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Comments at Jihad Watch on the London bombings

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“Every fibre in my being has anger in it and every bit of it is directed to Islam.”

“This is Islam – the TRUE one. Islam is EVIL.”

“And is Red Ken going to condemn the attacks, since he’s been cultivating these Islamic types for so long? And George Galloway?”

“I am sick of multiculturism and the Islamic colonialization it spreads. I am sick of Moslems whining that they are fucking ‘misunderstood’…. What can we expect when Moslems are imported en masse into Europe.”

“I am at a loss for words, but would like to express my complete and utter disgust for moslems throughout the world and their cult of death that causes, sanctions and encourages carnage such as this through the filthy, disgusting koran. You are ALL Shameful beasts of Satan, who should be made to pay a very heavy price!”

“I hope the Bill that restricts criticism of Islam has not gone through the House of Lords yet.”

“Meanwhile the Muslim Council of Britain has condemned the attacks and has asked for ‘calm’. They always ask for calm. Never do these sick people ask for ‘calm’ from islamic jihadis.”

“When is the world going to come out and call the bastards what they are; terrorists intent on world domination in the name of a ‘religion’ started by a murderous pedophile which advocates murder, rape, lying, theft, intimidation, and slavery.”

Jihad Watch, 7 July 2005

Mad Mel mauls Met

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Now There’s a Surprise Department. Melanie Phillips joins the attack on Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair for his stand against Islamophobia:

“… this case had nothing to do with understanding or respecting diversity. It reflected instead the neurotic hypersensitivity which inflates minor error into the hanging offence of racial insult – our modern witch-hunt, in which the slightest deviation from permitted speech is regarded as a heresy to be punished by excommunication and banishment.”

Melanie Phillips’s Diary, 5 July 2005

You can just imagine what Phillips’s response would be if the officers concerned had made anti-semitic remarks. Muslims, however, are apparently fair game when it comes to backward jibes against minority communities.

Arizona paper cleared over ‘kill Muslims’ letter

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The Arizona state Supreme Court ruled on Friday a Tucson newspaper could not be held liable for publishing a letter that urged people to kill Muslims to retaliate for the death of American soldiers in Iraq. Arizona’s highest court found unanimously the Tucson Citizen was protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and could not be sued for printing the letter in December 2003.

The lawsuit, filed by Aly W. Elleithee and Wali Yudeen S. Abdul Rahim, stemmed from a three-paragraph letter in the Citizen that called for quick retaliation for soldiers’ deaths. “Whenever there is an assassination or another atrocity, we should proceed to the closest mosque and execute five of the first Muslims we encounter,” the letter said. “After all, this is a ‘Holy War’ and although such a procedure is not fair or just, it might end the horror.”

Reuters, 1 July 2005

We look forward to articles by Nick Cohen and Melanie Phillips applauding the Arizona Supreme Court for its principled defence of the right to free speech.

Postscript:  Over at Jihad Watch, Robert Spencer’s admirers are already rallying to the defence of democratic values. One comment reads:

“If one has been following the sad situation of the repression of free speech in European countries, the UK, parts of Australia, and even Canada, in which authors of books, pastors, politicians, and citizens are being prosecuted as vilipends for ‘insulting or defaming Islam’, one would note that the loss of ancient rights, such as free speech, began with actions such as the one attempted by Aly W. Elleithee and Wali Yudeen S. Abdul Rahim.”

Dhimmi Watch, 3 July 2005

Dutch draft law to monitor imams’ sermons

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The Dutch parliament is currently debating a draft law presented by the government on combating Islamic radicalism, including a TV show to monitor sermons delivered by imams.

The controversial measure drew rebuke from a prominent Dutch Muslim scholar who told IslamOnline.net it would deepen Muslim isolation in the country.

According to the 32-item measure, one mosque sermon would be televised each week without the prior knowledge of the imam. It would then be debated by the programme’s guests.

Minister of Immigrants and Integration Rita Verdonk told parliament the aim of this program is to draw the attention of young Dutch of foreign origin to the grave consequences of religious extremism.

Islam Online, 3 July 2005

I’m not sorry, says police chief

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Sir Ian Blair, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, has admitted that his methods may be unpopular within his force. He added that his mission to modernise the force would not be jeopardised by the fallout from this week’s employment tribunal, in which he was accused of having hung three of his officers out to dry.

His force was found to have racially discriminated against three white officers who were disciplined after allegedly making racist remarks about Muslims at a training day. Sir Ian was unrepentant and described the remarks, which were at the heart of this week’s tribunal, as Islamophobic, promising that there would be no room in his force for racism.

The Times, 2 July 2005

The Daily Mail, meanwhile, returns to the attack, devoting an entire article to one of the officers, DC Hassell, who is portrayed as the innocent victim of “bosses obsessed with political correctness”:

“The case, which revolved around a bungled presentation on Islam in which DC Hassell – woefully unqualified for the task – mispronounced Shi’ites as ‘Shitties’ and described Muslim headgear as ‘tea-cosies’, was eventually exposed as one of the most ludicrous and unfair procedures ever brought against serving officers.”

The Mail reports that Hassell also “told his colleagues that he would not want to be ‘that lot’, referring to Muslims fasting and abstaining from sex in daylight hours during the holy month of Ramadan. He still fails to see why any of that should cause offence”.

Daily Mail, 2 July 2005

The Mayor of London has issued the following statement: “Sir Ian Blair deserves full backing for his firm action in initiating disciplinary proceedings. We cannot go back to the bad old days when many of London’s diverse communities had no confidence in the police because they believed that allegations of racism in the Met were ignored.”

GLA press release, 30 June 2005

‘Saudis howl for blood of Koran desecrators’

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“With the debate surrounding the alleged desecration of the Koran at Guantanamo, it is easy to forget that those being held at the detention center are terrorists. If one were to believe the rhetoric coming from Saudi Arabia, its citizens held there are completely innocent and just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. But as we learned on September 11, 2001, this is not the case.”

Another objective summary of the Arab media from Steven Stalinsky of MEMRI. Note that Stalinsky automatically assumes the guilt of the Guantánamo detainees even though not a single one of them has received a fair trial.

Front Page Magazine, 1 July 2005

Muslim woman sues real estate company, alleges discrimination

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scarfsuit9.jpgAn Orlando Muslim woman is suing a Florida real estate company for religious discrimination after being told she could not wear a head scarf and long sleeves at work.

Danine Hammond, 27, said the office manager of Chapel Trace Apartments in east Orange County told her she couldn’t wear her hijab, a head scarf donned by some Muslim women.

Hammond is suing the Miami-based Housing Trust Management Co., which owns the complex, under Florida’s Civil Rights Act and requesting that the company compensate her for lost pay and benefits, punitive and compensatory damages, and legal fees, according to the lawsuit.

“I feel I have the right to work here in the U.S., and I shouldn’t have to compromise my religion,” Hammond said during a news conference Wednesday at the entrance to the complex, where she lives.

Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2005

Robert Spencer offers this as an example of the “clash of civilizations”.

Dhimmi Watch, 1 July 2005

Over at Militant Islam Monitor, they’re convinced that it’s another CAIR-inspired plot to destroy western society.

Militant Islam Monitor, 24 June 2005

Muslims in France: a ticking time bomb?

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tickingJamie Glazov poses the question: “France’s Muslim population is exploding and fundamentalist Islam is gaining control over it. French society remains almost completely oblivious. Does this phenomenon entail a ticking time bomb? What consequences does it pose to the West?”

Unfortunately some of the answers in the ensuing discussion don’t meet with Glazov’s approval. One participant in the symposium, organised by Front Page Magazine, even goes so far as to express concern that Muslims in France would suffer from a racist backlash in the event of a French equivalent to the Van Gogh murder. Glazov explodes:

“… this interpretation implies a theme that gets my blood boiling. It reminds me of the lefties here in America who, after the 9/11 attacks, instead of being sympathetic to the victims and their families and angry at the perpetrators, and supporting revenge against those who committed the crimes and those who harboured them, instead were agonizing about how Arab and Muslim rights were now going to be violated….

“Sorry, but when I think of the problem of the growing presence of Muslims in France, the first thing that comes to my mind is the heart-breaking reality of forced marriages and honor killings being perpetrated on Arab-Muslim girls on French territory. I think of forced veiling. I think of the gang-rapes of Muslim and non-Muslim girls who are not veiled in Arab-Muslim ghettoes. I think of female genital mutilations. I think of the growing radical element that might perpetrate another 9/11 over there. I think about all we can possibly and hopefully do to crush these forces. Needless to say, that is what is on my mind, not sitting around worrying what will happen to someone else afterwards, someone that is not even a victim of the huge crime that is perpetrated….”

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