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

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

Some anti-dhimmitude from the court but Kirklees council must shell out for victimization

Image courtesy of the BBC

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

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

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

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

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