Backman, Crackman Apologies… (kind of)

Hat tip: Tim Blair

An apology  (well, sort of-) from Michael Backman  who is very sorry he got busted:

… denied he was anti-Semitic and said he believed Israel had the “absolute right to exist” …

In a letter to Jewish community leadership, Backman said he can now see “that some of the forms of words used did not adequately explain what I intended to say”.

“I do understand that an injudicious use of words and themes has caused upset in the Jewish community and for that I can only apologise,” Blackman said.

He’s been a journo for at least 10 years who doesn’t know how to use words?

Oh wait. He writes for The Age.

* Ah yes, before I forget it: “The accusation of anti-Semitism is itself hurtful and offensive,” Mr Backman said. 

Gee, who would have thought? Poor chap is hurt by what he said?

* Next time, use Keyser Trad to clarify  your statements, Backman. You’re rather unconvincing!

Melanie Phillips: In Support of Wilders

A Defining Moment/Spectator

 

So the inevitable has now come about in the teetering civilisation of Europe, and it has happened first in the Netherlands. One of the supposedly most liberal societies on the planet wants to criminalise someone for telling the truth. The BBC reports that Dutch Freedom Party MP Geert Wilders is to be put on trial

‘…for inciting hatred and discrimination, based on comments by him in various media on Muslims and their beliefs’...In March 2008, Mr Wilders posted a film about the Koran on the internet, prompting angry protests across the Muslim World. The opening scenes of Fitna – a Koranic term sometimes translated as ‘strife’ – show a copy of the holy book followed by footage of the bomb attacks on the US on 11 September 2001, London in July 2005 and Madrid in March 2004. Pictures appearing to show Muslim demonstrators holding up placards saying ‘God bless Hitler’ and ‘Freedom go to hell’ also feature. The film ends with the statement: ‘Stop Islamisation. Defend our freedom.’ Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said at the time that the film wrongly equated Islam with violence and served ‘no purpose other than to offend’. A year earlier, Mr Wilders described the Koran as a ‘fascist book’ and called for it to be banned in ‘the same way we ban Mein Kampf’, in a letter published in the De Volkskrant newspaper.

* 85% of all Dutch AGAINST prosecution of Wilders

* Dewinter: Wilders Will Gain Due to the Trial

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Wilders: "The problems with Islam will only increase"

* Of course they will. Because the jihad is permanent and relentless. But the Netherlands has now become a runaway train, where dhimmified, pandering politicians wankers prostrate themselves before their Islamic masters:

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Geert Wilders interviewed about his looming prosecution. “Wilders feels persecuted in ‘political process,'” by Herman Staal for NRC Handelsblad, January 23:

Geert Wilders was “completely surprised” when he heard on Wednesday that the appeals court of Amsterdam ruled he shall be prosecuted for hate speech and inciting discrimination. Last year the public prosecutor had decided not to try the controversial Dutch member of parliament for his remarks about Islam. In an interview with NRC Handelsblad Wilders says he is “shaken, but also very angry and ready to fight.“

* Wilders: His prosecution “puts hundreds of thousands of Dutchmen on trial for opposing Islam’s violent messages”

* Jordan seeking international arrest warrant against Wilders

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Jihad against Italy

 Anti-Dhimmitude in Italy

Italy: Minister says govt must expel immigrants who fail to integrate

Rome, 22 Jan. (AKI) – An Italian Minister said on Thursday that immigrants who did not want integrate must be deported from the country. “We must fight everything that is related to violence, because our will is to integrate, however, in order to integrate we must expel all those that do not want to take part in it,” said Andrea Ronchi, Minister of Department for European Community Policies.
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Counter Jihad: New Rules After Provocative Muslim Prayer Sessions in Front of Duomo

 *  Rome: Directive being prepared to “prohibit rallies from being staged in front of places of worship”

To “prevent provocation, not restrict religious freedom.” More on this story. “Muslim prayer at Milan’s Duomo sparks ire,” from the Associated Press,          

Muslim prayer at Milan’s Duomo sparks ire  

ROME (AP) — Italy’s interior minister has drafted new rules for public protests after a few hundred Muslims ended a rally earlier this month by praying in front of Milan’s cathedral. The Jan. 3 prayer, which came at the end of a massive pro-Palestinian rally, sparked heated debate in Italy. Muslim leaders apologized to the Archdiocese of Milan, saying they didn’t mean to show disrespect. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, a leader of the anti-immigrant Northern League party, said Wednesday he had prepared a directive for all regional prefects. Details haven’t been released, but news reports say it is expected to prohibit rallies from being staged in front of places of worship. Supporters say the directives are preventing provocation, not restricting religious freedom.

*  Note the BS in this AP report: there were several thousand Muslims who tried to intimidate Italians in this way, AP tries to downplay it…
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Brooklyn Shyster Khalid Yasin Watch

Jihadist hate preacher welcomed in Netherlands as it prosecutes Wilders for “hate speech”

* An update from this story: “Sheikh” Khalid Yasin, a good ol’Harlem shyster

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Some “hate speech,” apparently, is just fine in the Netherlands. They say that he will be prosecuted if he says something “hateful” in the Netherlands, but his positions are already abundantly clear — if Dutch officials wanted to be consistent, they wouldn’t let him in. “Radical Muslim preacher welcome in Rotterdam,” by Rob Kievit for Radio Netherlands, January 23 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm) via JW

Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin rejects demands by two parties to bar a radical Islamic preacher from speaking in the Netherlands.Mr Hirsch Ballin wrote to parliament on Thursday that the preacher, American citizen Khalid Yasin, is free to enter the country and address audiences. The justice minister adds that Mr Yasin will risk prosecution if it turns out that his speeches incite hatred. He emphasises that everyone in the Netherlands has freedom of speech, provided they respect the rule of law.

 

What do you bet that no matter what Khalid Yasin says, he would not be prosecuted in the Netherlands?

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Jihad Against Freedom of Speech at the United Nations

By Jeffrey Imm

* TV crew kicked out of U.N. free speech event

The United Nations’ Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has no problem with its members suggesting that the 9/11 attacks were an “inside job” perpetrated by the United States on itself. The human rights of America’s 9/11 victims are not a priority for UNHRC’s Richard Falk, the special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, who engages in 9/11 conspiracy propaganda, while working for an organization headquartered in New York City funded by U.S. tax dollars. This is Richard Falk’s protected freedom of speech.

The swine are in charge at the UN. Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ is now threatening all of us.

Denying the role of Jihadists in the 9/11 attacks is apparently perfectly acceptable freedom of speech for the UNHRC, but criticizing Sharia law is another story.

On June 16, 2008, UNHRC president Doru Romulus Costea announced that criticism of Sharia law will not be tolerated by the UNHRC, based on the complaints and pressure by Islamist delegates to the UNHRC. In effect, the Islamist nations represented at the UNHRC have effected a Jihad against freedom of speech at the United Nations when it comes to criticizing Sharia or Islamic supremacist (aka Islamist) theocratic ideologies that threaten the freedom and lives of innocents around the world. This again demonstrates the key imperative of control for Islamists – in this case in terms of controlling ideas, thoughts, and words of an international organization intended to promote human rights. Outgoing UNHRC Commissioner Louise Arbour subsequently raised concerns about debates on Sharia becoming “taboo” within the United Nations group, stating that it “should be, among other things, the guardian of freedom of expression.”

The UNHRC ban on debate regarding Sharia came as a result of a three minute joint statement by the Association for World Education with the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) to the Human Rights Council on women’s rights and the impact of Sharia law. These NGOs sought to address international issues of violence against women, specifically, the stoning of women, “honor killings” of women, and female genital mutilation, as a result of Sharia law.

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the Arab Republic of Egypt vehemently criticized this attempted NGO message, interrupting it via “16 points of order”, for an hour and twenty-five minutes per the IEHU. Jihad Watch provides a full transcript of the debate. The Egyptian UNHRC delegate claimed that silencing these NGOs was necessary to ensure “that Islam will not be crucified in this Council,” but the fact is that Islamist forces seek to silence any debate on Sharia at all – anywhere, any time.

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British troops wounded in Afghanistan are having to share wards with Taliban fighters

* It happens in Britain too: UK: Muslim threatens injured soldier in hospital

Has anything been done about it?

British medics wheel a casualty to the operating theatre at a joint forces field hospital in Afghanistan.   

British medics wheel a casualty to the operating theatre at a joint forces field hospital at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan. Photo: REUTERS

Troops have arrived at the advanced medical facility at Camp Bastion in Helmand province and found themselves lying alongside their enemies.

Injured Taliban are routinely treated at the Camp Bastion Field Hospital in line with the Geneva Convention.

“My friends who were injured were waking up in the hospital to find Taliban in the bed next to them,” a serving soldier told the BBC.

“A lot of people are getting injured out there, and the last thing they want to see when they come round is the Taliban on the same ward. It’s just not right.”

“We should treat the Taliban wounded as we treat our own”

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Ghetto Britain: MUSLIMS want to remain segregated from British society

* Who guessed it? But YOU are called a racist if you say ‘apartheid is not on’- can’t wait for the howlers and dementi’s from all the ‘Muslims spokesmen’…

Daily Star

MUSLIMS want to create their own communities and remain segregated from British society.

A shocking 44% think they should be free to develop along separate lines.

But critics claim Muslims will create their own ghettos if they are left to their own devices.

The poll found religion has replaced race as the biggest equality issue, with six in 10 Brits thinking it is more divisive. Mass tension has grown following terror attacks from Muslim fanatics, including the 7/7 Tube bombings in 2005.

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Poll Results: should Muslim face-coverings be forbidden

76 % voted YES- because they find them offensive

10 % voted NO

11 % voted ‘only in banks and public buildings

 3 % voted ‘we must tolerate those who don’t tolerate us

New Poll Starts Now:

Does exercising  religious freedom include:

The right to beat your wife

Wearing full burka, niqab

Female Genital Mutilation

Polygamy

Killing of unbelievers

Segregation of the sexes

Stoning for Adultery

Public Flogging for Drunkeness

Amputation of limbs for stealing

TURKEY: ANCIENT MONASTERY THREATENED

The myth of “moderate, modern” Turkey

* Compass Direct

Muslims’ legal action against 1,600-year-old structure called ‘malicious.’

All the world belongs to Allah:

They want one-third of monastery property — and their legal action, Christians say, is “part of a larger system of discrimination” against Christians. The Muslims say that it is…occupation! “Our land is being occupied by the monastery.” Sheesh.

ISTANBUL, January 22 (Compass Direct News) – Syriac Christians in southeastern Turkey say a land dispute over the historic Mor Gabriel Monastery is part of a larger system of discrimination against the religious minority in this overwhelmingly Islamic country. Muslim residents of southeastern Turkey dispute the boundary lines of an ancient Christian monastery dating to the fourth century as being unnecessarily large for the needs of a religious community. Islamic leaders from Yayvantepe, Eglence and Candarli are attempting to confiscate one-third of the monastery’s property, claiming it was wrongfully appropriated and that they need it for their livestock. The mayors of the three towns also charged the monastery with attempting to proselytize young children (illegal in Turkey) and carrying out “anti-Turkish” activity. Metropolitan Timotheos Samuel Aktas, leader of the monastery, said in a report that these claims were groundless and of the same provocative nature that has historically sparked violence against Turkey’s Christians. “All the allegations are frivolous and vexatious, devoid of any logic or evidence, solely aimed with the malicious intent of rousing anti-Christian sentiments by the surrounding Muslim villages,” he said. 

* TURKEY: MUSLIM SENTENCED FOR STABBING PRIEST IN IZMIR

*  Hrant Dink felt safe in Turkey