Some depressing links about the state of the UK.

As I said in a post from earlier this evening, it is becoming more and more clear to me why A Clockwork Orange and Orwell’s books are all about England. A. M. was kind enough to compile this list of depressing links about the England today. Fair warning, I have a suspicion that news may break tomorrow, even more depressing than any of this in some ways.

Story #1. Anjem Choudery to get his own episode on a major UK TV show:

Anjem Choudary, who was also involved with the banned group Islam4UK which planned a protest march through Wootton Bassett, will have free reign to give his views during an edition of the channel’s daily opinion slot, known as 4thought.tv.

The counter-terrorism think-tank Quilliam has written to David Abraham, the Channel 4 chief executive, to complain about airtime already given to radical Muslims during the series.

Story #2. Taliban spiritual cleric to speak in House of Lords:

A senior Muslim cleric who is known as the “Taliban’s ideological mentor” has been allowed to enter the UK and address the House of Lords. More here as well:

Fazlur Rehman, the head of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party, came to the UK on Wednesday, at the invitation of the High Commission of Pakistan, and was due to address the House of Lords on Thursday.

Story #3. Islamists to advise all Party Parliamentary group on preventing Islamophobia:

After a series of reverses in the political arena, Islamist sympathisers yesterday established a key bridgehead in Parliament.

A body called iEngage (also known as Engage) states in a press release that it will be acting as the secretariat to a new All-Party Parliamentary Group on Islamophobia, whose inaugural meeting was held yesterday in the Commons. The group is chaired by a Tory MP, Kris Hopkins. The Lib Dem deputy leader Simon Hughes and the Labour peer Lord Janner are vice-chairs. Sources say that the inaugural meeting was attended by the Tory MPs Angie Bray and Eric Ollerenshaw, among others. (A spokesman for the Labour MP Lisa Nandy, who was listed as attending, has contacted me to say that she did not.)

Story #4. London borough of Tower Hamlets becomes “Islamic republic”:

Outside the Wellington Way polling station in Tower Hamlets yesterday, as at many other polling stations in the borough, people had to run a gauntlet of Lutfur Rahman supporters to reach the ballot box. As one Bengali woman voter went past them, we heard one of the Rahman army scolding her for her “immodest dress.”

That incident is perhaps a tiny taste of the future for Britain’s poorest borough now it has elected Mr Rahman as its first executive mayor, with almost total power over its £1 billion budget. At the count last night, one very senior figure in the Tower Hamlets Labour Party said: “It really is Britain’s Islamic republic now.”

For the last eight months – without complaint or challenge from Mr Rahman – this blog and newspaper have laid out his close links with a group of powerful local businessmen and with a Muslim supremacist body, the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) – which believes, in its own words, in transforming the “very infrastructure of society, its institutions, its culture, its political order and its creed… from ignorance to Islam.” Mr Rahman has refused to deny these claims.

Lemons to Lemon-aid. British Hoteliers manage to survive the Islamic complaint

Remember the British couple that got into a minor argument about Islam with a couple that was staying at their hotel? Then the Muslims charged them with some kind of thought crime and they were dragged through the courts and it pretty much ruined their business?

Here is how a good hearted, cooperative mindset can work things out for you. There is a lesson for every human being alive here. This, is a great story.

Some links for Tuesday, Nov 30 2010

It appears that the fellow who does Wikileaks is a very sought after fellow:

Here is an interpol page seeking his arrest for sex crimes in Sweden:

And I found this awesome video on Blazing Cat fur.

Over at Sheik Yermami, this story:

I have a theory about that fire. I bet it was the Mosque principles that wanted to destroy any records they have which may implicate them as partners with Mohamed Mohamed and his plan to kill lots of kids at the Christmas tree ceremony. We will know soon enough I’m sure.
Here is an article about Tower Hamlets. I hope to post something more on this tonight. A more general state of the nation with respect to Islam and England. A Millar is sending me a collection of links later on which, when seen in context and together, presents a fairly bleak picture of England. I can’t help but think to myself that it is no accident that A Clockwork Orange, and so much of Orwell’s books are about the UK.

Iran: Pastor Charged—Apostasy

The Assize Court of the province of Gilan, in Iran, has officially charged Pastor Youcef Nardarkhani with denying that Mohammed was a prophet. The court stated that this resulted in apostasy because Nardarkhani believes in Jesus and has shared his faith with others, according to The Voice of the Martyrs.
Here is a story I am hoping some of you can explain to me. Obama on his recent trip to India, cancelled a visit to a Sikh Temple because according to him, Americans can’t tell the difference between a Sikh and a Muslim, and he didn’t want to fuel speculation that he was a secret Muslim, then, he promptly visited an actual Mosque. I guess his grandmother didn’t get the memo.

I wish Julian Assange would Wikileak this story so maybe, just maybe American would finally pay attention to a real scandal.

From the AP:

KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan border policeman killed six American servicemen during a training mission Monday, underscoring one of the risks in a U.S.-led program to educate enough recruits to turn over the lead for security to Afghan forces by 2014….

Is this what jihadist, Muslim-on-infidel murder by our Afghan “allies” is now — “one of the risks”? This is not a risk worth taking for the servicemen’s interest, the military’s interest, or the country’s interest. This effort, this theory, this utopian drive to remake Afghanistan in something akin to our own image is not workable, nor is it acceptable as the blood-and-treasure-draining policy of this nation.

Nor is this:

NATO is still investigating an incident earlier this month in which two U.S. Marines were killed in southern Helmand province, allegedly at the hands of an Afghan soldier.

Or this:

After two deadly shootings in July, NATO officers said they were re-examining training practices to make sure that such attacks did not happen again.

On July 20, an Afghan army sergeant got into an argument at a shooting range in northern Afghanistan and shot dead two American civilian trainers before being killed. Another Afghan soldier was killed in the crossfire.

Or this:

A week earlier, an Afghan soldier stationed in the south killed three British troopers, including the company commander, with gunfire and a rocket-propelled grenade in the middle of the night.

Please click over to Diana West to read the rest of this important story:


Carolyn Glick does her usual exceptional geopolitical analysis of Obama and North Korea here:

Video games now to be rated according to Islamic values:

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David Yerushalmi: Fighting Sharia through law

Here is an interview with David Yerushlami from the web site,

New English Review.

I would like to mention that I had the opportunity to hear Mr. Yerushlami speak at a symposium in Washington a couple of years ago and he was extraordinary. In a symposium filled with excellent speakers, some of whom I interviewed on Camera such as Lord Malcolm Pearson and many many others, David stood out even among them. There was a clear and unafraid lucidity about him. He was able to make the most complex issue comprehensible to all of us at least for those minutes he was speaking. Mr. Yerushlami is the man who managed to defeat the Dade County bus service when they refused the adds which allowed apostates of Islam a place to call if they wanted advice and defeated the New York City Bus Co. when they also refused adds for a similar reason. When David Y. Speaks, it is wise to listen carefully.

Eeyore for Vlad.

Fighting Shariah Through the Law: An Interview with David Yerushalmi, Esq.

by Jerry Gordon (December 2010)

Shariah, Islamic law, has become increasingly visible in the debates concerning possible Islamization in the West. It is at the core of opposition to and debate about expansion of mosques in this country. Shariah is a total system that governs every aspect of the life of a Muslim including fulfillment of jihad against non-believers, whether through da’wa, persuasion, or ultimately violence. Shariah is a political, legal, social and military system that threatens basic constitutional liberties and freedoms that we take for granted in America. The lure of multi-billion dollar transactions has created Shariah-compliant international corporate finance markets with active participation by major commercial and investment banks and financial rating organizations. Shariah advisers to these eager financial institutions are proponents of violent jihad and Islamic antisemitism. One egregious example is Pakistani Federal Sharia Court Judge and Hanafi Scholar, Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani, who advised Dow Jones on creation of its Islamic Market Index. Egyptian-born Islamic scholar, Yusuf Qaradawi used the term ‘financial jihad” to describe  Sharia-compliant finance (SCF).  As Andrew McCarthy noted in a National Review article, “American Taxpayer, Financial Jihadist”, what Qaradawi meant.

Because sharia bars interest (although it permits “profits” that Islamic authorities, in their infinite wisdom, deem reasonable), SCF requires that investments be constantly monitored and that any interest payments be purged. This is done by skimming off a percentage that is then channeled — at the direction of the advisory board — to an Islamic “charity”. Of course, as no one knows better than the Treasury Department, many such charities are merely fronts for the financing of terrorist organizations. This is not an accident. When Sheikh Qaradawi speaks of “financial jihad” as an Islamic obligation, he’s not kidding: In Islamist ideology, funding those who “fight in Allah’s cause” — e.g., Hamas — is one of the eight categories of permissible zakat, the Muslim obligation of almsgiving.
Shariah has entered our legal system through the backdoor of arbitration and mediation panels and even our court system.
One of the prominent opponents of Shariah in our legal system is David Yerushalmi, Esq., a New York and D.C.-based lawyer, litigator and developer of uniform laws aimed at curtailing and outlawing its spread. Yerushalmi designed and sponsored the Mapping Sharia Project whose findings revealed the extent of extremist Sharia compliance in a study of American mosques, soon to be published in a peer review professional journal. He has initiated ground breaking legal actions involving Sharia issues, advancing important federal cases, and has won cases in matters of free speech under the First Amendment. Among these are:
·        Murray v Paulson brought in the Federal District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan against the Treasury for using TARP monies in the bail out of insurance giant AIG which markets and sells takaful Shariah compliant insurance products. The case has advanced given the denial by the court of the federal government’s motion to dismiss. The court is now considering plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment asking the court to rule that the U.S. government willfully promoted Shariah in its drive to support AIG’s Shariah business.
·        A federal case brought by five former Muslim clients of the Council of American Islamic relations in the DC Federal District for fraud and racketeering in misrepresenting legal representation. The RICO charges were dismissed by the Court. However, the fraud charges have been upheld in a recent decision. Continue Reading →

Instable Pakistan Has US on Edge

From Der Spiegel

By Susanne Koelbl
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari: "Stated flatly to Ambassador that the government of Pakistan would have no choice but to retaliate if attacked, and post has no doubt they are sincere."
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Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari: “Stated flatly to Ambassador that the government of Pakistan would have no choice but to retaliate if attacked, and post has no doubt they are sincere.”

US ally Pakistan is much more volatile than previously assumed. American Embassy dispatches show that the military and the Pakistani secret service are heavily involved in the atomic power’s politics — and often work against US interests.

The instructions came directly from then-US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and she didn’t beat around the bush. “Express Washington’s strong opposition to the release of Dr. Khan and urge the Government of Pakistan to continue holding him under house arrest,” Rice wrote to her ambassador, Anne Patterson, in the Pakistani capital Islamabad.

It was April 2008, and the US administration was deeply concerned about reports that the man widely believed to be the biggest nuclear smuggler of all time, Pakistan’s Abdul Qadir Khan, could soon be a free man. Khan had allegedly supported North Korea, Iran and Libya in their nuclear programs by supplying them with plans and centrifuges for uranium enrichment. Although the Americans had exposed his proliferation ring back in 2004, and the nuclear scientist had confessed, probably under pressure from the government, Khan was never indicted or convicted in Pakistan, but merely placed under house arrest.

Ambassador Patterson, a resolute 59-year-old from Arkansas, immediately went into action. Her key contact was the head of the army’s Strategic Plans Division, Khalid Ahmed Kidwai, who was responsible for the security of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. Kidwai had previously made sure that Khan was unable to do any further damage. Patterson also spoke with then-President Pervez Musharraf, who assured the US ambassador that there was nothing to worry about: “He will not be released.”

Kidwai, however, saw complications: “His legal status was that he was a free man. … If he tried to walk out today, … the government of Pakistan had no legal grounds to stop him.”

Appeasing the Americans

On Feb. 6, 2009, a court rescinded Khan’s house arrest, effective immediately. The news caught the new president, Asif Ali Zardari, completely off guard. Ambassador Patterson, for her part, was incensed over the “persistent lack of coordination” of the government in Islamabad. In response to her protest, however, Zardari and his interior minister guaranteed her that they would try to “establish a legal basis for Khan’s detention.”

That is exactly what they did. Today, Khan is once again cut off from the rest of the world. He is fighting a renewed legal battle in the courts against his house arrest — a state of affairs whose main purpose is to appease the Americans.

The Pakistanis’ sophisticated nuclear program is one of the main reasons why the US continues to increase its involvement in the region. The Americans know how unstable the country is, and how weak the government is. They also reveal how the Pakistani military and intelligence agency play the political game according to their own rules.

Hundreds of the diplomatic protocols deal exclusively with the threat posed by the nuclear weapons that the US’s unstable ally has in its possession. “Our major concern is not having an Islamic militant steal an entire weapon but rather the chance someone working in government of Pakistan facilities could gradually smuggle enough material out to eventually make a weapon,” reads one dispatch sent by the embassy in Islamabad to Richard Holbrooke, the US’s special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Taking Pakistan’s Nukes

The Americans would prefer to have complete control over the Pakistani nuclear arsenal but, as the reports show, they are a long way from achieving this goal. During his visit, Holbrooke merely received a briefing on the “physical, personnel and command and control safeguards for Pakistan’s nuclear weapons.” The security technology at the nuclear facilities was significantly improved with help from the US. Nevertheless, the Pakistanis firmly reject any further involvement on the part of the Americans.

For instance, they oppose the plan to send spent fuel rods back to the US. The Americans supplied these elements for use in a research reactor a number of years ago. The man responsible for this decision, the director for disarmament in the Pakistani Foreign Ministry, justified the endless delays by saying “if the local media got word of the fuel removal, ‘they certainly would portray it as the United States taking Pakistan’s nuclear weapons.'”

These nuclear warheads are located in a country where it is unclear who stands on which side. To make matters worse, it’s hard to determine exactly what role the country’s notorious intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), plays in Pakistan. It’s rare that anyone expresses themselves as clearly as John Dister of the National Intelligence Council, a think tank for the US intelligence agencies. “When the ISI supports the Taliban, one can assume it is acting on government of Pakistan orders,” Dister is quoted as telling NATO allies in early 2008, at a time when President Musharraf was still governing. According to the dispatch, Dister “noted the huge anxiety in Pakistan leadership circles that US/NATO will pull out of Afghanistan in the near future, leaving chaos, thus causing the ISI to maintain links with Taliban as a hedge.” Dister added that Pakistan’s intelligence community is also motivated by fears that India may become more actively involved in Afghanistan.

Relations between Pakistan and the US are a constant rollercoaster ride, full of tensions and an endless tug-of-war over concessions, military operations and opposing notions of strategies. US senators, top military brass and US special envoy Richard Holbrooke make a steady stream of visits to Islamabad. Because of the billions of dollars in military aid that it gives to Pakistan, the US reserves the right to intervene in the country’s security issues, up to and including decisions about key positions.

‘Out of Control’

“We have learned since 9/11 that Pakistan responds, periodically, to US pressure on counter-terrorism; we should continue to press for action on specific agenda items.” This was the advice issued by Ambassador Patterson during the summer of 2008, in the run-up to a visit to the US by the new Pakistani prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani.

Patterson listed all the things that the US chief of staff and the deputy head of the CIA achieved during a recent visit to Islamabad, which included the Pakistani authorities “arresting several Taliban shura members in Quetta” and “initiating an Army operation in North Waziristan.” She also wrote that “we expect they will allow another B-300 surveillance aircraft to operate.”

But the diplomat was also frustrated over all the things that had failed: “The government of Pakistan has not targeted Siraj Haqqani or his network; nor have they arrested Commander Nazir or Gulbaddin Hekmatyar. These militants are responsible for much of the 40 percent increase in cross-border attacks on our troops in Afghanistan this year.” And although President Musharraf had acknowledged that “elements of ISI may be out of control,” he remained “reluctant to replace ISI Director Nadeem Taj,” she wrote.

Shortly after Musharraf’s resignation as president in August 2008, however, the Pakistani Army’s then-head of military operations, Lieutenant-General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, was appointed as the new director-general of the ISI. Pasha is an experienced commander who has conducted numerous operations in the tribal areas near the border with Afghanistan. In comparison to Taj, he has a reputation for being a cosmopolitan man who speaks not only English but also German; years ago, Pasha attended a number of courses at the Bundeswehr’s military academy in Hamburg.

The Pakistani government and the army regularly protest against the US use of drones in the tribal areas along the border to Afghanistan. The attacks, they say, violate Pakistani sovereignty and cause an increasing number of civilian deaths. In the dispatches from the US Embassy in Islamabad, however, the Pakistanis are much less harsh in their critique.

ISI head Pasha praised the weapons in comments to members of the Pakistani parliament. “The vast majority of those killed in drone attacks,” he said, “were foreign fighters or Taliban.”

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Wikileaks denied and granted asylum, site under DDOS attack

Thanks to ‘Dig’ for these two important stories. Founder of Wikileaks, the website attempting to break all world records for treason, has been denied asylum in Sweden, but granted it in Ecuador. The website also appears to be under DDOS attack. I’m shocked it took this long. The question remains, how much can he afford? The cost of protecting a web site from a meaningful DDOS attack can be quite high.

From BBC

Ecuador offers Wikileaks founder Assange residency

Julian Assange The Wikileaks founder is facing sexual assault allegations in Sweden – accusations that he strenuously denies

Ecuador has offered Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, residency in the country.

Deputy Foreign Minister Kintto Lucas said his country’s government wanted to invite Mr Assange to Ecuador to give him the opportunity to speak publicly.

He said Ecuador was concerned about some of the alleged American activities revealed by Wikileaks.

Earlier this year Sweden refused an application from Mr Assange, who is Australian, for residency there.

“We are open to giving him residency in Ecuador, without any problem and without any conditions,” Mr Lucas said.

“We are going to try and invite him to Ecuador to freely present, not only via the internet, but also through different public forums, the information and documentation that he has,” he said.

Mr Lucas added: “We think it would be important not only to converse with him but also to listen to him.”

Wikileaks says it has more than 1,600 cables that originated from the US embassy in the Ecuadorian capital, Quito, the contents of which have not yet been disclosed.

Mr Lucas said Ecuador was “very concerned” by information revealed by Wikileaks linking US diplomats with spying on friendly governments.

He said the offer to Mr Assange would not affect relations between Ecuador’s left-leaning government and the US.

On Monday, the authorities in Australia said they were looking into whether Mr Assange had broken any laws there.

Brazilian revelations

The Spanish paper El Pais says that, according to a secret cable released by Wikileaks, US intelligence operatives wanted to know whether the Argentine president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, was taking medication to deal with her “nerves and stress”.

There is more at the BBC link please click through the top link for the rest. Meanwhile, Wikileaks is experiencing a DDOS attack of TEN GIGABYTES/SECOND. This is not a trivial thing.

WikiLeaks under new cyber attack: Twitter feed

December 1, 2010 – 4:05AM

WikiLeaks said in a Twitter message on Tuesday that it was under a new cyber attack after a similar incident at the weekend just before the website began releasing secret US diplomatic cables.

“We are currently under another DDoS attack,” WikiLeaks said on its official Twitter feed.

DDoS stands for distributed denial of service. Classic DDoS attacks occur when legions of “zombie” computers, normally machines infected with viruses, are commanded to simultaneously visit a website.

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Such a massive onslaught can overwhelm servers, slowing service or knocking it offline completely.

A later message on the WikiLeaks twitter said “DDoS attack now exceeding 10 Gigabits a second.”

On Sunday, just as it began the release of some 250,000 US embassy cables, WikiLeaks said on Twitter the website had come under a DDoS cyber attack.

But it insisted El Pais, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, The Guardian and the New York Times would go ahead with the publication of the first of such documents even if the WikiLeaks website was down.

WikiLeaks later circumvented the attack by creating a sub-website — http://cablegate.wikileaks.org — as its main website — http://wikileaks.org — became inaccessible after the attack.

As of 1600 GMT on Monday, both websites were still online.

© 2010 AFP
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Austria continues it’s accelerated rush to sharia and dhimmitude.

Stories about the advance of Islam, the complicity of politically correct leftists, and the rush by Western European states to make illegal, its own history traditions and culture in favour of Islamic ones come in too fast for me to blog them all in a timely manner. Often I leave a score of tabs open planning to blog them all, getting a few done, then its the next day and a score of new ones come in.

This one was a tab from yesterday, then my computer needed a reboot, then a reader of Vlad (thank you Tim) sent me a different link to the same story so now I’m going to post this before fifty other things get in the way. The fifty other things will be more horror from around Europe and North America of course and will probably take the form of video.

This story is in the ‘too awful to believe’ category. I sincerely hope that there is more too it. Like the fellow arrested for yodeling was actually in the courtyard of a Catholic order that had taken a vow of silence and it was midnight and the Muslim call to prayer is actually done purely mentally and no one can hear it at all unless you have ESP.

Sadly, I doubt either is the case.

Please click here for the whole story and context:

Freedom of speech can not be granted. It can only be taken. Take it now.

Joint project: Vlad Tepes and Gates of Vienna. Please grab the image from this post below, and use.

Text below is from GOV:

An EDL protester was recently fined £200 for “making offensive comments about Allah” during a demonstration in Leicester. Even though police officers and the EDL were the only ones able to hear what he said, the prosecution said people were “likely to be offended” and the police were “likely to have been alarmed”. His words were considered “threatening, abusive or insulting” and likely to cause “harassment, alarm or distress”.

The convicted man said he did not think he would offend anyone.

But suppose he had intended offense? Why is that a legal issue?

Why is offending someone the sole basis for prosecution in countries that supposedly uphold civil liberties for their citizens?

Vlad Tepes and gates of vienna discussed the issue for a while and devised the following response:

This became a Vlad-Baron joint venture, with Vlad doing the video and the talking, and GOV doing the image and the spelling — a win-win for everyone.

“Allah is Mohammed’s Imaginary Friend”

We are launching a new protest campaign that aims to drive a wedge into the thin crack between leftists and the Muslims.

We’re going to do this with this image [point at it], and the slogan: “Allah is Mohammed’s Imaginary Friend”.

We aim for protesters to get arrested for having a picture that shows Mohammed talking to a giant bunny.

In fact, participants must insist on being arrested, and on being tried.

By doing this we proclaim our fundamental rights, which were not granted to us, but were always ours, and are only now being taken away by the tyranny of state power.

These rights include the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, and the freedom of religion — including the right to have no religion at all.

We will go to jail for saying that Allah is imaginary.

We will say nothing about Muslims being violent.

We will say nothing insulting at all, only that their god is imaginary. If someone chooses to be insulted by this, that is his decision.

Any atheist has the right to say what we say. It is one of our fundamental freedoms.

Vlad suggests that people download the image from his site and make T-shirts for themselves and friends, for placards, signs, posters, etc.

At demonstrations, participants should chant the slogan while waving a card or sign.

And everyone should stick to the slogan, and not be sidetracked into calling Muslims “thugs” and so on, because that just supports the idea that we are evil insulting people.

Stick to message, and go to jail for saying that Allah is imaginary.

Simple, yet effective.

Even the most diehard leftists will choke hard when they are forced to condemn us as “racists”.

Muslims will be offended, of course, and that will serve as grounds for our arrest.

This will only serve to emphasize that all speech that does not agree with the Koran and the hadith and the sunna of the prophet is offensive to Muslims, and must be prohibited.

And the fact that our governments prohibit it means that they are enforcing full sharia upon everyone, not just on Muslims.

Which is a violation of our rights, the same rights that our government claims to protect when they arrest us for saying that Allah is Mohammed’s imaginary friend.

Below is the image. You can grab it from here, or download it from here:

Dutch media continue to mock Geert…

And Holland even more so than Canada, is hard to find the line between government and private media. So when the government seemed to be setting Geert up for assassination as we posted on last year on Vlad, now it is hard to tell if this is a private TV station or if it is a Government smear, and in fact, when it comes to media in Holland, it may be indistinguishable.