“So what did I think of the Geert Wilders film Fitna? I thought it was very effective, and very shocking, in showing that the inspiration for the evil acts of which it showed such horrifying glimpses lay in the Koran. It shows very clearly the precise nature of what the civilised world is up against, a war of religion with striking similarities to Nazi ideology and murderous mass hysteria.”
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Christian mayoral candidate continues campaign against ‘mega-mosque’
A rally of 32,000 church-goers at the Dockland’s Excel Centre this weekend heard Christian Choice mayoral candidate Alan Craig explain one of his key priorities for London Mayor and the London Assembly.
The Newham councillor formally started his campaign outside City Hall on Friday lunchtime, before addressing the Festival of Life event, which went on through the night.
At the prayer rally he focused on his election campaign stance against the proposed Olympics Mega Mosque in West Ham.
Commenting about the scale of the event, Alan Craig said: “I was pleased to speak to so many Londoners and explain our reasoned and reasonable objections to this huge landmark mosque – planned to be Europe’s largest.”
Fury over children being taught together and learning about one another
Five Chinese Crackers analyses the response by the right-wing press to the NUT’s faith education proposals.
Five Chinese Crackers, 25 March 2008
Via Indigo Jo Blogs
Christian Voice and BPP protest against Mawlid procession
Cultures clashed on Easter Sunday when Muslims marched in the streets to celebrate the birth of their prophet Muhammad.
Leaving Memorial Park at 1pm, men, women and children marched through the town lead by Imam, Mazar Hussain Gilani, from Walthamstow, London. Shouting “Allah is great” and “Long live the Prophet” while waving Islamic flags, worshippers from across the country joined Surrey’s first Mawlid procession.
But in Brighton Road, the 450-strong crowd were confronted by Union flags and banners held by two opposing packs of protesters. Holding placards reading “Onward Christian Soldiers” and “Our Lord’s Day”, four members of the right-wing British People’s Party stood watching the parade pass. And member of church pressure group Christian Voice bellowed Bible verses from a megaphone besides two of his members as the chorusing crowds went by.
Irfan Akhtar, 32, from East Walthamstow, London, was handing out leaflets to spectators during the march and said: “This is a historic day for Surrey. We just want to show our beliefs. We’re not looking to upset or intimidate people. Islam is a peaceful religion.”
But the marchers were accused by the protesters of being provocative by choosing Easter Sunday for the event. BPP members Pete Williamson, 41, from Brighton, said: “Why have they chosen today of all days to hold this march? We heard that they [the Muslim population] wanted to hold a demonstration and we’re here just to make people aware of what we stand for.”
Christian Voice leader Stephen Green, 56, said: “Jesus is our living saviour and for them to be marching on this holy day of the Christian year is disrespectful to say the least. I think it’s intimidating.”
But march organiser Mohammed Khalid, head of the Redhill Islamic Centre, said the procession wasn’t a deliberate attempt to upset people. He said: “It was a peaceful procession to mark the birthday of Muhammad and it’s happening [in towns and cities] all over the UK today.” He added: “I wish a happy Easter to all my Christian fellows.”
The procession finished at Redhill Islamic Centre in Earlswood Road, Earlswood, at 2pm where the worshippers met for prayer.
Surrey Chronicle, 27 March 2008
See also BPP news report, 23 March 2008
‘NUT wants to promote Islam in our schools!’
“This follows on from the union recently establishing a political fund based on 1% of members annual union subscription, to ‘campaign against racist and fascist’ candidates and parties at election time – in particular, the British National Party! So there you have it folks – on the one hand these bigots seek to promote Islam in our schools, whilst on the other they want to oppose Britons defending their Christian culture and heritage at the hustings and, presumably, elsewhere!”
The fascists of the BNP take their inspiration from yesterday’s front page article in the Daily Express.
Al-Jazeera’s newest (Jewish) star
“Nothing demonstrates the dangerously misplaced sympathies of Canada’s intellectual elite so much as the case of Avi Lewis. A former host with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Jewish Lewis is Canada’s answer to Keith Olbermann. But what has everyone in Canada talking is not his past career but his new job: Lewis has joined Al-Jazeera, the Middle East broadcaster that serves as a leading purveyor of anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism.
“That the ambitious 40-year-old presenter has departed the state-funded CBC for an international network with exponentially bigger budgets and audiences isn’t a huge surprise. But Lewis’s career move underscores that the Canadian Left is all too willing to forge an unholy alliance with the official tribune of radical Islam.”
Kathy Shaidle at Front Page Magazine, 26 March 2008
Hijabs at a Harvard gym
“It’s a measure of America’s multicultural journey over the past half-century that we’ve gone from ‘God and Man at Yale’ to Allah and Woman at Harvard. In a contretemps scarcely imaginable in William F. Buckley’s day, Harvard has closed one of its gyms to men for six hours a week so that Muslim women can exercise comfortably. ‘Sharia at Harvard,’ warned blogger Andrew Sullivan. A Harvard Crimson columnist blasted ‘Harvard’s misguided accommodationist policy.’
“Meanwhile, a separate controversy has flared over broadcasting the Muslim call to prayer from the steps of Harvard’s main library during Islamic Awareness Week. Three graduate students, writing in the Crimson, argued that the prayer sowed ‘seeds of division and disrespect’ by declaring that ‘there is no lord except God’ and that ‘Mohammad is the Messenger of God’. Harvard, they wrote, ‘should not grant license to any religious group, minority or otherwise, to use a loudspeaker to declare false the profoundly important and personal beliefs of others.’ …
“My reaction is more along the lines of: ‘Get a grip.’ It’s reasonable to set aside a few off-peak hours at one of Harvard’s many gyms. It’s not offensive to have the call to prayer echoing across Harvard Yard, any more than it is to ring church bells or erect a giant menorah there.
“I share the apprehensions stirred up by the more radical followers of Islam, with their drive to restore the caliphate and subjugate women. But I come to this issue as a member of another minority religion, Judaism, whose adherents often seek flexibility from the majority culture in order to practice their faith. As with Islam, my religion’s more observant believers endorse practices – segregating the sexes at prayer, excluding women from engaging in certain rituals – that I find disturbing, bordering on offensive. I have relatives who would shrink from shaking my hand. Still, I would defend to the death their right not to touch me.”
Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post, 26 March 2008
‘Why I won’t be gagged’
“There is so much violence worldwide perpetrated against Christians in the name of Islam. Yet I, as a Christian priest, am not supposed to notice it. I am expected to keep my mouth shut and certainly not to write about it in a daily newspaper. Where are the official complaints from the Archbishops, the rest of our failed and spineless hierarchy and the General Synod? Recall the spirit of appeasement from the 1930s. It was disastrous then and it will lead to a much greater disaster today.”
Peter Mullen, Rector of St Michael’s, Cornhill, in the City of London, and Chaplain to the Stock Exchange responds to the recent assault on Canon Michael Ainsworth.
Torygraph warns against Islamification of Britain
“The increasing influence of Islam on British culture is disclosed in research today that shows the number of Muslims worshipping at mosques in England and Wales will outstrip the numbers of Roman Catholics going to church in little more than a decade…. The projections show that, if the Churches do not reverse their historical decline, there will be more active Muslims than Christians in Sunday services across Britain before the middle of the century.
“The figures, based on Government and academic sources and the latest edition of Christian Research’s Religious Trends, come amid growing tensions over the place of Muslims in British society. They follow fierce rows over the extent to which Islamic law should be recognised and over claims that “no-go” areas for non-Muslims are emerging in parts of the country.”
Qaradawi urges killing of Wafa Sultan (according to Robert Spencer)
According to Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, Yusuf al-Qaradawi has taken time out from calling for gay men to be stoned to death in order to urge the murder of Wafa Sultan:
“… now he has directed his rage against Sultan, a fifty-year-old Syrian-American psychologist: ‘She said unbearable, ghastly things that made my hair stand on end’. Specifically, ‘she had the audacity to publicly curse Allah, His Prophet, the Koran, the history of Islam, and the Islamic nation’. He repeated that she ‘leveled accusations against Islam and the Muslims, and cursed Allah, His Prophet, the Islamic nation, the shari’a, and the Islamic faith and culture’. These are serious charges, and Qaradawi states them in terms that his jihadist minions will understand as meaning that she must be killed.”
Front Page Magazine, 25 March 2008
Even the MEMRI-edited transcript of Qaradawi’s Al-Jazeera broadcast provides no basis for this hysterical nonsense.