Hizb ut-Tahrir in Australia will be banned if intelligence authorities judge it a terrorist threat, the Australian PM said Monday, August 8, days after the UK declared it would ban the controversial Islamic group. “If ASIO tells us that an organization like this … does represent a threat, then we’ll take action to ban it,” Howard told Macquarie Radio, CNSNews reported Monday.
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Multiculturalism – Torygraph returns to the attack
“Multiculturalism was a non-policy. It was a vacuum, a retreat from thinking that there was any need for a solution. The pretence was that there was no problem, because to admit that there was one was tantamount to saying that immigration was a problem, and that you were going to have to do some serious thinking about its consequences. The idea that many cultures could coexist in one country, going their own ways, living by their own values, and cultivating their own disparate and distinct identities, was always a cop-out.”
Janet Daley in the Sunday Telegraph, 7 August 2005
Teenagers to swear allegience at Citizens Days
“Every youngster in the UK will be required to take part in citizenship ceremonies under a radical government plan to boost ‘Britishness’ and combat extremism, Scotland on Sunday can reveal. Ministers are considering the controversial move following the bomb attacks in London by UK-born Muslims, which have placed unprecedented focus on the question of British identity. Experts have warned that the bombers are the product of Britain’s ghettoised urban culture, which has failed to provide national symbols around which to unite.”
Muslim women embark on peace walk
Muslim women in West Sussex are leading a “peace walk” through their town on Sunday, to try and encourage unity in the wake of the London bomb attacks. Organiser Yasmin Khan arranged the march in Crawley with her friends after some of them were subjected to racist remarks and shouts of “bombers”.
Ban public servants wearing headscarves – Dutch opinion poll
A majority of the Dutch public wants a new law to ban public servants from wearing headscarves or “other Islamic attire”, a new poll has found. Polling organisation TNS Nipo carried out the research for the latest edition of independent magazine Binnenlands Bestuur.
Needless to say, this meets with approval of Rebecca Bynum: Dhimmi Watch, 7 August 2005
The news is also greeted enthusiastically by the fascists of the BNP, who seem to be getting a lot of their inspiration from Ms Bynum and her colleague Robert Spencer these days: “Once again plucky Netherlanders are unravelling the multi-cultural experiment forced upon them by decadent and traitorous politicians. Seen for years as the most easy going, tolerant and liberal nation in Europe, the Dutch people are fighting back to reclaim their society from the twisted multi-culturalists.”
BNP news article, 7 August 2005
However, a closer reading of the Expatica report indicates that it wasn’t in fact “the Dutch public” whose views were surveyed: “TNS Nipo questioned 433 adults – 292 government employees and 50 municipal aldermen – for the poll.”
‘Islamofascism poses a serious and imminent threat’
“I was phoned by a contact of mine last week. Won’t mention his name. He’s the director of a pressure group, prominent in the media, well-connected and desperately scared – and I really mean scared – that racial war is breaking out in Britain…. he wasn’t talking about white racism; he was talking about Asian racism, British Asian racism…. Hatred of white people (and black people) is, he insisted, rampant among Britain’s Asian community and Islamofascism poses a serious and imminent threat to public order.
“This was not a Tory MP or a member of the BNP, but a rational, well-connected, media-friendly liberal intellectual. And he is not alone. A number of politicians are getting worried too, like the north of England left-wing Labour MP Ann Cryer who spoke out last week about the subjugation of Asian women and the growth of extremism.”
Iain MacWhirter in the Sunday Herald, 7 August 2005
Update: Read Sohaib Saeed’s response here.
Britain faces ‘full-blown Islamist insurgency’
“Intelligence chiefs are warning Tony Blair that Britain faces a full-blown Islamist insurgency, sustained by thousands of young Muslim men with military training now resident in this country…. A well-connected source said there were more than 100,000 people in Britain from ‘completely militarised’ regions, including Somalia and its neighbours in the Horn of Africa, and Afghanistan and territories bordering the country. ‘Every one of them knows how to use an AK-47,’ said the source. ‘About 10 per cent can strip and reassemble such a weapon blindfolded, and probably a similar proportion have some knowledge of how to use military explosives. That adds up to tens of thousands of men’.”
Nick Cohen resumes his bloc with the Right
And it’s over to Nick Cohen at the Observer for the usual outpouring of Islamophobic bile. We are subjected to yet another diatribe against “Islamism”, which apparently “wants an empire from the Philippines to Gibraltar – and which is tyrannical, homophobic, misogynist, racist and homicidal”. And just in case you are tempted to point out that there are plenty of “Islamists” who favour democratic reform and civil liberties, Cohen follows this up with a denunciation of the “Muslim Association of Britain and Yusuf al-Qaradawi who believe that Muslims who freely decide to change their religion or renounce religion should be executed”.
Tebbit: Enoch Powell’s prophecy for Britain was correct
“Lord Tebbit, the former chairman of the Conservative Party, has claimed Enoch Powell’s controversial ‘river of blood’ speech in 1968 was a correct prophesy of the climate of fear that Britain is now facing following the two terrorist bomb attacks in London last month.
In an interview with the Sunday Herald, Lord Tebbit claimed Powell’s views were misinterpreted as racist and that Powell’s warning was focused on the dangers of a multicultural British society that would be fed from uncontrolled immigration…. Tebbit’s overt backing for a Powellite stance on immigration, shows the extent to which criticism of multiculturalism has become almost mainstream since the London attacks.”
Muslims invest money in London shock
“One city is emerging as the preferred city for Qu’ran friendly, Shariah compliant property investments and it is not Mecca, Ankara, Dubai or Tehran, it’s London! Yes London is the favourite place for wealthy Muslims to invest their money…. London based branches of global banks and investment funds are falling over themselves arranging for wealthy oil sheikhs, heroin exporters and feudal pillaging warlords to buy up Britain’s shopping centres, tower blocks and country estates. Maybe this is desirable, the lesser of the two evils forced upon us by our ‘Shariah compliant’ government which has eased regulation to allow these financial practices – at least these new landlords have too much money to even think about strapping explosives around their waist.”