Author: sheikyermami

Watch out where the money goes (and don't you blow it up your nose…)

* Met a “moderate Muslim” lately?

UK funds meant to counter Muslim “radicalization” being used to…radicalize Muslims

One of the UK’s most influential Islamic leaders, who has helped counter extremism in the country’s mosques, is accused of advocating attacks on the Royal Navy if it tries to stop arms for Hamas being smuggled into Gaza.

High Treason

Oops. “£90m anti-terrorism project is fanning the flames of extremism,” by Duncan Gardham in the Telegraph, March 9 (thanks to JW):

A new generation of Muslims is being radicalised using the very Government funds that are supposed to be fighting the problem, a new report by the Policy Exchange think-tank says.An obsession with talking to extremists means that moderates are being ignored, leaving the stage clear for radicalisation, according to the report.

Did they say which moderates were being ignored? This is an important question, because obviously the UK government didn’t set out to fund “extremists.” The people they were giving money to presented themselves as “moderates,” and were taken as such. But when “moderate” leaders call for jihad warfare against the British Navy, the situation can become a bit confused.

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Hitchens and the Push to Criminalize Criticism of Islam

Christopher Hitchens

In case you missed it: 

“U.N. to make ban on criticizing Islam mandatory? Expected proposal would criminalize such comments in U.S.,” from WorldNetDaily,

The Dobbs segment to which this story refers is above. It is a bit careless — the Islamic organization in question is the “Organization of the Islamic Conference,” not the “Organization of Islamic Countries” — but the information about the imminent threat to free speech is generally accurate.

And yes, it could happen here.

Andrew Bolt:

“We’re coming to muzzle you…!”

Christopher Hitchens on the latest move in the United Nations to criminalise free speech – when applied in criticism of certain beliefs:

Islam affirms itself as the last and final revelation of God’s word, the consummation of all the mere glimpses of the truth vouchsafed to all the foregoing faiths… And it is the so-called mainstream Muslims, grouped in the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, who are now demanding through the UN that Islam not only be allowed to make such absolutist claims, but that it be officially shielded from any criticism as a result…

(T)he non-binding UN Resolution 62/154, on “combating defamation of religions”, seeks to extend protection not to humans but to opinions and to ideas, granting only the latter immunity from being “offended”…

For example, paragraph five “expresses its deep concern that Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism”…

You see how the trick is pulled? In the same weeks this resolution comes up for its annual renewal at the UN, its chief sponsor-government (Pakistan) makes an agreement with the local Taliban forces to close girls’ schools in the Swat Valley region (a mere 150km or so from the capital in Islamabad) and subject the inhabitants to sharia law. And this capitulation comes in direct response to a campaign of horrific violence and intimidation, including public beheadings.

Yet the religion of those who carry out the campaign is not to be mentioned, lest it “associate” that faith with human rights violations or terrorism.

                            

THE Muslim religion makes unusually large claims for itself. All religions do this, of course, in that they claim to know and to be able to interpret the wishes of a supreme being.

But Islam affirms itself as the last and final revelation of God’s word, the consummation of all the mere glimpses of the truth vouchsafed to all the foregoing faiths, available by way of the unimprovable, immaculate text of “the recitation”, or Koran.

If there sometimes seems to be something implicitly absolutist or even totalitarian in such claims, it may result not from a fundamentalist reading of the holy book but from the religion itself.

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UK jihadist Anjem Choudary explains how Islam will take over the UK

Anjem Choudary has been featured here many times. This good Muslim, who is also a lawyer, cannot be accused of misunderstanding his religion. In a country where Geert Wilders is banned, this animal openly  preaches the overthrow of the government and incites hatred and mass-murder. Chaudary is a free man, politicians like Gordon Brown, Jacqui Smith and Jack Straw try to ignore his existence.

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The unholy past of the Muslim cleric demanding the Pope’s execution

 
                                  

Choudary: Refuses to discuss his dissolute youth

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Geert Wilders interviewed: Islam and freedom of speech

Jeff Jacoby interviews Geert Wilders: “Islam and freedom of speech” in the Boston Globe, March 8 (thanks to Andy Bostom, via JW):

                                        

Q: You’ve said that England today is more Chamberlain than Churchill. Explain what you mean.A: Well, Chamberlain was the biggest appeaser to a totalitarian ideology called fascism. Now we face the threat of another totalitarian ideology called Islam, at least according to me. And instead of defending our freedom, defending our values, when I was invited a few weeks ago to show “Fitna” in the House of Lords, they denied me entry to the United Kingdom.

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About Time: German MP calls for Durban II boycott

benjamin weinthal, jpost correspondent in berlin , THE JERUSALEM POST

Pressure is rising on Germany’s Social Democrat-controlled Foreign Ministry to walk away from the so-called Durban II meeting – the UN’s World Conference Against Racism – which opens in Geneva on April 20.

When asked about Rome’s decision to pull out of Durban II because, as Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said, the preparatory document and negotiations are filled with “aggressive and anti-Semitic statements,” a German Foreign Ministry spokeswoman told The Jerusalem Poston Friday that Germany had not changed its position and would participate in “the text negotiations.”

Germany remained undecided on whether it would take part in Durban II itself, the spokeswoman said.

“Germany must boycott this anti-Semitic and anti-Western spectacle. Either together with its EU partners, or if necessary alone. We are not the fig leaf for Iran’s Islamist and anti-Semitic activities,” Christian Democratic Union MP Kristina Köhler said in a statement on Wednesday.

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Tundra Tabloids Photoshop of the Week

Whining Arab Alert: Qatar is Dissapointed With ICC’s Warrant For Sudan’s Mass Murdering President……!

But President Hassan al-Bashir is a Muslim!
Whaaaaaaaaa

Photoshop of the week          

            

I first got wind of the Muslim world being insulted by the ICC decision at Jihad Watch, and then after looking around, I find out that Qataris are as disappointed with the ICC’s decision as the Iranians are!

Qatar disappointed at ICC ruling against Sudanese President

DOHA, March 5 (KUNA) — The State of Qatar voiced on Thursday “deep regret” over the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Wednesday.”The ICC arrest warrant is by no means conducive to security and stability in Darfur region, west Sudan,” Qatar News Agency (QNA) quoted a Foreign Ministry official as saying.”The move could only hamper the Qatari efforts aiming to stabilize the troubled region in cooperation with the Arab League, the United Nations and the African Union.

Switzerland Federal Council Decides in Favor of Minarets

                            

The trouble with this decision is that once again politicians ride roughshod over the concerns of  115 000  citizens who signed this petition against minarets. What is more disturbing is that once again  “Human Rights” are invoked and used to further the Islamization of the the Dar al Harb. There is no reciprocity in Islamic countries, where our concept of human rights is derided and replaced by the sharia, which doesn’t respect human rights at all. Some Islamic countries are signatories to  human rights agreements, but don’t plan to abide by them anytime soon.

The popular initiative against the construction of minarets has been submitted in accordance with the applicable regulations, but infringes guaranteed international human rights and contradicts the core values of the Swiss Federal Constitution. On 27 August 2008, the Swiss Federal Council recommended that the Swiss parliament reject the initiative without making a counter-proposal. If the initiative does not “infringe upon the core human rights that are recognised by all states and must be upheld by all”, in the view of the Federal Council, it is nonetheless irreconcilable with the various human rights that are guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and by the UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (UN Covenant II). It a press release, the Federal Office of Justice explains how the initiative

  • violates religious freedom and the discrimination ban
  • contradicts the core values of the Federal Constitution
  • ineffective in the fight against extremism, and
  • endangers peace between religions; hinders integration

The inititive has been a source of concern and indignation in Switzerland and abroad. The Federal Council acknowledged the initiative on 8 July, 2008, when it was submitted with almost 115’000 signatures, but, in a unusual move, had immediatekly voiced its opposition:  the “Federal Council will naturally be recommending that parliament and the electorate vote against the initiative”.

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Enemy Agent Sharifa Zuhur Gets 10-Day Suspension @ The U.S. Army War College

From the Investigative Project

                                                

We reported: Hamas Supporter Sherifa Zuhur Plays Grievance Theater at the Army War College

* Fox guarding chicken-coop alert: the scandal of employing enemy agent Sherifa Zuhur to teach at U.S. Army War College

Beating the infidels at their own game:

 

The U.S. Army War College has suspended the author of two monographs which critics viewed as apologia for Hamas. Sherifa Zuhur has been suspended 10 days without pay, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports.

Zuhur allegedly threatened to air complaints about her feelings of mistreatment to the Arab Times, an Arab-American newspaper, and she already complained to the Middle East Studies Association. That constituted “a clear threat to attempt to damage the U.S. Army War College’s reputation with malicious claims and misinformation for which you can offer no support,” an email from her supervisor informing her of the suspension said.

Zuhur has lodged a series of complaints against War College officials, saying they have violated her academic freedom and that she has been subject to intimidation and harassment.

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Lancet retracts…

Too much even for Lancet, after all

Andrew Bolt

I linked last month to a bizarre post on Lancet’s Global Health Journal by two British surgeons adocating we hire soldiers to fight Israel: 

Another weird, wondrous “Lancet Study”

The people of Gaza are extremely vulnerable and defenseless in the event of another attack. If the International Community is serious about preventing such a large scale of deaths and injuries in the future, it will have to develop a some sort of defense force for Gaza.

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