Reader’s Links, March 12, 2018

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  1. IRAN – The ‘un-Islamic’ girls’ dance that shocked Iranian hardliners

    A video of girls dancing on a stage, while a crowd cheers them on, has caused an uproar in Iran. This dance took place at an event organized by the Tehran municipality, with the mayor in attendance. So why the fuss? Hardliners have criticized the reformist mayor Ali Najafi for allowing an “immoral ceremony” where “women” danced in public.

    In Iran, sharia law dictates that grown women – an age that is set at nine years old – are forbidden to dance in front of anyone but their husbands.

    The video, which was filmed during a ceremony on March 6 to celebrate International Women’s Day (two days early), garnered backlash from various hardliners and prompted Tehran’s conservative general prosecutor to announce that he would open an investigation into the matter.[…]

    http://observers.france24.com/en/20180308-iran-girls-not-islamic-dance-hardliners-tehran

  2. Cutting welfare to illegal aliens would pay for Trump’s wall

    Mexico won’t have to pay for the wall, after all. US taxpayers won’t have to pick up the tab, either. The controversial barrier, rather, will cover its own cost just by closing the border to illegal immigrants who tend to go on the federal dole.

    That’s the finding of recent immigration studies showing the $18 billion wall President Trump plans to build along the southern border will pay for itself by curbing the importation of not only crime and drugs, but poverty.

    “The wall could pay for itself even if it only modestly reduced illegal crossings and drug smuggling,” Steven A. Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies, told The Post.

    https://nypost.com/2018/03/10/cutting-welfare-to-illegal-aliens-would-pay-for-trumps-wall/

    • Let’s look at what happens when an illegal Mexican thug catches a bullet:

      Ambulance transportation
      Emergency room surgery
      Recovery in a high security ward
      Transportation to a confinement facility
      Public defender assigned
      Arraignment hearing
      District attorney’s office time
      Trial and conviction
      Incarceration
      Parole

      Add it all up and that single bullet cost about one million dollars. Building the wall will prevent these Mexican gangsters from infiltrating America thereby saving billions of dollars.

  3. AUSTRIA – E.G.Y.P.T.I.A.N knifeman killed outside Iran ambassador’s Vienna home

    A 26-year-old Austrian was shot dead outside the Iranian ambassador’s residence in Vienna after a knife attack on a soldier guarding the building, police said on Monday.

    The assailant, who police said was of Egyptian origin, “died on the spot” after the soldier opened fire, police spokesman Harald Soeros told AFP, saying the attack occurred just before midnight (2300 GMT).

    Police were searching the assailant’s home to try and understand what was behind the attack, with Soeros saying they had “not ruled out, nor confirmed” any terrorist motivation.

    The incident took place in a residential neighbourhood when the soldier was on duty at a security booth.

    During the attack, the two men wrestled on the ground and the attacker stabbed the soldier “countless times,” Soeros told AFP, saying his life was saved by the security vest he was wearing.

    He had initially tried to use pepper spray to immobilise his attacker but later used his gun, firing “at least four bullets”, Soeros said.

    The soldier escaped relatively unscathed, with a wound to his upper arm for which he was treated in hospital. He was also suffering from shock.

    Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache said the soldier had fired “in legitimate self-defence” and had acted “in an appropriate manner, saving his own life”.

    Police have ordered reinforcements around all diplomatic missions in the city.

    http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/knifeman-killed-outside-iran-ambassadors-vienna-home-644028112

  4. Whistleblowers who raised fears over one of Britain’s worst child abuse scandals that affected nearly 1,000 victims were forced out or ignored
    A gang in Telford, Shropshire, has sexually abused young girls since the 1980s
    Telford’s Tory MP, Lucy Allan, has called for an urgent Rotherham-style inquiry
    Three girls were murdered and it is thought up to 1,000 victims were targeted
    It has now emerged two whistleblowers who tried to speak up were silenced

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5489911/Telford-whistleblowers-raised-fears-scandal-silenced.html

  5. AFP – Myanmar nationalist monk rails against Muslims on social media

    A public speaking ban against him now expired, Myanmar nationalist monk Wirathu – once dubbed the Buddhist ‘Bin Laden’ – pours vitriol on the country’s small Muslim population, cheering a military crackdown forcing nearly 700,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh.

  6. A Saudi investor has taken a significant stake in the Independent, potentially pumping millions of pounds into the liberal news website but may spark a controversy about the human rights record of the Middle Eastern country.
    Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel has taken a stake of between 25% and 50% in Independent Digital News and Media, the holding company of the Independent, according to filings at Companies House.
    Abuljadayel is listed as being 42 and based in Saudi by the filing. He appears to have no other business interests in the UK.

    http://archive.is/UvFNK#selection-2487.0-2495.125

  7. British-Pakistani woman has spoken out about the sheer volume of child abuse taking place within her community.

    She told Maajid Nawaz on LBC: “Every single Pakistani, girls that I know, including myself, have been abused by uncles or someone within the community.

    “But, it’s all very hush hush. There is a real big problem within Pakistani community.

    “It’s a problem that has to be addressed.”

    https://www.westmonster.com/british-pakistani-community-has-a-real-big-problem-with-child-abuse/

  8. A 23-year-old Greek woman and her boyfriend relived scenes of horror in the court of Thessaloniki last week. The woman was gang-raped by three migrants from Syria and Algeria more than a year ago.
    It all started on the 2nd of October 2016, when the female victim and her boyfriend attended a solidarity event for refugees at their university in the city of Thessaloniki.
    After the party, the student and her boyfriend were passing through the university’s yard, when suddenly three migrants attacked them with broken bottles and tied them up.
    The immigrants forced the woman to perform oral sex and robbed her, while at the same time, only a few meters away, the solidarity event to support refugees was in full swing.

    http://archive.is/vGPNN#selection-435.0-455.175

    • The hesitation waltz continues, the question is how long can India and China continue spending at the current rates? China has been running on printing press money for far longer then the US, India hasn’t started massive printing press money yet but they are being pushed in that direction.

      • India had best figure out a way of defending the Siliguri Corridor (“chicken neck”), pinched by Nepal and Bangladesh, in order to establish a high-capacity transit path to move troops and materiel into the West Bengali region.

        Without this, they will never be able to hold off Communist Chinese aggression.

        • That is one of the big worries they have, others include the disparity in Naval numbers, the biggist advantage they have is China spending so much training time on teaching communism instead of teaching how to be an effective combat soldier.

          Pakistan is suppose to be negotiating with Nepal for something but I haven’t heard what.

          • … the biggest advantage they have is China spending so much training time on teaching communism instead of teaching how to be an effective combat soldier.

            That’s what happens when there has to be a political compliance officer in every squadron.

  9. Hong Kong (AFP) – Buddhism may be touted in the West as an inherently peaceful philosophy, but a surge in violent rhetoric from small but increasingly influential groups of hardline monks in parts of Asia is upending the religion’s tolerant image.
    Buddhist mobs in Sri Lanka last week led anti-Muslim riots that left at least three dead and more than 200 Muslim-owned establishments in ruins, just the latest bout of communal violence there stoked by Buddhist nationalists.
    In Myanmar, ultra-nationalist monks led by firebrand preacher Wirathu have poured vitriol on the country’s small Muslim population, cheering a military crackdown forcing nearly 700,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh.

    http://archive.is/62err#selection-471.0-479.210

  10. Hungary seeks broader anti-migrant alliance after Austria, Italy elections (reuters, Mar 12, 2018)
    https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-europe-migrants-hungary-minister/hungary-seeks-broader-anti-migrant-alliance-after-austria-italy-elections-idUKKCN1GO25A?rpc=401&

    “Hungary aims to coordinate more closely on refugee policy with Austria and Italy after elections there boosted anti-migrant parties, broadening an alliance of EU states focussed on internal security.

    Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Monday that the approach to migration of the Vienna government and the centre-right in Italy was very similar to the bloc’s central European member states.

    “So it is obvious that we will work together in the future,” he told Reuters in an interview.

    “This is not against the western part of Europe, this is against migration, and this is in favour of our interests because we put security first.”…”

  11. Greek police arrest 2 Pakistani teens on robbery charges (wapo, Mar 12, 2018)
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/greek-police-arrest-2-pakistani-teens-on-robbery-charges/2018/03/12/30211242-2613-11e8-a227-fd2b009466bc_story.html?utm_term=.ed25d4bc1561

    “Greek police say they have arrested two Pakistani teenagers on suspicion of robbing tourists and passers-by at knifepoint near Greece’s top tourist attraction, the ancient Acropolis Hill in Athens.

    The arrests announced Monday come days after six men, also of Pakistani origin, were arrested on suspicion of similar robberies in the area.

    Police said the teenagers, aged 16 and 19, were arrested Wednesday evening, adding they were suspected of being part of a gang and that other members were being sought.

    The two were charged with participating in a criminal organization, robbery and violating weapons laws. They had allegedly been robbing people in the area of mobile phones, jewelry and cash over the past three months. Police said the investigation into the two had resulted in two robberies being solved.”

  12. MEMRI TV – Houston Imam Raed Saleh Al Rousan: Muslims Will Kill Jews On Judgment Day

    In his Friday, December 8, 2017 sermon titled “Our Duties Towards Al-Quds [Jerusalem]” at the Tajweed Institute’s Houston, Texas branch, the institute’s imam and founder Sheikh Raed Saleh Al-Rousan focused on U.S. President Trump’s December 6 Jerusalem declaration, said, speaking in a combination of Arabic and English, that the Jews “killed the Prophets and the Messengers of Allah” and went on to cite the widely quoted Hadith stating that on Judgment Day, the Muslims will kill the Jews: “My brothers, the Prophet Muhammad brought the good tidings, when he said: ‘Judgment Day will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews. The Muslims will kill the Jews, and the Jews will hide behind the stones and the trees, [which] will say: Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him… This is the promise of Allah.”

    He added: “The hour [i.e. Judgment Day] will not start until Muslims fight the Jews there, in Palestine.” He also said that since “Britain brought Jewish [people] from different countries to live in Palestine… do not tell me that Palestine is the country of the Jewish [people].”

    The Tajweed Institute was founded in Florida by Sheikh Al-Rousan in 2013, and the Houston branch was opened in mid-2017. The video of the sermon was posted by the Tajweed Institute on its Facebook and YouTube accounts.

  13. TRT – Punish a Muslim Day

    Letters encouraging people to take part in ‘Punish a Muslim Day’ have reportedly been sent to houses across the UK.

  14. A teenager was killed and at least two women were seriously hurt after a pair of explosions rocked homes in Austin on Monday — just two weeks after a separate blast which authorities said is linked to at least one of Monday’s incidents.

    Austin Police said they received a call about the first explosion in a neighborhood on the northeast side of the city around 6:45 a.m., after the 17-year-old resident found a package on the front step, brought it inside, and opened it in the kitchen where it exploded.

    “It is very similar to the incident that occurred in Austin on March 2,” Austin Police Chief Brian Manley told reporters.

    Manley said authorities don’t believe the packages came from a delivery through the U.S. Postal Service or private mail carriers, and the placement on the home’s front doorstep also indicated a similarity to the blast earlier this month. Federal law enforcement offcials told Fox News the packages are made to look like mail, but at least the first one did not actually get shipped from the postal service.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/12/austin-package-explosion-leaves-teen-dead-woman-hurt-after-second-blast-in-2-weeks.html

  15. Shots were fired and a man was stabbed in the head after thugs armed with machetes and axes jumped out of a car and smashed up a BMW in a shocking attack in east London.

    Dramatic footage shows the moment the white BMW reverses down a backstreet at high speed as it is pursued by a black Vauxhall Zafira.

    After the cars crash to a halt, one person sprints from the passenger’s side of the BMW to flee the scene.

    About four masked and hooded thugs then emerge from the Vauxhall, with at least one other following on foot, before the gang sets upon the BMW with weapons.

    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/shots-fired-and-man-stabbed-in-the-head-as-thugs-armed-with-axes-and-machetes-attack-men-in-shocking-a3787056.html

  16. Flemish patriotic youth group “Schild & Vrienden” has launched a video in which they pledge to defend their Flemish heritage and their future.

    The footage shows how the group successfully disrupts a leftist pro-immigration protest at a Flemish castle in the city of Ghent. According to the group’s leader, Dries van Langenhove, leftists and their actions “endanger the future of Europe”.

    In a short amount of time the video had 300,000 views but Facebook was not amused and censored it. Several messages and movies of the group have also been removed from Facebook and the group’s leader has been suspended from the platform. But the group will not give up and reposted their viral video today.

    https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/03/europe-awakens-now-young-belgians-stand-up-to-protect-their-culture-and-go-viral/

  17. PJ Media– Meet Ammar Campa-Najjar, a 2018 primary candidate for California’s 50th Congressional District: According to his website, he’s just your run-of-the-mill southern California Democrat.

    He’s a gun-grabber from the word go, utterly dedicated to a woman’s right to murder the fruit of her womb, and celebrates the full range of possible psycho-sexual unions, including, generously, the one likely to bear such fruit. He favors Medicare for all without a hint of how to pay for it, and he demands the total abolition of any meaningful border between California and the drug cartels.

    Oh, yes — he happens to be the grandson of one of the masterminds of the 1972 slaughter of eleven Israeli athletes at the Munich Summer Olympics.

    https://californiarealitywatch.com/2018/03/12/california-congressional-candidate-is-grandson-of-munich-terrorist/

  18. In light of all them bombs going off in Austin:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/83yeh4/5_commonsense_bomb_laws_trump_should_support_in/

    1) Ban any bomb with a blast radius greater than 5 feet.

    2) Ban any bomb where the builder has not undergone a mandatory 21-day background check before purchasing any item listed on the government’s list of potential bomb making ingredients (PBMIs). This includes items such as pipes, pressure cookers, clocks, duct tape, wires, fertilizers, nails, pool chemicals, etc., etc.

    3) Ban residential delivery of any package larger than 150 cubic inches, about the size of half a loaf of bread.

    4) Ban the use of the word ‘bomb’ and bomb synonyms from all online forums, discussion boards, social media posts and other publicly accessible web-based platforms.

    5) Ban the detonation of bombs by any individual not considered to a member of a protected class, as defined by the U.S. Constitution, Congressional Statute, Presidential Executive Order or by Civil Code.

  19. TILLERSON LAYS BLAME, NOT ON TERRORISM, BUT ON GENDER CONFUSION

    The State Department announced a new $600,000 taxpayer-funded study that suggests “ideals of masculinity” in Kenya are contributing to terrorism.

    The department’s Bureau of Counterterrorism is seeking a nonprofit group to “explore gender identities of boys and men in Kenya.” The grant proposal states that men being “tough, heterosexual, aggressive, unemotional, and achieving” can make them vulnerable to joining Islamic extremist groups.

  20. Baltimore approves spending of $200,000 to pay lawyers to help immigrants fight deportations

    As the Trump administration continues its battle against illegal immigration, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh said Wednesday the city will pay a team of lawyers to represent immigrants facing deportation.

    The city’s spending panel on Wednesday approved spending $200,000 to pay for the attorneys, who the Democratic mayor said will get to work within weeks defending immigrants against federal deportation lawyers.
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    “We hope that everyone gets due process,” Pugh said.

    Half of the $200,000 is funded by a grant from the Vera Institute of Justice, a New York nonprofit. The other half will come from the city’s budget.

    http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-deportation-lawyers-20180306-story.html#nws=true

  21. WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans on the House intelligence committee have completed a draft report concluding there was no collusion or coordination between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia.

    The finding is sure to please the White House and enrage panel Democrats who have not yet seen the document.

    After a yearlong investigation, Texas Rep. Mike Conaway says the committee has finished conducting dozens of witness interviews and will share the report with Democrats on Tuesday. Conaway is the Republican leading the House probe.

    https://apnews.com/dc7c4ec1be104801aefd46313fadb01b/Draft-GOP-report:-No-coordination-between-Trump-and-Russia

  22. Hezbollah has chemical weapons, supplied by Iran and Syria, a former Syrian general warned.

    By: The Tower

    The general who formerly headed Syria’s chemical weapons program before defecting in 2013 said that Iran’s proxy Hezbollah has a store of chemical weapons and that Iran itself is testing missiles with chemical warheads, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday.

    General Sha’arq Zuhair al-Saqit, who defected from Syria when ordered to deploy chemical weapons against civilians and now heads the Center for the Detection and Monitoring of the Use of Chemical Weapons in Belgium, said that Hezbollah received most of the chemical weapons from Syria, when the regime of Bashar al-Assad was trying to conceal the weapons from international monitors following the gas attack in East Ghouta in August 2013.

    The possession of “game-changing” weapons, including chemical weapons, by Hezbollah is one of the “red lines” Israel has declared that it would not allow.

    https://unitedwithisrael.org/former-syrian-general-hezbollah-has-chemical-weapons/?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Hezbollah%27s+Chemical+Weapons+EXPOSED%3B+Israeli+Anthem+Played+in+Morocco%3B+Bibi+%27Opens+Up%27+About+Life+in+US&utm_campaign=20180312_m144455509_Hezbollah%27s+Chemical+Weapons+EXPOSED%3B+Israeli+Anthem+Played+in+Morocco%3B+Bibi+%27Opens+Up%27+About+Life+in+US&utm_term=Hezbollah+Has+Chemical+Weapons_2C+Confesses+Former+Syrian+General

    • This is quite something, Tama. They can print money, yet their money is not good enough because it still requires laundering.

  23. GREECE – Greek woman gang-raped by migrants after visiting refugee solidarity event

    A 23-year-old Greek woman and her boyfriend relived scenes of horror in the court of Thessaloniki last week. The woman was gang-raped by three migrants from Syria and Algeria more than a year ago.

    It all started on the 2nd of October 2016, when the female victim and her boyfriend attended a solidarity event for refugees at their university in the city of Thessaloniki.

    After the party, the student and her boyfriend were passing through the university’s yard, when suddenly three migrants attacked them with broken bottles and tied them up.

    The immigrants forced the woman to perform oral sex and robbed her, while at the same time, only a few meters away, the solidarity event to support refugees was in full swing.

    The Greek police managed to arrest 3 immigrants, aged 19, 22 and 29, from Algeria and Syria for the rape case. Inside the men’s apartment, the police found drugs, 5,500 euros in cash, as well as stolen jewellery.

    Last week, Thessaloniki’s court of appeals decided to convict the 22 and 29 year old Algerians to 29 and 21 years in jail. It’s expected that the third perpetrator, the 19-year-old man, will be judged by a juvenile court.

    https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/03/greek-woman-gang-raped-by-migrants-after-visiting-refugee-solidarity-event/

    video – OCT 2016

  24. Long – but excellent listen.

    Keep referencing Steven Pinker’s ‘The Blank Slate’

  25. “Colin Flaherty: Tommy Robinson Interview”
    Undeniable Truth – Published on March 5, 2018