5 Muslims Sentenced with slap on the wrist for Amsterdam Pogrom

 

Individual details of the first 5 men charged with taking part in the Jodenjacht – “Jew Hunt” – Amsterdam Pogrom. The five Muslim are accused of playing a role in “hit-and-run” style attacks on Jews  in a burst of violence condemned in the Netherlands and elsewhere as antisemitic. During the violence, Jews were forced to hide in their hotels and later fled the city under heavy protection.

Islam in the West. The pogroms in Amsterdam has ignited a frenzy of Jew hatred and bloodlust.

The Netherlands had the the highest number of Jewish Holocaust victims in Western Europe. More than 90% of Dutch Jews perished in the Holocaust. It was incumbent upon them to do better. They are monsters. They learned nothing.

In Amsterdam City Centre on November 1th1 and early hours of December 7, 2024. Sentencing took place on yesterday, December 24, 2024

❌ Sefa O
❌ Lucas D
❌ Rachid O
❌ Karavan S
❌ Umutcan A

Sefa O

Received the heaviest sentence: 6 months in prison for public violence against several people.

The prosecution had requested 2 years in prison.

Identified via camera images & could not deny that he had abused several people.

Lucas D

Convicted of public violence. Sentenced to 100 hours community service order. 19-years-old.

Part of Snapchat group that called for violence. In possession of illegal fireworks.

Observer had seen him throw stones at police van.
Rachid O

Sentenced to 10 weeks in prison.

Wrote to over 900 members of an app:

“I might never get this chance to beat up f***ing Jews again”.

“Haven’t any Jews died or been stabbed? In critical condition or in the ICU?”

Also asked people to share locations of Jews.

Karavan S

Mainly active in an app group. Sentenced to one month in prison.

Works in a hotel. Sent information about where the Israeli football fans were staying & which flights they would take.

Considered an accomplice.

Umutcan A

Committed violence against 3 people. Kicked someone in the face.

In text messages, he spoke about “hunting Jews”. From the Hague.

Sentence to 1 month in prison. Prosecution had demanded 8 months.

Also revealed today:

❎ Any time spent in pre-trial detention will be deducted from any sentence.

❎ Their trials took place on 11/12 & 12/12 at the Amsterdam district court.

❎ It was not an official fast-track trial, but it is exceptionally fast.

❎ The cases against two suspects were postponed.

❎ A 22-year-old identified as Abushabab M., 22, faces a charge of attempted murder but his case has been postponed while he undergoes a psychiatric assessment. He was born in the Gaza Strip and grew up in a war zone, his lawyer told the court, while M. sat sobbing as his case was being heard.

❎ A further six suspects are set to appear at a later stage. Three of these suspects are minors and their cases will be heard behind closed doors.

❎ Of the five suspects, only Lucas D. came to the verdict. The rest preferred to stay home, because they find all the media attention ‘uncomfortable’.

❎ Police said they were investigating at least 45 people over the violence.

❎ The prosecutor said the beatings had “little to do with soccer” but added that “in this case, there was no evidence of… a terrorist intent and the violence was not motivated by antisemitic sentiment. The violence was influenced by the situation in Gaza, not by antisemitism.”

Dutch court hands Amsterdam ‘Jew hunt’ attackers prison terms topping out at 6 months

A Dutch court has convicted five people of taking part in violence against Israeli soccer fans last month, handing them sentences ranging from six months in prison to community service.

The five men are accused of playing a role in “hit-and-run” style attacks on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans and others, in a burst of violence condemned in the Netherlands and elsewhere as antisemitic. During the violence, Israelis were forced to hide in their hotels and later fled the city under heavy protection.

The judge hands a 32-year-old identified as Sefa O., who prosecutors said played a “leading role” in the violence, the largest sentence: six months in prison, minus time served in custody already. Images shown in court had shown the man kicking a person on the ground, chasing others and punching people in the head and the body.

Another man, Umutcan A., is handed an eight-month sentence for assaulting fans, though three of the months are suspended. He had also been accused of spreading messages online calling for a “Jew hunt.”

Another convict, Rashid O. is handed a 10-week sentence after he was convicted of spreading messages online glorifying violence against Jews, while a second person, Karavan S. who was also active online, is handed a one-month sentence.

A minor named as Lucas D. is given only 100 hours of community service after the court determines that his actions were closer to soccer hooliganism than an antisemitic pogrom.

A further six suspects are set to appear at a later stage, including one man accused of attempted murder who is undergoing a psychiatric evaluation.

https://gellerreport.com/2024/12/violent-muslims-convicted-in-jew-hunt-get-slap-on-the-wrist.html/

The shocking disorder on the streets of the Dutch capital was more than another outbreak of hooliganism, but anti-Semitic thuggery and intimidation on a very troubling scale

A Maccabi Tel Aviv fan on the floor after being attacked by thugs

Aaron from Hendon was surrounded by a violent gang of 10 after intervening 

Pro-Palestinian supporters wave Palestinian flags near the Ajax stadium 

Demonstrators running with Palestinian flags at Anton de Komplein in Amsterdam

Pally hitting someone with a stick during a violent confrontation

Leftist Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema making excuses

An El Al aircraft lands on the tarmac at Schiphol Airport near Amsterdam, as the Israeli government prepared to evacuate citizens following attacks on football fans

Relieved to be home: A fan of the Israeli football club Maccabi Tel-Aviv is met by a family member at Ben Gurion International Airport 

Saladin in History

But Why Saladin? The West’s Low Standard Bar for Islam

12/24/2024 by Raymond Ibrahim

We recently discussed the concept of Fake History in the context of Saladin (1137-1193), the Muslim hero who conquered Jerusalem from the Crusaders. We saw how, on the one hand, Westerners have long presented him as a paragon of virtue, moderation, and magnanimity; on the other — and in reality — he was the quintessential “Muslim extremist”: Saladin oppressed and persecuted the Christian minorities under his rule, tarred and destroyed their churches, and did everything that modern “radicals” do. Indeed, the choreographed videos of ISIS members carving off the heads of their victims is straight from Saladin’s playbook.

In short, we saw that Saladin is a prime example of the way Fake History is used to obfuscate: If, as many Westerners are led to believe, Saladin was moderate and magnanimous, then clearly ISIS and other “radicals” are the aberration to the religious norm. (Conversely, if you know the truth about Saladin then, ISIS appears rather mainstream for Islam — hence why so much Fake History is promulgated.)

Yet one question remains: Why Saladin? Of all the Muslim sultans that the West could have heroized, why him?

As we shall see, the answer to this question is important above and beyond the person of Saladin, as it reveals the West’s desperate approach of always trying to find the good in Islam.

Baybars the Barbarian

First, the reason Saladin is extolled in the West is simply because he was better than most other Muslims. Although Saladin did engage in “radical” and “extremist” behavior, he also regularly kept his word with the Crusaders and sometimes behaved magnanimously (for example, by allowing old and decrepit Christians to go free without a ransom first being paid). Such behavior is a far cry from that of other Muslim sultans, who regularly broke their word and never showed mercy.

Take Baybars (1223-1277), the Mamluk sultan whom most Muslims see as a second Saladin: both popularized the cause of jihad and scored several important victories against the Crusaders, coming very close to completely ejecting them from the Holy Land.

Not only was Baybars responsible for the greatest atrocity to occur during the Crusades’ two-century-long history in the Holy Land — the sack of the kingdom of Antioch in 1268 — but he gloated over it in a letter to the Christians:

You would have seen your knights prostrated beneath the horses’ hooves, your houses stormed by pillagers and ransacked by looters…your women sold four at a time and bought for a dinar of your [own] money! You would have seen the crosses in your churches smashed, the pages of the false Testaments scattered, the Patriarchs’ tombs overturned. You would have seen your Muslim enemy trampling on the place where you celebrate the mass, cutting the throats of monks, priests, and deacons upon the altars… You would have seen fire running through your palaces, your dead burned… [and] your churches pulled down and destroyed.

Like many other sultans — but unlike Saladin — Baybars also regularly employed treachery against the Crusaders. On multiple occasions, after besieging Crusader fortresses he would offer peaceful terms only to renege once the Christians accepted. He did this in 1265 and 1266 when besieging the fortresses of Arsuf and Safad, respectively. In both cases, the defending knights were vastly outnumbered and, in order to save the panicked civilians holed up alongside them, accepted Baybars’s terms of surrender, which included the safe evacuation of the Christian population.

And in both cases, once the Christians emerged, the treacherous sultan double-crossed and had everyone either slaughtered or enslaved. An account of what happened in Safad follows:

The knights accepted [Baybars’s terms] and opened the castle gates, whereupon the sultan offered them a choice of Islam or death. Next morning, when they were paraded outside the walls to give their answer, the castellan stepped forward, begging his brethren not to apostatize. Baybars had him skinned alive and the brethren decapitated, after which he decorated his new possession with their rotting heads.

As for the Christian civilians holed up in Safad, Baybars ordered all 2,000 of them ritually slaughtered. The Templar of Tyre offers more details on this breach of trust:

[Baybars] swore to conduct them in good faith to Acre, safe and secure, so they came out of the castle … [at which point] he had them all seized and conducted some distance from Safad, to a small hillock about half a league away, and there he put them to death, beheaded. Then he had a circular wall erected around them, and their bones and heads may still be seen.

Such was the conduct of the Muslim world’s “second Saladin” — the one you probably never heard of (and for obvious reason).

The Bar Is Lying on the Ground

And therein lies the answer to the Saladin riddle: Because he did not behave this way, but rather kept his word with the Crusaders, Saladin has become something of an anomaly in the Western consciousness — a paragon of Muslim virtue, an example of hope for the Muslim world.

In reality, of course, and compared to many a Christian leader, Saladin’s behavior was not all that remarkable. Countless Crusaders and others made — and kept — pacts with Muslims and others, though they are little remembered for it. After all, among Christians, keeping one’s word was expected and a societal norm.

But because so many Muslims did not keep their word, behaving more like Baybars than Saladin, the latter, though still “radical,” was catapulted in Christian eyes, becoming something far greater than he really was. Indeed, in the Christian imagination, desperate as it was (and still is) to find Muslims to extol, this same Saladin who ordered the beheading of Christians who would not embrace Islam was eventually seen and presented as a “chivalrous knight.”

Now, consider how this phenomenon is still at work. Western people regularly point to this or that Muslim person or institution as an example of “moderation,” when in reality, their supposed moderation is a matter of degree: by Western standards they are still “radical”; but because they are less radical than, say, ISIS, they have become, for the desperate West, paragons of moderation.

One need look no further than to the Muslim world’s most prestigious institution of learning, Al Azhar in Egypt, and its sheikh, Ahmed al-Tayeb, to see this at work. Although that university and its head have said and promoted much of what ISIS says and does, they have also made some diplomatic overtures — for example, hosting and signing papers about “fraternity” with Pope Francis. Because of this, they are hailed as “moderates.”

In short, the bar has been set so low for Muslims that standard social behavior has become cause for celebration.

https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2024/12/24/but-why-saladin-the-wests-low-standard-bar-for-islam/

The Pager Bomb Plot

Israel pager bomb plot was a DECADE in the making: Former Mossad agents reveal full scale and details of the plot that hit Hezbollah

Two former Israeli intelligence officials have revealed how the plot to embed Hezbollah's walkie-talkies and pagers with explosives was 10 years in the making. 

Over two days in September, Israel detonated thousands of handheld communication devices used by the terror group killing at least 42 people and injuring at least 4,000 people. 

Victims of the simultaneous explosions plot, which was carried out by Mossad and is understood to have been done on the orders of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, lost limbs, hands and the use of their eyes. 

Two former Mossad agents told CBS news that Hezbollah unwittingly bought over 16,000 of the walkie-talkies 'at a good price' from a fake company it controlled that was named after a real Taiwanese company, Gold Apollo, more than 10 years ago following an aggressive marketing campaign at the time, while around 5,000 pagers were bought around two years ago. 

Hezbollah, which has long been an enemy of Israel, used the low-grade pieces of tech to communicate with their fighters in order to avoid intelligence gathering by its foes. 

One of the agents, who CBS called Gabriel, said: 'When they are buying from us, they have zero clue that they are buying from the Mossad. We make like [the movie] Truman Show, everything is controlled by us behind the scene.'

His fellow ex-Mossad officer, who CBS called Michael, added: 'We have an incredible array of possibilities of creating foreign companies that have no way of being traced back to Israel. Shell companies over shell companies to affect the supply chain to our favour.

'We create a pretend world. We are a global production company. We write the screenplay, we're the directors, we're the producers, we're the main actors, and the world is our stage.'

One Mossad agent (pictured) said Hezbollah had no idea they were buying modified communication devices from Israel

At least 42 people were killed in the pager explosions in September

Gabriel said that each device only had enough explosive in them to hurt the users. 

'We test everything triple, double, multiple times in order to make sure there is minimum damage.' 

Mossad ensured the ringtone was urgent enough to compel the user to check the devices moments before they blew up. 

After succeeding with its plan to embed explosives in the walkie talkies, and seeing that Hezbollah was in the market for pagers, Mossad decided to up the ante, according to the Washington Post. 

The shadowy spy agency bought up masses of Taiwanese Apollo-branded pagers, piggybacking off a recognised trademark and product line with worldwide distribution and no discernible links to Israeli or Jewish interests that might've aroused Hezbollah's suspicions. 

The sales pitch to Hezbollah came from a marketing official trusted by the group with links to Apollo, whose name was not disclosed by the sources the Post spoke to. 

She sold the terror group the AR924 model, according to an Israeli official: 'She was the one in touch with Hezbollah, and explained to them why the bigger pager with the larger battery was better than the original model.'

One of the main selling points about the AR924 was that it was 'possible to charge with a cable. And the batteries were longer lasting,' the official said.

Mossad's pagers, which weighed less than three ounces each, held a battery pack that carried a tiny amount of a powerful explosive, enough to cause severe damage. 

Remnants of a pager carried by a Lebanese militant that detonated

Explosions rocked Lebanon to its core in mid-September

At least 40 people were killed, and thousands more injured, in Lebanon across two days in mid-September after Israel set off explosives that were embedded within communication devices

Photo taken on Sept. 18, 2024 shows a wireless communication device in the hand of a Hezbollah member, the battery of which was removed after a wireless communication device exploded during a funeral, in Beirut, Lebanon

The bomb-battery component was reportedly so carefully hidden that it evaded Hezbollah's attempts to disassemble and analyse the devices.  

Another trick up Mossad's sleeve was to ensure that the signal to trigger the explosives required two hands to use. 

The pagers had a special 'encrypted messages' function that could only be accessed if the user was holding the device with both hands, which Mossad used as cover for the instruction to detonate the explosive. 

In the ensuing explosion, the users would almost certainly 'wound both their hands,' an official said, and thus 'would be incapable to fight.'

Thousands were killed and injured in the pager explosions

Scenes posted to X as scores of Hezbollah members were severely injured by pager explosions that Hezbollah had used throughout southern Lebanon

The pager and walkie-talkie detonations brought Hezbollah to its knees, and last month it signed a ceasefire deal with Israel to end the bitter war. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14221505/Israel-pager-bomb-plot-DECADE-making-Former-Mossad-agents-reveal-scale-details-plot-humiliated-Hezbollah.html

A police officer inspects a car in which a hand-held pager exploded, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024

The stunning incident saw scores of Hezbollah members severely injured throughout southern Lebanon and in its capital Beirut

Chaotic scenes inside hospitals in Lebanon were seen following the blasts

Police officers inspect a car inside of which a hand-held pager exploded, Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024

Lebanon's crisis operations centre, which is run by the health ministry, asked all medical workers to head to their respective hospitals to help cope with the massive numbers of wounded coming in for urgent care

The sudden and unexpected detonations gave way to widespread panic and chaos

Civil Defence first-responders carry a wounded man whose handheld pager exploded at al-Zahraa hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024

People gather outside a hospital, as more than 3,000 people, including Hezbollah fighters and medics, were wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon, according to a security source, in Beirut, Lebanon September 17, 2024

Mojtaba Amani, the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, lost an eye when a pager exploded in his face during the deadly pocket bomb attack which tore through the country

A walkie-talkie that exploded inside a house, in Baalbek, east Lebanon

Explosions occurred in radio equipment across the country and south of the capital Beirut

Pictures from inside a residential building showing blast damage

Flames rise up in a building in Lebanon amid the explosions

Lebanese soldiers gather outside a damaged mobile shop after a walkie-talkie exploded inside it, in the southern port city of Sidon

Smoke billows from a house in Baalbek in east Lebanon after an explosion