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Iran — Riot Control Officers surrounded

14/06/2009 · Leave a Comment

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Iranian Election Riots 2009 [Raw Video]

14/06/2009 · Leave a Comment

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The Cage

12/06/2009 · Leave a Comment

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Posted with permission. For more insightful articles and books, please visit Professor Eugene Narrett’s site, Israel End Times.

“We will of course be careful in formulating a peace treaty. Our legal experts will craft the proper paragraphs to secure our rights under any contingency. We will touch our glasses with UN diplomat Jarring or whoever will replace him. And then will begin the retreat. In return for promises and securities we will rid ourselves of Judea and Samaria… But the Arabs will not be the same Arabs they were before the retreat, and the Jews will not be the same Jews.” (S.B. Bet Zvi, Zot Ha’Aretz, May 30, 1969)

This quote headed the chapter, “The Cage” I wrote about the “land for peace” dynamic in my book, Israel Awakened that explained how in 2001 the people of Israel had awakened to their end game plight but that Ariel Sharon had saved the Labor regime, subcontractors to the great powers whose goal is to degrade and re-possess Israel.

The book carries a wealth of sources from a wide range of Israeli sources, well-known and ‘just folks,’ the villains who pretend to be blind and those who have woken up, see the looming disaster but exist at the fringes of power. Readers have asked how many years I lived in Israel to acquire such in-depth knowledge of Israeli politics and culture. Please read the book, including the footnotes and hear the voices, recent and from decades ago who saw the precipice the “yishuv establishment” (as Eldad called it) has brought Israel, turning the quintessential sovereign nation into a vassal of the decadent and disintegrating West.

“The seductions of peace rotate like the glittering, multi-faceted crystals of a universal, the spinning, twinkling glass spheres that during the 1930s bathed dancehalls in glittering, shifting light. An aural analog of this dazzling intoxicant is the echo chamber of the mass media forever reverberating with the rhetoric of “land for peace.” Just as heavy fog baffles light and sound so too minds are numbed by blandishments of “peace,” by the benefits of “phased withdrawals” veiling alienation of patrimony. At the end of the long sad path of surrender beckons the blue angel whose embrace is death,” the last convulsion of geula b’ita and its terrible costs…

The distraction machine is in full gear, especially when matters pertaining to Israel are treated. It remains the obsession and target of the acquisitive and nervous West…

To understand the last ten years in detail, to see how they unfolded and what to avoid henceforth, read Israel Awakened, and be sure to read Dr. Narrett’s analysis media fascism, Culture of Terror: the Collapse of America.

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Abdul Qadeer Khan, Nuclear Weapons Proliferator

10/06/2009 · Leave a Comment

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Cross-posted at Avid Editor’s Insights

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The Great Global Warming Swindle

13/04/2009 · Leave a Comment

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Hat tip: Avid Editor’s Insights

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Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Irena Sendler

12/03/2009 · 1 Comment

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Irena Sendler, Nobel Peace Price winner, saved over 2,500 Jewish babies and children from the fate of most Warsaw Ghetto Jews

Irena Sendler, Nobel Peace Price nominee, saved over 2,500 Jewish babies and children from the fate of most Warsaw Ghetto Jews

There recently was the death of a 98-year-old lady named Irena Sendler. During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an ulterior motive… She KNEW what the Nazi’s plans were for the Jews, (being German).

Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of her tool box she carried, and she also carried in the back of her truck a Burlap sack, (for larger kids). She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers, of course, wanted nothing to do with the dog, and the barking covered the kids/infants noises. During her time and course of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.

She was caught, and the Nazi’s broke both her legs and arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard.

After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it, and reunited the family. Most, of course, had been gassed. Those kids she helped were placed into foster family homes or adopted. Last year Irena was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize….

She LOST. Al Gore won for doing a slide show on Global Warming.

For more on Irena’s story, visit The Irena Sendler Project – Life in a Jar

Cross-posted at Avid Editor’s Insights

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The Tragedy of Charlene Downes

27/02/2009 · Leave a Comment

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Warning: For those with a weak stomach or a sensitive nature, this is one of the most grotesque stories I’ve ever read about, even worse than what we all know of Jeffrey Dahmer.

This post started off an expose of how low is the view of European women in the eyes of radical Muslims (and their own women for that matter). I set out to unmask a time honored method of “jihad” being waged against us; violating the “enemy’s” women. The Muslim outlook on rape is one of the “right of conquerer, of warrior”. In previous eras, European cultures were guilty of the same.

It is true, the statistics do prove out that many, many immigrant Muslims, particularly in Europe, seem to feel it fitting to rape European women. I have posted on this elsewhere at this site, where previously tolerant Europeans are tracking the rise of rapes in their respective countries, and report their findings. While the West has made notable attempts at legislating some minimal levels of morality into the milieu of warfare, rape continues to be viewed by radical Muslims as an acceptable form of “jihad”.

The men who stood accused in the case of Charlene Downs are immigrants to the UK, and at least two of the three are Muslim. Anti-Western, Islamic nationalistic motives may have been behind the disappearance and apparent murder of Charlene Downes. Time will tell.

I hod a specific purpose in mind when writing this post. However, it has developed into a desire to help this family either find their missing daughter, or find out who is responsible for her murder.  With that end in mind, I’ve included all tags I could find in relation to the case, mostly, but not exclusively, gleaned from articles as they appeared in The Blackpool Gazette UK. Thus the tags are related to this post, but are not only from my post, and there’s a lot of them. I’ve tried to summarize and condense lots of information gleaned from other articles I’ve read, that may help someone who knows something about the tragedy of Charlene Downes. — Ellie Katz

Charlene Downes 2003

Charlene Downes 2003

Charlene Downes was a 14 year old English school girl who went missing on Saturday November 1st 2003. After searching for her whereabouts for several years, the police thought they may have pieced together the horrible end that came to this 14 year old girl. Alas, now the trial has collapsed, apparently due to lack of solid evidence. The distraught parents feel they are back at square one.

Two men have been accused of murdering Charlene, Mr Albattikhi, a Jordanian immigrant, and his business partner 50-year-old Mohammed Reveshi. It is alleged that she was drugged, perhaps subsequently developing an addiction, coerced into a child-prostitution ring, murdered, and then very possibly, her remains were disposed of by one or two methods;

  • She may have been cut up and served as burgers and kebabs at the suspects’ take-out restaurant, Funny Boyz fast food shop,
  • her bones may have been ground up and used for grout.

This sort of thing may sound other-worldy, but it has some precedents, one case being reported by The Accrington Observer.

Details and how the allegations in the case developed follow. This text below is lifted, probably from a Blackpool Gazzette article. I’m sorry, I forgot to link it so you can read the original. It’s misplaced somewhayeres…

“In 2004, Mr Albattikhi fell out with his brother, Tariq, who told a witness – David Cassidy – that Charlene ‘had been killed and chopped up and there had been a lot of blood,’ Mr Holroyde said.

Mr Cassidy was allegedly warned by Mr Albattikhi that ‘he would be dealt with’ if he told anyone, and was later offered £20,000 by Mr Reveshi, the jury heard.

He went to police in December 2004 and detectives bugged their flats, as well as Mr Reveshi’s Fiat people carrier.

In one of the resulting tapes Mr Reveshi is heard saying the words ‘eat the body’ in a joking tone, Mr Holroyde told the court.

Mr Albattikhi is heard on one tape saying that if “anything” was found he had ‘had it’.”

There are problems with the tapes, questions of interpretation, as well as quality issues (it’s hard to hear). Other witnesses, under-aged girls, have claimed that the Mr. Reveshi was guilty of sexual advances towards them. One witness, Kirsty Fletcher testifies to implicating conversations she overheard (as reported by Times Online):

“Mr Holroyde said that a witness, Kirsty Fletcher, who worked at another fast food restaurant, went to see her employer about her wages and heard a group of men, including Mr Albattikhi, talking about sex with white girls and mentioning Charlene.

“Kirsty says Albattikhi laughed and said she was kinky and she was very small – the plainest possible indication that he was lying to police when he said he did not know her.

“And, says Kirsty Fletcher, he and the others present were then laughingly saying that Charlene had gone into the kebabs.”

A person of interest who may go by the name of “Ronnie” is reported to have met Charlene regularly and given her money. Here is a brief description of the man as reported in this Gazette article:

“Ronnie is believed to have given cash to Charlene and met her at around 3pm in Talbot Road on the day she disappeared.  He may live in the Thornton area and has been described by several people as aged between 30 and 60, although police believe he falls in the older end of the age bracket.

He rides a white bike with racing-cycle handlebars and a white basket, or basket holder on the back.  He is between 5ft 2in and 5ft 5in tall, slim with grey hair and a grey moustache and beard. He has a ‘messy’ crewcut hairstyle and is said to be of scruffy appearance.

Det Supt Buschini said: ‘Anybody who knows this individual or his whereabouts should contact the police immediately as repeated appeals for him to come forward have not been acted upon.’

Another unnamed man is mentioned in this article: “Detectives revealed details of the men as new pictures of Charlene were released, which show her in the Carousel Bar on North Pier on October 31 – the evening before she disappeared.

“‘The first man they want to speak to bought Charlene and a friend a vodka and coke on the evening she disappeared. He was in the Carousel Bar and is described as being in his late 30s to early 40s, 5ft 4in tall and with short dark hair.”

There were allegations of police incompetence, or worse, dishonesty in building their case against the charged suspects. The family feels their daughter’s tragedy hasn’t received the attention it deserves.

I have included just a few links for the convenience of the reader. Googling “Charlene Downes” is another effective means in updating oneself. In regards to some of the links, I must issue a few caveats:

First, many articles are outdated, but for background information, they are still valuable. As I’ve mentioned, the case has since gone to trial, that having failed, was tried and again and the accused were cleared, due to lack of evidence. Well, if one grinds up the body of the murdered child, feeds her to the customers and uses her bones for grout, that does tend to complicate the search for evidence. I think that the grout idea is a bit risky myself.

“”More than 200 police officers have been involved in the inquiry since it was launched in November 2003, and Detective Sergeant Jan Beasant spent 2,400 hours over two years transcribing 52 tapes, that police said proved the guilt of both men.” — A Tangled Web

Also, one or two of the sites I have linked are very “nationalistic” to put it mildly. This in no way indicates an endorsement by this site of their views. Nevertheless, even British racists may have some legitimate gripes regarding the unfair treatment of indigenous Brits vs. the immigration population. I try not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

One commentator at The Nationalist News Blogspot speculated on possible motives, should it turn out that Charlene was indeed murdered:

“Let’s speculate. That she was murdered isn’t in doubt, but there are a couple of extra questions to be answered:

  1. WHY was she murdered?
  2. Why was her body so thorougly disposed of?

I think the two questions are linked.

It doesn’t seem to make sense that she be murdered; she was a sexual resource for the local Pakis, so why kill her? It’s not as if they will have suddenly gone off sex with underage white girls. It doesn’t seem to make sense.

I think she was pregnant, and had just told him that, and that he was daddy (she may have tried to put a squeeze on him? Who knows? the fact of the pregnancy itself will have been enough, with her being underage and him facing jail if the whole story came out).

Suppose he’d just murdered her and made the usual murderers’ incompetent job of hiding the body – well the police would sooner or later have found the body, and the post-mortem would soon enough have shown that she was pregnant.

Foetuses reveal a dna sample that will pin daddy down to one man.

So she had to die to keep him out of jail. And the body had to be thoroughly disposed of to keep a foetal dna sample from being obtained … which would again lead to jail for him, only this time for murder in addition to rape.

Why did the social worker get involved? Maybe he was one of the possibilities as daddy.

Just pondering on the matter.”

There is more discussion at that site, and bigoted views notwithstanding.

Help Find My Child

Association of British Investigators

IPCC

BBC

A Tangled Web

Majority Rights

Nationalist News Blogspot - Warning: A number of links are broken, but there is still a lot of good information.

The Blackpool Gazette (many of the Nationalist News Blogspots links go to this site.)

Missing Girl; Men Hunted (another Blackpool Gazette article)

A Google Groups Report

UK Commentators

Tottenhamlad

The Guardian

If one combs through the comments at one site (and I can’t locate the site I”m thinking of right now, but when I do, I will insert it HERE) I read some surprising things. Some of the commentators claim to be young women who either –

  • knew Charlene, such as her sister Donna, and a young woman named Kirsty Fletcher, later a witness
  • Some snide comments passing between girls, pointing fingers at each other about  illicit goings on at “Funny Boyz”
  • comments indicating these girls knew the men who ran Funny Boyz
  • comments indicating who exactly was involved with the questionable activities going on at the restaurant
  • comments indicating that Charlene was indeed involved with these risky activities
  • who else knew of those same activities.

According to “The Guardian” this seaside city has a considerable problem with child-sex rings, that the problem being a barely covered up “secret”. The suspects, of course, feel their lives have been destroyed by allegations when, in fact, they never even knew Charlene. And that would be a tragedy, if indeed these men are innocent of all charges. We will see. The truth always has a way of bubbling up.

Heartbreaking. I just can’t imagine what the family must be enduring.

Parents, please do teach your daughters some safety tips, and keep close tabs on them. There are many excellent books, courses and other resources available that teach our children — girls and boys of all ages — good safety tips without making them overly fearful. Our children don’t always understand what the real world is like. They are counting on us to protect them.

One of the faults of Western culture is that we often granted our children too much freedom, without giving them to tools to handle that freedom responsibly. The courts often aid and abet this, taking parents to task, even taking children away when the more defiant of our adolescents go to the “authorities” (and I use that term advisedly) with gripes against their too strict of parents, over petty things like not being able to have whatever friends they choose or not being able to watch whatever filth and gore they may want to on television or at the movies. This has to stop. We cannot exercise the proper responsibility over our children if we are not allowed authority over them.

Tragedies such as that of Charlene are often the sad result. I am not, by any means, blaming the parents here. I do not know them or what their family life was like. Some reports say their home-life was chaotic, and others say they were a very loving family. Both conditions can no doubt exist concurrently. It’s not for us to say. In any case, family life has always been varied, but the pandemic of missing and exploited children has not always been the norm in our peaceful Western cultures.

We have enjoyed a peaceful and law-abiding society for so long, now that things are changing, we have allowed ourselves to live with a false sense of security. Our minds haven’t caught up with the reality of how sinister things have gotten. Again, this is due, in large part to the incompetence and corruption of our justice systems, who are often more concerned with interfering in the petty affairs of normal families than in dealing with the sex-slave traffiking industry, one good example among many. Thus the criminals know they can often do what they like with impunity.

Our collective  permissiveness with our children makes them feel we don’t value them, and so, their sense of not being valued puts them at great risk to make foolish and dangerous choices.

Freedom does not equal irresponsibility, especially not with our kids. On the contrary, freedom safeguarded properly is a huge responsibility.

Contact information if you have information about Charlene:

  • Blackpool Police on (01253) 293933
  • Nat’l Missing Persons Helpline Freephone 0500 700 700
  • Crimestoppers: 0800 555111

Charlene is 5ft 1in and has straight shoulder length brown hair and was last seen wearing a black jumper with a white diamond pattern, black jeans with gold eagles on the front and black boots. She may also have been wearing a white hooded top or cardigan.

Ellie Katz

Hat Tip goes to Avid Editor’s Insights for sending me the following link, Religion of Peace Subject Index which got me started and threatens to do so repeatedly, as it is an excellent source for information. Cross posted at  same.

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Speech at Hudson Institute in New York by Geert Wilders

31/12/2008 · Leave a Comment

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Geert Wilders is the Dutch politician who made the ‘Fitna’ film showing the Muslim takeover of Europe. With millions of Muslims screaming for his blood, he continues his fight to open the eyes of the Western world. Here is a speech he gave recently to the Hudson Institute in New York.

Dear friends,

Thank you very much for inviting me. Great to be at the Four Seasons. I come from a country that has one season only: a rainy season that starts January 1st and ends December 31st. When we have three sunny days in a row, the government declares a national emergency.

So Four Seasons, that’s new to me.

It’s great to be in New York. When I see the skyscrapers and office buildings, I think of what Ayn Rand said: ‘The sky over New York and the will of man made visible.’

Of course. Without the Dutch you would have been nowhere, still figuring out how to buy this island from the Indians. But we are glad we did it for you. And, frankly, you did a far better job than we possibly could have done.

I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The danger I see looming is the scenario of America as the last man standing, the United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe. In a generation or two, the US will ask itself:  ‘Who lost Europe?’

Patriots from around Europe risk their lives every day to prevent precisely this scenario form becoming a reality.

My short lecture consists of 4 parts. First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe. Then, I will say a few things about Islam.. Thirdly, if you are still here, I will talk a little bit about the movie you just saw. To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem.

The Europe you know is changing… You have probably seen the landmarks. The Eiffel Tower and Trafalgar Square and Rome’s ancient buildings and maybe the canals of Amsterdam. They are still there. And they still look very much the same as they did a hundred years ago.

But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world, a world very few visitors see – and one that does not appear in your tourist guidebook. It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration. All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: Entire Muslim neighbourhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It’s the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. Mosques are on many a street corner.

The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighbourhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe. These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe, street by street, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, city by city.

There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe with larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region.
Clearly, the signal is:  ‘We rule.’

Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam, Marseille and Malmo in Sweden. In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighbourhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.

In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims. Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils. In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims… Non-Muslim women routinely hear ‘whore, whore’.

Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin. In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin.. The history of the Holocaust can in many cases no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity. In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighbourhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves. Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels, because he was drinking during the Ramadan. Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II. French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya, Israel. I could go on forever with stories like this, stories about Islamization.

A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe… San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.

Now these are just numbers. And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France. One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favour of a worldwide caliphate. A Dutch study reported that half of Dutch Muslims admit they ‘understand’ the 9/11 attacks.

Muslims demand what they call ‘respect’. And this is how we give them respect. Our elites are willing to give in. To give up. In my own country we have gone from calls by one cabinet member to turn Muslim holidays into official state holidays, to statements by another cabinet member, that Islam is part of Dutch culture, to an affirmation by the Christian-Democratic attorney general that he is willing to accept sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority. We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey.

Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behaviour, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots. Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus. Some prefer to see these as isolated incidents, but I call it a Muslim intifada. I call the perpetrators ’settlers’. Because that is what they are. They do not come to integrate into our societies, they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam. Therefore, they are settlers.

Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighbourhoods, their cities, their countries.

Politicians shy away from taking a stand against this creeping sharia. They believe in the equality of all cultures. Moreover, on a mundane level, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.

Our many problems with Islam cannot be explained by poverty, repression or the European colonial past, as the Left claims. Nor does it have anything to do with Palestinians or American troops in Iraq. The problem is Islam itself.
Allow me to give you a brief Islam 101. The first thing you need to know about Islam is the importance of the book of the Quran. The Quran is Allah’s personal word, revealed by an angel to Mohammed, the prophet. This is where the trouble starts. Every word in the Quran is Allah’s word and therefore not open to discussion or interpretation. It is valid for every Muslim and for all times. Therefore, there is no such a thing as moderate Islam… Sure, there are a lot of moderate Muslims. But a moderate Islam is non-existent.

The Quran calls for hatred, violence, submission, murder, and terrorism. The Quran calls for Muslims to kill non-Muslims, to terrorize non-Muslims and to fulfil their duty to wage war: violent jihad. Jihad is a duty for every Muslim, Islam is to rule the world – by the sword. The Quran is clearly anti-Semitic, describing Jews as monkeys and pigs.

The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet. His behaviour is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized. Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem. But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages – at the same time. Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed. Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. He advised on matters of slavery, but never advised to liberate slaves. Islam has no other morality than the advancement of Islam. If it is good for Islam, it is good. If it is bad for Islam, it is bad. There is no gray area or other side.

Quran as Allah’s own word and Mohammed as the perfect man are the two most important facets of Islam. Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion. Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins. But in its essence Islam is a political ideology. It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person. Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life. Islam means ’submission’. Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is sharia. If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.

This is what you need to know about Islam, in order to understand what is going on in Europe. For millions of Muslims the Quran and the live of Mohammed are not 14 centuries old, but are an everyday reality, an ideal, that guide every aspect of their lives. Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam ‘the most retrograde force in the world’, and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran.

Which brings me to my movie, Fitna. I am a lawmaker, and not a movie maker. But I felt I had the moral duty to educate about Islam. The duty to make clear that the Quran stands at the heart of what some people call terrorism but is in reality jihad. I wanted to show that the problems of Islam are at the core of Islam, and do not belong to its fringes.

Now, from the day the plan for my movie was made public, it caused quite a stir, in the Netherlands and throughout Europe. First, there was a political storm, with government leaders, across the continent in sheer panic. The Netherlands was put under a heightened terror alert, because of possible attacks or a revolt by our Muslim population. The Dutch branch of the Islamic organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir declared that the Netherlands was due for an attack. Internationally, there was a series of incidents. The Taliban threatened to organize additional attacks against Dutch troops in Afghanistan, and a website linked to Al Qaeda published the message that I ought to be killed, while various muftis in the Middle East stated that I would be responsible for all the bloodshed after the screening of the movie. In Afghanistan and Pakistan the Dutch flag was burned on several occasions. Dolls representing me were also burned. The Indonesian President announced that I will never be admitted into Indonesia again, while the UN Secretary General and the European Union issued cowardly statements in the same vein as those made by the Dutch Government. I could go on and on. It was an absolute disgrace, a sell-out.

A plethora of legal troubles also followed, and have not ended yet. Currently the state of Jordan is litigating against me. Only last week there were renewed security agency reports about a heightened terror alert for the Netherlands because of Fitna.

Now, I would like to say a few things about Israel, because, very soon, we will get together in its capitol. The best way for a politician in Europe to loose votes is to say something positive about Israel. The public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor. I, however, will continue to speak up for Israel. I see defending Israel as a matter of principle. I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times. I support Israel. First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz, second because it is a democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defense.

Samuel Huntington writes it so aptly:  ‘Islam has bloody borders’. Israel is located precisely on that border. This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating Islam’s territorial advance. Israel is facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia. Israel is simply in the way. The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War.

The war against Israel is not a war against Israel. It is a war against the West. It is jihad. Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us. If there would have been no Israel, Islamic imperialism would have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest. Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.

Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities. But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West. It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values. On the contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam. They would, and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed. The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning. It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination. If they can get Israel, they can get everything. Therefore, it is not that the West has a stake in Israel. It is Israel.

It is very difficult to be an optimist in the face of the growing Islamization of Europe. All the tides are against us. On all fronts we are losing. Demographically the momentum is with Islam. Muslim immigration is even a source of pride within ruling liberal parties. Academia, the arts, the media, trade unions, the churches, the business world, the entire political establishment have all converted to the suicidal theory of multiculturalism. So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a ‘right-wing extremists’ or ‘racists’. The entire establishment has sided with our enemy. Leftists, liberals and Christian-Democrats are now all in bed with Islam.

This is the most painful thing to see: the betrayal by our elites. At this moment in Europe’s history, our elites are supposed to lead us. To stand up for centuries of civilization. To defend our heritage. To honour our eternal Judeo-Christian values that made Europe what it is today. But there are very few signs of hope to be seen at the governmental level. Sarkozy, Merkel, Brown, Berlusconi; in private, they probably know how grave the situation is. But when the little red light goes on, they stare into the camera and tell us that Islam is a religion of peace, and we should all try to get along nicely and sing Kumbaya.. They willingly participate in, what President Reagan so aptly called: ‘the betrayal of our past, the squandering of our freedom.’

If there is hope in Europe, it comes from the people, not from the elites. Change can only come from a grass-roots level. It has to come from the citizens themselves. Yet these patriots will have to take on the entire political, legal and media establishment.

Over the past years there have been some small, but encouraging, signs of a rebirth of the original European spirit. Maybe the elites turn their backs on freedom, the public does not. In my country, the Netherlands, 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II. And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat to our national identity. I don’t think the public opinion in Holland is very different from other European countries.

Patriotic parties that oppose jihad are growing, against all odds. My own party debuted two years ago, with five percent of the vote. Now it stands at ten percent in the polls. The same is true of all similarly-minded parties in Europe. They are fighting the liberal establishment, and are gaining footholds on the political arena, one voter at the time.

Now, for the first time, these patriotic parties will come together and exchange experiences. It may be the start of something big. Something that might change the map of Europe for decades to come. It might also be Europe’s last chance.

This December a conference will take place in Jerusalem. Thanks to Professor Aryeh Eldad, a member of Knesset, we will be able to watch Fitna in the Knesset building and discuss the jihad. We are organizing this event in Israel to emphasize the fact that we are all in the same boat together, and that Israel is part of our common heritage. Those attending will be a select audience. No racist organizations will be allowed. And we will only admit parties that are solidly democratic.

This conference will be the start of an Alliance of European patriots. This Alliance will serve as the backbone for all organizations and political parties that oppose jihad and Islamization. For this Alliance I seek your support.

This endeavor may be crucial to America and to the West. America may hold fast to the dream that, thanks tot its location, it is safe from jihad and sharia. But seven years ago to the day, there was still smoke rising from ground zero, following the attacks that forever shattered that dream. Yet there is a danger even greater danger than terrorist attacks : the scenario of America as the last man standing. The lights may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine… An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America – as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs. With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the heritage of Rome, Athens and Jerusalem.

Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts. My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter by people who fought for it with their lives. All throughout Europe American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish. My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians. We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe’s children in the same state in which it was offered to us. We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams. Future generations would never forgive us.

We cannot squander our liberties. We simply do not have the right to do so.
This is not the first time our civilization is under threat. We have seen dangers before. We have been betrayed by our elites before. They have sided with our enemies before. And yet, freedom prevailed.

These are not times in which to take lessons from appeasement, capitulation, giving away, giving up or giving in. These are not times in which to draw lessons from Mr. Chamberlain. These are times calling us to draw lessons from Mr. Churchill and the words he spoke in 1942:

‘Never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.’

The above copy of Mr. Wilder’s speech at the Hudson Institute was sent to me courtesy of a long-time friend who works with Christian Arabs in Israel and the entire Middle East. He is a first-hand witness to the misery and persecution inflicted upon the Christian Arab minority in the Middle East by their Muslim neighbors.

Ellie

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Nagla al-Imam’s Intentions Clarified

21/11/2008 · Leave a Comment

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Thanks to Andy at The Domain For Truth for his astounded reaction to the video clip I featured yesterday, along with my post doubting my own eyes and ears.

Also, thanks to Andy, who linked the more complete Memri clip of Nagla Al-Imam, a female Egyptian lawyer from Cairo, all nagging doubts have been removed. This bizarre woman’s true desires are couched in subterfuge, designed so she can avoid responsibility for her irresponsible assertions. She claims she isn’t recommending rape of Israeli girls, merely sexual harassment. The contradiction becomes obvious when Nagla suggests “using any possible method”, and makes declarative statements such as “leave the land so we won’t rape you”. So, if Israeli women don’t leave “Arab lands” in Nagla’s opinion, the onus is on them should they remain in “Arab lands” and find themselves being raped. There will be no recourse.

This brings to mind some biting thoughts on the legal profession in general and Arab culture in particular. Western trained lawyers are so good at the sort of mind-bending word games Nagla is attempting, when they successfully manage to dig their claws into their victims, most walk away blaming themselves for the bloody claw marks. Clearly, before Nagla applies for a position in a Western law firm she needs to work on her subtlety.

My thoughts on Arab “culture” can be summed up as follows: This clip, Nagla’s expressions, her choice to comment that “Arab women are fair game for Arab men” is evidence of the deep pathology of Arab culture, which currently punishes women when they are raped, rather than their rapists. Nagla’s angry presentation suggests to me she is actually furious with her own culture, and tranferring that free floating fury to the so-called “Zionist Entity”. Ahh, a microcosm of the Arab/Israeli conflict for all the world to see. If the world ever can face it, given those Arab oil reserves and all.

Memri link to the video clip in question.

Memri link to an article on the clip.

Ellie

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Bailouts

19/09/2008 · Leave a Comment

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Ron Paul’s take on the recent multi-billion dollar bailouts…

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