Happy New Year!

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my visitors a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR. May 2006 be a peaceful year for us all!

©Mark Alexander

The 'Iron Veil' comes into existence!

In my book, The Dawning of a New Dark Age, I suggested that an iron veil might be our only protection against the onslaught of Islam on Western values and our Western, liberal-democratic way of life. Some thought I was proposing a solution that could never be in our politically-correct, multicultural world.

However, only this morning, I read an article in The Times that such an 'iron veil' is already coming into existence! It has been reported that India is erecting one on its very long border with Bangladesh. (To read the article, please click on the heading above.)

The Indians have a great deal of experience with Islam. Far more experience with the religion than the vast majority of Westerners. Our Western political and business leaders have, in recent years, struck many commercial deals with the nouveau riche princes, princelings and sheikhs of the Middle East, so now they think they know it all, know all there is to know about their new-found Muslim 'friends'. To them, 'the deal' is all important; they pay only lip service to the furtherance of our civilization. As long as they can strike a few oil and gas deals, with a goodly few aerospace deals thrown in, they think that all will be well. Ladies and gentlemen! Our problems with Islam are only just beginning!

Before the Western liberal press start villifying the Indians for a erecting a barrier to rival the Great Wall of China in order to "keep out Islamic militants, thwart cross-border smuggling and stop human trafficking" as they have the Israelis for erecting a far smaller one, we need to take a long, hard look at the Indians' long experience of difficulties with the Islamic world. We are mere novices at this game of survival!

©Mark Alexander

With thanks to my guest writer, Eleanor:

On being an 'infidel' under Islam

Look What's Happening to Christians, Christian Holy Sites, and Other non-Muslims Under Islam.

As is slavery, persecution of non-Muslims is not relegated to the past. Christians are being persecuted, maimed, raped and murdered, as are other non-Muslims. Their religious sites are being sacked, razed and new mosques are built over the ruins as Muslims then deny their religious relevance and significance. Read it all.

©Eleanor

Western music banned on TV in Iran

Ahmadinejad is going for what he must consider to be the root of all evil there in Iran: Western music. So he is banning Western music on state-run TV!

What does this man think he is going to achieve with such ridiculous legislation? Does he really think that one can make people become more moral? Is it really immoral anyway to enjoy music? Doesn't Ahmedinnejad realize that there is no virtue in enforced virtue?

Some weeks ago he denied the Holocaust! Then he called for Israel to be wiped off the map! After that, he called for Israel to be moved to somewhere else, to Europe for example.

Is this Iranian President of the opinion that he is practising the art of statecraft? If he is, then he is delusional in the extreme!

This man is a menace to Iran, and a menace to the rest of the world.

©Mark Alexander

Further to requests to re-publish this essay, I have decided to re-publish it today:

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 abhorrs 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!

©Mark Alexander

Shut this stupid man up, once and for all!

Ahmedinejad has been at it again, denying the Holocaust. It's high time the international community shut this idiot up, once and for all time!

We will all suffer greatly because of this man. Do something about it now, before it's too late!

©Mark Alexander

Jesus: The Prince of Peace!

Of what is Muhammad the prince?

©Mark Alexander

What are we to make of it all?



Bush looked sweet, I have to say! Then he converted, it seems:



Photos courtesy of PoliticalHumor.About.com

©Mark Alexander

More riots in Sydney

Recent violence in France, where, night after night, French cities burned is now being followed by violence in Sydney. The second night of violence brought very ugly scenes to Cronulla Beach.

The violence has been fired by racism, racism against the people of Middle Eastern origin by the white population, and racism against the white population by the Muslim immigrants who, refusing to integrate, continue to treat white, bikini-clad women on the beaches with contempt. Clearly, we have here a clash of two very different cultures: the one is backward and mediæval; the other is progressive and modern.

Neither culture is necessarily right. But they are different. One has to ask the question: When are the politicians going to wake up and realize that their attempt at multiculturalism is a failure? The mixing of people of different ethnic backgrounds need not, in and of itself, be disastrous, as long as those being mixed share the same goals and aspirations. But that is not we have here. What we have here is something quite different: the one culture is fearful of the other outbreeding them and supplanting an altogether more restrictive way of life on them; the other is determined to conquer and supplant the culture of the infidel . The Aussies, of all people, won't stand for this, though. Politicians! Dream on!

The following photos, courtesy of The Telegraph, especially the one with the words Aussie Pride inscribed in the sand, say it all.



In a perfect world, we should all love one another. But in the real world it isn't quite like that, and there are various reasons why it isn't. One of the most important of them is this: Politicians, in their experimentation with multiculturalism, have not insisted that the Muslim immigrants blend in and adopt the ways of the infidel, and nor would the Muslims ever do that! Were politicians to have done so, far fewer Muslims would have come to the West, for Muslims have no intention ever of blending in. Moreover, the indigenous population of any country will not stand idly by while their culture is being changed before their very eyes; and nor should they be expected to do so.

If racial harmony is the goal, it would be far better for each very different culture to have its space to survive and thrive: the one here; the other there. In the long run, that is the way to achieve peace in the world. And peace is a goal for which we should all strive.

©Mark Alexander

With thanks to my guest writer, Eleanor:

Some Things Never Change

Islam needs, no requires protection. Protection from what and from whom? Well, from us and from all that would critique or even question the tenets of Islam or the behaviors of Muslims.

Diana West - Censorship in the name of religion

Some things never change. As we see in Afghanistan -- and, increasingly, elsewhere -- this fundamental tenet of Islamic society is one of them. And it is on this point that the West and Islam are struggling to come to terms. For example, the Islamic furor over a dozen Muhammad cartoons published in a Danish newspaper --and Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's refusal to meddle with his country's freedom of speech -- continues to rise up the food chain, from death threats and street riots, to ambassadorial protests, to heads-of-state deliberations at the December OIC meeting in Mecca. Turkish prime minister Recep Erdogan's reaction not only sums up the official Islamic response, but is also highly significant given Turkey's bid to become the European Union bridge between the West and Islam. On a recent trip to Denmark, as recounted in the Internet edition of the Turkish newspaper "Zaman," Mr. Erdogan addressed the Muhammad-cartoon issue, saying, "Freedoms have limits, what is sacred should be respected." As columnist Mustafa Unal put it, Mr. Erdogan "indicated that respect toward what is considered sacred is more important than the freedom of expression." This is a major point of culture clash -- or would be, if the West cared to defend its freedoms. Which is a big "if." Meanwhile, Denmark's "Berlingske Tidende," via the blogger Fjordman (Fjordman.Blogspot), reports that the 56 countries of the OIC have now written the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to "help contain this encroachment on Islam, so the situation won't get out of control." Let's translate. "Encroachment on Islam" equals criticism of Islam -- aka "blasphemy" in Islamic quarters. "The situation" equals freedom of speech. "Out of control" equals criticism of Islam as an exercise of freedom of speech. In response, the U.N. human rights commissioner, Louise Arbour, emphasized her "regret" over "any statement or act that could express a lack of respect for the religion of others." Which sounds like the Danes are in U.N.-trouble. But what about the statements or acts -- from censorship to death sentences -- of the religion that encroach on the rights of others?

That's a question no one dares to ask.

Why does no one dare to ask? The recent all-out month-long riots by French and other European "youth" that are continuing on a smaller scale and those that are starting on the be aches of Australia demonstrate a "lack of respect" coming from the other side, an encroachment on the rights of non-Muslims, but to point this out would be an "encroachment on Islam," a an affront that no Muslim will permit. We disregard their devotion to Islam and to each other, the Ummah, at our peril.

©Eleanor

Battle on a Sydney beach augurs badly for the future of the West


(Photo: Courtesy of The Times)

Yesterday, running battles errupted on Cronulla Beach in a southern suburb of Sydney, one of Australia's most popular beaches, after weeks of tension following an attack on two lifeguards by Lebanese youths. The battles which took place were said to be motivated by a mob mentality. As is to be expected, racial slurs were chanted. Furious locals waved Australian flags, wielded beer bottles, and shouted anti-Middle Eastern slogans. Two girls of Middle Eastern appearance were pushed to the ground and pelted with bottles! Read the whole story here.

When are the politicians going to wake up and realize that maybe, just maybe, they have made a mistake in allowing so many immigrants into the West who not only do not wish to assimilate but wish to supplant liberal democratic laws with Shariah and who wish to turn Dar ul Harb into Dar ul Islam?

Middle class politicians might well lie down and play dead, the working classes won't, for they care far less about not hurting the feelings of others when it comes to survival. Yestderday's rioters in Sydney have shown us that it isn't political correctness they're into but political clarity!

Such beach battles, of course, are regrettable indeed, but mobs play by different rules. Such battles will only increase if the underlying causes of such insurrections are not dealt with. Oil and water simply do not mix!

©Mark Alexander

Is this the shape of things to come for Britain?



(Source: DanielPipes.org)

©Mark Alexander

And the President calls himself a Christian!

Yet another year, yet another Christmas, yet another bland card - the President's 'Christmas' card.

He calls himself a born again Christian; yet he cannot find it within himself to send a real Christmas card. Shame on him, and shame on Laura for not helping him make the right choice! Shame on the White House for not stopping the insanity, too! For insane is what it surely is!

This President, of all presidents, should know what it means to be a Christian, especially at Christmas. He has seen the light, or so he says. But he won't stand by his convictions. This is regrettable indeed; in fact, it is spineless!

This is Christmastide. He should wish his compatriots a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS, and nothing less.

He has just gone down in my estimation. Big time! Maybe he's afraid of the ACLU (the American Civil Liberties Union). If this is the case, then it makes matters only worse. Maybe the President ought to see this image:







(With thanks to Nordic_Smile)

I can think of nothing positive to say about this ludicrous situation. The only thing left for me to say is: Shame! Shame! Shame!

©Mark Alexander

They chose David Cameron when they should have found Goliath!

The criteria used for the selection of the new Tory leader shows just how out of touch the Conservatives really are. In selecting David Cameron, they have opted for form over substance.

Do these people not realize that the greatest danger facing the UK today is the growth of Islam from within, and the ever-growing menace of Islam from without?

What does this man know and understand about the 'real' Islam? He has been in politics for a mere four years. He has been known to call himslef a media tart! We don't need a "media tart" to lead us; rather, we need a person with gravitas, a Goliath. How much gravitas, and how much of Goliath, does this man display?

Moreover, he has just appointed Boris Johnson, the current editor (now resigned) of The Spectator as a shadow cabinet minister. As educated and as clever as this man surely is, he is of Turkish descent (despite his blond hair), and is therefore very pro Turkish membership of the EU.

With Islam growing fast in the West, the last thing we need is for Turkey to allowed in to the Union. Allowing Turkey in will not avoid a clash of civilizations, as naïve politicians think; rather, it will bring the clash right into the heart of Europe. Civil war will surely ensue.

History shows us that Islam has never been able to live side by side with Christianity; instead, it gobbles it up!

©Mark Alexander

The ridiculously naïve Archbishop of Canterbury!

In his usually excellent and insightful way, Charles Moore's opinion piece in today's Telegraph entitled But, Archbishop, this is the bleak mid-winter for many Christians, shows us just how weak and misty-eyed the current Archbishop actually is.

This Archbishop has a mission which he seems not to know about; so let me tell him what it is. His mission should be to fill the pews in the ever-emptying churches here in the United Kingdom. To do this, he needs to evangelize!

Earlier Archbishops might well have had other missions in times when the churches were packed to capacity. This Archbishop has no other mission more important than this one. The Church, if he didn't know it, is in crisis. He needs to do something about it - and quickly!

Interfaith services are useless and meaningless. You cannot negotiate with Muslims, for they are totally unwilling to compromise. Syncretism will not work either. The message of Christianity is either correct, or it is not. If the Archbishop believes it not to be, then he has no business being in the position he is.

Dr Rowan Williams, The Archbishop, is said to be extremely intellectual. This is no time to sit back and intellectualize. There's a job to be done. He should get on with it.

©Mark Alexander

When are our schools going to stop denying our children access to their heritage?

Each Christmas more and more stories are brought to our attention about school children being denied the pleasure of celebrating Christmas, the second most important time in the Christian calendar. It is surpassed in importance only by Easter.

When I was a school child, I, like almost all others, used to so look forward to all the school festivities: the carol services; the Nativity plays; the lessons about Christmas; and, of course, talking incessantly about the upcoming holidays.

Now, it seems that many children here in the West are denied these pleasures. Not only this, but as a result, they are denied access to knowledge about their own heritage and culture. This is a disgrace that should be stopped forthwith!

Any society which denies its own heritage, and any culture which feels it has to apologize for itself, will find that it will not last much longer. Such a culture will soon end up in the dustbin of history!

It is quite ridiculous to teach our children about Eid when they know so little about Christmas.

In celebrating Christmas, we are celebrating the birth of Jesus, the Saviour of Christians. Can anything save Easter be more important for the education of our young?

Read this story from today's Telegraph. It's enough to make anyone feel sick in the stomach! The article is entitled, There is no room for Christmas at multi-faith school. The head teacher of this school should be sacked without further ado!

©Mark Alexander

Time to shut up the Iranian President!

Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, has recently provoked anger in the international community by denying that the Holocaust took place, and called for the Jewish state to be removed to Europe!

This man is clearly off his trolley! Isn't it quite amazing that such primitive people can rise to the heady position of president?

First of all, how can any sane person deny that the Holocaust took place? This, like Jesus' crucifixion, is a historical and proven fact. To deny that the Holocaust took place is like denying that grass is green! How stupid would that be?

Secondly, to suggest that Israel be removed to Europe is absurd! Such a suggestion could only come from someone who is losing his marbles.

Isn't it time that the world shut this man up once and for all?

Read the whole story here.

Our German-speaking visitors can read about it in an article in the prestigious Swiss newspaper, die Neue Zürcher Zeitung, entitled, Ahmedinejad im Kreuzfeuer seiner Verbündeten.

In English or German, the story is equally absurd. It's high time that something be done about this menace to the peace and security of the world.

©Mark Alexander

The democratization of the Middle East

The policy of bringing democracy to the Middle East, the dream of the President, is in tatters. Please read this.

It doesn't look like a very successful policy to me! In the years since 9/11, rather than bring democracy to the Middle East, we have helped to spread Islamism there!

Isn't it about time the President changed curse? Oops! Shouldn't that be course?

©Mark Alexander

Muslim leaders warn of 'crisis'!

That's got to be a joke! Warn of crisis? The crisis has long been upon us!

Islam is the religion of moderation. It rejects extremism and isolation. There is a need to confront deviant ideology where it appears, including in school curricula. Islam is the religion of diversity and tolerance, - a statement by the Organisation of the Islamic Conference.

That's got to be another joke! Islam a religion of tolerance? Since when? Islam is the most intolerant religion around. Islam rejects isolation? Since when? It fosters it! There's a need to confront deviant ideology! Since when? From the standpoint of other world religions, Islam IS deviant ideology! Islam is the religion of diversity and tolerance! Since when? Muslims kill people who don't agree with them; and in a most gruesome manner to boot!

©Mark Alexander

The Free Dictionary

To make life easier for my many visitors, I have placed a link to The Free Dictionary on the right hand column. With thanks to JudahQ for the idea for this link.

I hope and trust that this will make it easier for you should you ever come across a word on this website which you do not know. This, by the way, happens to us all. It will be especially useful for our visitors who are non-native speakers.

©Mark Alexander

Will France be the first to fall?

In my book, The Dawning of a New Dark Age, I stated - long before the recent riots, I hasten to add - that the future looks bleak for France. With events unfolding one can discern the gravity of the rapidly changing political scene there. Only today, the BBC, not known for its radical ideas, published this article entitled, Islam tests French secularism, which is enough to send shivers down any Westerner's spine.

I fear that the French are not going to be up to coping with this ever-increasing force from within. Demographics are going against the French: too many Muslim immigrants; too many babies being born to Muslim families; too few babies being born to the indigenous French. Added to this, recent French history shows us that the French are not given to putting up much of a fight; they seem to prefer to walk away from one instead!

Be assured of this: France will not remain the France we know without one! For this reason, we can only ask the question: Will France be the first European nation to fall?

©Mark Alexander

To judge a political system look at the hallmarks. Hallmarks matter!

The ideal state to all practising Muslims is one based on quranic law, the Shariah; the ideal state to most Westerners is one based on liberal democracy. The hallmarks of both systems of governance are totally different. It is these different hallmarks which render the two political systems totally and utterly immiscible.

Quranic law is believed by the faithful to derive directly from three sources: the Qur'an, the Muslims' holy book (the first source of jurisprudence); the Sunnah, or the way Prophet Muhammad lived his life; and Ahadith, or the sayings of the Prophet, stating what the Prophet approved. The first two sources are indispensable, and no Muslim is able to practise Islam without reference to them.

It goes without saying that quranic law is prescriptive and rigid in the extreme. Furthermore, according to Muslims, quranic laws are valid for all time. There is little scope for revision in them. Punishments that were stated 1400 hundred years ago are to be the same today. Islamic principles and practises are therefore immutable.

Nothing is too great or too small for the Islamic state to interfere in. The state then decrees actions to be haram (forbidden by Allah), or halal (allowed by Allah). Naturally, all those things that Allah is said to have forbidden become matters of illegaility in a country governed by Shariah law. The personal judgment of the judge, or qaddi, plays little part in the interpretation of laws based on the Shariah: The judge is there not so much to interpret the rigid laws, but to ensure that they be abided by, and that sentences and punishments be meted out according to Shariah law.

All power in an Islamic political system rests with Allah, and filters down through his vice-gerents here on earth. Quite naturally, such political systems are utterly dogmatic. Parliamentary aids to deliberation and negotiation are dispensed with; so the whole system soon resembles a dictatorship. There is no room for party politics in a political system based on quranic law. This is surely one of the main reasons why we have seen very little development of democracy throughout the centuries in countries dominated by Islamic culture. This is really no co-incidence. In fact, even where there are more political parties than one, they can only vie with each other to pass this law based on Islam, or that one. Creative political thought and creative interpretation of policies have little or no place in such societies.

In these societies, forces are soon at work to coerce the people to abide by Allah's laws. This goes for the private sphere as well as the public one. One is told how to live one's life, and one has to abide by these rules and regulations, or risk the consequences, which we all know can be grave indeed.

It goes without saying that in such political systems, television, the Internet, newspapers, journals and magazines are all heavily censored, as are films and videos. The state will decide what the people are allowed to have exposure to. Of course anything that is considered to be in any way subversive to the Islamic state is brutally suppressed.

This goes, too, for morality. Quranic law naturally also interferes with people's morals. This is why we hear of women being stoned to death for adultery, people's hands and feet being cut off for theft, and people being lashed for the drinking of illicit alcohol.

Basically, all things which go against the Qur'an or the Sunnah are declared illegal. The hallmarks of the Islamic way are therefore rigidity, censorship, state interference in private lives, ruthlessness in the application of quranic laws, coercion, intolerance, and fear of falling foul of these Draconian laws. The objectives of an Islamic government are in no way limited; of course, such a government ends up being oppressive.

Contrast this scenario with the liberal democratic way. In our system, laws are passed through parliament as a response to needs. As circumstances and the mores of the public change, so do the laws governing the land. We see a very clear example of this in laws governing homosexuality. Even in my lifetime, homosexuality in the United Kingdom has gone from being a jailable offence to one totally tolerated. Indeed, the UK government has recently passed legislation to enable homosexual couples to marry. Laws governing divorce, too, have changed dramatically in my lifetime. Now, divorce is no longer viewed with great disapproval, and couples seeking one find one very quick and easy to obtain.

In a liberal democracy, all power filters up from beneath, from the ordinary people who vote at the polls. The leader is allowed to govern by virtue of the people's choice. G. H. Sabine, in his excellent book, A History of Political Theory described the hallmarks of a liberal democracy today. He had this to say:

The liberal assumption ... is that government can more reasonably be made a matter of continuous consultation, discussion, and negotiation, with frank acceptance of the fact that a state has to content itself with limited objectives and the employment of limited means. It depends on assuming that, though a human community depends on agreement, one useful form of agreement is just agreement to differ. It depends also on assuming that, given intelligence and good will, a concensus can be reached which provides enough agreement to support collective action, and that the latter can be reasonably effective without being oppressive. It makes the generally empirical assumption that open discussion is after all the best test of an idea, and it has therefore candidly to accept the conclusion that politics is intrinsically controversial and its precedures partisan. For entirely legitimate interests even the most homogeneous society in fact often conflict, and again, empiricism leans toward the position of the Common Law, that letting each side state its own case, even at the cost of bias or a degree of mendacity, is after all the best way of getting at the truth or reaching a fair decision. From this liberal point of view a government is first and foremost a set of institutions designed to regularize public reflection and discussion, and the weighing of contrary claims to the end of evolving a workable policy. A government is undoubtedly an organization of power, and Bentham was quite right when he said that law exists to make people do what they would not do without it. But power exerted after a rational weighing of claims is morally different from naked force, and it may well be more intelligent. For human wisdom consists less in certainty than in a built-in corrigibility. ... They [the members of government] presume on the part of government a fair recognition that it acts on a consensus that is almost never complete, and that in acting on the will of the majority, it has still to keep a decent regard for the minorities it does not represent. They presume that government will give to minorities the right to organize and propagandize , that minorities will observe the line between opposition and subversion, and that both sides will observe self-restraint in contaminating the sources of public information. The system requires sincere acceptance of that fact that no party's tenure of power ought to be perpetual, that an organized opposition is a necessary part of a liberal government, and that only legitimate methods may be used to keep it out of power. It requires a set of constitutional institutions to support, and as far as possible to enforce, this kind of political morality. And above all it requires a community with a strong sense of its own solidarity and concern for the public interest, with a generally educated population, and probably with a degree of experience in working the required institutions.

It is clear to see that the hallmarks of a liberal democracy contrast very sharply with those of a political system based on quranic law; moreover, the immiscibility of the two systems of governance should be obvious to all.

©Mark Alexander

Something for our German-speaking visitors

This so-called 'war on terror' does have its light-hearted side. Saddam Hussein does not wish to appear before the court. The reason: He doesn't have anything decent to wear! Another reason: He can neither smoke nor walk about! Lesen Sie den Artikel hier.

Poor darling! The trials and tribulations of being on trial!

©Mark Alexander

Curiouser and curiouser!

The Telegraph today tells us that, according to Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden is still alive and leading a holy war against the West. But I thought we were merely fighting a war against terror!

It's a strange, curious kind of a war, isn't it, when the two sides that are at war define the war so totally differently? Indeed, it's very curious!

I tell you what is also very curious, and, as time passes, is getting curiouser and curiouser: That nobody has been able to find OBL. Now that really is curious!

Do you mean to tell me that if all the stops were pulled out, as we are assured they have been, that Osama bin Laden could not be found? What is also very curious is that President Bush and his political brother this side of the Atlantic never seem to mention his name anymore. It's enough to make one wonder whether they are doing this to please their Saudi oil masters: the kings, the princes, the princelings, and sheikhs of the oil-rich desert sands! Has some kind of accommodation been reached, I wonder?

Don't tell me that nobody in Saudi Arabia knows where he is! Family ties there in Saudi are very, very strong. There's no way that OBL isn't contacting his mother, or brothers, or sisters. Of course he is. So why aren't our so-called friends, the al-Sauds, making them spill the beans?

With technology as advanced as it is today, and with all the secret service agencies at the governments' disposal, it seems very curious to me that he has not yet been found. Moreover, the more time that passes, the curiouser the whole thing is becoming!

©Mark Alexander

Stop Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern potentates propagating Islam in the West!

It has recently been announced that a giant mosque may be built in London to celebrate the Olympic games in 2012. It will be large enough to accommodate 40,000 worshippers! But more than this: the massive edifice will probably be able to accommodate no fewer than 70,000 people in all. In actual fact, only ten thousand fewer than the Olympic stadium itself! It will become the Muslim centre for the Muslim competitors in the Games, will include a garden, school library, and accommodation for the visiting worshippers, and will be called the London Markaz, or al markaz ul london. Naturally, such a grand mosque and Islamic centre will overshadow all Christian cathedrals in the UK by far. The largest cathedral in the UK, Liverpool's Anglican cathedral, can accommodate a mere three thousand worshippers!

If Newham council goes ahead and accepts the application for the mosque, which I have no doubt it will given the present climate of political correctness and multiculturalism, then this will surely be a huge insult to our Queen, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, who is Defender of the Faith, the Christian faith, the Anglican Church. That the authorities are even entertaining such a request shows just how far down the road to Dhimmitude we are here in the UK! Moreover, this centre will mean that, outside of Makkah, London will become the mecca of Islam in the West, with all that this will mean.

We must be crazy! In Saudi Arabia there is no church in sight! And nor will there be one, either!

Why, oh why, are we behaving with these people in such a fawning manner? Have we lost all our self-respect? Are we willing to sell out for that oil they have? Isn't there another way? In point of fact, there is, but the will has to be there to start the ball rolling. With people at the top making a killing from oil, it is doubtful that much will change in the foreseeable future.

Then we have all those so-called faith schools which Tony Blair has been encouraging around the country. That's a grave error of judgment on his part. If anything will encourage the growth of Islam in the West, such schools will, if anything will enourage the development of a parallel society in the UK, such schools will, if anything will encourage suspicion between the different faith groups, such schools will. Whyever are we allowing Muslims to build these centres of Islamic education? They will be madrasahs in all but name!

Simply because Islam fosters strong family values does not mean that they share the same values as we have. Indeed, they do not. All our leaders need to do is inform themselves of the values of the Muslim community. That their values are very much at variance with our own stands out a mile! So how can we hope to foster peace and harmony in the West in future when we are in the processing of tearing ourselves apart?

We are very busy sowing the seeds of discontent in our communities. In allowing the building of colossal mosques for the faithful and numerous Islamic schools for the young of the Ummah, we are doing nothing other than placing our own freedoms and peaceful communities on the roulette table, allowing the chips, so to speak, to fall where they may!

I'd bet you dollars to doughnuts that by far the majority of the electorate are horrified by what's going on in Britain today apropos of the funding of Islamic propagation in the country. Much of this money is coming from Saudi Arabia - a country which, as we all know, is home to a particularly pernicious brand of Islam known as Wahhabism. We should not be surprised, therefore, if we will end up with a society as narrow as the society of the desert Kingdom. What else can we expect to happen?

On top of the problem of Saudi oil, we, in the UK, will soon have the problem of the growing influence of Kuwait, too; since by the year 2007, 20% of our natural gas supplies will be coming from that country. We are dig, dig, digging our own hole! And it won't be very comfortable for us when that hole is completed. We shall find that our freedoms have vanished, and all that we have come to hold so dear.

Of this I am sure: The vast majority of the people of the United Kingdom do not wish to Islamize the country. Furthermore, I believe it is true to say the same for Europeans, Americans, Australians and New Zealanders. They don't wish to see their countries Islamized, either. But what are our leaders doing to stop this process? On the one hand they talk readily of fostering democracy in the Middle East, but at the same time, they pay little heed of democracy at home. In fact, they are busy losing it for us! They speak with forked tongue!

It should be obvious to all that our current policies are not working. If we continue to implement current policies, then the day when the Saudis and the other Middle Eastern potentates will become our lords and masters will continue to approach very quickly. Then we shall all become abd's: abdul Saudi, abdul Kuwait, abdul this, and abdul that! We are fools to ourselves! Have we really gone to the trouble and expense, in human loss as well as financial, to defeat communism and Nazism only to be defeated by a political ideology with a religious dimension emanating from the desert? Is civilization as we know it heading for the abyss? Is western civilization to be no more? Is our wonderful civilization ready for the dustbin of history? Is it set to become effete?

Remember this: At very least, we should work on the basis of reciprocity. Mention the words 'reciprocal arrangements' for the building of mosques and schools to the Saudis, and we shall soon see how quickly they'll back off!

Ladies and gentlemen, wake up and smell the rat before it is too late!

©Mark Alexander

Keep Turkey Out of Europe!
Don't tell me that Turkey belongs in Europe! If you're in any doubt about it yourself, read this from the BBC! Turkey doesn't even have a free press. This in itself is proof, if indeed proof were needed, that Turkey does NOT belong in our democratic Europe. We can remain friends with our Turkish neighbours without getting into bed with them! Turkish culture is Islamic; European culture is Judeo-Christian. Therein lies the BIG difference!

©Mark Alexander

Religion or politics? Prophet or politician?

Islam recognizes no separation of religion and politics. Islam does not recognize the secular aspects of life, either. Indeed, as I have said before, Arabic, the language of Islam, has no word for 'secular'. The word generally used in its place is 'profane', which to us, of course, has a totally different meaning. 'Secular' means not religious or sacred, whereas 'profane' means having contempt for God or holy and sacred things. From a philological point of view, this is very interesting, since it tells us much of the mindset of the Muslim. If he cannot make a distinction between the two, then is there any wonder why he views the secular West with contempt?

But there is more: Because Islam recognizes no separation between the religious and the political, it means that each and everything a person does becomes a potential act for Allah, one which pleases Him, or one which displeases Him. The whole of life becomes Allah-centric.

When a Westerner thinks of a religion, he usually thinks of a personal belief system, a belief system which moves the spirit and guides one to prayer, generally in one's private life, though coming together at certain times of week, month or year, as the case may be.

This is not what a Muslim understands by the term religion, or deen, sometimes written din. A Muslim understands far more by the word. Religion is a public affair every bit as much as it is a private one. Moreover, as a Muslim, one is encouraged to think about Allah and His prophet all one's waking day, invoking His name and His prophet's name, and blessing him at all times. Prophet Muhammad for a Muslim is a love-object: Muslims are required to love their prophet with all their hearts and with all their minds and with every fibre of their being!

This might sound all well and good to some outsiders. I have heard people say that these people seem to be much more devout than we are. But, at this point, I should like to add a caveat. This manner of being is one of the main reasons why Islam breeds such a lot of fanaticism in Muslims. Far more fanaticism than is bred in Christians, for example. The reason why is easy to explain: The Christian usually makes a big separation between the religious and the secular; so he is not focussed on the one thing for 24 hours a day. Focussing on religion 24/7 has the habit of making people fanatical; indeed, focussing on anything 24/7 is likely to make someone fanatical about anything, since a fanatic, by definition, is a person who is unreasonably enthusiastic and zealous about something, usually politics or religion, and is one who finds it difficult to change the subject! Muslims do, indeed, find it difficult to change the subject!

As we all know, Islam is growing in the West at breakneck speed. Liberals should be particularly troubled by this development. Ironically, they don't seem to be troubled at all! Indeed, many liberals seem to jump to the defence of Islam in the West. I can assure you now: Muslims and liberals make strange bedfellows!

Has anyone noticed how quickly liberals make an exit when 'uncomfortable' topics apropos of Islam are raised? At first, they jump to the Muslim's defence, but if they feel they are losing the argument, they depart very swiftly indeed. Probably, of course, because they know that YOU are telling the truth, and they know that THEY are losing the argument!

Because of the liberal approach to this intractable problem of Islam, we have a 'war' to fight on two fronts at one and the same time: on the liberal front, and on the Islamic front! Liberals often tend to view the world through rose-tinted spectacles; this is particularly so when it comes to the thorny problem of Islam! They hate it when you say that Islam is as much politics as it is religion, and get very mad if one suggests that Islam might be more politics than religion!

The fact, however, remains that we are not going to solve this problem which we are faced with unless we can face the facts! And the fact is that Islam is predominantly politics. Why! Even the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said so himself. (Please see an earlier post of mine some days ago.)

Not only is Islam predominantly politics; but it is predominantly politics of a particular kind - a totalitarian kind! (Again, please see an earlier posting of mine some days ago.) Though Islam does not propound communism, it resembles communism in more ways that one could imagine. Hegel's philosophy put forward the theory that nations vie with each other for supremacy, and that nations were effective units of social history. Hegelianism was nationalistic, conservative, and counter-revolutionary. Karl Marx took away from Hegelianism these distinctive qualities as a political theory, and transformed it into a very powerful type of revolutionary radicalism. As G. H. Sabine tells us in his very erudite book, A History of Political Theory, Marx replaced the struggle of nations with the struggle à la Hegel, with the struggle of social classes.

Interestingly, the word 'struggle' is very much part of Islam. In Arabic, the verb 'to struggle', is jahada, from which the noun Jihad derives. We all know what the jihadis are struggling for: the Islamization of the world. They struggle to turn the 'House of War', or Dar ul Harb, that part of the world peopled by infidels, into the 'House of Islam', or Dar ul Islam, that part of the world peopled by Muslims. We are facing the Jihad now, as we all know; and this Jihad is set to continue for quite a long time to come, because this is all part and parcel of the revolutionary nature of Islam.

Hegel saw the struggle between nations; Marx, the struggle between the social classes. Islam, however, sees the struggle between religions - Islam versus the rest. Marxism bred fanaticism; Islam breeds it too.

Of course, many of you might think that communism was without a deity. Yes, I agree. But don't be fooled! The fact that communism had no deity in no way means that there isn't much else in common between these two types of political ideologies. Marxism empowered the working classes, or proletariat; Islam empowers the believers, or Muslims. It empowers them to take over the world, and legitimizes their doing so in the name of Allah.

Marx saw capitalism as a stage in the development of social and economic history which preceded the domination of the world by communism. Muhammad saw the chaos of the pre-Islamic world - al Jahiliyyah - as a stage in the development of the social and economic history prior to world domination by Islam.

In actual fact, Muhammad was a very skillful politician. A skillful politician and a skillful philosopher to boot. We tend not to think of him in this way. We should. Especially if we wish to safeguard our beloved liberal democracy. We shall never be able to keep Islam at bay if we continue to think of Islam only as a religion, and Muhammad only as a prophet. The political dimension of Islam is colossal. As, indeed, is the economic dimension of this juggernaut. For with the implementation of Islamic laws come strict economic principles. Our businessmen and capitalists should become well-aware of this. Islamic economics is not capitalism. Capitalism would not survive in tact if Islam were ever to rule the West. Capitalism would be replaced with the Islamic economic model. There are, indeed, some similarities; but there are also some great differences between these two economic models.

In the same way as communism came to dominate the life of the Russians of the Soviet Union, Islam will come to dominate us if we do not find a way of stemming the tide of the Islamization of the West. It will come to dominate each and every aspect of life, too.

For people who have been brought up in a free society, this is hard to imagine, especially if they have never been exposed to life in Islamic countries. But come to dominate all aspects of life it most surely will if we do not put a stop to this now. Indeed, it could easily become an unstoppable force, a force which will overwhelm us.

Nothing is too great or too small for Islam to regulate. For everything in life there is a rule, an Islamic rule, a rule which states the correct Islamic way of doing things. Islamic rules leave no stone unturned. Muhammad left Muslims rules for their toilet, for their eating, for their dressing, for their interactions with others, believers and non-believers alike, and, of course, for how to share their wealth after their death. Nothing at all is too great or too small for Islam to provide the answer. This, of course, is one of the reasons why Islam stifles original thought: Who needs to think when everything is either prescribed or proscribed?

By definition, a totalitarian government is one which suppresses all opposition, often with force, and is one which controls many or all aspects of citizens' lives. It is total governance.

Marxism controlled all aspects of people's lives, as did Nazism. Islam will do the same!

For Hegel the mechanism of progress was warfare between nations; for Marx it was antagonism between social classes. Both men regarded the course of history as rationally necessary , a pattern of stages unfolding according to a logical plan and advancing toward a predetermined goal. The majestic march of human civilization invites men to cooperate and to serve. Both philosophies were powerful incitements to action and most effective forms of moral exhortation. While Hegel appealed to national patriotism, Marx appealed to the fidelity of workers to their fellow workers. In both cases the appeal was quite different from the individualism of liberal political philosophies. It was addressed to loyalty rather than to self-interest, to duties rather than to rights, and it offered no reward except the hope that one's private life would gain meaning through service to a cause greater than oneself. (Source: G. H. Sabine: A History of Political Theory)

For Muhammad, the mechanism of progress was warfare and struggle between religions. It can be said that he also regarded the course of history as a pattern of stages unfolding to a plan advancing toward a predetermined goal: the goal of the complete Islamization of the entire world. Muhammad's majestic plan of human civilization also invites men to cooperate and serve: to cooperate and serve Allah, His prophet, and the great cause of the Islamization of the world. Muhammad's philosophy is also a powerful incitement to action, and is, of course, an effective form of moral exhortation. Muhammad appealed to Islamic patriotism. He tore down the frontiers between nations, and taught that there is only one world in reality: the Islamic world! Muhammad appealed to the loyalty and fidelity of the Muslim fraternity, stressing duties rather than rights, and offering no reward except the vain hope of eternal life in Paradise!

©Mark Alexander

Another interesting post from my guest writer, Eleanor:

We DO Live in Interesting Times

Sometimes it's good to see a hard-hitting, though disturbing, report that sets you back on your heels. Naivete and idealism have brought down many, but these coupled with ignorance of the ways of Islam are surefire way for us to lose everything as many millions have done over the centuries.

Author Robert Dreyfuss offers us a disturbing view of what he believes 'staying the course' in Iraq really means:

What President George W Bush has wrought in Iraq is just the latest in a long string of US efforts to make common cause with the Islamic right. But like the Sorcerer's Apprentice, whose naive and inexperienced use of magic blows up in his face, American efforts to play with the forces of political Islam have proved to be dangerous, volatile and often uncontrollable.

The problem goes far beyond the Shi'ites in Iraq. In the Sunni parts of the country, the power of Islamism is growing, too - and by this I do not mean the forces associated with al-Qaeda. but the radical-right Muslim Brotherhood, represented there by the Iraqi Islamic Party, and other manifestations of the Salafi and Wahhabi-style religious right.

In Egypt, Syria and elsewhere, the radical religious right is also gaining strength. Meanwhile; sometimes deliberately, sometimes by sheer ignorance and incompetence, the Bush administration is encouraging the spread of political Islam. Were the US to "stay the course," not only Iraq but much of the rest of the Middle East could fall to the Islamic right.

Does this mean that al-Qaeda-style fanatics will take power? No. Whether in the form of Iraq's Shi'ite theocrats or the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood in Syria and Egypt, the Islamic right cannot be compared to al-Qaeda. Yet, just as the US Christian right has its abortion clinic bombers, just as the Israeli Jewish right spawned the assassin of Yitzhak Rabin and settler-extremists who kill dozens at Muslim holy sites, the Islamic right provides ideological support and theological justification for more extreme (and, yes, terrorist) offspring.

Even the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization with a long history of violence, which once maintained a covert "secret apparatus" and a paramilitary arm, has not convincingly renounced its past, nor demonstrated that it sees democracy as anything more than a tool it can use to seize power.

Shi'ite "Islamofascists" rule Iraq The case of Iraq could not be clearer. In 2002, as Vice President Dick Cheney pushed the White House and the Pentagon inexorably toward war, it was increasingly obvious to experienced Iraq hands that post-Saddam Hussein Iraq would be ruled by its restive Shi'ite majority. It was no less obvious that the dominant force within that Shi'ite majority would be the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, or SCIRI, and a parallel force associated with al-Dawa (The Islamic Call), a 45-year-old Shi'ite underground terrorist party.

From the mid-1990s on, and especially after 2001, the US provided overt and covert assistance to these organizations as part of the effort to force regime change in Iraq. Like Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress, with which both worked closely and which had offices in Tehran, SCIRI and Dawa were based in Iran. SCIRI, in fact, was founded in 1982 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and its paramilitary arm, the Badr Brigade, was trained and armed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Certainly, to the Bush
administration, SCIRI and Dawa were known quantities.

The idealistic belief that the spread of democracy could solve all the world's ills has led us on this, perhaps, a fool's errand. Experienced Muslim 'hands', accustomed Islam's swallowing of cultures and whole civilizations were waiting in the wings for such an opening for to implement the practiced machinations that have been perfected for over a millennium.

Read the rest for other examples. I weep for our collective future.

©Eleanor

This, with thanks to my guest writer, Eleanor:

The Freedoms We Fight For

Islam hates individual freedoms and Islamists are moving quickly and violently to hasten the demise of any and all freedoms we cherish in the West.

Free speech has never been allowed by Islam. Freedom of speech is under attack because the dissemination of information and opinion that is unfavorable to Islam could not be possible without the unimpeded access we have to get and give information. Today's world is shrunk by technology that allows groups and individuals greater access than ever before to information and to each other.

Will technology force us to adopt the kind of self-censorship that has been imposed on Muslims since the beginning. If we in the West allow Muslims to force and enforce our silence. it will only be a matter of time before our other precious freedoms will be lost forever and Islam will have won.

Ironically Islam is becoming very successful in silencing speech in the West. Everyone remembers the plight of Salmon Rushdie, the novelist against whom a death sentence has been issued and Theo Van Gogh, the filmmaker against whom a death sentence has been carried out. But they aren't alone.

Omar Sharif has been threatened because he gave credence to Christianity while playing St. Peter in an Italian film. Ali Hirsi, a member of the Dutch Parliament, must live in hiding due to her death sentence. Khalid Duran produced a book called Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam for Jews for the American Jewish Committee that caused an escalating furor in the Muslim world that, according to the scholar Daniel Pipes, resulted in a fatwa that "religiously condones Duran's death." Ironically CAIR did not condemn Duran but the American Jewish Committee for publicizing the remarks to Abu Zant, a powerful Islamist leader in Jordan.

Read the rest for additional chilling examples of death threats and other intimidation against those that have the courage to expose themselves by criticism or by even giving information about Islam that has not been given the seal of approval by Muslim leaders, mullahs, and scholars.

©Eleanor

By the way...

For the words 'profane governments', subsitute the words 'secular governments' in the quotation from the Ayatollah Khomeini below. Neither Arabic, nor to my knowledge Farsi, have any different word for secular other than 'profane'! That's telling in itself!

©Mark Alexander

What the Ayatollah said

Ayatollah Khomeini said in January 1980, in a speech to 120 Pakistani Army officers visiting him in the Iranian city of Qom:

We are at war against infidels. Take the message with you. 'I ask all Islamic nations, all Muslims, all Islamic armies, and all heads of Islamic states to join the Holy War. There are many enemies to be killed or destroyed. Jihad must triumph... Muslims have no alternative... to an armed Holy War against profane governments... Holy War means the conquest of all non-Muslim territories. It will be the duty of every able-bodied adult male to volunteer for this war of conquest, the final aim of which is to put Koranic law in power from one end of the earth to the other.'

The Ayatollah also said, tellingly, when describing the Islamic revolution in Iran: Islam is politics or it is nothing.

©Mark Alexander

Stop the Islamization of Europe! Stop the Islamization of the West!
The West is being Islamized before our very eyes! It is happening in such subtle ways that it is sometimes imperceptible to those who are not looking out for it. But much of the time, what is happening is plain to see. Each and every concession we make to Muslims is a further nail in the coffin of liberal democracy. Each time we consider granting Muslims a public holiday, each time we consider curtailing our own freedom of speech to appease them, we are assisting Muslims to further Islamize our home countries. Be sure of that!

Western governments should not be powerless to deal with this, but evenso they seem to be: They lack the will and determination to stop the rot.

Political correctness, of course, has taken its toll on the West. So has the ridiculous concept of multiculturalism. Add to this a deep-seated guilt complex, a pervasive attitude of self-denigration, extreme tolerance, and an army of apologists for Islam, and we have a catastrophe in the making!

One of our greatest mistakes is to think of Islam as just another one of the world's great religions. We shouldn't. Islam is politics or it is nothing at all, but, of course, it is politics with a spiritual dimension, politics all wrapped up in a deity.

What is the nature of the politics of Islam? Well, that's an easy one to answer: It is little different from the politics of a totalitarian state, little different from the ideologies of Nazism or communism, different only in detail rather than style. Both Nazism and communism used the purge to try and 'cleanse' society of what it considered undesirable. Islam always does the same. Both of those tolerated only a single political party. Islam generally does the same, and certainly, where it doesn't, insists that all parties be Islamic ones. This, of course, gives the establishment the power to coerce the people. G. H. Sabine, in his book, A History of Political Theory, tells us this about Nazism and communism:

...the party was a self-constituted aristocracy which has [sic] the mission partly of leading, partly of instructing, and partly of coercing the bulk of mankind along the road that it must follow. Both were totalitarian in the sense that they obliterated the liberal distinction between areas of private judgment and of public control, and both turned the educational system into an agency of universal indoctrination. In their philosophy[,] both were utterly dogmatic, professing, the one in the name of the Aryan race and the other in the name of the proletariat, a higher insight capable of laying down rules for art, literature, science, and religion. Both induced a frame of mind akin to religious fanaticism. In strategy[,] both were reckless in their assertions, boundless in their claims, abusive toward their opponents, prone to regard any concession on their own part as a temporary expedient and on a rival's part as a sign of weakness. The social philosophies of both agreed in regarding society as in essence a system of forces, economic or racial, between which adjustment takes place by struggle and dominance rather than by mutual understanding and concession. Both therefore regarded politics as merely an expression of power.

So much in Islam resembles those two despicable ideologies. The ruling party in Islamic countries coerces the people along the road that it must follow. This is particularly easy to observe in Iran today. Islam, too, tries to obliterate the liberal distinction between areas of private judgment and of public control. We see this in all Islamic countries. Similar to Nazism and communism, Islam also turns the educational system into an apparatus of the state for the purpose of universal indoctrination. One would be justified in using the term 'brainwashing'.

In addition, Islam also lays down rules for art (no depiction of the human form is allowed, for example), for literature (all is censored), for science (nothing discovered may contradict the Qur'an or Ahadith, or the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad), and certainly for religion (no religion is accepted of man except Islam). Where Jews and Christians live in Islamic countries, they are given protection in return for a high tax known as the jiziyah, but are given dhimmi status, which means, in effect, that they are subdued and given second class status.

Islam also induces a frame of mind akin to fanaticism. That this is so is self-explanatory. Islam is also reckless in its assertions, and boundless in its claims. Example: All the world belongs to Allah; therefore it is the duty of all Muslims to Islamize it. In Islam, too, adjustment takes place by struggle and dominance. Note the Jihad.

A remarkable similarity is this: Islam is also inclined to be abusive to its opponents (they are infidels and unclean), and is prone to regard any concession on its own part as a temporary expedient and on a rival's part as a sign of weakness. And Islam, too, regards politics as an expression of power. Oh, and we shouldn't forget that Islam is profoundly anti-Semitic!

Aren't the similarities just remarkable?

What is troubling is this: Islam is closing in on us. We have so many unassimilated Muslims living in Europe, and an ever growing number living in the States, too. In fact, millions and millions of Muslims live in the West today. But the West has no strategy for dealing with the fall-out. We saw this recenty in France when their cities burnt night after night. The mayhem Muslim immigrants caused there was enough to make anyone's hair stand on end! But what has France done about it? It has unveiled a series of measures to appease the Muslim immigrants, and has ignored the fact that this was an uprising caused in no small part by the Islamic community flexing its ever strengthening muscles.

If we in the West wish to ensure the survival of our own civilization, wish to ensure that our children will be able to live as freely as we have been able to do, wish to ensure that people are free to choose their religion in the West, but just as free not to choose one, then we have a lot of thinking to do!

I would suggest that we start by asking one simple question: Should we regard Islam as a mere religion, or should we start to see it for what it truly is: A political ideology with megalomaniacal aspirations? A political ideology with a spiritual dimension which will stop at nothing until the West is no more, until the West has been brought into Dar ul Islam, or the 'House of Islam', until the West has been well and truly Islamized. To ignore this fact is tantamount to playing fast and loose with our children's future freedoms and security. In fact, it is negligent of their future well-being!

©Mark Alexander

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Muslim Brotherhood makes spectacular gains in Egypt

It is clear to see that Islam is closing in on Europe. Now the Muslim Brotherhood make spectacular gains in elections in Egypt under the slogan, Islam is the solution.

The story from the Boston Globe.

This development should concern us greatly, and should act as a warning to all!

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Leaders from the Euro-Med countries gather in Spain.

Please read this from the BBC. This meeting wouldn't be about how to increase the influence of Islam in Europe, would it? They wouldn't be discussing how to speed up the Islamization of Europe, would they? They wouldn't be discussing how to transform Europe into Eurabia in one generation, by any chance, would they?

Instead of trying to find ways of decreasing the influence of Islam in Europe, our leaders are selling out to the Islamic world!

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So now we have to depend on the Middle East for natural gas, too!

It seems that the might of the Islamic world is set to increase yet again. Now, Britain is to get 20% of its natural gas supplies from Kuwait starting in 2007. This from the BBC.

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Aren't we just forgetting who our real and trusted friends are?

It's the only democratic country in the Middle East; and it's the only country that we can count on to be our true friends there. But our politicians seem to be ignoring this fact. We turn our backs on Israel at our own peril! Read Charles Moore's fine article in the Telegraph yesterday.

©Mark Alexander

Myths & Movements

All great social movements ... have come about by the pursuit of a myth. To analyze a myth or to inquire whether it is true - even to ask whether it is practicable - is meaningless. For it is essentially an image that can evoke sentiment and that supplies the cohesion and drive to release revolutionary energy. A political philosophy is not a rational guide to action but an incitement to fanatical determination and blind devotion. ... Conceived as a myth[,] philosophy is a vision of life but not a plan, and still less is it a theory that depends on reason. It is rather a release of the deep-lying instincts of a people, inherent in the "life-force" itself, or in their "blood" or "spirit". Georges Sorel, French Social Philosopher. (Source: A History of Political Theory by G. H. Sabine)

I came across this in my reading a few days ago. It jumped out of the page at me, since it fits Islam to a 'T'.

Muhammad, the prophet, understood much about the ways of the world. He understood very well the above theory put forward by Georges Sorel. He knew how to create a myth, so he set about creating one; he knew the effect that myth would have on the world if people would only start to accept the myth as fact and true, so he fought the people till it was accepted as true. A myth was created, and the rest, as they say, is history!

In Muhammad's case he would retire to a cave, where the Archangel Gabriel is said to have descended upon him, requesting him to recite in the name of the Lord!

People were simpler back then. They must have been able to believe such a myth. Imagine coming home to your own spouse or family member saying that the Archangel Gabriel had visited you in a cave, asking you to recite in the name of the Lord! I know what my family would do! They'd call the doctor to ask him to commit me! My guess is that yours would probably do the same. Alas, way back then, they obviously didn't; otherwise we wouldn't be where we are today: with a great struggle on our hands. We wouldn't be left with the task of rolling back the frontiers lest we be subsumed into Dar ul Islam!

Islam is, however, a very clever myth, since it portrays itself as the perfection of religion for man for all time, deen al kamal. You've got to hand it to Muhammad, he invented something which many find difficult to refute. He also included all the other prophets that went before him, so as to try not to alienate the other believers. That didn't quite come off, but still, the movement has grown around the world like Topsy. There are said to be way over 1.2 billion Muslims worldwide, and we're still counting! This, despite the gruesome nature of attacks on infidels! It never ceases to amaze me what people will fall for.

But then we know that people are gullible and gregarious. Therein lies one of Islam's strengths. I dare say that Prophet Muhammad was well aware of these characteristics of human nature.

These days, the myth has been given a new lease on life because of the oil wealth generated for the home of Islam: the Middle East. Our businessmen, of course, ever ready to make a fast buck, and having little understanding of our own civilization, still less any respect for it, happily and willingly curry favour with the movers and shakers of the oil-rich desert fiefdoms of the desert. One could almost say that they suck up to their masters there. I've seen the fawning that goes on. It's a sickening sight to behold!

The politicians and the businessmen - these are the people who are selling us short. These are the people who lack the spine to behave with more dignity, and, as a result, give away more of our freedoms by the day. Weakness, I tell you, abounds! These people simper and fawn and suck up. It's a case of yes, sir, no, sir, three bags full, sir. After all, the businessman's bottom line - profit - and his bank balance are far more important to him than anything else.

We're in a mess, though, aren't we? A right old pickle! Moreover, it's going to take a complete U-turn to change direction and win back what we have already lost. And it won't come cost-free either.

Isn't it strange how Western leaders have changed in just a few decades? It was less than sixty years ago that we, in Great Britian, were being led by Winston Churchill. He took a dim view of the strictures of Islam. Not so our leaders today. Now they do nothing to keep Islam at bay; instead, they do everything in their power to integrate the Islamic world into our own world, and there are syncretist forces at work to meld our two religions. But this, of course, will not work. Never will they manage to do that! Muslims, for a start, will not allow their message to be changed in any way. They are rigid. Extremely rigid!

Christianity, too, is based on a traditional story, or myth (myths don't have to be untrue): the story that Jesus was the Son of God, and that He was crucified to save our souls, to redeem us. And inasmuch as this was done to Him, He became our Saviour.

This has been an exceedingly powerful story for us, guiding us for over 2000 years. The problem today is that many have ceased to believe in the story, or if they haven't ceased to believe in it, they have become indifferent to it. Because of this, the development of the West, based as it is on this story, is losing steam. As it continues to lose its steam, it will decelerate and weaken. We simply cannot have it all ways. For, as Sorel says: ...it is essentially an image that can evoke sentiment and that supplies the cohesion and drive to release revolutionary energy.

In Islam, the image is still exceedingly strong; in Christianity, it is considerably weakened. We shall, however, have to find a way of strengthening it again, or else we will have nothing to 'fight' for, nothing to 'fight' to maintain, nothing to hold us together! The story of Christ was the buckle that bound us. It was our guiding light, so to speak. Modern day secularism will not be strong enough to stand up to the onslaught of Islam, since it is hard - very hard - to become passionate about a 'nothing'! To my knowledge, no great movement, either religious or political, in the history of the world, has been founded on a non-story. The myth is all important! No myth, no movement!

©Mark Alexander

Happy Thanksgiving!

I would like to wish all my visitors from the States, and everyone else who celebrates the occasion, HAPPY THANKSGIVING. I trust you will all have a great time.

Mark

O Tannenbaum!

O Tannenbaum! O Tannenbaum!
Wie treu sind deine Blätter.
Du grünst nicht nur zur Sommerzeit,
Nein, auch im Winter, wenn es schneit.
O Tannenbaum! O Tannenbaum!
Wie treu sind deine Blätter.

O Tannenbaum! O Tannenbaum!
Du kannst mir sehr gefallen.
Wie oft hat nicht zur Weihnachtszeit
Ein Baum von dir mich hoch erfreut.
O Tannenbaum! O Tannenbaum!
Du kannst mir sehr gefallen.

O Tannenbaum! O Tannenbaum!
Dein Kleid will mich was lehren:
die Hoffnung und Beständigkeit
gibt Trost und Kraft zu aller Zeit.
O Tannenbaum! O Tannenbaum!
Dein Kleid will mich was lehren.

O Tannenbaum! O Tannenbaum!
Dein Kleid will mich was lehren:
die Hoffnung und Beständigkeit
gibt Trost und Kraft zu aller Zeit.
O Tannenbaum! O Tannenbaum!
Dein Kleid will mich was lehren.

And in English:

O Christmas tree! O Christmas tree!
How are thy leaves so verdant!
O Christmas tree! O Christmas tree!
How are thy leaves so verdant!

Not only in the summertime,
But even in winter is thy prime.
O Christmas tree! O Christmas tree!
How are thy leaves so verdant!

O Christmas tree! O Christmas tree!
Much pleasure dost thou bring me!
O Christmas tree! O Christmas tree!
Much pleasure dost thou bring me!

For every year the Christmas tree,
Brings to us all both joy and glee.
O Christmas tree! O Christmas tree!
Much pleasure dost thou bring me!

O Christmas tree! O Christmas tree!
Thy candles shine out brightly!
O Christmas tree! O Christmas tree!
Thy candles shine out brightly!

Each bough doth hold its tiny light,
That makes each toy to sparkle bright.
O Christmas tree! O Christmas tree!
Thy candles shine out brightly! [Source]

That time of year, that wonderful time of year, is fast approaching. The second most important time in the Christian calendar - Christmas - will soon be upon us.

It's the time of year for peace and goodwill to all men (and women, of course), and it's the time of year to be especially hospitable and charitable to all, including the less fortunate.

It's a wonderful time of year. Sadly, due to the disease of multiculturalism, many people now feel a twinge of guilt when celebrating it. As a result, in some neighbourhoods and districts, Christmas trees are not erected, and all reference to Christmas is eradicated. These sick people - and there are many of them around - are trying to turn our wonderful festival into a "winterfest"!

Well, I don't know about you, but as far as I am concerned, the word 'winterfest' just doesn't cut the mustard!

Christmas comprises twelve whole days. These are the Christians' holy days, for they celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ as the Son of God, their Saviour. The man who was crucified for their sins.

There are many who deny the crucifixion of Jesus Christ; but these people are ignorant of the historical truth of the event! There is evidence aplenty of His crucifixion. Evidence which comes not just from Christian sources, but from non-Christian sources, too! Please click here, here, and here to read about this evidence.

It is particularly galling for us as Westerners to be confronted each and every successive year with more tales of local councils and businesses refusing to recognize, fully recognize, the significance of Christmastide. So many businesses and schools and council offices up and down the country, both this side of the Atlantic and that side, refuse to offer their customers the traditional greeting of 'Merry Christmas', and refuse, too, to erect Christmas trees and, perhaps more importantly, refuse to put up the traditional Nativity scene. Indeed, in many schools, our children are being denied an important part of their heritage - the re-enactment of the Nativity. These children are all the poorer because of this. They are being raised in ignorance of the significance of Christmas to their civilization and culture! And all in the name of multiculturalism. This is all done in the name of sensitivity to the culture of others, especially the Islamic culture.

I can tell you now, and with certainty, that no such sensitivity exists in Islam. Go and live in a Muslim country over the Christmas period. Then you will see that they pay not even lip-service to our important celebration. Indeed, in Saudi Arabia, the King there usually makes an official declaration that Christmas will NOT be celebrated. No roasted turkeys in the name of multiculturalism for the Christian expats there from him! In fact, where local traders try and obtain a dollar or two from the local expats by putting up some Christmas decorations, the religious police, or Muttawa, come and make the businessmen take them down!

I would say that Muslims living in the West have no right to expect us to relinquish our important celebration. If they don't like this important event in the Christian calendar, if they are offended by it, then they shouldn't be living in the West. I would suggest that such people ought to be invited to find somewhere to live in this world where the traditions more closely meet their needs.

But then we have the other problem: The problem of weak people pandering to the people whom they think they are offending. This phenomenon is particularly pathetic, and these people should not be employed in capacities which allow them to denigrate the underpinnings of our civilization, for they are, in point of fact, traitors to the cause!

But our political leaders have much to answer for, too. How many of them now send 'proper' Christmas cards? The President of the United States sends out a bland message wishing people "Happy Holidays", or some such corny euphemism! Tony Blair last year sent a card with a photo on it of him and his wife under some arch, he looked 'homely' (or 'homey as our American friends would say), and she looked, well, just as Cherie usually does: self-satisfied! They, too, I believe, omitted the real message of Christmas. What makes them think that people wish to 'adorn' their mantlepieces with photos of them and their family, I do not know. I would suggest that they make a poor substitute for the 'Three Kings of the Orient'!

I do hope that Laura will have the good sense to guide her spouse this year to do the right thing and wish their friends and people in high places a "Merry Christmas", since if the President of the biggest and most powerful country in the West cannot find it within himself - even as a devout Christian - to re-affirm the Christian message at Christmas, then I am afraid that, in the long-run, we are sunk as a civilization! Remember this, Mr Bush: It doesn't take much to bring a civilization to its knees!

As for Tony's wife, Cherie. I don't have great hopes that she will have the good sense to direct her husband to send out the Christmas message. It was she, after all, that fought 'the case of the jilbab'! So I am not sure we can expect better from her!

I would suggest that it is high time that we all re-discovered our Judeo-Christian roots, even the atheists and agnostics among us, since Islam, should it ever become extremely powerful here in the West, will allow no such beliefs, or lack of them! And, as far as I am concerned, there is only ONE way to counter the onslaught of Islam, and that is to celebrate our civilization, based as it is on Judeo-Christianity, and be proud of that heritage. It has given us so, so much: wonderful music, wonderful art, scientific discoveries aplenty, liberty and freedoms beyond the wildest dreams of people living in the Islamic world, literature, poetry - the list goes on!

Like the muscles in our bodies, if they are not used, they atrophy. So it is with a civilization. Or as they say in modern parlance: use it, or lose it! The words of the first black Archbishop, Dr John Sentamu were heartening in today's Times. He has spoken powerfully about how multiculturalism has betrayed the English. I would add that it has betrayed the West in its entirety!

©Mark Alexander

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What to Do about the Growth of Islam in the West
There is no doubt about it that many people are uneasy about the explosive expansion of Islam in the West. Unfortunately, however, too many people are still unaware of this expansion, and even where they are, they are so lacking in knowledge about what Islam really is about that they do not see the dangers it poses. We are sleepwalking into our own demise!

Our leaders do not help this situation since they usually prattle on about how 'true' Islam has nothing to do with the distorted and 'evil' ideology as proposed by Al Qaeda and their ilk. The fact of the matter is, though, that what Al Qaeda preaches is actually the real thing: Islam, not Islam-lite. There is only one Islam anyway; and that, if it continues to grow in the West, will be the death knell of our civilization.

Our politicians, by and large, are frightened of what they see happening, and are generally clueless as to what to do about it. Truth is, however, that we have to decide what is more important to us: Our liberty, or their feelings! If we decide that our liberty is more important to us - which I would hope - then we have to be prepared to take the necessary tough decisions to ensure our own survival, for we will not be able to ensure our own survival without taking them. As Mrs Thatcher used to say: The tough decisions are usually the best ones.

I don't see this happening in the present climate, because there are too many 'bleeding hearts' around for the politicians to have the backing of the electorate to carry out the necessary Draconian measures. But this could all change if there were another major catastrophe. People's memories of the tragedy of 9/11 are already fading, it is sad to say. If another tragedy such as this, or even worse, happened, then we need strong leadership in place to act there and then.

It's rather like punishing a child for wrong-doing: to be effective, it has to be carried out there and then. Waiting a few days and then punishing the child has little or no effect, since the child doesn't know what it is being punished for! The same goes for Muslims. Life has to be made uncomfortable for them when these tragedies occur, and they have to be placed on the defensive. They should not be let off the hook by our liberal and pathetically weak politicians.

To be more concrete in my answer to your question, I should like to say the following:

The heads of state and heads of government need to meet periodically to recognize the problem, and to devise a strategy, and work together, as one. As we all know, there is strength in unity.

Illegal immigrants should be returned to their homelands. There are hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants in the West. They have no right to be here. Getting rid of them would go a long way to shrink the Muslim population of the West, and it would help demographics. Over the years, waves of illegal immigrants have been allowed to put down roots here in Europe (in my book, I call this phenomenon 'the Crescades'). They are allowed to stay, and then, some years later, when they have found their feet, they start dictating to us what they want, and how they want it! This must stop!

We need to define, precisely, what we mean by the word religion. This may sound strange, but we so often hear that we have, and must maintain, freedom of religion in the West. But the fact of the matter is that we have yet to define what we mean by religion. Are Rastafarians and Wiccans distinct religious groups? Is Islam truly a religion as we understand a religion to be, or is it - as I would maintain - more of a political ideology?

To Westerners, religion usually means something spiritual, a belief system which encourages peace, tolerance, mutual respect, and mutual understanding. Islam scores badly on all these counts.

How much of Islam is spiritual, and how much political? If, upon investigation, it is found, as I believe, that Islam is 90% political ideology, then are we obliged to give it the freedom to grow in the West as we do to, say, Buddhism? After all, we close down many other political ideologies which we find a threat to our liberty. Why not Islam, too? Just clothing the political ideology in a deity does not make it less of a threat to our way of life. Islam gives a 'divine' imprimatur to the killing of their enemies, and killing those who do not subscribe to their viewpoint.

These are awkward, uncomfortable questions to answer, I know. But they do need to be answered if we are to save ourselves. Perhaps, when all is said and done, we shall be able to allow only the spiritual part of Islam, but make the political aspect illegal. That would make life uncomfortable for Muslims. Many, perhaps, would then move on to where they would be freer to do their thing.

Returning these people to their land of origin in a humane fashion may be an option to consider, too. So much taxpayers' money is now being spent on policing these people that maybe that money would be better spent paying them a lump sum to leave. To continue to spend all that taxpayers' money to police them is ludicrous; indeed, when the numbers of Muslims in the West swell even more, it will become impossible for us to afford to do it.

Muslims need to be told, firmly, how the land lies here in the West. They should be told that they must blend in and live according to our rules, or they must leave. They should be told that they must abandon all designs on Islamizing the system; and if they cannot, then they are not welcome here any longer. We are not obliged to allow them to talk in a subversive manner about the overthrow of the system. Why should we allow this?

All monies coming in from the Middle East to build mosques and schools and centres of Islamic propagation should cease forthwith. It is senseless to allow that money into our countries. After all, it's a one-way system. They don't allow our money into their countries to propagate Christianity, or from anywhere else to propagate other religions, either.

Our governments need to encourage families to have more babies. Tax and fiscal policy should change to encourage bigger families. No civilization can survive without an adequate supply of babies. Indeed, that is one of the main reasons why civilizations decline!

All mosques where it is found that hatred or anti-Semitism is preached should be closed down with immediate effect, and never to be allowed to re-open.

All Islamic schools should be closed. In any case, they are madrasahs in all but name. It is absurd to allow them to open in the West; it is even more absurd to encourage them, à la Blair!

All immigration from Muslim countries should cease forthwith, for to continue to allow such immigration is tantamount to shoring up even more problems for ourselves for the future.

This list is by far not exhaustive. But it's a start.

©Mark Alexander

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