Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/23/2025

Three explosions were heard in Moscow’s central business district this afternoon. A car reportedly exploded in an underground car park, causing a fire. There were no official reports on casualties.

In other news, according to the latest voter survey in Germany, the AfD has hit a new record, and is the most popular party, beating the CDU by a percentage point.

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Justice, Swedish-Style, for the Rosengård Koran Rioters

Back in the spring of 2022 I reported on the Koran riots in Sweden, which occurred in the neighborhood of Rosengård in Malmö during and after Easter weekend (April 16-17), in response to Koran-burnings by Rasmus Paludan, the founder and leader of the Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party in Denmark and Sweden. (See contemporaneous reports here, here, here, and here.)

A large group of culture-enrichers has now been convicted for their riotous actions in Rosengård. As you may remember, an earlier Koran riot in Norrköping — which had its own Koran-burning by Mr. Paludan — resulted in the trial and conviction of the ringleaders of the violence.

Now the Rosengård rioters have been brought to justice, Swedish-style. In my opinion, the headline of the following report is misleading — the sentence of “53 years” is the cumulative total for 39 defendants who were convicted. In other words, an average of less than two years each. In Swedish terms, that counts as throwing the book at them.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Nya Dagbladet:

53 years for Koran rioters in Malmö

by Markus Andersson
April 16, 2025

Altogether, 39 persons have been convicted for, among other things, arson, violence against civil service workers, and aggravated sabotage against emergency activities during the Koran riots in Malmö three years ago. A third of the perpetrators, however, are underage and have, therefore, avoided prison sentences.

Exactly like several other Swedish cities, violent and widespread riots occurred three years ago after the Danish politician and Islam critic, Rasmus Paludan, publicly burned Korans in connection with the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

Enraged immigrant gangs attacked police with rocks and firebombs and set police and rescue vehicles on fire — and the events were afterward described by witnesses as scenes from a war.

“Some police have described the riots as like being in a war zone. It is simply an unheard-of stroke of luck that no police were seriously injured during the events in Malmö,” says Victoria Ingered, one of the prosecutors who led the preliminary investigations after the Easter riots in Malmö.

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The Muslim Brotherhood in France, Part 11

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating the graphic insert from
this article at Riposte Laïque:

The shocking inside story of the Muslim Brotherhood in France

An “absolutely alarming document on the goals of the Muslim Brotherhood” will be declassified and unveiled “within the coming weeks”, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau (pictured opposite) announced.

According to our investigations, this confidential and unedited report, based on the research of Ambassador Francois Gouyette and Prefect Pascal Courtade, is in the process of being redacted due to its sensitivity. “We can’t say everything,” confides a security source, “but the French people have to know the scope of the danger.” The structure, the objectives, the methods, and the finances of the Islamist nebula are described. “There are names and persons identified,” indicates the entourage of the Minister, who evoke a “small, tight pyramid” at its top and enlarged at its base operating across a galaxy of sporting, religious, and cultural associations.

In total, there are 130-140 religious sites and about 20 endowment funds “affiliated” with the Muslim Brotherhood. Political patronage, especially local, is already being scrutinized by the prefects, who will be “vigilant” during the municipal elections.

The Brotherhood is “a menace that extends silently in a pernicious and subversive manner,” Place Beauveau [Interior Ministry] states. Its purpose is “to cause all of society to fall under sharia law.” Bruno Retailleau also doesn’t hesitate to evoke the danger with his European counterparts, as with recently, the United Kingdom (UK), regarding his primary concerns. There is a naïveté in the West, a security source laments. In the wake of all this, the Minister of Interior will announce a plan to combat the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/22/2025

At least 26 people, mostly Hindu tourists, were killed today when gunmen opened fire on civilians in Pahalgam’s Baisaran in Jammu and Kashmir. The terrorists reportedly asked their victims about their religious identity before shooting the non-Muslims among them.

In other news, a fire at an artillery ammunition depot east of Moscow caused a series of explosions today, although no injuries were reported.

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Muslim Women: Out of Sight, Out of Mind

The following report by Clare Lopez was published earlier this month by Sharia TipSheet.

Women Under Sharia

Muslim Women: Out of Sight, Out of Mind

by Clare M. Lopez

[Editor’s Note: Quick primer on Islamic dress for women — A ‘niqab’ is the full face covering that leaves only the eyes showing. Other Islamic garments that cover the body from head to toe include the enveloping abaya and the full-body burqa seen on women under Taliban rule in Afghanistan. A hijab covers the head, leaving the face showing. All serve to reinforce the notion women are subservient to men and not worth considering.]

“Drones, informers and apps: Iran intensifies surveillance on women to enforce hijab law” at The Guardian, March 24, 2025

“Activist Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison and 178 Lashes” at Iran Wire, March 19, 2025

  • Originally arrested for not wearing the hijab that is mandatory for women and girls in Iran, additional charges were piled on once she was sentenced.

“Taliban Enforces New Media Restrictions In Kandahar, Bans Women’s Voices On Radio” at Afghanistan International, March 18, 2025

  • Women in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan are being literally disappeared from public life.

“Bombshell in Texas: Retired Police Lieutenant Warns EPIC City Is Phase Two of a Sharia Enclave That’s Operated in Plano for 12 Years While Officials Stayed Silent (Video)” by Amy Mek at RAIR Foundation USA, April 4, 2025

  • One concern is that, not only the currently-existing Islamic Center, but the eventual city itself could seek to impose Islamic Law (sharia) throughout the premises. At the moment, women, for example, are obligated to observe gender segregation and Islamic clothing regulations inside the mosque.
  • [Editor’s Note — The article asserts the enclave:
    • Mandates Sharia-compliant hijab for all girls attending EPIC’s Islamic schools
    • Enforces gender segregation during prayer and events inside its mosque, in full alignment with Islamic legal rulings on male and female separation.
    • Requires women to remain fully Sharia-compliant while inside the mosque, including adherence to rules regarding public speech, seating, dress, and body covering.
    • Lectures women on Sharia hair and grooming laws, including fatwas against plucking eyebrows, perfume use, and dress outside the home.]

A glimmer of hope:

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Renaud Camus and British Misgovernance

The renowned French philosopher Renaud Camus was recently denied entry to the UK, due to his “right-wing conspiracy theories”. This prompted our English correspondent Seneca III to buy Mr. Camus’ book and write the following report.

Renaud Camus and British Misgovernance

by Seneca III

The distinguished French philosopher Renaud Camus (not to be confused with Albert Camus, the 1957 Nobel Laureate in Literature) has been advised in an email by our so well-enriched Home Office that he has been denied the electronic travel authorisation (ETA) needed to enter Britain on the grounds that:

“Your presence in the UK is not considered to be conducive to the public good.”

[How’s that for an irony overdose, considering the depredations of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and Border Force Taxi Services which go out on a daily basis and pick up boat loads of undocumented feral, predatory fighting age men of unknown origin who have illegally entered UK waters (with the help of the French) and bring them back to the UK at Dover from where they are then bussed to government-rented four-star hotels to live a life of indolent luxury at the expense of the British taxpayers?]

Naturally, to me that ignominy was the equivalent of a red rag to a bull, and I went straight onto Amazon and ordered a copy of his book:

Renaud Camus, The Great Replacement. An introduction to Global Replacism

Editions du Chateau. [Dedicated] to the two prophets, Enoch Powell and Jean Raspail.

Meanwhile, Vauban Books, the independent publisher of Camus’ work in English, said: “The decision to bar Renaud Camus from the UK is only further confirmation that that country has abandoned the most basic principles of liberal democracy. Camus is one of our greatest living writers and will be remembered as such by posterity. The Starmer government, by contrast, will be remembered — if it’s remembered at all — only for its serial betrayals and profound mediocrity.”

Game, Set and Match, Vauban. The book itself arrived twenty-four hours later.

First impressions: It is a big book, coming in at 429 pages in 29 sections. In one sense it is not a book in the normal meaning of the word, as the Forward explains. “The Great Replacement is not a very good book. Fact is, it’s hardly a book at all. It is more like a haphazard collection of texts of quite heterogeneous nature and origin: lectures, public speeches, essays, interviews, articles for magazines, exchanges of letters and emails, and even a children’s tale. Since they are all on the same general topic — namely the change of people and civilisation — and were intended for different audiences and readerships at different times — there are many repetitions amongst them.”

However, during a quick scan I came across this rather chilling historic note:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/21/2025

The Vatican announced early this morning that Pope Francis, a.k.a. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, has died. He was 88.

In order to further its commitment to diversity and inclusion, the College of Cardinals is expected to choose a lesbian of color as the next pope, and will issue a plume of pink smoke from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel when the selection has been made.

OK, so I made that last part up, but still…

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A Waqf Call

Last week I wrote about the Grand Mufti of Pakistan, who had just announced a mandatory global jihad to liberate “Palestine” on behalf of the Ummah, the worldwide body of the Islamic faithful.

Now would be a good time to dust off some of my decades-old material about waqf, which is the principle codified in Islamic law on which the Grand Mufti’s call to jihad is based.

According to the time-honored doctrines of Islamic jurisprudence, any plot of ground that has ever been conquered or occupied by Muslims remains the sacred territory of the Ummah in perpetuity. It doesn’t matter what may have occurred later — the Reconquista, the establishment of Israel, the Raj in India — Muslim land is Muslim land forever.

Legally recognized domains of Islam are considered to be held as a waqf, or scared trust, by the entire Ummah. These waqf territories include not only current Muslim-majority nations and previously conquered lands, but also the buildings and grounds of mosques and madrassas, Muslim cemeteries, and even the homes and community buildings where Muslims live and congregate.

Western officials do not realize the significance of opening an official Muslim cemetery within their jurisdiction, but the Muslims do: they know that by doing so they have carved out a little piece of Dar al-Islam within Dar al-Harb, in perpetuity.

This is an important issue that until recently was of no concern in the West. But India is another matter: since most of India was at one time or another conquered territory for Islam, the waqf issue there is very real and urgent. India has Waqf Boards (or councils) charged with overseeing Islamic real estate. Based on waqf principles, the Taj Mahal has been claimed by Muslims as Islamic property.

Last year the Indian government moved to amend the Waqf Act to curb abuses:

The amendments are intended to reduce the arbitrary powers currently wielded by Waqf Boards, which allow them to claim any property as waqf without any mandatory verification.

The WION article provides this useful summary of the way waqf functions under sharia:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/20/2025

Vice President JD Vance met briefly with Pope Francis yesterday during a visit to Italy and the Vatican. The Pope welcomed Mr. Vance to his residence in Casa Santa Marta today before delivering his Easter blessing.

In other news, Hamas told Arab mediators last week that it is willing to enter a long-term truce with Israel during which it would halt all military operations, including the development of weapons and the digging of tunnels.

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It Takes a Mujahid to Exterminate a Village

The following panel discussion featuring Erik Tegnér discusses conspiratorial plans by devotees of the Islamic State to wipe out an entire village in rural France.

Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling.

The translator sends these prefatory notes:

Christine Kelly, the hostess of this interview, was originally from Guadeloupe, one of the French Colonies. She is one of the most beautiful (morally, intellectually and politically) conservative TV hostesses in France, a friend of Éric Zemmour’s. Before his candidacy for the Presidential Elections (during which Marine LePen absolutely betrayed him) he used to be the Literary Commentator on that station, and the dynamic between him and Christine Kelly was compelling.

This CNews TV station is conservative and very good. I am surprised they are still not deplatformed.

The introduction to the video reads:

Erik Tegnér, managing editor of Frontières, was a guest on “Face à l’info” on CNews, alongside Christine Kelly, where he talked about a chilling Islamist plot to wipe out an entire village in Brittany using heavy weapons.

I think it’s worth mentioning that this plot to destroy a French village (like they did in Israel ) would have looked like a copycat of October 7 2023, but it happened BEFORE that …and I am afraid, it will happen again.

I do not know the journalist Tegnér yet, but have a feeling we will yet hear of and from him, unless, of course, he is silenced. His platform Frontières is new. and I don’t know much about it yet, but like it already: seems brave, French, proudly right-wing and against the Islamic gang-rape of France. He reminds me very much of Éric Zemmour before he (Zemmour) entered the political race.

Video transcript:

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The Tomb is Empty

Happy Easter, everyone!

As usual, I’m writing this from the Eyrie, which is on the second floor (or first, if you’re British) here at Schloss Bodissey. It has windows on all four sides, facing the four points of the compass. From where I sit, I’m looking out the north window at a dogwood tree in full bloom. It has been magnificent this year, although it’s a little past its peak now.

According to legend, the dogwood used to be a much larger tree, with a thick, straight, sturdy trunk whose wood was used to make the cross on which Jesus was crucified. As a consequence, God cursed the tree, making it small and twisted so it could never again be used for that purpose. In compensation, He gave it beautiful white blossoms (the white parts are actually bracts, i.e. leaves, rather than petals, but that’s a separate topic) in the shape of a cross, with touches of red at the edges to represent the blood of Christ, and a golden center that resembles the crown of thorns.

Since the dogwood grows only in North America, you can tell this is a peculiarly American legend, and not one that was imported from Europe.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/19/2025

Russian President Vladimir Putin called an Easter truce today in the Ukraine war. However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russian assault operations continued on several frontline sectors, with artillery fire unabated.

In other news, a Hindu leader in Bangladesh’s Dinajpur district was kidnapped and brutally beaten to death.

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Bride of ISIS

This story from the Netherlands concerns a “Dutch” ISIS chick — actually a Somali — who is wanted in the USA. There are two parts to it, both translated by Gary Fouse.

The first portion, from De Telegraaf, is limited by a subscriber block, so it is truncated:

America puts $5 million on the head of Dutch ISIS terrorist, Khadra Essa: One who ordered physical punishment, execution, and murder

by Silvan Schoonhovn
April 18, 2025

The American Ministry for Foreign Affairs [Department of State] Rewards for Justice Program has put a maximum of $5 million on the head of the Dutch ISIS terrorist, Khadra Essa. According to the Department, she played an important role as the main instructor in the female terror battalion, Nusaybah Khatibah.

According to the Department, the Somali-born Dutch national traveled to Syria in 2014, where she joined ISIS. The terror group trained her in the use of weapons, explosives, and suicide operations. She also allegedly recruited new members and called on her fellow believers to carry out suicide attacks, including those abroad. Essa led a group that enforced Islamic law with violence against other women. She allegedly carried out corporal punishment and even gave orders for executions and murder.

The second section is from NOS:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/18/2025

The son of a local sheriff’s deputy has been arrested for a mass shooting at Florida State University yesterday, which killed two people and wounded six others. One of his alleged victims was the son of Ricardo “Monkey” Morales, a shadowy Cuban-American CIA operative and anti-Castro militant in the 1970s.

In other news, Tommy Robinson’s appeal to have his prison sentence reduced was rejected by the British Court of Appeal this week, meaning that he will continue to languish in solitary confinement.

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