Category Archives: USA

Judeo-Christian values rule OK

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“Islam is not currently in the battle for men’s minds. Outside (and even inside) the Muslim world, it gains power largely through force. There are non-Muslims who convert to Islam out of sheer conviction, but in general, when Islam gains a foothold or actually attains power in a non-Muslim society, it is either through force or threats of force – e.g., Sudan, Thailand, the Philippines, Nigeria; or through a large immigration of Muslims – e.g., Western Europe. Its contemporary spread is not due to the power of its intellectual appeal, let alone the record of its contemporary social and moral achievements.”

Dennis Prager at TownHall.com, 9 August 2005

How to nuke Mecca

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“Muslim survivalists will only force the end to the terrorist activities springing up from amongst them when made to pay a terrible price. One ‘terrible price’ currently under debate is a nuclear attack on Mecca should any 9/11 scale attack (or larger) occur on US soil. I am in favor of such planning in the event of a catastrophic strike against America, because I believe the burden of loss needs to be shifted decidedly to fundamental Muslims themselves (and what they value most) if there is to be any hope of ending all this madness. To yield to Islamists’ demands and take the option off the table would be strategically stupid….

“But as has been pointed out by Robert Spencer, nuking Mecca could also be seen by Islamists as a weak action and could serve to unify Muslims and increase Jihad. But this is only true if not done properly and the city is left salvageable within a few years. Once devoted Muslims carry out their next major strike on America, the Mecca plan should be carried out without hesitation or warning. No Hiroshima class atomic wimp-weapon will do, only the 1,000 times more powerful hydrogen fusion device will work for this important job…. The strike is then repeated every 5 years or so if any kind of clean-up is attempted. Medina needs one too, to prevent Arabs from declaring the transference of the holy site to the secondary location.”

Vernon Richards at FaithFreedom.org, 6 August 2005

Cruel confinement of ‘enemy combatant’ in United States

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A lawsuit filed against U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld reveals the gratuitous cruelty inflicted on a foreign student held without charges for more than two years as an “enemy combatant” in a South Carolina naval brig, Human Rights Watch said. Although three men have been confined in the United States after being designated “enemy combatants” by President George Bush, the complaint by Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri provides the first look into the treatment of any of them in military custody.

“It is bad enough that al-Marri has been held indefinitely without charges and incommunicado,” said Jamie Fellner, director of Human Rights Watch’s U.S. Program. “Now we learn that his life in the brig has also been one of cruelty and petty vindictiveness. Whatever the Bush administration believes he has done or wanted to do, there’s no excuse for how they are treating him.”

HRW news release, 8 August 2005

VA Muslim attacked by men shouting racist slurs

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A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called on law enforcement authorities to treat an assault this morning on a Virginia Muslim woman as a hate crime.

The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reported that a 23-year-old Muslim woman, who is 8 months pregnant and wears and Islamic head scarf, said she was out for her morning walk in Arlington, Va., when three white men in a pick-up truck began screaming anti-Muslim and racist slurs at her. According to the victim, the men shouted, “You terrorist b*tch, go back to your country. . .You n*gger b*tch.” (The woman is African-American.) The truck drove away and then returned as the woman continued on her walk. One of the men, who was wearing military-style clothing, allegedly got out of the vehicle and began shoving the woman and preventing her from moving away. During the assault, he shouted, “You terrorist b*tch. . . We’re going to kick your a*s. . . you’re nothing.” The other men then called the attacker back to the truck and it sped off.

“We believe these types of incidents are the direct result of the growing level of virulent anti-Muslim rhetoric Americans are exposed to on the Internet, in newspaper editorial pages and on radio talk shows,” said CAIR Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. “Our nation’s political and religious leaders must begin to challenge Islamophobic hate-mongers.” Hooper noted that a Washington, D.C., radio talk show host was recently suspended without pay for stating repeatedly that “Islam is a terrorist organization.” He added that an Illinois man was arrested just last Friday for threatening to bomb CAIR’s Capitol Hill headquarters. In July, a national council of American Muslim religious scholars issued a “fatwa,” or formal Islamic legal ruling, against terrorism and religious extremism. That fatwa has been endorsed by some 200 Islamic groups, leaders and institutions.

CAIR news release, 9 August 2005

Outrage! shows light-minded attitude to truth shock

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An article by Richard Kim in the US magazine The Nation offers a lengthy but interesting analysis of Outrage’s light-minded attitude to factual evidence when it comes to pursuing their Islamophobic agenda. Kim shows that Outrage’s press release claiming that two Iranian youth had been executed for being simply being gay (see here) was based on a dubious account by the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq cult and dismissed other reports that the two had in fact been convicted of gang-raping a 13-year-old boy at knife-point.

Richard Kim outlines how “Outrage!’s press release came to inspire an escalating series of demands and actions … appeals to the greatest democracy in the world to defend freedom against Islamic extremism, calls for the gay movement (and even individual would-be gay soldiers) to join the fight against ‘Islamo-fascism’ and pleas to European governments to sever ties with Iran and impose sanctions – at a time when the EU was engaged in delicate negotiations with Iran over its nuclear capacity. The story of ‘two gay teenagers executed in Iran’ was a compelling narrative that … offered up an unambiguous conflict between ‘Islamo-fascism’ and Western democracy”.

The Nation, 7 August 2005

Outrage! lie reaches US

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Illustrating the accuracy of Mark Twain’s observation that a lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes, Outrage’s slander about Dr al-Qaradawi has now reached the US, where a gay website informs its readers:

“According to media reports by London gay rights organization OutRage!, following a public outing in the Middle Eastern newspaper Aljazeera, Muslim fundamentalist scholar Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi has issued a statement that the Crown Prince of Qatar should be stoned to death for being gay.”

GayWired.com, 8 August 2005

Ban public servants wearing headscarves – Dutch opinion poll

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A majority of the Dutch public wants a new law to ban public servants from wearing headscarves or “other Islamic attire”, a new poll has found. Polling organisation TNS Nipo carried out the research for the latest edition of independent magazine Binnenlands Bestuur.

Expatica, 5 August 2005

Needless to say, this meets with approval of Rebecca Bynum: Dhimmi Watch, 7 August 2005

The news is also greeted enthusiastically by the fascists of the BNP, who seem to be getting a lot of their inspiration from Ms Bynum and her colleague Robert Spencer these days: “Once again plucky Netherlanders are unravelling the multi-cultural experiment forced upon them by decadent and traitorous politicians. Seen for years as the most easy going, tolerant and liberal nation in Europe, the Dutch people are fighting back to reclaim their society from the twisted multi-culturalists.”

BNP news article, 7 August 2005

However, a closer reading of the Expatica report indicates that it wasn’t in fact “the Dutch public” whose views were surveyed: “TNS Nipo questioned 433 adults – 292 government employees and 50 municipal aldermen – for the poll.”

Robert Spencer and Michael Graham – heroes of free speech

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Diana West recommends Robert Spencer’s The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) as “a book that explains, as the president and all his men (and Condi) cannot, why it is that the sharia-spreaders and the murder-bombers and, as Oriana Fallaci vividly labels them, ‘the head-choppers’ do it all for ‘the religion of peace’.” And she notes approvingly that book already features among Amazon’s best-sellers. West complains bitterly that “WMAL’s Michael Graham got his microphone yanked for daring to notice, mention and ponder the links between Islam and terrorism on the air”, and applauds the thousands of emails that poured into the radio station in support of Graham. Her conclusion: “people want facts – hard, non-PC, and vital to their understanding of what we’re really up against”.

Washington Times, 4 August 2005

Jihad Watch defends Tancredo and Graham

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“Those who follow the Qur’an word-for-word have declared war on the West, period. Cloak it in a religion, cloak it in a peaceful request for asylum and refuge, the fact remains that we’re at war. Muslims declared this war long before 9/11/01. War against non-Muslims was declared centuries ago. Islam has been at war with non-Muslims since its inception…. If Americans speak honestly about Islam and happen to say something negative, too bad.”

D.C. Watson rallies to the defence of Tom (“nuke Mecca”) Tancredo and Michael (“Islam is a terrorist organisation”) Graham.

Dhimmi Watch, 4 August 2005

CAIR ‘silences its critics’

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“Following the London bombings, Washington, D.C.-based radio host Michael Graham of the Disney owned 630 WMAL devoted a show to the attacks, saying that followers of Islam were terrorizing Great Britain. Some of Mr. Graham’s statements – such as ‘Islam is at war with America’ and ‘Islam is a terrorist organization’ – resulted in a campaign by CAIR to get him fired.”

Steven Stalinsky of MEMRI argues that Graham was correct, and that Islam is indeed an organisation of terror against non-Muslims.

Front Page Magazine, 4 August 2005