Alarm at EU call for ‘European Islam’

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’

“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

No excuse for anti-Muslim prejudice

“I was absolutely horrified by the poll results cited in a recent article. USA TODAY reported that ‘39% of respondents to the USA TODAY/Gallup Poll said they felt at least some prejudice against Muslims’. It said that 39% also ‘favored requiring Muslims, including U.S. citizens, to carry a special ID’ as a means of preventing terrorist attacks in the United States. Further, the poll found that about one-third of respondents ‘said U.S. Muslims were sympathetic to al-Qaeda, and that 22% said they wouldn’t want Muslims as neighbors’ (‘USA’s Muslims under a cloud’, Cover story, Life, Aug. 10).

“How can these respondents live with themselves?

“Do these 39% fear and hate the Muslim ‘boogeyman’ so strongly they would demonize Muslims by invoking the use of special IDs similar to practices during the Holocaust? If 39% of our country don’t mind throwing out the constitutional rights of our fellow citizens, what’s next? Internment? Indeed, why stop at Muslims? In this climate of fear, every outsider is seen as a potential threat…. Like the remaining 61%, I will not sit quietly and let this infectious disease of fear and mistrust contaminate my soul or destroy my country.”

Letter in USA TODAY, 16 August 2006

‘Radical Islam plagues UK’

Radical Islam plagues UK

By James Forsyth

New York Daily News, 16 August 2006

Straight after 9/11, American Muslims proudly flew the Stars and Stripes. New York cabbies plastered their cars with patriotic decals. In Britain, days after the security services busted a plot that could have been as deadly as 9/11, so-called Muslim leaders delivered an open letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair demanding that Britain change its “foreign policy to show the world that we value the lives of civilians wherever they live and whatever their religion.” Or to put it more bluntly, pull out of Iraq, denounce President Bush and abandon support for Israel.

Here’s the hard truth: Britain now has the biggest “community relations” problem of any Western country – a problem compounded by the fact that the vast majority of my fellow Britons are in denial about it.

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MCB defends open letter

Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, replies to Polly Toynbee:

“The open letter to the prime minister – which I signed alongside more than 40 Muslim groups, MPs and peers – has been subject to deliberate misinterpretation, suggesting a willingness among Muslim leaders to excuse violence and promote a simplified view of how extremism takes root. Toynbee’s accusation – that the letter sails ‘perilously close to suggesting the government had it coming’ – may be an unintentional misrepresentation but it is a grave one.

“The letter articulated the need to base foreign policy on principle. It condemned attacks on civilians wherever they take place. It also sought acknowledgement that, though the causes and motivations are complex, British foreign policy contributes to the radicalisation of Muslims here and elsewhere. The welcome debate that followed the letter illustrates that this has been widely accepted.”

Guardian, 17 August 2006

Message from Mackenzie to Muslims – stop trying to kill me

kelvin mackenzie“I am becoming increasingly irritated at being told that we must not do anything to ‘alienate’ Muslim communities. I wonder if we could look at it from another perspective: Could the Muslims stop alienating me and, more importantly, trying to kill me?

“Let’s get one thing clear. The vast majority of this country have done nothing but welcome people to these shores no matter how evil their background and religion. And how have we been repaid? Instead of being thanked for taking them from their poverty-striken villages in Pakistan a minority of second generation Muslims try to change our way of life to their backward and prehistoric view of humanity. It’s time we stood up to them….

“The suicide bombers come from one ethnic group. Terrorist leaders may wise up one day and start persuading white people to carry out their slaughter but until then what is the point of wasting precious resources on the overwhelming majority in this country…..

“Certainly I would like to see some young Muslims in this country restricted from flying to Pakistan. And if they did go they would have to wear electronic tags so that intelligence authorities would be able to keep track of them. If these guys had nothing to hide why would they care? Even if it is an infingement of personal liberty, surely that’s better than the ultimate infringement – mass murder.”

Kelvin MacKenzie in The Sun, 17 August 2006