Sweden: Swedish Students Harassed-School Rector Goes After Reporter

Hat tip Fria Tider

Below is an article from Fria Tider on a report by journalist Joakim Lamotte on school bullying in Sweden.  At the (exclusive) private English School in Västerås, Swedish children report being harassed and beaten by immigrant children from the Middle East and Africa simply because they are Swedish and represent a minority in the school. Furthermore, when Lamotte contacted the school principal, Maud Segerstedt, she hung up the phone and then sent him an email to the effect that she was going to report him to the press ombudsman and the press professional ethics board.

The below article is translated by Fousesquawk. The article contains a link with a video made by Lamotte which we are in the process of translating and will post when available.

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Emelie-Former student at  Västerås

"They said I was a Swedish pussy"

 https://www.friatider.se/joakim-lamotte-anmals-reportage-om-svenska-elever-i-minoritet

Joakim Lamotte reported for his reporting on Swedish pupils in minority

Posted 21 February 2022 14:21

Joakim Lamotte spoke to a girl who reported that she was bullied, beaten, and harassed because she was Swedish. Now the school's Center Party principal is reporting Lamotte to the media ombudsman and the presses' professional ethics board.

In Joakim Lamotte's reportage on Facebook, it is described how Swedish pupils at the English School in Västerås are harassed just for being Swedes.

The Swedish pupils at the school have ended up in the minority since a large number of pupils from the third world have applied.

Joakim Lamotte interviews the former student, Emelie, who reports that as a Swede, she was beaten, bullied, and isolated and that in the 7th year, she was forced to change to a school with more Swedish pupils. Those who bullied her come from Iraq, Syria, Kurdistan, and Africa.

"I was bullied because I didn't have a large family, I was bullied because I didn't speak their vernacular. I was pale and green-eyed. I was everything they weren't. I was isolated because I was Swedish. They said I was a Swedish pussy and called me things in their language that I didn't understand," says Emelie in the reportage.

It went on so long that Emelie was forced to spend all the time outside the classes in the school bathroom. She even sat there eating her lunch.

"We finally took Emelie out of the English School. Had we not done so, I don't know if she would have survived this," says Emelie's mother in the reportage.

According to Lamotte, he has heard many pupils from the school with similar reports about how they are bullied and harassed because they are Swedes.

But when Joakim Lamotte contacted the principal, Maud Segerstedt, who is active within the Center Party, she hung up. Then she emailed (him) and stated that she would report Lamotte to the media ombudsman and the press professional ethics board.

"This is completely absurd. A principal's job is to answer reporters' questions when it comes to misconduct in the school. But as usual, certain people in power do everything to shoot the messenger instead of solving the problem," writes Joakim Lamotte on Facebook.

Sweden's Failed Immigration Policy

Hat tip Pettersson's Blogg. Translation by Fousesquawk.

Below is a letter to the editor of Pettersson's Blogg, a conservative Swedish site. The letter is written by Johnny Hornbrink of the conservative Swedish party, Sweden Democrats. 

 https://petterssonsblogg.se/2022/02/20/hatkampanjen-mot-sverige-ar-priset-for-misslyckad-integration/

Hate campaign against Sweden is the price for failed integration!

20 February 2022   Pettersson

Letter to the editor- There is now ongoing an extensive hate campaign against our country and the Swedish social services.

The image that is disseminated is that Swedish social services are taking children for unjust reasons, that of secularizing them. Abroad, Sweden is pointed to as a fascist state, (and) hate campaigns against Sweden and particularly social services also contain threats of violence and terror acts.

Photo insert: "To hate Islam is not irrational or a phobia. It is just plain sense"-Mona Walter, ex-Muslim on so-called Islamophobia

According to the Agency for Psychological Defense, this is an organized advocacy campaign against Sweden. The Muslim Brotherhood and violence-advocating Islamist organizations as well as an imam sentenced to deportation are the driving forces behind this anti-Sweden campaign.

The Islamist party, Nyans, also participates in protests against the Swedish social services. The party also intends to make LVU (Law on Protection for Young) one of its election issues, (and) they also say they want to restrict free speech and forbid certain blasphemy. Strangely enough, it appears that no media sees it as being absurd that the party can stand for election in Swedish municipalities while its representatives incite against the country with support from religious minorities, extremists, and foreign power(s)!?

The Islamist hatred against Sweden and social workers is not surprising; that certain Muslims are angry when they cannot raise their children according to their own values and culture is logical.

But what is surprising is that Swedish politicians and journalists who propagate for this multi-cultural society are now everything from surprised to upset when they see its consequences!?

How did this happen here?

The answer is very simple.

What we now see is the result of decades of irresponsible "cultural enrichment" and immigration without requirements from countries with a completely different viewpoint on children's and women's rights, which have led us here.

There is no simple solution to this, but a first measure to greatly increase integration and counter exclusion is to require Swedish language ability as well as knowledge of Swedish social orientation.

It should be obvious to all that Swedish authorities take (custody) of children because they are judged to be in danger, not because the parents happen to be Muslims. Those who choose to move to Sweden should be obliged to learn our language, our laws, and rules, etc. It is embarrassing that this has to be mentioned.

It cannot continue that social secretaries, emergency personnel, teachers, caretakers, and Swedish youth, in short, ordinary people have to be those who always have to pay the price in the form of threats and violence for immigration policies and non-existent integration!

With its "blessed" and uncontrolled immigration, the politically correct establishment has turned our suburbs into a world they themselves don't want to live in. These lost multi-cultural advocates face a tough future since they have closed their eyes far too long. It doesn't help any longer to cry that everyone is racist and that it is all SD (Sweden Democrats) fault. SD did not exist when the experimental mass immigration policy was launched, but just like exclusion and the Islamist party, Nyans, it is a direct result of (the policy)!

Johnny Hornbrink (Sweden Democrats)

Munich-2022 Version

 

  "Good news, mein Fuehrer. Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi are in Munich."

                                             

Well, this has to be reassuring. Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and Barbara Lee have joined Kamala Harris in Munich to meet with our allies and reassure them of.....whatever. President Biden has decided to send his A Team to Munich since, after all, he is the B Team.

  "I have here in my hand, a paper signed by Putin........"

                                      

The last farce that took place in Munich was in 1938 when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain "pulled peace out of the fire" with his infamous sell-out of Czechoslovakia. That was the one that saved the world from WW2, if you recall.

This makes Ukrainian President Zelenskiy's decision to leave Ukraine and attend the Munich confab all the more confusing. Maybe this is his way of getting out of town while the getting is good. He certainly doesn't need to be in Munich to hear Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi prattle on about "economic sanctions in our time!" What does he think they are going to do, vote Ukraine into NATO?

It's a sad situation all the way around. Having people like Harris and Pelosi going to Munich of all places is just adding to the humiliation.

In Defense of Michele Tafoya

This article first appeared in New English Review.

 Up to this week, my only exposure to Michele Tafoya had been watching her on the sidelines of NFL games on NBC. To be honest, I've never cared for this aspect of football games on TV because they basically consist of, "I talked to coach so, and so, and he said...." I think they add very little to the game other than giving the viewer updates on injuries. To be fair, interviews with players and coaches are seldom very enlightening under any circumstances.

This week, however, I saw Tafoya's interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox where she discussed why she was stepping away from sports and getting involved in other issues that are more important. She spoke about her children being taught in school that race matters in that "people of color" are automatically victims while white people are automatically oppressors, something she definitely does not consider her children to be. She spoke eloquently of her child's best friend, who was black. They were "inseparable"-until the school separated the children into racial "affinity" groups.

I have to tell you I came away very impressed by Michele Tafoya. She spoke with no hate, only sadness and the belief that whites are not the enemy of non-whites. She did make a comment that whites have worked to bring about equality since the Civil War....(I am paraphrasing). I would have amended that to say since the Civil Rights era of the 1960s, but no matter. I happen to share her belief that most whites are well-intentioned in racial matters.

Now comes this op-ed from Shalise Manza Young of Yahoo Sports, attacking Tafoya for her comments and implying that Tafoya is a racist to some degree. Here is the op-ed, which also includes the video clip of the Fox interview with Tucker Carlson.

As for Yahoo Sports, I periodically get blurbs from them via Facebook, and they are uniformly politically correct. In that vein, sports talk shows are also politically correct, including racial matters. Many of the commentators are African-American, which is entirely proper since African-Americans are so well represented in sports like football and basketball. It wouldn't make a lot of sense for white and black commentators to be arguing about race on sports shows from different points of view since it is such an emotionally charged issue.  Thus, any criticism of Colin Kaepernick (who is mentioned in Young's article) is generally left to non-sports venues. 

I have a sense that the Tafoya story is just beginning. My impression of her is that of a decent, nice lady who is very sad that schools are dividing children by race-not just physically by having separate events for them, but by what they are teaching children of all races about race itself. Tafoya has shown remarkable courage by standing up to her children's school, especially already being a public figure, and by going on Carlson's show. Sure enough, she is now being attacked-viciously, I might add. Hopefully, the black athletes and colleagues she worked with will come to her defense. Surely they know very well that she is no racist.

What Tafoya is arguing for is integration, friendship, and unity while her enemies are arguing for segregation, mistrust, and division. This is at the crux of all the controversy going on today across the nation. You see it in Black Lives Matter. You see it on the far left. You see it in Democrat politics. You see it in academia and all the ethnic studies departments in our universities. They are all about division. 

Ironically, the best rebuttal to Young's op-ed attacking Tafoya is the video of the Carlson interview itself, which Yahoo posted with the op-ed. Just what are Tafoya's "ugly truths"? That she regrets her son lost his best friend? Is it an "ugly truth" that Tafoya is against separating people based on skin color? Is it an "ugly truth" that Tafoya loves her country as she expressed to Carlson? Is it an "ugly truth" that Tafoya identifies with the political middle? Is it an "ugly truth" that Tafoya laments that people are afraid to talk to each other?

Shalise Manza Young and Yahoo Sports should be ashamed of themselves for this vicious and unfair attack on Tafoya just because she doesn't toe the politically-correct line. They say more about themselves than they ever could about Tafoya.

And I hope Fox News hires Michele Tafoya asap.

Netherlands: Outrage Over Request Sent to Universities to Disclose Jewish Ties

Utrecht University

On January 24, 2022, a Dutch NGO, The Rights Forum, which is anti-Israel in its nature, sent a public records request to all 14 Dutch universities requesting information pertaining to any and all ties, the university may have with Israel, Israeli universities, companies, or any institutions that support Israel. 

The Dutch-based Nieuw Israelietische Weekblad, a Jewish outlet, has posted the request. It is rather long and not yet translated, but the reader can plainly see the names of numerous Israeli/Jewish institutions listed here.

The request, referred to in Dutch as Wob, for Wet Openbaarheid Bestuur, (translated loosely as Administration Public Disclosure Law or Act) is somewhat similar to our federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). 

The revelation of the request and the initial response to the request by the university(ies) has caused a commotion among Jewish students and the Jewish community in general in the Netherlands. It brings back memories of how the Nazis took steps to remove Jewish students and professors from the universities when they took power in Germany, a practice they exported to the Netherlands during the occupation in World War 2.

The New York-based, Jewish outlet, Algemeiner, has posted an article on the controversy, which can be read here.

The Algemeiner article also has a link to two notices academic authorities released under the letterhead "Universities of the Netherlands", on February 11 and then on February 15. Those notices are contained here (in Dutch).

Below are translations of the academic responses dated February 11 and 15. Translation by Fousesquawk.

Response of Dutch universities to Wob request, The Rights Forum

February 11, 2022

All 14 universities that are affiliated with Universities in the Netherlands have received  a Wob request from The Rights Forum regarding, "institutional connections of the universities to Israeli universities, institutes, and companies as well as organizations that propagate their support for Israel." Questions and unrest have arisen because of this Wob request. In order to handle this request, all universities that fall under the Wob (should) request a delay from the submitter in the handling of this request.

In the Wob request, questions were asked about institutional cooperation between the universities and the organizations named in the request. It does not explicitly concern cooperation with individual academics. Almost all universities are required to cooperate with the disclosure of requested information. Universities are not allowed to make considerations as to which Wob request they find morally or otherwise undesirable or inappropriate. That is not to say that all requested information must actually be made public in its entirety.  The Wob provides grounds for exceptions, for example, for personal data such as religion or belief. Interested parties, such as specified in the Common Administrative Law Axt, who have reservations over the disclosure of the information should be asked to share their views, or objections against disclosure with their university. These views will be taken into account in the final decision on disclosure.

Additional statement regarding Wob request, The Rights Forum

Tuesday, 15 February 2022

A number of weeks ago, all Dutch universities received a Wob request from The Rights Forum in which information was requested regarding "institutional connections between the university with Israeli universities, institutions, and companies, along with organizations that propagate support for the state of Israel". Also requested was information regarding connections with a  number of specific Jewish organizations.

The handling and dissemination of the Wob request have led to feelings of unrest and insecurity within the universities. We regret this. We stand for a safe educational, research, and work climate for all of our employees and students. We are getting signals that this has come into question due to our approach to the Wob request, and we confirm that a careful assessment of the request is necessary.

Last Friday, we stated that all the universities would request a delay from the Wob submitter. More on this is below.

All universities covered under the Wob will ask for delay (or have already done so) from the submitter of the Wob request, The Rights Forum. This means that no further steps will be taken as to requesting, gathering, and/or sending of information requested in the Wob request.

The universities want to make a careful consideration of whether, and if so, in which manner the request must be handled. This requires considering the (Wob) Public Administration Law, but also the broader legal framework and university principles, such as safety of our employees and students, academic freedom, equal treatment, and countering discrimination. It will be examined whether cooperating with (parts) the request would disproportionately disadvantage the concerned persons (Article 10g, sub. 2 of the Wob).

This consideration must take place in a careful manner, and thus, will take some time. As soon as more is known, we will communicate it via a report.

Statement by Canadian Truckers Convoy

 Hat tip Fredrik

The below video is dated February 15, 2022, and was produced by Canadian activist Jordan Peterson. In this video, Benjamin Dichter a spokesman for the Canadian Trucker Convoy, reads a prepared statement as to what the truckers want.

The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe (3): A View From Italy

This is another in our series of translations from European articles concerning the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe. It is the 3rd such translation concerning the EU in general. The article comes from the Italian daily, Il Giornale, and is written by Mauro Indelicato. The translation (from Italian) is by Fousesquawk.

How European money ends up with the radical Islam Muslim Brotherhood

By Mauro Indelicato

The trend of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe is clear: "Secularize their own requests and carry forward associations able to promote "sensitive" themes to the ears (and the pocketbooks) of community institutions. A strategy that is working. That is how, as reported in Libero in the past days, from an inquiry presented to the Strasbourg Parliament by parliamentarians of Identity and Democracy and Conservatives and Reformists, important figures emerged on the funding to groups deemed close to the Brotherhood.

The answer given by the European Commission presents a picture other than reassuring. For example, the news of a comprehensive funding of 170,000 euros from 2013 to 2019 from the EU to FEMSYO. That is the Forum of Youth and Muslim Students, a group deemed close to the Muslim Brotherhood. 

A rain of money justified in part for programs of instruction, at least 125,000 euros, and in part, for the remaining amount of 45,000 euros, for projects relative to programs of integration and equality. In a few words, placing themselves as representatives of social needs of the Muslim community, the members of FEMSYO have managed to extract important funding from the coffers of Brussels.

A situation deemed alarming by the parliamentarians who presented the inquiry. Among these are some deputies of the Lega (League Party-Italy). Susanna Ceccardi, (Lega) member at Brussels and also among the signers, has judged the funding in favor of FEMSYO and other associations close to the Muslim Brotherhood "unacceptable", announcing further requests for clarification.

In fact, FEMSYO is an association that is causing a lot of discussion in France. Marlene Schiappa, French minister of integration and who is not noted for anti-Islam positions, has defined the Forum of Young Muslims as "the pseudonym for Islamism". Also because the association is part of Fioe, the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe. The same one that has promoted initiatives aimed at integrating features of sharia (law) into the legal systems of the Old Continent.

After all, the objective of the Brotherhood is to promote so-called "Political Islam", a very conservative vision of Islam, to be spread also in Europe by all possible means. From politics to Soft Power, created thanks to a capillary network of associations, precisely capable of bringing Islamist demands within European institutions. It is no coincidence that FEMSYO is not the only forum to have benefitted from EU funds in these years. Money has been dispersed, for example, also to the Collective Against Islamophobia in France (Ccif), dissolved in 2020 by the French government after the homicide of Professor Samuel Paty, as according to the Paris authorities, the association was considered to be very close to Islamist circles. 

The rain of money for the Muslim Brotherhood does not represent solely a problem of an economic nature. After all, the groups tied to Political Islam already have many funds at their disposition, the thousands of euros dispersed by the EU are pennies compared to their budget. Much more money arrives from abroad through philanthropic and other private (sources), and besides, the Brotherhood has historically received support from countries like Turkey and Qatar. More than anything, the problem is of a political nature. To pay even one cent to an association immersed in the "grey zone" of Islamism means political recognition to radical groups. Self-inflicted damage for Europe and a danger to the security of all.,

Spain: Fugitive From Italy in Saman Abbas Case Is Arrested in Barcelona

Above: Italian police search farm in Emilia Romagna. Upper right-victim.

For the past year, we have been following the tragic case of Saman Abbas, an 18-year-old Pakistani girl who was allegedly murdered by members of her family in Italy for refusing an arranged marriage in Pakistan.

Today, the latest member of Saman's family, a  cousin believed to be involved in her murder, was arrested in Spain. Though the below article in the Spanish media does not identify him by name, the Italian newspaper, Il Giornale, identifies him as Nomanulhaq Nomanulhaq.

That leaves only the parents, Shabbar Abbas, and his wife, Nazia Shaheen, who have not been arrested. They are in Pakistan.

The below article from the Spanish daily, El Mundo, is translated by Fousesquawk.

 https://www.elmundo.es/cataluna/2022/02/14/620a5085fdddffdf178b4588.html?autoplay=true

Fugitive wanted in Italy for killing his cousin, who refused an arranged marriage, is arrested

The suspect, of Pakistani nationality, participated in the crime with the rest of his family.

It was a crime that shocked all of Italy in May of last year. A family decided to end the life of an 18-year-old woman for refusing to comply with the decision of her parents to arrange a marriage with another relative of their choice living in Pakistan who she did not know; go with them to her land of birth, and live according to the most rigorous rules of Islam. One of the suspects in the crime, a cousin of the victim, was arrested in Barcelona in an operation by the National Police and the Italian Carabinieri force.  

He is facing life in prison for the crimes of unlawful detention, homicide, and concealment of a cadaver and is now in judicial custody awaiting authorization to proceed with his extradition. The events occurred in Novellara, region of Emilio Romagna, when the fugitive directly participated in the crime. According to investigations carried out by the Carabinieri of Reggio Emilia, the accused, cousin of the victim, together with another cousin and an uncle, in addition to having the complicity of the parents of the woman, at the end of their working day, dug a hole with agricultural tools in an unidentified area located behind the shed of the farm where they worked. 

It was their intention to hide the body of the young woman when they killed her the next day, to which the entire family agreed. After the crime, some of the suspects escaped, and in September of last year, (police) managed to arrest the uncle of the woman in Paris, accused of being the material perpetrator of her death by strangulation. This Monday, agents of the National Police detained the cousin, who was hiding in the Trinidad neighborhood of Barcelona.

The death of the young woman provoked a wide debate in the Pakistan Muslim community in Italy over the intergenerational conflict at the root of integration in the West of the second generation of Muslims who challenge some of the traditions like that which the victim opposed.

Ukraine: A Personal Memory

This article first appeared in New English Review.

As I watch the events unfold in Ukraine, I can't help recalling 1994 when I made two trips to that country as a member of DEA's International Training team to conduct a regional drug enforcement seminar in Kiev for drug control police from each of the former Soviet republics. 

After the breakup of the Soviet Union, the former Soviet republics witnessed a sharp increase in drug trafficking through their territories and asked the US, through the State Department, for assistance in the form of training. Since my last post of duty with DEA before retiring was International Training from 1993-1995, I was there at a time when our teams were being sent to many of the former republics to advise and train their drug cops. In that role, I had the occasion to visit Latvia, Georgia, and Ukraine. After retirement, in 1997, I went to Moscow as a contract hire to assist DEA's International Training team put on a seminar in Russia. Altogether, it was an incredible experience.

DEA training team in Kiev. I am at far right.

In April 1994, I traveled to Kiev to conduct advance preparations for a seminar scheduled for May-June, a period of two weeks. As team coordinator for this seminar, it was my job to arrange hotel accommodations, a seminar site, simultaneous interpreters, and other logistical arrangements. In Kiev, I was assisted by officers from the Ukrainian police from the Interior Ministry, the US Embassy, and the DEA county attache in Vienna. (There was no DEA office in Ukraine, and liaison was handled by our DEA office in Vienna. The country attache from Vienna was a Ukrainian-American who spoke Ukrainian fluently.)

During the few days I spent in Kiev, I was shown great hospitality by my Ukrainian counterparts. Of course, much of that hospitality came in the form of vodka, but I digress.

L-R, Ukrainian colleague, myself, two officers from Turkmenistan.

Our DEA team with Ukrainian colleague (in middle).

Then in late May, I returned to Kiev with my fellow team members, and we put on a 2-week course of instruction. The students were composed of two cops from each of the 15 former Soviet republics along with 7-8 Ukrainian cops. The hotel we stayed at and where we conducted the school was called the Prolisok, a  resort-type establishment that had been used to house several Olympic athletes during the Moscow Olympics. In the evenings, everybody would gather in the hotel restaurant/bar, and naturally, the vodka flowed, but again, I digress. The Cold War seemed like a distant memory. I remember meeting a young Ukrainian army officer who had fought in Afghanistan. He had stopped by our hotel to say hello. I told him I had been a US Army military policeman in West Germany during the 1960s (during the Vietnam war/Cold War, certainly no comparison between my military service and his), and I invited him to drink with us. He said that he was on duty, but would try and come back later when he was off duty. He wasn't able to make it back, but I was so impressed with this young combat veteran and his professionalism.

Our class

In the classroom. I am at far left standing.

In the evening. DEA team member learning a Georgian dance from Georgian colleague (l)

Over the weekend in the middle of the school, the Ukrainian police arranged a boat trip down the Dnieper River, which flowed through Kiev, to the town of Kaniv, which was the burial place of Ukraine's national hero, the dissident poet, writer, and artist, Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861). We visited the Shevchenko memorial, where he is buried, and my DEA college from Vienna and I shared the honor of laying a wreath on Shevchenko's grave. When I say Shevchenko was a dissident, I mean that he opposed the rule of tsarist Russia over Ukraine. For that, he was imprisoned.

At Kaniv with Ukrainian colleague (l).

There was another site I visited in Ukraine, actually during my advance trip. I had requested the police to show me Babi Yar, the infamous ravine on the outskirts of the city where, during the German occupation in World War 2, over 30,000 Jews were murdered by the Germans.

All these memories are coming back to me now as Ukraine faces a Russian invasion. I think about the counterparts that I worked with, ate with, and drank with, and I worry about their common fate. I also think back about Taras Shevchenko and why he is Ukraine's national hero.

My prayers are with the people of Ukraine in this hour.

Colonel (Juan) Cole and the Green Army

Juan Cole

As Europe stands on the cusp of a major new war and China threatening to finally invade Taiwan, our attention rightly turns to military matters. What steps will the US and NATO take to stand down aggression from our adversaries? Is our military fully prepared for the worst? I don't say that as a war-monger, but as one who firmly believes in peace through strength and deterrence.

Unfortunately, we don't have that in abundance these days with an increasingly senile Joe Biden in the White House and people like retired General Lloyd Austin as Secretary of Defence and General Mark Milley as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Everywhere they look, people like Putin, the Chinese, the Iranians, and North Koreans see weakness in the US and Europe.

But there is good news here in the US, from, of all places, Ann Arbor, home of the Fighting Wolverines of the University of Michigan and Chair of the Comedy Department, Juan Cole. In the midst of all this angst, Cole reports that our military, under the leadership of General Austin, is fully engaged in fighting the war on climate. Here is the latest "communique" from Cole's blog, Informed Comment:

"From War on Terror to War on Climate Change: US Army to seek Green Electricity by 2030"

 https://www.juancole.com/2022/02/terror-climate-electricity.html

"The report warns that the drastic changes in our climate that we are inflicting on ourselves by burning gasoline, methane gas and coal will stress the military by causing “energy and water scarcity; damage to installations and infrastructure; displacement of and disruptions to operations, supply chains, and logistics; and imperiled Soldier health through exposure to airborne irritants like smoke and dust, disease vectors, and temperature extremes.”

By the year 2030, electricity, methane gas, and burning gasoline may be the least of our military's problems-if we still have a military by then.

"The Army’s response to these challenges is in part to model climate action, setting these goals:

• Achieve 50% reduction in Army net GHG [greenhouse gas] pollution by 2030, compared to 2005 levels
• Attain net-zero Army GHG emissions by 2050
• Proactively consider the security implications of climate change in strategy, planning, acquisition, supply chain, and programming documents and processes"

Can't you just see it all now? Picture President Roosevelt and the generals huddled in the Situation Room in 1941, in the wake of Pearl Harbor and Hitler's subsequent declaration of war against the US, trying to project what the climate picture would look like in 1945. Do you think the subject of Green Electricity ever came up in those discussions? Do you think the Ukrainian military is concerned about Green Electricity at this moment? How much discussion of climate change do you think there is in Kiev at this moment? Or in Taipei?

"In accordance with the Biden administration’s emphasis on moving to electric vehicles, the Army is urgently greening its transportation: Not counting military vehicles like tanks and armored vehicles, the Army has a lot of passenger cars. It announced a goal of “fielding “an all-electric light-duty non-tactical vehicle fleet by 2027.” That is a short deadline, only five years! It also wants to electrify the tactical vehicles by a few years later."

Yes, Folks: While Russian tanks and hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers are gathered on the border with Ukraine, our Army is "urgently greening its transportation" while  Colonel Cole proudly waves the American flag. While the Chinese are building artificial islands in the Pacific for their military, our military is working to field an all-electric light-duty, non-tactical vehicle fleet by 2027. 

And what about places like Ft Benning, Ft Leonard Wood, Ft Gordon, and Ft Polk just to name a few? From turning out combat-ready troops, they will be doing this:

"Among the Army’s most ambitious just-announced goals is, “Provide 100% carbon-pollution-free electricity for Army installations’ needs by 2030.”

With carbon-pollution-free forts, who needs soldiers?

And Colonel Cole concludes with this:

"The very security and functioning of Army bases are threatened by the climate crisis. It is indeed an existential crisis. The response will be to be “Army Strong” by going green."

No, Colonel. Any existential threat to our military, bases, vehicles, and soldiers is from our enemies in an increasingly dangerous world. Our enemies are on the move, greatly emboldened by the weakness they see from the current president and our NATO allies. That is the existential threat. Within days, it will be Ukraine, and next year, it will be Poland and the Baltic states (NATO allies, by the way).

It is our enemies that pose the existential threat. Creating a "green" military does not address that threat. The mission of any military is not to create a clean environment. It is to kill the enemy and break things.

The Muslim Brotherhood in Sweden (11)

Hat tip Ledarsidorna. Translation by Fousesquawk.

This is another in our series of translations from European articles regarding the Muslim Brotherhood in various European countries, and the 11th such article from Sweden. The below article is written by Johan Westerholm, one of Sweden's foremost experts on the Muslim Brotherhood in Sweden. The article currently appears in Ledarsidorna, a Swedish blog that specializes in such topics.

This article is especially depressing since it also concerns the Swedish Church, a highly radicalized and politicized institution. This month, The Swedish Church is hosting a week-long event together with organizations that make up part of the Muslim Brotherhood network in Europe. 

https://ledarsidorna.se/2022/02/arekebiskopens-arv-fortsatt-radikalisering-av-svenska-kyrkan/

Archbishop's legacy: Continued radicalization of the Swedish Church

February 20-24, Antje Jackelin invites you to the archbishop's meeting, A Week of Neighbors. A meeting that is a continuation of the Malmö conference held in 2018. This year's program shows that nothing has changed in substance for the Swedish Church, which continues to develop in a radicalizing cluster together with the fascist Muslim Brotherhood's network of organizations.

On February 20-24, Antje Jackelin invites you to the archbishop's meeting, A Week of Neighbors. The meeting is digital and open to all. It is built upon three years of intensive work together with practitioners in Europe who work with and for refugees. The meeting is primarily in English, which is the common language in the practitioner network, A World of Neighbors.

When the project was started in 2018, which Ledarsidorna contributors reported on, it also included known radical organizations within the Muslim Brotherhood's cluster of network organizations. They include aid organizations, Islamic Relief and Muslim Aid, as well as the British organization, MCHC, Muslim Cultural Heritage Center, or in everyday language, the al Manaar Mosque. This (mosque) is known for having been ISIS executioner, "Jihadi John's" home mosque, where among other things, he was able to preach his views on the mosque's steps before he joined ISIS operational activity in Syria.

This year's seminar week is no exception in terms of the presence of radicalizing or radical organizations. On February 21, during the year's conference week, a conversation will be held with representatives of one of the Swedish Church's joint projects at Järva field together with representatives for Muslim Aid, among others.

Muslim Aid Sweden, which is currently in the application process and in dialogue with aid authority, Sida, to obtain status as a strategic partner, is primarily financed by Muslim Aid UK. Muslim Aid UK, in turn, is, for the second time in less than 10 years, under investigation by the "Charity Commission" for connections with terrorist organizations and risks having its funds frozen as well as having its permission to conduct aid activities revoked.

Muslim Aid Sweden was earlier granted Corona support by the (Economic) Growth Agency, which Ledarsidorna was able to report on. Muslim Aid Sweden is represented by the former Housing and IT Minister, Mehmet Kaplan (previously member of Parliament), who was forced to resign from the Löfven government after he was revealed to have links to the national fascist and Islmistic organizations, "Gray Wolves" and Milli Görus. The latter organization has risked being banned in Germany.

Even though Kaplan is not represented on Muslim Aid Sweden's board, he underwrites the organization. It was Kaplan who signed Muslim Aid Sweden's application for Corona aid, in formal terms, short-term support, to the (Economic) Growth Agency.

Also sitting on Muslim Aid Sweden's board is Alve Högman, union rector at the Study Association Ibn Rushd, where Lamia el Amri is the activity director. El Amri is the chairperson for Islamic Relief Sweden and vice-chairperson for Islamic Relief Worldwide, IRW. Previously, el Amri was chairperson for IRW but was forced to resign after the British media revealed extensive wrongful anti-Semitic ideas in the organization. El Amri rejoined the board 24 hours after her resignation, but then as vice-chairperson despite guarantees at her resignation that she would not rejoin. 

In addition to the Swedish Church's representative, there is also the local civil society represented by former leading representatives of Academic School in Järva. The Academic School in  Järva changed the principal of the Fryshuset in 2021 after having their permit revoked by School Inspectorate, who, among other things, judged that the leadership was unsuited to conduct school activity.

Ann-Charlotte Ramstaller, lead investigator prior to the decision by the School Inspectorate, told Mitti in August 2021 that:

"It's really about two parts. In part, we have seen inappropriate parts in ownership and management, in part, the company has a weak economic position."

"A world of neighbors" is the archbishop's own project within the framework of her office and the conference week, "A world of neighbors is to be considered as the archbishop's interreligious legacy to her successor to manage where she points out the desired direction.

A direction that will mean that the Swedish Church will continue to include and be developed together with organizations that are dominated by or stand directly under the influence of the fascist Muslim Brotherhood. 

Germany:11-Year-Old Girl Raped: 16-Year-Old Afghan in Custody

In Germany, the ghost of Angela Merkel still lives. Another Afghan is in trouble with the law. This time, it is a 16-year-old Afghan (At least, they think he is 16) who is charged with raping an 11-year-old girl in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern region (NE Germany).

The below article from NDR Radio and TV is translated by Fousesquawk.

 https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/mecklenburg-vorpommern/Neustrelitz-Elfjaehrige-mutmasslich-vergewaltigt-Verdaechtiger-in-U-Haft,sexualstraftaeter142.html

Neustrelitz: 11-year-old allegedly raped- Suspect in custody

Status: February 8, 2022 14:36

As has just been reported, in Neustrelitz, in the middle of January, an 11-year-old girl was raped. The alleged perpetrator is already in custody in the Neustrelitz prison.

As the State Prosecutor in Neubrandenburg confirmed when asked by NDR 1 Radio MV, a 16-year-old Afghan is considered to be the suspect. The investigators pointed out that the suspect, in interrogations, gave different information as to his origin and identity as well as his age. He reportedly came as an unaccompanied minor to Germany.

Alleged perpetrator and 11-year-old girl said to know each other

The suspect allegedly forced the 11-year-old girl to have sex against her will, according to the accusation. The alleged perpetrator and the victim reportedly knew each other. The investigation is on-going, it is said. The prosecutor would give no further information.