Author Archives: Bob Pitt

‘Red Ken: there’s method in his vileness’

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Richard_Littlejohn“This column has long argued that mass, uncontrolled immigration was a deliberate policy to secure electoral advantage for Labour. Back in 1987, after Mrs Thatcher’s third victory, Labour concluded it could no longer rely on the old white working class. So it decided that it would import a new working class, which would then return the favour by loyally voting Labour.

“This was part of a wider strategy that also included the creation of a vast client state and putting as many members of the middle classes as possible on the payroll. It’s now coming to fruition in the London mayoral elections.

“There are 350,000 new voters on the electoral roll in the capital, most of them immigrants. There’s also a huge Muslim vote. Ken Livingstone reckons that 200,000 of them will swing it for him. So he’s sent his goons into mosques to rustle up support and lavished hundreds of thousands of pounds in grants on Muslim organisations. One of his most dedicated cheerleaders in the Islamic community is a big fan of suicide bombings and a supporter of Hamas, which wants to wipe Israel off the map.

“Now you know why Livingstone embraces Islamist headbangers, insults Jews and smears anyone who challenges him as a ‘racist’ or ‘Islamophobe’. It’s all done with a cynical eye on the ballot box. Vile he may be, daft he ain’t.”

Richard Littlejohn in the Daily Mail, 18 April 2008

You do rather feel that Littlejohn is preaching to the converted here. A Daily Mail online poll on the London mayoral election currently has Livingstone at 11% and Boris Johnson at 78%. Now there’s a surprise.

Boy called Islam ‘banned from game show over name’

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The parents of a nine-year old French boy called Islam are to sue a television company for discrimination after it allegedly refused to let him participate in a game show unless he changed his name. Angel Productions told the boy that his name “represented a religion that was not liked in France,” according to the parents cited by Le Parisien newspaper.

Islam Alaouchiche had been shortlisted for a place in a youth game show called “In ze boite” (In the box) on Gulli, a children’s channel. But when he turned up for the final audition with his parents, who have Algerian nationality, they were told by a casting agent: “There’s a problem, your son cannot keep his first name. Being called Islam if you are a boy is like a girl wearing the (Islamic) veil.” The woman suggested Islam use “another Arab name” such as Mohammed or Sofiane. But his mother Farah refused.

The family left the premises to return to their home near Paris and never heard from the company again.

Daily Telegraph, 17 April 2008

Public pool bars father and son from its ‘Muslim-only’ swimming session

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A father and his five-year-old son were turned away from their local swimming pool because they were the wrong religion. David Toube, 39, and his son Harry were told that the Sunday morning session was reserved for Muslim men only.

Mr Toube, a corporate lawyer, described his experiences on a blog. “I arrived at the pool to discover that they were holding what staff described to me as ‘Muslim men only swimming’,” he wrote. “I asked whether my son and I could go as we were both male. I was told that the session was for Muslims only and that we could not be admitted.”

Daily Mail, 18 April 2008

Yes, it’s our friend David T from the “left-wing” blog Harry’s Place, finding his true political home in a right-wing Tory rag.

See also “Banned from swimming pool for not being Muslim” in the Daily Express, “Multiculturalism gone wild: UK father and son banned from public swimming pool for not being Muslims” at Dhimmi Watch and “No swimming for dhimmis: how will the Left excuse this latest Western Muslim ‘tolerance’?” by Debbie Schlussel.

Update:  Read the excellent post by D.B. at The People’s Republic of Teeside, 19 April 2008

Brigitte Bardot on trial for Muslim slur

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PARIS — French former film star Brigitte Bardot went on trial on Tuesday for insulting Muslims, the fifth time she has faced the charge of “inciting racial hatred” over her controversial remarks about Islam and its followers.

Prosecutors asked that the Paris court hand the 73-year-old former sex symbol a two-month suspended prison sentence and fine her 15,000 euros (12,071 pounds) for saying the Muslim community was “destroying our country and imposing its acts”.

Since retiring from the film industry in the 1970s, Bardot has become a prominent animal rights activist but she has also courted controversy by denouncing Muslim traditions and immigration from predominantly Muslim countries. She has been fined four times for inciting racial hatred since 1997, at first 1,500 euros and most recently 5,000. Prosecutor Anne de Fontette told the court she was seeking a tougher sentence than usual, adding: “I am a little tired of prosecuting Mrs Bardot.”

French anti-racist groups complained last year about comments Bardot made about the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha in a letter to President Nicolas Sarkozy that was later published by her foundation. “I am fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its acts,” the star of ‘And God created woman’ and ‘Contempt’ said.

Bardot has previously said France is being invaded by sheep-slaughtering Muslims and published a book attacking gays, immigrants and the unemployed, in which she also lamented the “Islamisation of France”.

Reuters, 15 April 2008

‘Suicide bomb backer runs Ken’s campaign’

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“An advocate of suicide bombing is among leaders of a group trying to mobilise Muslim voters to back Ken Livingstone, the Standard reveals today. For the past year, the group has been working on a strategy to win an estimated 200,000 Muslim votes in an effort to re-elect the Mayor. It includes a campaign of vilification aimed at his Conservative rival, Boris Johnson. It is being waged by Muslims 4 Ken, led by 39-year-old lecturer Anas Altikriti and Palestinian-born Azzam Tamimi, a supporter of Hamas, the militant group dedicated to the creation of an Islamic state of Palestine.”

Evening Standard, 16 April 2008

See also “Embracing Islam gives Ken new election hope” and “Ken’s friends“.

Read the response by the British Muslim Initiative and Muslims 4 Ken here and here.

And see also the statement by Liberal Democrat mayoral candidate Brian Paddick: “We have seen in the past how Ken Livingstone has invited the likes of Yusuf al-Qaradawi to City Hall, someone who holds abhorrent views, including treating women as second class citizens, the murdering of gay people and hatred towards Jews.”

Readers might also like to check out Tim Sebastian’s interview with Dr Tamimi which formed the basis of the Standard‘s headline (transcript here). Sebastian hectored, interrupted and badgered Tamimi throughout this long interview, basically accusing him of cowardice because he wouldn’t go to Palestine and become a suicide bomber himself. Eventually, Tamimi was provoked into making the remarks quoted by the Standard, which have been used against him ever since.

In clarification of his views, Tamimi later stated: “I said if I were to be put in the same circumstances that the Palestinians are put in, I might resort to doing that.” This may not be exactly what Tamimi said under the pressure of Sebastian’s harassment, but it’s the position he actually holds.

Update:  See also Anas Altikriti at Comment is Free, 17 April 2008

Why the BNP backs Boris

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Spectator Muslims are Coming“When confronted about his infamous choice of language to describe black people – ‘piccaninnies’ with ‘watermelon smiles’ – Boris Johnson’s responses ranged from claims of being misinterpreted to apologies for the offence caused. And when, a few days ago, Nick Ferrari questioned him on his no less distasteful statements on Islam, the Conservative candidate for the London mayoralty denied ever making them. He insisted that Ken Livingstone, the mayoral incumbent and his fellow guest on the breakfast show, was seeking to smear him. Islam, he emphatically declared, was ‘a religion of peace’.

“What a difference a mayoral race can make. Only two years ago, Johnson’s writings – readily available in the online archives of the Spectator and Daily Telegraph – were peppered with talk of the ‘paranoia of the Muslim mind’, of Islam’s ‘medievalism’, ‘heartlessness’ and ‘disgusting arrogance’. Islamophobia was, he maintained, ‘a natural reaction’ to ‘any non-Muslim reader of the Qur’an’. We must, therefore, dispose of the ‘first taboo’, he counselled, and accept ‘that the problem is Islam. Islam is the problem’….

“Given Johnson’s record on minorities, his endorsement by the far right as a second-preference candidate seems understandable, shocking though it may be. This signifies a worrying precedent in the history of the BNP – notwithstanding Johnson’s claim that he has no wish ‘to receive a single second-preference vote from a BNP supporter’. Never before has the BNP felt sufficiently fond of a mainstream mayoral candidate to lend him or her its support.”

Soumaya Ghannoushi in the Guardian, 16 April 2008

It might be added that during his tenure as editor of the Spectator Boris Johnson repeatedly published anti-Muslim articles by the likes of Rod Liddle, Anthony Browne, Patrick Sookhdeo and Mark Steyn.

Read Johnson’s views on Islam here.

Fascists advertise Muslim introduction agency

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Much embarrassment at the Green Arrow Forum, the bloggers’ website that supports the BNP. At the top of the site is an advertisement for singlemuslim.com, the UK’s leading Muslim marriage service. This has caused much consternation to the perplexed BNP bloggers.

It transpires that the ads are placed by Google, whose computerised brain must have noted that the Green Arrow constantly refers to Islam and thus thought this would be an appropriate site for lonely Muslim hearts. Some BNP bloggers have also twigged this and suggested that in future, Islam be referred to only as “the threat to the west” to avoid confusion.

Guardian, 15 April 2008

Europe or Eurabia?

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Pipes 9-11Daniel Pipes poses the question. His conclusion:

“… indigenous Europeans could yet rediscover their Christian faith, make more babies and again cherish their heritage. Yes, they could encourage non-Muslim immigration and acculturate Muslims already living in Europe. Yes, Muslims could accept historic Europe. But not only are such developments not under way, their prospects are dim. In particular, young Muslims are cultivating grievances and nursing ambitions at odds with their neighbours.

“One can virtually dismiss from consideration the prospect of Muslims accepting historic Europe and integrating within it. American columnist Dennis Prager agrees: ‘It is difficult to imagine any other future scenario for western Europe than its becoming Islamicised or having a civil war.’ But which of those two remaining paths will the continent take? Forecasting is difficult because the crisis has not yet struck. But it may not be far off. Within a decade, perhaps, the continent’s evolution will become clear as the Europe-Muslim relationship takes shape.”

The Australian, 15 April 2008

See also Pipes’ article in the Jerusalem Post, where he tells us that “Islamism represents the world’s leading anti-democratic force” and that Yusuf al-Qaradawi, one of the Muslim world’s leading advocates of representative democracy, “argues that elections are heretical”.

Terrorism in the name of Jesus? Everybody ignore

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“Certainly he has not the fascinating look of a bin-Laden and does not live in the mysterious caves of the Hindu Kush, surely he has not the media appeal and the anchorman vocation which the ‘Master of Terror’ has shown to have in the last seven years; yet Roberto Sandalo (alias Robby the Mad or Commandant Franco) has more terrorist credentials than ‘Sheik Osama’. Roberto Sandalo, allegedly the leader of a Christian anti-Islamic terrorist movement called Fronte Combattente Cristiano or ‘Fighting Christian Front’. The mysterious group has been responsible, in the last year, for bomb attacks against Islamic centres and mosques as well as death threats to Muslims….

“To tell the truth, I thought that news about the first Christian anti-Muslim terrorist group would have attracted international attention and fostered new debates. Think, indeed, if the terrorist’s name instead of Roberto was something like Muhammad; imagine the titles, the talks, the politicians’ words and the special legislations proposed. Well, we do not have very much to imagine, we need only to open a British newspaper.

“But the news about a self-defined Christian terrorist and a Christian (mainly Catholic) terrorist organization has attracted virtually no attention. Nothing can be found, (at the moment in which I am writing) on the BBC (even BBC Europe) or the main British newspapers or the US. Furthermore, even those Italian newspapers which have dealt with the story, have not called the attacks, before often dismissed as the work of immigrants’ rackets and mafia, Christian terrorism, or referred to Mr Sandalo as a Christian terrorist (despite his own claim!).”

Gabriele Marranci at Islam, Muslims and an Anthropologist, 14 April 2008