A 22-year-old Swindon man has been charged after a mosque in the town was attacked overnight. Graffiti was sprayed on the walls of the Broad Street mosque and a petrol bomb was thrown through a window but failed to ignite. The man has been charged with attempted arson, four counts of religiously-aggravated criminal damage and possession of an offensive weapon.
Category Archives: UK
‘Suicide of the West’
“When Britain was attacked last year on 7/7 by Islamic jihadis, it was said that this was a doomsday wake-up call for the U.K. Within a short time, however, much of the country decided that it was Britain’s own fault on account of ‘Islamophobia’ and the war in Iraq…. From the evidence of one opinion poll this week, the British public has at least woken up to the fact that we are in the throes of a world war. Not so, however, the British establishment and chattering classes …. The unpalatable fact is that there is actually a continuum of Islamic extremism in Britain. While probably only a small number on this continuum will ever be involved in violence, too many others subscribe to odious beliefs and ideas which maintain the sea of hatred and bigotry in which terrorism swims.”
Melanie Phillips in National Review Online, 18 August 2006
‘Useful idiots: Islam’s best soldiers’
“Islam enjoys a large and influential ally among the non-Muslims: A new generation of ‘Useful Idiots’, that Lenin identified as those who lived in liberal democracies and furthered the work of communism. This new generation of Useful Idiots also lives in liberal democracies but serves the cause of Islamofascism – another virulent form of totalitarian ideology…. It is the Useful Idiot who sanitizes Islam and misguides the populace by saying that the ‘real Islam’ constitutes the main body of the religion; and, that this main body is non-political and moderate….
“Muslims believe that all non-Muslims, bar none, are hellfire bound and well-deserve being maltreated to the utmost. No radical barbaric act of depravity is out of bounds for Muslims in dealing with others. They destroy precious statues of Buddha, level sacred monuments of other religions, and bulldoze the cemeteries of non-Muslims – a few examples of their utter extreme contempt toward others. The ‘moderate’ Islam has been outright genocidal from inception….. It is a well-established fact that a Jew’s word is his bond. The exact opposite is the case with Muslims. Muslims are taught deception and lying in the Quran itself….
“The lesson is clear. Beware of the Useful Idiots who live in liberal democracies. Knowingly or unknowingly, they serve as the greatest volunteer and effective soldiers of Islam.”
Alarm at EU call for ‘European Islam’
Franco Frattini, the Vice President of the European Commission, has been castigated for making racist and Islamophobic remarks about Muslims, while creating alarm by suggesting that the EU wants to impose its own interpretation of Islam.
“Talks about creating a ‘European Islam’ not only indicates that the EU is planning to impose their own version of Islam on Muslims but will create more anti-Western and anti-Christian feeling in the Muslim community,” said Ahmed Versi, Editor of The Muslim News.
‘Sufi Muslim Council’ exposed
Yusuf Smith draws our attention to an exposé of the recently-launched Sufi Muslim Council, which has been boosted by the likes of Martin Bright.
Indigo Jo Blogs, 18 August 2006
See also Rolled Up Trousers, 18 August 2006
‘Terror threat on our own doorstep’
Thus the heading to a letter in the Jewish News. And where does this domestic terror threat come from? From Inayat Bunglawala and the Muslim Council of Britain, apparently.
‘I can see no “Walthamstan” on the streets where I live’
“I reject the references over the past week to ‘Walthamstan’ in the media, which seem to be painting east London as an isolationist Pakistani Muslim community and a haven for terrorists.”
Vanessa Walters in the Guardian, 18 August 2006
Islamists = Nazis, claims Stephen Pollard
Stephen Pollard provides a popularisation of Martin Bright’s view that political Islamism in all its forms is the inspiration for terrorism: “Did we not learn in the 1930s the consequences of such contact with those who seek to destroy us?”
‘Radical Islam plagues UK’
Radical Islam plagues UK
By James Forsyth
New York Daily News, 16 August 2006
Straight after 9/11, American Muslims proudly flew the Stars and Stripes. New York cabbies plastered their cars with patriotic decals. In Britain, days after the security services busted a plot that could have been as deadly as 9/11, so-called Muslim leaders delivered an open letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair demanding that Britain change its “foreign policy to show the world that we value the lives of civilians wherever they live and whatever their religion.” Or to put it more bluntly, pull out of Iraq, denounce President Bush and abandon support for Israel.
Here’s the hard truth: Britain now has the biggest “community relations” problem of any Western country – a problem compounded by the fact that the vast majority of my fellow Britons are in denial about it.
MCB defends open letter
Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, replies to Polly Toynbee:
“The open letter to the prime minister – which I signed alongside more than 40 Muslim groups, MPs and peers – has been subject to deliberate misinterpretation, suggesting a willingness among Muslim leaders to excuse violence and promote a simplified view of how extremism takes root. Toynbee’s accusation – that the letter sails ‘perilously close to suggesting the government had it coming’ – may be an unintentional misrepresentation but it is a grave one.
“The letter articulated the need to base foreign policy on principle. It condemned attacks on civilians wherever they take place. It also sought acknowledgement that, though the causes and motivations are complex, British foreign policy contributes to the radicalisation of Muslims here and elsewhere. The welcome debate that followed the letter illustrates that this has been widely accepted.”