A Britain in Peril

What has been apparent to many for quite some time has been addressed in an article by the economictimes. There are similar article that have raised similar concerns but this one condenses it to simple heart-of-the-matter terms.

I can already hear the crescendo of wailing and leveling of the racist™ canard by such organizations as the MCB. The MCB and other Islamic organizations, which enjoy the Western protection of liberty denied to minority religious groups wherever a Moslem majority predominates, love to promulgate the spurious notion that criticism of moslems is tantamount to "hate speech."

There’s nothing hateful about identifying those groups that have a stated goal or a history of vilifying the West and seeking to kill and maim Westerners. We just need to be honest in acknowledging and confronting our sworn enemies, even if to do so goes against the ethos of whichever political ideology we subscribe to. Sometimes the right and left dichotomy must be eschewed in favor of agreeing upon the simple difference between right and wrong. It is when we are not united against those who seriously challenge us and our way of life that we are most imperiled. UK centre of Islamist terror in Europe:Europol

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/P...how/2991115.cms



LONDON: Britain has emerged as the focal point of Islamist terror in Europe, according to Europol, the European police force. A report on terrorism by Europol has claimed that the UK reported a 30 per cent increase in arrest of terror suspects last year.

Out of 203 persons arrested in 2007 in the UK, a majority were related to Islamist terrorism. In contrast, 201 were detained in the rest of Europe. French police made 91 arrests. The number of suspects under investigation in Britain has risen from 500 in 2004 to 2,000 last year. What is worrying is that the number of arrests involved young, radicalised British muslims, sparking fears that the threat of an attack is growing.

The terrorist plots also linked to groups in Pakistan. The report comes following disclosure last week that 15 plots to attack British targets have been foiled in three years since the London bombings in which 56 people died and over 700 were injured. At the time of their arrest, all Islamist terrorism suspects were between 17 and 72 years of age. The average age was 35 years, with two-thirds of the arrested being between 23 and 43 years of age.

Over the last five years, much of the command, control and inspiration for planning attacks came from Al Qaeda's remaining core leadership in the tribal areas of Pakistan, the report said.

Agenda topics for the recently concluded Islamic summit in Senegal last week:


Address Women's Rights
Address Internecine hatreds
Address economic deficiencies
Address lack of religious freedoms
Whine like petulant children over meaningless cartoons and perceived “insults” EYUP

Yeah, because as any ethically bereft relativist knows, goofy cartoons of a seventh century camel herder turned prepubescent girls boy toy turned marauding thief/mass murderer/prophet are on the same moral plane as jailing bloggers, terror against Israelis, beheading of American infidels in Iraq, etc.

For some strange, inexplicable reason—a tear in the space/time continuum, perhaps—somehow, Christianity and Judaism managed to survive The Last Temptation of Christ and The Passion of the Christ respectively. No fatwas, no mob violence, no assassinations. And yet the Islamic universe is torn asunder by The Satanic Verses, Theo van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Submission, and Muhammad cartoons in a Danish paper.

Muslims nations: Defame Islam, get sued?

By RUKMINI
CALLIMACHI, Associated Press Writer Fri Mar 14, 6:26 PM ET

DAKAR, Senegal -

The Muslim world has created a battle plan to defend its religion from political cartoonists and bigots.

Concerned about what they see as a rise in the defamation of Islam, leaders of the world's Muslim nations are considering taking legal action against those that slight their religion or its sacred symbols. It was a key issue during a two-day summit that ended Friday in this western Africa capital.

The Muslim leaders are attempting to demand redress from nations like Denmark, which allowed the publication of cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammad in 2006 and again last month, to the fury of the Muslim world.

Though the legal measures being considered have not been spelled out, the idea pits many Muslims against principles of freedom of speech enshrined in the constitutions of numerous Western governments.

"I don't think freedom of expression should mean freedom from blasphemy," said Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade, the chairman of the 57-member organization of the Islamic Conference. "There can be no freedom without limits."

Delegates were given a voluminous report by the OIC that recorded anti-Islamic speech and actions from around the world. The report concludes that Islam is under attack and that a defense must be mounted. "Muslims are being targeted by a campaign of defamation, denigration, stereotyping, intolerance and discrimination," charged Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the secretary general of the group.

Top Saudi cleric calls for liberal writers' death

Top Saudi cleric calls for liberal writers' death

Is it just me, or does it seem like the whole world is just kind of standing by idly as another islamist "Cleric" unabashedly acknowledges his part in a terror/extortion scheme.

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL15398953

RIYADH, March 15 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's most revered cleric said in a rare fatwa this week that two writers should be tried for apostasy and put to death if they do not repent.

Sheikh Abdul-Rahman al-Barrak was responding to recent articles in al-Riyadh newspaper that questioned the mainstream Sunni Muslim view that adherents of other faiths should be considered unbelievers."Anyone who claims this has refuted Islam and should be tried in order to take it back. If not, he should be killed as an apostate from the religion of Islam," said the fatwa, or religious opinion, dated March 14 and published on Barrak's Web site (albarrak.islamlight.net)."It is disgraceful that articles containing this kind of apostasy should be published in some papers of Saudi Arabia, the land of the two holy shrines," he said, referring to Muslim holy places in Mecca and Medina."The rulers should hold these papers to account ... and all those who took part in the publication should know they were involved in the sin of heretical articles." Barrak, who is thought to be around 75, is the leading authority of Saudi Arabia's hardline version of Sunni Islam, often termed Wahhabism. He said the articles suggested Muslims were free to follow other religions. Rights groups have accused Wahhabism of a xenophobic attitude which demonises other religions.

Declaring that one is explicitly free to make personal decisions about the religious faith they embrace is a hallmark of Western liberal democracy. It’s also a hallmark of an ethical and moral society that does not compel that all must Kowtow to any specific religion. In the free world, we often call forced religion eccentric, hateful and even totalitarian.

This Just In: Dutch Embrace Their Dhimmi Status

It appears that rather than choose to defend a long-cherished Western ideal of freedom of expression, the Dutch prefer to cower under the false security of appeasement.


Dutch Establishment Threatens to Prosecute Wilders and Claim Damages

From the desk of Thomas Landen on Wed, 2008-03-12 18:07

Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician who is making a 10-minute movie about Islam entitled Fitna (Arabic for “ordeal”), has felt compelled to cancel the March 28 press conference where he intended to show his film. The Nieuwspoort press center in The Hague, which is run by a board of journalists, publishers and government press officers, demanded that Wilders pay 400,000 euros for extra safety measures. “Apparently, you have to be a millionaire to organize such an event,” Mr Wilders said. “Even if I had the money I am not going to spend it on a press conference.”

No Dutch broadcaster, public or private, has been willing to show the film. There are indications that Fitna will also be banned on Youtube, which removed a clip featuring Mr Wilders two week ago, on so-called “ethical grounds”.

Dutch international companies, fearing a boycott of their products by Muslims, have announced that they intend to hold Mr Wilders responsible for a loss of profits and markets in the event of a boycott. They have asked Gerard Spong, one of the top lawyers in the Netherlands, to see whether a court case claiming damages from Wilders will be possible. Mr Spong and several other lawyers have already lodged some fifty formal complaints against the politician for “incitement to racial hatred and discrimination of Muslims” because Mr Wilders expressed the opinion that the Koran is “a fascist book which should be banned in the Netherlands.”

How many times do we need to behold this madness before infidels wake up and realize that Islam is a dark and hateful force that is completely inimical to freedom, hope, and justice?

Islamic Jihad's Bethlehem heads killed

The Israeli Defense Forces have been busy cleaning up the piles of smelly garbage left lying around the West Bank.

Islamic Jihad's Bethlehem heads killed

Five terrorists, including the Islamic Jihad leadership in Bethlehem, were killed in two clashes with the IDF in the West Bank on Wednesday.

In the morning, IDF soldiers surrounded a house in Seida, near Tulkarm, and in ensuing gun battles killed Saleh Karkur, 27, an Islamic Jihad gunman. The IDF demolished half of the house. Islamic Jihad released a statement in Gaza saying Karkur was one of the group's top West Bank commanders and threatened to avenge his death.

In the evening, a team from the Israel Police's elite Yamam counterterror unit raided Bethlehem and killed four Islamic Jihad gunmen. The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) said the four had constituted the leadership of the terrorist group's armed wing in the city. When the men's bodies were inspected, they were found to be carrying rifles and pistols.

Among the dead was Mahmoud Shehada, 45, the commander of Islamic Jihad in Bethlehem. He had been on Israel's wanted list for eight years, since the eruption of the second intifada, for involvement in a number of deadly terror attacks. Another of the dead was Ahmad Balbul, 48, reported to have been a member of both Fatah's Aksa Martyrs Brigades and the Bethlehem City Council.

I’ve never understood why the Left has been so vocal in defense of “Palestinian” Arab terrorists when their every action has been the polar opposite of Social Democracy. Perhaps the left just enjoys the virulent anti-Americanism/Westernism or the terrorists use of the magic-pill word 'Zionists!'

Terrorists and criminals such as the various islamist terrorist organizations have been idolized due to their opposition to America and Western values in general yet the western apologists for Islamic terrorist philosophy never connects the dots towards those who truly suffer because of these hate groups’ actions. Armchair hero-worshippers of “Pal” terrorists can do so very easily in the West. Hell, we even shower kafir welfare dollars upon these murderous savages. Unfortunately the majority in the morally-challenged State Department continue to believe that rewarding Islamic terrorism with welfare money will somehow curb the islamicidal tendencies of these hateful ideologues.

Iran Schoolbooks Teach Jihad, Martyrdom, Study Shows

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I'm sure you're going to find this as shocking as I did. Good heavens, but I can get so cynical about Islam (or racist, as some like to call it).

I guess this might be a great chance for Moslems to finally clear matters up about the causes for those few isolated incidents™ of beheadings, bus-bombings, child-murder, intense offensive jihad in twenty or more nations worldwide, honor killings, teenager hangings, antisemitism, genocide, civilian hostage taking, hatefests in the mosques, avowed enmity toward the West, institutionalized misogyny, commitment to Israel's destruction... well, you get the picture.

Could those attributes and worldviews mentioned above have any connection to the indoctrination of hate and fear that are so prevalent in the moslem world?
My suggestion for a course curriculum the kids might like: The Real World: The World Beyond the Hateful Indoctrination of Islam!

Washington (CNSNews.com) - When third grade school children in Iran turn to page 113 of their textbook "Let's Read," they find a passage that says, "At that time, the Israeli officer pounded (three-year-old) Muhammad's head with the rifle's stock and his warm blood sprinkled upon his (six-year-old brother) Khaled's hands."

The Iranian textbook was published in 2004, before the controversial Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became president of Iran in 2005. In another third-grade text, "Gifts of Heavan," an illustration of a monster wearing the Star of David is seen going through a tidy Muslim town leaving garbage everywhere.

While those examples could seem shocking to some, it gets worse, said Arnon Groiss, director of research at the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace, who recently completed a study of 115 Iranian school textbooks. (Most of the books reviewed in the study had been published in 2004.)

"Indoctrination is less felt in the lower grades and increases in the higher grades," Groiss said, speaking at a forum Monday on the topic at the conservative Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C.

The books are part of an overall indoctrination effort aimed at school children. This effort includes rewritten Iranian history and the inclusion of Jihadist political views in science and geography texts, he said.

The seventh grade text "Islamic Culture and Religious Instruction," which refers to the West and Israel as the "Arrogant Ones," tells students that war is unavoidable and victory is guaranteed "in order to continue with all our power our revolution against the Arrogant Ones and the oppressors."

An eighth grade text says the "army of Islam would make the Arrogant Ones fall in holy Jihad and heavy attack."

"This is a form of child abuse rejected by all civilized countries," said Groiss, who for 30 years was an Arab-language journalist and is currently deputy director at Israel Broadcasting Authorities Arabic Radio. "This pictures a regime bent on global war to the point of self-destruction."

On page 20 of the high school textbook "Humanities," the United States is described as an "imperialist country" that "does not refrain from massacring people, from burying alive soldiers of the opposite side and from using mass-destruction weapons. It makes use of atomic bombs. ... It creates the greatest dictatorships and the violent and torturous security-oriented regimes, and defends them."

In the Islamic version of reality, Allah's grand and glorious plan for his servile minions is perpetually under threat from Freemasons, Crusaders, Infidels, the CIA and of course, the Jews™. Oh, excuse me—that's the sinister Jews™.

No Compulsion in Religion Alert.

Malaysian sentenced to 2 years in jail for abandoning Islam to join banned sect

A clever aspect of Muhammad's manufactured from whole cloth religion is that he incorporated all of the prevalent religions of his time into his fanciful notions of an imperialistic, totalitarian death cult. He stole chunks of doctrine from the faiths that he knew people would recognize and combined them with his idiosyncratic neuroses, his violent and greedy tendencies, his delusional ideation, and his full-blown psychopathologies. And out of this highly unstable mixture, he produced a mean and malicious, totalitarian mongrel of a doctrine that has thenceforth defied any and all rationality. But I digress.

© AP2008-03-04 05:36:25 -

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - A Muslim-born woman arrested for joining a banned sect was sentenced to two years in jail for renouncing her religion, her lawyer said Tuesday.The case underscores growing concern about religious freedom in this mostly Muslim nation, where Islamic Shariah courts _ which govern the personal conduct and religious lives of Muslims _ have invariably refused to sanction the conversion of people who try to leave Islam.

A Shariah High Court judge in eastern Terengganu state ruled Monday that Kamariah Ali is still a Muslim despite her declaration to the contrary.

"The court is not convinced that the accused has repented and is willing to abandon any teachings contrary to Islam", news reports quoted Judge Muhammad Abdullah as saying. "I pray God will open the doors of your heart,
Kamariah."