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Human Rights Voices     DECEMBER 26, 2014


Turkish school boy who insulted Erdogan

Turkish police have arrested a 16-year-old high school student in the city of Konya on charges of insulting President Tayyip Erdogan, local media reported on Thursday.

The teenager's lawyers have appealed against the prosecution, which came after he read out a statement during a ceremony to commemorate the killing of a Turkish soldier by Islamists in the 1920s.

In a video broadcast by Dogan News Agency, the teenager was shown defending secularism and the principles of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the modern Turkish republic.

He criticised the ruling AK Party government and Mr Erdogan personally over corruption allegations, as a crowd surrounding him chanted "everywhere is bribery, everywhere is corruption".

Mr Erdogan portrayed a high-reaching corruption scandal that was initiated a year ago as a coup attempt orchestrated by his former ally, the US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, to undermine his rule.

The scandal posed one of the biggest challenges to his 11-year-rule, leading three members of his cabinet to quit and drawing international criticism for his response, tightening Internet controls and reassigning police, judges and prosecutors.

The teenager, who is being held in detention, has pleaded not guilty, Dogan News Agency said.

The boy's arrest sparked fierce criticism of Mr Erdogan by opponents.

Atilla Kart, of the main opposition party CHP, said on Twitter that "an environment of fear, oppression and threat" was being created by the presidency.

Turkey's penal code forbids insulting the president. Ahmet Davutoglu, the prime minister, was critical of the teenager and said everyone should respect the post of the presidency.

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By: Y.K. Cherson and Rachel Molschky     (chersonandmolschky.com) DECEMBER 29, 2014

 

“If you can kill a disbelieving American or European – especially the spiteful and filthy French – or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way, however it may be…”

“Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him.”

These were the words of Abu Mohammed al Adnani, the official spokesman and a senior leader of ISIS, as he addressed the terror group’s supporters around the world back in September.

Not once in the message did al Adnani say he was only speaking to official card-carrying ISIS members, but that is exactly what the West expects- especially those “spiteful and filthy French” who experienced three “lone wolf” terror attacks in three days.

On December 19, a new video along the same lines again, emphasized France and commanded Muslims to kill unbelievers and to “Blow up France! Reduce France to crumbs! …Kill them [unbelievers], kill them, no matter where they are, kill them… blow up their heads, be it with a stone, a knife, anything.”

And Muslims took heed with a wave of attacks- in France.

 

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Psychologist Nicolai Sennels has written a report on this very thing.

“Psychopathic people and behaviour are found within all cultures and religions. But one tops them all — by many lengths…”
That would be Islam of course.

Sennels studied both Muslims and non-Muslims in a Danish youth prison and came to the conclusion that “Islam and Muslim culture have certain psychological mechanisms that harm people’s development and increase criminal behaviour.”

While some 70 percent of youth offenders in Denmark have a Muslim background, according to Sennels, the reason for this can be attributed to brainwashing in the Muslim culture as well as the four enabling psychological factors of anger, self-confidence, responsibility for oneself and intolerance, all further discussed in greater detail on Jihad Watch.

But don’t tell this to French authorities who rely on the “mental illness” scapegoat needed to fulfill their obligations to the ever-powerful demand of “political correctness” which dictates their public statements, always an absurd display of dhimmitude.

But these are just words. What are their actions? Before such a sad deterioration in the mental health of French citizens, especially of those who profess Islam, the French government invented a very original medical treatment for “mentally ill” and “unbalanced” persons, adding another 300 anti-terrorist security troops to the already deployed 780 during the Christmas season for a total of 1080 armed and trained security soldiers– to fight “mentally ill” and “unbalanced” individuals?? That’s quite a remedy!

Or maybe members of the French government somewhere deep in their hearts know that this  senselessness they are telling us about “lone wolves” without any ties to Jihad crying “Allahu Akbar” when driving their vehicles into Christians buying gifts for Christmas is just this: senseless politically correct mumbo jumbo?

As O. Henry once wrote, you can defy the allegation, but you can’t deny the alligators.

 

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Illustration: Eric Lobbecke Source: Supplied

ONE swallow doesn’t make a summer, but how many swallows, exactly, do make a summer? Are two, or possibly three, terrorist attacks by Muslims in France in as many days, in three cities, killing one and injuring 27, a statistical blip or a sign of things to come?

In the first, a man aged 20, born in Burundi and a convert to Islam, walked into a police station in a suburb of Tours, drew out a knife and attacked the police, injuring one seriously and two others less seriously, before being shot dead by a fourth. The culprit accompanied his acts by the now familiar declamation, Allahu akbar — God is great.

The next day in Dijon, a man of North African origin aged 40 deliberately drove a car into pedestrians, injuring 14 in five different locations, while shouting Allahu akbar.

And the day after that, in Nantes, a man aged 37 drove a van into a Christmas market in the middle of the city, injuring nine and killing one. According to witnesses he too extolled the greatness of God. He then stabbed himself several times with a knife but failed to kill himself.

Considerable effort in France has gone into denying the significance of the religious exclamation of the perpetrators, for fear no doubt of stirring a primitive or visceral reaction by the French population. Unfortunately, official evasiveness is just as likely in the end to evoke violent rage as would downright incitement to hatred.

The authorities appear now to be constantly walking on the eggshells that — rather than good intentions — pave the road to hell.

The newspaper Liberation headed its report of the first of the episodes with a quote from an acquaintance of the perpetrator: The affair has nothing to do with religion. This was despite the fact that the perpetrator’s brother was a known extremist and he himself had become notably more religious recently, having posted a picture of himself with the flag of Islamic State, which has repeatedly called for Muslims in France to kill whomever they can.

Incidentally, a sentence in Le Monde’s account was very revealing about the social milieu from which the perpetrator emerged: “He was known for petty crimes — robberies, drug-dealing — but had never really drawn attention to himself in the quarter where he lived.” Robberies and drug-dealing are nothing unusual, and therefore unworthy of remark.

The second perpetrator was a man with a long psychiatric history who had been released from hospital only weeks before what I dare say will soon be called his “accident”. The police reported that after his arrest he spoke incoherently of the children of Palestine, Islamic State and so on, his incoherence — a symptom of madness — coming as a relief to those who want to hear or see no evil. It allowed them to dismiss him as an isolated lunatic, such as there have always been and always will be. It did not occur to them that madness and political or religious ­fanaticism are not contradictory or even incompatible.

For now, there is more mystery about the third perpetrator. The prosecutor of Nantes said his attack was an “isolated” event with no terrorist intent. Absurd though this sounds, she might be right. Clusters of unusual events do occur, coming and going without signifying any long-term trend or common origin. Moreover, bizarre or sensational crimes often evoke imitation by the weak-minded. But no one in France is likely to believe this, even if true.

The political class is so wedded to political correctness, which it expresses in language of almost Soviet woodenness, that people are now inclined to assume that it is lying even when it speaks the truth. And since 1200 young French Muslims gone to Syria to kill for Islamic theocracy, which is more fun than working for a living or long-term unemployment in a soulless and soul-destroying HLM (Habitation a Loyer Modere, rent-controlled housing), there are certainly enough Islamists in France to commit three acts of terrorism in quick succession.

At the very time these attacks took place, the writer and journalist Eric Zemmour, a ferocious opponent of what he believes to be the creeping Islamisation of France (with the connivance, willing or unwilling, of the political and intellectual elite), was sacked from the television program on which he had appeared for several years because of an interview he gave to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

Having evoked the dangers of Muslim separatism in France, he was asked whether he thought Muslims could or should be deported from France. He replied: “I know it’s unrealistic but history is surprising.

Who would have said in the 1940s that, 20 years later, a million pieds-noirs (French colonists) would have left Algeria to return to France? Or that, after the war, five or six million Germans would have left central and eastern Europe, where they had lived for centuries?”

While Zemmour (who is of Berber Jewish origin) could claim that he was not actually advocating the kind of violent ethnic cleansing that the pieds-noirs and Germans suffered, his words could certainly be construed as encouraging or at least as wishing it. Nor is it true that his dismissal by the TV station was censorship, as he and many supporters claimed. A man’s right to free speech does not entail the duty of any particular publisher or broadcaster to disseminate his views; and in practice his dismissal has led to more publicity for his views than if he had not been dismissed. Millions of people have now read his interview who would not have read it otherwise.

In France on the one hand there is a cowardly denial that there is any problem; on the other more and more people dream of a radical or even brutal solution to it. I am reminded of the description by the Tsarist minister of justice, Ivan Shcheglovitov, of the situation in Russia in 1915: The paralytics of the government are struggling feebly with the epileptics of the revolution.

Theodore Dalrymple is the author of more than 20 books and a retired prison doctor and psychiatrist.

LETTERS

Wall St Journal   Dec 29, 2014

Tacit Approval for Hamas Terrorism

Hamas practically wrote the handbook for terrorist organizations: suicide bombings, kidnappings, calls for jihad and the eradication of personal freedom for its people.

Many Pakistanis are recognizing that fighting some jihadist groups while supporting others, like the so-called good Taliban, is a terrible strategy (“Pakistan Shows Signs of Shift on Jihadists,” World News, Dec. 20). A zero-tolerance policy will send a clear message to terrorists and will help prevent the deaths of innocents in Pakistan and neighboring countries.

Unfortunately, Europe is sending the opposite message. The European Parliament’s vote to support a Palestinian state, with no expectation that Hamas will stop its terrorist ways or even change its charter, gives tacit approval for Hamas to continue to attack Israelis and harm Palestinians. Similarly, the decision by the European Union’s General Court to remove Hamas from its terrorist list gives a wink and a nod to Hamas, which will continue to fire rockets, confiscate aid, murder dissenters and use child labor to excavate tunnels.

Hamas practically wrote the handbook for terrorist organizations: suicide bombings, kidnappings, calls for jihad and the eradication of personal freedom for its people. The Islamic State, the Taliban and Boko Haram are emulating these tactics. Europe should stop legitimizing terror and join hands with those in the Middle East, Canada, Japan, the U.S. and other countries who are trying to stop the burgeoning devastation caused by terrorist groups around the world.

Lynn C. Koss
Fayetteville, N.Y.Dangers of extremism are being downplayed by political correctness

THEODORE Dalrymple’s article (“Insane approach to Islamist terror”, 29/12) applies to Australia when it comes to denial of reality involving extremists. The dangers are downplayed by “moderate” spokesmen, politically correct sections of the media and politicians who are anxious not to offend multiculturalism. They spin the perpetrators’ actions as having nothing to do with theology and think most Australians will fall for this rewriting to suit a PC agenda.

I don’t care what people believe or don’t believe, and it seems that people of every other faith, or atheist, coexist in tolerance and enjoy the benefits of this country. However, every other day you can bet there will be a report about people attacking and insulting our democracy and culture.

We are regularly warned to be cautious and alert to the dangers of terrorism, and we know the threats to our country are not coming from Buddhists or Baptists. Yet, in a misguided tolerance, many who should be defending our values are only too eager to bend over to appease.

John-Michael Howson, Cheltenham, Vic

TERRY Coupland (Letters, 30/12) suggests reasons for the silence of Western feminists in response to the enslavement of women and girls by Islamic State. While his reasoning is right, I suggest most progressives are people who adopt ideologies as alternatives to thinking for themselves.

When a situation such as this demands a response, they have to react according to their feminist, anti-racist, non-judgmental principles. But, because each one rules out the other, they can’t decide which one to choose. So, hamstrung by political correctness, they opt for silence.

Oskar Hauser, Wamberal, NSW

 

IT appears that the ostrich mentality is occurring overseas as well as here. Those with their heads in the sand hold the view that Islamist terrorism is the work of a few disaffected, mentally unstable individuals.

The reality is that elements within the Islamic diaspora have declared war on the West and everything we stand for. They are organised, they have trained soldiers with a clear goal, they have intelligence networks and communication protocols and make use of modern technology — all the tools of a modern army. We ignore reality at our peril.

Iain Rae, River Heads, Qld

WE are informed that in Syria, Muslim children are being taught to kill other children by cutting their heads off — which they are doing. We in Australia are allowing people of the same culture to enter our country. Surely our immigration laws should be amended to prevent the entry of such people. As their numbers grow, how long will it be before similar crimes start happening here?

For many years we have allowed migrants to enter the country and most of them have adjusted to become good citizens. It is vital that we review our immigration laws.

Peter Keogh, Bokarina, Qld