Monthly Archives: March 2006

Oriana Fallaci: Muslim takeover of Europe was planned by Palestinians

Posted on by Eddie Truman

Oriana FallaciOriana Fallaci claims that when she interviewed George Habash in 1972 he let slip the Muslim grand strategy of conquering Europe by breeding.

At first she thought the leading Palestinian politician was just talking about terrorism but now she realises that he “also meant the cultural war, the demographic war, the religious war waged by stealing a country from its citizens … In short, the war waged through immigration, fertility, presumed pluriculturalism.”

This of course fits in with her statement that Muslims have “multiplied like rats” in Europe.

If only she’d spotted it then, she could have told, and presumably saved, the world.

And of course the dear old lady is “stricken with cancer and has been hounded by death threats and charges of ‘Islamophobia'”.

We’re genuinely regretful about her medical condition; the longer Oriana Fallaci is on this earth spouting her foul racist poison, the more the true motivations of the Islamophobes are exposed.

LA Weekly, 15 March 2006

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Islamophobia Watch articles on Oriana Fallaci here.

Is Muslim immigration to Europe a conspiracy?

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“In The Force of Reason, the controversial Italian journalist and novelist Oriana Fallaci illuminates one of the central enigmas of our time. How did Europe become home to an estimated 20 million Muslims in a mere three decades?”

More racism in the form of wacko conspiracy theories in LA Weekly, 15 March 2006

For a comment by American socialist Louis Proyect, in which he attacks the “left” Islamophobia that is as rife in the US as it is in the UK, see here.

Fascists launch election leaflet

Posted on by Bob Pitt

BNP council electionsThe British National Party have launched their leaflet for the May council elections. It reads:

“Terrorist atrocities in London, militant marches on our streets and ‘preachers’ calling for the deaths of normal British people simply because they don’t follow Islam. This is not some nightmare vision – but the reality of Islamic extremism in Britain today, yet our government do nothing but pander to these people.

“The BNP say enough is enough! We are the only people speaking out against the dangers of the Islamification of Britain. If you want to make Blair and Co hear you [sic] voice, vote BNP, and use this election as a referendum on Islam.”

BNP news article, 14 March 2006

Top US evangelist targets Islam

Posted on by Bob Pitt

Pat RobertsonOutspoken US Christian evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson has accused Muslims of planning world domination, and said some were “satanic”.

On his live television programme, The 700 Club, he said radical Islamists were inspired by “demonic power”.

He went on to say that “Islam is not a religion of peace”, and “the goal of Islam, ladies and gentlemen whether you like it or not, is world domination”.

BBC News, 14 March 2006

Telegraph accused of capitulation to ‘Islamic threat’

Posted on by Bob Pitt

Noble Qur'anThe latest cause célèbre adopted by right-wing bloggers in their campaign to defend free speech (i.e. the right to vilify Muslims) is the Sunday Telegraph‘s decision to remove from its website an interview by Alasdair Palmer with Patrick Sookhdeo, head of the Christian evangelical organisation the Barnabas Fund, which originally appeared in the 19 February issue of the paper. The Telegraph has explained that this was for “legal reasons”.

The “legal reasons” undoubtedly refer to Sookhdeo’s attack on the book The Noble Qur’an: A New Rendering of its Meaning in English. “It calls for the killing of Jews and Christians”, Palmer’s article quoted Sookhdeo as saying, “and it sets out a strategy for killing the infidels and for warfare against them. The Government has done nothing whatever to interfere with the sale of that book. Why not? Government ministers have promised to punish religious hatred, to criminalise the glorification of terrorism, yet they do nothing about this book, which blatantly does both.”

The book named by Sookhdeo is a highly-regarded translation of the Qur’an by Abdalhaqq and Aisha Bewley. His attack, which provoked an international outcry, was plainly libellous, and it would appear that the Bewleys asked for, and received, a retraction by the Telegraph. (For details, see here, here and here.)

For the Islamophobic inhabitants of the blogosphere, the removal of the article from the Telegraph site is just another example of western capitulation to the “Islamic threat”. Western Resistance, the Infidel Bloggers Alliance and Exit Zero are among the blogs that have reprinted the Sookhdeo interview, all in the interests of freedom of expression, you understand. Hopefully the Bewleys will sue the lot of them.

The Infidel Bloggers site goes so far as to claim that, by publicising and denouncing the Sookhdeo interview, Islamophobia Watch was responsible for the sacking of former Sunday Telegraph editor Sarah Sands. Publishing Alasdair Palmer’s article without checking the facts may have been an act of incompetence on Sands’ part, but we doubt this was the cause of her dismissal. A rather more pressing reason was the continuing decline in the paper’s circulation that accompanied her nine-month period as editor.

New polls show negative perception of Islam

Posted on by Bob Pitt

The first time Glenn Koehler can remember learning about Muslims and the Islamic faith was in September 1972, when a Palestinian terrorist group called Black September murdered 11 Israeli hostages during the Olympics in Munich, Germany. “Then the second was Sept. 11,” Koehler said. “So there’s really been no pleasant introductions.”

Koehler is a 58-year-old Fremont engineer. He describes himself as a Lutheran, politically conservative and a registered Republican who receives much of his news from the Drudge Report, Michael Savage and the Alliance Defense Fund, a legal advocacy group for Christian rights. He does not have Muslim friends, and he says he agrees with the statements that Muslims teach their children to hate unbelievers, Muslims value life less than other people and Islam teaches violence and hatred.

Koehler is not alone. Two polls released last week indicate almost half of Americans have a negative perception of Islam, and one in four of those surveyed have extreme anti-Muslim views.

An independent survey by the Council on American-Islamic Relations shows 23 to 27 percent of all Americans believe Muslims value life less than other people and that Islam teaches violence and hatred. The survey also showed only 6 percent of Americans have a positive first impression of Islam and Muslims. A similar poll released by the Washington Post and ABC News found that one in four Americans “admitted to harboring prejudice toward Muslims,” and 46 percent had a negative view of Islam, a 7 percent jump since the months after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

When asked to respond to the open-ended question, “When you hear the word ‘Muslim,’ what is the first thought that comes to your mind?” Koehler said: “Religion of death.”

The Argus, 13 March 2006

‘Islamo-fascists threaten British freedom of speech’

Posted on by Bob Pitt

Thus the headline to the latest BNP news release. The fascists’ indignation is directed against the Muslim Action Committee’s statement, as reported in Eastern Eye, that they want legal action to be taken against the BNP over its latest anti-Muslim leaflet. The Eastern Eye report claims: “Under the government’s new race and religion law, the BNP can be prosecuted if its leaflets stir up hatred and pose a direct threat to Muslim people.”

Unfortunately, this is not true. The Racial and Religious Hatred Bill was wrecked by the “Lester amendment”, formulated by Lib Dem peer Lord Lester, which rejected the government’s proposal to illegalise material that has the effect of stirring up hatred against Muslims. For a successful prosecution, it would be necessary to prove that the BNP intended to incite hatred through their leaflet, and proof of subjective intent is notoriously difficult to establish. Nor does the law, as neutered by Lester and his friends, criminalise material that poses an objective threat to Muslims. Rather, it would be necessary for the prosecution to demonstrate that the words contained in the BNP pamphlet are themselves “threatening”. And the fascists have taken care to ensure that they are not.

Kilroy-Silk defends ‘freedom of speech’

Posted on by Bob Pitt

Kilroy-Silk“Freedom of speech is an imperative part of British society, and it must stay that way. That message was conveyed by the outspoken Euro MP Robert Kilroy-Silk at the annual Magen David Adom dinner, which raised more than £300,000. He told guests at Mere Golf and Country Club: ‘There is a growing insidious belief in Britain that we can’t say what we want. Free speech is paramount to a democratic state.’ Mr Kilroy-Silk also criticised Muslim states for their backward laws. He said: ‘They cut people’s hands off, they behead people and they behave abominably towards women’. But the former talkshow host was full of praise for Israel. ‘It’s the only democratic state in a region of tyranny,’ he said.”

Jewish Telegraph, 10 March 2006

Hat tip: Charlie Pottins

Sanity on Islam is sailing out of port

Posted on by Bob Pitt

Tim Rutten examines the background to the Islamophobic campaign in the US media which prevented the UAE-owned company Dubai Ports World taking over the commercial contracts on five US ports.

Los Angeles Times, 11 March 2006

See also Ali H. Aslan’s article “Politicians and media provoke Islamophobia in US” in Zaman, 10 March 2006 and “Two new polls show negative image of Islam in US”, CAIR news report, 9 March 2006.

Update:  See Parvez Ahmed, “Dubai Ports fallout / Islamophobia on the rise”, SFGate, 13 March 2006