Category Archives: Right wing

Jihad Watch applauds Peter Tatchell

Posted on by Bob Pitt

A UK supporter of Jihad Watch reports on a protest in London against the proposed introduction of Islamic arbitration bodies in Ontario: “there were only about 15-16 people, mostly men, including a reporter from Canadian television”.

Dhimmi Watch, 10 September 2005

Not to worry, though – they took turns to address each other on the iniquities of the Ontario proposal: “representatives from Sharia.com, the International Committee against Stoning, the British Humanist Association, the International Humanist and Ethical Union, and Peter Tatchell made speeches. There was also a guy from a gay and lesbian association there. They basically made the same objections to Sharia law that we’ve all seen here at Jihad Watch/Dhimmi Watch”.

Perhaps Outrage, GALHA and their co-thinkers might consider organising a UK visit for Robert Spencer? After all, they have so much in common.

FCO agrees with Ken, Ken agrees with FCO shock

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“On September 4th, I posted on how an Islamic adviser to the Foreign and Colonial Office in a confidential memo had virtually quoted verbatim Ken Livingstone’s specious attempt to defend Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi by attacking the MEMRI translations of his speeches as suspect on the grounds that this organization was founded by a former Israeli intelligence officer. Now here’s a thing. Ken Livingstone has a letter in today’s Guardian which recycles this so that he presents the Foreign and Colonial Office as a reliable source which supports his view of MEMRI.”

The cheek of it!

Adloyada blog, 10 September 2005

MEMRI is made of this

Posted on by Bob Pitt

Leon Collins (Letters, September 7) suggests the Middle East Media Research Institute provides an impartial selection of what is being said and published in Arabic. Many reliable sources would dispute this. A recent Foreign Office memo, leaked to the Observer, stated: “The founding president of Memri is retired Colonel Yigal Carmon, who served for 22 years in Israel’s military intelligence service. Memri is regularly criticised for selective translation.” Using Memri as the source for information on Islamic leaders is like using the Conservative press office as the only source for information on Labour. At the very least, the nature of the source should be made clear. Better, journalists should have their material translated independently.

Ken Livingstone
Mayor of London

Letter in the Guardian, 10 September 2005

Man ‘killed by Islamic zealots’

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“It’s a chilling story: A man was shot five times in the head at close range in an ‘execution’ plotted by a group who had failed to convert him to Islam, a jury has heard. Where did this happen? Saudi Arabia? Iran? Egypt? Pakistan? Nope. Try Great Britain. Islamic intimidation and contempt for those who reject Islam comes to the sceptered isle.” Thus Robert Spencer on a new Islamic threat to western civilisation.

Dhimmi Watch, 7 September 2005

What Spencer doesn’t bother to mention is that the group concerned is a criminal gang of Afro-Caribbean youths who have adopted the name of the “Muslim boys”. They present a serious problem from the standpoint of gun crime in South London’s black community. But the idea that they have anything to do with Islam in any meaningful sense of the term is an absurdity.

‘Facts for Islamic apologists who justify London bombings’

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“Ken Livingston, the London Mayor, was not the only British Islamic apologist who implicitly tried to justify the London bombings by suggesting that ‘decades of western intervention in the Middle East and the Iraq war could have influenced the bombers’. I have heard many Islamic apologists who are poorly educated in Islam, state similar excuses. Knowingly or unknowingly these Islamic apologists serve to hearten the Islamic extremists.”

FaithFreedom.org, 7 September 2005

So what was the cause of the London bombings, then? Well, apparently it all goes back to the Battle of the Ditch in 5 AH (627 AD), which shows that Muslims just want to kill non-Muslims, and to the Battle of Kerbala in 61 AH (680 AD), which shows that Muslims have no hesitation in killing each other. It’s just a bloodthirsty religion.

Encounter with an angry Muslim academic

Posted on by Bob Pitt

Richard L. Rubenstein – an “expert” on the dreadful threat to Europe posed by Muslim migrants –  recounts a confrontation with Professor Mohamad Al-Khadry at an academic conference in Krakow. “His worst spleen was reserved for Bat Ye’or and MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute). He labeled Bat Ye’or a bigot, a racist, and an ‘Islamophobe’ and attacked MEMRI as a ‘pro-Israel propagandist website’.”

Front Page Magazine, 7 September 2005

Spleen could hardly be put to more appropriate use, I would suggest.

Opposition to Sharia courts goes global

Posted on by Bob Pitt

An upcoming international demonstration designed to pressure Queen’s Park [home of the Ontario Legislature] into rejecting shariah courts continued to grow yesterday, even as the premier promised any decision on a faith-based court system will not jeopardize women’s rights.

They [women’s rights] will not be compromised,” Premier Dalton McGuinty told reporters at a news conference in Toronto yesterday.

So far, Amsterdam, Stockholm, London, Paris and Los Angeles are among the confirmed participants in tomorrow’s protests. They will join similar demonstrations in Toronto, Ottawa, Waterloo, Montreal and Victoria.

Ontario Attorney-General Michael Bryant delayed a highly anticipated decision on the future of faith-based arbitration this summer, choosing to wait before making changes to a law that allows any set of principles – including religious ones – to be used to privately settle family disputes.

Critics say Ontario has become the target of an international political movement by extremists to entrench Islamic law in Western democracies.

“This has nothing to do with the faith of Islam. It’s political Islam,” said Homa Arjomand, founder of the International Campaign against Shariah Court in Canada [and central committee member of the Worker Communist Party of Iran]. “Ontario is an easy target because we have multiculturalism.”

National Post, 7 September 2005

‘Muslim opinion’ be damned

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“Every attempt to appease ‘Muslim opinion’ preserves, promotes, and emboldens our enemies. Every concession to angry Muslim mobs gives hope to the Islamist cause. Every day we allow terrorist regimes to exist gives their minions time to execute the next Sept. 11. America needs honest leadership with the courage to identify and defeat our enemies – ‘Muslim opinion’ be damned.”

Another commentator unconvinced by the Bush administration’s “Muslim outreach” strategy.

Mens News Daily, 6 September 2005 

Karen Hughes – pawn of Wahhabism

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“One of President Bush’s closest confidants, Karen Hughes, on Friday addressed the annual conference of an organization whose primary purpose is the propagation of Saudi-sponsored Wahhabist Islam – and which has praised suicide bombers, whose president has publicly denied that al Qaeda was behind 9/11, and whose web site to this day sells a book that lavishes praise on Osama bin Laden.”

The “Muslim outreach” strategy comes in for some stick from Joel Mowbray.

Townhall.com, 6 September 2005

See also Frank Gaffney in the Washington Times, 30 August 2005