By Monica Showalter

Much as the celebrity cash-and-politics antics of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry disgust us, it appears they disgust Harry’s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, even more.

Here’s what Breitbart reported:

The decision by Los Angeles-based Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to wade into the upcoming U.S. election by offering voting advice was a “violation” of their “Megxit” deal with the Queen and could further jeopardise their links to the monarchy, it was claimed Sunday by senior royal aides.

According to the Times newspaper, courtiers have been canvassing how the royal household could separate itself further from the pair.

The distance is required after the couple called on voters in America to “reject hate speech, misinformation and online negativity” in “the most important election of our lifetime” — comments widely interpreted as a swipe at President Donald Trump, as Breitbart News reported. 

According to the London press cited, there’s talk now of yanking titles. Or who knows, cutting them dead. Something. Some kind of sanction for this low descent to partisan politics. They’ve already signaled some kinds of displeasure by taking Harry’s and Meghan’s picture down as a backdrop during a state address from the queen, and then pointedly leaving Meghan out of birthday-greetings pictures sent to Harry on his birthday. Now they’ve really stepped in it and reports say the queen is mad. 

Because there’s no doubt about it, the whole political act was colossally obnoxious. The queen has good relations with President Trump and spoke with him last time he visited for more than an hour. That’s more time than she gave to the visiting and solicitous Obamas.

It didn’t take a genius to know whom that remark was directed to, and worse still, it was pure naked politics, under the rubric of not-politicking, just asking everyone to be nice, and everyone can see through it. Meghan’s politics are no secret, she told us all about them earlier when she refused to stiff-upper-lip it and meet the leader of the free world on his first state visit to England, claiming the ailments of pregancy, but showing up at some event 24 hours later. No wonder President Trump has since said he’s “not a fan” of Meghan’s, and wished Prince Harry “lots of luck” now that he’s stuck with her.

The queen’s response shouldn’t be surprising. The pair would be nothing were it not for their association with the queen — Meghan would be a D-list actress, whose expiration date was rapidly approaching, and Prince Harry would be one of the low men on the totem pole of senior royalty, drawing all the boring open-the-hospital-in Yorkshire and smile assignments, were it not for the queen’s favor.

But they’ve repaid that not with gratitude, but first by abandoning the “firm” which is to say business of being royal and winning the public’s support without telling the queen last January, which up until now, was Not Done. The only reason they were famous at all and could make phone calls as to what they wanted was because of their association with the queen.

Then they decided to trade on the queen’s name for profits, going into commerce, which is to say money-making in Hollywood, with deals such as the one they signed with Netflix. Money for me, but not for thee, Your Majesty.

Then they traded on the queen’s name again to get press — they’re living the tabloid life of leaks and covers on the National Enquirer.

Then they traded on the queen’s name to politick, for socialist partisan causes, as if socialist leftwingery has ever looked out for royals of any kind.That seems to have been the last straw. The royal family stays out of politics to avoid losing the support of the public. Now Harry and Meghan have decided that real royality is not in the queen, but in the Obamas.

What a shabby, shoddy picture. When the queen cuts them off entirely and yanks tiaras and titles, she’ll win the public’s applause.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/09/so_has_the_queen_about_had_it_with_meghan_and_harry_over_that_latest_political_stunt.html#ixzz6ZGNOkIRo

In the municipality of Hamm, which has the highest number of new corona infections in Germany, the value continues to climb. After a nationwide peak of 94.9 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days on Wednesday, the figure rose further to 95.5 on Thursday.Lord Mayor Thomas Hunsteger-Petermann (CDU) was very angry: The damage to the city was caused by a single wedding celebration three weeks ago. “We will take recourse here with all the legal possibilities we have,” he stressed in a video message on Monday.”I am angry about this incident. A single family has brought the entire neighborhood into this situation, putting the coexistence of the different ethnic groups at risk,” he also explained in an interview with the daily newspaper “WAZ”.The Corona epidemic there was triggered by a large wedding and other associated celebrations that took place in Hamm and Dortmund in early September and a week later in Werl. At the Turkish large wedding, 46 women celebrated together the evening before at a so-called Henna feast. Later it turned out that two women were already infected with the Corona virus.A total of at least 309 participants from Hamm were present at the large wedding, all of whom had to be quarantined and undergo testing. At least 100 infections were detected after the wedding. As the newspaper “Westfälischer Anzeiger” reports, the proportion of celebration guests and their surroundings in the total number of infected persons is currently around 75 percent. But that’s not all: the newspaper also reports that a total of eleven schools are affected. This means that around 2500 people are now in quarantine, and there are currently 196 infected people in Hamm.”We are in the process of finding out who the people responsible are and investigating how we can hold them accountable,” explained a city spokesperson. This applies above all to the bridal couple and the operator of the location in Hamm. Fines or damages are conceivable. The Lord Mayor made it clear: “It is not acceptable that a small group should subsequently have a significant impact on the life of an entire municipality. In the interview with the newspaper “Bild” he continues: “This outbreak has overpowered us and it also makes me angry. Because at the Henna Feast, the minimum distances were definitely not obeyed.”In an interview with the magazine “Spiegel” he added: “Because a few celebrating people have put aside all decency, distance and even their masks, 180,000 people are now suffering. They have behaved as if Corona did not exist. That must not be.”The Lord Mayor said that a total of 151 people were infected in Hamm, and there could be even more as soon as all suspected cases were cleared up: “And all this because of one single family celebration. Of course I am angry.” The Christian Democratic Union politician strongly reproaches the bridal couple: “We can trace almost all infections back to this. But the worst thing is actually that the said celebration took place three weeks ago. That makes it incredibly difficult to trace.In an interview with the news magazine, Mr. Hunsteger-Petermann describes what all went wrong: “The starting point was probably a hen party, where people danced very closely and also cried tears. Afterwards there was the actual wedding celebration with several hundred guests, during which one likewise did not adhere to distance and hygiene rules”. This made Corona transmissions possible in large numbers, the Lord Mayor continued.Since Wednesday, only five people or people from two households are allowed to stay together in public areas in Hamm to protect against the pandemic. Pupils and teachers in secondary schools must also wear a mouth-and-nose protection during lessons if a minimum distance of 1.50 meters is not ensured. The regulations adopted on Tuesday will initially apply for two weeks. “We were stunned by this outbreak,” says the Lord Mayor of Hamm in the “Bild” interview.In addition the following applies: Private celebrations must be announced two weeks in advance and then also be approved with a certain number of participants. To stem the Corona epidemic in Hamm, the city has already banned three private celebrations, according to the mayor. These are two hen parties and one engagement party. The basis for the prohibition is the provisions of the city’s new general ordinance. The decree imposes a permit requirement for private celebrations with 51 to 150 participants. Celebrations with 25 to 50 participants must be notified.

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Although the editor-in-chief published an apology today, the author of the commentary above makes it clear what kind of person the advocates of Merkel’s policy of open borders are. For the “highly praised” Christian Democratic Union (CDU) politician Walter Lübcke addressed his demands “Anyone who does not like it in Germany can leave our country at any time” to the critics of Merkel’s migration policies. Once again it becomes clear that the so-called anti-racists are in reality anti-Semites.

https://www.echo-online.de/lokales/region/erklarung-von-chefredakteur-lars-hennemann_22326606

In the heart of the Berlin district of Neukölln, which is mainly dominated by Islam, there was a large banner today with the inscription “The Sharia does not belong to Germany”. Responsible for this was the member of the German parliament Beatrix von Storch.

The Berlin Hermannplatz square is the center of the Berlin district of Neukölln. Because of its increased crime rate, many parts of the square are considered a no-go area and a prime example of Berlin’s failure to integrate its inhabitants, who are mainly non-religious and Muslim, with the values of the West.

It was precisely here, in a lion’s den for advocates of the crtitic of Islam, that the brilliant Beatrix von Storch ventured out today. And brought a clear message with her: “The Sharia does not belong to Germany!

Our Tweet of the day therefore comes from the Twitter account of the AfD politician. All those who think her action is great – also independent of party-political issues – should send a signal for it on Twitter as well.

Philosophia Perennis

A 48-year-old Austrian with Turkish roots is said to have slaughtered four sheep in the garage entrance of a multi-party house in Haid on yesterday’s Saturday around 12.35 pm.The man therefore tied the sheep to their legs and killed the apparently not anaesthetized animals with a butcher’s knife by cutting their throats. The 48-year-old was charged with cruelty to animals.

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A French “specialist of the Arab world”, justified the attack perpetrated in front of the former premises of Charlie Hebdo on Friday 25 September in Paris.

“Yes we could have avoided it by not reposting the cartoons,” declared Anne Giudicelli, a guest invited to BFM TV on Saturday. It was obviously very serious, said the “specialist in the Arab world” and founder of Terrorisc. She argued that not republishing the cartoons would not be “an act of surrender” but that it would “be an act of intelligence”.

Anne Giudicelli even went further and implied that it had been a provocation from Charlie Hebdo. “When we republish a caricature, we will play the game of these organizations, so we have to fight differently. Already, we can at least reduce the risk,” she said. For her, “the fight should be waged on other grounds”. The French react badly to a terrorist risk, she added. “This is where we lose, the way we react to amateurism.” She suggested that society should respond differently to Islam, but she could present no alternatives.

Her comments immediately caused an uproar on social networks, triggering a torrent of indignant reactions. “Indeed, submission guarantees peace,” mocked a user. Another recalled that “blasphemy has been a right in France since it was removed from French law by the law of July 29, 1881 on freedom of the press”.

One writer remarked: “The attack could have been avoided with borders,” while another said he was “stunned” by her “expert” findings. He denounced Giudicelli’s “totally irresponsible” comments.

Finally, the expert in safety and risk management, Gilles Sacaze, quipped: “The origin of stupidity and cowardice is awarded to Madame Anne Giudicelli. Should we remember that Islamist terrorism strikes many countries without caricature?”

According to French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, there is almost no doubt that the act was another “bloody attack on our country”.

The police prefecture meanwhile must examine why they underestimated the threat in that particular street, even if the editorial office of Charlie Hebdo had moved a long time ago.

During the attack on Friday afternoon, two journalists from an agency who were taking a smoking break in front of the building were injured by an attacker. He is said to have attacked them with a cleaver.

A short time later, the police arrested an 18-year-old Pakistani man who is said to be the alleged main culprit. According to French media, he was already known to the police.

According to the French news agency AFP, there have been five more arrests. Among them is said to be a former roommate of the 18-year-old Pakistani.

A trial of 14 alleged accomplices and backers of the fatal attacks on the Charlie Hebdo editorial team in 2015 has been ongoing in Paris since September.

In 2015, several Islamists with assault rifles broke into the editorial building and opened fire on the staff and a security guard. Eleven people were killed. The motive for the act was the publication of Mohammed caricatures by Charlie Hebdo.

To mark the beginning of the current court case, the magazine reprinted the caricatures in a special issue. Since 2015, 258 people have been killed in Islamist attacks in France.

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On September 25, in Paris, two people were stabbed and seriously wounded outside the former offices of Charlie Hebdo, where 12 of the satirical magazine’s editors and cartoonists were murdered by extremist Muslims in 2015. The suspect, in police custody, is being investigated for terrorism.

The accused murderers in the 2015 attacks are currently on trial in Paris.

Shortly before the knifing attack, on September 22, Charlie Hebdo‘s director of human resources, Marika Bret, did not come home. In fact, she no longer has a home. She was evicted after serious and concrete death threats from extremist Muslims. She decided to make her “exfiltration” public for French intelligence to alert the public to the threat of extremism in France.

“I have lived under police protection for almost five years”, she told the weekly Le Point.

“My security agents received specific and detailed threats. I had ten minutes to pack and leave the house. Ten minutes to give up a part of one’s life is a bit short and it was very violent. I will not go home. I am losing my home to outbursts of hatred, the hatred that always begins with the threat of instilling fear. We know how it can end”.

Bret also claimed that the French Left abandoned the “battle for secularism“.

From the start of the trial of the men accused of committing the murders at Charlie Hebdo in 2015 — and especially since the renewed publication of Mohammed cartoons — Charlie Hebdo has received threats of all kinds — including from al Qaeda. Security today at the satirical magazine is massive. “The address of our headquarters is secret, there are security gates everywhere, armored doors and windows, armed security agents, we can hardly get anyone in”, Bret said.

Today, there are 85 policemen protecting Charlie‘s journalists.

Bret has become another example of the clandestine nature of freedom of expression in France, the country of Voltaire. The first was Robert Redeker, a professor of philosophy. On September 17, 2006, he arose early to write an articlefor Le Figaro on Europe’s grappling with Islam. Three days later, he was in a safe house and on the run.

Last January, Mila O., a 16-year-old French girl, made insulting comments about Islam during a livestream on Instagram.

“During her livestream, a Muslim boy asked her out in the comments, but she turned him down because she is gay. He responded by accusing her of racism and calling her a ‘dirty lesbian’. In an angry follow-up video, streamed immediately after she was insulted, Mila responded by saying that she ‘hates religion'”.

Mila continued, saying among other things:

“Are you familiar with freedom of expression? I didn’t hesitate to say what I thought. I hate religion. The Koran is a religion of hatred; there is only hatred in it. That’s what I think. I say what I think… Islam is sh*t… I’m not a racist at all. One cannot simply be racist against a religion… I say what I want, I say what I think. Your religion is sh*t. I’d stick a finger up your god’s a**h*le…”

After her school’s address was posted on social media, she was forced to leave and transfer to a different school, this time kept secret.

The journalist Éric Zemmour was attacked several times outside his house; the French-Moroccan journalist Zineb el Rhazoui also found the address of her home published on social media.

Meanwhile, to his credit, French President Emmanuel Macron has been defendingCharlie Hebdo‘s right to freedom of expression. Blasphemy, he said, “is no crime.”

“The law is clear: we have the right to blaspheme, to criticize, to caricature religions. The republican order is not a moral order… what is outlawed is to incite hatred and attack dignity.”

A 2007 legal case ruled that “In France it is possible to insult a religion, its figures and its symbols … however, insulting those who follow a religion is outlawed.”

The courageous words of the French authorities, however, seem harmless, pale and dull, compared to the strength of extremist violence and intimidation.

Islamic fundamentalism has already managed to displace not only thousands of persecuted Christians — such as Asia Bibi, forced to flee for her life from Pakistan to Canada after she was acquitted of committing blasphemy. This brand of extremism has also managed to transform many European citizens into prisoners, people hiding in their own countries, sentenced to death and forced to live in houses unknown even to their friends and families. And we got used to it!

On the day of Iran’s death sentence against Salman Rushdie for his novel, The Satanic Verses, he and his wife, Marianne Wiggins, were taken from their home in North London by the British secret service, to the first of more than fifty “safe houses” in which the writer lived for the next ten years.

The Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders — whose name, as the next to be murdered, was found on a sheet of paper knifed into the murdered filmmaker, Theo van Gogh — has been living in safe houses since 2004. “I am in jail,” he says, “and they are walking around free.”

Ten years ago, a Seattle Weekly reporter, Molly Norris, in solidarity with the endangered makers of the television cartoon “South Park,” also drew a caricature of Mohammed. The last newspaper article that talked about her stated:

“You may have noticed that the Molly Norris strip is not included in this week’s issue. That’s because there is no more Molly… on the advice of FBI security specialists, she will be moving and changing her name…”

The Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten, which first printed cartoons of Mohammed in 2005, gave up. The paper declined to republish the caricatures of the Prophet of Islam when Charlie Hebdo printed them again on its front page. The editor who published the cartoons at Jyllands Posten, Flemming Rose, is still escorted by bodyguards. “I really admire Charlie‘s courage,” he said.

“Heroes who have not succumbed to threats or violence. Unfortunately, they received limited support. No publication in France or Europe behaves like Charlie. That is why I believe that in Europe there is an unwritten law against blasphemy. I am not criticizing the journalists and editors who make this choice. We cannot blame people who, unlike Charlie, do not put their lives in danger. But let us not be fooled: this lack of courage to follow in Charlie‘s footsteps comes at a price, we are losing freedom of speech and an insidious form of self-censorship is gaining ground”.

In recent days, the new editor of Jyllands Posten, Jacob Nybroe, repeated:

“We will not publish them anymore. I confirmed this editorial line when I arrived and received a lot of applause. I may look like a coward, but we cannot do it”.

The names of Danish cartoonists appeared on the same “hit list” that Al Qaeda published with the name of Charlie Hebdo’s editor-in chief, Stéphane Charbonnier, murdered in the 2015 massacre. The Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard is alive only because during a terror assault on his home, he hid.

Today Jyllands Posten‘s headquarters has bulletproof windows, metal bars and slabs, barbed wire and video cameras. It sits opposite the port of Aarhus, the second largest city in Denmark, and is under surveillance day and night. Each automatic door, each elevator, requires a badge and a code. You enter it as if it were a bank vault. One door opens and after it closes, the next door opens. The journalists who work there enter one at a time. “To put it simply, freedom of speech is in bad shape around the world. Including in Denmark, France and throughout the West,” Rose said, “These are troubled times; people prefer order and security to freedom.”

If all of us do not defend our freedoms, soon we will not have them anymore.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16550/france-terrorism-silence