Category Archives: Right wing

‘Cleric who defended suicide bombers allowed into Britain’

Posted on by Bob Pitt

yusuf_al-qaradawi“A Muslim cleric who has defended suicide bombings in Israel and Iraq is to be allowed into Britain next month for an international conference. Yusuf al-Qaradawi, 79, who has a visa to come to Britain but is banned from entering the United States, has been asked to attend the conference in Manchester.

“The invitation will be seen as the first test of the Government’s promise after the London bombings to clamp down on hardline Islamic preachers and other extremist clerics.

“Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, is expected to let Dr Qaradawi enter Britain despite having the power to ban him on the grounds that his presence is not ‘conducive to the public good’ and is a threat to public order.”

Times, 16 July 2005

And good for Charles Clarke (it’s not often I say that). At least he can recognise a mainstream Muslim scholar who fights against the extremism that produced 7/7, which is more than can be said for the Murdoch press.

London’s mayor: A terrorist puppet?

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“Our hearts go out to London – but not to its mayor. London’s leader, Ken Livingstone, eloquently condemned the recent terrorist bombings. But in the past, he never seemed too concerned about terrorists murdering Israelis. The tale of Livingstone’s ambivalence is a sordid kind of Greek tragedy.

“Last year, he welcomed a violently Jew-hating Muslim preacher to London. In so doing, he became a silent partner of Islamic terrorism – which has now turned against his own city. Today, he is an updated Oedipus Rex, accessory to a horrible crime of which he himself is a victim.”

David Gelernter in the LA Times, 15 July 2005

Enoch Powell was right says Simon Heffer

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“There is one particularly disturbing question about the London bombings: how could four young British subjects, who had spent their lives in our free and democratic country, murder their fellow Britons so callously? The answer lies in the British state’s policy of multiculturalism….

“In 1968, Enoch Powell was vilified for predicting what the Press misquoted as ‘rivers of blood’ if we did not protect and advance the culture and traditions of our country. He has been proved right. It is now up to our political leaders to make multiculturalism a dirty word, and overturn the victory of the ‘enemy within’.”

Simon Heffer in the Daily Mail, 16 July 2005

Boris Johnson calls for the ‘re-Britannification of Britain’

Posted on by Bob Pitt

Boris Johnson blames the London bombings on the development of a multicultural society “in which too many Britons have absolutely no sense of allegiance to this country or its institutions. It is a cultural calamity that will take decades to reverse, and we must begin now with what I call the re-Britannification of Britain.

“That means insisting … on certain values that we identify as British. If that means the end of spouting hate in mosques, and treating women as second-class citizens, then so be it. We need to acculturate the second-generation Muslim communities to our way of life, and end the obvious alienation that they feel.

“That means the imams will have to change their tune, and it is no use the Muslim Council of Great Britain endlessly saying that ‘the problem is not Islam’, when it is blindingly obvious that in far too many mosques you can find sermons of hate, and literature glorifying 9/11 and vilifying Jews. We have reached a turning-point in the relations between the Muslim community and the rest of us, and it is time for the moderates to show real leadership.”

Daily Telegraph, 15 July 2005

‘Multiculturalism: dishonest and deadly’

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“The news that the London terrorist attacks were carried out by second-generation Muslim immigrants should not surprise us. For years now we in the West have indulged a whole set of destructive ideas whose bitter fruit we will all continue to harvest, as more and more unassimilated and disaffected immigrant children turn against the countries that welcomed their parents and provided them with a prosperity and freedom unknown in their countries of origin. This baneful idea goes by the name of multiculturalism.”

Bruce Thornton on what has become a major theme among right-wing commentators post-7/7.

Private Papers, 14 July 2005

Foreign Office backs Tariq Ramadan

Posted on by Bob Pitt

tariq-ramadan2The Guardian reports:

“There has been media pressure to block the entry of the Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan, who has been banned by America. But the Home Office is unlikely to act in his case, as he is a best-selling author who promotes a progressive Islam and has condemned the London attacks. He has been described by the Foreign Office as ‘the leading Muslim leader/speaker in Europe’.”

Guardian, 15 July 2005

Law to ban religious extremists will be tightened

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“Islamic extremists denied entry to the United States would be banned automatically from Britain under anti-terror measures outlined by the Cabinet yesterday. Charles Clarke plans to prevent Muslim figures such as Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Tariq Ramadan entering the United Kingdom if they have been barred from the US or European Union.”

Times, 15 July 2005

See also the Daily Telegraph, 15 July 2005

A rant from Mad Mel

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“Since the bombings, many of the leading voices of British society have given the impression that they are less concerned about the atrocity that claimed the lives of more than 52 innocent people than the need to protect the Muslim community from any backlash…. The impression has been sedulously created that this act of Islamic terrorism by four Muslim boys from Leeds had nothing to do with the Muslim community or indeed Islam.” So Melanie Phillips argues.

Daily Mail, 14 July 2005

Phillips goes on to offer a stern lecture to Muslims: “above all, the responsible Muslim community and its leaders – who are the majority – must come out of denial and unequivocally condemn the extreme interpretation of Islam that is twisting the minds of the minority of zealots in its midst”.

Presumably Phillips wrote this on an isolated mountaintop without access to the media.

‘Betrayed’ – by political correctness and liberal culture

Posted on by Bob Pitt

BETRAYED: How British Intelligence Has Been Neutered by Politicians in Its Quest to Infiltrate the Enemy Within

By Tom Bower

Daily Mail, 15 July 2005

… Under Britain’s constitution, it is the Prime Minister’s sole right to identify targets for the intelligence services to monitor, and he also has the power to decide the limitations on their operations. But, as part of the New Labour ruling elite’s obsession with multi-culturalism and fear of upsetting Muslim sensibilities, the orders to Britain’s intelligence chiefs were deliberately kept within narrow parameters, with very little room for proper investigation.

The result is that Mr Blair’s desire not to annoy the Muslim community, upon whom Labour depends for a hardcore of votes, severely circumscribed the formal identification of those extremist Muslims in our midst who have become this country’s ‘enemy’.

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Harry’s Place on MAB

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“… the MAB/Muslim Brotherhood’s position isn’t foreign at all. Its old fashioned totalitarianism, with a theocratic flavour, and we’ve seen it before and fought it before. We are at a crux time. The creeping ‘mainstreaming’ of an extremist ideology has to be resisted, and it can be resisted in part by holding firm to the basic liberal traditions of pluralism, liberty and democracy. The MAB/Muslim Brotherhood’s greatest weakness is that they are an extreme organisation. However and wherever they try to disguise that we need to challenge them, as we challenge Nick Griffin’s rebranded BNP.”

David T offers us his insights into the Muslim Association of Britain.

Harry’s Place, 15 July 2005

His position on the Muslim Brotherhood is, in fact, considerably more hardline than that of the Bush administration. See here.