* Ali Eteraz,  Islamo-socialist with a blog,  who, among other nutters and fruitcakes,- gets published in the Guardian’s ‘comment is free’,  has a go at dissing Wilders film ‘Fitna’ and fails miserably.

Eteraz closing statement:

In terms of sheer originality, though, the best response to this film came from a friend of mine who watched the film - and calling it a film is to abuse both the English language and the legacy of cinema - on my computer with me:

“I could have masturbated in that time.”

* Robert Spencer (JW) takes this ‘moderate’  masturbator apart,  not for the first time.

* Read it all…

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New Oz socialist government sez ‘NO’ “BUT’” to free speech:

Australia denounces anti-Islam film

Thanks to Mullah

From the ’socialism is a mental disorder’ department: Australia has added its voice to the international chorus of outrage over an anti-Islam film posted on the internet by a right wing Dutch politician.

Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Geert Wilders’ film Fitna equated Islam with acts of terror and violence and was “highly offensive”.

“It is an obvious attempt to generate discord between faith communities,” Mr Smith said.

“Like leaders in the Muslim world and in Europe, I strongly reject the ideas contained in the film and deplore its release.”

* If Smith really said that one must assume that he either didn’t see the film or that he is completely ignorant of what’s going on in the world.

“In Australia we believe in the right to freedom of expression but we don’t believe in abusing that right to incite racial hatred.”

* My goodness: which ‘race’ is Islam again?

Muslim nations, the European Union and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon have all expressed outrage over the film, posted on the internet last week.

Iran and Bangladesh warned the film could cause grave consequences and Pakistan has protested to the Dutch ambassador.

Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has called for Muslim nations to boycott Dutch products.

But Mr Smith echoed Dutch Muslim leaders’ calls for restraint, saying the best response was a “calm and responsible one”.

* Just what we need, a wannabe Euroweenie appeaser as Foreign Minister.

Fearing a repeat of violent clashes in 2006 that followed the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in Danish newspapers, the Dutch government has distanced itself from Wilders’ 17-minute film.

The head of the Freedom Party, which has nine seats in the Dutch parliament, Wilders has also called for the banning of the Koran in the Netherlands, calling it “fascist”.

© 2008 AAP

* Hugh Fitzgerald comments

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From the ‘Bolt Blog’
Rob H replied to John
Mon 31 Mar 08 (06:44pm)
Thank God Smith was around to make this statement, before we all fell for
the Zionist plot. He’s foreign minister isn’t he? Hey why is he here? Who’s
looking after the rest of the world if Smith is at home? Why isn’t KRudd
making this kind of statement from home. Hey? Whats going on, the lights are
all out? What’s that smell of beeswax? How come petrol is priced so high?
How come house prices are forecast to go up? How come inflation is still on
the rise? How come they’re talking about higher unemployment? Black is
white? Incompetance is competance? Starting boarding schools for aboriginal
kids is not creating another stolen generation myth? Racism applies to
religions? How the hell did this bunch of tacco’s ever get elected. Whats
Happened to all the laptops? Where did Brumby’s missing billion go? Why am I
called a denihalist and skeptic becuase I want to save black Africa by
creating an ecomomy like ours and don’t believe that theories can kill? Why
did the diablical US government invent AIDS and then not give it to Obama
and his religious adviser or at least shoot them for giving out secrets?
Just a few questions I ask myself every day I make the mistake of reading
the papers in the age of KRuddism.

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* For the first time we get some numbers: governments in Europe, Australia & elsewhere with large scale Muhammedan immigration have long been trying to hide the exorbitant cost associated with the establishment of an Islamic proletariat that keeps socialists in power, but saps the lifeblood from the welfare state.

Here it its:

- France has 6,868,000 immigrants, or 11% of the population.

- Immigration reduces by two thirds the growth of the GNP.

- The cost of immigration in France is 71.76 billion euros.

- The revenue from immigration in France is 45.57 billion euros.

- The deficit from immigration shouldered by the taxpayers is 26.19 billion euros.

- When an immigrant does not return home at the expiration of his work contract, it is the State (the taxpayer) who bears the cost of welfare and social benefits.
- Non-European immigrants and their descendants receive 22% of all social benefits.
- The unit-price of requests for asylum is 15,000 euros.
- The majority of immigration expenses do not depend on the Ministry of Immigration headed by Brice Hortefeux.
- Expenses for security linked to immigration amount to 5.2 billion euros.
- The black market involves at least 500,000 immigrants and represents a loss to the State of 3.810 billion euros.
- 65 to 90% of prostitutes are foreign.
- The unemployment rate of immigrants is twice that of non-immigrants.
- Social benefits constitute 14% of the average revenue of immigrant households versus 5% for non-immigrant households.

Lots more from the Brussels Journal

* These costs listed above don’t include the billions in damages for the ongoing French intifadah, when tens of thousands of cars and businesses are burned….

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UK: Migration has brought ‘zero’ economic benefit

Ten years of record immigration to Britain has produced virtually no economic benefits for the country, a parliamentary inquiry has found.

* 684  quit Britain every day

A House of Lords committee, which is due to report next Tuesday, will call into question Government claims that foreign workers add £6 billion each year to the wealth of the nation.

It is expected to say this must be balanced against the increase in population and their use of local services such as health and education, resulting in little benefit per head of the population.

“Our overall conclusion is that the economic benefits of net immigration to the resident population are small and close to zero in the long run,” the report will say.

The findings of the Lords economics committee threaten to demolish the key argument made by ministers to justify the highest levels of immigration in the country’s history.

The inquiry by the committee, which includes two former chancellors and several former Cabinet ministers, is the first to try to balance the costs and benefits of large-scale immigration.

The population is increasing by more than 190,000 every year, largely as a result of immigration.

Telegraph

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U.S. Must Learn European Immigration Lessons

by James Zumwalt

Thanks to Louis Stouch

Denmark was once a country with an extremely liberal immigration policy. Today it has one of the strictest in Europe. Why? A recipe for social disaster was at play in Denmark. Take a very liberal post-World War II immigration policy, combine it with a very generous welfare program, mix in Muslim immigrants demonstrating a stubborn unwillingness to integrate into Danish society while enjoying welfare status, add a dash of reality that that Muslim population is rapidly outgrowing the native one, and it does not take long to create a bankrupt state nurturing an anti-democratic guest population and seeking to eventually replace the host country’s laws and culture with its own. Susan MacAllen, an American citizen who lived in Denmark, last year wrote a fascinating, but frightening, article for Family Security Matters providing specifics as to how this happened and the steps being taken to reverse course.

Supporting MacAllen’s concerns are statistics from a 2002 article by Daniel Pipes and Lars Hedegaard. They point out that Danish Muslims, while making up only five percent of the population, consume 40% of welfare spending and are responsible for a disproportionately high percentage of the nation’s crime. Recognizing increasing population numbers favor them, Muslim leaders “openly declare their goal of introducing Islamic law once Denmark’s Muslim population grows large enough.”

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In appreciation of the Danish landlord opening up his home to an economically-depressed tenant to live rent free, the tenant shows his appreciation by now threatening to take over home ownership. As a result, not only have immigration laws been severely tightened, but there is even a prohibition against building mosques — used as centers to promote anti-Western values — because they were becoming hotbeds of hatred.

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Dutch: 57 percent say ‘admitting large groups of Muslims is “the biggest mistake in Dutch history”

The results come from the History Monitor. This survey was carried out among a representative group of 1,069 people by De Volkskrant newspaper, Historisch Nieuwsblad history journal and TV programme Andere Tijden in consultation with history professors James Kennedy, Niek van Sas and Hans Blom.

Link

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* Absolutely. Islam is what Muslims do. Because the soldiers of Allah do all these things that are so offensive to Muslims, and keep doing them everyday in more than 30 theaters of jihad warfare around the globe: like using Koran verses to justify their atrocities. Why are these Muslims offended by Wilders and not by their fellow Koranists?

The formerly UK-based jihadist hits the nail on the head: for all the rage from Muslims about how Fitna “links Islam with violence,” that link has already been made by the jihadists, who never aroused any significant rage among their peaceful brethren. The jihadists quote Qur’an to justify their actions — it wasn’t Geert Wilders who had to go hunting in the Qur’an for verses that matched those actions.

JW-link

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Qaradawi weasels and lies:

“We need scholarly refutations to claims that Prophet Muhammad incited the killing of men and women,” he stressed. [...]

* That will be tough, given the evidence of the early Muslim sources on Asma bint Marwan, Ka’b bin Ashraf, Abu Afak, the Jews of Khaybar, the Banu Qurayzah Jews, etc. etc.

Qaradhawi accuses:

“What the Dutch politician did is tantamount to opening fire on the Qur’an,” Qaradawi said in exclusive statements to IslamOnline.net.

Lies:

“We ask them to better understand the Islam’s message of peace, mercy and human brotherhood,”

* here’s What the Holiest Book of Islam Really says about Non-Muslims

Qaradawi seeks retaliation:

“Heavyweight Muslim countries should have a manly stance in defense of Islam and its prophet,” he added.“The peoples need to pressure their governments to take such a stand and prove to the world that the Muslim Ummah is still alive.”

* In other words, strongarm the West into dhimmi silence.

More

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Pakistan: Fitna Rage in the making. “Foreigners will be attacked. The situation will change, change, change”

* But maybe its not ‘Fitna’ at all. Its all about ‘blasphemous’ drawings…

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“Anti-Quran film sparks protests in Muslim world,” from CNN-IBN:

New Delhi: Muslims in several countries are protesting a film by a Dutch lawmaker’s film, saying it insults the Quran.
Hundreds of Islamists staged angry protests across Pakistan after the release of the film and a militant allegedly linked to al-Qaida’s No 2 leader also warned that the film will spark reprisal attacks.
Small groups of demonstrators, mostly followers of hard-line religious groups, rallied in major cities, demanding Pakistan cut diplomatic relations with the Netherlands. A banner at one demonstration read, “We hate the uncivilized West.”

More here

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Dutch Business: “We rather lose our culture than a dollar”

Bernard Wientjes, chairman of the Dutch employers’ organisation VNO-NCW:

“A boycott would hurt Dutch exports. Businesses such as Shell, Philips and Unilever are easily identifiable as Dutch companies,” he was quoted as saying.
Malaysia’s former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad suggested a boycott on Saturday, echoing a similar call by media in Jordan.

Dutch businesses threaten to sue over anti-Islam film,” from Agence France-Presse

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Louise Arbour totally derailed:

*  Traincrash or rather ’staying the course?’

U.N.’s Arbour on Fitna: “They should offer strong protective measures to all forms of freedom of expression, while at the same time enacting appropriate restrictions, as necessary, to protect the rights of others”

* Never mind obout our rights!

Spencer comments:

Questions for Ms. Arbour: Is not being offended a human right? Should “appropriate restrictions” target the clear and present danger of possibly having one’s feelings hurt? In that event, there will need to be a U.N. court on every elementary school playground.

“Louise Arbour condemns the film ‘Fitna’,” from Kuwait News Agency:

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Honest Muslim Discovered: “We hate you for your disbelief and defiance”

* A Muslim blogger writes to Geert Wilders:

* Resisting Islam causes wars, for which the infidels are responsible:

But we don’t hate you for your freedoms as we don’t consider those freedoms. We hate you for your disbelief and defiance.

So keep warning, and we too will keep warning. Islaam denounces Democracy, Islaam denounces Christians and Jews, Islaam denounces the corruption of the disbelievers upon the earth, and Islaam is coming to crush the armies of disbelief and smash the false governments and religions of the world to bring humanity from darkness into light.

Although we hate you for the sake of Allah and pray for your destruction, we are happy that you made this film because no matter how negative the disbelievers try to portray Islaam, in the end, it is Islaam that spreads far and wide. The media in America did its best to portray Islaam as an evil religion after the 9/11 attacks, but just look to how many thousands of people accepted Islaam after the invasion. So Islaam will spread all over Europe, and we will win in the end and we will humiliate you in the end.

Congratulations Geert. Your movie has created more Mujaahideen amongst the Muslims.

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Islam & the Nazis 

thankx to Atlas 

In Muhammad’s Spittin’ Image     

By Andrew G. Bostom

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Muslim World League puts ads in papers

The following advertisement appeared in Denmark’s largest national newspapers this week (in Danish):

Freedom of expression at any price?

Appeal to the Danish people

* Islam invented freedom of expression. After that, Islam invented the wheel:

Freedom of expression and the right to your own opinion are guaranteed in Islam and is one of Islam’s most important contributions to the world more than 1400 years ago.

Factually it ensures all heavenly revealed religions and denominations and promises humanity the right to think and express oneself freely, as long as those expressions don’t cause insult or discrimination of others or rouse hate based on religion or race. One of the worst forms of religious discrimination is ridiculing the prophets and the messengers.

* You can have any kind of freedom as long as it doesn’t offend the Koranimals. What kind of BS is that?

In connection with our continuing efforts to lessen the consequences of the Danish caricatures we have visited Denmark several times. We have seen the Danes as a peace-loving people, who prize coexistence of different cultures, civilizations and religions, and therefore we are now convinced that the reprinting of the insulting cartoons are not typical of the Danish people.

In Muslim perception all prophets, including Moses, Jesus and Muhammed, peace be with them all, are in a special status, which will keep them from insult or ridicule. They should be respect by all people instead of having false accusations directed at them.

We were very surprised with the connection made between charges against several individual people of wanting to take revenge on one of the cartoonists, and a deliberate insult of Muslim nations deep in their most dearly religious feelings by reprinting the cartoons. We will stress here that Islam condemns all actions which weaken society’s security, in particular murder and arson. Factually Muslims still lack a formal dissociation from the reprinting of the insulting cartoons from relevant authorities. We are convinced that a dissociation will contribute to preventing additional repetitions of such unfortunate measures.

* Islam vs. Free Speech: The Case of Denmark

Finally, we would like to call on all rational and peace-loving people and economic and cultural organization to to make an effort to the extreme for ensure good cultural and economic relations between people from Denmark and the Muslim world.

The Danish Conservative party sees this ad as mafia-like threats against Danish authorities.

They say that the organization is trying to threaten Danish authorities so that they’ll condemn the Muhammad cartoons in order to prevent more unfortunate measures.

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Westergaard: Pissing on Wilders won’t save your ass…!

* Whatever motivated this fatwa-plagued cartoonist to do this, his indignation doesn’t sound genuine.

Westergaard wants to sue Wilders:

“You can’t just steal other people’s works. This has nothing to do with freedom of speech, it’s all about copyright,” Mr Westergaard said.

“I won’t accept my cartoon being taken out of its original context and used in a completely different one.”

More from ABC

Spiegel Online:

Westergaard: Wilders has a overly generalized perception of Muslims as potential terrorists. But it’s not like that at all — I know a lot of Muslims living here in Denmark who accept democracy completely and who live their religion as a very private matter. I hope that all Muslims will adapt to secular society. There is currently friction between Muslim and Christian culture. But I am quite sure, that our Western democratic culture will prevail over the darker version of Islam. We must have Islam-light.

* Islam light? Sure thing. But you have to invent it first, Kurt…!

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* Whatever it takes to pull the Islamic wool over naive infidel eyes & ears…

Quran ‘expert’ by ABC News Reveals the Meanings Behind the Quranic Verses in the Film

By REHAB EL-BURI

The leader of Netherlands’ anti-immigration party, Geert Wilders, posted an anti-Islam film Thursday that was expected to raise an uproar among Muslims. So far, the fallout has fallen flat.

Wilders posted his film on the Internet after local distributors declined to release it. His film entitled, “Fitna,” which translates to “Discord” in Arabic, suggests the Quran promotes violence and acts of terrorism. The 10-minute film shows various verses of the Quran followed by a montage of violent photos and video ranging from the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center to photos of the Shiite ritual of self-flagellation.

Wilders concludes the film with a graphic, saying it is up to “Muslims themselves to tear out the hateful verses of the Quran. Muslims want you to make way for Islam, but Islam does not make way for you.” Wilders urges his audience to “stop Islamization, defend our freedom.”

So far, the protests over the film have been largely over legal issues. European news reports say Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard will sue Wilders for using his copyrighted image of the prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban. News reports also say Dutch rapper Salah Edin is seeking legal recourse for his picture appearing in the film mistaking him for the man who murdered Dutch film director Theo van Gogh.

Small protests over the controversial film have sprouted in the Muslim world but have remained nonviolent.

ABC News spoke to a Quran expert to investigate what the verses in Wilders’ film mean. Below are expert Mohammad Al-Hayek’s translations of the meanings of the verses used in “Fitna.”

* Who is this ‘Koran expert?’

Verse from Fitna: (Chapter 8; Verse 6) Prepare for them whatever force and cavalry ye are able of gathering to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah and your enemies.

Al-Hayek: The purpose of this verse is to urge Muslim governments to be militarily strong in order to intimidate its enemies. Building up power is meant to serve as a deterrent to those wanting to attack Muslims.

This chapter was revealed about the major Battle of Badr that took place between the Muslims and the Quraish tribe of Mecca in the second year of the established Muslim state. The verse immediately after it says, “but if the enemy inclines toward peace, do thou also incline toward peace.” Muslims are commanded to halt war immediately if the enemy shows signs of peace. Even in war, Muslims are instructed in the Quran to adhere to strict rules of engagement.

* Mohammad Al-Hayek is simply trying to tell us infidels that these verses, similar to Bible verses, relate to historical events and have no relevance to today’s idiotically named ‘War on Terror’. That, of course, is false: Muhammad has declared war ‘on all mankind, until all profess there is no God but allah and Muhammad is his prophet’. These verses and all those relating to jihad in the Koran are to be followed to the letter and are the perfect model of conduct for every Muslim. Unfortunately, the Peacenix from the ABC prefer to be deceived instead of asking for a second opinion…

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