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Any scenario in which a White Neo-Nazi or “incel” stabs a woman nearly to death merely for “working” would elicit outrage in Germany — and rightfully so. After the attacks, extensive media coverage would undoubtedly follow, along with German politicians racing to be the first to offer their condemnation — again, rightfully so. Commentators would […]
Any scenario in which a White Neo-Nazi or “incel” stabs a woman nearly to death merely for “working” would elicit outrage in Germany — and rightfully so.
After the attacks, extensive media coverage would undoubtedly follow, along with German politicians racing to be the first to offer their condemnation — again, rightfully so. Commentators would decry toxic masculinity, the danger of the White male patriarchy, and demand increased funding to fight right-wing terrorism and violence against women. Left-wing groups would also surely mobilize protests of their own.
Last week, an Afghan refugee stabbed a 58-year-old female gardener in the neck multiple times, then proceeded to stab an elderly man trying to intervene. The perpetrator told the police afterwards that he stabbed her because she was working, and that he did not approve of women working.
The attack has elicited little in terms media commentary in Germany, let alone outrage. From any point of view, the attack is abhorrent, but from the feminist perspective, it could not be a more clear case of misogyny: a woman attacked at random simply for doing her job.
Yet prominent German feminists, such as Margarete Stokowski and Sophie Passmann, are notably silent. They did not say a word in response to a woman being brutally stabbed simply for “working”, despite their usual habit of commenting on every triviality or microaggression on their Twitter accounts. The German media has been remarkably quiet as well, running short news blurbs such as Deutche Welle’s English-language headline: Berlin: Man attacks woman with knife for ‘working’. Even less content is provided in German-language pieces, such as the Focus headline, “Man stabs female gardener in the neck multiple times in a park – motive still unclear”
The reality is that this is not merely a case of a random “man” stabbing a “woman” — according to the police, the man stated a clear motive for the attack. What we know for sure is that this type of attack is not alien to Afghan society or its people. Only by acknowledging this fact can there be an honest discussion about the consequences of mass migration from countries that not only treat women in abhorrent ways but feature a broad range of cultural practices, ranging from corruption to extremist religious views, that are anathema to the way the West organizes its own societies in the modern world.
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In other words, attacks on women are not a bug of Afghan society, but a feature, in the same way that systematic sexual assault against children is not a bug there, but a feature. The type of random attack on women seen in the stabbing of a gardener in Germany, along with other sexual assaults and violent crimes recorded in Germany, is not rare in Afghan society — and, increasingly, not rare in German society either. According to German statistics, Afghans are 500 percent more likely to commit a criminal offense than native Germans are. In terms of sexual assaults, the numbers are even worse, with Afghans 12,000 percent more likely to commit a sexual assault than the rest of society.
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As for Germany? An Afghan father and his two sons stabbed a man 90 times in what they called an honor killing. Last month, two Afghans murdered their sister because she did not live “according to their values“. In a similar case, a teenage Afghan migrant stabbed his sister 20 times for, again, not living according to his values. She later died in the hospital. An Afghan man stabbed his wife in front of a bus full of schoolchildren in 2020, with the man stating during the trial that his wife was his personal property that he could do what he wanted to. An Afghan is believed to have stabbed a woman who converted from Islam to Christianity in the Bavarian town of Prien. Child marriage, which was once unheard of in Germany, has also grown exponentially, with Afghans, along with other Middle East group, responsible for the phenomenon. Although acid attacks are exceedingly rare in Germany, in the UK, where they are commonplace, Afghans, along with Pakistanis, are often involved.
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All of these events point to a reality that the West is entirely unwilling to acknowledge because it does not fit the prevailing narrative, one that most people increasingly accept as a religion. It is all because of the power of one word: “racist”.
As evidenced by the mass grooming cases in Britain, police are literally willing to allow rape to happen if it means aggressors aren’t called the “r-word”. Police forces are sworn to protect the citizenry and have state powers that enable them to do so. If they are swayed by the power of the word to such a degree, it is easy to see why the feminists of Twitter are so willing to overlook the most brutally anti-feminist cultures if those people happen to be Brown, Black or any other color other than White.
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The African country of The Gambia, headed by President Adama Barrow, is refusing to take back thousands of its citizens currently living in Germany and elsewhere in the European Union who have been issued deportation orders, blocking their repatriations back to West Africa. As a result of Barrow refusing to issue landing permits for deportation […]
The African country of The Gambia, headed by President Adama Barrow, is refusing to take back thousands of its citizens currently living in Germany and elsewhere in the European Union who have been issued deportation orders, blocking their repatriations back to West Africa.
As a result of Barrow refusing to issue landing permits for deportation pilots from European Union countries since 2019, the bloc’s authorities have and continue to be powerless to deport 6,000 of the 16,000 Gambians currently residing in Germany who have been ordered to leave the country, Die Welt reports.
The Gambia — where 95 percent of the population is Muslim — claims that it cannot take back its citizens who are residing illegally in Europe because they are “unable to be reintegrated back into society” — and if repatriated — would bring social unrest to the country. Thus, the government is refusing to comply with international law, which obliges country’s to take back their deported nationals.
“Social unrest” can be expected when thousands of Gambian’s return, a spokesman for the Gambian government claimed. “We are trying to consolidate peace, stability, and democracy in our country.”
There are several reasons why President Barrow, who’s up for reelection this coming December, doesn’t want to see Gambian deportees who are living across Europe repatriated. One of the main reasons repeatedly given by Barrow is that the majority of the country’s population – composed of a little over 2 million people – believes that the departure of these young men now living across Europe has helped to eliminate crime and violence in the Gambia. If these young men were returned, they believe the crime and violence would inevitably come back as well, he claims.
Historically, Germany is no stranger to mass surveillance, and most Germans will readily acknowledge that reality. The country prides itself on commemorating the civil liberties abuses perpetuated by the Stasi and Nazi regimes, which relied on a huge network of informers — and in the case of the Stasi, also extensive bugging of its citizenry […]
Historically, Germany is no stranger to mass surveillance, and most Germans will readily acknowledge that reality. The country prides itself on commemorating the civil liberties abuses perpetuated by the Stasi and Nazi regimes, which relied on a huge network of informers — and in the case of the Stasi, also extensive bugging of its citizenry — all to monitor the population and arrest dissidents.
Yet, Germany is once again turning to the tactics used by these previous regimes to repress its opposition, but with more power to surveil the populace than ever before in the electronic age. This time around, these tactics are being deployed against critics of the liberal establishment and its support for identity politics, progressivism, mass immigration, and controversial coronavirus measures, including mandatory vaccinations.
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A large part of the German population is expected to face criminal charges related to “hate” in the coming years. The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) expects around 150,000 criminal proceedings per year for hate crimes on the Internet due to the Network Enforcement Act, which will be tightened from next month, with the BKA expecting 250,000 hate crime reports.
Up until now, social networks were only required to delete content that was deemed illegal. The new regulation now obliges them to report hateful comments to the BKA.
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The question then becomes what defines a hate crime on the web? Obvious calls to violence will undoubtedly be prosecuted, but what about criticism of mass migration or pointing out foreign overrepresentation in German crime statistics, especially for serious crimes like rape – just to name two potential examples. Will such criticisms constitute hate crimes?
The reality is that this law will most surely be abused if the past is any guide. Take for instance the recent case of Berlin’s left-wing mayor, Michael Müller, of the Social Democrat party (SPD), who ordered a police raid on a Facebook user for posting an immigration-critical photo that targeted Müller:
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It is not the only instance, either. Another SPD politician, this time in Hamburg, ordered the raid of a Twitter user who referred to him as a “Pimmel,” which refers to male genitalia in German. Andy Grote, the interior and sports minister for the city of Hamburg, claimed in a post that people celebrating in large numbers in the Schanzenviertel district of Hamburg were “ignorant” due to the Covid-19 crisis, although Grote himself was forced to pay a €1,000 fine for celebrating at a pub in violation of Covid-19 rules earlier in the crisis. When an anonymous user on Twitter responded in a post that Grote was a “Pimmel,” police raided that user’s house at 6 a.m in September 2021.
The user recounted the incident in a tweet, saying he and his two children were awoken to tactical police officers inside his home.
“My house was searched at 6:00 this morning. Six officers in the apartment,” wrote the suspect, who goes by the screen name ZooStPauli .“They know there are two young children living in this household. Good morning, Germany.”
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In four German states, the opposition Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has been labeled a threat to the constitution by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV). The BfV ruling means the domestic intelligence agency is legally able to read the emails and monitor the phone calls of every single AfD party member in those four states. The BfV can also deploy informants into the party’s ranks.
It is hard to exaggerate how much power the BfV has to spy on citizens and effectively throttle a political party from functioning, especially in a country that prides itself on its label of liberal democracy. Once using intelligence methods reserved for fringe neo-Nazis, green eco-terrorists, and radical Islamic groups — many of which were issuing direct calls to violence or organizing actual extremist plots — the German state has now applied intrusive and blanket surveillance methods on a party that garners votes from millions of law-abiding Germans.
The BfV’s policy of mass surveillance was implemented under the Merkel government during a time when the AfD was the largest opposition party in the country. This policy does not discriminate, either. All members of the AfD are believed to be guilty for simply being members, which means thousands of perfectly innocent citizens are under active surveillance. While the BfV claims that the party has a number of extremist members, the current surveillance policy makes no distinction between “normal” members and whatever small amount of members could potentially be labeled extremist. To date, no AfD member has been arrested or convicted for organizing a terror attack. Even if there were such instances, the AfD has always preached voting as a method for political change and rejected violence.
In reality, AfD is the party most actively targeted with political violence in all of Germany, with members assaulted, issued death threats, and on numerous occasions, targeted with arson attacks. Besides state repression, the party deals with very real far-left threats, and a blackout on news coverage in mainstream media if such attacks occur. Within the media, the AfD has been shut out of the country’s powerful political talk shows and debate panels.
If Poland or Hungary ever took such aggressive measures against opposition parties in their own countries, the EU would open a rule-of-law infringement case, and the global press would crank out stories about attacks on democracy from the Hungarian and Polish governments.
In fact, both Hungary and Poland have become targets in the media for allegedly using Israeli spyware to spy on the opposition, although both countries steadfastly deny the accusations. Nevertheless, Germany has received virtually no criticism for openly monitoring its opposition on a mass scale. At the same time, most Germans refuse to tolerate the idea even for a moment that double standards are at play, or that a dangerous surveillance state is being deployed against the establishment’s political enemies.
In fact, last year, the BfV briefly placed the entire AfD party under surveillance before federal elections before a court overturned the designation. However, the matter is not closed, and the BfV may soon gain this enormous power over the entire party this year.
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Other countries that have banned Telegram include Russia and China — two countries that Germany has routinely accused of authoritarian behavior. Russia has since reinstated the app due to the fact that it is so difficult to ban. During the anti-government protests against Belarus last year, Germany’s public broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, lauded the app when it was being used by the opposition in that country. However, that tune quickly changed once the opposition in Germany began using the app.
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Germany’s liberal political and media class view Telegram as a hard-to-censor free speech platform, and ultimately a potential source of organizing power for Germans opposed to the dominant political and social order. As a result, it may be only a matter of time before this platform disappears, much like it did in China and other authoritarian countries.
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