It is a completely new dimension of violence, say the Munich police one day after the hail of bottles in the English Garden. As it has now turned out, sexual assault is said to have triggered the riots!
An Iraqi (16) allegedly groped a girl (14). Afterwards there was a fight and the police intervened. The mood continued to heat up: Bottles were thrown and there was loud bawling. In the end, dozens of officers had to withdraw from the scene in group formation.
This is shown by several videos that are currently spreading on the internet. They show young people throwing about 50 bottles at police officers between 8.30 and 8.50 p.m. and hundreds of people gathering around the police.
The officers had to use batons and pepper spray to calm the situation. The sad result: 19 police officers were slightly injured, but are still fit for duty.
Police spokesman Sven Müller told the newspaper BILD on Saturday evening: “Six people were arrested. We are investigating for bodily harm, resistance and assault against law enforcement officers and breach of the peace.”
Jürgen Ascherl (57), deputy state chairman of the German Police Union, to BILD: “I am appalled by the behaviour of our fellow citizens and especially by this aggression that the police are facing here. The police are only doing their job and the politicians are responsible for these regulations.”
In BILD, Bavaria’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (64, Christian Social Union) also comments on the attacks on police officers in the English Garden: “I can very well understand that people are drawn to the outdoors in the beautiful weather and warm temperatures. However, I cannot understand the behaviour of people who do not abide by any regulations, as happened yesterday in the English Garden.”
Herrmann continued: “The riots in the English Garden and the propensity for violence against police officers leave me speechless. It is appalling and completely unacceptable that those who protect us are themselves injured. We must not and will not tolerate this. I lack any understanding that bystanders also allied themselves with the rioters.”
The Minister of the Interior announced in BILD: “The police will continue to take consistent action against these troublemakers and the violent criminals concerned will have to bear the consequences.”
A German citizen who recently converted to Islam has beheaded his Moroccan wife in a crime that bears the hallmark of the Islamic state group, ISIS.
The man in his fifties, living in the city of Hamburg attends a local mosque in the northern German city where there is an important Turkish community, local media report.
German security forces and interior intelligence services are investigating the crime and are wondering whether the man acted alone or received instructions for the gruesome assassination.
Neighbors and mosque members told security forces that the man’s behavior had changed before the killing as he developed a long bear and was donning Afghan men’s dress code.
Germany, several countries have been complaining, has become a safe haven for dozens of former ISIS militants who fought in Syria and Iraq.
Morocco has warned the European country against the presence on its soil of former ISIS terrorists.
In March, an investigative report by French television M6 raised the alarm over the presence of former fighters of the terror group who are living freely in Germany.
The M6 flagship program “Enquête Exclusive” showed how ISIS Jihadists managed to slip through the cracks by posing as asylum seekers, and how they ended up being greeted with open arms and offered a safe haven in Germany, because of the dangerous laxity of German authorities.
While ISIS was officially defeated in March 2019 when it lost its last sanctuaries in Syria and Iraq, executioners from the terrorist organization are still on the run.
The criminals branded lone wolves are believed a major threat and can be quickly mobilized by a dormant cell of the global terror group.
In Germany, a study entitled “Muslim Life in Germany” was conducted. Among other things, it examined the extent to which religious affiliation or regional origin affect integration into the host society.
Based on the results of this study, the Austrian Islamic scholar Mouhanad Khorchide is now calling for a broader headscarf discussion among Muslims in this country, reports the news agency APA. In the weekend edition of the daily “Rheinische Post”, the scholar, who teaches at the German University of Münster, wrote in a guest article:
“I would like to use the example of a result of the study ‘Muslim Life in Germany’ to show the urgent need for a more intense inner-Islamic discourse on the subject of the headscarf.”
He justifies his demand with the results of the study. According to the study, 88.6 per cent of those who wear a headscarf see it as a religious duty. 76.6 per cent of those who do not wear it, on the other hand, do not see it as a religious duty.
According to Khorchide, this result has not been discussed in the Muslim media so far. What is discussed, however, are the 34.5 per cent who do not wear a headscarf – for fear that this could lead to disadvantages for them at school, in education or at work.
For Khorchide, this raises the question of why. “Why, however, is only this last-mentioned result received, which wants to underline the disadvantage, but completely suppresses the other one, according to which there are two contrary positions within Muslims around the question of the religious status of the headscarf?”
For this reason, the Islamic scholar calls for an inner-Islamic theological discourse beyond socio-political debates in order to also clarify such important questions.
A police-guarded murder trial in Attunda District Court north of Stockholm was exposed to a violent attack on Thursday. Some twenty masked persons, armed with bomb-like pyrotechnics, attacked police.
At about 9 in the morning, a gang of more than twenty masked young men, linked to criminal gangs, X-Team and Bandidos, attacked the court building in Attunda with powerful bomb-like pyrotechnic pieces, so-called bangers. Samhällsnytt reported. These were also thrown at police who were brought in to guard the trial and at the reinforcements who arrived at the scene after the attack began.
These gangs prominently recruit members of non-Swedish ethnicity.
About ten of those involved were taken into custody by police. It is not clear if they were subsequently held in detention or released on the spot. Only after lunchtime did the police gain control of the situation.
The gang-related trial, where four men are accused of planning murder with automatic weapons at a children’s party, was earlier transferred from Södertörn District Court due to similar violent incidents with some eighty people involved. The police were able to put a stop to the murder plans at the last minute – in the gang’s arsenal, the police found, among other things, not only included automatic weapons but a hand grenade.
The Attunda District Court specifically has a security room. However, even in the new courtrooms, proceedings cannot be conducted in legal order. The main proceeding consists of several trial days, of which this was one.
An open letter by ex-Venstre politician Inger Støjberg is currently causing a stir in Denmark and beyond. In it, she addresses the “Syrian refugees” in Denmark and calls on them to return home. The current debate about the return of Syrian migrants is a ” hour of destiny” for Danish society. According to Støjberg, the Syrians have a human and moral responsibility to make the return journey to their home country. The daily Berlingske sums up their position as follows: “Now you may say thank you – and then you may pack your luggage and go home.”
Støjberg was Minister for Foreigners and Integration in the liberal-conservative government of Lars Løkke Rasmussen from 2015 to 2019, which advocated a strict policy regarding foreigners similar to the current Social Democratic government. In March 2017, Støjberg celebrated the 50th tightening of the law on foreigners during her term in office with cake and candles and posted the photo on Facebook.
In her open letter, Støjberg admits that she realised early on that the “departure” of Syrians from Denmark, now also promised by Social Democratic Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, would be accompanied by an “outcry”: “It was not difficult to foresee that headmasters, debaters, red politicians, local communities, classmates, interest groups and the [left-liberal] daily Politiken would campaign for example for young students to be able to stay in Denmark, even though the need for our protection has ceased.”
The letter begins with the words: “Dear Syrian refugees, now it’s time to go home again”. With particular emphasis, Støjberg points to an unwritten agreement that Denmark had made with the Syrian migrants at the time: “The agreement was that we would give you protection as long as the war continued but that you would, of course, travel home again on the day you were able to”.
Støjberg also criticises the refugees, who unfortunately have not always respected the agreement with Denmark: “When you came to Denmark, we told you clearly that we expected you to adapt to the Danish rules and to take care of yourselves while you were here. Too few of you have lived up to that.” The Syrians are now under a double obligation to return, she added: On the one hand, they would have to honour the agreement with their host country and leave “without objections and without questions, but in gratitude to the Danish people”. On the other hand, they had to “begin the reconstruction of their own country”. After all, Denmark had given them a good advantage for this new start through free education.
Even a degree should not hinder the return journey to the homeland. After all, even without a degree, you don’t forget everything you’ve learned. And of course life in Denmark – Støjberg understands this very well – is more comfortable than in Damascus, especially since the Danes are such a generous people. “But Denmark is not your fatherland.” The Danish asylum system, he says, is finely balanced and “very tough”, both in accepting an asylum application and in terminating a residence permit. 140,000 Syrians have already returned home, she added. While on the way, the new departures, the politician concludes, could send the Danes “a big thank you for the help you received when you needed it. The Danes really deserve it.
Almost naturally, Støjberg’s letter evoked anew the “intense debate” (Berlingske) that she herself described. According to the daily Jyllandsposten, Støjberg’s open letter quickly ” went viral” online and led to heated debates: “Inger Støjberg’s open letter was shared more than 1,700 times and commented on nearly 3,000 times in just a few hours.” However, comments from politicians and others were both approving and disapproving.
Støjberg wrote her letter in the midst of a turbulence in which she herself is currently involved. In a way, she is also putting her own political work up for debate. The “former Venstre icon” (according to the Schleswig-Holstein website shz.de) was until recently deputy chairperson of the right-wing liberal party.
A lot has happened since then. Shortly before New Year’s Eve, Støjberg was sharply criticised by the new Venstre leadership, among other things for a measure from 2016, when she ordered the separate accommodation of asylum-seeking couples if one of the spouses – usually the woman – was a minor. This affected the issue of sham and forced marriages, but Støjberg allegedly violated the European Convention on Human Rights by doing so.
In the meantime, Støjberg has left Venstre and is a non-party member. Her successor presented herself as an ideological opponent. In September, Støjberg is to appear before an extraordinarily sitting Reichsgericht court – there hasn’t been one for 25 years, and Støjberg would like the trial to be broadcast live on television. But a majority in parliament begrudges her this stage or fears to look bad on it themselves. To this day, the ex-minister is not shy of publicity and at least wants the judges’ votes to be published.
Meanwhile, Støjberg’s successor as Minister for Foreigners, Mattias Tesfaye, has stated that minors would also have to be taken to asylum centres outside the country if the legal rules require it. Exemptions for minors would endanger the lives of minors, Tesfaye says: “If we exempted all unaccompanied minors from the rules, I would fear that speculation would continue about sending minors to Denmark via the Mediterranean.” He is countering criticism from NGOs such as “Red Barnet”, Amnesty International and the Danish “Institute for Human Rights”.
“Are men superior to women?” It was a deliberately provocative question that Fatma Akay-Türker asked an official of the Islamic Religious Community in Austria (IGGÖ). “And he said yes as a matter of course.” Because that is exactly what a verse in the Koran says.
In fact, Sura 4:34 is interpreted in traditional Koranic exegesis as evidence of the superiority of men. But, says Akay-Türker, there are other verses in the Koran that emphasise the equality of men and women. But no one in the IGGÖ would take notice of them.
Events like this were the reason why she resigned from her position as women’s spokesperson of the IGGÖ last June. Because it was only a fake mandate, as she says today. And she also quit her job as a religion teacher. In order, as she says, to be able to speak freely. And she not only talks, she has now also summarised her experiences in a book. “Only before Allah do I bow down” is a reckoning with a system that she considers misogynistic – even if it pretends to be otherwise.
The Austrian government has agreed on the anti-terror pact designed as a reaction to the attack in the city centre of Vienna. No more major changes were made compared to the appraisal. This means that there will be a separate criminal offence for religiously motivated extremism and the possibility will be created to monitor relevantly convicted offenders by electronic ankle tag during their probation.
The latter was weakened insofar as the sentence must exceed 18 months. In addition, the judge must specify certain places where the conditionally released person is not allowed to stay, for example mosques where radicalisation has taken place. Here, the regulations are based on those for sex offenders, as Justice Minister Alma Zadic (Greens) explained Friday afternoon at the announcement of the measures.
As far as the new criminal law, which was criticised as unnecessary in the evaluation, has been clarified in the explanations. Here it is explicitly made clear that this regulation is not directed against a specific religion, as Zadic emphasised. The Minister of Justice justified the introduction of the law at all by saying that no loophole should be created. It is aimed at cases where the paragraph dealing with anti-state connections might not apply.
Integration Minister Susanne Raab ( Austrian People’s Party) also emphasised that the legislative package was not directed against Muslims. Rather, it is about combating religiously motivated extremism. Her part of the package contains, for example, the imam directory, which is also not without controversy.
The Minister of the Interior, Karl Nehammer ( Austrian People’s Party), for example, has introduced a tightening of the law on the use of symbols. According to this, the political sphere of Hezbollah will also be covered and further action will be taken against the Identitarians.
One month before the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, in which the AfD is expected to become one of the strongest forces, there are signs of hope for conservatives from Spain and Great Britain. Right-wing parties triumphed in regional elections on Thursday in Great Britain and on Tuesday in Madrid.
The British Labour Party already experienced its first Waterloo in the general election in December 2019, when it historically fell by 60 seats and Boris Johnson became Prime Minister. Now the debacle was repeated at community level: According to current forecasts, the “Red Fire Wall” collapsed dramatically.
In Hartlepool, which has been ruled by Labour since 1974, the Tories won the majority. In an early parliamentary election, the Conservative Jill Mortimer won, becoming the first Tory MP from Hartlepool since 1959. The Tories will also rule Northumberland for the first time since the 1970s, as well as left-wing strongholds such as Sunderland, Harlow in Essex, Nuneaton & Bedworth and Dudley.
The results are eagerly awaited in Scotland, where the national, socialist Scottish National Party around Nicola Sturgeon has announced another referendum on staying in the United Kingdom in the event of an election victory, cheered by Berlin and Brussels. The Scottish National Party incidentally celebrated Adolf Hitler in the 1930s and opposed the war with Nazi Germany.
In Madrid, the conservative People’s Party and the right-wing Vox won regional elections on Tuesday. The Partido Popular around the right-wing regional leader Isabel Díaz Ayuso was able to double its share of the vote from 22,5 percent to 45 percent, with the immigration-critical Vox party coming to ten percent, The two have already promised a coalition. The ruling socialists lost ten percent and came down to only 17 percent. The turnout of 76 percent was the highest ever in the Spanish capital with its 6,6 million inhabitants.
As regional boss in Madrid, Díaz Ayuso had refused the lockdown and kept bars and restaurants open. According to an interview with the IPG Journal, she had declared the elections in Madrid “to be a vote on the policy of the progressive central government” and made it clear beforehand that she “had no fear of contact with the right-wing populists in the still relatively young Vox party”.
Díaz Ayuso ran with the slogan “Freedom or Communism”. She commented on her policy slogan: “I have no problems making a pact with Vox. If they call you a fascist, you are on the right side of the story,” said Díaz Ayuso.
“We stopped the communists in Madrid,” said Vox boss Santiago Abascal in response. Violent left-wing extremists attacked him with stones at a demonstration in April and 35 people were injured, including 21 police officers. Vox is now calling for legal action against the violent left- wing extremist and leftist leader Pablo Iglesias, who called for violence and announced his withdrawal from politics after the devastating defeat.
Despite the pandemic, nearly 5,1 million voters turned out to vote, with turnout estimated at 76 percent, an increase of more than 10 points compared to the previous election. “Today, Madrid adopted a motion of democratic censure” against Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish Socialist Prime Minister, said the head of the PP Pablo Casado, evoking a “point of inflection in national politics”.
The left suffered a real collapse: From the number one party in the capital in 2019, it passed to third, from 37 to 24 seats. It is now Más Madrid who takes up the torch from the left: the party has 24 seats, or 16,9 percent of the vote.
In March this year, German public broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk aired a 75-minute television documentary following five Muslim women wearing headscarves. In the film ” My head. My Scarf” (Mein Kopf, mein Tuch), the women talk about how they do not want to constantly justify their decision to wear the headscarf. According to WDR, the women shown in the documentary are united by “the conviction that prejudices can be overcome by dialogue, openness and commitment”.
Among those portrayed is Houaida Taraji, who runs her own practice as a gynaecologist in North Rhine-Westphalia. Many people in Germany still cannot imagine that women wearing headscarves are also doctors. That is why it is basically a good idea to confront the audience with such prejudices. However, Houaida Taraji is clearly the wrong choice of protagonist for this.
What is not mentioned in the film is the 55-year-old’s many years as an official for the German Muslim Community (DMG), which until 2018 was called the Islamic Community in Germany (IGD). According to the latest report on the protection of the constitution, this association is considered “the central organisation of the Muslim Brotherhood in Germany”. This implies that it wants to establish a social and political system based on Sharia law, the report continues. Taraji says she was vice-president from 2006 to 2010 and, according to the register of associations at Cologne’s local court, a member of the association’s board between 2015 and 2018. She is also a board member of the Central Council of Muslims.
Taraji’s husband Almoutaz Tayara also made an appearance in the documentary and talked about having first met his wife while eating ice cream together. Until 2020, Tayara was the chairman of the board of the aid organisation Islamic Relief Germany, which, according to the German government, has “significant personal connections to the Muslim Brotherhood”. Tayara attracted attention in 2014 through Facebook postings glorifying the Kassam Brigades, which belong to the Islamist terror organisation Hamas, and portraying the then US President Barack Obama as a Jew.
WDR viewers are also left in the dark about this background. The broadcaster simply presents Taraji and Tayara as completely normal Muslims, although they were active for years as functionaries for Islamist organisations. When asked by Sigrid Herrmann-Marschall, an expert on Islamism, the editor in charge even admits that the background was known. “In the documentary, the Taraji couple advocates an open society and thus shows no connection whatsoever to extremist theories,” the newspaper’s WELT reply states. As if uncritical portrayal is only problematic when extremism is openly manifested.
But this is not so. Those who make functionaries of political Islam legitimate representatives of Muslims act at the expense of those freedom-loving Muslims and people from Muslim families who want nothing to do with patriarchal sexual and honour concepts as well as rigid norms of behaviour, dress and gender. WDR has made matters worse by the documentary editors’ explanation that the links to the Muslim Brotherhood were deliberately ignored because the film was limited to the present due to time constraints.
He killed his wife after she told him she wanted to separate from him. For this, Moez S. (43) was sentenced to eight years in prison for manslaughter on Thursday.
The Bonn Regional Court considered it proven that the man, who lives in Euskirchen, first strangled the mother (26) of their common son (3) for over 30 seconds during an argument last September. In the ensuing scuffle, the woman fell onto the edge of a bed and suffered a bleeding head wound.
Afterwards, the trained cook hit his wife’s head so hard against the laminate floor that she suffered most serious injuries and died two days later in a hospital.
At the beginning of the trial, the Tunisian had said via his lawyer Michael Hakner: “I was then no longer able to control myself and regret what I had done”.
Already in 2018, the 43-year-old allegedly beat his wife during an argument. At the time, she reported to the police, but later forgave him for the beatings.
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