Standing up to Islamofascism
[May 23, 2008]
The silly season makes its bow in mid to late summer, but climate change ordained its unexpectedly early appearance. Prof David Marquand, a former Labour MP, founder member of the Social Democratic Party -- parent of the present Liberal Democrats -- once a Guardian leader writer, currently an academic of some renown, whose works include a biography of Ramsay Macdonald and a political study entitled The Progressive Dilemma from Lloyd George to Neil Kinnock, likened what he chose to describe as Europe's rising Islamophobia to the continent's anti-Semitism of the 1930s.
An august gathering in one of the committee rooms at the House of Lords heard him in phlegmatic silence. Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband, having entered and left like an impatient zephyr, would have been somewhat bemused to hear these words.
In speaking as he did, Prof Marquand personifies an orbital being swirling in an intellectual and moral void. There was no disguising his passion born of an ingrained belief that a satanic wrong was being done to a helpless population. A late night television documentary on Adolf Hitler's Germany, which included considerable historical footage, was a reminder of the gulf dividing muscular truth from inflamed fantasy.
The street scenes of Jewish citizens assaulted at will by Nazi thugs were repellent, as were the attacks on Jewish-owned properties; yet nothing could compare with the images of the skeletal remains of Jewish corpses in the extermination camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and Treblinka, the starving men, women and children perishing in the cold. It was a picture from the depths of Hell. Hardened soldiers of the Allied armies were shaken by the sight. When Hermann Goering and his Nazi associates were shown these films at their Nuremberg trial, their previous jocularity froze into grim silence.
London, Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Frankfurt and other of Europe's capitals are their bustling normal selves. Visiting the British capital's East End one saw Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Arabs and kindred Muslim communities shopping and going about their business without let or hindrance. At local post office counters were queues of hijab and burqa-clad women claiming unemployment benefit.
Jews in Hitler's Third Reich threw no bombs, plotted no explosions, published no hate-filled books or pamphlets against the Gentiles among whom they breathed and lived. Far from railing at their shared culture, they ennobled it with myriad contributions. European science, music and literature would have been immeasurably poorer for their absence. What would the world be without Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Proust, Marx and many more of the gallery of the great and good, whose manifold achievements have added a whole new dimension to the human experience?
A day after Prof Marquand's peroration came news of the Jaipur bombings with its loss of some 70 innocent lives; meanwhile, in London, a gang of eight British Muslims, born in foreign parts, are standing trial for a conspiracy to cause carnage "on an almost unprecedented scale" by detonating up to 18 bombs on trans-Atlantic passenger flights.
There was no sign that the professor was deaf, dumb or blind. He must, therefore, have known of the Bali bombings, the Madrid bombings and the bombings on the London Underground trains and surface transport. He is surely acquainted with the messages of anti-Semitic hatred that are rife in the Muslim ghettos of Britain's inner cities. Has he never heard of the black Jamaican Imam, Abdullah Al Faisal, who called publicly for the murder of Jews and Hindus, was tried eventually for incitement, found guilty as charged, duly imprisoned and promptly deported on his release to his Caribbean homeland?
Prof Marquand must know of this and similar other cases, where the accused, however, are in possession of British passports, hence cannot face deportation. Muslim families in Britain who convert to Christianity are hounded mercilessly by their co-religionists and are under constant threat to life and limb, because there is no recognition of apostasy in Islam. What price the Universal Declaration on Human Rights? As for instances of stoning and beheading in such bastions of civilisation as Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan, to name only three countries on the right side of Paradise, these clearly have failed to bestir the Marquand conscience, let alone the inflatable Marquand ego.
Oriental hyperbole has long been a tedious fact of life, but its Occidental variant is now something of a spectator sport. Consider the following pantomime: A few months ago, Channel 4 Television screened a film called Undercover Mosque -- recorded secretly -- on Muslim preachers of hate sermonising in mosques up and down the land, their incendiary words an unequivocal violation of the law.
Imagine the shock and consternation when the Crown Prosecution Service and the West Midlands Police instituted proceedings against the makers of the film on the ground that it incited racial hatred. Ofcom, the television regulator, rejected the complaints. Channel 4 sued for libel and won substantial damages. The police and the CPS accepted at court that they were wrong and that there was "no evidence that the broadcaster or programme makers had misled the audience or that the programme was likely to encourage or incite criminal activity".
Mr Kevin Sutcliffe, the deputy head of current affairs at Channel 4, spoke for the community of the sane: "This is a total vindication of the programme team in exposing extreme views being preached in mainstream British mosques. The programme's findings were clearly a matter of important public interest. The authorities should be doing all they can to encourage investigations like this, not attempting to publicly rubbish them for reasons they have never properly explained."
However, there are no national boundaries for self-regarding surrealists much given to contemplating their navels. An opinion-sheet published in London and portentously entitled South Asian Perspectives included an offering from one Neera Chandoke, a Delhi University academic, arguing the right of secession in the Sub-continent. East Pakistan went down that route in 1971 and lost three million of its people to rape and murder by the West Pakistani soldiery.
Hitler supported secession when it was restricted to Czech Sudetenland. The European project became flesh only with the disappearance of Nazi Germany. The pan-African dream was in reality a nightmare with an apartheid regime flourishing in the continent's south.
Partition gave the lie to a South Asian perspective long ago. Let Indians rest content with an Indian perspective true to their nation's best traditions. Otherwise, we may say with Shakespeare's Falstaff, "I do perceive that I am an ass."
http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnist1.asp?main_variable=Columnist&file_name=Premen%2FPremen31.txt&writer=Premen Tags: Bombing, 911, Islamofascism, Taliban, Islamic terrorism, "palestinians", Jihad, Afghanistan, Muslims, radical Islam, religion of peace, Iraq war Iran anti Se itism Labels: antisemitism, Appeasement, Eurabia, islamofascism
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Memorial Day: More Than Just a Vacation Day - ... And thus began the international war against Islamo-fascism
Memorial Day: More Than Just a Vacation Day - ... And thus began the international war against Islamo-fascism
The News & Advance
Published: May 25, 2008
Say the phrase “Memorial Day,” and more people than you’d imagine will think of city pools opening, the first three-day weekend of the year, cookouts, the unofficial start of summer, big sales at the mall. Fewer and fewer people today would first think it’s the day to honor America’s war dead.
How sad it is that the nation’s most somber holiday has turned into a day for pool parties, grilling up some burgers and dogs and snagging some bargains on markdown.
Over the course of the nation’s 228-year history, millions of men and women have answered their country’s call to service to defend freedom and liberty, not just for ourselves but often for the world. Tens of thousands of them gave the ultimate sacrifice, the last full measure of devotion, their very lives to the nation they love.
That’s the sole purpose of this day: honoring those men and women and remembering their sacrifices.
America is now in the sixth year of the war in Iraq, a conflict in which more than 4,000 U.S. soldiers have died. As a nation, for at least this one day, let’s put aside the endless arguments over whether we should have invaded Iraq … let’s not debate whether it’s possible to create democracy in the Arab world … let’s stop fighting over the planning, or lack thereof, for the post-war period … and please, let’s stop babbling on that the war was just about oil.
Let’s just focus on the men and women who’ve put themselves in harm’s way for their country.
It was almost seven years ago, that 19 Islamo-fascist terrorists launched attacks on Washington, D.C., and New York City, killing close to 3,000 people in a matter of minutes at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pa.
In the dark days following the attacks, Americans of all stripes realized there is indeed evil in this world, people whose entire purpose in life is to bring down the exemplar of Western culture: the United States of America.
And thus began the international war against Islamo-fascism. In fundamentalist Afghanistan (the lair of the Taliban and al-Qaida) and the dictatorship of Iraq (the well of simmering Arab frustration that had to be drained to make the region fertile ground for democracy, the argument went), hundreds of thousands of American soldiers hit the ground, to protect both their own nation and to liberate the people living under the thumbs of brutal leaders.
Their country called, and they responded, without reservation and knowing full well the dangers they faced.
Has the government of this nation had their backs at all times? Hardly. Just recall the horrible stories The Washington Post broke last year about the rancid conditions wounded veterans faced in Walter Reed Army Medical Center and replicated in military hospitals around the country. Then there’ve been the stories about faulty equipment and lack of proper resources that troops have had to face. This nation’s civilian and military leaders, from President Bush on down, ought to hang their heads in shame for the way they’ve treated the men and women of the armed services.
But still, America’s sons and daughters are answering the nation’s call to service, and will continue to do so. Not because they’re Republicans or Democrats, not because they’re nationalistic chest-thumpers, not because they’re capitalism’s storm troopers.
No, rather because they are willing to sacrifice and possibly die for a simple concept: the dignity of mankind and the value of a single life.
That’s what Memorial Day is all about.
http://www.newsadvance.com/lna/news/opinion/editorials/article/memorial_day_more_than_just_a_vacation_day/5183/Tags: Bombing, 911, Islamofascism, Taliban, Islamic terrorism, "palestinians", Jihad, Afghanistan, Muslims, radical Islam, religion of peace, Iraq war Iran memorial day Labels: 911, Afghanistan, Iraq, islamofascism, Taliban, USA, war on terror, wars
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Sunday, May 25, 2008
McCain praised pastor who called Islam "a conspiracy of spiritual evil"
McCain praised pastor who called Islam "a conspiracy of spiritual evil" http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021133.php
McCain Pastor: Islam Is a 'Conspiracy of Spiritual Evil' Islam is an anti-Christ religion that intends through violence to conquer the world,"
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4905624&page=1
Labels: christianity, islam, religion of "peace"
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Showdown With Islamic Militants (in Indonesia)
Showdown With Islamic Militants (in Indonesia)May 20, 2008: Islamic radicals continue pushing the government to drop the constitutional guarantees of religious freedom, and legalize persecution of any religion considered an “insult to Islam.” Recent attacks on the Islamic Ahmadiyah sect, which has 200,000 members in Indonesia, are used as a cause for the agitation. The sect has been active in Indonesia for about 80 years, and is one of dozens of varieties of Islam practiced here. But the other sects are just adaptations of pre-Islamic religious practices to Islam. These also offend Islamic conservatives, but are more difficult to get banned.
Islamic radicals demand that the government declare Ahmadiyah illegal. Ahmadiyah was founded in Pakistan over a century ago, and is banned there. The government banned Ahmadiyah, but now has to reconsider because of the constitutional issues, and the fears of the 20 percent of Indonesians who are not Moslem, and the majority of Indonesian Moslems who practice versions of Islam that would not pass muster with Islamic conservatives. The government was heavily criticized at home and abroad for the Ahmadiyah banning, especially with the recent burnings of Ahmadiyah mosques. The Islamic radicals are using the Ahmadiyah issue as a rallying point, and threaten widespread violence is the government does not enforce the ban. The government, which has tried hard to avoid offending the Islamic conservatives, now must reconsider that policy, as it is being backed into a corner by Islamic radicals.
May 18, 2008: East Timor, a former Portuguese colony, signed a military agreement with seven other Portuguese speaking country to receive military training. After six years of independence, East Timor is a political and economic wreck, with no place to go but up. Or so the locals hope.
May 6, 2008: Another top Islamic terrorist, Faiz Fauzan, was arrested. He was involved in Jemaah Islamiya bombings three years ago. The local backlash against Islamic terrorism has shattered Jemaah Islamiya, leaving most of its key members more concerned with avoiding arrest, than in planning more attacks. Most top Jemaah Islamiya people appear to have fled the country, seeking refuge in Malaysia, the Philippines, the Persian Gulf, and even Pakistan.
May 5, 2008: In West Timor, Indonesian police arrested four East Timor rebel soldiers, and sent them back to East Timor in handcuffs. The four were involved in the recent attempt to kill the president of East Timor.
May 2, 2008: Violence flared up in the Malukus, where two churches and over a hundred homes were burnt as Christians and Moslems fought in a land dispute. Several hundred police showed up and separated the armed men from the two villages. Such land disputes are common in this part of the world, but add in religion and things get really violent. This incident ended up with three dead and several dozen wounded.
http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/indones/articles/20080520.aspxTags: Bombing, East Timor, Faiz Fauzan, Indonesia, Islamic terrorism, Jemaah Islamiya, Jihad, Malukus, Muslims, radical Islam, religion of peace, Timor Labels: Bombing, East Timor, Faiz Fauzan, Indonesia, Islamic terrorism, Jemaah Islamiya, jihad, Malukus, muslims, radical Islam, religion of peace, Timor
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[Arab] Racism and Historical Truth: Jewish Refugees from Arab Lands
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Prosecutor cites Koran in trial of (terrorist) Muslim cleric
Prosecutor cites Koran in trial of (terrorist) Muslim cleric njjn ^ | May, 2008 Qatanani, the imam of the Islamic Center of Passaic County in Paterson, spent three days in a courtroom in the Peter Rodino Federal Building before Immigration Judge Alberto Riefkohl. Riefkohl is to decide whether the 44-year-old Palestinian-born spiritual leader should be expelled from the United States to Jordan for having failed to mention in his application for permanent residency here that he was arrested and held by the Israeli military for three months in 1993. …
The lead government attorney, Alan Wolf, read a passage from the Koran asserting that God will cause unbelievers and hypocrites to “increase in illness and…be swiftly punished on the Day of Judgment.” Gesturing toward Qatanani, Wolf asked Senter, whose testimony emphasized Qatanani’s commitment to interfaith outreach, whether a person who believed in such language could really be the moderate figure Senter believed him to be.
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