has been seized will be held by the authorities.For the third time in a row the 37-year-old protests this Friday against the Islamic call to prayer that Mayor Tim Kähler had permitted the Turkish community in mid-June. Since then the decision of the head of administration has caused controversial discussions.The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) around mayoral candidate Anke Theisen had criticized the decision. A majority of the council, however, considers the call to prayer a basic right.Marcel Bauersfeld makes it clear in an interview with this newspaper: “I am neither left nor right-wing extremist. I have nothing against other cultural customs either. The only thing that bothers me is the muezzin call, which in my eyes is nothing more than a call to the caliphate. I don’t want any Sharia here.”The protester says he has studied the Koran in depth. With the permission of the muezzin call, Pandora’s box was opened. “Other Turkish communities could claim the same right.” He is demanding that the city of Herford revoke its muezzin call permit.

The 37-year-old announces that he will be back next Friday. “I am curious to see if I will be prosecuted for a cowbell or a cooking pot,” he says.

The Ditib community could prevent this by obtaining a temporary injunction with a prohibition of approach from the district court. This means: Marcel Bauersfeld would only be allowed to approach the mosque up to a certain, fixed distance.

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On Thursday, German spy chief Thomas Haldenwang – an adherent of Chancellor Merkel’s CDU party – and Interior Minister Seehofer presented the domestic intelligence report for 2019. Their key message was that the greatest danger comes from the right-wing.

In order to be able to prove this statistically, a ruse was used and, without closer inspection, 7000 members of “the wing” were included and 1 600 members of the AfD’s youth movement Junge Alternativen were declared blanket right-wing extremists.

Der Flügel [German for “the wing”] is a dissolved faction within Germany’s Alternative for Germany, the largest opposition party. The group was led by Björn Höcke and Andreas Kalbitz. Following the request by the AfD executive board the faction was dissolved by the end of April 2020, and the group’s online presence went offline.

The fact remains that radical Islam actually poses a far greater danger: last year the Federal Attorney General initiated more than 60 percent of all investigative proceedings against this threat; there are 15 times more threats from radical Islamic than from conservatives.

The danger that Islam poses is deliberately being minimized so that government parties do not have to answer for their policies of mass immigration and the associated dangers to domestic security.

The AfD, which has denounced these abuses, is being discredited by the assessment of the domestic spy agency, and the government is thus protected from criticism.

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“The city that Constantine had protected for more than a thousand years… has now undergone, in this unfortunate year, the destruction by the Turks. I suffer at the thought that the temple of Saint Sophia, famous all over the world, has been destroyed or desecrated. This is a second death for Homer, a second passing for Plato”. These words by the great humanist, Enea Silvio Piccolomini, who became Pope Pius II, were written five centuries ago, after the great Christian city of Constantinople fell to the Ottomans.

Last week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued an unprecedented decree converting Hagia Sophia once again into a mosque. Erdogan’s decree is a gesture of immense symbolism and historic meaning. “A threat against Hagia Sophia,” said the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, “is a threat for the whole of Christian civilization”.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated:

“We urge the Government of Turkey to continue to maintain the Hagia Sophia as a museum, as an exemplar of its commitment to respect the faith traditions and diverse history that contributed to the Republic of Turkey, and to ensure it remains accessible to all”.

For 916 years, Hagia Sophia had been the “world’s largest basilica” and the main seat of the Eastern Orthodox church where, for centuries, emperors were crowned.

On May 29, 1453, Sultan Mehmet II, riding a white horse, arrived at the Hagia Sophia, the cathedral of “Divine Wisdom” built a thousand years earlier by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. Sultan Mehmet II, after bringing an end to the great Christian Byzantine empire, prayed to Allah in the largest church of Eastern Christianity.

“It’s like if Saint Peter’s had been turned into a mosque,” said Michael Talbot, a lecturer of history at the University of Greenwich. “It’s the fact that the seat of that church is no longer operating as a church and is in the hands of a rival religion”.

Under the Ottomans, the Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque and remained so until 1934, when the secularist Turkish leader, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, turnedit into a museum. It was to have been the emblem of a new Turkey, capable of blending the features of the East and the West.

Last week, after Erdogan’s new decree, Islamists, shouting “Allahu Akbar”, converged on the former cathedral. The site will be reopen for Muslim prayers as a mosque on July 24. It is believed that during the Muslim prayers, Hagia Sophia’s world famous Byzantine mosaics will be covered.

Turkey did not, strictly speaking, need another mosque: in recent years Erdogan has built 17,000 mosques in the country. According to Ertugrul Özkök, writing in the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet:

“A country where every day calls to prayer are recited from its 80,000 mosques, where prayers are performed five times a day, will now go and re-conquer one of the biggest symbols of the Orthodox world. Is that so?… Would you have enjoyed it so much if a mosque at the center of Europe were converted into a church?”

By appropriating the building, the defenders of political Islam seem to be trying to “erase Turkey’s Christian past“. A century ago, Christians made up 20% of Turkey’s population, while now the figure is just 0.2%. According to Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi, in their book, The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924:

“Turkey’s Armenian, Greek and Assyrian (or Syriac) communities disappeared as a result of a staggered campaign of genocide beginning in 1894, perpetrated against them by their Muslim neighbors… By 1924, the Christian communities of Turkey and its adjacent territories had been destroyed”.

Turkey has more Biblical sites in it than any other region in the Middle East except Israel. Turks in occupied northern Cyprus since 1974 have already wiped out its Christian past.

Inside Turkey, Erdogan has similarly escalated his war on the Syriac Church by seizing 50 churches, monasteries, and religious properties.

He also evidently wanted to inflict humiliation on the West. The day before his announcement, he expelled Christian missionaries. By turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque, Erdogan has been able to embarrass Washington, mock Brussels and defy Moscow.

For Erdogan and the Islamists, Hagia Sophia is the prime symbol of Christianity’s subjugation to Islam. “Hagia Sophia is the symbol of conquest”, said Yunus Genç, who heads the Istanbul branch of the Anatolian Youth Association. “It belongs to us”.

Four popes have visited the former cathedral: St. Paul VI, St. John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis I. Yet, 24 hours after its conversion to a mosque, no major Christian leader or scholar has denounced Turkey’s religious assault on the Hagia Sophia.

Its current change of identity appears part of a long, deliberate project of re-Islamization. In 2016, for the first time in 81 years, Hagia Sophia got its own imam. Earlier, in 2012, in Iznik, another Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque. The location was significant: Iznik, the ancient Nicaea, is where bishops from all over the Roman Empire had gathered in 325 to craft the Christian creed. A year later, in Trabzon, another famous Hagia Sophia, a museum since 1961, was also turned into a mosque and its Byzantine mosaics “covered with curtains and carpets”.

When Erdogan was campaigning to become the mayor of Istanbul in 1994, he was already talking about “the second conquest of Istanbul” and even then had set his sights on taking back Hagia Sophia.

“Celebrating a conquest that took place more than five centuries ago may seem anachronistic, I would even say absurd, to European leaders”, wrote the Turkish novelist Nedim Gürsel. “For Erdogan, the capture of Constantinople is another pretext for challenging the West”.

According to Tugba Tanyeri Erdemir, a research associate at the University of Pittsburgh, the transformation of Hagia Sophia might also “embolden extremists to intensify their campaign of forced conversion and destruction of minority heritage sites”.

“To convert it back to a mosque,” said Turkey’s Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, “is to say to the rest of the world unfortunately we are not secular anymore”.

Political Islam is on the offensive on many fronts. Its advocates have been flooding Europe with mosques. The “largest mosque in Europe” will be a Turkish one in Strasbourg. In Germany, Turkey controls 900 mosques out of a total of 2,400. Extremists have also been imposing on Europe a new ideological crime, “Islamophobia“, and have been financing and witnessing the “extinction” of all that remains of the splendor of Eastern Christianity that used to glorify these lands six centuries before Islam. Now, Islamists are converting Hagia Sophia into a mosque. They are not doing it only in their countries. In France, they have also asked for churches to be converted into mosques.

In Turkey, meanwhile, Erdogan keeps refusing to give permission to build any new churches. In fairness, in 2015, Turkey finally did approve a plan to build its first new church in 90 years.

Erdogan, according to a French scholar of religions, Jean-Francois Colosimo, expecting “a civilizational Munich” — a reference to the 1938 pact in which France and Britain surrendered Czechoslovakia to Hitler. Erdogan could not have chosen a better moment. For weeks, politicians and elites in the West have been tearing down monuments — either doing it themselves or silently watching the barbaric armies of Western self-hatred.

Double-standards now seem to be the norm as well. When cartoons of Mohammed appeared in Danish and French newspapers in 2005, the Muslim world erupted in violence. The same year, when Newsweek reported an alleged desecration of a Koran in Guantanamo Bay, the Muslim world, before the magazine quickly retracted the article, flew into a rage. ‘When Pope Benedict XVI in Regensburg asked Islam to renounce fanaticism and intolerance in 2014, the Muslim world again erupted in violence. When Israel, in 2017, installed metal detectors in a compound to protect sites holy to Muslims and Jews, Erdogan accused Israel of destroying the Islamic character of Jerusalem. Now, however, that Turkey is turning its most important formerly Christian monument into a mosque, there is no protest, only silence and mumbling, which are nothing but the soundtrack of the West’s submission to Islam.

“An apathy reminiscent of the absence of solidarity when the Byzantine Christian civilization sank with the fall of Constantinople in May 1453”, Ivan Rioufol wrotein Le Figaro. “Neither Venice, France, nor England has come to the aid of this resplendent part of their culture. The story repeats itself”.

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The outcome was inevitable.

The fake Reichstag coup that so many western nations fell for closed the door on any kind of independent authority in Turkey. All that remains is Erdogan, its insane Islamist tyrant, and his fantasies of rebuilding the Ottoman Empire. 

The reconquest of the Hagia Sophia was a crucial step in that direction. 

The process was meaningless because Erdogan now wholly controls the courts. Judicial decisions are Erdogan’s decisions. And Erdogan made it clear that the hijacking of the historic church is just one step in a larger plan for Islamist expansionism targeting other Islamic “holy” sites that had once been under Ottoman control.

Like Jerusalem.

“The revival of Hagia Sophia is the harbinger of freedom of Al-Aqsa and the footsteps of Muslims emerging from the era of interregnum,” the Turkish president said late Friday, referring to the mosque in Jerusalem that many Muslims consider under occupation.

Al-Aqsa is the Islamic occupation mosque in Jerusalem that had been planted as a symbol of the Islamic conquest over the holiest site in Judaism. The similarity to what Erdogan had just done was obvious.

For Turkey’s religious conservatives, “converting the Hagia Sophia is the ultimate moment,” said Mustafa Akyol, a senior fellow specializing in Islam and modernity at the Cato Institute, a Washington think tank.

“They believe in what they call the right of the sword, the right of the Ottomans to convert the church into a mosque as a result of conquest,” Akyol said. “Turkey has the sovereign right to do what it wants. But I ask them: What will you say if Israel does something to Al Aqsa? Will that also be the right of the sword?”

Obviously that misses the point.

Erdogan, like other Islamist tyrants, is setting himself up as a protector of Islam. The “right of the sword” only applies to Muslims.

A conquest made by Muslims has been sanctified by Allah. That’s why the holy sites of other religions, such as Christianity and Judaism, must be converted into mosques. The right of the sword means converting the Hagia Sophia into a mosque, it means going after Israel over Jerusalem, and pursuing Erdogan’s imaginary mosque that he believes Columbus saw in Cuba.

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