Not a Question of Left, Not a Question of Right
There is a general feeling among many people that to be for the containment of Islam and against its rapid advance is to be extreme right wing.

In my opinion, this is not a question of right-wing or left-wing; rather, it's a question of common sense and a strong desire to maintain and strengthen our own civilization.

To allow Islam to grow apace in the West is tantamount to weakening our civilization, since Islam is our civilization's main competitor. It always has been, and always will be. To weaken one is to strengthen the other. Unashamedly, I am for strengthening ours. I make no apologies for that, since our civilization is based on Judeo-Christianity, and it has served us well. It has guaranteed far more and far better human rights, it has given us freedom of speech and freedom of expression, and a plethora of other freedoms which people in many other countries can only dream of. So, I re-iterate: It is not a matter of the politics of the left or the right; but it is a question of common sense and the will to survive!

What we need is good, solid, strong leadership: leadership by men of vision. Leadership by people who can see the problems ahead of us clearly, and leadership by people who can avert the disasters which may well befall us.

Unfortunately, today, the West is bereft of good, strong leadership. At the very time we need it, we don't have it. Would that society could throw up another Churchill or Roosevelt. Where would the West be today but for their sound leadership in times of crisis?

Today, wherever we look, leadership is flawed: In the US, we have President Bush - his leadership has been greatly weakened by his misguided attempt to bring democracy to Iraq. This is one experiment which is destined to fail, ultimately, since, as I have said many times before, Islam and democracy make strange bedfellows. In the one, all power rests with Allah and filters down; in the other, all power rests with the people, and filters up. It's difficult to square that circle! It seems quite fair to say that Bush's understanding of the main threat facing us - Islam - is wanting.

In the UK, we have a Prime Minister who is looking increasingly like a lame duck. He has spent eight years tinkering with the workings of government - unsuccessfully, it would seem to me - and has busied himself banning this, and banning that, and taking away people's freedoms into the bargain. Moreover, under his watch, we have a National Health Service which is in dire need of change, for it no longer functions as it should. Waiting lists to get treatment are long, and appear to be getting even longer. Our education system, too, is fouled up: educational standards no longer match up to the claims made for them. In addition, Tony Blair has sucked up to the Muslim community, and even wishes to introduce a bill which will stifle healthy debate about religion, fearing that healthy debate will offend the Muslim community! This man does not understand Islam - the main threat facing the Western world today!

In France, we have Chirac. Chirac is trying desperately to hold on to power at a time when his country is in crisis. A crisis caused largely by the Muslim community. Chirac, too, is a leader who shows no sign of understanding either Islam or how to deal effectively with its growth in France. Jacques Chirac lacks the courage and strength to take the necessary measures to deal with the crisis.

In Germany, we have Angela Merkel. She has come to power to boost the German economy, the engine of Europe. She has started badly, however, since she has had to appease the left in the 'grand coalition' by increasing taxes significantly in Germany to satisfy their demands, in return for being allowed to be the leader of the coalition. Increases in taxes in Germany make no sense, since the economy there is sluggish enough as it is. The increases in taxes which have been proposed will make the economy even more sluggish.

One thing, however, Angela Merkel has going for her: She wishes to put a stop to the ambitions of Turkey to accede to the EU, preferring instead to offer Turkey a privileged partnership. I fear she will have to gain in strength if she is to achieve the ambition of stopping Turkey, since there are many leaders in Europe, and in the USA, who seem very determined to get Turkey admitted and in so doing destroy Europe's heritage.

It has been said that Merkel has a strong potential ally in Nicolas Sarkozy, for he, too, is determined to keep Turkey out. Further, it is doubtful that the French themselves will be enamoured of the idea of allowing seventy odd million Muslims into Europe, especially after the mayhem that has been caused in France recently by their Muslim communities!

What we really need is someone to lead us to strength and victory. For, as Churchill was given to saying: without victory there is no survival! Our politically correct leaders today are far too mealy-mouthed to state such facts. They prefer to pander; for most of them live by the popularity polls! Doing what is popular is rarely the good option. As the Iron Lady used to say: I didn't come into politics to be popular; I came into it to do the right thing! Many leaders could learn a lesson from Mrs Thatcher! She led by her convictions, not by the popularity polls!

These days, it seems that we can only turn to royalty here in Europe if we wish to have some leadership! Our wonderful and gracious Queen Elizabeth II has affirmed her belief in the "uniqueness" of the Christian faith as a point of reference in the modern world. She said:

For Christians this pace of change represents an opportunity. When so much is in flux, when limitless amounts of information, much of it ephemeral, are instantly accessible on demand, there is a renewed hunger for that which endures.

In saying this, the Times said that she defied Al Qaeda. The Queen, it appears, is prepared to show solidity and courage in the face of evil.

Further, the Queen of Denmark is on record as saying:

We are being challenged by Islam these years - globally as well as locally. It is a challenge we have to take seriously. We have let this issue float about for too long because we are tolerant and lazy.

We have to show our opposition to Islam and we have to, at times, run the risk of having unflattering labels placed on us because there are some things for which we should display no tolerance.

And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction.

- Queen Margrethe of Denmark, from her recent biography.

President Bush has also shown some courage today on his trip to China, but has ruffled some feathers by holding Taiwan up as a rôle model for the Chinese! He pressed the Chinese authorities to allow more political and religious freedoms to the people of China. Isn't it strange that he can find the courage to challenge the Chinese on these matters, yet finds it so difficult to challenge the Saudis, and other Middle Eastern potentates to do the same? Does he not know how constrained the ordinary people of the Middle East are? Does he not know that they have no freedom to worship in the manner they wish, or not do so, as the case may be? Does he not know that people are tortured there for daring to defy the Islamic faith? Does he not know that people are beheaded in the public square for trivial reasons? Does he not know that churches may not be built, and that Christians are not free to worship in the Christian way, and are not even allowed to wear the crucifix around their necks? Does he not know that women are not free to drive, or free to go outside the home unaccompanied by male family members? Not even free to go into a café on a hot day to buy a cool drink? What kind of freedoms does the President call these? I wonder why he isn't lecturing there in the Middle East the same way as he is lecturing the Chinese?

You see, what we need is firm, strong leadership - leadership which is not hypocritical, and leadership which cares for the future of the free world, so that all peoples can live in peace, and freedom, and harmony. Not under the suppression of the growing influence of Islam!

©Mark Alexander

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Chirac's measures are destined to fail!
President Jacques Chirac's measures to deal with France in crisis, France in flames, do not address the root cause of the violence; therefore, they are destined to fail.

Creating opportunities for young people is all well and good. Condemning the "poison" of racism is also to be lauded. However, it doesn't serve the French well to castigate themselves for failing to integrate the Muslims from North Africa, since Muslims generally have no intention of assimilating - their religion proscribes assimilation with the infidel - and because where people fail to assimilate, they live, by definition, in a parallel universe. It is this parallel universe which we observe in the French ghettos.

It should be pointed out that the French themsleves probably have about as little interest in integrating with the Muslims of North Africa as the Muslims of North Africa have in integrating with the French! To understand why, we need to make a few observations...

First and foremost, France belongs to the French. The French are a deeply proud nation; and there are many good reasons why it is so. French culture is high culture. The French are a clever, refined people. They have contributed much to the world: in the arts, in literature; in cuisine (think of the fine recipes and wonderful cheeses!), in viniculture (some of the finest wines in the world have traditionally been produced by the French), in fashion, in architecture, in furniture design, in science and medicine; indeed in oh so much. Who, for example, has a refined kitchen like the French? Their attention to the delights of the palette and the refinement of the table is unsurpassed by any culture. Nobody understands how to dine better than the French!

Moreover, take their language: Most languages are beautiful in their own way, at least when spoken properly; but it is difficult indeed to outclass the beauty of French when spoken and written well.

So the French have much to be proud of. Do you really think that there is much desire on the part of these people to integrate with people who come from North Africa with a totally different way of living? The French look down their snouts at the English and the Americans, and have great difficulty accepting us on equal terms! What chance have we got of withnessing their integration with Muslims, a people with a totally and utterly alien culture?

Muslims in France are equally proud. They also feel themselves to be superior. This comes from what their faith teaches them rather than from their achievements. Muslims the world over believe - firmly believe - that the world is theirs for the taking! It is their objective to Islamize the world, whether the rest of the non-Muslim world wishes to be Islamized or not.

Muslims live a different life altogether. They like to eat on the floor with their hands, they like to pray five times a day, they like to keep their women subjugated and inferior, covered up for none but the closest relatives to view, and, as we all know, they frown on the consumption of alcohol - at least officially!

For true integration to take place, there has to be some common ground. What common ground can we find between these two diametrically opposed peoples? The difference between them is as great as the difference between black and white, day and night!

Moreover, do you think that French people really want to integrate with a people who feel themselves to be superior, who eat on the floor, who do not respect art and high culture, who do not partake of fine wines, and who treat their women as inferior and as sex objects, there for the pleasure of their men? Oh, the list goes on!

The French should refrain from castigating themselves for their failures in this matter. One should ask oneself if they could have done anything to get Muslims to integrate? After all, the Prophet Muhammad exhorted his followers not to befriend the infidel, not to engage with them unless they absolutely have to. He also exhorted Muslims to kill and maim infidels where'er ye find them, and only to stop when they have been beaten into submission, when the infidel either embraces the faith or feels himself subdued, and when he is prepared to pay the Muslim community the tribute, or jiziyah! - the high tax levied on non-Muslims.

The fact of the matter is that France has just witnessed the first pangs of jihad, or holy war. The youth that rioted were heard shouting Allahu Akbar, God is Great(er)!, and chanting that this land will belong to us soon anyway! If this is not proof that there is something more sinister going on, then what is?

In general, the French response to this crisis is a typical socialist response. If there's a problem, throw more money at it! But I'm sorry to tell you that this one problem which money alone will not solve. What really needs to be done is to roll back the frontiers: The advance of Islam in France (and the West) needs to be halted, now, before it is too late.

Why does political correctness only go one way? How politically correct are Muslims? How much tolerance of non-Muslims do Muslims show? How many churches are built in the Middle East? How many Christian schools? Indeed, how many Christians are allowed to live there?

In the case of France, all troublemakers should be deported forthwith. Sarkozy has promised this. It is to be hoped that he acts on his promise. Further, it is to be hoped that the door through which they are sent is not a revolving one!

All illegal immigrants should be sent home. France is under no obligation to allow them to remain. Islam in France is growing apace. The riots have been a manifestation of this exponential growth. The growth needs to be stemmed; otherwise all good intentions, and all policies, however generous, will fail.

It would seem that France's greatest failure has been one of recognition: Recognition of the true problem facing it!

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Links to the article below, Dissembling elevated to an art form have been taken down because, for some inexplicable reason, they no longer function! For some reason, this video seems no longer to exist on the BBC website!

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Dissembling Elevated to an Art Form!
Watching a BBC online video on Talking Point last night entitled What outcome will the French riots have?, one could be forgiven for thinking that Islam had nothing to do with the riots in France during these past weeks. The whole programme gave no time for the discussion of the rôle of Islam in the disorder in France. Indeed, had it not been for one caller, an Italian, the "I" word wouldn't have been mentioned at all! Further, the guest French MP, Jacques Myard, went so far as to say that religion played no part in the violence. He could only bring himself to mention people of Arab descent! I would go so far as to say that no meaningful discussion can be conducted about the riots without mentioning the rôle Islam played in them!

We are stumbling from crisis to crisis because of the growing influence of Islam in the world, yet everyone seems to be quite unwilling to factor in this religion. It's simply amazing! Just how the BBC - often known as Al BBCeera to many these days, and for obvious reasons - can make a seemingly serious discussion programme about the French riots without even as much as mentioning the growing influence of Islam in France beats me!

The only one to mention Islam, as I have already mentioned, was a well-inflormed Italian. But Brigitte Kendall's discomfort when he spoke was palpable; so, of course, she gave him little air time.

If you have some spare time, it would be well worth spending a little of it to watch this video, since it encapsulates one of our greatest problems in today's Western world: The problem of speaking the truth!

Not speaking the truth, or not being allowed to do so, is the enemy of freedom and democracy. No democracy, however strong, can survive for long without being truthful. This stands to reason, for, in a case such as this, we are only empowering our attackers by failing to discuss the problem as it really is. How damaging political correctness has become to the furtherance of true democracy! Not only this, but we are damaging our own democracy at home. It seems that the goal of not offending others has become more important than our own survival as a civilization!

At one point in the programme, Jacques Myard mentioned the deleterious effect of polygamous marriages in French society, what a problem for the French government they had become, and the indirect rôle they played in the violence in recent weeks. At which point, Brigitte Kendall, the presenter, interjected and told the French MP that such comments could be considered by some to be "offensive"! 'Offensive', Ms Kendall? I don't think so! Are you not aware that it is quite illegal for anyone to marry more than one wife at the same time in our Western societies? These people are breaking the law. Were you or I to have more than one wife, I dare say that we would end up in prison for breaking the law. How come these people can get away with it? Is this another manifestation of over-tolerance of ethnic minorities, perhaps?

We have laws here in the West, and they should be obeyed. People who immigrate to the West know what the score is before they come here. I would suggest that if these people wish to marry more than one wife at the same time, then they should leave the West for different shores, for countries which tolerate such practises.

We are under no obligation to accept polygamous marriages. These people are living with us. We have offered them a good home, and they should not be disrespectful of the hospitality extended to them. I know what I do with disrespectful guests in my home: I kindly ask them to leave!

Polygamous marriages and honour killings are totally unacceptable in our society. This needs to be pointed out to these immigrants. Moreover, they should be told that they must obey the laws of the land. Just as everybody else has to do.

It seems to me that we have little chance of survival if we are paralyzed by pc attitudes and practises. Insisting on our own standards, however uncomfortable doing so might be, is of paramount importance for the survival of the West. Barbaric practises such as honour killing, should, under no circumstances, be tolerated. Nor should polygamous marriages, since this gives the growth of Islam in the West a shot in the arm which we can ill afford to give it. The number of babies being born to Western families is disproportionately low as it is; we need not exacerbate the demographic problem by allowing polygamous marriages here, too!

The West is in crisis! This crisis is brought about in no small part because of liberal-thinking and liberal solutions to very intractable and difficult problems. The liberal media are playing no small part in this crisis, since they are refusing to inform the people of what is actually going on. To try and conduct a serious programme on the causes and solutions for our neighbour, France, at this most difficult time for the French Republic, is as absurd as it is dangerous. Without speaking the truth, we will come to no good solution! How can good, real and long-term solutions be found when the real problem is swept under the carpet?

This is no time to dissemble. France has a real problem on its hands; we could have the same problem next. The quicker this problem is solved, the quicker French society will be able to return to order and normality.

Ever since 9/11, our leaders, our media, our pundits have all been busy, busy, busy trying to make excuses for Islam. Indeed, even to mention the "I" word has become fowned upon. Such is the Zeitgeist!

If they won't tell you, I will: The riots we have been witnessing in France in recent weeks have been caused not so much because of failed French policies - how could they have succeeded, since Muslims won't integrate! (they keep themselves separate by dint of their religion) - but by the growth of Islam there. Indeed, many of the rioters were heard shouting Allahu akbar, God is Great(er)!, and such things as this land belongs to us [Muslims]! Unless we come to realize, and pretty soon, that we have this problem of the growth of Islam in our midst, then we shan't be able to deal with such crises effectively. Throwing more money at the problem may help in the short-term, but in the long-term a far better solution will have to be found.

I feel sure that upon further investigation, and in the fullness of time, we will see the hand of Al-Qaeda is this very violent unrest in France.

The future for France looks bleak indeed. In fact, it doesn't look much brighter for any of us. We have brought upon ourselves a colossal problem. It will take all the courage and determination we can muster to solve it. Dissembling, especially to the degree to which the BBC has elevated it to (i.e. an art form), when discussing Islam, can only weaken us still further.

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Islam: The Enemy of Democracy and Freedom!
Until 9/11, the western world was largely ignorant of the religion of Islam, of its goals, of its aspirations. Indeed, even since 9/11, most people, and that includes our politicians, would not score very highly in a test of their knowledge on the subject. It should be obvious to all thinking people that our politicians are actually unaware, dare I say blind, to the dangers that Islam will increasingly cause us. It is truly a case of the blind leading the blind! That means to say, uninformed and unthinking politicians leading an ill-informed electorate. But folks, this is what we have right now. The same can hardly be said of Muslims in the Islamic world, though; for their knowledge of Christianity far surpasses - even though much of their knowledge is quite distorted - any knowledge of Islam by the man in the street in the West.

As the old saying goes, knowledge is power. But what we often don't hear uttered is its converse: Ignorance is weakness!

The West is far weaker than it need be because of this ignorance of Islam, since Islam is our greatest enemy. The greatest enemy since Nazism and communism. I'll give you some good reasons why this is so. And none of them - absolutely none of them - are based on hatred!

Islam is the enemy of the West for a plethora of good, solid reasons, and if we wish to survive as a civilization, we are going to have to bite the bullet and deal, head on, with the issues these reasons raise. Let us begin...

First and foremost, we are dealing with a religion which does not recognize any separation of politics and religion, any separation of the political from the spiritual. For Muslims, life is one coherent whole: the political and spiritual both meld into one. This has always been so, and always will be. No re-classification of the religion into two separate parts is possible because of Islam's very nature.

In Islam, all power rests with Allah, the god of Muslims. The Qur'an, their holy book, is always taken literally. Those words are considered to be the actual words of Allah. Therefore, none of these words can be changed, for to change any of them would be tantamount to tampering with Allah's words. This would be a grave sin in their eyes.

For the same reason that the words contained in the Qur'an cannot be changed, they cannot, therefore, be re-interpreted either. So do not hold your breath for any kind of reformation in this religion, because it 'ain't gonna' happen!

In Islam, all power rests with Allah, and it filters down via his vice-gerents on earth to the people. Hence the great desire among Muslims to restore the caliphate. Contrast this with the Western model of government!

In the West, the ideal political system is democracy. In democracy, all power rests with the people, and they exercise that power at the polls. In a democracy, all power filters in the opposite direction from Islam. In democracy it filters up; in Islam, down! Herein lies the greatest barrier to the miscibility of the two worlds: the western world and the Islamic world!

Without digressing too much here, I should like to add that this is the main reason why George W Bush and Blair's venture into Iraq to bring democracy there was a grave error of judgment. How can one bring democracy to a region of the world where the people who inhabit that region believe that all power rests with Allah, and where they believe that Allah has prescribed their way of life for them for then, for now, and for all time?

I would suggest that where such a dichotomy exists, the most sensible and prudent thing to do would be for us to lead our lives as we see fit, and for those people to be allowed to live their lives as they see fit. That way, there would be hope of some peace in this world.

But this is not what we have done. We have done the very opposite of this: We have entered the Middle East in the hope - the vain hope in my opinion - of bringing our way of doing things, our way of life, to them; furthermore, we have allowed millions and millions of Muslims into the West - and at the very time when Christianity, the religion which underpins the West, is greatly weakened anyway - which will only give us headaches for the years ahead. Why? Because Muslims who immigrate bring their hopes and dreams and aspirations with them of establishing Islam everywhere on earth. To Islamize the world is the main aspiration of the Muslim; and we have seen these past weeks, the manifestation of aggression in its cause in France. For what happened in France was in no small part because of the Muslim's desire to establish Allah's caliphate here on earth. These were the first rumblings, the first roar of the lion! Expect more of this in the future, as Islam grows stronger and stronger.

Muslims, by and large, do not respect non-Muslims. How can they? Their religion does not allow them to do so. Their religion preaches that Muslims are superior to non-Muslims; indeed, they use the derogatory term infidel for us. This word to some Westerners might simply mean that they call us infidels because we are people who do not subscribe to their faith. This, after all, would be quite logical, since to us it simply means not fidele, or not true to the faith. But this does not completely describe what Muslims mean by this term. To Muslims, to be called an infidel is an insult indeed! It has connotations of inferiority, backwardness, and even uncleanness!

You see, Muslims believe that Islam is the perfection of religion for man for all time. They call it ad deen al kamal, the perfect religion. People, in their eyes, who have not yet submitted to the will of Allah, are in a state of pre-Islamic chaos, a state known to them as Jahiliyyah! To Muslims, all Muslims, the whole world is classified in two parts: that part of the world which has submitted, and is therefore in the Islamic state, known as Dar al Islam, and that part of the world which has yet to submit, and is therefore in a pre-Islamic, chaotic, jahiliyyic state, known as Dar al Harb, or the House of War!

The House of War is the part of the world which has yet to be taken over, and must at some point be taken over in the future. We, I am sorry to inform you, are in the House of War. So we can expect anything at anytime.

Some people would ask why we were able to go for quite a long time without problems with Muslims. The answer to that is a simple one indeed. First of all, there were relatively few Muslims living in the West, so the ones that did live here were not powerful. Secondly, Muslims living in the Islamic world were, for the most part and for many years, poor by anyone's standards. This all changed with the Oil Embargo of the 70s - a time when the price of oil on the world markets soared. As a result of this, the Islamic world became rich and empowered. Money is power; and it talks loudly! In recent years we have seen evidence aplenty of Islam being on the move. I tell you now: If we do not find a way of clipping its wings here in the West, we shall lose our democracy, and we shall be in deep, deep trouble.

So the trouble we will have with Muslims will not come only from without, but in the future we can expect trouble from the Muslims within. The millions of Muslims living here in the West will not integrate, because it is not in their worldview to do so. It is also forbidden them by their very own Prophet Himself, the Prophet Muhammad. He forbade Muslims even to befriend infidels. He also exhorted them to kill us. And he certainly told them that they should live separate lives, and dress and behave differently, so that they could easily tell themselves apart.

No Western politician is going to be able to change these facts. For facts they are indeed. Moreover, as Islam will grow here, their numbers will become greater and greater, and they will be able to use our democratic system to outvote us and introduce their form of government based as it is on their beloved Shariah, or quranic laws! How do you propose we shall be able to stop them? We shall be outnumbered, and as the outcome of democratic elections depends on the number of votes cast, we shall be able to do nothing about it! This time will come quicker than we might think, because so few babies are being born to infidel families.

The only thing left for people to do, will be to fight. Inevitably, at some point, civil war will ensue. If the political process fails people, then this will be all that will be left for them: civil war, guerre civile, Bürgerkrieg, call it what you will.

But one thing I can assure you, no politicians' sweet talk, posturing, or manœvring, will get us out of this one without conflict at some point in the future.

You see, one of the biggest problems for the West is its devotion to the concept of freedom of religion. This is a lofty concept and ideal indeed; but this devotion blinds people to one important reality: Islam is not just a religion, but a political system also. Indeed, it is more of a political system than anything else, and it is, in addition, a political system diametrically-opposed to our own. It abhors freedom of choice, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of anything that we so cherish! The only thing one is free to do in Islam is become a Muslim, and submit to the will of Allah!

These two systems are totally immiscible, and unfortunately, we have imported this immiscibility right into the heart of the West! To our own great disadvantage, and to the disadvantage of our long term peace and security. What, I ask you, will the Americans do when the ever growing Muslim population in America starts wanting to tinker with the Americans' beloved Constitution? When Muslims will see their way clear to supplant the Constitution with Shariah law?

Questions like these are the ones we should be grappling with NOW. To wait until the time comes would be foolish indeed.

Wake up to the harsh realities of life in the twenty-first century! We've got some collective thinking to do if we wish to save ourselves from darkness! Perhaps we shall, indeed, be forced to think about having to re-classify Islam as a political system first and foremost, a political system immiscible with our own, and one whose advance needs to be forestalled. This may be one of our only sensible alternatives. Since to give complete, unhampered freedom to Islam to grow here in the West is tantamount to digging our own graves!

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Food for thought for Muslims!

The very last thing I wish to do is turn this weblog into some kind of Christian missionary website; but, as one of the justifications for the veracity of Islam is that Jesus was not crucified, I thought it would be interesting for my visitors to read the following evidence of Jesus' crucifixion from non-Christian sources. I shall let you decide:

Ancient evidence for Jesus from non-Christian sources.

Then we have the evidence for Jesus from Dr William Lane Craig.

We all need a little convincing sometimes. These websites certainly give one food for thought, if nothing else.

©Mark Alexander

The Rape of the West!

The West is under a great strain. It is being attacked from without and from within. Politicians lack the vision and will to do anything concrete about it, and where they may have some vision, they are paralysed by the concepts of political correctness and multiculturalism. The West is crippled!

We are faced with the relentless advance of Islam in the form of the Jihad, and immigration (which is another form of Jihad, equally dangerous to the West in its own way).

Politicians refuse to face the facts. They prefer, instead, to mollify and appease, and in the process imperil the future of the West. They are placing our future on the roulette table, allowing the ball to stop where it will - gambling and allowing the chips to fall where they may. In short, they are playing fast and loose with YOUR future!

Western civilization, based as it is on Judeo-Christianity, has served us well. We have advanced more than any other civilization in history. Our living standards have risen and risen, our cultural achievements are many and varied, and the advancement in matters of medicine, science, and technology are unsurpassed in the history of the world. Yet we are complacent. We have lost our determination to defend what has been hard won.

Western civilization has brought us freedoms unknown in many societies. We have the freedom to believe, or not to do so, as is our pleasure. We have the freedom to speak, the freedom criticize, the freedom to be what we wish to be; and we even have sexual freedom these days, and there is little reproach or condemnation for deviating from the norm.

But all these freedoms will come to an abrupt end if Islam grows too strong here in the West; for Islam understands no such freedoms. Islam is an extremely prescriptive religion. In Islamic societies, all must believe in Allah and His final Messenger, the Prophet Muhammad. And all good Muslims follow his lead, his mannerisms, his way of eating, living, and even his way of dressing! In so being, isn't it true to say that Muslims are given to filiopiety?

Any society which engages too much with its past is likely to stunt its future development. Having reverence for the history of one's culture is one thing, paying too much homage to one's history is quite something else! It makes people retrospective rather than prospective; and economic growth and development suffer as a result. It is no co-incidence that Islamic societies underachieve.

As Islam grows here in the West, we, too, are destined to have our growth and economic development stunted. We will pay a high price for this growth of Islam. How can a country be forward-thinking when its citizens constantly look backward? This is asking for the impossible. Further, how can it be highly-productive when so much time is spent at prayer?

If the West becomes sclerotic, we shall have only ourselves to blame for allowing this to happen.

For our part, we have become obsessed by globalization, free trade and the free movement of people, thereby changing the nature of our societies, and almost out of all recognition to boot. Look, for example, at the US of the 1950's! Who could have foreseen the way that country would develop? Ditto, the UK!

Now, in the West, anything goes. Church attendance is at an all-time low, changing the way people behave, changing the way families interact with one another, changing the sexual mores of our nations. Changing the very fabric of our once decent societies! As a result, people have become overly acquisitive, materialistic, inhospitable, and egocentric! Who cares for his neighbour anymore? Who wants to entertain anymore? And how many people show low standards when it comes to dress and manners? Indeed, is there a dress code at all anymore? And what about people's use of foul language? Words are used today that our forefathers wouldn't have dreamt of using! They had a sense of decency which many today have lost. And what about all those fatherless children - children born out of wedlock? Many children in the West today do not know who their fathers are! How grim a picture of society is that? These are all signs, by the way, of a civilization in decline. In many ways, the Church has much to answer for, since it has been weak in the face of adversity.

Take Islam by contrast: Islam is strong and growing ever stronger. Why? Because Muslims are confident of themselves, confident of their past, confident of their future, and confident of their belief system, above all. We, by contrast, belly-ache about our past, are confused about our present, and, further, we know not whither we go! How sad a picture is this!

People who leave their roots, leave those roots at their own peril; and if they are not sure about where they are headed, they will end up where the wind blows them!

The West, in embracing multiculturalism, has lost its soul. We have become apologetic for ourselves, when no apology is actually needed at all. What happens, for example, at Christmas? That most wonderful of Christian seasons - indeed second only to Easter in its importance in the Christian calendar? It is being destroyed by commerce (because of over-commercialization and because of businessmen bowing to political correctness) and destroyed by petty bureaucrats who refuse to place the symbols of Christmas in public places for fear of offending Muslims, and others of different religious persuasions.

This, I tell you, is wrong, wrong, wrong! We must be proud of our heritage, proud of our religious traditions, proud of what has brought us to where we now are. No Muslim would care if his blessed Eid were to offend, or his Ramadan! Go live in Saudi Arabia a while, and see how much they care about offending YOU! They don't. Period! And so it should be here in the West.

Who on earth wants to be wished 'Happy Holidays'? Oh, God, isn't that so bland! 'Happy Holdays' indeed! Summer holidays, winter holidays? Which holidays? How weak, how fawning, how submissive can one be? Indeed, how dhimmitudinous!

In fairness to Muslims, though, I have to say that I am not aware that Muslims complain that much about the celebration of Christmas. On the contrary, as People of the Book, they should be, and usually are, glad for us. This problem arises not so much from the Muslims in our midst, but from the politically correct. They should be well and truly ignored. Well and truly chastised!

Then we have the problem of allowing Islam to be spread here because of the huge sums of money available to such people as the Saudis who use these untold resources to spread their faith. We allow it. We allow these people to come here and build schools, pay for university chairs, propagate their faith, buy up our businesses, buy up our fine houses, buy up our land. We are fools, for no such activities may be undertaken in their country. Reciprocity should be, and must become, the watchword. Where something cannot be reciprocated, it should be stopped; otherwise, this will spell eventual disaster for our way of life. If we wish to preserve it, then something will have to be done about it. It's that simple.

The West is being diluted at every turn. But we cannot hope to survive this way. Any intelligent Muslim knows that the West is his for the taking. We have even heard such statements recently, uttered by the rioting Muslims of France.

No civilization has survived this way. Never has. Never will. For our civilization to survive, we will have to start respecting it, and nurturing it, too; otherwise, it will shrivel on the vine.

Our leaders suck up to the Saudis, believing, erroneously as it happens, that they have the oil that we so desperately need. But the real fact of the matter is that many régimes, such as the Saudi régime, could not, and would not, survive were it not for our support. We are propping them up; therefore, they owe us some favours, too. They need us every bit as much as we need them. This is what our fawning, weak politicians fail to understand! Our politicians are allowing the West to be raped. Constant raping will lead to sudden death!

The choice is ours to make!

©Mark Alexander

More violence despite curfews

Last night saw still more violence in France despite the curfews the French government have imposed, though some improvement has been reported.

More than thirty towns across France have imposed curfews, and where curfews are in place, nobody under the age of sixteen is allowed out between ten o'clock at night and six o'clock in the morning. Further, anyone under tha age of sixteen is banned from buying petrol. In spite of the improvement, however, the measures taken so far have failed to prevent riots sweeping the country. In excess of 558 cars were torched, and more than two hundred arrests were made. So order has yet to be restored.

Recent riots are grist to Le Pen's far-right party, the National Front, which will certainly milk the situation for all it's worth. His anti-immigrant views are apparently going down well with the electorate there. 78% of people are said to be supporting the curfews, and 58% said they were "scandalized" by the recent violence. In all, approximately 6000 cars have been burnt so far, 1500 people have been arrested, and dozens of schools, nurseries, gymnasiums, warehouses, and small businesses have been destroyed. Alas, one 61 year old man has died as a result of the violence.

Dominique de Villepin has said: The Republic is at a moment of truth. What is being questioned is the effectiveness of our integration model. Well, it is certainly a moment of truth for la Republique française, but not in the way he meant it.

France's integration model may well have failed. But how could it have succeeded when faced with a people determined not to integrate? France's real moment of truth is that France has allowed far too many mmigrants into the country, thus swamping local culture and traditions. Moreover, the French are an extremely proud people. They have always been known for their sense of superiority. Ironically, however, so are the poor Muslim immigrants known for their pride and sense of superiority, too. Muslims feel that theirs is the true religion, the true way of life, the true, straight path, as siraat al mustaqeem, the path that leads to Allah. They feel that their religion has come to supersede Judaism and Christianity. To Muslims, it is the perfection of all religions for all time: ad deen al kamal.

The French think of theirs as high culture (rightly in my view), but so do Muslims think of Islamic culture as being superior, though it's hard to imagine why given their propensity to kill and maim!

Nicolas Sarkozy in a moment of inspiration has ordered that all those taking part in the riots, be they in possession of legal residence permits or not, be expelled. This, of course, was the correct approach. The French must re-take control of their own country; and the correct way of dealing Muslims is always to use the firm hand. Muslims, in my experience, respect no weakness.

I always remember once being told by a student of mine at the time when one of the large London mosques had been built and was to be opened. He said something like this: Your country very weak! (In Arabic, the present tense of the verb 'to be' is not used, hence there is no 'is' in the sentence.) My country very strong! When asked why this was so, he replied: [Because] you can't build kaneesat (churches) in my country, but I can build masjeed (mosques) in your country. This means we strong. You weak, Mr!

That should tell you a great deal about the mentality of these people; morever, this was an attitude I met with so often in my time in the Middle East. Regrettably! I soon learnt that one should never deal with the Muslim Arab from a point of weakness. I learnt quickly, too, that they only ever respect strength. Men, especially, have to be strong. Weakness in a man is seen as a sign of effeminacy. The wearing of the beard is one manifestation of the glorification of manhood in Arab culture. And one should never forget that Islam is an Arab religion, so the Arab mentality permeates the Muslim mind, regardless from where he hails.

So let's praise Nicolas Sarkozy for having the courage to declare that all troublemakers be deported forthwith. It is refreshing indeed to witness the Napoleonic spirit alive and kicking in a Frenchman today! He deserves all our support for his gesture of anti-dhimmitude, all our support for his strength. All praise be to Sarkozy!

©Mark Alexander

Some sensible, tough words at last from the French!

Nicolas Sarkozy has spoken some sensible, tough words. At last, some common sense coming from the French! Get on with it now! Waste no more time! These people wish to bring your country down; and they'll bring the rest of Europe down with your country, too, if something decisive isn't done soon!

©Mark Alexander

Stirring the stew to stop it burning!

What a stew we are in! And our leaders have made it!

We have defied logic for years. We have been hell-bent on making our world multicultural, multi-ethnic, multi-this, and multi-that! But our leaders have neither stepped back from the situation to observe the results of our experimentation nor asked whether our goals are really and truly achievable. The result is what we observe going on in France right now. But don't, for goodness sake, think it will end there in France; and don't be too smug, either. We've all got it coming to us sooner or later.

We are now in such a fine mess that all our leaders seem to be able to do is stir the stew to stop it catching fire, but it is already beginning to boil over.

The older I get, the more I realize that we are being led by people who understand absolutely nothing of the nature of Islam and absolutely nothing about what to do to rectify the mess they have got us into. This is most surely a perfect example of the blind leading the blind!

What do our leaders do when they find themselves in a pickle? They react by throwing money here and throwing money there, arresting this one, and scolding the other. But none of these measures are enough to avert the impending disaster. We need fundamental change. But who is going to have the spunk to set those changes in motion? I see no leader around me with the necessary vision or foresight or courage. Our leaders are reactors to a man!

We need a Churchill like the French need a Napoleon. But where is he?

This problem with Islam has been festering for years now. Ever since 9/11, it has festered more and festered more quickly; moreover, I am of the firm belief that things have been handled extremely badly. Starting with President Bush's handling of the situation!

What did he do the day after 9/11? He addressed the American nation, and the world, saying that America was not at war with Islam. Yes, I agree that America was not at war with Islam; however, it was so blatantly obvious that Islam was at war with America! The President should have said so, and in no uncertain terms! He should not have appeared on television with the Qur'an in front of him along with the Bible and the Torah. What, after all, has Islam contributed to America? Could we have imagined the King of Saudi Arabia appearing on television with the Bible or the Torah in front of him? I think we all know the answer to that question!

Had President Bush had the courage to say that 9/11 was an act of war against the American nation, and the West!, then this would have put Muslims on the defensive, and would have thrown the problem back over to the Islamic world for Muslims to solve! It would have placed Muslims - the enemy - on the defensive, which is always a good strategy in any war. But, instead, we started apologizing for Islam! Which war was won this way? Where were President Bush's strategists that they didn't advise him better?

The way President Bush played it, he made the problem his own, and he alienated much of the Western world into the bargain! He could easily have made the case that Islam was at war with America, and by extension the West, for it was plain for all to see! The way George W Bush did things, he let the Islamic world completely off the hook! Not a good strategy at all.

Then we have the somersaulting and contortions of the brain to try and understand the perceived differences between moderate Islam and fundamentalist Islam, whereas, in actual fact, there are none. There is only ONE Islam, and that is the Islam we now observe all around us. Al Qaeda's ideology is the real thing. No amount of playing with words will detract from this fact. Islam, at its core, is aggressive, and has always been spread by the sword. It's just that today they have more sophisticated weapons than the sword!

Our policies need changing if we are to win this war, and if we are save our civilization.

First of all, we shouldn't be in bed with the Saudis. They are the ones who are funding mosques and schools, and the ones who are propagating their particularly pernicious and puritanical form of Islam. They are allowed to buy up our beautiful homes, our land, and our successful businesses and commercial ventures. This must stop!

Secondly, we need to reduce severely our dependence on oil. The wings of the oil companies need to be clipped, just as the wings of the unions had to be clipped during the Thatcher years. Our problems today come not from unions but from the oil companies, since socialism is no longer our enemy, but Islam, and Islam is the home of our main source of oil!

The technology, I am told on good authority, is in place for cars to run successfully on something other than petrol. This technology needs to be developed. There should be tax advantages for people turning to vehicles which run on alternative fuels. This would help the environment greatly, too. By continuing to use oil as our main source of energy, we are making our problems far worse than they need be, and we are shoring up even more problems for ourselves for the future. We are damaging the environment at the same time.

We need to start making babies again. With such a low birthrate, and with our businesses crying out for cheap labour, and with immigrant Muslims fitting the bill, enormous pressure is being put on our politicians to open the floodgates. By allowing ever more Muslims into the West, we are diluting our own culture to the point where our civilization will be totally unable to survive. The example of the 'Fall of Rome' should be one with which we should become altogether more familiar. The world has been here before! Rome collapsed in no small part because of the barbarians which were increasingly allowed to enter the Empire. We are doing the same as the Romans did! We shouldn't be surprised, then, if we end up with the downfall of our civilization. When baking, if you put the same ingredients into the mixture of the cake, you will get exactly the same cake out of the oven. Funny, isn't it!

By making our own babies again, we will be able to become less and less dependent on the immigrants from the Muslim world. We need to become less dependent on their babies as we need to be less dependent on their oil.

Further, the West needs to start acting in concert: we need to act as one, and in co-ordinated fashion; for, as the old saying goes: united, we stand; divided, we fall. It's as simple as that.

How on earth can we expect to survive as a civilization when we continue to undermine it as we do. On the one hand, we find it necessary to go to Iraq to try and bring democracy there, while at the same time we are fast losing it at home! How stupid is that!

We allow all this money to come in from the Middle East to propagate a faith which is totally alien - yes, totally alien - to our own, when they won't allow a nickel into their countries to propagate ours! Our leaders really are dorks!

If we wish to survive as a civilization, if we wish it to come to the third millennium, then we need to start changing our outlook, and fast. The way we are going about things, it is doubtful that it will come to the year 2100. The situation is that dire!

So, dear leaders, stop feathering your own nests, and start thinking about your civilization, start thinking of how dreadful life will be like for the common folk if Islam takes over. For dreadful it will be! So, dear leaders, stop stirring the stew, and stop applying the heat, too. Stews have a nasty habit of boiling over!

©Mark Alexander

Messieurs: Napoleon is not your name!

What a package of measures to deal with the gravest situation France is facing since the Nazis moved in! If this is an example of how they acted during WWII, no wonder they just gave in and allowed the Nazis to occupy them! This is cowardice if ever I saw it! Napoleon must be turning in his grave! Come off it! Do you really think that curfews and searches and short prison sentences are going to solve this unholy mess?

And what about you, Monsieur de Villepin? Millions of euros are now to be spent to mollify the insurgents. So when they want even more welfare hand-outs, all they will have to do is riot some more and hold you to ransom!

The measures being taken in France are far too little, and far too late; moreover, they show that the French government has not understood what is really happening in their country. Either that, or they are afraid to deal with the real issue. The real issue is this: the Jihad has come to France! These people are not rioting just because they live in poor ghettos, though, indubitably, this inflames the situation. There is absolutely no doubt about that. But Muslims are going to continue to live in ghettos regardles of how much money they receive. The reason: They refuse to integrate. Non-integrated people are ghettoized by definition, even if the ghettos are rich.

The root cause of this conflict is Islam rising like Pheonix out of the ashes! Islam is on the move throughout the world, determined to dominate, determined to enslave us all! A serious attack was foiled a couple of days ago as far away as Australia. No place is immune from the Jihad these days. Where will it be next? The jihadis are on a roll, and they know it! And who is to say that Al-Qaeda's hand isn't in this somewhere!

So you there in France: You might buy a little time this way, but even that is doubtful. Last night saw the thirteenth night of violence despite the measures taken! There is no end in sight. Be sure of that.

Surely, to deal with a problem, you have to deal with the root causes of that problem. The root causes of this problem is the determination of Islam to take over your country! And take over your country Muslims will if you continue to ignore the problem.

Furthermore, this conflagration in France is proof, if proof were needed, of the failure of the multicultural experiment! There is only room for one culture in France, and that's French culture. Immigrants coming to France - like all other Western countries - should be made to assimilate and adopt the values of the host nation. It is incumbent upon the leaders to ensure that the norms of French life are adhered to; and it is incumbent upon the immigrants to adhere to those norms. If immigrants wish not to live in a similar manner as the hosts, then I would suggest that it would be far better for them to leave!

There is room in one country for but one culture! Cultures always compete; that is the nature of them. They vie for pole position. This is especially true for Islam, since it is the duty of all Muslims, extremists and moderates alike, to ensure that Islam rules the world. So, as Islam grows here in the West, it will vie more and more for pole position. This is inevitable, and no politician and no law - however well-intentioned - will stop this from happening.

One cannot help but wonder whether our beloved democracy is strong enough to deal with the onslaught of Islam! Emergency measures might need to be put in place for us all, and maybe we, as citizens, will have to be prepared to relinquish, temporarily, some of our freedoms for the sake of the survival of our civilization. In France today, some freedoms have had to be relinquished for the time being. But the measures taken are woefully weak. Most surely, for the sake of the safety of innocent people, the military will have to be brought in at some point in the near future. Things cannot be left to spiral out of control like this. It is unfair to the innocent.

Protect your citizens at all costs, Monsieur Chirac, and protect your culture, too. French culture is high culture; the French have given the civilized world a great deal, though we are sometimes reluctant to admit it. Don't let your culture go down the tubes for the lack of the Napoleonic spirit! Europe would be all the poorer for it.

©Mark Alexander

This, today, from our guest contributor:

The "Why" Factor and the Reason Why We, nor Most Muslims Will Never Know "Why."

Every school child and journalist learns that a news story should tell the requisite "who, what, and where," and when possible, the "how." "Why" is sometimes included or added later, for motive often can not be established unless investigators care to make an effort to understand. Why events happen in the present are based on why they happened in the past. In many cases historians have done a poor job in explaining the why of events because they could find out. In many cases, personal bias prevented them
from caring to know the "why" of events. Journalists and teachers that now inform the public and school children fail their clients in the same manner.

Troubling comparisons between the spread of Islam and Christianity are circulating in the press. In an attempt to equate the spread of Islam and Sharia through violence and intimidation, journalists and teachers are comparing, rather than contrasting, the history of the spread of two. Even in lands with a Christian history, journalists and teachers perpetuate the idea that Christianity was spread in the name of Christ "according to His message." Nothing could be farther from the truth. They tell the "who, what, and how," but fail to mention the "why."

A bad job has been done by our collective educational and religious systems. Secular and religious curriculae have done us a great disservice by de-emphasizing history and ignoring the "why" factor.

Journalists are telling the "who,what, and how" based on observation. They are using faulty history and faulty social science to explain "why" these events are happening, using biased and incorrect information provided in their own educational experiences.

Islam was founded on and with violence by a brigand that wholeheartedly approved of and mandated the use of violence as the OBLIGATION of Muslims to spread Islam using any means possible. Islam is based on his life, his words, and his followers are inspired by his violent and perverse life, making them the justification for war and the taking of people, goods and lands as booty in the name of and for the sake of Allah.

Christianity is based on the life and words of Jesus Christ who avoided violence and exhorted His followers to do the same. Early Christians spread the word, not through violence nor deception, nor intimidation. At the point that war-like peoples adopted Christianity and did use the spread of the faith as a justification for war. This behavior, is not consistent with the message and example of Christ in the name of and for the sake of God.

Concept: Those that spread Christianity using violence and the sword can not use Christ and His message as justification because the content of message and the example of the messenger, Jesus of Nazareth do not support his message, behavior, and example.

Those that have and continue to spread the message of Mohammed using violence and the sword are justified in doing so because the content of message and the example of the messenger, Mohammed, do support his message, behavior, and example.

Fitzgerald at JihadWatch, "suggests that the French, and Europe in general, study a bit of history, before they decide how to deal with a panoply of issues, including the Muslim presence in Western Europe and Turkey's entry into the EU.

There is no "war of civilizations" today -- just as there was not in 770 A.D., or 840 A.D., or 1453 A.D. For that phrase hides the real truth: the world is not a group of distinct interests -- the Christian and post-Christian West, divided into Catholic and Protestant, the Orthodox, Sinic, and Hindu civilizations (all noted by Huntington). No, it is simply the ancient war of Islam against all non-Muslims. If that war has here and there died down, even for centuries, it is only because the forces of Islam lacked an enemy they could defeat. It was not for want of trying -- for a thousand years Muslim raiders went up and down the coasts of Europe, and in Africa, for a thousand years, seized black African pagans for enslavement. Its conquest of India was a Muslim Jihad...

It was not that Jihad somehow went away. It is just that we, the non-Muslims, failed to recognize what was going on. We failed, and many fail still, to see the ideological roots of Muslim behavior -- a behavior that is remarkably similar in time and space in its treatment of non-Muslims. It would be surprising were it otherwise, for the texts, Qur'an and hadith and sira, have remained the same, in time and space. What would surprise would be if Infidels were treated differently, say, in conquered India from the
way they were treated in conquered Persia, or Mesopotamia. Everywhere, the choices: immediate death, immediate conversion, or dhimmitude were the only possibilities. And if today the Muslim populations in Western Europe and North America pay lip service to pluralism, it is only in order to take advantage of that pluralism until such time as they feel strong enough to pull off the mask, and deal with Infidels as their belief-system tells them to believe with Infidels. Those who, like Gilles Kepel, appear to believe
that some other development, some "new Euro-Islam," will emerge, should be asked to explain just how. Why was there never an emergence of a "new Islam" over 1400 years, in all of the varied lands that Islam conquered -- even in Indonesia? Initially there, because the Islamic conquest was not military but was achieved through Muslim missionaries and traders (also missionaries,
as all Muslims must be), it seemed that in the East Indies, something softer, more syncretistic, might emerge. But we see quite the reverse happening: the more established Islam has become, the fiercer it is with non-Muslims. It was only the Dutch rulers who, for a time, and with the advice of such canny officials as the Orientalist Snouck Hurgronje, who managed to tame or constrain Islam -- a taming, a constraining, that left with the Dutch, and the effects of their rule have by now worn off. Look at all the Christians killed in East Timor, in the Moluccas, in Ambon.

History has taught us many lessons. Our educational systems have failed us. Our religious leaders have failed us. Our journalists and politicians have failed us. They have twisted or omitted facts and concepts in an attempt to mold our thinking.

History has also taught shown us that an ignorant and purposely biased population is easier to manipulate and to manage than one that is informed and taught think and reason. In the West, political and Church leaders, often one in the same, used this
policy to control millions. Western secular leaders haven't lost the use of this population-control tool that, frankly, is in use in all corners of the world.

With an enormous population of the ignorant and illiterate to work with, the leaders of the Muslim world are true masters of the "mind mold." Illiterate, even in their own languages, the majority of Muslims must take information at face value and explanation provided by imam and newscaster. Unable to read and write, they can never investigate to determine the veracity of what they are told. Instructed that such investigation is evil and un-Islamic, inviting the fires of hell for thinking outside the box. Non-Muslims and many Muslims living in the West have no such excuse. Most of us can read and write...and think for ourselves. They can never know why.

Our literacy is not serving us. Unfortunately we are being fed twisted and biased information by our schools, our leaders and journalists, some which is also patently false. This is an outrage. Are we being groomed to become literate, but ignorant masses, no different than the illiterate and ignorant of the earth?

©Eleanor

Napoleon died long ago!

Clearly, France is sliding into civil war. Last night saw mayhem all across France in the twelfth night of extreme violence. The best the French cabinet can come up with is the approval of the introduction of curfews, if the local authorities deem curfews necessary. The local authority can now declare a state of emergency, too. Can mark you! Wow! How Draconian these measures are! Further, Dominic de Villepin even went so far as to say that the government would take the necessary measures to re-establish order very quickly throughout France! Monsieur, you'll have to come up with a hell of lot more than this if you want La Belle France to survive!

A state of emergency should be declared across the whole of France - now, since the riots now stretch from North to South and from East to West. The country is in the grip of a civil war. Things are spiralling out of control. Where is the heavy hand of strong government? Where has that Napoleonic spirit disappeared to? Where is that French pride and determination to save the nation? Where is all that intellectuality - you know, what the French have always prided themselves on - to be able to think this thing through?

That this is an extremely grave situation is obvious to all. Now, there have been copycat outbreaks of violence in Belgium (5 cars have been set alight around the Gare du Midi, where Eurostar terminates) and Germany (5 cars have been destroyed in Berlin; six, in Bremen). Recent tensions in the Netherlands, after the murder of Theo van Gogh, will not help to make that country immune from the ire of the Muslim community, either. All this, and not a strong leader in sight!

Here in the United Kingdom we have a lame duck Prime Minister. Chirac in France is no better, especially since the vote on the European constitution, the USA has a President who has yet to convince me that he knows what Islam is all about and who is showing himself to be more of a little pussy at heart rather than that strong, assertive leader he seems to so wish to be!

I wouldn't give you a dime for the damn lot of them! They all want the power, the money and the glory that goes with high office, but none - I repeat, none - has the stomach to take the necessary measures to deal with the Islamization of the West. Islam is growing apace, growing in the West like a cancer in the stage of metastasis: it is metastasizing here and metastasizing there. And the West is in a feeble state, in a state of cachexia, with not a good surgeon for thousands of miles around!

The editor of The Telegraph this morning states that it would be tempting to draw historical comparisons with the events in France in May 1968 and with the revolutions of 1848, but adds that the events are distinguished more by their differences than their similarities. The reason, he states thus: The rioting in France this autumn has no clear political aim beyond an expression of disgust with the government and, in particular, the interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy. Really! He needs to think again! These riots are indeed politically motivated - motivated by the politics of Islam!

It beggars belief that educated men in the know have yet to get a grip on the reality of what is happening in Europe today. These riots are but the first salvo shot across the bow of Europe! There is evidence aplenty of the intentions of the Islamic communities to turn Europe into Eurabia.

Three books come to mind as I write this: Eurabia, by Bat Ye'or, who describes extremely well, and in erudite fashion, what is going on here; The Rage and the Pride by Oriana Fallaci - another excellent book, and pertinent, because we see the rage of the Muslim communities of France, and the pride they have in feeling superior to the indigenous, infidel population; and, if I might suggest my own book, The Dawning of a New Dark Age, which is exactly what will come about if the force of darkness that is Islam overcomes the force of enlightenment that is the West.

We need to ensure that our powder kegs are dry for the long and arduous battles ahead. This conflagration has all the makings of dragging the world into war. This is why it is so necessary to take tough measures to stop the rot NOW! This is no time for mealy-mouthedness, no time for political correctness, no time for multiculturalism, and certainly no time to be thinking of bringing Turkey into the heart of Europe!

We need to roll back the frontiers. We need to drop the iron veil, the veil of which I wrote in my book. We need to stem the flow of immigrants into Europe, that means to say we must put an end to the crescades,the waves of Muslim immigrants which have been allowed to enter Europe over the past decades, without even a serious attempt to stem the flow.

This is a battle for the soul of Europe. A battle which must be won if we are to secure our civilization. Make no mistake about it: What is going on in France right now will impact on us all: the UK, the US, all of Europe, and even Australia and beyond. This is the clash of civilizations of which Samuel P Huntington wrote, and it will be the re-making of the world order if we fail to act decisively. There is no time to waste. Our task is clear: We need to re-assert our authority in our own lands, and win back control. For now, France needs its Napoleon. Stand up! Your country needs YOU!

©Mark Alexander

Do our leaders still want Turkey to be admitted to the EU?

The situation in France is grave. Last night saw its worst night of violence since the riots started eleven days ago. The unrest has spread to Marseille, Saint-Etienne, Toulouse, Metz and Lille. 1400 cars went up in flames. The first man - Jean-Jacques Le Chenedec, a 60 year old, according to Le Parisien - has died. He is the first victim of the riots. 395 people were arrested.

This is a serious situation indeed; it could well lead to civil war if the authorities do not manage to quosh the unrest very soon. The great fear is that this unrest could spill over into other European countries. There is no end to the damage that these riots could wreak on Europe, and the European psyche.

If anyone was in any doubt about the workability of multiculturalism, then these recent events in France should put an end to it! Multiculturalism does not work. It is an unrealistic idea, dreamt up by the liberals and academics. It should be considered dead!

There is only one way for a nation to function, and that is for all its citizens to accept the characteristics and way of life of that nation. People should be made to assimilate. If they do not wish to do so, then they should be made to leave; they should be shown the door!

Many Muslims are already talking of re-establishing the caliphate to replace our civilized democratic institutions. Such talk is dangerous; and it should, under no circumstances, be tolerated. These people should not be locked up (why waste our tax dollars/pound/euros?); rather they should be deported, for they are taking advantage of the hospitality that our free countries have extended to them, and they have taken advantage of us as people, too, of our kindness, our tolerance, our sense of fair play. They have overstepped the mark: they are using the free system for subversive activities. This should be tolerated no longer. These people are a menace to society.

The clamps need to be placed on Muslims. Yes, Muslims! These people - though it has to be said not all of them - are the ones causing these problems for the French, and they will soon be causing such problems for us all. The old saying, a stitch in time... is as pertinent in this situation today as it ever was.

Muslims in general do not wish to integrate; rather, they wish to take us over. This is as plain as the nose on your face. It should be plain to our politicians also.

It is unfair to the indigenous population to subject them to this unrest and violence in the name of multiculturalism. It is time to put a stop to the commercial world calling the shots, too! They want cheap labour; Muslim immigrants have filled the bill. Look what's happened!

When governing a country, there is far more to consider than mere commercial gain. If this is the price we have to pay for cheap labour; then it is unacceptable.

People have to be safe in their own homes, people have to be safe on the streets, people need to know that the way of life they have grown accustomed to, and the freedoms they cherish, will not be put in jeopardy.

If our politicians, after all this unrest and all these problems in France over the past eleven days, still want Turkey, with its great Muslim population, to be admitted to the EU, then they are irresponsible fools!

There are some things in life which we just have to accept: water is wet, sugar is sweet, oil and water do not mix, and nor do Islam and democracy and freedom. They are immiscible!

Recent events in France show the verity of this statement. QED!

©Mark Alexander

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Be assured that I am working hard to restore this site as it was. It will be fully functional shortly. I thank you for your patience and understanding.

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Muslims there? Trouble there!

So the Jihad has reached France, and Paris is in flames! And Strasbourg! And Toulouse! And Nantes! And the riots have even reached the Med: Marseilles is also in flames! And God knows which cities will be in flames tonight! There have been riots for ten consecutive nights already; and there is no let up in sight.

Just in case some people might still be in some doubt, this is the Jihad in action. Muslims are on the rampage; and they are being buoyed up by the perceived weakness of the politically correct West, and the stiffening backbone of the Ummah. It is no coincidence that there have been calls for further Jihadi activity from Ahmadinejad in Iran. Islam, just in case anyone hadn't noticed, is on the rise. Muslims are feeling their feet!

Last night, police reported no fewer that 1,295 burning vehicles, and even a crèche was set alight!

Newspapers this side of the Atlantic this morning are, of course, full of excuses for the Muslims living in the banlieus, or suburbs, stating that this is proof of the failure of French government policy for failing to integrate the immigrant population. But we all know that the Muslim immigrants do not wish to be integrated: They prefer to live parallel and separate lives. They are, after all is said and done, superior to Western infidels; and they certainly wish to bring the West to its knees.

There is no doubt that many of these Muslims live in deprivation, poverty, and perhaps even squalor. But these are no excuses for bedlam and mayhem. France, it has been said, is now teetering on the brink of anarchy. The worry is that it could well spread to other European countries, the United Kingdom included. Only two weeks ago, we also had a riot on the streets of England, and some days ago, a Muslim graveyard was desecrated.

The fact of the matter is that this civil unrest could very well end up in civil war in France. Some observers are already mooting the possibility.

Wherever we find growing numbers of Muslims in the infidel world, we are able to observe flashpoints - tinderboxes. There is a simple explanation for this: Muslims are honour bound to fight the Jihad. The word 'Jihad' has a few definitions, but the greater Jihad is the one which should concern us here. It means struggling and striving in the way of Allah, to establish his 'kingdom', or more correctly stated, his caliphate here on earth. These people are not going to give up this struggle easily; they don't wherever they are found in great numbers. There are problems in many parts of the world, including the Sudan, the Lebanon, Thailand, and even China, to name but a few places.

Indeed, as the Muslim population increases in the so-called 'infidel' West (don't you just hate that name?), and increase it most certainly will if the population explosion goes unchecked, so will the potential for civil unrest. This is because of the civil strife caused by increasing numbers of Muslims trying to impose their Islamic will on the indigenous population.

Our policy-makers and politicians can look as much they like for solutions and explanations in poverty; but this has less to do with poverty, and far more to do with the Muslim's Weltanschauung, or worldview.

Over the years, we have had many, many deprived areas in the United Kingdom; though things have improved greatly for many in recent years. But it was rare indeed to read about gangs of unruly people, the mobs, creating such mayhem on our streets. Poverty is no excuse for rioting. Period!

It is difficult to see how French politicians are going to deal with this, since few demonstrate the willingness to take the necessary harsh measures to control the lawless.

Two interesting questions would be: How many of these rioters are actually illegal immigrants? How much of this rioting is being funded from abroad?

There are no easy answers in a politically correct world - in a pc world which always pushes the blame back onto ourselves; but it is imperative that these troublemakers be controlled before they manage to control us! Perhaps one good place to start would be to deport the illegal immigrants. After all, they've got no right to be here in the first place: they're illegal!

©Mark Alexander

The Anglican Church under attack from its own Archbishop!

Nothing could be more far-fetched, nothing could be more surreal, nothing could be more bizarre than the Archbishop of Canterbury apologizing for Christianity; but it's happened! The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, in an address in Cairo (of all places!), apologized for imposing Christian and Anglican hymns on the wider world.

It was, he says, in a twisted piece of theology, 'sinful' for the British to bring Jerusalem and Hark the Herald Angels Sing to the wider world and the far outreaches of the Empire.

He was especially critical of Victorian missionaries who had brought these wonderful anthems to far-flung peoples in the great age of evangelical fervour.

(Source: Daily Mail Man who hates his own Church by Mary Kenny)

Mary Kenny's article was brilliant. She tore the man to shreds!

We are living in perverse times. The advanced world is now finding it necessary to apologize for being civilized and, well, advanced. I tell you now: We will not last long as a civilization if things go on this way.

We have rotten leadership wherever you look. Our Prime Minister, Anthony Blair, is, in my opinion, the worst in living memory. He is busy taking away our liberty at every turn. Is he, perhaps, trying to inure us to the ultimate loss of freedoms that will inevitably be imposed on us as Islam grows here in the West, when Europe will morph into Eurabia?

Now we have rotten leadership in the Church of England, too! What is this man thinking about? As Mary Kenny rightfully points out: The Empire helped civilize the world. There is nothing to apologize for! Absolutely nothing! I, for one, am proud that Britain once had an Empire! It was Britain's hour of glory. And this should never be forgotten. What we have now is the rise of the Islamic empire. Time will tell just how beneficent and benevolent that empire will be!

The Archbishop is said to be a brilliant scholar. Brilliant he might well be; but one thing is for sure: He lacks common sense and the ability to lead!

Were I to be in his position, I should be considering my position. He is there in order to bring the Christian message - the Good News - to the people in this still Christian country. He should be evangelizing and filling the pews. That is the raison d'être of his position. He should think of himself as a glorified salesman: The more he manages to sell the message of the Gospel, the more successful he will be, and the fuller the church pews will be, too!

But what does he do? He causes rifts in the Church by his lack of firm leadership. He prefers to belly-ache about the rights and wrongs of accepting the homosexual lifestyle than to bring the people into the Church, heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, metrosexual, or any other kind of 'sexual' you can think of!

The homosexual issue cannot be resolved: People take strong positions on it. Therefore, it would surely be better to leave this personal matter to the individual for it to be something between him and his God. Get on with the business of filling the Churches, Your Grace. The more the churches empty, the stronger Islam becomes in relative terms.

No atheism, no agnosticism, no syncretism, and no secularism is going to be strong enough to stand up to the Islamic onslaught. Christianity is what the West was built on. It is the rock underpinning our civilization. Take away the rock, and you are left with nothing - a void, a vacuum. A vacuum which will surely be filled by Islam!

No house can be built on shaky foundations; and no civilization can be kept together on shaky foundations, either. The Archbishop, in going to a Muslim country such as Egypt and apologizing for his own faith, is engaging in the removal of the underpinnings of our culture. Our culture will not survive long if this continues.

I hasten to add that I am not advocating any kind of fundamentalist form of Christianity. Heaven forbid! So I am certainly not advocating a nation of Bible freaks. But what I am saying is this: In Islam, we have a culture sure of itself and sure of its mission and destiny. Without Christianity, we cannot be sure of our own.

So I shall repeat the words of Sir Winston Churchill (slightly changed), used when WWII broke out, for I can think of no other's words more apt: Take up your task, Your Grace, with buoyancy and hope, and feel sure that your cause will not be suffered to fail among men. And feel entitled to claim the aid of all! And remember the words of Whitaker Chambers in Witness: History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations that have become indifferent to God and died!

©Mark Alexander

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Too soft to survive!

This is a very bad time for Islam to be advancing. Westerners have grown unaccustomed to struggling and fighting for survival.They have become too used to their creature comforts, their many holidays abroad, their several cars in the driveway, and their altogether high standard of living. They have become acquisitive and complacent with it. They somehow believe that nothing should take these things away from them. After all, they managed to vanquish communism; and they feel sure that all people deep down really wish for the same way of life. How wrong can they be!

Muslims are cut from a different bolt of cloth. Acquisition to them is far less important than their devotion to Islam and its eventual triumph over their traditional enemy: the Christian West.

Many here would deny that the West is now that Christian at all; and it would seem that Christianity has indeed suffered greatly in recent years. The empty church pews are testimony to this. To Muslims, however, the West and Christianity go hand in hand. And they wish to triumph over it. After all is said and done, this is their bounden duty: to conquer the West and spread the faith.

As we all know, the home of Islam is Arabia. That place is home to some of the most hostile terrain in the world, and home to some of the toughest people in the world, too. Hostile environments breed tough people. The Bedouin therefore is not known for his softness; on the contrary, because his environment is so hostile, he is brought up with a strong instinct to survive. To a Bedouin, the world is a tough place. And only the stongest survive it.

I have experienced first hand just how tough these people can be. Compassion is not second nature to the Bedouin! He is exceedingly proud, and this pride will not allow him to compromise easily, either. Cross a Bedouin one day and see just how vengeful he can be! If you cross one, I can assure you that you will have made an enemy for life! It is rare indeed for these people to forgive.

Islam has all the hallmarks and characteristics of the people who founded it. For example, Islam teaches its adherents to be hospitable. It is the hostile environment which has fostered this habit in its people. It is essential to extend hospitality and a welcome to the wayfarer where the climate and terrain are so difficult. If you extend hospitality today, you can expect it to be returned when you need it.

But it is the Bedouin's stong instinct for survival, and his toughness in his dealings with others, which should concern us. For this toughness has crossed over into Islam itself. Even a cursory glance at some of the surahs in the Qur'an show just how tough Muslims are expected to be. And how many times in recent years have we been appalled by the beheadings in the news?

Westerners were once tough, too. Especially when life was harder. Take the cowboy as a case in point, or the seafarer of yesteryear. But life has become soft for the majority today. The poor in many Western countries are cared for by the welfare state. Even unmarried mothers are given hand-outs. Few, today, need go hungry.

But this caring society has brought with it a softness which is not helpful when our countries are under attack, partly because it renders people incapable of taking the tough measures necessary for their own survival. Indeed, one has to question whether we have lost our instinct for survival! You can be sure that your countrymen have grown soft and weak when they start clamouring for unnecessary legislation, legislation to ban this or that. Things that we have lived with for centuries. This is no good sign. It shows that society is in decline when people fuss about trivialities when there are far greater things to worry about!

That this is so can be seen here in Great Britain. Our Prime Minister busies himself interfering in the private lives of the people, by banning this and banning that. His time would be better spent dealing with the encroachment of Islam on our daily lives!

We have before us a choice: either we stiffen our resolve to fight and win, or we let all that has been fought for, and won, by previous generations slip away for the lack of stomach to fight.

When our backs are against the wall, there is only one thing to do if we wish to survive, and that's to fight for our survival. It seems that few today are willing to do what is necessary.

People today have been cossetted. There hasn't been a major war since 1945. That is precisely 60 years ago. One can be sure that not having lived through a war makes most people quite incapable either of comprehending how dire life can be or of comprehending why war should ever be necessary. People want peace. Quite naturally. Nobody in his right mind would choose war over peace. But we have to be careful that we don't have peace at any price. That is never a good thing.

The way we are dealing with the advance of Islam would suggest that this is precisely what we have got: Peace at any price!

We shall have to find our backbones again soon if we wish to maintain our liberty for future generations. They won't thank us if we do not!

©Mark Alexander

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Habibati, Take Off That Burqah!
You can just imagine it, can't you? A Muslim telling his zawjah (wife): Habibati (my dear), take off that burqah! We've got some serious business to attend to! And then they laugh all the way to the baby-making room! For they know that they will be helping to swell the population in the community of Muslims here in the West. They also know what the eventual outcome will be: They will outnumber Westerners. They understand Churchill's message, a message that has long been forgotten here in the West: There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Sheer numbers will trump technology; numbers will also trump economic development. Although we are more advanced, we needn't smirk and feel superior. These people understand the basics of life; we have forgotten them! To a Westerner, it is now more important for women to do a meaningful job in the workplace. No longer is the rôle of motherhood satisfying enough.

Moreover, commerce drives our political decisions: Business calls for more manpower, so the politicians open the floodgates, and let in illegal immigrants by the tens of thousands. Such is the logic of our day. I tell you now: It is false logic; and it will eventually lead to our own demise.

No community, no nation, no civilization can survive without an adequate supply of new born babies. It's the sine qua non of survival and it's the sine qua non of a thriving nation, too. Westerners are trying to buck nature; they will fail. And fail miserably!

If we are to survive as a civilization, then there needs to be a sea-change in attitudes, a sea-change in outlook, a sea-change in government policy.

Meanwhile...nine months later, Farida will give birth to that bonny, bouncy little Muhammad; and the father will whisper into the baby's ear: La illah ila Allah wa Muhammadan rasul Ullah! The Muslim community has swollen yet again: a Muslim baby has been born. The Muslim communities here in the West know that it's only a question of time, now.

The father smiles, for he knows that the future must surely belong to them!

©Mark Alexander

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Reactive 'leadership'

Good, strong leadership in troubled times stems from pro-action, not reaction! But what we get is more and more reaction. Our leaders react to events as they unfold, and usually proceed to appease. This is deeply troubling.

I realize full well that there are times when any leader has to react to events. Especially when taken on the hop. But our leaders are not taken on the hop at present - there has been a sustained attack on the West and its values for many years now. We should have been awakened from our reveries in no uncertain terms on 9/11 even if we had been sleepwalking before that. But we seem still to be fumbling around, trying to make sense of the events. Our leaders appear to be paralysed: They know not what do do!

We are at war with an alien culture, like it or not. Actually, it would be more accurate to state that the other way around, since we didn't choose to wage this war, and we are certainly reluctant warriors: An alien culture is at war with the West. This is an undeniable fact. No wishy-washy, do-gooding, screaming liberal can deny this, since the evidence is everywhere around us. Take the riots in that Paris suburb as yet another example of just how hostile Islam really is.

But what do the leaders do: They react. React and appease! Whereas what they should be doing is being pro-active and tough. Did Churchill lead us to victory in WWII by being reactive and appeasing?

Our leaders seem not to know it - though they should - but we are dealing with a ruthless enemy. Make no mistake about it: Muslims can indeed be ruthless. They are not given to much compassion and mercy, at least not for the likes of the infidel!

But our leaders and politicans consistently fail - or refuse - to get it. They keep muddying the waters, confusing the people, the electorate, in the process. Appeasement, however, will not work against an implacable enemy - an enemy determined to supplant Western values with Koranic ones.

We have been here before with Nazism and fascism. Now we have Islamofascism to deal with; but we aren't doing so effectively at all. All we are doing is giving in: Letting them have their way. Treating them differently because they come from a different culture, and assisting them not to integrate in the process.

We are living through the 1930s all over again! The big question is: When will 1939 return? Then we really will have to wake up and become pro-active.

Make no mistake about it: No war was ever won on the defensive; and behaving reactively is nothing more or less than placing oneself on the defensive. Offence is the best defence. It was ever thus, and ever will be.

What the politicians do no seem to understand is this: For as long as Islam continues to grow and grow here in the West, and grow and grow it will if left unchecked, then we are allowing the seeds of anti-democracy to put down their roots further and further into Western soil. Like a fast-growing weed in the garden, if left to proliferate, it will eventually choke all plants. So it will be with Islam in the West!

Pro-active measures need to be taken urgently. Time is not on our side.

©Mark Alexander

Remember What Mahathir Said: Muslims Are At War With the West

The then Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad opened the Tenth Session of the Islamic Summit Conference in October of 2003 with a keynote speech in which he states unequivocally that Muslims believe that they are at war with the West.

48. In any struggle, in any war, nothing is more important than concerted and coordinated action. A degree of discipline is all that is needed. The Prophet lost in Jabal Uhud because his forces broke rank. We know that, yet we are unwilling to discipline ourselves and to give up our irregular and uncoordinated actions. We need to be brave but not foolhardy. We need to think not just of our reward in the afterlife but also of the worldly results of our mission.

49. The Quran tells us that when the enemy sues for peace we must react positively. True the treaty offered is not favourable to us. But we can negotiate. The Prophet did, at Hudaibiyah. And in the end he triumphed.

50. I am aware that all these ideas will not be popular. Those who are angry would want to reject it out of hand. They would even want to silence anyone who makes or supports this line of action. They would want to send more young men and women to make the supreme sacrifice. But where will all these lead to? Certainly not victory. Over the past 50 years of fighting in Palestine we have not achieved any result. We have in fact worsened our situation.

51. The enemy will probably welcome these proposals and we will conclude that the promoters are working for the enemy. But think. We are up against a people who think. They survived 2000 years of pogroms not by hitting back, but by thinking. They invented and successfully promoted Socialism, Communism, human rights and democracy so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong, so they may enjoy equal rights with others. With these they have now gained control of the most powerful countries and they, this tiny community, have become a world power. We cannot fight them through brawn alone. We must use our brains also.

52. Of late because of their power and their apparent success they have become arrogant. And arrogant people, like angry people will make mistakes, will forget to think.

53. They are already beginning to make mistakes. And they will make more mistakes. There may be windows of opportunity for us now and in the future. We must seize these opportunities.

54. But to do so we must get our acts right. Rhetoric is good. It helps us to expose the wrongs perpetrated against us, perhaps win us some sympathy and support. It may strengthen our spirit, our will and resolve, to face the enemy.

55. We can and we should pray to Allah S.W.T. for in the end it is He who will determine whether we succeed or fail. We need His blessings and His help in our endeavours,

56. But it is how we act and what we do which will determine whether He would help us and give us victory or not. He has already said so in the Quran. Again Surah Ar-Ra'd verse 11.

57. As I said at the beginning, the whole world is looking at us, the whole Muslim ummah is placing their hopes in this conference of the leaders of Islamic nations. They expect us not just to vent our frustrations and anger, through words and gestures; not just to pray for Allah's blessings. They expect us to do something, to act. We cannot say we cannot do anything, we the leaders of the Muslim nations. We cannot say we cannot unite even when faced with the destruction of our religion and the ummah.

58. We know we can. There are many things that we can do. There are many resources that we have at our disposal. What is needed is merely-the will to do it, As Muslims, we must be grateful for the guidance of our religion, we must do what needs to be done, willingly and with determination. Allah has not raised us, the leaders, above the others so we may enjoy power for ourselves only. The power we wield is for our people, for the ummah, for Islam. We must have the will to make use of this power judiciously,
prudently, concertedly. Insyaallah we will triumph in the end.

59. I pray to Allah that this 10th Conference of the OIC in Putrajaya, Malaysia will give a new and positive direction to us, will be blessed with success by Him, Almighty Allah, Arahman, Arahirn.

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With thanks to Eleanor

Fiddling while Rome burns! And then some: Destroying it, too!

In a brilliant opinion piece in The Daily Telegraph some day ago, Simon Heffer, ever incisive, looks back with nostalgia to a time before Tony Blair's Britain started taking shape. Mr Heffer is right to do so. Britain is being destroyed before our very eyes!

In a few short years, Blair has managed to turn on its head all that it means to be British. And there's more on the way!

This man is a meddlesome do-gooder. Ironically, he is doing nothing but harm to the fabric of British society. He bans anything and everything he dislikes or feels is bad for us. And he does so with zeal! In so doing, he is turning a once tolerant society into an intolerant one. It is interesting to note that intolerance is the hallmark of Islamic societies! It is also interesting to note that it is intolerance which is the basis of the Muslims' call for the Race and Religious Hatred Bill. Muslims cannot bear to be criticized. Go to any Islamic society and start criticizing it! Then see what happens!

Tony Blair is determined to ban smoking in public places. This is a blatant act of intolerance. It's a fact of life that some people smoke while others do not. Britain used to accommodate both types of people. There should be room for all in a good, well-functioning society. Intolerance breeds intolerance. Today it is smoking. Will it be drinking alcohol tomorrow? With the drinking of alcohol on the increase, there are plenty of signs of its deleterious effects on society; yet only the most intolerant of people would wish to see it banned. Muslims would! And with Islam in the ascendancy, it is only a matter of time before they will call for that to be banned, too. In one city in Scotland, they have alread called on the local council to ban outdoor drinking in a beer garden. Why? Because it offended the local Muslims to see infidels enjoying a drink in public! They failed to get the change through. This time! Watch this space!

©Mark Alexander