Every year, the Swedish National Center for Terrorist Threat Assessment (NCT), a government agency, releases a report assessing threats from extremist groups of various kinds. What is new this year is that right-wing parties and alternative media outlets have been labeled as terrorist threats nearly on the same level as radical Muslim groups.

The NCT was able to make these additions after it broadened the definition of right-wing extremism, which, according to the government, now also includes a number of media outlets and the populist Sweden Democrats, a party well-known for its opposition to mass immigration.

As Samnytt reports, for several years now, there has been an increased risk of a terrorist threat in Sweden. The assessment has been mainly pointing out the growing threat of radical Islam linked to the government’s open immigration policy. In the shadow of that threat, the government also fears that violent autonomous left-wing and right-wing extremist groups will be capable of committing terrorist acts as well.

In this year’s report, radical Islam is still highlighted as the most dangerous and threatening ideology. At the same time, the NCT raises the right-wing extremism threat to almost the same level as the Islamist one, and it also states that it believes that the threat from that direction may increase this year.

In its latest outlook, Säpo, which is part of NCT, expands the definition of “threatening right-wing extremism” to also include groups and people not in favor of violence. Despite their focus on peace, these groups have still been listed as potential terrorist threats. 

The revised approach to right-wing extremism also defines NCT’s recent annual report and is something that the red-green government takes further note of when it listed alternative media and the Sweden Democrats as part of the threat.

Minister of the Interior Mikael Damberg (Swedish Social Democratic Party) pointed out that this is something that “must be taken very seriously”. He believes that Sweden Democrats have abandoned its “zero tolerance” towards the alleged White power movement despite the party explicitly stating it does not accept any White supremacist ideology.

In regards to the government’s decision to label certain “alternative media outlets” a terrorist threat, the government may be targeting them due to the fact that while they often have limited resources due to corporate advertising boycotts and censorship on social media, they have nonetheless proven influential. SD party leader Jimmie Åkesson recently stated that his party has gained much of its success thanks to alternative media despite conservatives increasingly being threatened or silenced online. 

The government now agrees that Sweden Democrats, alternative media, those critical of immigration and Islam, and other concerned citizens on social media should be included in the right-wing extremist threat picture.

Left-wing governments have increasingly taken undemocratic measures to silence opposition parties. For example, in Germany, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party was temporarily placed under surveillance by a domestic intelligence agency, resulting in the government being able to monitor emails and phone calls of every single member of the party in the run-up to elections. 

https://rmx.news/article/article/sweden-democrats-and-alternative-media-listed-among-right-wing-extremist-terrorist-threats

Many a holidaymaker has already had the experience when the booked 4-star hotel turned out to be a hovel and caused displeasure. This is probably what happened to a group of illegal migrants who had to flee from Tunisia by boat across the Mediterranean because of the alleged war-like conditions there and arrived in Lampedusa with one’ s last ounce of strength, complaining about the reception in Italy and about the accommodation in the hotel because obviously the young men expected adequate accommodation and better service, similar to that in a 4-star hotel.

https://politikstube.com/hotspot-ist-kein-sterne-hotel-lampedusa-illegale-aus-tunesien-beschweren-sich-ueber-empfang/

Not all racial groups or communities have expressed the same amount of fear and anxiety over climate change, increasingly also a social justice issue. Climate change is being viewed as responsible for “pandemics, pollution, natural disaster” but only whites seem to be concerned about its effects.

The Scientific American (SA) published an opinion article maintaining that “people and communities suffering [from climate change] most are disproportionately” black, but only whites were worried about the future of our planet.

And because climate anxiety is a white concern, according to the publication, it has become a suspect endeavour. “Is climate anxiety a form of white fragility or even racial anxiety? Put another way, is climate anxiety just code for white people wishing to hold onto their way of life or get ‘back to normal’ to the comforts of their privilege?”

They argue that the white response to climate change has been “sucking up all the oxygen in the room and devoting resources toward appeasing the dominant group”. This may result in whites hoarding resources, limiting the rights of the other races most affected and following a “xenophobic strategy” to save themselves.

“Climate change compounds existing structures of injustice, and those structures exacerbate climate change,” according to the SA.

“It is a surprisingly short step from ‘chronic fear of environmental doom’ as the American Psychological Association defines eco-anxiety, to xenophobia and fascism. Racism is not an accidental by-product of environmentalism; it has been a constant reference point.” Notably, the early environmentalists in the US were “anti-immigrant eugenicists”.

Climate change activists believe that the world is facing the “greatest existential threat of our time” but according to the SA, this claim ignores racial issues such as slavery, colonialism and white police brutality.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/04/06/those-who-feel-climate-anxiety-are-overwhelmingly-white/

Thick smoke rises from the windows of the sacristy of the church of St. Mary’s Assumption in the Rotthausen district of Gelsenkirchen. Shortly afterwards, the flames spread to the roof truss.

Major operation for the fire brigade!

Around 7.15 p.m. on Easter Monday, the fire rescuers were called to the scene on the street Beethovenstraße. At least 80 firefighters were deployed with three turntable ladders. In order to ensure optimal fighting of the flames at great heights, an articulated mast platform from the plant fire brigade of BP Gelsenkirchen was also called in for support.

Fire brigade spokesman Carsten Jost (46): “The fire started in the sacristy and spread to the roof truss. The deployment will continue for several hours.”

The church building has been empty for about ten years and is no longer used.

The police had already been called to the church twice before. A door was open, but the officers closed it as best they could. Was it arson? Shortly before the fire broke out, witnesses had seen young people running away.

https://www.bild.de/regional/ruhrgebiet/ruhrgebiet-aktuell/gelsenkirchen-feuer-in-kirche-75967642.bild.html

For the third time in three years, Syrian migrants tried to flee Greece by pretending to be a sports team. According to the Spiegel news outlet, nine Syrians in Athens, disguised as members of a volleyball team with fake travel documents, tried to board a flight to Vienna. However, the police successfully stopped them.

Last year, the police detained 12 Syrians who pretended to be handball players and provided fake Bulgarian passports during a pre-flight check. They were also heading to Vienna.

In 2019, ten Syrian refugees dressed as volleyball players with stolen and forged passports were arrested at a Greek airport trying to leave the country.

As Greece is often the first country migrants reach in the European Union, the law requires them to remain there until their asylum applications are processed.

Syrian migrants pretend to be a volleyball team yet again

A Melbourne man arrested in March for alleged involvement in jihadist terrorism has a history of extreme activity, including involvement in a violent attempt to breach Israel’s legal blockade of Gaza.

While significant attention has shifted to the threat posed by extreme right wing terrorism in Australia, the arrest of Ahmed Luqman Talib, and his co-accused Gabriel Crazzi, underlines the need to remain vigilant against the ongoing threat from adherents to violent Islamist ideologies.

Talib, 31, is accused of assisting an individual to engage in hostile activities in a foreign state.

Talib and Crazzi are alleged to have an association with Jabhat al-Nusra (also known as Jabhat Fatah al-Sham), a group on the Australian Government’s list of proscribed terrorist organisations. The group is described as adhering to “a violent extremist ideology that is anti-Western and encourages violence as a key element of pursuing its goals.” Ahmed Succarieh, an Australian man who perpetrated a suicide bombing in Syria in 2013, was also linked to Jabhat al-Nusra.

Talib’s recent arrest followed a reported raid by police on his home in October 2020, where electronic items were seized but no charges laid. The charges that Talib and Crazzi are currently facing date back to 2012 and 2014.

In addition to alleged links to Jabhat al-Nusra, Talib has been accused by US authorities of providing material assistance to al-Qaeda.

In 2013, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri announced that Jabhat al-Nusra would serve as al-Qaeda’s arm in Syria. This was later rescinded but connections between the two groups perpetuate.

His recent arrest is not the first time Talib, or members of his family, have made the news.

In May 2010, Talib, his wife and his sister were among 546 passengers who left Istanbul for Gaza on board the Turkish vessel Mavi Marmara. They were the only Australians on board this vessel.

The boat was part of a flotilla of six boats, some laden with violent protesters, attempting to break Israel’s maritime blockade on Gaza. It was organised by a Turkish group called IHH, a radical Islamist organisation with ties to Hamas, al-Qaeda and ISIS.

After being asked to leave the area, which remains under legal blockade, the vessels in the flotilla were boarded by Israeli security forces. On most of the boats, this proceeded relatively smoothly, but on the Mavi Marmara, there was organised violent resistance by highly motivated men armed with knives, clubs, axes and iron chains, and equipped with bulletproof vests, gas masks, pepper spray, headlamps and walkie-talkies. The violent clash that ensued left nine of the ship’s passengers dead, and 55 wounded, while nine IDF soldiers were wounded, several of them severely, including two with gunshot wounds.

Talib, who was born in the UK, and migrated to Australia from Sri Lanka in 1995, was among those injured in the violence on the Mavi Marmara.

According to a report in The Age, Talib received two gunshot wounds in his right leg. There are conflicting media reports as to whether his wounds were caused by ammunition or rubber bullets.

A UN report into the incident confirmed that flotilla passengers formed organised and violent resistance against IDF soldiers who boarded the vessels. While the report posited that loss of life could have been avoided, the Israeli representative on the report’s panel said the IDF responded in self-defence and “with restraint” to the violence.

Upon their return to Australia, Talib and his sister undertook a speaking tour where they condemned Israel and the IDF in the strongest terms, calling the response a “slaughter.”

His sister, Maryam Luqman Talib, recounted that an emergency medical team was assembled on the Mavi Marmara “in case of anything”. In the aftermath, she said of her brother’s injuries, “I think it is important to know this, so that people understand the true nature of the Zionist regime. These people are not human! There is no humanity in them!”

She continued: “If they really think we are terrorists, I have a message to them: I am proud to put terror in the heart of the Zionist regime.”

A decade after the Mavi Marmara incident, Talib and the Melbourne-based gemstone company he owns were designated by the US Treasury for providing material assistance to al-Qaeda.

A press release from former US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said, “Talib has had financial dealings in a number of countries and is involved in dealing gemstones, which provide him with the ability to move funds internationally for the benefit of al-Qa’ida. Talib conducts business around the world, including in Brazil, Colombia, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Turkey and the Gulf.”

Talib’s father and brother – Professor Lukman Thalib and Ismail Talib, both Australian citizens – were also arrested in 2020, a few months before Talib’s designation by the US. They were held in a prison in Qatar, where they both live, on unspecified charges. The Australian Government confirmed to media that it had provided consular assistance to the pair.

Following their release in January 2021, media reports indicate the pair flew to Turkey and then planned to travel on to Australia.

NGO CAGE reported that Sri Lanka-based members of Talib’s family were also detained and questioned.

Talib has now been remanded in custody by a Brisbane magistrate after the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions Clare O’Connor alleged he had travelled back to Turkey between 2012 and 2013 to arrange for an unidentified individual to enter Syria to fight government forces.

The picture above shows who was supporting the Islamists at the time…
Kübra Gümüşay
Sympathiser of the Millî Görüş movement, the Turkish nationalist variant of the Muslim Brotherhood…

Gümüşay is a “Visiting Fellow” of the Progressive Centre, an “Associated Expert” of the Berlin organisation Center for Intersectional Justice and is a member of the general assembly of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, which belongs to the German Green Party.

https://www.boell.de/de/mitgliederversammlung – https://aijac.org.au/featured/mavi-marmara-passenger-arrested-on-terrorist-charges/

The German federal government has introduced a mandatory PCR test for all air travellers. But not for everyone, as various sources from the Federal Ministry of the Interior have confirmed. Illegal immigration to Germany, which has been going on for a long time via Greek airports, is not affected by this mandatory test.

Germans face travel bans in their own country, with overnight stays, and even private and family meetings in their own apartments not allowed. Now the mainstream is declaring millions more people in their own country to be the new enemies: First protesters who take to the streets for the basic rights of all citizens, who have been defamed as “Covidiotes”, followed by vaccine skeptics who have been declared “anti-vaxxers”. The latest species on the hit list are vacationers: families, children, married people and singles who are trying to escape the Corona madness.

The PCR test obligation is mainly intended to deter and turn every vacation trip into a bureaucratic disaster with unforeseen costs, penalties for arbitrary Corona rules and forced quarantine.

While official figures from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf), confirmed that more than a third of asylum seekers now reach Germany by plane, research into the Federal Ministry of the Interior showed that no regulation had been issued regulating compliance with the PCR test requirement for migrant flights from Greece.

And this is despite the fact that Greek airports have developed into a hub for the flow of migrants and human traffickers. According to information provided to Stefan Schubert by the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) and according to the documents examined, Thessaloniki Airport in particular has developed into a hotspot for illegal migration.

Its location between the Greek islands, Albania, Bulgaria and Turkey is strategically placed on the Balkan route. This is well known to the German authorities, the Federal Police and the Federal Ministry of the Interior and can also be clearly seen in the daily situation reports. But the federal government is doing nothing to stop illegal migration. Rather, the opposite is true.

As a request from the AfD parliamentary group brought to light, the Greek authorities are not preventing these organized flows of migrants, but are even providing migrants with passports for onward travel.

“Germany must put an end to this asylum tourism from Greece immediately and prevent entry. It cannot be that the Greek authorities issue asylum seekers travel documents so that they can board the next plane to Germany to choose their desired host country,” the deputy AfD parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag, Leif-Erik Holm, told Berlin weekly Junge Freiheit.

In 2017, “non-Schengen flights” meant that illegal immigrants could be checked upon arrival in Germany and processed accordingly by the police. However, due to extreme pressure on the federal government by the European Commission and representatives of the migration industry, it was stopped.

Experts in the Federal Ministry of the Interior have recently called for a review of all flights to Greece, but according to information from Schubert, the party political leadership in the BMI does not want to act.

Meanwhile German vacationers from Mallorca are harassed with a PCR test obligation, while migrants fly in every month in the four-digit range from Greek accommodations where poor hygienic conditions prevail. The compulsory PCR test therefore applies to everyone – except for illegal immigrants from Greece. The government has not yet answered Schubert’s request for information.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/04/05/travel-bans-pcr-testing-mandatory-for-everyone-except-illegal-immigrants/

Yesh Atid chief and Opposition Leader Yair Lapid has acquiesced to a key demand made by the Yamina party, agreeing that Yamina chairman Naftali Bennett will serve first as prime minister if a rotational, power-sharing deal can be made to establish a new government.

Bennett met with Lapid Saturday night, following a meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Friday afternoon.

According to a report by Channel 13 Sunday evening, significant progress has been made since the meeting between Lapid and Bennett Saturday night, with the Opposition Leader agreeing to Bennett’s demand that he serve first as prime minister in a rotational power-sharing arrangement.

After serving as prime minister for the first half of the government’s term, Bennett would rotate out, with Lapid rotating in to complete the term.

In exchange for this concession, according to the report, Lapid has demanded that Bennett commit to not joining a Netanyahu-led government, and to back a reduction in the number of ministries in the next government, with no more than 18 ministers to be appointed. Lapid’s demand includes a call for Bennett to publicly vow that he will only join a government without Prime Minister Netanyahu at the helm.

Bennett has yet to make a final decision on how to respond to Lapid’s offer, the report said.

Senior Likud officials expressed concern Sunday evening that the change in Lapid’s position could lead to the formation of an alternative government, and undermine Netanyahu’s chances of remaining in office. Some worried that the Likud is on the verge of losing the government, citing Religious Zionist Party chief Bezalel Smotrich’s staunch opposition to the formation of a minority government relying on the United Arab List (Ra’am) from outside of the coalition.

Earlier reports on Sunday, indicated that Bennett was leaning towards supporting a government led by Netanyahu, and that he has been trying to convince New Hope chief Gideon Sa’ar – a long-time Netanyahu rival – to back the formation of a rightist government under Netanyahu.#

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/299615