Due to the coronavirus crisis, the Islamic Council for the Federal Republic of Germany has requested financial aid for the mosques, many which now allegedly face bankruptcy, according to Junge Freiheit.

The German government’s strict measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus, including a ban on gatherings of more than two people, have also brought traditional religious services in the country to a complete halt, including for Christians, Muslims and Jews.

The Islamic Council wrote in as statement that many mosques are reaching their financial limits.

“Due to the loss of daily prayers and Friday prayers, a considerable proportion of the donations were canceled and no suitable replacement has been found,” Burhan Kesici, the chairman of the Islamic Council for the Federal Republic of Germany, said in the statement.

Now many mosques fear they will be unable to pay bills, rent or the salary for imams.

Muslims also fear that coronavirus preventative measures will also be in place during the fasting month of Ramadan, which takes place between April 23 and May 24. Donations during that period make up a significant portion of the annual budgets for many mosques.

Currently, there are signs that the restrictions will indeed be in place during that period, which means many mosques would no longer be solvent, according to Kesici.

“Against this background, we call on the federal and state governments to take measures to protect and preserve the mosque communities,” he wrote.

Mosques in Germany need money

Kesici says mosque communities now need urgent financial help and argues that mosques make an important contribution to society.

“The vast majority of Islamrat mosques can look back on decades of tradition. They were built with great effort and with the own resources of the former guest workers. Leaving them and their communities alone in this difficult time would be inappropriate and would not do justice to the life’s work of the founding fathers of these mosque communities,”warned Kesici.

Kesici also expressed understanding for preventative measures, saying the Islamic religious community fully supports the measures.

“The protection of life and health are entrusted to us by Allah and enjoys the high priority,” he wrote.

Despite Kesici’s claims, not all members of the Muslim community appear to support the ban on religious gatherings. Video from Berlin shows dozens of Muslims gathering at a mosque and chanting “Allahu Akbar” in what was a clear violation of social distancing measures. 

Police in the video try to disperse the crowd but are mostly ignored. Once the call to prayer ends, many of them get into taxis or cars and drive away from the mosque while others were filmed hugging.ISSUES.

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Three people were slightly injured in a mass brawl in front of a kebab restaurant in Mülheim an der Ruhr. The men, aged 27, 29 and 54, were taken to hospital, according to police.

The evening before, “a large number of people” had first verbally clashed in front of the snack bar. The argument escalated. The participants then beat each other with wooden slats, among other things. The area in front of the snack bar was devastated: Bar tables, flyers and various boxes lay on the floor.

Officials noted the personal data, but there were no arrests. Now they’re investigating for aggravated assault and battery. According to the police, a total of 15 to 20 people were at the scene of the incident.

According to initial investigations, a fight between the 29-year-old snack bar owner and his employees and a group of men had taken place. Investigations into the background are continuing.

Shouldn’t doner kebab stands also be closed due to the corona virus, or are there special permits?

Unbelievable: The dispute is said to have been about meat quality. Wasn’t it halal?

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by Giulio Meotti

“We are told over and over again that 98% of patients affected by coronavirus recover” said to Le Figaro French Jewish philosopher Alain Finkielkraut. “If economic logic reigned supreme, our societies would have chosen to let it go. The majority of the population is said to have been infected and immunized. The oldest, the most vulnerable would be dead, ‘useless mouths’ in short.”

“We didn’t want this natural selection. And if the confinement becomes more and more strict, it is to avoid the congestion of hospitals and to have to sort through the patients: this one no, he is out of breath; that one yes, he is in the prime of his life. Perhaps the war will force us to these practices of prioritization, as we learn to say.” 

“But they horrify us. The life of an old man is worth as much as a person in full possession of his faculties. The affirmation of this egalitarian principle in the turmoil we are going through shows that nihilism has not yet won and that we remain a civilization”.

In Israel, for example, 4200 elderly people are being taken away from Bnei Brak to hotels in order save them and a facility for mentally challenged patients has been opened.

This is the cultural point of this tragedy. Coronavirus brought us closer to the Judeo-Christian culture of life. However, the danger is here.

Nine levels, from “very fit” to “terminally ill”. The seventh also includes those suffering from “cognitive disorders”. These were the first guidelines to help British doctors decide who should receive treatment first during the Covid-19 epidemic. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has been threatened with lawsuits for including patients with autism and other intellectual disabilities. Julie Newcombe, founder of Rightful Lives and with an autistic son, called the guidelines “frightening”.The idea makes its way among bioethicists. Peter Singer, who had previously judged the life of the disabled unworthy of being lived, writes in the Sunday Morning Herald: “What about the quality of life?”. In the New York Times, bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel, an advisor of Joe Biden for coronavirus, writes that priority should be given to health workers, police and firefighters. A leaked document from Catalan’s health department has just revealed it is advising against sending coronavirus patients aged over 80 to Intensive Care Units in hospitals.

Some US states, says ProPublica, have discriminating guidelines: in Tennessee people with spinal muscular atrophy are left behind; in Minnesota, cirrhosis of the liver, lung disease and heart problems and in the state of Washington, states such as New York, Utah, Colorado and Oregon, “general physical and intellectual ability” is evaluated. In Alabama, reads the document “Scarce Resource Management”, “the mentally disabled are unlikely candidates for breathing support”. And again: “People with severe or profound mental retardation, moderate to severe dementia or catastrophic neurological complications are unlikely candidates for support.”

Professor Michael Bérubé, professor of literature at Pennsylvania State University and with a son with Down syndrome, told me: “I suspect that when the peak reaches the United States and our Healthcare workers will be overwhelmed, medical professionals will have to make heartbreaking decisions and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if people with disabilities become low priority patients. I will be happy to be wrong.”

A few months ago, the Dutch MP of the Greens Corinne Ellemeet proposed to introduce “expectations of quality of life” for access to surgery for those over 70. Now, “doctors in the Netherlands have been advising elderly patients to think twice before agreeing to COVID-19 treatment in hospital intensive-care units, drawing criticism that they are attempting to ration scarce ICU beds”, explains the New York Times.

The abandonment of holiness and equality of life in the West is a form of horrific nihilism. It will lead to the abandonment of the weak and vulnerable. It is already happening. This epidemic will be a great test to understand if the Judeo-Christian vision still has vitality in the West.

The risk is to surreptitiously delegate to the virus the task of euthanasia and eugenics, a virus that has been around for a long time in the West. 

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/25496

On Thursday, around 40 asylum seekers rioted against accommodation in an initial reception facility, the Bild newspaper reported.

The spokesman for the responsible social authority, Bernd Schneider, then told the newspaper: “There are currently 600 people living in a small space. We are therefore looking for alternatives.”

On Tuesday, the first Corona case in the initial reception facility was registered with the social services. Every immigrant is now being tested, Schneider confirmed. “The person concerned came to Bremen without symptoms. He was quarantined and isolated immediately after the result.”

Bremen, like other federal states, had accepted asylum seekers despite the entry restrictions due to the Corona crisis. According to Bild, there were 73 in Bremen in March.

In other federal states, immigrants had also protested against the Corona measures. In Schneeberg, Saxony, the riot police had to enforce the ban on contact because asylum seekers did not comply with the measures imposed.

The government of Thuringia turned to the Bundeswehr for an asylum-seeker uprising in an accommodation in Suhl with a request for administrative assistance. In Schwerin, the authorities did not take any quarantine measures, even though there were twenty confirmed Corona cases in an asylum seeker home.

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The coronavirus is not the only threat to our survival. The Wuhan virus will go. The Jihad outbreak will persist.

A Sudanese refugee went on a knife rampage in a town in southeastern France on Saturday, killing two people in what is being treated as a terrorist attack.

Counter-terrorism prosecutors have launched an investigation into “murder linked to a terrorist enterprise” after the rampage in a string of shops in Romans-sur-Isere, a riverside town with a population of about 35,000.

The assailant, identified only as Abdallah A.-O., a refugee in his 30s from Sudan who lives in the town, was arrested without a fight by police.

“He was found on his knees on the pavement praying in Arabic,” the prosecutor’s office said.

According to witnesses cited by local radio station France Bleu Drome Ardeche, he shouted “Allah Akbar!”(God is Greatest) as he stabbed his victims.

Abdallah would mean slave of Allah. This particular slave of Allah was not especially fond of non-Muslims.

During a subsequent search of his home, authorities found handwritten documents that included arguments about religion and a complaint about living in a “country of unbelievers,” officials said.

French media reported that the knifeman first attacked a man who had just left home for a daily walk — slitting his throat in front of the victim’s girlfriend and son.

Next, the assailant went into a tobacco shop, stabbed the tobacconist and two customers, and then went into the local butcher’s shop, according to French news reports.. He grabbed another knife and attacked a customer with the blunt end before entering a supermarket, the media said..

Perhaps there should be fewer unhappy refugees forced to live in countries of unbelievers then.

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Referring to the Hungarian parliament’s deciding to approve an extension on Hungary’s state of emergency during the coronavirus crisis, Donald Tusk, the President of the European People’s Party (EPP), wrote in a letter to EPP members: “A state of emergency or danger should serve governments to fight the virus and not to strengthen control over citizens.”

The criticism was a direct attack at Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Tusk even demanded the expulsion Orbán’s Fidez party from the EPP in his letter.

Poland’s Law and Justice (PiS) MEP Zbigniew Kuźmiuk believes that German politicians in the EPP will not permit such a move, because despite the EPP being the largest faction in the European Parliament, it is losing strength with each election.

“If Fidesz were to be kicked out, some of the Romanians and others would leave with them. That would be over 20 people. The representatives of the German CDU-CSU are afraid of that,” he told TVP Info.

Kuźmiuk criticized Tusk and other European Union elites for focusing on politics instead of concentrating on fighting the coronavirus.

Kuźmiuk pointed out that people are dying and citizens aren’t getting the help they need, but the EU focuses on criticizing the Polish and Hungarian governments. In fact, the European Parliament and the European Commission will debate rule of law issues in coming weeks despite the coronavirus outbreak.

The PiS MEP pointed out that Tusk has been actually demanding the PiS government declare a state of emergency in Poland. The fact that he wants one in Poland but wants to kick Fidesz out for implementing same measure is “political schizophrenia”.

So why does Tusk want a state of emergency declared in Poland?

“This is not about the suffering of people but simply about postponing elections and, as Grzegorz Schetyna said, about choosing a new candidate. Who knows whether the new candidate will be Donald Tusk himself,” he emphasized, adding that he believed Tusk was unhappy in his current position.

Kuźmiuk believes that after Tusk’s term as president of the European Council ended, many European politicians counted on him returning to the Polish political scene and ousting the current conservative government. Tusk’s decision to step away from the Polish presidential election race in 2019 was a disappointment for many of them.

“The man who claimed that he was oh so great hadn’t even decided to run in the elections, let alone win them,” he said, adding that Tusk probably sees a chance now of winning due to Covid-19’s damaging impact on the Polish economy, which could decrease the current government’s popularity.

Kuźmiuk declared that Tusk is “suffering psychically” because although his new position is good financially, it has little prestige. If he can manage to have elections delayed, it will mean he can replace PO’s current presidential candidate Małgorszata Kidawa-Błońska and run for the position himself.

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When President Trump ­announced a restriction on travel from Europe in a mid-March Oval Office ­address, European Union officials erupted in outrage.

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, issued a joint statement with the president of the European Council thundering, “The coronavirus is a global crisis, not limited to any continent, and it requires cooperation rather than unilateral action.”

Just a few days later, von der Leyen advanced her own proposal to ban nonessential travel into the European Union.

We are all restrictionists now. In the novel coronavirus crisis, everyone realizes the importance of borders, even the people who not long ago were ideologically hostile toward them.

Borders mark off the sovereign territory of one people from another. They are a means — if they can be enforced and defended — for a sovereign state to protect its people from invaders and unwelcome immigrants and goods. They are a tool almost every nation has used to try to keep the coronavirus from gaining a foothold in its population — and try to keep it from spreading further.

The lyrics of the treacly John Lennon classic “Imagine” — recently performed by celebrities organized by actress Gal Gadot as a balm in this time of distress — have never been so absurdly inapt.

If there were really no countries and the world were as one, we would be even more vulnerable to whatever threat arises in a city in central China — or anywhere else on the globe.

Of course, travel restrictions haven’t prevented the spread of the disease — there’s no such thing as an air-tight seal. But restrictions at least bought governments some additional time, and openness to foreign travel from China has been an accelerant to the spread.

The EU’s travel restriction was an attempt to hold off the hardening of borders between EU nations themselves. Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland tightened their borders without coordinating with other EU countries. Even Angela Merkel’s Germany — which provided the kindling for populist movements across the Continent with its open-borders approach to the 2015 migrant crisis — ­restricted travel without coordinating with its neighbors.

Such restrictions are the least of it. Italy has had trouble importing masks because European countries have been working to hold on to supplies, indeed, to hold on to food. According to The Wall Street Journal, “German officials said their restrictions were partly designed to safeguard supplies at German supermarkets from French shoppers.”

So much for a new era of European solidarity dissolving historic, centuries-old political and cultural divisions.

In a crisis, no one says, “Please, ship overseas medical gear we might need here at home — we are citizens of the world too broad-minded to care about the interests of our own people over the interests of anyone else.”

And no government has acted this way, whether right, left or center; whether led by cosmopolitans or nationalists; whether in Asia, Europe or North America. Every state realizes its foremost obligation is to its own people.

Of course, Trump is naturally ­inclined to this view. He imposed travel restrictions even before the seriousness of this crisis seized him. The pandemic gives new credibility to his dim view of our commercial entanglement with China, and ­before this is all over, there will probably be bipartisan legislation to minimize our dependence on Chinese-manufactured pharmaceuticals and medical equipment.

None of this means that we shouldn’t wish other counties well, help them if we can and share ­research and technologies. But borders exist for a reason. All peoples have their own governments that, if they are doing their jobs, put the health, safety and welfare of their own people first.

The coronavirus has acted as a solvent on a decade or more of clichés about the arrival of a globalized world where old lines drawn on a map no longer matter. In a crisis, everyone turns to borders as a first line of defense.

https://nypost.com/2020/04/03/suddenly-even-globalists-are-big-on-borders/