Category Archives: Right wing

Racism invades Canada

Posted on by Bob Pitt

Another illustration of Robert Fisk’s point that “racism has invaded Canada“, provided by one Rachel Marsden:

“What Islam desperately needs is a Pope of its own – a modern-day religious leader with whom the buck stops. But asking the moderates and extremists of the Muslim world to duke it out over who gets to pick a leader is asking for trouble, since in the absence of sufficient infidels, they’ve always turned to killing each other.

“The safest and most entertaining way to hold an Islamic Pope search is to do it on television. The show, modeled after Survivor, would be hosted by British comedic genius Sacha Baron Cohen of Ali G and Borat fame – who also, incidentally, is a Jew. Any attempts on the host’s life would result in immediate disqualification.

“The contestants will be chosen from among high-profile Islamic loudmouths…. The challenges will include a ‘wahabi wasabi’ eating contest, enduring a marathon screening of burka-free Girls Gone Wild, and attempting to convert someone to Islam using words only.

“Each tribe member will have a torch in the shape of a burning civilian building, and when you get voted off the island and it’s time for the ‘dhimming of the torch’, it means your jihad is over and the building gets doused. Rather than going to Exile Island to enjoy a stay in a luxury hotel, as the losing tribe member exits the show, he gets to strap on one of those ‘infidel busting’ backpacks and let ‘er rip.”

Toronto Sun, 25 September 2006

Muslims are ‘intimidating the West’ – Daniel Pipes

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Writing in the New York Sun, Daniel Pipes examines six cases of Muslims attempting to “intimidate” the West, from the Rushdie affair to the Pope. He concludes:

“No conspiracy lies behind these six rounds of inflammation and aggression, but examined in retrospect, they coalesce and form a single, prolonged campaign of intimidation, with surely more to come. The basic message – ‘You Westerners no longer have the privilege to say what you will about Islam, the Prophet, and the Qur’an, Islamic law rules you too’ – will return again and again until Westerners either do submit or Muslims realize their effort has failed.”

Who’s to blame for terrorism? The Islamofascists, and the Left, apparently

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“Who is really responsible for the suicide bombers that target us? Is it the fault of George Bush or Tony Blair? Are we all somehow to blame? David Aaronovitch, journalist and commentator, has had enough of this argument. He asks how we’ve got to the point where British Socialists support Islamofascist Terrorism. Aaronovitch explains where the left have gone wrong on Israel, Palestine, the War in Iraq and the War on Terror.”

“David Aaronovitch: No Excuses for Terror” – documentary in the Don’t Get Me Started slot this evening, 7.15pm, on Channel 5.

Or, as today’s Morning Star prefers to summarise the contents of the programme: “The notorious reactionary launches into an extended right-wing rant.”

Postscript:  Yes, I’ve just watched it, and the Morning Star is right on the button.

Update:  With the enthusiastic approval of Atlas Shrugs, Harry’s Place has posted the documentary on YouTube.

Islamists are fascists

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“Make no apologies for the use of ‘Islamic fascism’. It is the perfect nomenclature for the agenda of radical Islam, for a variety of historical and scholarly reasons. That such usage also causes extreme embarrassment to both the Islamists themselves and their leftist ‘anti-fascist’ appeasers in the West is just too bad.”

Victor Davis Hanson in National Review, 25 September 2006

‘The shadow cast by a mega-mosque’

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“It will be called the London Markaz and it is intended to be a significant Islamic landmark whose prominence and stature will be enhanced by its proximity to the Olympic site.

“When television viewers around the world see aerial views of the stadium during the opening ceremony in six years’ time, the most prominent religious building in the camera shot will not be one of the city’s iconic churches that have shaped the nation’s history, such as St Paul’s Cathedral or Westminster Abbey, but the mega-mosque.

“Its arrival in London will be a significant coup for Islam and a major event for the country as a whole. It will also make Abu Izzadeen’s depiction of that part of east London as ‘a Muslim area’ seem remarkably prescient.”

Philip Johnston in the Daily Telegraph, 25 September 2006

Mad Mel applauds Johnston’s article: “As Johnston observes, when people look at the Olympic village, itself a showcase for Britain, the dominant image will be not a church but a mosque towering over it. It will be a symbol of Islamic domination of Britain and Britain’s cultural surrender to the jihad, and as such will inspire many more jihadists on the basis that Britain has given up the cultural ghost.”

Melanie Phillips’s Diary, 25 September 2006

The real Oriana Fallaci

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“Fallaci seemed most concerned in her last days not to have her view of Florence marred by a minaret, as if that were as good a reason as any to unleash the dogs of war. In sum, it was otherness that revolted her. She admitted to hating Mexican immigrants in America as much as Muslims in Europe. Homosexuals were another bugbear. So were Jews. More grotesque supporters joined her new crusade. On her death September 15, unconditional praise for Fallaci came from La Padania, the organ of the hate-mongers of the xenophobic Northern League. Their language – just as hers in the end – resembled nothing so much as that of the Fascist rabble-rousers the girl Oriana went to war against in the 1940s.”

Peter Byrne at Swans.com, 25 September 2006

‘Battle to block massive mosque’

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“A plan to build a ‘mega mosque’ in east London has become mired in controversy with allegations that it is being bankrolled by Islamist groups in Saudi Arabia. Opponents say it would promote a radical form of Islam. They accuse its backers of not consulting local people.”

Jamie Doward writes in the Observer, 24 September 2006

This piece is little more than a rewrite of Andrew Gilligan’s scare story that appeared in the Evening Standard back in July, complete with a quote from the discredited “expert” on Islam, Patrick Sookhdeo. You’d have thought that the Observer‘s home affairs editor might have done a bit of original research into the subject and maybe even challenged racist stereotypes about the threat from Muslim radicals, rather than just recycle second-hand Islamophobic fantasies. Or then again, perhaps not, given that one of Doward’s predecessors in that post was Martin Bright.

Barroso defends pope, attacks Muslim ‘extremists’

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BarrosoJose Manuel Durao Barroso, the EU Commission president, has strongly defended Pope Benedict XVI, saying Muslim criticism was unacceptable. “Attacking the pope because he refers in a discourse to a historical document is completely unacceptable,” Barroso said in a newspaper interview on Sunday. “I was disappointed that there were not more European leaders who said: ‘Obviously the pope has the right to express his opinion’. The problem is not the comments of the pope but the reactions of the extremists … We must defend our values.”

Al-Jazeera, 24 September 2006

See also Associated Press, 24 September 2006

‘1 in 10 British Muslims won’t shop a terrorist’

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“Tens of thousands of British Muslims would NOT shop someone they believed took part in a terror attack. A shock News of the World poll today reveals almost ONE IN TEN would not tell the police if they suspected a fellow Muslim was involved in an atrocity. With a million Muslims over 16 in Britain, it suggests a staggering 90,000 would turn a blind eye. And the figure is even worse among Muslims aged between 16 and 24, with 15 per cent saying they would not tell. Our poll also shows six per cent – or 60,000 Muslims – think attacks like the July 7 bombings are justified.”

News of the World, 24 September 2006

See also Press Association, 24 September 2006

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