[i-Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/21/2012]A county commissioner for West Miami-Dade in Florida says that the huge house a Muslim resident is building in his district is really a mosque. The owner of the property says that the building is simply a house for his mother, and that the commissioner’s accusations are fueled by racism, discrimination, and religious intolerance.

In other news, European banks are concerned about capital flight, after panicky depositors withdrew more than a billion euros from banks in Greece and Spain over the past week. Meanwhile, several international airlines have terminated service to Greece, thanks to the collapse of the Greek tourism industry.

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Thanks to Andy Bostom, C. Cantoni, CSP, Fjordman, Insubria, JD, JLH, JP, Mary Abdelmassih, Seneca III, Srdja Trifkovic, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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“The only way we can answer back is to go on telling the truth.”

Below is another video in honor of the late David Littman. This one shows him giving a speech at a Free Thinking Film Society event in Ottawa back in 2010 about the “Defamation of Religions” resolutions, the OIC, and the UN’s attempt to enforce Islamic blasphemy laws against non-Muslims.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video:


Part 1 of the David Littman retrospective was posted here.

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Pierre Picaud returns with a look at an unusual type of “honor killing” in the UK, and the larger significance of its Islamic cultural context.

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A Subtle Cultural Shift
by Pierre Picaud

This case of enricher-on-enricher crime is fascinating on a number of levels. A Muslim boyfriend foolishly puts pictures of his naked Muslim girlfriend up on the internet. In revenge the girlfriend’s mother lures the boy to her house, where she bludgeons him so hard with a table leg that he later dies.

Placing the murder weapon in her daughter’s hand in order to throw police off the scent, and in the knowledge that the daughter is under the age of full criminal responsibility anyway, the perpetrator Gedu Bibi gets away with murder for six years.

The cover-up having of this inter-Bengali “honour” crime was discovered, and Mrs Bibi has today been found guilty at the Old Bailey in London.

Bibi, however, was initially and self-evidently perfectly happy for her 21-year old victim, Sumon Miah, to view her daughter as a sex-object and let them be “boyfriend and girlfriend” even though her daughter was but thirteen years old. (And why shouldn’t she have been? Her Muslim faith told her after all, that her daughter had reached maturity.)

But that was, of course, up until Mr Miah tarnished her family’s honour by positing the naked pictures online. Then he had to die. And was deliberately brought to a spot and killed effectively. And then the killing was covered up… the obliging culturally-sensitive British jury though (no doubt operating under the judge’s instruction) found her guilty only of manslaughter:

Mother who lured 13-year-old daughter’s boyfriend, 21, to his death after he posted topless pictures of her online is facing jail

A mother who arranged for her 13-year-old daughter’s boyfriend to be battered to death after he posted topless pictures of the girl on the internet is facing jail today.

Gedu Bibi, 47, lured 21-year-old hospital worker Sumon Miah to her home after being shown the photos of the schoolgirl.

Once there he was hit over the head with a table leg and fell into a coma from which he never recovered.

Mr Miah died nine days later from brain damage on October 17, 2006.

Bibi got her teenage daughter to tell police she had hit the victim in self defence after he turned up with a knife. Her 12-year-old son Fhalak also backed up the story.

Detectives shut down their investigation in 2008 but fresh information emerged two years later which led to Bibi and her former lover, 48-year-old cafe owner Lilu Miah, being charged with murder.

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[i-David Littman]As mentioned in last night’s news feed, the redoubtable Counterjihad activist David Littman died yesterday in Switzerland after a long battle with leukemia.

Mr. Littman has been eloquently eulogized by Jerry Gordon at The New English Review, and by Andy Bostom at his own website. I’m sure many more remembrances will be published in the next few days.

Vlad Tepes has compiled two video retrospectives to illustrate the enormous efforts that David Littman made at the United Nations in the thankless task of resisting the Islamization of that body.

The first video shows selected clips from Mr. Littman’s presentations in Geneva:


The second video shows the almost superhuman persistence exhibited by Mr. Littman in the face of continuous interruption during his various attempts to speak at UN meetings. You will see the servants of the OIC sandbag him over and over again in these clips, yet he never gives up:

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We’ve reported numerous times in the past on the wave of culturally-enriched rapes in Oslo, the capital of Norway.

Different explanations have been offered — global warming, for example, or an increased willingness on the part of the victims to report the crime — to avoid discussing the massive over-representation of non-European immigrants in the rape statistics.

The latest theory holds that irresponsible media outlets are exacerbating the situation by reporting the rape statistics and thereby encouraging racism. Our Norwegian correspondent The Observer has translated excerpts from an article on the topic, and includes this introduction:

This very interesting piece was posted on Document.no earlier today. It’s a response to an op-ed published in one of big newspapers in Norway a couple of days ago in which the author accused the media and the police of causing racism by publishing rape statistics!

These figures deliver a decisive blow against those who claim that non-Western immigrants are unfairly stigmatized in the media in these types of cases.

The translation below is an abbreviated version. I decided to translate only the first half of it.

The translated article:

The chicken or the egg?

And here we go again. Armed with an amateurish news report from Utrop [immigrant newspaper] Anna Kathrine Eltvik, a politician from Rødt [The Reds] accuses the police and media of creating racism with rape statistics. Ms. Eltvik gets right down to the nitty-gritty in her op-ed:

“Why doesn’t VG write about “Per” from Horten, or “Nils” from Trondheim? The fact that most girls and women experience abuse and rape at the hands of their boyfriends, friends and acquaintances is not mentioned at all. Nor is it mentioned that most rapists are ethnic Norwegians. By omitting this fact the country’s best-selling tabloid newspaper creates the impression that only immigrants behave in such a completely unacceptable manner. They should rise above such tactics.

“Are the media and police going to spend any significant time rectifying the damage that they have caused? That’s highly unlikely. And what’s astonishing is that they are likely to get away scot-free, too. After all, there are some Norwegians who thrive in their abominable prejudice, and who don’t wish to admit that they have been wrong.”

The article in Utrop is based on a report published by the Oslo police in 2011: Voldtekt i den globale byen [Rape in the global city], which makes for dismal reading. The source of Tanweer Hussain’s — and thus Anna Kathrine Eltvik’s — sensational headline “The myth about non-western rapists is starting to crack” can most likely be traced to Table 3 (p.28) in the report, which deals with known, convicted perpetrators.

But convictions alone do not paint a correct picture, as only 12% of all reported rapes in Norway result in a conviction. The number of rapists in Norway who are convicted of rape is only between 0.5% and 1%. It is therefore customary to base rape statistics on police reports and the victim’s description of the perpetrator when trying to determine the frequency of rape. And these numbers paint a very clear picture, so clear in fact that some feel compelled to a) disregard all tables except the one that support their own views and b) attempt to sustain other myths.

In the original article Hussain proclaims that:

“The huge surge in rapes in 2012 is attributed to the so-called party-related rapes (date rapes) in which ethnic Norwegians are over-represented.”

But this assertion is incorrect. Ethnic Norwegians are not over-represented in any of the five rape categories drawn up the police. In all the categories, including party-related rapes, there is an over-representation of men from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, which is rather baffling, considering the size of this group in relation to ethnic Norwegians.

The numbers for 2010 tell us that 19.7% of the rapists came from Africa, 15.1% from the Middle East and 14.1% came from Asia, and when considering that the Middle East comprises parts of Africa and parts of Asia it means that 48.9% of the rapes were committed by perpetrators from these two continents. The report’s Table 30, Typer voldtekt anmeldt til Oslo politidistrikt 2010 med identifisert mistenkt/siktet [types of rape reported in Oslo Police District in 2010 where the suspects/accused have been identified], which has been divided according the perpetrator’s country of origin, tells us that men from the Middle East, Africa and Asia are significantly over-represented in all five rape categories:

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Our Norwegian correspondent The Observer sends this brief note with the latest news in the trial of Anders Behring Breivik:

[i-Hanne Nabintu Herland]Another interesting twist has taken place in the Behring Breivik circus.

You are probably aware that the Breivik defence team has called Hanne Nabintu Herland as a witness. Mrs. Herland is not happy about that and she has written an op-ed in today’s Aftenposten in which she says that under no circumstances will she testify in a show trial that is orchestrated by a madman. She is also saying that she is willing to go to jail over this.

This has the potential to get very interesting.

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Previous posts about the trial of Anders Behring Breivik:

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Vlad’s interview with Tommy has proved so popular that we may have to undertake a full Rosetta Stone operation for it. In the meantime, here it is with German subtitles.

Many thanks to Liz for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

[i-Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/20/2012]A group of feminists staged a protest today outside the Cannes Film Festival. They were upset that none of the 22 films competing for the Palme d’Or was directed by a woman.

In economic news, G-8 leaders ended their meeting in agreement that more fiscal discipline and more stimulus spending will be necessary to promote growth and end the crisis in the Eurozone.

In other news, Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi, the convicted Lockerbie bomber, has died in Libya two and a half years after the date his doctors had predicted.

It’s my sad duty to report that David Littman has died in Switzerland after a long illness. It was an honor to have known him. He was a tireless supporter of human rights and a staunch opponent of Islamization up until the very end of his life.

To see the headlines and the articles, open the full news post.

Thanks to C. Cantoni, Fjordman, Insubria, JD, Jerry Gordon, Takuan Seiyo, TV, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.

Commenters are advised to leave their comments at this post (rather than with the news articles) so that they are more easily accessible.

Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. We check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.

[i-Sickbed]Dymphna has been very ill all day today. Her symptoms include a high fever, so she has mostly been confined to her bed. As a result I’ve been busy with non-blog activities, so posting has been light.

I’ll continue as usual with news feeds, but until Dymphna’s condition improves there may not be much else going on here.

To keep up with important news in the meantime, check in regularly with Vlad Tepes, Europe News, Tundra Tabloids, The Religion of Peace, Fausta, Doug Ross, View From the Right, Michelle Malkin, and Jihad Watch.

If your native language is German, I recommend Politically Incorrect. If you speak any Viking languages, Snaphanen and Uriasposten are your best sources of information. For French news, see F. de Souche.

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As mentioned here previously, earlier this month a group of Salafist radicals attacked members of Pro-NRW during a street demonstration in Bonn. One of the Islamic radicals on the scene that day was the cute ’n’ cuddly Reda Seyam.

Below is Mr. Seyam’s answer to a question posed by a reporter from Spiegel TV regarding his participation in the riots in Bonn on May 5, 2012. Many thanks to Hermes for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:


A full transcript is below the jump:

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Today is the third annual “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day”. In honor of the occasion, Proud Kafir has contributed his latest impression of Islam’s prophet:

Muhammad: Busted![i-Muhammad: Busted!]
(Click the small image to see a larger version, or visit Vlad’s place.)
Thank you, Proud Kafir!

I don’t know how many people will observe EDMD this year — interest tailed off after the first year — but this blog is a staunch upholder of tradition. May the blasphemous Mohammeds multiply!

[i-Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/19/2012]An author and former Christian missionary in Murfreesboro, Tennessee wants Christians to reach out in friendship to Muslims. He says that’s what Jesus would have done.

Meanwhile, Muslims in Kansas rallied in front of the statehouse to protest against the newly-passed “American Laws for American Courts” bill. They urged Gov. Brownback not to sign the Islamophobic bill into law.

In other news, if you live in England, make sure you don’t miss the “invisible art” exhibition in the Hayward Gallery in London. It’s certain to be the most significant aesthetic event of the 21st century. Interestingly enough, the architectural style of the Hayward Gallery is listed as “Brutalist”.

To see the headlines and the articles, open the full news post.

Thanks to C. Cantoni, Egghead, Insubria, JD, JP, Steen, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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[i-'The Mad Hatter' by Sir John Tenniel]
The accusation of “censorship” in our comments recurs from time to time. The issue is as old as the conflation of liberty with license.

Some people seem to think that unless they can say whatever they want to say, to anyone, anywhere, any time, under any circumstances, then their “freedom of speech” is being violated.

This is, of course, nonsense. But the accusation of “censorship” keeps cropping up, despite my earnest and repeated attempts to refute it. Two would-be commenters whose comments were not approved hurled it at me tonight.

So I will repeat myself one more time: “Censorship” cannot possibly occur here, because this is NOT a public forum.

This is a private forum, the virtual equivalent of our living room. Readers are invited into the room to enjoy tea and sarnies with their hosts. But if they become rowdy or pugnacious, they may be ejected. The judgment of whether ejection is necessary resides with Dymphna and myself, and no one else.

[i-The Ranting Man]This is not censorship, because you remain free to establish your own blog and say what you wish to say there. In fact, one of tonight’s complainants already has his own blog (another Blogspot account, if I remember rightly), and he promptly published his comment as a post when I failed to approve it.

In other words, he had exactly the same freedom of speech that Dymphna and I enjoy. Same privileges, same platform. So how exactly was he “censored”?

Good grief.

Even if we failed in our attempt to avoid the wrath of Blogger, and Blogger were to shut us down, its action would not constitute “censorship”. This blog is hosted by a private commercial service, to whose terms we agreed when we opened our account. They may close our blog at their discretion, and that does not violate our right of free speech in any way.

For censorship to occur, we would have to be arrested and hauled into court by the government for voicing our opinions. That is the meaning of the word “censorship”.

To recapitulate the history of the issue: we have never allowed totally open, no-holds-barred commenting. Before we started moderating comments, Dymphna and I had a policy of deleting comments that violated our clearly-posted guidelines, but such comments were not removed until after they were posted.

Our motives for doing this were twofold: to enforce an atmosphere of civil discourse, which we feel enables a more productive exchange of ideas, and to avoid being sanctioned for the words of commenters who engage in incitement or other activities that violate Blogger’s terms of service.

After the Butcher of Utøya went on his murderous spree last July, the spotlight of scrutiny was directed at us in a way that had never occurred before. It quickly became clear that the Multicultural Left, with its allies in the media and government, was waiting for us to make a misstep. We experienced a surge of provocateurs, trolls, and other infiltrators, some of whom were obviously tasked with creating a casus belli in our comments section that would justify action against us.

As a result, we shut down comments for a time. Later in August we reopened them, but from then on they were moderated — every comment required pre-approval. This allows us to keep the comments of the trolls and the moles from ever seeing the light of day.

The new regime inspired a new rule: If we have to think more than thirty seconds about whether a comment should be approved, we delete it. Period. We rely on our intuition: if a comment seems hinky, it’s hinky — out it goes.

Does that irritate you? Very well, then; you are irritated. The stakes are high, and irritating a commenter here and there is inevitable. It’s an unfortunate side-effect of our current working environment.

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I recommend that anyone who feels he is being “censored” by our failure to approve comments read the guidelines for commenters, as referred to in this blog’s comments form. You’ll see this reminder:

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The Endowment for Middle East Truth sends this invitation to a notable event to be held just over a month from now in Washington D.C., honoring five staunch opponents of shariah.

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Endowment for Middle East Truth
presents

7:00 PM June 21, 2012 in the Nation’s Capitol

Our Annual Rays of Light in the Darkness Dinner
is proud to award the Speaker of Truth Award to:

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• The Hon. John Bolton: Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, advocate for American and Israeli security
  
• Senator Mark Kirk: Leading Republican Sponsor of the Kirk-Menendez amendment tightening sanctions against Iran
  
• Rep. Allen West: Retired U.S. Army Lt. Colonel, and one of the most articulate andoutspoken opponent of radical Islam
  
• Simon Deng: Former child slave, abolitionist, advocate of South Sudan independence, strong supporter of Israel and advocate for UN reform
  
• Cynthia Farahat: Coptic Christian, Egyptian political activist and scholar

Register Today at www.EMETonline.org

Don’t Delay, Prices Go Up May 31st!

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