Scuffles broke out on the streets of Kassel as a COVID-sceptics march was countered by groups of Antifa on Saturday. Police were seen pushing back on COVID-sceptics as tensions arose. At least one fight briefly broke out between the two the anti-lockdown protesters and a member of the Antifa. The protest took place just days before Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to meet state leaders to discuss an extension of the lockdown restrictions initially imposed in December amidst fears Germany may be heading towards a ‘third wave’ of COVID-19 amidst mounting infection rates. According to the latest data compiled the Robert Koch Institute, Germany has reported over 2 and a half million COVID cases, and 74,565 related deaths.

Hundreds of anti-lockdown and anti-government protesters marched through the streets of Vienna on Saturday. Protesters were seen waving Austrian flags and giant banners reading: ‘Kurz must go,’ demanding the resignation of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. Many were visibly not wearing masks nor following social distancing rules, leading the police to dissolve the protest for non-respect of safety and hygiene guidelines. According to reports, 11 people were arrested. Austria is considering relaxing some of its lockdown rules by allowing restaurant, cafe and bar terraces to open again on March 27. On Friday, the country reported its highest level of new infections since early December, with 3,500 registered cases.

After the councillor Nasser Zeaiter, who came under pressure in the Hezbollah affair, first had to admit personal contacts with leaders of the terrorist organisation, which is banned in Germany, and then resigned from the Green Party, the latter finally managed to ask him to resign from his council mandate and the chairmanship of the council on migration and integration. Even though the statement by the party and parliamentary group leadership of the Mönchengladbach Greens did not show any real awareness of the problem and was only aimed at maintaining the party’s own parliamentary group strength, the Junge Union explicitly welcomes its objective:

“Anyone who has contacts with leading terrorists and also stages these connections in the social media for publicity purposes disqualifies himself for any political mandate,” said JU district board member Roderich Busch. “The council for integration fulfils an important social function, which must not be burdened by such connections under any circumstances. For this reason, Nasser Zeaiter’s immediate resignation from all offices is more than overdue.”

If Zeaiter’s resignation from the parliamentary group remains unchanged while he retains his seat on the council, this is probably due to material reasons. Although politically completely meaningless, Zeaiter would still be able to receive the corresponding expense allowances totalling more than 25,000 euros for another four and a half years.

Furthermore, it should not go unmentioned that Nasser Zeaiter’s second deputy, Zeina Wehbe, is also an active member of the controversial Al-Ghadir Association and also acted as deputy chairperson there for many years. Her role must therefore also be critically questioned in this context and examined for possible entanglements in order to push for a replacement in her position as well, if necessary.

“Since, according to Interior Minister Reul, the problems of the Al-Ghadir Association and its protagonists had already been well known to Lord Mayor Heinrichs since December, it remains a mystery to any sincere democrat why this scandal was apparently swept under the carpet at first. swept under the carpet. We call on you, Mr Heinrichs, as well as the parliamentary group chairmen Jannan Safi, Dr Boris Wolkowski and Nicole Finger, to finally take action. Put an end to this deplorable charade when Nasser Zeaiter, as announced, asks for a vote of confidence in the Council of Integration and clear the way for deputies with a real sense of democracy, religious peace and integration.” Lukas Joeckel, JU Mönchengladbach candidate for the executive CDU district executive, concluded.

https://www.cdu-moenchengladbach.de/besser-spaet-als-nie-ju-begruesst-ruecktrittsforderung-der-gruenen-gegen-nasser-zeaiter-ampel-weiterhin-am-zug

Amed Sherwan (22) is vocal. Time and again he raises his voice and expresses criticism of Islam in Germany. He is a refugee and ex-Muslim from Iraq.

In December, Sherwan published a photo montage with a waving rainbow flag as a symbol. The picture shows him and Mohamed Hisham (29), another activist from Egypt, kissing in front of the Islamic shrine Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to draw attention to homophobia in the Muslim community.

As a result, Sherwan was threatened with death and Facebook deleted not only a post in which he defended the photo, but also his profile. Sherwan did not want to accept this: He brought an action against Facebook in court. He wanted to know the reasons for the blocking and to make an example of freedom of expression. In fact, Facebook suffered a defeat in court on Wednesday.

The BILD newspaper reports on Sherwan’s fight for freedom of expression. A story of TORTURE, FLIGHT and FREEDOM around a photo montage.

Sherwan is excited because the next day is the trial date at Flensburg District Court.

“I posted a photomontage of me kissing with an activist, a friend of mine, Mohamed Hisham, in front of a photo background of the Kaaba in Mecca. With the photo, I wanted to show my solidarity with LGBTQ people in the Muslim community. I wanted to draw attention to the issue of being gay in the Muslim context. Because of that, I received quite a lot of death threats, most of them were from Pakistan. They also reported my profile. Then Facebook removed my post (defending his post, ed.) and deleted my Instagram profile completely,” Sherwan tells BILD.

After his lawyer asked Facebook about this blocking, Sherwan got his Instagram profile back, which had also been blocked, as well as the post on Facebook. Nevertheless, with the support of the Giordano Bruno Foundation and the Institute for Worldview Law (ifw), he filed a lawsuit against Facebook – in what is known as summary proceedings.

“It’s not just about my account, other activists are also experiencing this. Their platforms are blocked, posts deleted, because other religious persons don’t like it and they feel hurt in their religious feelings,” Sherwan tells BILD. He thinks it is problematic when large digital corporations like Facebook take action against a post based on the number of messages alone, without properly checking it. This, he says, is an attack on freedom of expression.

The 22-year-old blogger started his struggle in his home country Iraq when he was 15 years old. Because of his criticism of Islam, he had to go to prison as a minor in Iraq. Sherwan grew up in a Muslim family in Kurdish northern Iraq.

“I was very devout as a child. By chance, I saw texts critical of religion on the internet, which seemed like blasphemy to me at the time because I was a devout Muslim. I kept reading and that was a new world to me, it made more sense to me than Islam,” Sherwan describes his experience to BILD. “When I questioned my faith, criticised it even in public, my father reported me to the police under pressure from neighbours. I ended up in prison at 15 and was tortured – with all kinds of methods: beatings, whippings, electric shocks.”

Due to his age and a dedicated lawyer, his case received greater media attention. After his uncle paid bail, Sherwan was released.

“After that, it was not safe for me in Iraqi Kurdistan. I could not live there as an infidel, so I had to leave my country later.”

Sherwan came to Germany at the end of 2014, he was 15.

A blog and social media are Sherwan’s platform to question Islam.

“I have actually also experienced physical violence here in Germany after I showed up at a demo of a Palestinian association in Flensburg with a photo of two men kissing – Israelis and Jews. I was then beaten in the middle of the street and had to go to hospital,” Sherwan recalls.

Sherwan has already experienced a lot and wanted to share his story with everyone in Germany. In October 2020, his book “Kafir Allah sei Dank bin ich Atheist” (Thank Allah I’m an Atheist) was published, which he wrote together with Katrine Hoop.

Because of his kissing action, Mohamed Hisham, participant of this photo montage, is on the run again. He could no longer live in his refugee center: He received insults and threats from other refugees. Once he was even beaten up.

“Because of the photo, I was tortured in my refugee home, I had to leave the center. I also experienced so much hate from people because of this photo,” Hisham tells BILD.

He is also a well-known blogger, from Egypt. He fled to Germany in 2019 and later met Sherwan.

Not only in front of the holy Kaaba in Mecca did Sherwan make this photomontage, but also in front of other religious symbols.

“I posted this photo montage in front of different religious places, there is not a single death threat in the others. But when I get death threats, they are from Muslims,” Sherwan says.

On Wednesday, Sherwan is sitting with his lawyer Joachim Steinhöfel in courtroom A 409 in the summary proceedings against Facebook Ireland Ltd. The original aim was to obtain an injunction against Facebook. But because Sherwan had already achieved his goal, he and Facebook declared the matter closed. The court only had to decide on the costs of the proceedings. In such a case, it makes a prognosis as to which party would probably have lost the legal dispute.

The result: Facebook bears the costs of the proceedings.

Sherwan considers it a victory because Facebook could not properly justify why they blocked his profile. He wanted to achieve exactly the same thing, that his posts would not be considered violations of Facebook’s community rules.

“I think the court ruling against Facebook’s censorship is a win for freedom of opinion and speech and a direct implementation of the values of enlightenment,” his friend Hisham comments to BILD about the decision.

https://www.bild.de/politik/inland/politik-inland/fluechtling-zog-wegen-homosexueller-postings-gegen-facebook-vor-gericht-75790228.bild.html

The young woman of English nationality was beaten up in the middle of the city, in broad daylight. Nobody lifted a finger to help her.

On a Twitter video relayed by the Info Rodéo media on March 19, a young woman was violently attacked by a group of immigrants in Bordeaux. The facts took place Thursday, at the corner of rue Chantre, in the heart of the Gironde city. The images show how passers quietly continue on their way, while the victim, of English nationality, is beaten by African and Arab men – called either “youths” or “scum” in France to avoid mentioning their ethnicity – who wanted to steal her bag and her phone.

The individuals, some five men, surrounded her and took turns to hit the victim. They did not hesitate to pull her hair and assault relentlessly. While the woman is on the ground, the attackers forcefully pick her up and punch her in the head. Visibly unsatisfied and even less moved, several of them then lead her a few steps away, behind a wall, where the scene continues outside the field of the camera.

However, we see the attackers continuing. On the right, a man runs to kick the lower part of the woman’s body. The individuals then begin to discuss their assault, pointing the body of the young woman on the ground after the extreme violence of the blows. No witness to the scene intervened to assist the victim.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/03/21/young-english-woman-savagely-assaulted-by-youths-in-bordeaux/

Please check the Reader’s Links post for many amazing videos of the event in Germany and elsewhere. Ill post a few below but really the meat is in today’s Reader’s Links comments post.

Police in Germany appear to be abusing German Citizens in a fairly fascist manner for being there. And much more to come Im sure. One march in the UK is ENORMOUS. There will be no policing it.

Related: Ontario went into a red alert state today. Expect plastic pipes to break from the walls and steam to pour out any second.

In a dramatic video segment that’s currently circulating on social media, a Greek shepherd living on the island of Lesbos — not far from one of the migrant camps — breaks down in tears at one point as he describes how his life’s work has been destroyed a result of migrants repeatedly stealing and slaughtering his sheep.

The shepherd, Fotis Giounis, lives close to the Kara Tepe migrant camp, which presently houses around 7,000 migrants. During the video clip, Giounis says that gangs of migrants have recently repeatedly trespassed on his land, grabbing his best animals, then slaughtering them before taking the meat back with them to camp.  

“I have created all this by riding a bike and selling milk. I have lived in tents for five months… And they destroyed everything in two hours.”

The shepherd also described how he had found carcasses of his goats and sheep tossed into a nearby stream and field. Giounis says that the migrant gang trespassed onto his property while he was away for two hours and slaughtered five sheep. A similar attack took place the week before, he added.

“I wonder, do [the authorities] see people with big bags of meat — over 100 kilos — and they do not stop them? Aren’t they looking to find where the meat comes from? I am desperate,” Giounis told the Greek news agency StoNisi.

“I am horrified by the fact that groups of armed people are wandering here in the mountains, looking for our farms — and apparently they are familiar with the use of knives.”

During the interview, Giounis expressed that he has feelings of desperation since his animals take several years to raise and that his family is heavily dependent on them for their survival. Ten of his lambs are now without parents. The shepherd also told the journalists that now he is forced to spend his days away from his children so that he can guard his animals from the migrants who stay in high-priced tents nearby.

“I do not want compensation. I just want to be at peace — to be able to go home and not be worried,” he says.

Unfortunately, this is hardly the first time that migrants living on the Greek island of Lesbos have had run-ins with the local population. Illegal migrants living on Lesbos have been repeatedly accused of damaging the islands delicate ecosystem, usually at a high cost for those who have lived on the island for many years.

Last year, illegal migrants staying at Moria — a migrant camps which is also located on Lesbos — chopped down around 5,000 olive trees on private property for reasons that remain unclear. 

Olive oil is Greece’s fourth highest export, with sales abroad totaling nearly €525 million in 2018.

At present, more than 7,000 illegal migrants are currently being held at the Kara Tepe migrant camp, which is situated about three miles north of Mytilene, the capital of Lesbos.

The island’s largest and most notorious camp Moria was decimated in a fire last September, leaving 13,000 illegal migrants without shelter. Five Afghan migrants in the shelter were arrested and accused by police of setting their own camp on fire. 

Migrants were also accused of vandalizing churches on a number of Greek islands. In 2020, Hungary donated €30,000 to help refurbish the churches. 

https://rmx.news/article/article/greek-shepherd-says-migrants-destroyed-his-lifes-work-breaks-down-crying-during-interview