Muslims fight for pigs' rights
By The Copenhagen Post
Danish imam Abdul Wahid Petersen and several other Muslims have started a group, 'Muslims for Danish pigs' rights', to show that Muslims have a lot more on their minds than headscarves, reports public broadcaster DR.
'As Muslims, we think about a lot more things than we're normally associated with,' he told DR.
He explained that Muslims believed they had a religious obligation to the world they were a part of. And since pigs were part of the world, they were there to look after them.
Which pigs is this imam speaking off?!?
Christians?!?
Jews, the descendants of apes & pigs?!?
Or pigs that are the source of the incredible edible delight known as bacon?!?
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Friday, April 25, 2008
DAR AL HARB-U.K.: ENGLANDS MADRASSAS FAIL TO PREPARE MOSLEM STUDENTS FOR LIFE OUTSIDE OF ISLAM - - - *GASP* - - - WHAT A SURPRISE !?!?!? NOT ! ! !
Muslim school does not prepare pupils for life outside Islam – inspectors
An Islamic boys’ school in Sheffield was criticised by inspectors last week for not preparing its pupils for life outside the Islamic world.
The private Jamia Al Hudaa school in Tinsley provided good teaching in “Islamic sciences” and in Arabic, said the inspectors, but secular lessons were not yet effective enough and pupils had a very limited understanding of faiths and cultures different from their own.
The school opened in 2002 in the former Park House Secondary and has 64 boys aged from 11 to 16 – three quarters of them boarders with pupils coming from across the UK and a few from overseas. Islamic studies are taught all morning with a secular curriculum in the afternoon, and the inspectors' visit was the first time the school had been independently assessed. They found the school was failing to comply with official regulations in terms of teaching the National Curriculum to the required quality and in providing PE lessons.
The school was also not meeting requirements in respect of the pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development and has been called upon to give them a broader general knowledge of the nation’s public institutions and services. Inspectors found that the boys’ behaviour was good, as was their attendance and they were safe and well cared for.
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1) Muslim school does not prepare pupils for life outside Islam – inspectors
An Islamic boys’ school in Sheffield was criticised by inspectors last week for not preparing its pupils for life outside the Islamic world.
The private Jamia Al Hudaa school in Tinsley provided good teaching in “Islamic sciences” and in Arabic, said the inspectors, but secular lessons were not yet effective enough and pupils had a very limited understanding of faiths and cultures different from their own.
The school opened in 2002 in the former Park House Secondary and has 64 boys aged from 11 to 16 – three quarters of them boarders with pupils coming from across the UK and a few from overseas. Islamic studies are taught all morning with a secular curriculum in the afternoon, and the inspectors' visit was the first time the school had been independently assessed. They found the school was failing to comply with official regulations in terms of teaching the National Curriculum to the required quality and in providing PE lessons.
The school was also not meeting requirements in respect of the pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development and has been called upon to give them a broader general knowledge of the nation’s public institutions and services. Inspectors found that the boys’ behaviour was good, as was their attendance and they were safe and well cared for.
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1) Muslim school does not prepare pupils for life outside Islam – inspectors
DAR AL HARB-FRANCE: THE MEDITERRANEAN UNION "ONE OF FRANCE'S MOST IMPORTANT POLITICAL PROJECTS"
Mediterranean Union like Franco-German reconciliation
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday in the city state of Monaco compared the proposed Mediterranean Union to the beginning of the current friendship between France and Germany. Referring to the proposed union of European nations and countries along the Mediterranean rim, Sarkozy said: "It will certainly not be easier than the reconciliation between Germany and France," but added that in the end the Franco-German reconciliation was a success.
Sarkozy called the Mediterranean Union "one of France's most important political projects."
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1) Mediterranean Union like Franco-German reconciliation
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday in the city state of Monaco compared the proposed Mediterranean Union to the beginning of the current friendship between France and Germany. Referring to the proposed union of European nations and countries along the Mediterranean rim, Sarkozy said: "It will certainly not be easier than the reconciliation between Germany and France," but added that in the end the Franco-German reconciliation was a success.
Sarkozy called the Mediterranean Union "one of France's most important political projects."
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1) Mediterranean Union like Franco-German reconciliation
DAR AL HARB-U.K.: MOSLEMS RAPING NON-MOSLEM WOMEN BECAUSE THEY ARE 'EXPOSED MEAT'
Two accused of rape on roller coaster
The sex attacks on the four 13-year-old girls are alleged to have taken place in the queue for and on the roller coaster
Two men face charges of rape allegedly committed on Blackpool's Big One roller coaster.
The duo, who are charged with sexual assault involving four schoolgirls on a trip to the Pleasure Beach, have made their first appearance at court.
The sex attacks on the four 13-year-old girls are alleged to have taken place in the queue for and on the roller coaster on September 7 last year.
Mechanic Asad Mahmood, 19, and Haqnawez Razzaq, 26, who are both of Oldham, each face one charge of rape and four charges of sexual touching.
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1) Two accused of rape on roller coaster
The sex attacks on the four 13-year-old girls are alleged to have taken place in the queue for and on the roller coaster
Two men face charges of rape allegedly committed on Blackpool's Big One roller coaster.
The duo, who are charged with sexual assault involving four schoolgirls on a trip to the Pleasure Beach, have made their first appearance at court.
The sex attacks on the four 13-year-old girls are alleged to have taken place in the queue for and on the roller coaster on September 7 last year.
Mechanic Asad Mahmood, 19, and Haqnawez Razzaq, 26, who are both of Oldham, each face one charge of rape and four charges of sexual touching.
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1) Two accused of rape on roller coaster
DAR AL HARB-U.K.: MOSLEMS IN DENIAL SAYS BISHOP ALI, I SAY THEY ARE FULL BLOWN PARTICIPANTS IN CREATING THE NO-GO ZONES FOUND IN ENGLAND & ELSEWHERE
Bishop tells Muslims 'you're in denial'
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Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir Ali, defended himself against a barrage of criticism at an inter-faith meeting at Ilford Islamic Centre on Friday.
Organised by the East London Three Faiths Forum, about 200 people packed into the Albert Road, Ilford, centre.
One Muslim man said after the "no go" comments hit the news his family was targeted.
He said: "Surely you must have known there would be this tremendous backlash, our windows broken, our sisters and wives spat at?"
Assistant imam of the South Woodford Muslim Community Centre and Mosque, Abdulrahman Tejan Bangura, fumed: "How many times do the wider community need to be educated about the fact that extremism is un-Islamic? Anyone that's practising extremism is not a Muslim."
Dr Nazir Ali said both Christians and Muslims needed to stop being defensive in order to move forward.
He said: "The fact of the matter is that extremists who call themselves Islamic extremists, whether they should attach themselves to that name or not is not for me to judge, have made it so difficult for Christian workers in particular places even to live.
"Christian clergy have been prevented from distributing literature in people's homes, Christian workers have been attacked or intimidated."
"I think the Muslim community and wider community both, need to attend to this situation and address it, rather than being in denial."
Centre spokesman Mohammed Azam said an "unfortunate understanding of Islam" had sprouted because some mosques were teaching Arabic "by rote" and without a true understanding of the Koran. He added: "There is extremism and we'd be foolish not to recognise that."
They are not in denial Bishop Ali, they are participants in the jihad...
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1) Bishop tells Muslims 'you're in denial'
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Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir Ali, defended himself against a barrage of criticism at an inter-faith meeting at Ilford Islamic Centre on Friday.
Organised by the East London Three Faiths Forum, about 200 people packed into the Albert Road, Ilford, centre.
One Muslim man said after the "no go" comments hit the news his family was targeted.
He said: "Surely you must have known there would be this tremendous backlash, our windows broken, our sisters and wives spat at?"
Assistant imam of the South Woodford Muslim Community Centre and Mosque, Abdulrahman Tejan Bangura, fumed: "How many times do the wider community need to be educated about the fact that extremism is un-Islamic? Anyone that's practising extremism is not a Muslim."
Dr Nazir Ali said both Christians and Muslims needed to stop being defensive in order to move forward.
He said: "The fact of the matter is that extremists who call themselves Islamic extremists, whether they should attach themselves to that name or not is not for me to judge, have made it so difficult for Christian workers in particular places even to live.
"Christian clergy have been prevented from distributing literature in people's homes, Christian workers have been attacked or intimidated."
"I think the Muslim community and wider community both, need to attend to this situation and address it, rather than being in denial."
Centre spokesman Mohammed Azam said an "unfortunate understanding of Islam" had sprouted because some mosques were teaching Arabic "by rote" and without a true understanding of the Koran. He added: "There is extremism and we'd be foolish not to recognise that."
They are not in denial Bishop Ali, they are participants in the jihad...
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1) Bishop tells Muslims 'you're in denial'
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
DAR AL HARB-E.U.: WIPING ENGLAND OFF THE MAP
EU wipes England off the map - as Gordon Brown flies the flag of St George over Downing Street
The Tories have issued a St George's Day rallying cry against plans by Brussels to "wipe England off the map" and create a United Europe.
As Gordon Brown hoisted the English national flag over 10 Downing Street to celebrate St George's Day, it was revealed that EU officials had revised a map wiping out the country and the Channel.
The change splits England into three and lumps those parts together with chunks of other countries to create "transnational regions".
It is claimed these zones - which have been allocated their own budgets - are intended to boost trade between EU nations.
But the Tories yesterday accused the Government of trying "to create a European superstate via the back door".
Under the programme, known as INTER-REG, counties along England's south coast form the "Manche Region" along with northern France.
The "Atlantic Region" takes in western England, along with Ireland, Wales and parts of Portugal, Spain, France and Scotland.
Meanwhile eastern England is part of the "North Sea Region", which covers areas of Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Norway and the Netherlands.
The UK Government is fully behind the project, even though the words "England" and "Britain" are left off official maps of each area and the Manche Region renames the English Channel "The Channel Sea".
Each region, which will be given taxpayers' money to promote trade links, cultural ties, transport policies and tourism, is to be run by a "managing authority" of unelected officials overseen by a director.
None will be based in the UK, with Manche ruled by the French, Atlantic by the Portuguese and North Sea by the Danes.
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DAR AL HARB-NETHERLANDS: THE THREAT OF ISLAMIC TERROR IS ON THE UPTICK IN THE NETHERLANDS
Dutch spy chief sees growing terror threat, al-Qaida regaining strength
The threat of terrorism is growing in the Netherlands, the Dutch spy chief said Tuesday, attributing his concern to the government's decision to extend its involvement in the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan and the heated debate over the role of Islam in society.
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1) Dutch spy chief sees growing terror threat, al-Qaida regaining strength
The threat of terrorism is growing in the Netherlands, the Dutch spy chief said Tuesday, attributing his concern to the government's decision to extend its involvement in the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan and the heated debate over the role of Islam in society.
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1) Dutch spy chief sees growing terror threat, al-Qaida regaining strength
DAR AL HARB-ITALY: FEDERATION OF JIHAD CENTERS
Federation of Italian mosques mooted
Italy's outgoing interior minister, Giuliano Amato, was expected to unveil a proposed federation of Italian mosques in Rome on Wednesday.
The federation is intended to replace the Consulta Islamica, a body set up by the government in 2005 to represent Italy's various Muslim groups.
Amato put the Consulta Islamica on hold after some members, including Nour Dachan, from Italy's largest Islamic group - the Union of Islamic Communities of Italy - refused to sign a 'charter of values' for Italy's religious minorities last year.
Amato's predecessor, Giuseppe Pisanu, who created the Consulta envisaged the 16-member body as a vehicle for dialogue with moderate Muslims in Italy and to combat terrorism.
Amato has in recent months been working with consultants on his proposed federation of Italian mosques, unnamed sources told Adnkronos International (AKI).
The federation would be headed by Rome's mosque (photo) which represents 22 mosques from central Italy, according to the sources.
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1) Federation of Italian mosques mooted
Italy's outgoing interior minister, Giuliano Amato, was expected to unveil a proposed federation of Italian mosques in Rome on Wednesday.
The federation is intended to replace the Consulta Islamica, a body set up by the government in 2005 to represent Italy's various Muslim groups.
Amato put the Consulta Islamica on hold after some members, including Nour Dachan, from Italy's largest Islamic group - the Union of Islamic Communities of Italy - refused to sign a 'charter of values' for Italy's religious minorities last year.
Amato's predecessor, Giuseppe Pisanu, who created the Consulta envisaged the 16-member body as a vehicle for dialogue with moderate Muslims in Italy and to combat terrorism.
Amato has in recent months been working with consultants on his proposed federation of Italian mosques, unnamed sources told Adnkronos International (AKI).
The federation would be headed by Rome's mosque (photo) which represents 22 mosques from central Italy, according to the sources.
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1) Federation of Italian mosques mooted
DAR AL HARB-U.K.: A WESTER ISLAM
Ex-extremists call for 'Western Islam'
By Dominic Casciani
Discussing hardline Islamist ideologies and violent extremism isn't exactly the stuff of fashionable London parties.
But the British Museum is on Tuesday the surprising venue for theologians, thinkers and socialite Jemima Khan, all coming together to support the launch of a new think tank to counter Al Qaeda's world-view.
And this seemingly bizarre gathering exposes the question at the heart of the whirlwind romance between the Quilliam Foundation and policymakers.
Is the launch of this campaigning organisation a step forward in the battle of ideas - or just another group with some kind of official pat on the head - but no credibility on the street?
Since the London bombings of July 2005 a whole string of Muslim organisations have come forward, claiming to have the answers to violent extremism.
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1) Ex-extremists call for 'Western Islam'
By Dominic Casciani
Discussing hardline Islamist ideologies and violent extremism isn't exactly the stuff of fashionable London parties.
But the British Museum is on Tuesday the surprising venue for theologians, thinkers and socialite Jemima Khan, all coming together to support the launch of a new think tank to counter Al Qaeda's world-view.
And this seemingly bizarre gathering exposes the question at the heart of the whirlwind romance between the Quilliam Foundation and policymakers.
Is the launch of this campaigning organisation a step forward in the battle of ideas - or just another group with some kind of official pat on the head - but no credibility on the street?
Since the London bombings of July 2005 a whole string of Muslim organisations have come forward, claiming to have the answers to violent extremism.
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1) Ex-extremists call for 'Western Islam'
DAR AL HARB-E.U.: TURKEY - E.U. NEGOTIATIONS FOR E.U. MEMBERSHIP TO SPEED UP
EU Wants to Speed up Membership Talks with Turkey
The European Union's Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn has announced he wants to speed up negotations with Turkey over joining the EU. Center-right politicians in France and Germany have predictably denounced the move.
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1) EU Wants to Speed up Membership Talks with Turkey
The European Union's Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn has announced he wants to speed up negotations with Turkey over joining the EU. Center-right politicians in France and Germany have predictably denounced the move.
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1) EU Wants to Speed up Membership Talks with Turkey
DAR AL HARB-E.U.: EURO-ISLAM
The Theologians Working Towards a Euro-Islam
By Dieter Bednarz and Daniel Steinvorth
Leading Muslim scholars are laying the theological foundations for a "Euro-Islam" which would reconcile their religion with the challenges of modernity. But just how compatible is Islam with secular Western values?
The air in the conference room is stale, and the dour mood among those present is not much better. The room smells of sweat, cigarette smoke, cold coffee -- and plenty of problems. That comes with the territory at a meeting of some 100 social workers who work in flashpoints like the London boroughs of Hounslow, Eastleigh and Ealing.
In their districts they often have to deal with angry youth gangs, unemployment and failed integration policies. Today, on this particular Thursday, they have gathered here in the large hall of the Holborn Bars conference center to learn that multiculturalism also has positive aspects and, most importantly, that no one needs to be afraid of Muslims.
Up on the stage, Lucy de Groot, the organizer of the one-day seminar "Cultural Diversity and Social Cohesion," presents “with great pleasure” a speaker whose appearance alone is enough to add a touch of brilliance to this gloomy conference room. Smiling here and nodding there, the “esteemed guest” strides up to the podium with the confidence of an entertainer who has grown accustomed to success. Tariq Ramadan knows how to win people over.
Many of the veteran social workers have an almost enraptured expression on their faces as they look up at the tall, thin man. With his striking features and dark well-trimmed beard, his sand-colored suit with its elegant casualness, the unbuttoned collar of his bright yellow shirt and his slightly dark complexion, Ramadan resembles a Latino singer. “It’s wonderful to be in London,” he says warmly into the microphone. “Thank you very much for inviting me.” Ramadan places the fingertips of his well-manicured hands together and gazes confidently at the audience. His fan club is guaranteed to be even bigger after this afternoon.
Officially, Ramadan, 45, is a professor of Islamic studies in Geneva. But now he has just come from Oxford, where he teaches at St. Antony’s College as a visiting fellow. In effect, Ramadan is something of a modern-day itinerant preacher. His mission is to boost the self-confidence of Europe’s Muslims and to explain his vision of a “European Islam” to Europe’s Christian elite. The new brand of faith which, according to Ramadan, “is currently taking shape among European Muslims with Islamic-European culture” aims to reconcile Western values with the teachings of Islam. This “Euro-Islam” has allowed Ramadan to win friends among immigrant children and proponents of interreligious dialogue -- and make enemies among right-wing nationalists and hardline Islamists.
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1) The Theologians Working Towards a Euro-Islam
By Dieter Bednarz and Daniel Steinvorth
Leading Muslim scholars are laying the theological foundations for a "Euro-Islam" which would reconcile their religion with the challenges of modernity. But just how compatible is Islam with secular Western values?
The air in the conference room is stale, and the dour mood among those present is not much better. The room smells of sweat, cigarette smoke, cold coffee -- and plenty of problems. That comes with the territory at a meeting of some 100 social workers who work in flashpoints like the London boroughs of Hounslow, Eastleigh and Ealing.
In their districts they often have to deal with angry youth gangs, unemployment and failed integration policies. Today, on this particular Thursday, they have gathered here in the large hall of the Holborn Bars conference center to learn that multiculturalism also has positive aspects and, most importantly, that no one needs to be afraid of Muslims.
Up on the stage, Lucy de Groot, the organizer of the one-day seminar "Cultural Diversity and Social Cohesion," presents “with great pleasure” a speaker whose appearance alone is enough to add a touch of brilliance to this gloomy conference room. Smiling here and nodding there, the “esteemed guest” strides up to the podium with the confidence of an entertainer who has grown accustomed to success. Tariq Ramadan knows how to win people over.
Many of the veteran social workers have an almost enraptured expression on their faces as they look up at the tall, thin man. With his striking features and dark well-trimmed beard, his sand-colored suit with its elegant casualness, the unbuttoned collar of his bright yellow shirt and his slightly dark complexion, Ramadan resembles a Latino singer. “It’s wonderful to be in London,” he says warmly into the microphone. “Thank you very much for inviting me.” Ramadan places the fingertips of his well-manicured hands together and gazes confidently at the audience. His fan club is guaranteed to be even bigger after this afternoon.
Officially, Ramadan, 45, is a professor of Islamic studies in Geneva. But now he has just come from Oxford, where he teaches at St. Antony’s College as a visiting fellow. In effect, Ramadan is something of a modern-day itinerant preacher. His mission is to boost the self-confidence of Europe’s Muslims and to explain his vision of a “European Islam” to Europe’s Christian elite. The new brand of faith which, according to Ramadan, “is currently taking shape among European Muslims with Islamic-European culture” aims to reconcile Western values with the teachings of Islam. This “Euro-Islam” has allowed Ramadan to win friends among immigrant children and proponents of interreligious dialogue -- and make enemies among right-wing nationalists and hardline Islamists.
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Pertinent Links:
1) The Theologians Working Towards a Euro-Islam
DAR AL HARB-BELGIUM: GYNECOLOGISTS TO RESPECT SHARI'AH LAW, UNLESS IT IS A MEDICAL EMERGENCY
ISLAM: RULES FOR MUSLIM PATIENTS BY FLEMISH GYNAECOLOGISTS
More rigid regulations in the Flemish hospitals for Muslim patients, who refuse gynaecological care of male doctors: from today their desire will be respected, but not in cases of emergency, circumstances under which the doctor will be allowed to ignore the request of the patient for the sake of their health. The female gynaecologists have elaborated a real code of good conduct in order to treat the Islamic patients in cases of emergency or during night watch, when a female doctor is not always available. According to the new regulations, the medical personnel will have to indulge the patient's request only if it is put in writing or only if the ill patient herself asks for the intervention of a female doctor and not her husband or her family. The code of good conduct has obtained the approval of the female gynaecologists, of the association of the doctors' unions of and the centre for gender equality and fight against racism. (ANSAmed).
Hat Tip:
The Religion of Peace
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1) ISLAM: RULES FOR MUSLIM PATIENTS BY FLEMISH GYNAECOLOGISTS
More rigid regulations in the Flemish hospitals for Muslim patients, who refuse gynaecological care of male doctors: from today their desire will be respected, but not in cases of emergency, circumstances under which the doctor will be allowed to ignore the request of the patient for the sake of their health. The female gynaecologists have elaborated a real code of good conduct in order to treat the Islamic patients in cases of emergency or during night watch, when a female doctor is not always available. According to the new regulations, the medical personnel will have to indulge the patient's request only if it is put in writing or only if the ill patient herself asks for the intervention of a female doctor and not her husband or her family. The code of good conduct has obtained the approval of the female gynaecologists, of the association of the doctors' unions of and the centre for gender equality and fight against racism. (ANSAmed).
Hat Tip:
The Religion of Peace
Pertinent Links:
1) ISLAM: RULES FOR MUSLIM PATIENTS BY FLEMISH GYNAECOLOGISTS
Friday, April 18, 2008
DAR AL HARB-U.K.: MOSLEMS KILL/MURDER/DESTROY BY FIRE CALLING FOR THE DEATH OF JEWS & CHRISTIANS...A CHRISTIAN BLOGGER BLOGS TRUTH GETS ARRESTED
BRIT CHRISTIAN BLOGGER ARRESTED FOR ISLAM TRUTH TELL
By J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Paul Ray wrote on his blog facts about Muslim killers. For that he is arrested per “hate speech” in Britain according to Jessica Dunniffe of onsunday.
He’s now out on bail “for allegedly stirring up racial hatred.”
So much for freedom of speech.
Muslims slay and burn down and march through boulevards crying out their hellish slogans against Jews and Christians. However, when a Christian blogs truth he’s taken in.
The world is turning sourer every day. Civility is going to be a thing of the past—quickly.
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1) BRIT CHRISTIAN BLOGGER ARRESTED FOR ISLAM TRUTH TELL
By J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Paul Ray wrote on his blog facts about Muslim killers. For that he is arrested per “hate speech” in Britain according to Jessica Dunniffe of onsunday.
He’s now out on bail “for allegedly stirring up racial hatred.”
So much for freedom of speech.
Muslims slay and burn down and march through boulevards crying out their hellish slogans against Jews and Christians. However, when a Christian blogs truth he’s taken in.
The world is turning sourer every day. Civility is going to be a thing of the past—quickly.
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1) BRIT CHRISTIAN BLOGGER ARRESTED FOR ISLAM TRUTH TELL
DAR AL HARB-U.K.: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE WILD - - - THE PREMISE THAT ISLAM/MOSLEM IS A RACE HAS BEEN ACCEPTED IN ENGLAND AS TRUE
F.Y.I.:
"Asian" commmonly refers to MOSLEMS in the U.K. and not to peoples from China, Japan, Phillipines, etc. as it does in the United States...
How can my son be racist, asks mother of Down's boy charged after playground spat with Asian girl
By NATASHA COURTENAY-SMITH
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Last September, Jamie - who is 18 but cannot even tie his own shoelaces, needs help on the lavatory, mustn't be left alone in the house and still relies on his mother to tuck him up in bed at night - had an altercation with an Asian girl of a similar age, also a pupil at the special needs department of Motherwell College in Lanarkshire, where Jamie is a student.
Put quite simply - girl irritated boy, boy pushed girl and told her to go away. Then, girl responded by telling her teacher.
The two were sent their separate ways and their parents informed about the falling out.
Given their mental ages, it was no more significant than a playground spat between two five-year-olds. That should have been the end of it.
Instead, a notice was placed in the local newspaper - it is not known by whom - asking for witnesses to a "racial assault" at the college on the day in question.
Whether this notice led to the police investigation, or whether the family of the girl contacted them directly is still not clear. Either way, just over a week later, Jamie was charged with racism and assault.
It was an insane example of overzealous political correctness; a local zero-tolerance policy on racism taken to its extremes without any common sense being applied, let alone consideration for the unusual circumstances of the individuals involved.
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Make sure to read the whole thing ! ! !
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1) How can my son be racist, asks mother of Down's boy charged after playground spat with Asian girl
"Asian" commmonly refers to MOSLEMS in the U.K. and not to peoples from China, Japan, Phillipines, etc. as it does in the United States...
How can my son be racist, asks mother of Down's boy charged after playground spat with Asian girl
By NATASHA COURTENAY-SMITH
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Last September, Jamie - who is 18 but cannot even tie his own shoelaces, needs help on the lavatory, mustn't be left alone in the house and still relies on his mother to tuck him up in bed at night - had an altercation with an Asian girl of a similar age, also a pupil at the special needs department of Motherwell College in Lanarkshire, where Jamie is a student.
Put quite simply - girl irritated boy, boy pushed girl and told her to go away. Then, girl responded by telling her teacher.
The two were sent their separate ways and their parents informed about the falling out.
Given their mental ages, it was no more significant than a playground spat between two five-year-olds. That should have been the end of it.
Instead, a notice was placed in the local newspaper - it is not known by whom - asking for witnesses to a "racial assault" at the college on the day in question.
Whether this notice led to the police investigation, or whether the family of the girl contacted them directly is still not clear. Either way, just over a week later, Jamie was charged with racism and assault.
It was an insane example of overzealous political correctness; a local zero-tolerance policy on racism taken to its extremes without any common sense being applied, let alone consideration for the unusual circumstances of the individuals involved.
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Make sure to read the whole thing ! ! !
Pertinent Links:
1) How can my son be racist, asks mother of Down's boy charged after playground spat with Asian girl
COMIC RELIEF: THE FRENCH STENCH ENGULFS ENGLAND...LOLOLOL...
Le Stink: England engulfed by terrible smell as freak weather blows in French stench
A foul smell enveloped London and the south east today but it has been blamed on a cloud of pungent fumes wafting over from France.
Experts warned the hundreds of thousands who wrinkled up their noses this morning not to panic.
The emergency services were flooded with calls from people across the capital who were alarmed by the stench.
The smell was caused by strange weather conditions bringing winds from France and continental Europe.
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"When I left home this morning the smell was virtually unbearable but we haven't had any complaints from anyone so far. I think the Queen is in. I hope she has her windows closed."
Local authority staff across the region said they had also noticed the smell. A spokesman for Hart District Council, in Fleet, Hampshire, said: "One woman's little girl asked: 'Mummy, what's that smell of cows?'"
One said on a discussion board: "Yes, it smells horribly this morning - all the teachers I work with are talking about it."
"Only thing I can think of is a sewer main broke or something? It does smell specifically of dog poo, but I don't know of any canine who could spread his stench this far and wide!"
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Pertinent Links:
1) Le Stink: England engulfed by terrible smell as freak weather blows in French stench
A foul smell enveloped London and the south east today but it has been blamed on a cloud of pungent fumes wafting over from France.
Experts warned the hundreds of thousands who wrinkled up their noses this morning not to panic.
The emergency services were flooded with calls from people across the capital who were alarmed by the stench.
The smell was caused by strange weather conditions bringing winds from France and continental Europe.
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"When I left home this morning the smell was virtually unbearable but we haven't had any complaints from anyone so far. I think the Queen is in. I hope she has her windows closed."
Local authority staff across the region said they had also noticed the smell. A spokesman for Hart District Council, in Fleet, Hampshire, said: "One woman's little girl asked: 'Mummy, what's that smell of cows?'"
One said on a discussion board: "Yes, it smells horribly this morning - all the teachers I work with are talking about it."
"Only thing I can think of is a sewer main broke or something? It does smell specifically of dog poo, but I don't know of any canine who could spread his stench this far and wide!"
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Pertinent Links:
1) Le Stink: England engulfed by terrible smell as freak weather blows in French stench
DAR AL HARB-U.K.: 2 OF 3 BRITONS FEAR RACIAL VIOLENCE (MOSLEM VIOLENCE AGAINST DHIMMIS) AND 50% WANT IMMIGRANTS TO GET THE HELL OUT OF THE U.K.
Brits fear race violence will erupt
By Paul Majendie in London
ALMOST two out of three Britons fear race tensions could spill over into violence and half the population want immigrants to be encouraged to leave, a new poll shows.
In a country where the last serious race riots erupted seven years ago between white and Asian youths, the head of Britain's equality watchdog called the poll findings "alarming''.
"What worries me is if that friction starts to catch fire - if people genuinely believe it's going to catch fire - then we're in trouble,'' Equality and Human Rights Commission head Trevor Phillips said.
Of the 1000 people sounded out by Mori pollsters for the BBC, 60 per cent said Britain had too many immigrants.
A quarter of those polled said their area did not feel like Britain any more because of immigration.
Just 20 percent admitted to being racially prejudiced.
...
The threat from radical Islam, rammed home by the 2005 London bombings that killed 52 people, sparked a debate about just how successful Britain has been as a multicultural society and provoked calls for greater integration of ethnic minorities.
The BBC poll marked the 40th anniversary of an infamous "rivers of blood'' speech by Conservative politician Enoch Powell who expressed fears about levels of immigration and how the indigenous population felt "a sense of alarm and resentment''.
and now for the complete speech made by Enoch Powell on April 20th, 1968:
Transcript of Rivers of Blood Speech
Here is the full text of Enoch Powell's famous speech to the Annual General Meeting of the West Midlands Area Conservative Political Centre, Birmingham, England, April 20, 1968.
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature. One is that by the very order of things such evils are not demonstrable until they have occurred: At each stage in their onset there is room for doubt and for dispute whether they be real or imaginary. By the same token, they attract little attention in comparison with current troubles, which are both indisputable and pressing: whence the besetting temptation of all politics to concern itself with the immediate present at the expense of the future.
Above all, people are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles: 'if only', they love to think, 'if only people wouldn't talk about it, it probably wouldn't happen'. Perhaps this habit goes back to the primitive belief that the word and the thing, the name and the object, are identical. At all events, the discussion of future grave but, with effort now, avoidable evils is the most unpopular and at the same time the most necessary occupation for the politician. Those who knowingly shirk it, deserve, and not infrequently receive, the curses of those who come after.
A week or two ago I fell into conversation with a constituent, a middle-aged, quite ordinary working man employed in one of our nationalized industries. After a sentence or two about the weather, he suddenly said: 'If I had the money to go, I wouldn't stay in this country.' I made some deprecatory reply, to the effect that even this Government wouldn't last for ever; but he took no notice, and continued: 'I have three children, all of them have been through grammar school and two of them married now, with family. I shan't be satisfied till I have seen them settled overseas. In this country in fifteen or twenty years' time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.'
I can already hear the chorus of execration. How dare I say such a horrible thing? How dare I stir up trouble and inflame feelings by repeating such a conversation? The answer is that I do not have the right not to do so. Here is a decent, ordinary fellow Englishman, who in broad daylight in my own town says to me, his Member of Parliament, that this country will not be worth living in for his children. I simply do not have the right to shrug my shoulders and think about something else. What he is saying, thousands and hundreds of thousands are saying and thinking - not throughout Great Britain, perhaps, but in the areas that are already undergoing the total transformation to which there is no parallel in a thousand years of English history.
In fifteen or twenty years, on present trends, there will be in this country 3 1/2 million Commonwealth immigrants and their descendants. That is not my figure. That is the official figure given to Parliament by the spokesman of the Registrar General's office. There is no comparable official figure for the year 2000, but it must be in the region of 5-7 million, approximately one-tenth of the whole population, and approaching that of Greater London. Of course, it will not be evenly distributed from Margate to Aberystwyth and from Penzance to Aberdeen. Whole areas, towns and parts of towns across England will be occupied by different sections of the immigrant and immigrant-descended population.
As time goes on, the proportion of this total who are immigrant descendants, those born in England, who arrived here by exactly the same route as the rest of us, will rapidly increase. Already by 1985 the native-born would constitute the majority. It is this fact above all which creates the extreme urgency of action now, of just that kind of action which is hardest for politicians to take, action where the difficulties lie in the present but the evils to be prevented or minimized lie several parliaments ahead.
The natural and rational first question with a nation confronted by such a prospect is to ask: 'How can its dimensions be reduced?' Granted it be not wholly preventable, can it be limited, bearing in mind that numbers are of the essence: the significance and consequences of an alien element introduced into a country or population are profoundly different according to whether that element is 1 per cent or 10 per cent. The answers to the simple and rational question are equally simple and rational: by stopping or virtually stopping, further inflow, and by promoting the maximum outflow. Both answers are part of the official policy of the Conservative Party.
It almost passes belief that at this moment twenty or thirty additional immigrant children are arriving from overseas in Wolverhampton alone every week - and that means fifteen or twenty additional families of a decade or two hence. Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependants, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancées whom they have never seen.
Let no one suppose that the flow of dependants will automatically tail off. On the contrary, even at the present admission rate of only 5,000 a year by voucher, there is sufficient for a further 325,000 dependants per annum ad infinitum, without taking into account the huge reservoir of existing relations in this country - and I am making no allowance at all for fraudulent entry. In these circumstances nothing will suffice but that the total inflow for settlement should be reduced at once to negligible proportions, and that the necessary legislative and administrative measures be taken without delay. I stress the words 'for settlement'.
This has nothing to do with the entry of Commonwealth citizens, any more than of aliens, into this country, for the purposes of study or of improving their qualifications, like (for instance) the Commonwealth doctors who, to the advantage of their own countries, have enabled our hospital service to be expanded faster than would otherwise have been possible. These are not, and never have been, immigrants.
I turn to re-emigration. If all immigration ended tomorrow, the rate of growth of the immigrant and immigrant-descended population would be substantially reduced, but the prospective size of this element in the population would still leave the basic character of the national danger unaffected. This can only be tackled while a considerable proportion of the total still comprises persons who entered this country during the last ten years or so. Hence the urgency of implementing now the second element of the Conservative Party's policy: the encouragement of re-emigration.
Nobody can make an estimate of the numbers which, with generous grants and assistance, would choose either to return to their countries of origin or to go to other countries anxious to receive the manpower and the skills they represent. Nobody knows, because no such policy has yet been attempted. I can only say that, even at present, immigrants in my own constituency from time to time come to me, asking if I can find them assistance to return home. If such a policy were adopted and pursued with the determination which the gravity of the alternative justifies, the resultant outflow could appreciably alter the prospects for the future.
It can be no part of any policy that existing family should be kept divided; but there are two directions in which families can be reunited, and if our former and present immigration laws have brought about the division of families, albeit voluntary or semi-voluntarily, we ought to be prepared to arrange for them to be reunited in their countries of origin. In short, suspension of immigration and encouragement of re-emigration hang together, logically and humanly, as two aspects of the same approach.
The third element of the Conservative Party's policy is that all who are in this country as citizens should be equal before the law and that there shall be no discrimination or difference made between them by public authority. As Mr. Heath has put it, we will have no 'first-class citizens' and 'second-class citizens'. This does not mean that the immigrant and his descendants should be elevated into a privileged or special class or that the citizen should be denied his right to discriminate in the management of his own affairs between one fellow citizen and another or that he should be subjected to inquisition as to his reasons and motives for behaving in one lawful manner rather than another.
There could be no grosser misconception of the realities than is entertained by those who vociferously demand legislation as they call it 'against discrimination', whether they be leader-writers of the same kidney and sometimes on the same newspapers which year after year in the 1930s tried to blind this country to the rising peril which confronted it, or archbishops who live in palaces, faring delicately with the bedclothes pulled right over their heads. They have got it exactly and diametrically wrong. The discrimination and the deprivation, the sense of alarm and resentment, lies not with the immigrant population but with those among whom they have come and are still coming. This is why to enact legislation of the kind before Parliament at this moment is to risk throwing a match on to the gunpowder. The kindest thing that can be said about those who propose and support it is they know not what they do.
Nothing is more misleading than comparison between the Commonwealth immigrant in Britain and the American Negro. The Negro population of the United states, which was already in existence before the United States became a nation, started literally as slaves and were later given the franchise and other rights of citizenship, to the exercise of which they have only gradually and still incompletely come. The Commonwealth immigrant came to Britain as a full citizen, to a country which knows no discrimination between one citizen and another, and he entered instantly into the possession of the rights of every citizen, from the vote to free treatment under the National Health Service. Whatever drawbacks attended the immigrants - and they were drawbacks which did not, and do not, make admission into Britain by hook or by crook appear less than desirable - arose not from the law or from public policy or from administration but from those personal circumstances and accidents which cause, and always will cause, the fortunes and experience of one man to be different for another's.
But while to the immigrant entry to this country was admission to privileges and opportunities eagerly sought, the impact upon the existing population was very different. For reasons which they could not comprehend, and in pursuance of a decision by default, on which they were never consulted, they found themselves made strangers in their own country. They found their wives unable to obtain hospital beds in childbirth, their children unable to obtain school places, their homes and neighbourhoods changed beyond recognition, their plans and prospects for the future defeated; at work they found that employers hesitated to apply to the immigrant worker the standards of discipline and competence required of the native-born worker; they began to hear, as time went by, more and more voices which told them that they were now the unwanted. On top of this, they now learn that a one-way privilege is to be established by Act of Parliament: a law, which cannot, and is not intended, to operate to protect them or redress their grievances, is to be enacted to give the stranger, the disgruntled and the agent provocateur the power to pillory them for their private actions.
In the hundreds upon hundreds of letters I received when I last spoke on this subject two or three months ago, there was one striking feature which was largely new and which I find ominous. All Members of Parliament are used to the typical anonymous correspondent; but what surprised and alarmed me was the high proportion of ordinary, decent, sensible people, writing a rational and often well-educated letter, who believed that they had to omit their address because it was dangerous to have committed themselves to paper to a Member of Parliament agreeing with the views I had expressed, and that they would risk either penalties or reprisals if they were known to have done so. The sense of being a persecuted minority which is growing among ordinary English people in the areas of the country which are affected is something that those without direct experience can hardly imagine. I am going to allow just one of those hundreds of people to speak for me. She did give her name and address, which I have detached from the letter which I am about to read. She was writing from Northumberland about something which is happening at this moment in my own constituency:
Eight years ago in a respectable street in Wolverhampton a house was sold to a Negro. Now only one white (a woman old-age pensioner) lives there. This is her story. She lost her husband and both her sons in the war. So she turned her seven-roomed house, her only asset, into a boarding house. She worked hard and did well, paid off her mortgage and began to put something by for her old age. Then the immigrants moved in. With growing fear, she saw one house after another taken over. The quiet streets became a place of noise and confusion.
Regretfully, her white tenants moved out.
The day after the last one left, she was awakened at 7 a.m. by two Negroes who wanted to use her phone to contact their employer. When she refused, as she would have refused any stranger at such an hour, she was abused and feared she would have been attacked but for the chain on her door. Immigrant families have tried to rent rooms in her house, but she always refused. Her little store of money went, and after paying her rates, she had less than £2 per week. She went to apply for a rate reduction and was seen by a young girl, who on hearing she had a seven-roomed house, suggested she should let part of it. When she said the only people she could get were Negroes, the girl said 'racial prejudice won't get you anywhere in this country'. So she went home.
The telephone is her lifeline. Her family pay the bill, and help her out as best they can. Immigrants have offered to buy her house - at a price which the prospective landlord would be able to recover from his tenants in weeks, or at most in a few months. She is becoming afraid to go out.
Windows are broken. She finds excreta pushed through her letterbox. When she goes to the shops, she is followed by children, charming, wide-grinning piccaninnies. They cannot speak English, but one word they know. 'Racialist', they chant. When the new Race Relations Bill is passed, this woman is convinced she will go to prison. And is she so wrong? I begin to wonder.
The other dangerous delusion from which those who are wilfully or otherwise blind to realities suffer, is summed up in the word 'integration'. To be integrated into a population means to become for all practical purposes indistinguishable from its other members. Now, at all times, where there are marked physical differences, especially of colour, integration is difficult though, over a period, not impossible. There are among the Commonwealth immigrants have come to live here in the last fifteen years or so, many thousands whose wish and purpose is to be integrated and whose every thought and endeavour is bent in that direction. But to imagine that such a thing enters the heads of a great and growing majority of immigrants and their descendants is a ludicrous misconception, and a dangerous one to boot.
We are on the verge of here of a change. Hitherto it has been force of circumstance and of background which has rendered the very idea of integration inaccessible to the greater part of the immigrant population - that they never conceived or intended such a thing, and that their numbers and physical concentration meant the pressures towards integration which normally bear upon any small minority did not operate. Now we are seeing the growth of positive forces acting against integration, of vested interests in the preservation and sharpening of racial and religious differences, with a view to the exercise of action domination, first over fellow immigrants and then over the rest of the population. The cloud no bigger than a man's hand, that can so rapidly overcast the sky, has been visible recently in Wolverhampton and has shown signs of spreading quickly. The words I am about to use, verbatim as they appeared in the local press on 17 February, are not mine, but those of a Labour Member of Parliament who is a Minister in the present Government.
The Sikh communities' campaign to maintain customs inappropriate in Britain is much to be regretted. Working in Britain, particularly in the public services, they should be prepared to accept the terms and conditions of their employment. To claim special communal rights (or should one say rites?) leads to a dangerous fragmentation within society. This communalism is a canker: whether practised by one colour or another it is to be strongly condemned.
All credit to John Stonehouse for having had the insight to perceive that, and the courage to say it.
For these dangerous and divisive elements the legislation proposed in the Race Relations Bill is the very pabulum they need to flourish. Here is the means of showing that the immigrant communities can organize to consolidate their members, to agitate and campaign against their fellow citizens, and to overawe and dominate the rest with the legal weapons which the ignorant and the ill-informed have provided. As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding.
Like the Roman, I seem to see 'the River Tiber foaming with much blood'. That tragic and intractable phenomenon which we watch with horror on the other side of the Atlantic but which there is interwoven with the history and existence of the States itself, is coming upon us here by our own volition and our own neglect. Indeed, it has all but come. In numerical terms, it will be of American proportions long before the end of the century.
Only resolute and urgent action will avert it even now. Whether there will be the public will to demand and obtain that action, I do not know. All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal.
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1) Brits fear race violence will erupt
By Paul Majendie in London
ALMOST two out of three Britons fear race tensions could spill over into violence and half the population want immigrants to be encouraged to leave, a new poll shows.
In a country where the last serious race riots erupted seven years ago between white and Asian youths, the head of Britain's equality watchdog called the poll findings "alarming''.
"What worries me is if that friction starts to catch fire - if people genuinely believe it's going to catch fire - then we're in trouble,'' Equality and Human Rights Commission head Trevor Phillips said.
Of the 1000 people sounded out by Mori pollsters for the BBC, 60 per cent said Britain had too many immigrants.
A quarter of those polled said their area did not feel like Britain any more because of immigration.
Just 20 percent admitted to being racially prejudiced.
...
The threat from radical Islam, rammed home by the 2005 London bombings that killed 52 people, sparked a debate about just how successful Britain has been as a multicultural society and provoked calls for greater integration of ethnic minorities.
The BBC poll marked the 40th anniversary of an infamous "rivers of blood'' speech by Conservative politician Enoch Powell who expressed fears about levels of immigration and how the indigenous population felt "a sense of alarm and resentment''.
"As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding, like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood,'' he said.
and now for the complete speech made by Enoch Powell on April 20th, 1968:
Transcript of Rivers of Blood Speech
Here is the full text of Enoch Powell's famous speech to the Annual General Meeting of the West Midlands Area Conservative Political Centre, Birmingham, England, April 20, 1968.
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature. One is that by the very order of things such evils are not demonstrable until they have occurred: At each stage in their onset there is room for doubt and for dispute whether they be real or imaginary. By the same token, they attract little attention in comparison with current troubles, which are both indisputable and pressing: whence the besetting temptation of all politics to concern itself with the immediate present at the expense of the future.
Above all, people are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles: 'if only', they love to think, 'if only people wouldn't talk about it, it probably wouldn't happen'. Perhaps this habit goes back to the primitive belief that the word and the thing, the name and the object, are identical. At all events, the discussion of future grave but, with effort now, avoidable evils is the most unpopular and at the same time the most necessary occupation for the politician. Those who knowingly shirk it, deserve, and not infrequently receive, the curses of those who come after.
A week or two ago I fell into conversation with a constituent, a middle-aged, quite ordinary working man employed in one of our nationalized industries. After a sentence or two about the weather, he suddenly said: 'If I had the money to go, I wouldn't stay in this country.' I made some deprecatory reply, to the effect that even this Government wouldn't last for ever; but he took no notice, and continued: 'I have three children, all of them have been through grammar school and two of them married now, with family. I shan't be satisfied till I have seen them settled overseas. In this country in fifteen or twenty years' time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.'
I can already hear the chorus of execration. How dare I say such a horrible thing? How dare I stir up trouble and inflame feelings by repeating such a conversation? The answer is that I do not have the right not to do so. Here is a decent, ordinary fellow Englishman, who in broad daylight in my own town says to me, his Member of Parliament, that this country will not be worth living in for his children. I simply do not have the right to shrug my shoulders and think about something else. What he is saying, thousands and hundreds of thousands are saying and thinking - not throughout Great Britain, perhaps, but in the areas that are already undergoing the total transformation to which there is no parallel in a thousand years of English history.
In fifteen or twenty years, on present trends, there will be in this country 3 1/2 million Commonwealth immigrants and their descendants. That is not my figure. That is the official figure given to Parliament by the spokesman of the Registrar General's office. There is no comparable official figure for the year 2000, but it must be in the region of 5-7 million, approximately one-tenth of the whole population, and approaching that of Greater London. Of course, it will not be evenly distributed from Margate to Aberystwyth and from Penzance to Aberdeen. Whole areas, towns and parts of towns across England will be occupied by different sections of the immigrant and immigrant-descended population.
As time goes on, the proportion of this total who are immigrant descendants, those born in England, who arrived here by exactly the same route as the rest of us, will rapidly increase. Already by 1985 the native-born would constitute the majority. It is this fact above all which creates the extreme urgency of action now, of just that kind of action which is hardest for politicians to take, action where the difficulties lie in the present but the evils to be prevented or minimized lie several parliaments ahead.
The natural and rational first question with a nation confronted by such a prospect is to ask: 'How can its dimensions be reduced?' Granted it be not wholly preventable, can it be limited, bearing in mind that numbers are of the essence: the significance and consequences of an alien element introduced into a country or population are profoundly different according to whether that element is 1 per cent or 10 per cent. The answers to the simple and rational question are equally simple and rational: by stopping or virtually stopping, further inflow, and by promoting the maximum outflow. Both answers are part of the official policy of the Conservative Party.
It almost passes belief that at this moment twenty or thirty additional immigrant children are arriving from overseas in Wolverhampton alone every week - and that means fifteen or twenty additional families of a decade or two hence. Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependants, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancées whom they have never seen.
Let no one suppose that the flow of dependants will automatically tail off. On the contrary, even at the present admission rate of only 5,000 a year by voucher, there is sufficient for a further 325,000 dependants per annum ad infinitum, without taking into account the huge reservoir of existing relations in this country - and I am making no allowance at all for fraudulent entry. In these circumstances nothing will suffice but that the total inflow for settlement should be reduced at once to negligible proportions, and that the necessary legislative and administrative measures be taken without delay. I stress the words 'for settlement'.
This has nothing to do with the entry of Commonwealth citizens, any more than of aliens, into this country, for the purposes of study or of improving their qualifications, like (for instance) the Commonwealth doctors who, to the advantage of their own countries, have enabled our hospital service to be expanded faster than would otherwise have been possible. These are not, and never have been, immigrants.
I turn to re-emigration. If all immigration ended tomorrow, the rate of growth of the immigrant and immigrant-descended population would be substantially reduced, but the prospective size of this element in the population would still leave the basic character of the national danger unaffected. This can only be tackled while a considerable proportion of the total still comprises persons who entered this country during the last ten years or so. Hence the urgency of implementing now the second element of the Conservative Party's policy: the encouragement of re-emigration.
Nobody can make an estimate of the numbers which, with generous grants and assistance, would choose either to return to their countries of origin or to go to other countries anxious to receive the manpower and the skills they represent. Nobody knows, because no such policy has yet been attempted. I can only say that, even at present, immigrants in my own constituency from time to time come to me, asking if I can find them assistance to return home. If such a policy were adopted and pursued with the determination which the gravity of the alternative justifies, the resultant outflow could appreciably alter the prospects for the future.
It can be no part of any policy that existing family should be kept divided; but there are two directions in which families can be reunited, and if our former and present immigration laws have brought about the division of families, albeit voluntary or semi-voluntarily, we ought to be prepared to arrange for them to be reunited in their countries of origin. In short, suspension of immigration and encouragement of re-emigration hang together, logically and humanly, as two aspects of the same approach.
The third element of the Conservative Party's policy is that all who are in this country as citizens should be equal before the law and that there shall be no discrimination or difference made between them by public authority. As Mr. Heath has put it, we will have no 'first-class citizens' and 'second-class citizens'. This does not mean that the immigrant and his descendants should be elevated into a privileged or special class or that the citizen should be denied his right to discriminate in the management of his own affairs between one fellow citizen and another or that he should be subjected to inquisition as to his reasons and motives for behaving in one lawful manner rather than another.
There could be no grosser misconception of the realities than is entertained by those who vociferously demand legislation as they call it 'against discrimination', whether they be leader-writers of the same kidney and sometimes on the same newspapers which year after year in the 1930s tried to blind this country to the rising peril which confronted it, or archbishops who live in palaces, faring delicately with the bedclothes pulled right over their heads. They have got it exactly and diametrically wrong. The discrimination and the deprivation, the sense of alarm and resentment, lies not with the immigrant population but with those among whom they have come and are still coming. This is why to enact legislation of the kind before Parliament at this moment is to risk throwing a match on to the gunpowder. The kindest thing that can be said about those who propose and support it is they know not what they do.
Nothing is more misleading than comparison between the Commonwealth immigrant in Britain and the American Negro. The Negro population of the United states, which was already in existence before the United States became a nation, started literally as slaves and were later given the franchise and other rights of citizenship, to the exercise of which they have only gradually and still incompletely come. The Commonwealth immigrant came to Britain as a full citizen, to a country which knows no discrimination between one citizen and another, and he entered instantly into the possession of the rights of every citizen, from the vote to free treatment under the National Health Service. Whatever drawbacks attended the immigrants - and they were drawbacks which did not, and do not, make admission into Britain by hook or by crook appear less than desirable - arose not from the law or from public policy or from administration but from those personal circumstances and accidents which cause, and always will cause, the fortunes and experience of one man to be different for another's.
But while to the immigrant entry to this country was admission to privileges and opportunities eagerly sought, the impact upon the existing population was very different. For reasons which they could not comprehend, and in pursuance of a decision by default, on which they were never consulted, they found themselves made strangers in their own country. They found their wives unable to obtain hospital beds in childbirth, their children unable to obtain school places, their homes and neighbourhoods changed beyond recognition, their plans and prospects for the future defeated; at work they found that employers hesitated to apply to the immigrant worker the standards of discipline and competence required of the native-born worker; they began to hear, as time went by, more and more voices which told them that they were now the unwanted. On top of this, they now learn that a one-way privilege is to be established by Act of Parliament: a law, which cannot, and is not intended, to operate to protect them or redress their grievances, is to be enacted to give the stranger, the disgruntled and the agent provocateur the power to pillory them for their private actions.
In the hundreds upon hundreds of letters I received when I last spoke on this subject two or three months ago, there was one striking feature which was largely new and which I find ominous. All Members of Parliament are used to the typical anonymous correspondent; but what surprised and alarmed me was the high proportion of ordinary, decent, sensible people, writing a rational and often well-educated letter, who believed that they had to omit their address because it was dangerous to have committed themselves to paper to a Member of Parliament agreeing with the views I had expressed, and that they would risk either penalties or reprisals if they were known to have done so. The sense of being a persecuted minority which is growing among ordinary English people in the areas of the country which are affected is something that those without direct experience can hardly imagine. I am going to allow just one of those hundreds of people to speak for me. She did give her name and address, which I have detached from the letter which I am about to read. She was writing from Northumberland about something which is happening at this moment in my own constituency:
Eight years ago in a respectable street in Wolverhampton a house was sold to a Negro. Now only one white (a woman old-age pensioner) lives there. This is her story. She lost her husband and both her sons in the war. So she turned her seven-roomed house, her only asset, into a boarding house. She worked hard and did well, paid off her mortgage and began to put something by for her old age. Then the immigrants moved in. With growing fear, she saw one house after another taken over. The quiet streets became a place of noise and confusion.
Regretfully, her white tenants moved out.
The day after the last one left, she was awakened at 7 a.m. by two Negroes who wanted to use her phone to contact their employer. When she refused, as she would have refused any stranger at such an hour, she was abused and feared she would have been attacked but for the chain on her door. Immigrant families have tried to rent rooms in her house, but she always refused. Her little store of money went, and after paying her rates, she had less than £2 per week. She went to apply for a rate reduction and was seen by a young girl, who on hearing she had a seven-roomed house, suggested she should let part of it. When she said the only people she could get were Negroes, the girl said 'racial prejudice won't get you anywhere in this country'. So she went home.
The telephone is her lifeline. Her family pay the bill, and help her out as best they can. Immigrants have offered to buy her house - at a price which the prospective landlord would be able to recover from his tenants in weeks, or at most in a few months. She is becoming afraid to go out.
Windows are broken. She finds excreta pushed through her letterbox. When she goes to the shops, she is followed by children, charming, wide-grinning piccaninnies. They cannot speak English, but one word they know. 'Racialist', they chant. When the new Race Relations Bill is passed, this woman is convinced she will go to prison. And is she so wrong? I begin to wonder.
The other dangerous delusion from which those who are wilfully or otherwise blind to realities suffer, is summed up in the word 'integration'. To be integrated into a population means to become for all practical purposes indistinguishable from its other members. Now, at all times, where there are marked physical differences, especially of colour, integration is difficult though, over a period, not impossible. There are among the Commonwealth immigrants have come to live here in the last fifteen years or so, many thousands whose wish and purpose is to be integrated and whose every thought and endeavour is bent in that direction. But to imagine that such a thing enters the heads of a great and growing majority of immigrants and their descendants is a ludicrous misconception, and a dangerous one to boot.
We are on the verge of here of a change. Hitherto it has been force of circumstance and of background which has rendered the very idea of integration inaccessible to the greater part of the immigrant population - that they never conceived or intended such a thing, and that their numbers and physical concentration meant the pressures towards integration which normally bear upon any small minority did not operate. Now we are seeing the growth of positive forces acting against integration, of vested interests in the preservation and sharpening of racial and religious differences, with a view to the exercise of action domination, first over fellow immigrants and then over the rest of the population. The cloud no bigger than a man's hand, that can so rapidly overcast the sky, has been visible recently in Wolverhampton and has shown signs of spreading quickly. The words I am about to use, verbatim as they appeared in the local press on 17 February, are not mine, but those of a Labour Member of Parliament who is a Minister in the present Government.
The Sikh communities' campaign to maintain customs inappropriate in Britain is much to be regretted. Working in Britain, particularly in the public services, they should be prepared to accept the terms and conditions of their employment. To claim special communal rights (or should one say rites?) leads to a dangerous fragmentation within society. This communalism is a canker: whether practised by one colour or another it is to be strongly condemned.
All credit to John Stonehouse for having had the insight to perceive that, and the courage to say it.
For these dangerous and divisive elements the legislation proposed in the Race Relations Bill is the very pabulum they need to flourish. Here is the means of showing that the immigrant communities can organize to consolidate their members, to agitate and campaign against their fellow citizens, and to overawe and dominate the rest with the legal weapons which the ignorant and the ill-informed have provided. As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding.
Like the Roman, I seem to see 'the River Tiber foaming with much blood'. That tragic and intractable phenomenon which we watch with horror on the other side of the Atlantic but which there is interwoven with the history and existence of the States itself, is coming upon us here by our own volition and our own neglect. Indeed, it has all but come. In numerical terms, it will be of American proportions long before the end of the century.
Only resolute and urgent action will avert it even now. Whether there will be the public will to demand and obtain that action, I do not know. All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal.
Pertinent Links:
1) Brits fear race violence will erupt
DAR AL HARB-U.K.: A MEMBER OF THE 'RELIGION OF PEACE" & CONTROLLED EXPLOSIONS
Cops carry out controlled explosion
BRITISH police have carried out a controlled explosion at a house in Bristol after arresting a man on suspicion of terrorism offences.
Avon and Somerset Police said they evacuated 30 people from 14 homes early today in the suburb of Westbury-on-Trym before bomb disposal officers carried out the explosion.
Assistant Chief Constable Jackie Roberts said it followed yesterday's arrest of a 19-year-old from the area under anti-terrorism laws.
"This is likely to be a prolonged, complex and sensitive inquiry which may take some time,'' she said.
The arrest followed a "number of covert inquiries'', she added, without elaborating.
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Police hold Muslim man, 19, under Terror Act after carrying out a controlled explosion at his home
Police are questioning a 19-year-old Muslim man after carrying out a controlled explosion in his home.
Around 30 people were evacuated from houses in Comb Paddock, a quiet cul-de-sac in Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, as officers searched the property after a "covert" operation prompted by intelligence.
A bomb disposal team carried out a controlled explosion in the property, a nondescript 1950s red brick terraced house, at around 2am.
Neighbours who were not evacuated said they heard a loud blast like a gas boiler blowing up during the night.
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Pertinent Links:
1) Cops carry out controlled explosion
2) Police hold Muslim man, 19, under Terror Act after carrying out a controlled explosion at his home
BRITISH police have carried out a controlled explosion at a house in Bristol after arresting a man on suspicion of terrorism offences.
Avon and Somerset Police said they evacuated 30 people from 14 homes early today in the suburb of Westbury-on-Trym before bomb disposal officers carried out the explosion.
Assistant Chief Constable Jackie Roberts said it followed yesterday's arrest of a 19-year-old from the area under anti-terrorism laws.
"This is likely to be a prolonged, complex and sensitive inquiry which may take some time,'' she said.
The arrest followed a "number of covert inquiries'', she added, without elaborating.
...
and
Police hold Muslim man, 19, under Terror Act after carrying out a controlled explosion at his home
Police are questioning a 19-year-old Muslim man after carrying out a controlled explosion in his home.
Around 30 people were evacuated from houses in Comb Paddock, a quiet cul-de-sac in Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, as officers searched the property after a "covert" operation prompted by intelligence.
A bomb disposal team carried out a controlled explosion in the property, a nondescript 1950s red brick terraced house, at around 2am.
Neighbours who were not evacuated said they heard a loud blast like a gas boiler blowing up during the night.
...
Pertinent Links:
1) Cops carry out controlled explosion
2) Police hold Muslim man, 19, under Terror Act after carrying out a controlled explosion at his home
Thursday, April 17, 2008
DAR AL HARB-U.K.: KEN LIVINGSTONE'S BACKER IS A SUPPORTER OF HUMAN EXPLOSIVE DEVICES
Suicide bomb backer runs Ken's campaign
Keith Dovkants
An advocate of suicide bombing is among leaders of a group trying to mobilise Muslim voters to back Ken Livingstone, the Standard reveals today.
For the past year, the group has been working on a strategy to win an estimated 200,000 Muslim votes in an effort to re-elect the Mayor.
It includes a campaign of vilification aimed at his Conservative rival, Boris Johnson. It is being waged by Muslims 4 Ken, led by 39-year-old lecturer Anas Altikriti and Palestinian-born Azzam Tamimi, a supporter of Hamas, the militant group dedicated to the creation of an Islamic state of Palestine.
While Mr Altikriti says he abhors violence and favours dialogue to further the Muslim cause, Mr Tamimi has praised suicide bombers and said he would volunteer for a suicide mission in Palestine.
"For us Muslims martyrdom is not the end of things, but the beginning of the most wonderful of things," he has said. "If I can go to Palestine and sacrifice myself I would do it. Why not?"
Muslims 4 Ken moves into overdrive this week after months of lobbying for Mr Livingstone among Muslim community leaders, in mosques and among political organisations.
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Pertinent Links:
1) Suicide bomb backer runs Ken's campaign
Keith Dovkants
An advocate of suicide bombing is among leaders of a group trying to mobilise Muslim voters to back Ken Livingstone, the Standard reveals today.
For the past year, the group has been working on a strategy to win an estimated 200,000 Muslim votes in an effort to re-elect the Mayor.
It includes a campaign of vilification aimed at his Conservative rival, Boris Johnson. It is being waged by Muslims 4 Ken, led by 39-year-old lecturer Anas Altikriti and Palestinian-born Azzam Tamimi, a supporter of Hamas, the militant group dedicated to the creation of an Islamic state of Palestine.
While Mr Altikriti says he abhors violence and favours dialogue to further the Muslim cause, Mr Tamimi has praised suicide bombers and said he would volunteer for a suicide mission in Palestine.
"For us Muslims martyrdom is not the end of things, but the beginning of the most wonderful of things," he has said. "If I can go to Palestine and sacrifice myself I would do it. Why not?"
Muslims 4 Ken moves into overdrive this week after months of lobbying for Mr Livingstone among Muslim community leaders, in mosques and among political organisations.
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Pertinent Links:
1) Suicide bomb backer runs Ken's campaign
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
DAR AL ISLAM-IRAN: "VEE DON'T VANT TO NEGOTIATE VITH BULLYING POWERS" ANNOUNCED A CRYING AHMADINEJAD (AS IRAN BROKE RECORDS TOWARDS OBTAINING A NUKE)
Iranians favor logical, fair negotiations: President
Iranians favors logical and fair negotiation away from the current approach the bullying powers are practicing, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in the holy city of Qom on Wednesday.
Addressing a large group of local residents of city, located about 200 km south of Tehran, he said, any negotiation should be based on justice and should preserve essential interest and rights of the nations.
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Criticizing the present situation of the world, President Ahmadinejad said nations who intended to live as an independent country, would face various political, economic and cultural pressures exerted by the world arrogance.
"In order to reach the heights of progress, the current state of international relations should change," stressed the president.
He added that making any change in the present situation of global relations required strong economic, political and cultural strength.
"Without a strong political, economic and cultural power, no nation could change international relations."
The president urged all freedom-loving nations to resist to various types of pressures imposed by the world arrogance.
Pertinent Links:
1) Iranians favor logical, fair negotiations: President
Iranians favors logical and fair negotiation away from the current approach the bullying powers are practicing, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in the holy city of Qom on Wednesday.
Addressing a large group of local residents of city, located about 200 km south of Tehran, he said, any negotiation should be based on justice and should preserve essential interest and rights of the nations.
...
Criticizing the present situation of the world, President Ahmadinejad said nations who intended to live as an independent country, would face various political, economic and cultural pressures exerted by the world arrogance.
"In order to reach the heights of progress, the current state of international relations should change," stressed the president.
He added that making any change in the present situation of global relations required strong economic, political and cultural strength.
"Without a strong political, economic and cultural power, no nation could change international relations."
The president urged all freedom-loving nations to resist to various types of pressures imposed by the world arrogance.
Pertinent Links:
1) Iranians favor logical, fair negotiations: President
DAR AL ISLAM-IRAN: THE U.N. & THE U.N.S.C. SHOULD BE RESTRUCTURED (WITH IRAN REPLACING THE U.S. OF A. AS TOP DOG)
Iran calls for restructuring of UN, Security Council
Iran has called on Wednesday for restructuring the United Nations and the Security Council at the 118th Inter-Parliamentary Union session in Cape Town, South Africa.
"As two major international bodies, the UN and the Security Council have seriously suffered from US unilateralism," said Majlis Vice-Speaker Mohammad Mohsen Abu-Torabi in his address to the IPU session.
The IPU meeting opened on Sunday.
Some 1,500 representatives from 140 member states have taken part in the ongoing week-long event.
Abu-Torabi said that IPU member states could "resists to the US unilateralism and pave the way for the UN reinforcement."
He stressed that the IPU member states could, through cooperation and making joint efforts, help international security and find solution for current challenges facing the contemporary world.
He urged all regional and international bodies to make joint efforts and find due responses to the current international challenges including the spread of weapons of mass destruction, international terrorism, poverty, environmental crisis and organized crimes.
Euro-Dhimmis along with the O.I.C. membership are working to respond positively to Irans new vision of the United Nations & its Security Council...
Pertinent Links:
1) Iran calls for restructuring of UN, Security Council
Iran has called on Wednesday for restructuring the United Nations and the Security Council at the 118th Inter-Parliamentary Union session in Cape Town, South Africa.
"As two major international bodies, the UN and the Security Council have seriously suffered from US unilateralism," said Majlis Vice-Speaker Mohammad Mohsen Abu-Torabi in his address to the IPU session.
The IPU meeting opened on Sunday.
Some 1,500 representatives from 140 member states have taken part in the ongoing week-long event.
Abu-Torabi said that IPU member states could "resists to the US unilateralism and pave the way for the UN reinforcement."
He stressed that the IPU member states could, through cooperation and making joint efforts, help international security and find solution for current challenges facing the contemporary world.
He urged all regional and international bodies to make joint efforts and find due responses to the current international challenges including the spread of weapons of mass destruction, international terrorism, poverty, environmental crisis and organized crimes.
Euro-Dhimmis along with the O.I.C. membership are working to respond positively to Irans new vision of the United Nations & its Security Council...
Pertinent Links:
1) Iran calls for restructuring of UN, Security Council
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