“In rebuttal: Squashing debate like mosquitoes,”

Calgary Herald

They and their friends at the Canadian Islamic Congress are seemingly not interested in stimulating debate, but only in shutting it down, by making it more trouble than it’s worth for editors to run articles on one of the central questions of the age: Islam’s relationship with a dying West. In using quasi-judicial coercion to squash debate, they make one of the central points of my argument — that a proportion of Islam is inimical to western traditions of freedom — more eloquently than I ever could.

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The basis for the Muslim lawsuit against Steyn;

“The number of Muslims is expanding like mosquitoes.”

That line certainly appears in my text, but they’re not my words. Rather, they were said by a prominent Scandinavian Muslim, Mullah Krekar, to a respectable Norwegian newspaper.

The imam was boasting at how Islam would outbreed Europe:

“We’re the ones who will change you . . . Just look at the development within Europe, where the number of Muslims is expanding like mosquitoes. Every western woman in the EU is producing an average of 1.4 children. Every Muslim woman in the same countries is producing 3.5 children.”

This is the nub of Messrs Mithoowani, Awan, Sheikh and Simard’s complaints against Maclean’s: They’re objecting to a Canadian magazine quoting accurately the statements of leading Muslims. And at least two of Canada’s “human rights” commissions, to their shame, have accepted their absurd proposition that accurately quoting leading Muslims is somehow “Islamophobic.”

Hey, don’t believe your lying eyes, believe their Muslim lies

Robert Spencer comments:

Ain’t it the truth. Again and again and again and again I have seen jihadists and their allies charge me with all variety of evil thing, in order to compel people of good will to turn away from what I am saying. But never do they deign actually to refute what I am saying. They can’t do that, in fact, so they try to shut me down instead, or claim that what I have written is “total BS,” but refuse to explain how or why — because we are all such evil folks we won’t listen anyway.

Westerners who understand the need for and value of free speech need to stand up for and with Steyn and Savage and all the rest — before it’s too late, and we can’t stand up for them, because we will be imprisoned or worse for doing so.

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Andrew Bolt on his heavily censored blog recently booted a poster off because he quoted verses from one of Islam’s foremost writers:

Sayyid Abul a’la MAUDUDI

* Sample:

* “islam is a revolutionary faith that comes to destroy any government made by man. islam doesn’t look for a nation to be in a better condition than another nation. islam doesn’t care about the land or who owns the land. The goal of islam is to rule the entire world and submit all of mankind to the faith of islam. Any nation or power that gets in the way of that goal, islam will fight and destroy. In order to fulfill that goal, islam can use every power available every way it can be used to bring worldwide revolution. This is Jihad.”

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Sayyid Abul a’la MAUDUDI

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Non-Muslims have, “absolutely no right to seize the reins of power in any part of God’s [that’s Allah’s] earth nor to direct the collective affairs of human beings according to their own misconceived doctrines.” If they do, “the believers [Muslims] would be under an obligation to do their utmost to dislodge them from political power and to make them live in subservience to the Islamic way of life.”

* Warning: If you quote verses like these, or if you quote Muslim clerics or scriptures correctly, the adherents of the RoP and those who belong to the new age cult of politically correct befuddlement will scream in horror and call you a bigot, racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic, a hater, or, as in this case, you get booted off a blog that has a reputation for being ‘right wing’.

Spit!

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Defeating Jihad With Public Ridicule

Written by Ali Sina

Muslims committed the huge blunder of revealing their vulnerability [all the rioting over a cartoon]. Now the world knows what hurts them. When you find your opponent’s weak spot, it is exactly where you want to hit him. If Islam is ridiculed publicly and systematically, it will be defeated.

Muslim psychology is all pomposity and bravado. I give you my word that if Islam is ridiculed publicly and systematically, it will be defeated. Shame is a great motivator as well as deterrent. Do not underestimate the power of ridicule. This is serious stuff not a laughing matter.

How much ridicule is enough? Until it hurts. The pain of shame must become bigger than the comfort of clinging to this false fetish. When you see their eyes are popping out of their eyeballs, their veins bulging in their necks, foam forming at their mouths, and they are ready to explode, you know that the remedy is working. Give them more. They will either die of heart attacks or they will come to their senses and recover from this insanity.

Every one of us must become a cyberwarrior and mock Muhammad, Islam and the Muslims. Use your talent. Draw cartoons based on the hadith and the Quran. You can find tons of ridiculous stuff in these books to lampoon. Write articles, lyrics, jokes, plays, do whatever you can to ridicule Muhammad the prophet pretender and Muslims. Don’t heed to their howls and cries.

* No other group causes problems like they do. Looks like -some- Germans are not ready to prostrate themselves before their Muhammedan masters, at least not yet, which sends the RoP-members over the moon…

German Muslims angry at “anti-foreigner” campaign

By Madeline Chambers

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Muslim groups on Wednesday accused a senior politician in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party of stirring up hostility against foreigners in a bid to win a regional election.

Roland Koch of the Christian Democrats (CDU) has focused his campaign for re-election as premier of the prosperous western state of Hesse on crime, in particular offences by foreigners.

He reacted to an assault on a German pensioner by two youths — one Greek, one Turkish — in a Munich railway station by saying Germany had too many young foreign criminals and urging an end to “multicultural” coddling of immigrants.

The assailants shouted “Shit German” at the man before kicking him in the head. The brutal attack, caught on a surveillance camera and played repeatedly on German television in recent days, prompted calls for tougher sentencing, boot camps and even the deportation of criminals of foreign origins.

“The debate is shameful and scandalous,” head of the TGD Turkish Communities in Germany Kenan Kolat told Reuters on Wednesday, saying the deportation issue was “political arson”.

“This is pure populism,” he said, urging Merkel to speak out against it.

Germany is home to about 15 million people with an immigrant background — about 18 percent of the population — and Merkel has talked often about the need to integrate the country’s 3.2 million Muslims, most of whom are of Turkish origin.

But she says immigrants must accept German culture and won rapturous applause at a conference of her mostly Roman Catholic party last month for saying mosques should not dwarf churches.

Continued…

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Meanwhile, Christians in Turkey are doing it tough:

A surprisingly good report on the quiet persecution of Christians in Turkey, from the usually reliably dhimmi Economist. “Turkey and its Christians: The cross and the crescent,” from The Economist (thanks to JW):

THIS has been a bad year for Orhan Ant. As a Protestant missionary in Samsun, on the Black Sea, he has had death threats and his church has been repeatedly stoned. Local newspapers called him a foreign agent. A group of youths tried to kidnap him as he was driving home. His pleas for police protection have gone unheeded.

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Mr Ant is not alone. All over Turkey, Christians are under attack. In January Hrant Dink, an ethnic Armenian newspaper editor, was shot dead in Istanbul by a teenager who said he had “insulted Turkishness”. In April two Turks and a German, all evangelists, were murdered in Malatya. Their killers bound and tortured them before slitting their throats. In December an Italian Catholic priest was knifed by a teenager in Izmir. Another Italian priest was shot dead in Trabzon in 2006.

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The prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, resists calls to reopen the Greek Orthodox Halki seminary on Heybeli island off Istanbul, shut down in 1971. Turkey refuses to recognise the ecumenical title of the Greek Orthodox patriarch, Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of over 200m Orthodox Christians. The patriarch, a loyal Turkish citizen, has lobbied hard for Turkey’s EU membership. But this has only reinforced suspicions among ultra-nationalist detractors, who accuse him of trying to “Christianise” Turkey and wanting a Vatican-style state in the heart of Istanbul.

Never mind that the Greek Orthodox church in Istanbul has dwindled to 4,000 souls, many of them too old to follow their children abroad. Nor that the patriarch must under Turkish law be a Turkish citizen, a rule which is making it difficult to find a successor to Bartholomew I. “They [ie, the Turks] apparently won’t regard the conquest of Constantinople as complete until the patriarchate ceases to exist and all Christians have been frightened away,” suggests one restorer of icons in Istanbul.

* Yep, that’s the way.

* “Wipe the infidels out to the last” – the jihad continues…

The government has yet to approve a draft bill to help non-Muslims recover thousands of properties that have been confiscated by the state and either sold or left to decay. The Aya Yorgi church in Istanbul’s Edirnekapi district, which was badly damaged in an earthquake, is one sad example. Its walls are cracked, its roof is leaking; a marble angel lies in pieces on the floor. “All we ask is to be permitted to rescue our church, but we cannot hammer a single nail,” complains Bishop Dionysios, a Greek Orthodox prelate who still conducts services there.

* Check the Koran and the hadith, dhimmi!

* How to pay the Jiziyah: 

*…the dhimmi is obliged not to mention Allah or His Apostle…Jews, Christians, and Majians must pay the jizya [poll tax on non-Muslims]…on offering up the jizya, the dhimmi must hang his head while the official takes hold of his beard and hits [the dhimmi] on the protruberant bone beneath his ear [i.e., the mandible]… They are not permitted to ostentatiously display their wine or church bells…their houses may not be higher than the Muslim’s, no matter how low that is. The dhimmi may not ride an elegant horse or mule; he may ride a donkey only if the saddle[-work] is of wood. He may not walk on the good part of the road. They [the dhimmis] have to wear [an identifying] patch [on their clothing], even women, and even in the [public] baths…[dhimmis] must hold their tongue…

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Many Christians concede that AK has treated them better than its secular predecessors did. They blame the deep state for their recent troubles. But the excuse of the deep state’s power is wearing thin after AK’s big victory in July’s general election. “With such a strong mandate, the government’s failure to meet our demands can only mean one thing, that the deep state is still in charge,” says a Christian priest. Or perhaps that AK believes in religious freedom for Muslims, but not Christians.

* Mind you: none of it has “anything to do with Islam”.

Eurabia Alert. “The unspeakable practice of female circumcision that’s destroying young women’s lives in Britain,” by Jo-Ann Goodwin and David Jones in the Daily Mail  via DW

…During a highly disturbing, four-month investigation, however, we uncovered evidence that thousands of British-African girls, in towns and cities throughout the country, have been forcibly “cut”.
By conservative estimates, 66,000 women and girls living in Britain have been mutilated. This figure, accepted by the Metropolitan Police, came in a report by a volunteer organisation funded by the Department of Health and carried out with academics from the London School of Tropical Hygiene and the City University.

And thousands more girls are at imminent risk as families club together to fly professional “cutters” from Africa to Britain.

These women “elders” perform the crude operation for up to £40 a time, often on kitchen tables or floors, without anaesthetic, using filthy, blunt knives, razor blades or scalpels.[…]

* But of course, the increasingly dhimmi Daily Mail hastens to assure us, it has nothing to do with Islam:

Attempts are also made to justify this iniquitous practice on religious grounds. Some hard-line Muslims insist that women must undergo genital cutting to remain faithful to the purest teachings of Islam – although, in truth, it is not even mentioned in the Koran, and only ambiguously in the Hadith (a collection of oral traditions about the life of the prophet Mohammed).[…]

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In reality, while many say that there is nothing in Islam which requires female circumcision, one of Sunni Islam’s “Four Great Imams,” Ahmad ibn Hanbal (from whom the Hanbali school of Islamic jurisprudence takes its name) quotes Muhammed as saying: “Circumcision is a law for men and a preservation of honour for women.”

Sheikh Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi of Egypt’s Al-Azhar University has called circumcision “a laudable practice that did honor to women.”

But the Daily Mail either doesn’t know or doesn’t care to know about such Islamic justifications for this practice. Yet as long as they remain unconfronted, this barbarity will continue.

by Dr Emanual Tanay

By e-mail from a reader. Please pass it on!

A man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War ll owned a number of
large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis,
the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism.‘Very few people were true
Nazis ‘he said,’ but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too
busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So,
the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us,
and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I
ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.
‘We are told again and again by ‘experts’ and ‘talking heads’ that Islam is the religion of
peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this
unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant
to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectra of fanatics
rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam
at this moment in history.It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any
one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter
Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire
continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor kill.
It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously
spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. The hard
quantifiable fact is that the ‘peaceful majority’, the ‘silent majority’, is cowed and
extraneous.

Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the
Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The
peaceful majority were irrelevant. China’s huge population was peaceful as well, but
Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.The average
Japanese individual prior to World War ll was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan
murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that
included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilian s; most killed by sword,
shovel, and bayonet. And, who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery.
Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were ‘peace loving’?

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason we
often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points: Peace-loving Muslims have
been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if
they don’t speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day
and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have
begun.Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs,
Afghan is, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have
died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.

As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts: the
fanatics who threaten our way of life. Lastly, at the risk of offending, anyone who doubts
that the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on, is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems of expand. So, extend yourself a bit and
send this on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands, world wide, read this – think
about it – and send it on.

Emanuel Tanay,
M.D.Ann Arbor, MI

Tell us what you think!

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Another delusional, self-hating Jew digs up a bit of manufactured history:

The new Muslim anti-Semitism

By MARK R. COHEN

There is a new Jewish “counter-myth” that claims that Islam has persecuted Jews from its origins and that anti-Semitism is endemic in the religion. This counter-myth has been propagated by Jewish writers in the Diaspora especially since the 1970s. It parallels a similar conviction among some Oriental Jews in Israel. Seeking to find their place in a predominantly European Jewish world scarred by centuries of Christian persecutions culminating in the Holocaust, they claim that Islam has persecuted Jews from its origins. By implication, they have a past of suffering like the Ashkenazim, including dislocation from their ancient homelands, and are thus eligible for a larger piece of the Zionist pie than the mostly Ashkenazic founding fathers of Israel have granted them.

If bullshit had wings…

* The Bandar Beacon facing up to reality? You’d have have never thought we’d see the day:

‘Sudden jihad syndrome’ poses domestic risk

By Sara A. Carter

Sympathy for al Qaeda has produced “sudden jihad syndrome” in domestic terror cells unaffiliated with foreign terrorists and people seeking to carry out attacks in the U.S., a law-enforcement intelligence analysis says.

The Dec. 6 report by the Texas Public Safety Department’s Bureau of Information Analysis warns officials not to dismiss individual or homegrown terror cells as “wannabes,” saying they pose a credible threat to homeland security.

“Oftentimes, these attackers are dismissed as suffering from mental health issues, but their own words and writings reveal an affiliation with Islamic supremacy or an affinity for Islamic extremism,” said the report, which was distributed to federal, state and local law enforcement in Texas. “As a result, law enforcement should not be too quick to judge their attacks as having no nexus to terrorism.”

It said they might act with the intention of eventually joining al Qaeda or the jihad movement overseas.

The report, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times, cited al Qaeda theorist Abu Mu’ab al Suri’s book “Call to Global Islamic Resistance,” in which Mu’ab al Suri noted that the future of al Qaeda terrorist fighters will depend on individual and small-group terrorists.

The intelligence analysis says homegrown groups are not purely “domestic,” as their ideology is similar if not exactly like those of international terrorist groups, and cited examples such as the “Lackawanna Six.” The six Yemeni-Americans who traveled to Afghan-istan before the September 11 terrorist attacks and attended the al Farooq terrorist training camp pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges.

It also cited the “Liberty City Seven” terrorist cell of Miami that planned to use explosives to bring down the Sears Tower in Chicago and then blow up the FBI field office in Miami. The group members were all U.S. citizens who adopted a global jihadist strategy.

The report includes several examples of people with “sudden jihad syndromes,” such as Ali R. Warrayat, a Palestinian-Jordanian Muslim who drove his car into an Arizona Home Depot with the purpose of destroying the store and those inside it. The suspect said he would wear a Palestine flag but later decided to place the flag and a copy of the Koran inside his trunk.

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*Michelle Malkin has historical data on some of the SJS afflicted Muhammedans

* Update: Was the NIU Shooter a Muslim with Sudden Jihad Syndrome?

It’s been a little over a week since Steve Kazmierczak stepped onto the stage in Cole Hall at Northern Illinois University and killed five before committing suicide. Debbie Schlussel suggests that he may have have been a muslim committing SJS or Sudden Jihad Syndrome. I think I concur with her.

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Steven Kazmierczak: Liked HAMAS, Spoke Arabic, Says Extremist Muslim Friend; Was He a Muslim Convert? 

 Are Muslim students in America turning self-hating young Americans into Killer Zombies?

Debbie Schlussel asks the question, and rightly so… 

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* Yusuf: what say you now?

Supporters of slain Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto hold candles in Lahore January 1, 2008. Pakistan plans to postpone next week’s election after Bhutto’s killing sparked turmoil in the nuclear-armed …

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Ms. Bhutto had not yet received a proper burial before the attacks on her character started appearing. The vice-president of the Canadian Arab Federation circulated an article lambasting Ms. Bhutto, mocking her as stooge of the West. It did not end at that level. Haroon Siddiqui of the Toronto Star dedicated an entire column to attacking Ms. Bhutto’s legacy and labelling her as corrupt and, God forbid the thought, pro-West. As if her being pro-Western was somehow anti-Canadian.

If attempts by Islamic writers to disparage Benazir Bhutto were distasteful, the conspicuous silence of Canada’s Islamic organizations was equally disturbing. Seventy-two hours after the news of her assassination, neither the Canadian Islamic Congress nor its cousin CAIR-Can had uttered a word on the subject. Not even the “This-has-nothing-to-do-with-Islam” mantra to which we have become so accustomed. Were they looking for clues from Arab capitals or Iran? There, too, was an eerie silence. Men in turbans who rule Saudi Arabia and Iran seemed to be relieved that a jihadi terrorist had stopped a woman from becoming a leader of Muslim nation. Phew! We asked a number of our Arab friends to explain the wall of silence that has greeted Benazir’s murder in the Arab world. Most admired her and were themselves perplexed at the silence, but one woman writing from the Arab world said:

“You have to understand the state of the Arab world at the moment. Extremism and ‘Political Islamism’ is spreading among the masses like fire among wood. Bhutto’s position against the extremists was always clear, and this [is] reflected in the Arab world now, as most approved of her death and considered it a religious obligation to rid her from the Islamic world.”

He talked in convoluted language expressing “condolences to families of beloved brothers and sisters who died in the incident.” When asked by a Toronto Star reporter why he had deliberately avoided mentioning Ms. Bhutto’s name, the imam snapped back: “Why? This is not a political arena. This is about religion. That’s politics.” How convenient.

At other mosques, the story was the same. Not a word about Benazir Bhutto. Reporters at one mosque seemed bewildered and asked why her name was not being mentioned. What no one was willing to tell them is that perhaps the imams consider the words “Benazir Bhutto” unclean and unIslamic. After all, she had vowed to take on the Islamic extremists and hence she was an adversary; the mere mention of her name may pollute the sanctity of the mosque.

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Canada: Steyn and the ‘We will out-breed you with the bellies of our women” jihad

* Kuffar: if you repeat what we Muslims say everyday we will sue you for Islamophobia…!

* Sheik yer’mami reported on the demographic jihad here…

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ORONTO — A Muslim group is suing Canada’s leading national newsweekly for the right of rebuttal because it published excerpts warning of high Muslim birthrates in the book “America Alone,” by syndicated columnist Mark Steyn.

The Canadian Islamic Congress filed complaints last month against Maclean’s magazine with Canada’s national human rights commission and provincial rights commissions in Ontario and British Columbia, charging that Mr. Steyn’s writings promote hatred and contempt against Canada’s estimated 750,000 Muslims.

The commission in British Columbia accepted the case and has scheduled a hearing for early June.

Mr. Steyn, whose syndicated columns appear in The Washington Times, writes that rising birthrates in Muslim countries and the declining number of babies in Christian and Westernized countries represent a long-term security threat.

Mr. Steyn, in the excerpts used by Maclean’s, compared Muslims to Indians in the Old West infiltrating “the white cities” and suggested many Muslims are “hot for jihad” and favor a “bloody” war against the West.

The U.S. magazine Human Events published its own account of the Maclean’s article, highlighting this passage:

“There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe — without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.”

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*   ‘Sheep Violation’- a new crime that enrages Muslims

TWO British oil workers have been sacked after simulating sex with sheep due to be slaughtered for a Muslim festival.

The animals were being killed for 30 foreign workers to celebrate Eid Al Adhha in the Algerian oil town Hassi Messaoud.

The men, who have not been named, were reported by stunned restaurant workers and guards — then sacked by their employer, US industrial giant Schlumberger.

They were accused of “sheep violation”.

A spokesman for the company — which provides services to oil firms — said: “The individuals have been dismissed because their behaviour was totally unacceptable.”

* Why? To whom?  For adherents of the Muhammedan faith sheep rooting is not only acceptable, but there are ‘how to’ instructions:

From Khomeini’s book, “Tahrirolvasyleh”:

 A man can have sex with animals such as sheeps, cows, camels and so on. However, he should kill the animal after he has his orgasm. He should not sell the meat to the people in his own village; however, selling the meat to the next door village should be fine.”

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Meanwhile a police spokesman warned that local Muslims saw the sacrificing of sheep at Eid as “some- thing very sacred”.

* Sure. like beheading infidels for the sake of Allah.

One ex-pat living in Algeria told The Sun: “If you relate this to teacher Gillian Gibbons they can thank their lucky stars.

“All she did was name a teddy bear Mohammed.”

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And the killer is this:  Do you know who the men are? Call The Sun on 0207 782 4104

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A group of Moroccans smashed up police cars and attacked a police station in Amsterdam. The youth caused a great deal of damage, but were not apprehended.

A group of several dozen youth attacked the police station in Slotervaart at the turn of the year. They smashed up three police cars, including one surveillance car and two civilian cars. Windows in the station were smashed as well.

The riot police was called in, but was not put into action. For the time being, the police has not apprehended anybody.

In October, Moroccan Bilal B (22) was shot dead by a police agent in the same police department after he attacked her and a colleague with a knife. For several weeks later there were riots in the neighborhood and various card set afire.

Source: Telegraaf (Dutch) via Islam in Europe

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Not to worry: mayor Cohen sez ‘more social workers can fix it’:

Amsterdam mayor says youth problem remains

(police station attacked, no arrests)

Radio Netherlands ^ | January 02 2008
by knighthawk

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Amsterdam (2 January) – Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen says the authorities have failed in their dealings with problematic youths; so far there has been no decrease in violence. The mayor says co-ordination between the various social services leaves much to be desired.

Many low-income families have too many, for-the-most-part ineffective, social workers. Mr Cohen also pointed to the gap between the poorer neighbourhoods on the periphery of Amsterdam and the upscale canal zone in the centre.

* Yes: more social workers will fix the jihad. Who made this guy the mayor?

* Update from Klein Vezet:

* Unfortunately, some of these ‘faith schools’ are not up to scratch and damage social cohesion and widen existing divisions. Trouble is, there is actually no problem with ‘faith schools’ like Anglican, Catholic, Jewish or whatever, the problem, -you guessed it-, is with the adherents of the Muhammedan faith. But in politically correct Britain we must not discriminate, right?
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“Unless there are crucial changes in the way many faith schools run we fear divisions in society will be exacerbated. In our increasingly multi-faith and secular society it is hard to see why our taxes should be used to fund schools which discriminate against the majority of children and potential staff because they are not of the same faith.

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MPs to voice concerns over faith schools

Anthea Lipsett and agencies

EducationGuardian.co.uk

MPs will next week raise serious concerns about the government’s faith schools programme.
The Commons children, schools and families select committee will grill the schools secretary, Ed Balls, at a meeting on January 9 about the government’s plans to allow local authorities to open as many faith schools as they want.

Members are concerned the plans will damage social cohesion and widen existing divisions.

The committee’s chairman, Barry Sheerman, said: “Faith schools are an important area of concern. This is something the government should look at in a focused way, rather than drifting into the proliferation of faith education.

“I am getting reports from people in local government who find it difficult to know what is going on in some faith schools – particularly Muslim schools.”

He said there was concern in local government about its ability to find out how well an important part of community was being served by its education provision.

“Will we find out that young people in certain kinds of faith school, and particularly young women, are not getting the provision or education that they deserve?”

* Indeed, that might be the result of your findings. But then what? What to do, what to do????

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Excellent article from the Illustrated PIG: 

THE THREAT

The Threat of Lawful Islamism

Islamists ultimately seek hegemonic control via a worldwide caliphate that applies the Islamic law in full. Afghanistan under the Taliban offers one model of what they would establish globally.

Terrorism is one method to advance these projects but it is not the only one. Indeed, the activities of nonviolent Islamists arguably will prove a more effective tactic in the long term. For while the public intuitively understands the threat of terrorism and is mobilized by it, and while states have well-developed institutions (law enforcement, intelligence agencies, the military, the justice system) to protect and fight against it, the activities of nonviolent extremists are not alarming and institutions do not exist to deal with this problem. And how can terrorists impose their will on whole societies?

* Read it all… 

The Progress of Lawful Islamism

* From the ‘limp dicks don’t make it’ department

Dutch opinion leaders published a page-size advertisment in the daily Trouw on Wednesday calling for tolerance and a softer tone in the debate about migration and Islam. In their statement, the 717 signatories, including prominent politicians, artists, authors, relgious leaders and academics, called on the Dutch to “break the downward cycle of intolerance and indifference” in the Netherlands.

Dhimmi Terpstra:

Terpstra has called on people to fight the anti-immigration sentiments promoted by Geert Wilders’ PVV party which he says are ‘polarising society.’

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The statement was initiated by Christian Democrat Doekle Terpstra, who called upon Dutch society to counter the “wilderization,” a sarcastic reference to Dutch liberal-right politician Geert Wilders, one of the Netherlands’ most outspoken Islam critics. Responding to the publication in Trouw, Geert Wilders called the signatories “silly and naive fools.”

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Wilders comes out guns blazing: “Islam does not deserve respect”

* Not that any of the far left swine from the MSM bothers to mention that the brave Wilders has been under ’round the clock protection for years now because of the Muhammedan assassins who want him dead:

The Hague (2 January) – The populist leader of the right-wing Freedom Party, Geert Wilders, has criticised an appeal for tolerance and respect by a number of prominent Dutch citizens in today’s Trouw newspaper as the work of “silly and naive fools”. He also referred to them as “dhimmis”, by which he means non-Muslims who act subserviently towards Muslims.

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*  “Dhimmitude is the status that Islamic law, the Sharia, mandates for non-Muslims, primarily Jews and Christians. Dhimmis, “protected people,” are free to practice their religion in a Sharia regime, but are made subject to a number of humiliating regulations designed to enforce the Qur’an’s command that they “feel themselves subdued” (Sura 9:29). This denial of equality of rights and dignity remains part of the Sharia, and, as such, is part of the law that global jihadists are laboring to impose everywhere, ultimately on the entire human race.

The dhimmi attitude of chastened subservience has entered into Western academic study of Islam, and from there into journalism, textbooks, and the popular discourse. One must not point out the depredations of jihad and dhimmitude; to do so would offend the multiculturalist ethos that prevails everywhere today”

Mr Wilders says that “Islam does not deserve respect, but must be fought as an intolerant and Fascist ideology”. The advertisement in today’s newspaper was meant to serve as a counterweight to the ideas of Mr Wilders.

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* Here’s the link to sheik yer’mami’s song ‘Tolerance’

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