Category Archives: Right wing

Netherlands considers ‘burqa’ ban

Posted on by Bob Pitt

The Dutch immigration minister says she will look into the legality of banning the burqa, the robes worn by some Muslim women to cover their bodies. Rita Verdonk made the pledge after a majority in parliament said it would support such a ban. The proposal was put forward by independent politician Geert Wilders.

“That women should walk the streets in a totally unrecognisable manner is an insult to everyone who believes in equal rights,” he said. “This law is a comfort to moderate Muslims and will contribute to integration in the Netherlands,” he added in a statement.

His proposal is supported by two of the parties in the governing centre-right coalition, as well as the opposition right-wing party founded by the late Pim Fortuyn.

Mrs Verdonk did not say when she might complete her investigation. If the Netherlands does decide to ban the burqa, it will be the first European country to do so.

BBC News, 21 December 2005

Violence? Blame Muslims, says Mark Steyn

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“These days, whenever something goofy turns up on the news, chances are it involves a fellow called Mohammed. A plane flies into the World Trade Centre? Mohammed Atta. A gunman shoots up the El Al counter at Los Angeles airport? Hesham Mohamed Hedayet. A sniper starts killing petrol station customers around Washington, DC? John Allen Muhammed. A guy fatally stabs a Dutch movie director? Mohammed Bouyeri. A terrorist slaughters dozens in Bali? Noordin Mohamed. A gang-rapist in Sydney? Mohammed Skaf.

“Maybe all these Mohammeds are victims of Australian white racists and American white racists and Dutch white racists and Balinese white racists and Beslan schoolgirl white racists. But the eagerness of the Aussie and British and Canadian and European media, week in, week out, to attribute each outbreak of an apparently universal phenomenon to strictly local factors is starting to look pathological.”

The inimitable Mark Steyn in the Daily Telegraph, 20 December 2005

‘Muslim bigots impose blasphemy laws on Victoria’

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“At the behest of Muslim bigots and multiculturalist fanatics the Bracks Government suspended free speech in Victoria by imposing a blasphemy law dressed up as an anti-vilification law. This has given Islamo-fascists a freehand to attack critics of Islam…. The provoked riots in Sydney are revealing what happens when Australians get sick of a minority trying to impose, with the tacit agreement of cowardly politicians and half-witted multiculturalists, its reactionary Muslim beliefs on them.”

Gerard Jackson takes issue with the prosecution of rightwing Christian pastors Danny Nalliah and Daniel Scot for inciting hatred against Muslims.

Brookes News, 19 December 2005

Cronulla riots caused by multicultural education

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“In Western Australia, as evidenced by the Curriculum Framework document, students are told they must value ‘the perspective of different cultures’ and ‘recognise the cultural mores that underpin groups and appreciate why these are valued and important’. The curriculum policy of the South Australian branch of the AEU is underpinned by ‘five core values’. One of the underlying values is that there should be respect for diversity and ‘no discrimination on any grounds’.

“The contradictions and weaknesses evident in the way multiculturalism has been taught in schools are manifold. Tolerance, the rule of law and a commitment to the common good are the very values needed if people are to live peacefully together. Cultural relativism and an uncritical acceptance of diversity denies such values…. Nobody should condone the violence in Cronulla perpetrated by those wearing the Australian flag or the actions of young Lebanese Muslims abusing women, destroying property and burning churches. But we also need to recognise that the PC approach to teaching multiculturalism in schools in part underpins the recent violence.”

Kevin Donnelly in The Australian, 19 December 2005

Muslims to blame for Australian riots (cont.)

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“As in France, Australia’s Muslims have inflicted on their hosts harm that exceeds by far the scratches and other scurrilities they suffered from the surfers…. Decades of indoctrination by the ‘managerial professional elites’ were supposed to emasculate the surfer dudes for good. They were expected to toke it up or turn the other cheek. Instead, they fought back against what they perceive as a threat to their land and life. A threat that commenced approximately 40 years ago, when Australian central planners decided in favor of mass importation of immigrants from the Third World.”

Ilana Mercer in Front Page Magazine, 19 December 2005

‘Lessons from America’s first war against Islamic terror’

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“Although there is much in the history of America’s wars with the Barbary pirates that is of direct relevance to the current ‘war on terror’, one aspect seems particularly instructive to informing our understanding of contemporary Islamic terrorists. Very simply put, the Barbary pirates were committed, militant Muslims who meant to do exactly what they said…. America became entangled in the Islamic world and was dragged into a war with the Barbary states simply because of the religious obligation within Islam to bring belief to those who do not share it. This is not something limited to ‘radical’ or ‘fundamentalist’ Muslims…. The Islamic basis for piracy in the Mediterranean was an old doctrine relating to the physical or armed jihad, or struggle.”

Joshua E. London joins Melanie Phillips and the fascists of the British National Party in identifying eighteenth century piracy with Islamist terrorism today.

National Review Online, 16 December 2005

More racist ‘Eurabia’ fantasies

Posted on by Bob Pitt

Over at Jihad Watch, Robert Spencer introduces a new regular column, “Eurabia Watch”, written by one “Emily Bradford, who lives in Europe”. In her first post, Bradford polemicises against the EU for failing to confront “Europe’s most urgent problem: millions of unassimilated Muslim immigrants, thousands of imams preaching Islamic supremacism, and self-proclaimed mujahideen bombing subways, raping teenagers, and torching cars and churches”.

Dhimmi Watch, 14 December 2005

You don’t suppose “Emily Bradford” could be a pseudonym for Melanie Phillips, do you?

A history lesson from the fascists … courtesy of Mad Mel

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“Islam has indeed played an important role in British history for several hundred years although not in the positive way the apologists for multi-culturalism claim. The southern coasts of England, Cornwall and Wales were throughout the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries particularly attractive to sea faring Muslims from north Africa. Their intent was not to settle and integrate, not to settle and build mosques but to steal away the population; forcing women and girls into sex slaves and the menfolk into becoming galley slaves and taken to markets in what is now Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco to be sold, exploited, abused and to face a life of agony and mental suffering from which death was the only escape. This dark period of British history has been swept under the carpet in recent years as the recounting of the horrific stories makes uncomfortable reading for those declining numbers of supporters of multi-culturalism.”

BNP website, 14 December 2005

Hang on, I recall reading this somewhere else. Now, where was that? Ah yes, it’s coming back to me. It was here.