Reader’s Links for November 1, 2019

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Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.

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Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

65 Replies to “Reader’s Links for November 1, 2019”

  1. German Muslims feel unsafe amid mounting Islamophobia
    https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/german-muslims-feel-unsafe-amid-mounting-islamophobia/1633209

    “Germany’s Muslim community is “not feeling safe enough” amid the country’s growing Islamophobia, a German Muslim leader told Anadolu Agency in Berlin on Friday.

    “This year we had more than 80 attacks on mosque communities in Germany. The security situation is very tense. Muslims are not feeling safe enough. Talks with security authorities have shown that no sufficient concept exists and, above all, it is so that we as Muslims are not being sufficiently advised,” said Burhan Kesici, the chairman of the Berlin-based Islam Council.

    “Security authorities need to definitely work closer with the communities, develop concepts and provide advice [to them]. Otherwise, Muslims lose confidence in the security agencies, because protection is simply being blurred,” he added.

    Kesici’s remarks came only a day after police were forced to evacuate a mosque in the western German city of Cologne on Thursday following a bomb threat.

    Asked by Anadolu Agency about a reaction to the latest bomb threat against the mosque, Interior Ministry Spokesman Steve Alter said: “The minister has repeatedly expressed concern about attacks on religious institutions in recent weeks.”

    Following a thorough search at the Cologne Central Mosque complex with special teams and bomb-sniffing dogs, police found no bomb and determined the threat was a hoax.

    It was the second time in four months that the Turkish-Muslim umbrella group DITIB, which runs the mosque, had been threatened with a bomb attack.

    The mosque complex in Cologne also houses the headquarters of DITIB.

    In June, a bomb threat, apparently emailed by a far-right organization, had also forced the evacuation of visitors and staff at the mosque complex, however it also turned out to be hoax.

    Germany has witnessed growing Islamophobia in recent years sparked by hate propaganda of far-right parties.

    More than 100 mosques and religious institutions were attacked by by far-right extremists in 2018.

    Police recorded 813 hate crimes against Muslims last year, including verbal insults, threatening letters and physical attacks which led to the injury of at least 54 Muslims.

    A country of over 81 million people, Germany is home to the second-largest Muslim population in Western Europe after France.

    Among the country’s nearly 4.7 million Muslims, at least three million are of Turkish origin.”

  2. Sweden’s bomb squad called out to 100 blasts so far this year
    https://www.thelocal.se/20191101/swedens-bomb-squad-called-out-to-almost-100-explosions-so-far-this-year

    “UPDATED: Sweden’s national bomb squad has been called out to 30 blasts in the last two months – and 100 this year – with a police analyst calling it ‘incredible’ there have been no fatalities.

    In the early hours of Friday, police were sent out to an explosion in central Malmö. Windows were shattered, a car damaged, but no one was injured. Three suspects were held shortly after the blast.

    Just a couple of hours later police were called out to a blast in Växjö. The same morning a car was demolished in a blast at a car park in Landvetter, Gothenburg. No one was injured.

    They were the latest incidents in a trend that has so far seen twice the number of explosions in Sweden this year as the same period last year. The Local investigated what’s behind the blasts in this article this week.

    “If you also compare to other countries in Europe and the world that are as developed as we are, we stick out,” Ylva Ehrlin, national bomb squad analyst, told Swedish news agency TT on Friday.

    The bomb squad is also called out to suspected bombs that are discovered before they detonate. So far this year there have been 76 such cases, according to Ehrlin’s breakdown of the statistics.

    “It’s an unacceptably large number,” she said.

    “This is an undesirable development. It is very serious, a social problem. You can’t just remove the explosives and the tools, you also have to find the cause. In the past there were shootings, now we’ve got explosions.”

    There have been no deaths linked to the blasts in the past year, but several injuries.

    In December 2018 a teenager almost died in a blast in Malmö, for which he was later charged on suspicion of being behind the explosion. In September 2019 a female student was seriously injured when she happened to walk past an explosive device just as it detonated in the street in Lund.

    The blasts vary in size, and many of them are minor. But a major explosion in Linköping earlier this year was described as 30 to 40 times as big a charge as previous attacks, with around 25 people lightly injured and police saying it was a “miracle” no one was seriously hurt. But Ehrlin believes it may just be a matter of time.

    “The risk is very high. We have so far been incredibly lucky, you just don’t have that kind of luck. Take the explosion in Linköping for example. It is incredible that no one has died,” she told TT.

    She argues that the explosions are more dangerous for bystanders than many other crimes.

    “You control a weapon until you fire it, and you’re usually aiming at the intended target. You don’t control an explosive charge in the same way, especially not if you are a criminal without knowledge of the area. You don’t have any control over the target and the effect,” said Ehrlin.”