On Sunday, hundreds of migrants celebrated the Persian Spring Festival at Stephansplatz Square in Vienna. At the end of the event, riots broke out.

Immigrants provoke with loud celebrations in front of St. Stephen’s Cathedral

In the night from March 20 to 21, the equinox “Nouruz” has been celebrated as the beginning of spring in several oriental countries for more than 3,000 years. Until now, there have been no public Persian New Year celebrations in Austria. But that changed last Sunday: The migrants are becoming more and more self-confident and drive out of the area districts into the city centre to let the rest of the local population take part in their goings-on.

Police did not intervene despite Corona violations and bonfires

That same evening, numerous videos were circulating on various social media platforms, showing loud shouting, music and scenes of violence. The migrants dance embraced tightly and often without wearing face masks and subsequently set fire to a bonfire in the middle of Stephansplatz Square.The police do not intervene at any time. Where are the strict checkers on distance-keeping and mask-wearing like at the Corona protests, where there were thousands of charges for exactly the same “offences”?

Turks against Kurds: Celebration escalates into brawl – as well as attacks on gays

Omnipresent in all this is the flag with the emblem of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, PKK, and the likeness of its founder Abdullah Öczalan, sentenced to life imprisonment. Once again, Vienna becomes the arena for foreign conflicts.

No wonder, then, that after some time, passers-by of presumed Turkish origin began to disrupt the celebration, which had been announced as a “rally”. According to eyewitnesses, anti-gay statements were also made, as the “tweet” of relevant activists below shows. The revolution is clearly eating its children….

Nevertheless, the police of the Minister of the Interior, Nehammer, is satisfied with the course of the evening:

The rally was basically peaceful, and there was only a short disruptive action at the end of the meeting. However, this was quickly pacified without further incidents by the intervention of the police. After the end of the rally, a man attacked a police officer in the course of an official act and was temporarily arrested on suspicion of attempted resistance to state authority.

https://www.unzensuriert.at/content/126217-persisches-neujahr-migranten-zuenden-lagerfeuer-mitten-am-stephansplatz-an/

The parliamentary group of the Greens in the Bundestag has called for more rights for foreigners and more funding for integration organizations in what could radically reshape the democratic process in the country. 

The Green Party’s integration policy spokeswoman, Filiz Polat, has called for local voting rights for citizens of non-EU countries and an anti-discrimination law in the federal government. If such a law becomes reality, it could potentially give voting rights to all foreigners residing in Germany even if they do not have German citizenship. Depending on the final form of such a law, illegal migrants, even those slated for deportation, could potentially vote in elections. Such a move would be expected to serve as an extreme boon for left-wing, pro-migrant parties such as the Green Party. 

According to Polat, there is a need for a federal participation law with a binding quota of “underrepresented groups” in the federal administration.

“We have to answer structural problems with structural measures,” said the party’s  spokeswoman. “This means, for example, a move away from short-term project funding towards permanent funding of organizations.”

According to Polat, a new nationality law is also needed. “Dual citizenship should become an option for all German citizens and the obligation rule should be abolished without further ifs or buts.”

The “obligation rule” refers to the German law obliging the children of certain foreign parents to choose between German and foreign citizenship up to their 21st birthday.

In addition, she also reiterated the call to increase quotas in government and the recording of data to show how diverse agencies are, the Junge Freiheit reported. 

“The yardstick for recording a quota could be a voluntary and data protection-compliant self-disclosure about racist experiences,” she said.

German parties are increasingly calling for quotas of those with a foreign background and migrants in public government, which may conflict with Germany’s constitution, which indicates that government is required to fill positions based on merit — not ancillary issues such as gender or race. 

This year, the 13th integration summit took place in digital form. The meeting was headed by the Federal Government’s Integration Commissioner, Annette Widmann-Mauz (CDU). Among other things, the topic discussed was strategies for more participation in the health system, in culture, the media, and in sport.

Green Party leader Katrin Göring-Eckhardt called for more state efforts to improve the chances of immigrants during the summit.

“Still too many doors remain closed to people of color and people with an immigration background,” she told the AFP news agency. “We finally have to get to grips with the structures to achieve real changes in our immigration society.”

German Greens demand voting rights for foreigners and more money for integration

All of Lombardy in Italy was once again declared a red zone beginning Monday, 15 March with the resulting consequences.

It is prohibited to leave home if not for a valid, justified reason, which could be for health. The schools are closed, as well as restaurants, bars, and many commercial enterprises. The ban on assemblies is the same for the past year in all of Italy, particularly in red zones.

The experts now say that even one meter of social distancing is not enough to reduce the risk of contagion due to more contagious variants of the Coronavirus, and therefore, it is necessary to at least double the distance. For the most part, the majority respect these directions, but there are those who seem to live outside the rules, Silvia Sardone, MEP and Lega municipal advisor, as well as Stefano Pavesi, Lega advisor told Italian daily Il Giornale.

The two Lega advocates denounced the facts. “Maybe something has escaped us, but Via Lopez is precisely around the illegal mosque inside a former bakery. Is it not a red zone like the rest of the city? Judging by the gatherings of Muslims on the sidewalks, it seems not,” noted the two Lega members.

Images taken outside the building, gave the words of the Lega advocates more weight. “It is absurd and inconceivable that the municipality doesn’t enforce the laws, in this case, the regional law on religious locations, especially in a pandemic situation that we are going through,” explained Silvia Sardone. “Why are the Muslims free to gather together blatantly violating the anti-Covid regulations while citizens and merchants have to remain home or keep their own locations closed with the evident social and economic damages?”

In the Milan community, the question especially concerns illegal mosques. It is impossible to censor them all, especially when the police intervene to close one, another quickly opens up. Sardone urged Left-wing Democratic Party Mayor Beppe Sala to act: “This mosque is illegal and should be closed. Mayor Sala, make yourself heard, send the local police to carry out an inspection, and then proceed accordingly. To begin with, it would be enough to intervene on Friday, the day of prayer, to punish all those who don’t respect the rules, beginning with social distance.”

Stefano Pavesi said a resolution must be found soon: “We will go forward to maintain pressure, at the side of citizens exasperated by this situation. Enough with different rules for different people. The people of Milan cannot always be penalized but the foreigners not.”

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/03/24/milan-declared-red-zone-but-believers-flock-to-the-mosque/

Police on Tuesday identified the shooter who killed 10 people in a Boulder, Colorado grocery store as 21-year old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, AP reported.

Alissa is from Arvada, a Denver suburb. He is currently in the hospital being treated for wounds related to the shootout with police inside the King Soopers grocery store. Later today, he will likely be moved to Boulder county jail to be booked on murder charges.

Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty stated that investigators are still working on a motive. Alissa appears to have acted alone.

Alissa’s brother, Ali Aliwi Alissa, 34, described him as “very anti-social” and “paranoid” in an interview with The Daily Beast.

“When he was having lunch with my sister in a restaurant, he said, ‘People are in the parking lot, they are looking for me. She went out, and there was no one. We didn’t know what was going on in his head,” said Ali Aliwi Alissa.

A Facebook page reportedly belonging to Alissa has been since deleted. It stated he was born in 1999 in Syria, and that he was a wrestler at Arvada West High School.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/299071

The Islam expert Prof. Susanne Schröter has warned against trivialising Islamic extremism. She gave a lecture on Islam and religious freedom in Germany on March 22 hosted by the Hayek Club in Frankfurt am Main. The director of the Research Centre Global Islam at the University of Frankfurt am Main, emphasised in this context that she welcomes it if the names of the victims in right-wing extremist attacks are mentioned publicly. “But who knows the names of the victims of the Breitscheidplatz attack or knows the name of the man who was murdered in Dresden last year?”Background: On December 19, 2016, the Tunisian Anis Amri crashed a truck into the Christmas market at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin. Twelve people died and dozens more were injured in the attack on Breitscheidplatz. On October 4, 2020, a man known to be an Islamist threat also stabbed two tourists, one of whom died of his injuries in hospital. The influence of Islamism is nevertheless played down by many politicians and also criminal investigators, as if there were no problem in this respect, Schröter said. Yet political Islam in Germany is well organised and networked. “After all, the largest right-wing extremist organisation in Germany is the Grey Wolves, whose supporters belong to the Turkish minority.”

The ethnologist also reported on how other countries deal with political Islam. Although French President Emmanuel Macron has now also begun to identify Islamism as a danger, the country still has a lot of catching up to do. Islamist structures and parallel societies have developed in many places. In the Paris suburbs, women wearing full-face veils have long been part of the cityscape. The case of the murdered teacher Samuel Paty (1973-2020) has also shown that critics of Islam no longer live safely in Europe. Paty had shown caricatures of Mohammed in his classroom and had therefore become the target of a campaign by outraged Muslims. On October 16, 2020, he was murdered in the street by an 18-year-old Chechen. It was also frightening that Paty’s colleagues at the school had not previously protected him from the attacks of radical Muslims.

Schröter, on the other hand, was much more positive about the Austrian government’s policy. The neighbouring country had realised that political Islam was a danger and had already taken measures to protect society from it. Schröter also welcomed the Swiss decision to ban the full-face veil. To voluntarily choose to wear a burqa or a nikab in public is downright “fascistoid”. After all, it is an expression of support for a radical form of political Islam. In a referendum on March 7, 51.2 per cent of the Swiss voted for a “Yes to the ban on veils”, 48.8 per cent against. The popular initiative was launched by the “Egerkinger Committee” (Lucerne), which wants to prevent the Islamisation of Switzerland. It is close to the national conservative Swiss People’s Party (SVP). The Hayek Club Frankfurt am Main was founded in 2014 and has 150 members. It is named after the liberal national economist Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992) and, according to its own statements, advocates for a free society and economy.

https://www.idea.de/spektrum/islamismus-nicht-verharmlosen

Until five months ago, not a single minor was on the list of people monitored by the Belgian terrorist threat agency OCAD. However, in early November 2020, two minors were arrested in Eupen. They were planning a terrorist attack against the police. At the beginning of 2021, four more minors were arrested. They were planning individual attacks.

One of the youths had bought a machete,” Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne told VRT, “The other wanted to buy knives. These are so-called lone wolves, unstable personalities who have contact with hate preachers on the internet and are influenced by extremist ideologies. They had not made the terror plans together, but each on his own.”

The Belgian security services took the situation seriously and arrested the four youths, who now remain in a facility for young people. They remain under surveillance and in contact with organisations that are supposed to take care of their deradicalisation.

“They are young Belgians from different backgrounds,” the justice minister stressed: “Some have converted to Islam, some come from Flanders, others from Wallonia. What strikes us above all is that they are young people and families who were not known to the security services. Which makes the work more difficult. Radicalisation takes place in front of the computer screen. That’s why you have to track them down quickly. We succeeded in doing that in this case.”

Why these young people are zealous for radical Islam is not yet clear. Probably that this radicalisation has taken place in recent months.

“It is striking that the murder of Samuel Paty was also an important signal of the radicalisation of minors in Belgium,” says Justice Minister Van Quickenborne. The French history teacher had shown two caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed during a lesson on freedom of expression. As a result, he was beheaded by a radical youth.

“We are now seeing minors on our terrorist list for the first time in three years,” he continued. “First the two minors in Eupen. And now we have four more underage individual perpetrators. (…) We absolutely have to keep an eye on these young people.” The Corona crisis can also trigger radicalisation. Young people spend more time on the computer and have fewer extracurricular activities.

Why these young people are fervent for radical Islam is not yet clear. Probably that this radicalisation has taken place in the last few months.

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/de/2021/03/23/vier-minderjaehrige-mit-plaenen-fuer-terroranschlaege-in-belgien/