Photo of a recent BNP rally in Sheffield.
Blame Muslims for Australian riots
“Of course, the usual claque of agenda-driven ethnic community leaders were quick to condemn the Cronulla incidents as un-Australian and racist. Never mind the multitude of racist attacks on young Australian men and women during the past decade, which have now manifested into full-blown racial retaliation. In an article on this page nearly two years ago (‘Don’t turn a blind eye to terror in our midst’, January 12, 2004), I argued that the increasing frequency of racially motivated attacks on young Australian men and women – including murders, gang rapes and serious assaults by young men of Lebanese Muslim descent – would rise dramatically throughout Australia. These problems remain widespread and have been documented in the ensuing two years. Yet the NSW Labor Government and police have failed to address the issues in any way….”
Tim Priest in The Australian, 13 December 2005
Race violence erupts in Sydney
Australian Prime Minister John Howard called for ethnic and religious tolerance on Monday after racial violence, spurred on police say by white supremacists, erupted in parts of Sydney.
Racial tension sparked violence on Cronulla Beach on Sunday when around 5,000 people, some yelling racist chants, attacked youths of Middle Eastern background, saying they were defending their beach after lifesavers were attacked there last week.
Violence then spread to a second beach, Maroubra, where scores of men armed with baseball bats smashed about 100 cars.
“Attacking people on the basis of race and ethnicity is totally unacceptable and should be repudiated by all Australians, irrespective of background and politics,” Howard told a news conference on Monday, by which time the violence had subsided.
At Botany Bay, riot police confronted hundreds of youths and police said a man was stabbed in the back in a southern Sydney suburb in what media reports said appeared to be racial violence. New South Wales (NSW) police said a group of Neo-Nazis and white supremacists stirred on the drunken crowd at Cronulla.
“There appears to be an element of white supremacists and they really have no place in mainstream Australian society. Those sort of characters are best placed in Berlin 1930s, not in Cronulla 2005,” NSW Police Minister Carl Scully told reporters.
On Sunday, mobs of drunken and angry youths, some draped in Australian flags, shouted “No more Lebs (Lebanese)”. The mobs chased and attacked Australians of Middle East appearance, rushing onto a train at one stage to fight. More than 20 people were injured and 12 arrested.
Arabic and Muslim leaders said the violence had been expected as Muslims had been subjected to racist taunts, especially since the Iraq war and bombings on the Indonesian island of Bali where many Australians were among the dead.
“Arab Australians have had to cope with vilification, racism, abuse and fear of a racial backlash for a number of years, but these riots will take that fear to a new level,” said Australian Arabic Council chairman Roland Jabbour.
Beware of violent Muslim immigants, Pipes warns
“In its long history of immigration, the United States has never encountered so violence-prone and radicalized a community as the Muslims who have arrived since 1965.”
Another helpful contribution to community relations in the US from Daniel Pipes.
Sharia – the paranoid Islamophobic fantasies of ‘Left’ and Right
Brett Lock of Outrage has woken from his blogging slumbers and posted a response to this item on Islamophobia Watch, which linked to a BNP article reporting Patrick Sookhdeo’s “shocking conclusion that Islamic (Sharia) law will filter into the existing British legal system”. We suggested that the fascists and Sookhdeo might consider launching a joint campaign against the “Sharia threat” with Outrage and the Worker Communist Party of Iran.
Lock demands: “How can they expect a gay human rights group NOT to oppose sharia law – a law which criminalises, menaces and – too often – kills our kind? And if they understand this, why the snide and slanderous suggestion that we’re in league with the BNP or other right wing fascists?”
Terrorism and its supporters
Jeff Barak of the Jewish Chronicle resumes the apparently endless campaign against the Mayor of London for welcoming Yusuf al-Qaradawi to City Hall.
Yes, we have the usual reliance on Peter Tatchell and his spurious claim that “2,500 leading Muslim intellectuals from 23 countries who signed a petition to the United Nations naming Qaradawi as one of ‘the theologians of terror’ and accusing him of ‘providing a religious cover for terrorism’.”
Livingstone’s entirely accurate observation that a dossier attacking Qaradawi relied heavily on misinformation from the Middle East Media Research Institute, an organisation headed by a former colonel in Israeli military intelligence, is characterised by Barak as an encouragement to “anti-Semitic conspiracy theories”.
Aren’t people getting a bit tired of this repetitive nonsense by now?
Independent on Sunday, 11 December 2005
While Barak waxes indignant that the Mayor should welcome a supporter of suicide bombing to London, he denies with equal indignation the accusation that Ariel Sharon is a war criminal (“Sharon is strong enough to brush off the shrill comments of a die-hard anti-Zionist like Livingstone”). Given that the Sabra and Shatila massacres of 1982, for which Sharon was responsible as Israeli defence minister, have been characterised as war crimes by Human Rights Watch and other organisations, it would therefore be reasonable to describe Barak as an apologist for terrorism. According to his own criterion, he too should be banned from City Hall.
More on the Muslim ‘Project’ for world domination
“… anyone who believes in the establishment of the Global Caliphate must by that token believe that the Caliphate will in the fullness of time encompass Aberystwyth. However, I do not think that anyone at all has any practical plan based on the demand that the town of Aberystwyth must submit to sharia law.”
Daniel Davies on the Muslim plan to conquer the world (see here and here) uncovered by Scott Burgess and Melanie Phillips.
Crooked Timber, 8 December 2005
See also Lenin’s Tomb, 10 December 2005
Islam – ‘a terrorist movement’
A few days after the Danish People’s Party (DF) punished its Copenhagen mayoral candidate for publishing racist remarks on her website, removing her from the post as the party spokesman on educational affairs, her successor went ahead and described the Muslim religion as a terrorist movement.
Defeated mayoral candidate Louise Frevert’s website compared Muslims with tumours, causing a public outrage. Though she blamed the statement on her website editor, DF punished her by removing her from a number of spokesman posts in parliament, including the one on educational policies.
Her replacement, Martin Henriksen, however, has also been criticised for having a website that is equally anti-Muslim. “From its beginning, Islam has been a terrorist movement”, Henriksen stated on his website, warning against letting Muslims run for office in parliament and municipal councils.
‘Enormity of Muslim threat unrecognized’
“Since the 9-11 Muslim terrorists attacks against the United States, I have been seeking to warn Americans in general, and Christians in particular, of the enormous threat posed to our country by radical Islam…. Though there are ‘moderate Muslims’ within the communities here in the United States, they are easily frightened into silence by the radical Muslims who dominate the teaching and direction of most of the mosques. And they are required by the doctrines of Islam to contribute money that is then cleverly funneled by the radicals into support of terrorist regimes worldwide.”
Muslim group urges Kember release
The head of the world’s oldest Islamic movement has called for the release of Briton Norman Kember, abducted in Iraq. Mohammed Mahdi Akef, president of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, said Mr Kember and three other hostages were being held against Islam’s principles. “In the name of the Muslim Brotherhood worldwide I call for the western peace activists in Iraq to be released immediately,” he said on al-Jazeera TV. “Islam rejects the kidnapping of innocent people regardless of their aim, beliefs and opinion”, Mr Akef said.