A criminal court in West Flanders, Belgium has sentenced a military-aged male from Afghanistan to eight months in prison for sexually assaulting a teenage girl on the train.

Earlier this week, Irfanullah M, aged 33, was convicted of assaulting a 16-year-old girl on the train between Roeselare and Kortrijk back in January of 2019, Het Laatste Nieuws reports.

Irfanullah M., after realizing that the 16-year-old girl on the train was short three euros for the fare, offered to pay the three euros. But his intentions weren’t pure. Shortly after, the military-aged Afghan sat down next to the teenage girl, began harassing her, and even assaulted her.

According to the victim’s testimony, Irfanullah M. tried to kiss her and rubbed his breasts and buttocks with his hands in a sexually suggestive manner. Following the assault, the man sent the girl a friend request on Facebook, allowing police to easily identify him.

In court, the teenage victim said that the experience “left a deep impression” that remains a year later.

“I know nothing,” the 33-year-old Afghan told the judge. “I have a wife and children. I have never done anything bad. Can I appeal?”

Despite M’s claims, the judge had little sympathy and sentenced him to eight months in prison, half of which he’ll serve. In addition to his sentence, the judge ordered M to pay the victim 750 euros for her pain and suffering and pay a fine of 400 euros. The judge also barred Irfanullah M. from holding any positions of authority over minors for five years.

voiceofeurope.com/2020/02/belgium-afghan-man-convicted-of-assaulting-teenage-girl/

On the 05th of February 2020, around 6:30 pm, two men were physically attacked in Magdeburg.

The two men, aged 31 and 42, were in the Breiter Weg/Alter Markt area when a group of people approached them and behaved loudly. The 31-year-old addressed the group, whereupon a verbal argument erupted. Subsequently, both men were beaten by persons from the group. When the 31-year-old was lying on the floor, he was additionally kicked. Afterwards the group of people moved away towards the university square. The two men suffered injuries and were treated as outpatients in the hospital.

The group of persons was described as follows:

about five to nine people
Arabic appearance
approx. 15 – 20 years old
dark hair
a person wearing sweatpants with white stripes,
a person with a dark jacket with a conspicuous fur collar

Witnesses who can give relevant information about the crime are asked to call the Magdeburg police station by calling 0391/546-3292.

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The young woman smiles, but the tears in her eyes mean something completely different. Her father is trying to calm her down. “It’s terrible what we’ve been through. Everyone should know what happened,” he tells the newspaper BLICK. Four days ago, his daughter was molested and harassed by two Albanians and an Algerian. When he tried to help his daughter, he was beaten and threatened by the three rejected asylum seekers! The attack happened last Friday, just before 8:00 am. Sandra M.* (15 years old) walks after school with two 16-year-old friends to the Lago shopping centre in nearby Konstanz in Germany: Then they wait for the bus in Kreuzlingen in the Swiss canton of Thurgau at Bärenplatz square. It doesn’t take long, when the girls are approached by three men. They are athletic, have short black hair, a full beard and they speak broken English and Italian. “But that first impression changed quickly. The men became pushy and wouldn’t let us leave.”There were almost no passers-by. No one is there to aid the girls. “They tried to separate us so that we could not help each other,” reports the student. “At Migros, they pushed us into a corner. One of them grabbed my bottom. When a friend of mine escaped, a man chased her. I shouted out loud: ‘Stop! “Stop it! When the bus finally passes, a girlfriend of the girls was inside and spotted them. She asks the driver to let her off. She screams out loud: “I’ve seen that guy before today. He has a gun. Run away!” The four of them run away and flee to a bar. Sandra phones her father to pick her up. “On the way home, we passed the train station. My daughter recognized the guys there and we stopped”, tells Peter M.* (59 years old). He gets out of the car and addresses the men. “They immediately became aggressive and attacked me,” says the Kreuzlinger. One pushes Peter M. towards the car. A second kicked him in the stomach, followed by a hard blow to the head. “Then someone pressed a gun to my chin,” he says. The daughter had to watch everything. «I was afraid for my father. I called the police. Then I saw the gun. I screamed into the phone. He has a gun, he has a gun! After that the mobile phone line was dead. “Father and daughter are in shock after the attack. “I only go out of the house when I have to,” says Sandra M. The father also suffers from the attack. “I can’t forget the gun pointed at me.” “Father and daughter are in shock after the attack. “I only go out of the house when I have to,” says Sandra M. The father also suffers from the attack. “I can’t forget the gun pointed at me.” Particularly reprehensible: Even when the police arrive and want to arrest the trio, one of the three men pulls out his gun again. The police must fire a warning shot! Marco Breu, media officer at the Thurgau public prosecutor’s office: «The 25-year-old Albanian threatened the police officer with a pistol from close proximity. In this acute threat situation, the policeman shot towards the man. The man is in custody.  The 29-year-old Albanian has received a penalty order and is now in detention pending deportation. The 19-year-old Algerian was reported for violating the Aliens Act and is back in the asylum center. » blick.ch

*Names changed

Once, rights were meaningful. People insisted on fundamental rights such as free speech and self-defense. But then liberals perverted the word “right,” just as they perverted the word “liberal.” Now we are told that we have a “right” for other people to be forced to provide us with what we want for free. For example, thanks to the predominance of feminism, someone else being made to pay for a woman’s tampons is becoming a right. The right to free tampons has not yet been implemented by Big Government. No matter; for now, people can just help themselves in stores. Stores that object are bullied into backing down:

Tesco, a British grocery chain that operates in multiple countries, told BuzzFeed News it has removed signs placed above tampons and other menstrual health products that asked people to report shoplifting of these items in its store in Kensington, London. The signs caused mass uproar online when a shopper took a photo and sent it to a friend, who shared it to Twitter last week.

A spokesperson for the company added that it is “very sorry for any offense caused” and claimed that this depicted sign was placed “in error.”

Civilization was not built by people lacking spines. It won’t be preserved by them either.

An outraged moonbat tells BuzzFeed that we should concern ourselves with “the root causes of someone needing to shoplift menstrual products.”

The root cause is that they know they will probably get away with it, and the punishment will be trivial even if they don’t.

moonbattery.com/grocery-chain-begs-forgiveness-for-not-liking-shoplifting/

Irish Republican Army dissidents planted a bomb on a truck that was intended to explode on the day Britain left the European Union last week, police in Northern Ireland said Thursday.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland said a Belfast newspaper had received a call Friday – Brexit day – saying there was a bomb on a truck at Belfast docks. The caller said the truck was headed for a ferry to Scotland.

Despite a search, nothing was found.

On Monday, another call was made to the same newspaper with new information. After a search lasting into the next day, police found a bomb aboard a truck at an industrial park in the Northern Ireland town of Lurgan.

Police assistant chief constable George Clarke said the caller said “the intention had been for that device to explode on Friday evening at around the time the United Kingdom left the European Union.”

The bombers appear to have picked the wrong truck, because the explosives-laden vehicle remained at a haulage company’s yard in Lurgan until it was discovered.

Police said they believed the bomb plot was the work of a group known as the Continuity IRA.

Detectives said they want to speak to anyone who noticed suspicious activity in the area on Friday.

“Once that device had left that yard, if it had … it was exposing people on the public road, at a busy time, and at busy places, to huge levels of risk,” Clarke said. “These people are absolutely callous and reckless in what they have done.”

More than 3,700 people died during decades of violence before Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace accord. Most militants have renounced violence, but small groups of IRA dissidents continue to carry out occasional bombings and shootings.

The violent dissidents were emboldened by several years of political drift in Northern Ireland, whose power-sharing government was suspended between January 2017 and last month – and by uncertainty about the future of the currently invisible border between the U.K.´s Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland after Brexit.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/02/06/police-say-truck-bomb-was-meant-for-brexit-day-attack/

A month after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps fired numerous ballistic missiles at U.S. troops in Iraq, Germany’s government is slated to celebrate the founding of the Islamic Republic, prompting a public rebuke from America’s highest-profile ambassador in continental Europe.

Iran marks “Islamic Revolution’s Victory Day” on Feb. 11 as a national holiday when the mullahs order state-sponsored demonstrations in every Iranian city.

“Germany has a moral responsibility to say to Iran very firmly and clearly that it is unacceptable to deny basic human rights to your people, or kill protesters in the streets or push gay people off buildings. Celebrating the regime’s ongoing existence sends the opposite message,” the U.S. ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, told Fox News on Thursday.

Grenell, a former Fox News contributor, has been urging German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration for years to end its support for the Iranian regime.

The German Foreign Ministry told Fox News in a statement Wednesday that the country’s “usual practice in diplomatic relations also includes the celebration of national holidays in the other country.”

“As the Federal Republic of Germany continues to maintain diplomatic relations with Iran, this also applies to the upcoming national holiday,” the statement continued. Germany’s celebration of Iran’s regime comes at a sensitive time for American-Iranian relations.

Tehran’s Jan. 8 missile strikes, launched in response to the targeted killing of Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force, caused traumatic brain injuries to 64 American military personnel, the U.S. Department of Defense said.

President Donald Trump authorized the elimination of Soleimani in Iraq, claiming he planning imminent attacks against U.S. diplomats. Soleimani, one of the world’s leading international terrorists, was responsible for the murder of over 600 American troops in the Middle East, the U.S. state department said.

The U.S. government has classified Iran’s clerical regime as the largest state sponsor of terrorism.

Germany’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier sent a congratulatory telegram to Iran’s rulers last year, lauding the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the radical Islamic regime.

When asked if Steinmeier plans to send a telegram once again this year, his office told Fox News in a statement: “Greeting telegrams from the Federal President are created and transmitted in coordination with the Federal Government on the respective national holiday. All questions related to this will be answered after the respective national holiday.”

Merkel’s office declined to comment about her government honoring Iran’s regime.

Jonathan Greenblatt, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, accused Iran’s regime during a January congressional hearing on anti-Semitism of being the worst state sponsor of Holocaust denial and antisemitism.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean and director of global social action agenda at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, told Fox News this week that Steinmeier’s speech at the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the notorious Nazi death camp, last month in Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum is “meaningless if Germany continues to honor the Holocaust-denying, Israel-hating, genocide-seeking Iranian regime.”

Bild, Germany’s highest-circulation newspaper, cited Steinmeier and Germany Deputy Foreign Minister Niels Annen, who celebrated Iran’s regime at Tehran’s embassy last year, as helping to make “anti-Semitism socially respectable” in Germany.

Annen told a German news outlet at that time that he had “no regrets” about celebrating the regime.

Grenell’s call for the Merkel government to stop boosting the Iranian regime was echoed by one of the leading German officials on the front lines of the struggle against the rise of anti-Semitism and Iranian-sponsored terrorism.

Uwe Becker, the commissioner for Jewish life in the German state of Hesse, told Fox News that his country should not congratulate Tehran’s rulers for their “Iranian revolution anniversary.”

“Germany should send a clear signal against the backdrop of human rights violations in Iran and the continuing threats by the Tehran mullah regime to destroy Israel,” he said. “The Iranian National Day is not just an anniversary, it commemorates the violent revolution of 1979 and the beginning of the reign of terror.”

Becker said Iran’s regime supports the terrorist organization Hezbollah in “and strengthens terrorism in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.”

“At the same time, the Tehran leadership oppresses its own people and denies them freedom and human rights,” he said.

The U.S. government has designated both Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist organizations. Germany’s decision to celebrate the Iranian holiday comes weeks after it joined Britain and France in paving a way for possible sanctions to be re-imposed on Iran. The three European powers accused the Islamic Republic of continuing to back away from its international nuclear deal and triggered the “dispute mechanism” — which begins a process that could result in the U.N. restoring sanctions it previously lifted under the deal.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/amb-richard-grenell-criticizes-germany-for-planned-celebration-of-irans-terror-regime

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier gave two important speeches toward the end of January. The first was delivered at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem at Yad Vashem on 23 January. I heard from several people unfamiliar with the German reality that they found it impressive.

The second took place on 29 January in the Bundestag, the German Parliament. 

At Yad Vashem, Steinmeier said about the Holocaust: “Germans have tattooed numbers on lower arms. Germans have tried to dehumanize humans and make them into numbers and in the extermination camps to wipe out all memory of them…  The perpetrators were human. They were Germans. The murderers, the watchmen, the helpers of the helpers, the collaborators were German. The industrial mass murder of 6 million Jews, the greatest crime in human history, was committed by my compatriots… We Germans have learned forever from history.”  

Steinmeier added: “Yet I cannot say that when hatred and incitement are expanding. I cannot say that when Jewish children are spit at in the school courtyard. I cannot say that when under the cover of so-called criticism of Israeli politics, crude antisemitism comes up. I cannot say that when only a heavy wooden door prevents the right-wing terrorist on Yom Kippur from creating a bloodbath in a synagogue in Halle.”

A week later Steinmeier welcomed Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in the German parliament, the Bundestag. They had visited Auschwitz together. Steinmeier said to him: “Your presence is a sign of solidarity between our countries, between Israel and Germany. Even more than that: I see it as an obligation–an obligation to show ourselves worthy of the hand Israel has reached out to us. Reconciliation is a grace which we Germans could not hope for.”

Steinmeier concluded: “President Rivlin, we want to show Israel and the world that our country lives up to the newly bestowed confidence. That is the task given to us by memory. So that what can happen will not happen again.”

These two speeches have drifted far from reality. German Jewish historian, Michael Wolffson, wrote critically after the Yad Vashem speech: “Always the same words. Not a surprise that nearly nobody listens.” 

He added: “About a quarter of Germans have a migration background. Many are Muslims. The current memorial culture of Germany addresses only the descendants of those Germans who lived through the Nazi regime, carried it, and suffered it. As if the Muslim world in the murder of Jews in the Second World War did not collaborate with Hitler gangs…” Wolffson remarked also: “As hardly anybody mentions this fact, German Muslims think that all of this does not concern them. That is false.”

Jewish journalist Henryk Broder wrote about Steinmeier: “In May 2017 he laid a wreath on the grave of Yasser Arafat in Ramallah and bowed before the Fatah leader, whose politics have cost the lives of thousands of Israelis and Palestinians. Now he bowed down in Jerusalem before the Jewish victims of the Nazis.” 

Broder added: “Remarkable in this ‘gesture’ was not only the ice cold chutzpah with which it was executed, more surprising was that all German media resisted the temptation to combine these events photographically even though there are enough good pictures of both.”

The criticism of Steinmeier’s speech at Yad Vashem by non-Jewish journalist, Stephan Frank, was harsher. He quoted on the important website, Achse des Guten, that Steinmeier had said at Yad Vashem: “We fight antisemitism! We resist the poison that is nationalism!  We protect Jewish life! We stand with Israel!”

Frank then attacked Steinmeier head on: “The Federal President is lying in Yad Vashem, before the eyes of the world, for of course, ‘we’ don’t do that at all. We do not fight antisemitism, but we introduce a yellow Star of David for Jewish made products… We do not protect Jewish life, but we pay the terrorist organization of the PLO, that also calls itself the Palestinian Autonomy Authority, for their killing of Jews. Hezbollah which has murdered Jews in Israel, Bulgaria and Argentina, pointing over 130,000 missiles towards Israel and digging tunnels in order to abduct and kill Israeli citizens is not prohibited in Germany, but is entitled to collect donations and recruit members repeatedly.”

Frank continued: “No, Germany does not stand with Israel. Who keeps voting for almost every resolution against Israel in the United Nations, thus taking care that this institution is abused by the dictators of the world to put a single country to the pillory, while the worst tyrants of the world are being granted a clean bill? Germany.

“Who voted against the liberal party FDP application in the German houses of parliament, calling upon a change of voting behavior of the Federal German Government? Who sends a ‘from Germany, with love’ to Teheran for the anniversary of the ‘Islamic Revolution?’  The German Federal President.

“Who founded an interest corporation in the interest of enforcing regime trade interests of Iran with the European Union? The German Federal Government.

“Who bows to the grave of arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat, twining wreaths for a terrorist? The German Federal President.”

Frank’s entire text is worth reading, but can only be partly reproduced here. In conclusion, he writes: “Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier bows to the murderers of Jews. The Federal Government broadly supports them and pays their pensions. Even if an MP inquires about the Near-East policy of the German Federal Government, she does not receive answers, neither comprehensive nor truthful. The Federal Government and the Federal President keep talking about the protection of Jewish lives and standing with Israel, but in the face of truth, they always stand with the foes of Israel and keep supporting the murderers of Jews. They help to make out of murderers respectable partners on diplomatic parquet, and to make the extermination machinery more effective by means of German money. At the same time, they mimic Israel’s best buddies….”

Steinmeier’s speech at the Bundestag was the introduction for a much longer one by Israeli President Rivlin. Steinmeier had said that Germany wanted to show Israel and the world that it lived up to the newly bestowed confidence.

Rivlin could have, in a diplomatic way, touched upon most of the points Frank made in his article. Yet among them he only mentioned the Hezbollah issue. Rivlin’s speech unfortunately pales in comparison with Frank’s article. I am not suggesting that he should have hired Frank as his speech writer. Yet Rivlin, President of the State of Israel, would have served Israel’s interests much better if he had at least used a reasonable percentage of the facts in Frank’s remarks quoted above. Why didn’t he?

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/25149

A German state premier elected on Wednesday with the help of the far-right AfD has said he will stand down to pave the way for fresh elections. “Resignation is unavoidable,” he said.

The election of Thomas Kemmerich in the eastern state of Thuringia prompted outrage across Germany.

Chancellor Angela Merkel called the election “unforgivable” and said it must be reversed.

For years Germany’s main parties have shunned the AfD.

Wednesday’s vote is being described as a political earthquake for Germany.

The AfD has broad support in Thuringia. But the state election in October was won by the far-left Die Linke, whose leader Bodo Ramelow was ousted from power.

Mr Kemmerich beat Mr Ramelow by 45 votes to 44. Besides the support of the AfD, Mr Kemmerich also got votes from local MPs in his own FDP and Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democrat CDU.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51399445

The general secretary of Germany’s Central Council of Jews, Stephan J. Kramer, called Monday on the German-Israel Friendship Society (DIG) to take concrete action against the growing anti-Israel boycott activity within its ranks.“Anyone who sees a boycott of Israeli goods as a legitimate answer to something or other has understood nothing, and should look in the mirror and leave DIG,” Kramer wrote in an email to The Jerusalem Post.

“I think supporting a call for a boycott of a democratic country, which Israel is, and at the same time being a member of DIG is an insoluble contradiction and a burden on DIG and its members. [deputy in the state government of Thuringia Bodo] Ramelow is part of a long tradition of anti-Israel leftists, and we can no longer whitewash this.”Ramelow, a DIG member and Left Party politician, wrote on his Facebook site that the Swiss Migros supermarket chain’s labeling of Israeli products from the West Bank is a “legitimate measure.”Dr. Shimon Samuels, the international affairs director for the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Paris, told the Post that Migros’s action is a boycott measure and must viewed as a “continuation of Nazism.”In a letter to the supermarket chain, Switzerland’s largest, diverse representatives of the country’s Jewish communities condemned the Migros action as “discrimination against the State of Israel.”Ramelow has been accused in Germany of using his DIG membership to delegitimize Israel and pretend that he is a friend of Israel. In an email to the Post on Tuesday, he wrote, “I have neither called for a boycott of Israeli goods” nor “signed the Pax Christi call” to boycott Israel merchandise. The German branch of the left-wing Catholic peace organization Pax Christi has mounted an aggressive campaign to boycott Israeli products, including setting up stands in pedestrian zones to encourage people to not buy Israeli goods.

When asked repeatedly by the Post to clarify his Migros statements, Ramelow wrote that “the Migros firm decided independently to demand from producers a designation of origin when they want to sell their products to Migros. I mentioned this and did not know that the mentioning of facts should be banned.”In response, Kramer, told the Post that Ramelow’s formulation regarding terming Migro’s action as a “legitimate measure” is clearly a call to boycott Israeli products.Ramelow added that when he visited Ramallah,”I saw that enough products were labeled ‘Palestine’ and I consider that a permissible origin designation.” He asked what is the problem with Migros labeling products from its suppliers.According to critics of Migros, including Swiss Jewish groups, Migros has singled out Israel for unique treatment in a pejorative sense.Melody Sucharewicz, a German-Israeli expert who has written extensively about anti-Israel actions in Germany, told the Post on Tuesday, “Not only should DIG have a clear policy of separating itself from members who support or justify even the most harmlessly presented form of ‘kaufverzicht,’ alias boycott against Israel. It should further make it a priority to expose such campaigns for what they are: destructive for the future of German-Israeli relations and destructive to peace between Israelis and Palestinians.”Pro-Israel Germans have called on the head of the DIG branch in Erfurt, Thuringia, where Ramelow is a member, to expel him, as well as demanded that DIG national head Reinhold Robbe give Ramelow the boot and take action against anti-Israel sentiments within DIG and among German politicians.

https://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/German-Jewish-leader-slams-boycott-activity