Alongside the increase os immigrants arrivals to Europe, sexual violence has proliferated

 

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. 

Hirsi Ali establishes a link between immigration and increasing sexual violence against women, and traces back the root of the problem to the cultural differences between Christian Europe and Muslim-majority countries. She argues that while Western Europe has evolved culturally to the point that it presumes the innocence of women in a case of sexual assault, and protects their rights and safety, in Muslim-majority countries the attitude is still that women can be blamed for being sexually assaulted. 

In her book, Hirsi Ali emphasizes on multiple occasions that only some immigrant men commit such crimes, but she draws attention to the fact that due to cultural differences and the lack of integration there is a correlation between the increase in sexual violence in Europe and the influx of immigrants.

Since 2009, around 3 million immigrants have arrived in Europe. In the year 2015, at the height of the migration crisis, a record 1.8 million illegal border crossings were reported in Europe.¹ In the last ten years, 67 per cent of asylum seekers in Europe have been male, and 80 per cent of them have been under the age of 35. Approximately 2.4 million asylum applicants were from nine Muslim- majority countries (e.g., Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Nigeria), so most immigrants are indeed of the Muslim faith. Four European countries (Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, and France) host 70 per cent of Europe’s unauthorized immigrant population.²

Alongside the increase in arrivals to Europe, sexual violence has proliferated on the continent, as detailed in ‘Chapter 3: Sexual Violence by Numbers’. Between 2017 and 2018, there was a 17 per cent increase in instances of rape, and a 20 per cent increase in other forms of sexual assault in France.³ In French public places, 3 million women have experienced unwanted sexual attention and advances. 

In Germany in 2017, the number of victims of ‘sexual coercion’ rose by 41 per cent. Compared to the previous year, Sweden witnessed a 12 per cent increase in reported sex offences in 2016—the staggering jump in these statistics is all the more shocking because rates of sexual violence were relatively stable in Sweden between 2005 and 2011. Although Hirsi Ali recognizes that some of the increase in sexual crime statistics might be explained by new legal definitions of rape and greater public awareness about the issue (due to #metoo), she argues that it must also be acknowledged that the countries with the largest intake of immigrants have witnessed the largest increase in sexual violence. Therefore, she concludes, assessing the link between immigration and the rise of sexual violence is vitally important.

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"Muitas reticências” do sheik Munir sobre símbolos religiosos proibidos pela UE

Líder religioso não considera que o lenço, ou véu, seja um símbolo muçulmano e teme que a medida hoje tomada pelo Tribunal Europeu de Justiça abra portas a mais discriminação nas empresas O sheik David Munir vê a medida tomada esta manhã pelo Tribunal Europeu de Justiça – que considera “legal” que as empresas proíbam os seus empregados de usarem símbolos religiosos, políticos ou filosóficos visíveis – com "muitas reticências".

É irónico que um praticante da mais violenta repressão em relação a outras confissões religiosas, venha, lacrimejando, lamentar decisões tomadas por um tribunal europeu - o mesmo tribunal que lhe permite exercer a sua religião, em paz, na Europa - tirando, é claro, os inúmeros atentados suicidas que os muçulmanos já trouxeram a este continente. Não há igrejas na Arábia Saudita nem se pode possuir uma Bíblia. O lobo com pele de cordeiro, Xeque Munir, não perde uma oportunidade de se vitimizar, como se a religião dele não fosse a maior intolerante de todas as crenças à face da terra. 

Teme "O líder religioso teme que se abra portas "a uma maior discriminação" contra as mulheres muçulmanas, já que na prática uma empresa pode exigir que uma trabalhadora deixe de ir trabalhar ou não seja admitida por usar um lenço ou véu."

Exactamente. Tal como não se autoriza uma trabalhadora a ir trabalhar de cara completamente tapada, ignorando-se quem está por detrás daquele pano preto. E quando a PSP manda uma muçulmana ortodoxa parar num controle de trânsito? Como confirmar que aquela face está no documento de identificação?  

 Será difícil uma maior discriminação, sobretudo na Sharia, em relação aos direitos das mulheres. Por exemplo, como explicou o próprio Xeque Munir ao jornal Público, em matéria de herança, o homem tem sempre direito a dois terços e a mulher a um terço.

Munir lembra que o lenço não é um símbolo religioso e é também usado por mulheres que não são muçulmanas. "Compreendo a medida do Tribunal Europeu se esta não considerar que o lenço como um símbolo religioso", adianta ao Expresso. E faz uma distinção entre o lenço (ou véu), que faz parte do vestuário de uma mulher muçulmana e deixa a cara descoberta; e o niqab e a burca, que cobrem o rosto e são considerados símbolos religiosos.

O sheik David Munir lembra que esta medida do tribunal "deixa muita coisa em aberto" e surge numa conjuntura em que estão marcadas eleições em vários países europeus, em que alguns candidatos populistas dominam a agenda. Adianta no entanto que as empresas são livres de admitir os funcionários e as suas políticas têm de ser respeitadas - uma ameaça velada do líder espiritual da Comunidade Islâmica de Lisboa. O mesmo líder que gostaria imenso de ver os seus alunos de árabe escrever um dia da direita para a esquerda. E muito provavelmente ver as crianças submetidas a mutilação genital feminina.

De salientar que o "Tribunal Europeu de Justiça ditou esta terça-feira de manhã que as empresas a operar na União Europeia podem proibir as suas funcionárias muçulmanas de usarem o véu islâmico e todos os funcionários de usarem quaisquer outros "símbolos religiosos, políticos ou filosóficos visíveis" desde que os seus regulamentos internos exijam a todos os trabalhadores que se vistam "de forma neutra".

Esta é a primeira vez que a mais alta instância judicial europeia se pronuncia sobre querelas judiciais relacionadas com o direito de trabalhadoras muçulmanas a usarem o hijab nos seus locais de trabalho. "Um regulamento interno que proíba o uso de quaisquer símbolos políticos, filosóficos ou religiosos visíveis não constitui uma discriminação direta", avança o ECJ em comunicado.

HUGO FRANCO 14 DE MARÇO DE 2017

PS: Felizmente, ainda há vozes dissonantes da maioria acéfala: Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Germany is now proof Farage's deportation flights pledge can work

 

Joseph is hiding from Germany's deportation police. He is living in a small room borrowed from a friend, only daring to go out once a week for a secret visit to church.

Even then, he gets a lift from a fellow worshipper rather than braving public transport. 'I am driven to the church and back,' he whispers down the phone to me. 'I cannot go on the tram, the train or the bus because the police may see me. They want to take me to the airport and deport me back to Nigeria.'

Joseph, a talented musician, appears to be a decent man, but he is unlikely to get much sympathy in Germany. The country has turned its back on mass immigration as the economy falters, crime soars and the government shells out 'refugee-related expenses', including benefits, of £25 billion a year.

He is among the millions who entered after Chancellor Angela Merkel's momentous decision in 2015 to open Germany's borders to Syrian refugees – and, as it turned out, those of any country who knocked.

One in five of the migrants claim benefits. Nearly half of those who arrived never went to school in their home country or left before passing any exams, so they can only find menial jobs. Two out of three of the female arrivals are unemployed. In schools, teachers are faced with teenagers (some of whom have been here since they were babies) who struggle with the most basic German.

Today, Joseph finds the tables have turned on him. Germany has had a 'seine Meinung andern' – a change of mind – after letting in so many migrants. And, like many others, he has gone to ground.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced this week that the German welfare state is no longer sustainable for either its own people or the millions of Merkel newcomers. The welcome is over and deportations come top of the political agenda.

Every week, the authorities put migrants on flights to their home countries, some of them the very people greeted by Merkel's supporters waving banners and balloons ten years ago.

The Mail has been shown details of recent deportation flight lists. Earlier this month, at 7am, a group of migrants was put on a government-chartered aircraft leaving Frankfurt for Nigeria and Ghana. A day later, another plane left for Serbia and North Macedonia. There have been multiple flights from various German airports to Iraq, Georgia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, and Moldova.

In August last year came the first flight to Afghanistan carrying away violent criminals, offenders, and terror supporters. Each received £850 in cash to go. The German government used Middle East intermediaries to arrange the deportation with the Taliban. A further 15,000 Afghanis are now listed for deportation, some of them suspected of terror-linked offences.

Our informant added bitterly: 'They also hope to deport Syrians despite their country being in turmoil after the recent coup and the fact they were being invited in first. Germany has become a wolf in sheep's clothing.' In truth, the deportations are mired in legal red tape. The German government this week, showing frustration, threatened to strip asylum seekers' of the right to an immigration lawyer in an effort to remove more – and faster. Alexander Throm, a senior MP in the Chancellor's Christian Democrats party said: 'Many deportations fail due to various legal obstacles.

'Also, if people go into hiding or can't be found, the police may give up trying to arrest them.' German state TV recently aired a compelling documentary on the reality of deportations by following a team from the Foreigners' Authority based in Brandenburg, north-east Germany.
The aim of the film was to assure Germans that action is being taken. However, it also revealed a system that is creaking under the weight of the work.

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O Português não é a língua materna de 3 em cada 10 alunos migrantes.

 

Em cinco anos, o número de alunos estrangeiros nos Ensino Básico e Secundário aumentou mais de 160 por cento. São hoje 140 mil os estudantes inscritos na escola pública, de mais de 187  nacionalidades. No ano letivo 2018/2019 eram 53 mil, representando 5,3% do total de alunos matriculados. Em 2023/2024 já representavam 13,9% do total de alunos do Ensino Básico e Secundário. E para este ano, o ME estima a chegada de mais 20 mil.

Mais de metade dos alunos com nacionalidade estrangeira são brasileiros (52%) e cerca de 7 em cada 10 são da CPLP (72%) - 59 % do total. Brasil, Angola, São Tomé e Príncipe, Índia, Venezuela, Paquistão, Bangladesh, Colômbia, Argentina e Rússia são as nacionalidades com maior aumento de número e percentagem de alunos entre 2018/19 e 2023/24. Em média, as escolas têm alunos de 19 nacionalidades (eram 11 em 2018/2019) e há estabelecimentos com estudantes de 46 nacionalidades. O Português não é a língua materna de 3 em cada 10 alunos migrantes.

Para fazer face a esse “aumento acentuado” de crianças e jovens estrangeiros nas escolas, o ME anunciou várias medidas de “Integração e Sucesso dos Alunos Migrantes”.  A grande novidade face aos anos letivos anteriores é a contratação de mediadores linguísticos e culturais, cujo  impacto orçamental está calculado em 9,5 milhões (45% financiado pelo PESSOAS2030). Assim, chegarão às escolas que recebem mais alunos migrantes 272 mediadores. Será atribuído um mediador por cada 20 alunos (valor para crédito horário ou equivalente financeiro). O foco está nos estudantes recém-chegados ao sistema educativo português, com nacionalidade estrangeira e origem não-CPLP.

PS: Com cerca de 500 mil pedidos de reagrupamento familiar pendentes, e admitindo que cada agregado familiar se compõe apenas da mulher e um filho, será mais um imigrantes em idade escolar. Como é o Ministério da Educação vai conseguir "encaixar" um total de 640 mil estudantes estrangeiros - arranjar professores, salas de aulas, mediadores culturais (3 % dos alunos estrangeiros não falam português)? 

 

 

BBC reporter in Gaza promises to "burn jews like Hitler did"

 

Austrian court allows use of Islamic Sharia law in private contracts

 

In a controversial decision, an Austrian court has ruled Islamic law (Sharia) can be used for arbitration purposes in the European country if the contract parties agree on it.

In the case in question two men had signed a contract which mandated that in case of conflicts an arbitration tribunal would decide “based on Islamic law (Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaah) in accordance with equity in the matter to the best knowledge and belief.”

The term Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaah denotes the Sunni Islamic community. 

After a conflict between the two men arose the arbitration tribunal decided against the plaintiff and required him to pay €320,000. The plaintiff then brought suit before the Vienna Regional Court for Civil Matters. He argued that the application of the Islamic law was arbitrary as scholars interpreted Sharia law differently. Furthermore, invoking Sharia law violated the fundamental values of Austrian law.

The (secular) court, however, found that the decision of the arbitration tribunal was lawful. Whether or not Islamic legal rules were applied here could not be verified, according to the Regional Court. The result of the arbitration tribunal did not contradict Austrian fundamental values, and that was all that mattered. Islamic legal provisions, the Regional Court emphasised, could be “effectively agreed upon in an arbitration agreement” for property claims.

The court ruling has caused a storm of criticism about the supposed further “Islamisation” of Austria.

“This opens the door even wider for political Islam”, Michael Schilchegger, an MP and speaker on constitutional law for the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) wrote in a press statement. “The ruling elevates Islamic parallel societies in Austria and weakens those forces that do not want to submit to Islam. A sad day for the secular constitutional state.”

His party colleague Manfred Haimbuchner echoed the sentiment, writing: “Sharia law is incompatible with the Austrian understanding of law and violates all moral standards that I am familiar with. Unfortunately, our constitutional state is currently powerless against this form of Islam.” 

It is not only right-wingers who are enraged with the court’s ruling. The Turkish Cultural Community (TKG), an association of secular Turks in Austria, protested the decision to recognize the Sharia “as law” and called to attention that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) had decided in 2003 that Sharia law and the resulting introduction of a parallel legal system were forbidden in Europe.

“The Vienna court’s decision is a major intervention, today in the secular economy, tomorrow perhaps in production, service, and sales regulations”, wrote Melissa Günes, the TKG’s general secretary.

 

   

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Aman Bhogal: "As a proud British Indian, my love of the Union Jack is an inconvenient truth for the racist Left"

 

Aman is a living example of Global Britain! Born in the land of the five rivers, Punjab, India. 

Aman made Britain his home aged eight speaking just two words of English. A supercharged life journey growing up on a SE London council estate going onto Grammar school in Bexley, and then to join HM Diplomatic service, working as a foundry engineer, standing for Parliament as a Conservative in GE2015 to campaigning for Vote Leave in 2016 to standing to Get Brexit Done in 2019 as the Conservative MEP candidate for Northern Ireland. 

Aman is a longstanding campaigner for a Global Britain. Leading Team GBC he is determined to levelling up the narrative to drive the conversation of a Global Britain as a force for good.