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Macron submits bill against radical Islam
French President Emmanuel Macron submitted to parliament the long-awaited bill meant to combat radical Islam; it has already divided both the country and Muslim leaders there, daily Magyar Hírlap writes.
The debate on the bill against radical Islam began in the French National Assembly on Monday. In his opening speech, Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, who presented the draft, put it this way: France is suffering from separatism, primarily Islamist separatism, which attacks national unity. He added that the disease should be called by its name and medicine should be found for it.
The government’s draft seeks to achieve an overarching neutrality of the state and public life primarily through technical measures. The law would provide an opportunity to punish those who upload someone’s personal information to the internet in a way that puts them at risk, as was the case with beheaded school teacher Samuel Paty.
Among the planned measures is that all associations receiving state support must commit themselves “to the principles and values of the Republic.” In addition, foreign donations in excess of €10,000 must be reported to the tax office, a move aimed at tighter control of foreign-run mosques.
A separate objective would be to eliminate illegal association schools and tighten oversight of religious foundation schools, which should follow a compulsory education program. The law would penalize doctors who issue a virginity certificate before marriage as well and also strengthen measures against polygamy and forced marriage.
The text does not include the term “Islamist separatism” — used by Macron when he introduced the proposal on October 2 — nor “secularization,” which means the separation of state and church. The law states that its purpose is to strengthen the principles of the Republic in order to prevent groups from being segregated within society based on their religious or ethnic affiliation.
Darmanin said the bill is not intended to punish religion but to fight against the rise of Islam. In his speech, Justice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti said the law provides appropriate, prompt and systematic responses so that they can punish those who are preparing to break the order and unity of the Republic.
The French Left protested against the draft law, with far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon saying the bill “stigmatizes Muslims.” Meanwhile, Damien Abad, leader of the center-right Republican parliamentary group, said the bill ignores the problem of radicalization in prisons and among immigrants. Marine Le Pen, president of the right-wing National Rally, presented an alternative bill to parliament on Friday that would ban Islamist ideologies and the wearing of Muslim headscarves in public.
French Muslim leaders commented that the bill is necessary to regulate those who organize against French values but warned that the law in its current form would also provide an opportunity to harass law-abiding associations. The head of the French Islamic Foundation said “the law is unfair but necessary.”
https://rmx.news/article/article/macron-submits-bill-against-radical-islam
He joined the jihad – now the Swiss Confederation is revoking his Swiss citizenship
Alperen A. grew up in Arbon on Lake Constance, in a family of Turkish origin. At the age of 4, he is naturalised by the Thurgau parliament – together with his parents. That was on May 27, 1998, at a time when Islamism was hardly an issue in Switzerland.
Today Alperen is 27 years old – and he is to lose his Swiss citizenship because the federal authorities consider him a danger to Switzerland. On Tuesday, the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) announced in the Federal Gazette that it was initiating the procedure to revoke his citizenship.
First naturalisation and two decades later denaturalisation: something like this almost never happens in Switzerland.
At that time, in the distant year of 1998, the members of the A. family seemed to be perfectly integrated in Thurgau. His father is a machine fitter, his mother a medical assistant, and Alperen is also following the path that young people take in Switzerland: He completes an apprenticeship as a logistics specialist, goes to parties and referees for FC Steinach. But at some point Alperen discovers radical Islam.Alperen grows a beard, becomes a Muslim missionary in southern Germany and Switzerland, distributing Korans in eastern Swiss towns as part of the controversial mission campaign “Read! The True Religion”. In 2013, when he is 20 years old, he marries a German woman who converted to Islam shortly before at a “Read!” stand in Stuttgart.Although his young wife was pregnant, Alperen left Arbon in 2014 – he was now 21 years old – to join the jihad in Syria. In Whatsapp messages he announces that he wants to “cut off the heads of infidels”. And he threatens that at some point he and his comrades-in-arms will also “conquer” Switzerland and Germany, as the public broadcaster SRF’s “Rundschau” programme reported in a report in 2015.In Syria, Alperen joined the Nusra Front, the regional Al-Qaeda offshoot. What exactly he had been doing there is still unclear. According to an article in the newspaper NZZ, he even considered a martyrdom as a suicide bomber. In autumn 2014, his heavily pregnant wife follows him to Syria. Apparently she wants to bring her husband back, but instead she is forced to stay in Syria herself: Her own husband is detaining her against her will. In March 2015, she gives birth in the middle of the war zone; only later does her husband allow her to leave for Turkey.Alperen’s activities in Syria also called the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland into action: in 2014, it opened criminal proceedings and has since been looking for him on the basis of an international arrest warrant. The suspicions range from belonging to an Islamist terrorist organisation to hostage-taking.
Alperen himself was arrested in Turkey in 2016 – and is still in a Turkish prison, according to the latest information available. By withdrawing his citizenship, the federal government now wants to ensure that he will never be able to return to Switzerland later on.
Because his current whereabouts are officially unknown, the SEM had to publish the decision in the Federal Gazette. Alperen A. now has one month to comment. If he learns of the threatened revocation of his citizenship at all, he can appeal it to the Federal Administrative Court.It is extremely rare for the Swiss Confederation to take away a Swiss citizen’s right to citizenship. During and after the Second World War, Switzerland denaturalised around eighty Nazis. From 1947 to 2019, there was not a single denaturalisation. But then, under the aegis of Federal Councillor Karin Keller-Sutter, the Justice Department rediscovered an old legal paragraph and began to apply it systematically to jihad travellers.
However, a prerequisite for denaturalisation is that the person concerned still holds another citizenship. If they only have one citizenship, this may not be withdrawn – this is a principle of international law.Alperen A. also has Turkish citizenship.
Alperen is the fifth jihadist against whom the Swiss Confederation has initiated such proceedings, but only one has been successfully completed:
- In 2020, Sahila F. was legally expatriated – the first Swiss woman to be expatriated since 1947. The 31-year-old woman from Vaud abducted her own daughters to Syria and still lives in a camp there.
- In 2019, the SEM also wanted to revoke the passport of Ümit Y. from Lugano after he was convicted by the Federal Criminal Court for belonging to IS. But the Turkish-Swiss dual citizen has challenged the decision to revoke his passport at the Federal Administrative Court. His case is pending there.
- The SEM also initiated revocation proceedings against the Spanish-Swiss jihadist Daniel D., but had to discontinue them in June 2020. The reason: Spain had beaten Switzerland to the punch and expatriated D. more quickly.
- The SEM also suspended the expatriation of the Italian-Swiss Christian I. from Winterthur, who died in Syria.
According to its own information, the State Secretariat for Migration is currently examining the withdrawal of citizenship in about a dozen other cases.
Statue of “Saint Anthony” vandalised in Billerbeck, Germany
Loud clanging noises woke a 59-year-old man from Billerbeck from his sleep on Saturday night (around 3.30 a.m.). He looked out of the window (facing the church square) but could not see anyone because of the darkness. He only heard two voices moving away in the direction of Lange Street. The next morning he noticed that the glass weather protection of the “Saint Anthony” ( statue) had been smashed and reported this to the sexton in charge of St. John’s Church.
Information to the police in Coesfeld by calling 02541-140.
Wayside cross vandalised in Vossenack, Germany
Unknown persons damaged a wayside cross on a popular hiking trail.
Between Tuesday ( January 26, 2021) and Sunday ( January 31, 2021), the unknown person or persons tampered with the wayside shrine. The cross is located on the hiking trail “Zum Naturpfad”. It leads south of Vossenack into the Kalltal valley. Halfway up, there is a lookout point with a bench and the same wayside cross. The slate roof was torn off or demolished with great physical effort. Some of the ornamental elements and the wooden figure of Jesus were also severely damaged.
Witnesses who have made suspicious observations on the popular hiking trail are asked to contact the district police officer in charge, Chief Superintendent Bergs, by calling 02429 3410. The police station can also be contacted by calling 02421 949-6425.
Legal scandal in a German court about thugs belonging to an Arab clan – 30 Arabs attacked construction workers and seriously injured them, but will probably get off without punishment
A mob of about 30 thugs could apparently attack workers at a construction site with impunity, beat up three victims and stab a man!
Seven and a half years after the unbelievable construction site attack by a family clan at Hohentorsplatz square (in Bremen’s Neustadt district), the trial finally opened in court on Tuesday. For dangerous bodily harm committed as a group.But there were only two men in the dock. Kemal M. (39) and Walid C. (37). And the judge did not conceal the fact that he would either quickly stop the trial or otherwise impose a lenient sentence in exchange for confessions.The barbaric attack horrified the people of Bremen in August 2013: Four clan members carelessly walked through a cordoned-off construction site. The workers tried to scare them away. According to the police, they ” informed the pedestrians of the wrong behaviour”.According to the defence lawyer, it sounded like, “Get your asses off the construction site!”
30 minutes later, the two adults and two juvenile troublemakers returned with about 30 members of the clan. They beat three victims to the ground, kicked one in the head and upper body, causing bruises to all of them. A fourth construction worker was cut in the back by a perpetrator and suffered a wound 15 centimetres long.
After the cowardly attack, the mob fled and hid in nearby flats. The police arrived with twenty emergency vehicles and searched a block of flats with the Special Police Unit (SEK). Twelve suspects were investigated, 21 men had fled.
Because there were so many thugs, most of them could not be charged with any specific crime. The knifeman is still unknown. Five men were to be charged. But the investigations against three suspects have now been dropped after negotiations behind the scenes!
And the two remaining defendants waited for years for their trial because the district court had too few staff. The few judges had to take care of “more important” trials and cases in which the defendants were in custody, it is said.
The fact that an amicable settlement was not already reached in court on Tuesday is thanks to the defence lawyers, of all people. Before their defendants testify, they want the construction workers who were injured at the time to testify as witnesses.
The trial is to continue.
Five million right-wing extremists in Germany?
The Bertelsmann Foundation in Gütersloh has classified the political attitudes of around five million Germans as “right-wing extremist”. This has emerged from a study published by the foundation established in 1977 as a tax-evasion scheme.
The authors see right-wing extremist potential in the voters of all parties, even in the Greens, the SPD and the Left, but above all – the AfD.
In the past, there was a consensus that political extremism was a matter for the fringes, the splinter parties that only represent a few per thousand of the population. This basic understanding of what the term “extremism” actually means, is evidently changing to include everyone who does not slavishly follow mainstream dictates.
For example, anyone who dared to say that “their country should have the courage to foster a strong national feeling” immediately aroused suspicion. If instead one were to speak of a “normal national feeling”, then the sentiment was deemed to be correct. Many respondents in interviews naturally did not pay attention to these linguistic details.
“Right-wing extremists” were also those who agreed with the sentence: “The [German] Federal Republic is dangerously being swamped by the many foreigners.” This happens to be true, but apparently stating the obvious, is an extremist stance.
Furthermore, “right-wing extremists” were also those who agreed with the statement: “If jobs become scarce, the foreigners should be sent back to their homeland.”
The thrust of the study is evident: While the CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP, Greens and Left were only mentioned a dozen times in the study, the AfD party members gave the “wrong” answers more than all the other parties combined. The study, which supposedly meets “scientific requirements” is therefore nothing more than an extended campaign against the AfD.
The Bertelsmann Foundation’s tax-evasion scheme has been particularly useful in keeping the political class in power. Apparently, the authors do not even shy away from blanket insults against large sections of the population.
Presenter Peter Hahne, a former employee of the ZDF public broadcaster, has meanwhile accused public broadcasters of a one-sided guest selection. AfD politicians – the largest opposition in the Bundestag – are being totally marginalized there, Hahne told Berlin weekly Junge Freiheit. “The fact that talk shows mutate into high government offices despite their complete failure in Corona and vaccination policy shows that the parallel society of media makers has absolutely no sensitivity to the world of AfD voters: teachers, police officers, unconventional scientists, soldiers, workers.”
It is apparently easier to “pay homage to the ruling line of the mighty” than to familiarize oneself with any matter to counter it.
In the evaluation of guest lists of the various talk shows, until mid-December, the most frequent representatives were politicians from the CDU and CSU (94), followed by the SPD (83), the Greens (32), the FDP (28) and the Left Party (19). The AfD as the largest opposition party in the Bundestag was lagging behind with a mere six appearances in last place.
Even in the first month of the German election year 2021, the four biggest talk shows did not change their invitation policy, as an evaluation by Junge Freiheitof the guest lists from January showed. The Union made 14 appearances, the SPD eleven, the Greens four invitations and the FDP three. Politicians from the AfD and the Left Party, on the other hand, were not allowed to sit in the panel discussions once.
https://freewestmedia.com/2021/02/03/five-million-right-wing-extremists-in-germany/
Claudia Tenney Finally Wins 22nd-NY Seat in Congress for GOP … Not So Fast
A New York state trial court judge has ruled that Republican Claudia Tenney has won New York’s 22nd Congressional District election, an outcome that has been tied up in court since November. New York Judge Scott J. DelConte issued a final order finding that Tenney gained votes after her narrow November win, thus increasing her lead to 123 votes over Anthony Brindisi and thus is the winner of the November election.
Despite Tenney’s victory, Democrat campaign lawyer Marc Elias has become the new Lin Wood – tying up the victory in courts and denying the obvious win for Tenney.
After Tenney’s win, Elias’ law firm sought a stay of the ruling, effectively blocking Tenney from taking her seat.
At issue for the last few months has been the role of provisional ballots. Under the Help America Vote Act of 2002, if an individual presenting himself to vote thinks he is registered, he has a federal right to cast a provisional ballot. Whether or not that ballot is counted depends on if that person proves ultimately to have actually been registered.
In Tenney’s case, Democrat lawyers only wanted 69 provisional ballots counted out of hundreds that were at issue. Naturally, those 69 were registered Democrats.
Tenney’s legal team opposed the selective counting and a court in New York ordered all of the appropriate provisional ballots to be counted – an outcome that handed Tenney the win yesterday.
Not so fast.
In his best Kraken impersonation, Elias’ legal team vowed to gum up the outcome further by seeking a stay of Tenney’s win and filing what will prove to be a frivolous appeal.
Ironically, Elias just criticized the same approach in the presidential election:
“Part of the goal on Trump’s part was to delegitimize the election, because he’s a loser and he doesn’t want to be known as a loser,” Elias says. “The overwhelming majority of these cases were either frivolous or near-frivolous, in that they were procedurally infirmed or based on wild-eyed conspiracy theories. And that’s all borne out in the way in which the courts have treated them.”
Tenney has won a seat in Congress, but Elias and his team of 54 – that’s right, fifty-four – Democrat lawyers are trying to delegitimize her win with a frivolous stay and appeal. In January, interfering with the legitimate outcome of an election would get you kicked off Twitter and banned from polite company.
In February, that is no longer a concern, especially when the winner is a Republican who would shrink the Democrat majority in the House to the narrowest of margins.
In December, seeking a stay to block the legitimate outcome of an election would be an affront to Democracy. In February, when a Republican wins a House seat, seeking a stay and appeal is just a way to run up billable hours to the Brindisi campaign.
All of this illustrates a simple truth that everyone understood all along, both Republicans and Democrats. When Republicans win, the 54 lawyers at Perkins Coie like Marc Elias will leave no stone unturned to snatch a win from defeat. Just ask Norm Coleman in Minnesota.
But when Republicans exercise the same prerogative after an election, democracy is under threat. The depths of hypocrisy are bottomless.
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