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The frightening ignorance and idiocy of Britain’s new Prime Minister, David Cameron

Preemptive dhimmitude unrewarded:

Pakistan security staff pull out of UK visit, after David Cameron ‘exporters of terror’ comments

Thanks for nothing: British PM Cameron burned in effigy in Karachi

Pakistani activists (rent a crowd)  burn an effigy of David Cameron.

Pakistan‘s prime minister hit back today at remarks by David Cameronlinking the country to the export of terrorism. (The Guardian of Muslims)

Cameron’s recent foray into dhimmitude — from extolling the nebulous, politically correct construct known as “real Islam,” to calling Gaza a “prison camp,” to his understated comments on Pakistan as an exporter of jihadist terrorism — has failed to win hearts and minds here.

And Pakistan’s posture is but a variation on the idea of “Say Islam is a religion of peace, or we’ll kill you”: Say Pakistan is a great ally and an honest partner with intentions as pure as the driven snow, or lose what little cooperation you’re actually getting, and any terrorism that follows will be all your fault. ISI? Never heard of ’em.

“Islamist protesters in Pakistan burn effigy of David Cameron as diplomatic row grows,” by David Barrett for the Telegraph via JW

Perhaps David Cameron should listen to Islamic clerics for guidance, such as this guy:

Melanie Phillips:

Weep for Britain: 1940 this is not

When David Cameron became Britain’s Prime Minister, I warned that he would turn out to be even worse than Labour on the related issues of Israel and the global threat from Islamism to Britain and the west. This was because Cameron had no knowledge of or interest in foreign affairs, and so was always likely merely to reflect the most politically expedient views he encountered – which, given the current poisonous attitude within the British establishment and intelligentsia, were likely to push him into appeasing Britain’s mortal enemies in the Islamic world and dumping on Israel, Britain’s strategic ally in that great struggle.

But even I did not foresee just how cynical Cameron would turn out to be — and how dangerous therefore to the British national interest. Today’s truly shocking and quite astoundingly stupid speech in Turkey has now laid bare the fathomless shallowness and frightening ignorance and idiocy of Britain’s new Prime Minister.

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Richard Dawkins: Now He Defends What He Set Out to Destroy

Alas, the genie is out of the bottle:

Buddhists, Dawkins and Gays worried by Islam in Europe

The rapidly accelerating growth of Islam in Europe has produced a few unexpected alliances: Buddhists have joined Polish Nationalists in protesting the construction of a Mosque in Warsaw; atheist Richard Dawkins is having second thoughts about the collapse of Christianity in Britain, and the English Defence League – vilified by the Islamists as a bunch of football hooligans – has formed a gay division.

Dawkins preaches to the deluded against the divine

Melanie Phillips

For someone who has made a career out of telling everyone how much more tolerant the world would be if only religion were obliterated from the human psyche, Dawkins manages to appear remarkably intolerant towards anyone who disagrees with him.  The Australian

Buddhists join Polish crusade against Megamosque in Warsaw

The Polish activist group Europe of the Future held a protest on 27th March against the proposal to build a new Saudi-financed mosque in Warsaw. The predominantly Catholic Poles objected to the fact that the Saudis could build triumphalist mosques in European capitals, but Christians were not allowed to build churches or even possess Bibles in Saudi Arabia.

Richard Dawkins views Christianity as a bulwark against Islam

Christianity is in decline in Europe as a whole, and has collapsed in Britain in particular, leaving even the most committed atheists wondering what is going to fill the spiritual vacuum.

From The Times:
“Even among the world’s most famous atheists, the crisis of faith among Christians in Europe has been met with concern.

Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, said: “There are no Christians, as far as I know, blowing up buildings. I am not aware of any Christian suicide bombers. I am not aware of any major Christian denomination that believes the penalty for apostasy is death. I have mixed feelings about the decline of Christianity, in so far as Christianity might be a bulwark against something worse.”

Peter Tatchell:

“It is a sign of how bad things have become that the faith’s enemies seem now to be defending it.”

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Jihad in Nigeria

Update: Journalists don’t get religion

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Mass murder of Christians by Muslims in Nigeria

Utterly appalling violence by Muslims against Christians in Nigeria where the latest tally after weekend attacks on three mostly Christian villages is some 500 dead.

From Andrew Bolt:

Officials estimate that 500 people were massacred in night-time raids by rampaging Muslim gangs near the city of Jos, where the Christian-Muslim fault line cuts across Nigeria. Typically,  the resident Muslims offer  instant justification of what  they call “retaliation…”

The media have described these events as ‘riots’; I would call this a jihadi pogrom. It is but the latest episode in what the media persist in characterising as inter-ethnic violence, but which is in fact a systematic attempt by Muslims to murder and ethnically cleanse the Christian community. The onslaught is described as ‘retaliation ‘ for violent attacks in Jos last January, in which the majority of the victims were Muslim. But as theBarnabas Fund reports, there is evidence that those January attacks were in fact Christian retaliation against Muslim aggression — in particular on that occasion an attack on a church — which has been going on for years.

The fact that the jihad in Africa is widely ignored in the west is not just a moral dereliction of duty. It is a refusal by the west to understand what it is actually up against.

What is happening to Nigeria’s Christians makes a mockery of the frenzied western obsession with Israel. To understand the real cause of global tumult we should look carefully at Africa, and the appalling suffering of those upholding the religion that underpins the western world.

Sheik adds:

But of course, the jihad is global. The jihad in Nigeria is no different from the one in Sudan or Somalia, from Thailand to the Philippines,  from Kenya to the constant jihad attacks on Israel, from Kashmir to Iraq  and from Chechnya to India.

Here, take a look:

Horrific pictorial essay of Muslim brutality against Hindus, an ongoing Jihad.

Defend freedom and reason – which make us truly human

Melanie Phillips urges British conservatives to learn from John Howard and Tony Abbott:


The great battles today are not between left and right. They are between morality and nihilism, truth and lies, justice and injustice, freedom and totalitarianism, and Judeo-Christian values and the would-be destroyers of the West both within and without.

If conservatives are not on the right side of all these touchstone issues, then what is the point of conservatives at all? Why should anyone vote for them if they are merely left-wing wannabes? If people want utopia and the repression that inevitably follows its pursuit, the party to vote for is Labour: it does it so much better.

The Vilest of Creatures are not the Jews, but those who wish to destroy them:

To find journalist-ideologue John Pilger ranting about “the criminality of the Israeli state” and “the murderous, racist toll of Zionism” is all too routine. (Hat tip Oliver Kamm.) What’s new is this: Pilger trots out “the expatriate Israeli musician Gilad Atzmon” as a representative good Jew, emblematic of “the heroes of Israel” and “the moral courage of Israeli dissidents.” Either Pilger is fool enough to be unaware of Atzmon’s vicious anti-Jewish bigotry, or he has consciously praised an apologist for the Third Reich, who has declared: “One of the things that happened to us was that stupidly we interpreted the Nazi defeat as a vindication of the Jewish ideology and the Jewish people.”

And: “Carpet bombing and total erasure of populated areas that is so trendy amongst Israeli military and politicians (as well as Anglo-Americans) has never been a Nazi tactic or strategy.”  More from Harry’s


The clash of uncivilisations

Melanie Phillips

The BNP are using the public’s real fear of Islamism to attract support for their racist movement, says Melanie Phillips. If the political class wants to take on Griffin, it must first join the fight against Islamofascism

The frenzy over the participation of BNP leader Nick Griffin on Question Time this week has been a classic case of failing to identify the real elephant in the room. By fixating on the ‘far right’ as the supremely evil force in British public life, the mainstream political class has failed to grasp that a half-baked neo-Nazi rabble is not the main issue. There is another more lethal type of fascism on the march in the form of Islamic supremacism.

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Obama’s deadly hand revealed

Melanie Phillips: “America has a pro-Islamist President”

Articulating the obvious for the benefit of the willfully blind. “Obama’s deadly hand revealed,” by the incomparable Melanie Phillips for the Jewish Chronicle, June 26 (thanks to JW):

Among American Jews, a degree of ‘buyers’ remorse’ has been detected recently.

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Almost 80 per cent of American Jews voted for Barack  Hussein Obama as President. Those of us who warned that this man would endanger Israel were scorned.

How could that possibly be, said the secular, liberal American Jews. He’s a Democrat, he’s black and he’s pro-abortion. With this triple-lock of unassailable virtue, how can he be bad for Israel? Now some of them are getting an awful feeling that they may have made the biggest misjudgment of their lives.

As the world watched events unfold in Iran, Obama’s double standard over Israel was illuminated in flashing neon lights. How come he’s saying it is wrong for him to tell the Iranians what to do, people asked themselves, when he is dictating to Israel its policy on settlements?

Why was he so concerned not to antagonise the Iranian regime? Was it because he hopes to reach a Grand Bargain which would allow Iran to develop nuclear capability, provided it promises him ever so nicely it would never turn this into weapons — in exchange for which, Israel would be offered up on a plate?

For the past six months, while Obama has been holding out the hand of friendship to Iran, he has been showing Israel a mailed fist.

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Melanie Phillips: Obama In Cairo

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First, the good bits in Obama’s speech in Cairo:

He told the Palestinians unequivocally that violence was wrong.

He said that there was an unbreakable bond between America and Israel.

He told the Arab states firmly:

The Arab-Israeli conflict should no longer be used to distract the people of Arab nations from other problems. Instead, it must be a cause for action to help the Palestinian people develop the institutions that will sustain their state; to recognize Israel’s legitimacy; and to choose progress over a self-defeating focus on the past.

He condemned the persecution of non-Muslims in the Islamic world and urged equal rights for Muslim women.

He referred to Iran’s role since 1979 in acts of hostage-taking and violence against U.S. troops and civilians.

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                                       * Knight of the Wahabi order:

bling                                     Michelle Malkin: Obama’s Wahhabi bling-bling

  • President Obama was awarded Saudi Arabia’s highest honor yesterday — an elaborate gold necklace and medallion fit for a king or a rap mogul.
  • Make no mistake. Barack Obama is no Rudy Giuliani.

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Now the bad bits – and they were really bad:

He revealed gross ignorance of the Jews’ unique claim to the land of Israel. He said that America’s unbreakable bond with Israel was based upon

the recognition that the aspiration for a Jewish homeland is rooted in a tragic history that cannot be denied. Around the world, the Jewish people were persecuted for centuries, and anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust…

The Jews’ aspiration for their homeland does not derive from the Holocaust, nor their overall tragic history. It derives from Judaism itself, which is composed of the inseparable elements of the religion, the people and the land. Their unique claim upon the land rests upon the fact that the Jews are the only people for whom Israel was ever their nation, which it was for hundreds of years – centuries before the Arabs and Muslims came on the scene. As for antisemitism, he made no mention of the alliance between the Palestinians and the Nazis during the 1930s, and the fact that Nazi-style Jew-hatred continues to pour out of the Arab and Muslim world to this day.

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Lizard Meltdown Watch: Melanie Phillips goes under the bus…

under-the-bus-counter-jihad-continues-and-continues* Image thanks to the ever vigilant KGS from the Tundra Tabloids

The fascist symbol chasers over at LGF, where dissent is instantly eliminated and canniballistic unhingement rules, have just shot themselves in the foot, once again: in his latest smear-attack Charles Johnson throws  the ever vigilant Melanie Phillips under the bus. Our Islamic enemies are laughing their sorry asses off, while Charlie Johnson waits in vain for the “moderate Muslims” to cue up to join the lizard army. Pathetic!

In the Grunards “comment is free” section the Islamist  Sunni Hundal is literally laughing his sorry ass off over such stupidity. Hundal proves once again, that Western educated Muselmaniacs are far more dangerous than the illiterate goathumpers they left behind in Pakistan to make Pakistan more Islamic:

The anti-jihadist theatre of the absurd

sunny_hundal_140x140You have to laugh at the collapse of the wacky anti-jihadist coalition as it confounds itself in blog wars… 

* Read it all. He is good at what he does. He is better than the Bunglawussi and better than Irfan. A modern day Joseph Goebbles of Islam-prop…
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* Regardless, here’s Melanie Phillips latest:

Obama Prepares To Throw Israel Under The Bus

  • Melanie Phillips, The Spectator


As predicted here repeatedly – Obama is attempting to throw Israel under the Islamist bus, and he’s getting American Jews to do his dirty work for him. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel reportedly told the Israel lobbying group AIPAC on Sunday that efforts to stop Iran hinged on peace talks with the Palestinians. General James Jones, National Security Adviser to Obama, reportedly told a European foreign minister a week ago that unlike the Bush administration, Obama will be ‘forceful’ with Israel. Ha’aretz reports:

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Melanie Phillips: The Hand Of Appeasement

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Sir Winston Churchill  British politician (1874 – 1965)

* Newsflash: the result of appeasement: MUSLIM PIRATES HIJACK AMERICANS

Pamela: Don’t look for a Thomas Jefferson response to these pirates. 

OIC’S ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS MAKES ITS MOVE IN TURKEY: Obama Advances Islamic New World Order

6a00d8341c60bf53ef01156f0e4ce3970c-500wiComfy with headbangers: we are not only allowing  Muslims to dictate our foreign policy, we allow them to dominate every agenda.

*  Obama ends Europe trip with tour of mosque

An aghast Amil Imani, an Iranian who always tells it how it is, registers his profound shock at Obama’s appeasement of the Iranian regime:

Mr. President, the Iranian people do not recognize the Islamic Republic as a country, but call these terrorists occupiers who must leave Iran or to be crushed decisively by hook or by crook. President Obama, what is it that you do not understand? Why is it so difficult for you to comprehend that the Islamic regime is a terrorist entity and the Iranian nation is fed up with them? Nothing less than an overthrow of this bloodthirsty regime is acceptable to millions of Iranians.

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Melanie Phillips: "a lie which is now generally assumed in the west to be true…is driving the genocidal hysteria against Israel"

Melanie Phillips quotes extensively from “The Two – State Solution is 87 Years Old,” an article by Victor Sharpe in the American Thinker, March 29. It is a superb and important piece, as she says, detailing Britain’s long record of betrayals of the Jewish people and appeasement of Arab demands — and even now, jihadist demands grow ever more shrill, and Western politicians prepare to betray Israel yet again in another round of appeasement, with Obama and company acting as if the “two-state solution” has never yet been tried, when it is the only thing that has ever been tried.

Phillips concludes:

It is only if the true history of the Middle East is understood that certain things become inescapably clear: the scale of the monumental lie that has been so assiduously promulgated about the nature of this dispute, a lie which is now generally assumed in the west to be true and which is driving the genocidal hysteria against Israel; the fact that the fundamental cause of this tragic impasse was the repeated British appeasement of Arab terror, illegality and injustice, a policy which continues to this very day; and the immorality and absurdity therefore of believing that today’s ‘two-state solution’ – which among other things means that the ‘progressives’ who support it thus support the ethnic cleansing of all Jews from the putative state of Palestine – would be anything other than a Final Solution for the Jews of Israel, not to mention an incalculable victory for the forces waging war against the free world.

Yes.

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