Police officers from the Bühl police station are looking for the owner of a statue that was found in front of a property in the street Hauptstraße on Monday afternoon. The damaged sculpture is believed to depict Joseph according to Christian belief. It is not yet clear how it got there and where it came from. Officers can be contacted by calling 07223 99097-0 for information.
Several young adults attacked a synagogue in the Gronau district of Bonn early on Tuesday evening: they destroyed the entrance area and set fire to a flag. The police arrested three young men.
According to the police, a resident saw several younger adults attacking the entrance of the synagogue at around 7.30 pm. He also saw them lighting a fire on a nearby pavement and immediately called 911.
The three or four persons dressed in dark clothes ran away in the direction of the Rhine before the police arrived.
On site, the investigators then saw the damage that had been done: A glass area of the entrance door was apparently destroyed with two stones. In front of the entrance, the police seized three A4 pieces of paper with Arabic characters. A white and blue flag was apparently set alight on the pavement opposite the synagogue. The police did not say whether it was the Israeli flag.
Shortly afterwards, three young men were temporarily arrested: Two in the Adenauerallee area, both about 20 years old. Another 24-year-old was arrested shortly afterwards in the Niebuhrstraße area. The suspects’ vehicle was also seized.
The police state security department of the Bonn police has now taken over the further investigation of the incident. The investigators are currently checking whether other persons were involved in the attack against the synagogue. Witnesses had seen another female person, aged between 18 and 22, with dark hair tied in a braid.
The police are now asking for further information from witnesses. They are asked to contact the police state security department by calling 0228-150.
Israeli flags were set alight in front of two synagogues in North Rhine-Westphalia on Tuesday evening.
The police in Münster reported that several witnesses had called the police in the evening to report that “a group of about 15 people with Arabic appearance” was in front of the synagogue, shouting loudly and burning an Israeli flag. The synagogue itself was not damaged. The suspects are facing criminal charges for violating the right of assembly.
The day before, late on Monday evening, an unknown person had set fire to the memorial for the former large synagogue in Düsseldorf. Passers-by alerted the police. The fire went out by itself. In this case, too, the State Protection Service is investigating, the police announced on Tuesday. The Jewish community in Düsseldorf considered the incident an arson attack. “We are very concerned that there was this attack here with us in the heart of Düsseldorf, in the immediate temporal context of the current escalation of violence in Israel,” said Oded Horowitz, chairman of the Jewish community. Horowitz calls for more protection for Jewish institutions in the face of increasing anti-Semitic incidents: “I therefore urgently appeal to the state government to immediately initiate appropriate measures in the common interest.”
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/antisemitismus-nahost-konflikt-synagogen-deutschland-1.5292100
In the French daily Le Figaro, Marie-Claude Barbier Mosimann, lecturer at the École nationale supérieure (ENS) Paris-Saclay and expert on South Africa, discusses the current perception of the Arab-Muslim slave trade, which plays almost no role in the public consciousness. A comprehensive work by the historian Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau entitled “Les traites négrières” had already shown in 2004 that there was not only one slave trade, but three different forms: the Atlantic slave trade, the Arab-Muslim slave trade and the intra-African slave trade, which supplied the slaves to the other two.
When the then President of the Republic, Jacques Chirac, decided in 2005 that May 10 – the anniversary of the passing of the “Loi Taubira” law, which recognised slavery as a crime against humanity – would henceforth be celebrated as a “day of commemoration of the black slave trade, slavery and its abolition”, only the whites had been blamed. A year later, the former French Minister of Justice and eponym of the “Loi Taubira”, Christiane Taubira, clarified her silence regarding the Oriental slave trade. She said it was better not to mention the Arab-Muslim trade in black slaves so that the “young Arabs” would not carry “the whole burden of the legacy of the misdeeds of the Arabs”.
But, notes Barber Mosimann, the Western slave trade lasted three centuries, while the Arab-Muslim slave trade lasted 13 centuries: “Since the beginnings of Islam in the seventh century, it has spread throughout the Maghreb, from where the caravans started, crossing the Sahara to take black slaves with them from the sub-Saharan coast. Timbuktu was a hub of this trade”.
With the expansion of the Ottoman Empire in North Africa, the slave trade and slavery would have continued to flourish, “and cities such as Algiers, Tunis or Tripoli offered large slave markets supplied by raids on land, but also at sea, as they emanated from barbarian pirates to rob Christian slaves on the northern shores of the Mediterranean. The Arab-Muslim slave trade affected virtually the entire African territory north of the Zambezi”.
How can one therefore still accept, the author asks at the end of her article, that “only the white man is called a slaveholder and colonialist?”
Lorenz Salomon Beckhardt is Jewish himself. However, he only found this out in young adulthood, as his parents, as Shoa survivors, wanted to enable him to grow up without worries(?). Today Beckhardt is a staff member of the broadcaster WDR and, among other things, editor of the science magazine “Quarks”. Above all, however, he is a valiant campaigner against the right-wing.
This irrepressible will to fight anyone who is politically right-wing in relation to WDR, Annalena Baerbock and Lusia Neubauer may well have been his motivation for sending out this tweet yesterday, which was, however, deleted by Twitter a few hours later for violating community standards:
Because, in the fight against the right-wingers or even against alleged Nazis, even as a child of survivors of the Shoah, one may use a wording that is often used contemptuously by anti-Semites. The term philosemitism was often used in standard works of the precursors of National Socialism to disparage friends of the Jewish people, their religion and culture. “Judenfreund” was regarded as a swear word that could hardly be made more offensive.
This makes Beckhardt’s use of it all the worse. Obviously, the German left is now willing to use any means to fight the enemies of its pseudo-open society. And in Beckhardt’s view, Hans-Georg Maaßen (former President of the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Ed,) is undoubtedly one of them.
Will this tweet have consequences for Beckhardt? Most certainly, but probably none less than the Grimme Prize or the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany!
Pastor Artur Pawłowski, known for his decisive opposition to Covid-19 restrictions, was detained on a busy street and arrested by Calgary police alongside his brother Dawid. The police announced that his arrest was related to him holding a Saturday mass despite the lockdown in Canada, with the police charging him with “organizing an illegal meeting in person”, reported Christian news portal LifeSiteNews.
A day prior to the arrest, the pastor refused to back down from holding a mass even though authorities consider the community’s gatherings illegal. Pawłowski did not spare harsh words during the encounter while comparing police officers to “Nazis”. Alongside other faithful worshipers, he drove the police out of the church’s grounds. The pastor also took part in protests against government restrictions. In another incident that went viral, Pawlowski kicked officers out of his church.
The latest video recorded by an eyewitness shows how Pawłowski leaves his vehicle at the behest of a police officer and is handcuffed while kneeling. The pastor then refused to enter the police vehicle and compared the officers to the Gestapo and urged them to “do it the Nazi style”. The officers can then be seen dragging both the pastor and his brother across the ground and into the vehicle.
The person recording the video can also be heard shouting towards the police officers: “Shame on you guys, this is not communist China. Don’t you guys have families and kids? Whatever happened to Canada, God keep our land glorious and free. What’re you gonna do when they come for your kids? Shame on you guys, you call yourselves Canadians? Where is your oath? Where is your honor? Where is your dignity? You guys aren’t Canadian.”
The clip also shows the reaction of a pair of cyclists passing by who saw the whole incident and began to call the officers “damned Nazi cowards”.
Pastor Pawłowski’s lawyer pointed out that article 176 of the Canadian penal codex deems it a crime to interrupt mass and arrest priests during their return home from mass. The lawyer also noted that the ban on protests imposed by the court is not compatible with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
This is the second arrest of Pawłowski but not the only action from Canada to place restrictions on the freedom of religious gatherings. Not long ago, pastor James Coates spent a month in prison for holding masses despite the lockdown.
The EU financial market commissioner Mairead McGuinness wants to take action against cash. Austria’s Finance Minister rejected the plans on Monday because he said a new super surveillance agency was being planned.
Austria’s Finance Minister Gernot Blümel (ÖVP) stepped forward as a tough opponent of these cash restrictions after the EU’s financial market commissioner Mairead McGuinness announced the coup in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. She said: “We’re talking about an upper limit of 10 000 euros. Carrying that much money around in your pockets is pretty difficult. Most people don’t do that.”
The regulation is to be part of a package of legislative proposals against money laundering that the Commission intends to present in July.
Then she dropped a completely different bombshell: McGuinness revealed to the newspaper that she wanted to propose the establishment of an EU authority to fight money laundering and terrorist financing with the support of the member states. In essence it would be yet another EU super agency devouring millions.
The package in July will be a “big bang” for the fight against money laundering as the Commission intends to present the corresponding legislative package in July. McGuinness does not see a bigger problem in this.
Austria’s Finance Minister Gernot Blümel (ÖVP) rejected the plans on Monday. In the Austrian newspaper Heute, he said: “We will not accept a creeping abolition of cash.” Blümel added: “The fight against money laundering should not be at the expense of honest citizens.”
Different maximum limits already exist in some Member States, but not in Germany. McGuinness also said she needed member states’ support to set up her new surveillance agency to fight money laundering and terrorist financing.
https://freewestmedia.com/2021/05/12/eu-commission-wants-to-ban-cash-payments-over-10-000-euros/
Unknown persons have again committed an arson attack on the Evangelical Lutheran Abraham Parish in Bremen. On the night of May 9, the dumpster for plastic waste was set on fire. “This was the fourth time in a fortnight,” Pastor Rüdiger Kurz told the Evangelical News Agency IDEA. Already on April 29 and on May 1 and 2, rubbish bins had burned on the grounds of the church community, he said.
He had reported all the attacks to the police, but none had been solved so far. He suspects that they are the actions of a youth group of about 20 people. However, he has no proof of this. But it is striking that only the Abraham church is affected and no other buildings: “There seems to be an anti-Christian mood among the perpetrators.
However, the pastor considers a connection with the departure of two long-serving police CBM from the neighbourhood, which he describes as a “not entirely easy social environment”: “They used to visit the families directly when a young person became conspicuous. Today there is no one on the spot. That has a negative effect.” The two retired officers have been replaced by a younger colleague, but he is always involved in other tasks.
In the meantime, Kurz has contacted Claas Rohmeyer ( Christian Democratic Union, CDU), a member of parliament, who wants to ask a small question about the withdrawal of the cops in the parliament. Rohmeyer is also the state chairman of the Evangelical Working Group (EAK) of the CDU.
Kurz went on to say that there have been incidents before. In December, for example, a service of Russian Pentecostals who are guests in the Abraham congregation was loudly disturbed by a group of Muslim young adults. They had shouted “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest) during the service. Especially the parishioners involved in the district were shocked and disappointed. In the parish’s social services for the district, religious affiliation is not asked for. Muslims are also welcome.
https://www.idea.de/spektrum/bremen-wieder-brandanschlag-auf-abraham-gemeinde
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