Category Archives: Right wing

Diana’s mother ‘condemned her as disgrace for seeing Muslim men’

Posted on by Bob Pitt

Diana, Princess of Wales, was condemned by her mother as a disgraceful “whore” who was messing around with Muslim men, the inquest into her death heard today.

Paul Burrell, the Princess’s former butler, told the High Court that he had been allowed to listen into a telephone call where Frances Shand Kydd rounded on her daughter for having a relationship with Hasnat Khan, a Pakistani consultant cardiologist.

Mr Burrell said: “Well she called the Princess a whore and she said that she was messing around with f****** Muslim men and she was disgraceful and said some very nasty things.” It was this telephone conversation, Mr Burrell admitted, that prompted the Princess to sever links with her mother, who has since died.

Times Online, 14 January 2008

Pastor received call as part of alleged campaign against mosque

Posted on by Bob Pitt

First Baptist ChurchSeveral days before a hearing in which a zoning board denied a request to build a mosque here, a Bellbrook pastor and her husband received a phone call from a woman urging local residents to show up at the board meeting and oppose the mosque, the husband said.

The caller said the mosque should be blocked “because of what it says in the Quran, and these are bad people,” said Brooks Heck, whose wife Terry is pastor of Bellbrook United Methodist Church. Brooks Heck is pastor of South Park United Methodist Church in Dayton. The caller identified herself as a member of First Baptist Church of Kettering, now located in Sugarcreek Twp., Brooks Heck said.

About 300 people showed up for the Thursday night meeting when the board of zoning appeals voted 5-0 to deny a variance request that would have permitted the Islamic Society of Greater Dayton to build a mosque for up to 975 people and a family center for up to 400 on 15 acres it owns on South Alpha-Bellbrook Road. The board denied the request because of the adverse impact on neighborhood traffic and property values.

Barry Jude, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Kettering, said he didn’t know of a calling campaign prior to the board meeting, but he said there have been announcements at his church urging Sugarcreek Twp. and Bellbrook residents to oppose the zoning. “We promote and propagate Christianity first and foremost,” he said.

Karen Dabdoud of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Cincinnati said she was surprised by the zoning denial. During a public hearing in October, township officials “told us this was a pretty simple and straightforward application and they didn’t see any problems with it,” she said.

“This kind of thing is unfortunately very common across the country,” Dabdoud said. “It’s usually framed in terms of traffic and property values, but underneath it is a situation of religious tension.”

Dayton Daily News, 13 January 2008

Muslims must do more to integrate, says poll

Posted on by Bob Pitt

An ICM poll  conducted for the Sunday Telegraph reports that reveals that 56% of respondents believe that Muslims should do more to integrate – which is hardly surprising given the avalanche of propaganda to that effect.

Other statistics are more positive, however, and show that at least a substantial section of the general population remains resistant to the relentless media campaign against the Muslim community. More people disagreed with Nazir-Ali’s comments about “no-go areas” than agreed (38% as against 35%), while 51% thought that the Muslim community enriched Britain and was not a threat compared with 37% who disagreed.

Predictably, the Torygraph wheels out Patrick Sookhdeo of the right-wing evangelical Christian group, the Barnabas Fund, who is quoted as saying: “Muslims are being told not to integrate into British society, but to set up separate enclaves where they can operate according to sharia law.” He claims that the process of “cleansing” Muslim-majority areas of non-Muslims has already begun, with white residents urged to leave and churches threatened.

‘Muslim Britain is becoming one big no-go area’ – Shiraz Maher backs Nazir-Ali, and is joined by Ed Husain

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“Perhaps it had to be someone like Michael Nazir-Ali, the first Asian bishop in the Church of England, who would break with convention and finally point out the elephant in the room.

“His comments last week about the growing stranglehold of Muslim extremists in some communities revived debate about the future of multiculturalism and provoked a flurry of condemnation. Members of all three political parties immediately clamoured to dismiss him. ‘I don’t recognise the description that he’s talked about – no-go areas and people feeling intimidated’, said Hazel Blears, the communities secretary.

“A quick call to her Labour colleague John Reid, the former home secretary, would almost certainly have helped her to identify at least one of those places. Just over a year ago Reid was heckled by the Muslim extremist Abu Izzadeen in Leytonstone, east London, during a speech on extremism, appropriately. ‘How dare you come to a Muslim area’, Izzadeen screamed.”

Former Hizb ut-Tahrir member Shiraz Maher in the Sunday Times, 13 January 2008

Is Maher really so stupid that he believes the rantings of an isolated and unrepresentative nutter like Abu Izzadeen tell us anything about the attitudes of the Muslim population of Leytonstone?

Meanwhile over at the Sunday Telegraph another former HT member welcomes Nazir-Ali’s intervention. Ed Husain writes:

“Our political class, media and civil society are dominated by good-hearted, middle-class people who do not wish to admit that a well-intentioned idea – multiculturalism – can have such devastating effects. A weekly curry in Brick Lane is not enough to understand the the underworld that extremists manipulate to ensure that their version of a rigid, soulless political ideology – Islamism – reigns supreme in so-called ‘Muslim areas’….

“In the name of multiculturalism, we have created monocultural ghettoes. A shopper in London’s Green Street or Birmingham’s Alum Rock Road may as well be somewhere in India.

“My objection is not to a cluster of retail outlets specialising in ethnic attire – much like, say, Jermyn Street in Piccadilly for men – but to the surrounding communities where people languish for decades without access to English, education, social mobility or contact with mainstream Britain. The uncontrolled arrival of new immigrants only compounds the insularity.”

For Yusuf Smith’s response to Husain (“I do not see a debate about multiculturalism: I see an orchestrated attack on it, based on exaggerations and untruths”) see Indigo Jo Blogs, 13 January 2008

‘I feel like an alien in my home town’

Posted on by Bob Pitt

Oak Lane BradfordIt has been more than 40 years since Tim Carbin walked the length of Oak Lane, the Bradford backstreet of his boyhood. Then, when he lived with his grandmother Florence Pawson, a matriarch within the community, his task after school was to run errands. Down to Foster’s, the baker’s, for a loaf of bread and a pound of bacon from Donald Gilbank the butcher. “And mind it isn’t too fatty,” Florence would tell him.

Mr Carbin, then 13, knew all the local storekeepers by name, just as he knew the families in the surrounding terraces. Yesterday, outside number 95A, his grandmother’s former home, Mr Carbin gazed in bewilderment as he scanned his old haunt. Not surprisingly, the stores of his youth had gone: such has been the change in our shopping habits over the decades that they have given way to supermarkets and fast-food outlets.

But that was not all that had changed irrevocably in Oak Lane. Among the new stores, the clothes shops sell Muslim dress, the butcher stocks halal meat and even the local takeaway advertises halal pizza. “I feel like an alien, like I’m on a street in Karachi,” Mr Carbin says, awkwardly. “I don’t feel I have anything in common with this area.” He now lives just 10 miles away, in the north of Bradford. He hasn’t returned because Oak Lane, like so many similar areas of so many northern cities, is now an almost exclusive Asian Muslim community.

“This isn’t, as the Government would like us to believe, a multicultural society,” he says. “This is pure racial segregation. And it’s like this because the Muslim community simply refuses to integrate. So people like me feel like outcasts in our own country.”

Sunday Telegraph, 13 January 2008

Tariq Ramadan declares war on the people of Europe

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“Tariq Ramadan differs a bit from militant Islam, at least in method, although not in the final outcome; both are all about Islamic dominance. Tariq Ramadan opposes the Muslims’ use of violence in Europe because in the long run violence might be devastating to the prospect of Euroislam…. Euroislam is the vision of Islam’s religious and political dominance over Europe.”

Kirsten Sarauw in the Kristeligt Dagblad, 11 January 2008

Translation: Gates of Vienna

‘Obama, the Muslim thing, and why it matters’ – Pamela Geller explains

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“The thing is, you can’t be a leader and not know what Islam means. The average Joe pumping gas on Route 66 – okay, not on top of the issue. But there is no way you can be running for President and not know the hell being wreaked on the free and not-so-free world by Islamic jihad…. Barack Obama went to a madrassa in Jakarta. A madrassa in a Muslim country. Whether he was devout or secular, he knows what was taught. He knows what is in the Koran…. His stepfather and close members of his family are devout Muslims. Not an unimportant influence…. Obama would have had to make a decision to reject Islam. When did he make that decision? How? Why the silence? Why the reluctance to talk about it?”

Pamela Geller at Israel National News, 9 January 2008

US Baptist leader opposes letter of peace to Muslims

Posted on by Bob Pitt

Reverend R. Albert Mohler Jr., the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, cited a number of reasons why he would not sign the letter which pushed for peace between Christians and Muslims, saying chief among his concerns were the apology for the sin of Crusaders and the ambiguous definition of God.

Speaking to the Towers Baptist seminary news publication, Rvd. Mohler said “I am not going to apologize for the Crusades because I am very thankful that the Muslim effort to reach a conquest of Europe was unsuccessful. Otherwise, we would be speaking Arabic on this program right now and we would be talking about the Muslim continent of Europe and potentially even of North America.”

Christian Today, 11 January 2008

‘Balls steps back from faith schools plan’, Torygraph claims

Posted on by Bob Pitt

The spread of faith schools across the country has been shelved because ministers fear they could help create a new generation of Muslim extremists, it was claimed last night. In a Commons committee on Wednesday, Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, appeared to take a step back from plans to create more. He said ministers had no ideological commitment to faith schools, in which children are admitted on the basis of their parents’ beliefs.

Last night it was claimed the Government may have woken up to the potential dangers of Islamic schools. At present, there are seven state-run Muslim faith schools and more than 100 in the independent sector. Keith Porteous Wood, the director of the National Secular Society, said that the Government now appeared willing to consider the negatives of faith schools.

He claimed the Government may have abandoned its drive for faith schools in general because of concerns about Muslim schools in particular. “This Government has gone down the faith school route and they find it very difficult because there will be pressure for them to have Muslim schools,” he said. “I hope that they have the courage to say ‘no more faith schools’.”

A spokesman for the Department for Children, Schools and Families insisted that the Government had not changed its policy on faith schools of any denomination.

Daily Telegraph, 11 January 2008

In fact Ed Balls stated back in September last year that the government had “no policy to increase the number” of faith schools.

What the government’s 2007 report Faith in the System does do is recognise that “in relation to the overall size of their populations there are relatively few faith school places in the maintained sector available to Muslim, Sikh and Hindu children compared to the provision available for Christian and Jewish families”. The report goes on to commit the government to “encourage independent schools to enter the maintained sector in their existing premises”.

So what we are likely to see in the immediate future is not more faith schools as such but rather some of the hundred-odd independent Muslim schools being brought into the state sector. We can undoubtedly expect campaigns by anti-Muslim bigots against this process. And it is equally predictable that these campaigns will win the enthusiastic support of the National Secular Society.

‘It’s time for Muslims to denounce extremists’ says right-wing novelist

Posted on by Bob Pitt

Frederick Forsyth“There is a growing belief … that the leaders of ‘moderate Islam’ in the UK have simply lost control of their own ultra-extreme faction…. we non-Muslims are informed of bookshops rife with hate material but never purged by the Muslims themselves; of mosques where preachers speak only of hate against the rest of us but are never cleansed; of social clubs where the young are indoctrinated and brainwashed on a diet of loathing for the non-jihad world but are never closed down.

“Increasing numbers outside Islam are asking: if the elders will do nothing, is this extremism perhaps after all the true face of Islam? If not, why is nothing done?

“To claim to speak for British Islam but only to rage at a Christian bishop who preaches against the evil of hatred – and hatred is an evil in all beliefs – is not the answer. The answer can only be for those Muslims who want to be truly British and live in peace with the rest of us – and they claim they are the huge majority – to put their house in order, painful though this might be.”

Frederick Forsyth in the Daily Express, 11 January 2009