Anindya Bhattacharyya provides a useful summary of the campaign by anti-racists against the English Defence League. He notes: “the fact that racist groups such as the EDL have taken to the streets with an explicitly anti-Muslim agenda has clarified what is at stake. Arguments about the nature of Islamophobia that had until now been primarily ideological are now being played out on the streets”.
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Now Italy considers banning the veil
Italy today became the latest European government to announce it was considering introducing a law which would make wearing a burqa illegal. MPs from the anti-immigration Northern League party, a member of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s ruling right wing coalition, have presented the proposal in a bill. It comes just weeks after France also said that it was considering making the wearing of burqas by Muslim women illegal.
‘Fear of giving offence is killing our culture’
Minette Marrin complains that the struggle against the civilisation-sapping ideology of multiculturalism is not over yet:
“For at least 20 years there was a debilitating fog of moral relativism in the air, a miasma of guilty self-loathing…. Even the phrase ‘host culture’ was considered unacceptable. We have moved on since then, supposedly, and surprisingly suddenly. Many prominent multiculturalists, including the Commission for Racial Equality itself, have recently performed swift U-turns and the bien-pensant orthodoxy now is that multiculturalism has been a divisive failure….
“It might seem, superficially, that the Victoria Climbié report and the massacre of 7/7 in London, among other shocks, have brought us back at last to our cultural senses and our cultural self-respect. Not entirely so, unfortunately…. A week ago The Sunday Times reported that some Muslim workers in Sainsbury’s are refusing to check out purchases of alcohol on the debatable ground that it’s against their religion.”
Well, actually, it was just the one Muslim worker in a single branch of Sainsbury’s. But why quibble over figures when the very future of “our” culture is at stake? Marrin continues:
“This is preposterous and a depressing sign of the times. But the painful truth is it would be just as preposterous to blame the Sainsbury’s Muslims. For years now ethnic minorities have been encouraged to insist on their cultural differences and on their human right to have these differences respected and actively promoted….
“Surely the fault lies with Sainsbury’s, for cultural funk. And it lies with all those others who out of some strange abandonment of common sense – such as the government’s laissez-faire guidelines on wearing Muslim veils in schools last week – bottle out.”
Elsewhere in the same issue, the paper follows up last week’s exposé of cultural surrender at Sainsbury’s with another article, “Muslim medical students get picky“, which claims:
“Some Muslim medical students are refusing to attend lectures or answer exam questions on alcohol-related or sexually transmitted diseases because they claim it offends their religious beliefs. Some trainee doctors say learning to treat the diseases conflicts with their faith, which states that Muslims should not drink alcohol and rejects sexual promiscuity. A small number of Muslim medical students have even refused to treat patients of the opposite sex.”
“Some … some … a small number” – and how many Muslim medical students, roughly, might that be? Of course, we’re not told. Although, to be fair to the Sunday Times, its intrepid reporters have come up with a further shocking revelation: “At a Sainsbury’s store in Nottingham, a pharmacist named Ahmed declined to provide the pill to a female reporter posing as a customer”. So that makes one Sainsbury’s employee who opts out of selling alcohol, two who’ve been given exemption from stacking the drinks shelves, and one who avoids selling the pill. Clearly, the foundations of Western civilisation are under mass assault from the Muslim hordes.
Meanwhile, over at the Infidel Blogger’s Alliance, one Mark Alexander (who’s apparently the author of a book entitled The Dawning of a New Dark Age: A Collection of Essays on Islam) offers his take on the Sunday Times report:
“This latest story about the obstreperousness of trainee Muslim medical students should alarm us all. It is a harbinger of the nightmare that awaits us all in the West as a result of allowing far, far too many Muslims into the Judeo-Christian West…. If something isn’t done about the Muslim problem, then it is only a matter of time before blood will be shed. Not in the operating theatres, but in the streets.”
And the fascists of the British National Party (who are becoming great fans of the Sunday Times) present the report as evidence that “the country moves unceasingly and unchallenged to becoming part ofDar-ul-Islam (the world of Islam)”.
BNP news article, 7 October 2007
Cf. The letter of appreciation to Sainsbury’s from Ibrahim Mogra of the Muslim Council of Britain.
See also Yusuf Smith’s comments at Indigo Jo Blogs, 8 October 2007
US Congress – appeasers of jihadism
The US House of Representatives has adopted a resolution commemorating Ramadan, which “recognizes the Islamic faith as one of the great religions of the world” and “expresses its deepest respect to Muslims in the United States and throughout the world on this significant occasion”.
The British National Party cannot restrain its indignation: “With ‘allies’ like those in the US Congress, who needs a fifth column of jihadists preparing for a fundamentalist take-over of Europe?”
Fascists protest against new mosque in Antwerp
ANTWERP – Followers of right wing party Vlaams Belang gathered on Thursday evening to protest the construction of a new mosque in the Antwerp district of Deurne. Police say about 150 people with banners and protest signs gathered at the Boterlaarbaan, the planned site for the mosque, at about 7.30 pm last night.
The protestors’ message was loud and clear as expressed by prominent VB member Filip Dewinter. He shouted slogans like “Adapt or go back where you came from” through a megaphone. The protest is part of a larger campaign started by the VB a few weeks ago calling for a stop to the “further Islamisation of Antwerp.” Banners with the slogans “Keep Europe European” and “Keep Muslims out” were carried as well.
‘Islamophobic – and proud of it’
Fundamentalist Christians in Germany are using populist slogans to incite hatred against Muslims, whom they see as the new source of danger for Europe. The number of internet users who visit their websites is alarmingly high. Claudia Mende reports.
Qantara, 26 September 2007
Via The American Muslim
For the Politically Incorrect anti-Muslim website, see Frankfurt No-Go-Area für Nazis and Watchdog Islamophobie
Dutch Labour Party chair repudiates Ehsan Jami
AMSTERDAM – Dutch Labour party PvdA chairman, Ruud Koole, says Islam critic and Labour council member Ehsan Jami is distancing himself from party ideology with his statements about Islam.
In an article published in daily newspaper, Volkskrant, Wednesday, Koole is quoted as saying that Labour representatives are “expected not to go against fundamental party principles in his public statements”.
On 27 September, 22-year old Jami and Freedom party (PVV) leader Geert Wilders co-wrote an article in the newspaper in which they stressed the need for strong criticism of Islam. “If we do not act now against the far-reaching Islamisation of the Netherlands,” the two wrote, “then the 1930s will be revived. The only difference is that back then the danger came from Adolf Hitler, while today it comes from Mohammed.”
Koole, in the Volksrant article Wednesday, refers to Jami’s remarks about the Islam as “degrading” and says they also contradict the principles of a democratic constitutional state “which guarantees freedom of religion”.
Jami is a Labour council member in Leidschendam-Voorburg and the chairman of the Committee for former Muslims. He has received little public support from his party following his criticism of Islam.
‘Asian grooming’ – Sunday Times and BNP find common ground
The fascists applaud an article by Julie Bindel in the Sunday Times (or the “Times on Sunday” as they prefer to describe it):
“The story concerns the sex grooming of young British girls largely by Muslim men – something that up until relatively recently has been decried as a figment of the BNP imagination by the political establishment. Now, of course, following a number of convictions of such people in our courts that particular cat is well and truly out of the bag – much to the embarrassment of the political class that has continuously turned a blind eye to it in the name of ‘good community relations’!”
BNP Regional Voices, 1 October 2007
See also Home of the Green Arrow, 1 October 2007
Cf. the Guardian, 23 March 2006
BNP opposes mega-mosque … in Whitehaven
Last week the BNP stood a candidate, one Bill Pugh, in a by-election for Copeland Borough Council, an area not known for its large Muslim population. But the fascists still managed to play the anti-Muslim racist card – and with some effect. Although Pugh came third of three candidates, he got 23.44% of the vote. The local paper reports on the BNP’s campaign:
“If you looked past the Union Jacks and BNP slogans, Mr Pugh’s election leaflet read for the most part like an electorate’s dream. He advocated a return to weekly bin rounds, moving away from fortnightly collections; an end to the council’s Executive ‘squandering tax-payers’ money’ on what he regards as extravagances…. He was also keen to protect our hospital services and look after elderly residents, as well as providing more affordable social housing.
“But there, in the middle of it all, was another pledge, to stand against plans for a large-scale mosque in Whitehaven. The only trouble with their pledge is that there isn’t a mosque planned for Whitehaven, on any scale, large or otherwise.
“The BNP delivered a petition to The Whitehaven News before the election, in which they claimed that 1,000 people were against the plans for a mosque. A number of names appear twice or three times and dozens of the signatures were from people from outside the area. Osama Bin Laden was among the signatures.”
Whitehaven News, 27 September 2007
(Via Lancaster UAF)
‘I’m from Afghanistan, I’m a Muslim. I’m going to stab every white person’
The fascists of the British National Party have discovered yet another example of the Islamic assault on Western Civilisation:
“A race-hate gang that screamed racist abuse as they went on a violent rampage through the streets of Southampton’s city centre last year have escaped jail terms! The seven arrested were part of a larger gang that assaulted British shoppers, leaving some unconscious and bleeding in the street. They are known to have attacked at least seven people during their drug and drink fuelled attacks – yet only one has been jailed and then only for a miserable drugs offence! Indeed the court was told that one of the racist thugs said, whilst waving a knife in the faces of two terrified female shoppers: ‘I’m from Afghanistan, I’m a Muslim. I’m going to stab every white person’.”
BNP Regional Voices, 27 September 2007
Except that, if you read the Daily Echo report, it’s clear from the names of the convicted youth that they were in fact Sikhs.