Fundamentalismo islâmico ataca na Guiné-Bissau

 

"HÁ O RISCO DE A GUINÉ-BISSAU CAIR NAS GARRAS DO EXTREMISMO RELIGIOSO"

A cerimónia foi realizada por membros do 𝐃𝐡𝐚𝐰𝐚 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐚 𝐝𝐨 𝐏𝐨𝐯𝐨 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, na ocasião, o presidente da fundação 𝐌𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 afirmou que “𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒃𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒛𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒂 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒎 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑰𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒄 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒈𝒆”, até ele sublinhou que vão construir a mesquita, poços de água, também monitorizar a alimentação e contribuir para garantir que homens e mulheres tenham fundos de sustentabilidade em nome de Alá. . . .

Na quarta-feira, 24 de janeiro, o presidente da Sociedade de História e Genealogia Balanta B’urassa na América, Siphiwe Baleka, participou na conferência de imprensa do Coletivo NÔ RAIZ para expressar solidariedade em nome dos cerca de 30.000 descendentes Balanta nos Estados Unidos.

“Aplaudimos a forte posição do Coletivo contra a supremacia religiosa, a limpeza religiosa e o terrorismo que está sendo levado a cabo contra o povo Balanta na aldeia de Tinka. Isto equivale a terrorismo e é uma violação dos direitos humanos e do direito internacional. A Sociedade Balanta na América está ao seu lado na oposição a este mal e usaremos as nossas redes para atrair a atenção internacional”, disse.

Estaremos a assistir à islamização da Guiné-Bissau? Mohamed Gomes, a Fundação Dhawa Barriga do Povo e o Presidente Embaló fazem parte de algum complô? De acordo com uma entrevista de 10 de dezembro de 2022 à Ajuda à Igreja que Sofre (AIS), Casimiro Cajucam alertou sobre o facto.

"HÁ O RISCO DE A GUINÉ-BISSAU CAIR NAS GARRAS DO EXTREMISMO RELIGIOSO. HÁ PESSOAS NAS ALDEIAS, CRISTÃOS E NÃO-CRISTÃOS, QUE SÃO FINANCIADOS PARA SE CONVERTEREM AO ISLÃ. ESTAMOS ENFRENTANDO ESSA AMEAÇA", DIZ CASIMIRO CAJUCAM...'HÁ POLÍTICOS QUE ESTÃO TENTANDO DE TUDO PARA TRANSFORMAR A GUINÉ-BISSAU, TIRÁ-LA DE UM ESTADO SECULAR PARA COLOCÁ-LA COMO ESTADO ISLÂMICO. EXISTE ESSA TENDÊNCIA E ISSO É UMA AMEAÇA."

O Diretor da rádio Sol Mansi fala de um 'ensaio' para um ataque terrorista quando se refere aos incidentes na igreja de Gabu (2022), acrescentando: "O que aconteceu na paróquia de Gabu, para muitos, é o primeiro ensaio para um ataque terrorista. Isso nunca aconteceu antes.

António Aly Silva (FONTE: BALANTA.ORG)
quinta-feira, 25 de janeiro de 2024
 

Up to three daily servings of kimchi may lower men's obesity risk

 

Eating up to three daily servings of the Korean classic, kimchi, may lower men's overall risk of obesity, while radish kimchi is linked to a lower prevalence of midriff bulge in both sexes, finds research published in the open access journal BMJ Open.

Kimchi is made by salting and fermenting vegetables with various flavorings and seasonings, such as onion, garlic, and fish sauce. Cabbage and radish are usually the main vegetables used in kimchi, which contains few calories and is rich in dietary fiber, microbiome-enhancing lactic acid bacteria, vitamins, and polyphenols.

Previously published experimental studies have shown that Lactobacillus brevis and L. plantarum isolated from kimchi had an anti-obesity effect. And the researchers wanted to know if regular consumption might be associated with a reduction in the risk of overall and/or abdominal obesity, which is considered to be particularly harmful to health.

They drew on data from 115,726 participants (36,756 men; 78,970 women; average age 51) taking part in the Health Examinees (HEXA) study. HEXA is a large, community-based long-term study of the larger Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study, designed to examine environmental and genetic risk factors for common long-term conditions among Korean adults over the age of 40.

Dietary intake for the previous year was assessed using a validated 106-item food frequency questionnaire for which participants were asked to state how often they ate a serving of each foodstuff, from never or seldom, up to three times a day.

Total kimchi included baechu (cabbage kimchi); kkakdugi (radish kimchi); nabak and dongchimi (watery kimchi); and others, such as mustard greens kimchi. A portion of baechu or kkahdugi kimchi is 50 g, while a portion of nabak or dongchimi kimchi is 95 g.
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Two studies unveil key insights into long COVID

 

Health care providers are learning critical new information to help improve care for patients with long COVID, thanks to a pair of recent studies out of the Post-COVID-19 Program at UT Health Austin, the clinical practice of Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. Over the past several months, UT researchers have edged closer to defining the pattern of symptoms it generates and how it affects patients, as well as developing methods to differentiate patients suffering from long COVID versus other conditions.

While consensus around the clinical definition is evolving, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) defines long COVID as symptoms and conditions of COVID-19 that linger for weeks, months or even years after a person's initial infection. Even people who had no symptoms when they were infected can develop symptoms later.

"These research efforts are instrumental for both clinicians and health systems in grasping the complexities of long COVID, and as part of providing the highest possible care for patients," said W. Michael Brode, M.D., medical director of the Post-COVID-19 Program.

Brode highlighted that long COVID, which occurs in approximately 10% of COVID-19 cases, remains a challenge.

by University of Texas at Austin 

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Switching to vegan or ketogenic diet rapidly impacts immune system, study shows

 

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health observed rapid and distinct immune system changes in a small study of people who switched to a vegan or a ketogenic (also called keto) diet. Scientists closely monitored various biological responses of people sequentially eating vegan and keto diets for two weeks, in random order.

They found that the vegan diet prompted responses linked to innate immunity—the body's non-specific first line of defense against pathogens—while the keto diet prompted responses associated with adaptive immunity—pathogen-specific immunity built through exposures in daily life and vaccination.

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Sun Tzu, general, estratega e filósofo chinês, autor de "A Arte da Guerra" (I)

 

 All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. 

Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. If he is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

Ainda há gente assim, graças a Deus!

Artur Teixeira, presidente da Junta de Freguesia de Boelhe, Penafiel, hipotecou a própria casa para construir um pequeno centro de saúde onde um médico reformado, o Dr. Almiro Mateus, dá consultas gratuitas (notícia da CM TV). Palavras para quê?

Sun Tzu, general, estratega e filósofo chinês, autor de "A Arte da Guerra"

 

“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”

Gatestone Institute: A Hundred Days after Gaza's October 7 attack

 

    Sir William Shawcross's much delayed and now recent report on "Prevent" - the British Government anti-radicalisation programme - which has documented the failure of efforts at integration and the degree of risk residing within Muslim extremism has secured this disturbing knowledge its place on the public record.

    In a climate of Israelophobia, where moral compasses go haywire, Hamas is not being held to account. Under the guise of "human interest", the BBC repeatedly broadcasts prurient details of injuries to individual children in Gaza. Why? It is designed to shock and anger the listener and to demonize Israel; and it leaves those implications unspoken, hence deniable.

    Predictably, the BBC has presented international law as superior to national law and the International Court of Justice as a higher court than any national court. Neither is true. The former Director of BBC Television asks, "When do individual errors add up to something more? When do 'mistakes' become a clear pattern of institutional bias? These are questions the BBC must answer when it comes to its reporting of Israel's conflict with the terrorist group Hamas." He then lists nine other cases of gross error since 7/10 where the bias has been always the same, namely anti-Israel. "...Is the BBC just unlucky that this keeps happening? The answer is no."

    Hamas has nowhere to hide under Geneva 4. Its crimes are war crimes of the highest order. The ICJ's interim ruling is vexatious and, while unable to make an objective finding, tarnishes that Court by implying that Israel might in the future commit "genocide" when there is neither evidence of intention nor a community which meets the criteria to be victims of genocide. The same day as its ruling, evidence arrived that UNRWA on which in part it had relied had itself now been discredited by evidence of its operatives' involvement in 7/10. This is the latest form of Holocaust denial.

    It is a matter of moral and legal judgment about how a country with high moral standards wages war against a terrorist enemy that has none. The framework for such an assessment has not been satisfactorily spelled out.

64,000 Pregnancies Caused by Rape Have Occurred in States with a Total Abortion Ban, New Study Estimates

 

Researchers calculated the number of pregnancies resulting from rape in states where abortion was banned throughout pregnancy after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision. After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in 2022, total abortion bans went into effect in 14 states. Nine of these have no exceptions for rape. Now researchers have attempted to quantify the number of pregnancies that have resulted from rapes in states with a total ban—and the numbers they came up with are staggering.

A new study estimates that more than 64,000 pregnancies resulted from rape between July 1, 2022, and January 1, 2024, in states where abortion has been banned throughout pregnancy in all or most cases. Of these, just more than 5,500 are estimated to have occurred in states with rape exceptions—and nearly 59,000 are estimated for states without exceptions. The authors calculate that more than 26,000 rape-caused pregnancies may have taken place in Texas alone. The findings were published on Wednesday in JAMA Internal Medicine.

“Highly stigmatized life events are hard to measure. And many survivors of sexual violence do not want to disclose that they went through this incredibly stigmatizing traumatic life event,” says Samuel Dickman, chief medical officer at Planned Parenthood of Montana, who led the study. “We will never know the true number of survivors of rape and sexual assault in the U.S.”
The researchers obtained their findings by combining data from multiple sources. Because state-level data weren’t available, the team analyzed national data from a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey on intimate partner sexual violence from 2016 to 2017. The researchers also used a Bureau of Justice Statistics survey on criminal victimization. Putting these together, they determined the number of completed vaginal rapes among girls and women of reproductive age—defined as between the ages of 15 and 45 (although some even younger girls and older women are also capable of pregnancy).

The authors generated state-level rape estimates by partitioning the national data according to state-level information from FBI crime reports, which included rapes that were reported to police in 2019. (A high percentage of rapes are never reported to authorities, but the CDC survey attempted to correct for this.) The researchers then calculated the number of state-level rapes that were likely to result in a pregnancy, controlling for the number of months that a total abortion ban was in effect.

The findings suggest that thousands of people who were raped became pregnant in states where abortion was banned. Even in states with exceptions for rape, very few people got an abortion—likely because of fear and intimidation, Dickman speculates. Some pregnant people in states with bans may have traveled out of state to obtain an abortion legally, but some would have needed to travel hundreds of miles—a journey that is impractical or impossible for many people.

The authors acknowledge that their study has some limitations. Their numbers are based on rape data from national surveys that they extrapolated to the state level, based on rates of reported rapes, and the study assumes that these reporting rates are similar among states. Accurate data on rapes and sexual assaults are always hard to obtain because stigma prevents many people from reporting them. As noted, the CDC survey attempted to account for this underreporting in its data, but other sources suggest the rates of rape and sexual assault may be higher or lower, Dickman says.

“The study demonstrates there are a lot of pregnancies that occur after rapes in states where there are abortion bans,” says Amanda Stevenson, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder, who studies abortion and family planning policy but was not involved in the work. Stevenson acknowledges that the authors had to make a lot of assumptions to arrive at their estimates. These assumptions are necessary, however, given the inherent uncertainty around data on rape and conception rates, she adds. “The precise estimate is much less important to me ... than the fact that the number is large,” Stevenson says.

Tanya Lewis is a senior editor covering health and medicine at Scientific American.

Bacteria Make Decisions Based on Generational Memories

 

Bacteria choose to swarm based on what happened to their great-grandparents

Even organisms without brains can remember their past: Scientists found that Escherichia coli bacteria form their own kind of memories of exposure to nutrients. They pass these memories down to future generations, which can help them evade antibiotics, the research team reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

“We typically think of microbes as single-celled organisms [that each] do their own thing,” says Dartmouth College microbiologist George O'Toole, who studies bacterial structures called biofilms. In reality, bacteria frequently survive by working together. Much like honeybees relocating their hive, colonies of bacteria in search of permanent homes will often travel as collective units called swarms.

These swarms can better withstand antibiotic exposure because of their high cell density, making them of particular interest to microbiologists such as Souvik Bhattacharyya of the University of Texas at Austin. He was studying swarming behavior in E. coli when he observed what he calls “weird colony patterns” he had never seen before. By isolating individual bacteria, he and his colleagues discovered that the cells were behaving differently based on their past experience. Bacteria cells in colonies that had previously swarmed were more prone to swarm again than those that hadn't, and their offspring followed suit for at least four generations—about two hours.

By tweaking the E. coli genome, the scientists found that underlying this ability were two genes that together control the uptake and regulation of iron. Cells with low levels of this important bacterial nutrient seemed predisposed to form mobile swarms. The researchers suspect these swarms could then seek out new locations with ideal iron levels, Bhattacharyya says.

Past research has shown that some bacteria can remember and pass to their offspring details of their physical environment, such as the existence of a stable surface, O'Toole says, but this study suggests that bacteria can also remember nutrients' presence. Bacteria, some of which reproduce multiple times per hour, use these details to determine the longer-term suitability of a location and may even settle together in biofilms, which are more permanent.

Microbes other than E. coli probably remember iron exposure, too, O'Toole says. “I would be really shocked if [these results] didn't hold up in other bugs as well.” He hopes that future research examines on a cellular level how bacteria translate iron detection into different behaviors.

Because bacteria are tougher to kill when they form larger structures, understanding why they do so might eventually lead to new approaches for addressing stubborn infections. This research provides an opportunity to develop new infection-fighting treatments, O'Toole says—especially crucial as antibiotics become less and less effective at killing these microbes.

Allison Parshall is a contributing news editor at Scientific American who often covers biology, health, technology and physics. 

Something is wrong on the internet

 

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Someone or something or some combination of people and things is using YouTube to systematically frighten, traumatise, and abuse children, automatically and at scale, and it forces me to question my own beliefs about the internet, at every level. Much of what I am going to describe next has been covered elsewhere, although none of the mainstream coverage I’ve seen has really grasped the implications of what seems to be occurring.
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And right now, right here, YouTube and Google are complicit in that system. The architecture they have built to extract the maximum revenue from online video is being hacked by persons unknown to abuse children, perhaps not even deliberately, but at a massive scale. 

I believe they have an absolute responsibility to deal with this, just as they have a responsibility to deal with the radicalisation of (mostly) young (mostly) men via extremist videos — of any political persuasion. They have so far showed absolutely no inclination to do this, which is in itself despicable. However, a huge part of my troubled response to this issue is that I have no idea how they can respond without shutting down the service itself, and most systems which resemble it. 

We have built a world which operates at scale, where human oversight is simply impossible, and no manner of inhuman oversight will counter most of the examples I’ve used in this essay. The asides I’ve kept in parentheses throughout, if expanded upon, would allow one with minimal effort to rewrite everything I’ve said, with very little effort, to be not about child abuse, but about white nationalism, about violent religious ideologies, about fake news, about climate denialism, about 9/11 conspiracies.
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I’m James Bridle. I’m a writer and artist concerned with technology and culture. I usually write on my own blog, but frankly I don’t want what I’m talking about here anywhere near my own site

Mais um amigo que partiu...

 

"Ainda que eu ande pelo vale da sombra da morte, não temerei mal algum, porque Tu estás comigo" - (Salmo 23:4) Que descanse em paz, meu grande amigo Jorge Neves. Já só somos dois...

Massacre do Dia de São Bartolomeu e a memória do povo

 

Na noite de 23 para 24 de Agosto de 1572, um massacre de huguenotes (como eram conhecidos os protestantes na França) começou em Paris. O evento desencadeou um verão de horror em inúmeras cidades francesas. Dez mil protestantes foram mortos num período muito curto. A minha avó paterna, uma camponesa analfabeta que vivia numa pequena aldeia da Beira Alta, costumava dizer que nunca teria sorte na vida, porque tinha nascido na noite em que Diabo saiu à rua...

 

Nome de uma rua de Macau...

 

What's behind the Netherlands' turn to the far-right?

Euronews International Correspondent Valérie Gauriat speaks with voters in the Netherlands to understand how the far-right PVV party secured a victory in the 2023 parliamentary elections.
Geert Wilders, an anti-Islam firebrand and the leader of the Dutch People's Party for Freedom (PVV) came first in last November's parliamentary elections with 23 per cent of the vote.
The champion of national preference gained unprecedented support in a climate of deep economic and social crisis, which many blame on the outgoing Rutte-led government.This episode of Witness takes us to the economic hub of Rotterdam, the second-biggest city in the Netherlands, and one of the places where the populist leader scored the highest.
Voters across the Netherlands have veered far to the right politically. The shift has been triggered by economic and cultural anxieties that have whipped up fears about immigrants. It's an extreme example of a trend being felt across the continent that could tilt the outcome of this year's European Union parliamentary election.
“Everything [has] become more and more expensive. Everything is just really taken away from you. And people are just afraid. We want to hear about something other than poverty and budget cuts. And if he [Wilders] thinks he can make things right, then it’s fine by me”, explained shopowner Rashma. Inflation, and in particular, the rising cost of food and energy prices, is hitting hard.
“Poverty is really a growing problem, even among working people,” said John, whose small charity collects food and necessities to be delivered to deprived families in a working-class neighbourhood in Rotterdam. Caroline, one of his beneficiaries and a single mother of four told Euronews that she couldn’t cope without his help. She is one of the many people now counting on Wilders to pull the country out of recession.
She claimed his anti-immigration stance is part of the solution: "He is going to change a lot. The country is already full. The Dutch people want to help everybody, but first, they need to help their own country. This country is all misery!” Wilders must still secure the support of other parties to form a coalition government.
Known for his Islamophobic, Eurosceptic and climate sceptic rhetoric, he has had to soften his narrative, and scrap plans to ban mosques, the Koran, Islamic schools, and the wearing of the burqa and niqab in the Netherlands. Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, a former asylum-seeker, took over from former prime minister Mark Rutte as the leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) in August 2023.
Yeşilgöz-Zegerius is now in talks with Wilders and two other party leaders about the contours of a new coalition. Nevertheless, the Muslim community in the Netherlands are still concerned for their future, said the Imam of the Essalam mosque in Rotterdam, one of the largest in Europe.
“Since the elections, violence, discrimination and the exclusion of Muslims here in the Netherlands have increased drastically,” he said.  “Now we see people who wonder if they are still welcome here, and are thinking of leaving [the Netherlands] to countries where their children can grow up in a healthy environment”.

Remembering...

 

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

Martin Niemöller

The End of the Subscription Era is Coming

 

Um artigo interessante, de um blogger norte-americano, num momento em que pelo menos dois dos três grandes grupos de Media, em Portugal, estão à beira da falência: a Global Media e o grupo SIC.

I’m not just talking about streaming platforms, which have been biting the wallet for years, or newspapers and magazines, which have simply migrated their long-term models to a new digital era. No, I’m talking about everything. Beer, insurance, cinema: just three of the crazy subscriptions that I’ve currently taken out.
This move stems, obviously, from the collapse of digital advertising and the decline of the high-street. These are two related trends, which have had an enormous impact on the way that product purchasing works. 

Media enterprises — whether that’s Netflix or the New York Times — cannot rely on advertising revenue to underwrite their costs, and, similarly, the rise of online retail has made the expense of doing IRL business prohibitive. And so, rather than going to a local bottle shop for my craft beers, I have them sent to me once a month. And where product is not available on subscription, those businesses use subscriptions to incentivise loyalty: just look at ASOS Premier, which puts the fast in fast fashion.
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I’ve got this far in the piece without even mentioning the cost-of-living crisis and the commensurate reduction in households’ discretionary spending. How much are you spending now on eating out, compared to pre-pandemic levels? How much are you spending on wine? How much are you spending on toilet roll? How much are you spending on perfume? How much are you spending on dog food? How much are you spending on newspapers? How much are you spending on porn? If the answers to any of those questions is anything other than “less”, well done you (and please take out a paid subscription to my newsletter).
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Nick Hilton - Aug 30, 2023 (Medium Daily Digest)

Portugal Fighting Back Against Rising Tide of Cocaine

 

Portugal has seized records amount of cocaine from South America in recent months, underscoring how the country is regaining its place as a significant drug entry point and transit hub.

From January to mid-August 2022, Portugal has intercepted over 14 tons of cocaine, with a street value of around 700 million euros, according to an interview by newspaper Diario de Noticias with Artur Vaz, head of Portugal’s National Unit for the Fight Against Drug Trafficking (Unidade Nacional de Combate ao Tráfico de Estupefacientes).

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From 2018 to 2020, Portugal was either in fifth or sixth place in Europe in terms of cocaine seizures. And 12.5 tons of cocaine were already seized from January to June 2022. That is an increase of over 20 percent from the total amount seized in 2021.

Organized crime in Portugal

Portugal became a destination for several thousand emigrants from diverse locations around the globe (particularly Eastern Europe, Brazil and the former Portuguese territories in Africa - the PALOP countries). With the development and modernisation of the economy within the globalisation process, corporate crime, financial crime, and corruption are increasingly important issues.[16]
According to the World Economic Forum's 2019 Global Competitiveness Report, Portugal ranked 9th best out of 141 countries for level of costs imposed on businesses by organised crime.[17] According to the 2021 Global Organized Crime Index, Portugal received a score of 4.55 for criminality, and 6.46 for resilience, ranking 117th, and 29th out of 193 countries globally, 24th, and 21st out of 44 countries in Europe, and 5th, and 2nd out of 8 countries in Southern Europe.[18]
The Galician clans, particularly the Los Charlines clan, have been major players in illicit drug trafficking, primarily involved in smuggling cocaine and hashish from Colombia and Morocco into Portugal via sea routes since the 1970s.[19][20]
Various groups of the Italian Mafia have been known to be active throughout Portugal since at least the 1980s. The Camorra is known to be active in Porto where it is involved in the business of fake designer fashion merchandise. Calabrian organised crime group 'Ndrangheta has been involved in drug trafficking, as well as money laundering specifically through the tourism sector.[21]
Organised crime groups from former Soviet states have been increasingly active in the Iberian Peninsula since the 1990s, especially after the fall of the USSR.[22] In 2016, members of a Russian criminal gang led by Alexander Tolstikov, with ties to the Russian mafia, were caught running a money laundering operation using the Portuguese football club U.D. Leiria.[23][24] By 2019, members of the Georgian mafia had committed over 370 burglaries throughout Portugal.[25] 

In 2021, two members of the Montenegrin Kavač clan, which is responsible for money laundering, extortion, and smuggling cocaine from South America into Europe, were arrested in Portugal after living and operating discreetly in the country for nearly one year.[26]
Since the 2000s, Mexican drug cartels including Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán's Sinaloa Cartel, Los Zetas, and the Gulf Cartel, have been establishing their presence in Portugal. Of these three, the Sinaloa cartel has evolved to become the one with the most dominant presence in the country, where it is involved in drug trafficking and money laundering. The group's primary modus operandi is smuggling cocaine of Colombian origin into Portugal, with the aid of corrupt officials and businessmen; The smuggling operation is overseen by Joaquín Guzmán's two sons Iván Archivaldo, and Jesús Alfredo. 

Once in Portugal, only a small amount of the smuggled cocaine remains in the country; The majority is transferred to partners with whom the Sinaloa Cartel has alliances, including Portuguese, Brazilian and Russian drug traffickers, who then distribute the drugs throughout the rest of Europe to command higher prices.[20]
In the 2010s the presence of Brazilian organised crime group First Capital Command (abbreviation "PCC"; Portuguese; Primeiro Comando da Capital) in Portugal was confirmed for the first time by Portuguese authorities.[27][28] A federal report by the Brazilian government revealed that there were at least 43 members of the group involved in drug trafficking known to be operating in Portugal, the highest number of any country in Europe.[29] First Capital Command has had a working relationship with 'Ndrangheta since the 1980s to export drugs from Brazil to Europe, where 'Ndrangheta then takes over trafficking and distribution operations throughout the continent.[30]

Praising Hitler

“Are Jews endowed with humanity?”

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“The Jews hates everyone who is not Jew (…) Jews are enemies of all those who are not, and seek to do them all possible harm. Maybe that was the reason why Hitler wanted to annihilate these damned people.” These quotes were taken from an article published in February 1988 in the Portuguese Islamic magazine Al-Furqán, edited by Yiossuf Adamgy. The author of the article, Aminuddin Mohamad, is a former spiritual adviser of the Portuguese Islamic Community of Lisbon (CIL). At the time, Mr. Karim Abdool Vakil was the president of CIL.