Background, overview and recap articles:
Don't Make the Muslims Angry. The
world's one billion Muslims, whose delicate emotions are always infuriated by something, enforce an Islamic status quo in which no non-Muslim
dares to violate the Muslim superiority complex. A Danish newspaper can't print cartoons that a few Imams don't like or the billion Muslims
will get angry. Burger King can't have ice cream that Muslims think resembles the name of their god or a billion Muslims will get angry.
America can't defend itself against Islamic terrorism or a billion Muslims will get angry. Jews in Israel and Christians in Egypt can't have
their civil rights or a billion Muslims will get angry. Some might say that the billion Muslims are just looking for things to get angry
at... but that would just make a billion Muslims angry.
Dear
Moderate Muslims: Your Self-Pity Party Is Disgusting. Islam is not a race but an expressly prescribed religious
and political ideology. One that demands violence of its ardent supporters. Leftism is a prescribed ideology that
demands the tolerance of any "marginalized minorities," be it perceived or otherwise. When it came to calling our enemy
"Islamic terrorists" the left refused. When it came to placing the security of its own, free people over that of Islamic, Syrian
refugees, the left refused. When the Muslims demand sympathy in claiming to be falsely maligned, the left immediately obliges.
Timely news and commentary:
Creeping
Sharia in France. Muslims have been threatening boulangeries and restaurants in
France, even those owned by non-Muslims, to become strictly halal. That means all pork
products must be banned. Some outlets have had to ban alcohol, while others have declared
that only men should shop in their stores during the week, and women only on weekends. [...] No one
forced the two Muslim customers to buy the bacon quiche. Could they not have asked the shop
clerk "does this quiche contain any pork products"? And even after discovering bacon in their
quiche, was it necessary to throw a hysterical fit and threaten the store's owner? After all,
no Muslim is being forced to buy a bacon quiche. To avoid any future mistakes, the owner
could simply put up a large warning sign, indicating all of his confections that contain
pork. That should have been the end of the story. Instead, the Muslims returned to the
store "furiously and "violently," and threatened the store owner, who quickly decided that to avoid
problems from maddened Muslims, he would simply stop using pork products. "They wanted to burn
everything, break everything," Dallery wrote.
To
keep Muslims happy, the UK's Labour Party wants to destroy pub culture. One of the
things most associated with Great Britain is the pub culture. Seemingly, every novel has a
scene in a pub or tavern where the locals gather, not to carouse or drink themselves into a silent,
depressed stupor, but, instead, to come together as a community. It is a watering hole
offering beer and whiskey — or, as some might say, the very water of life itself.
But the UK's new Labour government is not on board with this ancient culture. And importantly,
it's not waging a war to fight alcohol abuse; rather, it wants to keep Muslims happy.
Don't
outlaw 'Islamophobia'. I'm both a Muslim and a historian of Islam and I find the
whole notion of Islamophobia to be wrongheaded, an etymological fallacy. Going after the
hardliners would be a win-win for the Labour leader — but does he have the
courage? The notion of Islamophobia was invented to mirror homophobia and draw parallels with
anti-Semitism. But the word itself is inherently flawed. Both homophobia and
anti-Semitism are directed against specific peoples. 'Islamophobia' is a fear of ideas, beliefs
and attitudes. Violence or discrimination against adherents of any religion is obviously
indefensible, but it should also go without saying that in a free society people should be at
liberty to criticise or mock any organised religion. No intelligent Muslim should place the
word 'Islam' and the word 'phobia' together in a single phrase. This is why the word did not
exist until relatively recently. Islamophobia has been largely promoted by Islamists and
jihadists, to protect them from scrutiny.
Sirens
Are Blaring and Red Warning Lights Are Blinking at the CIA. Every once in a while,
history gives us a second chance. The multitude of errors and missed signals that led up to
the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon taught us valuable
lessons about the nature of the world we live in and how truly vulnerable we are in the United
States to bad actors looking for blood. [Advertisement] One of the most valuable lessons we
learned from that terrible day is that complacency is a deadly disease that can result in tragedy
too painful to bear. We had many warnings about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda and their
maniacal desire to attack the U.S. [...] Today, the motivation of those ignoring the current
terrorist warnings is that they're terrified to single out Muslims as terrorist suspects. The
political cost to Joe Biden in states like Michigan, if he were to highlight the very real threat
of Muslim extremists entering the United States through our porous Southern border, outweighs any
possible threat to the safety of American citizens. So the Biden administration has remained quiet.
Islamophobia
or Propaganda? When was the first time you ever heard of the word "Islamophobia," as
best you can remember? [...] America was rather agitated against the 9/11 terrorists at the time,
and could not help noticing that they were all Muslims, as are nearly all terrorist groups
worldwide (per the U.S. State Department's listing of international terrorist organizations).
So, the propaganda arm of international Islam realized it had a public relations problem.
"People are on to us; they are beginning to realize our movement's true, violent nature," they
might have thought. But what to do about it? Their response strategy is obvious to
anyone who knows anything about marketing and PR: They decided on a propaganda campaign to
equate any criticism of Islam with bigotry, thereby intimidating potential critics into submitting
to that constraint and effectively silencing any opposition. [...] Evidence of the campaign's
effectiveness: Why is it that there is one and only one particular religion we are not allowed
to criticize? In contrast, surely you have noticed abundant public criticism of Christianity and
Judaism. In some Muslim countries, practice of either religion is a capital crime!
Muslims
Outside A Female Comic's Show In Lebanon Are Threatening To Kill Her For Making Fun Of Islamic
Extremism. Lebanon's Muslim religious authorities have filed complaints against a
stand-up comedian and LGBTQ rights activist after a sketch of hers about Friday prayers sparked
controversy online. Openly gay Lebanese comedian Shaden Fakih has amassed a large online
following for her jabs at religious authorities and the sectarian factions that have long dominated
the country's politics. But her sometimes crude jokes have also angered many Lebanese,
despite the country's reputation as one of the Arab world's most tolerant societies. [Video clip]
What
Can Be Made Fun of and What Can't. How odd the way humor in our society is
unfolding. Christianity, white males, male sports, conservative women, conservative Black
people, and conservative Supreme Court justices, among others are considered prime territory for
late-night talk show hosts. Meanwhile, it is taboo to joke about Islam, Native Americans,
liberal women, most minorities, and the trials and tribulations of many Leftist politicians.
Consider the long-run theatrical play, "The Book of Mormon." [...] Imagine that playwrights and
lyricists Trey Parker, Matt Stone — creators of South Park — Robert Lopez,
and Kristen Anderson-Lopez chose instead to create a theatrical production called "The Quran."
[...] As with the Quran, the Prophet Muhammad is untouchable. Never mind that he married a
seven-year-old and that the number of people he slaughtered is countless. Never mind that his
visions, which he deemed to be direct messages from God, were likely epileptic fits. Muhammad
cannot be touched. There is no possibility for humor and no comedian who can offer any mirth
related to Muhammad and still have a job.
Lawsuit:
NYC to Pay $17.5 Million After Muslim Women Forced to Remove Hijabs for Mugshots.
New York City has agreed to pay a whopping settlement after a pair of women claimed their rights were
violated when they were forced to remove their hijabs for mugshots. A hijab is not a full-body
garment. It covers only the hair and neck. The city said it will fork over the
$17.5 million settlement, which still needs approval from Judge Analisa Torres of U.S. District
Court for the Southern District of New York, the New York Times reported Friday.
Newspeak:
US
Intel Agency Wants To Ban Terms 'Radical Islamists' and 'Jihadist' Because They're Hurtful to
Muslim Americans. The United States' top intelligence agency wants to ban its spies
from using "biased language," including the terms "radical Islamists" and "jihadist," saying these
words "are hurtful to Muslim-Americans and detrimentally impact our efforts as they bolster
extremist rhetoric," according to a language guide published internally. The Office of the
Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which is responsible for handling the country's spy
apparatus, seeks to ban a range of common terms because it says they offend Muslims and foment
racism against employees. In addition to terms describing Islamic terrorists, ODNI instructs
employees to avoid phrases such as "blacklisted," "cakewalk," "brown bag," "grandfathered," and
"sanity check." "Blacklisted," for instance, "implies black is bad and white is good," while
"cakewalk" is said to refer "to a dance performed by slaves for slave owners on plantation grounds."
Muslims
Firebomb Store Over "Allah Socks". Islam is a peaceful religion. It's not in
any way associated with violence except in response to Jews, Christians or Hindus defending
themselves against it, or really serious issues like socks. Allah socks. [...] Also, Muslims
have a history of seeing their deity where he isn't. Like on ice cream. [...] Or Nike shoes.
[...] While store executives face prison time over the Allah socks, Muslims have gone on a Sock Jihad.
Muslim
Death Threats to Teachers in Paris. In Paris, 163 heads of schools have made a public
protest about the threats to their safety made by "aggressive" Muslim parents. The heads of
school, and their teachers, are terrified. They remember the decapitation of Samuel Paty, who
had dared to show his pupils — though telling Muslim students they need not remain in
the classroom while it was being shown — a single cartoon of Muhammad, as part of a
discussion on free speech. Paty's executioner was not even a parent, but just a Muslim who
had heard about his supposed "blasphemy" and arrived at the school from afar to see justice done,
by slitting the throat of the conscientious teacher as he walked home. [...] The principle of
laicité — the separation of church and state, or secularism, emphatically
applied — is a central principle of the French government, and of French
education. According to French law, all outward and visible signs of religious identity are
banned in state schools. Hijabs are banned, as are crucifixes, kippahs, and turbans, and
other signs of a particular religious identity. The headmaster at the Ravel Lyceum was merely
enforcing the law, as he was required to do by the government. But the girl he told to remove
her hijab went home and complained to her family, and someone — most likely her
father — then threatened the headmaster with death which, given the murder of Samuel
Paty, had to be taken seriously.
You
can't celebrate terrorism and then cry 'Islamophobia' when people notice. Muslim
activists who take the side of Palestinian terrorists and then cry about Islamophobia when people
notice have no one to blame but themselves and their dishonest bait-and-switch. The outrage
this time comes from Dearborn, Michigan, which was described in the headline of a Wall Street
Journal opinion piece as "America's Jihad Capital." Dearborn is an Arab American-majority suburb of
Detroit, and so, naturally, this brought condemnations from several corners of liberal media and
politicians. Dearborn's mayor called the piece "bigoted" and "Islamophobic," and President
Joe Biden condemned the piece and said it could lead to "anti-Arab hate." The problem, though,
is that beyond the inflammatory headline, all the piece does is describe events in Dearborn.
For example, it describes hundreds of people gathering in Dearborn shortly after the Oct. 7
massacre to celebrate the attack.
Jackpot!
Muslim Woman in Tennessee Gets $100,000 for Having to Remove Her Hijab for a Mugshot.
There are several ways to get rich in Old Joe Biden's America. Among the most notable are
winning an elected office, being the son of a major elected official, and being part of one of the
left's protected victim groups who can make a case for having been the victim of discrimination.
That last one is why a woman in Tennessee, Sophia Johnston, is $100,000 richer today.
Muslim
Activist in Ireland Says Irish Must Stop Making Jokes. Remember when immigrants were
expected to assimilate? Those days are gone, and we all know that anyone who wants them back
is a racist and a bigot. Today, the migrants dictate terms to the native people, who better
fall in line or else. In Ireland, a Muslim activist wants the Irish to stop cracking
wise. Why? Because it offends her, and we all know who is in charge now. Ala
Buisir grew up in Dublin and now focuses on photographic and film projects that (surprise,
surprise!) call attention to racism, the suffering that Muslims supposedly underwent during the War
on Terror, and discrimination that new arrivals in Ireland allegedly experience. Yes, Ala
Buisir is a professional victim, someone who whines for a living, and why not? All over the
West today, victimhood is a growth industry.
Teachers
'self-censoring lessons for fear of offending Muslim pupils'. Up to one in five
teachers are self-censoring their lessons for fear of offending Muslim pupils in the wake of the
Batley Grammar School controversy, a study has found. Some 19 percent of English and art
teachers surveyed said they had self-censored comments and lessons to avoid causing religious
offence following the row, in which a teacher was forced into hiding after he was targeted by
campaigners and parents for showing a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed in class. More than
half of teachers — 55 percent — said they would not use any images of
the Prophet Mohammed in classrooms, even during the teaching of Islamic art or ethics. The
figure rose to nearly two thirds — 64 percent — among art
teachers. Policy Exchange, a centre-Right think tank which commissioned the YouGov poll of
1,132 teachers, warned the findings suggested that self-censoring was creating a de facto blasphemy
code in schools across the country.
Man
At Pro-Hamas Event In London Almost Gets Lynched For Remind Everyone That Mohamed Was A
Pedophile. A man explains to the pro-Hamasa mob in London that Mohammad is a child
rapist & they try to lynch him. He could be dead if it weren't for the police. Mohamed
took Aisha as a child bride and had sex with her at the age of 9 as it is written in the
Quran. [Video clip]
British
teacher still in hiding with bodyguards two years later because of Muslim death threats for showing
his class a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed. In March of 2021, a British teacher
showed a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed during a religious studies lesson at Batley Grammar
School, after which he became the target of death threats by outraged Muslims. Two year
later, he remains in hiding over safety concerns after being cleared of causing deliberate
offense. But now, an Imam in Birmingham is demanding legal action against this teacher
because he claims the non-Muslim teacher blasphemed against Islam.
Why
Muslims hate dogs so much. [Scroll down] Of interest here is the
disparaging reference to dogs, not least as it underscores the vast cultural differences between
the West and Islam. Put differently, whereas dogs are seen as "man's best friend" in the
West — indeed, not a few so-called "progressives" are even trying to transform
themselves into dogs — for many Muslims, dogs are vermin. Indeed, as discussed in
this article from less than a year ago, dogs are regularly targeted for cruel treatment and
extermination in the Muslim world. Where does this hate come from? As usual, the
prophet of Islam: Muhammad. According to Abdullah bin Omar, as recorded in the
canonical (or sahih) hadith collection of Al-Muslim, "The Messenger of Allah used to order
the killing of dogs, so we used to send [men] to Medina and its adjoining vicinity, and we spared
no dog but rather killed it." (Translation of Arabic text.) Muhammad later revised his
decision by allowing dogs that earn their keep — by herding, hunting, or
guarding — to exist unmolested, though the hate for them remained: angels, the prophet
of Allah warned, would never visit and therefore bless homes that keep dogs.
Conceding
to Jihad. In January 2023, the Danish-Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan burned a copy
of the Quran outside of the Turkish embassy. This led the Turkish defense minister Hulusi
Akar to suspend talks with Sweden over its NATO membership. This means that Quran burnings
are going to have bigger and bigger consequences. What to do? Should consideration be
given to amending legislation such that burning holy books is made a criminal offense?
Sweden's embassy in Baghdad has already been stormed twice. The terrorism threat level in
Sweden has been raised. And the Swedish ambassador has been taken to task in almost every
Islamic country. The problem, as we know, is not new. But not everyone knows the
context. The controversy did not start with Koran-burning, but with political satire.
Is
there anything in the West that DOESN'T offend Muslims? Perpetually offended Muslims
are screaming in protest outside a theater in Bradford, England that is showing a film they
consider "blasphemous" because it mentions the prophet Mohammed and his 9-year-old chid bride,
Aisha. [Video clip]
Without
Firing a Shot: How Islam Overcame the West. Oxford had for years celebrated Saint
George's Day. Once the pandemic arrived in 2020, however, the day was ("temporarily")
suspended, and now, following that "reset," Islam has taken its place. This move,
incidentally, is meant to appease Islam in more ways than one. Although the patron saint of
England for some seven centuries, Saint George has increasingly been a cause of concern because he
"offends" Muslims. [...] Even the Church of England distances itself from Saint George, whom it
characterizes as "too warlike and offensive to Muslims." How did things come to such a
pass? Once loved and venerated by England, the dragon-slaying saint is now canceled.
And once feared and abhorred, the things of Islam — including now a "sacrificial"
dinner — are being honored in his place.
The
shameful story of Britain's backdoor blasphemy laws. Asad Shah. The name
doesn't mean much to people in Britain today. But it really should. Shah was a Glasgow
shopkeeper, beloved by his Shawlands community. [...] At 9pm, on 24 March 2016, Tanveer Ahmed
entered Shah's newsagents carrying a knife. The 31-year-old cab driver had travelled to
Glasgow from his home in Bradford, incensed by Shah's claims to holiness. Ahmed had left a
friend a voicemail, saying: 'Listen to this guy, something needs to be done, it needs to be nipped
in the bud.' He attacked Shah, stabbing him repeatedly in the head and upper body. Shah tried
to escape outside. Ahmed followed. He repeatedly stamped on Shah's head, shattering
almost every bone in his face. As his victim lay bloodied and still, Ahmed walked into a bus
shelter and waited for police to arrive. He told the cops, as they moved to apprehend him: 'I
have nothing against you and so I am not going to hurt you. I have broken the law and
appreciate how you are treating me.' But Ahmed remains unrepentant about his crime. During
his trial, he put out a statement: 'This all happened for one reason... Asad Shah disrespected
the messenger of Islam, the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.' Ahmed is now six years into a
life sentence.
Islamic
sharia law still floats along under the American surface. After 9/11, the West discovered that the Muslim
world imposes its blasphemy laws on Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Every few years, they remind us, sometimes with
blood and sometimes without, that sharia's proscription on images of Mohamed applies to everyone. The latest
example of this "sharia for all" philosophy happened at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, where a
professor was just fired for showing pictures of Mohamed in a class about Islamic art. [...] After 9/11, when people
understood just how violent Islam could be, there was a debate in the West about whether non-Muslims should be bound by
Islam's restrictive (and murderous) blasphemy laws. A convincing argument in favor of "respect," was learning that
the sharia death penalty for blasphemy applied not only to heretical Muslims but to everyone. In 2004, a Muslim
fanatic knifed to death Theo van Gogh, the Dutch film director. His sin? He criticized how Islam treats women.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, his partner in making a film critical of that treatment, has lived under armed guard ever since.
British
Movie Theatre Pulls Movie Depicting The Daughter Of Momhamed Because It Offended Some Muslims. A cinema in
Bolton has pulled a film, described as 'blasphemous', following protests. Bolton Cineworld will no longer be taking
booking for Our Lady in Heaven following an outcry from some Muslims in the borough. More than 100 people turned out to
protest yesterday afternoon against the showing of the film. And Bolton Council of Mosques had sent an email to the
cinema, based in The Valley. [Video clip]
Islam,
the 'religion of peace,' strikes again. Google "Islam is a peaceful religion" and a number of sources will come
up, declaring that Islam is indeed a religion that teaches peace and tolerance. Still, there have been hundreds of
terrorist attacks in the name of Islam for decades. The Taliban is now enforcing the burqa in Afghanistan, even for
female journalists. Ilhan Omar, the anti-Semitic representative from Minnesota, still enjoys strong support from the
Muslim community despite her characterization of 9/11 as "some people did something." I don't pretend to be an expert on
Islam but all this seems less than peaceful. The latest outpouring of "peace" from the Islamic world has been directed
at Nupur Sharma, an Indian woman who represented the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Apparently, she said
something that angered the Muslim community in India. Sharma was forced to issue an apology, after which she was
suspended from the BJP. Not content with ruining Sharma's career, Kuwait, Qatar, Iran, and Saudi Arabia condemned her
remarks. Qatar wants an apology from the country of India. But what exactly did Sharma say?
Black,
Christian Preacher Is Assaulted By Muslims For Pointing Out Mohammed Slept With A 9 Year Old. A Christian
preacher, who dares to talk about Muhammad having sex with a 9-year-old girl and points out that today he would be regarded
as a pedophile, is pushed and slapped by Muslims who do not want this mentioned at the traditional place of free speech,
Speakers Corner in Hyde Park, London. [Video clip]
Right
Wing Activist Attempts To Burn A Quran In Uppsala Sweden, Muslims Swarm His Car In Seconds. A riot broke out
when the leader of Stram Kurs burned another copy of the Muslim holy book Quran on Sunday. Rasmus Paluda, who went to
the Uppsala Mosque late Sunday under the protection of the police, continued his provocation of burning the copy of the
Quran. Around 10 people rushed toward Paludan to prevent him from burning the copy of the holy book, while he left
by getting into his car. [Video clip]
Crazy
Muslim Sees Muhammad in the 7UP QR Code, Threatens to Set the Truck on Fire. This crazy Muslim man thought he
saw the Islamic Prophet Muhammad in the QR code on the side of the 7UP truck, so he threatens to burn the truck up and set
the man driving on fire along with it. [Video clip]
Ilhan
Omar's Bill to Combat 'Islamophobia' Passes the House. Ilhan Omar's bill requiring the State Department to
combat "Islamophobia" has passed. Omar would like us to believe that "Islamophobia" is as much a threat around the
world as antisemitism, and she wants the federal government to monitor, to report on, and to fight the spread of this
"hatred." [...] Ilhan Omar has persuaded — some might say inveigled — a Jewish Congresswoman to join
her in co-sponsoring the bill. This is her standard technique for avoiding charges of antisemitism, to "reach out" to
liberal Jews who are insufficiently wary of her wiles and guiles, to join her in whatever mischief she is up to. Her
latest effort is to make Congress believe that "Islamophobia" — so often invoked, so rarely defined —
really is such a major problem worldwide that it needs a special office in the federal government to monitor it.
Etymologically, "Islamophobia" means the "irrational fear or hatred of Islam." But "Islamophobia" is a word that was
invented not to describe that "irrational fear or hatred of Islam and of Muslims," but in order to shut down any criticism of
Islam, no matter how justified. The word is now affixed to anyone who dares to suggest that the large-scale presence of
Muslims in non-Muslim lands, given the refusal of many Muslims to integrate into the larger society, and instead remain
hostilely aloof from it, is worrisome.
Furious
Muslim mob of hundreds lynch Sri Lankan factory manager in Pakistan, publicly burning his body after he was accused of
blasphemy. Hundreds of enraged Muslims in eastern Pakistan lynched and publicly burned the body of a Sri Lankan
sports equipment factory manager on Friday [12/3/2021] over alleged blasphemy. Priyantha Kumara was accused by factory
workers of desecrating posters bearing the name of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. The mob descended on the factory in the
district of Sialkot in Punjab province and police arrested 13 suspects, with dozens detained according to officials.
A
reminder why ascendent Islam would be a problem in America. There are many good people in America and around
the world who are Muslims. However, Islam as a whole still has issues with "infidels" and apostasy that Judaism
resolved thousands of years ago and Christianity resolved several hundred years ago. The latest example is a grotesque
story out of Pakistan, where a mob of hundreds of Muslims lynched a Sri Lankan accused (accurately or not, because it never
matters) of desecrating pictures of Mohamed.
Now
Whitehall's woke 'blob' tries to ban Christmas: Ministers are warned using the word in festive jab drive will offend minorities.
Civil servants have blocked the word 'Christmas' from efforts to avert a winter Covid crisis, as they fear it would offend minority religions.
The ban, detailed in emails leaked to The Mail on Sunday, was revealed as Boris Johnson announced tighter travel restrictions and new rules on masks
in a bid to limit the spread of the new Omicron variant. Ministers had also planned a publicity blitz telling students to get tested before
returning to their families using the slogan: 'Don't take Covid home for Christmas' — but it was vetoed by Cabinet Office officials.
The Editor says...
The "minority religion" of which they speak is Islam. The Muslims live their whole lives
being offended by one thing or another. There is no point in trying to appease them.
Man
In A Muslim Neighborhood Throws Rocks At German Shepherds — Receive Instant Justice. Traditionally,
dogs have been seen as impure, and the Islamic legal tradition has developed several injunctions that warn Muslims against
most contact with dogs. Unfortunately, many Muslims have used this view to justify the abuse and neglect of dogs, even
though cruelty contradicts the Qur'an's view that all animals form "communities like you.["] Having dogs as pets is
considered to be Haram. Hunting dogs are fine for Hunting game but as pets, no no. It's a filthy animal. I
guess this is why people get mad or scared because of their beliefs. I have encounter similar behavior while I was
living in Michigan, but not that we have been attacked thankfully.
British
School Fires Teacher For Showing Muhammad Cartoon, Send Police To Appologize To Muslims Outside Looking For
Vengence. The headteacher of a grammar school that suspended a teacher who allegedly showed a caricature of the
Prophet Muhammad during a lesson on blasphemy issued a groveling apology today [3/26/2021]. Dozens of furious Muslim
parents protested outside the historic Batley Grammar School in West Yorkshire for seven hours today and chanted 'shame on
you' as they called for the teacher to be sacked. A West Yorkshire Police officer read out an apology to mothers and
fathers from headteacher Gary Kibble, but this provoked even more fury from those gathered as they called the teacher a
'danger'. [Video clip]
France:
High school student criticizes Islam, Muslim responds, 'I swear to Allah, I will slit your throat'. If Macron
is serious about enforcing "republican values" in France, which is by no means clear, he is likely to find that the
"political Islam" he has criticized is far more deeply embedded than he thinks.
Great
Ormond Street worker, 36, sues children's hospital claiming colleagues bullied her for being a Christian. A
Great Ormond Street worker is suing the children's hospital as she claims colleagues bullied her for being a Christian and
called her a 'stupid northerner,' and a 'silly white b----'. Catherine Maughan, a former data manager, is suing the
children's hospital, claiming sex, race and religious discrimination. The 36-year-old, from Middlesbrough, told an
employment tribunal how staff at the hospital told her not to drink after work because it would offend Muslims, kicked her in
a lift, and subjected her to racial slurs and threatening behaviour.
Suspect
in new Charlie Hebdo attack angered by republished cartoons, say Paris police. The man arrested after a knife
attack on two people outside the former offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo told detectives he had been
angered by its publication of cartoons mocking the prophet Muhammad, French media reported yesterday [9/25/2020]. The
suspect, believed to be an 18-year-old born in Pakistan, is thought to have arrived in France three years ago as an
unaccompanied minor. "He was not known to be radicalised," the French interior minister, Gérard Darmanin, told
France 2 television adding that the man was not on the country's security alert list. "He arrived in France three
years ago as a lone minor. We are currently verifying his age," Darmanin added. "Clearly it was an act of
terrorism."
Canada:
Islamic scholar says insulting Muhammad is worse than police killings of black men. "When we ask Allah to
destroy and eliminate what we believe to be perhaps one of the greatest threats to humanity, we are accused of hate speech."
Not really. In reality, Mr. Kathrada, when you preach this hatred and incitement, those who call attention to what you
are saying are accused of "hate speech."
The
War for the Future of American Education. On August 26, 2020, in a federal court in Phoenix, Arizona, Judge
Susan Brnovich handed down a ruling in favor of Professor Nicholas Damask and Maricopa Community College District, and
against the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Mohamed Sabra. Mr. Sabra was offended by three quiz
questions that he alleged compromised his ability to practice his religion. The questions were about the inspiration
for terrorism that radical Muslims found in Islamic holy texts. Although the questions never asserted that all Muslims
interpret the texts as inspiring acts of terrorism, Mr. Sabra and CAIR thought this offense needed to be turned, quite
literally, into a federal case. The case was less about the three questions than whether or not CAIR and an offended
student could determine and control course content simply because they deemed it offensive. Had they won, it would have
been a blow to academic freedom and the First Amendment.
Will
France Finally Rain Justice Down on Islamic Terrorists? A court case in Paris began on September 2, 2020 to
render justice concerning a series of terrorist attacks in recent French history. The case is occurring after five
years of investigation and delay, partly due to COVID-19, which caused the closing of most French courthouses, with the trial
of 14 suspects, three in absentia, accused of being connected with those responsible for the terror attacks on the satirical
weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo in central Paris and following events — the attack on a kosher supermarket,
Hypercacher, in east Paris and other sites for three days beginning on January 7, 2015. The suspects are charged with
being involved in the logistics and preparation of the events, helping finance and providing operational materials and
weapons in support of the jihadists. Because of its unusual nature, and the judicial and political importance of the
trial, which is expected to last two months, the high-security proceedings are to be filmed.
Charlie Hebdo to reprint
Prophet Muhammad cartoons on day Islamist attackers of French satirical magazine go on trial. French satirical
magazine Charlie Hebdo, which was targeted by jihadists in 2015, is to republish the controversial cartoons of the Prophet
Muhammad ahead of the trial of the gunmen this week. A special edition of the magazine on Wednesday [9/2/2020] will
feature interviews with family members of the victims of the terrorist attack, an article on the public's attitude towards
freedom of expression and a reprint of Islam-themed cartoons, including those featuring the Prophet Muhammad, Charlie Hebdo
announced on Tuesday. The prophet cartoons triggered the 2015 spree of terror violence in Paris, in which 17 people
were killed over the course of three days. Of those lives, 12 were lost in the January 7 raid on the Charlie Hebdo
office. The 12 drawings were initially published by a Danish daily in 2005 and then reprinted by the French magazine.
Kanye
West is slammed for 'making a mockery' of Islam after naming latest model of his £180 Yeezy trainers after the Islamic
angels of judgement and death. Kanye West has been slammed for 'making a mockery' of Islam after naming his new
£180 trainers after the Islamic angels of judgement and death. The Yeezy Boost 350 V2 Israfil is already being
stocked by Adidas, while the Yeezy Boost 350 V2 Asriel is expected to be released next month. Social media users have
taken aim at the former artist and sports company, accusing them of making an 'extremely hurtful insult' for the naming which
they 'must make amends for'.
Brunei
makes celebrating Christmas a criminal offense. Imagine the outcry if any nation had made celebrating any
Islamic festival a criminal offense. But no one will take any significant note of this.
Muslim
Uber Driver Strands Couple When He Refuses To Let Them in Car With a Ham. A couple were left stranded and out
of pocket after a rideshare driver refused to pick them up because they had a Christmas ham[.] The couple had been for
dinner at their local RSL in Melbourne's south-east on Tuesday night, and picked up a ham they'd won there a few weeks
ago. They ordered an Uber, but as they approached the car the driver told them the ride was cancelled.
Burger King Takes the 'Ham'
Out of 'Hamburgers' to Avoid Offending Muslims. In a gesture of respect toward its Muslim customers in South
Africa, Burger King is dropping the word "ham" from the names of hamburgers on its South African menu. The practice
will affect three items offered by the restaurant chain, the company said in a statement to Business Insider. The
"Double Spicy Hamburger" will now be known simply as the "Double Spicy Burger." The "Triple Hamburger with Cheese" is
now the "Triple Burger with Cheese." Meanwhile, the "Hamburger King Jr" will now be known as the "Kids Burger."
Austria:
Muslim drivers refuse to take blind people and their "unclean" guide dogs with them in taxis. Taxi drivers in
Austria refuse to transport blind people with guide dogs despite the fact that it violates the law. The reason is that
Allah has branded dogs as "impure". Gabriele Jandrasits from Innsbruck wanted to pre-order a taxi to the airport —
and take her little dog, a Beagle Jack Russell mongrel, with her in an aircraft-compatible transport cage. But even though
she called the evening before, she was told by the radio taxi office that there was no guarantee of transport for the next
morning — the reason being that most drivers would refuse to take dogs with them on religious grounds.
Dogs
Not Welcome: Growing Calls By Muslims To Accommodate Their Hatred Of Dogs. CTV of Vancouver reported that
numerous flyers had been posted at a local park which read, "Many Muslims live in this area and dogs are considered filthy in
Islam. Please keep your dogs on a leash and away from the Muslims who live in this community." The city's mayor
was questioned about the signs by CTV and said they had not been issued by the city. However, he said "Whether they
were produced by a well-meaning member of the Muslim community or by someone wanting to cause contention, the fact remains
that there are current bylaws in place that enforce areas for dogs to be on leash, except in designated off-leash areas."
How many "other religions" are so easily offended? I can only think of one.
Crosses
in Italian Cemetery Covered to Avoid Offence to Other Religions. The crosses on graves in an Italian cemetery
in Pieve di Cento have been covered with black cloth so as not to offend those who may come from another religion. The
cemetery, which is located in Bologna in a town of around 7,000 people, has also installed motorised blackout curtains in a
local chapel following renovations to hide Roman Catholic symbols during ceremonies involving other denominations,
Il Giornale reports.
Hardline
Muslim preacher rages against public urinals and says Allah will punish. A hardline Muslim preacher has
declared Allah will punish any Islamic man who uses a wall-mounted public urinal and gets 'splash back' on his shoes.
Nassim Abdi, from the ultra-conservative Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jammah Association, has told worshipers at a western Sydney mosque
those who failed to clean themselves properly after urinating would be punished 'in the grave'. The Auburn-based preacher
accused Muslim men of imitating non-believers, also known as kafirs, by exposing their private parts at wall-mounted urinals
in public toilets.
What
is the point of all this ridiculous outrage over a shoe? The way Allah is written in Arabic letters, you can
start seeing it anywhere if you want to. What is really going on here is revealed when the story below recounts the
last time Muslims did this to Nike, in 1997: "Nike promised to "tighten scrutiny of logo design" and committed to upgrading
sporting facilities at an American Islamic elementary school." Ah, so it's about shaking down Nike for more free stuff.
And reinforcing the principle that everyone, no matter how rich and powerful, must kowtow to Muslim demands when Muslims are enraged.
Nike
responds to thousands of angry Muslims who want 'blasphemous' shoe recalled. Nike is assuring potential Muslim
customers that it "respects all religions" in response to a Change.org petition calling its Air Max 270 shoe "blasphemous."
Roughly 15,000 people have signed the petition, which demands a recall due to "outrageous" printing they say too closely resembles
the Arabic script for God. "We urge Nike to recall this blasphemous and offensive shoe and all products with the design logo
resembling the word Allah from worldwide sales immediately," the petition states. "I urge all Muslim's and everyone who
respects the freedom of religion to sign this petition." The petition does not state how, exactly, the company is
infringing upon anyone's right to practice a particular religion.
UK: Outraged Muslims call
for boycott over toilet paper 'with Allah symbol'. Outraged Muslims are calling for a boycott of the UK
department store Marks & Spencer over an "offensive" roll of toilet paper because they claim it features Allah's name in
Arabic. "Outraged Muslims" — how redundant. Another Muslim supremacist power play. The design is
actually an aloe vera leaf. But this is all about control.
Child marriage, sex slavery, wife beating, stoning, rape, killing for "allah" — all ok. But this is an outrage in the mind of a Muslim.
Triggered
Muslims see "allah" in Arabic on sole of Nike Airmax, demand recall. Outraged Muslims are demanding Nike recall
an 'offensive' line of trainers because the logo looks like Allah's name in Arabic. Saiqa Noreen launched a petition to
pull the Air Max 270 shoe and has accused the sportswear giant of 'blasphemy'. The petition, which has gained more than
6,000 signatures in just hours, blasts Nike for allowing God's name to be 'trampled, kicked and become soiled with mud or
even filth'. The design features the words Air Max spelled out in a custom, joined-up font on the sole of the shoe, which
was released last year.
Christians
Being Told, "Stop Saying Jesus Is The Son Of God. It Provokes Muslims.". Buried in the concluding
paragraphs of a Christmas Eve Washington Times report about Muslims in Uganda forcing Christians to convert to Islam was the
extraordinary revelation that in that country, Muslims now consider any public statement of the Christian Faith to be a
calculated insult to Muslims, for which they can justifiably exact revenge. This is, or should be, sobering news for
the comfortable Christians of the West who have made an idol out of "interfaith dialogue" and fastidiously avoid saying
anything remotely critical about Islam, even as the Muslim persecution of Christians continues worldwide.
Islam Got
Your Tongue? Just this week, I read two news stories which remind me how far removed we are from taking on the
Islamic enemy in a pop culture medium like comic books. In mainstream comics, post-9/11, Muslims are only portrayed as
victims or heroes, and we're portrayed as the bad guys. [...] Once again, Muslims can only be portrayed as heroes or victims,
or you'll be accused of "Islamophobia" and stereotyping Muslims. The Muslim terrorist IS a stereotype, but only in real
life, not in fiction. Here's a litmus test: If you write a story dealing with this post-9/11 world and you aren't
called "Islamophobic," then your story is truthless. If you haven't sought out the truth about Islam, then you have no
business telling a story that deals with Islam in any way. There are so called "truth-tellers," and then there are
those who tell the truth about Islam to a world that doesn't want to hear it. And they'll tell it no matter what.
No matter how many Muslims threaten their lives for doing so.
Irish
Lecturer Slaughtered In France For 'Insulting Muhammad'. A Pakistani national stabbed an Irish lecturer to
death Wednesday in Paris, telling responding police he attacked because the lecturer "insulted the Prophet Muhammad."
The attacker, identified by authorities only as 37-year-old Ali R., was seen talking with lecturer John Dowling, 66, outside
Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci where Dowling taught English before he brandished a steak knife and stabbed
the lecturer in the throat and chest, the Daily Mail reported. Police arrested Ali, a former student of the university,
on the scene, where he confessed to stabbing Dowling 13 times because he believed that the lecturer spoke ill of Muhammad.
French
city won't honor hero police officer slain by ISIS over concerns of offending Muslims. A French police officer
who heroically saved a hostage from an ISIS terrorist will not be honored in public over fears of offending Muslims.
Arnaud Beltrame, a police officer from Marseille, France, negotiated with an ISIS terrorist during a March 2018 hostage
situation in which he traded himself for a female hostage and was later stabbed to death. Attempts to name the city's
15th district after Beltrame were recently rejected over concerns of offending the Muslim community, Voice of Europe reported
Saturday [10/13/2018].
Maldives:
Allahu akbar Shouting Police Use Pickaxes to Destroy Artwork Deemed Un-Islamic. It took British artist Jason
deCaires Taylor nine months to develop his latest work: a 20-foot-tall stainless steel cube decorated with life-size human
statues and semi-submerged in a coral lagoon in crystal blue waters off the Maldives islands. But it took the Maldivian
police just a few hours to wreck it. Acting on a court order, police used pickaxes to smash the statues on Friday.
Muslim politicians, including the outgoing Maldivian president, had deemed the artwork un-Islamic because it depicted human
figures. Local police tweeted photos of men using electric saws, ropes and axes to dislodge the statues.
British
artist's unique 'tidal' art gallery at Maldives resort is destroyed by police with pickaxes after it is deemed 'offensive to
Islam'. Police armed with pickaxes and power tools have destroyed the world's first tidal gallery at a holiday
resort in the Maldives after it was deemed 'offensive to Islam'. The gallery, at the Fairmont Maldives Sirru Fen Fushi,
which opened in July, featured semi-submerged exhibits that disappeared and reappeared as the tide went in and out. But
Abdulla Yameen, the outgoing president of the tourist nation, home to 340,000 Sunni Muslims, ordered the sculptures to be
demolished. Islam, the official religion in the Maldives, bans the depiction of idols, and the work provoked some
criticism from clerics even though the statues have no religious symbols or meaning.
FBI 'won't touch it' for fear of offending Muslims.
Refugees
sending 'suitcases of welfare cash' home to Somalia. Men and women pulling "suitcases full of cash" started
showing up at Seattle's Sea-Tac Airport last year holding tickets for international flights bound for Africa.
Transporting large amounts of cash overseas is perfectly legal. But it was who was carrying the money ... and where it
was going that caught the attention of law enforcement, according to a report by KING 5, the local NBC affiliate for western
Washington. Those hauling the cash-laden cases were Somali-Americans who'd come to this country as refugees. They
routinely send money back to Somalia. And many of the greenbacks headed to the jihadist-infested East African country
come from welfare checks the refugees receive from the U.S. government, compliments of American taxpayers. Carrying
more than $10,000 while traveling out of the United States is legal as long as the traveler declares it by filling out a
one-page federal form. It was while looking at these slips of paper that terrorism expert Glenn Kerns found a
disturbing pattern.
Church
forced to remove the word 'Jesus' from its Easter advertising as the word is considered to be offensive to non-Christians. A church
has been forced to remove the word 'Jesus' from its signs ahead of Easter because it has been causing offence. Elim Church on the Central Coast
in New South Wales paid for digital signs to be displayed at Erina Fair shopping centre reading 'the greatness of His Power'. Pastor Martin Duffy
told 2GB radio that shopping centre manager Lendlease objected to the signs and forced them to be changed to read 'Risen Christ' instead of 'Jesus'.
Muslims burn
Pampers baby diapers because of cartoon cat. Muslim protests in India are calling for a boycott of Pampers
products after claiming to have seen the word 'Mohammed' in the face of a cartoon cat which appears on its nappies. The
lines illustrating the whiskers, nose, mouth and left eye of the smiley feline have been suggested to resemble the Prophet's
name when written in Arabic or Urdu, although the company that makes the products vehemently denied the claims.
Muslims
burn piles of Pampers. Muslim protests in India are calling for a boycott of Pampers products after claiming to
have seen the word 'Mohammed' in the face of a cartoon cat which appears on its nappies. The lines illustrating the
whiskers, nose, mouth and left eye of the smiley feline have been suggested to resemble the Prophet's name when written in
Arabic or Urdu, although the company that makes the products vehemently denied the claims. Procter and Gamble in a
statement that said they would never intend to offend any person or religion and the the design showed 'an innocent animated
representation of a cat.'
Year
of the Dog exposes growth of Islamic conservatism in Malaysia. With the Lunar New Year round the corner,
Chinese around the world are preparing to welcome the Year of the Dog. But in Malaysia, where people of ethnic Chinese
descent make up almost a quarter of the population, images of the dog have been omitted fromLunar New Year decorations and
merchandise for fear of offending the country's Muslim majority.
Beardless men might be mistaken
for women, prompting 'indecent thoughts' — Turkish cleric. In an effort to get Muslim men to grow
out their facial hair, a Muslim preacher has claimed that clean-shaven men with long hair "cannot be distinguished from
women," which can cause "indecent thoughts" to occur between males. "Men should grow beards. One of the two body
parts that separate men from women is the beard," Turkish preacher Murat Bayaral told religious station Fatih Medreseleri
TV on Saturday, as quoted by Hurriyet. He went on to describe a possible scenario in which a man could find himself
having "indecent thoughts" about another man.
The Editor says...
If the only difference you can detect between men and women is that men have beards, you need to get your eyes
checked. Or maybe it says something about the quality of the women in your town.
French
High Court orders removal of cross above statue of Pope John Paul II because it is offensive to Muslims. The
French administrative court has ordered the removal of a cross from a monument to Saint John Paul II in a public square in
the northwest of France, saying it violates the secular Islamic nature of the state. Italian media noted the irony of
the ruling, remarking that the cross-removal is not taking place "in Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State in Syria, but in
Brittany, in the heart of Western Europe."
Canadian
landlord fined $12G for not taking shoes off in Muslim tenant's home. A Canadian landlord who was fined $12,000
for wearing shoes in a Muslim tenant's home said he felt "humiliated" by the harsh penalty levied by a national human rights
tribunal. In an interview with the Toronto Sun, John Alabi, 52, of Brampton, recounted how he went above and beyond
trying to accommodate the Egyptian-born couple who lived in the apartment for two months — just to be slapped with
a steep fine for the shoe incident. "I go beyond all that. I just see everybody as human beings like me.
That's why I took them in," Alabi told the Toronto Sun in May. "We got along. And then all of a sudden I'm a racist?"
Christian
Slapped with $12,000 'Shariah Fine' for Not Removing Shoes. John Alabi, 53, is a Christian and a landlord who
lives in the Toronto area and is being ordered to pay a fine of $12,000 by the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal because he
failed to remove his shoes when he entered the apartment he was renting to a Muslim couple. His crime? Religious
discrimination, according to the tribunal. The tenants were planning to move out of his rental home, and he says he
gave the couple the required 24-hours notice that he would be showing the apartment to another tenant. They told him
not to come while they were praying, and to text first. He agreed. But when they stopped answering his text
messages, he showed the apartment.
Offending
Muslims? There is NEVER a Reason Not to Fly the American Flag. Leftists have made it their life's mission
to destroy everything we stand for with political correctness. It is a weapon of the progressive movement used both to
silence those they disagree with and to indoctrinate as many Americans as possible. And it goes too far when this man
is asked not to fly the American flag. In a neighborhood near Houston, Texas, a man was told by his landlord at Lodge
on El Dorado that the American flag had to be removed. Why? Because it might be offensive to practicing Muslims.
Do
You Care If A Nativity Scene Offends Muslims? Should we change our traditions to bow to political correctness? [...]
The attack on Christianity by atheists has been relentless in recent years, and now there is concern by the bleeding-hearts that we
might just offend Muslims with our outward expression of our inner faith. Do you care if a Nativity scene offends Muslims?
Muslim
Man Gets Angry, Rapes His Own Daughter After Accusing Her Of Being 'Too Western'. In this latest incident from
Norway, a "non-European" Muslim man attacked and raped his own daughter after getting mad at her that she was "too western,"
and then when he was arrested and DNA evidence clearly showed that he raped her, in true Islamic fashion, he denied everything.
Islam's
"Canine Genocide" Severely Escalating Across the Entire Muslim World. The indiscriminate "Canine Genocide" is
rapidly spreading across the Middle East, and as you will see for yourself, the methods of slaughter and disposal transcend
above and beyond cruelty to animals.
Christian
boy, 16, facing Death Penalty for offending Muslims in Facebook post. The boy has been arrested and charged
with blasphemy after a photo of the Kaaba in Mecca, one of the holiest sites in Islam, appeared on his profile. A
Muslim man told police the image, which was part of an alleged derogatory post against Islam on the boy's profile, was
insulting and sacrilegious. The black cube-shape is built around an ancient stone at the centre of Islam's most sacred
mosque Al-Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Locals reportedly claimed the image showed the Kaaba with a pig's
head on top.
Imam
shoots, kills Jordanian writer at trial over satirical cartoon. A Jordanian writer charged with offending Islam
after allegedly sharing a satirical cartoon on his Facebook page has been killed. Nahid Hattar was hit by three bullets
outside the court in the capital Amman where he was standing trial. Police have arrested the suspected shooter, Riad
Abdullah. Jordanian media said he was local imam who had been upset by the cartoon. But security sources told the
Jordan Times he was a known extremist.
Jordanian writer accused of
sharing cartoon that offended Muslims shot dead. A prominent Jordanian writer on Sunday [9/25/2016] was shot dead in front of the courthouse where
he had been on trial for sharing a cartoon deemed offensive to Islam.
Jordanian
writer shot dead as he arrived for trial for insulting Islam. A prominent Jordanian writer, who was on trial
for sharing a cartoon deemed offensive to Islam, has been shot dead outside a court in Amman where he was due to appear.
Nahed Hattar, 56, was charged with inciting sectarian strife and insulting Islam after posting the cartoon on Facebook this
year. The cartoon, entitled The God of Daesh (Isis), depicted an Isis militant sitting next to two women and asking
God to bring him a drink.
Mandatory
music classes hit a bad note with some Muslim parents. When music class begins this week at Toronto's Donwood
Park elementary school, Mohammad Nouman Dasu will send a family member to collect his three young children. They will
go home for an hour rather than sing and play instruments — a mandatory part of the Ontario curriculum he believes
violates his Muslim faith. The Scarborough school and the Toronto District School Board originally had offered an
accommodation — suggesting students could just clap their hands in place of playing instruments or listen to
acapella versions of O Canada — but not a full exemption from the class. After a bitter three-year
fight, however, Mr. Dasu felt he had no other opton but to bring his kids home.
Muslims
more outraged over Fireman Sam cartoon than daily Islamic terror attacks. Muslims think the blank piece of
paper in a cartoon is a page from the deadly Koran.
Iran
Destroys 100,000 'Morally Damaging' Satellite Dishes. Iran destroyed 100,000 satellite dishes and receivers on
Sunday as part of a widespread crackdown against the illegal devices that authorities say are morally damaging, a news
website reported. The destruction ceremony took place in Tehran in the presence of General Mohammad Reza Naghdi, head
of Iran's Basij militia, who warned of the impact that satellite television was having in the conservative country.
How Much of our Culture
Are We Surrendering to Islam? Democracies are, or at least should be, custodians of a perishable treasury:
freedom of expression. This is the biggest difference between Paris and Havana, London and Riyadh, Berlin and Tehran,
Rome and Beirut. Freedom of expression is what gives us the best of the Western culture. Thanks to the Islamists'
campaign, and the fact that now only some "crazies" still venture in the exercise of freedom, are we now going to be just
fearful? "Islamophobic" cartoonists, journalists and writers are the first Europeans since 1945 who have withdrawn from
public life to protect their own lives. For the first time in Europe since Hitler ordered the burning of books in
Berlin's Bebelplatz, movies, paintings, poems, novels, cartoons, articles and plays are literally and figuratively being
burned at stake.
Sharia's War on Music.
Alarmingly, any engagement in music is becoming illegal in some corners of the globe, and the ideology behind this snuffing
out of a beautiful art form threatens to affect the rest of the world as well. We are referring to Islamic Sharia
law. Already, in countries such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Mali, musicians have been killed or threatened with
removal of their fingers or tongues simply because they make music. Music stores and instruments have likewise been
destroyed in the hopes of silencing virtually all styles of music.
Waitress
assaulted on French Riviera for 'serving alcohol' on first day of holy month of Ramadan. A waitress in a cafe
in central Nice has filed a police complaint after she was allegedly assaulted by two men because she refused to "stop
serving alcohol" on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan. The alleged beating in the French Riviera town
historically famed for its sun, palm-fringed beach front and quality of life, has prompted a heated political debate over
whether the country is increasingly becoming prey to "religious fundamentalism and ghettoised communities".
BBC
accused of 'PC nonsense' after saying football fans dressed as knights could be offensive to Muslims. The BBC
has been ridiculed over an article suggesting the knight costumes worn by England football fans could be offensive to
Muslims. For more than two decades, England supporters have dressed as knights for matches, sporting fake chain-mail
and St George's cross tabards. But ahead of Euro 2016, which begins on Friday, the BBC's iWonder website published
an article entitled: 'Is it wrong to dress as a crusader for an England match?'
Christian
Woman Stabbed To Death For Insulting Muhammad. A Christian woman in Nigeria was stabbed to death Thursday
[6/2/2016] for allegedly insulting the Islamic prophet Muhammad, prompting an outcry from Christians in the country.
Bridget Abihime, a trader and wife to a Christian pastor, was killed for allegedly saying Muhammad was not important.
Nigerian police have taken two suspects into custody, but the Christian Association of Nigeria says the killing is part of a
larger problem that the government has not properly addressed.
You would think that one of them would have forseen this situation.
Saudi
father shoots doctor shortly after he delivered his wife's baby because he didn't want a man to see his spouse naked. Saudi
police have arrested a man after he shot a male doctor shortly after he helped deliver his wife's baby. It is understood the suspect
was angry that the hospital had allowed a male doctor, named locally as Muhannad al-Zabn, to treat his wife during birth. The man,
who has not been named, is believed to have wanted a female doctor to deliver the baby and was upset that the male doctor would have seen
his wife naked.
This
drawing stops popular children's book. The children's book "Grandpa is a pirate" has delighted generations of
Swedish and Norwegian children. Now the publishing company, however, thinks the drawings provided give a "caricatured
image of Arabs," and has decided not to publish any more copies. The author on his side, completely disagrees.
ISIS kill 16
Real Madrid fans in massacre at supporters club headquarters. A group of Islamic State terrorists armed with
AK-47s attacked the headquarters of a Real Madrid supporters club — because 'they don't like football'. Three gunmen
opened fire around midnight at the Al Furat cafe in Balad, 50 miles north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. It is believed
at least 16 people — mainly Real Madrid fans but also cafe staff and other customers — were killed more
than 20 people injured.
Islam's Hatred of Dogs and Cruelty to
Animals. This special episode of The Glazov Gang was joined by Dr. Peter Hammond, the founder of Frontline Fellowship.
Dr. Hammond came on the show to discuss Islam's Hatred of Dogs and Cruelty to Animals, examining the Islamic theological foundations that inspire
a hatred of and sadism toward animals. [Video clip]
Riot
in refugee camp sees 100 migrants attack each other with chairs and bins after Syrian girl refused to wear a headscarf. Some 100 migrants rioted in a
refugee camp in Belgium after Syrian and Iraqi migrants clashed with Afghans because a young girl was not wearing a headscarf. The young Syrian girl at the
centre of the dispute had been targeted by the Afghans for days over her refusal to wear the headscarf, an item of modesty clothing often enforced in Islamic
countries. But when she was defended by her fellow Syrians, a riot erupted which saw the groups of migrants attacking each other with rubbish bins, chairs
and broomsticks.
Iran
rules 'decadent' Valentine's Day celebrations a crime. Iranian news outlets reported the police directive
Friday [2/12/2016] warning retailers against promoting "decadent Western culture through Valentine's Day rituals."
House
Democrat: U.S. Muslims Are Being Radicalized by Politicians Calling for Border Control. Illinois Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Tammy
Duckworth said on Monday [2/8/2016] that politicians are contributing to the rise of Islamic terrorists in the United States by calling for stricter
immigration laws. Duckworth singled out her Republican opponent, Sen. Mark Kirk, and presidential candidate Donald Trump, as two politicians who
are allegedly "play[ing] right into ISIS's hands" and aiding the radicalization of Muslims in the United States during an interview with the Chicago
Tribune editorial board. Duckworth made the comments while discussing two Iraqi refugees in Texas and California who were recently arrested
on terror related charges.
The Editor says...
One of these days, I need to start a list of all the things the Democrats say are "contributing to the rise of Islamic terrorists in the United
States." It will probably be as long as the list of things that Muslims find offensive. Or maybe it's exactly the same list.
Hillary:
Don't Make the Tolerant Muslims Angry, Or There'll Be Terror. [Scroll down] So there's some kind of
thing in Muslim communities we might need to protect ourselves from, though it has nothing to do with them, and they might
not help us if we don't meet all their demands. Like bringing so many more Muslims to America so we'll have even more people
who have nothing to do with terrorism... but whose help we constantly need to fight it.
1. Muslims have nothing
to do with terrorism
2. We must stay on their good side to avoid Muslim terrorism
It's like saying, Bill Clinton
is a great guy. Just don't ever be in a room alone with him or he might rape you. But don't let him get the idea that
you think he might rape you... or he'll rape you. This is the relationship with Muslims that Hillary Clinton and a lot
of the establishment want us to have. And it's an abusive relationship heavily spiked with denial.
Why would they be opposed to eliminating extremism?
Some
Muslim Americans Irritated By Obama's Call For Them To 'Root Out' Extremism. President Obama's request that
Muslim Americans help "root out" and confront extremist ideology in their communities is getting mixed reactions. Muslim
leaders say they want to help, but some are not happy that they are being singled out.
Ayatollah
Trolls U.S.: 'Violence-Breeding,' 'Sickening Manners' Led to Attack. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took to Twitter
today [12/6/2015] to rip the United States over the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, arguing it proves that Americans are
more prone to violence. As the supreme leader of Iran has done in the past, he also tied the violence to the history of
racial inequality in the U.S.
CNN
Guest: San Bernardino Office Holiday Party 'May Have Been Offensive' to Muslim Gunman. Just when the liberal
media's extrapolations concerning the motives of the San Bernardino gunman couldn't grow any more jaw-dropping, an expert
appearing during the 11:00 p.m. Eastern hour of CNN Tonight predicted late Wednesday that the office holiday party where the
shooting occurred "may have been offensive" to the Muslim gunman. Criminologist Casey Jordan was called on by host Don Lemon
and began by suggesting that the "[d]isgruntled employee" appeared to "have Arabic or Middle Eastern names, but the key is that
from the beginning everything that was reported about him, going into this conference room where there was a holiday party which
may have been offensive to him."
The Editor says...
If you're offended by a "holiday party" — the name of which is already watered down from "Christmas party" in order to
avoid offending anyone — is that a justification for mass murder? Why are Muslims not expected to control themselves
when they face offensive situations?
School
Cancels Christmas Service In Deference To Muslims. After Muslim pupils refused to sing traditional carols at
last year's Christmas service, one Milanese school has switched to hosting a "winter concert" — but many have
reacted angrily to the idea. Headmaster Marco Parma of the Istituto Garofani di Rozzano school was forced to resign his
post over the weekend after a number of senior figures in Italian political life — including the prime
minister — moved to attack his decision to cancel Christmas for his pupils.
15
Excerpts That Show How Radical, Weird And Out of Touch College Campuses Have Become. How radical, weird and out
of touch have liberals on college campuses gotten since Obama came into office? It's worse than you ever thought and although
there is an almost unlimited number of problematic incidents to choose from, these 15 are particularly effective at getting across
how bad things have become. [Example #1:] "College Students Say Remembering 9/11 Is Offensive to Muslims. The
everything-is-offensive brand of campus activism has struck a new low: Students at the University of Minnesota killed a proposed
moment of silence for 9/11 victims due to concerns — insulting, childish concerns — that Muslim students would
be offended."
Paris
Attacks: What Does 'Daesh' Mean and Why Does ISIS Hate It? When French President Francois Hollande addressed
the nation Saturday in the aftermath of the Paris massacre, he vowed that France "will be unforgiving with the barbarians
from Daesh." What is "daesh"? According to Arabic translator Alice Guthrie, "D.A.E.SH is a transliteration of the
Arabic acronym formed of the same words that make up I.S.I.S in English: 'Islamic State in Iraq and Syria', or 'al-dowla
al-islaamiyya fii-il-i'raaq wa-ash-shaam'." It is a term that most Arab states and many European governments use to
refer to the Islamic State or ISIS. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry often uses the term, too.
Finding Allah in Unlikely Places. [Scroll
down] Now, perhaps even more absurdly, British Muslims demanded that Burger King recall a line-drawing of an ice-cream cone, arguing that it
resembles (what else?) the Arabic lettering for "Allah." A customer, Rashad Akhtar, branded the design "sacrilegious" and said he was "humiliated"
by the design. He added: "This is my jihad. How can you say it is a spinning swirl? You are offending Muslims."
Australian
Army Chaplains To Lose Christian Motto Because It Might Offend Muslims. The Royal Australian Army Chaplains'
Department is to lose their traditional motto held since 1913, because it is offensive to Muslims. The cap badge and
motto of the Australian army chaplains is presently identical to those held by the British army, a legacy and tradition
dating back to the founding days of the Australian nation as it established itself as a Dominion independent of Great
Britain. Emblazoned on a Maltese cross and wreath in purple and gold, the motto 'In This Sign Conquer' is thought
to be a reference to the crusades.
Obama
EEOC Fights for Religious Liberty — for Muslim Truckers. Well, at least they were not told to bake a
cake for a gay wedding. In President Obama's fundamentally transformed America, Christian bakers are forced by the blunt
instrument of government mandate to cater a gay wedding regardless of their religious beliefs, but Muslim truckers can now
refuse to transport alcohol because their Muslim beliefs and Sharia law prohibits it.
$240,000
jury award to Muslim truck drivers who were fired for refusing to transport alcohol. One more data point on the
"When does your religion legally excuse you from doing part of your job?" question — like it or not, under
American law, employers sometimes do have to excuse employees from tasks that the employees find religiously objectionable.
Tuesday, two Muslim truck drivers who were fired for refusing to deliver shipments containing alcohol were awarded $40,000 in
compensatory damages and $200,000 in punitive damages by the jury in their discrimination claim.
Islam and dogs. What's
the deal with Islam and dogs? It's this: Dogs are viewed as unclean. More importantly, Mohammed didn't like them —
as in wanted them dead. Although there is nothing written in the Quran about dogs, Mohammed's thoughts on all things canine can be found
throughout the Hadith (a collection of direct quotes from Mohammed on a range of issues that was compiled after his death). Mohammed
warned angels not to enter any home that had a dog. He also ordered that dogs be killed and that none be spared, with a specific
directive to kill all black dogs. [...] An increasingly common way Muslims assert supremacy around dog-related issues is when Muslim cab
drivers and bus drivers deny service to disabled people with service dogs. One person was told to throw the dog in the trunk or get
out of his cab.
To
Please One Islamist, Sears Stops Selling Infidel Hats. As if pulling Confederate flags in cooperation with the
campaign to eradicate the South as a historic and cultural entity weren't disgusting enough, Sears has now pulled infidel
hats, apparently because a single Muslim doesn't like them. [...] The lib media is predictably delighted. No doubt
that's why Sears caved instantly.
Sears is removing 'Infidel' hat from website. Sears
is responding to critics and removing a controversial hat from its website, the retailer confirmed to Fortune this afternoon [10/19/2015].
The hat is emblazoned with the word "infidel", and was first pointed out by a user on Twitter. "Infidel" is a term often used by anti-Muslim
protesters. It is co-opted from Islamic extremists who use the word to describe people that aren't Muslim and especially Westerners.
Clothes bearing the term have often been seen at protests of mosques and Islamic community centers.
Muslim
man yells at Christian woman on train for putting her feet on chair, then threatens to call police. Last time I
checked, England wasn't under Shariah law. Apparently some Muslim man doesn't think so, as he began yelling at a woman on a
London train for putting her feet on one of the chairs. She attempts to explain that she is a Christian, and so she has no
restrictions on praying with her shoes on, but he doesn't care and says it's wrong in his religion.
Cultural Suicide: A Do-It-Yourself
Guide. The Camp of the Saints tells the story of the destruction of European civilization (including its outpost
in the United States), partly by a flood of unassimilable wretches from India, partly by a failure of nerve on the part of the custodians of
European civilization. The choice, Respail noted in an afterword, was stark: ["]To let them in would destroy us.
To reject them would destroy them.["] Is this a false dichotomy? Maybe. But think about this: As I write,
Munich is gearing up for Oktoberfest, the annual festival the city has been celebrating since 1810. There will be beer, lots of it,
and pork sausages and women in dirndls. A good time will be had by all. Well, almost all — the Muslims are not amused.
Also posted
under Hijrah.
Bavarian
Town Houses "Refugees" In School Gym — Female Students Warned To Cover Up, Do Not Provoke. "Misunderstandings"
DHS:
Calling Islamic Terrorism 'Islamic' Offends Muslims. Homeland Security chief Jeh
Johnson refuses to call Islamic terror "Islamic," arguing it's "critical" to refrain from the label
in order to "build trust" among Muslims. In jaw-dropping remarks Friday at Aspen Institute's
annual security forum, Johnson said the government will call such attacks "violent extremism" over
"Islamic terrorism" out of respect for the Muslim community. The policy explains why the U.S.
prosecutor and lead FBI investigator in the Chattanooga case still insist on calling Mohammad
Abdulazeez a "homegrown violent extremist," though he blogged about his religious motivations for
the attack, and he and his family attended a local mosque controlled by a terror-tied Islamic trust.
Charlie
Hebdo Teaches Us Terrorism Does Work. In a resounding victory for the enemies of free
speech, Charlie Hebdo will no longer print images of the prophet Muhammad. The satirical
French magazine, whose Paris office was attacked by Islamic terrorists in January, killing twelve,
recently told a German magazine that it had "done its job." "We have drawn Muhammad to defend the
principle that one can draw whatever they want," said editor Laurent Sourisseau, who survived the
January 7 massacre by playing dead after taking a bullet to the shoulder. "It is a bit
strange, though: we are expected to exercise a freedom of expression that no one dares to."
Sharia-Compliant
Saudi Arabia Hosts UN-Backed 'Combating Religious Discrimination' Conference. The OIC,
made up of 57 member states, remains stacked with countries that preach the inherently discriminatory
Sharia laws system. Member states such as Iran, Pakistan, Syria, and others remain severely derelict
lands when it comes to protecting the rights of religious minorities. Saudi Arabia, which hosted the
event and retains membership in the OIC, has seen its share of high profile religious discrimination cases.
On Sunday, a Saudi court upheld a ruling that saw Raif Badawi, an atheist blogger, condemned to 1,000 lashes
and 10 years in prison.
Syria:
Isis Executes 3 Pigeons on 'Spying' Charges. The Islamic State (Isis) militants in Syria have
reportedly executed three pigeons that it had arrested on charges of spying. The UK-based Express
reported that the pigeons belonged to an anti-Isis group. The 5 June report noted that the
executions were carried out recently. The development has come at a time, when Isis has issued a
dictate, banning pigeon breeding claiming the sight of the birds' genitals as they fly overhead is
sinful according to Islam.
Muslim
Congressmen Want DOJ Investigation of Phoenix Anti-Islam Rally. The only two Muslims
in the U.S. Congress are calling for a Department of Justice investigation into the armed anti-Islam
rally in Phoenix last week. Jon Ritzheimer organized the rally, along with a Muhammad cartoon
contest, in response to the targeting of a similar event held in Garland, Texas weeks ago. The
rally was held at an Islamic community center reportedly attended by the two men who targeted the
Garland event. Ritzheimer encouraged people on the group's Facebook page to bring guns, but
aside from a few minor skirmishes, nothing serious really happened.
ISIS
Bans Pigeon Breeding Because Overhead View Of Bird Sex Organs Insults Islam. If you've
ever looked up in the sky, seen a pigeon soaring through the air and noticed its pigeon genitals —
well, that's pretty weird. You've probably got a strange combination of bionic-level eyes and some
terrible mental disorder. Get help. At least you can take heart in the fact that you aren't
suffering alone, though, because high-level clerics associated with the Islamic State (also called ISIS)
agree with you. In an attempt to stymie the wretched sight of pigeon genitals across the Islamic
State's growing Middle Eastern caliphate, the jihadist clerics have banned pigeon breeding, the Daily Mail reports.
Phoenix protests
Islamism. "We will pay you back today — the event won't finish without
kuffar (infidel) blood. We promise..." So read an ISIS Twitter threat against the organizers and
protesters of the Muhammad cartoon drawing and free speech rally May 29 in Phoenix (which, in a
twist of irony, is hosting COMICON the same weekend — an event that attracts 80,000
cartoon-loving comic book artists and readers). But in spite of the jihadists' effort to
intimidate, the anti-Islamist gathering went forward successfully, dealing a huge public relations
blow to the "big turban, no camels" ISIS devotee while at the same time demonstrating the enormous
strength of the American constitutional system — particularly as codified in our First
and Second Amendments.
Perpetually
Aggrieved Muslim Flyer Tahera Ahmad — Not Her First Grievance Rodeo. When a
person walks around continually looking for grievance it should come as no surprise when they find
one, or eleventy. The ridiculous, and profoundly sketchy, story of the liberal
Northwestern University Muslim chaplain, Tahera Ahmad, discriminated against by United Airlines
because a flight attendant opened her can of diet Coke is one such invisible grievance that only
the perpetually aggrieved could find.
Update:
Muslim
Woman's 'Fake Hate' Over a Diet Coke, Of Course It Was a Lie. When Tahera Ahmad
described a horror-show aboard a United flight from Chicago's O'Hare to Washington Dulles in which a
flight attendant told her she couldn't have a Diet Coke because she may use it "as a weapon," it
never rang true to me. Honestly, it didn't pass the laugh test. She may as well have described
the scene in the violent movie "Pulp Fiction" where Bruce Willis' character finds himself taken
prisoner along with Marcellus Wallace in a torture dungeon under a pawn shop. The melodrama of "I
felt the hate in his voice and his raging eyes," is a line out of a bad novel.
Also posted
under fake hate crimes.
Islamists
Promise 'Kuffar Blood' Will Spill at Phoenix 'Draw Muhammad' Contest. Breitbart News
previously reported that former Marine Jon Ritzheimer and fellow bikers will be holding a "Draw
Muhammad" contest Friday night [5/29/2015] at 6 p.m. Islamists now warn participants not
to bring their children with them if they love them, promising blood spill if Muhammad is drawn.
Fatwas Galore.
In recent years, Malaysia's state and federal fatwa councils — nervous that secularization and religious
pluralism might be leading Muslims to stray from their faith — have issued a slew of edicts against seemingly
innocuous practices, including not just dog-petting but candlelight vigils, yoga, and Halloween. The National
Fatwa Council now has some 300 fatwas on the books, and state councils have issued nearly 1,500 more.
The Editor says...
Can't say that I really disagree with them in this case. Candle-light vigils are humanist vanity,
yoga is Buddhism, and Halloween is candy-coated Satanism.
Veterans
Told to Avoid Targeting by ISIS 'Lone Wolves'... Don't Act 'Pompous' Online, Hide Your Military
Service. Over the weekend, military bases across the United States were placed on
higher alert for domestic terror attacks, in response to a surge in threatening chatter from ISIS
and its sympathizers. "It is the highest level of security since the tenth anniversary of
September 11," notes Fox 13 News in Tampa Bay, home of MacDill Air Force Base.
Catholic
University Investigated for Offending Muslims By Having Too Many Crosses. "Complaint
says crosses at Catholic school offensive, prevent Muslim prayers," reads the headline at BeliefNet.
It's one of those headlines that sounds like a bad joke, but it isn't. It's not exactly a serious
complaint, either, and it isn't coming from actual Muslim students in any event. "Baffled Catholic
University officials say they have never received a complaint from any of the schools Muslim students,"
writes BeliefNet.
Complaint
says crosses at Catholic school offensive, prevent Muslim prayers. Crosses in every
room at Washingon D.C.'s Catholic University of America are a human rights violation that prevent
Muslim students from praying. That's the complaint to the Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights
filed by a professor from rival George Washington University across town.
The
timid defense of free speech. Some of our liberal friends, particularly the art lovers
among them, are terrified of the hobgoblins that Ralph Waldo Emerson warned about. "A foolish
consistency," he famously said, "is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen,
philosophers and divines." We see this writ large in the threat to public peace and the lives
of the innocent by Islamic radicals. The radicals, who maim and kill in the name of the Prophet,
are treated with respect (if not terror), and the Christians who have threatened no one, must be
hectored, lectured and exiled to the fringes of the public square.
Bosch
Fawstin vs. Facebook and The Religion of "Peace". Part of growing into adulthood from
infantile immaturity is accepting what you cannot control. Of all the things we cannot control, the
minds, thoughts and feelings of others are the least under our control. Sure, we can persuade people
when they wish to hear from us, and when or if they're open to persuasion. But one basic foundation
of emotional health and maturity is an acceptance that others will think or feel whatever they wish
to think or feel — and you have to get over it. For whatever reasons, in
today's society this is no longer the standard — at least not with certain groups or belief systems.
Norway
ends blasphemy law after Hebdo attack. Norway has scrapped its longstanding blasphemy
law, meaning it is now legal to mock the beliefs of others, in a direct response to January's brutal
attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. [...] But the change will be largely
symbolic. The last time anyone was tried for blasphemy in Norway was back in 1933, when the
writer Arnulf Overland was prosecuted for giving a lecture titled "Christianity, the tenth plague"
to the Norwegian Students' Society. He was acquitted.
Boca
Event Featuring Anti-Muslim Speaker Canceled for Safety Reasons. Not wanting to court
danger, the Boca West Country Club has refused to host the Palm Beach Republican Party's
"Lobsterfest" dinner that advertised controversial Islamic critic Geert Wilders as the keynote
speaker. Geert was part of the Garland, Texas, cartoon contest that invited participants to draw the
Prophet Muhammad. Islamic law prohibits any image of the prophet to ward off idol worship.
Conservative
Pundits For Sharia? [Scroll down] Muslims can follow their own religious beliefs, but they can't
force me to follow them. They believe that it is wrong to draw Mohammed; Catholics think it is wrong to get
divorced; Jews think it is wrong to eat pork. You are not insulting Judaism by eating pork, a Catholic by
divorcing, or a Muslim by drawing Mohammed. To claim that drawing Mohammed is an insult is a jihadi idea.
It is not an American idea. It is applying their code to our behavior. Drawing Mohammed is entirely normal
political speech. It is not a gratuitous insult; it is fighting the imposition of sharia law in America.
Pam Geller is the bravest woman in America at this moment. She deserves to be given a podium so her voice can
be heard by millions.
Ex-Muslim Who Won Draw Muhammad Contest
Has A Message For The Critics. Unlike the successfully bloody conquests of the Ottoman
Empire, Islam has found a way to infiltrate the West without even lifting a blade to the infidels'
throats, and we are ignorantly embracing the death of our culture and freedom with open, tolerant
arms. Islamic immigration has effectively silenced the righteous opposition through administering
our own poison — political correctness. Fortunately, however, there are still a few
patriots within our borders who are willing to risk their careers, freedom, and even their lives to
expose this threat to Western democracy, and now they are speaking louder than ever.
Pam Geller And
Those Before Her. Did the Yazidis draw cartoons? Did James Foley draw cartoons?
Did Daniel Pearl draw cartoons? How is it that Islam has assumed exclusive power with the declaration
they are the judge, jury and executioner of what is blasphemy? The Southern Poverty Law Center has
this on Pam Geller. Ah but, they do have a right to do so as noted by the Supreme Court decision in
2011 in the case of picketing a funeral. All media, even global media has become Sharia compliant
for not standing long ago on free speech and now for blaming the Garland, Texas attack on those who are
taking a stand.
More
about The Islamic attack in Garland, Texas.
Robert
Spencer at the Muhammad Art Exhibit. [Scroll down] Consider this — the murderers
of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists had an accomplice. And as they were murdering the cartoonists, the
accomplice went to a kosher supermarket in Paris and murdered four Jews. What have they done?
They didn't draw Muhammad. How did they offend Muslims? They offended Muslims by being Jewish.
Okay, so we have to not draw Muhammad, because that'll poke them in the eye and offend them. And then we
have to not be Jewish, because that will poke them in the eye and offend them. And then what?
Okay, I guess pork and alcohol are right out. Okay, and then what?
Iran bans
'devil worshipping' haircuts. Hairstyles of a spiky and unorthodox nature have
reportedly been banned in Iran because they imply devil-worship, while tattoos and other male bodily
adornments also being outlawed. Jagged haircuts have become fashionable among all strata of
Iran's youthful population in recent years, but have divided opinion and been deemed by the
authorities as western and un-Islamic.
'American
Sniper' derailed by Muslim complaints at University of Maryland. The University of
Maryland joins the University of Michigan in the ranks of educational institutions with an "American
Sniper" controversy. Muslim student protests prompted the University of Maryland at College Park
to announce the cancellation of the movie about deceased Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. "American Sniper
only perpetuates the spread of Islamophobia and is offensive to many Muslims around the world for good
reason. This movie dehumanizes Muslim individuals, promotes the idea of senseless mass murder,
and portrays negative and inaccurate stereotypes," the university's Muslim Students Association said
in its petition, Fox News reported Thursday [4/23/2015].
Why
Are Colleges Cancelling 'American Sniper'? The pattern of on-campus culture wars is now as familiar as
the plot of a blockbuster film. And no sooner did the University of Michigan's Center for Campus Involvement
announce a screening of American Sniper than a wave of upset broke out. Things escalated quickly.
The Michigan Muslim Students' Association organized an open letter campaign, boasting 200 signatures, against the event.
ISIS
bans skinny jeans, cigarettes, cellphone music: group. ISIS is cracking down on hipsters in Syria.
The Islamic State terror group has imposed a new law in their stronghold of Raqqa that prohibits young men from wearing
skinny jeans, smoking cigarettes and jamming music on cellphones. Informants living in the Syrian city tell the
anti-ISIS campaign group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently that militants have been throwing civilians behind
bars for 10 days at a time if they refuse to comply with the new rules.
Sharia
USA: Delaware Radio Host Fired for Islamist Comments. What this radio host said is not unreasonable, and
even less grounds for firing, but that is where we are in the US. Perhaps he could have packaged it better, but
is that where we are? Yes. Every thought has to be pre-screened and edited for consumption? It's like
we are living in an Islamic country. Shredding the first amendment.
The roots of
the Copenhagen attack. More details will no doubt emerge, but already it seems fairly
clear what's going on here: a continuation of the assault on the West's freedom of speech,
perpetrated by a fundamentalist Muslim terrorist (or one in sympathy with fundamentalist Muslim
terrorists). The idea is to silence what they see as blasphemy against Islam, as well as to exert
a chilling effect on anyone who would sympathize with or support such freedom of speech.
Terror in
Copenhagen. The single murder at the café was of a documentary filmmaker named
Finn Noergaard, but the presumed target of the attack was artist Lars Vilk. Vilk is a cartoonist who
has shown much courage and integrity in continuously sketching Mohammed in many forms, some of the more
outrageous pictures showing the prophet transformed into a roundabout dog. Al-Qaeda has offered a
$150,000 reward for Vilk's assassination, and he has experienced physical attacks at university lectures,
arson attempts at his own home, as well as an unending stream of credible death threats. Using his
pen to poke fun at Islam's hypersensitivity to criticism, Lars Vilk is that rare, dying breed of European
intellectual that is willing to risk life and limb for free expression. He also has a Doctorate in
Philosophy. This means that Vilk has committed a dual offense in the eyes of radical Islam, since
he is both the recipient of a high quality Western education, as well as an unrepentant opponent of
religious censorship.
One
dead and three police injured after gunman fires at café during free speech debate. One man
was killed and three police officers were injured on Saturday [2/14/2015] after shots were fired at a Copenhagen
café holding a freedom of speech event. The meeting was organised by Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who
has faced several death threats for his caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. As many as 200 bullet [sic]
were fired at the Krudttoenden café, shattering windows.
$10,000
Muhammad Art and Cartoon Contest to be Held in Texas. Pamela Geller is planning a
"Draw the Prophet" event in Garland, Texas in the same location as a Muslim group held a "Stand with
the Prophet" conference in January. The First Annual Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest will be hosted
by the Curtis Caldwell Center, which is owned and operated by the Garland Independent School District.
Seattle Muslims demand sacking
of teacher who showed Muhammad cartoons. The day after the Charlie Hebdo shootings,
Deepa Bhandaru showed some of the cartoons that prompted the attack to students at the Refugee
Women's Alliance in Seattle. Bhandaru showed the cartoons in the context of a discussion on
religious pluralism and freedom of speech. The cartoons she showed to her students, most if not all
of whom are Muslims, reportedly were not the more inflammatory, sexual images. Now, a group of
Somali immigrants is demanding that Bhandaru be fired.
Why Charlie? [Scroll down] Freedom, the
right to dissent, the satirical genre — all have been dying for some time. The Danish
cartoons marked an identical watershed. The assassination of Dutch provocateur and filmmaker Theo
Van Gogh marked an identical watershed, as did the death threats against his collaborator and Danish
parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who had his satirical drawings
removed at a Tallerud art exhibition and who has an ISIS bounty on his head and is living under police
protection, marks an identical watershed. The fatwa against Salman Rushdie and the killing of
his Japanese translator marked the same watershed.
'Liberal,'
'Tolerant' Vanderbilt Muslims Seek To Bully Black Professor Into Silence. A black Vanderbilt
University professor's op-ed critical of Islamic terrorism has touched off a wave of protest by Muslim
students and other critics. The op-ed author is Carol Swain, a longtime professor of law and political
science at Vanderbilt and a self-proclaimed political conservative. Her op-ed, entitled "Charlie Hebdo
attacks prove critics were right about Islam," appeared in The Tennessean (Nashville's main newspaper) on
Jan. 15. Swain, who opposes burqas and advocates stronger efforts at assimilation for American
Muslims, argued that radical Islam "poses an absolute danger to us and our children unless it is monitored
better than it has been under the Obama administration."
Uh-oh. The Muslims are
outraged over a movie. Where have we heard this before?
CAIR
Joins Lib Hate-Fest for American Sniper, Calls Chris Kyle 'Hate-Filled Killer'. The
Council on American Islamic Relations attacked former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, the subject of the
record-breaking film American Sniper, as a "hate-filled killer" in a post to the group's account
on Twitter.
CAIR
Official Whines The Term "Islamist" Is Offensive. You know what most sane people (non-libs)
find offensive? Muslims indiscriminately killing thousands of people every month.
Muslims Declare Jihad
on Dogs in Europe. A Dutch Muslim politician has called for a ban on dogs in The
Hague, the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Islamic legal tradition holds that dogs are
"unclean" animals, and some say the call to ban them in Holland and elsewhere represents an attempted
encroachment of Islamic Sharia law in Europe. This latest canine controversy — which
the Dutch public has greeted with a mix of amusement and outrage — follows dozens of other
Muslim-vs-dog-related incidents in Europe. Critics say it reflects the growing assertiveness of
Muslims in Europe as they attempt to impose Islamic legal and religious norms on European society.
ISIS
Executes Pigeon and Bird Breeders in Diyala, Iraq. Raising doves and pigeons is a
deadly pursuit in ISIS-controlled Iraq. The popular hobby is in the sights of extremist Islamist
fighters, who this week rounded up 15 boys and young men in the eastern province of Diyala for
pursuing a pastime now deemed un-Islamic. Three have already been executed, according to a security
official in the area who spoke to NBC News on condition of anonymity.
Dem
Rep: Obama Right Not to Call Terrorists 'Islamic Extremists' Because It Would Anger Them. When
asked if the Obama Administration was right to refuse to use the phrase "radical Islamic terrorism,"
Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) backed the White House because saying "Islamic Extremists" would
anger the terrorists. [...] The White House and Lee's acquiescence to how they label America's enemy
has been the subject of much scrutiny and debate this week. The catered response signals a fear
of ISIS, Al Qaeda, and their extremist allies. This trepidation is only magnified when compared
to the language used by America's oldest ally, France. The French government has responded in a
strong manner to radical Islam in both words and actions.
The Editor says...
There is no point in tiptoeing around Muslims to avoid angering them. They will live in
constant outrage until Islam dominates the world. Their anger is regenerated and amplified
every Friday at the mosque. Appeasing and accommodating them is like bringing a hornet's nest
into your house and expecting to tame the hornets and make them do tricks for your guests. It
will never happen.
Oxford
University warns authors not to write about bacon, pork to avoid offending Muslims. The largest university
press in the world has warned its authors not to mention pigs or pork in their books to avoid offending Muslims and Jews.
Oxford University Press (OUP) explained that their books must take into consideration other cultures of the world and must
avoid mentioning pigs or "anything else which could be perceived as pork," the International Business Times reported.
Oxford
University Press bans mention of pork and pigs in books to 'avoid offending Muslims or Jews'. One
of the biggest education publishers in the world has warned its authors not to mention pigs or sausages in their
books to avoid causing offence. Oxford University Press (OUP) said all books must take into consideration
other cultures if they hope to sell copies in countries across the world. As a result, the academic
publisher has issued guidance advising writers to avoid mentioning pigs or "anything else which could be
perceived as pork" so as not to offend Muslim or Jewish people.
The Editor says...
I've never heard of Jewish people who were offended by the presence (or the aroma) of sausages or bacon,
or offended by the mere mention of pigs. This effort to include Jews among the easily offended sounds
like manipulation of the press.
Oxford
University Press bans sausages and pigs from children's books in effort 'to avoid offence'. Schoolbook
authors have been told not to write about sausages or pigs for fear of causing offence. Guidance from leading
educational publisher the Oxford University Press prohibits authors from including anything that could be perceived
as pork-related in their books. The bizarre clampdown, apparently aimed at avoiding offence among Jews and Muslims,
emerged yesterday during a discussion about free speech on Radio 4's Today programme. It was immediately
branded 'nonsensical political correctness'.
Radical
Imam Anjem Choudary Calls Charlie Hebdo Front Page 'Act Of War'. Hate preacher Anjem
Choudary has called the latest front cover of Charlie Hebdo an "act of war" against Muslims. The
magazine features Mohammed crying and holding a "Je Suis Charlie" sign, with the headline roughly
translating to "Everything is forgiven". But Choudary was unimpressed with the offering from the
remaining staff at Charlie Hebdo claiming it was "ridiculing" Mohammed. He said the magazine was
attacking the Muslim leader's personality, and that publishing it was "extremely serious".
Saudi
cleric condemns snowmen as anti-Islamic. A prominent Saudi Arabian cleric has whipped
up controversy by issuing a religious ruling forbidding the building of snowmen, described them as
anti-Islamic. Asked on a religious website if it was permissible for fathers to build snowmen for
their children after a snowstorm in the country's north, Sheikh Mohammed Saleh al-Munajjid replied:
"It is not permitted to make a statue out of snow, even by way of play and fun."
True
freedom is rarely painless or comfortable. The West has come close enough already to
creating a category of thought crimes in the form of "hate speech". To go any further along this
road — in the name of tolerance — would undermine precisely the kind of open
society to which, ironically, so many migrant groups are attracted. Satire, or verbal abuse, may be
ugly or puerile. It may be objectionable in any number of ways to different groups of people. And
you are as free to attack it, or to repudiate it, as its authors are to publish it. None of this may
be comfortable or painless — but real freedom rarely is.
Muslim
Leaders to Hold 'Stand with the Prophet' Rally in Texas. Muslim leaders from across
America will gather in [Garland,] Texas this weekend to hold the annual Stand With the Prophet in
Honor and Respect conference, a weekend forum that is being billed as a "movement to defend Prophet
Muhammad, his person, and his message," according to event information. The Saturday event, which
seeks to combat "Islamophobes in America" who have turned the Islamic Prophet Muhammad "into an
object of hate," according to organizers, comes just a week after radicalized Islamists in France
killed 17 people.
We
think the Paris terrorists were offended by Charlie Hebdo's satire. What if we're wrong? Here's
a theory. Terrorists aren't offended by cartoons. Not even cartoons that satirise the Prophet Muhammad.
They don't care about satire. For all I know they may not even care about the Prophet Muhammad. Instead,
they merely pretend to be offended by cartoons, in order to give themselves a pretext to commit murder. Murder
so horrifying, on a pretext so unWestern, that non-Muslims — blinded by grief and rage — turn
on Muslims. Blame them. Persecute them. Burn their book, attack their mosques, threaten them in the
street, demand their expulsion from Western societies. Actions that, in turn, scare Western Muslims, isolate them,
alienate them. And thus drive some of them to support — and even become — terrorists.
Do
Not Submit! Republish the Mohammed Cartoons Everywhere. Here's How. Today's terror
attack on Charlie Hedbo, the irreverent French satirical magazine that was one of the few
media outlets in France to publish the original "Mohammed cartoons," is an attempt by Islamic
fundamentalists to enforce shari'a worldwide, even on non-Muslims. We must not let them
succeed. Self-censoring out of fear means self-imposition of shari'a (Islamic law).
Self-censoring out of "respect" (actually just a euphemism for fear) means you are submitting to the
terrorists' worldview. The way to overcome them in this instance is to overwhelm them with
disrespect and mockery. They can silence one magazine, but they can't silence the entire
Internet. Every blogger, of every political stripe, be it left, right, and everywhere in between,
needs to realize that freedom of speech and freedom of the press are the two keystones of your ideology,
whatever it may be. You need to make a stand. You need to make these terrorists lose the
ideological battle.
Vermont
Restaurant Removes Bacon Sign Due to Muslim Opposition and Safety Concerns. The sign
was put up as part of a city program that allows businesses to post an advertisement in an area
where they have helped maintain city flowerbeds. The sign that read "Yield Sneakers Bacon" was
removed after a woman, identifying herself as a Muslim, posted in an online community forum, stating
she was personally offended by the sign, according to a WPTZ News report. WPTZ wrote that the woman
who complained online called the sign "insensitive to those who do not consume pork."
The Editor says...
Why is one offended woman a "safety concern?"
Saudi
Arabia has beheaded 19 people in one month. Human Rights Watch reports that Saudi
Arabia has beheaded 19 people since the beginning of August. Some confessions may have been gained
under torture and one poor defendant was found guilty of sorcery. Yep, sorcery. That might sound
archaic, but we are talking about a regime so very concerned about offending God that it has even banned
certain names for being "blasphemous".
The
Muslims' War Against Fun Is Killing Them. The War Against Fun is deadly because it
stultifies and suffocates creative enterprise. If the regime wins, and fun is killed, it would
mark the death of playfulness, which is the heart of creativity. The Iranians are (falsely, I
think) credited with the invention of chess, but there are no brilliant Persian chess grandmasters
nowadays. Iranian humor is nasty, misogynistic and often sadistic, like the unhappy country's
ruling tyrants.
Malaysian
Muslim groups call for jihad on Cadbury after pork traces found in chocolate. Muslim
groups have declared jihad on Cadbury after two of its products sold in predominately Islamic
Malaysia were found to contain traces of pork. The discovery was made during a periodic check for
non-halal ingredients in food products by the country's health ministry, which confirmed the
presence of porcine DNA in bars of Cadbury Dairy Milk Hazelnut and Cadbury Dairy Milk Roast Almond.
Cadbury Malaysia, like most food makers in the country where Muslims make up more than 60 percent
of the population, has all of its products certified halal to conform with Islam's dietary restrictions,
one of which is a prohibition on pork.
Malaysian
Muslims Declare Jihad Against Cadbury. Angry Muslims in Malaysia demand a Jihad, or
holy war, be declared on confectionery company Cadbury and their parent company after traces of pig
DNA were found. In response Cadbury Malaysia is pulling Cadbury Dairy Milk hazelnut and Cadbury
Dairy Milk roast almond from shelves in the Islamic country, Reuters reports. A group of more
than 20 Muslim organizations condemned the UK-based company, owned by Mondelēz International,
saying "it has crossed the line."
All clear!
Cadbury
Chocolate Cleared in Malaysia After 'Pork Scare'. Further tests on Cadbury chocolate
bars found no traces of pig DNA, a Malaysian minister said on Monday [6/2/2014], after earlier positive
results of the halal-certified confectionaries sparked a scare in several Muslim countries.
Cadbury pulled its Dairy Milk hazelnut and Dairy Milk roast almond products from shelves in
Muslim-majority Malaysia last week after a health ministry routine test found the chocolate
contained traces of pork.
UK
politician arrested for quoting Churchill, could face 2 years in prison. Paul Weston, co-founder and
leader of the GB Liberty party and a candidate for Member of the European Parliament, was arrested Saturday [4/26/2014],
hauled off in a police van, and could face two years in prison. All for reading a passage from Winston Churchill's
book, The River War, regarding Islam.
Britain has just witnessed a political arrest. Where is
the liberal outrage? Over the weekend, a candidate was arrested for addressing his
potential voters. Clear aside the incidental details, scrape away the mitigating circumstances, and
ponder that elemental fact. Paul Weston, standing for election to the European Parliament (against
me, as it happens, in the South East) was arrested in the middle of a speech on the steps of the
Winchester Guildhall. When such a thing happens in Burma or Belarus or Bahrain, we report it in
suitably shocked tones. Yet here it is happening in Britain, without any discussions on the Today
Programme, any Amnesty vigils, any complaints from Liberty. To repeat, a candidate was arrested
for making a hustings speech.
9/11 On The Cutting Room
Floor. An interfaith advisory panel urges the National September 11 Memorial Museum to
bowdlerize a six-plus-minute film of unflattering references to Islam for fear of sparking an international
incident. If only Osama bin Laden had employed such a nonsectarian "coexist" council of elders prior to
sparking international incident.
Muslims claim 9/11 memorial film on the rise of al Qaeda will
'greatly offend' Islam. A film due to be screened at the 9/11 Memorial Museum has been blasted
by a prominent Muslim cleric who claims it will 'greatly offend' Islam. Sheik Mostafa Elazabawy, the
imam of Masjid Manhattan, said the seven-minute documentary, which is designed to explain to visitors the
historical roots of the terrorist attacks, may confuse viewers about the difference between Al Qaeda and
Muslims. The film, The Rise of Al Qaeda, refers to the terrorists as Islamists who viewed
their mission as a jihad.
Canada:
Nine Months in Jail for Blasphemy Against Islam. Caution: If you happen to be in Canada,
and you say something in public that hurts the feelings of Muslims, you may well be sentenced to nine months
in jail. That's what happened to Eric Brazau in Toronto. Mind you, I've seen a video of Mr.
Brazau's street-corner theatrics, and he also wore offensive attire, made insulting facial expressions,
and laughed derisively at or in the general direction of Muslims. So he was lucky to get off so lightly.
China
official says Islamists seek to ban laughter and crying. The governor of China's restive far western
region of Xinjiang wrote on Monday that Islamist militants were trying to ban laughter at weddings and crying at
funerals, as he appealed to people to stamp out the "tumor" of extremism.
Banned in the British
Library. A number of prominent counter-jihadis, such as Geert Wilders, have the distinction of being banned
from entry into the United Kingdom — and, now, Her Majesty's Government, in its wisdom, appears to have
banned on some public computers two websites connected to me. It's not quite the same, admittedly, and I am
working to get this ban removed, but I also wear it as a perverse badge of honor given that government's shameful
record vis-à-vis Islamism.
Muslims
Object to Easter Eggs. Muslim moms and dads in Dearborn, Mich. are upset after students received
flyers promoting an Easter Egg hunt at a local Presbyterian church. The parents say the egg hunt violates
the U.S. Constitution. The Muslims told the Detroit Free-Press that they were concerned about the religious
implications of Cherry Hill Presbyterian Church's "Eggstravaganza!" They were also troubled by images
of a bunny rabbit.
Now
Muslim parents are complaining about flyers for Easter egg hunts. In Dearborn, Mich., home to over 40,000
Americans of Arab descent, some Muslim parents have complained about flyers handed out at public schools advertising an
Easter egg hunt at a local Presbyterian church. The Muslim parents assert that the flyers — emblazoned
with the word "Eggstravaganza!" — violate the separation of church and state widely ascribed to the First
Amendment's Establishment Clause, reports the Detroit Free Press. Students at three Dearborn elementary schools
received the flyers. A large number of Muslim students attend the schools.
The Editor says...
In case you attended public schools, let me point out that the phrase separation of church and statei> is
not found in the U.S. Constitution. Nor is the Easter Bunny a religious symbol.
Dubai sends American to
max-security prison for a YouTube satire video. Let this be a cautionary tale to Americans working abroad: not all countries
appreciate a satirical sense of humor. Minnesotan Shezanne Cassim has lived and worked in Dubai for PricewaterhouseCoopers for seven years, but
he's now imprisoned in a maximum-security prison. His offense? Making a social satire about rich Dubai "gangstas" on YouTube last October.
Christian church fights to erect cross
as pastor claims city officials fear Muslims. The pastor and some members of a Christian church in Brandon, Miss., say city officials won't
grant them their permit request for a massive cross to be built on their property because the city is afraid the symbol might offend Muslims.
City officials, however, say they're hesitant to allow the cross construction because it would violate zoning rules.
White
House: Pathway to citizenship would boost GDP by $1.4T over decade. The White House on Tuesday released a new report arguing a pathway to
citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants would add 2 million jobs to the economy and boost gross domestic product by $1.4 trillion
over the next decade.
The Editor says...
It would be nice if the eleven million illegal immigrants obeyed all local traffic regulations and state laws, stayed sober, learned English, got jobs and
actually worked, instead of consuming food stamps, public housing and free tuition. There are plenty of people coming to the U.S. to give birth, but
there aren't many rocket scientists and PhD's sneaking in to the United States. The Democrats know this and don't care; in fact, they prefer to have
more people sign up — permanently — for the welfare state, because an expanded lower class means a larger Democratic base.
Gitmo
Inmate Searches Banned Because Groin Searches are "Abhorrent to Muslims". Things that aren't abhorrent to Muslims include
underwear bombs, smuggling weapons and stabbing guards. Also terrorizing a country to the extent that passengers are groped in airports.
There's a pattern with rulings such as these. If the judge had determined that groin searches are a general civil liberties violation
that would be one thing. But this is a special privilege and entitlement for Muslims.
This is a recurring theme: Islam's solution to everything is death.
Iraqi
gunmen kill 14 breaking Ramadan fast. Gunmen overran an Iraqi army checkpoint and opened fire on a trailer packed with policemen
breaking their Ramadan fast, killing 14 in the country's restive western Anbar province.
Liberals inject race into almost everything:
Racist or reality? Seattle congressman wants
FBI terrorists ads pulled. In the global war on terror, information is everything. A single tip from the public can save countless
lives. A terrorist could be right in front of your own face. That's why the FBI rolled out a new ad campaign on billboards and buses.
It shows the faces of 16 of the world's most wanted terrorists. Some, however, say they're being depicted in a less that flattering light.
"You look at the pictures, they're all one color of folks," said Congressman Jim McDermott of Seattle. McDermott has asked the FBI to pull the
ads, calling them "racist" because there are no white people.
'Offensive
to Muslims': Dem congressman calls on FBI to take down photos of terrorists. Always-unfiltered Rep. Jim McDermott penned a letter
to FBI Director Robert Mueller Wednesday [6/19/2013] claiming a Joint Terrorism Task Force 'Faces of Global Terrorism' ad is racist.
McDermott, a Democrat from Washington state, voiced his "deep concern" about the ad, which shows mug shots of international terrorists,
and asked the FBI chief to "reconsider publicizing" it.
Islamic group says UCF professor promotes anti-Muslim
hate. The Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is accusing a UCF professor of teaching anti-Muslim bigotry.
Officials with the group sent a complaint to the University of Central Florida asking it to review the content of professor Jonathan Matusitz's courses.
Matusitz, 36, has taught several communication classes at UCF, including one called Terrorism and Communication and another on intercultural communication.
French
extreme-right leader Marine Le Pen faces prosecution for comparing Muslims to Nazis. French extreme right-wing leader Marine Le Pen
faces potential prosecution for comparing Muslim immigration in France as "like a Nazi occupation." The European Parliament's legal committee
recommended that the National Front leader have her protection from prosecution as an MEP revoked, which could result in her being put on trial.
The full parliament is expected to formally lift her legal immunity after a vote on the recommendation on July 3.
Rand Paul:
Your Taxes Fund Regimes That Kill Christians 'for Blasphemy Against Islam'. In a speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition
conference on Thursday [6/13/2013], Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said he was angry over the fact that U.S. tax money is used to support foreign regimes
where Christians are killed "for blasphemy against Islam," and where "Muslims who convert to Christianity" are also put to death.
Father
of "Most Wanted Terrorist" Accuses Alabamans of Islamophobia for Not Letting Him Build a Mosque. I can't see a single
reason why a man whose son turned out to be a terrorist should be suspected of presiding over a mosque that in any way promotes
terrorism. That's just crazy.
Syrian Islamists
kill boy, 15, in front of parents for disrespecting prophet. Members of an al Qaeda-linked group in Syria executed
a 15-year-old boy in front of his parents after kidnapping and torturing him for making disrespectful statements about Islam's Prophet
Muhammad, a human rights group in the region claimed. Mohammad Qataa was seized Saturday in Aleppo by gunmen with the Islamic
State of Iraq and Syria — formerly known as the Nusra Front — after he was overheard saying during an argument
with another, "Even if the Prophet Muhammad comes down [from heaven], I will not become a believer," according to Reuters.
"The Justice Department is trying to curtail free speech by promising increased
scrutiny of any Internet posts which mention Islam."
People Power Against the Department of Justice.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and its allies, the Council on American Islamic Relations and the Southern Poverty Law Center, are on the defensive after
thousands of people turned out in Tennessee on Tuesday night [6/4/2013] to protest a scheme to censor criticism of Islam. The Council on American
Islamic Relations (CAIR), a key component of a network of Muslim Brotherhood organizations in the U.S., called the turnout a "mob" and praised the
Obama/Holder Justice Department for standing up to local residents.
Another Obama Assault on Free
Speech. The Obama Administration's latest assault on the freedom of speech is so audacious that it leaves me
speechless — and that's the idea. According to Politico, Bill Killian, the Obama-appointed U.S. attorney
for the Eastern District of Tennessee, "is reportedly vowing to use federal civil rights statutes to clamp down on offensive
and inflammatory speech about Islam." Said Killian: "We need to educate people about Muslims and their civil
rights, and as long as we're here, they're going to be protected."
Free Speech
and Islamic Sensibilities. Apparently a United States attorney in Tennessee is seeking to use civil rights statutes to
criminalize criticism of Islam or inflammatory statements that offend Muslims. According to the Tullahoma News, Bill
Killian, the U.S. attorney for Eastern Tennessee, believes "Internet postings that violate civil rights are subject to federal
jurisdiction." Though the newspaper makes clear that Killian's intent is to promote better community relations and to prevent
discrimination against Muslims that is based on the false notion that all are terrorists, his willingness to dump the First Amendment
rights of some in order to protect the sensibility of others ought to scare all Americans.
The Not-So-Veiled Threat
to Non-Muslims in Tennessee. The attempted snow job by the American Muslim Advisory Council (AMAC) of Tennessee which
sponsored the joint Department of Justice/FBI event, "Public Disclosure in a Diverse Society," Tuesday night in Manchester, Tennessee,
did not work with the 2,000 attendees. [...] A well-informed crowd responded with calls of "taqiyyah" when members of AMAC, a group that
bills itself as "a bridge between the Muslim community and law enforcement," touted Muslim contributions to U.S. society and their
dedication to upholding American values.
10 arrested so far in British soldier's killing as Muslims fear backlash.
As concerns about rising Islamophobia in Britain grew amid anti-Muslim protests and attacks targeting mosques, authorities made a 10th arrest in last
week's knifing death of a British soldier. Armed police arrested a 50-year-old man on a street in the town of Welling in southeastern England.
The man's connection to the case was unclear, but like the other nine suspects, he was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder.
The Editor says...
Apparently CNN wants us to feel sorry for the Muslims because they "fear backlash."/p>
Army forsakes combat hero Lt. Col.
Matthew Dooley for Muslims. The U.S. Army has further punished Lt. Col. Matthew Dooley, a highly respected and decorated officer in the wake of
Muslim groups complaining about the approved course he taught on radical Islam at National Defense University.
Free Speech [is] Under Fire in Canada. Here is yet
another instance of the Islamic supremacist/leftist war on free speech — particularly egregious in the wake of the Boston Marathon jihad bombings.
The message is all the more crucial now. For years, my colleagues and I labored under the most heinous circumstances. Anyone who opposes the jihad
and the Sharia must endure a constant withering attack on one's name, reputation, integrity, and even spirit.
The
Jihad On Free Speech. Over the past few weeks, there have been an alarming number of cases of Muslim pressure groups trying
to force Americans to conform to a pro-Islamic speech code. They've insisted on censoring any speech or expression that offends
them, including TV ads, Christian symbols, speeches and even parts of speech.
WH
Claims Bin Laden Burial Details Would Lead to 'Retaliatory Attacks'. [Judicial Watch] uncovered records showing that the
Obama administration sought "high visibility" in bid Laden projects. They wanted to project Barack Obama as a strong leader in
command, and cared nothing about how terrorists would react to the film. Now contrast this approach with the administration's
handling of information (also sought by Judicial Watch) detailing the bin Laden burial at sea.
The Editor says...
Oh, I see. If the pictures aren't shown, we're all perfectly safe. In that case, we can abandon the security façade
at the airport and fire everybody at the TSA.
Lakemba
Mosque imam issues 'fatwa against Christmas' - report. The head imam at Lakemba, Sheikh Yahya Safi, reportedly told the congregation
during Friday [12/21/2012] prayers they should not have anything to do with Christmas. The fatwa reportedly warned: "Disbelievers are
trying to draw Muslims away from the straight path." It said Christmas Day and associated celebrations are among the "falsehoods" for a Muslim
to avoid. "Therefore a Muslim is neither allowed to celebrate the Christmas Day nor is he allowed to congratulate them," it said.
Blasphemy and Islam. In Cairo on
Wednesday [12/12/2012], a Coptic Christian blogger named Alber Saber was convicted of blasphemy and "contempt of religion." There's a tragic irony:
As any of the country's Christians can tell you, contempt of religion is not merely permitted but encouraged in the new, post-Mubarak Egypt. What is
criminal, what has become increasingly perilous, is any criticism of Islam.
In
northern Mali, music silenced as Islamists drive out artists. Khaira Arby, one of Africa's most celebrated musicians, has performed
all over the world, but there is one place she cannot visit: her native city of Timbuktu, a place steeped in history and culture but now ruled by
religious extremists.
State Dept. Official to
Attend OIC Meeting Today on Banning 'Defamation of Islam'. After the disaster of trying to blame an obscure YouTube video for the attack on the
CIA operation in Benghazi and Obama's prophecy at the UN that "the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam," Hillary Clinton's State
Department appears to be taking another run at the First Amendment free speech rights of American citizens.
Salafist
leader wants Pyramids destroyed. A Salafist leader called on authorities to destroy the Pyramids and Sphinx in Giza, one
of Egypt's famous tourist sites, saying the "idols" must be removed.
The Editor says...
The pyramids have been around for a long time. Why are they so suddenly objectionable?
Brussels Bans Annual Christmas Tree
Display — It May Offend Muslims. Brussels replaced its popular Christmas tree exhibit this year at the city center due to
concerns that it may offend the local Muslim population.
Obama's Fog of War. How many times do we have to
hear that some attack by jihadis is a reaction to something we did? Did we allow someone to post a video on YouTube? Did we
allow someone to draw a cartoon? Did one of our infidel Marines touch a Koran with an ungloved hand? Did we let girls go to
school? How many ways are there to offend these people?
Saudi King Demands UN Resolution Condemning Religious Insults.
Saudi King Abdullah demanded a U.N. resolution Saturday [10/27/2012] condemning insults on religions. His calls came in response to the deadly
protests that have been erupting throughout the Muslim world, which have been widely blamed on a low-budget film mocking the Prophet Mohamed.
Mocking Muhammad is not hate speech.
Attacking the sanctities of a religion, I submit, is quite unlike targeting the faithful of that religion. The former is protected
speech, part of the give and take of the market place of ideas, not all of which are pretty. Freedom of speech means the freedom to
insult and be obnoxious. So long as it does not include incitement or information that urges criminal action, nastiness is an
essential part of our heritage.
'Misunderstanding'
over Islamic art sparks near-riot. A Moroccan artist on Wednesday [10/3/2012] suspended one of his works from a major arts festival in
southern France after his projections of Islamic calligraphy onto a bridge nearly set off a riot when local Muslim youths saw pedestrians walking on
the words.
Why bother with a trial, if this outcome is guaranteed?
Sajjad
Hussain Quickly Gunned Down after Being Acquitted of Blasphemy Charges. A Pakistani man who was acquitted of a blasphemy charge has
been shot dead by two men in Punjab province, police officials said on Saturday [10/20/2012].
Muslims Destroyed 10,000 Books in American
School. As a certain Caliph said of the Library of Alexandria, if the books contradict the Koran then they are blasphemous and should be
destroyed. If they agree with it, then they are redundant and should be destroyed. But if they are Kindles then we should take them and sell
them on eBay to fund the martyrs fighting in Chechnya, Gaza and Timbuktu.
Shut Up or Die, the
Muslim Protesters Explained. [Scroll down] The immediate question is how far this administration will go
to limit free speech. With the arrest last weekend of "Innocence of Muslims" filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the government
took a step toward official intimidation. The administration is unquestionably on record supporting officially endorsed (as
opposed to officially imposed) self-censorship: the highest levels of government are proclaiming, "The United States deplores
any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others," as the secretary of state said, or that "the United States rejects
efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others," as the president did. No other group in American society benefits
from the deference and kid-gloves treatment that this administration is extending to Muslim extremists.
Islamic group calls
for ban on offending prophet. The head of a leading Islamic organization Saturday [9/29/2012] called for a global ban
on offending the character of the Prophet Muhammad, saying that it should be equated with hate speech. [...] [Ekmeleddin] Ihsanoglu's
call also echoed the views of other moderate Muslim scholars and leaders, who have urged the U.N. and international bodies to define
global standards on religious expression and to help prevent incitement — particularly Islamaphobia.
The Editor asks...
Since when is the U.N. in charge of prosecuting either "hate speech" or blasphemy?
Bangladesh
Muslim protesters torch Buddhist temples over Facebook photo. Hundreds of Muslims in Bangladesh burned at least four
Buddhist temples and 15 homes of Buddhists on Sunday [9/30/2012] after complaining that a Buddhist man had insulted Islam,
police and residents said. Members of the Buddhist minority in the Cox's Bazar area in the southeast of the country said
unidentified people were bent on upsetting peaceful relations between Muslims and Buddhists. Muslims took to the streets in the
area late on Saturday to protest against what they said was a photograph posted on Facebook that insulted Islam. The protesters
said the picture had been posted by a Buddhist and they marched to Buddhist villages and set fire to temples and houses.
Why Arabs are so Easily Offended: Westerners are brought up to
think of anger as a sign of weakness, powerlessness and lack of self-control. In Muslim culture, anger is seen as a sign of strength.
To Muslims, being aggressive is a way of gaining respect. When we see pictures of bearded men hopping up and down and shooting in the air,
we should take it for what it is: these are the true role models of acceptable behavior. In Western culture, self-confidence is
connected with the ability to meet criticism calmly and to respond rationally. We are raised to see people who easily get angry when criticized,
as insecure and immature. In Muslim culture it is the opposite; it is honorable to respond aggressively and to engage in a physical fight
in order to scare or force critics to withdraw, even if this results in a prison sentence or even death.
Over 1,000
rally against anti-Islam film in Dearborn; another protest planned today. More than 1,000 rallied Friday night [9/28/2012]
in Dearborn against the anti-Islam movie that has sparked protests around the world. Organized by Arab-American leaders, the rally
was the third protest in metro Detroit over the movie, the biggest one yet. Another protest against "Innocence of Muslims," the
anti-Islam movie made in California that denigrates Islam's prophet, is set for today in Canton.
The Editor says...
How many of these protestors have watched the movie, as opposed to the trailer promoting the movie? I would estimate zero,
since the (full-length) movie itself apparently doesn't exist.
More about
the Benghazi terrorist attack.
Push to call blasphemy a crime. Muslim leaders
have vowed to discuss the offensive video from their UN platforms, sowing concern among free-speech activists of a fresh push toward an international law
that would criminalise blasphemy. Human rights groups and Western democracies resisted such a law for years and thought they had finally quashed the
matter after convincing enough nations that repressive regimes used blasphemy laws to imprison or execute dissidents.
The Freedom to Offend an
Imaginary God. The latest wave of Muslim hysteria and violence has now spread to more than 20 countries. The walls of our
embassies and consulates have been breached, their precincts abandoned to triumphant mobs, and many people have been murdered — all in response
to an unwatchable Internet video titled "Innocence of Muslims." Whether over a film, a cartoon, a novel, a beauty pageant, or an inauspiciously
named teddy bear, the coming eruption of pious rage is now as predictable as the dawn. This is already an old and boring story about old, boring,
and deadly ideas. And I fear it will be with us for the rest of our lives.
Obama's
DOJ Can't Say Criticizing Religion Will Remain Legal. [A recent exchange], between Representative Trent Franks and
Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, occurred in late July, but is particularly relevant today. Representatvie Franks
tries to extract an assurance from Perez that the Obama administration will not push a proposal to criminalize speech "against any
religion." He has a tough time doing so.
Leading Sunni Clerics Demand That
Insults to Islam Be Outlawed. Six months after declaring that all churches in the Arabian peninsula should be destroyed,
Saudi Arabia's top cleric called at the weekend for a global ban on insults targeting all religious "prophets and messengers," a
category that, from a Muslim perspective, includes Jesus Christ. Saturday's [9/15/2012] demand by Saudi grand mufti Sheikh
Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh came on the same day that another of Sunni Islam's most prominent figures, Egypt's Al-Azhar University grand
imam Ahmed el-Tayyeb, made a similar appeal.
Muslim War on Meter Maids. Muslim immigrants in Palma
de Mallorca, the capital of the Balearic Islands in Spain, have succeeded in forcing the expulsion of all female parking meter enforcement
officers from a city neighborhood that is home to a growing Muslim population. The move reflects the increasing assertiveness of
Spain's Muslim community, which in recent years, has sought to impose its will over Spanish society on a variety of issues deemed offensive
to Islam.
Hurting Muslims' Feelings
'Cannot Be Tolerated,' Egypt's Ruling Party Says. As U.S. diplomatic missions tightened security in the aftermath following
Tuesday's deadly attack in Libya and continuing protests in Egypt — and new eruptions in Yemen — Islamic governments and
organizations, including terrorist groups, condemned an obscure film about Mohammed blamed by some for the incidents. Egypt's Muslim
Brotherhood in a statement demanded legal action against those behind the film.
Egypt protesters breach US embassy over 'insulting' film.
Protesters have breached the wall of the American embassy in Cairo and torn down a flag over a US-made film which they say is insulting
to the Prophet Muhammad.
Google blocks YouTube clip in Egypt and Libya; keeps it online. YouTube, the video
website owned by Google Inc, said on Wednesday [9/12/2012] it would not remove a film clip mocking the Islamic Prophet Muhammad
that has been blamed for anti-U.S. protests in Egypt and Libya, but it has blocked access to it in those countries. The
clip, based on a longer film, depicts the prophet as a fraud and philanderer and has been blamed for sparking violence at
U.S. embassies in Cairo and Benghazi.
Sorry your
feelings were hurt, you stalwarts of religious tolerance. Some Muslims had had their feelings hurt by a poorly done and
little-viewed film that ridicules Islam. Good grief! Lots of Muslims ridicule Christians and Jews all the time and many of
them take great delight in hurting our feelings by specializing in murdering and maiming Christians and Jews. Who hurt their feelings
this time? Some man not connected with our Cairo embassy or the US government who is not even a US citizen. Yet many, possibly
most, Muslims believe this justifies an act of war against the United States, which is what an attack against an embassy or consulate
is — and the Obama-led US government believes that a fitting response to the threat of mayhem and murder is to assure its
perpetrators that we feel their pain.
White House Must Stop Sony from
Releasing 'Killing bin Laden' Film. Now that the White House and State Department have made clear that they believe movies
compel terrorists to terrorize, it's time for them to get ahead of this problem. And one thing the White House can do immediately
is to pressure Sony to stop the release of director Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty," which celebrates the killing of Osama bin Laden.
I'm only saying this because, you know, the White House and the media told me movies inflame and cause terrorism.
Taliban beheads 17 for attending mixed-sex party.
The Taliban beheaded seventeen party-goers, including two women dancers, in Afghanistan's volatile Helmand province as punishment, recalling
the darkest days of rule by the ultra-conservative Islamist insurgents before their ouster in 2001. The bodies were found on
Monday [8/27/2012] in a house near the Musa Qala district where a party was held on Sunday night with music and mixed-sex dancing, said district
governor Nimatullah.
17
Afghans Beheaded for Singing and Dancing. Locals gathered for a party in Helmund Province, played music and danced for a late night
party on Sunday [8/26/2012]. The party occurred in the Taliban controlled Helmund Province in the Musa Qala district. Some reports say
it was a wedding party. Two women dancers and 15 men were beheaded for dancing together and playing music. The Taliban does not
approved of men and women mixing socially.
Man jailed for insulting Aisha. A Bahraini
court has jailed a man for two years for making insulting comments about one of the Prophet Mohammad's wives, the latest such case highlighting sectarian
tension in the Gulf. The daily al-Wasat reported that a man had insulted Aisha, a revered figure for Sunni Muslims, in comments online.
Somali comedian who poked fun at
Islamists shot dead. Gunmen shot dead a well-known comedian known for poking fun at Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents in
the Somali capital Mogadishu, officials and colleagues said Wednesday [8/1/2012]. Abdi Jeylani Malaq Marshale, in his late
thirties or early forties, was killed late Tuesday [7/31/2012], minutes after leaving Kulmiye radio station, where he worked as
drama producer and performer.
When
political correctness collides with political correctness. [Scroll down] In fact, service dogs routinely
fly with their disabled masters. Lately miniature horses have shown up on planes and,last November, ABC News reported
a 300 pound pot bellied pig on a flight from Philly to Seattle. [...] Airlines are required to allow these animals
on board at no extra charge, and any rejection of a service animal on a flight must be documented in writing for the DOT.
Airport owners are also required to provide "relief areas" for service animals. Americans are indoctrinated to accept
any special accommodation for the disabled. [...] But what about the average Muslim passenger? What happens (and it
will happen) when the Muslim traveler demands the removal from the flight of the "unclean" dog or the (Allah help us) pig?
Calls to Destroy Egypt's
Great Pyramids Begin. According to several reports in the Arabic media, prominent Muslim clerics have begun
to call for the demolition of Egypt's Great Pyramids — or, in the words of Saudi Sheikh Ali bin Said al-Rabi'i,
those "symbols of paganism," which Egypt's Salafi party has long planned to cover with wax. Most recently, Bahrain's
"Sheikh of Sunni Sheikhs" and President of National Unity, Abd al-Latif al-Mahmoud, called on Egypt's new president, Muhammad
Morsi, to "destroy the Pyramids and accomplish what the Sahabi Amr bin al-As could not."
Mali
Islamists destroy tombs at famous Timbuktu mosque. Islamist militants destroyed two tombs on Tuesday [7/10/2012] at the
famous 14th century Djingareyber mosque in Timbuktu, classified by UNESCO as a world heritage site, residents said. [...] Islamists
of the Ansar Dine group say the centuries-old shrines of the local Sufi version of Islam are idolatrous.
Tweeter gets 10 years for prophet
insult. A lower court in Kuwait sentenced a Shi'ite tweeter to 10 years in jail on Monday on charges of insulting
Islam's Prophet Muhammad, his wife Aisha and companions, his lawyer Khaled al-Shatti said.
Guilty of Insulting Islam.
Last October, Ernest Perce was marching in a Halloween parade in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, dressed up as a zombie
version of the prophet Mohammed when he was physically confronted by Talaag Elbayomy, a Muslim immigrant who found
his costume offensive. According to Perce, Elbayomy grabbed him, chocked [sic] him, and then tried to rip off the
"Mohammed of Islam" sign that Pence wore around his neck. Elbayomy later admitted to a police officer on the
scene that he had tried to grab the sign, believing that it was a crime in the United States to insult Mohammed.
But when Pence [sic] brought criminal harassment charges against Elbayomy, the district judge, Judge Mark Martin, dismissed
the case.
Man
arrested in Kuwait for insulting Prophet Mohammad on Twitter. Kuwaiti authorities arrested a
man late on Tuesday [3/27/2012] for insulting the Prophet Mohammad via his Twitter account, the Interior
Ministry said, in a rare case of alleged blasphemy in the Gulf Arab state using social media.
Obama Dances the Jizya. Formally, the
jizya is a "tax" paid by kafirs already living under Muslim domination. It is a tax that must be paid at risk of losing one's
head. Moreover, the jizya is not just a "head" tax; it is also intended to be a form of humiliation. ... The right to free
speech is being chipped away. Any criticism of Islam is labeled Islamophobia. This is the first soul-losing step on
the road to full dhimmitude — part of which contains the principle that one must never say or do anything to
offend Muslims.
Top
Muslim scholar says any one who insults Prophet should be killed, even Tweeters. Obama and
Clinton are working with Muslim nations to make insulting Islam a global crime.
The Religion of Peace strikes again.
Another Aghan
Soldier Murders U.S. Marine. But let's disarm U.S. Marines when they listen to the Secretary of Defense speak
in Afghanistan so we don't hurt the unarmed Afghan soldiers' feelings.
FBI
warns Afghan massacre could inspire extremists in the US. That would be worth discussing, except that
everything provokes Muslim extremists in the US.
90
Iraqi students killed for having 'strange hair and tight clothes'. More than 90 Iraqi
students have been stoned to death for their Emo haircuts by religious extremists in Baghdad in the past
month after Iraq's interior ministry dubbed it 'devil worshipping'. Iraq's Moral Police released a
statement on the interior ministry's website condemning the 'emo phenomenon' among Iraqi youth, declaring
its intent to 'eliminate' the trend.
U.S.
apologies invite more Muslim 'rages'. Critical discussion or representation of Islam spurs Muslims
to violence. This violence spurs Westerners to apology. But apology is always an act of dhimmitude:
submitting to Islamic definitions of crime or grievance, which only under Islamic law require contrition.
Today, with the murders of American troops, Muslim violence is more brazen, and Western apologies, too, are more
exaggerated. The United States hasn't even quashed Afghan demands for a trial of those who disposed of
several Korans.
Taliban's
Response to Obama's Apology: 'Kill Them, Beat Them, Take Them as Prisoners'. In the wake of President Barack Obama
sending a three-page letter to Afghan President Hamid Kharzai, apologizing for U.S. forces having mistakenly burned some Qur'ans
at a U.S. air base in Afghanistan, the Taliban is calling on Muslims to kill Americans or beat them and take them as prisoners.
The call for violence against U.S. troops in Afghanistan came as Muslims in South Asia and elsewhere prepared for Friday
prayers — a potentially volatile time.
Obama's burning Koran apology.
Raucous Afghan mobs have forced a presidential apology, even after two American soldiers were killed. The extremists win again.
Flashback to May 2009:
Media
Ignored U.S. Military Burning Bibles to Appease Afghans. As violent, deadly demonstrations have broken out in
Afghanistan following the recent accidental burning of Korans, it's interesting to look back nearly three years ago when the
U.S. military burned a shipment of Holy Bibles written in the Pashto and Dari languages. The military destroyed the
Bibles rather than ship them back stateside apparently out of fear the American church that sent them would just try shipping
them back through other channels to Afghanistan.
Why Apologize to
Afghanistan? The New York Times reports that President Obama has sent a formal letter of apology to
Afghanistan's ingrate president, Hamid Karzai, for the burning of Korans at a U.S. military base. The only upside
of the apology is that it appears (based on the Times account) to be couched as coming personally from our blindly
Islamophilic president — "I wish to express my deep regret for the reported incident. ... I extend to you
and the Afghani people my sincere apologies." It is not couched as an apology from the American people, whose
frame of mind will be outrage, not contrition, as the facts become more widely known.
Does Mohammed Seriously Say It's Okay To Kill
People Who Throw Away Old Korans? If you haven't read the details about the Koran burning incident,
you might assume that American soldiers created a huge pile of Korans, poured gasoline all over them, and then
cheered and fired their guns in the air as they set it ablaze. That would be the sort of insensitive,
bigoted act that might be expected to lead to protests (if not murders, which are a crime of a whole different
order). But that's not what happened.
Was Obama's Apology
to Karzai Appropriate? What's largely missing from the reporting is the reason the U.S. military removed
and destroyed the books from its library at the United States-run Parwan Detention Facility next to the Bagram
Airfield. The most we've gotten is that handwritten "extremist messages" by prisoners were apparently found
on the pages of the Islamic books. We're told that prisoners were exchanging hidden messages within the
high-security prison.
Obama: Sharia Enforcer.
Madness has overtaken Washington, and the world. Every day this past week has brought fresh reports of more
people murdered in Afghanistan over the burning of some copies of the Qur'an at Bagram Airfield. In
response, every day new apologies come from American officials.
A Canary in the Mine.
One rare apology might in theory make things safer for Americans; lots of them in fact make things more dangerous
for our troops. In general, if you apologize gratuitously when there is no need, remorse loses its currency
in the rare cases when it might be necessary. All this saying "we are sorry" has also energized our enemies
as much as it has depressed the public at home.
Karzai goes crazy. President Obama
should man up and tell Hamid Karzai in very plain and graphic language just what he can do with his demand that the
greatest nation in the world sacrifice its soldiers and its honor to save his hide. We have been there
for 10 years. That's enough. Go home already.
Afghanistan
asks women TV presenters to wear headscarves. The Afghan government said on Wednesday [2/15/2012]
it had asked women television presenters to wear headscarves and to avoid heavy make-up after members of the
upper house of parliament complained about non-compliance with Islamic ethics. Minister for Culture and
Information Sayed Makhdoom Raheen said the decision applied to both public and private television channels.
Shariah's Police? A Saudi
newspaper columnist named Hamza Kashgari was detained in Malaysia, reportedly on the basis of an alert by the
International Criminal Police Organization, better known as Interpol. Reuters quotes a Malaysian police
spokesman as saying that, "This arrest was part of an Interpol operation which the Malaysian police were a
part of." It was apparently mounted in response to a "red notice" (or request for help apprehending
an individual) issued by Saudi Arabia. Kashgari was then sent back to Saudi Arabia where he faces almost
certain death. Mr. Kashgari's crime? He criticized the founder of Islam, Mohammed, on his Twitter
account.
'Insulting' Mo on
Twitter Now Punishable by Death. They really are a sensitive bunch. ["]A newspaper columnist
could be the first person to face the death penalty for remarks he made on Twitter after he was arrested for
allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad.["]
First
Barbie; now the Mullahs are going after Bart Simpson. Not content with banning Barbie dolls from Iranian toy
stores, the religious police are now targeting the iconic Bart Simpson for banishment.
Egyptian
Christian faces trial for insulting Islam. A prominent Christian Egyptian media mogul faces
trial on a charge of insulting Islam, lawyers said Monday [1/9/2012], based on his relaying a cartoon on
his Twitter account.
2011:
Year-end review of Islam's most incredible fatwas. In Somalia, the ultraconservative al-Shabaab
al-Mujahedin Movement issued a fatwa during the holy month of Ramadan prohibiting the consumption of sambousak,
a triangular pastry stuffed with meat, cheese, or vegetables. The popular snack, they explained, is a
symbol of the Trinity in Christianity and is therefore not to be consumed by Muslims.
Santa killed by Muslim fanatics for being 'infidel' in
Tajikistan. An outrageous incident occurred in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, where a group of religious
fanatics killed Santa Claus. Parvis Davlatbekov wore as Santa Claus to congratulate his friends for the
New Year. However, a group of fanatics attacked and stabbed him by crying 'infidel' in the street.
The young man died on Monday [1/2/2012] without coming into consciousness.
Obama Administration Bans
Knowledge of Islam. The Obama administration's censoring of photographs of the late Osama bin Laden, lest
they "offend" Muslims, is one thing; but what about censoring words, especially those pivotal to U.S. security?
Weeks earlier, the Daily Caller revealed that "the Obama administration was pulling back all training materials used
for the law enforcement and national security communities, in order to eliminate all references to Islam that some
Muslim groups have claimed are offensive."
Fighting Radical Islam —
Freedom of Speech. Radicals aim to set limits on our freedom of expression. In particular,
radical groups seek to censure any individual or group that speaks out against the dangerous threats of Radical
Muslims. These restrictions are a step towards the implementation of Sharia law in the West. Freedom
of speech as we know it in the United States is not permitted in countries such as Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Libya
and others. By limiting speech in the West, we are furthering the goals of Radical Muslims.
Christian
Cross Is Seen as the 'Mark of the Beast' by Islamists. US Army MEDEVAC helicopters in Afghanistan
are marked with Red Crosses. Helicopters sporting a Red Cross are not allowed to be armed. The enemy
knows this. The enemy tries to shoot down these unarmed helicopters with the added advantage that our people
cannot shoot back. And so, we push people into combat while advertising to the enemy that our people are
unarmed. ... We like to think that after a decade of counterinsurgency, we have learned something.
Have we? What does a cross on a helicopter mean? For some Afghans, it's a mark of the beast.
FBI
Statistics Belie Islamophobia Hysteria. It has become an accepted trope of contemporary journalism
that American Muslims are under siege and beset by hatred and prejudice. But the evidence for this conventional
wisdom is lacking. The story line of Muslim persecution in the United States has always been a matter of
anecdotes and perception, not facts. That truth was confirmed this week when the FBI released their annual crime
statistics report which showed once again that hate crimes against Muslims remain rare and are far outnumbered by
attacks on Jews.
Radical
Muslim Cleric: Christmas the Pathway to Hell. Radical Muslim Cleric Anjem Choudary, most infamous
for saying Shariah law will take over America, is calling the day celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ the
"pathway to hell."
Does the
Crucifix 'Provoke' Muslims? For a religion that is perpetually "misunderstood," the consistency
of Islam is remarkable. Consider how ostensibly diverse issues — complaints of "human rights"
abuses at an American university and murder in an Egyptian classroom — are interconnected.
Marines
Warned: Don't Spit Toward Mecca. Uncle Sam is getting a little weird. Make that a lot
weird. Having dumped hundreds of billions of dollars into a sinkhole called Afghanistan —
populated by misogynistic, pederastic, tribalistic and religiously supremacist primitives — to no
avail, he has hit on a new plan for winning those ever-elusive Afghan "hearts and minds." Uncle Sam has
decided that the answer lies in the latrine with the U.S. Marine Corps. No kidding. When nature
calls, Uncle Sam has decided he wants every U.S. Marine equipped with a map and compass, or some other way of
knowing direction. This is to ensure that no U.S. Marine in Afghanistan urinates in the direction of
Mecca ever again.
Latrine
Directive Another Step on Path to Islamification. Having written countless columns and blog posts
arguing that the see-no-Islam counterinsurgency strategy (COIN) has led to failure in two wars in the umma (Muslim
world) and the dhimmification of the U.S. military, it's almost funny to see the debate more or less officially
joined over my recent column on what appears to be simply the gross-out, PG-13 movie topic of peeing toward Mecca.
Or, rather, not peeing toward Mecca. Scatological or not, what we are talking about here is an untenable invasion
of privacy of American citizens in uniform via religious dictate as taught by the U.S. Marine Corps.
When
Isn't the Muslim World Inflamed? Let us not minimize the significance of burning a Koran.
It is holy to millions of people the world over. Setting a Koran aflame is an exceedingly stupid thing
to do whether or not it results in a violent response because it casts aspersions on all Muslims
regardless of their behavior.
Breast-feeding
mother 'told ... she would offend Muslim visitors'. A mother was ordered not to breastfeed her
baby in public because she was in a 'multicultural building'. Emma Mitchell, 32, was about to feed
19-week-old son Aaron when a receptionist at a town hall warned her to stop. Last night [7/13/2011] Mrs
Mitchell condemned council staff, saying it was time people recognised the law which allows nursing mothers
to breastfeed in public.
In
Afghanistan, no takers for 'cursed' car number 39. Afghanistan's booming car sales industry has
been thrown into chaos by a growing aversion to the number "39", which almost overnight has become an unlikely
synonym for pimp and a mark of shame in this deeply conservative country. Drivers of cars with number
plates containing 39, bought before the once-harmless double digits took on their new meaning, are mocked
and taunted across Kabul. "Now even little kids say 'look, there goes the 39'. This car is a bad
luck, I can't take my family out in it," said Mohammad Ashraf who works for a United Nations project.
The
Coordinates of Radicalism. What is it that radicalizes Muslims, including American Muslims?
Is it American foreign policy? Israeli "occupation" of the ancient Jewish territories of Judea and
Samaria? Cartoons depicting the warrior-prophet as a warrior? Korans torched by obscure Florida
pastors? The life of Osama bin Laden, or, perhaps, his death? Any of a thousand claimed slights,
real or imagined, that purportedly provoke young Muslims to "conflagrate" — if we may borrow from
the forgiving rationalizations of Faisal Rauf, would-be imam of the would-be Ground Zero mosque? Here is
the unsettling but sedulously avoided truth: What radicalizes Muslims is Islam.
Will Koran Burning Be
Banned In The United States? As an American in the United States of America, you are allowed to
do many things. You can burn the flag. You can burn the Bible. You can produce obscene
art and sometimes even get government money to finance it. You can make movies and TV shows that ridicule
Christianity, traditional morality, and that take the Lord's name in vain. ... Yes, you can do all those
things, and more. But can you burn a Koran?
Blame the Pastor?
[Scroll down] The event was intentionally ignored in the United States, in the hope of limiting its impact.
But little stays secret in the Internet age and within two days, news of the conflagration had reached Pakistan
and Afghanistan, where the country's presidents roundly denounced Jones, bringing his action to wide notice.
On April 1, infuriated Afghans lashed out, killing twelve in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif; the next
day, suicide bombers dressed in women's clothing attacked a coalition base in Kabul and street mobs in Kandahar
again killed twelve. (This, it bears observing, was just five more dead than in September 2010, when
nineteen were killed as Jones only threatened to burn the Koran.) Who is to blame for these deaths,
Jones or Islamist intolerance?
British
Columnist Under Investigation For Criticizing Terrorists. In Great Britain, the historic
cradle of liberty and sanctum of freedom of expression, it appears that you can no longer refer to Arab
depravity in the slaughter of an Israeli family — including a three month-old baby — as
they slept without someone going to the police to get you arrested for racism.
The
First Rule of Jihad Is: Non-Muslims Can't Talk About Jihad. All the opponents of Pete
King's hearings are on message with the same threat: Any discussion of Jihadist "violent extremism"
is the primary cause of Jihadist "violent extremism."
When
Grievance Industries Collide. At Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch, we learn Canadian authorities
and school officials don't know quite what to do about a McGill University Muslim student who has written
that he'd like to "shoot everyone in the room" at a conservative student organization, that the organization
is a "secret Zionist convention" to which he "should have brought an M16," and that — in response
to the club's showing of "Indoctrinate-U," a documentary about political correctness on college
campuses — "the jihad begins today."
The Editor says...
Imagine if a nominally Christian student had made threats of violence against a Muslim. Would there
be any hesitation about what to do with him?
University
Downplays Student's Jihad Threat. Montreal police are investigating a student who made
threats against a conservative club at McGill University, even though university officials determined
the student's threats about jihad and wanting to "shoot everyone in the room" were harmless. A
spokesman for the Montreal Police Service told the Toronto Star they take the threat allegedly made by
Haaris Khan seriously. Khan attended a viewing of the documentary "Indoctrinate-U," sponsored by
Conservative McGill, a student organization affiliated with Canada's Conservative Party. During
the viewing, Khan is accused of making death treats using his Twitter account.
Iran Bans Valentine's
Day. The Iranian state has pronounced against unauthorized mingling of the sexes, rap music, rock
music, Western music, women playing in bands, too-bright nail polish, laughter in hospital corridors, ancient
Persian rites-of-spring celebrations (Nowrooz), and even the mention of foreign food recipes in state media.
This last may sound comically implausible, but it was officially announced by a state-run website on Feb. 6.
So now the true nature of pasta as an instrument of Western subversion has been revealed. The regime's
posture turns the smallest garden-variety gestures into thrilling acts of subversion.
Islam's blasphemy
murders. The Obama administration has declared a "struggle against violent extremism," but
it has little to say when it comes to extremism practiced by governments. Blasphemy laws in Pakistan
and Afghanistan are being used to sanction judicial murder in the name of Islam. The United States
refuses to condemn these practices, apparently believing this would amount to an unwarranted imposition of
American values on foreign customs. Even in these backward countries, however, there are brave political
leaders who are standing up to legal persecution.
If Christians Were Treated Like Muslims.
If Muslims were treated like Christians in America, Muslims would have to tolerate the defamation of their
holiest images in our national museums, acts which would be called "artwork" — and, if particularly
provocative, even given taxpayer-funded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. They would
also have to accept Korans being burned and thrown into toilets, which instead of inciting worldwide outrage
and retribution would provoke a collective shrug of the shoulders. If Muslims were treated like Christians,
Muslims would be mocked by late night TV talk show hosts and lampooned in crude cartoon parodies.
Muslim body slates
'excessive' Christmas. Indonesia's top Islamic body said on Thursday [12/23/2010] that Christmas
decorations in malls, amusement centres and public places were "excessive and provocative" in the Muslim-majority
country.
Muslim pupil offended by the word 'jamon' in
class in Cadiz. The parents of a Muslim boy who attends a secondary school in La Línea, Cádiz province,
have reported their son's teacher for an incident in the boy's geography class which the child said caused him offence as a
Muslim. The teacher, José Reyes Fernández, with more than 20 years in the profession, was explaining to
the class how the cold climate in Trevélez, Granada province, aided in the curing of the village's most famous local
product, jamón serrano. The boy told his teacher that hearing the word 'ham' in class was offensive to him because
of his religion and asked his geography teacher to stop referring to the product which caused him offence.
The
Red Cross bans Christmas. Christmas has been banned by the Red Cross from its 430 fund-raising
shops. Staff have been ordered to take down decorations and to remove any other signs of the Christian
festival because they could offend Moslems.
In Austria: Judge Rules That Yodeling
Offends Muslims. It seems as though in Austria, the popular yodel is an insult to Muslims.
An Austrian court has recently fined a citizen for yodeling while mowing his lawn, according to a report in
The Kronen Zeitung newspaper. The citizen, 63-year-old Helmut G., was told by the court that his
yodeling offended his next-door Muslim neighbors, who accused him of trying to mock and imitate the call of
the Muezzin.
Early
Learning Centre bans toy pig from farmyard set. A children's shop has removed toy pigs from farmyard sets in case
they offend Muslims and Jews. The Early Learning Centre ditched the pig from its HappyLand Goosefeather Farm toy set after
it upset some customers. One mother realised the pig was missing from the set she bought for her daughter's birthday when
she found a pig sty and a button that made oinking noises, but no pig.
Is Sharia Law Creeping Into American Lives?
The Muslims downplay the above question by scoffingly answering in the negative despite mounting evidence to the
contrary. Of course getting devious answers from Muslims is to be expected; that is, until they are ready
to threaten a lawsuit due to being offended.
Caution: Muslims
easily inflamed. Absent from this blame exchange is any recognition that many Muslims
can be incited to violence by anything or nothing. It's as if they live poised for outrage.
Pakistan doctor arrested on suspicion
of blasphemy. Pakistani authorities have arrested a doctor on suspicion of violating the country's
contentious blasphemy law by throwing away a business card of a man who shared the name of Islam's prophet,
Muhammad, police said Sunday [12/12/2010].
Chanting
"USA, USA" at a college football game termed anti Muslim. So chanting USA, USA at a football
game is now anti Muslim? According to a University of Illinois professor, the answer is yes.
Islamophobia, Cartoon-O-Phobia and Equalityphobia.
[Scroll down] When even in Western countries with Muslim minorities, cartoonists like Kurt Westergaard and
Molly Norris have been forced to go into hiding, what hope is there for treating Cartoon-O-Phobia in the Muslim
world. But that is the price we pay for the Muslim phobia of everything non-Muslim. In Malaysia that
means smashing teapots and terrorizing Hindus. In America, that means blowing up buildings and then
trying to build mosques as a thumb in the eye to a grieving nation.
The Jihad Against A Seattle Cartoonist.
It should be front-page news in every newspaper in the country: Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris has given up
her job, her home, and even her identity because of death threats for Islamic supremacists. That Islamic
jihadists can force an American citizen into hiding for exercising her freedom of speech is bad enough; that
her cause has aroused only indifference from the media and the nation's leading officials is even worse.
What the Burning Quran
Issue Says about Us. Nothing guarantees the continued and increasing tantrums of a spoiled child
like scared, enabling parents and their refusal to stand up to the child. If our leaders continue to play
the part of the pusillanimous, scared parent, the religion of peace is guaranteed to continue their tantrums
and threats of violent retaliation for every imagined provocation. This is a terrible cycle, and if we
don't stop this, they will in fact become our masters.
The Eternal Flame of
Muslim Outrage. Shhhhhhh, we're told. Don't protest the Ground Zero mosque. Don't
burn a Koran. It'll imperil the troops. It'll inflame tensions. The "Muslim world" will
"explode" if it does not get its way, warns sharia-peddling imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. Pardon my national
security-threatening impudence, but when is the "Muslim world" not ready to "explode"? At the risk of
provoking the ever-volatile Religion of Perpetual Outrage, let us count the little-noticed and forgotten ways.
Thirteen
dead in Kashmir, Christian school torched. Indian police shot dead 13 people in Kashmir on
Monday [9/13/2010] as stone-throwing rioters defied curfews and torched a Christian school in a surge of anger
stoked by the desecration of the Koran.
Obama:
Koran burning could spark suicide bombings. U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday [9/9/2010]
publicly denounced an American church's plan to burn copies of the Muslim holy book Koran, calling it "a stunt
that could greatly endanger our young men and women who are in uniform and incite suicide bombers."
Quran
threat prompts State travel warning. The State Department is warning U.S. citizens of the potential
for anti-American demonstrations in many countries should the Florida pastor proceed with his threat to burn
Qurans on Sept. 11. "Demonstrations, some violent, have already taken place in several countries,
including Afghanistan and Indonesia," the alert states.
Muslim
pupils taken out of music lessons 'because Islam forbids playing an instrument'. Muslim pupils
are being withdrawn from music lessons because some families believe learning an instrument is anti-Islamic.
The move comes despite the subject being a compulsory part of the national curriculum.
Ahmadinejad
in flap over wearing of ties. Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has run into trouble with
a conservative cleric over whether men are allowed to wear ties in the Islamic republic, the news agency
ISNA reported on Tuesday [7/13/2010].
Fatwa
Issued Against 'Draw Mohammed Day' Cartoonist. The Islamists mean to censor us one way or
another: if not from fear of retaliation, then by retaliation. Shut your mouth, still your pens,
stop thinking, or we will do it for you. Permanently. Molly Norris, mild-mannered cartoonist,
started a fire she cannot put out.
Muslim Beheads Wife, Claims Victim Status.
In February 2009, Aasiya Z. Hassan, a 37-year-old Muslim woman, was found decapitated in Orchard Park,
N.Y., a village near Buffalo. Her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, admits that he beheaded his wife.
Yet now, in a bizarre turn in the case, Muzzammil Hassan has claimed that he was the real victim in the case,
driven to murder his wife after enduring years of her emotional and physical abuse. The case stands
as a classic example of the universal tendency on the part of Islamic supemacists and jihadists to blame
everyone but themselves for what they have done.
Hand cut off for exam
question. Two Indian men were arrested on Monday over an attack on a college teacher who had
his hand cut off for setting an exam question that allegedly insulted Muslims, police said. TJ Joseph,
52, had his right arm severed at the wrist as he was returning home from church with his mother and sister on
Sunday [7/4/2010], and has since undergone an operation to have the limb sown [sic] back on.
Suntanned
women to be arrested under Islamic dress code. Iran has warned suntanned women and girls who
looked like "walking mannequins" will be arrested as part of a new drive to enforce the Islamic dress code.
More
about Islam vs Feminism.
Somali
Islamists kill two for watching World Cup. Somali Islamist militants killed two people and
arrested dozens of others for breaking a ban on watching the World Cup on television, residents said.
I've
Become an Enemy of the People for Speaking the Truth About Islam. When it comes to the
right to speak one's mind about Islam, the record of the last few years makes it clear which direction
the West is moving in. In France and Italy, Oriana Fallaci is put on trial for disparaging Islam.
In Canada, Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant are hauled before "human rights commission" tribunals for criticizing
Islam in print. In Australia, an Islamic organization sues two pastors for "vilification of Muslims."
In Britain, a Daily Telegraph columnist is arrested on charges of hate speech for having written negatively
about Islam...
Chilling
Free Speech in the Great White North. Americans aware of journalists Ezra Levant and Mark
Steyn are likely also aware that these two were hauled before Canadian "Human Rights Commissions" for
supposed speech-crimes. Levant was pursued because he published the Mohammed cartoons, and Steyn,
for, well, casting some Muslims in a bad light. Both men had their cases dropped, probably because
they were articulate, famous, and had relatively deep pockets. Others who have been charged have
not been so lucky.
Publish or Perish: The
Lessons of the Cartoon Jihad. The central issue of the "cartoon jihad" — the Muslim riots
and death threats against a Danish newspaper that printed 12 cartoons depicting Mohammed — is obvious.
The issue is freedom of speech: whether our freedom to think, write, and draw is to be subjugated to the
"religious sensitivities" of anyone who threatens us with force. That is why it is necessary for every newspaper
and magazine to re-publish those cartoons...
The Cartoonists Shall Enter
First. "Nobody kills the village idiot," said filmmaker Theo Van Gogh before an Islamic militant
shot and stabbed him to death. As Van Gogh learned too late, the world of Islam will kill the village idiot
once he becomes the last public figure who tells the truth about it.
Free Speech Denied In Miami. In
an outrageous denial of free speech rights, Miami-Dade Transit last week forced the removal of a "Leaving
Islam" ad campaign on Miami buses because the ads might be "offensive to Islam."
IslamoCare: The UK Department
of Health recently announced that it would loosen hygiene rules for Muslim and Sikh doctors and nurses.
From now on, Muslim female staff will not need to wash their hands before procedures as it compromises their
modesty. Instead, they will have the admittedly less sanitary option of wearing disposable plastic
over-sleeves.
The Day Somali Music Died.
Islamist insurgents have ordered Somali radio stations to stop playing music, a ban that went into effect
last Tuesday [4/13/2010]. This order follows the Islamists' ban on musical ringtones, movies, men without beards,
football, women's beauty salons, and bras. Those not adhering to the new ban risk a grave threat to their
physical well-being, which includes getting assassinated or undergoing Sharia-based punishments. Such
punishments include having your limbs amputated, your eyes gauged out, your tongue cut out, and your ears
cut off.
Somalia
Radicals Declare Music 'Un-Islamic,' and Radio Goes Tuneless. Last week, the Somalian fundamentalist
Islamic group Hizbul Islam announced that music of any kind is "un-Islamic," warning of "serious consequences" for
those who dare to violate their decree. In response, radio stations all over the country, including those run
by the moderate Muslim transitional government, cut all music from their broadcasts.
Islamic authorities cane 4 gamblers in Aceh.
Three convicted gamblers have been publicly caned for gambling in Indonesia's devoutly Muslim province of Aceh.
Bendry Almy, a local prosecutor, says the men were caned seven times each Friday outside a mosque before hundreds
of worshippers. He says the men were among 21 suspected gamblers nabbed last month while playing cards
after a wedding party in Dayah Dabo village.
MasterCard offers card aimed at Muslims.
A new interest-free credit card, the first of its kind in North America, aims to reconcile Islamic canonical
law and Western consumer culture. Until now, observant Muslims have been precluded from owning credit
cards on which they pay interest, a violation of shariah law.
Somali radio stations comply with Islamists' music
ban. Most radio stations in Somalia have stopped playing music, on the orders of Islamist Hizbul-Islam
insurgents who say that songs are un-Islamic. The stations said they had to comply with the ban as if they
did not, they would be putting their lives at risk.
Christian
nurse ordered to remove crucifix. A Christian nurse was 'forced to choose between her job and
her faith' after being ordered to remove her crucifix at a hospital where Muslim staff wore headscarves
unchallenged, a tribunal heard yesterday [3/29/2010]. Shirley Chaplin, 54, said she had been wearing
the religious symbol around her neck without complaint for 31 years before she was ordered to
hide it away.
Shari'ah
court bans online chat. An Islamic Shari'ah court in northern Nigeria on Tuesday [3/30/2010]
permanently banned a local rights group from discussing the country's first amputation for theft on the
internet, an activist said. The same court had last week issued an interim order cutting off all
online chats on the amputation of Buba Bello Jangebe's wrist in 2000 for the theft of a cow.
Weapons Company
Caves to Political Correctness. U.S. optics manufacturer Trijicon has bowed to pressure to remove biblical
references from their optics products, just days after the decades-old practice was sensationalized in an ABC News report
that claimed the references were "secret 'Jesus' Bible codes" that could inflame radical Muslims who have attempted to
brand wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as modern crusades since those conflicts began.
The Editor says...
Sounds like ABC News is attempting to "inflame radical Muslims" by publicizing this. But
really, is that all it takes to set off the Muslims? If American soldiers fire rifles with
abbreviated Biblical references, do the bullets hurt more?
No Valentine's: Saudi
religious police see red. The Saudi religious police launched Thursday a nationwide crackdown
on stores selling items that are red or in any other way allude to the banned celebrations of Valentine's
Day, a Saudi official said.
Muslims
refuse to use alcohol-based hand gels over religious beliefs. Some Muslims have refused to use
alcohol-based hand gels to combat the spread of swine flu because they claim it is against their religion.
Some of those employed by St Albans Council in Hertfordshire have complained about the antibacterial
lotion, which is considered a key strategy in containing the virus.
The Editor says...
Attention all Muslims: Are you aware that gasoline contains alcohol? You'd better stop
using it.
McDonald's apologizes after leaving pig out of toy collection.
Fast-food giant McDonald's on Friday apologized to Singaporeans and said it would bring a pig to its
latest toy collection after the decision to leave the animal out stirred a controversy in the
Chinese-dominated city-state. ... The fast-food chain left out the pig and replaced it with the
love god cupid as Valentine's Day also falls in February, arguing that the company did not want to
offend Muslims.
"Don't Say We're Violent, Or We'll Kill
You". That has been the message of Islamic extremists on a number of occasions, e.g. the Mohammed
cartoons. An extreme case occurred recently when the proprietor of the web site Religion of Peace
received a death threat from members of the religion of peace.
Queen's
medal of honour scrapped... because it's too Christian for Muslims and Hindus. A medal
personally established by the Queen is being withdrawn after it was deemed offensive to Muslims and
Hindus. The honour — known as The Trinity Cross of the Order of Trinity — has
been ruled unlawful and too Christian.
Saudis ban lewd
licence tags — including 'USA'. Saudi Arabia has banned auto licence tags whose Arabic
characters spell out offensive words when romanised, with the list of banned combinations including "USA", Al-Watan
newspaper reported Sunday.
Dunkin'
Donuts operator gives up franchise in pork battle. An Arab-American owner of a Chicago-area
Dunkin' Donuts store has to give up his franchise after he lost his long-running legal battle with the
restaurant chain over his religious objections to selling pork products. A lawyer for Walid Elkhatib
said Tuesday that his client is in the process of removing Dunkin' Donuts signs from his Westchester outlet,
but apparently not fast enough for the company.
Muslim chef refused to
cook pork. A Muslim catering manager in Britain refused to cook sausages and bacon because he
feared he would be splashed with pork fat, he told an industrial tribunal overnight, alleging religious
discrimination. Hasanali Khoja, 60, from London, said he felt he was at risk of contact with pork
products even if he wore gloves and used tongs to cook.
Muslim extremist firebombed home of man who published book on Prophet
Mohammed. A Muslim extremist has been found guilty of firebombing the home of the publisher
of a controversial novel about the Prophet Mohammed and his child bride.
Alfred E. Obama is
Not Funny!! Prophets and messiahs are not to be laughed at. They are deadly serious.
Laughter brings a sense of sanity and perspective to their pompous pretensions. That is why radical
Muslims murder people who laugh at the Prophet Mohammed. Start laughing at this 7th century desert
bandit and the whole thing starts to look like a joke. We can't have that. Kill them. Today
in Canada, if you poke fun at Muslim terrorists, like Mark Steyn constantly does, they will bring you up on
Kangaroo Court charges.
Muslim organization revives Minnesota
branch. After a string of recent incidents, the Council on American-Islamic Relations is opening
a St. Paul office. … Some Muslim taxi drivers who refuse to ferry alcohol and dogs are awaiting a
ruling on the issue from the MAC [Metropolitan Airports Commission]. And some Muslim store clerks have
refused to scan pork products.
[A question for all Muslims: If our culture is so repulsive to you, why are you here?]
Worldwide Hate
Speech Laws? Especially since 9/11, Islam has been publicly scrutinized, criticized, and
sometimes ridiculed in the West to an extent never seen (or permitted) in Muslim lands. Many Muslims
feel deeply offended by this, as well as troubled by the violent responses the criticism has sometimes drawn
from Muslims — riots, death threats, even murders. Their leaders' solution is to try to halt
the cycle by demanding an end to criticism of Islam, even in private speech. For the past decade, the
Saudi-based Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has pushed the U.N. to adopt a universal ban on
defaming Islam. This measure would aim to curb the freedom not only of Danish cartoonists but also of
scholars, writers, dissidents, religious reformers, human rights activists, and anyone at all anywhere in the
world who criticizes Islam.
The Editor says...
Even if I end up in the United Nations Sharia prison camp, I will not stop telling others the truth about
Islam. Silencing me will not change the facts. Ten thousand years from now, we'll all know
whether Islam had any merits.
Blind man's guide dog barred from restaurant for offending Muslims.
Alun Elder-Brown, a recruitment executive, said he was left feeling "like a piece of dirt" after being barred
from bringing the animal into Kirthon Restaurant in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, on religious grounds. ... It follows
a series of successful prosecutions of Muslim taxi drivers who refused to carry guide dogs in their cars
because they considered them unclean on religious grounds.
Conditioning for
Dhimmitude. Cartoongate ushered in a new standard of behavior that has had a chilling
effect on free speech and expression when it comes to all things Muslim. The aftermath of the
Mohammed cartoons incident established Muslims as a uniquely protected group to be effectively shielded
from all critique and ridicule. Noteworthy is that this new Muslims-only standard mirrors the
Islamic doctrine of shariah that confers superior legal and political status for Muslims in parallel
with a subservient status — dhimmitude — for non-Muslims. Today, the West
all too easily and habitually gives up freedom of speech by avoiding even the merest shadow of negativity
when it comes to Muslims and, thus, imposing on itself dhimmitude and enabling our sworn enemies.
Prison
bans chapel crucifix to avoid offending Muslims. A prison's new chapel will not contain a
crucifix to avoid offending Muslim inmates, it emerged today. Bosses at HMP Lewes have been told the
traditional Christian symbol, featuring Jesus nailed to a cross, must not be used in the Grade-II listed
Victorian jail's 'multi-faith space'. The room — part of a £1million new
block — has been split in two, with one half featuring heated foot baths so Muslim worshippers
can wash their feet before prayer.
The Editor asks...
Is it a prison or a hotel?
Salvation Army's rattling collecting tins might offend other religions.
For 130 years they have been part of Christmas, filling the air in towns across the land with music and carols.
But one thing is missing from the repertoire of Salvation Army bands this year — the percussion of
rattling tins. Members have been forbidden to shake their charity tins — even if it's done
in time to the music — in case it harasses or intimidates people. One said she had been told it
might also offend other religions.
TV show
leads to divorce. A Saudi man divorced his wife for watching alone a television
programme presented by a male, an act he deemed immoral
[He] ended his marriage on the
grounds his wife was effectively alone with an unrelated man, which is forbidden under the
strict Islamic law enforced in the ultra-conservative kingdom
.
Bahrain Charges US Teacher With Insulting
Prophet. An American teacher has been charged in Bahrain with insulting the Prophet Muhammad for
displaying pictures of Islam's founder to university students, a spokesman for the tiny Gulf nation's general
prosecutor said Friday. The spokesman, Nawaf al-Maawdah, said the pictures showed the prophet in ragged
clothing. Most interpretations of Islam forbid any depiction of Muhammad because it is seen as encouraging
idolatry — one of the biggest sins in the religion.
Broadcast angers
Muslims. Muslims and interfaith leaders in Metro Detroit are asking a local radio station owner to discontinue
broadcasts in which, they say, a Coptic priest has repeatedly defamed the Prophet Muhammad over the past year.
Mickey
Mouse must die, says Saudi Arabian cleric. Sheikh Muhammad Munajid claimed the mouse is
"one of Satan's soldiers" and makes everything it touches impure. But he warned that depictions of
the creature in cartoons such as Tom and Jerry, and Disney's Mickey Mouse, had taught children that it was
in fact loveable.
Mohammed
teddy row sparked Islam murder plot. Terror suspects tried to kill a British diplomat in revenge
for a teacher letting kids name a teddy Mohammed, it was revealed yesterday. The unnamed diplomat escaped
unhurt when he disappeared into a crowd on the day the five men were to execute their plot in the Sudanese
capital Khartoum. Details of the would-be assassination came out during the trial of five men accused
of killing a US diplomat in Sudan when police general Abdul Rahim Ahmed Abdullah said the five were Islamic
fanatics seeking revenge for the teddy bear incident in Khartoum.
Sniffer dogs to wear 'Muslim' bootees.
Police sniffer dogs will have to wear bootees when searching the homes of Muslims so as not to cause offence. Guidelines
being drawn up by the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) urge awareness of religious sensitivities when using dogs
to search for drugs and explosives. The guidelines, to be published this year, were designed to cover mosques but have
been extended to include other buildings.
Muslims
may not have to undergo sniffer dog checks in UK. Muslim passengers may not be touched by sniffer
dogs of the British Transport Police after complaints that the practice is against Islam. According to
the religion, dogs are deemed to be spiritually "unclean".
Cabbies fired over guide
dogs. Some Muslim taxi drivers are refusing to carry blind and disabled passengers with guide
dogs — because their religion tells them the animals are "unclean". Brisbane's Yellow Cab Company
has been forced to sack drivers over their conduct towards passengers with assistance dogs.
Muslim cabbies lose
round in court. Muslim cab drivers whose religious beliefs go against driving passengers who
carry alcohol have lost another round in court. The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday [9/9/2008]
against the cab drivers' attempt to block penalties for refusing service.
Fear of
giving offence is killing our culture. A week ago The Sunday Times reported that some Muslim
workers in Sainsbury's are refusing to check out purchases of alcohol on the debatable ground that it's against
their religion. Whenever the sinful stuff is presented by a customer at the till, the Muslim expects an
infidel colleague to hurry over and sully his or her hands with the transaction instead.
Iranian official warns
against importing Barbie doll. A top Iranian judiciary official warned Monday against the "destructive"
cultural and social consequences of importing Barbie dolls and other Western toys. Prosecutor General Ghorban Ali
Dori Najafabadi said in an official letter to Vice President Parviz Davoudi that the Western toys was a "danger" that
needed to be stopped.
The Editor says...
I will concede and stipulate that Barbie generally dresses like a whore. But here's how the problem is handled in
free societies: If you don't like Barbie, leave her on the shelf at the toy store.
Burka Barbie. Sharia Law prohibits
any representation of the human form, and it is quite strict about depicting Allah's other creations among the
animal kingdom as well. Fish seem to be exempt from this prohibition, for reasons that I still do not
completely understand. In any case, Islam also assumes that portraying mythical creatures, from golden
idols to Kewpie people, might tempt gullible believers away from the true path.
McDonald's apologizes after leaving pig out of toy collection.
Fast-food giant McDonald's on Friday apologized to Singaporeans and said it would bring a pig to its
latest toy collection after the decision to leave the animal out stirred a controversy in the
Chinese-dominated city-state. ... The fast-food chain left out the pig and replaced it with the
love god cupid as Valentine's Day also falls in February, arguing that the company did not want to
offend Muslims.
"Sharia
Creep" Around the World. In Australia, Muslim students (mostly Saudi citizens) asked Melbourne
universities to adjust class times to fit in with their daily prayers.
Closer to home, Harvard University
announced new women-only access times at the student gym, to "accommodate religious customs that make it
difficult for some students to work out in the presence of men."
News stories like these have multiplied
exponentially during the past few years. Hardly a day goes by without similar reports, such as Muslim
nurses in the UK refusing to roll up their sleeves to scrub up before surgery, claiming that sharia modesty
rules trump concerns about contamination.
Sherry Jones (eventually) finds a publisher with a backbone
You Still
Can't Write About Muhammad. Starting in 2002, Spokane, Wash., journalist Sherry Jones toiled
weekends on a racy historical novel about Aisha, the young wife of the prophet Muhammad. Ms. Jones
learned Arabic, studied scholarly works about Aisha's life, and came to admire her protagonist as a woman of
courage. When Random House bought her novel last year in a $100,000, two-book deal, she was ecstatic.
Random House pulls novel on Islam,
fears violence. Publisher Random House has pulled a novel about the Prophet Mohammed's child
bride, fearing it could "incite acts of violence." "The Jewel of Medina," a debut novel by journalist
Sherry Jones, 46, was due to be published on August 12 by Random House, a unit of Bertelsmann AG, and
an eight-city publicity tour had been scheduled, Jones told Reuters on Thursday [8/7/2008].
Fearing Muslim backlash,
Random House scraps novel. Nearly three years ago, Iraq held historic parliamentary elections.
Millions of Iraqi voters shrugged off the threat of Al-Qaida suicide bombers and pro-Saddam reactionaries.
They headed to the polls in heavy number, proving their courage and commitment to democratic values. Sadly,
both qualities were absent in Random House's decision last May to cancel publication of "The Jewel of Medina," a
novel by journalist Sherry Jones.
Book Based on Prophet Muhammad's Child Bride
Yanked At 11th Hour. A racy, historical novel based on the Prophet Muhammad's child bride A'isha
was supposed to hit book stores in the U.S. Tuesday [8/19/2008]. But in a rare case of self-censorship
to preempt possible violent reaction by Muslims, one of the world's largest publishing houses pulled the plug
on the book just before its release date.
Serbian
publisher withdraws Jones book after protests by Muslims. 'We did not wish to provoke
anyone and we apologize,' the publisher, Beobook, said in a statement. The book describes the
Muslim Prophet Mohammed's relationship with his favourite wife, Aisha.
Random
Error: Alas, the spirit of liberty needs reinforcement at one distinguished American book publisher.
Random House has canceled publication of "The Jewel of Medina," American writer Sherry Jones's romance novel about the
prophet Muhammad and his wife Aisha. The publisher says it feared a repeat of the death threats from Iran that
greeted Salman Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses" — or riots such as those that broke out in the Muslim
world after a Danish publication printed cartoons of Muhammad.
The latest:
Controversial
book about Mohammed and child bride to be published. A controversial novel about the
prophet Mohammed and his child bride that was pulled by Random House over concerns that it would anger
Muslims is to be printed by another publisher. Gibson Square, known for having sold other controversial
books, such as Alexander Litvinenko's "Blowing Up Russia", said it was "imperative" that "The Jewel of
Medina" by American author Sherry Jones be available to the public.
Mohammad wife novel released early.
A controversial novel about the Prophet Mohammad's child bride has been rushed to US stores, nine days ahead of
schedule, after the office of the book's British publisher was attacked. Beaufort Books picked up The
Jewel of Medina by journalist Sherry Jones after it was dropped by Random House in May because of concerns
it could incite violence.
How the West was lost
for free speech: Twenty years ago today, Salman Rushdie published The Satanic Verses.
Four years in the making and supported by a then almost unheard of advance of $850,000 from his publisher,
Penguin, Rushdie had hoped the work would cement his reputation as the most important British novelist of his
generation. The book certainly set the world alight, though not quite in the way it was meant to.
Salman
Rushdie: Iranian state media renew fatwa on Satanic Verses author with $600,000 bounty. Forty state-run Iranian
media outlets have jointly offered a new $600,000 bounty for the death of British Indian author Salman Rushdie, according to
the state-run Fars News Agency. Fars News Agency, which is closely affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps
(IRGC), was among the largest contributors, donating one billion Rials — nearly $30,000. The announcement coincides with
the anniversary of the fatwa issued the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, the agency said.
Update:
Salman
Rushdie, Who Is Alive Today Because of the Values of the U.S. and UK, Denounces the U.S. and
UK. Salman Rushdie, who is still on the hit list of the Islamic Republic of Iran,
popped up again Wednesday to give an address via video to the National First Amendment Summit in
Philadelphia. It was a fitting forum for the author of "The Satanic Verses," since it was
governments that uphold the First Amendment right of the freedom of speech that protected Rushdie
all the decades since he first became the recipient of a death fatwa. Yet in an astonishing
display of ingratitude and incomprehension, the celebrated novelist used his address to denounce
Britain and the United States, the two countries to which he owes his very life.
Muslim gang firebombs publisher of
Allah novel, Martin Rynja. Scotland Yard's counter-terrorist command yesterday foiled an alleged
plot by Islamic extremists to kill the publisher of a forthcoming novel featuring sexual encounters between the
Prophet Muhammad and his child bride. Early yesterday [9/27/2008] armed undercover officers arrested
three men after a petrol bomb was pushed through the door of the north London home of the book's publisher.
Chirpiness that'll
be the death of us: My correspondent's unceasingly cheeping bird was Islam. He was fed up
waking every morning and reading of the latest offence taken by the more excitable Muhammadans. If memory
serves, this exhaustion was prompted by a Muslim protest outside Westminster Cathedral demanding the execution
of the Pope. It was organized by a fellow called Anjem Choudhary, who argued that "whoever insults the
message of Muhammad is going to be subject to capital punishment." But then again it might have been some
other provocation entirely — say, the chocolate swirl on the top of a Burger King dessert carton
that an aggrieved customer complained bore too close a resemblance to the Arabic script for "Allah".
Muslim threats force out disabled teacher
with dog. A Muslim high school student's intolerance for a service dog needed by a student teacher
with a disability has reportedly prompted the student teacher to abandon the last 10 hours of his scheduled
assignment at Technical High School in St. Cloud, Minn.
Dunkin'
pulls Ray ad over headscarf. Dunkin' Donuts, based in Canton, Mass., has pulled an advertisement
after a scarf worn by pitch woman Rachael Ray was compared to a Muslim headscarf.
Dunkin' Donuts said
the resemblance between Ray's scarf and a keffiyeh was unintentional.
Rachael
Ray, Dunkin' Donuts and the Keffiyeh Kerfuffle. The keffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional
scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad. Popularized by Yasser Arafat and
a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos, the apparel has been
mainstreamed by both ignorant (and not so ignorant) fashion designers, celebrities and left-wing icons.
Muslim women:
Dress code violates faith. Mission Foods, a New Brighton tortilla maker, is accused of religious intolerance
for requiring six Muslim workers to wear uniforms that include pants they say are too revealing.
Coach loses job amid Muslim-Christian
concerns. A high school principal in Dearborn, Mich., has dismissed a longtime wrestling coach after
complaints from Muslim parents that the coach's former assistant — an evangelical Christian pastor —
was trying to convert Muslim students into Christians.
Imad Fadlallah, head of Fordson High School, decided this
month not to renew the contract of Marszalek, who has coached wrestling at Fordson for 35 years.
School
Apologizes to Muslim Student Over Graduation Held in Church. A Muslim student who sued
because his public high school graduation ceremony was held in a Baptist church has received an apology
from Newark's school district and assurances that it will not hold future events in houses of worship.
When free speech offends Muslims.
Canada's Human Rights Commissions (HRC) are government agencies, not courts. They were set up, starting in
the 1960s, to fight job and housing discrimination — offensive acts, not words. Borne of good
intention, some argue they have paved a path to politically correct hell. Those behind the creation of
the commissions maintain they were never meant to impede free speech — a right guaranteed under
Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms — and that "thought crime" cases represent a fraction of
the commissions' work.
Ontario
Human Rights Commission is out of control. But recent changes, and the way they are being
implemented by Commissioner Barbara Hall, are pitting human rights protection against our fundamental rights to
freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Hall, a former Toronto mayor, appears to have gone completely
over the top in her comments on an article by journalist Mark Steyn, "The future belongs to Islam," that
appeared in Maclean's magazine.
Idiot's Guide
to Completely Idiotic Canadian 'Human Rights' Tribunals: 'Freedom of speech is an American
concept, so I don't give it any value." — Canadian "Human Rights" Investigator Dean Steacy,
responding to the question "What value do you give freedom of speech when you investigate?" This is
the way free speech ends, not with a bang but as the result of an administrative hearing in a windowless
basement in Vancouver, Canada. At least that's where a "Human Rights Tribunal" is taking place this
week that will further solidify the Canadian legal position that the right not to be offended by something
you read is more sacred than the freedom of the press.
Ahmed Mohamed, the High School "Clock Kid" in Irving, Texas
Introduction by The Editor:
This is an obvious case of reverse entrapment. The Muslims pretend to be the victims of the conditions they have created, as you can see in
a subsection below. This intentional false alarm was immediately played up in the news media as
persecution, and the perpetrator was portrayed as a brilliant young scientist who made an innocent mistake and was handcuffed for no
reason at all, other than his religion or — depending on which TV channel you were watching — the color of his skin. President
Barack H. Obama, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
and NASA were very quick to capitalize on the publicity and obsequiously pander to
all those who practice the religion of peace. But the long-term desensitization
effect is what's most damaging. The next time a precocious little Muslim kid brings a suspicious package to school —
especially that same school — the teachers will be afraid to say anything about it. And that appears to be exactly the
goal in this case: softening up America's defenses through a Gotcha! incident that is as phony and prefabricated as the
suspicious device the Clock Kid brought to school.
The entire story has turned out to be a pack of lies, and the lies were enthusiastically repeated by the local news media for days.
The Clock Kid evidently didn't build this clock himself — he took an old Radio Shack clock, stuffed it into a box, and called it his own work.
The Clock Kid didn't bring the device to school to brag about his accomplishment before his science teacher. It now appears that he brought it
to school to create a disturbance, for the purpose of getting arrested.
The story was that Ahmed built the clock from scratch, because he's some kind of electronics whiz kid. But what 14-year-old electronics expert
uses a soldering iron (as shown in his hand on television) and a circuit board with such archaically wide traces? Kids these days are using things
like the Basic Stamp, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi to build projects from scratch, with little or no soldering required. And of what use is a clock inside a
carrying case, other than to appear to be a bomb? If one were to try to build a cliché movie prop bomb from scratch on a very low budget, the result
would probably look just like Ahmed's kludge clock.
When I first heard that some kid had brought a clock to school, but it looked like a bomb, I thought he had built
one of these. But that wouldn't have
fit into the all-Muslims-are-victims narrative quite as well.
The biggest lie in this whole story is that Ahmed has a bright future. Unless Ahmed renounces and steers clear of Islam,
his long-term future is the worst imaginable.
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Overview, recap and update:
Dear Barack: Why Ahmed, But Not Hallel.
On September 14, 2015, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, was arrested at MacArthur High School in Irving, TX, for bringing an
alleged fake bomb to school. He claimed that it was a pencil box filled with reassembled clock parts. His teacher
thought it resembled a bomb and called the authorities. This led to his eventual suspension from his high school.
Enter the national mainstream media. The story quickly went viral, and led to another soul-searching discussion of how
Islamophobic America is. [...] The President, always ready to shame and guilt America, tweeted "Cool clock, Ahmed" and
offered him a chance to visit the White House. Obama, who once famously claimed police "acted stupidly," and that
Trayvon Martin could have been his son, leapt at the chance to indict the country he leads of being racist and
Islamophobic. Lost in the #IStandWithAhmed frenzy was the story headlined "Ahmed's Sister Admits School Suspension for
Alleged Bomb Threat 3 Years Earlier." Fox News also uncovered the fact that his father pushed 9/11 conspiracy theories
online: [...] No matter. Obama got to insult his own country and the media made a folk hero out of someone who later
moved to Qatar and, with a scholarship from the Qatar Foundation for Education, went to Qatar Academy. Last week, he
and his family returned to the United States.
Court:
Clock Boy, Father, On the Hook for $200,000 Legal Fees. A Texas appeals court has affirmed the dismissal in its
entirety of a defamation lawsuit filed by Mohamed Mohamed on behalf of himself and his son, the "clock boy" who took to
school a device that looked like a briefcase bomb and then cashed in on the ruckus with multiple television appearances and
the like. The Texas Court of Appeals for the Fifth District in Dallas said the ruling was at least partly because of
the links between "A.M.," the boy, and his father and the Council for American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim advocacy organization
founded by Hamas operatives. The ruling closed down the effort by the father and son to collect damages from several
media personalities who commented on the stunt when it developed, and to avoid paying their legal fees and charges.
Time's
Up for 'Clock Boy,' Who Was Defeated in Court This Week. It looks like time has run out for "Clock Boy," the
young Muslim American who was accused of bringing a hoax bomb to an Irving, Texas, high school back in September of 2015, when he
was just 13. Clock Boy is the nickname conservatives gave freshman high school student Ahmed Mohamed after his stunt
three years ago. The young man was feted by the Left at the time and even invited to the White House by then-President
Barack Obama. Both Hillary Clinton and Mark Zuckerberg expressed public support for Mohamed, folks like Stephen Colbert
featured him on their shows, and CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations) named Mohamed the American Muslim of the
Year, as The Daily Wire noted. A court motion this past Wednesday to throw out the young man's defamation case against
Ben Shapiro, chief editor at The Daily Wire, was upheld, as the editor's attorney, Kurt Schlichter, reported.
Clock Boy's Lawsuit Just
Blew Up. U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay dismissed the lawsuit Ahmed "Clock Boy" Mohamed brought against the
Irving Independent School District Wednesday, after he was wrongfully arrested for bringing a device to school that resembled
a bomb. The device at issue was a homemade clock, not a bomb. As Mohamed is a Muslim and the son of Sudanese
immigrants, the incident was widely attributed to ethnic and religious stereotyping, prompting the lawsuit. Mohamed's
father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, filed the complaint on his son's behalf in Aug. 2016. The suit alleged that the
school district discriminated against Ahmed on the basis of race and religion, in keeping with a long history of bigotry in
the Irving schools. It also claimed his Fourth Amendment rights were infringed when authorities questioned him for over
an hour and a half without his parents. In turn, the city of Irving said administrators acted legitimately to ensure
school safety, even if they were mistaken.
The Editor says...
Under Texas law, the loser in a civil suit must pay the legal fees incurred by both sides.
"Clock
boy" family loses racism lawsuit against city, school, and police. A US District Court judge has dismissed the
lawsuit filed by the father of Ahmed Mohamed, a boy who brought a homemade clock to school and then was arrested on charges
of bringing a hoax bomb to the school. Mohamed was a 14-year-old freshman when the incident happened at his high school
in Irving, Texas in September 2015. [...] Mohamed's father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, filed a lawsuit against the Irving
Independent School District, school principal Daniel Cummings, the City of Irving, and police officers Robin Howman, Charles
Taylor, Jeff Mitchell, and Richie Miller. The lawsuit alleged that Mohamed, an African-American Muslim, was
discriminated against based on his race and religion.
Judge
Slams Door on Further Litigation By 'Clock Boy' Family. A judge has dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit filed by
the father of a Muslim boy arrested after taking a homemade clock to his Irving school in 2015. The decision Tuesday
[3/13/2018] by U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay of Dallas means that Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed's lawsuit cannot be refiled
again based on the same claims. The judge also ordered the family to cover all of the costs of the lawsuit.
Judge
throws out clock boy 'discrimination' lawsuit. [Ahmed] Mohamed was arrested and charged with bringing a hoax
bomb to school. Those charges were later dropped, but the resulting furor from the incident became a litmus test for
"Islamophobia" in America. Those who supported the "innocent" teen were tolerant, broad-minded, and welcoming of
diversity. Those who think the student wrong were haters. Ahmed ended up being invited to NASA headquarters and
an event that featured President Obama as the left rallied to his cause. Meanwhile, his father moved the family to
Qatar but stayed only nine months. When the family moved back to Irving, they demanded $15 million not to pursue
legal action. The town and school district refused to pay the extortion, which resulted in the lawsuit thrown out
yesterday [5/19/2017].
"Clock
boy" discrimination lawsuit dismissed by federal judge. A federal judge has dismissed a discrimination lawsuit
brought by the family a Muslim student who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school that officials believed to be
a bomb, saying the student's attorneys failed to prove he was treated differently based on his race or religion.
Clock Boy Gets
Clocked in Texas Court. Remember when high school freshman Ahmed brought a ginned-up "clock" invention to a
Texas school, and that "clock" just happened to look like a bomb? And school officials acted sensibly and called the
police? The national media shed sympathetic tears over poor Ahmed's travails, so of course he was later fêted by
President Obama, who invited him to the White House. Well, that 15 minutes of fame was not enough for Ahmed's father,
Mohammed Mohammed. He wanted his pound of flesh from several conservative outlets who "insulted" his son, so he filed a
defamation lawsuit against TV host Glenn Beck and his guest, security expert Jim Hanson, who exposed him as a fraud.
Implosion:
'Clock Boy' Lawsuit Against Shapiro Dismissed, Shapiro Awarded Attorneys' Fees. On Thursday, the 162nd District
Court of Texas ruled decisively against Mohammed Mohammed, father of Ahmed "Clock Boy" Mohammed, dismissing Mohammed's
complaint against Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro and awarding Shapiro his attorneys' fees as well. "This is an
excellent day for free speech," Shapiro said. "Using law as warfare is perhaps the most disgusting tactic of politically
correct activists across the country, and we couldn't be more excited to stand up against such frivolous use of our court
system. My initial comments suggested that false charges of Islamophobia only muddy the waters when it comes to policing
actual dangerous activity, and I'm proud to fight back against such charges."
"Clock
Boy" Gets His Clock Cleaned with Texas' Anti-SLAPP Statute. [Scroll down] Fox and Ferguson's motion was
comprehensive and supported by facts, evidence, and extensive legal citations. Mohamed's opposition was scattered and
perfunctory. It did a very poor job of addressing the crucial distinction between protected opinion and potentially
defamatory fact, devoting a few pages of poor argument unsupported by legal authority. So it is not surprising that the
court granted Fox and Ferguson's motion in full and awarded more than $80,000 in fees to Fox and Ferguson. Blaze and
Beck, through one set of lawyers, and CSP and Hanson, through another, also filed anti-SLAPP motions — motions too
vast to host here. Their core argument throughout was that their challenged statements were opinion, commentary, and
hyperbole, not potentially defamatory statements of fact — and they were substantially aided in those arguments by
the very language of Mohamed's complaint. Mohamed attempted to fix this problem by filing an amended complaint. But the
amended complaint mostly served to emphasize the rough-and-tumble cable-tv-hyperbole nature of the defendants' commentary, and to
add references to mostly anonymous trolls who reacted with (arguably factual) accusations to the controversy.
Texas
Judge Dismisses 'Clock Boy's' Defamation Lawsuit Against Conservatives. A Texas judge has dismissed a
defamation lawsuit filed last year by the father of "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed against several conservatives. Dallas
County district court judge Maricela Moore dismissed the suit on Monday, announced the Center for Security Policy (CSP), one
of the defendants in the case. Mohamed Mohamed, "Clock Boy's" father, filed the suit in September against CSP, its
executive vice president, The Blaze, Inc., its founder Glenn Beck, Fox News, and several conservative pundits, including Ben
Ferguson and Ben Shapiro, all of whom criticized his son.
Judge
dismisses Clock Boy family's defamation lawsuit. The family of Ahmed Mohamed — better known as "Clock Boy — who
brought a hoax bomb to his Middle School claiming it was a clock, had filed a defamation lawsuit against several parties who
claimed on a Glenn Beck TV show that there was a connection between the hoax bomb and "the attendant media frenzy created in
large part by his father Mohamed, civilization jihad, and the Counsel on American-Islamic Relations ("CAIR")," according to
the American Freedom Law Center ("AFLC") who represented the defendants. Mohamed had sued the Center for Security
Policy ("CSP") and Jim Hanson, two of the defendants in the defamation case, which also named as defendants the local Fox
affiliate, Glenn Beck, and Beck's production company.
Father
of 'clock boy' Ahmed Mohamed sues Glenn Beck, FOX, TheBlaze. The father of Ahmed Mohamed — the
Irving teenager who became known as "clock boy" around the world after he was arrested for bringing a homemade alarm clock to
school — sued for defamation Monday [9/26/2016]. Mohamed Mohamed filed a lawsuit against multiple media
outlets and conservative political commentators, including TV host Glenn Beck and his television network, TheBlaze. He
also sued FOX Television Stations and Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne. Mohamed Mohamed sued on behalf of himself and his
son, arguing that commentators and media outlets were responsible for libelous statements after his son's arrest in 2015.
"Homesick"
Clock Boy Family Return to US; Promptly Files $10M Federal Lawsuit. A lawsuit. How surprising. The
family moved back to the US in June. The father had lots of nice things to say about the US. He left out the part where
he must think the country is a cash cow.
'Clock Kid' Takes Adversaries to Court.
[Scroll down] Still, despite the fact most ordinary people would have taken the same precautionary measures —
particularly in this day of escalating terrorism right here in the United States — the Mohamed family decided to
use the situation as leverage to promote the emotionally effective "anti-Islam" narrative and make a few bucks in the
process. The financial ruse got underway in November, when the Mohameds requested $15 million in reparations —
or else. Well, yesterday, the Irving Independent School District, MacArthur High School principal Daniel Cummings and the
City of Irving were handed an official lawsuit alleging the "Defendants violated Ahmed's rights under the United States Constitution
and the laws of the United States." It also claims, "Because of all of the lies and conspiracy theories thrown out about
Ahmed and his family, he has received not just hate messages, but death threats."
Family
of Muslim Teen Arrested Over Clock Files Lawsuit. The family of a Muslim boy who was arrested after bringing a
homemade clock to school filed a federal lawsuit Monday [8/8/2016] against Texas school officials and others, saying the incident
violated the 14-year-old boy's civil rights, prompted death threats and forced them to leave the United States. The lawsuit
was filed on behalf of Ahmed Mohamed, who was arrested at his suburban Dallas high school in September and charged with having a
hoax bomb. He says he brought the homemade digital clock to school to show his English teacher.
Family of
'Clock Boy' files lawsuit against former school. Nearly one year after 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested
for bringing a "suspicious-looking" homemade clock to class, his family has filed suit against his former Texas school
district, the principal of the high school and the city of Irving.
Family
of 'Clock Boy' Ahmed Mohamed sues Texas school officials. The family of a Muslim boy who was arrested after
bringing a homemade clock to school has sued Texas school officials, saying they violated the 14-year-old boy's civil
rights. The lawsuit was filed Monday [8/8/2016] on behalf of Ahmed Mohamed.
Ahmed
the clockboy's triumphant return to America. He's tanned. He's rested. He's ready to scream
"Islamophobia" and get an invitation to the White House! Ahmed the Clock Boy is back in the USA. (If you don't know who
Ahmed is, click on that link and educate yourself about your racism.) The local Fox affiliate in Dallas reports in the big
homecoming: [Video clip]
Homesick
'Clock Boy' Ahmed Reportedly Returning to Texas. Late Friday [6/24/2016], the Dallas Morning News
reported Mohamed plans to return to Texas early in the week for an extended visit. The teen's uncle, Aldean Mohamed,
said: "He miss[es] Texas, and he miss[es] Irving." Breitbart Texas reported on Ahmed Mohamed's earlier yearnings
to return to the Lone Star State in December. The uncle also indicated his nephew will catch up with family in the
Dallas suburb of Irving and has events lined up with some tech companies. The Dallas newspaper did not disclose any
information with whom the teen will meet.
The Editor asks...
[#1] Would you let your 14-year-old kid decide where you will live? [#2] Did Clockboy find out that Qatar isn't all that great?
Al-Qaeda
in New 'Inspire' Issue: Clock Boy 'Even Inspired Us in a Way'. [Scroll down] A month later, Ahmed
met Obama during White House Astronomy Night event on the South Lawn of the White House. The new al-Qaeda issue
featured a picture of the two meeting as well as the clock bomb, with the notation: "Obama, 'because of his sensitivity
towards Muslim discrimination,' sees an opp to further his PR by acknowledging a brilliant 14 yr old Muslim boy (who in fact
even inspired us in a way)." The Inspire issue features step-by-step photos of how to build a parcel bomb, a magnetic car
bomb, and a door-trap bomb. Ahmed Mohamed's family moved to Qatar and sued the City of Irving and the Irving
Independent School District for $15 million.
Texas District Sues to Prevent Release of
Clock Details. A suburban Dallas school district has sued the state of Texas to prevent the release of details of a federal investigation
into the arrest of a student who brought a homemade clock to class that was seen as a possible bomb. The Texas attorney general's office earlier
this month ordered the Irving school district to provide a copy of the U.S. Department of Justice letter to The Dallas Morning News. Instead, the
district on Thursday [2/25/2016] sued to prevent the release of the multi-page letter, which outlined allegations of "discipline of students on the basis
of race, religion and national origin," the newspaper reported. The district has been turning over sealed documents to comply with the investigation
into the September arrest of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed.
The
Daily Caller Presents: The 23 Least Intriguing People Of 2015. [#12] Clock Boy. This fall, Ahmed Mohammed, a 14-year-old
Muslim boy, brought a curious-looking disassembled clock to an Irving, Texas school and ended up arrested over fears it was a bomb.
Mohammed later left America altogether to live in a theocratic, authoritarian slave state. His family filed a $15 million lawsuit
for damages. Can America be done with this kid now?
How
The Obama Administration Got Americans Killed in San Bernardino For PC. We already know that political
correctness got Americans killed in San Bernardino. A neighbor of that delightful, non-suspicious, American-as-apple-pie
couple Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik refused to report his suspicions of nefarious activity thanks to his fear of being
labeled a racist. That fear was legitimate — the same Obama administration that tells Americans to say
something if they see something is now investigating the Irving Police Department for doing just that with a Muslim teenager
who brought a device that looked like a bomb to school. But at least you could make the case that it wasn't directly the
fault of the Obama administration that the neighbor didn't call the cops. Not any longer.
Mosque
near 'Clock Boy' Ahmed's Texas Home Connected to Terrorism. A north Texas mosque, near the home of "Clock Boy" Ahmed,
was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing trial in United States history. The judge found
there was ample evidence that the mosque, the Islamic Association of North Texas, assisted the Holy Land Foundation in funding millions
of dollars to a Palestinian military terrorist organization that has killed Israeli children. The Richardson, Texas, mosque, also
known as the Dallas Central Mosque, was set up largely for the purpose of funding Hamas and terrorist activities by funding the Holy
Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF).
Loretta
Lynch is unfit to serve. As most AT readers know, Loretta Lynch recently stated that she would prosecute anyone
who expressed "anti-Muslim rhetoric" that led to violence against Muslims. Among other things, she also invited members of
the Muslim community to contact her if their children are bullied at school. Wow! Does anyone else have Lynch's direct
line so they can hop, skip, and jump over the playground monitor, teacher, counselor, vice-principal, and/or principal to the
Attorney General of the United States? I can almost hear the phones dialing now with the next wave of fabricated clock boy
complaints. Lynch is enforcing Sharia law, creating two classes of citizens. Muslims are the protected class and
non-Muslims are second-class citizens.
Loretta Lynch defends Muslims
and announces investigation in arrest of Texas 'clock kid'. Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch, speaking to the American Muslim
community just a day after the attacks in San Bernardino, announced Thursday night [12/3/2015] that the Justice Department will
investigate the arrest of a 14-year-old Muslim boy for bringing a homemade clock to school in Texas. The Irving Police
Department arrested Ahmed Mohamed in September after school authorities grew suspicious of a clock that Mohamed said he made
and brought to school to show his teacher. Authorities suspected it was a bomb. Ahmed was never charged, but several
congressmen asked Lynch for the civil rights investigation she promised Thursday.
The Editor says...
To recap once again, Clockboy didn't make a clock. He put a disassembled Radio Shack clock into a box and took it to school
as an unsolicited science project, probably knowing it would look like a suspicious device. The Attorney General doesn't
seem to mind that Clockboy is a troublemaker, but instead her concern is that Clockboy is a Muslim, and therefore a victim
of the animosity that he helped to create.
Loretta
Lynch to Muslim Group: DOJ to Investigate Arrest of 'Clock Boy' Ahmed. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch
announced during a speech to American Muslims on Thursday night that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will be investigating
the arrest of "Clock Boy." [...] Although the boy was never charged with a crime, several congressman had asked for a DOJ
investigation. Breitbart Texas reported that California Democrat Congressman Mike Honda, who cried Islamophobia outside
the U.S. Capitol Building Tuesday [12/1/2015] while questioning the legality of the Sept. 14 arrest of "Clock Boy"
Ahmed Mohamed, is himself under an ethics investigation.
'Clock
Boy' Ahmed Homesick in Qatar, Wants to Come Back to Texas. Within days of demanding a total of $15 million from
the City of Irving and the Irving Independent School District, "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed announced in a long distance phone
interview from Qatar, he is homesick and wants to come home to Texas now.
The Editor says...
You've made your selection, and you chose Qatar over Texas. Eat sand!
The
liberal media has no idea what to make of 'clock kid' Ahmed Mohamed anymore. The latest development in Mohamed's story is a
lawsuit. His family is seeking $15 million from the school district and the city of Irving, which opens him up to the charge,
particularly from conservatives, that his public crusade against discrimination was and is motivated — at least in part —
by money. The boy who initially appeared to be the perfect embodiment of a popular liberal narrative — hard-working,
good-hearted Muslims face bigotry that should make us all cringe — is suddenly, well, more complicated. [...] Many news outlets
that covered Mohamed's arrest extensively — particularly those that lean left — have reported on the lawsuit in
relatively brief, straightforward terms or ignored it altogether.
Lawyer
reveals details of arrest of 'clock kid' Ahmed, plans to file suit. [Scroll down] But his family, which shortly
thereafter took up a benefactor's offer to relocate to Qatar, argued in the letter that the boy's reputation has been "permanently
scarred." They are seeking not only financial reparations but written apologies from the city's mayor and police chief.
The Editor says...
What reputation did Clockboy have before this carefully contrived sting operation took place? Nobody had ever heard
of him. Any damage to his reputation was self-inflicted, and in any event it's not worth ten million dollars.
What's the real story behind Clock
Boy's $15M lawsuit? Some say Ahmed merely pulled a store-bought clock from its case. A report said his sister
once may have also been suspended for a bomb threat. And the city of Irving had been grappling with Islamic issues.
Meanwhile, his father has been politically active: Fox News said he once posted a video suggesting 9/11 was a hoax.
And the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which ceaselessly warns of "Islamophobia," reportedly provided advice.
OK, if the scary-looking clock was just a stunt, maybe the motive wasn't financial but political. Still, $15 million
won't hurt.
'Ahmed the Clock Boy' now
suing for $15 million. Ahmed "Clock Boy" Mohamed and his family say time is ticking on a $15 million demand before
they file a lawsuit against the city of Irving, Texas, and its school district. The City of Irving and Irving School District
received a letter on Monday [11/23/2015] from the family's attorneys. The Mohameds want $10 million from the city and
$5 million from ISD over the Sept. 14 "suitcase clock" incident at MacArthur High School involving their son.
Clock
Kid Demands $10 Million from City. Ahmed, the clock boy, Mohamed and his family just had their attorneys send a
letter to Irving, Texas officials demanding $15 million in extortion funds for faux "damages" and get this... a written
apology from the mayor and the police chief on top of that. I'd tell the little racist to stuff it. The letter,
obtained by Dallas Morning News reporter Avi Selk, demands $10 million from the City of Irving and $5 million from
Irving ISD. They have 60 days to "comply" with the demands or face "civil action addressing the causes of action and
events" related to the infamous clock incident. In other words, they'll get sued.
"Clock
Kid's" Family Demand Apology, $15 Million In Damages. Attorneys representing Ahmed Mohamed and his family want
an apology and $15 million in damages after his arrest in September. [...] The attorneys have sent letters to both the City
of Irving and Irving ISD (read below), demanding $10 million and $5 million respectively, for the way the incident was
handled earlier this year. They claim 14-year-old Ahmed has suffered severe damages as a result of his interrogation and
arrest at the school.
The Editor says...
Allow me to reiterate what I said when I first heard about this story: This is a case of reverse entrapment. A group
of Muslim activists used Clockboy as a pawn, sent him to school with an unsolicited science project designed to look like an IED,
then posed for a photo op with Clockboy in handcuffs, then (within hours) was the guest of honor at a support rally, and was invited
to the White House by his fellow Muslim, Barack H. Obama. This whole story is a set up. The Irving school district
stepped in it. And now, the school district can either settle out of court or face daily picket lines and pity parties, which
will be well-covered by the local news media. The only question now is what are the chances that the school district will
develop a backbone and tell Clockboy and Company to take their artificial outrage elsewhere? My guess is about 10 to 15 percent.
Obama Really Doesn't Like
People. Do some American lives matter more to Barack Obama than others? Given the disparate treatment shown one can
speculate so. Meanwhile, a Texas high-school boy whose feelings were hurt when a teacher confiscated what appeared to be a bomb
but what he represented as being a clock he had built (and was probably just a disassembled Radio Shack clock) was acclaimed as a
Muslim Rosa Parks and granted a White House visit. The whole affair now appears to have been a contrived effort by the his
activist father to create a cause celebre and another Muslim martyr (though not in the most radical sense, though now that the
family has moved to Qatar... that clock making may come in handy).
Feds
May Force Irving Teachers, Cops Into Re-Education Workshops Because Of 'Clock Boy'. Federal officials are still
probing the kerfuffle involving Ahmed Mohamed, the Texas teenager whose curious-looking disassembled clock led to accusations
he'd brought a hoax bomb to school. They have suggested mandatory re-education workshops on the topic of religious tolerance
for local police officers and teachers. Back in September, nearly 30 members of the U.S. Congress called for a Justice
Department investigation based on their belief that Mohamed had been "systematically profiled."
The Fiction of "Truth". In another example of fantasy
reinvented as reality, a Texas teen, Ahmed Mohamed, brought a strange contraption with dangling wires to class. He was promptly
detained, understandably so in a touchy post-9/11 climate. Ahmed claimed that he was a young inventor and was just showing off his
creation. He became a cause célèbre — an iconic victim of Texas-style anti-Islamic bigotry. President
Obama invited him to the White House. Silicon Valley's zillionaire techies pronounced him a budding genius. But the bothersome
truth again was not so glorious. A number of experts have shown how Ahmed had simply taken out the insides of an old Radio Shack
digital clock, put it in a different case with some wires hanging out, and passed it off as some sort of new electronic timepiece.
Obama Got Punked.
After being arrested last month under suspicion of bringing a bomb disguised as a clock to his Texas high school, the
14-year-old won the world's sympathy, a scholarship fund, gifts, letters from business executives, meetings with world
leaders, including the president of the United States, and now a free high school and college education in that blossoming
center of innovative science and technology — Qatar. "It's basically like America," said Ahmed's 18-year-old
sister, Eyman. Of course, the tiny Gulf emirate that hosts the world's leading anti-American satellite network
Al Jazeera is nothing like America.
Texas'
'Clock Boy' may not enjoy time in Qatar. "Qatar has harsh Shariah law — stoning for apostasy,
lashing for alcohol, death penalty for homosexuality — and is an absolute monarchy without even a shred of
democracy," Tim Furnish, who holds a doctorate in Islamic Studies and served as an Arabic linguist in the U.S. Army, told
FoxNews.com. "The analogy between Texas and Qatar is the heat. Ahmed should be careful about what he wishes for."
Clock Boy And Family
Leave For Qatar: Bon Voyage. Don't Hurry Back! So Clock Boy and his family are leaving the United States for
Qatar. Good. And rest of the Muslims who complain about "Islamophobia" are welcome to follow them.
'Clockboy'
Ahmed Mohamed Makes Awkward Comments Right Before Meeting Obama. "Pretty sure I would've been awarded the
smartest kid in class if I was a caucasian male."
Clock-bomb
hoaxer Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar. Ahmed Mohamed, the kid who made a hoax bomb that he
called a clock, is moving with his family to Qatar. Apparently MIT, the Google execs, Barry Hussein, et al. didn't bow
deferentially enough. Ahmed's sister Eyman said the Middle East won't feel too different from the U.S., except that the
family will be surrounded by Muslims like themselves. Isn't that racist and supremacist?
Where is the clock now?
Crock
Boy: When the Media Gets Owned by a 14-year-old. Let me clue you in, fellas: if Ahmed were of European descent
and named Alex or Justin, few would have even heard his story. He wouldn't have been on talk shows and done a world tour
visiting leaders and the U.N. He wouldn't have been invited to the White House. The media wouldn't have made a federal
case out of his tale. And he wouldn't have gotten money, scholarships and offers of opportunities from Facebook, Google,
Twitter, and others. You know, like white kid Alex Stone, arrested for writing a fictional story in which he slew a dinosaur
with a gun. Or white Texas teen Justin Carter, who sat in prison for months — to the point of becoming
suicidal — for making an obvious joke in social media. Or the kids punished for chewing a Pop-Tart, cutting
paper or forming fingers into the shape of a gun. Their races? White, white, and white.
Muslim spokesman: As boy
departs, Muslims feel 'under siege'. The decision by the family of a Texas teenager to move to Qatar is not surprising
in light of lingering anti-Muslim sentiment that makes many U.S. followers of Islam feel as if they are "under siege," a spokesman
for a national Muslim-American group said Wednesday [10/21/2015].
Ahmed
the "Clock Boy" Meets with Obama and War Criminal. The media has dubbed him "Clock Boy," but critics have pointed out that he's
really just Crock Boy. This hasn't prevented Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Texas student arrested for bringing to school a device that
could be taken for a bomb, from making the rounds as a celebrity and meeting world leaders. This included an encounter Barack Obama at the
White House's Astronomy Night last evening, even though the meeting was left in doubt after Mohamed met last Wednesday with an African president
wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court. The boy's dubious meeting with Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir —
accused of orchestrating genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur — put the White House in an uncomfortable position.
Clock
Boy's Dad Calls for a New Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. At a press conference Tuesday morning [10/20/2015]
outside the U.S. Capitol Building, Ahmed "Clock Boy" Mohamed's father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, urged the president and Congress
to amend the Constitution so that innocent people like his son would not be victimized by authorities ever again. [...] Ahmed,
sounding heavily coached, gave a short, cringe-inducing, canned speech. [...] He went on to say that people should always "judge
a person by their heart, not by what they look like."
The Editor says...
Clockboy didn't get in trouble because of his appearance. He got in trouble because he brought what appeared to be a makeshift
bomb into his high school. If he had brought an unsolicited pressure cooker along with it, he probably would have been in even
more trouble, and would probably still claim to be the victim. Now his father, in an effort to extend his 15 minutes of
fame, wants to change the U.S. Constitution as he emigrates to Qatar. Good riddance!
The Clock Ticks On.
[Scroll down] Ahmed can't make a clock. All he can do is rip the guts out of some crappy Radio Shack thing from the
Seventies, and tape it into a simulacrum of a suitcase bomb, which is not a skill to be disdained, at least in some parts of
the world. [...] The private sector apparently still has enough sense of self-preservation that the glamorous job offers and
grants quietly faded away.
Congressman:
Islamophobia — Not Suspicious Device — Led To Arrest of Muslim Teen. Rep. Mike Honda
(D-Calif.) said the arrest of Ahmed Mohamed last month at his Dallas high school after a teacher confiscated what looked like
a homemade bomb in the teen's backpack was not because of the suspicious item, but because of Islamophobia. "This incident
highlights an alarming trend of profiling Muslim Americans not only by law enforcement but in all of society as a whole, and
I think we call that Islamophobia," Honda said at a Capitol Hill press conference on Tuesday [10/20/2015].
Texas teen arrested over clock is
moving to Qatar with his family. The Texas boy arrested for bringing to school a homemade clock that was mistaken for a bomb
is moving to Qatar, his family said on Tuesday [10/20/2015], a few hours after he was at the White House for an astronomy night hosted by
President Barack Obama.
'Clock
Boy' Ahmed Picks Qatar School, Home of the Muslim Brotherhood, Over MIT. Ahmed Mohamed accepted a full scholarship to attend
a Qatar school instead of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). "Clock Boy" Ahmed chose the reputed home of the Muslim
Brotherhood over an institution revered among the world's finest science and engineering universities.
President
Obama Meets 'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed During White House Astronomy Event. In spite of the hubbub surrounding
the appearance of "clock kid" Ahmed Mohamed at the White House, President Obama didn't make him the center of attention
during an event that was squarely focused on astronomy. The president made brief remarks at the White House's "Astronomy
Night" before peering through a telescope and visiting briefly with a few of the attendees.
Ahmed
Mohamed heads to the White House for Astronomy Night without his 'cool clock'. President Barack Obama personally extended an invitation for the
teenager to bring his 'cool clock' to the White House. Tonight [10/19/2015], Ahmed will take the president up on his offer and attend Astronomy Night
there — but it appears Obama won't have time to meet arguably the most famous guest at the event.
Obama
Shies Away from Meeting 'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed. It appears that President Obama may not meet personally with Texas student Ahmed Mohamed
at tonight's [10/19/2015] Astronomy Night at the White House, according to White House aides. "I don't believe that the president will have the
opportunity to meet with meet one-on-one with Ahmed Mohamed," Earnest confirmed during the White House press breifing [sic]. He explained to
reporters that there would be "several hundred" students and teachers and scientists attending the event.
The Editor says...
Why would Obama make a very big deal about inviting Clockboy to the White House and then NOT meet him face-to-face?
Ahmed
Mohamed, Muslim teen detained for bringing homemade clock to school, heads to the White House. Ahmed, who did
not bring the device with him to Washington, said he hopes to talk to Obama about his experience as a Muslim who came to the
United States after 9/11. "I'm going to talk to him about, like, how hard it is growing up in America," he said.
"It was pretty hard living in America and going to school being Muslim." But Ahmed may not get the opportunity.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Monday that Obama is not scheduled to meet personally with Ahmed
during his visit.
The Editor says...
Just because Obama isn't scheduled to meet with Clockboy, that doesn't mean it won't happen.
CAIR
awards 'American Muslim of the Year' to clock kid after he meets with genocidal war criminal. This clock kid is
having quite a year! After lying and saying he had invented a clock, the entire media universe gave him a big hug because
those mean old Islamophobic cops arrested him for a "hoax bomb." Well, apparently being a victim and playing the media
is the greatest thing you can do as an American Muslim because CAIR is giving him an award for it!
Ahmed
'Clock Kid' Mohamed Wins 'American Muslim of the Year' Award at CAIR Event. Ahmed Mohamed, otherwise known as
"Clock Kid," was dubbed the "American Muslim of the Year" by a Muslim civil rights group. The Council of American-Islamic
Relations awarded the 14-year-old the honor over the weekend during the organization's 21st annual banquet in Arlington, Virginia.
The Washington Examiner reported that the award was in the shape of a clock.
Obama's
'Cool Clock' Muslim Boy Gets Award from Jihad-Tied CAIR. The jihad-linked CAIR advocacy group has declared the
Texas "cool clock" boy, Ahmed Mohamed, as the "American Muslim of the Year." The political award bypassed accomplished
Muslims in America — and was also protested by other Muslims — but it did highlight the incendiary
claim by the Council on American-Islamic Relations to its overseas supporters that Muslims in America are threatened, and
must be aided by overseas Muslims.
Ahmed 'Clock Kid' Mohamed Visits the
Butcher of Darfur. [Scroll down] The death toll in Darfur since 2003 is somewhere north of 300,000, according to the United
Nations. And that is on top of 2.2 million Sudanese wiped out by the government in the south of the country before the atrocities in
Darfur began in earnest. At the head of all of this has been Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, [...] But on Wednesday [10/14/2015], the Paris-based
Sudan Tribune reports, Ahmed Mohamed — wunderkind "clock"-maker and White House invitee — enjoyed a red-carpet treatment
from the Sudanese head of state, even posing with him for a photograph.
The
American boy arrested for making a clock meets Sudan's president, an accused war criminal. The arrest of Ahmed
Mohamed, a 14-year-old Texas student, in mid-September for bringing a homemade clock to his high school created a nationwide
debate about racism and Islamophobia in the United States. Despite facing a wave of ugly criticism, Ahmed won support from
high places — President Obama tweeted his support, and the teenager is expected to be a guest at the White House this
weekend. Ahead of that that visit, Ahmed has met with another president. This meeting is a little bit more surprising.
Bad
timing? Texas 'clock'-maker's visit with Sudanese leader complicates WH invite. Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year old
boy arrested after a homemade clock he brought to school was mistaken for a bomb, may be putting President Obama in an
awkward situation after meeting with Sudanese president and alleged war criminal Omar al-Bashir just days before a White
House event to which he was invited. Despite the controversy, the White House has not yet announced any change of plans
for the invitation or the event — an Astronomy Night scheduled for Monday [10/19/2015] that brings together NASA
astronauts and government scientists with students and teachers.
'Clock
Boy' Ahmed Makes it to Mecca with Saudi Funds and Pushes U.S. 'Islamophobia' Narrative. "Clock boy" Ahmed
Mohamed made it to Mecca Friday [10/9/2015] for umrah, the Arabic word for pilgrimage, the portion of his Middle Eastern tour sponsored
by the Saudi government. The trip also included the 14-year-old's parents and other relatives, including one uncle who pushed
the Islamophobia narrative. The uncle, identified by Arab News as Moussa Al-Hassan, asserted: "The ordinary American
citizen lives in a state of fear of Arabs because of the American media's portrayal of him as an extremist terrorist."
The Editor says...
That's the whole purpose of Islamic terrorism: to terrorize whole countries into submission. Clockboy's uncle's statement
precisely fits into the topic of this page: The Muslims are bellyaching about all the irrational persecution they must endure,
when in reality they are the ones who started this mess.
'Clock
Boy' Ahmed's Dad Shares 9/11 'Truther' Posts on Facebook. Presently, Mohamed tours the Middle East with his
clock-making son, but he is also a Sudanese Reform Party activist and the repeatedly failed Sudanese National Reform party
candidate for president of that country, although he and his family reside in Irving, a Dallas suburb.
Ahmed's
Dad Pushes 9/11 Conspiracy Posts, Videos on Arabic Facebook Page. With the frenzy following his son Ahmed's
bringing a suspicious-looking modified clock to high school, Texas-based Islamic political activist Mohammed Elhassan
Mohammed finally succeeded in creating something he's sought for a long time: a national media event that can be used
to shine the light on alleged crimes of the United States, from accusations of "Islamophobia" in Irving, Texas, to American
complicity in the 9/11 attacks.
Boy Arrested Over Clock Reportedly Had Previous Behavioral
Issues. Ahmed Mohamed, who was arrested for bringing a clock to school, was reportedly suspended on several prior
occasions. In recent months, the Irving, Texas, teen gained widespread sympathy for his plight. However, a former
teacher claims Mohamed has a history of behavioral issues.
'He's
one of those that could either be CEO of a company or head of a gang'. The Muslim teenager arrested for bringing his home-made
clock into school was a 'weird little kid' that could have a future in crime, according to one of his former teachers. Retired Sam Houston
Middle School teacher Ralph Kubiak said that 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was a troublemaker in his younger years.
The Editor says...
Ahmed's device was not a "home-made clock," it was a Radio Shack clock, designed and built by somebody else log ago (see below). In fact, has anyone seen
pictures of Clock Boy's device in operation? It may not be a functional clock at all — just a pile of junk in a box.
Free advice for Ahmed: You'd better sell that pile of junk before your 15 minutes of fame expires.
Ahmed's
celebrity tour goes global as family heads to Qatar. Everyone was expecting North Texas' most famous teen to
return home from his national tour this week. A Dallas public relations firm hoping to sign Ahmed Mohamed had even made plans
for a limousine to pick him up at the airport when they flew in from New York. But they'll have to wait a little longer,
because Ahmed and his family are detouring for Qatar, per a statement the family released this morning [9/28/2015].
The Muslim "Clock Boy" Is a Set up.
[Scroll down] Well, fast-forward several days, and now it seems Ahmed the clockmaker isn't as he appeared. First thing to
be discovered was that the homemade clock was not homemade, but merely a stripped-down, disassembled 30+ year old RadioShack
digital clock. So, he lied about that. Now we discover that another innocent member of Ahmed Mohammed's family was suspended
for a "bomb related accusation." She was accused of wanting to blow up her school. The 17-year-old sister said she was
suspended for "something I had nothing to do with." [...] I noticed every time the boy spoke, he would constantly glance off screen,
as if he was being coached. Now I hear that Mark Cuban spoke to the boy on the phone recently, and experienced the same thing.
On
Ahmed's Clock, President Obama Once Again Spoke Too Soon. Many think it "obvious" the school boy's religion had
played a role in his arrest. But Mohamed's story is clearly not what it first appeared, and, even if it was, he should
never have been invited by the president. After Mohamed visits the UN and Mecca, he plans to take up Obama's invitation to
visit the White House. The real question is whether Obama will disinvite the young man or pretend that Mohamed is someone
he is not.
'Clock-boy's' sister was suspended for 'bomb'
threat. The 17-year-old sister of Muslim "clock boy" Ahmed Mohamed says she too was suspended from school due to a "bomb"-related
accusation. Eyman Mohamed told the Daily Beast during a day-long interview with the family Sept. 17 about an incident where she
was accused of wanting to blow up her school. [...] The 17-year-old's claim continues a string of strange developments surrounding the
Sept. 14 detention of her 14-year-old brother when a clock he "invented" was suspected of being a bomb. [...] NBA owner Mark Cuban of
the Dallas Mavericks told HBO "Real Time" host Bill Maher last Friday [9/18/2015] he spoke to Ahmed on the phone but was puzzled as to why
his sister kept trying to feed him answers.
The Ahmad Hoax Is Not Going to Hold, and The Media Will Be Massively
Discredited. I suppose that headline is a bit optimistic — the media is very good about suppressing
stories that expose them as frauds; see the Gosnell coverage. But we're coming to a point where the media's continue
refusal to acknowledge the obvious is going to become very embarrassing to them.
Obama's
'Cool Clock' Muslim Boy Claims Racism to Foreign Audience at UN. The Muslim American boy championed by President Barack Obama
is using his new worldwide fame to accuse Texans of racism and anti-Muslim discrimination. "My dream is to raise consciousness against
racism and discrimination," he said at a New York press event with Turkey's Islamist Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, according to an
article in the Turkish newspaper, HurriyetDailyNews.com.
Before
Ahmed's fame: fantastic inventions and a fight with authority. If you want to know Ahmed Mohamed —
not the hoax bomb suspect or the vindicated celebrity, but the motormouth kid with a schoolbag full of inventions and a head
full of questions — ask a teacher. Ask at Sam Houston Middle School, where the boy from Sudan mastered
electronics and English, once built a remote control to prank the classroom projector and bragged of reciting his First
Amendment rights in the principal's office. It's also the school where Ahmed racked up weeks of suspensions, became
convinced an administrator had it in for him and — before he left for the high school where he turned
famous — prompted Irving ISD to review claims of anti-Muslim bullying.
Ahmed's suspicious 'clock' FAILS the college
kid test. The media immediately jumped on the school and the police where Ahmed Muhammed was reported and arrested for his "hoax
bomb." They said the arrest was only because of "islamophobia," but if that's the case, then the bare clock was Islamophobic, because
college kids found that it looked just like a bomb. [Video clip]
'Clock Boy' and America's Suicidal PC
Tendencies. Last week, Muslim 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed made national news after being detained by police for bringing a
deconstructed clock to his Texas school. The clock, to inexpert eyes, looked like a bomb. Ahmed's English teacher thought so
and called the police; when they questioned Mohamed, he reportedly stonewalled them. They released him after realizing that the device
posed no threat and was not meant as a hoax explosive.
Ahmed
Mohamed: Texas Boy's Family Hires Legal Counsel to Get Clock Back. The family of the 14-year-old Muslim boy who
was led out of school in handcuffs has hired attorneys to get back the homemade clock that administrators mistook for a bomb.
Ahmed Mohamed was suspended after showing his clock to a teacher at his Irving, Texas, high school last week. His case
sparked an outcry on social media and attracted the attention of President Obama and a number of tech companies who invited
Ahmed to visit. His family said in a statement Wednesday [9/23/2015] that it had pulled Ahmed and his two siblings out
of the Irving school district "because of religious persecution," and had decided to home-school the kids.
Clockboy's
sister was once suspended from school for threatening to blow it up. "I got suspended from school for three
days from this stupid same district, from this girl saying I wanted to blow up the school, something I had nothing to do
with... I got suspended and I didn't do anything about it and so when I heard about Ahmed, I was so mad because it happened to
me and I didn't get to stand up." She had nothing to do with the threat and yet did nothing about being suspended?
Where were her parents? If I had a child in school who was suspended over a false accusation, I'd be at the principal's office
in a matter of minutes. And would the school really suspend her on a hearsay accusation from one other girl — even in
what The Daily Beast hysterically calls "a hotbed of Islamophobia"? It is unlikely, given the risk of complaints and even
litigation from the parents, that they would have taken such a step without substantial evidence.
Daily Beast Reporter Ignores Clockboy's sister's bomb threat. ["]So
I'm not jealous, I'm kinda like — it's like he's standing for me." It is indeed a lot like that. It is
so much like that it sounds to me like a possible motive for bringing a hoax bomb to school, to "stand up" for his sister
who had been, she claims, falsely accused of wanting to "blow up the school."
White
House denies blocking 13-year-old critic on Twitter. The White House says it is not blocking 13-year-old
conservative activist C.J. Pearson from following President Obama's Twitter account. Pearson claimed the White House
blocked him after he criticized President Obama's decision to invite 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed to the White House. Mohamed
made headlines after he was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school that officials mistook for a bomb. But the
White House contends it doesn't block anyone from Twitter, as the administration's policy is that official governmental
accounts not block any followers.
Irving
Mayor: Ahmed Mohamed's Family Blocking Release of Records; Obama Tweeted Support Even Before "Clock" Pic
Released. Last night [9/21/2015], Irving Texas Mayor Beth Van Duyne revealed that the family of Ahmed Mohammed
has repeatedly refused to meet with city officials, refused to released records exonerating police conduct, and that
President Obama had tweeted about the case even before pictures of the so-called "clock" were publicly available. [...] "I
don't think there's any question that this latest event was a PR stunt, it was a staged event," [Jim] Hanson said, saying the
device did look like an explosive. "I've built briefcase bombs and blown them up, that's what they look like," Hanson
pointed out referring to his time with Special Forces.
Ahmed's
Sister Admits School Suspension For Alleged Bomb Threat 3 Years Earlier. The sister of the boy who brought a
suspected hoax-bomb to his Texas high school said she was suspended from a school in a prior bomb scare. Her suspension
occurred in 2009 while she was attending middle school in the same district. Lesley Weaver, a spokeswoman for the
district, said school officials can't release any information about the 18-year-old sister's episode because [of] the
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
Clock
Boy Plans Detour To Mecca Before Meeting Obama. Ahmed Mohamed, known worldwide as "Clock Boy," still plans to
meet President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C. But before he does so, he may go on a detour to Saudi Arabia. Mohamed
Elhassan Mohamed, Ahmed's father, says that the family is flying to New York to meet with United Nations dignitaries
Wednesday [9/23/2015]. Then, they hope to travel to Saudi Arabia for the Islamic hajj, if the family can get a
visa, and finally to return to the U.S. to meet with the president.
Ahmed
Mohamed Didn't Build a Clock — and Other Niggling Problems in the Story of Dallas's Whizkid-of-the-Week.
[Scroll down] And add to all this that Ahmed's father, Mohamed Elhassan, is something of a self-appointed Islamic activist.
After he debated Koran-burning Florida pastor Terry Jones in 2011, the Washington Post wrote: ["]Elhassan, a native of
the Sudan who is now an American citizen, likes to call himself a sheik. He wears a cleric's flowing white robes and claims
hundreds of followers throughout Egypt, Sudan and in the United States. But he is unknown as a scholar or holy man in the
state he has called home for two decades. Religious leaders in Texas say they have never heard of Elhassan, including the
imam at the mosque where he worships. [']This so-called leader, we have never heard of this person,['] said
Imam Zia ul Haque Sheikh, the head of the Islamic Center of Irving. [']I believe the whole thing is made up.['"]
Clock
controversy risks backfiring for Obama as critics cast doubt on narrative. President Obama's public backing of
a Texas high school freshman, who got national headlines last week when his homemade clock was mistaken for a bomb by
teachers, could be causing a headache for the White House and other supporters as questions are being raised about the
motives in the case. Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed's father has said he now plans to withdraw the freshman from
MacArthur High School, and said Monday [9/21/2015] that they intend to visit New York City where he says they will meet with
dignitaries at the United Nations, before making a pilgrimage to Mecca and later visiting Obama at the White House, The
Dallas Morning News reported. It was not immediately clear which dignitaries had requested a meeting with Mohamed.
If
You See Something, (think hard before you) Say Something. The Department of Homeland Security created a national
campaign called, "If you see something, say something." The purpose is to, "raise public awareness of the indicators
of terrorism and terrorism-related crime, as well as the importance of reporting suspicious activity to state and local law
enforcement." The goal is to keep the nation safe. [...] Teenager Ahmed Mohamed, in Irving, Texas, brought a "home made"
clock to school to show his teacher. His teacher was concerned that it might be a bomb. See something, say something.
It turned out to be the components of a clock that the teenager supposedly built. Whether he built it or simply took a commercial
clock out of its case is up for debate, and not relevant to this discussion.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Father
of clock boy Ahmed Mohamed withdraws All of his children from school district. The family of a 14-year-old
Muslim teenager who got in trouble over a homemade clock mistaken for a possible bomb withdrew the boy from his suburban
Dallas high school on Monday [9/21/2015]. Ahmed Mohamed's father, Mohamed El-Hassan Mohamed, said he has pulled all
of his children from their Irving Independent School District schools. Mohamed said the family is still deciding where to
send the children to school.
Family:
Ahmed withdraws from Irving ISD, eyes trips to United Nations and Mecca. Not only is Ahmed leaving the
district, a week after his English teacher reported his homemade clock to police, but his younger brother and sister are
pulling out of other IISD schools, according to the father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed. "Ahmed said, I don't want to
go to MacArthur," Mohamed told me. "These kids aren't going to be happy there."
The Editor says...
Who is happy in a public high school? Nobody I know.
14 year-old kid makes Obama his
dupe. "Cool clock, Ahmed, want to bring it to the White House?" This was President Obama's knee-jerk reaction to an
incident in which 14 year-old Ahmed Mohamed brought a clock mechanism to school that he claimed to have put together at home, but found
himself briefly in trouble with the law because the mechanism looked something like a timing device for a bomb. "We should inspire
more kids like you to like science; it's what makes America great," our commentator-in-chief added. Claiming to be victims of
anti-Muslim prejudice, Ahmed and his family have already parlayed the clock into (1) that White House invite from Obama, (2) a
scholarship fund that quickly raised more than $10,000, and (3) opportunities from various tech companies. Not bad a bad haul.
Did the
Muslim 'Clock Boy' Perpetrate a Hoax? Here's the real story:
• There was no "school
project" or science assignment to justify Mohamed bringing the device to school.
• Just three weeks
into his freshman year, Mohamed was no "science whiz well-known by high school teachers for tinkering."
•
The "clock" wasn't made from scratch but just the guts of a mass-manufactured digital clock, complete with AC cord and
9-volt backup battery connection.
• With its exposed wires and lack of a face, the gutted clock looked
like a bomb. It also sounded like a bomb: The alarm was set to go off during English class; the beeping startled the teacher
who called police.
• When police questioned Mohamed, he wasn't cooperative and was described as "disrespectful."
• The police chief said the device was "intended to create a level of alarm; in other words, a hoax bomb."
• Mohamed's Sudanese father — a Muslim political activist involved in previous Muslim
grievances — reportedly asked the cops to re-handcuff his son — so his daughter could take the photo that
went viral.
• Mohamed tweeted: "Thank you fellow supporters. We can ban together to stop this
racial inequality."
• The family's spokesperson is the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a terror-tied
group that in 2006 sued US Airways for kicking several Muslim activists off a flight for behaving suspiciously and rattling
passengers — a stunt that looks eerily similar.
Texas
teen arrested over homemade clock to visit United Nations. A Texas teenager who became a global sensation after
he was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school that was mistaken for a bomb will be meeting foreign dignitaries at
the United Nations this week, a family friend said on Tuesday [9/22/2015]. Ahmed Mohamed, 14, a Muslim student who
dabbles in robotics and attended a Dallas area high school, touched off a social media firestorm with many seeing his the
arrest as being tied to his religion.
The
Strange Story of Ahmed Mohamed & His Suspiciously Bomb-Like Clock. Irving Texas Mayor Beth Van Duyne made news
on Glenn Beck's The Blaze TV show Monday night regarding the strange case of "clock-boy" Ahmed Mohammed. Ahmed is the
14-year-old freshman from Irving, Texas, who ran into trouble with school and police authorities when he brought a clock to
school that looked suspiciously like a briefcase bomb. Ahmed claims to have "invented" the clock and brought it to school to
show his shop teacher. Here is a video demonstration of someone putting together a clock like the one Ahmed brought to
school: [Video clip] As you can see, Ahmed didn't "invent" squat.
Suspicious Pop-Tart guns versus
scientific suitcase clocks. In an effort to assuage what is perceived to be the fragile sensibilities of Muslim-Americans, Barack Obama has
once again bowed to political correctness by extending his usual partiality toward an individual based solely on skin color and religion. This time,
the person at the center of the controversy is Ahmed Mohamed. Ahmed is the 14-year-old Sudanese-American aspiring clockmaker who has proven to be bright
enough to impress his teachers with his engineering prowess — but apparently not bright enough to know that bringing a homemade digital clock to
school with wires snaking out of it, stored inside a suitcase (or briefcase, if you will), isn't a good idea.
#IStandWithAhmed —
Against Authoritarian Idiocy. Unlike the Twitter hordes, I'm inclined not to spin this into some profound
comment on our "cultural moment." If it's a comment on anything, it's on the astonishing deficit of common sense at MacArthur
High School and among local authorities — the teacher who began this fiasco, the principal who exacerbated it, and
the police department that used five police officers to interrogate a lanky NASA-tech aspirant, and also thought it appropriate
to make Ahmed do the perp walk out of homeroom. No one thought to ask Ahmed's engineering teacher about this? To give
Ahmed's parents a quick ring? Everyone involved in this circus should be prohibited from watching any more 24.
Suspicious
Pop-Tart guns versus scientific suitcase clocks. In an effort to assuage what is perceived to be the fragile
sensibilities of Muslim-Americans, Barack Obama has once again bowed to political correctness by extending his usual
partiality toward an individual based solely on skin color and religion. This time, the person at the center of the
controversy is Ahmed Mohamed. Ahmed is the 14-year-old Sudanese-American aspiring clockmaker who has proven to be bright
enough to impress his teachers with his engineering prowess — but apparently not bright enough to know that bringing
a homemade digital clock to school with wires snaking out of it, stored inside a suitcase (or briefcase, if you will), isn't a
good idea.
The Ahmed Mohamed Fairy Tale. Some have
tried to make it appear that Ahmed's invitation to the White House is in part related to his engineering genius — an effort to
reward and encourage other young Moslem science students to excel. The story doesn't wash. As we noted earlier, he couldn't or
wouldn't initially explain to police who questioned him what it was and how it worked. Moreover, one techie argues persuasively that
Ahmed had merely taken apart a 1970's digital clock manufactured by Micronta (a division of Radio Shack), put it in a box, and claimed it
as his own creation. Was this a setup by his father and local Moslem activists or an unfortunately common school system mishap?
Reverse
Engineering Ahmed Mohamed's Clock... and Ourselves. [Scroll down] Amhed's clock was invented, and built,
by Micronta, a Radio Shack subsidary. Catalog number 63 756. The shape and design is a dead give away. The
large screen. The buttons on the front laid out horizontally would have been on a separate board — a large snooze
button, four control buttons, and two switches to turn the alarm on and off, and choose two brightness levels. [...] For one last
bit of confirmation, I located the pencil box Ahmed used for his project. [...] So there you have it folks, Ahmed Mohamad did not
invent, nor build a clock. He took apart an existing clock, and transplanted the guts into a pencil box, and claimed it was
his own creation.
Briefcase
Clock Maker Ahmed Mohamed Is Son of Muslim Activist. As many people thoroughly anticipated the back-story to the 14-year-old
briefcase clockmaker reflects his father is actually a rather controversial Muslim activist. This lends further credence toward a
reasonable belief that his taking a briefcase clock to school was not as innocent as the media would lead everyone to believe.
Get
Lost, You Palace-Guard Creeps. [Scroll down] Any candidate who plays this game with the Obamamedia is a
fool. Assuming for the sake of argument that the questioner is genuine and not a plant (like, say, the 14-year old
all-American schoolboy clockmaker who didn't make a clock at all and is the son of a belligerent Muslim activist and perennial
Sudanese presidential candidate whose brother runs a trucking company amusingly called Twin Towers Transportation), putting all
of that to one side, there are several entirely reasonable responses one could make to the gentlemen of the press: [...]
Ahmed
Didn't Build Clock. 1970's Vintage Available on eBay. You all know about the boy genius MIT praised and who
Obama invited to the White House. Well, somebody went through the trouble of checking out Ahmed's clock. Turns out it is
probably a digital clock from the 1970's. One like it was available on eBay. A curious engineer watched the YouTube video
interview of Ahmed and wanted to know more about the clock. This is what he discovered: [...]
We've
Been HAD!! Muslim Kid Definitely Didn't Make That Clock! This story has been so annoying I've been mostly
ignoring it, and while I'm generally not about conspiracy theories, this is... kinda weird. So Ahmed has been invited to
the White House and become an intern for Twitter because the media says evil racist cops and teachers arrested him for innocently
bringing an invention, a clock, to his classroom. It's Islamophobia!!! But wait... what if... he didn't actually
build any clock?!
How Ahmed's clock became a false,
convenient tale of racism. By now you've heard the story of Ahmed Mohamed, crowned by the Daily Beast "The Muslim Hero
America Has Been Waiting For" after the 14-year-old brought to school a beeping, strange-looking homemade concealed device that turned
out to be a clock. School officials, thinking, as 95% of Americans would, that it kinda looked like a bomb, hauled him out of
class. Police put him in handcuffs and, even after the confusion passed, the boy was suspended from school. That earned
Mohamed a planned trip to the White House, a message of support from Hillary Clinton, an offer to stop by Facebook to meet Mark
Zuckerberg and an invitation to be an intern at Twitter.
Ahmed's Clock in the Age of Grievance-Mongering.
Anybody want to hazard a guess as to what would happen if a young man showed up at the White House visitors' center with a backpack in which
was a homemade device full of circuit boards joined to a timing device? I do not frequent the White House, but I often am in the House and
Senate office buildings in Washington, and my best guess is that if I'd tried to bring Mohamed's clock into one of those places, there would have
been guns drawn. "Oh, but those are high-security environments!" you might be tempted to protest. Mohamed was arrested by high-school
campus police in Suburbia, Texas. Why are there police stationed at suburban high schools? Because public schools are now a
high-security environment, or at least many of them are intended to be.
If
It Walks Like an Influence Operation.... The more we learn about the facts surrounding the events in Irving,
Texas this week, the more it seems we've been bamboozled. The now-universal rendering of the story is that a student
named Ahmed Mohamed was wrongly removed from his school in handcuffs for innocently bringing in a homemade "clock."
The purported injustice of this story — laced with the implication that it all happened because Ahmed is a
Muslim — has made him an instant celebrity, winning fawning treatment from MIT to Stephen Colbert to the White
House. The facts, however, suggest this may have been a provocation. For starters, building and bringing to
school what sure looked like a trigger for an improvised briefcase bomb would predictably raise an alarm.
The Real Story Of #Istandwithahmed. The
hubbub surrounding Irving, Texas 14-year-old MacArthur High School student Ahmed Mohammed — the kid who brought a homemade clock-in-a-case
that looked like a fake bomb to school — continues apace, with the President of the United States inviting him to the White House, and 2016
Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg tweeting out encouragement. There's only one problem: the
whole story smells. It stinks of leftist exploitation.
Father
of Muslim teen arrested for clock previously battled Fla. Koran burner, has run for president of Sudan twice. The father
of the Muslim teenager, who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school, is a Sudanese immigrant who went from selling New York
City hot dogs to twice running for president in his native country. Mohamed ElHassan, who stood beside his son Ahmed Mohamed
Wednesday and expressed how "proud" he is of him, grew up in an African village before moving to the U.S. to achieve the American
dream, the North Dallas Gazette reported. "Once I realized my dream was bigger than what Sudan had to offer I immigrated to
America in the mid-1980s," the father of seven told the paper in February.
Muslim "Bomb-Clock" Kid's Victim Narrative Just Imploded. The
moment Mohamed walked into the school with an invention that resembled a weapon, the teachers and police should have known he was untouchable
because of his ideology. Allah forbid a white teen walk into class with an alarm clock in the shape of a firearm. Of course, he
would've been arrested, or perhaps tackled on the spot and subsequently suspended. We couldn't expect teachers to simply take his word
that it's only an alarm clock." On the left is an actual briefcase bomb. On the right is Ahmed Mohamed's fake briefcase bomb, and
liberals think that teachers and police should automatically know the differencejust by looking.
Ahmed
Mohamed and the 'Islamophobia' Clock. This story is pure agitprop most fatal. "If you see something, say
something" is now racism. And for destroying this simple principle of self-protection, young Ahmed Mohamed is a media star.
Not only has Barack Obama invited him to the White House, but NASA has also invited Ahmed to meet with them, as has Mark Zuckerberg of
Facebook. The whole thing has clearly been a setup, and its effect will be to make Americans less safe. If you ever see a
Muslim with a suspicious object, remember the lesson of Ahmed Mohamed: to say something would be "racism." That could
end up being the epitaph of America and the free world.
Muslim
Kid Brings Steel Case with Timer and Wires Hanging Out to School. Curiously, I noticed most media outlets never
showed this clever device that terrified teachers. So it turns out the clock was constructed inside a steel box with an LED
timer/clock mounted on it and wires hanging out. Here's a picture of the device once it was opened up: [Photo]
In other words, the media and the White House are using these very sensible precautions to pillory the school system and Texas in
general. Just don't mention that the Tsarnaev brothers had backpacks.
Conservative Black Teen Goes Viral Criticizing Obama for Ahmed
Invitation. A young African American conservative with a big Internet following has posted a video vigorously criticizing
President Obama's decision to invite 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed to the White House. CJ Pearson, 13, questioned the president's
priorities in extending the invitation, noting that he had not invited the families of slain police officers to the White House.
"But when a Muslim kid builds a clock? Come on by," he says in the video posted to YouTube: [Video clip]
This
Ted Cruz booster is 13, black, and just shredded Obama on clock kid. [Scroll down] "Mr. President," he
began, speaking with a Southern twang. "When Kate Steinle was gunned down by an illegal immigrant, you didn't do anything.
You didn't even call the family. You didn't invite them to the White House. Is that okay? I don't think so, Mr. President."
Twenty seconds had gone by — but CJ was just getting warmed up.
Ga.
teen blasts White House invite of Ahmed Mohamed. A Georgia teen took to YouTube this week to criticize the
White House for its invitation to a Texas teen who has been in the spotlight for an invention that got him suspended.
Ahmed Mohamed, the Muslim teen from Texas who was suspended earlier this week because a teacher thought his homemade clock
was a bomb, will not be returning to the school that suspended him. The case sparked claims of racial profiling and
outrage across the country, with some influential people — including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and President
Obama, who invited him to the White House — showing Ahmed, 14, support.
Obama
invites suspended Muslim teen to the White House. A Texas teenager who was suspended from school for bringing a
homemade clock to class received a 21st century invitation from President Obama on Wednesday [9/16/2015] to visit the White House.
Instead of making a traditional phone call, Obama took to his personal Twitter account to invite Ahmed Mohamed, 14, of Irving, Texas,
to show off the device at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Another
zero tolerance failure: kid arrested after taking homemade clock to school. Because Ahmed is a Muslim and has gotten some
attention on social media, people actually care about this case and by the time this is all done, his family will probably end up getting
a huge settlement from the school. In the interim, Obama has invited him to the White House and he's being cheered everywhere for liking
science. So, this whole mess will probably end up being the best thing that ever happened to him.
Fake
bomb blunder ends with White House invite. A Texas high school student at the center of a tech storm after authorities
mistook his clock invention for a bomb got a reprieve from the highest level Wednesday [9/16/2015]. President Obama invited
him to the White House. "Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House?," @POTUS tweeted. "We should
inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great."
President
Obama Invites Ahmed Mohamed to White House to Show Him Clock Mistaken for Bomb. President Obama has tweeted from his
official personal account, inviting Ahmed Mohamed to the White House to show him the clock invention that was mistaken for a bomb.
"Cool clock, Ahmed," the president tweeted today. "Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you
to like science. It's what makes America great."
Texas
Teen Takes Briefcase Clock To School — Creates A Stir. The media is so full of obfuscation with this
story it's quite funny. If you were to read any of a number of articles about Ahmed Mohamed and his "clock"
he brought to school, you'd never quite get the picture of what this "clock" looked like.
Obama
Praises Arrested Teen Clockmaker For 'Making America Great'. After a lengthy conversation with the business leaders about
the economy, President Obama tweeted support for a high school student arrested in Irving, Texas after he brought a homemade clock to
school. The student, Ahmen Mohamed, was called to the principal's office after a teacher reported it. Police arrested him,
put him in handcuffs, and took his fingerprints.
Obama,
Zuckerberg and NASA back Muslim teen, 14, arrested in school after his homemade alarm clock was mistaken for a
bomb. The Muslim teenager arrested for bringing his home-made clock into school which teachers claimed 'looked
like a bomb' has said he will go to the White House to visit Barack Obama after the President extended an invite to him
earlier in the day. Ahmed Mohamed, 14, received messages of support from across the globe today after an image of him
being handcuffed and escorted out of MacArthur High School, in Irving, Texas, went viral. Among the outpouring of
sympathy was a message from Obama inviting Ahmed to bring his clock to the White House, an offer that the teenager said
he would accept this evening.
Geert Wilders and Fitna
Geert
Wilders Reflects on 20 Years of Captivity Due to His Criticism of Islam. Geert
Wilders, leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV), marked the 20th anniversary of the murder of
filmmaker Theo van Gogh by reflecting on the personal cost of his criticism of Islam. For
Wilders, van Gogh's murder was a tragic moment that forever changed the course of his own
life. In a message shared on X (formerly Twitter), Wilders described how, since 2004, his
life has been defined by intense security measures and the constant threat of violence —
he has been "marked for death" all because of his outspoken views on Islam. "Today,
20 years ago, Theo van Gogh was murdered for criticizing Islam. Today, 20 years
ago, I lost my freedom because of criticism of Islam," he writes. Wilders goes on to recount
how, for two decades, he and his wife have lived under constant protection, moving from one secure
location to another, including a barracks, a prison, a police station, and now a safe house.
From
the Netherlands, Geert Wilders' win draws a sour grapes response from the eurotrash.
After decades of wokedom, self-satisfied establishmentarians in European capitals found themselves
'shocked' that populist/conservative Geert Wilders ran away with a big victory in the
Netherlands. Sour grapes is more like it. But to get even more specific, it was a
wake-up call. According to the Associated Press: ["]Anti-Islam populist Geert
Wilders said Thursday that he is ready to join the next Dutch coalition government after he surged
to a huge election victory that marked a stunning lurch to the far right for a nation once famed as
a beacon of tolerance.["] [...] "Stunning lurch to the far right"? Let's just say we
know how Mike and Raf voted if they are Dutch. What crazed, insulting language that bears no
resemblance to the subject of their article. [...] I've met Geert myself in Los Angeles, and far
from being intolerant as he had been painted, he's as tolerant and pleasant as they come from a
nation that has a splendid culture of tolerance and love for freedom. [...] Sounds like the sort of
person who should be leading the Netherlands, actually. His stances on out-of-control
migration from incompatible and hostile cultures, crime, inflation, and the green agenda resonated
with Dutch voters.
Populist
Geert Wilders claims victory, but it is very unlikely he will become prime minister.
Geert Wilders, one of Europe's most prominent, controversial and inflammatory populist politicians,
is heading for victory in the Dutch general election. Mr Wilders, leader of the Freedom
Party (PVV), is predicted to win 35 seats in the 150-seat Dutch parliament, the best result in a
political career that spans decades largely spent berating Islam and mainstream politicians.
"The PVV can no longer be ignored," he said in the wake of victory. "We will govern."
The left-wing coalition led by Frans Timmermans is predicted to come second with 25 seats while the
VVD, which has led the government for the past 13 years under the leadership of outgoing prime
minister Mark Rutte, had a dismal night, falling to third place with a predicted haul of 24 seats.
"That was a catastrophic disaster," one member told me.
Dutch
establishment in blind 'panic' as Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom projected to become largest in
the Netherlands. Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom is set to become the largest party
in the Dutch parliament according to the final poll published ahead of Wednesday's election.
The last survey conducted by I&O Research released on Tuesday morning showed the populist
conservatives had edged ahead of the establishment parties and suggested the PVV could win 28 seats
in the House of Representatives. The governing Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and the
Labor-Green alliance of PvdA-GroenLinks spearheaded by former Eurocrat Frans Timmermans, were
projected to amass 27 seats apiece.
'Anti-Islam
Bad Boy' Wins Big in Dutch Elections, Leftist Meltdown Begins Immediately. In yet
another sign of a global political shift, the right-wing populist Party for Freedom in the Netherlands
is projected to win a large plurality. According to exit polling, the PVV will pick up
at least 35 seats while the current ruling coalition will combine for 37 losses while only
winning 41 seats total. That makes Geert Wilders, the founder of the Party for Freedom, the
big winner. It also means an absolute meltdown has already started given how much Wilders is
hated by the European left. The Netherlands has been in the midst of a soft political
revolution over the last several years centering on climate change policies and the influx of
Muslim immigration into the European country. As RedState reported, mass protests were held
throughout 2022 after the ruling government signed a climate change agreement that would see Dutch
farmers decimated due to restrictive emissions standards. It looks like those farmers have
gotten their revenge while also securing their futures.
Pakistani
ex-cricketer offered $23,000 for the killing of Geert Wilders for insulting Islam.
Imagine if someone had offered money for the killing of a critic of Christianity, which would not
happen and should not happen. The headlines would be insistent, shrill, and persistent.
But no one will take any particular notice of this.
Pakistan
Ex-cricketer Named In Dutch MP Threats Case. The Netherlands said Monday that it was
prosecuting a "famous" Pakistani for allegedly inciting the murder of a lawmaker, with anti-Islam
MP Geert Wilders saying the suspect is former international cricketer Khalid Latif. The Dutch
public prosecution service said a 37-year-old man had offered 21,000 euros ($23,000) in 2018 for
the killing of a Dutch MP through a video on the internet, without identifying the suspect or the
target. "In this particular case, the suspect is identifiable. He is a famous person in
his own country. As a result, the Dutch police recognised him from the images," prosecutors
said in a statement.
Geert
Wilders Slams Dutch PM: 'You Have Imported a Monster Called Islam Into Our Country'. The Dutch House of
Representatives held a debate on freedom of speech at the request of Party for Freedom (PVV) leader, Geert Wilders after the
beheading of the French teacher Samuel Paty. Wilders slammed the open-borders policies of the Dutch Prime Minister,
Mark Rutte for "importing a monster called Islam into our country, which has put our country in danger." Geert Wilders,
who is thought of as, "The Donald Trump of The Netherlands", opened the parliamentary debate with a summary of the islamic
attacks and threats in recent weeks. He also addressed the call by Amsterdam's imam, Yassin Elforkani, who just two
weeks after the murder of Samuel Paty, began demanding the criminalization of insulting Mohammed. A petition was even
launched by his fellow Imam, Ismail Abou Soumayyah insisting the government to adopt sharia blasphemy laws. The
petition has currently been signed more than 125,000 times.
Update:
French
schoolgirl, 13, admits making up story that sparked hate campaign resulting in teenage Jihadi beheading teacher Samuel
Paty. A French schoolgirl has admitted to telling lies about a teacher who was beheaded after an online hate
campaign kickstarted by her comments. The unidentified girl had claimed that high school teacher Samuel Paty showed an
image depicting the Prophet Mohammed during a lesson on free speech. She said that Paty had asked Muslim pupils to
leave the class before he showed the image, which had appeared in the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Death
to Free Speech in the Netherlands - Again. A Dutch appeals court recently upheld the conviction of Dutch
politician Geert Wilders for supposedly insulting Moroccans in comments he made at an election rally in 2014. At the same
time, however, the appeals court overturned Wilders' conviction for inciting hatred or discrimination against
Moroccans. At an election rally in The Hague in March 2014, as leader of the Partij voor de Vrijheid (Party for
Freedom), reportedly the country's most popular opposition party today, Wilders asked those present, whether they wanted
"more or fewer Moroccans?" After the crowd chanted "fewer, fewer" Wilders said, "We're going to organize that."
Wilders was prosecuted and convicted in December 2016 on two counts: First for "deliberately insulting a group of people
because of their race." Second, for "inciting hatred or discrimination against these people."
Geert
Wilders: "In My Opinion, Islam Is Not a Religion". [Scroll down] "Decades ago, a few thousand
people from Islamic countries would stay temporarily. But temporarily turned out to be permanently. Those
thousands of guest workers became hundreds of thousands. And in Europe millions of people by now. Back then those
people were called upon to integrate and assimilate. But Islam, the word says it already, seeks to dominate. Not
long ago Professor Koopmans found that as much as seventy percent of Muslims find Islamic rules more important than secular
laws. In Europe almost weekly innocent people are slaughtered in name of Allah and Islam. Proudly. We have
been declared war and we refuse to defend ourselves."
Geert
Wilders and the Real Story of the Election. Geert Wilders has fundamentally changed the conversation about Islam and immigration. [...] His
courage and common sense have made him into a world leader. Wilders had the courage to defy the assassins and murderers, the politically correct
scolds and the bleeding hearts, the pallid men and women who counsel moderation in all things and at all times, to tell the truth about Islam and Islamic
migration. That is what he will go on doing even as he lives under threat. And his courage inspires opponents of the Jihad in the Netherlands
and around the world.
Dutch
Statesman Geert Wilders: "Islam as an Ideology does not allow Freedom". Dutch politician and the odds-on
next leader of the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, recently made some stunning comments about Islam that are sure to make life
more dangerous for him than it already is. Wilders has long been a firebrand in Dutch politics, defending free speech,
renouncing the works of Islam, and calling for the Netherlands to cut ties with the tyrannical European Union (EU). He's been
arrested and forced to endure show trials for his decision to speak out against the scourge of Islam on Dutch culture. He's
survived several attempts on his life, and yet he continues to speak out in defense of the Dutch people and Western Civilization.
Fearing
a future of immigrants, robots, Dutch voters eye Geert Wilders. From the towering offices of Rotterdam's port
authority, you can watch the never-ending stream of barges begin their river journeys to the Rhine and points across Europe,
carrying everything from Chinese microwave ovens to iron ore from Brazil. Rotterdam boasts Europe's biggest port, which
depends on the globalised economy for its success and 130,000 jobs. Yet this North Sea gateway to the world is also the
birthplace of an anti-globalization, anti-immigrant and anti-Islam movement that is on course to place first in Dutch
elections on March 15.
Geert
Wilders forced to suspend campaign appearances under death threats. Some disturbing news out of the Netherlands
this week. The campaign of upstart politician and Member of Parliament Geert Wilders has suspended all public
appearances and rallies in a move which is expected to last through the election next month. Wilders has been a
constant target of threats throughout his career but now things have gotten extremely serious. A plot was uncovered
which could have placed him in extreme peril, hence this move to stay out of the public eye for a while.
Anti-Islam
leader Geert Wilders leads Dutch election polls as campaign officially kicks off today. Campaigning for the
Dutch election began on Wednesday with anti-Islam leader Geert Wilders as the frontrunner in a vote that will test the
anti-establishment sentiment that swept Britain out of the European Union and Donald Trump into the US presidency.
Wilders, a Eurosceptic, anti-immigration fan of Trump, has dubbed the March 15 parliamentary election the start of a
'Patriotic Spring' in Europe, where French and German voters go to the polls in May and September.
Anti-Islam,
Anti-Migration Wilders Widens Lead in Dutch Polls. On December 9, a panel of 3 judges in the Netherlands
convicted Geert Wilders of incitement to discrimination, and also of insulting an ethnic group. Nonetheless, the two most
recent polls show Geert Wilders, an anti-Islam, anti-migration politician far ahead of the pack.
Are
Europe's 'Extreme Right' Parties Really So Extreme? The European left — lost for so many years in a
blind, virtue-signaling multiculturalism — now has to come to grips with the fact that maybe all cultures are NOT
equal, that some cultures truly are racist, sexist, and homophobic and are governed by a religious ideology that seeks
to rule the world with no separation of mosque and state and human rights virtually non-existent, the very things the left
claims it abhors. And those same leftists don't know how to handle this contradiction. So they blame those who do
and call them neo-Nazis. Ironically, those called neo-Nazis and the like are often the most open-minded people, seeking
to preserve Europe's gift to humanity, the Enlightenment. Such a person is the extraordinary Geert Wilders, recently
found guilty of "discrimination" by a Dutch court and now the odds-on favorite to be the next prime minister of that
country. The Dutch are in many ways the most honest people in Europe. Wilders — no shrinking
violet — has already tweeted out in no uncertain terms that Angela Merkel has blood on her hands for what
transpired in Berlin. She does.
Europe's Submission.
On December 9, Geert Wilders was found guilty by a Dutch court of "incitement to anti-minority discrimination." His crime was
asking a crowd in The Hague in 2014, "Do you want more or fewer Moroccans in this city and in the Netherlands?" "Fewer,
fewer!" came the reply, to which he responded: "I'll take care of that!" That was enough to get Wilders arrested and
put on trial nine months ago, and convicted last Friday [12/9/2016]. Wilders called the verdict "madness" and promised to
fight back, but other Europeans accused of deviant thoughts are not as sanguine.
Europe: Illegal
to Criticize Islam. While Geert Wilders was being prosecuted in the Netherlands for talking about "fewer
Moroccans" during an election campaign, a state-funded watchdog group says that threatening homosexuals with burning,
decapitation and slaughter is just fine, so long as it is Muslims who are making those threats, as the Quran tells them that
such behavior is mandated.
Convicting
Geert Wilders of "speaking" seems to have backfired. The Freedom Party was already making gains in the polls before the trial and
it seems to have been a point of belief (or at least optimistic hope) among Wilders' detractors that the conviction might stall that surge and
turn their fortunes around. That obviously doesn't appear to be the case and in fact may have backfired on them in a big way.
If the number of seats his party controls rises from the modest 12 they now hold up to the high thirties or even forty, a coalition with
other similarly inclined parties could quickly evolve into the controlling force in their Parliament.
What Was Behind the Trial
of Geert Wilders? Although the gross unfairness of Geert Wilders's prosecution is clear when compared with
other Dutch politicians who have articulated far worse, there is also compelling evidence that much that is preached from the
Koran in mosques daily would clearly fall under such a definition of hate speech — also remaining curiously
outside the attention of public prosecutors. Are not elected Member of Parliament even more responsible to for the
safety of the public than are other citizens? If elected officials are criminalized for speaking out, at what point do
such restrictions start posing a national security problem?
Civilization
Death Watch: Geert Wilders Convicted of Hate Speech. As reported by the UK Telegraph, prosecutors had asked judges to fine
Wilders 5,000 euros as punishment, but Presiding Judge Hendrik Steenhuis said the court would not impose any sentence because the conviction was
punishment enough. Wilders, head of the PVV Freedom Party and invariably described in the news media as a far-rightwing politician, was not
present but his lawyer, Geert-Jan Knoops, immediately announced that there would be an appeal. The case against Wilders, which took 20 months
to come to a verdict, was built on 6,500 official complaints after he led a party rally during a local election campaign in The Hague in March 2014,
asking whether there should be "more or fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands."
Geert
Wilders Has Something to Say. A month ago, the Dutch politician Geert Wilders was considered likely to become the country's next prime
minister. On Friday [12/9/2016], he was convicted on hate-speech charges — and became slightly more likely to become the president's next prime
minister. [...] While it is worth keeping in mind that Wilders isn't a consistent defender of the free-speech rights he complains are being here
violated — he has advocated banning both the Koran and the building of new mosques in the Netherlands — the laws he has been convicted of
violating are absurd and have no place in a civilized, liberal society such as the Netherlands. They are an example of what happens when what
we call political correctness is allowed to harden into an unchallengeable orthodoxy and given the power of law. And we ought to keep in mind
that our own so-called liberals are eager to enact such "hate speech" laws, and to use them to suppress political ideas they find unpalatable.
Anti-Islam
Dutch MP Geert Wilders found guilty of hate speech. Dutch far-right wing politician Geert Wilders was today
found guilty of hate speech and inciting racial discrimination for leading a chant calling for "fewer, fewer" Moroccans in
the Netherlands. Presiding Judge Hendrik Steenhuis said the court would not impose a sentence because the conviction
was punishment enough for a democratically elected lawmaker. Prosecutors had asked judges to fine him 5,000 euros
($5,300). Wilders, head of the PVV Freedom Party, was not present to hear the judgement but his lawyer Geert-Jan Knoops
immediately issued a statement to say that he would appeal.
Wilders
unapologetic as Dutch hate speech trial ends. Populist Dutch MP Geert Wilders remained unapologetic as his hate
speech trial drew to a close on Wednesday [11/23/2016], saying "millions of Dutch citizens will be convicted with me" if he
is found guilty. Wilders, 53, who had previously shunned hearings held at a high-security courthouse near Amsterdam's
Schiphol airport, addressed a three-judge bench at the end of the three-week trial which will formally be closed on Friday.
Geert
Wilders: "We are slowly but surely losing our freedom of speech". Geert Wilders has been fined 5,000
euros for "hate speech," for daring to oppose the massive Muslim migrant influx into the Netherlands. He notes
rightly: "Speaking about one of the biggest problems of our country — the problem with Moroccans —
is now punishable, according to the elite. And, hence, we are slowly but surely losing our freedom of speech. Even
asking a question is no longer allowed. Even though millions of people agree. And Moroccans have suddenly become a
race. So if you say something about Moroccans, you are now a racist. Nobody understands that. It is utter
madness. Only meant to shut you and me up." And this large-scale endeavor to shut up all opposition is a direct
attempt to silence concerns about jihad terror and Sharia supremacism, and how Muslim migration may lead to more of both.
The political elites are becoming progressively more authoritarian in service of the Islamic supremacist agenda.
The
witch hunt against a freedom fighter continues. In March 2014, during a political rally at The Hague, Geert
Wilders asked his audience whether they wanted "more or fewer Moroccans" in The Netherlands. "Fewer, fewer," his supporters
chanted. And then he promised them that "then, we will arrange that." He meant, of course, that if his party
were to do well in the next election, he would limit the number of "Moroccans" entering the country. He did not denounce
all "Moroccans." He did not say he would be forcibly removing "Moroccans" from the country. All he did was utter
less than a dozen words, lasting less than 30 seconds. There was no ranting, no mocking of Moroccans. But
out of that briefest of exchanges with his supporters a hysterical case has been concocted by the Dutch state against Wilders,
who is now on trial, put there by those who think that his question-and-answer constituted "racism" and "discrimination" and
"hate speech." Where should we begin with this? Wilders has never made a comment on a race, though he is forever
being accused of "racism." "Moroccans" are not a "race," and it is not "racist" for a Dutch citizen to worry aloud
about the observable effect of their increasing presence in the Netherlands.
"Do
you want more or fewer Moroccans?" That question is a Crime in the Netherlands. A court in The Hague decided on October 14 that the
charges of hate speech against Dutch politician Geert Wilders, for statements he made in March 2014 at a political rally, are admissible in a court of
law. It thereby rejected the Wilders' appeal to throw out the charges as inadmissible in a court of law on the grounds that these are political
issues and that a trial would in fact amount to a political process.
No Justice in the Netherlands.
A court in The Hague decided on October 14 that the charges of hate speech against Dutch politician Geert Wilders, for
statements he made in March 2014 at a political rally, are admissible in a court of law. It thereby rejected the
Wilders' appeal to throw out the charges as inadmissible in a court of law on the grounds that these are political issues and
that a trial would in fact amount to a political process. The criminal trial against Wilders will begin on Monday,
October 31. While campaigning in The Hague in March 2014, Wilders argued the need for fewer Moroccans in the
Netherlands. At an election meeting in The Hague, he asked those present a number of questions, one of which was "Do
you want more or fewer Moroccans?" After the crowd responded "fewer" Wilders said, "We're going to organize that."
Favourite
to be next Dutch PM vows to BAN the Koran and CLOSE all mosques. Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch Freedom
Party (PVV), called for the total "de-Islamification" in a controversial manifesto posted online. The far-right MP, who
has previously compared the Koran to Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, also vowed to put an end to immigration from Islamic
countries. He would also close all Islamic schools and asylum centres, and ban Muslim women from wearing the
headscarf in public, if elected prime minister next year.
Geert
Wilders' Opening Statement in Court on Charges of 'Thought Crimes' and 'Speech Crimes'. Dutch Parliamentarian
Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom was brought to trial earlier this year on criminal charges for 'Thought
Crimes' and 'Speech Crimes.' And what did he say that warranted such charges? He stated; He and his political
party would prefer that fewer Moroccans come to the Netherlands. That's it. And just wait until you hear a small
sample of what has been said about him, which he outlines in this video. [Video clip]
Geert
Wilders: Stopping Islamic Immigration Is a Matter of Survival. While the world's population is expected to rise
by 35 percent until the middle of this century, Islam will grow with a staggering 73 percent. The consequences of
future Islamic growth are frightening. Islam is not a religion like Christianity, but rather a totalitarian political
ideology. Its goal is primarily political. Islam wants to make the whole world submit. It aims to establish a
worldwide Islamic state and bring everyone, including "infidels," such as Christians, Jews, atheists, and others, under Sharia law.
This is the barbaric Islamic law which deprives non-Muslims of all rights, treats women as inferior beings, condemns apostates and
critics of Islam to death, and condones terror. More Islam equals more violence, more intolerance, more terrorism.
Geert
Wilders: Delusional Britain Would Rather Ban Donald Trump Than Confront Unpleasant Facts. Welcome, Donald Trump, in the company of Pamela
Geller, Robert Spencer and myself. Both Pamela, Robert and myself have been banned from entering the United Kingdom. In my case, it happened
on February 12, 2009. Two highly respected members of the British House of Lords, Lady Caroline Cox and Lord Malcolm Pearson, had invited me
to show my 2008 documentary Fitna to members of the House in a conference room of the parliament building in Westminster. Fitna is a
movie, juxtaposing Koranic versed calling for violence with footage of terrorist attacks and other violent deeds these verses inspired. Fitna,
as well as my view that Islam, rather than a religion, is primarily a totalitarian political ideology aiming for world domination, has resulted in
several death threats against my person.
Islam's
War Against the Free West. I am not a President, nor a Governor, nor even a member of
Cabinet, just a member of Congress. For over ten years now, I have been living under 24/7 police
protection. I lived with my wife in army barracks, prison cells and safe houses until this very day,
just to be safe. Wherever I go, armed policemen accompany me to protect me against Islamic jihadis.
Al Qaida, the Taliban, ISIS and many others threatened to kill me because I tell the truth about Islam and
speak out against the Islamization of our free Western societies.
Geert Wilders' Courageous Journey.
Marked for Death: Islam's War against the West and Me recounts how an individual Dutchman became aware of an aggressive and
authoritarian agenda in Islam as a faith-based political ideology. Through personal travels to the Middle East and the example
of Muslim migrants who sought not to assimilate to Holland's world-renowned tolerant culture, but rather despised and sought to
dominate it, Wilders recognized the incompatibility of Islam's canonical core with a free Western civilization.
YouTube
Warned to Remove Koran Film. The government of the world's most populous Islamic state says
YouTube has two days to take down a Dutch lawmaker's provocative film on the Koran or it will block access to
the popular video-sharing Web site. The warning by Indonesia came as the U.N.'s primary human rights
watchdog ended a month-long session amid allegations by Western member-states and non-governmental
organizations that Islamic nations are working to curtail free speech.
Blasphemers,
Unite! Fitna isn't the only recent movie hard-line Islamists hope to squelch beyond their
own borders. The other is Persepolis, an animated film based on Iranian author Marjane Satrapi's
graphic novel of the same name about repression under both the Shah Reza Pahlavi and the Ayatollah Khomeini.
General Wafik Jizzini at Lebanon's Ministry of the Interior banned it because, he said, Shia officials
(read: Hezbollah) said it was offensive to Islam and — you guessed it — Iran.
The Left
and Fitna: I think Fitna is done very cleverly. It lays the full blame of
Islamic atrocities to the fount of Islam, the Koran. Anyone viewing this short movie will have no doubt
that the Islamist terrorism is the result of the Koran in action. Geert Wilders has demonstrated very
precisely what has plagued the world for many years and why the Jihadists are doing what they are doing.
The cost of
criticizing jihadists. Geert Wilders — a film producer and also a member of
parliament in the Netherlands — is facing a prison term there for "insulting" Muslims. His
short film "Fitna" in 2008 juxtaposed verses from the Koran with scenes of violence committed by jihadist
terrorists. The Dutch appellate court refused a free-speech defense because the insults were so
egregious. If convicted, Wilders faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison. Said the
defendant: "I lost my freedom already four and a half years ago in October 2004, when my 24-hour police
protection started because of threats by Muslims in Holland and abroad to kill me."
The International War
on Free Speech. Geert Wilders is a member of the Dutch Parliament and a documentary film
producer; not exactly the person one would expect to find on the front line in the battle against both
radical Islam and the Islamist assault on free speech. Yet, that is where the 45 year-old founder
of the Party for Freedom stands.
Caving
in to Islamists. Last Wednesday [1/21/2009], a Dutch court ordered the prosecution of far
right-wing Dutch MP Geert Wilders for inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims in his film, Fitna.
The three-judge appeals panel said: "The instigation of hatred in a democratic society constitutes such
a serious matter (that it is necessary) to draw a clear boundary in the public debate."
Can
the Koran be compared to 'Mein Kampf'? Last week the Amsterdam Court of Appeal ruled that the
attorney-general should bring a case against Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders. This leader of the
right-wing Freedom Party has made a number of extreme remarks about Islam and Muslims, such as calling the
Koran the "Islamic Mein Kampf" and referring to "fascist Islam." The Amsterdam court contends that these
and other such statements "affect the dignity of Muslims." The attorney-general's office had previously
concluded that these and similar remarks were not punishable.
Geert Wilders
and the Fight for Europe. Britain has just witnessed the spectacle of a duly elected
parliamentarian from another EU country, Geert Wilders of the Netherlands, being denied entry to the
country because he constituted "a threat to public policy." ... His crime is maintaining that Europe's
civilization is rooted in the values of Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, and the Enlightenment — and
not in Mecca, Baghdad, Andalusia, and al-Kods. He fights for Europe's independence from the
Caliphate and for its endangered freedoms. He had received serious death threats even before
Fitna was released.
Free Speech is Dead in England.
Freedom of speech no longer exists in the nation that gave the world the Magna Carta. It has been
replaced by Islamist tyranny. I wish I could put it less bluntly, but the facts are against me.
The British government — my government, unfortunately — has just sent a message to the
world that no longer will it stand up for First Amendment-style principles. From now on, if you don't
like what someone has to say, our surrender-monkey government is quite happy to ban them from saying it.
Provided, of course, you happen to be a Muslim.
Banning
Wilders: As everyone knows by now, [Geert] Wilders made a short film called Fitna (Struggle),
arguing in a powerful rhetorical way a causative connection between certain verses in the Koran and brutal acts
of modern terrorism. The film is uncompromising, to put it mildly; and whether or not Mr. Wilders'
interpretation of the verses is correct, few could deny that at least some Moslems have taken it to be correct.
A broad front for free
speech. Geert Wilders ... has just been denied entrance to the United Kingdom on the grounds he is an
"undesirable person." What rendered him so is his documentary, "Fitna," that lifts lines from the Koran and
cites them as the sacred justification for acts of Islamic terror. Mr. Wilders is also being prosecuted for
"hate speech" in the Netherlands on account of "Fitna." Supposedly his documentary offended the religious
sensibilities of Muslims, which is enough to get a work of intellectual expression banned in Europe.
Always be an England? Who is Geert Wilders and why should we care what
happens to him? He's a member of the Dutch parliament and a vehement critic of Islam who really knows how to rouse the
rabble. A kind of George Wallace with intellectual and artistic gifts. In short, an agitator par excellence.
Naturally his political party has grown in popularity as his countrymen react to the crimes committed in Islam's name, and
to the general wave of Muslim immigrants throughout Europe. But rather than trust to the marketplace of ideas to
counter those Mr. Wilders promotes — like a Europe without mosques — Dutch prosecutors have accused
him of "hate speech," a relatively new and conveniently elastic category of the criminal code. Shut up, they explain.
Kyl hosts
anti-Islamic Dutchman. Republican Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona is hosting a film screening at
the Capitol for a far-right Dutch lawmaker who claims that Islam inspires terrorism. Mr. Kyl is
sponsoring the Thursday event for Geert Wilders, who was denied entry to London earlier this month because
British officials said he posed a threat to public order. Mr. Wilders' 15-minute film juxtaposes
verses from the Koran with images of violence by Muslims. Mr. Wilders has called the Koran
a "fascist book" and says it should be banned.
The Next Stage. While Europe has
a high degree of tolerance for intolerant imams, it won't tolerate anyone pointing out that intolerance.
It is not necessary for Minheer Wilders to be either jailed or forced into exile to conclude that the
Netherlands, like many of its neighbors, has already conceded the key point — that Muslims now
have the exclusive right to set the parameters of public debate on Islam. And, given that they don't
regard it as debatable at all, that means that the remorseless Islamization of Europe will continue and
accelerate while the deWildered political establishment stands mute.
I Will Defend to the Death Their
Right to Silence You. According to Shariah law, it is a crime to engage in speech or writings that 'defame'
Islam or otherwise offend its followers. It is a crime, not only in Muslim states, but in Western democracies, and
may soon be coming to a city near you unless we stand up to the worldwide attacks against free speech. It appears
that some brave souls, including a U.S. Senator, are pushing back against the global effort to stifle our freedom of
expression.
Holland's Geert Wilders Fights For Free Speech.
Geert Wilders landed at London's Heathrow Airport last February 12. He was removed from a British Midlands jet
from Amsterdam that afternoon, his arms gripped by two border agents. Wilders was whisked to a holding area, confined
for three hours, and denied access to a British legislator waiting to welcome him. That evening, officials placed
Wilders on a Holland-bound jet and booted him from Britain. So, is Wilders a Guantanamo alumnus? A fugitive
financier? An Ebola-virus carrier? Hardly.
A Dutch Hero Comes to Warn Us, Seek Our Support. "I have come to warn
you of a great threat. Free speech is no longer a given, we must now battle for our birthright. We are looking
at the end of democracy, the slavery of women, the death of gays. While there might be moderate Muslims, there is no
such thing as moderate Islam. Islam is not a religion, it is a political and totalitarian ideology." Some would
say that these are fighting words. Indeed, Dutch parliamentarian, Geert Wilders, is fighting for Western liberty and
Western values, as rooted in the legacies of "Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem."
Geert Wilders, a controversial leader for an intolerant
time. In a small room in Washington's National Press Club, a tall man with bright blond hair
stands flanked by grim-faced security guards. He is here to screen a short documentary
movie — a movie that has caused him to be charged with three counts of hate speech
in his native Netherlands and to be forbidden entry into the United Kingdom only two weeks ago.
Wilders'
Defense of Free Speech. Beaumarchais' Marriage of Figaro, written at the close of the
18th century, included [a] freedom of speech monologue in Act V, Scene 3. ... Sadly, today,
over two centuries later, Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders' free speech rights are under attack in
an effort to appease the same irredentist Muslim attitudes?attitudes which are devoid of self-criticism,
and violently opposed to any criticism of Islam by non-Muslim "infidels."
Geert
Wilders leads Dutch polls. Britain's controversial ban on the anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders has
pushed his Freedom Party into the lead for the first time, according to Dutch opinion polls. Mr Wilders
has benefited from the publicity provided by Dutch and international headlines that followed a decision last
month to ban him from showing his anti-Muslim film, Fitna, in the House of Lords.
Islam Needs to Prove It's a Religion
of Peace. The film "Fitna" by Dutch parliament member Geert Wilders has created an uproar around
the world as it linked violence committed by Islamists to Islam. Many commentators and politicians —
including the British government, which denied him entry to the country last month — reflexively
accused Mr. Wilders of inciting hatred. The question, however, is whether the blame is with Mr. Wilders,
who simply exposed Islamic radicalism, or with those who promote and engage in this religious extremism.
Free Speech vs.
Islam in Europe. Free speech is no longer a given in Europe. What we once considered a natural
element of our existence, our birth right, is now something we once again have to battle for. To exercise free
speech has become a dangerous activity.
On
Trial for Telling the Truth: Free Speech vs Political Correctness. As we all know, the
bravest man in Europe is on trial for telling the truth. This matter is obscene, and, according to Bruce
Bawer, "surreal," in part because Holland prides itself on its tolerance and commitment to free speech.
The Crooked Judges of
Amsterdam: Geert Wilders's "hate speech" trial in the Netherlands began just a few weeks ago, but
the outcome already seems determined. As Robert Spencer discusses in our lead story today, the Amsterdam
District Court has refused to allow Wilders to call fifteen of the eighteen witnesses he had hoped to bring
forward in his defense.
The Railroading of Geert
Wilders: The Stalinist-show-trial aspect of the Geert Wilders "hate speech" trial in the
Netherlands was thrown into sharp relief last week when the Amsterdam District Court refused to allow
Wilders to call fifteen of the eighteen witnesses he had hoped to bring forward in his defense. Wilders
in response was characteristically direct: "This Court is not interested in the truth. This Court
doesn't want me to have a fair trial. I can't have any respect for this. This Court would not be
out of place in a dictatorship."
Who Is Behind the
Persecution of Geert Wilders? Freedom of speech in the West is threatened by the trial of Dutch
politician Geert Wilders. But both within and beyond the Netherlands, few people have noticed the
political origins of the most enthusiastic supporters of this political witch hunt.
The absurd trial of Geert
Wilders: At a certain level, the trial of Geert Wilders for the crime of "group insult" of Islam
is déjà vu all over again. For as the spokesperson for the Openbaar Ministerie put it, "It
is irrelevant whether Wilders's witnesses might prove Wilders's observations to be correct. What's relevant
is that his observations are illegal."
More Than a Hero. I said it at
the Geert Wilders event at CPAC 2009, and it is still an accurate observation: we live in such a cheap
and tawdry age that all one needs to do to be a hero is tell the truth — and yet there are so
few heroes.
Wilders' Best Witness.
As the trial of Geert Wilders for insulting Islam moves forward in the Netherlands, the one witness that could
clear him of these charges will not be called. Muhammad Taqi Usmani is a highly respected and well-known
expert on Islamic law who served for 20 years as a Sharia judge on Pakistan's Supreme Court. He is quite
possibly the world's most influential Islamist thinker and writer outside of the Middle East. ... Usmani's
interpretation of Islamic doctrine as it concerns non-believers is the same as Wilders'.
Geert Wilders on course to be next Dutch prime minister.
Municipal results announced on Thursday [3/4/2010] put his party in first place in Almere, a region
near Amsterdam and second in The Hague, one the country's largest cities and the seat of the Dutch
government. If repeated in national elections on June 9, the Freedom Party could win
27 out of 150 seats, becoming the largest single party and putting him in line to become
prime minister and form a new government.
Geert Wilders:
'The Left is facilitating Islamization'. [Scroll down] Ladies and gentlemen, I don't have
a problem and my party does not have a problem with Muslims as such. There are many moderate Muslims.
The majority of Muslims are law-abiding citizens and want to live a peaceful life as you and I do. I
know that. That is why I always make a clear distinction between the people, the Muslims, and the
ideology, between Islam and Muslims. There are many moderate Muslims, but there is no such thing as a
moderate Islam.
Fox
News Rebukes Wilders and Anti-Islamization. When Glenn Beck, Charles Krauthammer and Bill Kristol,
each from their respective Fox News perches, branded Dutch political phenom Geert Wilders as beyond the political
pale, it was shocking and outrageous for several reasons. One: I've grown used to Fox News and all
other media ignoring not just the Wilders story but also the cultural story of the century, the Islamization of
Europe. Something Wilders, a great admirer of Ronald Reagan and a committed supporter of Israel, is
dedicated to halting and reversing.
The Anti-Fascist.
At a time when President Obama insists that the most pressing threat facing America is the growing cost of
health care, a recent speech in Britain's House of Lords by Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders is a salutary
reminder of what is really endangering us all: The rising tide of Islamic supremacism codified by
authoritative Islam in the brutally repressive law of Shariah — the law of Saudi Arabia and Iran
among other Islamic states.
Geert
Wilders trial suspended after he attacks judge. Mr Wilders faces five charges of inciting racial
hatred between Oct 2006 and Mar 2008. If found guilty, Mr Wilders faces over a year in prison or a
£6,600 fine. Speaking at his trial yesterday, Mr Wilders said: "I am sitting here as a
suspect because I have spoken nothing but the truth. I have said what I have said and I will not take one
word back." Throwing down an open challenge to the court, Mr Wilders, 47, attacked the three judges
sitting in the Amsterdam court for prosecuting him for "stating my opinion in the context of public debate".
"I can assure you, I will continue proclaiming it," he said.
Dutch Courage, Liberal
Cowardice. As a parable on the cluelessness of the liberal commentariat about the threat of
Islamic extremism, Slate magazine's feature "explaining" why the Netherlands is supposedly more
"anti-Islam" than other nations is hard to top. The idea that Holland is uniquely given to "Muslim
bashing," as Slate's headline writers put it, is itself highly suspect. Even the most of prominent
of the Dutch Muslim "bashers," Dutch politician and provocateur Geert Wilders, who went on trial this week for
the ludicrous charge of insulting Islam and inciting discrimination against Muslims, has taken pains to
differentiate between Islam as a militant ideology and its many peaceful Muslim followers.
Wilders's
Anti — Islam Film Screened In Dutch Court. The hate trial of Dutch anti-Islamist
politician Geert Wilders, who will have a powerful shadow role in the Dutch government, resumed on
Wednesday [10/6/2010] with a showing of his controversial film that criticises the Koran.
Why Americans Need to
Support Geert. [Geert] Wilders is far from a household name, but many know him as the man who
equates the Holy Qu'ran to Hitler's Mein Kampf and says that it too should be banned in his country;
who emphasized this point by producing a seventeen-minute film called Fitna, which paired images of
violent jihad with direct quotes from the Qu'ran; and, most recently, who gave a speech in New York City on
September 11 against the planned Cordoba House Islamic center at Ground Zero.
Dutch
MP not guilty on religious hatred charge: prosecution. Dutch prosecutors sought the acquittal
Friday [10/15/2010] of anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders on a charge of inciting hatred against Muslims, saying it was not a
crime to criticise religion. "Criticism (of religion) is allowed as long as it does not lead to incitement
of hatred against people," prosecutor Birgit van Roessel told the Amsterdam district court.
Wilders not guilty
on all counts. The public prosecution department on Friday afternoon [10/15/2010] stated that Geert
Wilders is not guilty of discriminating against Muslims. Earlier on Friday it announced he should also
be found not guilty of inciting hatred.
Geert Wilders and the
Rise of Islamic Correctness. Islamic correctness, which criminalizes any criticism of Islam,
is a rising force in the world, and not merely in Muslim-majority countries. Even in traditionally
tolerant Holland, a combination of misguided liberal multiculturalism and a fear of violence from immigrants
has led to a sometimes farcical prosecution. This past Friday (10/15/10), Dutch prosecutors asked the
presiding judges to acquit Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders on all charges of inciting hate and discrimination
arising from his comments on Islam.
Judges
in Geert Wilders' Free Speech Case Removed from Trial. An expert witness claimed the higher
court judge who ordered the prosecution of Wilders discussed the case with him at a dinner party. The
dismissed judges would not allow the expert witness to testify on this.
The Lost Cause Against
Wilders. When even the prosecution calls for a defendant's acquittal and the trial judges have been
disqualified for the appearance of bias, maybe it's time to drop the charges. Rather than a retrial, a
dismissal would be the best outcome in the case of Geert Wilders, the Dutch lawmaker accused of insulting and
inciting hatred against Muslims.
Geert
Wilders to face trial. Geert Wilders, the far-Right Dutch MP will face trial on charges of incited hatred
and discriminations against Muslims, after a judge rejected a request to dismiss the case.
The
Freeing Of Geert Wilders. The acquittal, on hate-speech charges, of the Dutch politician who spoke
the truth about Islamofascism is a victory for freedom and free speech.
Geert
Wilders Verdict: Not Guilty All Counts! The judges have delivered their verdict in the heresy
trial of Dutch freedom politician Geert Wilders for inciting hatred against Muslims. Not guilty of all
charges of inciting hatred against Muslims. When do the Islamic supremacists go on trial for inciting
hatred against non-Muslims?
Wilders: Resisting threat of fanatical
Islam. As I write these lines, there are police bodyguards at the door. No visitor can enter my office without
passing through several security checks and metal detectors. I have been marked for death. I am forced to live in a heavily
protected safe house. Every morning, I am driven to my office in the Dutch Parliament building in an armored car with sirens and
flashing blue lights. When I go out, I am surrounded, as I have been for the past seven years, by plainclothes police officers.
When I speak in public, I wear a bulletproof jacket. Who am I? I am neither a king nor a president, nor even a government
minister; I am just a simple politician in the Netherlands. But because I speak out against expanding Islamic influence in
Europe, I have been marked for death. If you criticize Islam, this is the risk you run.
The Spirit of Geert Wilders.
It is not easy to be Geert Wilders. He has spent almost a decade in a strange, claustrophobic, transient, and tenuous existence little
different from kidnap victims or, in his words, a political prisoner. He is under round-the-clock guard because of explicit threats to
murder him by Muslim extremists. Yet he's the one who gets put on trial for incitement.
Frank
Talk About Islamic Law? Blasphemy! This month, American-liberated Halabja made headlines
as the site of the court that sentenced a Kurdish author in absentia to six months in prison for blasphemy:
namely, for writing in a book that Mohammed had 19 wives, married a 9-year-old when he was 54, and
took part in murder and rape. (These points, Robert Spencer notes at jihadwatch.com, "can be readily
established from early texts written by pious Muslims.") The author, Mariwan Halabjaee, who has
asylum in Norway, says there's also a fatwa calling for his death unless he asks forgiveness.
Islamist
terrorists rebranded as 'criminals'. Islamist terrorists have been rebranded as "criminals" in a
new guidebook for ministers and civil servants to help them talk about terrorism without offending Muslims.
The book has been issued to all government departments and says that people should no longer refer to Islamist
extremism or jihadi fundamentalism. Instead, they should refer to violent extremism and criminal
murderers or thugs to avoid any implication that there is an explicit link between Islam and terrorism.
Muslim medical students get
picky. Some Muslim medical students are refusing to attend lectures or answer exam questions on
alcohol-related or sexually transmitted diseases because they claim it offends their religious beliefs.
Some trainee doctors say learning to treat the diseases conflicts with their faith, which states that Muslims
should not drink alcohol and rejects sexual promiscuity. A small number of Muslim medical students have
even refused to treat patients of the opposite sex.
CAIR Views
Conservative Commentary as 'Incitement'. An Islamic advocacy group is urging its supporters to
call a Washington, D.C., radio station to "express your concerns about the Islamophobic attitudes" expressed by
conservative columnist and author Cal Thomas. In a commentary on news-talk WTOP radio Monday morning,
Thomas discussed the car-bomb terror attacks recently thwarted in the United Kingdom. The eight Muslims
arrested in connection with the plot include several physicians.
LAPD plan draws ire from Muslims.
A counterterrorism project in Los Angeles that would collect information about Muslim neighborhoods is drawing
outrage from Islamic groups and civil libertarians who say it unjustly singles out residents based on faith
and could lead to unconstitutional police tactics. The groups complain that the Los Angeles Police
Department's "community mapping" project, which aims to prevent radicalization and homegrown terrorism,
unfairly brings suspicion on Muslims.
Indonesian Muslims banned
from practicing yoga. Muslims in Indonesia are banned from practicing yoga that contains Hindu
rituals like chanting, the country's top Islamic body said Monday, echoing concerns by some religious groups
elsewhere about its effect on their faith. Though not legally binding, most devout Muslims will likely
adhere to the ruling because ignoring a fatwa, or religious decree, is considered a sin.
The yoga
fatwa. Recently I read that Indonesia's top Islamic body has banned yoga for the country's Muslims,
claiming that the ancient Hindu practice could corrupt the purity of the faith. Similar rulings were handed
down in Malaysia and Egypt last year. As strict religious edicts go, banning yoga isn't up there with honor
killings or acid attacks. But it sure is another reason to love America.
Gillian Gibbons and the teddy bear named Mohammed:
British Teacher Faces 40 Lashes for
Naming Class Teddy Bear 'Muhammad'. A British primary school teacher arrested in Sudan
faces up to 40 lashes for blasphemy after letting her class of 7-year-olds name a teddy bear
Muhammad. Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was arrested at at Khartoum's Unity High School
yesterday [11/25/2007], and accused of insulting the Prophet of Islam.
Update:
Teddy
bear teacher found guilty. A British teacher was found guilty Thursday [11/29/2007] of inciting
religious hatred for allowing her class of 7-year-olds to name a teddy bear Muhammad. Gillian Gibbons,
54, could have been sentenced to 40 lashes or six months in jail. But the Sudanese court instead
ordered her to serve 15 days behind bars.
Teacher Hidden As Sudan
Mob Urges Death. Thousands of Sudanese, many armed with clubs and swords and beating drums,
burned pictures of a British teacher Friday and demanded her execution for insulting Islam by letting her
students name a teddy bear Muhammad.
Thousands in Sudan Call for British Teddy Bear
Teacher's Execution. Thousands of Sudanese, many armed with clubs and knives, rallied Friday
[11/30/2007] in a central square and demanded the execution of a British teacher convicted of insulting Islam
for allowing her students to name a teddy bear "Muhammad."
Teddy Bear Case Exposes
Failure of American Feminist Leaders. During the past 14 years at
least,
we've all been exposed to the literal madness of Islamic fundamentalism.
We've seen the curtain pulled back on how craven American leftists can be as well. Yes,
it took a teddy bear to highlight more clearly than ever the psychosis of the enemy, and the
failure of the feminist establishment. There has been appropriate international outrage
over the treatment of [Gillian] Gibbons, from virtually everyone except American "feminists."
Of Teddy Bears
and Cartoons: [Scroll down] The teacher, Gillian Gibbons, has been pardoned by Sudan's president
(after initially being sentenced to 15 days in prison) and sent home to England. Yet that happy
ending doesn't erase the reaction in the streets of Khartoum. The tired story behind irrational anger in
much of the Muslim world remains the same. Watch out if Westerners somewhere are judged blasphemous to
Islam when they draw a cartoon, write a novel, make a movie or discuss history.
Dutch
cartoonist arrested on suspicion of violating hate speech laws. A Dutch political cartoonist was
arrested this week on suspicion of insulting people because of their race or religion through his work,
authorities said Friday [5/16/2008]. The cartoonist, who works under the pseudonym Gregorius Nekschot,
was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of violating hate speech laws
.
British Teacher Jailed for
'Muhammad' Teddy Bear Leaves Sudan. A British teacher jailed for insulting
Islam after she allowed her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad flew home Monday after
Sudan's president pardoned her, a British embassy spokesman said.
The
teddy-bear teacher and Labour's spineless response to a rogue state: The case of
Gillian Gibbons, the British teacher jailed in Sudan after her pupils named their class teddy-bear
Mohammed, has shown up once again the spinelessness of the Foreign Office which has turned Britain
into an international laughing stock.
Sudanese
teddy saga lays bare Islamic inferiority complex. That the British teacher Gillian Gibbons
required a presidential pardon to avoid 15 days' imprisonment in Sudan for blasphemy over the naming of a
teddy bear surely represents the high watermark of absurdity in relations between the Muslim and Western
worlds. Even Samuel Huntington, as he theorised of an impending clash of civilisations late last
century, could not have foreseen an odyssey so surreal.
A
Lash of Civilizations: Why Sudan Could Not Bear Gillian Gibbons. When Gillian Gibbons set
out to have her class of 7-year-olds name a teddy bear I am certain that she did not have in mind seeing the
inside of a Sudanese prison. Yet this is precisely what happened to Ms. Gibbons when her class named the
bear Muhammad and then wrote a journal about him. When the children told their parents about the
assignment they were aghast and reported Ms. Gibbons to the authorities. Never mind that those same
parents saw fit to name their sons Muhammad.
Why
Does Islam Fall Prey to Radicalism? Apparently not satisfied with last year's worldwide riots
over the infamous Muhammad cartoons and the multiple videos of Islamist beheadings — not to mention
the genocide of non-Muslims that is still being perpetrated in the Darfur area of Sudan — the radical
portions of the Muslim word are at it once again. As these types of extraordinarily brutal, sadistic
and bizarre behaviors do not occur within the Jewish or Christian communities of the world, I believe that I
must ask: what is it about Islam that encourages such a radical interpretation of its teachings?
First, they
came for Piglet. Just for the record, it's true that Muslims, like Jews, are not partial
to bacon and sausages. But the Quran has nothing to say about cartoon pigs. Likewise, it is
silent on the matter of whether one can name a teddy bear after Muhammad. What all these stories
have in common is the excessive deference to Islam. If "The Three Little Pigs" are
verboten when Muslims do not yet comprise 10 percent of the British population, what else
will be on the blacklist by the time they're, say, 20 percent?
Outlawing
the Pig: The practice of political correctness may soon be tallying another casualty: the pig.
Increasingly, as America and the rest of the Western world continue accommodating Muslim religious demands, pork
food products are being singled out for removal from dining tables and pig-related trinkets banished from the
desks of office workers.
The appeasement continues ...
Hospital
Defends Plans to Turn Patients' Beds to Face Mecca. A hospital in northern England is playing down
media reports saying that nurses have been ordered to stop normal duties five times a day to turn Muslim
patients' beds so that they face Mecca.
FBI's release of ferry
passenger photos resented. The FBI's release of photographs of two men of unknown origin, who
the agency says were observed acting suspiciously aboard as many as six different Washington ferry routes in
recent weeks, is creating new worries in the community. Muslim- and Arab-American leaders are upset that
the FBI didn't consult them — as it has done in other instances — before releasing the
photos on the Internet and to news organizations.
Debate Swirls
Around 2 Men on a Ferry. Earlier this summer a concerned crew member of a Washington State ferry
boat snapped pictures of two men who had raised suspicions on several ferry rides by asking questions about
structural details and entering areas of the boats that are off limits. Now, after the Federal Bureau of
Investigation released two photographs of the men to the public with the goal of identifying them, a debate
has erupted over alleged racial profiling
.
Violence fear
over Islam film. The Dutch government is bracing itself for violent protests following the
scheduled broadcast this week of a provocative anti-Muslim film by a radical right-wing politician who has
threatened to broadcast images of the Koran being torn up and otherwise desecrated.
[Newspapers occasionally point out a "right-wing" politician, but somehow they never
see a "left-wing" politician.]
Anger Rises Over Rumors Of School Nixing
Halloween. Parents in Oak Lawn sounded off Tuesday night [10/2/2007] about what they see as an
assault on traditional American celebrations. At issue is whether Halloween and Christmas celebrations
are insensitive to school children who are Muslim.
Christians
Under Attack by Government School Bureaucrats. Oak Lawn, Illinois, school kids are going to have
to do without Halloween, Christmas and Easter activities thanks to the sensitive bureaucrats who fear offending
Muslims. The schools' administrators claim they've received a number complaints that the activities are
offensive, particularly to Muslim students.
Observers say they expect that this latest announcement is
going to increase the tension that has been building since school officials agreed at the start of the school
year to adjust the students' lunch menu to exclude items containing pork to accommodate the Muslim students.
Bringing home the
bacon-controversy explanation. If there is no directive against touching pork, then why in the
world is a Muslim cashier refusing to scan a package of bacon? … Handle the package of bacon by the
shrink-wrapped, double-sealed, triple-glazed hermetically encapsulated cardboard corner and
slide it across the scanner. There. The price gets registered, and you haven't
touched any pork. … This is America. We get inventive. And we get inventive in order
to keep things moving along. That's the way we do business. Please join us.
Twin Cities / Target transfers
Muslim cashiers. Muslim cashiers at some local Target stores who object to ringing up products
that contain pork are being shifted to other positions where they don't need to, the discount retailer said
Saturday [3/17/2007].
Muslims draft complaint
against Swift meatpacking plant. Tension came to a head at a Grand Island meatpacking
plant in June, when Jama Mohamed said his desire for 10 minutes to pray at sunset was met
with shouting. After he left the production line and began praying, Mohamed said, supervisors
took his prayer mat, pulled him up by his collar and sent him crying to a lead supervisor, who
fired him.
Muslims
get the Last Laugh at Swift Plant. This appears to be what is the final follow up on the story of
the Muslims at Swift Plant who demanded extra break times to pray for the month of Ramadan. After a back
and forth struggle which saw about 100 Muslims being fired, Swift will be paying the Muslims hundreds of
thousands of dollars. They were even fined for having Muslims sign a contract saying that they would be
willing to handle pork, which is considered haraam in Islam or forbidden. So now we see that employers
cannot even defend themselves in advance by asking Muslims if they will handle pork.
Flying Imams Revisited:
[Minneapolis Airport's] Muslim cabbies refused to transport any passenger fares who had packed sealed alcoholic
products in their luggage. Other Muslim taxi drivers at the airport also refused to transport passengers
with dogs — including guide dogs. Muslims consider not only pork to be unclean, but dogs also.
Cabs refusing blind
passengers. Taxi drivers are regularly refusing to carry blind passengers with guide
dogs — including Australia's Human Rights Commissioner.
He has been told on a number of
occasions that it would be against a driver's religion to allow a dog in the cab.
Lamest excuse ever:
Stereotyping
is leading to terror, says first Muslim Miss England. The first Muslim to be crowned Miss England
has warned that stereotyping members of her community is leading some towards extremism.
Moderate Terrorists: "The
first Muslim to be crowned Miss England has warned that stereotyping members of her community is
leading some towards extremism," reports London's Daily Mail … So let's see if we follow
this argument. According to [Miss England, Hammasa] Kohistani, Muslims are so thin-skinned and so violent
that they respond to prejudice with terrorism. Um, isn't that an invidious stereotype?
Second lamest excuse ever:
Mohammed cartoons
'sparked bomb plot'. The publication of caricatures depicting the Prophet Mohammed was the
trigger for a failed attempt to bomb passenger trains in Germany, police have concluded.
The Ham Sandwich Hate Crime?
When is a failure to respect the deep religious beliefs of a group regarded as a hate crime? In the state of
Maine, we have an answer, one that ought to provoke outrage. In today's America, some groups are more equal
than others, and media and local authorities seem unified in accepting this as fair, just, and normal.
Muslim
prisoners sue for millions after they were offered ham sandwiches for Ramadan. Scores of Muslim
inmates at a high security prison are set to launch a multi-million pound claim for compensation after they
were offered ham sandwiches during the holy month of Ramadan. They say their human rights were breached
when they were given a special nightly menu — drawn up to recognise their specific dietary
requirements — by officers at HMP Leeds last month.
Outrage
as Australian Leaders Tell Muslims to Fit In. Australian Muslim representatives are voicing
outrage at comments by the country's two top politicians, who urged immigrants from Islamic societies to
fit in, learn English, treat women with respect, and shun extremism. An Islamic leader warned
that the remarks could antagonize Muslims….
Dress "offensive"
to Islam. Twenty-three-year-old journalist Latika Bourke was verbally attacked by a group of
Muslim men outside a Sydney mosque because of her dress. "This young man approached me and said:
'You should be wearing more clothes. You need to cover up, you mutt'," Ms Bourke, who works for
2UE Radio, recounted.
["Mutt?" That's a new one.]
Iraq's Beauty Queen Resigns After
Four Days. Iraq's newly crowned beauty queen, Tamar Goregian, has decided to step
down — just four days after her election, making this the shortest reign in the pageant's
60-year history. On April 9, [she] announced her resignation after receiving threats by a
group of religious extremists who referred to her as "the queen of infidels" for participating
in the contest.
Islam's Ugly Assault on Beauty: The
collapse of the Miss World pageant in Nigeria is an important case study in the menace posed by Islamic
fundamentalism — and the craven appeasement of Islam by the West.
Muslim world inflamed by Rushdie
knighthood. Sir Salman Rushdie celebrates his 60th birthday today in familiar circumstances:
he is once again the subject of death threats across the Islamic world. Eighteen years after the Ayatollah
Khomeini issued a fatwa calling on Muslims to kill him, a government minister in Pakistan said yesterday that
Rushdie's recent knighthood justified suicide bombing.
Give them an inch and they will demand a mile.
Imposing Islamic law:
Maybe I should start by explaining it was the old school tie that came to mind first in the form of a new
publication on British education: namely, a 72-page manifesto (sorry, "guidance") from the Muslim
Council of Britain (MCB) on how British state schools might better accommodate children from the Muslim
community, which, according to the 2001 census, makes up 2.7 percent of the British population. Did
I say "better" accommodate their Muslim pupils? I mean, much, much better accommodate them.
Elementary School Scraps Nature Course As Pigs Enrage
Muslim Pupils. Alderman Lodewijk Asscher … told newspaper De Volkskrant: "A primary
school in Amsterdam-Noord has decided no longer to teach about living on a farm. Various pupils began
to demolish the classroom when the pig came up for discussion."
Will Saudis Ban the Letter 'X'? The letter "X"
soon may be banned in Saudi Arabia because it resembles the mother of all banned religious symbols in the oil
kingdom: the cross. The new development came with the issuing of another mind-bending fatwa, or
religious edict, by the infamous Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.
Don't stare at Muslims says
advice to schools. Pupils and teachers have been told by an official body not to stare at Muslims
for fear of causing offence. A document intended to educate against religious intolerance and sectarianism
urges teachers to "make pupils aware of the various forms of Islamophobia, ie stares, verbal abuse, physical
abuse".
Muslim pupils kill
teacher. Muslim pupils at a secondary school in northeastern Nigeria beat a teacher
to death today after accusing her of desecrating the Koran. Oluwatoyin Olusase, a Christian,
was adjudicating an Islamic Religious Knowledge exam at the school in Gombe state when the incident
occurred.
Stewardess 'banned
from taking bible on plane'. An air stewardess is claiming religious discrimination against an
airline which she says banned her from taking the Bible to Saudi Arabia. The stewardess has been told by
BMI that it is against the law of the insular Middle Eastern country to bring in religious books other than
the Koran.
Saudi
Police Ban Sale Of Cats And Dogs. Saudi Arabia's religious police, normally tasked with chiding
women to cover themselves and ensuring that men attend mosque prayers, are turning to a new target: cats
and dogs. The police have issued a decree banning the sale of the pets, which are seen as a sign of
Western influence.
Has the
UK Taken Political Correctness Too Far? Exiting Paddington Station
and walking along Edgware Road is like a trip to Baghdad. Middle Eastern men
linger outside small cafes playing checkers and smoking fragrant tobacco from large
hookahs. A quick move south into Hyde Park reveals numerous Muslim men and their
families. On Sundays the preachers of hate rant at Speaker's Corner. Approximately
15,000 radical Islamic fanatics are imbedded within this influx of residents and visitors
to London.
Two Somalis Killed for Watching World
Cup. Hard-line Muslim fighters, who have banned watching television, opened fire after a crowd
of teenagers defied their orders to leave a hall where a businessman was showing Tuesday's Germany-Italy match
on satellite television, according to Shabelle Radio, an independent local station. It said the
businessman and a teenage girl were killed. Hard-line Muslim fighters, who wrested control of the
Somali capital from warlords in June, have forbidden people from watching television or movies in line
with their strict interpretation of Islam.
The Flight 93 Memorial is a Mosque, Celebrating the Crash.
The original Crescent of Embrace design for the Flight 93 memorial (left) was laid out in the configuration of an Islamic crescent and star
flag (right). The crash site sits between the tips of the giant crescent, in the position of the star on an Islamic flag.
Crescent of Betrayal: A book by Alec Rawls, about the terrorist memorial mosque now
being built in Pennsylvania.
Lawmaker
Blasted as 'Islamophobic' for Criticizing Memorial Design. An Islamic advocacy group is
blasting a U.S. lawmaker for his "Islamophic" comments on the design of a memorial to the 40 people who
died when Flight 93 crashed in a Pennsylvania farm field on Sept. 11, 2001.
Editor's Note: Where do the
Islamic "advocacy groups" find the unmitigated audacity to suggest that they are the
victims of an attack perpetrated entirely by Islamic terrorists?
Myth of the Muslim
Hate Crime Epidemic: Do you believe that a "post-September 11 backlash" has
resulted in a nationwide wave of violence and bigotry against Muslims in America? The hype
artists and book-cookers at the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) want
you to think so.
Muslims offended by 5th Avenue Apple
store. 5th Avenue Apple Store and Ka'baA Middle East research organization reports that Apple's
flagship retail store on 5th Avenue in midtown Manhattan is offensive to Muslims. … The report by The
Middle East Media Research Institute, a 501(c)3 organization based in Washington, D.C., states that some
Islamic Web sites take exception to Apple's cube-shaped building design and that it "constitutes a blatant
insult to Islam." The reason? Because the building resembles the Ka'ba in Mecca….
In England:
Teachers
drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims. Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons
to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Government backed study has revealed. It found some teachers are reluctant
to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial. There is also
resistance to tackling the 11th century Crusades — where Christians fought Muslim armies for control
of Jerusalem — because lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques.
Italian
author to be tried for defaming Islam. Muslim activist Adel Smith filed a lawsuit against
[journalist Oriana] Fallaci, charging that some passages in her book, "The Strength of Reason," were
offensive to Islam.
PC Primary School Puppies.
The latest example of just how strong the political correctness movement is in Great Britain has surfaced in
Huddlesfield. Primary (elementary) school aged children were scheduled to perform "Three Little Pigs" at
the Kirklees Primary Musical Festival in June , but because the organizers feared offending Muslims
they changed the play to the "Three Little Puppies".
School Changes Name of Play to 'Three Little
Puppies' to Avoid Offending Muslims. [We can't even say "Pigs" any more?]
Speaking of pigs...
Piglet keeps Winnie the Pooh off the
air. Turkey's public television TRT, controlled by the Islamist-rooted government, has barred the
popular Walt Disney cartoon Winnie the Pooh from air because it has a piglet as one of its main heroes, the
Turkish press reported today. … Pigs are regarded as unclean by Muslims and Islam prohibits the
consumption of pork.
The Editor says...
I guess Porky Pig is out, too, along with his girlfriend, Petunia. Not to mention
Miss Piggy from the Muppets. And then there's Hamm, the talking piggy bank in
Toy Story.
The more we
appease, the more they demand. Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council has now announced that,
following a complaint by a Muslim employee, all work pictures and knick-knacks of novelty pigs and "pig-related
items" will be banned. Among the verboten items is one employee's box of tissues, because it features a
representation of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. And, as we know, Muslims regard pigs as "unclean", even
an anthropomorphised cartoon pig wearing a scarf and a bright, colourful singlet.
Update:
Turkish TV denies piglet ban. Turkey's
public broadcaster has denied reports that it has banned the popular Walt Disney cartoon "Winnie the Pooh"
because one of the main characters in the show is a piglet.
This is even more ridiculous than the objections
to Speedy Gonzales. But
wait — there's more!
Pinocchio and friends
converted to Islam. Pinocchio, Tom Sawyer and other characters have been converted to Islam in
new versions of 100 classic stories on the Turkish school curriculum. "Give me some bread, for Allah's
sake," Pinocchio says to Geppetto, his maker, in a book stamped with the crest of the ministry of
education. "Thanks be to Allah," the puppet says later.
"Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be
put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There
are no jokes in Islam. There is no humour in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun or
joy in whatever is serious."
AG files civil rights charges
in Lewiston mosque incident. A second legal complaint filed against the man accused of rolling
a frozen pig's head into a Lewiston mosque is raising the question: Will there be a
third? … Federal hate crime prosecutions in Maine are rare, but Abdi Sheikh was hopeful
that an FBI investigation into the mosque incident would lead the U.S. Attorney in Portland
to press charges.
[Muslims are quick to rely on the protection of the US government, even after declaring
a holy war on this country.]
Houston suburb in dispute over mosque
plan. A plan to build a mosque in this Houston suburb has triggered a neighborhood dispute, with
community members warning the place will become a terrorist hotbed and one man threatening to hold pig races
on Fridays just to offend the Muslims.
Update:
Muslim group not offended as Katy pig races
start. A Muslim group said it is no longer offended as Katy resident Craig Baker made good on his
promise to stage Friday pig races next door to an 11-acre property the group has purchased to build a mosque.
... About 100 people showed up for the event in the pouring rain.
The Editor says...
There is no need to be intentionally offensive to people just because their way of life is
different from our own. But it's hard to resist being spiteful to people who live in
this country and enjoy its benefits and freedoms even after they have declared a "holy war"
against us. If we make them uncomfortable, will they leave? Probably not.
Muslims are offended by the Pope
I'm not a Catholic, but really, the Pope seems like the most mild-mannered guy in the world, and
his recent comments about Islam sounded perfectly sensible to me.
We
are in a war to the death — craven concessions won't win it. The argument that the
Islamic religion is inherently violent, which the Pope was thought to have supported in his Regensburg lecture,
is academic, in both the literal and metaphorical senses. What matters for us now is that a great many
Muslims — including some enthusiastic converts who cannot even lay claim to a life history of
persecution or injustice for their beliefs — are prepared to use their religious affiliation as a
justification to commit mass murder.
Muslim states denounce pope over
remarks. Across the Islamic world yesterday, Benedict's remarks on Islam and jihad in a speech
in Germany unleashed a torrent of rage that united Shi'ites and Sunnis and threatened to burst into violent
protests like those that followed publication of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad.
[That would be real news except that the Muslims were already about to "burst into violent
protests" about something.]
Somali
cleric calls for pope's death. A prominent Somali cleric has called for Pope Benedict to be
hunted down and killed by the nearest Muslim.
This
Just In: Muslims Furious.
At least they're just asking ... so far.
Pope asked to convert to
Islam. The elder son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has called on Pope Benedict XVI to
convert to Islam immediately, dismissing last week's apology from the pontiff for offending Muslims.
[At that point, it might be necessary to ask, "Is the Pope Catholic?"]
We're already living under Muslim
law. Boy, it sure seems that the old religion of peace, Islam, is up to no good, again, what with
their latest fatwa on the Pope and our strong suspicions about having a few of their ardent adherents mow
down a nun by shooting her four times in the back.
Muslim anger spreads to South
Asia. Extremists called yesterday [9/18/2006] for an Islamic army to march on Rome because of
remarks by Pope Benedict XVI, while a well-known Muslim firebrand said in London that the pontiff should
face "capital punishment." … In London, police increased patrols near churches and began an inquiry into
remarks by Anjem Choudhary, a well-known extremist who had called at a rally outside Westminster Cathedral on
Sunday [9/17/2006] for the pope to be "executed."
Iraq al-Qaida Says Pope, West Are
Doomed. The Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization of Sunni Arab extremist groups
that includes al-Qaida in Iraq, issued a statement on a Web forum vowing to continue its holy war against the
West. … "We will break up the cross, spill the liquor and impose head tax, then the only thing
acceptable is a conversion (to Islam) or (killed by) the sword."
The Unholy Alliance Rolls Over the
Pope. Benedict's speech is a work of enlightened genius. He has clearly laid out the
differences between Christian culture and Islamic culture and the basis of the clash of civilizations we
now experience as the War on Terror. … Islamist reaction focuses on one sentence in the speech.
Reaching back to 1391, Benedict quotes Byzantine Emperor Manuel II: "Show me just what Mohammed
brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread
by the sword the faith he preached."
A pattern of
violence and extremism. It was said after the Holocaust by those who believed in freedom,
decency and tolerance that, "We are all Jews now." After the events of the past week it is now time for
those who still believe in these virtues, irrespective of religion or race, to stand up and proudly
announce, "We are all Catholics now."
Perpetual rage
machine. The perpetually outraged motion machine that exists in the contemporary Arab-Muslim
world, fuelled by toxic fumes of indiscriminate anger and hate, is once again in rage over references to
Islam made by Pope Benedict XVI.
The Wisdom of
Benedict XVI. Contrary to his detractors, the pope is dealing in the real world. The leader
of the world's most ancient institution, one with an unbroken continuity that spans over two millennia, and a
memory to match, took a stand with his report of the dialogue between Byzantine Emperor Manuel II and
an "educated Persian" on he subject of Islam and jihad.
Mum's the Word, Lest We Provoke a
Lethal Tantrum. Clip and save, for this may come in handy: If you mock Islam with a drawing
or a novel, you get riots and dead people. News of mishandled holy books yields riots and dead people.
Insufficiently reverent short films by a Dutchman yields a dead person, specifically the Dutchman. Now we
add this detail: Quoting medieval religious colloquies is a reasonable justification for burning churches,
shooting a nun and holding up signs demanding that the pope convert to Islam or saw off his own head.
The Editor says...
If there is one word that sums up radical Islam, it is "unreasonable". Islamists
just don't seem to understand reasonableness the way the rest of us do. They will
not listen to reason, and they won't tolerate reasoned criticism.
Tolerance: A
Two-Way Street. In London, the ever-dependable radical Anjem Choudary tells demonstrators at
Westminster Cathedral that the pope is now condemned to death. In Mogadishu, Somali religious leader
Abubukar Hassan Malin calls on Muslims to "hunt down" the pope. The pope not being quite at hand, they
do the next best thing: shoot dead, execution-style, an Italian nun who worked in a children's
hospital. "How dare you say Islam is a violent religion? I'll kill you for it" is not exactly
the best way to go about refuting the charge.
A Time to Speak Out.
French philosophy teacher Robert Redeker published an article in which he characterized the Muslim prophet
Muhammad as "a merciless war chief, plunderer, slaughterer of Jews and a polygamist." Quickly he was forced
into hiding by death threats, despite the fact that many Muslims around the world seem to agree, unapologetically,
that Muhammad was just those things, as I illustrated in a recent article.
The Islamic World Owes an
Apology. One remark from the Pope brought forth an orgy of verbal violence and threat from the
Islamic world. But the Pope's scholarly discourse, however insulting it may have been interpreted to be
by Muslims, pales in comparison with the kind, scope and frequency of the verbal violence that are heaped each
day upon Jews and Israel in the Islamic world.
What Is 'Islamofascism'? "Islamic
fascists" — used by President George W. Bush for the conspirators in the alleged trans-Atlantic airline
bombing plot — and references by other prominent figures to "Islamofascism," have been met by protests from
Muslims who say the term is an insult to their religion.
Criticism of Islam is forbidden in some places
Or it will be soon.
British
Cops Arrest A Man For Posting He Doesn't Like Palestinian Flags On Social Media.
British patriot does not want to see Palestine flags in his city and writes so on his social
media. Shortly afterward, at 4 am, British police broke into his house and arrested
him. [Video clip]
Trial
opens in France in the beheading of a teacher over prophet cartoons. The trial of
eight people in Paris on terrorism charges started on Monday over the beheading of teacher Samuel
Paty, who was killed by an Islamic extremist after showing caricatures of Islam's prophet to his
middle school students for a lesson on freedom of expression.
Masochistic
Fatalism in Times of Challenge. The truth is that Westerners, stuck in melancholic
self-doubt and victims of secular desperation, take the end of their civilization for
granted. Instead of fighting for human freedom and dignity, they are busy negotiating the
conditions of their surrender. Without any (a) experience of something greater in life than
themselves, (b) historical insight, and (c) intellectual-moral self-discipline, they
no longer know who they are, they have learned to hate themselves, and they therefore cannot
bear to fight for themselves. Accordingly, parading their pitiful defeatism like masochists,
they are ready to submit to Islamic rule. Apart from violent jihad (i.e. classic Muslim warfare),
which comprises individual assassination and indiscriminate terrorism, "juridical jihad" has recently
entered the modern vocabulary. Intimidation and suppression of critics may thus present
themselves in the form of frenzied bloodsheds or elaborate lawsuits. Islamist tacticians know
exactly how to exploit self-inflicted weaknesses of the West, including its judiciary system.
Rising
Threat to Free Speech. A few instances have been reported about how Keir Starmer, the
new prime minister of Britain, has imprisoned citizens for saying quite innocuous things on the
street, even on Facebook. But it's not just about a few random people. It's a
nationwide campaign. Over 400 Brits have been imprisoned for trivial speech offenses.
It's become a case of life imitating art. By that, I mean reality is starting to resemble
that great movie, V for Vendetta. I urge everybody to watch if they haven't seen it
yet. The disturbances in Britain are mostly about migrants, most of whom are Muslims.
Britain has a bigger problem than the US because most of their migrants are Mohammedans.
Masses of Islamic migrants present a much more serious threat to Western civilization and values
than the mostly South American migrants the US gets. That's because in Islamic societies,
which observe Sharia law, there is no such thing as free speech. I've read the Koran and good
parts of the Hadith. There's no question that if Britain reaches a critical mass of Islamic
population, the nature of society won't just be modified a bit, as it would be with people from
Spanish countries. Islam intends to eliminate basic Western values. Islam isn't just
another religion. It's a totalitarian system comprehending all aspects of life. The
penalties for breaking its laws are extremely severe.
'Islamists
and the woke left are the enemies of civilisation'. The new UK Labour government has
declared war on free speech. Within weeks of gaining power, it scrapped a law upholding free
speech in universities. In early August, following rioting across England, it announced plans
to tighten the regulations on online speech. Perhaps most troubling of all, Keir Starmer is
also considering writing a broad definition of 'Islamophobia' into law, which would make it almost
impossible to criticise Islam and even Islamic extremism.
The
death of free speech in Britain. In Michel Houellebecq's satirical novel Soumission,
the French elite submits to Islamic rule rather than accept a National Front government. Nine
years after its publication, submission seems more imminent on this side of the English
Channel. My American friends are surprised to learn there's no equivalent to the First
Amendment in Britain. They have forgotten a free press was one of the things their ancestors
rebelled to establish in the US. Free speech is a much more recent thing in the UK. If it
was born in the 1960s, it seems to be dying in the 2020s. After the recent riots, people were
given prison sentences for posting words and images on social media. In some cases, the
illegal incitement to violence was obvious. Julie Sweeney, 53, got a 15-month sentence for a
Facebook comment: 'Blow the mosque up with the adults in it.' Lee Dunn, 51, on the other hand,
got eight weeks for sharing three images of Asian-looking men with captions such as 'Coming to a
town near you'.
Britain,
Which Birthed American Ideas About Liberty, Has Embraced Despotism.
[Scroll down] Possibly the single most despicable example is the 20-plus-year Rotherham
child rape scandal that saw hundreds of Pakistani Muslims rape over a thousand British girls right
under the noses of police who did nothing for fear of being called racists. As if that wasn't
bad enough, those who dared report on the various trials [...] found themselves jailed for doing
so. At the same time, London has become a killing ground for knife attacks, the overwhelming
number being committed by minorities. Indeed, the country has become beset with machete
attacks, a crime that was historically unheard of in Britain but which is common in the third
world. In July, the 17-year-old son of Rwandan immigrants knifed ten little girls, killing
three of them. With the government withholding information on the killer, online posts
asserted he was an immigrant. Tensions rose, and, across the UK, Brits protested the
unfettered invasion of immigrants, the violence being perpetrated by immigrants and Muslims, and
the system's seeming duplicitous, two-tiered approach to justice when it came to immigrants and
Muslims vs. white Brits, all of whom the government and the state-run media invariably characterize
as "far right."
Video
Shows How Scary A Place North Korea Is — Just Kidding, This Is The UK.
When dozens of Muslims raped over one thousand underaged British girls, no cops were on the
case. When thousands rioted during BLM violence, the UK police went after white Brits with
British flags and Jews with yamicas. [Video clip]
Why
we must fight for the right to criticise Islam. So much for Keir Starmer's 'new dawn'
for Britain. He seems more likely to drag us back to the Dark Ages. According to
reports, the PM is thinking about adopting a definition of 'Islamophobia' that could lead to people
being censured if they say something too stinging about Islam. That is, if they commit the
sin of blasphemy, if they make a scurrilous utterance about the Prophet or his followers.
Starmer strode into Downing St a month ago wanging on about the 'sunlight of hope' — now
he threatens to cover Britain with the black cloud of medieval censorship. The
Telegraph says Starmer and his deputy, Angela Rayner, are weighing up a 'range of views' on
whether to roll out a scarily broad definition of 'Islamophobia'. Drawn up by the All-Party
Parliamentary Group on British Muslims a few years back, the definition holds that 'Islamophobia is
rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived
Muslimness'. Expressions of Muslimness? Like the burqa, say? Or the Koran itself?
A
Fly in the Ointment. [Scroll down] The best demonstration of what I'm
writing about is the recent clashes in the UK. Finally, the Muslims went too far and enraged
the whole nation with their murderous tendencies. No, I don't think the 17 year old of
Rwandan descent woke up one day and decided to kill three little white girls, that's something that
has to be planted, nurtured and encouraged throughout one's life, that doing so is a mark of
bravery and faithfulness to a violent god. Just when the British people found their strength,
after years of abuse, they lashed out in perfectly understandable rage only to have their own
government attack and seek to imprison them for their actions. [...] The British now see that their
government has imported people with a high propensity toward murder to do the work they can no
longer achieve via the vaxx. That any resistance to being the victims of those they imported
will not be tolerated. Since they have been able to couch it in terms of racism or religious
bigotry, the British are expected to offer themselves up for sacrifice to their betters.
Be
careful what you post on Facebook in the UK. Bro, this is like a scene out of
Fahrenheit 451 and I'm not even exaggerating. This man made some posts online which were
deemed "offensive" by the government, so guess what happened to him? If you guessed, "The
police showed up and arrested him for his offensive Facebook posts," [ding, ding, ding]
you're our lucky winner! [Tweet with video clip] Yes, these two sad excuses for
cops just arrested a man for something "offensive" he posted on Facebook.
This
is how we fall to tyranny. [Scroll down] If the government has the
authority to restrict "intimidating," or "threatening" speech, how long before they decided
criticism of the government or certain approved parties counts regardless of what that speech
actually is? We've seen plenty of people refer to being bullied, threatened, attacked, and a
host of other things because they spoke publicly and were criticized for it. Giving the
government power over who can say what to any degree is a recipe for disaster. But these
people actually want this. Granted, it's a third as opposed to two-thirds or anything like
that, but anything more than three people is alarming. And the idea that more than half think
the First Amendment goes too far in any manner is even more disturbing.
New
crime of Islamophobia in wake of riots 'would threaten free speech'. Calls to make
Islamophobia a specific crime in the wake of riots threaten free speech, MPs have warned.
There is no single agreed definition of anti-Muslim hatred but Labour has previously signalled its
support for one. Left-wing Labour MPs and Muslim groups have urged Sir Keir Starmer to take a
stronger stance on Islamophobia after a far-Right mob attacked a mob in Southport last week.
But opposition backbenchers warned any new legislation would only serve to stifle criticism of
religion and freedom of expression.
The Editor says...
The Muslims came to town and started knifing the locals, and now it's illegal to criticize their "Religion
of Peace." The government's primary concern is protecting the delicate feelings of the 8th-century
towelheads, rather than prosecuting violent attackers. Above all, the U.K. government seems to be
ignoring the real reason for the influx of Muslims: They aren't invading England to assimilate and
become British; they are coming in to ride the welfare gravy train, reproduce like rabbits, and take over
the country through the ballot box. If that takes decades, that's okay, but apparently some of them
are in more of a hurry. The Muslims came in to England to take over, and the British government is
too weak and too polite to throw the bums out. The only solution, at least the only one that spares
the lives of the Muslims, is to round them all up and ship them off to some remote country that England
doesn't like. Argentina, for example.
Christian
preacher challenges arrest for protesting Islam. Tomorrow at the High Court, a
Christian preacher will appeal a ruling which upheld his arrest outside Southwark Cathedral for
displaying placards which protested against Islam in the wake of terrorist attacks. Following
one complaint from a member of the public, Ian Sleeper, 57, who is being supported by the Christian
Legal Centre, was surrounded by four officers and arrested on 23 June 2017 for displaying
signs which read: "Love Muslims, Hate Islam, Jesus is love and hope." Mr Sleeper
maintains, and explained clearly to officers at the time, that he was "not attacking people; I'm
attacking an idea."
Rule
of thuggery prevails in Denmark. Denmark recently capitulated, forfeiting its
hard-fought freedoms to those who hate it. According to a recent report,
["]Denmark's parliament has passed a bill that makes it illegal to burn copies of the Quran
in public places...["] There is much to say here. First, it is interesting to
note that the new bill does not single out Islam or the Koran by name, but rather seeks to protect
from desecration "writings with significant religious importance for a recognized religious
community." By employing such generic wording that applies to and presumably protects every
religious text and community — though everyone knows the law exists exclusively to
protect the Muhammadan creed — the Danes appear to have copied a play from the Islamic
gamebook. [...] Second, in adopting what amounts to a "blasphemy" law, Denmark has effectively
declared that it is not a nation of principles, but rather one willing to compromise its
ethos to appease thugs.
The cops don't want to offend Muslims, even if they're murderers.
'Group
of People' Kill Teenage Boys, U.K. Police Caution Public Not to Identify Suspects.
The British authorities are fearful that the brutal killing of two teenagers could trigger another
wave of public unrest. A 15-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy, who are yet to be publicly
identified by police, were stabbed by a "group of men" on Saturday night [1/27/2024]. The
fatal stabbing incident took place in Knowles West in South Bristol, which is the most populous
city in Southwest England. The police, as has become customary in Britain, refused to
identify the suspects as anything other than a "group of men," despite apprehending a 44-year-old
man and a 15-year-old boy in connection to the heinous crime. [...] "We have also identified
several witnesses who we will be taking statements from," he went on. "Detectives are particularly
keen to speak with passengers on a bus which was on Ilminster Avenue at the time of the incident."
The police commander then cautioned the public not to share information about the murder.
"It is extremely important there should be no commentary or sharing of information or images online
which could in any way prejudice and any future proceedings," he commented.
Silencing
the Irish To Save Them From Themselves. All European eyes should be on Ireland
now. In the wake of last week's Dublin riots, the Varadkar government is fast-tracking
draconian hate-speech legislation that would decimate liberty in the Emerald Isle. The Irish
people face being ordered by their woke government, under threat of jail, to acquiesce silently in
their country's colonization via migration. [...] If you have in your possession a book, photo,
meme, newspaper, or anything at all critical of a "protected" class — including racial
and sexual minorities, transgender people, and migrants (because "nationality" is a protected
characteristic) — you can be guilty of a hate crime. Note that under the proposed
law, they don't have to prove you incited violence or hatred. All you have to do is to
possess material that is likely to do so, in the judgment of authorities. Any Irish person
who has a critical thought about the system attempting to turn their children trans, say, or the
mass migration overtaking the country — he had better keep his mouth shut and not write,
tweet, or TikTok anything about it, or face prison.
Leo
Varadkar's Ireland is flirting with a new form of totalitarianism. Irish author Paul
Lynch won the Booker Prize on Sunday. His novel, Prophet Song, imagines an Ireland
that has fallen under Right-wing totalitarian control, and begins with members of the new secret
police rapping on the door of a union leader to interrogate him for "sowing discord and unrest"
against the government. Novelists are free to dream up all manner of fictional scenarios,
however far-fetched. The irony is that this is the exact opposite of what is happening in
Ireland right now. The government in Dublin is indeed introducing extraordinary new
legislation to restrict freedom of speech. But it's not horrid Right-wingers conspiring to
suppress nice, decent liberals. It's nice, decent liberals scrambling to stamp out the
opinions of what they call the "far-Right". And far from being alarmed by this assault on basic
freedoms, the broad swathe of progressive opinion in Ireland is fully behind it, including most
voices in the broadcast and print media, and every major party.
When
your population is 15% Muslim, you arrest people offending Muslims. The most
important thing to know is that London is 15% Muslim. That's far from a majority, but Muslims
need a lot of what the Nazis used to call "Lebensraum" — that is, territory where they
dominate the local population. Flexing their muscles, they act as if 15% is a majority and
the general population, made ignorant by leftism and scared by the threat of jihad, accepts its
status as a minority. If you understand these principles, you will appreciate the different
approaches the London police have to things that call for Jewish genocide (that's fine) and things
that offend Muslim sensibilities (that's bad, very, very bad). Ever since the events on
October 7, which saw over 1,400 Israelis brutally murdered, including pregnant women having
their bellies ripped open, a baby baked to death in an oven, women raped to death, and children
with eyes gouged out and limbs sliced off, London has been the heart and home of pro-Hamas marches
and protests, with hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets.
London:
Met Police Arrest Man For Posting Facebook Video Criticizing Muslim Migrants' Support For
Palestine. London has truly become a sad joke, run by a Muslim, with nearly 20% of
its population Muslims as well, there is no freedom of speech and real Londoners are treated like
outsiders. Met Police have just turned up in the dead of night to arrest a gentleman in front
of his distraught wife who is battling stage 4 cancer. His crime? Showing disapproval
of Palestinian flags flying all the way along his local street. [Video clip]
'Shut
Up or Else!' The True Link between Islam and the Left. Despite their many outward
differences, Islamic authoritarianism and leftist liberalism are, in fact, very similar, especially
in that they brook no dissent. Here, I'd like to offer a more focused look into their similar
modes of operation, especially in the context of belief vs. compliance.
Biden
Establishes 'Interagency Task Force With Senior Government Officials' to Stop 'Islamophobia'.
Old Joe Biden's ghostwriters issued a statement Thursday to congratulate Muslims on Eid al-Fitr, the feast
marking the end of the fasting-by-day-and-gorging-by-night month of Ramadan. Predictably, it was anodyne
and obsequious in the extreme, with Biden celebrating how Muslims "decorate their homes, give gifts to
loved ones, wear new clothes, and visit family and friends." The faux president is made to
add: "I am moved by the generosity that is shown from families that can provide food and give
charity to those in need through Zakat-al-Fitr." In the course of all this flattery, Biden's
writer drops in a serious note: there is now a U.S. government task force dedicated to
fighting "Islamophobia." [...] When the White House writers start depicting Old Joe babbling about
peace and human rights, you know something bad is coming. Doing this work for peace and human
dignity will apparently require new restrictions on speech: "My Administration is also
committed to addressing all forms of hate, including Islamophobia. This is why I established
an interagency task force with senior government officials to tackle this and related challenges
and encourage every American to build a more inclusive nation." Good, because Lord knows we
aren't "inclusive" enough yet.
The
UN Declares War on the 'Poison of Islamophobia'. [Scroll down] Think about
what he's saying here: Muslims "face bigotry and prejudice for no other reason than their
faith." In other words, Western peoples — the world's most liberal and
tolerant people by leaps and bounds — supposedly hate and mistreat Muslims simply and
only because the latter have a different belief system. In the real world, of
course, it is precisely the West that developed the idea of religious freedom (which is sorely
lacking in Islam). If anything, the West is the only civilization that looks more favorably on all
other belief systems than its own founding faith, Christianity. The truth is, if there is any
"bigotry and prejudice" against Muslims, it is not because Western people are so hostile to those
who believe differently from how they do — a position better exemplified by
Muslims — but due to any number of Islam's problematic teachings, including terrorizing
non-Muslims into subjugation (jihad), executing apostates and blasphemers, treating women as
chattel, and legitimizing child marriage (pedophilia), to name a few.
UK
Mother Is Forced To Grovel And Apologize In Front Of Muslim Community Because Her 14-Year-Old Autistic Son
Scuffed A Page In The Koran. Four pupils have been suspended from a high school in England after
a Qur'an they purchased was said to have sustained a small tear and a smudged page. Four children around
14 years of age have been suspended from Wakefield's Kettlethorpe High School in England after a Qur'an
purchased by one of the boys, described as "highly autistic", sustained minor damage, including a small tear
to its cover. The incident is said to have sparked multiple investigations, including one by the West
Yorkshire Police, which is investigating the matter as a "hate incident". [Video clip]
Florida
Teacher Is Fired After Video Of Her Interrupting Muslim Prayer In Her Office Goes Viral. A Florida teacher
was fired after she was apparently caught interrupting Muslim students as they prayed and accusing them of practicing
"magic" in a TikTok video that has since gone viral. The video — which was posted Thursday and has since
raked up more than a million likes — shows three students at Franklin Academy, a charter school in Pembroke
Pines, performing a prayer as one recites "Surah At-Tin" from the Quran, according to NBC News. [Video clip]
Has
the Democrat party converted to Islam? On October 21, U.S. reps. Ilhan Omar and Jan Schakowsky
issued a press release introducing a bill titled the "Combating International Islamophobia Act." According the
release, the purpose of the bill is "to address the rise in incidents of Islamophobia worldwide." Specifically, it
would require "the State Department to create a Special Envoy for monitoring and combating Islamophobia, [which would]
include state-sponsored Islamophobic violence and impunity [sic] in the Department's annual human rights reports."
The bill was supported by the White House, which, notwithstanding its focus on Islam alone, described it as a measure
committed to "defending freedom of religion and belief." On Dec, 14, 2021, the bill, H.R. 5665, passed
in the House, 219 to 212. No Democrat voted against it; no Republican voted for it. [...] Under this clause, no
reports of any violence and killing committed not against Muslims, but by Muslims against other religious groups, nor
the suppression of non-Muslims in Muslim-ruled nations, would be authorized. Only acts against Muslims. [...] Need
it be said that H.R. 5665 violates the First Amendment at two different levels? First of all, in addressing
not the alleged hostile actions themselves, but rather the media that are supposedly instigating those actions,
the bill runs afoul of such media's freedom of speech. Secondly, in focusing on issues relating specifically to
Islam and to no other religion, the bill is "respecting an establishment of religion," which, under the Amendment, is
prohibited. One has to wonder if the 219 House members are aware that we have a Constitution, or whether it has a
First Amendment?
Brit
police pay settlement to arrested street preacher who criticized Islam at Speakers' Corner. Britain's
Metropolitan Police apologized and paid £10,000 ($11,286.23 U.S.) to a woman they wrongfully arrested for
preaching against Islam in London's famed Speakers' Corner, a settlement labeled "a rare admission" by an attorney who
helped her. Hatun Tash, 40, a former Muslim turned Christian who says she now believes Islam is a false religion,
moved to the United Kingdom from Turkey nine years ago, and has since been arrested twice. She was also stabbed on
the street in 2021 by an unknown assailant.
Determining
Objective Information versus Indoctrination. [Scroll down] Is discussing the inherent bigotry of Islam
as stated in its foundational documents hate-promoting? Is publicizing the ulterior motives of groups that wish to
damage a country proof of bigotry? The toolkit asserts that "there is far-right messaging in other cultural
spaces. Islamophobic Hindu nationalism has been more of a topic with the Indian farmer protests in 2021." Thus,
the loaded word Islamophobic ignores the fact that Muslims are, indeed, regularly murdering Hindus. In fact, how
is it anti-Muslim or Islamophobic "to write about the effects of jihad or the ... Muslim treatment of unbelievers? The
facts are well established within international bodies, NGOs, national commissions, and verifiable journalistic
reports. Reformist Muslims themselves are highly critical of the discriminatory laws and behaviours in countries from
which they or their forebearers originated."
French
journalist, 34, is given police guard over her report on radical Islam in town where shops sell faceless dolls, restaurant has
cubicles for women to eat. A French journalist has been given police protection after fronting a documentary about
the impact of radical Islam on a poor town in the north of the country. Ophélie Meunier, 34, has received death
threats in the wake of documentary Zone Interdite — or 'Restricted Zone — that aired in France on January 23
looking at the influence of hardline Islamic views in the town of Roubaix, on the Belgian border. Meunier found a restaurant
where women are given cubicles to eat away from men, and a toy shop selling faceless dolls to comply with strict interpretations
of Islam that forbid depicting facial features. She also spoke to Amine Elbahi, 26, a Muslim lawyer from Roubaix who
helped expose an educational institution that received £53,000 of public money to teach poor children, but was accused
of spreading Islamic teachings instead.
House
of Representatives Votes to Eradicate Blasphemy Against Islam. The House of Representatives has passed a bill
which seeks to eradicate blasphemy against Islam. The bill, H.R. 5665, is truly remarkable as it amounts to Congress
making a law respecting the establishment of Islam and reducing the United States government into a tool of the world's
ayatollahs. The actual text of the bill not only seeks to eradicate blasphemy against Islam around the
world — and solely against Islam at that — but even requires the federal government to reorganize some
portions of the State Department along the lines of an Islamic religious institution which will be responsible for
interpreting the Quran. For example, the text of the bill mandates that "[t]he Secretary of State shall establish
within the Department of State an Office" and the "purpose" of the office is described as "[m]onitoring and combating acts of
Islamophobia and Islamophobic incitement that occur in foreign countries." That is, the State Department is required to
create an office which is a cross between George Orwell's Big Brother and the Taliban.
The
'Islamophobia Industry' Is Making People Afraid to Criticize Jihad Violence and Sharia Oppression. A few years
back, there was published a book which purported to show that there was a sinister conspiracy to defame Islam being pursued
by a cabal of racists and xenophobes. It was absurd from the beginning, as the only reason why anyone has any problem
with Islam at all is not because of "racism," but because of jihad terrorism and Sharia oppression of women and others.
One trenchant review of the book observed that the author was pretending that 9/11 never happened and international Islamic
terrorism did not exist and was claiming that any suspicion of Islam stemmed solely from the bad faith of its critics.
This was ridiculous enough in itself, but it got even worse. Well-funded Leftist organizations circulated far and wide
the conspiracy theory that this "Islamophobia industry" was receiving massive amounts of money from sinister right-wing
billionaires, solely for the purpose of continuing this gratuitous and racist campaign against Islam. Large sums of
money were bandied about as the supposed war chest of these organizations, pumped up to look impressive by combining the
donations received by numerous separate and distinct organizations, all smeared as "Islamophobic," over a period of years.
Egyptian
Scholar Asks Reasonable Questions about Islam, Gets Arrested. According to a Nov. 19, 2021 report, "an Egyptian
court sentenced an 80-year-old-intellectual earlier this week to five years in prison over his remarks on the early Islamic
conquests." Ahmed Abdu' Maher, a high-profile lawyer, expert on Islam, and author of fourteen books on Islamic history and
jurisprudence, was found guilty of "contempt of Islam, stirring up sectarian strife and posing a threat to the national unity."
One of Maher's chief "crimes" is his view on the seventh- and eighth-century Arab conquests — a view based on a close and
correct reading of both Muslim and non-Muslim sources: that Arabs conquerors invaded non-Muslim regions — specifically
the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain — and engaged in atrocity after atrocity; that, while "spreading Islam" was the
motive Islamic later historiography attributed to the Arabs, their true actions belied a lust for rape and rapine; and that they
overthrew and supplanted much more advanced societies, to the region's lasting regret.
Egypt:
80-year-old Islamic scholar jailed for saying Islam was spread by conquest. An 80-year-old Egyptian Islamic
reformist scholar was jailed for telling the truth that Islam was spread by conquest, as obvious as truth is. Ahmed
Abdo Maher was being "Islamophobic" in the view of those who judged his case. They found him guilty of "contempt of
Islam," which in the view of Islamic supremacists everywhere is really what "Islamophobia" is. Closer to our neck of
the woods, the Toronto District School Board defined "Islamophobia" to be "fear, prejudice, hatred or dislike directed
against Islam or Muslims, or towards Islamic politics or culture." This restrictive definition was supported by the National
Council of Canadian Muslims (formerly CAIR-CAN). Anti-Muslim bigotry is included in the term "Islamophobia," but
in this there is a contradiction: no one shows more bigotry against Muslims globally than other Muslims.
Muslim sects which are deemed to be apostate, those that do not ascribe to violent conquest, are routinely persecuted.
Twelve million Muslims have been slaughtered by mainstream Muslims since 1948 for not being Muslim enough. The
treatment of Maher is an example of Muslims persecuting Muslims for not toeing the mainstream line.
Nigeria:
Muslim mob demands death sentence for man accused of insulting Muhammad. A glimpse into the future of the
West. This is where the Left's "hate speech" rhetoric is tending. We are very close to this now, far closer than
most people realize. Supporters of the President are defamed and smeared now, but for years, critics of jihad terror
and Sharia oppression of women and others have been routinely excoriated, vilified, demonized, deplatformed, and shunned by
all decent people. What is the next step? This. Remember: Biden has pledged to combat "hate speech,"
which is any speech that those in power dislike, and a member of his transition team wants to outlaw desecration of the
Qur'an. As the movement for criminalization grows, so will violence directed at transgressors. We are far closer
to this than most people think.
Morocco:
Woman gets 3 1/2 years prison, $6,000 fine for 'publicly insulting Islam'. A glimpse into the future of the
West. This is where the Left's "hate speech" rhetoric is tending. We are very close to this now, far closer than
most people realize. Supporters of the President are defamed and smeared now, but for years, critics of jihad terror
and Sharia oppression of women and others have been routinely excoriated, vilified, demonized, deplatformed, and shunned by
all decent people. What is the next step? This. Remember: Biden has pledged to combat "hate speech,"
which is any speech that those in power dislike, and a member of his transition team wants to outlaw desecration of the
Qur'an. As the movement for criminalization grows, so will violence directed at transgressors. We are far closer
to this than most people think.
Sharia
Britain: Gov't Islamophobia Advisor Wants Muhammad Images Made as Unacceptable as N-Word. Last October,
French teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded on Paris streets by a Muslim who was angry that Paty had shown his students cartoons
of Muhammad. In January 2015, Muslim jihadists murdered 12 at the offices of French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie
Hebdo as a response to its having published Muhammad images. The same year in Garland, Texas, two Muslims motivated
likewise attacked a "Draw Muhammad" contest and shot a security guard. Now, a U.K. "Islamophobia" advisor wants to end
such violence: By instituting a Sharia law norm and making such images' display as unacceptable as the n-word.
Twitter's
Jack Dorsey declares that disrespecting the quran is forbidden. And if you rip up or otherwise destroy a quran
and post it on Twitter, you will get banned for life. But the people (Muslims) who call for your execution and threaten
your life on Twitter because you disrespected the quran do NOT get banned.
France:
Prof criticizes Islam, gets threatened with death, doxxed, and accused of 'Islamophobia'. If she had criticized
Christianity, she would be a hero of the intelligentsia today.
Tennessee: Lawyer fired for
saying Islam isn't a peaceful religion. However, "in a statement Friday afternoon [12/11/2020], Horwitz said
Morgan's 'apparent termination' was driven by bad publicity rather than the content of his social media posts." That in a
nutshell is why the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and allied organizations make a fuss when
someone says something they don't like: they know that most groups don't have the stomach or the courage to stand up to the
outrage mob, and so they will throw the putative offender under the bus just for the sake of peace. Jerry Morgan's
statements are presented in the Tennessean in a highly pejorative light (of course), but all he essentially was support
Trump's travel ban on people entering the U.S. from jihadi hotspots and other places where officials cannot or will not
provide adequate information about those wishing to enter; said Islam was not a religion of peace; linked Islam with
violence, as Islamic jihadis do every day; and supposedly demonstrated prejudice against minorities and dislike of
Democrats. The prejudice against minorities appears only to consist of disapproving of the "slave mentality" of some,
which was likely a reference to their tendency to vote Democrat even against their own best interests.
Norway:
Prominent critic of Islam found dead with 'visible damage to the body'. SIAN leader Lars Thorsen "stressed that
based on his knowledge of the deceased, he sees no visible motives other than political ones." The killer may have been a
Muslim enraged over Lid's "blasphemy," but the perp may also have been a Leftist who believes that Muslims are a victimized
group that needs special protection from criticism. We saw this in the Netherlands years ago, when Volkert van der
Graaf murdered Islamocritic Pim Fortuyn "to protect Muslims."
Another
9/11 is Unlikely — and That's not Good News. The initial reaction to 9/11 was, indeed, one of
heightened alertness and sudden awareness of the possibility that we were faced with a clash of civilizations. The
Islamists had played their hand too soon, and they quickly realized that it was not a good idea to wake a sleeping
giant. Thus, they resumed their cultural jihad. It proved to be a highly successful program. After 9/11,
one would have expected that Islamic beliefs would have come under increased scrutiny. Initially, that was the
case. But suspicion quickly gave way to affirmation as jihadists in business suits began a campaign to emphasize the
kinder, gentler side of Islam. They were particularly successful in converting American educators to the idea that 9/11
had nothing to do with Islam. Before long, schools were presenting Islam as a victim of hatred, discrimination, Western
imperialism, and Islamophobia. And not long after, any critique of Islam became strictly off-limits — even
among members of our security establishment.
Sharia
Twitter sends notice to Robert Spencer saying that his tweet violated laws of Pakistan. I sent this comment to
OpIndia: "In sending out these notices, Twitter is behaving as if Islamic blasphemy law applied to people outside of
Sharia domains. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has been working for years at the UN to compel Western
countries to criminalize criticism of Islam (under the guise of prohibiting 'incitement to religious hatred'). Twitter
is doing the bidding of the OIC with apparent alacrity. No one seems to ask the social media giants why they have
decided to internationalize Sharia restrictions on speech."
Court
Rules That Criticism of Islam is Still Legal in the US (For Now). You may recall Nicholas Damask. He is
the Scottsdale Community College (SCC) professor about whom I wrote here at PJ Media several weeks ago when Muslim students
threatened his life for observing that Islam teaches violence. After that, instead of rebuking the Muslims who
threatened Damask, the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed suit against the college for daring to
teach unpopular and unwelcome truths about Islam and terrorism. [Paywall]
Sailor
Gets OK to Grow 4-Inch Beard, Pushes Navy to Grant Career-Length Waiver. Mass Communication Specialist 3rd
Class Leo Katsareas can, for the first time in his Navy career, wear a beard consistent with his religious beliefs while in
uniform — at least for now. The Navy's personnel chief granted Katsareas, a Muslim sailor, a special
grooming accommodation to grow his facial hair up to 4 inches long. Katsareas, who converted to Islam at age 16,
believes his faith requires him to wear a fist-length beard.
Shooting
the (Infidel) Messenger. Whether it's true or not, if you say the "wrong" thing about Islam, you're
guilty — even if you're merely quoting what Muslims themselves say. Consider the recent case of Professor
Nicholas Damask, chairman of the Department of Political Science at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona. Last
month, after one of his students, Muhammad Sabra, found — and shared on social media — quiz questions
which Muhammad felt were in "distaste of Islam," the professor received a plethora of online death threats to himself and
his family and criticism from his college. Matters eventually turned around in Damask's favor; his interim chancellor
publicly apologized for "the uneven manner in which this was handled and for our lack of full consideration for our
professor's right of academic freedom." For those, however, whose core mission revolves around quashing free speech on
Islam, notably, "CAIR," this is unacceptable.
CAIR
Enraged, Files Lawsuit Over the Truth About Islam Told at a College. You may recall Nicholas Damask. He
is the Scottsdale Community College (SCC) professor about whom I wrote here at FrontPage several weeks ago, when Muslim
students threatened his life for observing that Islam teaches violence. Damask was repudiated by the college, which
tried to force him to apologize until reminded that punishing a professor for telling unwelcome truths is still a bad look
for an academic institution in the United States. Damask, however, is not out of the woods yet: the Hamas-linked
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has now filed suit against the college for daring to step away from the fictions
and fantasies it has foisted on most colleges and universities in their teaching about Islam and terrorism. The Arizona
Republic reported that the Arizona chapter of CAIR "filed a lawsuit Tuesday [6/2/2020] in U.S. District Court against Scottsdale
Community College and one of its professors for teaching material that it says condemns Islam." You probably didn't realize
that it was illegal to condemn Islam in the United States. It clearly isn't illegal to condemn Christianity or Judaism;
it happens all the time, and those who do this are celebrated by all the elite classes and glitterati. But condemning
Islam, well! That's another matter altogether.
Turkey: Where
Criticizing Islam Can Land You in Prison. Critics of Turkey's government and Islam continue being targeting by
the country's authorities. On May 17, Turkish photographer Fırat Erez, a former supporter of Turkey's ruling
Justice and Development (AKP) Party, was arrested in the city of Antalya after saying "Islam is immoral" on his Twitter
account. "This is not hate. It is a decision," he wrote. "Islam is immoral. His Prophet, Allah, his
disciples could not protect it. Islam has not overcome the moral barrier. It cannot. You cannot find the
truth by bending over five times a day. Plain, clear and painful." Erez was detained by Antalya police for
"insulting religious values" and "provoking hatred or hostility in one section of the public against another section".
Journalist
Gets Home Visit From UK Police After He Reported Mosques Flouting Lockdown Law. A journalist in the UK received
a home visit from police after he reported mosques in his area that were violating the coronavirus lockdown law. Tom
Linden, host of UK Preppers Radio Network, filed a complaint with West Yorkshire Police after he saw reports in local media
that Muslims in Bradford and Leeds were gathering at mosques for Friday prayers in violation of COVID-19 isolation
rules. In the complaint, Linden made it clear that he would be monitoring and reporting on mosques that were flouting
quarantine rules, something that obviously flagged him for police attention.
Dubai:
Three men detained, fined $136,000 each for insulting Islam on Instagram and Facebook. A glimpse into the
future of the West. Right now, insulting Islam will only get you deplatformed, vilified, and suspended from your
job. Fines and detention are still in the future.
3
men in Dubai fined Dh500,000 each for insulting Islam online. Three security guards of a five-star resort have
each been fined Dh500,000 by a Dubai court for insulting Islam on social media. The Dubai public prosecution accused
the three Sri Lankans, aged between 28 and 34, of contempt of religion through posts on Instagram and Facebook. It
referred them to trial pursuant to the anti-discriminatory and hatred law and the Federal Penal Code. The Dubai Court
of First Instance ordered that all the three accused be deported after paying the fines.
Toronto
Police Threaten Journalist For Calling Soleimani A Terrorist. Any freedoms Canadians used to have under their
Charter of Rights and Freedoms have been decimated under the last four years of the Liberal government and they will continue
to be attacked for the next four years! Canada used to be a great country but its "diversity-seeking" leader has all
but destroyed their country!
Toronto Police Threaten Reporter
With Arrest for Referring to Soleimani As a Terrorist. Toronto Iran supporters held a candlelight vigil for
Qasem Soleimani this week and Rebel Media's David Menzies was there to report on it. As Menzies worked through the
crowd of about 200 protesters, he began asking pointed questions about the general, Iran's sponsorship of terrorism and
sharia law. His questions were obviously designed to provoke and provoke they did. Early in his video, Menzies
begins asking crowd members why they were mourning Soleimani and if they thought he was a terrorist. Most of the
responses were typical pro-Iranian fare — the U.S. is the real terrorist, Trump is a murderer, etc. etc.
Surprisingly a few people indicated they saw Soleimani as a defender against terrorism in the middle east and ISIS and that
the narrative of the slain general was merely propaganda.
UN
Begins Process of Handing Internet Control to Ruthless Dictators. We've known this has been coming for a couple
of years. Dissatisfied with control of the internet largely in the hands of western democracies — especially
the United States — the dictators and religious fanatics of the world have begun the process to seize control of
the internet where, I'm sure, you won't be able to insult Islam, call Vladimir Putin a thug, or criticize the Chinese
communists. The United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution that would set up a "committee of experts" whose
mission would be to stop "the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes." Since many
countries make it a crime to criticize the government or insult Islam, the resolution does not bode well for internet freedom
in the near future.
Law against
criticizing Islam closer than you think, expert warns. A law in America to protect Muslims and their faith from
any criticism might be closer than many think. Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, wrote that if a Democrat wins
the presidency, "I hope some of y'all will visit me in prison."
It
Can't Happen Here? Muslim Organization Wants International Law Criminalizing Criticism of Islam. The
Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which is made up of 56 nations plus the Palestinian Authority, met Thursday in
Jeddah and called for the adoption of an international law criminalizing criticism of Islam. But that kind of law could
never be adopted in the United States, could it? Think again. The OIC's secretary-general, Dr. Yousef
al-Othaimeen, called upon the nations of the world, both Muslim and non-Muslim, to crack down on speech that was "insulting
religions or prophets." It was clear, however, that al-Othaimeen couldn't have cared less about speech insulting Christianity
or Judaism or Hinduism or Buddhism or any of the revered figures of those religions. He cared only about criticism of Islam.
Death by
Islamophobia. [Scroll down] In fact, as Salman Rushdie writes in Joseph Anton, "a new word has
been created to help the blind remain blind: Islamophobia. To criticize the militant stridency of this religion
in its contemporary incarnation [is] to be a bigot." After the Iranian Revolution of 1980, the term "Islamophobia"
"underwent a mutation that weaponized it." It continues to be more militant as it has "entered the global lexicon."
Clearly, America and Canada are not immune, either. Thus, the All Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims (APPG)
recently released a report titled "Islamophobia Defined: The inquiry into a working definition of Islamophobia."
A few quotations from the lengthy report should highlight the disingenuousness of a document that is essentially recommending
a form of blasphemy law.
Somewhat related:
See Something, Say Nothing?
[Scroll down] Recently, in the course of investigating the history of Mickael Harpon, the 45-year-old French computer
expert turned jihadi, there were such conversations. Harpon worked for the police in France gathering intelligence for
16 years. One day when he picked up a kitchen knife and an oyster shucker and killed four colleagues in a 30-minute
rampage at work. Besides the fact that Harpon converted to Islam close to 10 years ago, was in contacts with Salafists
and adopted increasingly radical beliefs (which the police were aware of), he still was granted top security clearance.
But when he defended the jihadi massacre of 12 employees of the satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine four years ago at work, none
of his colleagues were willing to file a complaint against him. The question is: Where do these reservations or
refusals to speak up come from and how deep do they go?
Stripping Away Our Freedoms.
[In Canada,] We already have Motion M103, which is not legislation at the present, but if the push continues, it may become
law. This motion has directly affected free speech, as most Canadians are now terrified of even asking simple and valid
questions about Islamist radicalization and terrorism. In June, the Canadian federal government released a new
three-year anti-racism strategy that arose from M103.
Canada:
Man who helped intelligence service track Islamic State supporters is being deported, they aren't. Trudeau
plans to "reintegrate" Islamic State jihadis into Canada. So to allow a foe of the Islamic State to remain in the
country, well! That would just be "Islamophobic."
Decriminalizing
Crime; Criminalizing Speech. Strange to say, but German Chancellor Merkel, a center-right politician, has led
the march to fulfill the terms of the Obama promise of making us all citizens of the world. She opened her country to
hordes of Muslim migrants and led her nation to forbid anyone from ever saying that it was a bad idea. Or that it
wasn't working. It doesn't matter what these migrants do. It doesn't matter which crimes they commit. The
local constabulary has gotten into the habit of not noting the ethnicity of criminals. The real problem is speech,
speaking ill of migrants, speaking ill of Islam. Thus is the great Western tradition of free expression sacrificed on
the bonfire of political correctness. Muslims do not commit more crimes. If it appears to be the case, we can solve it
by not arresting those who do. But, [you're in trouble] if you say the least disparaging word about the religion of peace.
Germany: A Shocking
Degree of Self-Censorship. [Scroll down] There is a very large discrepancy between what Germans consider
taboo in the public sphere, as opposed to in private conversations with friends and acquaintances. For example, 62% of
Germans are convinced that a politician stating that Islam has too much influence in Germany will expose himself to harsh
criticism, but only 22% believe that expressing such a sentiment in private conversations would cause offense.
Similarly, the sentiment that 'too much is being done for refugees in Germany' is viewed as a risky statement to air in
public, but only 31% would consider it a problem to say that in private. There appears, in other words, to be a
significant gap between what Germans say in public and what they think.
Islam,
Terrorism, and Censorship. In his newest book, Paul Cliteur, author and jurisprudence professor at Leiden
University, examines a largely forgotten 1987 German television comedy skit that sparked Muslim protests. Cliteur
asserts that the incident, involving Dutch comedian Rudi Carrell, became the forerunner for other protests, many of them
deadly violent, that now characterize the ongoing conflict between Islamic theoterrorism and Western free speech. In
Theoterrorism v. Freedom of Speech: From Incident to Precedent (Amsterdam University Press, 2019), Cliteur
calls the Carrell incident a turning point in global politics. It made the West conclude that offending Islam was a
global capital offense and it brought about the start of a precipitous decline in Western civil liberties.
Philadelphia
Police Department puts 72 officers on desk duty amid investigation into anti-Muslim social media posts.
Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross confirmed Wednesday that 72 Philadelphia police officers were placed on
administrative duty amid an internal investigation into alleged anti-Muslim social media posts made by officers on the
force. Ross said the officers were taken off patrol duty and had their guns confiscated as the Internal Affairs Bureau
(IAB) investigates approximately 3,100 total posts, Philadelphia's Fox 29 reported. He could not confirm if more
officers would be placed on administrative duty as the investigation continues, but he does expect "several dozen" of the
seventy-two officers to be disciplined and at least some to be fired.
Christian
Arrested for Allegedly Insulting Islam on Facebook in Egypt, Muslims Ransack Parents Home. Islamic law forbids
criticism of Islam, Quran, Muhammad. If they cannot be criticized, we are in effect accepting Islamic law as overriding
the freedom of speech. This would establish Muslims as a protected class and prevent honest discussion.
Inside
the Ring: War College Cancels Speaker on Islam. A Muslim activist group has pressured the U.S. Army War
College into postponing a speech by Ray Ibrahim, an expert on the historical roots of Islamic terrorism, after the group
falsely labeled him as a racist and "Islamophobe," he said. The Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR), a group critics say is linked to the Islamist international group Muslim Brotherhood, protested the speech
in a letter to the college superintendent, Army Maj. Gen. John S. Kem, and provost James G. Breckenridge.
Purporting to represent the "Muslim community" in Pennsylvania, CAIR stated that it opposed Mr. Ibrahim's planned June 19
speech on "Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West," which is also the title of his latest
book. The group asserted that Mr. Ibrahim's publicly stated view — that Muslim hostility for and terrorization
of the West is not an aberration but a continuation of Islamic history — has the potential to instigate hatred against Muslims.
Marine
Le Pen goes to trial over tweets on ISIS atrocities. A French judge has ordered Marine Le Pen, leader of
France's right-wing Rassemblement National party, to stand trial over gruesome images of atrocities committed by ISIS she
shared on Twitter, according to The Local France. In December 2015, the French politician sent three tweets showing the
decapitated body of American reporter James Foley, a man on fire in a cage and a victim being driven over by a tank.
The images were captioned "This is Daesh," another name for ISIS.
The Editor says...
The Muslims cut people's heads off and burn people alive; but if you publicize this fact, YOU go to trial, not the Muslims.
Marine
Le Pen is ordered to stand trial for tweeting pictures of ISIS murders. French far-right leader Marine Le Pen
has been ordered to stand trial for tweeting pictures of Islamic State atrocities, a judicial source said today. Le Pen
shared the gruesome images in December 2015, a few weeks after ISIS jihadists killed 130 people in attacks in Paris. A
judge in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre ordered that the National Rally leader stand trial on charges of circulating
'violent messages that incite terrorism or pornography or seriously harm human dignity' and that can be viewed by a minor.
CAIR
'Demands' US Army War College Cancel My Lecture on Islamic History. The "unindicted co-conspirator" Council on
American-Muslim Relations ("CAIR") and its Islamist allies are "outraged" because the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa.
has invited me to give a lecture on my recent book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and
the West. On May 28, CAIR's Pennsylvania leadership — namely, Jacob Bender, Timothy Welbeck, Ahmet Selim
Tekelioglu — sent a letter to USAWC commandant Gen. John Kem and provost Dr. James Breckenridge urging
them to revoke "the decision of the US Army War College to invite Mr. Raymond Ibrahim to deliver the prestigious 50th
Annual Lecture Series of the US Army War College." The reason CAIR cites to disinvite me is that "Raymond Ibrahim's
book ... advance[s] a simplistic, inaccurate and often prejudicial view of the long history of Muslim-West relations which
we find deeply troubling."
Official
records expunged, video feed cut and witnesses maligned: MPs bent on censoring internet show true
colours. Parliament's penultimate meeting of its 'online hate' study offered an ominous window into a future
Canada, where lawmakers grant the state additional powers to censor — powers taken away from bureaucrats only a
few years ago through the repeal of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. At Justice committee Tuesday
morning [6/4/2019], the first order of business was a motion from Liberal MP Randy Boissonnault to "expunge" ex-committee
vice-chair Michael Cooper's mention of the Christchurch mosque shooter. "This is about doing the right thing here at
Justice committee and cleaning up the record," Boissonneault said.
Swedish
Artist's Jail Term Extended After He Committed 'Hate Crime' of Saying Muslim Migrants Have Not Integrated. A
Swedish artist's jail term was extended after he committed the "hate crime" of saying that Muslim migrants do not integrate
and that rape culture is a massive problem in Middle Eastern cultures. Street artist and provocateur Dan Park was
originally jailed for three months after he tweeted that, "Rape culture is fundamental and OK among MENA [Middle East and
North African] people". Park was also imprisoned for "race hatred" because he referred to Muslim migrants as "blattar".
According to Wiktionary, 'blattar' means, "A person living in a Northern European country who is typically of Middle Eastern
or North African descent. A wannabe gangster or immigrant who is not well integrated."
Judge
Jeanine returns to her Fox News show three weeks after Ilhan Omar hijab controversy. Judge Jeanine Pirro made
her return to the Fox News Channel on Saturday night [3/30/2019] after being off the air for three weeks and called for
President Trump's enemies to get 'behind the bars justice'. A day after Fox News colleague Sean Hannity said the former
Westchester County district attorney had a family emergency that prevented her from appearing on his Friday television show,
Pirro returned to the airwaves to her usual 9pm slot on Saturday. She was absent the past two Saturdays after she
accused House Rep. Ilhan Omar of wearing a hijab to show her adherence to Sharia law rather than the United States
Constitution.
Jihad
and the Media in an Age of Delusion. [Scroll down] Language is key. Subtle and not-so-subtle
restrictions are placed on what would offend the invading force with its hair-trigger sensibilities. These
restrictions are rigorously enforced by quisling societal institutions — media, academia, and so forth. So,
for example, "Muslim" is replaced with "South Asian" or "Asian," with no fear that the "South Asians" or "Asians" will bomb a
pop concert, mow down scores of families on a national holiday such as Bastille day or Halloween or Christmas, shoot up a gay
nightclub, and so forth. Actual South Asians and Asians have held demos against the media using them to cover for
jihadis, but no media reported on them, of course.
Climate Lies, Child Abuse And The Truth.
Right now, today, there is an 18 year old man sitting in jail in New Zealand who is charged with distributing the
video of the Christchurch shooting. He has been denied bail; apparently New Zealand thinks it is so dangerous to
show people what happens when you're disarmed and a nutjob wants to murder you that you should not only be charged but locked
up without bail until trial. The original charge, which was replaced with this one, was publishing material
insulting other races and ethnicities.
Victim
Politics: The Game of Loser Takes All. In the West you daren't criticize Muslims or Islam from fear of being painted
Islamophobic or, as ten dead workers at Charlie Hebdo demonstrated, from fear of one's life. Arab Christians are burned, bombed, or
beheaded to near extinction, yet the Pope utters hardly a peep. Britain's Union of Students won't condemn Islamic State because that
would be Islamophobic.
Robert
Spencer: So Long, Everybody. My friends, it could be time for me to be saying goodbye. Leftist and
Islamic groups have been trying for years to silence all criticism of jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women and others,
and in the New Zealand massacre they see the best chance in a long time to move in for the kill. I (along with other
foes of jihad terror) could be banned from everything and rendered a non-person, a la Alex Jones, any day now. This is
no exaggeration. Meeting in Istanbul, the International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has called on non-Muslim
countries to ban "Islamophobia," which means criticism of Islam, including analysis of the motivating ideology fueling jihad
terror. IUMS President Ahmed al-Raisouni said Friday: "IUMS calls on non-Muslim countries to ban the spread of
hatred against Islam and Muslims." Since analysis of the motivating ideology behind jihad terror is routinely smeared as
"hatred of Islam and Muslims," this will likely outlaw all such analysis and make opposition to jihad terror effectively impossible.
Was
Judge Jeanine Pirro's question about Ilhan Omar all that outrageous? Judge Jeanine Pirro got her Fox News show
pulled from the air, presumably suspended, maybe cancelled, after she made a remark about Rep. Ilhan Omar's wearing of
the hijab that was condemned, first by the left and then by politically correct FNC officials as unacceptable. [...] Clumsy
or not, Judge Jeanine had a right to ask the question she asked, because some clarification would be useful. Putting
her back on the air to have her hash it out might be useful, too.
Judging Jeanine Pirro. Judge
Jeanine Pirro asked a reasonable question on her Fox News show the other day. She was focusing on infamously
anti-Semitic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). Omar has made it her trademark to accuse politicians who support Israel of having
accepted bribes ("It's all about the Benjamins baby") and to accuse Jewish supporters of Israel of having divided loyalties,
by which she meant they are more loyal to Israel than they are to the United States. Addressing Democrats, Pirro said,
"This is not who your party is. Your party is not anti-Israel, she is. Think about this. She is not getting
this anti-Israel sentiment doctrine from the Democrat Party." Pirro continued: "So if it's not rooted in the party,
where is she getting it from? Think about it. Omar wears a hijab, which according to the Quran, 33:59, tells women
to cover so they won't get molested," Pirro said. "Is her adherence to this Islamic doctrine indicative of her adherence
to Sharia law, which is antithetical to the U.S. Constitution?"
Fox
News host Jeanine Pirro pulled off air following comments on Rep. Ilhan Omar. Fox News host Jeanine Pirro
was yanked off the air on Friday night a week after she ignited controversy, and earned a rare condemnation from her network,
over comments about Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar. [...] Omar, along with Rep. Rashida Tlaib, became the first Muslim
women ever elected to Congress last November. "Think about it: Omar wears a hijab, which according to the Quran,
33:59, tells women to cover so they won't get molested," Pirro said on her show last week. "Is her adherence to this
Islamic doctrine indicative of her adherence to Sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution?"
Twitter
Legal Warns Michelle Malkin Her 'Mohammed Cartoon Tweet' Violates "Pakistan's Blasphemy Laws" — Which Are
Punishable by Prison or Death. Twitter legal sent conservative firebrand Michelle Malkin a warning last week
that her Mohammed cartoon tweet violated Pakistan's "blasphemy laws." The specific blasphemy laws Michelle Malkin
violated are punishable by life imprisonment or death and Twitter happily delivered the death threat to her.
Minnesota: Christian
Pastor Arrested at Mall of America Faces Hearing and Trial After Talking to Muslims. Ramin Parsa, an ex-Muslim
Christian pastor who was stabbed in Iran, imprisoned in Turkey, and then arrested in the Mall of America for sharing his
testimony with interested Muslim women, faces a settlement conference in March and likely a trial in April. The state
of Minnesota has continued to prosecute his case, even though the Mall of America was wrong to accuse him of trespassing in
the first place. In late August 2018, Parsa was visiting the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minn. Two
Somali-American women spoke with him and asked him if he was still a Muslim. When he said he was not, they asked him to
explain. At this point, another lady complained to mall security. Security took Parsa into custody, holding him
handcuffed to a metal chair for four hours without water, and then turning him over to the police.
Sweden:
Elderly man is prosecuted for calling Somali Muslim immigrant freeloaders what they are: "LAZY". A
Swedish man in his 70s faced a court in the town of Uddevalla this week after far left social justice warriors reported him
to the police for labeling Somali migrants "lazy" on social media.
What Is Knife
Damage? Some interesting news from Sweden, that bastion of liberal democracy and political correctness.
How do the ever-so-woke Swedes deal with Islamist terrorism? Why, they follow the Obama playbook and refuse to call it
Islamist terrorism. In that way there is less Islamist terrorism. Do you find this surprising? If you do,
you haven't been paying attention. And the Swedes have put another wrinkle in the social fabric. They have
declared that anyone who shares images of Islamist terrorism will be jailed. Keep in mind, images of these heinous acts
of terrorism were posted on Facebook. It's a culture shift of major proportions. You can say anything you want
about Christians. You can be as anti-Semitic as you wish. But if you dare speak ill of Islam you will be charged
with blasphemy against the prophet of Islam. So much for free expression.
Apparently,
Canada has begun enforcing Sharia blasphemy laws, minus the death penalty, at least for now. In many parts of
the Muslim world, if you criticize Islam or Sharia law in a public fashion, you will suffer the consequences, among which
could range from multiple lashings to a lengthy prison term, or even to public execution by hanging or beheading as carried
out in Iran and Saudi Arabia. Outside of the Muslim world, speaking out against Islam won't get you the death penalty,
but in Canada, as Christine Douglass-Williams, a member of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation Board and critic of Islam
quickly learned, her negative comments about Sharia law resulted in her being fired.
Google
Hosts Sharia Law App Enabling Muslims to Report Blasphemy and Heresy to the Police. On December 7, 2018, the
Google Play Store approved the latest version of "Smart Pakem," an app that allows Muslims in Jakarta, the capital of the
largest Muslim country on earth, to report violations of Sharia law such as blasphemy and even heresy. The app allows
users to report people who practice unrecognized religions or unorthodox interpretations of Indonesia's six officially
recognized faiths: Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Protestant Christianity, and Roman Catholic Christianity.
According to Google's translation on the Google Play Store, "Smart Pakem" intends "to make it easier to find information and
manage religion, belief flow and community organizations in the jurisdiction of DKI Jakarta," the capital of Indonesia.
The app, which has more than 1,000 installs, claims to provide a list of "laws and regulations that regulate the activities
of the flow of beliefs in the community."
Parents
Called Racist After Pointing Out 30-Year-Old Man Is Not High School Age. When a "teenager" from Iran joined
students at Stoke High School in Ipswich (a county town of Suffolk, England), students and parents immediately noticed
something was off. The alleged 15-year-old boy, Siavash, was 6'1", had stubble, a large Adam's apple, and a hairline
that some viewed as receding. Students and parents believed the "teen" was closer to 30 than 15. When parents
began complaining that an adult man was in school with their underage children, they say their concerns were "dismissed as
racist," according to the Daily Mail.
Europe
opting for submission to Islam. It is this dismal if inevitable reality that was seemingly guaranteed by an
European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decision two weeks before Merkel's speech. On Oct 25th, the ECHR, in a
ruling mandatory for 47 European countries, denied an Austrian petitioner and ruled that the imperatives of "religious peace"
and "mutual tolerance" are more important than freedom of speech. In this particular case, the petitioner had asked in
a seminar whether Mohammad's marriage to a six year old (consummated three years later), constituted a case of
pedophilia. In its ruling, the court decreed that denigration of Muhammad is not protected speech, regardless of the
factual evidence with the clear implication of prohibiting criticism of Islam. This has the effect of overturning that
same court's 2001 ruling that sharia is not compatible with democracy and making Islam exempt from any questioning, even as
attacks on Christianity and Judaism are well-established and widely practiced.
Islamists Bowdlerize Plano
Library. The Council on American-Islamic Relations' Dallas-Fort Worth chapter (CAIR-DFW) recently "applauded a
decision by the Plano Library to resolve an issue related to anti-Muslim material in its catalog." CAIR claims to have
convinced this Texas library to remove the book Holy Terror by renowned graphic-novel author Frank Miller, a
disturbing act of censorship and a flagrant violation of longstanding library standards. This author asked the Plano
Library Director Libby Holtmann about the book's removal. She stated that the library "did not remove the subject item
from its collection from a request by anyone including CAIRDFW," but rather "was alerted by a comment sent through social
media." Examination of Holy Terror revealed "that it did not have any professional reviews," which she claimed
is a "necessary component for maintaining an item." She also cited library records showing little reader interest in
Holy Terror. In fact, dozens of reviews of the comic book have been published, including by prominent
newspapers and peer-reviewed journals.
Defaming
Muhammad does not fall under purview of free speech, European court rules. The freedom of speech does not
extend to include defaming the prophet of Islam, the European Court of Human rights ruled Thursday [10/25/2018]. The
Strasbourg-based ECHR ruled that insulting Islamic prophet Muhammad "goes beyond the permissible limits of an objective
debate" and "could stir up prejudice and put at risk religious peace." The court's decision comes after it rejected an
Austrian woman's claim that her previous conviction for calling Muhammad a pedophile, due to his marriage to a 6-year-old
girl, violated her freedom of speech. The ECHR ruled Austrian courts had "carefully balanced her right to freedom of
expression with the right of others to have their religious feelings protected." The woman, in her late 40s and
identified only as E.S., claimed during two public seminars in 2009 that Muhammad's marriage to a young girl was akin to
"pedophilia." According to Islamic tradition, the marriage between Muhammad and a 6-year-old girl was consummated when
she was 9 years old and he was about 50.
Insulting Islam
[is] Now Illegal in Europe. You'd better watch what you say, because other people have religious feelings and
they have the right to be protected from your harmful words. They have the right to "religious peace," so you'd better
not disturb it by saying something you shouldn't. Who decides what's offensive? Who decides which opinions can't
be expressed publicly? Not you. These matters will be decided for you, and you'd better comply or else.
Is
Criticizing Terrorism "Mental Illness"? On December 16, 2015, a French journalist on a mainstream radio station
compared France's right-wing National Front Party to the Islamic State (ISIS) by saying that there is a "community of spirit"
between them and that both push those who support them to "withdraw into their own identity". Marine Le Pen, the
president of the National Front party, speaking of [an] "unacceptable verbal slippage," asked the radio station for the right
to answer. She then published on Twitter images showing the bodies of victims of the Islamic State and adding:
"ISIS is this!" The French media immediately accused her of broadcasting "indecent" and "obscene" images, and shortly
after that, the French government ordered the Department of Justice to indict her. On November 8, 2017 the French
national assembly also lifted her parliamentary immunity. A few months later, a judge mandated by the French government,
charged Marine Le Pen with "disseminating violent images," [...] As part of the proceedings, Marine Le Pen received a
letter from the court ordering her to undergo a psychiatric evaluation to determine if she is sane. She refused, saying
that showing horrors committed by the Islamic State is not incitement to murder, and that pictures of victims of terrorism
cannot be equated with pornography.
Is Criticizing
Terrorism "Mental Illness"? A 615-page report was recently released, written by an adviser to President
Emmanuel Macron, Hakim El Karoui, who is in charge of designing the new institutions of an "Islam of France." The report
defines Islamism as an "ideology totally distinct from Islam" and also never addresses the links between Islamism and
terrorism. The report also insists on the urgent need to spread "true Islam" in France and adopt the teaching of Arabic
in public high schools. The court's request, for Marine Le Pen to undergo a psychiatric evaluation to determine if she
is sane, indicates that French authorities might be reviving the old Soviet use of "psychiatry" to silence dissidents or
political opponents. The legal offensive against Marine Le Pen was actually added to the financial offensive.
Even if Le Pen is not sent to prison, the law seems to have been used to open the possibility of declaring her ineligible for
the European Parliament elections scheduled for May 2019.
UK:
Muslims Demand Franklin Graham Be Banned From Country For Criticizing Islam. Would anyone be calling for the
banning of Graham from the UK if he had called Christianity "evil"? The MCB said: "We would expect the government
to apply its criteria here. If it does not, it will send a clear message that it is not consistent in challenging all
forms of bigotry." The British government is already inconsistent: it bans foes of jihad terror and critics of Islam,
while letting in jihadis.
Sweden:
Man faces "hate speech" charges for satirizing Sharia punishments. "Hate speech" is not an objectively identifiable
category. Any criticism of anyone or anything could be characterized as inciting hatred against the object of the
criticism. The "hate speech" classification, as I have often pointed out, is simply a tool of the powerful to silence
the powerless. These satirical children's book covers focus upon matters of genuine concern: Sharia stonings and
lashings, both of which take place today. But to point them out is "hate speech," because the Swedish government
wants to keep its people ignorant and complacent in the face of the Muslim migrant inundation.
Cop
Threatens to Arrest Reporter Exposing Islamic Event feat Extremist Imam. On Saturday, the Greenwood Lakes
Middle School in coordination with Muslim community groups in Orlando hosted a Syrian sheik who has called for the killing of
gays and all Jews. Conservative journalist Laura Loomer drove to Orlando to report on the event, which was described on
the flyer as being open to the public. Besides being a public event, the event was hosted at a taxpayer-funded Florida
middle school, which gives any member of the public and the press the right to come on the property. When Loomer
approached the table to enter the event, organizers and an official from CAIR refused to admit Loomer and her cameraman into
the event, and they were threatened with arrest by officers from the Seminole County Sheriff's Office.
California
Prosecuting Man For Anti-Muslim Insults. Here in the United States of America, the California Attorney General
is actually prosecuting a man for Internet insults.
Tommy Robinson
Tommy
Robinson Jailed for 18 Months for Repeating Allegations About Syrian Refugee.
Tommy Robinson has been sentenced to 18 months after admitting to contempt of court for
repeating allegations about a Syrian refugee that had been previously ruled libellous by a
court. Robinson, who rose to prominence by highlighting the scourge of mostly Muslim grooming
gangs sexually preying on young girls in England, admitted to repeating claims about Syrian Jamal
Hijazi ten times between 2023 and 2024, according to The Telegraph.
The
'Unite the Kingdom' rally report you DIDN'T see in the MSM. I was writing this when
the news broke that Tommy Robinson had been sentenced to 18 months in prison on a
contempt-of-court charge. So it seemed important first to state what is almost never
mentioned in the mainstream reports — namely what this charge stems from. It goes
all the way back to an investigative report Robinson did for Urban Scoop about the biased media
reporting of a school bullying story that resulted in a libel charge being brought against
him. It was in response to this that he made a documentary film showing that there were two
sides to the one-sided story the media had presented and the establishment uncritically
accepted. While contempt of court can be a criminal offence, the charge against Tommy
Robinson was for breaching an injunction not to screen that documentary in public. That is a
civil, not criminal, offence. Has any other journalist in British history been imprisoned on
a similar contempt-of-court charge? This is not the first time Tommy Robinson has been jailed
for his journalism. Last time he ended up in Belmarsh, the highest-security prison in the UK.
He spent much of his time in solitary confinement due to the threats to his life from Islamist
terrorists there, and suffered severe physical decline and PTSD as a result.
Tommy
Robinson Arrested on Terror Charges for Not Giving Away His Phone PIN Code.
Independent journalist and anti-grooming gang activist Tommy Robinson has been arrested by police
and remanded into custody until at least Monday, according to one of his associates. Sammy
Woodhouse, a documentary maker and grooming gang victim, stated on X that Robinson had been
remanded into custody after being arrested. Media reports claim that Robinson's arrest is due
to a previous violation of Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act as he refused to give the PIN code to
his mobile device to police. He was bailed and is due to appear in court next month.
Tommy
Robinson Charged Under the Terrorism Act After Handing Himself in to Police. Tommy
Robinson turned himself into a police station in Kent this afternoon, seemingly in connection with
an offence under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act. That offence was committed when he refused
to provide the access code to his mobile phone when he was detained at Folkestone while trying to
enter the channel tunnel on his way to France on July 28th. He was arrested in
connection with that offence — possibly re-arrested, details are fuzzy — and
then bailed, pending a hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court on November 13th 2024.
However, rather confusingly, he has also been remanded in custody — at the same police
station — ahead of a contempt of court hearing at Woolwich Crown Court on Monday.
This is because he has repeatedly defied a court order not to show his film Silenced, having lost a
defamation case brought against him by a Syrian refugee who claims to have been libelled in the
film. Robinson showed the film at a rally in Trafalgar Square on July 27th and Jordan
Peterson put it on X. So, he's in contempt of court — has been on multiple
occasions, since he's shown the film more than once since being ordered not to — and
will likely be sent to jail.
Tommy
Robinson issued with new contempt of court claim. Tommy Robinson could face jail
after being issued with a new contempt of court claim against him following the airing of a film at
a protest in central London. Law officers allege Robinson, whose real name is Stephen
Yaxley-Lennon, is alleged to have breached a High Court order issued in 2021 barring him from
repeating libellous allegations against a Syrian refugee who successfully sued him, the Attorney
General's Office (AGO) said. It is understood that the airing of a film titled Silenced at a
demonstration in Trafalgar Square last month is one of six actions claimed to have breached the
injunction between June and July this year.
Tommy
Robinson, Who Is Hiding From The British Athorities In Cyprus, Speaks Out For The First
Time. British patriot, Tommy Robinson has to flee the UK under threat of imprisonment
by the UK government is hiding out on the island of Cyprus. The UK government is now blaming
Robinson for the mass riots across England even though Tommy's massive anti-immigrant rally was
days before 3 little girls were murdered by the son of immigrants. During the rally, Robinson
never called for violence but rather a massive change in policy from the government that has
forgotten the middle class. [Video clip]
Tommy
Robinson [was] 'arrested under anti-terrorism laws' following London march. Tommy Robinson
has been arrested under anti-terror laws, according to his supporters, after a protest at which a
film was allegedly screened in contempt of court. His detention was made public in a post on
his verified X account and follows a march led by Mr Robinson and a counter-protest in central
London on Saturday which attracted thousands of people. A complaint was later made over a
film which was allegedly shown to the crowd in breach of a High Court order, with police saying
officers were making further inquiries.
Tommy
Robinson [was] Arrested in Canada. Plainclothes officers in Alberta, Canada, have
arrested independent journalist and anti-grooming gangs activist Tommy Robinson shortly after he
finished delivering a speech against mass migration in Calgary. He delivered a defiant
"F[...] Justin Trudeau" as he was forced into a police car in handcuffs. Robinson shot a
covert video in the police car after his arrest, asking who had ordered it. Officers informed
him that it had been authorized by "the minister's delegate" — referring to a minister
in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's far-left government.
British
Activist Tommy Robinson Arrested in Canada by Undercover Police. British journalist
and renowned free speech activist Tommy Robinson was arrested in Calgary, Canada, shortly after
delivering a powerful speech that criticized censorship and government overreach. Tommy
Robinson, known for his fervent advocacy against censorship, was in Canada for a speaking tour
organized in partnership with Rebel News, a conservative Canadian media outlet. His tour was
scheduled to include stops in Edmonton and Toronto following his Calgary event. [Tweet] His
speech, which received a standing ovation from the audience, was abruptly followed by his
arrest. Ten police officers, including both uniformed and undercover personnel, swarmed
Robinson after he exited the venue, placed him in an SUV, and drove him away.
Tommy
Robinson and the truth about two-tier policing. Tommy Robinson, a self-invented
English 'patriot', was free to attend yesterday's St George's Day event in central London which
descended into ugly clashes between participants and police. Earlier in the day, he had been
released from court after successfully arguing that a police dispersal order that resulted in his
arrest and charge in November last year was unlawfully applied to him due to a paperwork
blunder. He says he will now sue the Metropolitan police. Robinson has nearly half a
million followers on social media. They have, by now, fully absorbed the narrative that when
it comes to protest, Britain has a two-tier system of policing. This is a dangerous
accusation that is gaining traction, whatever the criminal justice boss class decide we should
think. But is it justified?
The
problem with Tommy Robinson's arrest. [Scroll down] Robinson knew what he
was doing on Sunday. He could have stayed away. When asked by the police to leave, he
could have packed up the cameras and sidled off. Instead, he argued and struggled until he
got what he almost certainly came for — his own arrest on camera. Regardless, the
police's role in all this is deeply worrying — and anyone who cares about freedom should
pay close attention to it. The grounds on which Robinson was arrested — that he
might cause 'harassment, alarm and distress' — are vague. How can the police claim
to know, preemptively, what will cause harassment, alarm and distress to others? After all,
they are the same police who apparently struggle to grasp the meaning of the barely veiled
genocidal chant, 'From the river to the sea'. And yet, we're supposed to believe that they
know who and what will cause harassment, alarm and distress in this case. All this seems like
a recipe for the arbitrary exercise of police power. Then there is the broader question of
the cost of such police interventions to our civil liberties. Did Robinson really need to be
removed from the vicinity of the march? There were more than enough police officers to keep
an eye on him. If at any point he had done something he shouldn't have done, then he would
have been arrested. But preemptively removing him under Section 35 surely violates the most
basic freedoms of assembly and protest.
Tommy
Robinson Is Arrested For Showing Up At Antisemitism March. In an amazing scene that
shows how far away from civil rights and equal justice the UK has fallen, activist Tommy Robinson
was just arrested in London before the start of a massive march against antisemitism.
Robinson was confronted by a battalion of cops while he drank his coffee before the start of the
march. Robinson told the police he was there to do interviews as a journalist but the cops
said he must leave because they were preventing harassment and distress to the community.
[Video clip]
Tommy
Robinson is held by police at Manchester airport. Tommy Robinson was filmed being detained by police at
Manchester Airport just hours after he claimed he was deported from Mexico. Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon,
featured in video footage which showed a heated confrontation with two police officers at the airport this afternoon who say
they were believed he had 'breached security'. In a Telegram message to his followers shared later today, the 39-year-old
accuses one Greater Manchester Police Officer of trying to 'bait' him into a reaction so they could 'arrest him legitimately'.
UK:
Muslim threatens to cut Tommy Robinson's neck off. "When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks" (Qur'an
47:4). The way things are going in shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain today, it's a wonder they haven't made
Muhammad Abdul Basir Prime Minister.
Tommy
Robinson Arrested for Restraining Child Molester. British activist Tommy Robinson has been arrested by British
police for restraining a child molester who grabbed his 8-year-old daughter's butt, sparking outrage across the United
Kingdom and beyond. The accused child molester, meanwhile, had not been arrested as of the time that Robinson went
public with the story. Robinson is a high-profile leader who was persecuted by authorities for exposing Islamic child
sex trafficking gangs operating in the British Isles.
Tommy
Robinson gets the Soviet-style 'socially allied elements' treatment. [Scroll down] The second fundamental
lesson is that the regime itself should not be directly implicated in the worst tortures. The "dirty work," wrote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, should be done by "socially allied elements." In the USSR, these were criminals who collaborated with
the authorities and got privileged positions as a result. In the case of Tommy Robinson, that role goes to "jihadists"
in prisons. Thus, the authorities are not only relieved of any responsibility, but they can assert that any violence
against "an enemy of the democracy" ("fascist," "racist," etc.) is a spontaneous manifestation of indignation. Even if
the person is not subject to violence, the very fact of being placed in such an environment is an unambiguous hint to him and
his supporters.
Tommy
Robinson and the Death of Britain. British authorities claimed that Tommy Robinson had prejudiced the outcome
of the trial of several members of a Muslim rape gang. This is arrant nonsense: the trial had been completed, and Tommy
was asking them what they thought of their having been convicted. There was, however, a gag order on the proceedings,
and it was on the basis of the claim that Tommy violated that gag order that he is now back in prison. Why was the gag
order put into place? The obvious reason is that the British government and law enforcement authorities are deeply
embarrassed by their abysmal record in dealing with Muslim rape gangs.
British
Justice System Tried To Get Even But Instead Made Tommy Robinson A Martyr. In effect: Tommy Robinson —
jailed today for nine months for contempt of court over a video he broadcast on Facebook which featured child grooming defendants in a
criminal trial — won. Tommy won because he made the British judicial system look as ridiculously absurd as it truly
is. If broadcasting the child-grooming defendants on Facebook in a criminal trial was the charge, why take their wrath on a
single activist rather than Big Gun Facebook?
Tommy
Robinson begs Trump for political asylum: 'I've been convicted for journalism'. Controversial independent
journalist Tommy Robinson is pleading with President Donald Trump to grant him political asylum within the United
States. "In desperation, I'm making the appeal to President Trump urging him to get his lawyers and his team to look
into my case. I've already been unlawfully imprisoned, now I've been convicted — not by a jury of
peers — but the government that got me through a back door. I've been convicted for journalism," Robinson
told The Gateway Pundit on Monday [7/8/2019].
Contempt is the New
Tax Evasion. I've just come off of two days holed up in London's Old Bailey. The famous court was once a
beacon of justice, though you wouldn't know it from what happened there to Tommy Robinson. Robinson stood trial last
week for the purported offence of filming sex groomers and gang rapists on their way into a Leeds courthouse last spring.
During a 90-minute Facebook Live stream, he broadcast their arrivals and asked them how they felt about the forthcoming
verdicts. Several responded with lewd comments about Robinson's wife and mother. Nevertheless, Dame Victoria
Sharp, president of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, ruled that Robinson was causing them anxiety and distress,
thereby interfering with justice and putting him in contempt of court. He was also found guilty of filming in a manner
"likely to impede justice," though it had no such effect, [...]
U.K.
judges deliver 2nd slapdown to Tommy Robinson. Two British judges have delivered a second slapdown to activist
and Muslim critic Tommy Robinson, finding him guilty of contempt for posting a video taken outside a court during the trial
of Muslims who eventually were convicted of gang rape. Robinson had been sentenced to 13 months for contempt when he
posted an interview with individuals outside the court in 2018. He appealed and was released for two months, but prosecutors
re-filed charges.
Tommy
Robinson's view: What really happened at the Muslim riot in Oldham. Tommy Robinson's campaign in Oldham
was attacked by more than 100 Muslim rioters on Saturday [5/18/2019], many wearing masks and throwing rocks and bricks.
This is Tommy's personal reaction to that riot, including his criticism of police tactics: [Video clip]
Muslim
rioters ATTACK Tommy Robinson voters with bottles, bricks in Oldham. Approximately 100 men, dressed mostly in
black, and many wearing face masks and keffiyehs, disrupted Tommy's rally. First they threw eggs, then tossed bottles
and bricks at Tommy's supporters, including women and children. Eventually riot police were dispatched.
Muslim
gang attacks Tommy Robinson rally with bottles, bricks. [Several video clips.]
Tommy
Robinson Calls out the Fake News Media for Trying to Destroy His Life. Tommy Robinson, the British journalist
and activist who was jailed for speaking out about the trial of Islamic rape gangs in defiance of court orders, is free and
attacking the biased press for trying to destroy his life. Robinson has faced extreme censorship, having his accounts
banned from Twitter and Facebook, and is now facing two strikes on YouTube. Robinson released a new video on YouTube
going after the fake news, in particular, the BBC.
Judge
Jeanine and the paradoxes of the post-9/11 world. It's certainly harder now to publish a frank book about Islam
than it was, say, a decade ago. Prominent individuals who openly criticized the religion a few years back now either
stay mum or use the word "Islamism," which implies that jihadists are motivated by something other than Islam itself.
In Britain and elsewhere, the authorities increasingly harass, and even prosecute, citizens for sharing straightforward facts
about Islam on social media. While the kind of people Hillary Clinton called "deplorables" support sensible policies,
such as Trump's so-called "Muslim ban," that are designed to protect them from jihad (whether of the violent or "stealth"
variety), cultural elites have learned to reflexively condemn such policies as "Islamophobic." Countless ordinary Brits cheer
Tommy Robinson, but has any famous person — any "respectable" figure — in that country dared to stand
up for him in the face of official persecution?
Amazon
Bans Tommy Robinson's Book, 'Mohammed's Koran'. On January 7 of this year, I published an article at PJ Media
about Amazon removing doormats featuring Qur'an verses from sale because the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
found them offensive. In that article, I asked: ["]How long will it be before Hamas-linked CAIR starts
demanding that books that criticize jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others also be dropped by
Amazon?["] The answer turned out to be 51 days. It's the British government and the BBC,
rather than CAIR, that are likely behind this, but Amazon has just dropped the book Mohammed's Koran by the renowned British
activist Tommy Robinson and Peter McLoughlin — and apparently only because its censors dislike Robinson.
Tommy
Robinson Banned from Facebook, Instagram. Facebook has banned British citizen journalist and street organiser
Tommy Robinson from its platforms, including Instagram, in a move that comes days after he released a new documentary
exposing what he claimed to be dishonest practise at establishment media giant BBC. The social media giant claimed in a
statement published Tuesday that Tommy Robinson's own Facebook page, which had around one million 'likes' before deletion,
"has repeatedly broken [Facebook community] standards, posting material that uses dehumanizing language and calls for
violence targeted at Muslims. He has also behaved in ways that violate our policies around organized hate."
Instagram
Bans Tommy Robinson As Conservative Purge Continues. Anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson was imprisoned in May
for filming outside of a Muslim grooming trial in Great Britain. Tommy Robinson was freed on bail last week after
appealing his imprisonment for contempt of court. A 13 month sentence was imposed on the same day as Robinson's arrest
in May for filming outside a grooming gang trial in Leeds. On Wednesday [8/1/2018] it was struck down by Lord Chief
Justice Burnett and two other judges.
How
British Jailers Abused Tommy Robinson. The jailers of newly freed human rights activist Tommy Robinson
deliberately subjected him to inhumane treatment behind bars in England, according to independent journalist Ezra Levant of
the Canadian news website, TheRebel.media. The goal of the authorities seems to have been to silence Robinson, perhaps
permanently. "Tommy has endured two months as a genuine political prisoner, and I say that thoughtfully," Levant
said. "I don't want to throw around the word political prisoner. Britain is still a great liberal democracy, but
not in the case of Tommy Robinson, they weren't." Robinson's lawyers, Carson Kaye of London, released a statement
celebrating his release: "The rule of law and the right to a fair hearing are fundamental to every individual and this
ruling [is] an example of the procedural safeguards of our system, and its potential for protecting every citizen equally."
Tommy
Robinson Freed, Judge Hammers 'Unfairness' of Original Trial. The man at the center of an international debate
over the limits of free speech was freed on bail Wednesday after a panel of judges in the United Kingdom ruled a recent trial
against him was handled so quickly it did not allow all evidence to be properly considered. According to the U.K. Sun,
political activist and English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson, 35, was greeted with applause and hugs from supporters
who traveled to the Onley Prison this week ahead of his release. According to the BBC, Robinson was arrested in May,
convicted of contempt charges and sentenced to more than a year behind bars for his broadcast on social media of video
depicting defendants in a trial in Leeds Crown Court. According to the Sun, the trial was "subject to blanket reporting
restrictions."
Tommy Robinson bailed after Court
of Appeal win. Former English Defence League (EDL) leader Tommy Robinson has been released on bail after
winning an appeal against a contempt of court finding. The 35-year-old admitted the charge and was jailed in May for
filming outside Leeds Crown Court during a trial. At the Court of Appeal, Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett ruled the
case be reheard as there had been technical flaws by the judge who jailed him. Robinson's solicitors said everyone has
the "right to a fair hearing".
Tommy
Robinson Released on Bail by Court of Appeal. The British Court of Appeal has released street organiser and
citizen journalist Tommy Robinson from prison on bail, pending a fresh hearing over his contempt of court charge. Lord
Chief Justice Lord Burnett quashed the contempt of court conviction handed to the former English Defence League leader in
May, which saw the activist going from arrest to trial, and to prison in just five hours and under a blanket of enforced
media silence.
Blogger
Convicted of Defaming an Islamist Although What He Said Is True. In Quebec, Philippe Magnan, an anti-radical
Islamist blogger who operates the website Poste de veille was recently found guilty of defamation against sharia-supporting
Dalila Awada. What he reported is not being disputed, including the fact that she links to radicals in her
postings. Despite the accuracy of the information he has to pay $60,000 in damages. Magnan has announced his
intention to appeal the decision.
Trudeau
Gives Preference to Islam over all other Religions in Canada. Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau and his Liberal
government have just committed a major political blunder which in the long term will hurt Trudeau and his Liberal party in
their re-election efforts. Trudeau and his Liberals have started a process of developing, issuing and then passing a
law which will give preferential treatment to Islam and all followers and adherents of Islam in Canada over all other
Canadian religious groups, including Canadian Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus and Sikhs, just to name a few
of the major religious faiths practiced in Canada. Motion M103 was introduced by a Liberal MP backbencher, Iqra Khalid,
a Muslim Canadian. This motion has been taken up and defended by the Canadian Heritage Minister Melanie Joly. It is
clear Trudeau, the PMO office and the full Liberal Cabinet are strongly behind this very controversial legislative initiative.
Anti-Blasphemy
Laws Are Blasphemous. In October, Ireland will vote on whether to eliminate a clause banning blasphemy from its
constitution. The provision, and the corresponding criminal law, have not been enforced for years. But they are
not without support. Five years ago the Catholic Order of the Knights of Saint Columbanus and Islamic Cultural Center
both argued for retention of the measure at a constitutional convention. But almost certainly the poll will doom even
the theoretical possibility of blasphemy prosecutions. However, as the Islamic Cultural Center's support might suggest,
similar prohibitions are alive, well, and badly abused throughout the Muslim world.
Tommy Robinson: Prime Political
Prisoner. Tommy was due to get a hearing on July 10th but the Crown Prosecution has set up a new obstacle.
Help
Pay For Tommy Robinson's Legal Appeal. Moments ago I received a shocking message from Tommy Robinson's
family. Tommy's legal appeal, scheduled for next week in London's Royal Courts of Justice, has been cancelled.
The excuse? The government's lawyers say they're not ready. That's a damnable lie, of course. Tommy has
been languishing in prison since May 25th. The Crown Prosecution Service — what could be called the UK's
largest law firm — has had a month and a half to prepare. They have every legal expert at their
disposal. They have unlimited resources.
Freedom of Speech and the Case
of Tommy Robinson. Tommy Robinson has, almost by default, become an icon of the Freedom of Speech movement in the UK.
A convicted fraudster and founder of a working class, anti-Islamist, street movement, the English Defence League, he is an unlikely hero.
Despite judicial warnings, he was arrested and convicted — after pleading guilty — for contempt of court after filming defendants
entering court, ostensibly in breach of court-ordered reporting restrictions. The trial Robinson was covering is one of many across the
country where groups of young, predominantly Muslim men have been charged with the industrial rape of girls as young as twelve. Most
of these cases get minimal coverage in the mainstream media — in order, in part to maintain good, "community relations." Robinson was
arrested, charged, and imprisoned in a mere four hours, without access to his own lawyer. His sentences are to be served consecutively,
not concurrently as is the legal norm. It is hard not to conclude that this was to make a public example of him.
Tommy
Robinson's Last Stand. Tommy Robinson's imprisonment and the events that followed show just how swiftly Britain
has become Sharia-compliant. The country has already submitted to its dhimmi status within Islam even though
their Muslim population makes up just 5% of the country's total population. [...] The tragedy of Britain's appeasement is
that its dhimmitude is being enforced for the most part by the non-Muslim British majority — by the British
police, the British elites, the British media, and the British government — while there is a campaign of terror
being waged against the sensible majority who rightly resist being made into dhimmi subjects while they still constitute the
demographic majority. There is no better example of their submission to Sharia than the gag order placed on media
coverage of the so-called "grooming gangs" trials.
Tommy Transferred to 71% Muslim
Prison. Why? Tommy Robinson has been moved from a relatively safe prison to a place where his manager thinks he'll be
killed. An American Congressional representative, Paul Gosar from Arizona, has spoken from the floor of the House so that Tommy's
predicament will become part of the permanent Congressional record here in the United States: [...]
20,000
People Come Out for Tommy Robinson at London's Whitehall. The amount of misinformation is still out there in
relation to Tommy, propagated by the media, of course, via their use of buzzwords and the very worst possible images they can
obtain. I would have thought that 20,000 politically and legally minded, liberty conscious individuals who had taken
the time to travel to London in order to protest the persecution of a UK citizen who dares to speak out about Islam would
merit better headlines and a deeper and more honest reportage. The other takeaway from the event is the behaviour of
the left-wing youth of today, who are incapable of critical or logical thinking, and who are instead walking around as raw
balls of uninformed and uncontrolled emotion.
London:
Massive Crowds Gather to Hear Geert Wilders Demand Tommy Robinson's Release. Massive crowds turned out in London
on Saturday [6/9/2018] to rally for free speech and hear Dutch firebrand Geert Wilders demand the release of Tommy Robinson from
prison. "It's so good to see so many of you here today, you are all heroes for being here today," said the Freedom Party
leader, an outspoken critic of radical Islam who rose to second place in the Dutch national elections last year.
While
Tommy Robinson Gets Locked Up, Terrorists Get Released. In a recent column, Dr. Victor Davis Hanson wrote,
"It is more dangerous for a European citizen to publicly object to illegal immigration than for a foreigner to enter Europe
illegally." The UK also embraces a similar principle: in Britain, it's more dangerous to criticize sexual predators than
it is to be one.
Tommy
Robinson 'Disappears': Free Speech in England Is Dead. The arrest of British free speech activist Tommy
Robinson has sent shockwaves across the Anglosphere. The United Kingdom, once dedicated to the values of freedom, has
taken a path toward authoritarian government and away from freedom. The once great nation, which created the Magna
Carta and once commanded an empire, is now the land of tyranny. Unless the British people love their freedom enough and
fight this injustice in fierce fashion, it will remain a land silenced by intimidation and fear. The authoritarian
socialist government of the United Kingdom has been out to get Robinson for years on anything it can. It has harassed,
intimidated, arrested, and incarcerated Robinson, as it did last May, since it is now apparently a "crime" to report on the
decades-long systematic rape of hundreds of non-Muslim children by gangs of Muslim men, who are now apparently a protected
class of people.
Trashing Tommy Robinson.
"What we cannot complain is that Tommy Robinson is being detained illegally," asserts British journalist James Delingpole in
a Monday [6/4/2018] article for Breitbart. Now, Delingpole is supposed to be one of the good guys when it comes to this sort
of thing. In the same article, in fact, he maintains that he is friendly with Robinson, who on May 25 was arrested while
streaming live on Facebook from outside Leeds Criminal Court, where several Muslims were being tried for mass child rape.
Tommy was then brought before a judge who sent him straight to prison for having violated the terms under which he was released
by another judge last year. Delingpole says he admires Tommy and considers him brave. At the same time, alas,
Delingpole charges that Tommy is "an adrenaline junkie who sometimes pushes it that bit too far." First, anent "adrenaline
junkie": I'd suggest that a lot of the great men and women of history were probably adrenaline junkies. I think Trump is
one. Thomas Edison barely slept. Neither did Nikola Tesla. Or Leonardo da Vinci. "Pushing too far"?
Tommy's "offense" last year was trying to videotape alleged Muslim pedophiles outside a courthouse in Canterbury.
Texas Commission on Law
Enforcement bows to Muslims, rejects credits for training on sharia and jihad. After receiving complaints from
advocacy groups about officers getting education credit for taking a class taught by an anti-Islamic speaker, the Texas
Commission on Law Enforcement reversed an earlier statement and said it will not grant hours to those who attended the
session. The commission's director sent a letter Wednesday to the Concho Valley Regional Law Enforcement Academy,
stating it was rejecting credit hours for a day-long session held by ex-FBI agent John Guandolo in San Angelo earlier this
month called "Understanding the Jihadi Threat to America." Law enforcement officers in Texas must undergo 40 hours
of continuing education training every two years. "Upon review of the recording of the seminar, the Commission shares
some of the concerns that we have received from members of the public that the material paints an entire religion with an
overly broad brush," wrote TCOLE Executive Director Kim Vickers.
UK: A New Drive for Islamic
Blasphemy Laws? It is reasonable to assume that the planned report and the ensuing work on finding a definition
of "Islamophobia" is meant effectively to destroy the little that remains of free speech in the UK. The Anti-Muslim
Hatred Working Group has as its top priority "tackling the far right and counter jihadists". It seems a peculiar
government priority to "tackle" people who are opposed to jihad; one would assume that the British government is also against
jihad. According to British government logic, then, after Muslims stabbed and beheaded British Army soldier Lee Rigby
in broad daylight in London, Muslim institutions needed protection — not British ones.
Tommy
Robinson and Our Free Speech Rights. On Friday, May 25, human rights activist Tommy Robinson was
arrested. Robinson has been bringing attention to the cover-up of one of the worst scandals in British history: the
organized seduction, addicting, rape, and trafficking of young English girls by so-called "grooming" gangs, primarily
Muslim. The abuse was not confined to prostituting these children (under age 16); they included instances of horrific
physical abuse as well. In some cases these girls were doused with gasoline while their tormentors danced around them
with cigarette-lighters, threatening to immolate them; in others, a girl's tongue would be nailed to a table. These
girls have been devastated. When fathers or brothers attempted to rescue them, the police arrested the family member
instead, calling the abuse "consensual." This is what Robinson has been revealing: institutionalized child abuse in
his own country on a massive scale, with the cooperation of government. A working-class man, Robinson's accent belies the
seriousness and propriety of his position. He opposes sharia, he stands up for returning British soldiers and for free
speech, and he abhors abuse of women and children. He doesn't quote philosophers, but he speaks from the heart and from
a considerable intellect.
Tommy
Robinson Drew Attention to "Grooming Gangs." Britain Has Persecuted Him. Tommy Robinson is a British
political activist and "citizen journalist" who came to prominence in Britain almost a decade ago when he founded the English
Defence League. The EDL was a street-protest movement in Britain whose aims could probably best be summarized as
"anti-Islamization." It emerged in the town of Luton after a group of local Islamists barracked the homecoming parade of
a local regiment returning from service in Afghanistan. From their earliest protests the EDL's members sought to
highlight issues including sharia law, Islam's attitudes toward minorities, and the phenomenon that would become
euphemistically known as "grooming gangs." In reality these protests often descended into hooliganism and low-level
violence (naturally helped along by self-described "anti-fascists"). The authorities did everything they could to stop
the EDL, and the media did everything possible to demonize them.
The
Suicide of Europe. [Scroll down] It turns out that Robinson was given a suspended sentence last year for
filming outside another court building, where a trial for alleged gang rape by radical Muslims was taking place. He
wasn't inside the courtroom. Nonetheless, the judge believed he was somehow biasing the jurors. According to the
judge, Robinson was sentenced thanks to "pejorative language which prejudges the case, and it is language and reporting ...
that could have had the effect of substantially derailing the trial." This time, Robinson was again arrested for
prejudicing a case, only he wasn't inside the court building. He was outside. And the media were originally
banned from reporting on his arrest so that his trial wouldn't be biased. In other words, Britain has now
effectively banned reporting that actually mentions the Islamic nature of criminal defendants for fear of stirring up
bigotry — and has banned reporting on reporting on such defendants. It's an infinite regress of suicidal
political correctness.
Global
Establishment Closes Ranks Against Tommy Robinson. The case is strange indeed: Robinson was live-streaming
on Facebook from the street in front of a courthouse in Leeds where a number of defendants were on trial for rape.
Reportedly, he was reading the names of the defendants and the crimes with which they were charged. That was enough
to bring out the paddy wagon. Police officers descended on Robinson, arrested him on "suspicion of breaching the peace,"
and hauled him off to court. Within a matter of hours he had been imprisoned for contempt of court. Not only that,
the court issued an order barring all UK press outlets from reporting on Robinson's arrest and imprisonment.
British Media: Lockstep
Lies. Hundreds of supporters of Tommy Robinson filled the streets of London on Saturday [5/26/2018] in protest
against his arrest in Leeds on Friday, but it was not until shortly after midnight on Monday that the Daily Mail
posted a report about the protest on its website. The story, which was unsigned, was updated on early Monday afternoon.
How to explain the delay? Did the Daily Mail's lawyers have to check with the British government, which had placed a gag
order on reporting about the arrest, to make sure that it was permissible to report on the protest, if not directly on the arrest
itself? The Mail made sure to describe the hundreds of protesters as "far-right." How did the Mail ascertain their
politics? Does it not occur to the Mail that even if Robinson were far-right, which he is not, a British subject would not
have to be far right to want to take in a protest against his shockingly rapid-fire arrest, trial, conviction, and imprisonment for the
sole offense of reporting from outside a courthouse?
The
Beginning Of The End Of British Justice. Britain, once the champion of the rule of law and due process no
longer is, and it's official. Tommy Robinson is a well known journalist and activist who opposes the Islamization of
the UK. Yesterday, he was video taping and adding commentary outside the courtroom where one of the three trials is being
held for the Muslim sex grooming gangs who raped and forced over a thousand girls into prostitution. This is something
the authorities were fully aware of but only chose to take action against when coverage of what was going on finally shamed
them into it.
Britain
moves from Orwell to Kafka, imprisoning Tommy Robinson and gagging media reports. Is Britain lost to the ranks
of free nations? The land that bequeathed the world the Magna Carta and the "mother of parliaments" is indulging in
totalitarianism with its handling of Tommy Robinson, a famous political activist agitating about the threat of radical Islam,
and attempting to report on the trial of a Muslim "grooming gang" that allegedly preyed on young English girls, forcing them
into prostitution.
Tommy
Robinson will be the UK's tipping point. If the government were at all smart and strategic, they would hire
Tommy Robinson as an adviser on terrorism. He has consistently identified extremists, because he grew up among them in
Luton. He has consistently told us the names of the mosques that are churning out radicals, as well as naming the
imams. He has been right time after time, and instead of hiring Tommy (whose information could contribute to keeping us
all safe), our government bent down to the MCB and MEND, both of whom have ties to extremists. All of this is okay with
our government, because these Muslim organisations bring with them the Muslim voting bloc, and so the parliamentary doors are
flung wide open to them at the same time that our liberties get thrown out the window.
Britain
is Now a Genuine Police State. There are a number of court cases taking place in Britain which are subject to
reporting restrictions. A good percentage of these — and we really don't know how many, which I think is
rather the idea — relate to Muslim gang-rape trials. Tommy was under a 13-month suspended sentence for
previously reporting on a gang-rape trial subject to reporting restrictions. In other words, if he broke the law again
he would then serve the jail time as per the initial sentence. I'm not sure if the trial he was reporting on when he
was arrested was yet another "reporting restriction" case, but if it was (which I think it was) the police have a duty to
issue a warning before taking action if the warning was ignored. Again, I am unsure as to what happened here. But
the police made no mention of reporting restrictions or contempt of court; they arrested him for "breaching the peace" which
would seem to be a total fabrication and therefore unlawful. His immediate hearing and sentencing suggests this was a
planned action by the police (and our lovely government) in order to shut him down.
UK: You're Not Allowed
to Talk about It. About What? Don't Ask.. On Friday [5/25/2018], British free-speech activist and
Islam critic Tommy Robinson was acting as a responsible citizen journalist — reporting live on camera from outside
a Leeds courtroom where several Muslims were being tried for child rape — when he was set upon by several police
officers. In the space of the next few hours, a judge tried, convicted, and sentenced him to 13 months in
jail — and also issued a gag order, demanding a total news blackout on the case in the British news media.
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was immediately taken to Hull Prison. Most media outlets were
remarkably compliant. News stories that had already been posted online after Robinson's arrest at the Scottish Daily
Record, Birmingham Live, The Mirror, RT, and Breitbart News were promptly pulled down,
although, curiously, a report remained up at the Independent, a left-wing broadsheet that can be counted on to view
Robinson as a hooligan.
Arrest
of Tommy Robinson, and UK's frightening media gag order. Over the weekend the UK, and the social media
connected world, witnessed the stunning arrest of Tommy Robinson for "breaching the peace" outside a Leeds court during an
explosive grooming gang trial. Robinson showed the accused men entering Leeds Crown Court in a livestream on Facebook,
where he was "reporting" on the grooming gang case. After more than an hour of broadcasting, footage showed police
officers approaching to arrest him for alleged breach of the peace and "incitement" of court. Robinson was under a
suspended sentence for committing contempt of court over a similar gang rape case in Canterbury last year. [...] Fox News
reported that UK officials placed an unprecedented gag order on media to vainly keep the disappearance of Tommy Robinson
hidden from the public. Robinson's lawyer warned that, considering the presence of Muslim gang members in prison, a
13-month sentence was tantamount to a death sentence.
At last, a speedy
police response. The founder of the English Defence League, Tommy Robinson, turned up in Leeds on Thursday
[5/24/2018] to film people going into a grooming trial. He did not speak, chant, accost anyone or do anything other
than point his mobile phone at attendees, from a distance. Nor was he with a crowd. Still, seven coppers turned
up and bundled him into a paddy-wagon accusing him of a breach of the peace. I'm not remotely a fan of Robinson.
But I do not like the idea that simply being Robinson is enough to get you arrested.
Demonstrators
mass at the gates of Downing Street to demand EDL founder Tommy Robinson is released. Hundreds of Tommy
Robinson supporters flocked to Downing Street on Saturday to demand the release of the far-right leader. Robinson, 35,
was arrested on suspicion of breaching the peace on Friday after he was seen filming outside a court house. It has
caused a furious backlash among his supporters who stormed Whitehall on Saturday to stage a protest.
Was
Tommy Robinson arrested for being Tommy Robinson? The founder of the English Defence League, Tommy Robinson,
turned up in Leeds on Thursday to film people going into the trial of several Muslim men accused of "grooming" and sexually
assaulting white girls. He did not speak, chant, accost anyone or do anything other than point his mobile phone at
attendees, from a distance. Nor was he with a crowd. Still, seven coppers turned up and bundled him into a
paddy-wagon accusing him of a breach of the peace. I'm not remotely a fan of Robinson. But I do not like the
idea that simply being Robinson is enough to get you arrested.
UK
MEP says Tommy Robinson arrest "politically motivated" amid massive protest in London over his arrest. This
case is much bigger than Tommy Robinson. Whatever one may think of him and his work, style, or approach, he is being
harassed and persecuted by the British government for calling attention to the activity of Muslim rape gangs, which British
authorities have done everything they could to cover up, and to jihad violence and Sharia oppression in general. Yes,
he was arrested for violating the terms of his probation by filming outside a courthouse where a Muslim rape gang was being
tried, but the prohibition on him doing that was wrong in the first place. Clearly he was arrested, rather than simply
given a warning as Janice Atkinson says in this video, because of who he is and what he does: his arrest was of a piece with the
government's desire to keep people ignorant and complacent regarding Muslim rape gangs and the high cost of mass Muslim migration.
An uprising is happening now.
Tommy Robinson, an outspoken critic of the UK's anti-free speech laws has been arrested and locked up for 13 months —
all within the span of an hour. The U.K. has placed hard restrictions requiring the media to not even mention Robinson's name
or details of the arrest.
[Redacted]
Arrested for [Redacted] Outside [Redacted]: Leeds Crown Court Issues Media Ban. The Leeds Crown Court has
issued a UK media ban following the arrest of well-known activist and citizen journalist [redacted] outside [redacted].
The reporting restriction, which requires on all publications within the United Kingdom to cease any mention of the details
of the arrest or court proceedings of [redacted], was issued Friday afternoon [5/25/2018].
Orwell's
Nightmare: Articles About Tommy Robinson's Arrest Rapidly Scrubbed From the Internet. Articles about the
arrest and subsequent imprisonment of independent journalist and activist Tommy Robinson are being rapidly scrubbed from the
internet after the British government put restrictions in place banning any reporting on the matter.
Anarcho-Tyranny in the
UK. Disturbing news has come to light from the United Kingdom this morning, courtesy of author and journalist
Lauren Southern, and of Cassandra Fairbanks at Gateway Pundit. Apparently, after being arrested while live on film, for
nothing more than covering a trial of suspected participants in a rape grooming gang, the controversial anti-Islam activist
Tommy Robinson has been sentenced to 13 months in prison. A prison, coincidentally, that is likely to be filled with
Muslim criminals who will make it a point to kill Robinson.
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