Monday, October 30, 2006

Severely burned French woman between life and death as spate of bus-burning continues. Official reason: Social deprivation!
THE TELEGRAPH: Riot police reinforcements were deployed in Marseille last night after the latest outbreak of urban violence in France left a young woman in a critical condition with life-threatening burns.

President Jacques Chirac expressed his horror at the attack hours after the 26-year-old woman and three others were ambushed by rioting teenagers while travelling on a bus in the southern port city.

The assailants – said by some witnesses to be as young as 15 – forced the vehicle's doors open, spilled flammable liquid inside, and set it alight.

There were similar attacks in major cities across the country at the weekend, just hours after the passing of the anniversary of the rioting and car-burning that brought terror to urban areas last year. Chirac's horror as woman burnt in riot

La violence tourne au drame à Marseille

In Marseille haben die Anschläge eine neue Dimension erreicht
Mark Alexander

Sunday, October 29, 2006

Ayaan Hirsi Ali's thoughts on Muslim women
Ayaan Hirsi Ali lives under a death threat for daring to challenge the Islamic patriarchy and says the West must support women like her if it wants to spread freedom

Ideas can be dangerous. I have learnt that the hard way. But I know that when it comes to freedom and human rights these precious ideas, so valued in the West, are worth fighting for. As a young Muslim woman, born in Somalia, I abandoned my family to avoid an arranged marriage to a distant cousin and fled to Holland. I was just 23 and I had no idea back then that my refusal to submit to a traditional Muslim woman’s life would come to dominate my whole career.

So for me, the debate that is raging about the veil, particularly the niqab, which covers most of the woman’s face save for the eyes, goes to the very heart of the matter of liberty for Islamic women. Not just freedom for its own sake, but from a life of repression, subordination and violence.
Muslim women are the key to change
Mark Alexander

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Osama bin Laden’s terror tactics are heinous and despicable; but are all of his objectives so terrible for the West?

Five years have now passed since 9/11, but we are no closer now to winning the “War on Terror” than we were on day one after the ruthless and cruel tragedy on that sunny September day in New York.

There are some very good reasons for this. One of them is the determination of Western leaders not to identify and name the enemy. Without identifying and naming the enemy - Islam in this case - then no significant achievements can be made in the war in which we are engaged.

With each passing day, we are able to read stories of appeasement of the enemy. Indeed, our political élite is going out of its way to make Muslims feel at home in the West, out of its way to make excuses for Muslims, out of its way to apologize for Muslims, out of its way to inform the electorate that Islam is a ‘religion of peace’ and love. In fact, President Bush bends over backwards to appease Muslims in America and throughout the world. Just look at the Iftaar banquets held in the White House for prominent Muslims in the States and from throughout the Islamic world. And read the statements that Bush has recently made on the occasions of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr:
"I send greetings to the many Muslims observing Ramadan in America and around the world.

Ramadan is the holiest time of the Muslim year and an important holiday when Muslims take time for prayer, fasting, and personal sacrifice. According to Islamic teachings, this month represents when God delivered His word to the prophet Muhammad in the form of the Qur'an. Ramadan is also an opportunity to gather with friends and family and show thanks for God's blessings through works of charity.

Ramadan and the upcoming holiday seasons are a good time to remember the common values that bind us together. Our society is enriched by our Muslim citizens whose commitment to faith reminds us of the gift of religious freedom in our country.

Laura and I send our best wishes for a blessed Ramadan. Ramadan Mubarak." - GEORGE W. BUSH
Then there’s this message sent to Muslims on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr:
October 20, 2006

"I send greetings to Muslims in the United States and around the world celebrating Eid al-Fitr.

Islam is a great faith that has transcended racial and ethnic divisions and brought hope and comfort to many people. Throughout Ramadan, Muslims have fasted to focus their minds on faith and to direct their hearts to charity. Eid al-Fitr marks the completion of this holy month with the Festival of Breaking the Fast. During this joyous celebration, Muslims thank God for his guidance and blessings by gathering with family and friends, sharing traditional foods, and showing compassion to those in need.

America is strengthened by the countless contributions of our Muslim citizens, and we value our ties with Muslim nations throughout the world. For people of all faiths, Eid al-Fitr is an opportunity to reflect on the values we share and the friendships that bind all who trace their faith back to God's call to Abraham.

Laura and I send our best wishes for a joyous Eid and for health, happiness, and prosperity in the year ahead. Eid Mubarak.

GEORGE W. BUSH"
By now, it should be becoming increasingly obvious to all thinking people that there is something going on behind the scenes. There is more to this than meets the eye. It is becoming increasingly obvious that Western leaders are in cahoots with Muslims, especially Gulf Arabs who have the petrodollars which Western governments are so determined to get back into Western economies, and perhaps also into their pockets!

For those petrodollars, there are no limits to the depths to which our leaders will sink. No price is too high for the likes of Blair and Bush. The Saudi royal family have become like ‘brothers’ to them. The money must be rolling in!

Only today, I read on Jihad Watch that Georgetown University is in receipt of $20 million from Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal. Muslims, especially rich ones, are buying influence everywhere in the West.

Then we have CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, backing Keith Ellison as a Democratic representative who could well become the first Muslim in Congress. The backing money for the funding can surely also be traced back to Saudi Arabia. And so it goes on, both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

I think we are deluding ourselves if we continue to think that this problem is one merely of ignorance on the part of our political representatives. It must be obvious to all of us by now that there is something quite sinister going on at the top! As I have said so many times before, rich Muslim Arabs are buying up our businesses, and they are funding Islamic schools and Islamic propagation centres too. In addition, tens of millions of dollars are being spent on proseltyzing literature for the purpose of daw’ah.

This, it would now seem, is not a problem of ignorance; rather, it is a problem of the enormous amounts of money changing hands at the very top of our societies. Isn’t it true to say that too many people at the top of Western political and business life are making far too much money from rich Muslim Arabs even to contemplate changing course?

Depressing as it is to think about this, it must be faced. I stated in my book, The Dawning of a New Dark Age, that régime change in Saudi Arabia might be a blessing in disguise for the West. I stand firm behind my idea.

The way things are going with the powers that be here in the West, and the way that the House of Saud has successfully bought influence in the States and the United Kingdom, and in many other Western countries besides, then it is difficult to see how, in the long term, Western civilization can survive. This is an onslaught of colossal proportions. Our leaders are certainly not going to stop this scramble for the petrodollar. To me, it seems that our only hope is for a new world order.

Osama bin Laden objects to American and Western influence in Saudi Arabia in particular, and in the Arab world in general. In fact, it is one of his main gripes. Don’t we object to the increasing influence of Islam in Western countries too? Are his objectives and ours that different? Aren’t they opposite sides of the same coin? Would it, perhaps, be true to say that were Osama bin Laden to manage to bring about régime change in Saudi Arabia that we would also have a chance of saving Western civilization from the onslaught of Islam? And wouldn’t it be the irony of ironies if the very man we despise so much were to bring about the conditions necessary for the survival of the West?

Is Osama bin Laden our only hope of change at the top, I wonder? And are his objectives really so terrible for the West? If our leaders won’t change, then maybe Osama bin Laden is the one to force change upon them. For indeed, were there to be the kind of Saudi Arabia that he envisions, we would surely know who our real enemies are.

©Mark Alexander*

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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

When the Mediæval meets the Modern, when the Orient meets the Occident
HUMAN EVENTS: It is necessary once in a while to clear the decks on a given issue, to discard the accumulated rhetoric and concepts and start afresh. As we enter the sixth year of the War on Terror, such a fresh start is desperately needed.

Today’s statesmen and commentators —left, right, and center—have so far demonstrated themselves incapable of bringing clarity to the world situation. To them, the world today appears hopelessly complicated: wars in Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan and Somalia; Iran in pursuit of atomic weapons; unrest in the streets of Europe; terrorism worldwide. The problem is that the modern political view of the world is now being confronted with something that does not fit into its theoretical framework, something that is fundamentally not modern: the return of Islam to the world stage. Islam's Growth Requires New Thinking by Greogory Davis
Mark Alexander
Eid al-Fitr: The President's Message

How appropriate is it for the President of the United States of America to send Eid greetings to Muslims throughout the world when Muslims are the very people who are trying to destroy our civilization, and when Muslims are the very people who NEVER return the compliment at Christmas?
October 20, 2006

"I send greetings to Muslims in the United States and around the world celebrating Eid al-Fitr.

Islam is a great faith that has transcended racial and ethnic divisions and brought hope and comfort to many people. Throughout Ramadan, Muslims have fasted to focus their minds on faith and to direct their hearts to charity. Eid al-Fitr marks the completion of this holy month with the Festival of Breaking the Fast. During this joyous celebration, Muslims thank God for his guidance and blessings by gathering with family and friends, sharing traditional foods, and showing compassion to those in need.

America is strengthened by the countless contributions of our Muslim citizens, and we value our ties with Muslim nations throughout the world. For people of all faiths, Eid al-Fitr is an opportunity to reflect on the values we share and the friendships that bind all who trace their faith back to God's call to Abraham.

Laura and I send our best wishes for a joyous Eid and for health, happiness, and prosperity in the year ahead. Eid Mubarak.

GEORGE W. BUSH"


Presidential Message: Eid al-Fitr
Mark Alexander
Serious Fraud Office widens investigations into alleged corruption at BAE Systems
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BBC: The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has widened its investigation into corruption allegations at UK defence giant BAE Systems.

Together with Ministry of Defence Police, the SFO raided three business addresses and a home earlier this week.

The SFO said the raids were not related to existing inquiries into BAE defence contracts in Romania and Saudi Arabia.

It is already investigating claims that BAE made secret payments to cement arms deals with those countries. Probe into BAE arms deals widens

Riddle of sheik's £100m secret fund

Arms firm's £60m slush fund

Saudi bomb victim's torture ordeal - and Britain's silence
Mark Alexander

Monday, October 23, 2006

The veil controversy spirals out of control. Now Italy has its problems with the Islamic mask
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BBC: An Italian politician will be given police protection following comments she made about the Islamic veil on television.

The MP, Daniela Santanche, from the right wing National Alliance, said the veil was not required by the Koran.

She was labelled an infidel by an imam appearing on the same programme and there are now fears for her safety.

Daniela Santanche recently published a critical book on living conditions for Muslim women called Woman Denied. Protection for Italy veil row MP
Mark Alexander
Infidels fear the spread of Islam, says Saudi cleric

Certainly, we people who do not adhere to the faith of Islam fear its spread in the free world. And rightly so. Unfortunately, we are being led by craven politicians who either do not understand Islam, are making too much money from the oil-rich Gulf, or are simply too craven to face the threat head-on. The result is there for all too see: Islam is growing apace in the West, and nobody has the courage to do anything about it.

Bush and Blair's ridiculous policy of trying to bring democracy to Iraq is coming to a sad end. They have busied themselves on a mission which was destined to end in failure, while all the while we are losing our democracy at home. I have consistently stated that to try and bring democracy to the Middle East is a grave error of policy and judgment. One cannot bring democracy to a people who are semi-literate (the illiteracy rate in the Arab world is very high), and further, one cannot bring democracy to a part of the world where the 'religion' of Islam prevails. Islam, as I have said so many times before, is totally and utterly incompatible with the Western notion of liberal democracy.

Islam neither understands nor allows the separation of politics and religion. In Islam the mosque and state are ONE. Moreover, in Islam, all power rests with Allah, and filters down to the people via his vice-gerents here on earth, and then filters down further to the people. In democracy, all power rests with the people and filters up to the leader(s). This circle cannot be squared, however much anyone tries.

Instead of trying to bring democracy to the Middle East, where in any case it is considered a Western concept of government to be viewed with suspicion by all good Muslims, it would have been far better and far more prudent for Bush and Blair to have expended their energy ensuring that democracy at home remained safe for future generations.

This has not been done; and this is why we are in the mess we are in vis-à-vis the growing strength of Islam here in the West.

©Mark Alexander

JOKE OF THE WEEK: In a Eid message, Saudi Arabia's king and crown prince urged Muslims to follow Prophet Mohammad's "message of love, forgiveness, mercy, unity and goodness."
WASHINGTON POST: RIYADH (Reuters) - A prominent Saudi cleric said on Monday that Pope Benedict's controversial remarks on Islam came from vexation at the spread of the Muslim faith. Saudi cleric says West fearful of spread of Islam
MIDDLE EAST TIMES: MECCA, Saudi Arabia -- Fear of the spread of Islam in non-Muslim countries motivates attacks on Muslims in the West, the imam of Islam's holiest shrine told worshipers celebrating Eid Al Fitr feast Monday.

"Did you wonder why this issue is raised every now and then?" Sheikh Saleh Bin Humaid, who also heads the Saudi-appointed Shura (consultative) Council, asked at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, western Saudi Arabia.

He was referring to controversial remarks by Pope Benedict XVI last month in which he cited a fourteenth-century Christian emperor who said that Islam's Prophet Mohammed had brought the world "evil and inhuman" practices "such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."

The issue "was raised only because the hearts of observers among the adversaries are filled with resentment over the spread of this faith and its overcoming of all borders, barriers, and blocks in all eras and under all circumstances," Bin Humaid said. Non-Muslims fear expansion of Islam, says Mecca imam
Mark Alexander
Britain's Politicians choose dhimmitude over courage in fight over niqab
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THE TELEGRAPH: Britain's first Muslim comedian is being sent to India by the British Council to make jokes about the veil.

The aim of the trip by Shazia Mirza, which is expected to cost about £2,000, is to show that Britain is a free and civilised society and to build bridges with Muslims.

Miss Mirza, 30, has been told she can make jokes about the burkha but has been advised "not to upset Muslims in India".

Miss Mirza came to prominence immediately after September 11 when audiences were unsure how to react to her introduction. Wearing a hejab, she would say: "My name's Shazia Mirza — at least, that's what it says on my pilot's licence."

News of her trip came as politicians backed an appeal yesterday to end the "polarising" row over Muslim veils after the head of Britain's race relations watchdog warned that it could trigger race riots. Comic is sent abroad to joke about the veil
Mark Alexander

Sunday, October 22, 2006

Civil unrest likely in UK
THE SUNDAY TIMES: THE head of Britain’s race relations watchdog has warned there will be “fire” on the streets unless growing racial tensions can be resolved.

Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, says divisions created by the recent row about Muslim women wearing the veil risk becoming “the trigger for the grim spiral that produced riots in the north of England five years ago. Only this time the conflict could be much worse”.

In what will be seen as his swansong before he becomes head of the new Commission for Equality and Human Rights, Phillips says: “All the recent evidence shows that we are, as a society, becoming more socially polarised by race and faith . . . In many of our cities things cannot get any worse.”

His warning is made in an article in The Sunday Times today about the need for a “civilised” debate on race. He paints a picture of a society whose institutions appear to be helpless in the face of mounting racial conflict. Race boss warns of ‘fire’ on streets
Mark Alexander
The pro-Muslim, anti-American bias of the trashy BBC
THE SUNDAY MAIL: It was the day that a host of BBC executives and star presenters admitted what critics have been telling them for years: the BBC is dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals who are biased against Christianity and in favour of multiculturalism.

A leaked account of an 'impartiality summit' called by BBC chairman Michael Grade, is certain to lead to a new row about the BBC and its reporting on key issues, especially concerning Muslims and the war on terror.

It reveals that executives would let the Bible be thrown into a dustbin on a TV comedy show, but not the Koran, and that they would broadcast an interview with Osama Bin Laden if given the opportunity. Further, it discloses that the BBC's 'diversity tsar', wants Muslim women newsreaders to be allowed to wear veils when on air. We are biased, admit the stars of BBC News
Mark Alexander
Sweden's tough Muslim minister turns on veil
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THE SUNDAY TIMES: THE latest media darling of Scandinavian politics is not only black, beautiful and Muslim; she is also firmly against the wearing of the veil.

Nyamko Sabuni, 37, has caused a storm as Sweden’s new integration and equality minister by arguing that all girls should be checked for evidence of female circumcision; arranged marriages should be criminalised; religious schools should receive no state funding; and immigrants should learn Swedish and find a job.

Supporters of the centre-right government that came to power last month believe that her bold rejection of cultural diversity may make her a force for change across Europe. Her critics are calling her a hardliner and even an Islamophobe.

“I am neither,” she said in an interview. “My aim is to integrate immigrants. One is to ensure they grow up just as any other child in Sweden would.” Sweden's Muslim minister turns on veil
Mark Alexander
Government in danger of losing "battle of ideas"

If Tony Blair needs proof of the failure of his open-door policy on immigration, here it is:
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: John Reid has issued a dire warning that the Government risks losing the "battle of ideas" with al-Qaeda.

The Home Secretary spoke out at an emergency meeting of ministers and security officials amid an ever-growing threat from home-grown Islamist terror groups.

He called for an urgent but controversial escalation in the propaganda war and said al-Qaeda's so-called "single extremist narrative" was proving ever more attractive to young British Muslims.

The Government needed to do much more to win the "battle of ideas", Mr Reid said. The meeting came as ministers — including Jack Straw, Ruth Kelly and Phil Woolas — started to take a much more aggressive stance against radical Islam.

Ministers have told The Sunday Telegraph that 30 terror plots are being investigated and that 1,500 young Muslims — many more than previously estimated — are suspects. Al-Qaeda is winning the war of ideas, says Reid
Mark Alexander

Saturday, October 21, 2006

Britain should ban the veil!
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DAILY EXPRESS: PRESSURE was mounting last night for veils to be banned in Britain – just as they are in some Muslim countries.

And rebels plotting fresh court protests were given a blunt warning by lawmakers: "Carry on, and we will bar you."

The threat came amid a public outcry over the costs being racked up by teaching assistant Aishah Azmi as her lawyers, funded by taxpayers, continued their fight for her right to wear a veil in class.

Daily Express readers responded in massive numbers to a poll on the crisis, with 99 per cent calling for the veil to be banned in schools, increasing pressure on the Government to act.

A ban would see Britain following many of its European neighbours, along with predominantly Muslim countries like Turkey and Tunisia in outlawing traditional Islamic headscarves in public schools and buildings. Ban it!
Mark Alexander
Even the tolerant British have their limits

The otherwise tolerant British do indeed have their limits! The veil stretches it to breaking point. The Muslim community would be wise not to push the British too far. There could be a backlash. That we have given these people a home when they might otherwise be living in far less salubrious surroundings is not something that they should overlook in arrogance.

If Muslims wonder why so many ordinary folk feel uncomfortable in their presence, then they need to start doing a spot of introspection. Muslims are past masters in putting the blame for their woes on others, expecially 'infidels'. In this regard, they are indeed arrogant, and, dare I say it, rather immature. If a normal person is disliked by someone else, then he will sit down and analyze whether he is doing something wrong. Not so the Muslim!

In the leader in today's Telegraph, it is suggested that there is a process of Arabisation of British Muslims going on. There is; and there is one simple answer as to why. It is going on because Islam is Arabo-centric. Having to toleratw this Arabisation is the price we pay for having so many Muslims in our midst. Take the Arabisation out of Islam, and what does one have left? Islam is nothing if not Arabo-centric. It was born in the heat of the desert. It is tribal in nature and Bedouin in outlook. Its propensity to savagery stems from there. As does its treatment of women.

©Mark Alexander
THE TELEGRAPH: Shahid Malik, the Labour MP for Dewsbury, spoke for almost the entire nation yesterday when he told Aisha Azmi – the Muslim teaching assistant suspended for wearing a veil – "to just let this thing go". An employment tribunal has rightly rejected Mrs Azmi's case for unfair dismissal, though – absurdly – it has awarded her damages for "victimisation" by her local council. Now is indeed the time for her to drop the matter, though, needless to say, she intends to take her case to a "higher court". (Radical Muslims in Britain are quick to explore legal avenues that are not open to Christians in the countries they admire.)

Mrs Azmi's unreasonable demands, coupled with Jack Straw's bold comments about the intimidating aspects of the full-face veil, have forced the British public to think carefully about the presence of Muslim ghettos and Islamic fundamentalists in our society. A clear conclusion has emerged. As a nation, we feel that our tolerance is being stretched to the limit. The veil stretches our tolerance to its limits
Mark Alexander

Friday, October 20, 2006

Alert! Dhimmitude from the Spanish government!
BBC: The Spanish government, Catholic Church and Muslim leaders have joined forces to publish a school textbook on Islam.

The book Discovering Islam - for primary school children - was written in Spanish by a Muslim leader.

Spanish officials say the book has no parallel among Spain's EU neighbours with large Muslim minorities. Spanish schools to use Islam book
Mark Alexander

This is a link to the original post; though I am not sure how long it will work for:

ORIGINAL POST

These were the original comments:

Eleanor © said...
One wonders if the book encourages Mulim integration into Spanish culture, and whether or not the term "Andalusia" is used instead of España.

I bet the primary reason for the book is not to help Muslim children better understand their faith, but to indoctrinate more Spanish-reading children into Islam.


10:22 PM, OCTOBER 19, 2006
Mark said...
Eleanor:

I bet the primary reason for the book is not to help Muslim children better understand their faith, but to indoctrinate more Spanish-reading children into Islam.

Yu can be sure of that! You can take it to the bank!


10:33 PM, OCTOBER 19, 2006
usiconoclasticpatriot said...
This is manifestly absurd and traitorous to Western Civilization.


11:29 PM, OCTOBER 19, 2006
Pastorius said...
I posted on this too, over at IBA. This makes me sick. Spain is so craven. They really need to get themselves an AIDS test for all the time they spend bent over like this.


4:48 AM, OCTOBER 20, 2006
Mussolini said...
With special sections on:

The Joys of Beheading!
How to Beat Your Woman!
Taqiyyah: Learn it Live it!

It's so noble!


4:52 AM, OCTOBER 20, 2006
mirrorman said...
Pass me the Taqiaa sauce to put on my Bacon lettuce and dhimmi sandwich.

Joke is, it was published by Caholic printers!

It was only a 15000 run, a lot less than the book that was given out free, mentioned recently in a previous post.
"Islamic Imperialism, a History."
Ahmadinejad warns Europeans of their proximity to the Middle East!
BBC: Iran's president has warned that Muslims around the world will take revenge on states who supported Israel against the Palestinians.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad again questioned the extent of the Holocaust, when German Nazis murdered six million Jews.

Israel was founded on "claims about the Holocaust" for which the Palestinians were paying the price, he told a rally.

He was speaking on Jerusalem Day, when there are large demonstrations in Iran in support of the Palestinians.

BBC Tehran correspondent Frances Harrison says the tone of the speech was hardline, even by Mr Ahmadinejad's standards. Iran warns of revenge over Israel
Mark Alexander
French get tough at Charles de Gaulle Airport
BBC: Four Muslim baggage handlers are appealing against a decision to bar them from working at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.

They say that the local government's decision to revoke their security passes is evidence of anti-Muslim discrimination.

A local government spokesman says the decision was based on an assessment of the terrorist risk.

He denied the move was linked to the men's religion. Muslim staff in Paris airport row

Fearful Europe feels post-9/11 chill
Mark Alexander
So Sorry!

Please forgive me! Blogger has been behaving badly this evening. As a result, I have inadvertently erased a valuable blog about the publication in Spain of a school-book on Islam for Spanish children. There were some very valuable and interesting comments on that post. Alas, they have all been erased along with the blog.

Blogger must be having server problems. That's all I can think of. Please bear with me.

Mark Alexander

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Some anti-dhimmitude from the court but Kirklees council must shell out for victimization
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BBC: A Muslim classroom assistant suspended by a school for wearing a veil in lessons has lost her claim of religious discrimination at a tribunal.

Aishah Azmi, 23, was asked to remove the veil after the school in Dewsbury, W Yorks, said pupils found it hard to understand her.

The tribunal dismissed her claims of religious discrimination and harassment on religious grounds. 'No discrimination' in veil row

The tribunal says her feelings have been hurt. Diddums. Diddums. Diddums.

I won't be treated as an outcast, says Muslim teacher in veil row

Niqab nonsense
Mark Alexander
Al-Qaeda: Great Britain prime target
BBC: Al-Qaeda has become more organised and sophisticated and has made Britain its top target, counter-terrorism officials have told the BBC.

Security sources say the situation has never been so grim, said BBC home affairs correspondent Margaret Gilmore.

They believe the network is now operating a cell structure in the UK - like the IRA did - and sees the 7 July bomb attacks "as just the beginning". UK 'number one al-Qaeda target
Mark Alexander
Ethics and Public Policy Center distributes books highly critical of Islam
INSIDE HIGHER ED: Trustees all over the country have been receiving a book critical of Islam, with no cover note, leading some to worry about why they were receiving the packages.

The address on the packages referred to their trustee status.

The book is Islamic Imperialism: A History, published by Yale University Press. The author is Efraim Karsh, a professor at the University of London who is highly regarded in neoconservative circles, but who has been harshly criticized by many in Middle Eastern studies. According to the Yale press, the book argues that the attacks on 9/11 reflect Islamic imperialism, and “Islam’s war for world mastery.” Book on Islam Surprises Trustees
Mark Alexander

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Multiculturalism officially dead in the UK!

As I argued in my book, multiculturalism is a nonsense. Multiculturalism was doomed to failure from the start. One culture will always dominate in the end; and that will be the strongest one. With Islam, a very strong geo-political system clothed in a deity, growing apace here in the West, and with our birthrate so precariously low, it was always extremely dangerous for us to embrace multiculturalism anyway. There was always the fear that the Muslim population would swamp the indigenous population.

I stated in my book, The Dawning of a New Dark Age, that there was only ONE sensible policy for any Western government to adopt: the insistence on the integration of the immigrants into OUR culture.

It seems that the British government has at last seen the light. It is starting to come to its senses. It's a little late in the day; but it is welcome nevertheless. Now we need to hear from the government what it proposes to do about the people who will not integrate, the people who preach hatred, the people who demonstrate in favour of beheading the people who insult Islam, the people who are here illegally, and the people who want to introduce Shari'ah law.

Governments around the Western world desperately need to send a STRONG message to Muslim immigrants, namely that NONSENSE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED, and that people who persist in behaving CONTRARY to the laws of the land will be DEPORTED. Not jailed, but deported. Then we might start seeing some different behaviour from the immigrants. The way things stand, they are running amok.

©Mark Alexander
THE TELEGRAPH: At his press briefing yesterday, the Prime Minister made it clear his Government's approach to cultural diversity had changed. He may have couched his position in careful language, but the conclusion was inescapable: integration, rather than multi-cultural separatism, is now official policy. By saying that he "fully supported" the decision of Kirklees council to suspend the Muslim teaching assistant who had refused to remove her veil at work, and then reinforcing this point with the observation that the veil was a "mark of separation", Mr Blair removed any doubt about the Government's position.

He was, in effect, affirming that the contentious views expressed over recent weeks by Jack Straw, Ruth Kelly and John Reid were not maverick individual opinions, but part of a larger, concerted revision of the Cabinet's stand. Mr Blair, unsurprisingly, wanted to avoid the appearance of an outright volte-face: at one point, he suggested that there should be "a balance between integration and multi-culturalism". This would be a logical impossibility, since the policy of multi-culturalism, as it has been understood and practised, is antithetical to integration. Labour loses faith in multi-culturalism
Mark Alexander

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Talk of Thailand introducing Shari'ah law in southern Thailand
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE: YALA, Thailand After two and a half years of ceaseless violence and more than 1,700 people killed, the wary residents of the southernmost provinces of Thailand are expressing measured optimism that the government installed by the military will help ease one of the most intractable conflicts in Asia.

Although daily killings by insurgents continue here, just a few hundred kilometers from the country's tourist- filled beaches, the new government is showing a softer touch, agreeing to peace talks with Muslim insurgents and working to revive a system that allowed local politicians and religious leaders to take part in setting policies.

Thailand also appears to be encouraging a rapprochement with neighboring Malaysia on the issue of the insurgency, which at times has divided the two countries. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont will visit Kuala Lumpur, where government officials have said they are willing to serve as mediators.

"The attitude of the new government is certainly much more positive toward dealing with the south, not through the use of force but through having a dialogue, a discussion," said Mahathir bin Mohamad, the former Malaysian prime minister who was frequently critical of the previous government's handling of the insurgency.

Muslim leaders in Thailand are debating proposals that would give them a special status in predominantly Buddhist Thailand. Nimu Makaje, a Muslim scholar in this violence-racked southern city, enthusiastically tells a visitor that the time has come to implement an Islamic legal system in southern Thailand. New hopes in Thailand's restive south by Thomas Fuller
Mark Alexander
Blair on Islam
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE: LONDON Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday that Britain needed a debate about the position of Muslims, but that the faith also needed to decide how it comes to terms with modernity.

At his monthly news conference, Blair said he supported a local school authority's decision to bar a Muslim woman from working as a teacher while wearing a veil.

He said, however, that should be just one issue in a broader debate about "the relationship between our society and how the Muslim community integrates with our society." Prime minister says Britain needs debate about Islam
Mark Alexander
A Statement from North Korea

BBC: The following is the full text of a statement released by the foreign ministry of North Korea, which calls itself the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK):
On 14 October, the United States instigated the UN Security Council to unjustly find fault with our self-defensive nuclear test as a threat to international peace and safety, and once again passed the vicious resolution on sanctions and blockade against the Republic.

Our successful nuclear test is a positive defensive countermeasure to defend our country's sovereignty and the people's life and safety so as to cope with the United States' increasing threat of nuclear war and the manoeuvres for sanctions and pressure; and thus was completely an exercise of a sovereign state's independent and legal right.

Because the United States, by taking advantage of the nuclear issue, gravely infringed on our state's supreme safety and our nation's fundamental interest, we were compelled to legally withdraw from the Non-proliferation Treaty in accordance with the relevant clause of the treaty and to manufacture a nuclear weapon by going through the most fair, just, and transparent process. Full Text: North Korea statement
Mark Alexander
Free expression under fire from Brussels
THE TIMES: THE Government is seeking to prevent an EU directive that could extend broadcasting regulations to the internet, hitting popular video-sharing websites such as YouTube.

The European Commission proposal would require websites and mobile phone services that feature video images to conform to standards laid down in Brussels.

Ministers fear that the directive would hit not only successful sites such as YouTube but also amateur “video bloggers” who post material on their own sites. Personal websites would have to be licensed as a “television-like service”. Amateur 'video bloggers' under threat from EU broadcast rules
Mark Alexander
Many words, much tripe!

"A fight-back is beginning to reclaim Britain from the grip of those who refuse to acknowledge the centrality of British values of tolerance, fair play and parliamentary democratic freedoms – notably those of free speech and respect for all religions, but supremacy for none. Voltaire noted this attribute of the English three centuries ago, when he wrote: "If there was just one religion in Britain there would be despotism. If two, there would be civil war. But as there are 30, they all live at peace with each other."

What an insult to Her Majesty! Denis MacShane obviously does not understand that Britain is a Christian country which tolerates other religions. The Head of State, the Queen, is also the head of the Church of England. Christianity is of paramount importance to the functioning of the state and our democracy. Christianity does have pride of place, it does have supremacy, just as Islam has supremacy in Saudi Arabia.

As for Voltaire, well he certainly got that wrong, didn't he? The civil war will surely come because of the fragmentation of our once cohesive society, and because, as Islam grows ever stronger, it will begin to usurp more and more power.

Isn't it time for Denis MacShane to resign? Is he, perhaps, losing his grip on reality? Don't forget that this is the same man who fights hard for Turkey to be allowed into the EU, regardless of whether the people share his sentiments, or not. What does MacShane understand about democracy? Was that Denis MacShame, Sir?
THE TELEGRAPH: At long last, the debate on Islamism as politics, not Islam as religion, is out in the open. Two weeks ago, Jack Straw might have felt he was taking a risk when publishing his now notorious article on the Muslim veil. However, he was pushing at an open door. From across the political spectrum there is now common consent that the old multicultural emperor, before whom generation of politicians have made obeisance, is now a pitiful, naked sight.

The 10,000 Muslims in my constituency of Rotherham can only benefit from removing the dead hand of ideological Islamism – allowing their faith to be respected and their children to flourish in a Britain that finally wakes up to what must be done. Despite the efforts of extremists to prevent any sort of rational debate about the place of Islam in Britain, it is at last happening. Our failure to confront radical Islam is there for all to see
Mark Alexander
The craven Church of England keeps mum over BA crucifix row
THE TELEGRAPH: Silence has been the notable response from the bishops of the Church of England to the decision by British Airways to forbid employees from visibly wearing even a tiny cross on a necklace. It is understandable that the bishops might not wish to become embroiled in the specific case of the check-in worker Nadia Eweida. Nor would they wish to antagonise Muslim sentiment. But to pass up the opportunity to explain the centrality of the cross in Christianity and a Christian society is baffling. The cross belongs at the heart of British culture
Mark Alexander

Monday, October 16, 2006

Crackpot Ahmadinejad: "Satan inspires Mr Bush"
BBC: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reportedly delivered a scathing attack on US President George W Bush, saying he is inspired by Satan.

Speaking to a group of supporters, Mr Ahmadinejad said he himself had inspirational links to God, Iranian media reports. Iran leader in Bush 'Satan' claim
Mark Alexander

Sunday, October 15, 2006

Chirac spielt Dhimmi mit der Türkei

Nach Verabschiedung durch Parlament
NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG: Frankreichs Präsident Chirac hat sich dem türkischen Ministerpräsidenten Erdogan zufolge bei ihm für den umstrittenen französischen Gesetzentwurf zum Völkermord an Armeniern entschuldigt. Der Élysée-Palast erklärte, dass Chirac und Erdogan am Samstag miteinander telefoniert hätten, ohne die Einzelheiten zu bestätigen. Chirac entschuldigt sich bei Erdogan für Völkermord-Gesetz
Mark Alexander
"La colère gronde de nouveau" au Danemark
LE FIGARO: Un parti d'extrême droite danois a diffusé une nouvelle caricature satirique de Mahomet, quelques jours après la diffusion d'une vidéo raillant le Prophète, qui a suscité une nouvelle fois l'indignation du monde musulman.

LA COLÈRE gronde de nouveau dans les esprits des musulmans au Danemark, confrontés à une nouvelle affaire de caricatures de Mahomet, un an après celle du journal danois Jyllands-Posten, qui avait soulevé un vent de révolte du monde musulman contre le royaume scandinave. Le Danemark de nouveau face à la colère musulmane
Mark Alexander
Is Britain going down the road of apartheid?

Alert! Anti-dhimmitude from the Conservatives:
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: The Conservatives today accuse Muslim leaders of encouraging "voluntary apartheid" in Britain by shutting themselves away in closed societies and demanding protection from criticism.

David Davis, the shadow home secretary, says that Britain risks social and religious divisions so profound that society's very foundations, such as the freedom of speech, will become "corroded" and that the perfect conditions for home-grown terrorism will be created.

His stark intervention, in an article for The Sunday Telegraph, represents a toughening of the Tory stance on the dangers of Islamic radicalism and follows calls from some leading ministers for Muslim women to remove their veils. It is also a departure from the "caring Conservatism" message laid out by David Cameron.

Mr Davis says he supports the stance on veils adopted by Jack Straw, the Commons Leader, but believes the wider issue is one of the "very unity of our nation".

"What Jack touched on was the fundamental issue of whether, in Britain, we are developing a divided society. Whether we are creating a series of closed societies within our open society. Whether we are inadvertently encouraging a kind of voluntary apartheid. Tories accuse Muslims of 'creating apartheid by shutting themselves off' by Patrick Hennessy and Melissa Kite

And this article by David Davis:
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: There are some issues that are so explosive they are only capable of being resolved if they are handled coolly and analytically. These are the unexploded bombs of modern politics and 10 days ago Jack Straw detonated one of them with his comments on the use of the veil by Muslim women.

The shock waves have reverberated around Britain, loudest in the Muslim communities. Which is not to say Jack Straw was wrong. He was not. His comments were perfectly proper and he highlighted an issue that is both important and difficult: the question of the very unity of our nation. Do Muslims really want apartheid here?
Mark Alexander
Ignorant female teacher insists on wearing mask to teach

Teacher defends her veil

Mark Alexander

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Muslims send "Open Letter" to Pope Benedict XVI
ISLAMICA MAGAZINE: In an unprecedented move, an Open Letter signed by 38 leading Muslim religious scholars and leaders around the world will be sent to Pope Benedict XVI on Oct. 15, 2006. The letter, which is the first of its kind in several centuries, was a collaborative effort signed by such prominent figures as the Grand Muftis of Egypt, Russia, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Istanbul, Uzbekistan and Oman, as well as leading figures from the Shia community such as Ayatollah Muhammad Ali Taskhiri of Iran. The letter was also signed by HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal, the Personal Envoy and Special Advisor to King Abdullah II of Jordan. Western scholars have signed the document, including California scholar, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson, Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and Professor Tim Winter of the University of Cambridge.

The letter is being sent, in the spirit of goodwill, to address some of the controversial remarks made by Pope Benedict XVI during his lecture at the University of Regensburg in Germany on Sept. 12, 2006. The letter tackles the main issues raised by the Pope in his discussion of a debate between the medieval Emperor Manuel II Paleologus and an 'educated Persian' such as compulsion in religion, reason and faith, forced conversion, the understanding of 'Jihad' or 'Holy War,' and the relationship between Christianity and Islam.

The Muslim signatories accept the Pope's personal expression of sorrow and assurance that the controversial quote did not reflect his personal opinion. At the same time, the letter represents an attempt to engage with the Papacy on theological grounds in order to tackle wide ranging misconceptions about Islam in the Western world. Open Letter to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
Mark Alexander

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Where have all the gonads gone?

Indeed they are a long time passing!

Gonads, balls, spunk, or simply courage - call it what you will, there is simply little of it/them to be found amongst our leaders today. One is bound to ask: Do they have a gonad between them? Do they have a ball to call their own?

The fact of the matter is clear: We Europeans, we Westerners, are being sold down the river, we are being cheated out of our rightful heritage. Our civilization is being given away for the want of courage to stand up to the enemies within and the enemies without.

If things go on like this, then our culture and civilization will be swamped by an alien, pseudo-religious, geopolitical system, clothed as it is in a deity, determined to take over the West in its entirety. It should be clear to all by now that Islam is on a mission to Islamize the West. Muslims make no bones about the fact that they want to do this, and they make no secret of the fact that they wish to introduce Shari’ah law. The question now is simple: Are we going to let them do this to our wonderful civilization, the best civilization known to man till now, are we going to let them snuff out the candle of creative life only for the people of Europe and the West to become stultified? Are we going to let them take us back in time to the Dark Ages ?

The political establishment in the West, through lack of will, determination, and courage, is behaving very badly. Nary a politician amongst them is brave enough to call a halt to the nonsense that you and I see on a day-to-day basis. It is surely time for a new order. If the enormity of the task ahead of them is too much for them, then maybe it is time for a new breed of politicians to be elected into office, a breed that will have the courage and determination to put this process into reverse.

The way things are going in France, for example, we might yet see another ‘Flight to Varennes’ by the ruling élite. La fuite à Varennes (21 juin 1791) proved a turning point in French history. It was the time when the then King of France, King Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, the queen, and their children were forced to flee, forced to do a runner in the middle of the night to try and save their skins! Is history going to repeat itself? It often does. The same goes for the rest of the European countries, too. For far too long, European politics has been dominated by the left and centre-left coalitions. We can see here in the UK what damage left-wing politicians can do to the nation. Tony Blair’s ‘New Labour’ government has done enormous, perhaps irreparable, damage to the fabric of our nation. He has destroyed much that we, the British, have always held so dear.

Is the problem, perhaps, caused by the fact that so many of today’s politicians, dreamers to a man, are children of the 60s and 70s, children of the age of “flower power”, children of the hippy generation? Is this why they lack the courage and determination to solve these intractable problems we now face? If this is so, then it is truly time for a change at the top. We need a new breed of politicians, willing and able to take the difficult decisions sorely necessary to get a grip on this problem facing us, a problem which is not going to go away simply by ignoring its existence. And remember this: The longer this problem is allowed to go on unsolved, the harder it will become to solve, and the tougher will be the decisions necessary to solve it.

The political élite, however, had better grasp one fact, and quickly: We, the people, are growing weary of the excesses of the Muslim community. We are becoming satiated by their over-the-top ideas, their backwardness, their obstreperousness, their chutzpah, their demands, and their, well, shall we say, boldness! Muslims lose sight of one main fact: The majority merely tolerates them. They are not truly wanted. They would do well to note that tolerance has its limits.

All opprobrium cannot be directed solely at the political establishment. The Church, too, must shoulder much of the blame for the disintegration of Western civilization, for it truly is undermining all that is best in our superior civilization. Only this morning, it has come to light that the Church backs legal rights for parents who live in sin! How dare the Church play around with the teachings of the Gospel in this disgraceful manner? I speak not as a born-again Christian, for a born-again Christian I am surely not. I speak as one who can see the folly of the Church leaders. The liberals in the Church, of whom the current Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is one, are doing their utmost to destroy the institution of marriage – the cornerstone of any civilized society.

In a very interesting article recently published in the L A Times, it was mooted that Liberal Christianity is paying for its sins. No truer words were spoken! Now, it has come to our attention that the Episcopal Church in Massachusetts is proposing to dump the concept of marriage altogether! Episcopal Diocese may quit marriages (Same-sex debate drives Mass plan).

If the Church leaders really think that they are going to be able to fill the emptying pews this way, then they are sadly delusional. The more liberal the Church becomes, the emptier the church pews will be! If you need proof of this, witness the strength of Islam. That 'religion' hasn’t changed in 1400-plus years. Yet, despite this, its strength is growing apace.

I would be the last person on earth to punish homosexuals and people “living in sin”. But to say that a modern, secular, Western society is to tolerate these things, does not mean that the Church should be imprudent enough to sanction what is totally against the teachings of Jesus Christ. The teachings of Jesus Christ, the Christian’s Lord, Saviour and Redeemer, are, after all, the raison d’être of the Church itself. They are the keystone of its existence. Take away that keystone, and the Church will surely come a-tumbling down! Just give it a little more time. That’s all!

The weaker the politicians show themselves to be, and the weaker the Church becomes, the stronger Islam will become in the West by contrast. Just like Iran has been strengthened by the weakening of Iraq, so Islam will be strengthened by the weakening of the Church, and by the weakening of Western traditions. We are doing nothing other than playing into Muslims’ hands. Ladies and gentlemen, we are destroying ourselves from within! Western civilization is under attack from two fronts: From Islam and from the establishment figures who purport to lead us!

We need to put a stop to all this guff! We need to start acting like responsible people. Aren’t these leaders, after all is said and done, paid to be responsible? Aren’t they there to give ordinary folks a lead? Aren’t they there to show us all the way? Isn’t this why they are paid the fancy, fat salaries they receive?

Leadership is never an easy task. At a time when all our institutions are under attack, the rôle of leadership becomes particularly onerous. Leadership at such a time calls for gonads! Dear leaders! Go find them! And quickly! Time is not on your side. Never forget this: The people, once they start getting angry, anger ever more quickly. Once they see all they hold dear being taken away, they have a nasty habit of turning on the so-called leaders that allowed it all to happen. History is replete with examples of revolution. Take heed! We may be living in the year 2006, not the year 1789, but people haven’t changed that much. They still have a propensity to take revenge when all they have held so dear is lost. The leaders might have become namby-pamby; the people have not.

©Mark Alexander*

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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Islam: The Catalyst Europe Needs to Become United?

The unity of Europe has been, and is, the dream of many a European politician. The EU spends its time devising new ways to break down the barriers hindering integration; though often times to the annoyance of the citizens of Europe.

Now, however, we have Muslims baying for blood, and this phenomenon, if used wisely, could truly act as the catalyst that unites Europeans!

There is no doubt about it that European, and all Western, values are being undermined by the Muslims within our borders, and are under constant attack from the Muslims without, too. Again, only in the past few days, it has come to light that another furore is building because a group of young right-wingers in Denmark took part in a competition to draw more cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. Their remit: to draw him in the most degrading manner they could think of! Muhammad was drawn as a urinating camel and another drew him as an intoxicated, beer-drinking camel. Yet another cartoon shows Muhammad as a drunken terrorist attacking Copenhagen.

How shocking! How truly shocking! Or is it? Just about all other gods and religious symbols have been attacked over the years in the West; it is part of our cultural freedom, however distasteful it might be to many, especially to those outside our borders. Most people found Piss Christ by the artist Andres Serrano in 1989 to be highly offensive; but the world didn’t go up in flames over it, though, all the same.

Unfortunately, it’s a price we have to pay if we want freedom of expression, democracy, and liberty. Freedom of expression is totally and utterly indivisible. Either you have it, or you don’t. There is no such thing as partial freedom of expression. If some freedoms of expression are taken away from us, then we shall end up with no freedom of expression at all!

I dare say that the sensibilities of many Muslims have been offended. But that is no reason for our politicians to apologize for any offence caused. On the contrary, our politicians need to stick to our own values. Muslims, if allowed to do so, will take such freedoms away from us. We must not, under any circumstances, allow them to achieve their goal.

How many times could Westerners have felt offended by Muslims in recent years? They call us filthy infidels, burn our churches, behead people, kill Westerners in terrorist attacks, and much else besides. But we take these things on the chin, we take them in a mature manner. We turn the other cheek in the time-honoured tradition of the Christian. This contrast in behaviour shows the Western world’s maturity and the converse behaviour of the Islamic world.

As much as we don’t wish to offend others and their religious sensibilities, that we sometimes do so is the price that has to be paid for freedom of expression. This right is one which tens of thousands, nay millions, have died for in previous generations. This right must be defended to the hilt. As Mrs Thatcher once said to George Bush Sr: “This is no time to go all wobbly!”

We need to be firm and strong and resolute and determined, because we have our way of life, our values, and our freedoms to defend. It is also no time to apologize to all and sundry in the Islamic world. If they don’t like it, then let them lump it. If you politicians want to tell them anything, then tell them to grow up! Welcome to the real world!

There is no doubt about it that the West is under siege by Muslims worldwide. They are ‘trying it on' here, there, and everywhere. They are trying to get us to cower into submission. They want us to kow tow to them. They are also buying up our businesses and corporations, buying up our properties and land, building mosques all around the globe, building madrassahs where their religious values can be instilled into the young who are eager to be brainwashed, and they build propagation centres by the dozen to practise their da’wah, or proselytize.

They are able to afford all this, of course, because we are financing the operations through our insatiable desire for oil. Had we found and implemented a sensible replacement for this substance, their activities would have been severely curtailed through lack of funds. Alas, Western politicians have not been far-seeing enough to solve this problem.

The phase we are in here in the West at the moment is redolent of the phase I went through when I first went to work in the Arab world. When I first went to work in Saudi Arabia it was like an assault on the senses! My whole value system was turned upside down, and put out of equilibrium. Why? Because I was put into a situation in which all the values I had been raised to hold dear, all the values I had based my life on, were drawn into question. It took me several years to re-gain my equilibrium, several years to find myself again.

You see, a Muslim’s values are diametrically-opposed to our own. They do everything differently, and see everything differently. They dress differently, they write differently, they pray differently, they eat differently, they live their lives differently. In fact, their lives are totally different from ours, because their values are totally different.

When two peoples come together like this, peoples with a totally different Weltanschauung, then there are bound to be problems and clashes of values. This is what we are experiencing here in the West today. We saw it with the original cartoon furore earlier this year, we saw it with the Pope’s lecture at Regensburg, and we have seen it recently in the States when a company used the term jihad in a car sales campaign. In the past few days, we are seeing it again with a replay of the cartoon fiasco in Denmark.

Fellow Europeans! It is time to unite! It is time to come together and defend our values. We have a golden opportunity to finally show that we are truly one people! We must not tolerate the excesses of these backward people. We must be firm, we must stand united, we must be resolute, and we must take this opportunity for all European countries to work together in unison. We must put aside our petty differences, for petty they truly are. Instead of seeing our small differences, we must all work together to defeat the common enemy, to defeat this assault on our superior way of life, a way of life which guarantees rights to all people, regardless of colour, creed, sex, sexual orientation, and so on and so forth. Islam offers none of these things. It is truly a backward political system (clothed in a deity) for the mediæval mindset. There should be no place for this backward thinking in Europe. We are already far too advanced to be taken back to a bygone age.

Hold firm! Be confident! Be determined! Be resolute! Be sure of your own superiority! Europe is based on a Judeo-Christian culture. We must be proud of that heritage, for that heritage allows all of us, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, and even Muslims rights which so many in many backward countries can only dream of.

We must not allow Muslims to succeed in their quest to take our freedoms away from us; and we must not allow Muslims to drive a wedge between us and the United States of America, our greatest and most dependable ally. We need America; and America needs us. We must remember this at all times; and we must endeavour to co-operate with each other. For united we stand, but divided we shall surely fall!

©Mark Alexander

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Une vidéo danoise dénigrant le prophète Mahomet
LE FIGARO: La colère gronde de nouveau dans le monde musulman. Une chaîne de télévision danoise, TV2, vient de diffuser une vidéo présentant le prophète Mahomet comme un chameau buveur de bière et un terroriste ivre attaquant Copenhague.

Cette fois encore, l'indignation du monde musulman est grande. L'Iran a convoqué hier l'ambassadeur du Danemark pour « condamner fermement cette grave insulte ». Le président Mahmoud Ahmadinejad en a profité pour dénoncer « l'ampleur de la faiblesse et la bassesse des leaders du libéralisme » occidental. Pourtant, le premier ministre danois, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, a pris le soin de condamner immédiatement cette vidéo. Une vidéo dénigrant le prophète Mahomet jette de l'huile sur le feu
Mark Alexander
Mohammed schon wieder verhöhnt worden von Dänemark
In Dänemark ist ein neuer Streit um eine bewusste Verhöhnung des Propheten Mohammed entbrannt. Ausgelöst wurde er in den Reihen der regierungsnahen rechtspopulistischen Partei DVP. Die Jugendorganisation der Dänischen Volkspartei (DVP) hat einen Wettbewerb dazu veranstaltet, wer den Propheten Mohammed in der «erniedrigendsten Weise» zeichnen könne. Neue Kontroverse um Mohammed in Dänemark
Mark Alexander

Monday, October 09, 2006

Pro-dhimmitude Alert! Pope's halo slips!
BBC: The Vatican has released a final version of an address by Pope Benedict XVI in Germany last month, which angered Muslims around the world.

In the original speech, the Pope quoted a 14th Century Christian emperor who said the Prophet Mohammed had brought only "evil and inhuman" things.

The passage has been amended and a footnote added asserting the Pope's respect for a "great religion". Vatican 'clarifies' Pope speech
Mark Alexander
Anti-dimmitude from Frattini and the EU
EU OBSERVER: The vice-president of the European Commission Franco Frattini has said Europe can only respect Muslim traditions if they do not contradict the bloc's own basic values, such as freedom of speech or equality between men and women.

"We are not governed by sharia, after all," he said in an interview with the Italian daily La Repubblica published on Monday (9 October)

Mr Frattini, in charge of the justice and security portfolio, has among commissioners been the most outspoken critic of the recent reaction in the Muslim world to a speech by Pope Benedict XVI suggesting links between Islam and violence.

Referring to the controversy, Mr Frattini told La Repubblica that both European political and cultural leaders and moderate Muslim authorities should have condemned threats to the pope after his speech.

"If we ourselves do not maintain our strong identity, if we are not sure about our principles - how can we manage integrating with others?" he asked.

"We can guarantee respect of traditions of the Muslim community only if these are not in contrast with our core rules, even if they are unwritten." EU has limits in respecting Muslim traditions, says Frattini by Lucia Kubosova
Mark Alexander

Thursday, October 05, 2006

’R’ is for Repatriation

The West is on a dangerous course. It has embarked on a dichotomous journey. It is on the road to self-destruction.

There are two mutually exclusive forces at play here: On the one hand, there are the liberals who are trying to be more open to other cultures, and who are trying to destroy the very institutions upon which the West has thrived for so long; and on the other, we have a frightfully conservative force at work in the form of Islam, whose adherents are trying to take us back to mediæval times, take us back to a bygone age.

The one side, the liberal side, for example, is trying to give gays rights, and destroy the institution of marriage; the other, the conservative, Islamic side, a growing force in our society, will try and undo all the liberal policies ever passed. Normal conservatives in the Western sense of the world will look like the screaming liberals of today in years to come, for their brand of conservatism is as nothing in comparison with the ultra conservative, ‘orthodox’ Islamic values that will be foisted upon our unsuspecting people when Islam grows ever more in strength here in the West.

We are on a road that leads to no good place. This journey is one which will end in tears.

It should be increasingly obvious to all thinking people that we have allowed a people to immigrate to the West who, by and large, have no intention of integrating into Western societies, and who wish to change the nature of Western societies into their own, pre-conceived notion of how a society should be – a society which conforms to the extremely strict codes of behaviour as set out in the Shari’ah.

Ask yourself how these two forces can be reconciled! Of course, they cannot be. The one is modern and forward-thinking; the other is 1400 years old, and belongs to the Dark Ages. Nobody, however intelligent, however resourceful, is going to be able to bring about such a reconciliation of such competing forces. And the longer this problem is allowed to fester, the more difficult it will become to solve.

Already we have seen demonstrators out in the streets in their droves demanding that anyone who insults Islam be beheaded! Already we have seen calls for the introduction of Shari’ah law here in the UK and in Europe. Already we know that the ultimate goal of Muslims in the United States is to introduce it there, too; and to replace the Constitution with an Islamic one. Omar M Ahmad, the then Chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), stated the following as far back as 1988:

”Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qur’an … should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.”

That says it all!

The French author, Michelle Houellebecq, in an interview given to the French literary magazine Lire, said the following: ”The dumbest religion, after all, is Islam. When you read the Koran, you’re shattered. The Bible at least is beautifully written because the Jews have a heck of a literary talent.”

Michelle Houellebecq might well have had it right about Islam; but aren’t we Westerners the dumbest people of all to allow these Muslim immigrants to come here to the West and live off the fat of the land and tell us that they are going to take us over, tell us that their religion is going to become dominant, tell us that Shari’ah law is going to be introduced at the earliest convenience?

I mean: How stupid and tolerant can we be?

Look, it’s really quite simple. Islam brooks no compromise: It is their way or no way. This is quite, quite clear now to all sensible, aware people. Clearly, these people have no appetite for assimilation, and they are not going to change.

What they want to do is to bring Islam to every corner of the world, and they are on a mission to achieve this. We have to decide whether we want to live their backward way, or whether we want to fight for our liberty and democracy, concepts anathema to Muslims all over the globe. We cannot have it all ways, we cannot, as they say, have our cake and eat it too.

Tough decisions are never easy to take. It takes a person of determination and resolve to take them. But when faced with this dilemma, it is only tough decisions that will do. Or are we going to slip and slide, through inaction, down the road to dhimmitude, or ultimate surrender to Islam. Are we going to submit to Allah, are we going to pay the jizyah, or the tax on infidels, or are we going to allow our fellow citizens to be killed. For those are so clearly the only three options once Islam takes hold.

Moreover, imagine what sort of society we shall be forced to live in. Adulteresses will be stoned to death, beheadings will take place in the public square, thieves will have their hands and feet cut off alternately, and homosexuals will be hanged in the street, or thrown off the local minaret! If you don’t believe me, take a trip to Saudi Arabia or Iran. In those countries, you will see just what happens to such people.

We have gone badly wrong. We have allowed into our societies people quite unwilling to assimilate. Interestingly, these backward people are convinced of their own superiority! Isn’t that an interesting phenomenon?

If we value our Judeo-Christian culture, if we value our freedoms, if we value our democracies, if we value our civilized way of life, if indeed we value our civilization, then we have but one option, for there truly is only one way to solve this intractable problem. We have to start thinking about the repatriation of these difficult people.

We start by repatriating the illegal, Muslim immigrants, and those who preach hatred and the destruction of our civilization. That will be a good start. We really do not have to put up with this nonsense any longer. Enough is enough!

The repatriation can take place in a humane manner; we don’t need to be cruel. We can even give these people money to resettle somewhere else. But believe me, repatriation is the only sensible option at this stage. We cannot afford to play fast and loose with our children’s future. We have a duty to our children to leave them our Western civilization as free and whole as we inherited it. To do anything else would be a dereliction of our duty.

Repatriation is not an option of the far right only. This is not a question of left and right politics anyway. This is a fight for the survival of the West. We must step up to the plate. We must behave with strength, resolve, and determination. Only when we do so will we silence these people. For make no mistake about it, Muslims understand one thing, and one thing only: Strength!

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Jews in Belgium called to join fight against radical Islam
THE INDEPENDENT: One of Europe's most successful far-right leaders has appealed to Jewish voters to join forces against radical Islam and back a party denounced as xenophobic.

Filip Dewinter, leader of Belgium's Vlaams Belang, described Antwerp's large Jewish community as natural partners "against the main enemy of the moment, the radical Islam, fundamentalism". Far-right party calls for Jews to join war on Islam by Stephen Castle
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Does Cameron have what it takes? Does he display the Churchillian characteristics we need at this dangerous time?

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" ... Islam is one of the great religions of the world; and Muslims make a fantastic contribution to our country." - David Cameron

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Bush the Universalist?

Confused thinking by the leader of the free world. We need wonder no longer why Islam is gaining so much ground here in the West. This president just doesn't understand what the West is up against! He simply will not grasp the nature of the jihad being waged against the West. It is surely time for him to read some history books! - ©Mark

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