Portugal is increasingly at the bottom of Europe in the ranking of quality of elites

 

Conclusion of the index developed by FEP and the University of St. Gallen, in which Portugal is in 30th place among 151 countries analysed.

The School of Economics and Management of the University of Porto (FEP) and the University of Saint Gallen (Switzerland), in collaboration with an international network of partners and academic institutions, have just launched the fourth edition of the Elites Quality Index (EQx) 2023, an international political economy ranking that provides a unique perspective on value creation, categorising countries by the quality of their elites.

Among the 151 countries analysed in this study, Portugal appears in 30th position, degrading its position in the global index (in 2022 it occupied 22nd position) and increasingly below the European Union average, in a year marked by an unprecedented rise in inflation and war in Europe.

The index is based on 134 indicators and on four conceptual areas – economic power, economic value, political power and political value – categorising elites into “very high quality” (position from 1 to 10), “high quality elites” (position from 11 to 25), “quality elites” (position from 26 to 75), “medium quality elites” (position from 76 to 124) and “backward elites” (position higher than 125).

Compared to the previous ranking, Portugal maintained its position in terms of political power (19th position), but saw its created value deteriorate (37th position in 2023 and 11th position in 2022); in economic terms, it registered a higher concentration of economic power (42nd position in 2023 and 25th position in 2022), with no reflection on the economic value created (39th position in 2023 and 37th position in 2022).

PS: Isto é o resultado de 50 anos de governo PS ou PSD, partidos que se revezam no poder, numa espécie de acordo não escrito, de forma a poderem alimentar a sua clientela política, numa promiscuidade caracterizada pelos favores (e corrupção) na maioria dos casos a empresas ligadas a familiares dos membros de cada um destes partidos políticos. E depois espantam-se porque o "Chega" sobe nas sondagens. O programa político do PS e PSD, nesta fase pré-eleitoral, lembra a história de Pedro e o lobo. O PS e o PSD julgam - erradamente - que, se chamarem muitas vezes "fascistas" ao "Chega" conseguem assustar os eleitores. Mas esses  eleitores já estão "vacinados" e já não correm em socorro do Pedro, quando ele dá o alarme, gritando que vem aí o lobo. Preciso de um documento da Conservatória dos Registos Civis de Alcochete. Fui lá ontem, por volta das oito da manhã e já tinha cerca de duas dezenas de pessoas à minha frente. Amanhã terei que acordar às 6h30, para estar lá antes das 7h00, pode ser que assim só tenha quatro ou cinco pessoas à minha frente...

Depois admirem-se do crescimento do "Chega"...

 Definition: The Human Development Index measures three basic dimensions of human development: long and healthy life, knowledge, and a decent standard of living. Four indicators are used to calculate the index: life expectancy at birth, mean years of schooling, expected years of schooling, and gross national income per capita. 

 PS: Já não falta muito para "conquistarmos" a 27ª posição..

 

Diepsloot (South Africa) residents call for deportation of illegal immigrants

 

Diepsloot residents want undocumented immigrants deported. Residents are blaming illegal immigrants for the high levels of crime. Recently, the area has seen an increase in violent crimes such as murder, rape, and assault. They marched over to the local police station to hand over a memorandum of demands to the presidency. eNCA reporter Bafedile Moerane has more. (22/09/2023)

European Parliament: Sexual crimes committed by migrants (15.9.2020)

 

European Parliament

Question for written answer E-005044/2020

to the Commission
Rule 138
Elżbieta Kruk (ECR)

 As a result of its open door policy towards refugees, Europe was flooded by a wave of migrants, who came here mainly for economic reasons.

Countries that have received large numbers of migrants, such as Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom, are now seeing an increase in sexual crimes, including rape, against white women and girls.

Significantly, although the number of reports of such crimes is increasing, the number of convictions for them is falling. This is reducing women's sense of security and confidence in the justice system, and it represents of loss of the ability to obtain redress.

There is much to suggest that the reason for this is that the police, who are reasonably afraid of being accused of racism and 'Islamophobia', are discouraged from carrying out investigations involving migrants. As a result, these crimes are going almost unpunished.

For example, Sweden has the second-highest Muslim immigration rate and the second-highest sexual assault rate in Europe. It would be irresponsible to pretend that this is a coincidence.

All reported rapes in Oslo by foreigners: police (Herald Sun)

by Andrew Bolt

 

 A report released by the (Oslo) police on Wednesday states that all assault rapes during last year were committed by men with a non-Western origin. All the reported rapes during the last 5 years are done by men with a foreign origin. Police inspector Hanne Kristin Rodhe says the perpetrators often are unemployed, have been asylum-seekers during the last five years and come from a traumatized environment. She adds that their perception of women can be one of the motives behind the rapes.

Another woman reported a sexual assault during the night in Oslo, just two days after four women were raped in Oslo during a five-hour period on Saturday night. Police are investigating whether the same rapists may be involved in all four of Saturday’s cases... In all four cases, the assailants spoke broken English or Norwegian, or both.

A FOREIGN student who sexually assaulted seven victims claimed he was upset at the way Australian women dressed and behaved, a court has heard. Libyan masters student Almahde Ahmad Atagore, 28, was this morning jailed for at least three years over the assaults in August and September last year. He had been in the country only a month, on a sponsorship funded by his government. But County Court Judge Margaret Rizkalla said Atagore wasn’t prepared for the cultural differences and felt isolated and depressed... Judge Rizkalla said he struggled to adapt to Australian life, without a mosque nearby and with little support... But Sen-Det Dion Achtypis said outside court that Atagore’s nationality was not a factor in his crimes. ''There are many, many overseas students in this country who are law-abiding citizens,” he said.

The translation here is not great, which created part of the problem. The 100% figure actually refers to assault rapes (ie where someone is attacked and then raped). There were 86 of those over the last five years. There were 189 rapes last year in Norway. Looking at the original report on this, 65% of these were (suspected) by foreigners (although in Norway this can mean second generation in their statistics) and the only breakdown I could find of the foreigners stated that 20% were African, 15% Middle Eastern and 14.5% Asian (15% European??). The victims were 70% locals - 30% not. These figures are for last year only, but match data from a previous study closely enough to suggest a consistent trend. So delete 100% and say two-thirds. Also worth noting that this means the majority of rapes are committed by Norwegians as the largest represented group.This is not a new issue in Norway. As far back as 2001 there have been reports showing similar percentages (June 2, 2011)

 

Norway: Rape prevention classes for refugees - BBC News

 

Migrants in Norway are being given classes which educate asylum seekers in Norwegian 'cultural codes' when it comes to relationships with women, personal boundaries, sexual assault and what constitutes rape. We spoke to some of the men taking the class, as well as the organisers and instructors. But the classes, which other European countries may also introduce, have been criticised for stigmatising migrant men.James Longman reports .

Países europeus querem menos imigrantes

Refugees stream into Europe, where they are not welcomed with open arms

By Jacob Poushter (Pew Research Center)

Many in EU Want Less Immigration

A humanitarian crisis is developing in Europe as refugees traveling through Libya and other countries seek to enter the European Union via the Mediterranean Sea, resulting in a tragic loss of life for those on overcrowded boats. Most people are fleeing countries in the Middle East and Africa, either because of civil war (Syria and Libya), poverty (sub-Saharan Africa) or other domestic troubles.
But two surveys last year of Europeans show that many, especially Greeks, Italians and others in the continent’s south, hold negative views of immigrants and are concerned about new arrivals from outside the EU.

When Pew Research Center asked people in seven EU countries about immigrants in spring 2014, very few people wanted to see an increase in the flow. In fact, in Greece and Italy, eight-in-ten or more wanted fewer immigrants to cross their border.
Greeks and Italians, whose nations border the Mediterranean and are therefore a natural endpoint for refugees crossing the sea, are also more likely to say immigrants are a burden on society because they take jobs and social benefits. By contrast, people in the UK and Germany are more likely to say immigrants make their country stronger because of their hard work and talents. 

People in these seven EU countries are less concerned about a possible uptick in crime due to immigration. But 51% of Greeks say immigrants are more to blame for crime than other groups, as do 48% of Germans and 45% of Italians.
Regarding refugees in particular, four-in-ten in the EU say their country’s policies should be more restrictive, but again this sentiment is particularly strong in Italy (57%) and Greece (56%), according to the German Marshall Fund’s Transatlantic Trends survey in 2014. Greeks and Italians are also the most likely to be concerned about immigration from outside the EU (84% and 76%, respectively, are concerned about this).

Fundamentalismo islâmico e jornalismo "cor-de-rosa"

 

 "Não existe rejeição dos valores ocidentais"

 Alexandra Prado Coelho - Jornal Público
28 de Março de 2004
Quanto a intervenções ou ligações políticas, Esmael Loonat sublinha que a actividade do Tabligh é "única e exclusivamente religiosa" - os missionários limitam-se a exortar os muçulmanos à prática dos cinco pilares do Islão (a fé, a oração, o 'zacat' [caridade], o jejum no Ramadão e a peregrinação a Meca). "Rejeitamos absolutamente a conotação do esforço de missionação com o extremismo e o radicalismo", declara. E insiste: "É bom que fique claro que não ouvirão de nenhum missionário nada nas suas intervenções que não tenha a ver com a unicidade Daquele que controla o que está entre os Céus ou debaixo da Terra. O esforço de missionação não tem vínculo com a vida terrestre porque ela é transitória". "Não existe rejeição dos valores ocidentais"Os pregadores do Tabligh também não têm como objectivo a conversão dos não-muçulmanos. "Só desenvolvemos a nossa actividade junto dos muçulmanos".

Abool Karim Vakil (filho):

“O Tabligh Jamaat representa, por um lado, e incontestavelmente, a força de maior dinamização do Islão entre os muçulmanos em Portugal. Por outro, o seu rigoroso tradicionalismo, traduzido na prescrição do próprio vestuário, na estrita separação entre os sexos, numa atitude de distanciamento em relação à sociedade exterior, representa, como já referi, um factor de ruptura na tendência histórica para a integração na atitude dos muçulmanos em Portugal.”

 Abdool Karim Vakil, in “Do Outro ao Diverso – Islão e Muçulmanos em Portugal: história, discursos, identidades”


The Times of India
Saudi Arabia bans Tablighi Jamaat, calls it ‘gate of terror’
In what can have significant ramifications for India, Saudi  Arabia has stunned the Islamic world by banning the Tablighi Jamaat, the Islamist proselytising movement, calling it “one of the gates of terrorism”

TVI
Lisboa: reunião de movimento islâmico sem problemas
O movimento islâmico Tabligh Jamaat está reunido esta sexta-feira na mesquita de Lisboa, num encontro internacional que decorre num ambiente aparentemente calmo e descontraído, informa a agência Lusa.
Membros do movimento presentes na mesquita recusaram dar quaisquer pormenores sobre o grupo ou sobre este encontro em Lisboa.
"Só Esmael Loonat (um dos líderes do Tabligh Jamaat em Portugal) pode falar», referiram à Lusa vários membros do movimento."

Muslims Are Creating 'Nations Within Nations' Says Sir Mark Trevor Phillips, Former Head of U.K. Equalities Commission

 The former head of the U.K.'s equalities watchdog also advocates the monitoring of ethnic minority populations on housing estates to stop them becoming "ghetto villages."
He says schools may have to consider a 50 per cent limit on Muslim, or other minority pupils, to encourage social integration.
And he says disturbing survey findings point to a growing chasm between the attitudes of many British Muslims and their compatriots.

Escola Islâmica de Palmela tem turmas mistas e ensino religioso facultativo
por Sandra Machado Soares/Carla Quirino/Marcelo Sá Carvalho /26 Setembro 2014
Na única Escola Islâmica do país, ninguém quer falar dos extremistas que dizem estar a manchar a imagem do Islão. Alunos e professores garantem que os radicais se servem do Corão apenas como máscara para conseguir objetivos políticos e economicos. O desejo de separar as águas é tal que nos abriram as portas do colégio, em Palmela, e mostraram-nos o que realmente ensinam, sem precisarem de partilhar no facebook. As turmas são mistas. Mas, a partir do secundário, o estudo da religião faz-se em salas separadas. Para elas, o véu obrigatório. A escola está aberta a outros credos e o ensino religioso não é obrigatório. 

PS: Faltou dizer que, nas "turmas mistas", os alunos estão sentados separadamente, rapazes de um lado, raparigas de outro...

Revista Al-Madinah, editada pela Comunidade Islâmica do Sul do Tejo (Outubro de 2001)
"Nas escolas comuns (...) torna-se impossível salvaguardar a fé. A solução disto passa pela criação de instituições islâmicas, onde as crianças possam crescer num ambiente islâmico"

Half of all British Muslims think homosexuality should be illegal, poll finds
Survey for Channel 4 documentary finds 23% want sharia law but most feel strong connection with Britain when asked to what extent they agreed or disagreed that homosexuality should be legal in Britain, 18% said they agreed and 52% said they disagreed, compared with 5% among the public at large who disagreed. Almost half (47%) said they did not agree that it was acceptable for a gay person to become a teacher, compared with 14% of the general population.
In a series of questions on the terror threat in Britain, 4% said they sympathised with people who took part in suicide bombings (1% said they completely sympathised and 3% said they sympathised to some extent), and 4% said they sympathised with people who committed terrorist actions as a form of political protest generally.
Nearly a quarter (23%) supported the introduction of sharia law in some areas of Britain, and 39% agreed that “wives should always obey their husbands”, compared with 5% of the country as a whole. Two-thirds (66%) said they completely condemned people who took part in stoning adulterers, and a further 13% condemned them to some extent. Nearly a third (31%) thought it was acceptable for a British Muslim man to have more than one wife, compared with 8% of the wider population.

Fazail e Amaal - Português - As Virtudes Das Açoes -  tradução portuguesa de Fazail-e-Amaal, o livro mais utilizado na obra de dawah e tabligh. Faça o download e compartilhe (mas despache-se porque, depois deste post, a página vai desaparecer rapidamente...)

O CARVALHADAS
sexta-feira, julho 08, 2005
"Fazail-E-Amaal".
“As virtudes das acções” é uma colectânea de sete livros e está à venda na Mesquita de Lisboa. O próprio imã da Mesquita aconselhou a sua leitura durante a habitual oração de sexta-feira. O último capítulo “A degradação Muçulmana e a sua Única Solução” apela a um “forte contra-ataque”, no intuito de recuperar o domínio do Islão sobre o mundo, dentro dos limites e das directrizes da “Shariah”.
Propõe, para atingir esses objectivos, a adopção dos “métodos e os meios demonstrados pelo Santíssimo Profeta de Alá”, isto porque o profeta não só foi bem sucedido no seu objectivo, como foi capaz de eliminar todas as relações ( religiosas ) entre os seus seguidores e elementos de fora”. Com as devidas ressalvas, parece que estamos perante uma versão do “Mein Kampft” de Hitler.

PS: Actualmente, há pelo menos seis comunidades islâmicas que estão a preparar a abertura de outras tantas escolas islâmicas, idênticas à Escola Islâmica de Palmela. Como se refere neste post, mais acima, a posição dos Tabligh Jaamat em relação às escolas oficiais é mais do que clara: "Nas escolas comuns (...) torna-se impossível salvaguardar a fé. A solução disto passa pela criação de instituições islâmicas, onde as crianças possam crescer num ambiente islâmico" (Revista Al-Madinah, Outubro de 2001)