Muslim Brotherhood in the Netherlands (2)

Hat tip Dagelijkse Standaard-Translation by Fousesquawk.

 

This is the latest in our series of translations from European sources regarding the presence and activities of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Europe. This is the second such article from the Netherlands and concerns a particular Mulsim candidate for office who is suspected of being connected to the MB.

https://www.dagelijksestandaard.nl/2020/11/naieve-sukkelclub-groenlinks-zet-moslimsbroeders-islamiste-op-verkiesbare-plek-9-van-kieslijst/

Naive idiot club Green-Left (party) puts Muslim Brotherhood-Islamist  as (candidate)- Spot number 9 on election list

-by Tim Engelbart, 12 November 2020

So they have succeeded: As a strictly secular, left party, they have placed Kauthar Bouchalikht, someone from the extreme-right Islamic hate club, Muslim Brotherhood, on place number 9 in the coming Parliamentary elections.

Give credit where credit is due: Carel Brendel, retired AD- journalist, discovered that the leftist secular and liberal Green-Left placed someone from the hard-hitting, extreme-right Muslim Brotherhood on an election list spot for the coming Parliamentary elections. Her name is Kauthar Bouchallikht, and she was vice-chair of the youth organization of this sharia club (MB).

"The candidate commission of the Green-Left has awarded a high candidate position in the coming Second Chamber elections to Kauthar Bouchallikht, the vice-chair of the youth and student organization of the Muslim Brothers. The celebratory biography makes no mention of this striking activity."

And no, that does not mean that the Green-Left has placed a terrorist on their list. But the MB is a fanatical and fundamentalist movement that attempts to bring about sharia and Islamic law through democracy. In France, President Macron has recently started warning against these crazy people, Brendel writes.

"Nevertheless, the MB is seen by many as a problematical political-religious movement, which would promote 'Islamic separatism' (according to French President Emmanuel Macron)  and in the longer term possibly more dangerous for democracy than Salafism (according to what the agency for Protection of the Constitution in the German state of Nordrhine-Westfalen reported.)"

So it is important that the Green-Left remove this girl from the election list. Or the ideals of the party should be changed to re-establishing the Netherlands as a theocratic, Islamic state. That is, naturally, also possible.

Stanford University and the Hoover Institution

 This article first appeared in New English Review.

Stanford University, like so many others, spent decades building a reputation as a premier academic institution in the United States. And like so many others, its actual worth as an educational center has declined in recent decades due to the usual assortment of left-wing faculty who stress indoctrination over education. One of the shining lights at Stanford, amid the negativity, has been the renowned Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank founded in 1959 by former President Herbert Hoover. Today it boasts people like Condoleeza Rice, Thomas Sowell, and Victor Davis Hanson.  Yet predictably, the forces of leftism on campus are challenging the relationship between the Hoover Institution and Stanford. This week’s Stanford Daily, the campus newspaper of Stanford, has an article describing the issue. In September, 100 faculty members signed a letter to the university asking Stanford to re-evaluate its relationship with the Hoover Institution based on their perceived (right-wing) bias.

I am familiar with two of the names on that letter, David Palumbo-Liu, whose signature is at the top, and Joel Beinin. Both are liberal activists chiefly known for their pro-Palestinian activism against the Jewish state of Israel. I myself had the opportunity to see and hear Palumbo-Liu speak at the University of California at Irvine, where I was a part-time teacher, in 2016. Ironically, the topic of the event was freedom of speech in the age of Charlie Hebdo. The event featured several leftist academics who didn’t care much for Charlie Hebdo’s freedom of speech even after several of them had been slaughtered in Paris for publishing Mohammad cartoons. Yet, most of them, including Palumbo-Liu, complained bitterly that they and their fellow-pro-Palestinian student-faculty activists were the victims of a campaign to silence them. (Anybody who visits a college campus will soon see that the pro-Palestinian forces are alive and loud, while it is the pro-Israel activists who have to fear intimidation and disruption of their events, as I can personally attest based on years of first-hand experience.)  Suffice to say that Palumbo-Liu has a rather twisted way of thinking when it comes to the question of who should be allowed to express their views and who should not. In contrast, this is the guy who caused a controversy on the Stanford campus in 2018 when he was reportedly acting as front man to give Antifa access to the campus.

But he doesn’t want the Hoover Institution on campus.

Beinin is a Middle East history professor who is another garden variety academic hater of Israel. In this article from Algemeiner (which describes him as a Maoist), we can perhaps understand why he is  so opposed to the Hoover Institution. After all, it was founded as a voice against Communism. In addition, he is part of the virtual academic army that always leaps to the defense of whoever claims their right to say whatever they want about Israel is being infringed. That includes people like Rutgers professor Jasbir Puar, who, in 2016, told a Vassar audience that Israel was in the organ-harvesting business.

But he doesn’t want the Hoover Institution on campus.

I know nothing about the other 98 learned professors who have added their names to the aforementioned letter. I would bet an in-depth search would find similar traits among many of them as well as with Palumbo-Liu and Beinen. At any rate, based on what I know about the above two professors, I find it ironic that they would object to the Hoover Institution because they are so “one-sidedly conservative” in their views, when they themselves complain that they themselves are victims of being silenced for their own views.

The word I believe is hypocrisy.

Bates College Goes Bates---- Over Profile of College Republican

Bates College in winter-Behold the snowflakes

The little rascals at Bates College in Maine have gone Bates---- over a profile of a College Republican student that was posted on the school's Instagram page. The student was one of several whose profiles were posted.

The College Fix has the story as well as a link to the student newspaper's long-winded article on the issue.

As I often do, I have submitted a comment to the reader thread. Whether it will be published is anybody's guess. Obviously, the whole episode is a joke and another in the never-ending list of examples of just how degenerated our colleges have become. And as is always the case, you have a weak-kneed president who bows and scrapes in apologizing to the snowflakes. 

Spain: Video of Terrorists Making Bombs

Hat tip Gates of Vienna and Vlad Tepes

In 2017, two terrorists were killed in Barcelona when the bombs they were making in their residence exploded. The following day, the surviving terrorist conducted a terrorist vehicle attack on Barcelona's Ramblas (Boulevard) trying to kill pedestrians. His trial is now underway. 

Discovered in the rubble of the explosion is a video made by the three terrorists. The audio is a mix of Spanish and Arabic with Spanish sub-titles. Those sub-titles are translated to English sub-titles by Fousesquawk. Note that the English subtitles are synchronized with the Spanish sub-titles and not necessarily with the actual words in the audio as the Spanish sub-titles are a little off in a couple of places. The video is included in an article in El Mundo (Spain).

Mozambique: Islamic Terrorists Attack Village and Behead Victims

-Agence France Press

On Friday, a group of armed Islamic terrorists attacked a village in the northern part of the former Portuguese colony of Mozambique. According to the report, more than 50 people were beheaded. The below article from the Portuguese news site, CM Jornal, is translated by Fousesquawk.

https://www.cmjornal.pt/mundo/africa/detalhe/radicais-islamicos-decapitam-mais-de-50-pessoas-em-mocambique?ref=HP_OutrasNoticias1

Islamic radicals behead more than 50 people in Mozambique

A soccer field was transformed into an execution site where the bodies were decapitated and dismembered

More than 50 persons were beheaded in Northern Mozambique by a group of Islamic radicals, according to BBC. The radical militants transformed a soccer field into an execution site, where the bodies of the victims were decapitated and dismembered. 

Clashes have been occurring in the gas-rich province of Cabo Delgado since 2017. More than 2,000 people have died and 430,000 left homeless as a result of the numerous conflicts in that Muslim-majority province.

The radicals are linked to Daesh (ISIS) and exploit the poverty and unemployment in order to recruit new militants to establish rule in that African region.

Armed men shot at and set fire to homes in the village of Nanjaba last Friday. Two persons were beheaded and several women abducted.

The government of Mozambique has previously asked for international help to deal with the problem and counter the violent attacks that have been carried out over the course of recent times.

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Muslim Brotherhood in Austria (2)

Austrian police are conducting raids throughout the country in the wake of last week's terror attack in Vienna. A major aspect of these raids is the apparent connection between the killer and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and Hamas. The below article from Kronen Zeitung (Austria) is translated by Fousesquawk and is part of our series of translations of European reports regarding the activities of the MB in Europe.

 https://www.krone.at/2271772

Raids: Amounts in "millions" seized

It was a "decisive blow" against Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, confirmed Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) on Monday (referring to) the success as part of "Operation Luxor" (formerly) "Operation Ramses", ( in which) numerous searches and seizures were carried out throughout Austria (see video). (The police) are fighting on two fronts, one to clear up the direct (contacts) of the Vienna attacker, the other to proceed against the structures in the background. 930 police participated, a good 21,000 hours spent in surveillance, especially on finance streams, and thus, fighting "the roots of radicalization

The Muslim Brotherhood is deeply dangerous, and like Hamas, a threat for democracy. Their goal is to carry out a "long-planned Islamization", as well to undermine fundamental rights and freedom under the sign of terrorism and anti-Semitism. In addition to the formation of a terrorist-criminal organization and money laundering, there is also the suspected terror finance, which must be countered.

Caption below photo: Interior Minister Karl Nehammer and General Director for Public Security, Franz Ruf (r)

To protect all people living in Austria

In addition, such organizations try to put pressure on Muslims living in Austria. Nehammer stresses that it is his aim "to protect all people living in Austria, especially Muslims, from these tendencies". In any case, it is criminal acts that are the subject of investigation, not religion.

Proceedings against terror financing

The General Director of Public Security, Franz Ruf, made it clear that the organizations which are the focus of the current raids, have already been proven to belong to the MB and Hamas (which is illegal in Austria.) That was achieved since the previous year by on-going investigations with broad surveillance activities, financial investigations, and other technical measures.

Cash "in the millions seized"

Terror organizations need money, which is earned under the cover of legitimate organizations, spending, or criminal activities. Therefore, it is necessary, to uncover these complex structures and freeze the finances. In the course of the searches, for example, "high amounts of cash"- amounts in the millions- have been seized, according to Ruf.

The MB, whose facilities were raided early Monday, is not officially in Austria. Nevertheless, the Islamist movement has networked with other associations, warned a controversial study by George Washington University three years ago. As of Monday, the Islamic Faith Community in Austria was initially unaware of any searches in facilities under their control.

France: The Albertville Horror

Hat tip Francois DeSouche

In the southern French town of Albertville, a local elementary school, like all of France, was holding a tribute to Samuel Paty, the teacher beheaded by a terrorist outside his own school for the "crime" of showing  Charlie Hebdo "Mohammad cartoons" in class. Four of the children, aged 10, justified the murder for insulting the Prophet Mohammad and allegedly told the teacher they would kill him too if he showed such cartoons.

This led to the school informing the police, who apparently summoned the kids and their parents to the local station for an interview. Since the families were apparently Turkish, this had led to a ruckus in the Turkish community. 

The below article from the conservative French blogger, Francois DeSouche, has more details. We are working on the enclosed video of a statement by the French Interior Ministry explaining the police action, which is being criticized by some due to the age of the children.

The below article is translated by Fousesquawk. Note: I have used the word "detained" rather than "arrest" for the French word, arrêter, since it is clear that there were no actual arrests involved.

https://www.fdesouche.com/2020/11/07/albertville-quatre-enfants-de-10-ans-arretes-pour-apologie-du-terrorisme-complicite-et-menaces-de-mort/

Albertville (73): Four children, aged 10, (detained) for “justifying  terrorism”, complicity and death threats”. Turmoil in the Turkish community (Update: The government defends itself.)

-Sebastien de Lyon- November 7, 2020 at 9:22pm           

 

The Ministry of Interior reacted on Twitter to this police operation, denying that the officers had “used disproportionate force”. The incident, revealed by a  Turkish press agency, Thursday, had provoked a strong emotion on social media.

 France 3 (News)

 The (detention) Thursday in Albertville (Savoy) of 4 pupils of CM2, at their homes, suspected of justifying terrorism, has been denounced by members of the Turkish community on social media, leading the authorities to justify their action…..

 Courier Picard (News)

 The prosecutor of Chambery confirms that 4 pupils have been “detained” as part of an open investigation for "justifying terrorism, complicity and death threats”, following threatening comments (during) tributes to Samuel Paty.

 Contacted by CheckNews, the prosecutor of Chambery confirms that an investigation for “justifying terrorism, complicity, and death threats” has, indeed, been opened over the acts that occurred as part of ceremonies of tribute to the teacher, Samuel Paty, in an elementary school in Albertville.

 “Several children made troubling remarks,” justifying the act of the terrorist and threatening a professor by telling him, “You too. We will kill you,” stated the prosecutor.

 Each of the four children is aged 10, “about ten years,” they have not been placed in custody (possible at 13 years) but within the legal framework of a detention.

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Fousesquawk comment:

How each society would handle this can vary, and the idea of "arresting" 10-year-olds can spark a lot of disagreement. I doubt that French justice is so severe that these kids are going to jail, but I think, given the situation in France, that it was entirely appropriate for someone-be it school or police- to sit down and have serious talk with the kids and their parents. It may sound harsh, but given what's going on in France, who knows what these kids might do in ten years or so if they keep thinking this way.

 

 

 

 

What Will Happen to Michael Flynn?

 One of the many downsides of a looming Biden presidency is that we will have a new attorney general and Department of Justice. William Barr will be gone, and I suspect so will the investigations into the malfeasance of the Obama administration, DOJ, FBI, CIA actions in trying to submarine Trump in 2016-and beyond. People like John Brennan, James Clapper, Peter Strzok and Andrew McCabe can breathe a sigh of relief. It's all going to go away.

But what about Michael Flynn? As things now stand, the current Justice Department, seeing the injustice that had been done, moved to dismiss the case. Judge Emmet Sullivan, however, has refused to do so and is drawing out the process. Will that now extend into the new administration? If so, will the new DOJ reverse its position on Flynn and ask that the prosecution go forward, that Flynn's request to withdraw his guilty plea be rejected, and the court proceed to sentencing? As things now stand, Judge Sullivan has the latest appeals court ruling in his favor.

I am not a fan of presidential pardons and feel they should be reserved for clear cases of injustice. I do hope, however, that if the Flynn case is not resolved in his favor by January, Trump should pardon him before leaving office. I believe he will do so.

The Left: "Off with Their Heads!!"

 Hat tip Legal Insurrection

In the wake of Joe Biden's apparent victory, New York Congressbabe Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez  (she also won) is calling for heads to roll. Whose heads? Those of anybody who supported Trump in any manner. And she's not alone.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/11/aoc-jen-rubin-wapo-and-former-buttigieg-staffers-launch-effort-to-purge-trump-supporters-from-public-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1105224

Joe Biden, to his credit, is saying mostly the right things. The big question is how much in charge he will be with his mental faculties clearly on the skids. A career center-leftist, can he hold back the AOCs, Kamala Harrises, and those who want to install a radical left agenda and go after Trump and his followers? I suspect not, but I hope I am wrong.

Santa Clara University: Campus Jacobins Want Campus Cop Fired

Hat tip Campus Reform and Breitbart

Out here in the Peoples Republic of California, another campus storm is brewing at Santa Clara University (home of the Broncos), where a campus cop participated in a Zoom diversity event on October 28, and someone noticed he had a Blue Lives Matter symbol on a bookcase behind him. Naturally, to the campus Jacobins and the Cowardly Lions who run the asylum, Blue Lives Matter represents racism. Campus Reform has the details.

 https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=16113

Naturally, the Cowardly Lions apologized and dusted off the template statement of inclusion that all universities across the land are required to use.

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Kudos to the Santa Clara College Republicans for defending campus police and pointing out the absurdity of the university's reaction.

What to Do in France? One Politician Has an Idea

Hat tip RAIR Foundation

In the wake of two terrorist attacks in France in the past two weeks, I am cross-posting a sub-titled video from France, which is running on the RAIR  Foundation website. Speaking here is Stéphane Ravier, a senator in Marie Le Pen's Rassemblement National party. He says enough blood has been spilled and condemns French President Emmanuel Macron's lax immigration policy. Sounds good to me. Innocent people are being slaughtered by people who should not even be in the country. How can this be tolerated?

In another note, Austrian authorities have just shut down two mosques associated with the killer who struck Vienna a few days ago,

That is a start.

"But Fousesquawk, looks to us here in Europe that the US is about to get a new president who has said he will reverse Trump's travel ban."

Touché.

The Election

 I have been reluctant to write much about the election. Maybe it's writer's cramp or just disappointment in what appears to be the final result. In addition, I don't want to slam the voters' choice and engage in hits against Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. I am also reluctant to weigh in much on President Trump's efforts to fight the results in the last few undecided states. My personal feeling is that this election is over.

There is one thought that I do want to share. I don't know, at this point, how much stock to put in the claims of voter fraud in Philadelphia, Detroit, and Atlanta. Are they true? Are they, as the media is saying, just right-wing conspiracies? I don't know for sure, but I want to know what the truth is. We should all want to know. That's because the worst-case scenario is not which candidate won or lost, but if our democracy is still strong. For if, in fact, this election turns out to be stolen, our democracy is finished unless serious reforms are put in place.

Without making a conclusion, there is enough cause for concern in those battleground states where Trump was ahead-until the counting stopped in Atlanta and Philadelphia, and then he was behind. But I'm not an expert in how these polling places are supposed to operate.

What I had hoped for was a clear cut victory (preferably for Trump), but a result in which everyone would know that the American people had spoken, and the result was honest. We don't have that now. The only way we might have it is if we get a satisfactory explanation for what is happening in Philadelphia, Detroit and Atlanta.