John Ware returns to the attack against the Muslim Council of Britain and, predictably, to the promotion of the fraudulent Sufi Muslim Council. “While preaching moderation, the MCB is also good at keeping young Muslims angry”, Ware writes. Not half as good as John Ware is.
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MB hits back at Washington Times
“The Muslim Brotherhood finds itself between the hammer of Mrs Alyssa Lappen – who represents the Zionist lobby and its declared war on the MB – and the anvil of Mr Osama Ben Laden who opposes every moderate Islamic movement, including the Muslim Brotherhood.”
The Muslim Brotherhood replies to an article in the Washington Times by Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen.
British MP warns Europe of ‘new anti-Semitism’
“A ‘witches brew’ of Islamic fundamentalists, left-wing intellectuals and neo-Nazis is causing a new resurgence of anti-Semitism to spread across Western Europe and must be tackled, one of the continent’s leading experts on the subject has told The Jerusalem Post in an exclusive interview.
“British Labor MP Dennis MacShane – a close ally of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and co-author of a hard-hitting report on the rise of anti-Semitism across Europe – told the Post in an interview in Berlin on Tuesday that Western Europe was suffering from a ‘new anti-Semitism’ that had to be tackled head-on. Part of this, he claimed, came from some sections of the Islamic communities of Western Europe – both fundamentalists and intellectuals – who were in an unorthodox alliance with left-wingers in propagating anti-Semitic sentiment.”
Mad Mel gets it wrong … again
“Mr Livingstone also claimed it was wrong to brand a British Muslim boy a ‘terrorist’ if he got involved in Palestinian violence against Israel, whereas ‘if a young Jewish boy in this country goes and joins the Israeli army and ends up killing many Palestinians and comes back, that is wholly legitimate’. These comments are simply utterly unacceptable. British Jews do not serve in the Israeli army.”
Melanie Phillips in the Daily Mail, 22 July 2005
“He grew up in suburban north London and still misses home comforts like milky British tea, the friends he left behind and the local pub. But yesterday Joe Wainer joined an elite Israeli army unit, and now he faces the prospect of active service in the occupied West Bank. The 19-year-old, one of nine young Britons who have signed up for a programme that recruits foreign Jews for the Israel Defence Forces, realised his life had changed when he fired an M16 rifle for the first time in training.”
Jeevan Vasagar in the Guardian, 23 November 2006
Postscript: Dan Judelson of Jews for Justice for Palestinians has a letter in the Guardian responding to the latter article: “We hear over and over again that there are two sides to this conflict. Yet the real problem of the west’s attitude is one of double standards. A programme to recruit young British Palestinians to join Palestinian security forces would be swiftly shut down and claims of ‘mentoring’ dismissed as wicked Islamist indoctrination.”
Hardline Muslims ‘must go’
Muslims who want hardline Sharia Law in Brtain should leave the country, Tory leader David Cameron said last night.
The Islamic law uses brutal punishments and is intolerant of women.
Mr Cameron said: “If someone wants to see Sharia Law they should think about going to live in another country. That’s not something we should contemplate.”
Mr Cameron also attacked Tony Blair for not banning radical Islamic groups like Hizb ut-Tahrir – despite a promise after last year’s 7/7 bombings in London.
The Sun, 23 November 2006
Under the heading “Well said, Dave”, a Sun editorial comments: “For once we cannot argue with David Cameron. The Tory leader has condemned Islamic extremists who want to replace our tolerant, liberal way of life with Sharia law. This hardline interpretation of the Koran treats women as chattels and demands death for gays and Jews. The answer, says Mr Cameron, is for fanatics to go and live in another country. We can only add: The sooner the better.”
Over at the Daily Mail, by contrast, Cameron is reported as complaining that Labour leaders are playing “political football” with public fears about terrorism. A typical case of the Tory leader trying to be all things to all people. On the one hand, he comes on as a sensitive liberal over security issues, and on the other he provides the Sun with material to whip up paranoia about “Muslim fanatics”.
‘They were Muslims’ – good enough reason to throw them off a plane
“Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.”
Ann Coulter at Front Page Magazine, 23 November 2006
‘Allah’s England?’
“Since the London bombings of July 7, 2005, which killed 53 people, the police have been obliged to keep thousands of Muslims under surveillance while investigating up to a hundred separate conspiracies to commit terror. But rather than expressing shame that such unprecedented measures have been necessary, ‘moderate’ Muslim leaders like Muhammad Abdul Bari have responded with thinly veiled blackmail. As often as not, British support for Israel is invoked as high on the list of Muslim grievances. The message is simple: unless Britain withdraws that support, every Muslim will become a potential suicide bomber.”
Daniel Johnson in Commentary, November 2006
Shariah rising in the West
“In many European countries, Islamists are staging demonstrations against legislators’ actions to ban veils hiding the faces of Muslim women. While the legislators seek to increase public security, the Islamists protest that the ban violates their ‘religious freedom’…. The petrodollar-backed Islamists are on a fast track to subvert democracies from within. With the best PR money can buy, they use media and communication outlets to popularize and legitimize the Islamist agenda, while deceiving the public as to its very nature. Under the guise of personal freedom, so cherished in the West, they introduce conservative Muslim restrictions on private and public life.”
More right-wing paranoia about the “Islamicisation” of the West, from Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen, in the Washington Times, 22 November 2006
‘Fanatics – fit in or ship out’, says Jon Gaunt
“The Dutch are right to ban the Burka and we should do the same. It’s not a religious obligation and is increasingly being worn as an act of defiance against the majority way of life.
“Hiding your face isn’t about modesty, it’s about cowardice and a refusal to engage with the host society. It is intended to separate out these women from the mainstream. It is a sign of subjugation, even indoctrination, that women are second-class citizens.
“Well, at the risk of upsetting these extremists, I’m afraid I want to live in a society where women are equal and where my two beautiful girls have the same opportunity as boys. I can’t see how they can get that if they’re dressed to make them almost invisible from modern society.
“Inayat Bunglawala, a man obviously, from the Muslim Council of Britain, has reacted with horror to the Dutch proposals, saying: ‘One of the most wonderful things about living in Britain is freedom of association.’ How the hell can you associate with someone whose face you can’t see? How does dressing like a 14th-Century Dalek encourage freedom of association? The answer is that it clearly doesn’t.
“Our politicians should stop playing to the minorities and listen to the majority of Brits who are sick to the back teeth of this vocal but small band of religious extremists who want to spread division at every opportunity. We should ban the Burka, lift the veil and tell these fanatics to fit in or ship out.”
Jon Gaunt in The Sun, 21 November 2006
Mad Mel goes to Philadelphia
Melanie Phillips has been wowing her right-wing audience at Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum in Philadelphia. Joseph Puder reports:
“‘Britain stands at the precipice.’ Such is the view of British journalist Melanie Phillips in her recently published book, Londonistan, in which she argues that Britain and Europe are facing a civilizational test – and they are in danger of failing….
“In her book, Phillips pieces together the story of how Londonistan developed. Britain, she points out, is experiencing a collapse of self-confidence and national identity. The result is a paralyzing multiculturalism as well as a powerful instinct for appeasing extremists. In her remarks last week, Phillips suggested that the current climate threatens to ‘undermine the alliance with America and imperil the defense of the free world’….
“What Britons do not grasp, Phillips argues, is that they are in a war with an enemy that seeks to destroy them and impose an Islamic way of life governed by Sharia law – the latest polls indicate that 40 to 60 percent of British Muslims want Sharia law to govern Britain – thereby destroying their democratic institutions and nullifying their individual freedoms. ‘We do not understand in Britain that we are fighting a religious war. Instead, we’re appeasing it’, Phillips said.”