New York - A Sharia’h Advisory Board has been formed by Anchor Finance Group, LLC, New York (Anchor Finance Group), which will provide guidance to Anchor Finance Group in its North American and overseas Sharia’h-compliant financing activities. AFG, with an established base in North American Muslim communities, is poised to position itself as the leading financial services provider in the region. Sharia'h Advisory Board formed by Anchor Finance Group, LLC, New YorkMark Alexander
Friday, September 01, 2006
NRO: Hezbollah’s black-clad legions goose-step and stiff-arm salute in parade, apparently eager to convey both the zeal and militarism of their religious fascism. Meanwhile, consider Hezbollah’s “spiritual” head, Hassan Nasrallah — the current celebrity of an unhinged Western media that tried to reinvent the man’s own self-confessed defeat as a victory. Long before he hid in the Iranian embassy Nasrallah was on record boasting: “The Jews love life, so that is what we shall take away from them. We are going to win because they love life and we love death.”Mark Alexander
Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad trumps that Hitlerian nihilism by reassuring the poor, maltreated Germans that there was no real Holocaust. Perhaps he is concerned that greater credit might still go to Hitler for Round One than to the mullahs for their hoped-for Round Two, in which the promise is to “wipe” Israel off the map.
The only surprise about the edition of Hitler’s Mein Kampf that has become a best seller in Middle Eastern bookstores is its emboldened title translated as “Jihadi” — as in “My Jihad” — confirming in ironic fashion the “moderate” Islamic claim that Jihad just means “struggle,” as in an “inner struggle” — as in a Kampf perhaps. The Waiting Game: Do we really need further convincing of the threat we face? by Victor Davis Hanson
The world does indeed need to understand the genuine Islam, Mr Ahmadinejad: It needs to understand what Islam has always meant: conquering the world by the sword!
IRNA: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Thursday night that the world is thirsty for understanding core of genuine Islam. World thirsty for genuine Islam: PresidentMark Alexander
Is it me, or does someone else see the similarities between the photograph of a one Khattab as provided by Le Figaro, and the Jewish convert, Khattab, in the video underneath, as provided by YOU TUBE. To me, they seem remarkably alike. I would be interested to receive your comments.
LE FIGARO: LE DÉMANTÈLEMENT d'un réseau terroriste met depuis plusieurs semaines l'appareil sécuritaire marocain en émoi. Selon Rabat, les membres du groupe baptisé Ansar el-Mahdi avaient prévu de lancer une vague d'attentats de grande ampleur avec à la clé des attaques contre des ministères et des diplomates étrangers. Entendu la semaine dernière par une commission parlementaire, le ministre de l'Intérieur, Chakib Benmoussa, a affirmé que les djihadistes mis hors état de nuire préparaient des opérations contre des cibles sensibles, des intérêts étrangers et des personnalités marocaines. Intervenant aux côtés de son ministre délégué Fouad Ali el-Himma, l'homme de confiance du roi, le ministre a précisé que les membres de l'organisation islamiste disposaient de «quantités de matières servant à fabriquer des explosifs beaucoup plus importantes que celles saisies lors des attentats terroristes du 16 mai 2003 à Casablanca». Et avant-hier, la police a précisé que les membres du réseau avaient prévu de capturer des responsables politiques de l'Union socialiste des forces populaires (USFP) dont le ministre des Finances, Fathallah Oualalou, et le ministre de l'Aménagement du territoire, Mohammed el-Yazghi. Vaste complot terroriste déjoué au Maroc
Mark Alexander
YNET NEWS: The wooden puppet in Carlo Collodi's classic book that wanted to become a real boy was blessed with many interesting features and never ceased to amaze his father, but it now turns out he was also MuslimMark Alexander
In a new version of the book, that was released in Turkey, Pinocchio turns to his father and emotionally announces: "In the name of Allah, give me some bread." Along with dozens of other books that were included in a list recommended by the Turkish Ministry of Education, "Pinocchio" was forced to become Muslim. Pinocchio converts to Islam? by Natasha Mozgovia
THE TIMES: KEN LIVINGSTONE has accused Trevor Phillips, Britain’s race equality chief, of becoming so right wing that he could “join the BNP”.Mark Alexander
The bitter attack, made during a live radio interview, was immediately denounced by the Tories as disgraceful, and led to calls for an apology. It follows the furore caused by Mr Livingstone, the Mayor of London, when he compared a Jewish journalist to a Nazi concentration camp guard.
Mr Livingstone made the BNP gibe after Mr Phillips, the head of the Commission for Racial Equality, made a speech in which he said that mass immigration was changing the face of Britain, and that the costs of it could no longer be ignored. In a series of controversial statements, Mr Phillips has also criticised multiculturalism, said that Muslims who want Sharia (Muslim law) should leave Britain and that Britain is “sleepwalking to segregation” between its ethnic communities. Race chief could be in the BNP, says Livingstone by Anthony Browne
Thursday, August 31, 2006
The Lebanon donor conference in Stockholm has raised more than $940m in pledges of new money, Swedish Foreign Minister Jan Eliasson has said.Mark Alexander
The organisers of the aid conference had set a target of $500m.
The new pledges bring the total amount of money raised to help with the rebuilding of Lebanon to $1.2bn.
PM Fouad Siniora told the meeting his country had sustained billions of dollars of damages during the 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Mr Siniora said Lebanon's recovery from its civil war had been "wiped out in days". Donors make huge Lebanon pledge
For over a decade, the phenomenon of marriage without commitment, called misyar marriage, has been spreading throughout the Sunni Muslim world, particularly in Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf countries. In such marriages, the woman relinquishes some of the rights that Islam grants her, such as the right to a home and to financial support from her husband, and, if he has other wives, the right to an equal part of his time and attention. In most cases, these marriages are secret, without the knowledge of the man's other wives - even though a marriage contract is drawn up in the presence of witnesses, and although consent is commonly obtained from the woman's guardian, and the marriage is registered and documented at the courthouse. Demand is high for misyar marriages on online matchmaking sites, as well as through services using text messages and email. Pleasure Marriages in Sunni and Shi'ite Islam by Aluma DankowitzMark Alexander
Photo courtesy of The Scotsman
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Maverick politician George Galloway urged Western governments on Thursday to reduce tensions with the Muslim world by pressuring Israel to withdraw from Arab land in the wake of its invasion of southern Lebanon.Mark Alexander
Galloway said Israel's 39-year occupation of swathes of Arab territory had spurred militants to attack the West.
"The poison which circulates as a result of this unresolved conflict is poisoning our own lives in the West and making our people more endangered," Galloway told a news conference at the end of a visit to Lebanon and Syria. Galloway says Israel poisoning West by Khaled Yacoub Oweis
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - An unusual type of swimwear is standing out on Turkish beaches this summer -- Islam-inspired swimsuits -- which buck the trend of the past 100 years for swimsuits to get smaller.Mark Alexander
Turkish businessman Mehmet Sahin has designed what he says is the world's first Islam-inspired swimsuit and sells head-to-ankle bathing gear to devout well-heeled Muslims, including the wives of Turkey's leading politicians.
"We are the preferred firm of the conservative politicians' wives," he told Reuters in an interview, referring to members of the ruling AK Party, which has its roots in political Islam and came to power in 2002. Turk takes Islam-inspired swimwear to pious bathers by Emma Ross-Thomas
Since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the United States, the number of Internet sites promoting violent jihad have soared. Germany wants to crack down on such sites and will change the law to do it.Mark Alexander
German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has identified the Internet as a "textbook" for terrorists and has announced that action will be taken to prevent the increasing number of manuals on bomb-making being made available online and block Islamist forums espousing violent jihad. Germany Plans Tough Measures for Stopping Terror on the Web
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
We abuse the non-Muslims living and working in Saudi Arabia all the time, especially the Christians and the Jews.Mark Alexander
We call them grandsons of pigs and monkeys. We say this openly, everywhere, particularly in mosques.
We do not respect any religions except Islam. This is the Saudi official policy: all religions other than Islam are false. Only Islam is the true religion. To accomplish this extremely bigoted notion, the Saudi state policy is to convert to Islam as many infidels as possible. So, proselytising for Islam is a major activity of the government and the religious department. Those who convert to Islam are rewarded handsomely. This is a kind of bribe, you might say—to force infidels into Islam. Those preachers and Islamic workers who succeed in converting the loathsome infidels to Islam might also expect to be richly rewarded. The Treatment of Infidels in Saudi Arabia - a Time to Apologise? by Khaled Waleed
Fourteen ninety-two was the best of years, the worst of years for Europe. Colombus set sail for the Americas to link the two land masses on either side of the Atlantic. The Americas remain essentially a European construct with the United States, in particular, returning to save the old continent from its follies twice last century and again being called in to restore order in the Balkans after the failure of Europe's will in the early 1990s.Mark Alexander
But 1492 was also Europe's darkest hour, when the Spanish royal house expelled the Jews and Muslims from mainstream Europe. They did so in the name of faith, but the victory of their religious fundamentalism was short-lived. Twenty-five years later, Martin Luther nailed his theses to a cathedral door and launched Europe into more than a century of religious wars. Europe must embrace Islam too
Mark AlexanderVideo courtesy of You Tube
Photo courtesy of The Daily Telegraph
Tony Blair's lack of leadership and timid subservience to George W Bush lie behind the ongoing crisis in Iraq and the worldwide threat of terrorism, according to the former American president Jimmy Carter.Mark Alexander
"I have been surprised and extremely disappointed by Tony Blair's behaviour," he told The Sunday Telegraph.
"I think that more than any other person in the world the Prime Minister could have had a moderating influence on Washington - and he has not. I really thought that Tony Blair, who I know personally to some degree, would be a constraint on President Bush's policies towards Iraq." Compliant and subservient: Jimmy Carter's explosive critique of Tony Blair by John Preston and Melissa Kite
The United States has issued a visa to former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, despite Washington's row with Tehran over its nuclear programme. Iran's Khatami granted US visaMark Alexander
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Radical Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir says he would like to come to Australia to convert the nation to Islam and Sharia law. Let me convert you to Islam, says BashirMark Alexander
Last year at UCLA, I debated a professor who argued that Israel and the Palestinians were moral equivalents. He is not alone (especially on college campuses) in his lack of understanding of the immoral nature of the Islamic enemies of America and Israel.Mark Alexander
Thus it is important to remind people once again about the moral world inhabited by the people we are fighting, whom President George W. Bush calls the Islamic Fascists. Just a reminder about who and why we are fighting by Dennis Prager
DAMASCUS, Syria — Enas al-Kaldi stops in the hallway of her Islamic school for girls and coaxes her 6-year-old schoolmate through a short recitation from the Koran.Mark Alexander
“It’s true that they don’t understand what they are memorizing at this age, but we believe that the understanding comes when the Koran becomes part of you,” Ms. Kaldi, 16, said proudly.
In other corners of Damascus, women who identify one another by the distinctive way they tie their head scarves gather for meetings of an exclusive and secret Islamic women’s society known as the Qubaisiate. Islamic Revival Led by Women Tests Syria’s Secularism by Katherine Zoepf
Britain now presents a greater security threat to the United States than Iran or Iraq, an American magazine said yesterday.Mark Alexander
In an article on Islamists headlined "Kashmir on the Thames", the New Republic painted Britain's Muslim communities as a breeding ground for violent extremism. Britain 'is now biggest security threat to US' by Francis Harris
The leader of Hizbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, became one of the most widely admired leaders in the Middle East overnight after a broadcast in which he impressed audiences of all persuasions. TV star Nasrallah impresses people on all sides in hopeful Lebanon by Patrick BishopMark Alexander
«Chacun voit bien qu'au Proche-Orient, les lignes de fracture se rejoignent et les crises s'additionnent au-delà de ces affrontements se profile un danger majeur, celui du divorce entre les mondes, Orient contre Occident, Islam contre Chrétienté, riches contre pauvres». - Jacques Chirac
As those who have read my book already know, for a long time I have called for the two worlds to separate. Our two worlds are totally immiscible worlds, with totally and utterly different values. The "Iron Veil", as I called it, is another way of saying what Chirac has said. The only difference between Chirac and me is that he seems to think it would be a bad thing, whereas I feel it would be a logical solution.
Gulf Daily News - PARIS: French President Jacques Chirac called yesterday for a lasting settlement of the Lebanon conflict, as he warned rising tensions across the Middle East could lead to a "divorce" between Islam and the West. In a wide-ranging foreign policy speech, Chirac urged all parties to help prevent a resumption of fighting in Lebanon, two weeks into a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hizbollah. Chirac warns tensions will split Islam and WestMark Alexander
Monday, August 28, 2006
This video will not be new to many of you, but because it is so important, I have chosen to offer it to you again today. We must not forget what we are up against: These people who are out to destroy Western civilization!
Mark AlexanderVideo courtesy of YOU TUBE and HONEST REPORTING
Saudi Arabia beheaded two border guards for drug trafficking on Monday, the Interior Ministry said. Saudi Arabia beheads guards for drug traffickingMark Alexander
Photo courtesy of The Daily Mail
The Catholic Church has condemned the cautioning of a Polish footballer for gestures which allegedly included blessing himself at an Old Firm match.Mark Alexander
Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc was cautioned after complaints were made about his behaviour at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow in front of Ranger's fans Footballer gets criminal record for making sign of the cross
Player caution 'not for blessing'
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Whilst over at Townhall this morning, reading an interesting article by Doug Giles, I noticed that someone by the name of Wolf had plagiarized MY WORDS:
"The jihad which is out to annihilate us, and annihilate freedom and democracy, and annihilate all that the West stands for. This is indeed a battle between two civilizations. In such a battle, there is no room for dialogue, there is room only for victory. For, as Churchill so wisely stated during the Second World War, “Without victory, there is no survival”. That, ladies and gentlemen, is why I say: You ‘interfaith' if you want to. This gentleman is not for ‘interfaithing’!"
These sentences are very distinctive. Wolf had so obviously 'lifted' them out of my essay, 'You 'interfaith' if you want to. This gentleman is not for 'interfaithing'!'
You can verify this by reading his words THERE and reading my words HERE.
I do not object to anyone quoting me, but it is normal and correct custom to state from where and from whom the words come. In this instance, this was not done.
May I remind my visitors that people who do this are actually in breach of copyright law. Please remember when quoting me, or anyone else, that one should give due credit for the originality of the writer. This is the only courteous and correct thing to do. It is the norm and the custom. It is also the law!
©Mark Alexander
Militants in the Gaza Strip released two kidnapped journalists from the American Fox News Channel today after forcing them at gunpoint to say in a videotape they had converted to Islam. Kidnapped journalists freedMark Alexander
THE Saudi Arabian royal family arrived for their annual visit to a palace in Marbella last week, bringing with them a new — and unwelcome — spirit of frugality.Mark Alexander
King Abdullah, the new ruler, stayed away, but 14 princesses were among a party of 1,500 assorted royals and courtiers at the Palacio El Rocio, accompanying the late King Fahd’s widow Jawhara al-Ibrahim and Abdullah’s brother Prince Salman Bin Abdul Aziz. Economy-class Saudi royals cramp Marbella’s style by Graham Keeley
Friday, August 25, 2006
Gustavo de Aristegui, Foreign Affairs spokesman for the conservative Partido Popular, yesterday admitted that he considered that a fundamentalist website has issued death threats against him. PP Foreign Affairs spokesman 'an enemy of Islam'Mark Alexander
The pro-Kremlin daily "Komsomolskaya pravda" published on August 16-19 an investigative report claiming that more than half the members of a recently liquidated terrorist group in Karachayevo-Cherkessia were Russians or Ukrainians. Russia: Slavic Converts To Radical Islam Pose New ThreatMark Alexander
Video courtesy of Google Video and the Walid Shoebat Foundation
Mark Alexander
Iranian nuclear development is proceeding apace as the international community continues to drag its feet on responding to the nuclear program.Mark Alexander
Israel maintains Iran is a threat to the world, says an Iranian opposition group. Iran's Nuclear Threat Continues to Grow
The lily-livered, multi-culti, pro-Islam biassed, anti-Irael BBC doesn't mention anything on its UK webpage about the growing number of Brits becoming intimidated by Islam! Surprise, surprise! BBC UK page
Mark Alexander
The alleged plot to blow up transatlantic airliners and last year's terrorist attacks on London have made more people fear Islam as a religion, not merely its extremist elements, a poll for The Daily Telegraph has found.Mark Alexander
A growing number of people fear that the country faces "a Muslim problem" and more than half of the respondents to the YouGov survey said that Islam posed a threat to Western liberal democracy. That compares with less than a third after the September 11 terrorist attacks on America five years ago. Islam poses a threat to the West, say 53pc in poll by Philip Johnston
Thursday, August 24, 2006
"The government is aware that society is fragmenting into tribes - but if they are talking about creating common values for different faith groups, what are they?" - Munira Mirza, multiculturalism researcher [Source: The BBC]'The New Face of Britain' - Photo courtesy of BBC
British society is facing challenges that threaten its record on uniting ethnic groups, says Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly
Tensions between people of different ethnic groups and faiths in British society must be tackled, says Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly.
Ms Kelly launched a Commission on Integration and Cohesion, calling for a "new and honest" debate on diversity. UK 'must tackle ethnic tensions'
The full text of Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly's speech launching the new commission to look at how to counter tensions between people of different ethnic groups and religions. In full: Ruth Kelly speechRuth Kelly, in her speech, stated that she believes that Britian’s diversity is a huge asset to our country – economically, culturally, and socally.
She stated that immigration had helped transform the economy: it had supported growth and had boosted productivity. She went on to say that immigration had helped enrich our cultural life; and migrant workers had been vital to supporting our public services.
She added that in the government’s attempt to avoid imposing a single British identity and culture, she asked the question if we have ended up with some communities living in isolation of each other, with no common bonds between them.
She is setting up a commission to look into the problems.
She went on to say that the UK needed a “controlled, well managed [sic] system of immigration that has clear rules and integrity to counter exploitation from the far right”.
She rejected totally that faith schools – which are burgeoning here – are bad for the UK. She said that it was important to offer “choice”.
I should like to say the following…
I should like someone to show me how all this immigration and diversity has been a “huge asset” to the UK. It seems to me that the UK was doing pretty well before the advent of mass immigration. The UK used to be homogenous and well-integrated. There was already a great diversity in the UK. Look at the English, the Scots, the Irish, the Welsh, the Cornish, etc. We survived well without Islamic culture infiltrating our society.
But what is equally galling is that this mass immigration has been allowed to go on without consulting the people. This is an insult to democracy – the system of government whose virtues these very same people espouse.
If immigration has helped to transform the economy, it certainly hasn’t helped the cause of lowering taxation. Because of immigration, ever-increasing amounts of money have to be thrown at the security services in order to keep the British safe from “Islamic terrorism” and the jihad.
Not everything in an economy can be, or even should be, measured in terms of economic growth. Perhaps it is time people realized that ever-increasing economic growth can impose too high a price on the community as a whole. Businessmen should not be allowed to run the system!
That migrant workers may be vital to support our public services is an indictment on the economic policies of successive governments. Our leaders – past and present – should have seen these problems coming, and should have done all in their power to encourage an increase in the birthrate. But what has it done? Sweet Fanny Adams!
She admitted that the government had attempted to avoid “imposing a single British identity and culture” on the people. Well, now the truth is coming out! This is the very thing they should have been doing: They should have been encouraging homogeneity. How on earth can a country function as a homogenous whole when such diversity is encouraged. This flies in the face of the American “melting pot” theory – a theory that worked so well for the States for so long.
She has also rejected the idea that faith schools, the type of schools which are being encouraged in this country, are so detrimental to integration. If children are taught separately, especially when they are taught values diametrically-opposed to the values of the country as a whole, then we are most certainly encouraging tribalism, and we are shoring up colossal problems for ourselves for the future.
Little wonder that Munira Mirza, a multiculturalism researcher, has stated that British society is fragmenting into tribes! And the process of fragmentation into tribes will continue unabated until something is done about absurd government policies. Verily, I say unto you: Tony Blair and his government have been nothing short of a disaster, a catastrophe, for this country. It is high time for him to resign and hang his head in shame!
©Mark Alexander
The safest airline in the world, it is widely agreed, is El Al, Israel's national carrier. The safest airport is Ben Gurion International, in Tel Aviv. No El Al plane has been attacked by terrorists in more than three decades, and no flight leaving Ben Gurion has ever been hijacked. So when US aviation intensified its focus on security after 9/11, it seemed a good bet that the experience of travelers in American airports would increasingly come to resemble that of travelers flying out of Tel Aviv. What Israeli security could teach us by Jeff JacobyMark Alexander
TONY BLAIR’S peace mission to the Middle East appeared in jeopardy last night after Hezbollah declared that the Prime Minister would not be welcome in Lebanon because of his support for Israel during the war. Hezbollah warns Blair: you're not welcome in BeirutMark Alexander
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
When I look around me, it is so obvious that Western civilization is rotting from within. Standards in public life and standards in private are in decline. As far as I can discern, there is little doubt that this is so. How people behave, how people speak, how people dress, family life, the declining influence of religion, standards in education, in fact, standards in most walks of life seem to have taken a beating.
I am old enough to be able to remember different times. It is not so long ago that there were standards worthy of being emulated by the masses. For example, in the United Kingdom, BBC English was the gold standard in language: people who wanted to be socially mobile aspired to being able to speak like radio and television announcers. Then there were the grammar schools which all children who wished to be educated well would aspire to enter.
Children, except in exceptional circumstances, were raised in a conventional family: there was a mother and father to correct and discipline the children. Mothers did their duty, and endeavoured to raise their children correctly, very often to very high standards of behaviour, achievement, and dress. Moreover, mothers would take pride in keeping a good table for their husbands, children, extended family, and visitors.
A formal and an informal education were given to children. That means to say that they received an education in the school and in the home. Further, children from good homes would be encouraged to go to church on Sundays, and if not to church proper, then certainly to Sunday school, where they learnt the fundamentals of their faith, and where the proper way to behave, already taught in the home, would be reinforced.
In short, children were given direction, and solid moral values.
In school, they were put through the rigours of a proper education: they were pushed to achieve. Pushed by their teachers and pushed by their parents. Their achievements were measured by rigorous tests and examinations, which not all children passed. A child passed an exam only when he was good enough to do so. Children who didn't measure up, failed; and there was no easy way out, either. There was none of the current ‘feel good factor’, the ‘touchy-feely’, everybody-has-got-to-pass nonsense. If a child had not come up to standard, he failed, and that was the end of it. Of course, he would be given the chance to re-sit the examination – often the following year.
The family, even the extended family, would see to it that children dressed appropriately for the occasion. This went for the less well off, too. No excuses were made for the poor in this regard. They just had to try and keep up, somehow.
In public life, standards were generally much higher, too. Prime ministers led by example. They took the decisions they felt were right for the nation. They were not governed by opinion polls, and they generally didn’t pander to this lobby group or that. In addition, they didn’t shy away from the tough decisions they felt were necessary to maintain public order. They legislated on behalf of the people in order to maintain high standards of civilized life. The crime rate was low, and when people misbehaved, they would be sanctioned by the system, and they were punished accordingly.
Money, profit, and economic growth, though very important, were not the be all and end all of life. There were other considerations. People were less materialistic than they are today: they were prepared to make do with less. As a result, mothers, for the most part, stayed at home to raise their children, realizing that nobody else could raise them as well, and realizing too that it was their duty to raise them. Furthermore, because women stayed at home, there was an adequate supply of newborn babies to ensure the survival of the nation. British governments, at least, didn’t look to immigrants to fill the gap (the post-War period was an exception). If more children were needed, then the father would benefit from increased tax benefits to encourage more procreation.
In general, the system worked well; though, as standards tended to be rigid, they could be a little stifling at times. But there was order in society; and people knew where they fitted in. Generally, people were not lonely, because there was always the family to fall back on.
With the Sixties, things started to change dramatically. With the Sixties came the ‘anything goes’ ‘culture’ (if one dare call it that), and Western civilization started to decline. Then came ‘the Pill’, which made for a sexual revolution. Women could go to bed with men before wedlock with impunity. They could make sure they wouldn’t become pregnant. With this change, the morality of the nation went into freefall.
If we compare then with now, if we look at the situation critically, if we are indeed old enough to remember, then it is an indisputable fact that things have not improved in terms of education, values, morality, or in terms of politics. Things are indeed going downhill. The tragedy is that our leaders today do not have the courage to tell people the way things ‘should be’. Of course, we are living in a period of moral relativism; so many would argue that who is to say what ‘should be’ anyway?
Even the Church of England is wary of saying what ‘should be' today. The Church elders have long since given up on moralizing to the people. The ‘Good News’ is not theirs to teach, it seems. They would prefer to engage in politics. They would prefer to demonstrate to show their disapproval of this government policy or that one. The fact that the churches are emptying at an alarming rate seems to evade them completely.
Church elders also seem to be oblivious to the fact that Islam is ready and willing and waiting to fill the vacuum that the failing Christian churches of Europe are creating by their lack of certitude in the superior teachings of Christ.
The fact of the matter is that we are living through very dangerous times. The times are not dangerous only because people are being threatened by terrorist bombs by the jihadis, but they are dangerous times for us also because we have allowed our standards to drop, because we have become unsure of ourselves and what we stand for, and because we have allowed foreigners with vastly different ideas and values to enter our countries in their millions. Interestingly, and disturbingly for us, these immigrants are very sure of what they believe in, they are very sure of their destiny, and very sure of their moral rectitude.
In the States, there is the almost unsolvable problem of illegal Mexicans there. Some estimate their numbers at up to twenty million! Some estimate their numbers far lower. But the fact is that nobody knows how many there are in the country. Further, Islam is growing apace in the States. The future of the ‘Land of the Free’ lies very much in the balance. Yet there appears to be no will to do anything about the problem.
Here in the United Kingdom, we have a similar problem with illegal immigrants, too. In the case of the UK, most of them are Muslims. This problem, because it is not being addressed, will clearly change the nature of the United Kingdom in the years to come, and it will certainly change its politics, too. Already we have heard calls from the small but vociferous Muslim community for the UK government to become more anti-American and more anti-Israel, and more pro-Islam and pro-Arab. And this with present numbers!
In view of the Muslims’ propensity to procreate quickly and in great numbers, it doesn’t take a PhD in mathematics to do the calculations: The indigenous population, moderate as it has always been, will in years to come be outnumbered by the extremist voice of the ‘new breed of Englishman’ – Muslim and of Asian descent as he will most surely be.
It would appear that it is now only a question of time before the West, as we know the West to be, will be a civilization of the past. If Islam comes to influence the politics of our nations, which if present trends continue it most surely will, then rest assured that lax moral values will be cleaned up forthwith. Our way of dressing will change, as will our way of speaking (will Arabic become our lingua franca?), our way of behaving, our politics, our thinking, even our economics. Oh, and don’t forget the meting out of barbaric punishments for relatively minor offences. Punishments will no longer fit the crime. Freedom and democracy will become concepts of the past. We shall have entered into the Islamic era – an era which will be characterized by ‘dark age’ thinking; indeed, we shall have entered the ‘new dark age’ that I wrote of in my book.
These changes, of course, are not inevitable; but if we wish to save the West, then we have much thinking to do, much bellyaching, and many policies will have to be reversed.
I suggest that we start today. There is no time to waste.
©Mark Alexander
Objections to Turkey's launch of membership talks with the EU have been raised by leading French and German politicians. However, the Commission remains adamant that the talks will start as scheduled on 3 October. Turkey: France and Germany turn up the heatMark Alexander
The same article may be read in German here: EU-Beitritt der Türkei: Widerstand in Frankreich und Deutschland wächst
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