Pope Francis on Ukraine, China, Islam, Democracy: The West Has "Lost"

On the flight back from Nur-Sultan, Francis doubted that arms deliveries to Ukraine were moral, flattered communist rulers and declared to the West that it had "lost."

(Rome) At the flying press conference last night, on the flight back from Nur-Sultan to Rome, Pope Francis commented on a wide range of topics. There was also an innovation. These flying press conferences during the Pope's trips abroad are particularly popular with the media. The more various the topics addressed were, the more different is the quality of the answers. Francis made it clear that arms deliveries to Ukraine are probably immoral, flattered socialist rulers gave his blessing to the totalitarian regime in the People's Republic of China, and declared to the West that it had "lost." He found clear words about euthanasia and said that the killing should be left to the "beasts".

Francis' communication with and for the world is not so much through the official pronouncements of the Holy See, but above all through his spontaneous statements. So far, the Vatican has left the majority of the reporting to the accompanying journalists. After numerous requests to the Vatican Press Office, the media work has now been changed on this point. The English edition of VaticanNews published a transcript of the press conference last night, albeit with the note that this is not an official translation of the Pope's words. This will continue to be submitted in various translations only at a time when the secular media have long since communicated and co-opted the Pope's statements in their own way. However, a first step in the right direction has been taken. Thus to the statements of Francis himself.

Nur-Sultan, the "forward-looking" city

The Pope attested to Kazakhstan and the planned capital Nur-Sultan that "they have developed well and intelligently". Its inhabitants are "very disciplined" and the country is "beautiful". The architecture of the city is "well balanced, well laid out". Nur-Sultan is a "modern city that I would describe as 'forward-looking'."

Francis described the congress of the leaders of the world's religions and traditional religions as "a very important thing". The fact that it took place for the seventh time shows:

"(...) that "it is a country with a vision of the future that brings into dialogue those who are normally marginalized. Because there is a progressive world view for which religious values must first be thrown overboard."

 Arms deliveries are immoral rather than moral

Afterward, correspondent Rüdiger Kronthaler celebrated the German cult of guilt, he asked Francis whether weapons should be delivered to Ukraine. Francis responded in a differentiated way. Arms deliveries are a "political decision", and this can be moral, but must meet "many conditions". The Pope indicated that it is more likely to be "immoral"

"(...) is done with the intention of provoking further wars or selling weapons or throwing away those that I no longer need."

Self-defense as an expression of patriotism

Motivation qualifies action. At the same time, Francis broke a lance for self-defense:

"Defending oneself is not only legitimate, but also an expression of love for the fatherland. Whoever does not defend himself, who does not defend something, does not love it, but he who defends it loves it."

 This touches on another aspect, Francis said. He had pointed out in his speeches that:

"(...) one should think more about the concept of just war. Because peace is on everyone's lips today: for many years, for seventy years, the United Nations has been talking about peace, making many speeches about peace. But how many wars are there right now?"

  

In doing so, Francis also diverted his gaze away from Ukraine, which is currently concentrating all its attention on the West, in order to show that there are many armed conflicts in the world, but which would find little interest in the West. At the same time, he repeated his statement that "we are in a world war" without explaining in more detail how exactly he means by this drastic choice of words.

"Peace is greater than all wars"

Rather, he told a childhood memory:

"I remember something personal when I was a child, I was nine years old. I remember the alarm of the largest newspaper in Buenos Aires sounding: back then they rang it to celebrate or announce bad news – today it no longer rings – and it could be heard all over the city. My mother said, 'What's going on here?' We were at war, in 1945. A neighbor came to the house and said, 'The alarm has gone off...' and shouted, 'The war is over!'. And I still see my mother and neighbor crying with joy because the war was over, in a South American country, so far away! These women knew that peace is greater than all wars, and they wept with joy when peace was made. I can't forget that."

 

Peace was by no means concluded at the time, but Francis wanted to say something else with his story:

"I wonder: I don't know if we are well enough educated in our hearts today that we cry for joy when we see peace. Everything has changed. If you don't go to war, you're not useful! And then there's the arms business. This is a business of murderers. Someone who is familiar with statistics told me that all the hunger in the world would be solved if you stopped making weapons for a year... I don't know if that's true or not. But hunger, education... it doesn't help, it doesn't work because you have to make weapons."

And further:

"War itself is a mistake, it is a mistake! And we breathe this air at this moment: if there is no war, there seems to be no life. A bit confusing, but I have already said everything I wanted to say about the just war. The right to defend oneself, yes, but also to use it when necessary."

 "Without an outstretched hand, we close the only reasonable door to peace"

At the same time, Francis affirmed that dialogue must always be sought. The "annoying" sometimes and some, but is indispensable:

"We should give everyone a chance for dialogue, everyone! Because there is always the possibility that we can change things in dialogue and also offer a different point of view, a different point of view. I do not rule out dialogue with any power, whether it is at war or the aggressor... sometimes you have to have a dialogue, but you have to do it, it 'annoys', but you have to do it. Always one step forward, always an outstretched hand! Because otherwise we will close the only reasonable door to peace."

  

"The declining West has lost"

In this context, Francis spoke of the West:

"It is true that the West in general is not currently at the highest level of excellence. It's not an [innocent] First Communion child, not really. The West has taken the wrong paths."

 

As a concrete example, however, Francis only mentioned "social injustice". Although he addressed the "demographic winter" that prevails in the West, he only promotes mass immigration that the West "really needs" because of its birth deficit.

"On the other hand, in view of the demographic winter, the question arises: Where are we going, where are we going? The West is in decline, it is a little in decline, it has lost..."

 Where are the politicians who move society forward?"

At the same time, he denounced the political failure. Where are great figures such as Schuman, Adenauer, De Gasperi:

"Where are they today? There are great people, but they don't manage to move society forward."

 

Francis did not elaborate on what united the three statesmen mentioned, nor on the fact that this common cultural, historical, ethical, and religious basis of being German or German Catholic Central Europeans has been consistently smashed for a hundred years.

"Let's leave the killing to the beasts", hence no to euthanasia

Francis found a pleasing and unusually concise and clear statement when asked about euthanasia:

"Killing is inhumane, quite simply. If you kill with motivation, yes... then you will kill more and more in the end. Let's leave the killing to the beasts."

 "I don't think it's right to call China undemocratic"

Francis, on the other hand, was very cautious about the People's Republic of China:

"It takes a century to understand China, and we haven't lived a century."

 

An evasive romanticized statement in the face of a totalitarian communist regime that has only ruled China for 73 years, i.e. has not yet been in power for a hundred years.

"It's not easy to understand the Chinese mentality, but we have to respect it, I always respect it. And here in the Vatican there is a well-functioning dialogue commission chaired by Cardinal Parolin, who at the moment is the man who knows best about China and Chinese dialogue. It's progressing slowly, but there's always progress."

Francis, in his attempt to woo the red rulers in Beijing, falls into a fatal error with frightening ease by adopting a Marxist-Leninist diction:

"I don't think it's right to call China anti-democratic, because it's such a complex country."

"These women are good revolutionaries, but of the gospel"

He showed the same leniency towards the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua:

"As for Nicaragua, the news is clear. There is a dialogue. There have been talks with the government, there is a dialogue. This does not mean that I approve of everything the government does, or that I disapprove of everything. No. There is a dialogue and the problems need to be resolved. At the moment there are problems. At least I hope that the nuns of Mother Teresa will return. These women are good revolutionaries, but of the gospel! They don't wage war against anyone. On the contrary, we all need these women."

 "We are working intensively on coexistence with Muslims"

As far as the relationship to Islam is concerned, it is about "coexistence with Muslims":

"We are working intensively on this."

 

At the Congress of the Leaders of the World Religions, there was "no relativism whatsoever."

In this context, the striking praise for Kazakhstan and Nur-Sultan can also be seen. At the congress of religious leaders in Nur-Sultan there was "no relativism":

"No relativism at all. Everyone had their own opinion, each respected the other's point of view, but we talked like brothers. Because if there is no dialogue, there is either ignorance or war. It is better to live as brothers, because we have one thing in common: we are all human beings. Let's live like people who are well educated: what do you think, what do I think? Let's agree, let's talk, let's get to know each other. Often these misunderstood 'religious' wars are due to a lack of knowledge. And this is not relativism, I do not renounce my faith when I talk to someone who has another, on the contrary. I cherish my faith because someone else listens to him, and I listen to his."

 

"Whoever thinks only of money and the development of pastoral plans does not bring anything forward"

On the question of the decline in the number of attendees at Mass, specifically in Germany, Francis found surprisingly clear words. Is it a scolding for Cardinal Marx and the bishops Bätzing, Bode et al.?:

"If a Church, no matter in which country or in which area, thinks more of money, of development, of pastoral plans and not of pastoral work and takes this path, then she does not attract people. [...] Sometimes – I'm talking about everyone, in general, not only in Germany – people think about how to renew pastoral care, how to make it more modern: that's good, but it must always be in the hands of a pastor. When pastoral care is in the hands of pastoral 'scientists' who express their opinions here and say what to do... (you can't get any further, VaticanNews note). Jesus founded the Church with shepherds, not with political leaders."

 

Said the "politician on the chair of Peter". Francis himself said during his answers that he or what he said might be a bit "chaotic", "impenetrable", or "confused". But it is clear what he wants to say, according to the head of the Church.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: Vatican.va (Screenshot)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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"Silence! I'm Cutting Your Throat!"

Catholic doctor and family man Alban Gervaise was buried on June 7 after an Islamist stabbed him in front of his children's school.

Islamic Violence is part of daily life in France

(Paris) A magazine denounced the "epidemic of stabbings" sweeping France without the media taking any notice.  The “new normal” is migration-related violence.  However, “political correctness” prohibits reporting and speaking about it.  Anyone who does it will be pilloried.  Along with the “stabbing epidemic” comes an epidemic of political hypocrisy.  The latter made the former possible.  The post-war construct called "Western Europe" is stuck in a vicious circle from which it apparently does not know how to free itself.

 In its current issue, the monthly magazine Causeur laments the great fear of “insulting Muslims” when denouncing jihadism and jihadists.  This fear is not a natural phenomenon, but a screw clamp in the head that is attached by ideologues.

"Silence, on égorge" is the shocking headline.  Causeur wants to break the media silence that envelops Islamist attacks as if with anesthesia so that he does not have to face the reality of radical Islam.

It's about "prioritizing".  The alliance of left-liberal establishment and left-wing infantry that followed the collapse of the Iron Curtain in Western Europe is also pursuing its goals at the price of endangering internal security and social peace in the European states.  The migration, climate, corona and sanctions policies show it.

 "Alban Gervaise has died twice"

 Front page of the current issue of Causeur

Causeur's editor, Élisabeth Lévy, recalls the tragedy of the Catholic doctor and family man who, just 40 years old, was killed "in the name of Allah" in front of his children's school last May and forgotten by "dedicated" columnists.  The death of Alban Gervaise, which occurred in hospital after weeks of agony, is one of the "unspoken Islamist killings," Causeur said.

 "Alban Gervaise has died twice: his throat slashed by his killer's knife and buried by his country's silence."

 "If we have decided to dedicate the cover to him, it is because we want to right an injustice, but also because his death occurred at the crossroads of two French tragedies: the first is the war that has declared us invisible enemies  ;  the second is the startling denial of the first,” says Élisabeth Lévy.

Islamist terrorism swept to Europe in 2004, when bombings killed 192 people in Madrid, leading to the fall of the conservative government.  In Europe, it is a phenomenon that cannot be classified in the previously known theories of terrorism.  References to Islamist terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS) were misleading from the start.  The Islamic State (IS), as it became known in the media for its military operations in the Middle East, was a product of the Obama administration and some Middle Eastern potentates.  It was eliminated because Donald Trump ended US support after his election and Putin's Russian forces defeated it militarily.

Some of the perpetrators operating in Europe may have taken their cues from the terrorist groups mentioned, but a direct connection could not be proven.  It was the phenomenon of “lone wolves”.  Islam's inherent willingness to use violence called jihad made it possible.  This willingness to use violence, which nobody recognized and described more accurately than G. K. Chesterton at the beginning of the 20th century, also produces the Islamist everyday violence that has afflicted Western Europe for several years.  This brutal everyday violence had never existed in Europe before.  Their return is a direct product of unrestrained mass immigration, which in turn is the ideological product of that alliance.  The cities are becoming less safe, the streets more and more dangerous.  Women in particular pay the price.  But you hardly talk about it anymore, because you are not allowed to talk about it anymore.  The Corona muzzle is the defining symbol of this mental and moral distortion of public discourse.  It is not the migration-related violence that causes public unrest, but those who draw attention to it, claim the deniers of reality and impose bans on speaking.

The slitting of the throat while shouting "Allahu Akbar" is no longer a headline in France, at best a small notice.  The writer and journalist Éric Zemmour tried to rebel and ran for president.  With this he caused quite a stir.  In polls, he immediately reached third place.  At the polls, however, he only received seven percent.  They symbolize the successful containment of his advance.

The long list of secret violence

The Gervaise case is particularly spectacular, but one has only to flip through the pages of Fdesouche.com, which reports weekly on Islamist-motivated attacks, to realize how oppressive the cloak of silence is.

On June 20, in Rodez, Aveyron department, a man armed with two knives tried to enter a police station and attack officers.  Unsuccessful, he changed his target and stabbed the manager of the pizzeria next door in the jugular.

On July 5, an Afghan national beat police officers in Rennes and tried to cut the throat of the man who tried to stop him.

In Trappes, on July 10, a pensioner was attacked and stabbed in the neck and chest: he died the next day.

On July 11, an Eritrean who found refuge in France as a "refugee" tried to stab two women in the center of the southern French city of Montpellier.

So that's a small excerpt of the "stabbing epidemic" that is spreading in France and is becoming more and more worrying, even if the state and left-wing opinion controllers pretend not to see it.  As in other areas, they have come up with a language rule: the attacker is simply labeled as a "madman", although, as in the Gervaise case, he invokes Allah, a Koran was found in his backpack and videos on his computer were found that pay homage to jihad.  The anti-terror prosecutor's office did not initiate any investigations into Mohamed L. either.

So many Muslims now live in France that politicians have long had to compete for their votes and are simply afraid of them.  In most cases, the fear may be unfounded.  But it is there and determines their decisions.  The Corona years have shown what fear can do.  These are not the prerequisites that should be the basis for the community of a free constitutional state.  In addition: This state was brought about by someone.  In 1950 around 120,000 Muslims (0.3 percent) lived in France; today their number is estimated at nine million (15 percent).  Their number has more than doubled in the past 25 years.

 The denial of Islamism

 The Editor-in-Chief of Causeur writes:

 “We are well aware of the reason for this silence: Muslims should not be stigmatized.  But isn't refusing to talk about jihadism as if they're all a part of it the best way to stigmatize them?  Are they children from whom we must hide the truth in order not to offend them?  Should we exclude them from contemplating a phenomenon that comes from Islam without being confused with it?  If the attack takes place on the eve of elections, it is also said that one should not 'stoke fears'.  Heaven save us from the voters making an informed choice.”

The denial of the reality of everyday Islamism, which Gilles Kepel calls "atmospheric jihadism," is one of the greatest ills of French society.  [It's holocaust culture that creates this problem in the first place.] A serious symptom of the real problem.

 Text: Andreas Becker

 Image: Tempi

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Islamic Cutthroat in Berlin Destroys a Life and Smiles

The accused Abdul Malik A. (29) at the start of the trial in the Berlin district court

 By: ANNE LOSENSKY

 05.04.2022 - 21:16

Berlin – A hobby gardener is trimming mahonia in the front yard when a man comes by and stabs her into a coma.  The trial before the Berlin district court began on Tuesday.

Room 700. Accused: Abdul Malik A. (29) from Afghanistan.  Since 2015 in Berlin.  Apartment in Wilmersdorf.  "A very nice guy," says his cousin to BILD.  An insidious murderer who was prevented by others from completing his bloody work, says the Berlin Attorney General's Office.

The accidental victim Regina G. (58) is paralyzed today, a nursing case

Photo: Private

Flashback: It's September 4, 2021, Saturday, 1:30 p.m.  Regina G. (58) trims shrubs in front of her rental house at the corner of Güntzelstrasse and Prinzregentenstrasse in Wilmersdorf.  Shortly there afternoon , nothing is as it was: stitches in the neck and head, coma, forever requiring nursing care.  She only survived because her neighbor Klaus F. (66) interfered with the words: "Tell me, are you crazy, leave the woman alone!"

The spot where the woman was stabbed

 Photo: Timo Beurich

The former nurse  plays the drums, and was coming from rehearsal.  This is how he experienced the madness of the  attack: "I see a well-dressed man in a blue caftan, blue trousers, creases.  The woman is busy with the hedge trimmer in the front yard.  He approaches from behind.  A scream.  She kneels.  He is holding her hair with his right hand and a knife to her neck with his left.”

Klaus F. continues: "I shout: 'Leave the woman alone!'  He looks pitiful.   He drops her and comes for me.  Gets the throat and larynx.  I ran to the barber shop with the last of my strength and call out: 'Get the police, they want to kill a woman!'"

 

Klaus F. (66) stepped in and protected his neighbor from further stab wounds

 Photo: Olaf Selchow

The knifeman smiles.  He relies on a self-defense claim: "The woman attacked me!  She had big scissors.  I only have a small knife for bread and melons.” The judge: “Did you mind that the woman cut flowers?” The knifeman gently: “Yes, beautiful flowers, please don't cut them, I said.” His lawyer emphasizes: “He has no problem with women!”

 ATTACK ON GARDENER

 Berlin pensioner Klaus stopped the Afghan knife

 BLOOD DEATH IN BERLIN

 The Two Faces of the Knife Afghan

A police officer (49) who arrested him at the time: "He said his God had ordered the woman to be killed because she kept cutting the flowers."

Instead of being in jail, the knifeman is now behind bars in the psycho hospital.  “The food is better there too,” he says with satisfaction.  The judge: “The woman is paralyzed today!” The accused: “God sees everything.  Mistakes happen.  I'm not a terrorist.  Send me back home.  Or release me!”

 The verdict is due to be issued on May 24th.

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Muslim Invaders Attack Belgian King's Motorcade

Even the motorcade of our King was attacked in #Brussels https://t.co/A3s7dtgyl3

— Based Belgium 🇧🇪 (@based_belgium) January 13, 2021

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Muslim Invaders Burn Down Police Station in Brussels

Edit: this is similar to the burning down of the Minneapolis 5th Precinct, although from a different wing of Globohomo.\

 

Islamic terrorists burned down a Police station today in #Brussels, 2 Police officers where evacuated.. #TheNewNormal https://t.co/iWpWn8lGnm

— Based Belgium 🇧🇪 (@based_belgium) January 13, 2021

Meanwhile:

 

We can’t use troops to protect our border. We can’t use troops to prevent BLM taking over blocks of major cities as “occupation zones.” But God forbid if the elite feels threatened from their countrymen. pic.twitter.com/X1wY4LBGTI

— RAMZPAUL (@ramzpaul) January 13, 2021

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Cardinal Ranjith is Accused of Foreknowledge of Easter Attack by Muslims

Edit: Representative Harin Fernando is a member of the center-right United National Party of Sri Lanka and was raised a Catholic at least.  He had also criticized Facebook for not controlling anti-Muslim commentary on the platform.

Sept 20, Colombo: The Auxiliary Bishops of the Archdiocese of Colombo have issued a statement saying that the allegations leveled against the Cardinal by MP Harin Fernando who recently appeared before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Easter Sunday Attack, are untrue and unfounded.

Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith regrets and is shocked by a statement made by MP Harin Fernando before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Easter Sunday attacks, the statement said.

MP Harin Fernando appearing before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry investigating the Easter Sunday Attacks on the 16th of this month stated that the Archbishop had not conducted a Mass in a public church on the Easter Sunday morning when the tragedy took place, and that he had not held the Mass because he was aware of the impending danger.

Link...

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Irish Catholics Oppose Heretical Priest Who Brings Muslim Into Church to Pray

Catholics ask Fr. Farragher why he allowed muslims chant a prayer in a Catholic Church, he responds by calling them "religious bigots" The Islamic 'Adhan' call to prayer states "there is no God but Allah", directly contradicting the core doctrines and beliefs of Catholics. The church in question is in Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo. The most diverse town in Ireland where only half of the population are Irish. The priest's name is Fr. Farragher. Contact Fr. Farragher here: http://ballyhaunisparish.ie/contact/ Contact his Archbishop: https://www.tuamarchdiocese.org/contact/

Another Interfamily Quarrel in Baden-Würtenberg — 15 Year Old Stabbed to Death

A youth dies in the Heilbronn district, and his father and brother are found seriously injured: the police assume this is an act within the family.

[Spiegel] After the death of a young person near Güglingen in Baden-Württemberg, the police investigated. Stabbing injuries were found on the body of the 15-year-old, the officials said. His 17-year-old brother and 54-year-old father were taken to hospital with stab wounds.

"Many things are still unclear, but we currently assume that the crime took place within the family," said a police spokesman. "According to our investigations, the father and brother are the only people who were present during the crime."

Whether the stab wounds led to the 15-year-old's death will only be known after an autopsy. Investigators have so far not commented on murder weapons.

The 15-year-old was therefore killed on Saturday night in a residential building on an Aussiedlerhof in the Heilbronn district. The father and brother are currently not available for questioning because of their serious injuries, the police said. The investigators now wanted to interview family members and acquaintances.

According to the police, a family member made an emergency call

The teenagers and the father lived together on the property. No information has so far been given on the mother of the dead boy. Shortly after one o'clock, the emergency services were informed by an emergency call that there had been a dispute in the relatively secluded house and that there were several injuries. According to the police, the emergency call was made by one of the three family members.

Numerous officials secured the traces at the crime scene in Güglingen. The investigators let a drone circle over the Aussiedlerhof. According to the police, between 40 and 50 officers are working on the case.

The act took place just hours after a serious crime in Rot am See, just over 100 kilometers away. Six people were killed there on Friday. A marksman [The authorities still haven’t released the names of the perpetrator.]  is suspected of shooting his father, mother and four other relatives in the small town in north-east Baden-Württemberg. According to the investigators, the man is said to have killed his victims with a pistol and then reported himself to the police.

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Mass Shooting in Baden-Württemberg

After shots in Rot am See in the northeast of Baden-Württemberg, several people died on Friday, police said. The investigators initially did not comment on possible backgrounds. A suspect was arrested.

The Aalen police spoke on Twitter of gunfire in a building. There were several injuries, probably also deaths. There is no evidence of further perpetrators. The crime scene is in Bahnhofstrasse.
Police: Several dead and injured

To FOCUS Online, the police confirmed that several shots were fired in Aalen. There are several deaths and injuries. The suspect was arrested. The police assume a relationship act, the perpetrator and the victims are said to have known each other. There are no indications of other suspects. The operation has been underway since 12.45 p.m., but the situation is now under control.
A user reported via Twitter that he had seen several police officers with submachine guns.

More shortly on FOCUS Online

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Islamic Invader Sues Minnesota Taxpayers When She’s Forced to Remove Headgear

Edit: the Pope hasn’t weighed in yet, but if this invader went back to her own country, she wouldn’t have to worry about being humiliated. Unfortinately, real Minnesotans who work will have to fork over $120,000 for this trivial affair.

How long before Minnesotans and others of European heritage address this forcefully, before they are displaced and subjugated in their own lands?

[Guardian] A Minnesota Muslim woman has received $120,000 to settle her lawsuit alleging she was forced to strip in jail and remove her hijab for a booking photo over a traffic offense, the woman and her attorneys said Tuesday.

Aida Shyef Al-Kadi appeared with her attorneys at the Minneapolis headquarters of the Council on American-Islamic Relations to announce the settlement approved last month.

Al-Kadi, 57, said her treatment at the Ramsey county jail in August 2013 was “one of the most humiliating and harmful experiences” of her life.

“I knew that I did not want any other Muslim woman to experience what I did,” she said.

A judge had issued a warrant for Al-Kadi’s arrest after she missed a court hearing over a traffic offense while taking her daughter to the hospital, the Star Tribune reported.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/17/muslim-woman-forced-remove-hijab-mugshot-minnesota

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/muslim-woman-in-minnesota-awarded-120000-for-being-forced-to-remove-her-hijab-for-mugshot/

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Chechen Terror Cell Had Planned Attacks Across Europe Starting in Vienna Christmas Market

A Chechen group around an IS sympathizer who is already in Hirtenberg is said to have planned attacks in Vienna, Salzburg, Germany, France and Luxembourg between Christmas and New Year.

 Three native Chechens are said to have planned a whole series of attacks in Vienna and other cities between Christmas and New Year.  The driving force behind the terrorist attack allegedly planned in Vienna was probably a 24-year-old Chechen who was most recently housed in the Hirtenberg prison.

 He is said to have planned his outbreak from prison and then to a series of the terror attacks.  According to the investigation, which has not been confirmed by the authorities, an explosive attack was initially planned in downtown Vienna, specifically on the Christmas market on Stephansplatz.  Then attacks in Salzburg, Germany, France and Luxembourg should have followed.  Two suspected accomplices, Chechens aged 25 and 31, were detained last week (as reported).

The law enforcement authorities are said to have tracked down the three men, an anonymous whistle-blower, who is said to have warned above all of the inmate who was imprisoned in Hirtenberg, since he was still attached to the IS ideology after his conviction.  Extensive investigations, telephone surveillance and observations confirmed the suspicion that led to the arrest of the Chechens who had been released - because of "imminent danger", the court officials have said.

 The responsible regional court in Wiener Neustadt assumed that the men who had previously been considered harmless had been given the risk of escaping, collusion, perpetrating an offense or executing an offense.  Formally, the investigation is ongoing towards terrorist groups.  The case is being carried out as an interdiction, both law enforcement agencies and the Ministry of the Interior reacted cautiously to inquiries.  What is certain is that the three suspects were in constant contact with one another via their cell phones, even though prison law prohibits cell phones and communication with the outside world should be impossible.  According to the current investigation, the alleged accomplices should initially have helped the main suspect escape from prison.  A fake Romanian passport in the name of the 24-year-old was seized from the 25-year-old.

 Police try to calm fears

 It is unclear to what extent the two were involved in the 24-year-old's terror plans.  The attorneys for the alleged accomplices, Wolfgang Blaschitz and Florian Kreiner, assured that their clients had communicated with the prisoner, "but did not plan any crooked things," as Blaschitz emphasized.  He represents the 25-year-old, who is known in the Viennese martial arts scene as a very successful MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fighter.  Like the 31-year-old, he has never harmed anyone, and acquaintances from the MMA scene described the athlete as "perfectly integrated" in conversation with the "press".  For him, competitive sport was in the first place, he was a "normal believer".  Kreiner, the lawyer, asserts that the 31-year-old, a family man, has "nothing to do with the whole thing".  He was a Muslim, "but not radicalized.”

In any case, the central figure is said to be the 24-year-old, and he is anything but an unknown: he was twice convicted of organizing for terrorism (Section 278b of the Criminal Code).  In October 2015, he was found guilty in Vienna after joining IS in the company of his mother in a wheelchair and his pregnant wife in Syria.  The accused had been put under police control in Turkey and had been sent back to Austria.  The young man - his wife appeared fully veiled in court, only when he nodded did she take off her face veil - was given two years of unconditional detention in his first trial.  He was released prematurely after around 14 months, although it was announced that he had "missionized" prisoners in prison.

Shortly after his release, the Chechen wanted to go back to Syria, failed again and was again sentenced to two years in Korneuburg in October 2017.  The 24-year-old has now been transferred to a maximum security prison.

 The population had to, as a police spokesman told the "press" Monday evening, "not worry": The security concept for Vienna's Christmas markets, which has been in place for months, will not be changed.  The risk situation has not changed.  According to the police, authorities and organizers in Vienna are in constant contact, police officers in uniform and in civilian clothes are on duty - similarly in Salzburg: Christkindl markets or the city center where New Year's Eve is celebrated are also well secured with the previous measures.

 Prison minister: Stepping up the radicalization work

 Ramazan Demir, Honorary Chairman of Islamic Prison Counseling in Austria, worked as a pastor for eight years and wrote the book "Among Extremists: A Prison Counselor looks into the soul of radical Muslims". He points to the enormous importance of prevention and deradicalization in prisons. Because almost all assassins across Europe had been in prison and had been (further) radicalized there because they would equate Islam with violence without a stop or orientation and with a wrong understanding of religion.

 It is all the more important to "support and educate these people" in cooperation with the state authorities and the Islamic community in Austria. To do this, more resources are needed, after all, there are around 2,000 Muslim prisoners in Austria.

Edit: 2,000 too many. Shouldn’t they be located somewhere to the east of the Danube?

https://www.diepresse.com/5739569/drei-festnahmen-gab-es-plane-fur-eine-anschlagsserie

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 (k.b./cim/win - "Die Presse" print edition from 17.12.2019)

Two Violent Muslims Summon Gang to Attack Police Station to Free Them

By Jürgen Fritz, Fri 01. Nov 2019, cover picture: icon image, ZDF screenshot

As reported by the Federal Police Inspectorate Stuttgart, two young people of Afghan and Iraqi nationality triggered a police operation at Ulm Central Station during the night from Wednesday to Thursday around 00:30. After the train attendant had called the federal police, the two had been seized and taken to the police station. It was then that a group of about five to eight people stormed the police station and free the two suspects.

First riding the train without a ticket, then insulting an official

The two foreign 16-year-olds were initially noticed by their aggressive behavior. A train attendant had to find out that the two in a regional express from Stuttgart to Ulm were traveling without a ticket. The train attendant then informed the Federal Police, who seized the two young people at Ulm Central Station and then on to the local police station.

They wanted to reach the parents of the two minors, but this did not succeed. So they tried to transfer the two to a youth center. As a result, the Iraqi began insulting the officials. He also made image and sound recordings of the federal police and sent these, according to the current investigation, probably to a friend (who then probably contacted others again, who then tried together to storm the area later).

Punching and kicking against the police a group tried to release prisoners in front of the police station

Now the Afghan tried to injure himself. Therefore, in order to prevent this, he had to be restrained. Here he resisted the police measures. He defended himself against the officers with punches and kicks.

In the meantime, a group of about five to eight people had gathered in front of the police station. This group was now trying to force its way into the police station, probably with the intention of freeing the two friends. The federal police were obviously unable to ward off the attack on their own and had to request reinforcements from the state police.

Not a single attacker caught, the Afghan is "known to police”

Only after the arrival of supporting patrols of the state police, the attackers fled towards the city center. Despite an exhaustive search, the police, federal and state police, were unable to seize even one of the attackers.

As part of the resistance action one of the federal police officers was injured in the knee. The Afghan youth, who fiercely resisted, beat and kicked after the officers grazed his lower lip. He was treated by rescue workers. The Afghan, although allegedly only 16 years old, is already "known to police". Due to his self-harming actions, he was subsequently taken to a specialist clinic.

The Iraqi was released immediately

The police have released the Iraqi after consultation with his guardians. So he was on the loose again. The Federal Police have now begun investigations into allegations of insult, resistance to law enforcement officials and the attempted release of prisoners (§ 120 StGB).

Whether any of the two immigrants from the Islamic culture will receive any significant punishment at all, and if so, to such an extent and in what severity that they will be able to associate this with their deeds at all and become such a painful experience that it causes them to understand  their behavior and change their attitudes even minimally, remains to be seen.

What, if not five to eight, but 20 to 30 people had come?

What the federal police would have done if it had not been for five to eight people storming the police headquarters, but twenty to thirty, is hard to imagine. What the former President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution Hans-Georg Maaßen says about immigrants from just this culture, you can read here.

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Buda Liberated — 333 Years Ago Hungary’s Capital Was Freed From the Turk

Buda eliberata, thanksgiving on the occasion of the liberation of the Hungarian capital from Ottoman rule 333 years ago. In the background the equestrian statue of St. Stephen the First at the Fisherman's Bastion.

On 2 September 1686, 333 years ago, the Holy League was able to free the castle of Buda from the Turks.

Last week, on the day of the triumph, the Savior of Hungary, Blessed Pope Innocent XI, was born. At his monument in the castle district of the Hungarian capital, a wreath was laid down and in the Matthias Church, there, a Mass if thanksgiving was said. The monument to the Pope was built on the occasion of the 250th anniversary in gratitude for the liberation from the Turk on Andreas-Hess-Platz.

"Beyond military success, the reconquest of Buda has been an important milestone in the survival of our nation. Through this reminder, we want to emphasize that we, in the future, intend to continue to live our traditions and values ​​and to protect them at all times. This is our shared responsibility. "

These words were spoken by Alexandra Szalay-Bobrovniczky, deputy mayor of Budapest. In her speech she also referred to Bl. Innocent XI, who, in addition to the renewal of religious life of the Church, regarded the expulsion of the Muslim conquerors from Europe as his main task. For this purpose he used all his diplomatic powers and all his moral authority and organized a Europe-wide crusade.

Alexandra Szalay-Bobrovniczky in front of the monument of Pope Innocent XI.

Budapest Sr. Mayor in front of the Monument to Pope Innocent XI.

By the termination of the one and a half centuries of occupation, he earned himself immense merit. That's why he rightly deserves the title of "Savior of Hungary," as the Senior Mayor emphasized.

In his solemn speech, Mátyás Kéthelyi, President of the Actio Christiana and organizer of the memorial service, spoke of the importance of faith and mission as well as strength and unity. As he said, the liberators of Buda could give an example to today's Christians in these matters.

For if they had not had deep faith and consequent missionary awareness and had not overcome the division that sundered Europe at that time, they would not have been able to drive out the pagans who would still be in Budapest today.

At that time, Christians did not talk about dialogue. They knew that one could not oppose the heathen from the comfortable armchair, Kéthelyi added. He emphasized that at that time it was not simply a

Hungarian-Turkish war. It was a religious war, a fight against Islam. Therefore, beyond the triumphant victory over the conquerors, we must first of all be grateful to God and to the Blessed Virgin Mary, who have helped the Christian armies to victory, according to the President of Actio Christiana.

Mátyás Kéthelyi, the President  of Actio Christiana, at his commemorative speech



After the wreath-laying  a Pontifical High Mass of thanksgiving was sung in the traditional Rite, which followed in the spirit of that time and the model after the victory a procession of thanks for the Church.

Who is the Actio Christiana?

Actio Christiana is a Christian NGO whose goal is the revival and spread of Hungarian and Central European religious and Christian traditions and folk traditions.

These include on Palm Sunday, the revival a re-enactment of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey; the beer blessing on Florianitag in May; the memorial service described here in September in the castle district of Buda; the Gift of St. Martin parade with lanterns in November and the St. Nicholas parade in December, mainly in the city center of Budapest.

These traditions were not allowed during Communist rule for more than 40 years. Their revival is, therefore, possible only step by step.

Painting by Gyula of Benczur: "Reclaiming Buda" (1896)

The importance of reconquest

Hungary was in constant conflict with the expanding Ottoman Empire since the second half of the 14th century. In 1354, the Ottomans occupied the first bridgehead on European soil. From then on,
Christian Europe, which they tried to conquer and subjugate, pressed against it.

Matthias Church with the miraculously recovered Virgin Mary statue

Matthias Church with the then miraculously found statue of Mary with baby Jesus


However, in 1526, at the Battle of Mohács, the medieval kingdom of Hungary collapsed under the overwhelming weight of the Ottoman army. The Turks invaded the capital Buda in the same year, but left the city again. The center of the country came only in 1541, completely under Turkish rule, under which it would remain for the next 145 years.

The one and a half centuries of occupation by the Ottomans tore Hungary to pieces. The ongoing wars devastated the greater part of the country. The Muslim conquerors chained hundreds of thousands of Christians and enslaved them. Hundreds of thousands more died in a heroic death in battle or fell victim to the enemy's arson.

This depleted Hungary would not have been able to free itself from the shackles of the Ottoman Empire by itself. A European union was necessary.

Holy Mass in thanksgiving for liberation from the Turk 333 years ago

Pontifical High Mass in thanksgiving for the liberation 333 years ago



Blessed Pope Innocent XI. It was a great effort to bring about this union in a Europe that had been
tormented and divided decades before by religious wars.


The strong belief of our ancestors and their resulting courageous attitude finally led to the victory of the Christian armies on 2 September 1686 at Buda. This triumph made it possible for Hungary, in the following ten years, to be completely liberated and become the protective bastion of Christendom.

Procession on 2 September 2019

Mattiaskirche: procession on 2 September 2019

As Blessed Innocent XI. received the news of the victory, he ordained the day of liberation in the Universal Church as the memorial day of St. King Stephen.

The pastor of the Christian armies, Blessed Marco d'Aviano, a Capuchin, celebrated Holy Mass on the day of victory that was followed by a procession with the Blessed Sacrament and the "Gunpowder Madonna" found under the rubble.

Since then, it is a tradition in Buda to celebrate the liberation from Mohamedan rule.

Image: Actio Christiana / Benedek Sás / Wikicommons / matyas-templom.hu (Screenshots)
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com