Category: General

By Henryk M. Broder

* After a revolting interview yesterday, the once respectable SPIEGEL allows Henryk Broder to present his views, obviously because we need some’ balance’:

Dutch politician Geert Wilders may be many things, but he is not the right-wing populist he is accused of being. What the debate over his film “Fitna” reveals most clearly is the West’s cowardice toward Islam.

So, it comes as no surprise that TV presenter Tom Buhrow opened the Friday late-evening news on the German TV channel ARD with a report on the “anti-Islamic video of the right-wing populist” Geert Wilders — as though there were a central authority in the otherwise censor-free Federal Republic of Germany that is responsible for prescribing the vocabulary of Euro-Islamic affairs. It was followed by a report on the relaxed response of Dutch Muslims, who were shown sitting in their cafes peacefully drinking coffee while Wilders raised havoc outside.

According to this interpretation of events, Wilders has only himself to blame for the fact that he has to be under 24-hour police protection and sleep in a different location every night. If he’d taken on, say, the Federation of Dutch Floriculturists, his private life would be fully intact.

* A snickering Muslimah residing in Germany complains that Fitna didn’t ‘shock’ her…

The hostility does not lie in the eye of the beholder, but rather in the nature of the film’s subject. Part of the ritualistic response of Muslim communities to the observation that Islam is not always a peaceful religion is invariably the threat of violence, should the “insult” not be retracted — regardless of whether it was made by the pope, a politician or a poet.

And Wilders is guilty of breaking with yet another aspect of the prevailing consensus. He opted to act, not just react. Since announcing his film three months ago, he has been defining the course of the debate, driving his opponent away from him. Nobody would have been surprised if Wilders had ended his game by confessing that the film itself did not actually exist.

What he wanted to accomplish had already been accomplished (more…) with the threat to show an “anti-Islamic video.” He showed the “free West” to be a paper tiger. The Dutch government distanced itself from the project and asked its ambassadors in Muslim countries to explain to their host governments the situation in their home country, where the government is not as omnipotent as it would like to be.

The EU, wanting to please all sides, issued a statement that emphasized the importance of freedom of speech while at the same time relativizing it: “We believe that acts such as (Geert Wilders’) film serve no other purpose than inflaming hatred.”

Even UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon chimed in to condemn the Wilders film “in the strongest terms.” He said that nothing can justify hate speech or incitement to violence. “The right of free expression is not at stake here. … Freedom must always be accompanied by social responsibility.”

*  UNESCO condemns Fitna 

This is the kind of tone that one waits for in vain when Islamists call for jihad, fanatics massacre non-believers or Holocaust deniers organize conferences. The only objective of these exercises is to prevent a repetition of what happened in 2006, when a dozen harmless Muhammad caricatures caused a blaze of indignation from Jakarta to Rabat. At the time, many politicians, including the prominent German Green Party politician Claudia Roth, called for “de-escalation.”

The call was not aimed at the arsonists who were burning Danish flags and destroying embassies, but at the Europeans, who were watching the jihadists in bafflement, in a bid to not pour more oil on the flames.

A similar thing happened recently in Sudan, when a British woman innocently named a teddy bear Muhammad. Or when Salman Rushdie was knighted by the British queen. Muslims were outraged and Europeans sought cover until the storm had blown over.

And now the “right-wing populist” Wilders is being sacrificed on the altar of appeasement policy. He is no cineaste, and his film is certainly no masterpiece. It is, however, a brute challenge to us to at least recognize reality.

* C’mon, Broder, get real: Wilders doesn’t have to be a cineaste and it he didn’t set out to make a ‘masterpiece’, the film is a mirror in the face of ugly Islam, and the ummah don’t like it.

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Indonesian government bans Fitna

But what have they done to counter the use of the Qur’an to justify violence? Exactly zero.

“Moderate” Indonesia: Government bans anti-Koran film,” from AKI via JW

Jakarta, 1 April (AKI) – Indonesia has banned the controversial anti-Koran film by the Dutch right-wing MP, Geert Wilders.
The Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called for calm in the mainly Muslim nation on Tuesday and said that Wilders would also be barred from entering the country.

* Damn! Where’s he gonna go now?

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Dole bludgers today, our masters tomorrow?

* Just to clear up ‘misconceptions’, you see: send her your ‘common stereotypes’, she will will ‘CHANGE’ and ‘break down’ those stereotypes about the ‘Arab world’ (is there any other?) and set you straight!

Have a laugh:

http://youtube.com/QueenRania

Tiny minority of extremists world map

* We plan to keep this as a permanent feature to be updated regularly, starting with ‘moderate’

Indonesia

Muslims attack churches in Indonesia

* You are welcome to do your own research and sent in your links….

Algeria

Algeria Orders Closure of 19 Protestant Congregations

Police in Muslim country detain Christians for carrying Bibles.

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Moshe Feiglin was in New York on September 11, 2001. In a flash of brilliance he understood and wrote this profound essay. What ever you may think of Feiglin, informed or otherwise, read this essay. It contains an uncomfortable truth that the liberal West is unwilling to embrace. The West prefers to negotiate its surrender believing that the “alligator” won’t eat it.

He recommended destroying their symbols just as they destroyed ours.

Subsequent events have proved him right:

When the black boxes of the hijacked airplanes are recovered, we will hear the pilots screaming “Allah Akbar” in the last moments before the crash. They slaughtered you in the name of Allah and now the President calls on you to pray to him.

Read it all…

* Pali child abuse as entertainment for the whole family, while ‘Fitna’ enrages the Koranimals and the nutroots sing along

* Bush and the US government have paid, over the years, millions of dollars in aid to UNRWA for the ‘Palestinian’ Arab Muslims – and in return what do we see? – TV shows showing Arab kids stabbing the President.

Here is open bloodlust and Islamic supremacism, in a film produced by Muslims for Muslims — indeed, for Muslim children. Will the OIC denounce this film? Will Ban Ki-Moon and Louise Arbour?

If not, why not?

Why exactly is Fitna worse than this?

“Child Stabs President Bush to Death and Turns the White House into a Mosque in a Hamas TV Puppet Show,” from MEMRITV

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* This is the revolting propaganda the spineless western leaders and media seem to miss very conveniently. What a shame that the very enemy bent on our destruction has their inside allies within our western nations. The media and the apologists and appeasers. This the billions of aid the west sends to them is being used for.

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Fitna movie Trivia: Fun for the whole Family! 

* Will the Dutch turn into cannibals to please their Muhammadan overlords?

What Muslims really want:

The ambassadors of 26 Islamic countries want the Netherlands to investigate whether the film Fitna made by Dutch right-wing populist MP Geert Wilders can be banned. They asked Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen whether it is possible to start legal proceedings against the anti-Islam film. The meeting at the ministry in The Hague was attended by ambassadors of countries including Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

* “Right wing populist” – Wilders should sue these media turds for vilification….

Verhagen crawls: “Thank you, dear Muslims, for not hurting us..!”

Mr Verhagen told the 26 ambassadors he was pleased that responses from the Muslim world up to now had been moderate. He said the public prosecutor was investigating whether any offence had been committed, and the Dutch government clearly distanced itself from the film.

More from Radio Netherlands

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The Depressing List of Cowards & Appeasers Willing to Sacrifice Freedom of Speech gets longer every day

My Right To Offend You

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Saving Wafa Sultan

There is a fatwa (death threat) on her head. Islam wants her dead.

Wafa Sultan in hiding 

(IsraelNN.com) Dr. Wafa Sultan has been forced to go into hiding with her family following a fatwa (religious edict) from an Islamic scholar, according to Omedia. Sultan faces the fatwa following a recent debate on Al-Jazeera in which she challenged Egyptian Islamist Talat Rheim over Dutch cartoons of Mohammed, who Muslims revere as a prophet. Sultan argued that Denmark had the right to print the cartoons.

Sultan joins a growing list of public critics of radical Islam facing death threats. Her supporters have asked the American public to join them in writing to the embassy of Qatar, the country which sponsors Al-Jazeera, as well as to United States President George Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, asking them to defend Sultan’s right to free speech and personal safety.

If you are concerned here is the link to Atlas Shrugs.

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Revolting SPIEGEL interview:

* These media whores are becoming more despicable by the day. Wilders is a ‘Right wing populist who wanted to provoke an international scandal’ with his film. How do you deal with such Assholes without whacking them upside the head?

‘Moderate Islam Is a Contradiction’

SPIEGEL: Your tirades are a challenge to all moderate Muslims and those pushing for Islamic reform.

* Note: ‘your tirades’- not the hate preachers depicted in Fitna, the movie. Who is pushing for ‘Islamic reform?’ Where are the ‘moderate Muslims?’

Wilders: Moderate Islam? That’s a contradiction. It’s going to be a long time before we see a new Koran, an equivalent to the New Testament. Attacks don’t happen in the name of Buddhism or Christianity; nor do homosexuals get beaten up, as happens daily in Amsterdam.

SPIEGEL: You have turned down many offers of dialogue from Muslim groups. You’re mainly interested in winning votes.

Wilders: I represent half a million people who are concerned about Islam. I’m a party politician and I’m not ashamed of it.

Interview conducted by Gerald Traufetter (a brainwashed idiot for the world)

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US: Christian Nutters seek ‘peace’ with Islam-terror:

“Do good to those who hate you,” Schirch advised. “It’s the smart thing to do,”

Frontpage Mag has more

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* Live Leak grows set of balls and puts ‘Fitna’ back up

* Fitna movie site hacked by Islamic cyber terrorists

* Should we be impressed?

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* Princeton prof Richard Falk, newly-appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, turns out to be ‘troofer’

Princeton prof Richard Falk, newly-appointed by the UN Human Rights Council as its “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967,” is also a devoted supporter of the crackpot “9/11 Truth” movement, which denies that Al-Qaeda attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001.

More here

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The religion of fear: Islam without violence is like an egg-free omelette…

Hahahaha! Keep it coming, bro!

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Fitna is an Embarrassment for the Dutch Cabinet

By Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The central thesis of Fitna is: the Koran commands Muslims to spread their faith throughout the entire world, by means of jihad and indoctrination. To show that some Muslims take these edicts literally, viewers are shown images of terror attacks in New York and Madrid. In the movie, you hear excerpts of sermons filled with hatred and Muslim crowds that cheer on the preachers.

In one scene, a girl of three is taught by rote that the Koran reveals that Jews are pigs and monkeys. At the end of the movie, suddenly one hears the sound of a page being ripped from a book followed by a message that this is a page from a telephone book, not the Qur’an, and that it is up to Muslims to deal with the intolerance in their Holy Book.

Fitna is polite, but Fitna is a severe embarrassment for the Dutch cabinet. First, because almost all of the publicity for the movie originated from the cabinet. If, last year, the Prime Minister had given a reaction along the lines of: “we cannot respond to a movie that has not yet been shown and until such a time a cabinet position will not be provided,” there would have been no worldwide, festering controversy.

Savages

A second reason for which the cabinet is suffering a severe loss of face is that it has shown that freedom of speech is not safe in its hands. By acting as if it was a worthwhile endeavor to investigate whether the movie should be banned (either before or after its release), the cabinet improperly reversed its constitutional position with regard to the Second Chamber of Parliament.

In the Netherlands, the cabinet governs, and Parliament controls the cabinet. In relation to Member of Parliament Wilders, however, the cabinet has improperly set itself up as the controller. The Dutch cabinet has actively sought to silence an elected Member of Parliament. That the Parliamentary opposition did not intervene against this appalling attempt at censorship, is more distressing than any possible movie about Islam could be. Fitna laid bare just what a distrustful image this Social-Christian cabinet has of Muslims. It considers Muslims as half-savage beasts, [a bit like Bokito, Holland’s most famous gorilla] who will jump over the fence of reason at the slightest provocation and who in a collective frenzy disrupt the public peace.

They can only be kept in check by not engaging them as mature reasonable adults, by not contradicting them, not presenting them with difficult questions about their religion, by talking positively about it; all the while creating myriad emergency response plans through full crisis scenarios, because a film happens to be made about their holy book. It is just as in the case of Bokito the gorilla, who was put behind high bars in a zoo but was feverishly petted. This attitude is called “respect”, towards Muslims. I wonder what Muslims think of being regarded in this way?

Read it all

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* Serious Jewicidal Dhimmitude:

Dutch Jewish group: Anti-Islam film is ‘counterproductive’

By Cnaan Liphshiz, Haaretz Correspondent and News Agencies

The newly-released anti-Islam film by right-wing Dutch legislator Geert Wilders drew condemnations from the Netherlands’ Central Jewish Board, which Friday called the film’s focus on anti-Jewish preachings by Muslims “counterproductive” and “generalizing.”
In a statement following the film’s online release, the board said that Wilders – the leader of the Party for Freedom – was guilty of serious generalizations. “Wilders presented demographics on the increase of Muslims in Europe with pictures from scenes of terrorist attacks, suggesting all Muslims are potential terrorists,” head of the Hague-based Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, Dr. Ronny Naftaniel, Saturday told Haaretz.

While the anti-Semitic material Wilders compiled “demonstrates some Muslims have terrible ideas about Jews,” the way Fitna portrays reality serves to “polarize Dutch society,” the board said, adding this was counterproductive to the fight against extremism.

* Unbelievable. These Jews will play the violins when the Handschar Brigades open up the gas chambers again…

Read it all

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“Geert Wilders is a Christian terrorist”  

* Killers for the ‘RoP’ 

JAKARTA (Reuters) – About 50 members of a hardline Indonesian Muslim group held a rowdy protest outside the Dutch embassy on Monday, calling for the death of a Dutch lawmaker behind a film accusing the Koran of inciting violence.

Geert Wilders, leader of the anti-immigration Freedom Party in the Netherlands, launched his short video on the Internet last week, drawing condemnation from Muslim nations.

Dozens of police, with two water cannon at the ready, did not intervene during the protest by white-clad members of the Islamic Defenders’ Front, some of whom hurled eggs and plastic water bottles into the compound of the Dutch embassy in Jakarta.

“I call on Muslims around the world, if you run into the maker of the film, kill him,” said one of the speakers at the rally, Awit Mashuri.

“Geert Wilders is a Christian terrorist,” declared a placard held up by a protester. “Kill Geert Wilders,” read another.

The Front is notorious for its past raids on nightspots the group accused of harbouring prostitutes and drug dealers.

In 2003, the group’s leader, Mohammad Rizieq Shihab, was jailed for seven months for inciting violence.

Reuters 

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Melanie Philips: So what did I think of the Geert Wilders film Fitna?

I thought it was very effective, and very shocking, in showing that the inspiration for the evil acts of which it showed such horrifying glimpses lay in the Koran. It shows very clearly the precise nature of what the civilised world is up against, a war of religion with striking similarities to Nazi ideology and murderous mass hysteria.

It was, however, very careful not to call for the Koran or Islam to be banned. Instead it confined itself to calling for Muslims to reform their faith by removing the bad bits of the Koran, and for an end to the Islamising of Europe. To that extent it was not extreme at all, and indeed reformist Muslims themselves say much the same thing.

* Hmm, wonder where those ‘reformist’ Muslims are..?

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“Wilders Film Aims to Block Dialogue”

* Take a closer look: no sign of any dialogue here…
M. Ghazanfar Ali Khan, Arab News

RIYADH, 31 March 2008 — The World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) has denounced Thursday’s screening of an anti-Qur’an film by a rightwing MP in the Netherlands and called on international bodies to prevent people from insulting religions.

* Not ‘religions’- ONE ‘religion’ called Islam….

“These kinds of attacks by so-called sane European politicians and scholars will lead to very serious repercussions, pushing mankind to a situation of chaos and conflict,” said Dr. Saleh S. Al-Wohaibi, secretary-general of WAMY.

More from Arab News

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Jordanian MPs: “Kick the Dutch Ambassador out” over Fitna

Just imagine for a second if any of these MPs had gotten this angry at any one of the Islamic preachers and jihadists depicted in Wilders’s film.

“Jordanian MPs want Dutch envoy dismissed over anti-Islam film,” from DPA via JW

Amman – At least 53 deputies of Jordan’s 110-member lower house of parliament on Sunday signed a memorandum urging the government to “dismiss” the Dutch ambassador to Amman following the screening by a Dutch lawmaker of a film deemed offensive to Muslims. “The memorandum calls on the government to sever diplomatic ties with the Netherlands and dismiss the Dutch ambassador,” parliamentarians said….

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UHhh…. Intelligent Muslimah Goes Astray, Prefers Sex to Rocket Science….

How a child prodigy at Oxford became a £130-an-hour prostitute

By ANDY DOLAN –

With the intellect to win a place at Oxford at the age of 13, Sufiah Yusof should, by now, be carving out a high-flying career for herself.

But a decade after hitting the headlines thanks to her remarkable aptitude for mathematics – and days after her father was jailed for sexually assaulting two teenagers – Miss Yusof has been exposed as a £130-an-hour prostitute.

The revelation completes a sad fall from grace for the family who were hailed the brightest in Britain after Miss Yusof and two of her siblings won university places by the time they were 16.

Calling herself Shilpa Lee, 23-year-old Miss Yusof advertises her body on an internet sex site and operates out of a back street flat in Salford. Yesterday, a friend of the former child prodigy said of her downfall: “It is all desperately heartbreaking.

“With her amazing brain she should be able to make money any way she wants. But instead her life spiralled completely out of control.

“Sufiah has suffered so many knocks in her life. I just hope she can drag herself out of this life she has got herself into.

“She is such a good person and deserves a much better life than this. Her gift really has been a curse.”

On the website, she describes herself as a ‘”very pretty size 8, 32D bust and 5ft 5in tall – available for booking every day from 11am to 8pm”.

2004: She marries Jonathan Marshall
She adds that she is a “sexy, smart student” who prefers “older gentlemen”. When an undercover reporter visited her at the flat, Miss Yusof stripped naked and gyrated on a bed as she reeled off her list of services.

Read it all

1997: Sufiah on her first day at Oxford with her father and sister Aisha

In 2004, she married trainee lawyer Jonathan Marshall, but the couple divorced 13 months later.

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Most bizarre statement of the year:

Riyadh, March 6, IRNA – Iran’s Ambassador to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Mostafa Boroujerdi said on Thursday that appointment of US special envoy to OIC Sada Cumber ran counter to governing rules and regulations of OIC.

The US is not a permanent member or an observer at the OIC, therefore, its presence in the body among 57 Islamic countries has no justification and violates the OIC rules and regulations.

Every Islamic country should pass a long legal process and formalities to become an observer member but the US has made no efforts to this end, he said.

* Islam attacks America and America has a ‘tarnished image’ because of that:

The US seeks to correct its tarnished image among Muslims specially after the September 11 events which led to their attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq , he said.

The new US envoy at OIC met on Wednesday with OIC Secretary Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu to outline his programs.

In the meeting, Ihsanoglu said world Muslims expect the US to depict the real image of Islam in the American society.

Iran criticizes US intervention in OIC affairs

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