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Member of the Czech Parliament: “Should we fear Islam?”
Thanks to Xanthippa, Lubos Motl’s and the official on by Klara’s translator, Gates of Vienna and Gavin, the flagship post of the day:
Czech patriots march against Islamic influence
President of the Czech republic speaks plainly about the effects of Islamic immigration
Thank you Xanthippa for the hard work on this and M for finding this elusive video.
This is no small thing. The people of the West need to know there are leaders out there ready to risk everything to speak the truth. President Zeman of the Czech Republic may be chief among these.
A list of leaders and some of their speeches will be posted later this weekend but have been posted to this site before. Check back on this post tomorrow afternoon.
Czech Republic: How I went to a “Fascist” rally
This is an original translation by Xanthippas
From this Czech source:
By Daniel Vavra 07/02/2016
Since it was taking place practically in our own backyard, we decided that after lunch, we’d stroll up to The Castle [seat of Czech Parliament and site of the ‘Fortress Europe’ rally] before it starts and I will then attend this ‘”fascist” rally.
Shortly after we had set out, I was a bit taken back by the actions of the police.
They were blocking almost all the entrances to the Hradcanske Square [The Castle] and only letting the Antifa demonstrators through to the path to The Castle, so that all those going to the IVCRN [Fortress Europe] demonstration had to pass through about a 2 meter wide corridor between the police and the anarchists. I am not certain who tried to achieve what by this, but it certainly did not lead to a comfortable atmosphere.
The people going to the rally behaved in a much more civilized manner than the antifascists, who were aggressively belligerent. Since I did not want to ‘mix it up’, we took the Radnice staircase towards Loreta – again, not anticipating anything bad.
At the narrowest part of the staircase, there was a group of idiotic hipsters, one of whom had a very old bike about which they led an animated debate – heedless of the throng of tourists that was trying to take this route to get around the rally. At the top of the staircase, where the second entrance to the Hradcany Square [The Castle] is, there was a police barrier and the police were not letting anyone through, since people were supposed to enter the square from below, at the Nerudova street entrance.
I have no idea why they were doing this. Perhaps they wanted to make sure that every “fascist” had to pass by the antifascists, so it would not be hard for them to find each other should they wanted to pick a fight.
I continued on towards Loreta, where there was some kind of a rally which, at first look, seemed to be anti-migrant because the person speaking was saying something about being “for closing the borders” and “we cannot let everyone in” and similar such ideas which, just a few months ago, were regarded as heretical Konvicka sayings [Konvicka heads up the Anti-Islam Bloc]. However, I found it suspicious that the audience, of whom there were at most 300, looked like voters for the Green Party and the whole thing was accompanied by some kind of Balcan oompa-band. It turns out, the speaking points of the ‘sunshiners’ have changed from mindless welcoming into what Konvicka was saying in the summer of 2015.
When we wanted to continue on, we were stopped by another police cordon. They informed us that we cannot go on, just because. Yet, they were letting the sunshiners through no problem and, surprisingly, nobody was attacking anyone.
It started to smell, as if the police were stoking the fire beneath the cauldron of passions, so we decided to go back home.
However, when we got back to the stairs by which we had entered – the only way out, those hipsters who had earlier blocked it through their rudeness were now using some sort of a banner and were blocking the stairs, hand in hand, quite intentionally. The crowd of tourists and IVCNR supporters thus found itself trapped and began to get pissed off. I was, too, because I wanted to get my wife and kid home.
A conflict-resolution team began to negotiate with the idiots, not letting the people leave the other way, back to the square, and it began to look like a fight would start; people started pushing.
The funny thing was, it was those idiots on the stairs who, at this point, owed their well being to the heavily-armoured forces protecting them from being trampled by the pissed-off crowd. Well, these idiots were yelling and screaming at the heavily-armoured forces, saying their human rights were being violated (because blocking a staircase just might be a real human right) and that they will see them in court.
In the end, among all the confusion, we had managed to push our way out, [my] family went home and I went on to see what a “fascist” rally looks like.
After we managed to get through a blockade of twenty-kilo hipsters and crazed women, who managed to survive their own heroism only due to the police – yet who were united in their hatred of it, I ventured down the only unblocked way to the rally, so that I could personally see this “evil” and so that I could also compare the Czech TV’s reports on the number of participants with the reality on the ground.
The first thing that surprised me was that at the scenic lookout over Prague, I was welcomed by a few hundreds strong crowd of Anarchists with signs “Antifascism belongs on the street” and with the warcries of “No pasaran!” and “Alerta Alerta Antifascista!” Everyone coming to the rally was forced by the police and their blockade of all the access routes to walk this sort of an isle of police and aggressive activists.
I don’t know who wanted to achieve what by doing this, but calming the situation down was most definitely not it. Whatever genius issued a permit for IVCRN and Antifa to hold simultaneous rallies in the same city square must truly have had a cunning plan.
I admit that as soon as I got there, I was surprised by the number of ‘man’s men’ in patriotic t-shirts present. Now, I do not mean football hooligans, but the dads of families, often with moms, who are so fed up by now that they went and bought t-shirts saying ‘Bohemia’ or ‘This land is my land’ and headed to Prague.
Similarly, I was surprised how calmly they bore it when the rebels yelled that they are fascists and they had to pass through that isle of shame. “Luza [the loosers]” had, considering the level of provocation, behaved in a rather civilized manner.
At first, there were fewer people in the town square than I had expected. Later, it became clear that this was mostly because the police were doing everything in their power to prevent demonstrators from reaching Hradcany [The Castle] – and that they did not succeed [to keep out] a considerable number of people.
Two of my friends, who came for a look-see, had phoned me saying that Nerudova Street [entrance] is closed off, blocked by a procession of Anarchists who are not marching anywhere but staying put, so that nobody could get through.
Finally, the town square had filled up – by my estimate, at least six thousand people. According to the police, it was 15,000. According to TV3, the square has the area of about 200x50m and in the lower half, people were truly packed in tight. In the upper part, it was a bit less packed but still quite thick, so it is realistic to estimate 1 person per meter [squared], which would give a count of about 10,000.
The makeup of the crowd was varied. Everyone who had been to any kind of a rally for whatever reason knows that this is a magnet for all kinds of anti-social people, the homeless, jerks and idiots – which can always be used to successfully discredit any demonstration whatsoever. However, the number of drunk provocateurs here was surprisingly small. Aside from the aforementioned men and often their wives, the older generation was also here, as were some sporting the ‘coffehouse’ look, women, a few families with children.
Definitely, men were in the majority. Football hooligans and skinheads also formed a non-negligable group. Indeed, there were quite a few and later, I found out why this might be so. On the internet, this had been coming to a head for a long time: Antifa had been calling people up to form blockades so many people really did come out to have a football-style fight. However, the whole time there, I did not have any feeling of danger by anyone to anyone.
This was only a worry for when the time to leave came and these people would meet up with those who were doing all that shouting on the way here. Tourists of the most varied skin tones had also happened upon the event, suspecting nothing bad, and to my surprise, I did not hear any racist comments in their direction, much less any aggressive behaviour.
The rally itself lasted for just over an hour. We saw a variety of the star candidates from Usvit [Dawn of Direct Democracy], who repeated things already spoken a thousand times, and guests. Konvicka [an entomologist and the chair of the Block Against Islam], had, in my opinion, escalated things unnecessarily when he used words like ‘collaborators’ followed by a list of people whom he considers as such.
The absence of high-mindedness and gentlemanly conduct at these kind of activities really bothers me. Dientsbier’s miss-steps [Dientsbier is the US-born Czech Minister for Human Rights] can be pointed out politely, even humorously, and not just in a style reminiscent of incitement to a lynching.
The guests from Switzerland and Germany were witty: their fiery speeches in their native tongues, in conjunction with the many shaved heads in the audience, had a bit of a bizzarre effect, even thought they did not say anything untowards. Still, nobody decided to ‘heil’, even as a jest, and overall, nothing untowards was happening. I did not see anyone with a gallows, and nobody was shouting anything that Pelikan [the Czech Minister for Justice] could have them jailed for.
Towards the end of the speeches, a police car had appeared at our backs and a bit of a mele happened, which became apparent by the sudden disappearance of the rougher types. Apparently, the police had decided to pacify one of the hooligans and his friends chose to help him. However, it did not turn into much of anything.
The whole time, I was worried about what will happen at the end, when the clusters of anarchists and skinheads will start to head off the streets into Mala Strana [another area of Prague] and the thousands of normal people and the tourists will get mixed into this.
The police had decided to avoid this danger through the most bizzarre means possible and instead of letting people leave by the easiest exits, they forced absolutely everyone to exit through the narrowest alley into ‘Novy Svet’. Ten thousand people had to pass through a 3m wide bottleneck.
I do not know if the police forced everyone through this narrow spot in order to count and photograph everyone, in any case, this was idiotic and not a hair was harmed on the heads of the group of dusky tourists trying to make their way through. Even more bizzarre was that from the next intersection on, there was nobody directing the traffic so the whole crowd headed towards the Radnice Stairs, where the Anarchist demo had been.
Along the way, we had encountered a man who had fallen down and hit his head and all the xenophobes passing by were offering to help him. Then they all went home.
Or so I thought.
In reality, the subway was shut down, the trams [buses] were shut down and all the bridges were closed. The Anarchists at the Manes bridge attempted to fight it out with the hooligans, and their Twitter account had, for a long time, announced to the world that there still is a group of enemies one can have a ‘peaceful dialog’ with.
I must admit, I had not expected this.
I did not expect that anyone would use this rally as a playground for hooligan fights.
I did not expect that, by the looks of them, well-off intellectuals would, long before the start of the rally, try to limit others in their freedom of movement; that in the name of the fight for peace and justice, people would hurl paving stones at each other on The Castle stairs.
And it makes me quite sad.
And if someone tries to claim that this was provoked by Konvicka’s supporters, they are lying.
Had it not been for the actions of people holding banners against violence and extremism, no extremism would have taken place today, nobody would have thrown paving stones and the hooligans would still be fighting at football matches and not at Mala Strana [area of Prague].
Similarly, their actions did not, in any way, contribute towards calming the situation, did not alter the views of the participants (more like the opposite) nor did it bring closer any sane resolution of this turmoil.
Source: Daniel Vavra (abridged)
Note: all emphasis is that of the original author.
Note: some paragraph breaks were inserted by the translator
[translator’s notes]
Witness Report from a Camp: The Migrants Are Like a Time Bomb, EU has lost its mind.
An original translation by Xanthippas
From this Czech news source
It seems that the EU has lost all sound decision-making abilities and, when it comes to accepting migrants, it has given up on all the wise rules, says Martin Herzan, former member of the House Committee on Human Rights. For Thursday’s ‘Pravo‘ [a publication], he recounted his experiences from Camp Dobov on the Slovenia-Croatia border. According to him, tens of radical Islamists have also entered Europe, without any actions against them by security services.
“From December 2015 till the end of this January, I have spent six weeks among the migrants on a transition immigrant camp Dobova on the Slovenia-Croatia border, through which the Balkan migration wave flows into Europe.
About three thousand migrants passed through the camp daily – even whole families, but mostly just young men, alone.”
“The migrants could have lied about anything – give any names, dates of birth , even nationalities.”
They came not just from the countries afflicted by war – Syria, Afghanistan or Iraq – many strictly economic migrants have been trying to take advantage of the situation, coming from regions where there is no war. Most of them did not have any personal documents – they had intentionally destroyed them, to conceal their true identity and country of origin.
Every Day, many weapons were confiscated
As for the registration centres, which issued new temporary documents to the migrants, for those they can lie and say anything – whatever names, dates of birth and nationalities. The task of these registration centres is to write down the information they are given, not to verify it.
In Greece, the migrants did not even have to lie, because there, they have been, and are, issuing documents in which they put everyone’s date of birth as the first of January, whether the migrants agree with this or not. The most important part of the work with migrants are the personal checks of the migrants and their luggage.
Under these circumstances, this is the easiest way to find out if this is a high-risk individual or even a former fighter of the Islamic State, al-Qaeda or the Taliban. Every day, several kilograms of weapons are confiscated. – mostly stabbing or cutting [weapons], but also tazers, nunchucks,and other dangerous objects.
In those six weeks, I have seen tens of radicals and Islamic fighters discovered among the migrants. On their mobile phones, some had photos and videos of captives, showing them brutally torturing or killing their victims. Others had child pornography or videos showing torture of naked women.
These were handed to the Slovenian criminal police. They [the police] usually just interrogated them, made a report, and to the great surprise of everyone, let them go further into Europe. All the while, under EU rules, persons like these are not allowed to enter Schengen [zone], which, in reality, nobody is supposed to be admitted, if they had presented invalid documents.
Is this about Human Rights, or government subsidies?
All the rules have been abandoned, they are admitting everyone travelling further into Europe, like a walking time bomb.
“At the border, I have also seen true refugees fleeing war, whether they be moderate Muslims, atheists or Christians.”
As a long-standing defender of Human Rights, I am ashamed that behind this curtain of sham humanitarianism – often in order to collect government subsidies – many non profits, even human rights organizations are taking part. Nothing changes the fact that at the border, I have also met real refugees fleeing from war, whether they be moderate Muslims, atheists or Christians.
Victims of tragic circumstances deserve to find safety in Europe. In contrast to the problem-causing, never satisfied economic migrants, or those who view their journey into Europe as an obligation to spread Islam, this minority of war refugees coming into hospitable Europe do intend to value this refuge.
“It is as if the European Union has lost its sound mind, as it recklessly feeds growing risks of terror in its territory.”
They really want to work and share, or, at least, respect, European values. We must not be indifferent to the tragedy faced by these people. But, to mix in these fates, out of some deference to the chimera of some artificial, “directed” multiculturalism, without any differentiation, into this wave of economic migration, together with many of the migrants on a potentially dangerous mission, this seems to me to be the height of irresponsibility and hypocrisy.
It is as if the European Union had lost all sound judgment, as it recklessly feeds growing danger of terror in its territory. New Year’s Eve violence in Cologne on Rhine and other cities. which had so changed the atmosphere in Germany, is just the tip of this problematic iceberg.
Then, when this growing wave of high-risk, illegal migration raises protests, which stress the rights of Europeans to maintain their human rights and freedoms, dignity of women and European culture, these are then labelled as xenophobes.
Paradoxically, [this is done] often by the very defenders of Human Rights. Who seem to be protecting some completely different rights than those that belong to us.
Due to statements about women attaced by migrants, Zilkova must go to police. What awaits her?
An original translation by Anon
From this Czech news site:
Veronika Zilkova has a lot to explain! Due to controversial statements regarding migrants, she faces entanglement in police matters. photo: Facebook, Herminapress.cz
Actress and community politician Veronika Zilkova is reaping what she had sown! Following her very unique defense of migrants who had attacked women during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Cologne on Rhine, she has become the target for criticism. “That woman has gone insane,” her fans agree and her words have even driven her to [the attention of the] police.
tag: #veronikazilkova
The actress Veronika Zilkova should, in the future, pay more attention to what it is she says.
When, in conversation with Parlamentni Listy [Parliamentary Papers], she had defended the migrants, who had groped and raped women during New Year’s Eve celebrations, saying this is just a ‘natural instinct’, she must surely have expected that her opinion would anger some people.
That she would become the target of hate and have to explain her statement to the police, that she certainly did not expect.
One of the groups from the social network Facebook had placed a criminal complaint against her.
“Mrs. Zilkova had, in my opinion, broken the law by condoning [positively commenting on] the obviously criminal action, which had taken place on the 31. 12. 2015, in several European cities. A situation in which more than 300 women had reported mass [group] theft, sexual harassment and rape, she had commented on on the 15. 01. 2016, in conversation with the server [online publication] ParlamentniListy.cz , states an excerpt from a criminal complaint, which had been handed to the Police of the Czech Republic on the 15th of January.
WRITTEN SUBMISSION OF CRIMINAL COMPLAINT
Good day [Hello],
I would like to make a criminal complaint against the person named Veronika Zilkova, born on the 16th of October, 1961, currently residing in Prague-Suchodol [suburb of Prague]. This regards a publicly known figure, an actress, comedianne, and politician behind the [political] movement ‘YES’.
Mrs. Zilkova has, according to my opinion, broken the law by comments [she had made] which were in agreement with [condoning/approving of] obviously criminal activity, which had taken place on the day of 31. 12. 2015 in several European cities. A situation in which more than 300 women had reported theft, sexual harassment or rape, she had commented on on the 15. 01. 2016, in conversation with server [online publication] ParlamentniListy.cz using the following words:
(the following are several quotations from the conversation)
“European female fashion is highly provocative and the migrants are of an age [that is] productive not only for work, but also for all else. And to top it off, they are arriving in European countries where women wear tight jeans. Let’s not be surprised when nature takes its course.”
“This is not sexual aggression, but a strong natural instinct. Even many European women will, in time, follow this natural instinct and voluntarily head towards these new males…again, the voice of nature…choice of a partner.”
In my opinion, these two quotes, which Mrs. Zilkova had uttered, fulfill the real basis of the criminal act of “CONDONING OF A CRIMINAL ACT” according to paragraph 365 of the criminal code and, therefore, I request that the Police of the Czech Republic should investigate this matter most thoroughly. In addition, I request a written finding regarding the outcome of this criminal complaint.
Attached is (image) including the screenshot of the incriminating portion of the conversation.
Criminal report is filed by:
[blacked out] on the 15. 01. 2016
Zilkova herself claims to know nothing about the criminal complaint. When we had tried, many times, to contact her, her phone had been turned off and she refused to comment on these news items.
According to our sources, the calamity [happening to her] on social media had struck her deeply. “She does not know who is saying what about her, and that makes her very nervous,” one of her family members had told us.
Zilkova should, in the future, better consider if it is suitable that she, as a community politician and the wife of the Minister of Defense, should publicly speak about such a sensitive and current, problematic topic, regarding which she seems to not have the full facts.
To top this of, since her main occupation is an actress and artists, and so we are dealing with a public figure.
It is not surprising that, unlike people who follow current news events, her statements – among which is that women are responsible for the attacks on themselves because of their choice of fashionable clothing – have angered even those people who have, in the past, defended her.
“Veronika belonged among my favourite actresses and entertainers. But, following these statements, I am done with her. She is insane,” is just one of the comments. The others are similar in spirit, but sharper [in the wording].
Perhaps the actress will learn from this situation and, in the future, be more considered in her public statements. Or, perhaps, [she will make] none at all.
Perhaps that may be the best thing she can do.
Vaclav Klaus, former president of the Czech Republic bluntly speaks on the state of Europe
First of all, former President Klaus is one of the few politicians that always spoke his truth over fashion and was successful for it. He called the global warming policies for what they are and what all will know them to be who investigate it, a vector for attacking capitalist and democratic societies for political purposes and not science. Vaclav is one of the few national leaders who’s background is in the sciences instead of law or politics.
He also wrote a book on this subject which stands up to scrutiny.
He has always been a Euro-skeptic and like the current President of the CR., deals with reality and does not suffer fools well.
Below is what we can find of what he said today in Germany. I will also take this opportunity to repost a few other national leaders that have spoken plainly about islamic migration into Europe, and who’s advice and analysis has been so grotesquely under-viewed it is an embarrassment to us all. When national leaders take our position and speak clearly on the matter, the mere act of millions of views would propel those speeches into the MSM across the world. This would result in policy changes.
Yes its my view that the mere act of enough of us watching a video can change things because that is how the politics of cowardice work in the West. Perhaps we can all do our bit and send these serious people with clear thoughts on these critical matters out to all we know and encourage them to send it out as well.
Eeyore for VladTepesBlog
Jan. 22 – 2016 Vaclav Klaus in Germany: “Europe is at War”
Current president of the Czech Republic speaks on the non-miscability of Islam with Western reason based culture.
Slovakian President explains new policies on Islam and immigration within Slovakia
President of the Czech Republic quotes koran to illustrate why muslims likely do not integrate to the West well
Thank you Xanthippa for the search, find and translation of this clip
President of the Czech Republic offers direct opinion on the nature of the migration crisis in Europe in Christmas address
Thank you Xanthippa for the speedy translation
Q&A of Czech presser on Turkish EU membership and tribute to stop invasion
Czech independent news discusses halal slaughter and its meaning and implications. Advises boycott
Czech independent TV exposes many ‘refugees’ are actually jihadis
UPDATE: A commenter has posted BBC refutations and other source refutations as to the validity of these photos. Please read and check the links here before accepting the Czech report at face value.
Czech member of parliament attacked in Dresden by anti-PEGIDA people
Thank you Xanthippa for alerting us to this one and doing the translation
It was a Member of the Czech Parliament who spoke at the PEGIDA demonstration in Dresden and was subsequently attacked.
His name is Marek Cernoch and he represents the ‘Usvit’ party, which is part of the anti-Islamisation coalition.
I wish that they did not cut your heads off [while you are] alive. Milos Zeman answered European Commission, which had called him ‘islamophobe’.
An original translation by Xanthippa
From this Czech news site
Czech President Milos Zeman is a big Islamophobe. At least, according to the Commission with Council of Europe which deals with “racism and intolerance”. The president himself addressed the accusation during his visit to the Zlin region. He is apparently surprised, because he has no idea, what it means to be an islamophobe, nor how the term itself is actually defined.
Photo credit: Daniela Cerna Description: President Milos Zeman and Mayor of the Zlin region, Stanislav Misak.
President Milos Zeman, while visiting the Zlin region, reacted to the accusation that he is an inslamophobe. He is apparently surprised, because he himself does not know what that “islamophobia” actually is. “The term islamophobia has never been properly defined. I speak against Islamic radicalism,” he explained during a visit to the company Kovarna Viva in Zlin.
“So, for the authors of this information, I have just one wish: that somebody will not cut their heads off [while they are] alive,” the President ended his speech.
This was a reaction to the assertion, which was found in a report if the Commission of the Council of Europe. The full name of this [organization] is European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance and, on Wednesday, it released a report sharply critical of Czech politicians.
“ECRI was informed by numerous sources that political expressions of intolerance are not rare features, especially in times near elections. The most common targets are the Roma and immigrants, lately, however, Muslims have become vicims of increased Islamophobia,” is, among other things, written in the report.
As the largest Islamophobes in the Czech political arena, the report named Tomio Okamura and also President Milos Zeman. Regarding them, the commission raised its eyebrows over some of their statements, including some older ones. “Even the President himself is considered to be an open holder of anti-Islamic views; in the year 2011, reportedly in an interview with a magazine, he stated that ‘moderate Muslim’ is contradicto in adjecto, or a self-contradiction, in the same way as ‘moderate Nazi’ is a contradicto in adjecto,” is an example of what is written in the report.
“He also declared that Islam is not a religion of peace and much less so of tolerance, but a religion of hatred”, is written in the report. The report was brought to attention in Czech mainly by a non-profit organization ‘Clovek v tisni [People in Need]’.