Yearly Archives: 2006

Call for ban on Azzam Tamimi

Posted on by Bob Pitt

azzam tamimi 2Jewish groups are concerned over a speaker addressing an Islamic conference in Manchester on Sunday. Dr Azzam Tamimi, who is one of the guest speakers at the ExpoIslamia convention, has said suicide bombings are justified in certain circumstances. Louis Rappaport, president of the Jewish Representative Council of Gtr Manchester, said Dr Tamimi would not help Jewish-Muslim relations.

BBC News, 20 August 2006

See also World Net Daily, 20 August 2006

You can imagine what the outcry would be if a Muslim organisation called for a supporter of Israeli state terrorism to be excluded from the platform of an event organised by the Jewish community.

Passengers refuse to fly until Asians are removed

Posted on by Bob Pitt

Mutiny on Flight 613British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny – refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed.

The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on a Malaga-Manchester flight overheard two men of Asian appearance apparently talking Arabic.

Passengers told cabin crew they feared for their safety and demanded police action. Some stormed off the Monarch Airlines Airbus A320 minutes before it was due to leave the Costa del Sol at 3am. Others waiting for Flight ZB 613 in the departure lounge refused to board it.

The Monarch pilot accompanied by armed Civil Guard police and airport security staff, approached the two men and took their passports. Half an hour later, police returned and escorted the two Asian passengers off the jet.

Websites used by pilots and cabin crew were yesterday reporting further incidents. In one, two British women with young children on another flight from Spain complained about flying with a bearded Muslim even though he had been security-checked twice before boarding.

Mail on Sunday, 20 August 2006

Robert Spencer comments: “no doubt all sorts of opprobrium is now going to rain down on the passengers’ heads: cries of ingrained ‘Islamophobia’, and calls by Muslim leaders and their willing Leftist stooges for some kind of institutionalized and nationwide ‘education’ (i.e. propaganda) campaign to prevent this sort of thing.”

Jihad Watch, 20 August 2006

For Osama Saeed’s comments, see Rolled Up Trousers, 20 August 2006

See also Pickled Politics, 20 August 2006

Update:  See “Anger as ‘mob’ forces Muslim men off aircraft”, Independent, 21 August 2006

‘Suicide of the West’

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madmel“When Britain was attacked last year on 7/7 by Islamic jihadis, it was said that this was a doomsday wake-up call for the U.K. Within a short time, however, much of the country decided that it was Britain’s own fault on account of ‘Islamophobia’ and the war in Iraq…. From the evidence of one opinion poll this week, the British public has at least woken up to the fact that we are in the throes of a world war. Not so, however, the British establishment and chattering classes …. The unpalatable fact is that there is actually a continuum of Islamic extremism in Britain. While probably only a small number on this continuum will ever be involved in violence, too many others subscribe to odious beliefs and ideas which maintain the sea of hatred and bigotry in which terrorism swims.”

Melanie Phillips in National Review Online, 18 August 2006

‘Useful idiots: Islam’s best soldiers’

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“Islam enjoys a large and influential ally among the non-Muslims: A new generation of ‘Useful Idiots’, that Lenin identified as those who lived in liberal democracies and furthered the work of communism. This new generation of Useful Idiots also lives in liberal democracies but serves the cause of Islamofascism – another virulent form of totalitarian ideology…. It is the Useful Idiot who sanitizes Islam and misguides the populace by saying that the ‘real Islam’ constitutes the main body of the religion; and, that this main body is non-political and moderate….

“Muslims believe that all non-Muslims, bar none, are hellfire bound and well-deserve being maltreated to the utmost. No radical barbaric act of depravity is out of bounds for Muslims in dealing with others. They destroy precious statues of Buddha, level sacred monuments of other religions, and bulldoze the cemeteries of non-Muslims – a few examples of their utter extreme contempt toward others. The ‘moderate’ Islam has been outright genocidal from inception….. It is a well-established fact that a Jew’s word is his bond. The exact opposite is the case with Muslims. Muslims are taught deception and lying in the Quran itself….

“The lesson is clear. Beware of the Useful Idiots who live in liberal democracies. Knowingly or unknowingly, they serve as the greatest volunteer and effective soldiers of Islam.”

Front Page Magazine, 18 August 2006

Alarm at EU call for ‘European Islam’

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Franco Frattini, the Vice President of the European Commission, has been castigated for making racist and Islamophobic remarks about Muslims, while creating alarm by suggesting that the EU wants to impose its own interpretation of Islam.

“Talks about creating a ‘European Islam’ not only indicates that the EU is planning to impose their own version of Islam on Muslims but will create more anti-Western and anti-Christian feeling in the Muslim community,” said Ahmed Versi, Editor of The Muslim News.

Muslim News press release, 19 August 2006

‘Europe’s fellow travellers’

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“The present technological, cultural and financial strength of Europe is a façade that conceals a deep underlying moral and demographic weakness. The symptoms of the malaise are apparent in the unprecedented demographic collapse and in the loss of a sense of place and history that go hand-in-hand with the expansion of the European Union.

“The emerging transnational hyper-state is actively indoctrinating its subject-population into believing and accepting that the demographic shift in favor of Muslim aliens is actually a blessing that enriches the Old Continent’s culturally deprived and morally unsustainable societies. Europe is losing the ability to define and defend itself, to the benefit of unassimilable multitudes filled with contempt for the host-society….

“Most Muslims in Europe live in a parallel universe that has very little to do with the host country. Their mindset has nothing but contempt for the liberal concept of ‘tolerance’ and ‘diversity’, and they possess a disdainful and hostile attitude to the host-society. Such hostility is clearly manifested in hard-core anti-Semitism – in its raw, unadulterated variety that is repugnant to most Europeans but regarded as normal, legitimate, and divinely ordained by most Muslims. But since the dictum of the multiculturalist ruling elite is that Islam is peaceful, tolerant, and as European as the Sistine Chapel, the truth must not be spoken….

“In recent years, a notable trend in the [European] Monitoring Center’s documents is to include ‘anti-Semitism and Islamophobia’ under the same heading, with the definition of ‘Islamophobia’ so broad as to preclude any possibility of meaningful discussion of Islam. The implication that Islamophobia thus defined and anti-Semitism are equally repulsive and deserving of similar legal sanction is a regular feature of the EU race relations industry output. It also routinely refers to ‘institutional Islamophobia’ as an inherent social and cultural sickness of most European societies that needs to be rooted out by education, re-education, and legislation.”

A paranoid rant by Serge Trifkovic in Front Page Magazine, 18 August 2006