Little Green Footballs describes yesterday’s Panorama documentary as “a scary little show … on the refusal of British Muslims to integrate into mainstream society, and their takeover of the town of Blackburn”.
See also “Political correctness stifling debate over segregation in our towns”, Daily Mail, 7 May 2007
“Muslim veils can be outlawed from school classrooms, head teachers were told last night. The Government’s legal chief confirmed that the full-face niqab can be justifiably ruled out on the grounds of school uniform policy.
“Lord Falconer, a Cabinet minister, said that this also included other Islamic religious garments such as the full-length jilbab gown. He claimed that common sense rather than concerns about human rights should govern what pupils wear to school.”
A leader in the Express applauds Lord Falconer’s position:
“This is a very welcome development. For, while wearing the veil is a matter of personal choice – and accepted in our country which is famed for its tolerance – there are times when it is obvious that this Muslim symbol clashes with the British way. Sometimes it as simple as being able to see the faces of our fellow citizens as we go about our daily business. The school classroom is one such area, the courtroom is another.
“There are times when members of the Muslim community go too far and the Daily Express is not afraid to say so. The setting up of Islamic courts applying Sharia law is one such example.
“The Lord Chancellor has now made it possible for schools to say ‘No’ to the veil. Head teachers have been told that common sense does not conflict with human rights. In other words, they have been given the green light to just say ‘No’ when the occasion demands it.”
“Imagine if Mayor Bloomberg invited a Muslim cleric from Egypt known for his advocacy of female genital mutilation, wife-beating, ‘martyrdom’ bombings in Israel and Iraq, and the murder of homosexuals and converts from Islam to be an honored guest of the city. New Yorkers would naturally rebel against the mayor, who would certainly survive politically. But what if he did something even more brazen and perverse: invite the cleric back. Surely, it couldn’t happen here. But it did happen in London last year under the aegis of left-wing mayor, Ken Livingstone. Livingstone considers Yusuf al-Qaradawi (the cleric’s name) a huggable, ‘moderate’ liaison between East and West. Anyone arguing otherwise Livingstone accuses of xenophobia or – a ridiculous term now gaining traction in the United Kingdom – ‘Islamophobia’.”
Yet another right-wing boost for Nick Cohen’s book, What’s Left: How Liberals Lost Their Way, this one by Michael Weiss in the New York Daily Post, 6 May 2007
Of course, the visit by Dr Qaradawi actually took place in July 2004. But when you have such a lightminded attitude to the facts in general why bother getting the date right?
“In my many conversations with like-minded people about the threat that radical Islam poses to the British way of life – and, indeed, to European civilisation – we frequently end by despairingly agreeing that the West seems intent on committing political and cultural suicide. When we look starkly at the demographic statistics, the wimpishness of our Establishment in the face of the threat, the perversions perpetrated by political correctness and our own passivity, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that within a couple of generations, Islam will be in control in Europe….
“Consider first at a few chilling statistics. Europeans are failing to reproduce. Just to keep the population steady, you need 2.1 live births per woman. However, in 2005, the European average was 1.38. In Ireland it was 1.9, France 1.89, Germany 1.35 and Italy 1.23. Britain scored in the middle of this range with 1.6, but that was because – like France – we have a large Muslim population with a high birth rate. Indeed, Muslims are outbreeding non-Muslims throughout Europe….
“Confronted with this demographic-revolution and official statistics which showed there were too few young people to support an ageing population, European governments decided to embrace immigration as an inherent good without giving any thought to the consequences. As a result, politicians and businessmen assured us that we had to have economic growth in order to prop up ever greater public spending and that it could be provided only by importing large numbers of workers from abroad. But why wasn’t there a national debate about whether it was wise to mortgage our cultural future for the sake of a mess of financial pottage?
Where were the politicians arguing against the doctrine of multiculturalism which holds that upholding majority values is somehow illegitimate? Who among the liberal elite’s commentariat were challenging the moral relativism that flew in the face of sense and sensibility by insisting that the culture of Shakespeare, the King James Bible, Keats’s poetry, Turner’s paintings and Elgar’s music was no more important than – and probably morally inferior to – the cultures of other imported, minorities?
Muslim and Jewish leaders have called on voters to stop the BNP in Yorkshire and other target areas. Their move follows the Archbishop of York’s advert on May 1st warning about the threat posed by politics of hate.
On Tuesday, Archbishop of York Dr. John Sentamu placed an advert in the York press calling for a vote against division and hatred.
His advert read; “…Not voting creates a political vacuum, leaving the way open to unrepresentative politicans and parties to get their way. There are those seeking your vote whose actions betray the lives of those who fought for freedom. Jesus warned us to be wary of wolves who come in sheep’s clothing. They come with honeycombed words, promising a New England, and a land of milk and honey. In reality they offer us a diet of bile and discord, a litany of hopelessness and policies which stoke the ashes of Cliffords tower.
If apathy becomes the real winner on Thursday night, then those who seek to divide us will be elected, hiding under apathy’s skirt. My hope is that as you cast your vote on Thursday you do so with your eyes wide open so that our city does not sleepwalk into a wall of hate.”
Tory MP Michael Gove explains that the threat of terrorist attacks in Britain is not due to hatred of Britain’s foreign policy but because “those who follow Islamism are in thrall to a totalitarian world-view”.
THE HAGUE – Freedom Party PVV faction leader Geert Wilders is arguing that all Islamic schools in the Netherlands should be shut down immediately. He says this measure is necessary in order to “protect children against the spread of Islamic doctrine.”
Wilders writes this in a column that appeared on the website Nieuwnieuws.nl. “Islam is rapidly pushing our Western civilisation close to the edge of the abyss. We have too much Islam in the Netherlands. Islam is more a violent political ideology than a religion,” the MP writes.
Wilders receives the enthusiastic approval of Adrian Morgan over at Western Resistance.
After years of searching for a place to worship, Muslims in the northern English town of Clitheroe have won planning permission to transform a former Methodist chapel into a mosque.
Local Methodists and other faith groups have been among the mosque’s supporters, standing alongside their Muslim neighbors as they faced vocal opposition and even racial abuse from those who campaigned against the proposed mosque.
“This is a basic issue of human rights,” said the Rev. Christopher Cheeseman, superintendent minister of the Clitheroe Methodist Circuit. “These are people of faith who wish to find a place to worship.”
Cheeseman and fellow Methodists, along with other local Christians, Jews and Buddhists, have made it their business to counter the efforts of the far-right British National Party in Clitheroe. Many feel the party has exploited divisions in this community over the new mosque, deliberately fanning the flames of racial hatred for their own political gain.
During local elections in 2003, British National Party campaign fliers depicted the town dominated by a domed mosque with minarets, even though the new mosque and community center plans contain no alterations to the exterior of the church building.
The Rev. Dale Barton, interfaith officer for the Lancashire Churches Together organization, said the basic right to religious freedom is at stake in Clitheroe. He recalled attending an independent inquiry about the mosque application where openly racist insults were directed against local Muslims. Deeply disturbed by what he saw and heard, Barton said it was “the most racist meeting I’ve been to in my entire life.”
A spokesperson for the local council told United Methodist News Service the council had received a number of letters opposed to the mosque proposal that were so racist and offensive they couldn’t be made public.
United Methodist Church news report, 1 May 2007
Mark D. Tooley is not happy: “the Christian clerics who promoted the mosque sometimes seemed blissfully unaware of the demographic trends that prophesy their own potential demise in Britain and in an increasingly Islamicized Europe. Amid their quickness in painting mosque opponents as semi-fascist, they showed little sadness over a once vibrant Christian church becoming a place of worship for Allah….. do Christian leaders who celebrate the removal of the cross from a church in favor of the Islamic crescent really honor their own faith? Or have they succombed to a new religion in which politically correct multiculturalism has displaced the Deity?”
A row has broken out in Lincoln over a letter sent by a British National Party representative to the council leader criticising a new mosque in the city. Richard Foster, the BNP’s regional representative in Lincoln, wrote claiming the mosque, on the site of a former church, could “teach terrorism”.
Council leader Ric Metcalfe said the letter was being shown to the police to determine whether it broke race laws. “I think it is absolutely outrageous and exposes the BNP for the party it’s always been known to be and a party holding overtly racist views,” said Mr Metcalfe, who is Labour leader on the council.
But Mr Foster defended his words, saying his opinions were nothing new.
“The building would become an Islamic centre, rather than just a mosque and this can mean that the Islamic form of ‘getting your own way’ – terrorism – could be taught there. I don’t know if you’re aware of the programme ‘The Undercover Mosque‘ but anything I have put in this letter, in that documentary far, far, far worse things have been said about the [Muslim] community.
“I don’t need anybody to tell me that the only thing to happen in these places is worshipping their god because we all know that isn’t the case. Not all Muslims are terrorists but most terrorists are Muslims,” he said.
Video here.
Meanwhile, the BNP are congratulating themselves on the soft ride they’ve been given by the media. Thankfully, not all the media.
“… we know that the Islamification of Europe was planned back as early as the 1950’s by people who wished to create a Eurabia, prior to the creation of a one world government. Their plans are now well advanced…. In Our Country, The Cult of the Dead Paedophile have created, whilst the British People slept an Islamic Government with its own Parliament and Judiciary and is now starting to act as a nation within a nation….
“They have their own communication channels and carefully select their areas for colonisation. Once firmly embedded they then seek to change their environment to suit them. The original inhabitants are then ‘encouraged’ to move. They can then control the political process in that area with their block votes and their casual attitude towards electoral fraud…. But no one can say that we were not warned. What parts of ‘Islam will rule the World‘ or them saying ‘This is our country now‘ and ‘The flag of Islam will fly over England‘ do we not understand? …
“Our only chance is for a British National Party government. These Assembly and local elections are our launchpad. We must succeed. I leave you to imagine the alternative.”