Category Archives: USA

‘Moslems censor American speech’

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“Recently, the Mohammedans won a coup getting a conservative talk show host, Michael Graham, fired from WMAL-AM, an ABC Radio affiliate…. The Muslims got Graham for telling the truth. It’s going to get a lot worse. More Americans must speak in public with a lot more of the painful truth of Islam. This historical truth is so politically incorrect it shouts down the public pandering from the President down to not dare offend oh-so-sensitive Muslims. Like, Islam is a (or do they insist it is ‘the’?) Religion of Peace. If Islam is a Religion of Peace then Aztec Paganism was the Religion of Mercy…. Muslim armies killed, raped, and destroyed more in their conquests against Christians, Pagans and Hindus than all the Crusades put together…. And Islamic Civilization is 800 years behind Western Civilization. By any measure that you mark Islam is as far behind the West as the Germanic Tribes were behind Rome. Islamic Civilization is barbaric compared to West. Truth isn’t Islamophobia.”

James A. Bowden rallies to the defence of poor victimised Michael Graham. Mind you, on this evidence he probably regards Graham as a bit of a liberal Islamophile.

MichNews.com, 31 August 2005

Mad Mel and Tariq Ramadan

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“The government’s desperation to engage with ‘moderate’ Islam appears to mean that it is keen to embrace even those who believe in Islamicising the west, as long as they make ritual noises denouncing the terror that flows from such an agenda. At the root of this is its determination to avoid at all costs being thought to have a problem with the current state of Islam itself as opposed to a few ‘unrepresentative’ terrorists, whose motivation will therefore be ascribed to everything but. Such myopia spells cultural suicide.”

Mad Mel condemns the government’s decision to appoint Tariq Ramadan to a Home Office task force.

Melanie Phillips’s Diary, 31 August 2005

As you might anticipate, she parrots accusations from Daniel Pipes’ attack on Professor Ramadan (the same one that provided the basis for the Sun’s recent witch-hunt). For Ramadan’s demolition of Pipes’ slanders, see here

A message from Daniel Pipes: ‘Islamists, get out’

Posted on by Bob Pitt

Daniel Pipes and hand“As the full implications of the London terrorist attacks by domestic jihadis sink in, Westerners are speaking out about the problem of radical Islam with new clarity and boldness. The most profound development is the sudden need of the British and others to define the meaning of their nationality. In the face of the Islamist challenge, historic identities once taken for granted must now be codified. This can be seen on a diurnal level, where Islamist assertion has provoked a new European willingness in recent months to stand up for tradition….”

Daniel Pipes welcomes the start of “a broader campaign to restrict and remove Islamists – a move that comes none too soon”.

New York Sun, 30 August 2005

Tariq Ramadan: Oxford don

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“You probably remember the arch-radical Tariq Ramadan. Ramadan is a Swiss Arab anti-Semite who hates the Christian West, and has close ties to al-Qaeda and Hamas. He was the darling of the pro-terror Marxist ‘Kroc Institute’, which tried to finance Ramadan for a three year ‘visiting scholarship’ at Notre Dame ‘University’ in Indiana. The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service said No Way Abu Jose. Ramadan was denied papers and Kroc had to go shopping for some other terrorists and hate-America-leftists.”

Steven Plaut in full gibbering mode at Moonbat Central, 28 August 2005

Robertson, Chavez and double standards

Posted on by Bob Pitt

Pat RobertsonState Department spokesman Sean McCormack called Pat Robertson’s remarks about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez “inappropriate”, but stopped short of condemning them. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said the Pentagon isn’t in the business of killing foreign leaders, but he also did not denounce Robertson or his remarks. “He’s a private citizen. Private citizens say all kinds of things all the time”, Rumsfeld said.

Democrats called the Bush administration’s response tepid, and said it lends credence to the notion that the White House doesn’t want to offend some of its most loyal supporters. “It seems they are shuffling their feet when they should be running away from what Pat Robertson said”, Democratic political consultant Steve McMahon said. “That this president, who projects himself as brave and bold, doesn’t want to stand up to his own right wing is ironic.”

Associated Press, 24 August 2005

You can just imagine what the response of the Bush administration would be if an American Muslim leader were to call for the killing of a pro-US head of state. And their cries of outrage would of course be accompanied by articles explaining how the ideology of Islam inspires such violent fanaticism. However, when it’s the Reverend Pat Robertson – founder of the Christian Coalition of America, the man who supported Bush’s re-election last year and said he believed the president is blessed by God – calling for the murder of a supposed supporter of “Muslim extremism”, it’s a very different matter.

Michael Graham has a whinge

Posted on by Bob Pitt

“I made the one move certain to endanger my career: I told the truth about a minority group. And in the politically correct nation we live in today, that’s the fast track to the unemployment line…. I was fired, according to the termination letter I received from ABC Radio, for ‘offensive’ comments I made on the air regarding Islam and terrorism. Coincidentally, all of the comments deemed offensive by the Council of [sic] American-Islamic Relations were listed in my ABC disciplinary memo.

“I was also fired, according to ABC management, for my refusal to apologize for said comments. They further ordered me to agree to ‘additional outreach efforts’ to those ‘offended’ by my opinions. Would I be flipping burgers at the local mosque? Singing ‘Kumbaya’ with CAIR? Hugs for Hamas? Management wouldn’t say.”

Townhall.com, 23 August 2005

MCB and CAIR bigger threat than al-Qaeda, claims Daniel Pipes

Posted on by Bob Pitt

Qaradawi and Mayor 2Daniel Pipes asks: “Do terrorist atrocities in the West, such as the attacks of September 11, 2001 and those in Bali, Madrid, Beslan, and London, help radical Islam achieve its goal of gaining power? No, they are counterproductive. That’s because radical Islam has two distinct wings – one violent and illegal, the other lawful and political – and they exist in tension with each other. The lawful strategy has proven itself effective, but the violent approach gets in its way.”

As an example of the efficacy of the “lawful and political” strand of Islamism, Pipes points out that “political imams like Yusuf al-Qaradawi instruct huge audiences on Al-Jazeera television and visit with the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone”.

Surely an argument in favour of the West building links with that wing of Islamism, you might think, in order to isolate and weaken the “violent and illegal” tendencies? Apparently not. According to Pipes, it’s the advances made by “lawful and political” Islamists that pose the greatest threat to western civilisation:

“In tranquil times, organizations like the Muslim Council of Britain and the Council on American-Islamic Relations effectively go about their business, promoting their agenda to make Islam ‘dominant’ and imposing dhimmitude (whereby non-Muslims accept Islamic superiority and Muslim privilege). Westerners generally respond like slowly boiled frogs are supposed to, not noticing a thing…. Terrorism impedes these advances, stimulating hostility to Islam and Muslims. It brings Islamic organizations under unwanted scrutiny by the media, the government, and law enforcement. CAIR and MCB then have to fight rearguard battles.”

So, basically, Pipes regards the likes of Al-Qaida as playing an essentially positive role! This is where the warped logic of Islamophobia leads you.

New York Sun, 23 August 2005

Chavez exports Islamic extremism

Posted on by Eddie Truman

You couldn’t make it up.

US far right Christian fundamentalist Pat Robertson tells the world that Hugo Chavez, the left wing President of Venezuala, is exporting communism and Islamic fundamentalism.

Robertson accused Chavez, a left-wing populist with close ties to Cuban President Fidel Castro, of trying to make Venezuela “a launching pad for Communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent.”

CNN, 23 August 2005

Robertson’s solution to the problem? Easy, the US should assassinate Chavez as soon as possible.