Day: 13 February 2010

Woman with Iquan told “Take it Off or Leave” in Belgian parliament

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From Gates of Vienna:

Saturday, February 13, 2010

“Take it Off or Leave”

by Baron Bodissey

Our Flemish correspondent VH has done a little background research on an incident that occurred in the Flemish parliament on Wednesday. Through his efforts we learn that the “woman with a headscarf” in the public gallery — who was supposedly made a victim by the Islamophobia of Vlaams Belang leader Filip Dewinter — is not what she seems.

Ms. Fatima Zibouh is not an innocent Muslima who just happened to be in the public gallery when she was picked on by Filip Dewinter. Her associations and connections, as demonstrated in the material below, lead not just to the extreme Left in Wallonia, but all the way back to radical Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe.

VH begins with a translation of this news account from Het Laatste Nieuws (and related linked articles) and a video of the triggering event. Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for his prompt subtitling:

Headscarf incident in Flemish parliament: “take it off or leave”

In the Flemish parliament on Wednesday February 10, Vlaams Belang leader Filip Dewinter lashed out about a woman with a headscarf in the public gallery of the parliament, who was in the audience for the plenary session. Dewinter demanded that the woman take off her headscarf out of respect for the parliament or leave the public gallery.

“When Muslimas are in the public gallery, they must at least take off their headscarves out of respect for parliament,” Dewinter said, noting the veiled woman. “Otherwise, they should leave the gallery,” he added. The Vlaams Belang leader pointed out that regulations state that neutrality [in visible political expressions] is required in parliament. The party colleagues of Filip Dewinter applauded this.

The Chairman of Parliament, Jan Peumans (N-VA) did not follow up on Filip Dewinter’s demand. “It disturbs me not at all that this lady is in the audience with a headscarf. And moreover, you are directing your remarks at someone who is in the audience and can not defend herself. I want to make that clear,” Peumans said. The Chairman of Parliament received extended applause for his intervention.

(A full transcript of this video is at the bottom of the post.) Continue Reading →

Cupid reviled: Why Islamists hate Valentine’s Day.

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Saudi scholars hate Valentine’s Day. They hate it so much, that the mutawa is sent to patrol the streets of Riyadh and other Saudi cities scouring for lovers caught in the act of walking together. Shops are raided for stocking red roses, heart-shaped candy boxes and red balloons. Vendors found selling  ‘contraband’ Valentine’s love prose, poetry and greeting cards are threatened with arrest and punishment. Young Saudis wishing to celebrate find themselves buying and stashing  love products weeks before the Festival of Love, knowing such items become illegal the week preceding Valentine’s Day. Florists sneak bouquets to customers in the dark of night and young women with the temerity to don red lipstick or a red blouse are ridiculed. A cleric in Indonesia has also instructed Muslims not to mark the wicked day while Russian Muslim leaders claim the day of love preaches ‘ universal permissiveness, amorality and nihilism’. And not to disappoint the politically correct crowd, the headmaster at Britain’s Ashcombe Primary School has banned Valentine’s citing the emotional immaturity of the students.

Certainly if the Saudis spent as much time hunting down terrorists and Muslim scholars issued hearty fatwas against violence committed in the name of Islam as they do initiating jihad against courting couples, red teddy bears and roses, the world would be a far better place. We are correct to realize that Saudi Arabia’s ban on Valentine’s Day relates directly to Islam’s irrational fixation all things sexual and it’s obsession in securing all things repressive, but are we fully clear on the deeper reason Cupid is so reviled? Is it really the winged cherub with the arrow and pink cheeks that set Islamic scholars into such bizarre fits or the fact that Valentine was a Christian Saint? Continue Reading →

New Statesman Political Editor: Non-Muslims “Like Animals”

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Mehdi Hasan, the New Statesman‘s political editor, recently attacked UKIP‘s Lord Pearson for his comments about radical Islam in Britain.

Yet this magazine has advanced the idea of a “kosher conspiracy,” in which British Jews are supposed to effectively control the government. And Hasan has stated that non-Muslims live “like animals” (see video below):

H/T Up Pompei