Islam versus Europe

Fights, passengers who don't pay the fare, music too loud, alcohol: in post buses on Line 12 between Solothurn and Oberbalmberg things often go bad. Rejected asylum seekers from the Balmberg asylum centre often don't care about the rules. "I have been insulted and once even attacked," recounts one bus driver.

In a Swiss first, Postauto is now trying to counter this. Stickers on the window now read "Criminal offences (abuse, threats and assault) against bus personnel will be pursued ex officio by the police" in French, English - and Arabic.

Source: 20Minuten.ch

This is interesting not so much for the thing itself. There are graffiti daubs on mosques and the like quite regularly now. But it's curious that two similar incidents have occurred at the same time in two different countries. As far as I know, none of the newspapers reporting the incident in each country have picked up on the fact that something similar occurred in another country at the same time. Is this the start of some coordinated, continent-wide anti-Mohammedan action?

On the 19th of May, he Arab-Nil-Rhein assocation in Mainz was splashed with fake blood and had posters showing a mutilated Afghan girl (from a Time magazine cover in 2010, probably this one) affixed to its windows and walls.

Meanwhile, on the same day, in Limoges in France, a mosque was splashed with real or fake blood.



Sources: Welt.de, LePopulaire.fr

This happened in March. A North African tries to rob a Spanish businessman as he gets in his vehicle. Too bad for him: the businessman has a gun permit. Goodbye Muslim. A second perp, just round the corner, ran away and is still being sought. Surprisingly, the businessman was praised by the judge rather than persecuted.

Source: PI

Youths rioted in northern Stockholm on Sunday night, setting fire to cars and throwing rocks at police, in what is believed to be a protest against the fatal police shooting of a machete-wielding man in the suburb last week.

"At 10pm we sent out staff to an address in Husby," explained Lars Byström of the Stockholm police to the Dagens Nyheter newspaper.

"My colleagues were met by young people who threw stones at them. It continued with a pair of violent riots and extensive damage."

The riot kicked off when young people set fire to cars in Husby, a suburb in the far north of Stockholm. Witnesses claim at least 100 vehicles in the area were in flames. Another fire was lit in a nearby garage, resulting in the evacuation of the apartment block. Around 50 residents were taken care of and sheltered in buses that were on hand.

The local shopping centre was also vandalized, and three police officers were injured in the fracas. Police estimate that the riots involved somewhere between 50 and 60 youths.

Forty emergency workers from both police and the firefighting service were on hand.

The protests come in response to a fatal police shooting of a 69-year-old man in Husby last Monday, according to the youth organization Megafonen. The man had been threatening police with a machete before he was shot.

Initially, police to the press that the man died from his injuries at hospital, but it later emerged that the 69-year-old died at the scene.

Many neighbours questioned why police used such extreme violence to deal with the situation.

"This was an old man with a knife facing a whole gang of specially trained armed police officers. Did they really have to kill him?" a neighbour told the Aftonbladet tabloid the day following the shooting.

A community-based organization that aims to organize residents of Stockholm's northern suburbs to fight for social justice claimed Sunday night's disturbances started as "reaction to police brutality against citizens, our neighbours".

"We understand that people react like this," Rami Al-Khamisi from Megafonen said in a statement.

Calm was restored to Husby by 5.30am, police did not, however, make any arrests.

"We've not made any arrests, but we'll try to during the day. We'll take a look at security footage and speak with witnesses so we can take legal action against the people who are guilty of crimes," Byström told DN.

Source: The Local H/T: Maria José

Was the 69-year-old a Mohammedan?

5000 inmates in Belgian prisons are Muslim. That represents 45% of the prison population. A situation which impose constraints on the prison organisation.

In Forest, the decision has been made to simply no longer serve pork in the meals. 80% of the inmates are Muslim and refuse to eat pork. It has become simpler to no longer provide it on the menu at all rather than create different dishes.

But there are other inconveniences from this large population practising Islam. For example, some inmates refuse to obey female guards because they are women. Or they try and transform some communal areas into places of prayer.

And then there are the dangers of radicalis in prison. The executive of the Muslims of Belgium itself warns about the risks of radicalism and asks that the practice of religion be formalised so that the extremists cannot take advantage of it to push towards a fundamentalist Islam.

Source: Sudinfo.be

FRANCE has taken the first step to removing the word “race” from all legislation as demanded by President Hollande in his election campaign.

The Parti Socialiste helped vote through a Front de Gauche proposition in the National Assembly and Jean-Jacques Urvoas, president of the Laws Committe said they were making sure Hollande’s promise was not forgotten.

Hollande had called for the word “race” to be taken out of the constitution, saying it had no place in the Republic.

It is part of Article 1: “France is an indivisible, secular, democratic and social republic. It guarantees equality before the law for all citizens without distinction of origin, race or religion. It respects all beliefs.”

Socialist MPs amended the original wording of the Front de Gauche proposal to highlight their opposition to racism, anti-semitism and xenophobia.

Source: ConnexionFrance

The Socialist majority rallied to the proposed law, emphasising that this was just "the first stage".

...The rapporteur of the proposed law, Alfred Marie-Jeanne, stated that the word "race", "this aberrant concept, having served as the foundation for the worst ideologies, has no place in our legal order."

Source: Le Monde

The French priest attacked and beaten unconscious by a Muslim also had his mobile phone stolen, it emerges from an interview with a newspaper. Note the comments in the second paragraph seem to be from a different priest from the same parish, but they make it clear that the seemingly invincible spirit of dhimmitude survives.

"If my history can just give a shock of awareness to people, it will not have been so terrible...This type of attack happens to an enormous number of people in the district. Some "jeunes" no longer have any limits. It's the "vivre ensemble" that is in question. Not the attack of a priest in his gown."

"What we regret sincerely is that the Minister of the Interior hasn't shown himself in two days. If it had been an imam or a rabbi, he would already have been on the spot," stresses Father Marie-Christophe, an official at Saint-Jean. "We have had the support of everyone. There is a problem with some "jeunes" who are opportunists. Our attacker was indeed of North African origin, but a true Muslim wouldn't have done that. The members of the French Council of the Muslim Faith have also officially demonstrated their indignation. That doesn't prevent some people from making generalisations. And it is the silence of the politicians that is responsible."

Source: Midilibre.fr

Also, from this additional report here, it emerges that he was confronted by four Muslims and told to hand over his mobile phone. One of the Muslims then attacked him physically, while the other three just stood by and watched. Why didn't they intervene and tell the attacker he wasn't acting like a "true Muslim"?

Noureddin Ziani, accused by the Spanish government of being a Moroccan intelligence agent and of "promoting international terrorism, Salafism and radical Islam"

I have noted before the curious confluence of Mohammedanism and separatist/nationalist movements within European polities. We see this is Scotland, where the Scottish National Party has allowed its ranks to be infiltrated by stealth jihadists like Humza Yousaf, and in Catalonia where Catalan nationalists and Muslims have made common cause. There seems to be a predatory instinct within Islam that makes its adherents adept at seeking our social and psychological fractures, whether it be vulnerable children without proper parental care to be recruited as sex slaves, or secessionist movements in European state structures.

Here we have a case where a Moroccan intelligence agent was promoting both Catalan nationalism, by recruiting Muslims to the separatist cause, and, according to the Spanish government, fomenting "international terrorism, Salafism and radical Islam".

Spain’s intelligence services have ordered the deportation of a Moroccan citizen who was paid by the CDC Catalan nationalist party to fan sympathy for independence among Muslim communities in the region. National Intelligence Center (CNI) director Félix Sanz Roldán accused Noureddin Ziani, a Muslim leader, of “posing a threat to national security [...] and compromising Spain’s relations with other countries,” as stated in the deportation order.

The Moroccan national, who has no criminal record, was informed of the deportation order by Spain’s National Police on May 3. Sources familiar with the case said he spent the night at a Barcelona police precinct, and his lawyer, Fátima Zohra, said the deportation could be made effective at any time beginning on Tuesday.

The deportation order has angered Catalan nationalists, although for now there has been no official reaction from Rabat. “We are incensed at this new maneuver by the CNI,” said Àngel Colom, secretary of immigration for Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC) and director of Nous Catalans, a foundation that actively seeks to get immigrants to adhere to the Catalan nationalist cause.

“What is the CNI trying to achieve with this deportation of Noureddin Ziani?” wondered this association in a press release issued in Arabic and Catalan. “To strike fear into the hearts of all immigrants who little by little feel closer to the right to decide and to the pro-sovereignty process in Catalonia?” Nous Catalans was created by CDC, and Catalan regional premier Artur Mas inaugurated its headquarters in Santa Coloma de Gramenet in 2012.

Colom knows Ziani quite well. He appointed him director of the Catalan-Moroccan office within his department, and last November both men toured a few of Catalonia’s mosques to preach the virtues of Catalan independence together.

“A Catalan state can bring you greater wellbeing,” the faithful were told.

Ziani, a native of the northern Moroccan city of Oujda who has resided in Barcelona for the last 14 years, is also the longtime president of the Union of Islamic Cultural Centers of Catalonia (UCCIC), a Muslim association that teaches Arabic and provides financial assistance to families, especially during Ramadan. Until recently, it was the second-largest beneficiary of subsidies granted by the Moroccan migration ministry to groups in Spain (158,700 euros in three years).

In fact, Ziani and Colom are so close that Fundació Nous Catalans doubles as the headquarters for UCCIC. For years, Ziani, who was once an imam, acted as the unofficial right hand of the Moroccan consul in Barcelona, Ghoulam Maichane, with whom he used to tour Catalonia and the Balearics to talk to Moroccans living there. Ziani also maintained close ties with the Catalan Socialists (PSC) until this party lost power in the region. When the CDC-Unió bloc (CiU) won the November 2010 elections, Ziani moved closer to CDC.

Rabat is concerned about hypothetical secessions in Catalonia and Scotland, fearing such developments will create new arguments for Western Sahara’s Polisario Front, which seeks independence from Morocco. That is why pro-government media there regularly attack “the opportunists who kindle the secessionist flame.”

Source: El País

Catalan nationalists have claimed that this is a manoeuvre from the Madrid government designed to undermine separatism. Although the Spanish authorities have not provided any details of what the agent is alleged to have done, they have been quite emphatic about it.

The Minister of the Interior, Jorge Fernández Díaz, yesterday accused Noureddin Ziani of “promoting international terrorism”, "Salafism" and "radical Islam". "It has nothing to do with his activities proselytising for the cause of Catalan independence," added Fernández Díaz.

Source: El País