By Monica Showalter

In a case that’s drawing a lot of attention based on the insane level of leniency shown, two 14-year-olds who bullied, murdered, danced on the body of, and filmed a helpless 13-year-old, have been let off with the mother-of-all-slaps-on-the-wrist by a Riverside County Superior Court Justice. 

According to local radio station KTLA:

Two 14-year-old Southern California boys who beat a fellow student in 2019, causing his death, won’t go to jail but must undergo anger management therapy, a judge ruled.

Riverside County Superior Court Judge Roger A. Luebs imposed the therapy as a probation condition before releasing the teenagers to their parents on Thursday, the Riverside Press-Enterprise reported Friday.On Sept. 16, 2019, the teenagers were videotaped attacking 13-year-old Diego Stolz outside classrooms at Landmark Middle School in Moreno Valley, east of Los Angeles. One boy struck the teenager in the head from behind and he fell, hitting his head against a pillar. The boys then continued punching the boy, who died nine days later from a brain injury.

Last fall, the boys entered the equivalent of guilty pleas in juvenile court last fall to involuntary manslaughter and assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury. They spent 47 days in juvenile custody.

The helpless 13-year-old orphan had been bullied, brutalized, begged for help from the teachers’ unionized school officials whose fat-salaried job was to protect him, and got nothing. They let him get murdered. And early on, they callously blamed the kid’s family for his killing, instead of themselves. The case makes one’s blood boil.

How can a 13-year-old’s life be worth absolutely nothing? The kid was an orphan, living with his aunt and uncle, who are now suing the school district for its lazy indifference. They’ll get money no doubt, but the kid still lays dead, robbed of absolutely everything as the killers snigger in remorselessness, a fact noted by the judge in this KTLA passage:

At their sentencing, the judge said psychological reports described the boys as lacking empathy and said they blamed the victim for the attack.

All the same, as City News Service reported, the judge ignored Department of Probation recommendations to throw the book at this pair (and like Jimmy Carter with the Iranian hostage-takers) he said he really didn’t think they meant to kill the kid despite their slamming him into a wall, dancing on his head, and videoing their vileness for all their creepy little friends to see.

Parts of his sentencing were obnoxious, too:

Luebs directed that each offender enroll in character development and anger management classes, as well as perform 150 hours community service, not play violent video games, avoid social media and write letters of apology to the Stolz family. They were additionally ordered to permanently steer clear of one another.

Luebs warned the pair that any probation violation could land them in deep trouble, possibly resulting in time behind bars.

Why, exactly, are they getting ‘one last warning’ to behave themselves, when they’ve already done the worst they could possibly do?  These killers should have had their one-last-warning before they moved up to killing people. This didn’t happen out of the blue — one of these plagues-on-society was already on probation when he tried his hand at killing. How seriously are they going to take this latest ‘one-last-warning’? The message they’ve gotten so far is that if they get caught violating probation, all they will get is another one-last-warning. But remember, one more chance.

In the past, killers of this stripe went to juvenile detention up until the age of 26. A few went to real jails with the adults, given the callous nature of their crimes and their demonstrated incorrigibility.

These killers get anger management “therapy,” character building courses (what, Upward Bound-style romping on rocks in a Kidz Kamp vacay?), and 150 hours of community service (where they are likely to be a plague again meaning they will get signed off without the hours by the community groups just to get them away from them). No video games, no contact with each other, no cell phones(which they used to plan the killing) and merely ‘avoiding’ social media, all of which are going to be impossible for authorities to monitor. As for apologies to the family, ugh. Forced apologies are phony and insulting, and rest assured, theirs will have something insulting in it. 

What these killers need is actual punishment, not free social services. They got those earlier and look what happened.

The aunt and uncle of the murdered orphan, who pleaded and pleaded with authorities to help him, leaving a trail of evidence of it, are rightly suing the school district for its pattern of indifference to the plight of the kid, who had no choice but to be in that stinking school, like it or not. Yes, they have a case, and if I were on that jury, I’d give them everything they asked for.

The broader problem is that this is criminal justice “reform” in action — coddling and protecting the killers, and ignoring the victims of murder who can’t, after all, vote, lobby, or go to the press — kind of like unborn babies now. For a helpless orphan, what chance at all did he have against such  killers?

Yes, the judge bears some blame for ignoring probation department recommendations and handing out this slap on the wrist. Why he did it is very hard to parse.

Was he a crazy leftist who takes money from Soros? Apparently not. His record shows him to be an apparently moderate Democrat or moderate Republican, donating money to the likes of then-moderate Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Republicans Rep. Ken Calvert and now-former Sen. John F. Seymour during his money-donating days in the 1990s as an attorney. He was appointed judge by then-Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat, who is a decent man, not a crazy, and quite moderate compared to the lunacy out there now. He’s located in the Inland Empire, which is historically one of the more conservative parts of California. He’s run unopposed in recent elections according to Ballotpedia and not answered questions about his political views on the same forum. I looked for controversial rulings from him and didn’t find any thus far. It’s hard to say what happened, but the judge did note that his decision was going to be unpopular. According to KTLA:

“I know that my decision will not make everyone happy. In fact, it will probably make some people in the community angry,” the judge said.

“I’m sorry there isn’t more I could do to address your loss,” he told members of Stolz’s family.

No kidding. But the judge isn’t the main problem here.

A much bigger and better-defined culprit is one-party all-blue legislative California, which did indeed pass some terrible “criminal justice reforms” to effecively nullify all punishment for under-18 killers of orphans. One law, possibly the one cited by the judge, appears to be here, mandating ‘least restrictive environment’ all to give the felonious youngsters more of a normal childhood, you see, as if that was going to happen given how they responded to such an environment before they went out killing people.

The other thing is, these “reforms” have literally emptied out California’s juvenile detention centers.

Here’s a list of measures from ten years ago from one of the Soros-style criminal justice reform outfits:

State Drastically Reduces Youth Prison Population

Over the past several years, litigation and concern about dangerous conditions in California youth prisons resulted in media attention, stakeholder education about the problematic conditions, advocacy by a broad spectrum of organizations, and increased costs to the state for the confinement of youth. These developments have led to higher numbers of youth being treated by community-based programs in some counties, legislation restricting the types of offenses that can lead to state imprisonment, and budget realignment that redirects funds from state juvenile justice to the counties. These practice and policy changes—along with an unfortunate increase in direct files to adult court—have contributed to a dramatic drop in the population sent to California’s state youth facilities over the past fifteen years. On February 22, 2010, the California Division of Juvenile Justice closed the Heman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facility in Chino, the state’s largest juvenile prison. The state now has only three youth prisons, down from 11 in 2003. The overall population of California’s youth prisons has declined from a staggering 9,572 in 1996 to 1,082 at the end of 2011, an 89 percent decrease.

In San Diego County alone, which abuts Riverside County, pretty much nobody juvenile goes to jail anymore, no matter how many classmates they kill. Here’s a left-slanted 2018 report touting the empty jails in the local Voice of San Diego:

San Diego County’s four detention facilities can hold 855 young people. But on a recent Wednesday, just 311 youths were housed inside the county’s prisons and camps, said Chief Probation Officer Adolfo Gonzales. At least five to six wings of the county’s juvenile detention space are totally empty at present, he said. Just eight years ago, the number of incarcerated kids was three times as high: The average daily population in lockup stood at 1,008 for January 2010.

The report has a doozy of a graph showing plummeting juvenile detention numbers in multiple California counties, including Riverside. Apparently, nobody goes to jail, no matter what they do and word has gotten out in the thug-American community that the killins’ are easy now.

It goes to show that so-called criminal justice reform is a total fraud. Nobody gets punished. And for helpless, 13-year-old orphans like Diego Stolz, nobody gets justice. This is vile, and cries out for reform. The little kid got zero justice. His life was essentially declared worthless by the leftists in power in California. One can only hope that this finally is what it takes to wake up California’s voters and make this ‘criminal reform’ legislation an issue. The only people who benefit here are actual criminals.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/03/california_judge_sentences_two_killers_of_a_13yearold_to_anger_management_courses.html

For the time being, the Council for German Spelling has spoken out against the inclusion of the gender asterisk, the underscore, the colon or other abbreviated forms to identify so-called multi-gender names.

The Spelling Council, which met on Friday in Mannheim online, continues to adhere to the criteria it adopted in 2018 on gender-sensitive language despite enormous pressure from gender activists, but it may change.

Texts have to be factually correct, understandable, legible and also readable. They must also guarantee legal certainty and clarity, and be transferable into German minority languages ​​outside of Germany. Furthermore, gender-equitable formulations should not distract the reader or listener from the core information and should not make it difficult to learn the language.

Ultimately, however, the decision on this is not just one that “can be solved with orthographic rules and changes to the spelling”, the interim report stated.

The editor-in-chief of Deutsche Sprachwelt, Thomas Paulwitz, criticized the decision: “Ultimately, the Spelling Council tries to free itself from responsibility so as not to get in the way of the gender advocates.” It offers no argument in the statements for a “gender sensitive” spelling, but there are also no concrete observations against it.

The Spelling Council does not have to present its finished report to the conference of ministers of education until 2022. That is how long the council wants to monitor developments.

On March 10, 2020, in Mannheim on the sidelines of the annual conference of the Institute for German Language (IDS), its director Henning Lobin and gender activist Kathrin Kunkel-Razum, head of the Duden editorial team, agreed that Lobin should write a book for the Duden publishing house to denounce its critics. The Duden is a dictionary of the German language, first published by Konrad Duden in 1880, and updated regularly with new editions appearing every four or five years. The book Language battle – How the New Right Instrumentalizes the German Language was published just in time for this year’s IDS conference.

The theme of the annual conference, “Language in Politics and Society”, naturally helped with marketing. The book is divisive, with a clear friend-foe scheme. In addition, it is brimming with war metaphors. Lobin describes various “language battles”, particularly addressing the “battlefield of gender-equitable German”, describes the German Language Association (VDS) as a “combat organization” and the German Bundestag as a “deployment area”.

For the Duden editorial team, this polemic comes at exactly the right time, since the Duden has progressed very far in its “language battle” for gendered language. In the spelling dictionary at www.duden.de, it does everything in its power cancel the generic masculine. In January, the Duden editorial team had to admit that they wanted to change around 12 000 personal and professional titles over the course of the year.

The Duden simply started trampling on linguistic reality, which is also reflected in legal texts, by subordinating it to gender ideology. The bad actors were men and the victims female.

The VDS, in response, then launched the “Save the German language from the Duden” petition, which has now been signed by more than 31 000 people, including a few heavy-weights. They call on “the Duden to rethink its sexualization plans, to use the German language more sensitively and cautiously in the future, and to reflect on its original goals”.

By the end of February the Duden had to row back a little. To the Sprachdienst, the journal of the Society for German Language, Kunkel-Razum explained that she wanted to consider adding the forms which “can also be used across genders” in the gendered entries.

“In certain situations, the masculine form (e.g. doctor, tenant, baker) is used to denote people of all genders. With this usage, however, it is not always clear in linguistic terms whether only male persons are meant or others as well. That is why linguistic alternatives have been discussed for some time.”

However, the editors did not change anything about the misleading entry “male person” for a tenant, that could also be a company or a woman. Meanwhile, ideology-free dictionaries such as the “Digital Dictionary of the German Language” continue to provide the correct linguistic definition. A “tenant” is therefore of course not a “male person”, but simply a “person who has rented something” without explicitly defined biological properties.

The Duden is a long way from such scientific neutrality. Its new “online spell checker” allows for all gender spellings for “tenants”: “Mieter*innen“, Mieter_innen, Mieter:innen, MieterInnen“. Similarly “people” and “guests” have been subjected to these ridiculous forms.

In his “language war”, Lobin blames all conservatives as well as critics. While many citizens are outraged at how the Duden and others instrumentalize the German language, he complains about “how the New Right instrumentalizes the German language”. Thus with the spectre of the “new right”, Lobin obviously wants to discredit any criticism of gender. According to his reading, the resistance to politically correct language and gender German is all part of a “new right agenda”.

And by avoiding the definition of what constitutes this “new right”, Lobin can use it to label all gender opponents in his book. Lobin evidently imagines all of the criticism by publications, parties and associations – left and right – to be part of a “new right” conspiracy. Lobin clearly does not seem to want to get involved in any factual argumentation. Apparently he fears that he would lose his “language battle” in the process – and rightly so.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/03/28/german-spelling-council-rejects-gender-sensitive-forms/

After massive criticism about the invitation of a Turkish historian, the Rhineland-Palatinate state chairman of the mosque association Ditib has announced his resignation. As state chairman, he bears full responsibility for inviting “a person like Ahmet Simsirgil, who openly incited hatred in his texts and statements”, Yilmaz Yildiz said on Saturday.

The deputy state chairperson, Cihan Sen, told the German Press Agency on Sunday that the state executive board would now discuss a new line-up of representatives. With its resignation, Ditib Rhineland-Palatinate reaffirmed its commitment to continue the dialogue with the state government aimed at reaching a basic agreement with four Islamic associations.

Because of the then cancelled invitation of Simsirgil, who is accused of anti-Zionist and homophobic statements, the state government made the first intervention since the signing of target agreements on April the 1st 2020 with one of the four Islamic associations and demanded a statement. “Public statements are known from the invited guest that are in clear contrast to the agreement reached in the target agreement,” explained a spokesperson for the responsible Ministry of Culture. After Ditib’s statement, the state government will decide “what consequences it will have on the target agreement process because of this incident”.

The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the AfD have demanded that the negotiations with Ditib be brought to an end.In autumn, the state government wants to check compliance with the agreed principles and then decide whether to continue the negotiations on a basic agreement, which have been interrupted since 2016. This should contain regulations on Islamic holidays, Islamic religious education and new teaching professorships for Islamic religious education.

https://www.welt.de/regionales/rheinland-pfalz-saarland/article229299963/Ditib-Landesvorsitzender-Ruecktritt-nach-Vortragseinladung.html

Nizar Maarouf, businessman and spouse of the Berlin State Secretary for Civic Engagement and International Affairs, Sawsan Chebli ( Social Democratic Party of Germany), was involved in controversial business deals with partners in Gulf states for years. Research by the newspaper WELT AM SONNTAG reveals this.

According to the report, Maarouf earned commissions for placing patients for the municipal Berlin hospital group Vivantes in 2008, which are considered “immoral” according to a court ruling and expert opinion. In one case, documents show that Maarouf thus received 27,000 euros from Vivantes. Shortly afterwards, the former medical student became vice-director of the hospital group’s foreign division.

According to the research, two nieces of his wife Sawsan Chebli were hired at Vivantes International under Maarouf’s leadership. In the summer of 2017, the two women and another employee came into the focus of the internal audit. Together, they allegedly paid out money totalling more than 100,000 euros from patient accounts to themselves over a longer period of time.

Vivantes basically acknowledges the cases. The employment relationship of the women was terminated. As a result, the company revised its compliance regulations. Maarouf and Chebli did not comment on the allegations when asked.

Maarouf also mediated the two Christian Democratic Union (CDU) MPs Nikolas Löbel and Mark Hauptmann to the management of his then employer Sana in the spring of 2020. The deals offered by the MPs to the hospital group, in Löbel’s case a procurement of face masks against commission, did not materialise. Löbel and Hauptmann later had to resign because of controversial deals with other partners. Maarouf’s lawyer stated that his client had not been responsible for such transactions at Sana.

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article229275383/Chebli-Ehemann-war-in-umstrittene-Krankenhaus-Geschaefte-verwickelt.html

“It was a very special day, July 24 [2020],” said France’s leading expert on Islam, Gilles Kepel.

“It was pilgrimage time to Mecca and, due to the pandemic, no one was there! It was the anniversary of the Treaty of Lausanne, the origin of modern Turkey within its current borders. Erdogan was about to twist the arm of the secular Ataturk, who had turned the old Hagia Sophia basilica into a museum that he had donated ‘to humanity’. Erdogan… turned it back into a mosque”.

This was the moment, remarked Kepel – who just published a new book, “Le Prophète et la Pandémie” [“The Prophet and the Pandemic“] — that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan became the new leader of the umma, or global Islamic community. “Erdogan is trying to appear as the champion of Islam, just like Ayatollah Khomenei in 1989”.

Both Khomeini and Erdogan seem to have been committed to erasing secularism and ties with Western culture from their respective countries; to heading a battle against Saudi Arabia for supremacy of the Islamic world and to re-Islamizing their societies. Veiled women, for instance was rarely seen in Tehran before Khomeini, and Erdogan reintroduced it into Turkish society.

The Iranian mullahs were also able to impose on the international arena the use of the word “Islamophobia”, but now it is Turkey that is leading the ideological persecution of the “Islamophobes”. Under the auspices of Turkish diplomat Volkan Bozkir, President of the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, the UN just celebrated the “International Day against Islamophobia” and Secretary General Antonio Guterres himself strongly denounced an “epidemic of Islamophobia“. Erdogan was promoting his global campaign of victimization by “Islamophobia”, while in fact it is the critics of extremist Islam who are in dangerand frequently killed.

This grotesque and shameful conference was organized by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), an entity made up of 56 mainly Muslim countries, plus “Palestine”. In the OIC, states such as Pakistan punish “blasphemy” with death; Saudi Arabia flogs and jails liberal bloggers such as Raif Badawi, and Turkey fills its jails with writers and journalists, to mention just a few of members.

On that July 24, in 2020,, Erdogan challenged Europe and the West by re-appropriating what had been, for a thousand years, the largest church in Eastern Christianity. The lack of response on the part of the West most likely convinced him that the moment was right. No one paid attention or countered the act.

Unlike Iran and Saudi Arabia, Turkey is a democracy. It is in talks with the European Union about its possible membership; it is pampered in Washington; it is the second-largest army in NATO, and stands as Asia’s gateway to Europe.

The Financial Times (FT) has dedicated a series of analyses to Erdogan’s grand plan for hegemony. In Africa, for the past 15 years, for instance, the Turkish president has spearheaded a mega-relaunch of his alliances. Since 2009, Turkey has increased the number of embassies there from 12 to 42. Erdogan has even been a frequent visitor, making trips to more than 20 capitals. The government has set itself the goal over the next few years of doubling Turkey’s trade volume with Africa to $50 billion, about a third of its current trade with the European Union.

Turkey has also chosen the Balkans as a battlefield — “the region,” according to the FT, “is symbolically very important, since much of it was ruled by Istanbul during the Ottoman Empire”. Then, there is Europe:

“Several European countries have voiced concern over activity by Turkey’s intelligence service on their soil and the use of state-trained Turkish imams to spy on the diaspora”.

Erdogan’s goal in Europe seems to be to use the Turkish diaspora as a political instrument of pressure on states (in particular Germany, France, Austria, Belgium and Holland) and as the base for his hegemony.

In the Caucasus, Turkey supported Azerbaijan’s war against Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh presumably to create a Turkic-Islamic corridor between Azerbaijan, Turkey and other Muslim countries. Erdogan also apparently makes use of mercenaries. The Indian media reported a contingent sent to Kashmir to support Pakistan. Turkey has also previously used “Sadat” mercenaries against the Armenians, as well as in the Libyan and Syrian civil wars.

In the latest issue of the Reveue des deux mondes, the French philosopher Michel Onfray remarked that there is a clash of civilizations and that Erdogan now leads the Islamist side. “It began in 1989 with the fatwa against Salman Rushdie,” he wrote.

“No Western country reacted except with words – as if they thought a verbal spell might work! With the beheading of Professor Samuel Paty it is this Judeo-Christianity that is being attacked — in Armenia, Islam is attacking the oldest Christianity in Europe …. Europe is afraid of Erdogan and his ability to cause damage. This Tamerlane in the making threatens, insults, attacks, [and] supports those who threaten us, insult us and attack us”.

That, Onfray continues, was the meaning of the Turkish aggression against Karabakh:

“Armenia is being attacked by Azeris and Muslim Turks who want its total disappearance. It is the result of a war of civilizations. What is happening in this country, which is the cradle of Christian civilization, is what awaits us here, in the tomb of the Judeo-Christian civilization itself. The battle lost in Armenia is the first of a war waged in the West against the Judeo-Christian civilization”.

Erdogan has not even tried to hide his ideological vision. “The crescent and star embellish the skies of Karabakh now thanks to the efforts of our Azerbaijani brothers and sisters”, the Turkish president proclaimed after the war. “The Azerbaijani flag flies proudly over Nagorno-Karabakh as a symbol of our martyrs’ valor”.

One of Erdogan’s advisors, the retired Turkish general Adnan Tanrıverdi, who founded the mercenary agency “Sadat”, articulated the vision of a unified Islamic superpower. His Justice Defenders Strategic Studies Center called it “Asrica“, the union of Africa and Asia, 61 countries whose capital is Istanbul and under the aegis of this “Erdoganistan”. They include 12 countries of the Middle East, namely Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Palestine, Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Jordan and Yemen; eight in Central Asia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkey and Turkmenistan; four in the Near East, namely Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran and Pakistan; three in Southeast Asia, Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia; six in North Africa, namely Algeria, Chad, Morocco, Libya, Egypt and Tunisia; six in East Africa, including Djibouti, Eritrea, Comoros, Mozambique, Somalia and Sudan; ten in northwestern Africa and South America, ie Western Sahara, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guyana and Suriname; eight in South West Africa, namely Benin, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and Togo; and four in Europe, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Macedonia.

Turkey evidently wants to be a great neo-Ottoman Emipire and the only one capable of leading the Muslim world. The conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque seems to have been intended as a watershed in Islamic history that heralds the establishment of a powerful league of Muslim nations to face the West under the Turkish leadership.

Three seas surround Turkey: the Eastern Mediterranean, the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea. Turkey recently launched a large naval exercise. The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced that 82 warships, 17 naval aviation craft, amphibious forces, air force units and special operations teams engaged in exercises that ended on March 8.

“Blue Homeland” — Mavi Vatan in Turkish — is the geopolitical concept that marks Erdogan’s agenda for the coming years. Conceived by nationalist Admiral Cem Gurdeniz, it is the “diplomacy of drills and warships” that pursues “the return of Turkey to the sea, the union between Anatolia and the eastern Mediterranean”. The goal is clear: to control the sea, to control energy resources and to impose its influence. Erdogan announced that it will no longer be called “Aegean”, but the “sea of ​​islands”.

Ankara is on a collision course with Greece and Cyprus over who has the right to exploit the eastern Mediterranean’s oil and gas deposits. “They will understand that Turkey has the political, economic and military power to tear up immoral maps and imposed documents,” Erdogan said.

Turkey has problems with Cyprus, which, unlike the Turks, belongs to the European Union but not to NATO. Turkey, which invaded the island in 1974, remains the only country to recognize Turkish-occupied Northern Cyprus as a state. The Republic of Cyprus, which is majority-Greek Cypriot, wants to make deals with foreign energy companies, while Turkey, to the island’s north, wants economic rights in the waters that Cyprus considers its own.

While the new sultan extends his influence to Syria, Libya and the Caucasus, he also extends it within the Mediterranean. For pacifist Europe, that sea only exists when it comes to bringing in migrants.

President Erdogan, in an official visit to Paris on January 5, 2018, proceeded to launch this provocative phrase to the leaders of the French Council for Muslim worship: “The Muslims of France are under my protection”. Those were the first lines of an inquiry by the France’s Journal du Dimanche. Several reports sent to the Elysée Palace by the Directorate General for Internal Security (DGSI), which the newspaper was able to consult, reveal the scope, forms and objectives of a “real infiltration strategy” through networks managed by the Turkish embassy and the Turkish spy agency, the MIT. “They act mainly within the Turkish immigrant population, but also through Muslim organizations and also recently in local political life, through the support given to elected officials”.

“These actions have different objectives,” commented the journalist Mohamed Sifaoui.

“First, to improve the image of the Turkish regime in the diaspora and in French society. Then, to defend Erdogan’s image at all costs. And finally, of course, the spread of an Islamist vision of Islam”.

Sifaoui cites as an example the latest charter wanted by French President Emmanuel Macron, the charter of principles present in the law that strengthens “republican principles,” and is currently being examined by Parliament:

“It was not signed by the two Turkish federations, at the request of Ankara, because it is a charter that recalls the fundamental principles important for the Republic and which the Turkish regime clearly opposes… What the Turkish regime is doing is using its diaspora as a Trojan horse.”

The Brookings Institution wrote in 2019:

“According to the [French] ministry of interior, 151 imams have been sent by Turkey (which has undertaken a spate of religious outreach to Muslims across Europe over the past decade)…”

Just as Turkey controls 400 mosques out of 2,500 in France. It is Ahmet Ogras, apparently close to Erdogan, who for two years occupied the symbolic position of president of the French Council for Muslim Worship — as Turkish voters in France are generally more pro-Erdogan than in Turkey. During the presidential elections of 2014, Erdogan won 66% of the votes cast by Turkish citizens in France, compared to only 51.79% in Turkey. First- and second-generation Turkish immigrants in France continue to watch Turkish television, which is extremely submissive to Erdogan’s power. In French public schools, 180 teachers, directly appointed by Ankara, are responsible for teaching the Turkish language.

These efforts make up the great project of conquest by Erdogan the Islamizer.

Erdogan recently withdrew Turkey from an international treaty on preventing violence against women. With this decision, it seems that the president is determined to increase impunity around murder of women and “honor killings”, which common in Turkey.

In Erdogan’s Turkey, school textbooks have been rewritten to refer to Jews and Christians as gavur, “infidels,” according to a new study published by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se). Earlier Turkish textbooks referred to the members of the two religions as the “peoples of the Book”. “School books have been used as a weapon in Erdogan’s attempts to Islamise Turkish society and to trace back to a nostalgic era of Turkish domination,” wrote IMPACT-se’s CEO, Marcus Sheff.

These are some of the findings of the study: Jihad was introduced in textbooks and transformed into the “new normal”, with martyrdom in battle glorified. Ethno-nationalist religious goals of neo-Ottomanism and pan-Turkism are taught. Therefore, Islam is described as a political issue, with science and technology used to further its goals. There is an emphasis on concepts such as “Turkish world domination” and “Turkish or Ottoman ideal of world order”. According to the curriculum, the “Turkish basin” extends from the Adriatic Sea to Central Asia. The curriculum adopts an anti-American stance, and shows sympathy for the motives of ISIS and al-Qaeda. Turkey takes anti-Armenian and pro-Azerbaijani positions. The identity and cultural needs of the Kurdish minority continue to be largely neglected. The pogroms of 1955 against the Greek community in Istanbul are ignored.

At schools, during the term of Erdogan, maps showing Turkish power have appeared. Reference is made to the “Turkish heritage from the Adriatic Sea to the Great Wall of China”: “Turkish cultural artifacts can be seen in a vast region, starting with the countries of Central and East Asia, such as China and Mongolia, and extends to Herzegovina and Hungary…”

“We are a large family of 300 million people from the Adriatic to the Great Wall of China,” Erdogan said in a speech from Moldova.

Europe, the US, NATO and the Free World might start worrying. Erdogan seems aiming to be the new Islamist wolf in sheep’s clothing.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17202/erdogan-turkey-islamic-superpower

Nike has been condemned for depicting a celebrated mathematician in a hijab, despite the fact she chose not wear the garment while she was alive.

Maryam Mirzakhani, who died of breast cancer in 2017, was the only woman to date to have won the Fields Medal, one of the highest awards in the field of mathematics.

She left Iran after graduating university in 1999 and moved to the US, where she chose not cover her hair.

But screenshots of an internal Nike newsletter sent to staff in its Ascend employee network were shared by a number of social media users.They display a drawing of the mathematician wearing a white hijab, which some on Twitter suggested was based on an image first doctored by Iranian officials for propaganda purposes.

The headscarf is often worn by Muslim women, but many choose not to use the garment.

“Welcome to Women’s History Month!” the email from Nike reads, before going on to detail various upcoming events and promotions.

“Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win the prestigious Field Medal, might describe it as Y + Z = Σ,” it adds.

The drawing of Mirzakhani can be seen below the text, a decision that has attracted widespread criticism.

“This is how @Nike decided to portray Maryam Mirzakhani who was the first woman to win the Fields Medal,” wrote Amir Sariaslan, one of the people who shared the images online.

“She never wore the hijab once she had left the country that enforced it. You should be ashamed of yourselves.”

While not offering an apology, a Nike spokesperson told The Independent: “Nike respects all people, culture and religions and we take concerns of this nature seriously.

“This employee-led, internal communication was intended to celebrate Maryam Mirzakhani and her accomplishments. It was not intended to offend anyone. We’re reviewing our internal processes.”

Women who live in Iran are required by law to wear the hijab and are harshly punished for rebelling against the rule.

When Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal in 2014 some newspapers in the country digitally altered her photos and added a hijab to her image.

Others used sketches of her wearing the hair covering or used older photographs of Mirzakhani, dating from the time she lived in Iran and had to wear the hijab.But multiple Iranian newspapers broke a taboo when the mathematician died in 2017 and published images of her with hair uncovered.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/nike-hijab-maryam-mirzakhani-iran-newsletter-mathematician-a8815516.html