From the Gates of Vienna:

The news stories to pay attention to tonight concern immigration. In Italy, a “Record Number of Would-Be Immigrants Arrive”. But the President of Italy says, “Immigrants are a resource — no more prejudice!” And in the UK, a report in the House of Lords: “Economic Benefits of Mass Immigration Are Close to Zero”.

We report, you decide.

Charles Bremner and Marie Tourres in Paris/Times Online

Hat tip ZIP:

Muslims reject French Names?

What’s so difficult about that? Might be a good thing! If they don’t want to be French put ‘em on a bus back to Algeria:

For identification (or rather deportation purposes) it would be a lot easier to call them Muhammad and Abdullah.  Pierre or Marie do sound a bit too close for comfort. It helps to identify the enemy…

They are born in France and called Louis, Laurent or Marie but they want to become Abdel, Said or Rachida. Such requests from immigrants’ children for name changes are mounting in the French courts and worrying a state that lays store on melding a single national culture.

In a sign of a new assertiveness, children with families from Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco are reversing the old custom in which immigrants from the old colonies gave French names to their children.

Driven by a feeling that they do not belong to their Gallic Christian names, the applicants are meeting resistance from judges who are reluctant to endorse what they see as a rejection of France.

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Swiss swimming laws “violate the principles of freedom” and “transgress on the rights of their minorities”

More on this story. “Mixed Swimming Worries Swiss Muslims,” by Hadi Yahmid for Islam Online, October 26:

BERN — A Swiss court ruling against exempting Muslim students from compulsory, mixed swimming classes has sparked a hot debate over respecting the religious beliefs of minorities. 

“Muslim students in Europe should be granted the right to take swimming lessons that fit their religious beliefs,” Chakib Benmakhlouf, head of the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe (FIOE), told IslamOnline.net. (Chakib should be told to go and get stuffed/ed)

“Some Western countries violate the principles of freedom by laws and court rulings that transgress on the rights of their minorities.”

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* 23 % of one billion, that means 230 million.

* Now sit back and watch the hysterical taqiyya propaganda kick in: every Muzz between Baghdad and Timbuktu will come out and tell us we got it all wrong, its only “a tiny minority of extremists” and Islam is a “Religion of Peace”…

Shem’s Cartoons

* click on image to enlarge

After all, 23% of the world’s Muslims believe 9/11 was legitimate, from an Islamic point of view.

“Young Midland Muslims support suicide bombings new poll reveals,” from the Sunday Mercury,

ALMOST a quarter of young Muslims support suicide bombings, according to a shock new poll on an internet website. 

Apparently a reference to “moderate” Muslims – that is, those Muslims playing the waiting game.

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*  Same old song and dance: Once Islam is established, there’s no more room for filthy kuffars. These Muslim protests are going on for quite a while now at RMIT. We have been reporting this as far back as 25th of May this year.  Why not tell these 1000 Islamic troublemakers that Australia is not an Islamic country, cancel their visas  and  encourage them to leave?

               

Muslim students protest about prayer room at RMIT

By Mark Dunn/Herald Sun

* The excellent Australian Islamist Monitor has more

* Latest News: Will RMIT Cave In?

UP TO 1000 Muslim students at RMIT are protesting against sharing a multi-faith prayer room with Christians, Jews and worshippers of other faiths.

RMIT Islamic Society vice-president Mohamed Elrafihi said the university had promised Muslim students their own prayer room at the Swanston St campus.

Five refurbished multi-faith prayer rooms — including a foot-wash room for Muslims and a prayer room with Arabic signs and oriented towards Mecca — were opened to students earlier this year.

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Alaska’s Muslims concerned that Palin “has never taken the initiative”

To meet with Alaska’s 2,000-3,000 Muslim community (out of a population of nearly 700,000)– or even send “letters commemorating the observance of Islamic holy days,” as the Presidentdoes.

“Palin and Alaska’s Muslim Population,” by Michael Isikoff for Newsweek, September 11, thanks to DW

Most Alaskans may seem excited about Gov. Sarah Palin’s selection as John McCain’s running mate. But there’s at least one group of her constituents that has had a more subdued reaction: the state’s Muslims. There are only about 2,000 to 3,000 Muslims in Alaska, and, while there are no mosques, Anchorage (which is home to most of the state’s Muslims) does have an Islamic Community Center, located in a rented office in a strip mall, where members pray on Fridays. But Osama Obeida, the center’s vice president, said his group has never had any contacts at all with Alaska’s governor. No meetings, no invitations to state ceremonies, no pro forma letters commemorating the observance of Islamic holy days. “She has never taken the initiative,” Obeidi told Newsweek…

The “politics of protest and demand” is how one Maulana Wahiduddin describes it….

“Protest and Demand” has been fine-tuned in various parts across the globe: France, Britain, India, Sri Lanka, Netherlands, et al. Hello and welcome to the real world, Alaska.

Chase these scum into the Bering Strait before it’s too late.

Fitzgerald: Muslims and America

“We have a message: Muslim Americans are as American as apple pie” – from this article in The Guardian about Muslims at the Democratic National Convention in Denver

*  Musulmaniacs discovered America long before Columbus? NOT!

If Muslims are “as American as apple pie,” are they as American as pumpkin pie, the pumpkin pie traditionally served at Thanksgiving, which like Independence Day, Memorial Day, and other national holidays, are not to be observed by observant Muslims, for only Muslim holidays, Muslim history, Muslim everything, counts?

And one more question. If Muslims have no trouble at all being “as American as apple pie” then surely they have no trouble viewing the defining document of the American polity, the Constitution of the United States, as worthy of their complete loyalty. And that includes, of course, the guarantees of individual rights in the Bill of Rights. And since the Bill of Rights is so very close, in so many of its key provisions — freedom of speech, freedom of conscience (which naturally includes the right to apostatize) — to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, can we conclude that American-as-apple-pie American Muslims find it puzzling that all of the Muslim countries (save for the Shah’s Iran, and most temporarily and temporizingly) have failed to subscribe to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and instead have concocted a Muslim version, the so-called Cairo Declaration, which in every essential respect, involving individual rights, fatally vitiates the original, Universal Declaration?

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* Chinese Islamists threaten Olympics: US group

* Terror gang hacked at police with swords

Update on the Olympic threat. Counter-terrorism expert Walid Phares examines the so-called “ethnic” conflict between the Uighurs and Chinese, concluding that it’s simply good ol’ jihad fi sabil Allah. “China discovers al Qaeda in its backyard,” by Walid Phares for Counter Terrorism Blog, August 7:

Interestingly the Associated Press runs to frame the Terrorists to a local ethnic conflict in one of China’s Western provinces. AP wrote: “Chinese forces have for years been battling a low-intensity separatist movement among Xinjiang’s Uighurs, a Turkic Muslim people who are culturally and ethnically distinct from China’s Han majority.” The news agency has tried to set the agenda of the debate by scoring three points for the “radicals.” They are separatists, they are representative of a local ethnicity and they are Muslim. In addition the description of the struggle is informative: Chinese forces versus a Uighur movement. In a way a parallel to Kosovo, Chechnya and Kashmir with two projected effects. As framed by AP, the struggle of these “Terrorists” is indeed legitimate even though the means are violent. But is it the case?

“Chinese Islamic Group Threatens Attack at Beijing Olympics,” from Associated Press, August 7.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sufKQ_t5NfA

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