Month: January 2009

The London School of Economics Appeasement. The Banning of Douglas Murray

* The result or the utter failure of Fabianism?

From the Chesler Cronicles

Acceptable

The London School of Economics has just banned the young and distinguished Douglas Murray, the author and Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion, from their campus. Murray was to have chaired a debate about Islam titled “Islam or Liberalism. Which is the Way Forward?” The reason given was “security concerns.”

Not acceptable

* The London Evening Standard promptly smears Murray with the “Right Wing” label

According to Damian Thompson, of the London Telegraph, the School had no such fears when known “members of Al-Mujaharoun, a pro-terror Islamist organisation,” spoke there. Thompson was in attendance. “The presence of the group was announced in advance, but that was OK with the School. Presumably that was because it was also OK with the Islamic campus ideologues in front of whom it cowers.’ ”

Continue reading Hey, what happened to my old school?

* Usually, when wakademic ‘experts’ are trying to beautify Islam, it is simply a matter of following the money:  all too often one finds invitations to Islamic countries, prizes for this and that,  for being ‘a friend of such and such organization’,  we find earlier, colorful reports on how wonderful, how hospitable and how progressive this or that Moslem country is, and always, invariably, the “Islam cannot be blamed for terrorism”  apologies that stick to these wakademics like the odious ‘right wing’ label the media attaches to anyone who opposes the Islamic scourge.

Here we have a professor Philip Jenkins who shamelessly  puts lipstick on Sufism, something he obviously knows very little about. Instead of “speaking the language of peace, hope, and reconciliation and condemning terrorism”, there is nothing in Sufism that makes it different from mainstream Islam. The Sufi Koran is not peaceful and neither is their history. The Sufi’s support the jihad the same way the Sunni’s or the Shiites support the jihad, because that is the first and foremost obligation of the believers, as we can see here: Iraqi Sufis donate to Hamas, boast of jihad activity in Iraq

Sufi rising

For years, the Islamic revival has seemed to be a story of ever-growing fundamentalism and political extremism, but around the world, Sufi orders are rapidly gaining strength — in Turkey and Syria, Uzbekistan and Indonesia. Sufism is also growing quickly in Iran, as younger Muslims seek a liberal and liberating kind of spirituality utterly different from anything the ayatollahs can provide. In 1979, Iran had 100,000 Sufis; today, there may be 5 million.

Continue reading Wakademic Fantasy Productions: "Sufi movements speak the language of peace, hope, and reconciliation, and condemn extremism"

(Private Greg Sher, deployed to Afghanistan with 1st Commando Regiment, served with the Special Operations Task Group. He was killed in a Taliban rocket attack on 4th January, 2009. Greg’s brother Steven wrote this piece.)

AUSTRALIA Day, and its annual attempts to define what it means to be Australian, formerly saw us subject to clichés about barbecues, beer, beaches and bronzed bodies.

We now live in a different time.

For the family and friends of all eight Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan, perpetually linked by tragic loss and unlimited pride, Australia Day is an opportunity to consider anew who we are, and why we embark on what we do.

Thanks Tim Blair for remembering our heroes. Here’s more

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* Australia Day Links

the adolescent progressives from the AGE complain “That a monarch still rules us is embarrassing for a modern nation”

* Dodson heaves a steaming pile on those who gave him everything

*  Three of the eight finalists for Australian of the Year were Aborigines. It strikes me that an agenda is being pushed, and that less important than the winner’s achievements was his race.

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Just in thanks to Darrin:

And while we remember our heroes, our enemies are celebrating the spread of Islam in Australia:

That’s right folks, on this day, the celebration of our great and glorious nation, the Muslims of Kingsgrove’s unwanted mosque are not flying the Australia flag, they are flying the Jihad flag.

 

This particular flag is known as the ‘Caliphate flag’.  The Arabic on the flag is known as the Shahada(confession of faith), being the first of (five) pillars of Islam La ilaha illa Allah wa-Muhammad rasul Allah. (There is no god but God and Muhammad is the prophet of God). This is the battle standard of the Islamic armies, the flag of Jihad.

The flag and its mosque have been built in an industrial estate in the Sydney suburb of Kingsgrove, the flag is raised as a symbol of Islamic supremacy and to intimidate those who would protest.  According to people who work in the estate, the construction was completed during the Christmas break, so when people returned to work they discovered to their dismay that a mosque had been built in the midst.

Now with the thousands Muslims descending on the site, business has become all but impossible, with vehicles being parked in loading zones, non-parking zones, nature strips and in front of driveways, intimidation of female workers and harassment of business owners, neither the council, state and federal MPs nor the Police have the slightest inclination of doing anything about it.  Here is a statement from a distressed business owner in the estate:

* More from The Kaliphate Komes to Kingsgrove

*  You might just shoot yourself in the foot: