Migrants and Crime in Sweden in the Twenty-First Century

(...) As a result of the hegemony of multiculturalism and diversity in Sweden since the 1990s, we have accepted very large immigration, especially from the Middle East and Africa. During the refugee crisis of 2015 only, Sweden received 163,000 migrants. As a result of an expected immigration of relatives - often labeled “family unification”, the figures might rise to over 2 million individuals.
Migration, we are told, is beneficial for Sweden. But if this is so, it would also show in crime statistics. According to the present investigation, the first more comprehensive study since the 2005 report by the Swedish Crime Prevention Agency, this is, however, not the case. In 2017, 58% among those suspected for crime on reasonable grounds are migrants. Regarding murder and manslaughter, the corresponsing figures are 73%. These figures are interesting out of purely scientific reasons. Due to migration, murder rate in Sweden has quadrupled.
(...) In 2018, Uppdrag Granskning, a TV-program broadcasted on Swedish state television, surveyed every individual registered for rape or attempted rape between 2012 and 2017. 58% were foreign-born. Among the remaining 42% born in Sweden, some had a migrant background as children to foreign-born, but their exact proportion was not presented. Among those registered for attempted, and completed sexual assault, where victim and criminal were strangers, a good 80% were foreign-born.
Another survey conducted in 2018 by the newspaper Aftonbladet studied 112 individuals registered for group rape (at least two offenders) since 2012. Among them, 73% were foreign-born. In case those born in Sweden with two migrant parents were added, 88% were foreign-born.
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This Muslim Israeli Woman Is the Hope of the Middle East

Lucy Aharish is one of the most prominent television broadcasters in Israel. But that’s not the thing that makes her exceptional. The thing that makes Lucy stand out is that she is the first Arab Muslim news presenter on mainstream, Hebrew-language Israeli television.
Born and raised in a small Jewish town in Israel’s Negev desert as one of the only Arab Muslim families there, Lucy often says that she sees herself as sitting on a fence. By that she doesn’t mean she’s unwilling to take a side—as you’ll see, she is a woman of strong convictions, bravery, and moral backbone. What she means is that she has a unique lens through which to view the divisions in Israeli society, the complexity of the country’s national identity, and the Middle East more generally.
That complexity was on display in 2018 when Lucy’s marriage to a Jewish Israeli actor (Tsahi Halevi of Fauda fame) sparked a nasty backlash from the country’s religious far-right.
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Japan was already grappling with isolation and loneliness. The pandemic made it worse

 

Across Japan, nearly 1.5 million people have withdrawn from society, leading reclusive lives largely confined within the walls of their home, according to a new government survey.
These are Japan’s hikikomori, or shut-ins, defined by the government as people who have been isolated for at least six months. Some only go out to buy groceries or for occasional activities, while others don’t even leave their bedrooms.
The phrase was coined as early as the 1980s, and authorities have expressed increasing concern about the issue for the past decade – but Covid-19 has made things worse, according to a survey conducted last November by the government’s Children and Families Agency.
The nationwide survey found that among 12,249 respondents, roughly 2% of people aged 15 to 64 identified as hikikomori, with a slight increase among those aged 15 to 39. With that percentage applied to Japan’s total population, there are an estimated 1.46 million social recluses in the country, according to a spokesperson from the agency.
Common reasons cited for social isolation were pregnancy, job loss, illness, retirement and having poor interpersonal relationships – but a top reason was Covid-19, with more than a fifth of respondents citing the pandemic as a significant factor in their reclusive lifestyle.
No further details were given about the impact of Covid-19 on respondents.
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Michigan Muslims Take Biden Hostage to Save Hamas

Hamas may be losing in Gaza, but it's winning in Michigan. They demonstrated that their only loyalty was to Islam and Muslim terrorists, not America or even the Democrats who brought them here, nurtured them and funded them. At a recent speech, US Rep. Ilhan Omar, speaking in her native language, hailed Somalis as "people of one blood" and "people who know they are Somalians first".

Democrats are learning the hard way that their new Muslim constituency has no loyalties or allegiances to anything except, as Omar put it, "people of one blood" and, as has been made clear in Dearborn, people of the same religion. And the issue goes far beyond Israel.

The emerging narrative is that the Democrats aren't turning out voters because the party hasn't come out strongly enough in support of Hamas and against Israel. If the Democrats lose in 2024, that narrative will solidify and future Democratic Party presidential candidates will be warned to support Islamic terrorism and oppose those like Israel who resist it, or lose

A handful of Muslim settlers in Michigan built up their state within a state, they've taken the Democratic Party hostage and now intend to take the United States of America hostage. While Israeli commandos rescued a 70-year-old man and 60-year-old man who were being held hostage in Gaza, Hamas supporters in America were taking an 81-year-old man hostage in D.C.

Hamas may be losing in Gaza, but it's winning in Michigan. US Rep. Rashida Tlaib is now the latest Michigan Muslim terror activist to urge Hamas supporters in the state to reject Biden in the primary by casting an "uncommitted" vote. According to Tlaib, who became the only member of Congress to refuse to vote to condemn Hamas rapes of Jewish women, her goal is to "create a voting bloc" to stop Israel's campaign to take down the Islamic terror group.
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Gatestone Institute
by Daniel Greenfield
February 26, 2024

Mariana Mortágua: "Por cada euro que um imigrante recebe em Portugal, paga sete à Segurança Social"

 

Polígrafo SIC: Os imigrantes vêm para Portugal para ficarem endividados, pagando mais à Segurança Social do que aquilo que recebem:

"O tema da imigração foi um dos que mereceu maior destaque, na noite desta terça-feira, no debate entre André Ventura e Mariana Mortágua, na RTP3. Desta vez, a líder bloquista recorreu a números recentes divulgados pelo Observatório das Migrações para destacar que os imigrantes contribuíram com “1.800 milhões” de euros para a Segurança Social no último ano de que há registo. Confirma-se?"
"Num frente-a-frente com André Ventura, a dirigente do Bloco de Esquerda, Mariana Mortágua, realçou as diferenças entre o seu partido e o Chega em matérias de política de imigração. Até porque, sublinhou, atualmente existem “imigrantes em Portugal porque há necessidade de trabalho imigrante em Portugal."

"Na perspetiva da bloquista, a “política que o Chega defende para a imigração significa o caos em Portugal” – nomeadamente em setores como a “agricultura”, as “pescas”, os “lares” ou a “construção”. Porém, “há uma coisa mais perversa nesta proposta” do partido liderado por André Ventura, que pretende estabelecer “quotas anuais para a imigração assentes nas qualificações” destas pessoas, entre outros fatores, segundo se pode ler no seu mais recente programa eleitoral."

"E concluiu o seu raciocínio: “É que não é só o caos na economia, é o caos na Segurança Social. Porque, neste momento, por cada euro que um imigrante recebe em Portugal, paga sete à Segurança Social. O que quer dizer que os imigrantes estão a pagar as pensões dos idosos em Portugal: 1.800 milhões de contribuições.”
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"Com base nos valores apresentados neste relatório, confirma-se que, em proporção, por cada euro que um imigrante receba da Segurança Social em prestações sociais, paga, em contribuições para a mesma, cerca de 7,25 euros. Precisamente como afirmou a dirigente bloquista."

Ou seja, os imigrantes vêm para Portugal para se endividarem até ao pescoço...

What are the unknown facts about the Great Chinese Famine?

Since the dawn of the human civilization, the world has witnessed many disastrous famines but the Chinese famine that took place in 1959 and ended in 1961 bears a different mysterious story behind it. From humans turning into deadly cannibals by eating their own children and children eating the flesh of their own parents, this horrifying femine's story ended up being just limited to children's horror tales.
Let's unveil the unknown facts behind this catastrophic period which took lives of millions but the truth is still dwindling among the theories speculated by many.
Some theories say that the greatest Chinese famine was due to the natural disasters while some say it was man-made. But the fact is that it was neither natural nor man- made rather it was political, Born of totalitarianism which is considered to be the major reason of the famine. The blame squarely points on China's leadership.
The situation was such that people were treated more in ways where they were merely numbers in a sheet rather than people. We know, famine simply means scarcity of food supply because of various natural or manmade reasons which results in death due to starvation but this was entirely a different scenario where the term “mass murder” fits more than famine.
Humans stooped down to the level of animals. The scarcity of the food made them so desperate that they started digging the ground and eating the soil, insects and whatever was found. The barks from the tress, leaves and even flowers were consumed. The situation slowly turned so worse that it didn't take time for humans to turn into cannibals and consume their own children. Also, the cannibalism was due to the class differences and people expressing their hatred towards the upper classes.
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"Killed Civilians, Raped Girls and Looted Homes": The Persecution of Christians, January 2024

 

[T]he cause of her death remains uncertain," says the report by the British Asian Christian Association. This tragedy is not new to Pakistan.... many Christian girls and boys have been abducted in a similar manner and later found raped and murdered. — January 9, 2024, Pakistan.
"Islamic extremists or extremists within the Rapid Support Forces may be behind the incident.... These incidents create additional tension for the Christians in this area and bring back painful memories of the persecution they have faced for 30 years under former President Omar Al-Bashir." — Open Doors, January 24, 2024, Sudan.
The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of January 2024.

The Slaughter of Christians

Nigeria: A few January headlines from the ongoing jihadist-genocide of Christians in the African nation follow:

Jan. 8: "Terrorists Slaughter 41 Christians in Kaduna State, Nigeria"
Jan. 24: "At Least 31 Christians Slaughtered in Central Nigeria"
Jan. 11: "Islamic Extremists Kill 15 Christians in Northeast Nigeria"
Jan. 5: "Boko Haram Terrorists Attack Yobe Community, Kill Pastor, 13 Others; Burn Church, Houses, Cars"
Jan. 16: "Terrorists Kill 10 Christians in Central Nigeria"
Jan. 25: "Terrorists Kill Five Christians in Central Nigeria"
Jan. 18: "Pastor, Three Other Christians Kidnapped in Central Nigeria"
 Jan. 9: "Christians Remain Captive in Nigeria Despite Ransom Payment"

Turkey: On Sunday, Jan. 28, two masked gunmen entered the Church of Santa Maria in Istanbul and opened fire — turning an otherwise peaceful Catholic mass into a scene of horror. One man was killed and another wounded. Surveillance footage showed the rest of the 40 or so congregants fleeing in a panic. The two killers, citizens of Tajikistan and Russia — both Muslims — were tracked down and arrested.

Later that evening, Islamic State claimed the attack. It was in response, they said, to its leader's call to kill Jews and Christians everywhere, and jihadists had "attacked a gathering of Christian unbelievers during their polytheistic ceremony." Other attacks in Turkey claimed by Islamic State include a shooting at an Istanbul nightclub in 2017 that killed 39 people and a 2015 bombing attack in Ankara that killed 109. Regarding the one fatality at this January church shooting, one report stated:

"The uncle of the dead man told local media the victim was 52 years old and about to become a Christian, but was not baptised yet. Another relative said he was mentally ill, and insisted that he was not the target of the attack."

Sudan: Militants of the Rapid Support Forces have been attacking and killing Christians. On Jan. 1, they severely beat a Christian man, who later died of his injuries. On Jan. 20, they shot dead another Christian man after breaking into his home, a witness said. On Jan. 22 they beat another Christian man unconscious.

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Gatestone Institute
by Raymond Ibrahim
February 25, 202

Republican seeks to bar party from paying Trump's legal bills

 

A Republican National Committee member has submitted resolutions that would prohibit the party from paying presidential candidate Donald Trump's legal bills, according to a draft, but the measures must get more backers soon to move forward.
Mississippi RNC committeeman Henry Barbour drafted the resolution on Trump's legal expenses and another requiring the party committee to stay neutral in the presidential race until he receives enough delegates to secure the nomination.
"The RNC's job is to win elections. It's not to pay the legal bills for any leading candidate. He's got to fight his own legal fight," Barbour told Reuters on Saturday.
Barbour needs to get two cosponsors from 10 states to join the effort by Tuesday for the resolutions to proceed to a full vote by the RNC's 168 committee members. That vote could come in March and would require a simple majority to pass. But Barbour predicted they would be defeated if they reach that point.
Former President Trump, who denies all wrongdoing, faces four criminal trials and was recently ordered to pay about $540 million in judgments in two civil cases.
A Trump super PAC reported paying more than $47 million in legal expenses for him in 2023.
Trump is seeking to cement his status as Republican presidential nominee and gain more control over the RNC, including by nominating daughter-in-law Lara Trump as co-chair.
Lara Trump has said it is "a big interest to people" to pay fees for her father-in-law's criminal and civil cases.
Barbour said pro-Trump forces were "jumping the gun" by seeking to declare Trump the party's presidential nominee while longshot challenger Nikki Haley remains in the race for the Republican nomination to face Democratic President Joe Biden in the November election. Trump is on course for another easy win in South Carolina's primary on Saturday.

Reuters - By Helen Coster and Alexandra Ulmer - February 24, 2024
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(ESPN) What makes Portugal one of the best leagues in Europe?

 In the men's game, Portugal boast one of the best players in the world (Cristiano Ronaldo), one of the most influential coaches (Jose Mourinho), and one of the most notable agents (Jorge Mendes). But the women's side of things is still playing catch-up as it starts its journey to full maturity.

The women's domestic league (now named the Campeonato Nacional Feminino) has been around since 1985, but with Boavista (11) and 1º de Dezembro (12) dominating things in the early years, traditional powerhouses Benfica and Sporting CP only became a force seven years ago. Sporting reactivated their women's team in 2016-17 after a 21-year absence and immediately won the title and cup, while Benfica only created a team in late 2017 and have now picked up the last three titles in a row. The other major side in the country, FC Porto, does not yet have a women's team.

Now, with an appetite for women's football growing around the world, Portugal has, at long last, begun to make a name for itself on the biggest stages. From Benfica's continued presence in the UEFA Women's Champions League group stages, to the national team's debut at Euro 2017 and then 2023 World Cup, it's clear that the Portuguese game is on the rise.
So what can the women's game learn from the success of the men? And how can the men's game continue to grow while also generating huge sums from moving its best players on. Former scout and CEO Tor-Kristian Karlsen and women's football expert Sophie Lawson assess what makes Portugal so special.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to double the number of his country's troops stationed along its border with the Baltic states and Finland

  

Trade between Iran and the European Union (EU) has flourished over the years; this economic and diplomatic partnership is a large art of what has been fueling the Ayatollahs' support for terrorist groups and undermining regional stability. In recent years, the extent of their trade has reached significant levels, with billions of euros exchanged in goods and services. Behind these seemingly benign economic transactions, however, lies a troubling reality: the funds generated from Europe's trade with Iran are being funneled into activities that are now prolonging violence and conflict across the Middle East and beyond.

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"Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to double the number of his country's troops stationed along its border with the Baltic states and Finland as part of Moscow's preparations for a potential military conflict with NATO within the next decade, Estonia's Foreign Intelligence Service said Tuesday."
The head of Estonia's intelligence service recently said:
"Russia has chosen a path which is a long-term confrontation ... and the Kremlin is probably anticipating a possible conflict with NATO within the next decade or so."

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Pela primeira vez sondagem apresenta empate técnico entre PS, AD e CHEGA para as legislativas

  

É a primeira vez que uma sondagem aponta para um empate técnico entre PS, a AD e CHEGA. Ventura afirma estar “confiante na vitória.” Faltam pouco mais de duas semanas para o ato eleitoral de 10 de março e o partido de André Ventura aproxima-se cada vez mais do pelotão da frente, com o CHEGA a alcançar 16,9% de intenções de voto, sem distribuição de indecisos. Neste estudo, a AD surge na frente, com 21,4%, seguida do Partido Socialista com 21,1%, também com os indecisos por distribuir.
Folha Nacional (jornal do "Chega") - Fevereiro 22, 2024
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ERC abre processo de averiguação a sondagem divulgada pelo Chega

 

O trabalho de campo foi desenvolvido pela empresa portuguesa Intercampus com o compromisso de não ser divulgada nos órgãos de comunicação social em Portugal. No entanto, o jornal do Chega, que está registado na ERC, acabou por divulgar o estudo.
A Entidade Reguladora para a Comunicação Social (ERC) vai abrir um processo de averiguações a uma sondagem divulgada pelo Chega.
O estudo foi feito por uma empresa brasileira não credenciada em Portugal e difundido nas redes sociais e no jornal do Chega, o Folha Nacional.
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Swedish PM says integration of immigrants has failed, fueled gang crime (Reuters)

 

Sweden has failed to integrate the vast numbers of immigrants it has taken in over the past two decades, leading to parallel societies and gang violence, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said on Thursday, as she launched a series of initiatives to combat organised crime.
Many Swedes were shocked earlier this month after violent riots left more than 100 police injured. The violence erupted after a Swedish-Danish politician burned the Quran at a rally and sought to hold more in several immigrant-dominated neighborhoods.
Andersson blamed criminals and said both Islamism and right-wing extremism had been allowed to fester in Sweden, in unusually frank and self-critical comments.
"Segregation has been allowed to go so far that we have parallel societies in Sweden. We live in the same country but in completely different realities," Andersson told a news conference.
The number of people in Sweden born abroad has doubled in the last two decades to 2 million, or a fifth of the population. Andersson's Social Democrats have been in power for 28 of the last 40 years, including the last eight.
Andersson said she wanted to introduce local youth crime boards where social services and police could collaborate. She also proposed tools to make sure that youths stayed in schools and off the streets without the consent of parents.
"Integration has been too poor at the same time as we have had a large immigration. Society has been too weak, resources for the police and social services have been too weak," she said.
Sweden, which holds a general election later this year, has radically tightened its immigration policies since taking in more people per capita than any other European Union country during the migration crisis in 2015. It now has one of the bloc's most restrictive policies.
Human rights organisation Amnesty International has been critical of Sweden's tightening of policies, claiming it is causing human suffering and making integration even harder for immigrants.

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Reality Check: Are migrants driving crime in Germany? (BBC)

 

The claim: The deputy leader of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) said there had been "447 killings and murders" by illegal migrants in Germany last year.
Reality Check verdict: The German interior ministry says that in fact last year 27 illegal migrants either committed or attempted to commit murder or manslaughter. The 447 figure refers to killings or attempted killings by all asylum seekers and refugees, most of whom are in Germany legally. Overall crime in Germany has fallen to the lowest level since 1992, but there has been an increase in migrant crime.
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Bar a blip in the mid-2000s, overall crime has been decreasing in Germany since the early 1990s. But that changed in 2015 - about the same time hundreds of thousands of refugees began entering the country.
The AfD has made claims about a link between the influx of migrants and a rise in crime.
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Since 2014, the proportion of non-German suspects in the crime statistics has increased from 24% to just over 30% (when we take out crimes related to immigration and asylum irregularities).
Breaking that down even further, in 2017 those classified as "asylum applicants or civil war refugees or illegal immigrants" represented a total of 8.5% of all suspects.
This is despite their population representing just 2% of Germany as a whole.
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Igbo Jews are people of Nigeria who practice Judaism

 

Jews have been documented in parts of Nigeria since the precolonial period, but it is not known for the Igbo to have claimed Israelite descent or practiced Judaism in precolonial times. Significant Igbo identification with Jews concretized during and after the Biafran war (1967-1970). No formal census has been taken in the region and the precise number of Igbo in Nigeria who practice Judaism is not known. 

An estimated 30,000 Igbos, having at least 26 synagogues of various sizes, were said to be practicing some form of Judaism in 2008. In 2021 there were said to be approximately 12,000-15,000 mainstream Igbo Jews in Nigeria, comprising some 70 active communities. A more conservative figure of at least 2,000-3,000 Igbo practicing Judaism, and at most 5,000, has also been given.
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Older white women join Kenya's sex tourists

 

MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Bethan, 56, lives in southern England on the same street as best friend Allie, 64. They are on their first holiday to Kenya, a country they say is "just full of big young boys who like us older girls." Hard figures are difficult to come by, but local people on the coast estimate that as many as one in five single women visiting from rich countries are in search of sex.
Allie and Bethan -- who both declined to give their full names -- said they planned to spend a whole month touring Kenya's palm-fringed beaches. They would do well to avoid the country's tourism officials.
"It's not evil," said Jake Grieves-Cook, chairman of the Kenya Tourist Board, when asked about the practice of older rich women traveling for sex with young Kenyan men. "But it's certainly something we frown upon."
Also, the health risks are stark in a country with an AIDS prevalence of 6.9 percent. Although condom use can only be guessed at, Julia Davidson, an academic at Nottingham University who writes on sex tourism, said that in the course of her research she had met women who shunned condoms -- finding them too "businesslike" for their exotic fantasies.
The white beaches of the Indian Ocean coast stretched before the friends as they both walked arm-in-arm with young African men, Allie resting her white haired-head on the shoulder of her companion, a six-foot-four 23-year-old from the Maasai tribe.
He wore new sunglasses he said were a gift from her.
"We both get something we want -- where's the negative?" Allie asked in a bar later, nursing a strong, golden cocktail.
She was still wearing her bikini top, having just pulled on a pair of jeans and a necklace of traditional African beads.
Bethan sipped the same local drink: a powerful mix of honey, fresh limes and vodka known locally as "Dawa," or "medicine."
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The Clock Turns Back For Women

 

Rising sexual violence in Europe - linked to young immigrant men - threatens women’s hard-earned rights and must not be ignored.

We in the West are used to seeing women everywhere around us. We see them as colleagues in the office, sitting next to us on the bus, as patrons in restaurants, jogging on the streets, and working in shops. We are also seeing more women than ever in leadership positions as prime ministers, politicians, chancellors, directors, and bosses. Women born in the West in the 1990s onward take this as a given. They do not consider that walking to school or sitting in a cafe is a triumph of liberalism. But in some parts of Western cities and towns these days, you may notice something strange: there are simply no women around—or very few.

Walking in certain neighborhoods in Brussels, London, Paris, or Stockholm, you suddenly notice that only men are visible. The shop assistants, waiters, and patrons in cafes are all men. In parks nearby, it is only men and boys playing soccer. In the communal areas of apartment buildings, it is men talking, laughing, and smoking. On the continent to which millions of tourists travel each year to see the female body as an object of art or wearing the latest fashions, this seems a little strange. What happened to the women? Why are they no longer sitting at sidewalk cafes or chatting in the streets?

The answer is that some women have removed themselves from those neighborhoods, others have been hounded out, and still others are at home, out of sight. As more women erase themselves from public places in such neighborhoods, the few who remain are exposed, drawing the attention of men inhabiting the area. There is no formal segregation, but a feeling of discomfort and vulnerability is enough to make any woman walking alone shudder and think, “I won’t come this way again.”

Women in such areas are harassed out of the public square. Some men call out to them, “Hey, baby, give me your number,” or “Nice ass,” or “What are you doing here?” Whatever their age or appearance, if they are female and especially if they are alone, they get the same treatment. A persistent harasser might follow a woman up the street, touch her, and block her path. If a woman looks vulnerable, some men will go further: they pick her as a target, they encircle and intimidate her, groping her, pulling at her clothes, and occasionally doing worse.

Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a new book, Prey: "Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights", by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

  
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A Jihad Diária em França

Original em inglês: Daily Jihad in France
Tradução: Joseph Skilnik - Gatestone Institute

Paris, 2 de dezembro de 2023. 21h. Um homem grita "Allahu Akbar!" ("Alá é o maior!"), esfaqueia um turista alemão que caminhava ao longo do Rio Sena perto da Torre Eiffel, uma região considerada segura. A caminho do hospital, a vítima morreu. O assassino, grita de novo "Allahu Akbar!", ataca mais duas pessoas, ferindo-as gravemente, antes de ser preso pela polícia. Um comunicado à imprensa do governo logo afirmou que o assassino era um cidadão francês, nascido na França, de nome, Armand, bem francês.

Aí então emergiu a verdade. Armand realmente nasceu na França em 1997, mas o seu primeiro nome original era Iman (nome completo: Iman Rajabpour-Miyandoab), até 2003, quando os seus pais iranianos, que fugiram da República Islâmica, se tornaram cidadãos franceses e mudaram o nome dele para Armand. Entre 2015 e 2016, ele declarou solenemente a sua lealdade ao Estado Islâmico (ISIS) e fez contatos nas redes sociais com inúmeros islamitas que perpetraram ataques terroristas na França naquele período e planejou um ataque terrorista para ser realizado em Paris.

Antes que pudesse executar o seu plano, em 2016, ele foi preso e condenado a cinco anos de prisão. Ele foi solto após quatro anos e colocado na lista estadual de pessoas particularmente perigosas. Na tarde de 2 de dezembro de 2023, ele gravou um vídeo no qual anunciava que queria "vingar os muçulmanos" e matar infiéis, exatamente o que ele fez poucas horas depois. Ao comentar o ataque, o ministro do interior, Gérald Darmanin, insistiu que o assassino estava sendo "rigorosamente monitorado", sob "tratamento psiquiátrico" e ressaltou que houve uma "falha psiquiátrica".

O assassinato foi amplamente divulgado. Muitos jornalistas observaram que o assassinato de um turista em Paris por um ex-presidiário islamista poderia criar pânico entre os turistas estrangeiros e, o fato de um extremista islamista considerado perigoso pelas autoridades estar passeando livremente poderia causar ainda mais temor, especialmente com a menção do termo "tratamento psiquiátrico". Na mesma linha, Kobili Traoré, que assassinou Sarah Halimi em 2017 e que foi enviado a um hospital psiquiátrico, foi recentemente declarado não responsável pelos seus atos e será solto em breve.

O que deveria causar temor na França, contudo, é o aumento generalizado da violência islâmica. As estatísticas oficiais mostram que entra dia, sai dia ocorre na França, em média, 120 ataques com faca, muitos dos quais resultam em morte.

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France's Skyrocketing Threat

  

January 30, 2024. The French weekly, Le Journal du Dimanche, publishes the most comprehensive and detailed survey on what French Muslims think. Not surprisingly, the results are disturbing.
The first question in the survey was about Jews. 17% of French Muslims admit that they hate Jews. 39% say they have a bad, or very bad, opinion of Judaism.
France is the only country in 21st-century Europe where Jews regularly have been murdered simply because they are Jews. Since the kidnapping, torture and murder of Ilan Halimi in January 2006, all Jews murdered in France have been killed by Muslims. Sammy Ghozlan, the president of the National Office for Vigilance against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA), which lists anti-Semitic acts and helps their victims, has emphasized year after year, for more than twenty years, that almost all violent anti-Semitic acts committed in France are committed by Muslims.
When it comes to Israel, the results are even more disturbing. Feelings go beyond hatred. 45% of French Muslims say they want the total destruction of Israel. An equivalent number of French Muslims define the massacre rape, torture, beheadings and burning alive of Jews by Hamas terrorists in Israel on October 7, 2023, as an "act of resistance".
So, almost half of a religious community in a Western democracy openly wants the destruction of a group of people who were just massacred in another country, and in the greatest number since the end of the Holocaust.
19% of French Muslims say they have sympathy for Hamas. That so many French Muslims have sympathy for an organization whose leaders say that they will repeat the October 7 attack time and again until Israel is annihilated, and unabashedly state that they want the genocidal destruction of the only Jewish state, should sound an alarm that French Jews, and French non-Jews, are in an extremely perilous situation.
Other figures showed that 42% of French Muslims place respect for Islamic Sharia law above respect for the laws of the French republic (the percentage rises to 57% among young Muslims aged 18 to 25).
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More Than 365 million Christians Face Genocide (Gatestone Institute)

  

Except for North Korea, where the persecution is caused by "dictatorial paranoia" and "communist and post-communist oppression," the main religion of all other countries and groups on the list is Islam.
"While some relief aid is available, this is mostly distributed through local Muslim groups and mosques, which are alleged to be discriminating against anyone not considered a devout Muslim." — Open Doors, Yemen.
"More believers are killed for their faith in Nigeria each year, than everywhere else in the world combined." — Open Doors, Nigeria.
"For Christians who convert from Islam, not even the veneer of tolerance is present." — Open Doors, Iran.
"When the Taliban came to power, they did so with pledges to recognize more freedoms than in the past. But that hasn't happened—if an Afghan's Christian faith is discovered, it can be a death sentence, or they can be detained and tortured into giving information about fellow believers." — Open Doors, Afghanistan.
"Of 34.5 million displaced people across Sub-Saharan Africa, around 16.2 million are Christians." — Open Doors, Sub-Saharan Africa.
Many of these incidents remain unreported by the mainstream media. And until the mainstream media, governments and international organizations start openly addressing the ideological and theological motives of the perpetrators, this worldwide, genocide-level persecution of Christians will likely increase.
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Pinto da Costa disparou e algemou-se

  

.As contas semifalhadas do presidente do FC Porto foram apenas um dos vários tiros dados nos pés desde o início da recandidatura (Sic Notícias - Opinião de João Rosado)

É fruta da época, como se costuma dizer. Com o País colado à televisão a escrutinar todas as propostas dos programas eleitorais para as legislativas de 10 de março, é natural que um respeitável cidadão deixe escapar uma daquelas promessas que depois não consegue cumprir na íntegra.

Pode ter sido o caso de Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa. Outrora habilitado na cena política, o líder máximo do FC Porto, na grande entrevista que deu à SIC em novembro último, estipulou três condições para se recandidatar e ontem ficou a saber-se que uma delas já não será completamente respeitada.

Em comunicado enviado à CMVM (Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários), a SAD portista reconheceu a existência de capitais próprios negativos de 8,5 milhões de euros referentes ao primeiro semestre da época 2023-24, o que contraria de forma substancial um dos pressupostos estabelecidos por Pinto da Costa (PC) para oficializar a corrida ao 16º mandato.

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In Denmark and throughout Europe, assimilation is becoming mandatory

  

The Danish government is introducing a new set of laws that would regulate all aspects of life in 25 low-income and heavily Muslim enclaves known as “ghettos”–a controversial move that aims to promote assimilation into Danish society and singles out families with young children.

According to Quartz’s Aamna Mohdin, “there were about 50,000 people with non-Western backgrounds living in Denmark in 1980”; “today, that figure is nearly half a million.” The proposal put forward by the government of Liberal prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen includes 22 measures that Danish policymakers say are aimed at integrating immigrant communities and breaking up the so-called ghettos by 2030. Many of the measures have already been approved by a parliamentary majority, with the rest slated for a vote this fall.

Critics claim the measures essentially represents a parallel system of laws that overwhelmingly target poor, Muslim migrants—an interesting choice of language, given the government’s policy of calling the ghettos “parallel societies.” Sociologist Amro Ali, writing in Time Magazine, claims that “the legislation reads like a 19th century missionary enterprise, a colonial experiment to civilize the brown folks.” One thing is clear: Denmark’s new laws are part of a broader European trend of attempts to use the law to make assimilation mandatory.

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Some measures appear explicitly punitive. One targets primary schools with a large proportion of “ghetto children” who miss certain achievement criteria for more than 3 years in a row. Those schools will now incur sanctions, including a possible shutdown or government takeover. Another proposal involves withdrawing social benefits from parents whose children miss more than 15% of the school quarter. Perhaps the most striking is the last measure, which involves a possible four-year prison sentence for immigrant parents who take their children on “extended visits” to their country of origin in a way that the Danish government determines compromises the children’s “schooling, language and well-being.”

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Denmark’s ‘ghetto plan’ and the communities it targets

 

Residents of largely Muslim neighbourhoods face increased penalties for crimes and ‘Danish values’ lessons for children. 

At the end of each year, the Danish government publishes a list of what it classifies as the country’s “ghettos”. There are currently 28.

Areas where more than 50 percent of residents are immigrants or descendants of “non-Western countries” can be designated a “ghetto” based on the following criteria: income, percentage of those employed, levels of education and proportion of people with criminal convictions.  

Denmark is currently executing its controversial national “ghetto plan” – One Denmark without Parallel Societies: No Ghettos in 2030 – introduced by the previous government in March 2018, and now passed into a set of harsh laws and a housing policy.

This involves the physical demolishment and transformation of low-income, largely Muslim neighbourhoods. Residents of these areas – working-class, immigrant and refugee communities – say the measures are aimed at containing as well as dispersing them.

The term “ghetto”, with its negative connotations of festering crime, unemployment and dysfunction is a source of anguish for residents who believe the plan stigmatises them further while offering no improvements to their conditions. Anger, confusion and a feeling of betrayal are mounting among those deemed to be living in “ghettos”.

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By Jamila Versi

Published On 15 Jan 20201

 

Guiné-Bissau: "Tráfico de droga provoca a instabilidade"

  

Após denúncias sobre circulação de droga em grande quantidade no país, reabre-se debate sobre combate ao tráfico. Observadores dizem que relatos não são encorajadores e colocam Bissau em "descrédito total". O debate sobre o tráfico de droga foi reaberto e ganhou fulgor na Guiné-Bissau desde que, no passado 27 de janeiro, o antigo primeiro-ministro Nuno Nabiam denunciou a alegada circulação de droga em grande quantidade no país.
A Guiné-Bissau chegou a apreender cerca de duas toneladas de droga, numa operação denominada "Navarra", o que levou as organizações internacionais a reforçar o apelo ao combate ao tráfico e à criminalidade transacional.
Para vários observadores, os últimos relatos não são encorajadores e têm beliscado a imagem do país há muito associado ao tráfico de drogas.
"Se olharmos para todo este cenário, vamos perceber que o tráfico de droga provoca a instabilidade política na Guiné-Bissau, porque aumenta significativamente a criminalidade organizada transacional no país, e destrói uma nação por completo", diz Abílio Có Júnior, secretário executivo do Observatório Guineense da Droga e Toxicodependência, em entrevista à DW África.
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Egypt is building a new walled buffer zone more than 2 miles wide on Gaza border, satellite images show

 Egypt is building a massive miles-wide buffer zone and wall along its border with southern Gaza, new satellite images show, as fears grow over Israel’s planned ground offensive in Rafah where more than half of Gaza’s population is sheltering.

The images, taken in the past five days by Maxar Technologies, show a significant section of Egyptian territory between a roadway and the Gaza border has been bulldozed.

If the buffer zone — which stretches from the end of the Gaza border to the Mediterranean Sea — is completed, it will completely engulf the Egyptian-Rafah border crossing complex. 

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The Influx of Immigrants into Europe and the Increase in Sexual Violence

 

Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born into a Muslim family in Somalia, and after a brief period of living in Saudi Arabia her family settled in Kenya, where she was raised. In 1992, at the age of 23, fleeing an arranged marriage she sought asylum in the Netherlands. Successfully escaping from her family who had forced her to undergo genital mutilation as a child, she integrated into Dutch society. She learnt the language and studied political science at Leiden University. Soon, she became a prominent critic of radical Islam, triggering the wrath of Muslim extremists (she was put on an Al-Qaeda hit list in 2010) as well as achieving international recognition, making it onto Time’s top 100 most influential people in the world in 2005. A US citizen since 2013, she now works at the Hoover Institution where she did her research writing under the title Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights.
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As to why Europe does so little to prevent the erosion of women’s safety, Hirsi Ali argues that it is politically inconvenient for many European governments to acknowledge that the crisis of women’s safety might be linked to immigration, as well as to the cultural heritage of the immigrants.
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In parts of Paris and other great European cities there are now ‘no-go’ areas for women, and women seem to disappear from public spaces as they are no longer safe for them. Europe is undergoing a change—this is the thesis of the book—and the hard-earned rights and safety of women are now being rolled back.
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Avoiding the question of whether increasing sexual violence in Europe is or is not linked to the immigration of a large number of men will not solve the issue, The Wall Street Journal argues. On the other hand, a taboo surrounding this question can indeed fuel the radical right, which will, therefore, monopolize the discussion. As The Wall Street Journal highlights, Prey is ‘a courageous and bracing book’ which tries to shed light on this unquestionably important and inconvenient topic by dragging it out of the taboo zone. By normalizing the conversation about immigration and its effect on women’s rights, the topic can be the subject of a democratic discourse in which all sides are able to take part freely, instead of allowing the radicals to monopolize the discussion.
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What real rape culture looks like

On New Year’s Eve, mobs made up of a thousand Muslim men, many of whom are asylum seekers, coordinated and planned sexual assaults on women attending public festivities in the city of Cologne, Germany. At first, it was reported 100 women suffered abuse, but that number has now grown to more than 500 cases. The majority of the cases involve groping and violent sexual assault, with the women reporting being surrounded by men and torn from their friends.

In Norway, The New York Times recently reported on government-funded classes being held for asylum seekers. The classes are being held in an effort to teach men new to the country that rape is wrong and unacceptable in their new culture.
‘The goal is that participants will ‘at least know the difference between right and wrong,’ said Nina Machibya, the Sandnes center’s manager,” the paper reported. “A course manual sets out a simple rule that all asylum seekers need to learn and follow: ‘To force someone into sex is not permitted in Norway, even when you are married to that person.’
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One of the most horrifying of all rape cover-ups occurred in Rotherham, England. There, 1,400 boys and girls were being raped and sold into sex slavery for more than 10 years. This was known by public officials in the area but was ignored because the men carrying out the rapes were Muslim men from Pakistan. Fears of Islamophobia accusations trumped any kind of righteous intervention or prosecution of these men for more than a decade.
Cover-ups of serious crimes committed by Muslim men have become a standard pattern of behavior from Western public officials, who are supposed to be civilized and hold themselves to a high moral standard. They’ve not only ignored these repeated crimes, they’ve become complicit for the sake of promoting a political narrative that refugees don’t pose a threat to European culture. These men come from countries where rape is acceptable, Sharia law reigns and women have no rights. This reality is ignored at a very high cost.

Migrants and rape: unveiling myths and facts about the dark side of the refugee crisis

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Official crime statistics in Germany do confirm an increase of nearly 13 percent in sexual assault and rape cases in 2016 compared to the previous year – with 9.2 percent of the overall number of assailants reported as Syrian nationals and 8.6 percent as Afghan nationals. In total, 38.8 percent of those convicted of sexual assault and rape were reported as non-German nationals. This means that roughly 4 out of 10 sexual assaults and rape cases each year are committed by foreigners in Germany. Before the refugee crisis, that ratio was 3 out of 10.
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Regardless of whatever motivation might drive migrants to commit rape and other acts of sexual assault, the unacceptable nature of such transgressions has to be emphasized in integration classes, says Psychologist Maggie Schauer, who specializes in this field at the University of Konstanz. Schauer tells DPA that migrants sometimes use cultural and religious differences as an excuse for such acts despite knowing better:
"Men have to learn to control their aggressions regardless of what religion they might have," she says, adding that it is possible to change attitudes especially because of the universally intolerable nature of rape and sexual assault: "Violent crimes, sexual assaults, and rape: none of these things can be excused by arguing that people come from a different culture. And men do actually know this very well."

Sandra Madureira viola ordem do tribunal e arrisca castigo pesado

 

Sandra Madureira cometeu um erro crasso que pode custar-lhe caro, no âmbito do processo Operação Pretoriano.
Tudo porque a mulher de Fernando Madureira comentou uma publicação nas redes sociais de Lipinho, o substituto de Macaco, na liderança dos Super Dragões. Na publicação em causa, Lipinho fala em lealdade.
"A lealdade é um valor humano relacionado com a capacidade de uma pessoa de ser plenamente confiável, manter sua retidão moral, honestidade e honrar compromissos. Também encontrado como sinônimo de fidelidade, dedicação e sinceridade. Sempre contigo!", escreveu na legenda de uma foto de Fernando Madureira.
Sandra Madureira comentou: "A lealdade tem um preço muito caro e um valor incalculável", escreveu.
Ora esta publicação viola a medida de coação que lhe foi imposta pelo tribunal e que a proibia de qualquer contacto por qualquer meio (incluindo linguagem escrita) com elementos dos Super Dragões. Assim sendo, a esposa de Fernando Madureira corre o risco de ver as medidas de coação agravadas, podendo ser aplicada a prisão preventiva.

Não é só Alexei Navalny: outras mortes misteriosas ligadas à Rússia

 

A morte do advogado e ativista Alexei Navalny foi confirmada na sexta (16 de Fevereiro) por agências russas. Ele é mais uma pessoa a perder a vida de forma misteriosa desde que o presidente da Rússia, Vladimir Putin, está no comando.

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PGR explica tomada de decisão sobre Madeira e sublinha: "Mantém-se atual"

 

A Procuradoria-geral da República (PGR) emitiu esta sexta-feira uma nota explicativa sobre o caso de corrupção na Madeira, no seguimento de várias críticas após a libertação dos três arguidos, que estiveram quase três semanas em prisão preventiva.

 Assim, atendendo às dúvidas suscitadas no "espaço público" relativamente às investigações de crimes ligados a contratação pública na Região Autónoma da Madeira, a PGR esclarece que "a realização da operação do passado dia 24 de janeiro que conduziu à detenção de três arguidos, entre os quais o presidente da câmara do Funchal, foi ponderada pelas três magistradas que dirigem as investigações e pelo diretor do DCIAP".

E, de acordo com a PGR, "essa ponderação permitiu concluir que [...] os elementos probatórios até então recolhidos apontavam indiciariamente, de forma consistente e sustentada, para o cometimento de um conjunto de ilícitos, dos quais foi dada nota pública no próprio dia das diligências, e para a necessidade de aplicação de medidas de coação mais gravosas do que o termo de identidade e residência".

Assim sendo, ainda segundo a PGR, "o referido entendimento, subscrito também pelos inspetores da Unidade Nacional de Combate à Corrupção da Polícia Judiciária (PJ), que coadjuvam o Ministério Público (MP), mantém-se atual".

A PGR recorda no mesmo documento que "em momentos anteriores, cinco diferentes juízes de instrução proferiram no processo decisões sustentadas na convicção de existirem já então indícios de ilícitos criminais imputados".

"Não tendo sido esse o juízo conclusivo alcançado pelo magistrado judicial que conduziu os interrogatórios", a PGR confirma que o MP "interporá recurso do respetivo despacho".

MP alertou "múltiplas vezes" para "incomum demora"

Na mesma nota a PGR lamenta "o longo período de tempo decorrido desde as detenções até à prolação do citado despacho" e garante que "as magistradas do Ministério Público presentes nas diligências de interrogatório procuraram sensibilizar, por múltiplas vezes e pelos meios ao seu alcance, o magistrado judicial que as conduziu, para a incomum demora registada e para a necessidade de lhes imprimir maior celeridade, tendo inclusivamente dirigido, logo no dia 1 de fevereiro de 2024, exposição ao Conselho Superior da Magistratura, enquanto órgão de gestão e disciplina da magistratura judicial".

A PGR termina o comunicado revelando que vai manter "um acompanhamento próximo da evolução das investigações e prestará esclarecimentos sempre que, não existindo prejuízo para o seu desenvolvimento, o entender oportuno".

East Timor: Santa Cruz massacre

 

The Santa Cruz massacre (also known as the Dili massacre) was the murder of at least 250 East Timorese pro-independence demonstrators in the Santa Cruz cemetery in the capital, Dili, on 12 November 1991, during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor and is part of the East Timor genocide.
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During a brief confrontation between Indonesian troops and protesters, some protesters and a major, Geerhan Lantara were stabbed. Stahl claimed Lantara had attacked a group of protesters including a girl carrying the flag of East Timor, and FRETILIN activist Constâncio Pinto reported witness accounts of beatings from Indonesian soldiers and police. When the procession entered the cemetery some continued their protests before the cemetery wall. Around 200 more Indonesian soldiers arrived and advanced on the gathering, weapons drawn. In the graveyard, they opened fire on hundreds of unarmed civilians. At least 250 East Timorese were killed in the massacre. One of the dead was a New Zealander, Kamal Bamadhaj, a political science student and human rights activist based in Australia.
The massacre was witnessed by the two American journalists—Amy Goodman and Allan Nairn—and caught on videotape by Max Stahl, who was filming undercover for Yorkshire Television. As Stahl filmed the massacre, Goodman and Nairn tried to "serve as a shield for the Timorese" by standing between them and the Indonesian soldiers. The soldiers began beating Goodman, and when Nairn moved to protect her, they beat him with their weapons, fracturing his skull. The camera crew managed to smuggle the video footage to Australia.
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East Timor genocide and Major General Prabowo (Wikipedia)

 

The East Timor genocide refers to the "pacification campaigns" of state terrorism which were waged by the Indonesian New Order government during the Indonesian invasion and occupation of East Timor. The majority of sources consider the Indonesian killings in East Timor to constitute genocide, while other scholars disagree on certain aspects of the definition.
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Sharp condemnation of the military came not just from the international community, but from within parts of the Indonesian elite. The massacre ended the governments 1989 opening of the territory and a new period of repression began. Warouw was removed from his position and his more accommodating approach to Timorese resistance rebuked by his superiors. Suspected Fretilin sympathisers were arrested, human rights abuses rose, and the ban on foreign journalists was reimposed. Hatred intensified amongst Timorese of the Indonesian military presence. Major General Prabowo's, Kopassus Group 3 trained militias gangs dressed in black hoods to crush the remaining resistance.
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Mais de 40 anos depois, o que fazem os ex-FP-25 de Abril (O Observador)

  

Entre os antigos militantes das FP-25 há, hoje em dia, um professor, um empresário e um agricultor. E há candidatos partidários. Luís Gobern Lopes foi jornalista e concorreu às autárquicas de 2021 pelo Bloco de Esquerda. António Manuel Baptista Dias é professor e foi deputado municipal pelo PS. 

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