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    *   Soeren Kern: _Migrant  Rape Epidemic Reaches Austria_ 
(mip://09a88028/default.html#toc_item_7995)   
    *   Lawrence A. Franklin: _Iran  Comes Clean on Banking Problems_ 
(mip://09a88028/default.html#toc_item_7958)   
    *   Raymond Ibrahim: _Should  the U.S. Build an "ISIS Wall"?_ 
(mip://09a88028/default.html#toc_item_7987)  
 
_Migrant  Rape Epidemic Reaches Austria_ 
(http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7995/migrants-rape-austria) 
by Soeren Kern  •   May 5, 2016 at 5:00 am 
    *   A 20-year-old asylum seeker  from Iraq confessed to raping a 
10-year-old boy at a  public swimming pool in Vienna. The Iraqi said the rape  
was 
a "sexual emergency" resulting from "excess sexual  energy." 
    *   Those who dare to link  spiraling crime to Muslim mass migration 
are being  silenced by the guardians of Austrian  multiculturalism. 
    *   According to data compiled by  the Austrian Interior Ministry, 
nearly one out of three  asylum seekers in Vienna was accused of committing  
crimes in 2015. North African gangs fighting for control  over drug trafficking 
were responsible for roughly half  of the 15,828 violent crimes — rapes, 
robberies,  stabbings and assaults — reported in the city during  2015. 
    *   Austria received 90,000 asylum  requests in 2015, the 
second-highest number in the EU on  a per capita basis, but this pales in 
comparison to 
what  may lie ahead. Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka warned  last month 
that up to one million migrants are poised to  cross the Mediterranean from 
Libya to  Europe.
 
 
Left:  The area around Praterstern train station in Vienna is  overrun by 
shiftless migrants from Afghanistan and North  Africa who are selling drugs, 
fighting turf battles and  assaulting female passersby. Police were 
dispatched to the  area 6,265 times in 2015. Right: The left-leaning magazine  
Falter was accused of "blanket discrimination"  against Muslims, after it ran a 
cover with a drawing of  five "light skinned" European women surrounded by 
large  numbers of "dark skinned" Arab males. The image evoked the  mass sexual 
assaults in Cologne on New Year's  Eve.

The  brutal gang rape of a woman by three Afghan asylum seekers  in central 
Vienna on April 22 has shocked the Austrian  public and drawn attention to 
a spike in migrant-related  rapes, sexual assaults and other crimes across 
the  country. 
The  migrant crime wave comes as the anti-immigrant Freedom  Party of 
Austria (FPÖ) has surged in opinion polls. The  party's candidate, Norbert 
Hofer, 
won the first round of  Austria's presidential elections on April 24, and 
is on  track to win the presidency in the second round,  run-off election 
scheduled for May 22. 
The  three Afghans — two 16-year-olds and one 17-year-old —  followed the 
woman, a 21-year-old exchange student, into a  public restroom at the 
Praterstern train station, one of  the main transportation hubs in Vienna. One 
of 
the  migrants held the woman down while the other two took  turns raping 
her. 
_Continue  Reading Article_ 
(http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7995/migrants-rape-austria) 

 
_Iran  Comes Clean on Banking Problems_ 
(http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7958/iran-bank-problems) 
by Lawrence A. Franklin  •  May 5, 2016 at 4:30 am 
    *   Central Bank of Iran (CBI)  governor Seif Valiollah mentioned that 
Iran has a  reputation for not being exactly transparent on  countering 
financial support for terrorist operations.  He further blamed the regime's 
willingness to facilitate  money-laundering schemes as another factor 
discouraging  investment from abroad, and indirectly criticized the  
overweening 
influence of the huge business conglomerates  run by the Islamic Revolutionary 
Guard Corps (IRGC) on  the Iranian economy. 
    *   Nasser Hakimi, another CBI  official blamed Iran's own banks for 
access problems  with the Society for Worldwide International  Transactions 
(SWIFT) network. 
    *   Several of Iran's key banks  had not yet purchased or installed the 
required software  and financial identifier codes that would enable SWIFT  
to become operable in Iran.
 
 


Central  Bank of Iran (CBI) officials have admitted that the  regime's own 
financial policies, and not the United  States, are responsible for some of 
the country's banking  problems. CBI governor Seif Valiollah admitted 
recently  that Tehran's failure to reap more economic benefits from  the JCPOA 
agreement is, at least in part, Iran's own  fault. 
These  revelations by Iran's top banking officials refute charges  by 
Iranian hardliners that the United States has been  orchestrating a toteyeh 
bozoorg ("grand  conspiracy") to deny Iran access to international banking  
networks. 
CBI  officials and others have detailed the shortcomings of  Iran's own 
banking system. These CBI statements challenge  the skewed comments in the 
Iranian press that America's  refusal to grant foreign banks access to U.S 
financial  services is what is responsible for Iran's bank problems.  Some of 
the 
negative commentary came from economists  disappointed with President 
Rouhani's management of the  economy. 
_Continue  Reading Article_ 
(http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7958/iran-bank-problems) 

 
_Should  the U.S. Build an "ISIS Wall"?_ 
(http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7987/isis-mexico-border-wall) 
by Raymond Ibrahim  •  May 5, 2016 at 4:00 am 
    *   "If you really want to protect  Americans from ISIS, you secure the 
southern border.  It's that simple." — Rep. Duncan Hunter. 
    *   The Department of Homeland  Security denied Hunter's claims, called 
them  "categorically false" and added that "no credible  intelligence to 
suggest terrorist organizations are  actively plotting to cross the southwest 
border." Days  later, however, it was confirmed that "4 ISIS  Terrorists" 
were arrested crossing the border into  Texas. 
    *   Under Obama's presidency  alone, 2.5 million illegals have crossed 
the border. And  those are just the ones we know about. How many of these  
are ISIS operatives, sympathizers or facilitators? 
    *   Securing the U.S.-Mexico  border — with an electronic fence, which 
has worked so  effectively in Israel — is more urgent than we  think.
 
 
The  Israeli-built border fence between Israel and Egypt,  completed in 
December 2013, put a complete stop to illegal  infiltration from Egypt into 
Israel. Before the fence was  built, many terrorists, traffickers, and drug 
smugglers  crossed the border each year. (Image source:  Idobi/Wikimedia 
Commons)

Of  all the reasons a majority of Americans support the plan  of 
businessman and U.S. presidential candidate Donald  Trump to "build a wall" 
along the 
U.S.-Mexico border,  perhaps the most critical is to avoid letting 
terrorists  into the country. Drugs enter, the victims of traffickers  enter, 
but the 
most imminent danger comes from operatives  of the Islamic State (ISIS) and 
like-minded groups that  are trying to use this porous border as a way to 
smuggle  weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) into the United States  and 
launch terror attacks that could make 9/11 seem like a  morning in May.
Just  last week, "One of the American men accused in Minnesota  of trying 
to join the Islamic State group wanted to open  up routes from Syria to the 
U.S. through Mexico... Guled  Ali Omar told the ISIS members about the route 
so that it  could be used to send members to America to carry out  terrorist 
attacks, prosecutors alleged in a document." 
_Continue  Reading Article_ 
(http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7987/isis-mexico-border-wall) 

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