Year: 2009

Tony BLiar, Statesman for Hire

The ‘statesman for hire’ earns a fortune as he flips roles between public official and private consultant

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  • Just what the EU needs: this unelected  airbag in a suit for president!

Jon Ungoed-Thomas/The Australian

TONY Blair has cashed in on his contacts from the Iraq war and his role as Middle East peace envoy for a private business venture expected to earn him more than pound stg. 5 million ($8.9m) a year.

The former British prime minister has sold his political and economic expertise to Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, via his fledgling private consultancy. He also represents the investment bank JPMorgan in the region.

Mr Blair has been working pro bono in the Middle East as a peace envoy while amassing a fortune from the US lecture circuit. By offering himself to the Arab states as a statesman for hire, he could double his annual earnings.

His consultancy, the London-based Tony Blair Associates, emulates the New York partnership Kissinger Associates, founded by Henry Kissinger, the former national security adviser to US president Richard Nixon.

A friend of Mr Blair said: “TBA has been set up to make money from foreign governments and major companies. There’s a focus on the Middle East, because that’s where the money is.”

Tony Blair ‘to be made EU president next month’

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Music is un-Islamic

Afghan musician hopes the Taliban will go away so he can play again

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The Taliban believe music is un-Islamic. Why? Hadith Qudsi 19:5: “The Prophet said that Allah commanded him to destroy all the musical instruments, idols, crosses and all the trappings of ignorance.”

The Hadith Qudsi, or holy Hadith, are those in which Muhammad transmits the words of Allah, although those words are not in the Qur’an.

Muhammad also said:

(1) “Allah Mighty and Majestic sent me as a guidance and mercy to believers and commanded me to do away with musical instruments, flutes, strings, crucifixes, and the affair of the pre-Islamic period of ignorance.”

(2) “On the Day of Resurrection, Allah will pour molten lead into the ears of whoever sits listening to a songstress.”

(3) “Song makes hypocrisy grow in the heart as water does herbage.”

(4) “This community will experience the swallowing up of some people by the earth, metamorphosis of some into animals, and being rained upon with stones.” Someone asked, “When will this be, O Messenger of Allah?” and he said, “When songstresses and musical instruments appear and wine is held to be lawful.”

(5) “There will be peoples of my Community who will hold fornication, silk, wine, and musical instruments to be lawful ….” – ‘Umdat al-Salik r40.0

“Let the music play: musician prays for Taliban demise,” by Lehaz Ali for AFP, October 23 (thanks to JW):

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Asshole of the month

Martin Scheinin, UN Special Rapporteur

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Interview with UN Special Rapporteur Martin Scheinin, here from 2007

There is no such thing as a global war against terror, and Al Qaeda is but a metaphor. Martin Scheinin is a Finnish Law professor and was recently appointed as UN Special Rapporteur. Here is his job description.

What bothers this Un Special Rapporteur is the holding of detainees at the US naval base in Guantanamo among other things. Read it here

And this is what keeps this Special Rapporteur busy:

In case you weren’t sure, human gender is “changeable over time and contexts,” sex slaves must not be “stigmatized” for their work, and it’s important to recognize the role of “transgender and intersex individuals as stakeholders” in counterterrorism policy.

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How the British Establishment and Al BeBeeCeera Failed to Demonize Nick Griffin & the BNP

Update:

Ever since Griffins BBC appearance the far left slime bombers go apeshit. Quite obviously, its them who fail in the marketplace of ideas. Its his critics who fail to debate.  Even more so, these smear merchants fail to see that vilifying Griffin and the BNP  is a discredit to themselves.

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Andrew Bolt:

It’s the Hanson phenomenon, only far more serious, and shows the danger of attempts to ban the BNP leader from speaking on the BBC:

One statistic above all stands out from the YouGov opinion poll commissioned by the Telegraph. And it’s not that 22 per cent of respondents would consider voting for the BNP, amazing though that is. It’s that a majority of voters, while they may despise the BNP, think it “has a point”:

More than half of those questioned said they agreed with the BNP, or thought that it “had a point” in wishing to “speak up for the interests of the indigenous, white British people … which successive governments have done far too little to protect.” This included 43 per cent who said that, while they shared some of its concerns, they had “no sympathy for the party itself”.

I have some sympathy with the “but would you give a platform to Adolf Hitler” argument. But the BNP politicians, although unpleasant, are not the Nazis, and if half the voters think that at least this one party raises an important issue, then banning it from debates can only entrench doubt in democracy, or at least cyncism towards the existing political and media establishment.

If the BNP are as dumb and wicked as claimed, then open debates will eventually destroy it. Using violence, abuse, censorship and even the law to instead bully it into silence will only make more people determined to defend it – if only to defend their own right to be heard. That was the lesson of Hansonism.

Here’s how BNP leader Nick Griffin actually went on the BBC: Video here

Matthew Engel complains that the gang-up was exactly not what was needed. I agree, especially given what these polls say. Argument, not abuse, is the most effective antidote. I’m with Rod Liddle: don’t panic or rage, just talk.

Sheik Yer’mami noticed that “Baroness Warsi” managed to slime Griffin with some imaginary Nazi associations. But truth was never part of the Mohammedan agenda… Traditionally, the Mohammedans sided with the Nazis then and glorify Hitler even now. Its a pity that Griffin himself took the bait of “racism” instead of attacking Mohammedanism as such.

US: Another Muslim "Outreach" Mob Teaches Hate

The Why Islam religious outreach program is not outreach based on any set of virtues. In truth, WI is nothing more than a vehicle to spread radical Islam, dubiously masquerading as a public service. It is part of a dangerous global movement that has zero respect for others who do not hold the same beliefs.

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By Joe Kaufman/Pajamas Media

Since its creation, Why Islam (WI), a Muslim proselytizing  project of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), has advocated a radical strain of Islam that stresses both hatred and violence. Today is no different. The group continues to verbally attack non-Muslims. And now the group is featuring a poll on its website asking if al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is innocent. The results of the poll are very disturbing.

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Obama offers millions in Muslim technology fund

Still wondering which side he’s on? Still not sure on whether he is a Muslim or not?

OBAMA TO STIMULATE THE JIHADIST ECONOMY/the last crusade

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Pamela nails it: The question isn’t whether Obama is a Muslim, the question is, what difference would it make if he was. What would he be doing differently if he were? The answer? Nothing. He would act exactly in this manner  and that’s what matters.

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AFP/WASHINGTON — The White House Friday highlighted a new multi-million-dollar technology fund for Muslim nations, following a pledge made by President Barack Obama in his landmark speech to the Islamic world.

The White House said the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) had issued a call for proposals for the fund, which will provide financing of between 25 and 150 million dollars for selected projects and funds.

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The Global Technology and Innovation Fund will “catalyze and facilitate private sector investments” throughout Asia, the Middle East and Africa, the White House said in a statement.

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Labour threw open Britain's borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer a "truly multicultural" country

Its official. The cat is out of the bag: Nullabor is trying to replace native Brits with a Mohammedan proletariat for more than a decade now:

Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser

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Thanks to Tim/   By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor/Telegraph UK

The huge increases in migrants over the last decade were partly due to a politically motivated attempt by ministers to radically change the country and “rub the Right’s nose in diversity”, according to Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett.

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He said Labour’s relaxation of controls was a deliberate plan to “open up the UK to mass migration” but that ministers were nervous and reluctant to discuss such a move publicly for fear it would alienate its “core working class vote”.

As a result, the public argument for immigration concentrated instead on the economic benefits and need for more migrants.

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Moe's Jihad News

Hysterical laugh of the day:

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Human Rights Watch called on Hamas to open an investigation into alleged war crimes.

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The organization sent a letter Tuesday to Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh calling on Hamas to launch a “credible investigation” into the alleged violations highlighted in the United Nations’ Goldstone report, according to reports.  More on Fresno: HRW, meet Ismail Haniyeh

Can you stop laughing? I can’t.

White House on Beirut Marine Barracks Bombing–Can’t Remember Who Murdered 241 Americans

Obama’s Muslim advisor Dalia Mogahed defends sharia (again)

Dalia Mogahed, one of two Muslim members of President Obama’s faith advisory council, has come under fire from conservatives for her early October appearance on a British television show connected with an extremist Muslim group. In a story headlined “Barack Obama adviser says Sharia Law is misunderstood,” the Daily Telegraph reported earlier this month that Mogahed told the show: “I think the reason so many women supportsharia is because they have a very different understanding of sharia than the common perception in Western media . . . . The majority of women around the world associate gender justice, or justice for women, with sharia compliance.”

Weasel:

AP Has a New Name for Blood-Thirsty Jihadists Who Are Killing US Soldiers…”Anti-American Militants”….

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RoP:

Congressmen call for official investigation of CAIR

CAIR seeks to impede terrorism-related law enforcement investigations and mislead the public about its stature. These disclosures, in the book Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America, prompted four House Republicans to ask Sergeant at Arms Wilson Livingood to investigate whether CAIR has successfully placed interns in offices tied to those committees.

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Why Muslims are not the new Jews

Easy parallels between today’s terrorists and yesterday’s immigrants distort history

By David Cesarani, the JC.com

Are Muslims — as is sometimes stated — the “new Jews”? In his hybrid documentary, The Enemy Within, broadcast last week on Channel 4, Joseph Bullman draws exact parallels between the historical experiences of the two communities. The comparison is superficially attractive and the JC’s own Jonathan Freedland was seduced by it in his column of September 18.

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MEMRI:

Vicious Babushka:

Who is Responsible for the Palestinian Refugees? Shocka: “The Independent” Admits the Truth!

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The programme’s narrator informs us that, in the 1890s, Britain was undergoing an influx of “foreign asylum seekers” including “anarchists — a group of fundamentalists being expelled from their own countries in Eastern Europe”. Bullman thus blurs the immigration of Russian Jews fleeing poverty and oppression in the Tsarist Empire with the movement of political émigrés to safe havens such as Victorian London. The confusion is deliberately increased by use of the word “fundamentalist”. Yet the Jewish immigrants were neither fundamentalist in a religious sense nor, for the most part, anarchistic.

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ABC News: Killing your daughter is a "conservative thing" to do…

From our Denial & Deception department:

Arizona: Muslim ran down daughter for being “too Westernized,” Islamic apologist hauls out usual denial and deception

Denial and deception instead of any honest effort to come to grips with the root causes of honor killing. “Arizona Police Hunt for Dad Accused of Running Over Daughter: Police Say Faleh Hassan Almaleki Believed His Daughter Was ‘Too Westernized,'” by Sarah Netter for ABC News, October 22 (thanks to Robert Spencer from JW):

Police in Arizona are hunting for an Iraqi-American father who they say ran over his daughter with his car to punish her for becoming “too Westernized” and rebuffing the conservative ways he valued.

Memo to ABC News: “conservatives” don’t generally run over their daughters with their cars for any reason at all.

And of course, the “Muslim community” fears, as always in such cases, that dreaded “backlash:”

Ibrahim Ramey said it’s expected that incidents such as these will cause some backlash against the Muslim community, especially among Americans who have become fearful of Islam in the years since the war on terror and conflicts in places like Somalia.

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