Category Archives: Right wing

‘How to lose a war’: Victor Davis Hanson on the failure to confront Islam

Posted on by Bob Pitt

The West “has lost confidence in its old commitment to rationalism, free speech and empiricism, and now embraces the deductive near-religious doctrines of moral equivalence and utopian pacifism. Al Qaeda’s supporters will say that Thursday’s victims were killed because of Afghanistan or Iraq. Westerners will duly repeat the dull refrain that ‘Bush lied, thousands died’ in their guilt-ridden search for something we did to cause this.

“And so, rather than focus our attention on the madrassas and the mosques that preach hatred, we will strive to learn more about Islamic culture, as if our own insensitivity were the true culprit. Our grandfathers could despise Bushido – Japan’s warrior cult – without worrying whether they were being unfair to Buddhists; we of less conviction and even less courage, cannot do likewise.”

Victor Davis Hanson laments the failure of the West to confront Islam.

National Post, 11 July 2005

London’s mayor must resign (says rabid Zionist)

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“For years, the loony Left, epitomized by Red Ken, has encouraged radical Islam to take root in Britain, particularly London. While British policy has allowed a wave of Islamists to enter Britain and abuse the system, people like Galloway and Livingstone have encouraged these people to be active in their murderous agenda. They have sanctioned calls to Jihad and have legitimized the very programs that are now being turned against innocent Londoners, resulting in death, injury, suffering and grief.”

MidEastTruth.com, 9 July 2005

The wages of multiculturalism

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“Yesterday’s bombers are still unknown, but their enablers on the Left are standing right in front of our eyes. It was Mayor Livingstone who openly praised and defended Islamofascist Sheikh Al Qaradawi as ‘a man of peace’. The radical Left imposed multiculturalism on Britain, which is of course left-wing political monoculturalism. Leftists in the educational system drilled generations of children to loathe their own political culture as morally inferior to the bloodiest tyrannies in the world. The Left has blocked any sensible British immigration reform, so that it became impossible to deport the most dangerous terrorists in the world.”

A rant from one James Lewis, which also contains the revelation that “it was Red Ken who scapegoated the half-Jewish leader of the Conservative Party in the recent election, in order to appeal to radical Muslims in London”. Must have missed that one.

American Thinker, 9 July 2005

Fascist quotes Qur’an to show Islam is not a religion of peace

Posted on by Bob Pitt

In an “open letter” to Sir Iqbal Sacranie and the Muslim Council of Britain, BNP leader Nick Griffin writes: “Terrorism; the slaughter of innocents; war against the Unbelievers; mass murder – all are (assuming the words of various Koranic verses are taken to have their ordinary English meanings) ‘justified’ in the Koran, and anyone who denies this is a liar. How can we say such Politically Incorrect things? Because we have studied the Koran….”

BNP website, 9 July 2005

This could have been lifted almost word for word from Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, couldn’t it? In fact, if the racist filth that appears in the comments section of Spencer’s site is a guide to the sort of people who read his writings, it probably was.

Spencer must be really pleased with himself. Not only is he an influence on more “mainstream” right-wingers like Melanie Phillips, but his work also serves as an inspiration to out-and-out Nazis like Griffin.

‘Leaked No 10 dossier reveals Al-Qaeda’s British recruits’

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“Leaked No 10 dossier reveals Al-Qaeda’s British recruits,” the Sunday Times announces. Yeah, the same dossier the leaking of which was a hot news item in the Sunday Times … over a year ago. The same dossier which is used by the Sunday Times to suggest that thousands of British Muslims are potential supporters of terrorist attacks on the West because they attended a conference organised by Hizb ut-Tahrir – an organisation that unequivocally rejects terrorist attacks on the West.

Indeed, the leaked document concedes that Hizb ut-Tahrir “does not advocate violence”, that “membership or sympathy with such an organisation does not in any way pre-suppose a move towards terrorism”, and that at most “what it may indicate is the possibility of a few of its members being open to gradual consideration of far more extremist doctrine” …  while offering no evidence that any of them in fact have been.

Over at Jihad Watch, Rebecca Bynum posts the article as if it were some new revelation about the extent of Islamic terrorist organisation within the UK. But what can you expect from a site that repeatedly told its readers that Al-Muhajiroun was the largest Muslim organisation in Britain, and continued repeating this nonsense long after that tiny, marginal, extremist group had disbanded itself? You really wonder how much jihad watching the folks at Jihad Watch actually do.

Sheikh al-Qaradawi: Islam condemns the killing of innocent people

Posted on by Bob Pitt

Qaradawi2Dr Yusuf al-Qaradawi has denounced the London bombings as “evil acts characterised by barbarity and savagery, which are condemned by Islam in the strongest of terms”.

Al-Qaradawi presented his condolences to the families of the victims who have lost their loved ones, stressing that “Islam and its scholars, regardless of their school of thought, stand against these acts which cannot be sanctioned by any faith, morality or law, regardless of the religion or race of their perpetrators”.

He also sent a special message of condolence to the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, saying “we send special condolences to our dear friend the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, a man of integrity who has for long sincerely defended the rights of Arabs and Muslims”.

Islam Online, 7 July 2005

Of course, none of this prevents right-wing Islamophobes in the US attributing theological responsibility for the London bombings to Dr al-Qaradawi. See here and here

Islamist takeover: the inevitabilty of gradualness

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“The Islamists could make huge strides in their campaign to undermine Western societies if they used any tactic other than terror. And, in fact, in Great Britain, they have made incredible progress by playing upon Britain’s overindulgence of any minority complaint. Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes keeps a running chronicle of British abjectness on his website….

“If the Islamists had but the patience to play upon the guilt-ridden West’s weakness, they might have their victory in a few decades. Leaning over backwards has become so common in the West that its enemies could reasonably wonder whether any spine remained at all. Brutal attacks like that in London snap us back to reality and remind all but the most weak-minded Europeans and Americans that appeasement is nothing less than slow surrender.”

Mona Charen offers tactical advice.

TownHall.com, 8 July 2005

‘Where is the Gandhi of Islam?’ Charles Moore wants to know

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“When Britain was afflicted by Irish republican terrorism, most Irish people repudiated that terrorism. It was nevertheless the case that the great majority of the terrorists – more than 95 per cent – were Irish, or of Irish origin, and they drew overwhelmingly on Irish people to help and hide them. This was not a funny coincidence. It was because the IRA preached a doctrine about Ireland and called on the loyalty of a perverted version of Irishness. Therefore, the words ‘Irish’ and ‘terrorist’ went together, hard though this was on the majority of Irish people…. So it must be with Muslims in Britain….

“We flap around, looking for moderates and giving them knighthoods, making placatory noises, putting bits of Islam on to the multi-faith menu in schools, banishing Bibles from hospital beds, trying to criminalise the expression of ‘religious hatred’, blaming George Bush and Tony Blair….

“If you look at the Koran, you will find many glorifications of violence. In Sura No 8, for example, God is quoted as saying: ‘I shall cast terror into the hearts of the infidels. Strike off their heads, strike off the very tips of their fingers!’ This punishment comes to them for having ‘defied God and His apostle’. It seems reasonable to ask Muslims what this sort of remark means in the modern world….

“When did you last hear criticisms of named extremist groups and organisations by Muslim leaders, or support for their expulsion, imprisonment or extradition? How often do you see fatwas issued against suicide bombers and other terrorists, or statements by learned men declaring that people who commit such deeds will go to hell?… When did a British Muslim last go after a Muslim who advocates or practises violence with anything like the zeal with which so many went after Salman Rushdie?”

Charles Moore in the Daily Telegraph, 9 July 2005

Update:  See “We don’t need a Gandhi”, Indigo Jo Blogs. 12 July 2005