A US lawyer wrongfully arrested over the Madrid train bombings in 2004 is suing the US government. Brandon Mayfield, 38, was held for two weeks when the FBI linked him to fingerprints found in Spain – but later said it was wrong and apologised. Mr Mayfield, a convert to Islam, says he was targeted because he is a Muslim.
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Multiculturalism, Islam and the destruction of Western civilisation
“Only one faith on earth may be more messianic than Islam: multiculturalism. Without it – without its fanatics who believe all civilizations are the same – the engine that projects Islam into the unprotected heart of Western civilization would stall and fail. It’s as simple as that.” So right-wing US commentator Diana West claims.
As a result of the efforts of these multiculturalists, with their “masochistic brand of tolerance”, we “prevent ourselves from looking full face at the danger to our way of life posed by Islam. Notice I didn’t say ‘Islamists’. Or ‘Islamofascists’. Or ‘fundamentalist extremists’. I’ve tried out such terms in the past, but I’ve come to find them artificial and confusing, and maybe purposefully so, because in their imprecision I think they allow us all to give a wide berth to a great problem: the gross incompatibility of Islam – the religious force that shrinks freedom even as it ‘moderately’ enables, or ‘extremistly’ advances jihad – with the West. Am I right? Who’s to say? The very topic of Islamization – for that is what is at hand, and very soon in Europe – is verboten.”
Washington Times, 15 July 2005
Over at Jihad Watch, Rebecca Bynum urges us to “read it all”. Dhimmi Watch, 15 July 2005
Guantánamo abuse ‘allowable’
Interrogators at Guantánamo Bay degraded and abused a key prisoner, forcing him to wear a bra and threatening him with a dog, military investigators claimed yesterday. But in a military report pre sented before the Senate armed services committee, the investigators said the treatment of the Saudi man, described as the “20th hijacker” in the September 11 attacks, did not amount to torture.
The man was not named during the hearing, but the Pentagon identified him as Mohamed al-Qahtani. The Senate panel heard that he was forced to wear a leash and subjected to investigations for up to 20 hours a day.
See also Washington Post, 14 July 2005
Muslim leaders condemning terror to deaf?
“Why don’t Muslims denounce terrorism? This has been a persistent drumbeat on talk radio, one that was echoed last year by syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin after CAIR took on a radio host in Boston. The organization, she wrote, ‘won’t condemn Muslim fanatics, but it has declared war on outspoken Americans who will’.”
Mark Woods points out that repeated denunciations of terrorism by US Muslims are systematically ignored by right-wing pundits.
London bombings show ‘Cold War’ within Islamic forces
Marc Lynch (Abu Aardvark) draws our attention to an article by Jalal Ghazi which echoes his own interpretation of the London bombings.
Abu Aardvark blog, 12 July 2005
For Jalal Ghazi’s article see Pacific News Service, 11 July 2005
An Islamist threat like the Nazis
“The threat of the radical Islamists taking over Europe is every bit as great to the United States as was the threat of the Nazis taking over Europe in the 1940s. We cannot afford to lose Europe. We cannot afford to see Europe transformed into a launching pad for Islamist jihad.”
Tony Blankley in the Washington Times, 12 September 2005
Weak Brits, tough French
“The British have seemingly lost interest in their heritage while the French hold on to theirs: As the British ban fox hunting, the French ban hijabs. The former embrace multiculturalism, the latter retain a pride in their historic culture. This contrast in matters of identity makes Britain the Western country most vulnerable to the ravages of radical Islam whereas France, for all its political failings, has held onto a sense of self that may yet see it through.”
Daniel Pipes offers a comparative analysis of British and French attitudes towards Islam.
Newspapers warn of threat to America from ‘Londonistan’
London has become a “feeding ground for hate” and a “crossroads for would-be terrorists” where Muslims exploit civil liberties to “openly preach jihad”, according to newspapers in the United States.
Gary Younge in the Guardian, 12 July 2005
The message of the Qur’an: a scholar writes
“All non-Muslims must be killed, enslaved and controlled by Muslims. Islam must rule the world. Islam is in fact a License to Kill in the name of Allah. Holy War is the holy law of Islam. This unique law called Jihad gives all Muslims the right to attack and kill non-Muslims, to loot, rape and enslave them, and to rule the world in the name of Allah. Jihad is as essential to Islam as the Resurrection is to Christianity.
“Those who want to know the truth about Islam must also read Hitler’s Mein Kampf and his Speeches. Hitler wrote his Mein Kampf in Landsberg in the Lech prison in 1924. Mein Kampf is popular in Muslim countries – with good reason. A comparison of the texts and ethos prove that their teachings and laws are almost identical to those of Islam. The only difference between Islam and the Nazi regime is that Islam claim to be a religion and this makes it even more dangerous. Islam orders genocide, slavery, the abuse of females and pedophilia.”
Jennifer King expounds the teachings of the Qu’ran.
‘How to lose a war’: Victor Davis Hanson on the failure to confront Islam
The West “has lost confidence in its old commitment to rationalism, free speech and empiricism, and now embraces the deductive near-religious doctrines of moral equivalence and utopian pacifism. Al Qaeda’s supporters will say that Thursday’s victims were killed because of Afghanistan or Iraq. Westerners will duly repeat the dull refrain that ‘Bush lied, thousands died’ in their guilt-ridden search for something we did to cause this.
“And so, rather than focus our attention on the madrassas and the mosques that preach hatred, we will strive to learn more about Islamic culture, as if our own insensitivity were the true culprit. Our grandfathers could despise Bushido – Japan’s warrior cult – without worrying whether they were being unfair to Buddhists; we of less conviction and even less courage, cannot do likewise.”
Victor Davis Hanson laments the failure of the West to confront Islam.