Monthly Archives: May 2007

‘Close all Islamic schools’ demands Wilders

Posted on by Bob Pitt

geert_wildersTHE HAGUE – Freedom Party PVV faction leader Geert Wilders is arguing that all Islamic schools in the Netherlands should be shut down immediately. He says this measure is necessary in order to “protect children against the spread of Islamic doctrine.”

Wilders writes this in a column that appeared on the website Nieuwnieuws.nl. “Islam is rapidly pushing our Western civilisation close to the edge of the abyss. We have too much Islam in the Netherlands. Islam is more a violent political ideology than a religion,” the MP writes.

Expatica, 1 May 2007

Wilders receives the enthusiastic approval of Adrian Morgan over at Western Resistance.

Suit filed to stop building of Florida mosque

Posted on by Bob Pitt

A Pompano Beach man who opposes a planned mosque in his neighborhood filed a lawsuit in state court Tuesday against three Islamic groups supporting the project.

Rodney Wright claims the mosque would bring an extremist form of Islam to his neighborhood. He wants a judge to order the Islamic Center of South Florida not to build it, saying the mosque would be a “nuisance” that would lower his property value, according to Broward Circuit Court records.

Islamic community leaders say Wright is misrepresenting their religion and beliefs. The Council on American-Islamic Relations Florida, a nonprofit advocacy group that promotes the understanding of Islam, is among the groups being sued.

The Islamic Center plans to build the 29,400-square-foot worship center and school. The city approved a zoning change for the project at 1501 NW 16th Ave. last year. The new worship center would replace an existing mosque on Northeast Sixth Street.

The Islamic Center, the Council on American Islamic Relations and CAIR Florida Inc. are named in the lawsuit. A representative of the Islamic Center could not be reached for comment.

Altaf Ali, executive director of the Florida Chapter of CAIR, said Wright’s claims are false. “It’s unfortunate that in this day and age, that you will find such a frivolous lawsuit being filed,” he said.

Wright’s attorney, Larry Klayman, said his client “feels strongly that the mosque is a security threat and it’s going to disrupt the entire neighborhood.” “It is the goal of the [Islamic Center] to spread radical Islam throughout the United States,” the lawsuit says.

Wright is getting support from the Rev. O’Neal Dozier, the minister who spoke out against the project last year, calling Islam a “dangerous and evil cult.” Dozier is not a party to the suit.

Florida Sun-Sentinel, 2 May 2007

Methodists back Muslims over mosque

Posted on by Bob Pitt

Mount Zion chapel (2)After years of searching for a place to worship, Muslims in the northern English town of Clitheroe have won planning permission to transform a former Methodist chapel into a mosque.

Local Methodists and other faith groups have been among the mosque’s supporters, standing alongside their Muslim neighbors as they faced vocal opposition and even racial abuse from those who campaigned against the proposed mosque.

“This is a basic issue of human rights,” said the Rev. Christopher Cheeseman, superintendent minister of the Clitheroe Methodist Circuit. “These are people of faith who wish to find a place to worship.”

Cheeseman and fellow Methodists, along with other local Christians, Jews and Buddhists, have made it their business to counter the efforts of the far-right British National Party in Clitheroe. Many feel the party has exploited divisions in this community over the new mosque, deliberately fanning the flames of racial hatred for their own political gain.

During local elections in 2003, British National Party campaign fliers depicted the town dominated by a domed mosque with minarets, even though the new mosque and community center plans contain no alterations to the exterior of the church building.

The Rev. Dale Barton, interfaith officer for the Lancashire Churches Together organization, said the basic right to religious freedom is at stake in Clitheroe. He recalled attending an independent inquiry about the mosque application where openly racist insults were directed against local Muslims. Deeply disturbed by what he saw and heard, Barton said it was “the most racist meeting I’ve been to in my entire life.”

A spokesperson for the local council told United Methodist News Service the council had received a number of letters opposed to the mosque proposal that were so racist and offensive they couldn’t be made public.

United Methodist Church news report, 1 May 2007

Mark D. Tooley is not happy: “the Christian clerics who promoted the mosque sometimes seemed blissfully unaware of the demographic trends that prophesy their own potential demise in Britain and in an increasingly Islamicized Europe. Amid their quickness in painting mosque opponents as semi-fascist, they showed little sadness over a once vibrant Christian church becoming a place of worship for Allah….. do Christian leaders who celebrate the removal of the cross from a church in favor of the Islamic crescent really honor their own faith? Or have they succombed to a new religion in which politically correct multiculturalism has displaced the Deity?”

Front Page Magazine, 3 May 2007

Swedish bus driver sacked after Muslim veil incident

Posted on by Bob Pitt

A Malmö bus driver has been fired from his job following revelations that he stopped a woman from boarding his bus because she was wearing a niqab, a form of Islamic headdress that covers the face. The bus company, Arriva, has elected not to extend the driver’s contract, suggesting that this was not an isolated incident.

The incident occurred last Tuesday morning when “Leonora” boarded the number 35 bus on her usual route between the Rosengård housing estate and the city’s central station. According to Leonora, the driver stopped her from boarding, saying that her niqab made her hard to identify. “I have never before needed to identify myself on a public bus. This wasn’t a weapon I was carrying,” she told The Local.

Leonora stayed on the bus anyway, but claims that the driver mocked her and looked at her angrily. “I can understand that people don’t like it, but I think they should leave their prejudices at home,” she said.

The Local, 2 May 2007

Row erupts over BNP mosque letter

Posted on by Bob Pitt

BNP Islam Out of BritainA row has broken out in Lincoln over a letter sent by a British National Party representative to the council leader criticising a new mosque in the city. Richard Foster, the BNP’s regional representative in Lincoln, wrote claiming the mosque, on the site of a former church, could “teach terrorism”.

Council leader Ric Metcalfe said the letter was being shown to the police to determine whether it broke race laws. “I think it is absolutely outrageous and exposes the BNP for the party it’s always been known to be and a party holding overtly racist views,” said Mr Metcalfe, who is Labour leader on the council.

But Mr Foster defended his words, saying his opinions were nothing new.

“The building would become an Islamic centre, rather than just a mosque and this can mean that the Islamic form of ‘getting your own way’ – terrorism – could be taught there. I don’t know if you’re aware of the programme ‘The Undercover Mosque‘ but anything I have put in this letter, in that documentary far, far, far worse things have been said about the [Muslim] community.

“I don’t need anybody to tell me that the only thing to happen in these places is worshipping their god because we all know that isn’t the case. Not all Muslims are terrorists but most terrorists are Muslims,” he said.

BBC News, 2 May 2007

Video here.

Meanwhile, the BNP are congratulating themselves on the soft ride they’ve been given by the media. Thankfully, not all the media.

How to stop ‘the Islamification of Great Britain’ – a fascist explains

Posted on by Bob Pitt

bnp-islam-poster“… we know that the Islamification of Europe was planned back as early as the 1950’s by people who wished to create a Eurabia, prior to the creation of a one world government. Their plans are now well advanced…. In Our Country, The Cult of the Dead Paedophile have created, whilst the British People slept an Islamic Government with its own Parliament and Judiciary and is now starting to act as a nation within a nation….

“They have their own communication channels and carefully select their areas for colonisation. Once firmly embedded they then seek to change their environment to suit them. The original inhabitants are then ‘encouraged’ to move. They can then control the political process in that area with their block votes and their casual attitude towards electoral fraud…. But no one can say that we were not warned. What parts of ‘Islam will rule the World‘ or them saying ‘This is our country now‘ and ‘The flag of Islam will fly over England‘ do we not understand? …

“Our only chance is for a British National Party government. These Assembly and local elections are our launchpad. We must succeed. I leave you to imagine the alternative.”

Home of the Green Arrow, 1 May 2007

MCB formally responds to Tory Party’s ‘Uniting the Country’ report

Posted on by Bob Pitt

The Muslim Council of Britain has today written to the Conservative Party leader, Rt. Hon. David Cameron, to send him their formal response to the ‘Uniting the Country‘ interim report published by the Tory party’s Group on National and International Security.

“The MCB document is a necessarily robust response to the accusations levelled at leading Muslim organisations in the Tory report. Regrettably, the Uniting the Country interim report does very little to help unify this nation but plenty to try and further divide and fragment British society. It is a poorly researched exposition by authors more intent on serving cynical ideological goals. The Conservative Party can choose to listen to those sane voices within the Party who base their arguments on years of dialogue and experience derived from actually speaking with Muslim communities and a range of Muslim organisations across the country. Or, it can listen to a doctrinaire, agenda-driven faction. We urge the former,” said Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Britain.

In keeping with the ethos of the MCB, this response does not reject the Report outright. In an otherwise poorly researched and poorly argued exposition, there are extremely rare morsels of wisdom from which we can all learn. These include the question of integration and the empowering of women. But this Report significantly undermines the exploration of these subjects. For this to be successfully championed, the Conservative Party would need to commission a different report with a newly assembled policy group. The MCB stands ready to help in this endeavour.

MCB news release, 2 May 2007

Download MCB response (pdf) here.

‘When will the British stop appeasing terror?’ demands Mad Mel

Posted on by Bob Pitt

Londonistan“Islamist extremism in Britain must be stopped and British values reasserted and stoutly upheld. To defeat such extremism, we have to make it abundantly clear that we will not give an inch to those who want to destroy our values. But we appear instead to be doing nothing to stop the spread of radical Islamism. Indeed, in a myriad different ways we are giving out the lethal message that we have neither the will nor the courage to defend our way of life….

“Despite the Prime Minister’s promise to outlaw the radical group Hizb ut Tahrir (which believes that Britain should be an Islamic state), the Government refuses to do so….

“Above all else, we should absolutely refuse to countenance the spread of Sharia law, which is not only inimical to our own deepest principles but aims to supplant our own laws. Yet we are turning a blind eye to the steady Sharia-isation of our country. We have ignored the development of informal parallel Sharia jurisdictions, enforced by Sharia courts, in areas heavily populated by Muslims….

“Now Gordon Brown has said Britain should become the centre of global Islamic banking. But this is heavily backed by Saudi Arabia which will use it to further its objective of Islamising the West and may even provide a cover for the financing of further terror.

“This craven appeasement of extremism gives Islamists the unmistakable message that Britain is theirs for the taking….. all of us are put in infinitely greater danger not just from terrorism, but from a culture that still seems to be sleepwalking to oblivion.”

Melanie Phillips in the Daily Mail, 1 May 2007

You can see why BNP supporters say Phillips is one of their favourite newspaper columnists, can’t you?