Switzerland has served as an isolated island of sanity, immunized by its mountainous terrain from the epidemics of mental illness that sweep the rest of Europe. It still respects the fundamental right to bear arms, which is rarely honored elsewhere in the Old World. But moonbattery eats its way into everything, even Switzerland, where it will now be illegal to counter the transformative LGBT agenda.

Via Christian News:

Voters in Switzerland have approved a referendum to include so-called sexual orientation in the country’s anti-discrimination statutes, prohibiting public “hate speech” and denigration of homosexuals, as well as inciting hatred through text or images. Violators could face up to three years behind bars.

Such law can be used to criminalize the expression of any opinion radical activists want suppressed. Even to refer to sexual perversion as “sexual perversion” might result in imprisonment.

According to the Swiss government,

The new provision will prohibit public statements or actions that violate the human dignity of a person or group and which therefore incite a climate of hatred and endanger the peaceful coexistence of society. It will also be an offence to refuse to provide someone with a service that is publicly on offer because of their sexual orientation.

This is bad news for any Christian who regards it to be blasphemy to partake in homosexual “marriages,” be they bakers, photographers, filmmakers, or even priests. Official establishment of homosexual “marriage” in Switzerland is coming soon.

Mathias Reynard of the Swiss Socialist Party is delighted. “Homophobia is not an opinion. It’s a crime,” barks Reynard. “One in five homosexuals attempted suicide, half before the age of 20.”

Most sane people will probably regard this statistic as evidence that homosexuality is not a characteristic of mental health, and that there are good reasons for the nearly universal proscription against it throughout place and time. In contrast, progressives take it as evidence that anyone critical of the homosexual lifestyle and agenda must be thrown in prison lest gays become upset by learning that not everyone finds their way of life admirable and appealing.

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The prosecution made serious accusations against a 54-year-old Turk. The man allegedly sexually abused a 14-year-old girl in his car and then simply abandoned her in a field near St. Pölten. The young schoolgirl was drunk after a party in May 2019. She was lured into his car by a Turkish man who already had several criminal convictions (including sexual offences). In court he claimed that the girl had told him in English language that she was willing to have oral sex with him for money. She then grabbed his steering wheel several times and finally jumped out of the car at Markersdorf, where she was later found lying in a field. The prosecution accused him of shamelessly exploiting the situation. The man was arrested months after traces of semen were discovered on the student’s jacket. On Thursday, the verdict was eight years imprisonment.

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The Italian Senate has voted to strip former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini of parliamentary immunity so that he can face kidnapping charges for refusing to allow migrants to disembark from a ship at a port in Sicily.

If Salvini, who leads the anti-mass-migration party, Lega (League), is found guilty, he faces a ban on holding political office and up to 15 years in prison. He has said that he acted in Italy’s national interest and that the charges against him are politically motivated, aimed at silencing criticism of the country’s open-door migration policy.

Under Italian law, ministers enjoy immunity for actions taken while in office — unless the Senate votes to lift that protection. On February 12, the Italian Senate voted 152-76 in favor of lifting Salvini’s immunity, after a parliamentary committee on January 21 recommended the action.

In December, the Court of Ministers in Catania, Sicily, ruled that Salvini should be indicted for “aggravated kidnapping” for depriving 131 migrants onboard the Gregoretti coastguard ship of their liberty by refusing to allow them to disembark. The incident, which occurred over a four-day period in July 2019, was part of Salvini’s “closed ports” policy against illegal immigration and an attempt to force EU member states to share the burden of mass migration.

More than 600,000 migrants have arrived in Italy over the past four years. Under EU rules — known as the Dublin Regulation — migrants must seek asylum in their country of arrival, which, for reasons of geography, places an inordinate burden on Italy.

After five other EU member states agreed to take in most of the migrants onboard the Gregoretti, Salvini on July 31 allowed them to disembark in Augusta, Sicily, from where they were transferred abroad.

In September, Sicilian prosecutor Carmelo Zuccaro said that the kidnapping accusations against Salvini were “groundless” and recommended that he be acquitted of all charges. The Court of Ministers, however, overruled Zuccaro, who is now, paradoxically, required to proceed with prosecuting Salvini, even though he has already found him to be innocent.

The charges against Salvini appear to be part of a political vendetta against him as well as his opposition to mass migration. Case in point: Although the decision to prevent those onboard the Gregoretti from disembarking in July 2019 was madeby Salvini in close coordination with senior members of the Italian government, only Salvini is facing prosecution.

Addressing the Senate before the vote to lift Salvini’s immunity, Lega Senator Erika Stefani presented documents showing that Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio and Justice Minister Alfonso Bonafede were all deeply involved in discussions over the Gregoretti. “No contrary position was taken by Prime Minister Conte,” she said. “There was an implicit and also explicit sharing of Salvini’s position…. This makes the hypothesis of individual action by Minister Salvini completely improbable.”

The prospect of an extended legal battle appears to have energized Salvini and catapulted him into campaign mode. Before the Senate voted to lift his immunity, Salvini tweeted:

“If I have to go to court, I will explain to the judges that defending the borders of my country and protecting citizens was my duty and, serenely, I will go to that courtroom to represent millions of Italians, because I simply did what they asked me to do: to control who enters and who leaves Italy.”

After the Senate voted, Salvini tweeted: “I have nothing to be ashamed of. Indeed, I will go to that courtroom reaffirming what I have done. I am proud of what I did as a minister.” He also called out his political opponents as the true kidnappers: “kidnappers of democracy.”

Speaking to TG2 television, Salvini added:

“During my time in government we reduced the deaths at sea. We reduced landings, costs and problems for Italians. I expect an impartial judgment from the court. I feel like a true Italian, not a criminal. I defended the borders of my country and the safety of my children and the children of all Italians. I do not ask for a medal. They give me a trial. I will go to that courtroom to say that defending the borders of my country is my right and my duty.”

Salvini has faced additional legal threats. In August 2018, Sicilian Prosecutor Luigi Patronaggio accused Salvini of “kidnapping, illegal arrest and the abuse of power” for preventing 150 mostly Eritrean migrants from leaving the Italian coast guard ship Diciotti unless other European Union member states agreed to take some of them in.

After a six-day standoff, the Italian government on August 28, 2018, allowed the migrants to disembark at the Sicilian port of Catania after the Vatican, Albania and Ireland agreed to take them in.

In March 2019, the Italian Senate voted to shield Salvini from prosecution in the Diciotti case.

On February 12, 2020, the Milan public prosecutor’s office closed the investigation of Salvini for “defaming” Carola Rackete, the 31-year-old German captain of a migrant rescue ship. Salvini denounced Rackete for aiding illegal immigration, calling her a “pirate” and an “outlaw” and vowing to expel her from Italy. Rackete’s lawyer, Alessandro Gamberini, accused Salvini of stirring up hatred: “We have already prepared the case against Minister Salvini.”

Meanwhile, on February 26, 2020, a Senate committee will rule on whether to charge Salvini with “kidnapping” 107 migrants aboard the Open Arms, a Spanish NGO boat in Sicily, between August 14 and 20, 2019.

Salvini has, unsurprisingly, compared his legal harassment to that of U.S. President Donald J. Trump, who has faced an onslaught of lawsuits aimed at challenging his policies. Salvini tweeted:

“Me like Trump? He has a few more billions and a few more years, but it is a habit of the left, around the world, to try to win by judicial means.”

Like Trump, Salvini’s legal troubles are fuelling his approval ratings. Lega is now Italy’s most popular political party, with voter support at around 30%, according to opinion polls. Surveys indicate that if Italy held elections now, Lega would win a majority together with its conservative allies.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15597/italy-salvini-show-trial

Young migrants who carry out sadistic and degrading robberies against Swedes do so because they feel hopeless and like they do not belong in society, according to Sweden’s Social Democratic Minister of the Interior Mikael Damberg. 

In a recent high profile case, an 18-year-old was robbed by two younger assailants who, among other things, peed on him and forced him to open his mouth while doing so. In an interview with SVT, Mikael Damberg was asked to explain why youth robberies are increasing.“I don’t think I should have an explanation. I will wait for criminologists and others to tell me what it is due to. But it is obvious that there is a total lack of moral perception here, where these young men can commit almost any disgusting action against other young people. It is something that is lacking in the parenting role, but also that society does not intervene early enough”, said Damberg.The interviewer then asked Damberg why crime is increasing in the “vulnerable areas”.“It must be about both lack of parenting and norms, morals and values that are crossed in these gangs, and that is very serious. The second thing is that some of the young people feel hopeless, that they don’t do well in school and that they feel that there is no place for them in society”, the Interior Minister concluded.

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For those who don’t like surprises, here is a dog bites man story confirming that the world is the way we have come to expect it to be. Summit News reports on a survey of >8,000 people that correlates mental illness with political views:

Carried out by Slate Star Codex, the online survey collected a wealth of data from respondents about their education, demographic, lifestyle and political views.

The results show that people who occupy the farther left end of the political spectrum are more likely to have been “formally diagnosed with depression, borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia.”

Of those formally diagnosed with mental problems, the most common political affiliation is “Marxist” at 38%. The least common is “conservative” at 12.1%.

Once again, it has been confirmed: liberalism is a mental disorder.

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A Turkish historian said the Turkish government is hiding historic telegrams which could provide information about the Armenian Genocide, based on his findings.

Armenia says the killing of up to 1.5 million Armenian people between 1915 and 1917 was a genocide. The events are recognized as a genocide by 30 other countries, and US Congress passed a measure in December last year to formally recognize the killings as a genocide.

Turkey strongly denies the accusation of genocide and puts the death toll in the hundreds of thousands.

According to historian Tanar Akcam, the Turkish government is deliberately hiding evidence of the genocide even today.

Akcam told Al Arabiya that the Turkish government knew of the existence of telegrams related to the genocide because they were used in state military tribunals in Istanbul in the year 1919.

“In these military tribunals, public prosecutors wrote an indictment and verdicts … they quoted from these telegrams,” he said in a video interview.

Akcam found the documents in a private archive and not in state archives.

There are people in Turkey who are fighting for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide, explained Akcam.

“This is part of the Turkish civil rights movement, it’s a part of the Turkish struggle for democracy and human rights,” he said.

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2020/02/13/Turkey-hiding-Ottoman-era-evidence-of-Armenian-Genocide-Historian-.html

In the early 1970s, the most horrific antisemitic terror attacks took place in Munich. Fifty years ago today, seven Holocaust survivors were murdered at the city’s Jewish retirement home.

On February 13th, 1970, twenty-five years after Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender and the end of the Holocaust, more Jews were murdered in Germany. At Munich’s Jewish retirement home, Arie Leib Leopold Gimpel, David Jakubovicz, Eliakim Georg Pfau, Meir Max Blum, Rivka Regina Becher, Rosa Drucker and Siegfried Offenbacher died that day.

Six of these Holocaust survivors aged 50 to 71 suffocated or were burned to death. One of them died when he jumped out of the window because of the fire. The antisemitic terror act on February 13th, 1970, was never solved. Most indicators point towards left-wing radicals though.

The retirement home was located in the Jewish community center next to the synagogue at Munich’s ‘Reichenbachstrasse’. Both the elderly home and a student home were located on the upper floors. Shortly before 9:00 p.m., when many inhabitants observed Shabbat, an unknown person entered the building and poured gasoline all over the staircase. Once the culprit left, he or she lit it.

Within minutes, the flames reached the upper floors. Only two minutes after a neighbor alarmed the fire brigade, the first fire fighters arrived at the scene. They managed to get 50 people out of the building alive. A plaque on the wall of the synagogue commemorates the seven victims of the terror attack today.

The late Heinz Galinski was head of the Jewish community in West Berlin at the time. He said the attackers in Munich had achieved what they had tried to do in Berlin a few months earlier. On November 9th, 1969, terrorists had placed a bomb in West Berlin’s Jewish community center. It did not explode.

In West Berlin, the Tupamaros, a radical left-wing organization, took responsibility for the 1969 terror attack. But the Munich division of the same organization denied it had anything to do with the murders in Munich. The prosecution and the police never managed to find the culprits.

Back then, the President of the young Federal Republic of Germany, Gustav Heinemann, said the attack had been “particularly disgusting” because the victims had already suffered a lot “in the past.” Chancellor Willy Brandt said everything was done to find those responsible. And Bavaria’s First Minister Franz-Josef Strauss accused the center-left government of not being able to control crime.

All antisemitic organizations in Berlin, including the Palestinian terror group AOLP, denied any involvement. The student organization AStA was going to stage a protest against the visit of Israel’s Foreign Minister Abba Eban in order to accuse Israel of defending itself when it was attacked by its neighbors in what is known as the Six-Day War. Because of the terror attack, they called off the demonstration.

Three days before the deadly attack, one person was murdered during a terror act against an aircraft owned by the Israeli airline El Al at Munich’s Riem airport. Two and a half years later, on September 5th, 1972, the Palestinian terror group Black September murdered almost all Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.

In the 1970s, German left-wing extremists cooperated with Palestinian terror organizations. This cooperation of hate lead to the hijacking of a Lufthansa jet full of vacationers on October 13th, 1977. Today, extremist left-wingers in Germany, including the antisemitic BDS movement, still admire Palestinian terrorists and co-organize events with them.

A container with photos and information about the 1970 attack in Munich was recently set up at the city’s ‘Gärtnerplatz’ square, for Arie Leib Leopold Gimpel, David Jakubovicz, Eliakim Georg Pfau, Meir Max Blum, Rivka Regina Becher, Rosa Drucker and Siegfried Offenbacher. They have not been forgotten, and never will.

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Four women were robbed in an apartment on Schützenstraße in the downtown area of Düsseldorf in the morning hours of December 20. Now the police is searching for the perpetrators with the photos from a surveillance camera. The two unknown perpetrators forcibly broke into the apartment on the upper floor and woke the women living there from their sleep. While holding a firearm, they asked one of the women to give them money. The perpetrators grabbed her handbag from the bedside table and fled the apartment.

The two unknown men are described as follows: An unmasked person was described by the witnesses as having a Turkish-Moroccan appearance. He is about 20 years old, 1.70 meters tall and spoke German with an accent. According to the testimony, the second man was masked, about early 20 years old, had a southern European appearance and is about 1.70 to 1.80 meters tall, he had a normal stature and was dressed in dark clothes.The police are searching with the photos from a surveillance camera and are asking witnesses who can provide information to contact the Criminal Investigation Department 13 by calling 0211-8700.

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