By Monica Showalter

As Democrats melt down in Iowa, unable to competently tally their winner, and battle a base deeply suspicious of them, one winner has handily emerged:

President Trump. 

He’s clocked in with just about all of the Republican vote, a tremendous vote of confidence from his party all by itself.

According to Fox News:

President Trump easily defeated his primary rivals in Monday’s Iowa Republican caucuses, in the first indication that those attempting to take on the president inside his own party stand a slim chance of making headway against the incumbent.

Iowa results showed the president winning with roughly 97 percent of the vote over former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld and former Illinois congressman Joe Walsh. The primary challengers walked away with about 1 percent each.

Better still, the participation rate in Iowa, with more than 30,000 caucus tallies, tops that of President Obama at his peak, who won about 25,000 in his heyday.

Fox News adds:

Iowa is considered a swing state in the general election. It was narrowly carried by the Democrats in the 2000 election and narrowly by Republicans in 2004. Then-Sen. Barack Obama captured the state by 6 points in 2012. And Trump won Iowa in 2016 by nearly 10 points.

Which is very bad news for the Democrats, who may well see the same pattern happening across the country.

Trump was fully aware of it, too, as Real Clear Poltics reported from the ground:

“The good people of Iowa have had a front-row seat to the lunacy and the madness of the totally sick left,” he declared before accusing Democrats of “not caring about farmers.”This, he told an adoring crowd while slipping into third person, was why “you should love Trump, with what I’ve done. We’re going to win the great state of Iowa, and it’s going to be a historic landslide.” And if the opposite should happen, Trump predicted that “your farms are going to hell, I can tell you right now.”

Here was the focused, Mamba-mentality attitude coming from Trump campaign operative Tim Murtaugh, who runs the communications operation:

The president seemed to lay off progressive favorites Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who leads the polls in Iowa, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has slipped to fourth. But the Trump campaign has maintained from the beginning that it doesn’t care who wins the nomination.

“It doesn’t matter to us which nominee gets thrown free from the wreckage on that side,” Murtaugh insisted in a sentiment that Trump later echoed: “We will make sure that they face another crushing defeat.”

Now we have Trump’s Twitter reaction to Iowa – driving the stake in:

In other words, winning.

For all the news coverage about the Iowa caucuses and how the Democrats were doing, out emerges the real story.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/02/in_iowa_trump_triumphs.html

A threat with a knife is said to have taken place last Sunday morning in the Essen central station. According to witnesses, a 28-year-old North African man allegedly threatened four women with a knife. At about 1:30 a.m., federal police officers observed on video surveillance monitors how railway security staff overpowered a man. Police officers then went to the crime scene. As it turned out, the Tunisian national is said to have had a fight with four women in the area of the toilet facilities. The 28-year-old is said to have pulled a pocket knife and threatened the four women. Bystanders would have deescalatingly talked to the man, who shortly afterwards was overpowered and disarmed by railway security staff. The four women were not injured by the incident.The federal police provisionally arrested the Tunisian and brought criminal proceedings against him for threatening behaviour.

https://fredalanmedforth.blogspot.com/2020/02/essen-nordafrikaner-zieht-messer-und.html

By the summer of last year, Glasgow had the highest number of housed refugees in the UK with almost 10% of the “asylum seekers” setting up shop in the Scottish city. The overflow of refugees, many of them from Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan, has brought in government money, but also violence and crime. Refugees whose requests for asylum are rejected refuse to leave and remain on in Glasgow.

Glasgow had been eager to cash in on asylum seekers, and in the last two decades was fundamentally transformed by the tide of migrants filling up its neighborhoods. As Pakistanis became the largest minority group in Scotland, 42% of the country’s Muslim population took up residence in Glasgow.

By the 2011 census, a fifth of Glasgow’s population was non-Scottish. In Pollokshields, a quarter of the population is Pakistani. Pollokshields is also where Kriss Donald, a 15-year-old Scottish teenage boy, was kidnapped in the spring of 2004, stabbed all over his body and then set on fire by a Pakistani gang.

“His violent death was a result of political correctness that has gripped the police in Scotland,” Mike Liddell, a senior police officer warned. “Crime within Glasgow’s Asian community has been allowed to grow unfettered for years. Why? Because the police have been afraid to fight it in case they are accused of racism.”

Ayub Khan, a member of the Multi-faith Coalition group in Pollokshields, agreed, “people know that the police are too scared to come into the area and be accused of racism.”

That was 15 years ago. 

Last year, Mohammed Maqsood, had his appeal thrown out. Maqsood had been accused of the Kriss Donald murder, but had remained free until he raped an 18-year-old girl, who got into what she thought was a taxi in Glasgow, before she was brutalized and left half-naked in the street.

Mohammed then generously dumped her clothes in a charity bin to hide the evidence.

The assault was one of many that involved taxis and Glasgow’s growing Muslim community. The taboo topic has been the subject of multiple police investigations after reports began to circulate in the press.

A 2011 report in the Evening Times documented the story of a teenage girl who had been abused and prostituted by a man named Nasir.

“One minute I was a normal teenage girl, the next, I was being forced to have sex with these old men,” she revealed. “I had never even kissed a boy before – they completely took my innocence from me.”

Nasir raped her in front of his fellow gang members while they recorded the assault on their cell phones. After she was prostituted, harassment by the gang forced her family to flee from Glasgow’s immigrants.

In 2011, Operation Cotswold was set up to focus on the Muslim refugees who were abusing young girls in care homes, facilities for children from broken families.

The police identified 26 potential victims, but no one was prosecuted.

In 2013, Operation Dash tracked the role of Muslim taxi services and fast food places in the grooming and sexual abuse of young girls. It focused on the Strathclyde area, a center of the city’s Pakistani population going back decades. That was where the police had launched and then shuttered Operation Gather a decade earlier because its focus on Muslim gangs had been deemed politically incorrect.

Operation Dash found that girls as young as 10 years old were being abused. 84 victims were identified and 27 suspects were reported. Only three were reportedly actually sent to prison.

And only one, Javaid Akhond, a refugee from Afghanistan working in a fast food place, was named.

Akhond got only 6 years in prison for grooming and sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl, grooming and sexually abusing her 13-year-old friend, sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl, and then, raping a 16-year-old girl who tried to intervene. Then, once he was locked up, he tried to pressure the 15-year-old from prison to name him officially as the father of her child so that he could avoid deportation from Scotland.

The Muslim refugee, like many foreign criminals, was hoping to rely on EU rules that prevent the deportation of even the worst criminals if they have left behind a child in a European country.

The Muslim refugee gangs aren’t just raping young girls, they’re using them as asylum requests.

In a familiar pattern, Cotswold and Dash turned up over 100 victims, but very few actual results.

Operation Cerrar, the latest successor to these operations, identified 56 members of a Glasgow grooming gang. The perpetrators were Pakistani, Iraqi, Egyptian, Turkish, and Moroccan refugees.

44 girls were abused by these refugees. Many were abused many times. Including one who was assaulted by 28 of the perpetrators and another by 23 of them.

14 of the abusers have been deported. Only 1 is in prison.

The police kept the investigation and its results secret. With results like these, it’s easy to see why.

After three investigations that have taken place over a decade with 154 identified victims, and at least 71 perpetrators, there have been seemingly only four actual prison sentences.

And the only one that has been made public amounted to a slap on the wrist.

If British authorities prosecuted Muslim grooming gangs as vigorously as they do ‘Islamophobia’, then the countless thousands of girls abused across major cities would sleep soundly in their beds at night.

Like many of these cities, Glasgow opened its doors to Muslim migrants for economic and political reasons. Labour and the Scottish National Party then fought eagerly over Muslim votes.

The 154 abused girls paid the price for the UK’s migration policies, for Glasgow’s eagerness for the economic benefits of opening up to migrants and refugees, and of the Scottish National Party’s desire to achieve independence for Scotland, even if it had to do it by submitting to the EU and Islam, and replacing the native population with a more reliable voting base for its social welfare and green energy.

In 2007, Bashir Ahmad became the first Muslim member of the Scottish Parliament for the SNP from Glasgow. He was followed by Humza Yousaf, his former assistant, who became the first Muslim cabinet minister holding down the justice portfolio and took his oath of allegiance in the Scottish Parliament in Urdu. Jahangir Hanif, a Glasgow SNP councilor, was caught teaching his children to fire an AK-47 at a training camp in Pakistan, near Kashmir.

The SNP’s Islamic squad came through the Muslim Brotherhood’s local outlet, the Scottish Islamic Foundation. And the SNP generously funneled money to the SIF in recognition of their support.

The SIF’s boss, Osama Saeed, who has cheered a return of the Caliphate, was an adviser to former First Minister Alex Salmond, the SNP’s dirty leader, who ran Scotland into the ground.

Salmond is currently on trial for assaulting 10 women.

The Scotland National Party’s answer to Harvey Weinstein even stands accused of trying to rape a woman in Bute House, the official residence of the First Minister, and in the Scottish Parliament.

Is it really any wonder that Scottish authorities have managed to do an even worse job of tackling Muslim sex grooming gangs than their counterparts in Manchester, Rotherham, and Oxford?

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/02/only-4-glasgows-71-muslim-refugee-child-rapists-daniel-greenfield/

By Monica Showalter

Hollywood leading man Johnny Depp disappeared from the red carpets about two years ago, a victim of #MeToo hysteria, based on an op-ed from his ex-wife, Amber Heard, alleging that he was a woman-abuser. According to the Guardian,his career was over.

Just one problem: The allegations now look as though they aren’t even true. According to a tape, turns out Depp was the one being abused, not the other way around.

Here’s Megan Fox from PJ Media, describing what the story is now:

A leaked audio conversation between Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard is blowing up Hollywood. The audio reveals Heard confessing to committing physical violence against Depp. After BuzzFeed published photos of Heard with bruises and accusations of abuse against Depp, his life fell apart. Depp was implicated in the #MeToo movement and branded as a wife-abuser. He was dropped from “Pirates of the Caribbean” in 2018 and many speculate it was because of the allegations.

Depp was pretty easy to accuse, given his chaotic life. He’d gotten into fights. He’d had problems with drugs. So the accusations were taken as #MeToo Gospel and from there, Depp’s career went downhill.

Heard even loudly donated half her 2016-2017 $7 million divorce settlement to the American Civil Liberties Union, all in the name of preventing violence against women.

For a year or so, Depp has quietly been trying to recover his good name. Here’s the narrative layout as it happened from Wikipedia:

In early 2019, Depp sued Heard for US$50 million for defamation over an op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post in December 2018, which “depended on the central premise that Ms. Heard was a domestic abuse victim and that Mr. Depp perpetrated domestic violence against her,”^[155][156] despite it not mentioning Depp or any of the alleged incidences of violence perpetrated by him.^[149] Heard has asked a judge to dismiss the lawsuit—which Depp filed in Virginia—so that the case could be tried in California, where some of the incidents took place and most of the witnesses reside.^[157][158] As part of the suit, Depp submitted documents claiming that Heard had in fact physically abused him during the marriage rather than the other way around, a claim which Heard denies.^[158]

In early 2020 Depp released audio recordings that implied Heard had admitted to hitting Depp and throwing things at him. Both parties admitted on the recordings to fights that “got physical”, and that Heard started some of these fights.^[159]

The tape obtained by the Daily Mail reveals that Heard was the one continuously assaulting Depp, complete with classic rationalizations from a typical abuser asher stated self-justification:

The two debate the degree to which Heard injured Depp. At one point, Heard tells Depp she was hitting him: “Babe, you’re not punched … I don’t know what the motion of my actual hand was, but you’re fine. I did not hurt you, I did not punch you, I was hitting you.”

At another point, Depp can be heard saying, “I do not want to leave you. I do not want a divorce, I do not want you out of my life. I just want peace. If things get physical, we have to separate.” 

Heard replied she couldn’t promise that she would “be perfect, I can’t promise you I won’t get physical again.”

“God, I (expletive) sometimes get so mad I lose it,” she added. “I can (expletive) promise you I can do everything to change.” 

Memo to Amber: You don’t hit anyone, ever. Forget the punch thing.

It turns out that Depp was the one being abused, not Heard. Heard admitted to incident after incident of abuse with Depp trying to get away from her.

Much more from the hideous encounters and rationalizations of abuse can be heard on the Daily Mail’s nonshareable tape, here.

It’s a textbook case of the problems with rushes to judgment. Up until now, the left has been selling the “believe women” line, dragging all sorts of unpowerful people into oblivion, and even a presumably untouchable leading movie star as well. Depp’s Wikipedia page said that up until his downfall, he had been the third highest grossing movie star of all time. According to this report cited by the Guardian, 40% of domestic violence victims are men and their calls for help are usually ignored by the cops. In Depp’s case, he could do nothing about Heard’s attacks except to quietly try to exonerate himself, now with the release of this tape.

One hopes that this case, as high profile as it is, might prove to be a watershed for the cause of believing evidence, as writer Megan Fox says, rather than believing women. At a minimum, Depp has been unfairly taken down by one-sided accusations from someone with a self-interest in hiding her own role, which is now being revealed as quite possibly to be that of an abuser. Is there justice for Johnny, as the twitterati are tweeting? One hopes the tide will turn.

americanthinker.com/blog

Passengers aboard a metro train in Paris stopped four Arab men from pursuing a Jewish man they were harassing over his faith, the victim said.

The incident late Saturday night unfolded as the train approached the Jaures station in northeast Paris, the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA, reported Sunday.

The four men asked a Jewish man wearing a yarmulke for a cigarette, said the report based on the man’s testimony. When he said he didn’t have one, one of the men told him: “You Jews have enough money to buy some.”

The Arab men then cornered the man against the wall of the train car, but he escaped. The men pursued him but were blocked by other passengers.

Jews make up less than one percent of the French population, were they were targets of most of the documented racist hate crimes 2019. The French Interior Ministry published the data last month in a report that counted 687 anti-Semitic incidents last year out of a total of 1,142 racist hate crimes.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/275506

If only there were some sort of facility, perhaps with high walls, barbed wire, and sparking chairs, that could have prevented this.

The terrorist shot dead by police after stabbing two people in Streatham on Sunday was automatically released from prison just a few days ago, after serving less than half of a three year-plus sentence for 13 terror offences. 

Now if he’d said something Islamophobic on Facebook, he’d no doubt still be in prison.

Knife-obsessed’ Sudesh Amman, 20, went on a rampage in south London, stabbing a man in his 40s in the stomach and a female cyclist in her 50s in the back, though both survived. 

It has now been revealed that Amman, from Harrow, was jailed for three years and four months in December 2018 after he pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing terrorist documents.

The then-18-year-old fantasised about carrying out a terror attack with a blade or with acid while riding a moped and also shared Al Qaeda propaganda on a WhatsApp group used by his family.

After being jailed for his offences, he was automatically released just a few days ago, after serving half of his sentence, despite authorities being concerned that he still held extremist views. 

What possible harm could there be in freeing an Al Qaeda supporter who fantasized about stabbing people? This could not have been foreseen.

Armed police were on the scene within minutes, having been following him because they suspected he was going to launch a terrorist attack imminently. After he failed to stop, Amman was shot dead outside a Boots chemist.  

After the rampage, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the government would announce further plans for ‘fundamental changes to the system for dealing with those convicted of terrorism offences’ on Monday. 

See previous paragraph. That’s the solution right there.

In December 2017 Amman posted a picture of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed during a U.S. raid in Syria in October, and told his brother in a message that “the Islamic State is here to stay.”

As much as Amman is.

He also described Yazidi women as slaves and said the Koran made it permissible to rape them, and in another message he encouraged his girlfriend to behead her parents.

Now he’s got his virgins.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/02/muslim-terrorist-freed-early-prison-stabs-3-daniel-greenfield/

The busy Bevrijdingslaan in Ghent was closed off after a stabbing incident on Sunday afternoon.

The events on Sunday afternoon around 1600 hours remain unclear however. The police closed off the street, but gave no further information. “The investigation is in progress, and we will give a statement later,” the public prosecutor told the media. And although the prosecutor’s office would give no further statement for the time being, it spoke of a “serious incident”.

The stabbing in the Belgian city took place around an hour after a terrorist attacker was shot dead by police in London.

According to Belgian news site HLN, a dark-skinned woman attacked two passers-by with a knife in central Ghent, reportedly injuring one of her victims in the stomach. Armed police officers then neutralized the woman with a gunshot to the hand, and she was taken into custody.

Police have also reportedly arrested a man, who is said to have been involved in the stabbing. Bystanders in the Koffieshop cafe on the corner of Notelaarstraat said two bystanders were wounded and they had seen a man fleeing from the suspect. The police then reportedly shot the attacker in the hand.

The fire department set up a tent on the street to treat people. The Bevrijdingslaan is closed between Notelaarstraat and Virginiastraat.

In London, a jihadist wearing a fake suicide vest was shot dead by police marksmen after he went on a stabbing spree on Sunday. Sky News reported that he had been under active surveillance by anti-terror police.

Scotland Yard confirmed at least three people were injured in the attack and have been taken to hospital. They include one person who is in a life-threatening condition. The Metropolitan Police tweeted: “Three people are known to have been injured in the Streatham attack earlier this afternoon. One person is at hospital in a life-threatening condition. We are in the process of informing their family.

“A second victim was treated for minor injuries at the scene before being taken to hospital. A third victim has been taken to hospital – their condition is not life-threatening.”

freewestmedia.com/2020/02/03/stabbing-spree-in-ghent-immediately-after-london-attack/

Belgian police have reportedly shot a woman who was attacking people with a knife in Ghent, Belgium.

Details of the incident, which has happened more or less in parallel with a radical Islamic terrorist attack in Streatham, London, which also involved multiple stabbings, are scant, with the public prosecutor’s office having declined to comment as of the time of publication.

Belgian media reports suggest the attacker was a “dark-skinned woman” disabled by police after she was shot in the hand in the Bevrijdingslaan area.

The reports suggest two people were stabbed, with one being wounded in the stomach, but neither are said to be in danger of death.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/02/02/knife-attacker-shot-after-stabbings-in-ghent-belgium/