“Ramadan’s exclusion marks a signal victory for the effort to keep the enemy out of the United States, for few in the Islamist ranks will deploy the highly respectable and high-powered support that Ramadan has enjoyed. If this man can be kept out, then anyone can be.”
Category Archives: Right wing
Moore in the Telegraph writes ‘Mohammed’ & ‘paedophile’ in one sentence
“Was the prophet Mohammed a paedophile? The question is sometimes asked because one of his wives, Aisha, was a child when he married her.”
Charles Moore in the Daily Telegraph, 11 December 2004
Daniel Pipes & Bernard Lewis vs. Tocqueville
“I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad. So far as I can see, it is the principal cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim world and, though less absurd than the polytheism of old, its social and political tendencies are in my opinion more to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself.”
Paul Eidelberg quotes Alexis de Tocqueville on Islam and asks: “Can anyone imagine scholars like Bernard Lewis and Daniel Pipes hinting, let alone saying, such a thing today about Muslims?”
Er … well actually, yes.
Telegraph: No such thing as Islamophobia
“In reality, evidence for ‘Islamophobia’ – as distinct from a justified fear of radical Islamist terrorism or a desire to protect our freedoms, institutions and values from those who hold them in contempt – is anecdotal and slight. I have met one ‘Islamophobe’ – the gay gentleman who cuts my hair, which is hardly a firm basis to jettison centuries of hard-won religious give and take.”
Michael Burleigh in the Daily Telegraph, 9 December 2004
Atkinson joins Evangelical Coalition
Television star, Rowan Atkinson, from the celebrated comedy series “Blackadder” has joined conservative Christian groups in opposing the proposed religious hatred Bill. The celebrity will lead a coalition of comedians, writers and religious groups to oppose the Government’s plans to control extremists who incite religious hatred.
The force will now launch a campaign against some of the components of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill.
Opposition to the religious hatred Bill has been clearly voiced by many conservative groups including the Barnabas Fund, the Evangelical Alliance, and the Lawyer Christian Fellowship. The Bill is due to receive its second reading this week, and will look to create a new offence of incitement to religious hatred, which has the aim of protecting faith groups, in particular Muslims.
Stoned to death… why Europe is starting to lose its faith in Islam
“From Norway to Sicily, governments, politicians and the media are laying aside their doctrines of diversity and insisting that ‘Islamism’, as the French call the fundamentalist form that pervades the housing estates, is incompatible with Europe’s liberal values.
“The shift is not just a reaction to exceptional violence such as the Madrid train bombings, or the murder of Theo van Gogh, the anti-Islamic Dutch film-maker, by a Dutch-Moroccan. It stems from a belief that more muscular methods are needed to integrate Europe’s 13-million strong Muslim community and to combat creeds that breed extremists and ultimately, terrorism. With mixed results, governments are trying to quell the scourge by co-opting Muslim leaders to promote a moderate European Islam.”
Charles Bremner in The Times, 4 December 2004
Ramadan refutes allegations
Tariq Ramadan responds point by point to allegations by Daniel Pipes.
‘The sleeping world is awakening to the dangers of Islam’
“In France, which has the largest Muslim population in Europe, Islamic clerics openly troll the streets seeking restless young men to indoctrinate and send out to kill for Islam. They weed out the weaklings by having them view videos of the actual torture and beheadings of human beings complete with the screams of pain and all blood and gore of a nightmare. They watch Islamic ‘snuff films’. This is what will be expected of them as ‘warriors’ of Allah.”
Barbara J. Stock writing for ChronWatch, 28 November 2004
Mayor Livingstone and Sheikh Qaradawi
The “London Community Coalition” present their “evidence” against Dr al-Qaradawi. See here.
Pro-US Arabs petition the UN to establish an international tribunal
“On October 24, 2004, the liberal Arab websites www.elaph.com and www.metransparent.com published a manifesto written by Arab liberals, in which they petition the UN to establish an international tribunal which would prosecute terrorists, as well as people and institutions, primarily religious clerics, that incite terrorism.
“The idea to petition the U.N. with this request was raised by the Jordanian writer and researcher Dr. Shaker Al-Nabulsi in early September 2004, in response to the fatwa issued by Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi – one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood movement and one of the most important religious authorities in Islamist circles – which called for the abduction and killing of US citizens in Iraq. The idea was developed and written up by Al-Nabulsi, Tunisian intellectual Al-‘Afif Al-Akhdhar, and former Iraqi Minister of Planning Dr. Jawad Hashem.”
MEMRI reports the launch of a widely publicised petition against the “sheikhs of terror”. The report omits to mention that the accusation against Qaradawi which prompted the petition – that he “called for the abduction and killing of US citizens in Iraq” – was in fact entirely false.
For Abu Aardvark’s demolition of the charge against Dr al-Qaradawi, see here.
For MEMRI’s Special Dispatch No.812, “Arab Liberals Petition the UN to Establish an International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Terrorists”, see here.