Former Prague imam Samer Shehadeh will serve 14.5 years in prison for helping to commit a terrorist attack and finance terrorism. On Tuesday, the defendant concluded an agreement on guilt and punishment with the public prosecutor and, subsequently, Prague City Court confirmed the arrangement. Shehadeh was already sentenced to a ten-year sentence last year for similar crimes, so this decision will extend his prison sentence by 4.5 years.

Thirty-seven-year-old Shehadeh confessed to the act. He said that he did not regret it because he considered it right.

“I’m not a terrorist,” he said. He added that he was only trying to fight against the criminal regime in Syria, which he says is committing genocide in the country. The man faced up to 20 years in prison for possible help with the terrorist attack.

Similar to last year, the former imam refused to stand up when sentencing. He justified this by saying that he did not respect Czech law. The man has previously stated in court that Czech legal decisions are not relevant to him because they do not abide by Islamic Sharia law. However, the chairwoman of the senate, Zuzana Zápalková, imposed a fine of CZK 5,000 (€193) on Shehadeh.

The judge stated that the senate had recognized the agreement on guilt and punishment between Shehadeh and the public prosecutor because the punishment was adequate and within the possible penalty. Neither party appealed against the verdict, they could only do so if the court rendered a decision in violation of the agreement. After the meeting, the prosecutor told reporters that if Shehadeh did not confess, he would propose a slightly harsher punishment.

According to the indictment, Shehadeh flew to Turkey in 2015 where he met with representatives of the terrorist organization Al-Nusra, later known as Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (Front for the Conquest of Syria). He handed them the money he had collected in the Muslim community in the Czech Republic and Slovakia to treat wounded militants.

At the same time, according to the prosecutor Marek Bodlák, he agreed with them that he would recruit new fighters for the organization and continue to organize collections. Shehadeh also wanted to take part in the fighting in Syria himself, but due to vision problems, he eventually agreed that he would have been more beneficial to the fighters in the Czech Republic.

The indictment of the former Prague imam further accused him of supporting a Sudanese man living in Slovakia by helping him join the Al-Nusra organization. He provided him with money for equipment and with the necessary contacts and information for the trip. The man came to Syria in May 2016 and trained to become the commander of a unit of frontline attackers who also carried out suicide attacks, and fought for the establishment of Islamic Sharia law. In April 2017, according to Bodlák, he was killed in battle.

Shehadeh was already convicted of such conduct last May. The court sent him to prison for ten years. Samer’s brother, Omar, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison, and Samer’s sister-in-law, Fátima Hudková, is to spend six years behind bars. However, the couple was prosecuted as fugitives, and the court ruled in their absence. According to Bodlák, the Public Prosecutor’s Office still has no information about the couple.

The former imam was of interest to Czech intelligence agencies years ago when he urged Muslims not to attend anti-terrorist services with Christians. He left the Czech Republic in 2017 but subsequently was accused of participating in a terrorist group. Police detained him in Jordan. He was transferred to the Czech Republic in November 2018 and has been in custody ever since.

https://rmx.news/article/article/former-prague-imam-sentenced-to-14-5-years-in-prison-for-financing-terrorism

President Joe Biden cheated to get elected to the White House: a Rassmussen poll revealed that 51 percent of American voters share the belief that the election was rigged.

The majority of voters believe it is likely that cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, including 35 percent who say it was “Very Likely” that cheating affected the result.

Seventy-four percent of Republicans currently believe that the 2020 presidential election was marred by cheating, a view shared by 30 percent of Democrats and 51 percent of voters not affiliated with either major party.

FWM reported on several cases where cheating was alleged.

They also said that it was more important to prevent cheating in elections than to make it easier to vote and, by more than a two-to-one margin, American voters dismissed claims that voter ID laws were discriminatory.

Only 29 percent thought laws requiring photo identification at the polls discriminate against some voters, while sixty-two percent said voter ID laws do not discriminate, countering the mainstream media’s persistent narrative.

The survey of 1 000 likely voters was conducted on April 11-12, 2021 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95 percent level of confidence.

Asked which is more important, making it easier for everybody to vote, or making sure there is no cheating in elections, 60 percent thought it was more important to prevent cheating, while only 37 percent said it was more important to make it easier to vote.

Notably, only 22 percent of voters said it was too hard to vote. Some 34 percent said it was too easy to vote, and 41 percent had no complaints.

Majorities of all racial groups – 59 percent of whites, 56 percent of blacks and 63 percent of other minority voters wanted to ensure that no cheating in elections were allowed. Similarly, majorities of all racial groups rejected the claim that voter ID laws discriminated against minority voters.

Biden’s strongest supporters were least likely to view cheating in elections as a higher priority. Of those who strongly disapproved of Biden’s performance, 79 percent thought that preventing irregular voting was more important.

After Georgia passed a new election law, Major League Baseball (MLB) punished the state by moving the annual All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver. While most Americans thought it was bad to mix sports and politics, a majority of Democratic voters lauded MLB for making “the right decision”.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/04/21/majority-of-us-voters-believe-the-2020-presidential-election-was-rigged/

He is accused of beating his wife, the mother of his two-year-old son, to death after an argument.

Tunisian Salem M. (43) has been on trial in Bonn since Monday. Accusation: manslaughter.

Terrible scenes must have taken place in a flat in Euskirchen in the night of September 12 to 13, 2020. Here, the couple got into a heated argument.

“I could no longer control myself and I regret what I did,” the accused said via his lawyer Michael Hakner. During the altercation, he allegedly hit his wife by banging her head against the laminate floor, according to the accused.

However, the prosecution suspects that he hit the woman’s head with an object on the day of the crime. In the process, the 26-year-old suffered most serious injuries.

When he realised what he had done, the trained cook himself called the emergency services. However, help came too late for the victim; the seriously injured woman died three days later in hospital.

Already in 2018, Salem M. allegedly beat his wife during an argument. At that time, she reported to the police, but later forgave him for the beatings.

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She wanted the baby, he didn’t!

After Ahmad A.H. (26) tried in vain to persuade his girlfriend (18) to terminate the pregnancy, the Syrian is said to have made a diabolical decision: The unborn child should be taken away – by force if necessary!

Now the trial has begun at the district court in Hamburg’s St. Georg district. Charges: joint attempted abortion, dangerous bodily harm. A.H. allegedly committed two assaults on his pregnant girlfriend, and in the second case even attacked her himself together with his compatriot Bashir Y. (26) to beat her up. Both men refused to testify yesterday.

Victim Samuela A. tells: “After Ahmad found out about the pregnancy, he was a completely different person. For the first few days he didn’t want to talk to me at all.” Then he begged her on his knees, gave her presents, but she refused to have an abortion. Days later the first assault: In the park “An der Steinbek” she was knocked to the ground by an unknown man and kicked in the stomach.

Shocked, she saw that her boyfriend let the attacker go. She was nine weeks pregnant at the time.

In the 8th month of pregnancy, the second assault happened, again in a park. Samuela A.: “I thought I was going to die now. The man hits and hits – and Ahmad joins in!”

A little later, her son was born by emergency caesarean section at the St. Mary’s Hospital. He is said to have a funnel chest, but the reason is unclear.

The defendant Y. now has a baby himself, brought the infant to court and presented himself as a tender father. The trial continues.

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Yarden Cohen (43), a craftsman, served in the Israeli army, has lived in Germany for eight years, is a naturalised citizen, pays taxes, and his three children are growing up here. He knows how to defend himself. In the Goerlitzer Park he was brutally beaten up.

He points to his hands. They are bloodshot, bruises on his knuckles and forearms. Together with the newspaper B.Z. he went back to the place where he was brutally beaten up by drug dealers at 6.25 p.m. on Wednesday.

In Görlitzer Park, which the police have long listed as a “crime-ridden area”. In 2020, there were more than 1,500 drug-related offences, as well as robberies and assaults.

Yarden Cohen had to learn the hard way what that means when he wanted to have a cigarette on a construction site after work. The weather was fine. The setting sun shone into the park.

Immediately he was approached by African men: “Do you want cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy?” Cohen got angry, shouting, “Leave me alone. Leave people alone. Nobody wants anything from you!” But the men did not let up, also harassing a young mother pushing a pram along the park. “The woman was annoyed, scared,” says the father of a family.

Suddenly he feels a sharp pain in his back. A kick from behind. The strong, stocky man (1.74 metres) falls down. Then all he can see are shoe tips and heels hitting him. He curls up, protects his face with his hands. The men continue to kick.

When Cohen is able to pull a knife out of his pocket, the attackers back away. “One,” he says, “already had a brick in his hand. I could have ended up as a corpse there …”

No one in the park intervened. When the police finally arrived, the perpetrators were gone. “It’s a cat-and-mouse game,” says Cohen, “when the police come in, they leave. Once the police are gone, they show up again.”

Now he has an urgent question for Andreas Geisel (55, Social Democratic Party): “Mr. Interior Senator, why don’t the police protect me in Görlitzer Park? Why are walkers beaten up who don’t want to buy drugs?”

A spokeswoman for the Berlin police confirmed the case, telling B.Z.: “On Wednesday, the Mobile Guard had a different location there.” All the beating victim was told by the officers who took the complaint was, “Don’t you know where you are? This is a dangerous place.”

Yarden Cohen knows this: “I have been here for eight years. My grandparents survived the Holocaust. I deliberately went from Israel to Germany. But here in Berlin, no one can protect me from drug dealers?” He shakes his head …

https://www.bz-berlin.de/berlin/friedrichshain-kreuzberg/warum-schuetzt-mich-die-polizei-im-goerlitzer-park-nicht

The Christian Democratic Union (CDU)/Christian Social Union (CSU) parliamentary group in the German Parliament has called for action to be taken against “political Islamism” in Germany. It has “spread in various social milieus”, according to a position paper adopted by the CDU/CSU parliamentary group on April 20. It is entitled “Preserving a free society, promoting social cohesion, combating political Islam”.

According to the paper, this Islamism is ostensibly non-violent, but incites hatred, agitation and violence. It strives for an Islamic order “in which there is no equality, no freedom of opinion and religion, and no separation of religion and state”. It must be stated openly and clearly “that the spread of Islamist nationalism, incitement against Christians and Jews, the denial of Israel’s right to exist and the glorification of war have long been part of the sad everyday life in Germany”.

In addition, there are “cases of increasing direct influence of foreign governments on Muslims in our country”. This is partly done under the guise of religious freedom and by spreading Islamist and Islamist-nationalist ideas. The organisations mentioned in this context are the Turkish right-wing extremist “Grey Wolves” and the Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion (DITIB).

The group is also concerned about developments at the Islamic Centre Hamburg (IZH) and Salafist mosque associations, which are partly financed by donors from the Middle East. The IZH is under the influence of the Mullah regime in Iran and is the propaganda centre of Shiite extremism in Germany.

According to the paper, “political Islamism” also turns against liberal, secular Muslims. Prominent critics of this ideology such as Seyran Ates, Ahmad Mansour and Mouhanad Khorchide have been threatened from Islamist circles for years and can only now live under police protection. “This is an intolerable state of affairs that is unacceptable.”

According to the paper, Islamists “must be treated with the same distance and rejection as political extremists from the left and right”. In the future, all financial contributions, subsidies, contractual relationships and cooperation with Islamic associations and organisations that are being monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution must be reviewed and stopped at the federal and state levels.

The parliamentary group also calls for the establishment of professorships throughout Germany to deal with political Islamism. In addition, a documentation centre “Political Islamism in Germany and Europe” should be established.

https://www.idea.de/spektrum/cdu/csu-fraktion-politischen-islamismus-bekaempfen

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has just experienced the subtle effects of Islamised politics first-hand during her visit to Ankara – keyword: “Sofa-Gate”.

In future, she will no longer accept being sidelined when men push into the limelight.

The “EU Research Centre Islam & Democracy” could deal with the deeper causes of this diplomatic faux pas, if there were such a thing. A year ago, Members of the European Parliament Lukas Mandl ( Austrian People’s Party), Lena Düpont (Christian Democratic Union) and Monika Hohlmeier (Christian Social Union) had already applied to the EU Commission for the establishment of this pilot project.

The initiative was primarily intended to provide support for those Muslims who are attached to European values but are being pushed out of the picture by fundamentalist organisations. Thus, Hohlmeier regrets that “pro-European Muslims often have difficulties being perceived”.

On the other hand, there are “groups that clearly represent ideologies that are against basic European values”. Often these are groups with a Turkish connection.

The EU Commission rejected the project. The three Members of the European Parliament did not let up and renewed their demand in a letter to Von der Leyen. They also criticised the EU for supporting Muslim initiatives that “in reality spread extremist ideas or incite Muslims”.

The proposed centre, on the other hand, “aims to provide peaceful, open-minded Muslims with support and the opportunity to strengthen their integration work, as well as to promote an interpretation of their religion that is in line with the fundamental values of the EU”. In view of the many immigrant Muslims, it is “important to promote a clear demarcation from radical extremist tendencies and to support full inclusion …”.

In the meantime, the newspaper VOLKSBLATT has received the answer from Brussels. It is again negative. According to Von der Leyen, the Commission fears “that the pilot project would duplicate a multitude of activities with different orientations that are financed within the framework of different programmes”.

In plain language: there should already be programmes that pursue the formulated goal. The three MEPs, however, take a different stance. At least the head of the Commission promises to “examine funding possibilities for a more targeted initiative in the field of integration”.

For Mandl, this answer is “not entirely satisfactory”: “It is time that the Commission fully recognises the problem of political Islam in all its urgency”. However, Mandl wants to be constructive, which is why he “sees the glass half full” after Von der Leyen’s answer. There are at least possibilities in the form of individual projects.

Hohlmeier also finds it “a pity” that the Commission is apparently having a hard time with political Islam and does not want a separate centre for it.

https://volksblatt.at/bruessel-tut-sich-schwer-mit-klarem-kurs-gegenueber-politischem-islam/

French author, polemicist, and anti-liberal philosopher Eric Zemmour has drawn a parallel between “Islamo-leftists” and communists, asserting that the former have substituted their arch nemesis, the bourgeois, with White people – whom they would like to see replaced by the “Muslim proletariat”.

Zemmour, one of the preeminent thinkers on the French right, contends that the new political alliance formed between Islamists and leftists, called Islamo-leftism in France, is nothing less than the communist movement of the 21^st century, the political magazine Valeurs Actuelles reports.

French philosopher Pascal Bruckner has described Islamo-leftism as “the fusion between the atheist Far-Left and religious radicalism”. For Bruckner, many on the far-left aim to use Islamism as a “battering ram” to take down capitalism and cancel individual rights. On the other hand, Bruckner asserts that Islamists — purely as a tactical means to carry out their true goal of instituting an Islamist totalitarian theocratic government — pretend like they’ve joined the ranks of the left in its opposition to capitalism and racism.

During an interview segment on television program Face à l’Info, Zemmour, among other things, explained and defended the use of the term “Islamo-leftism”, describing it as “the conviction that Muslims, the Muslim proletariat, will replace the traditional workers’ proletariat, the French, of yesteryear and that will be the new revolutionary base”.

“These Islamo-leftist movements have taken up the methods of the communists,” he continued. “Islamo-leftism means making Muslims the new revolutionary base to replace the French proletariat. Before, the enemy was the bourgeois, today it is the White man.”

Zemmour then cited three main similarities shared by the 20^th century communists and the Islamo-leftists of today. First, he said, a victim group must be designated. For the communists it was the workers. For the today’s Islamo-leftists, however, victim groups are immigrants, Muslims, and even women.

The next step, he said, is to “identify the enemy: the bourgeois yesterday, today the White man” and lastly, “demand of this enemy, of class yesterday, of race today, that he submit and acknowledge his guilt”

“Today, we ask White men to put one knee to the ground for the crimes of their ancestors, which are eternal, inexpiable, exactly as the bourgeois or traitors to the communist cause were made to do in order to atone for their crime,” Zemmour said.

Recently in France, the term Islamo-leftism is not exclusively used by right-wing figures like Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour, but also by liberals and globalists like philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy, and prominent ministers in President Emmanuel Macron’s government.

Earlier this year, in mid-February, French Minister of Higher Education Frederique Vidal warned about the spread of Islamo-leftism in the country’s academic institutions, saying: “I think that Islamo-leftism is eating away at our society as a whole, and universities are not immune and are part of our society.”

During a television segment on CNews, Vidal announced that she would be ordering the Nation Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) to open an investigation into Islamo-leftism so as to “distinguish academic research from activism and opinion”.

For her comments, the French minister was lambasted by the French as well as the left-wing press. Days later, Bernard Henri-Levy penned an editorial in the French weekly political magazine Le Point, where he defended Vidal’s statements, warning that the ideology which unites the far-left and Islamist extremism is replacing the anti-totalitarian and progressive tendencies normally associated with the left, with ideas that are backward, anti-feminist, and obscurantist.

https://rmx.news/article/article/zemmour-islamo-leftism-means-making-muslims-the-new-revolutionary-base-to-replace-the-french-proletariat-before-the-enemy-was-the-bourgeois-today-it-is-the-white-man

The “Association of Bosnian Muslims” is said to be celebrating Ramadan in a room crowded with people at the street Arndtstraße 28 in the Meidling district of Vienna.

Raphael F. could watch this from his flat, directly opposite the mosque. He took pictures and videos and could not understand the gathering in Corona times.

To the internet portal unzensuriert he states:

After the decision to extend the lockdown, it is incredibly puzzling to me how it is possible that schools, commerce, gastronomy have to be closed, where livelihoods are at stake, and this association is allowed to be open.

Mr. F. is familiar with the event hall, which is why he informed the police, as in his opinion 50 people in a 200 square metre room cannot keep a two metre distance. According to Raphael F., the police officers who were called replied that religious events were exempt from all measures.

This answer, however, infuriated the man even more. He was not surprised, said Raphael F., that the hospital beds were mainly occupied by patients who had a migration background.

Unzensuriert made an effort to get a statement from the association, but did not reach anyone at the telephone number given on the homepage. When we asked the Vienna Provincial Police Directorate whether religious events are actually exempt from the CoV rules, we got the answer:

For information on the scope and exemptions of the current Covid-19-VO, we have to refer you to the health authority responsible for the ordinance (Magistrate of the City of Vienna) or the responsible BMSGPK.

An enquiry to the Vienna City Health Council remained without response. A look at the homepage of the Archdiocese of Vienna revealed the following:

A distance of at least 2 metres to other persons who do not live in the same household is required. Appropriate precautions are to be taken for this (e.g. cordoning off pews). The minimum distance stipulated in these framework regulations may be violated if this requires the performance of religious acts – however, an FFP2 mask must be worn when doing so.

In the video of the resident, it can be seen that the people leaving the mosque are at least wearing masks. The distance, however, will be impossible to comply with, given the number of participants in Friday prayers stated on the association’s homepage, namely 500.

https://www.unzensuriert.at/content/127520-anrainer-empoert-moslems-feiern-in-ueberfuellten-raeumen-ramadan/