Year: 2010

OUTRAGE AS YEMEN GETS £37M OF TAXPAYERS’ CASH FOR JOBS

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Daily Express…TAXPAYERS are being forced to contribute millions of pounds to job-creation schemes in Yemen in an attempt to counter a surge of Muslim terrorist activity.

The Government is to hike overseas aid to the Arabian republic by almost 50 per cent to £37million next year amid fears it is becoming a haven for Al Qaeda militants.

Most of the cash will be pumped into new roads, reservoirs and dams with the aim of providing jobs for around 300,000 jobless Yemenis.

Increased aid is understood to be part of a new blitz by Britain, the US and other Western nations.

But the move has sparked anger about Treasury cash being lavished on work-creation schemes abroad while dole queues grow in Britain.

Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “British taxpayers already spend huge amounts on aid. Frankly this extra money is needed at home.

“It may be a well-intentioned proposal, but with huge numbers of people losing their jobs in Britain we should not be spending a ­fortune trying to solve Yemeni unemployment. When people pay tax they are told it is to protect them if they fall on hard times. We are in those hard times now and our Government’s priority should be helping British people get back on their feet.”

Britain gave £25million to aid projects in the country on the southern tip of the Arabian peninsular last year, but the figure could rise to £40million in 2011-12. More than £120million of British taxpayers’ money is due to go to the war?ravaged nation in the next four years.

Some officials claim boosting economic development and ­tack- ling poverty is the key to ­combating the growth of terrorist sympathies in the Yemen, where failed Christmas Day airline bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is thought to have been trained. Unemployment in the country is estimated at around 35 per cent of the working- age population and ­rising. Yemen is also facing a ­growing economic crisis as the country’s oil is expected to run out by 2018. And it is suffering from an acute water shortage.

But critics of the aid policy point out that many Al Qaeda terrorists have come from wealthy backgrounds rather than out of poverty.

Yemen’s population is one of the fastest growing in the world with around a third of its 24 million ­citizens reckoned to be under 24.

The Department for International Development said: “The UK is increasingly concerned about the situation in Yemen and the number and scale of the challenges facing the Government of Yemen.

“Yemen is the only low-income country in the Middle East – 35 per cent of Yemenis live under the ­poverty line.

“It is becoming increasingly unstable. Any further deterioration of security and stability in Yemen will have great implications not only for the Yemeni people, but also for the region and beyond.”

Kenya Seeks To Deport Muslim Cleric To Jamaica

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 NYT–LONDON — The Kenyan authorities were reported on Monday to be planning to deport a Jamaican-born Muslim cleric, Abdullah el-Faisal, who may have helped inspire the Nigerian man accused of trying to bomb an American airliner headed to Detroit on Christmas Day.

Mr. Faisal has long been known to law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe. He was tried in Britain in 2003 on charges of spreading racial hatred and urging his followers to kill Christians, Hindus, Jews and Americans. He was deported from Britain in 2007.

Reuters reported from Nairobi, the capital, that Mr. Faisal was in Kenya on a preaching tour. But intelligence officials feared that his speeches would encourage radicalism in a country that has been a target of attacks ascribed to Al Qaeda, including the 1998 bombing of the American Embassy. He was arrested Sunday in the port city of Mombasa.

“The minister in charge of immigration has declared him as an unwanted immigrant. We don’t want him in this country,” a police spokesman, Eric Kiraithe, told Reuters. It was not clear when Mr. Faisal would be deported.

“From what he says, he was coming to preach,” Mr. Kiraithe said. “The contacts he was maintaining, according to our intelligence, are not the best, are not in our national interests.”

Mr. Faisal settled in Britain in the early 1990s and became imam of the Brixton mosque in South London, which was reported to have been frequented by Richard C. Reid, the so-called shoe bomber who sought to blow up an airliner bound for the United States just before Christmas in 2001.

Abdul Haqq Bakr, the chairman of Brixton Mosque and Islamic Cultural Center, said at the time that Mr. Reid had joined prayers at the mosque in late 1995 and left in 1998.

Zacarias Moussaoui, who was sentenced in the United States in 2006 to life in federal prison after he admitted knowledge of the Sept. 11, 2001, plot, also prayed at the Brixton mosque.

Mr. Faisal, a Jamaican-born convert to Islam who studied in Saudi Arabia, was found guilty in 2003 of encouraging followers to use chemical and nuclear weapons against their enemies from other faiths. He was sentenced to seven years in prison.

He was deported four years later after the authorities accused him of influencing Germaine Lindsay, one of the four attackers in the London bombings of July 2005. Mr. Lindsay was also a Jamaican-born convert to Islam.

Mr. Faisal’s name surfaced much more recently in investigations into Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man accused of the attempted attack on a Northwest Airlines flight.

In an online posting in May 2005, under the name “farouk1986,” Mr. Abdulmutallab referred to Mr. Faisal as a cleric he had listened to, according to American military and law enforcement authorities.

In his posting, Mr. Abdulmutallab wrote: “I thought once they are arrested, no one hears about them for life and the keys to their prison wards are thrown away. That’s what I heard Sheik Faisal of U.K. say (he has also been arrested I heard).”

It was not clear how Mr. Faisal had made his way to Africa after being deported to Jamaica in 2007. The Kenya newspaper Daily Nation quoted the immigration minister, Otieno Kajwang, as saying that he entered Kenya from Tanzania using a border post at Lunga Lunga that was not connected to a central database in Nairobi.

Daily Nation reported Sunday that Mr. Faisal has previously been denied entry into Kenya.

He had traveled to Nigeria, Angola, Mozambique, Swaziland, Malawi and Tanzania before arriving in Kenya, the newspaper said. He was arrested after attending prayers at a mosque.

The newspaper quoted Mr. Kajwang as saying: “We are not deporting him because he is a Muslim. We are deporting him because of his terrorist history and the fact that he is on the international watch list. ”

Next they will offer him a gig as a soprano on a boys choir

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Thanks Fausta for the tip

From Big Government

Jaw-dropping story in today’s Washington Post:

*Dec 28 - 00:05*

President Obama’s chief counterterrorism adviser on Sunday defended the administration’s decision to try in federal court the man charged with attempting to bomb an airliner on Christmas Day and indicated that he would be offered a plea agreement to persuade him to reveal what he knows about al-Qaeda operations in Yemen.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian charged with the failed attempt on the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight, was initially “talking to people who detained him” but now has a public defender and “doesn’t have to,” John O. Brennan said on “Fox News Sunday.”

“We have different ways of obtaining information from individuals” in the criminal-justice process, Brennan said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “A lot of people . . . understand what they’re facing, and their lawyers recognize that there is advantage to talking to us in terms of plea agreements, [and] we’re going to pursue that.” Brennan told CNN’s “State of the Union” that other terrorism suspects have “given us very valuable information as they’ve gone through the plea-agreement process.”

Consider this excerpt:

Abdulmutallab’s father “said he was consorting with extremists in Yemen,” Brennan added. “. . . He was concerned about him, he wanted our help. That was one set of data. We had, though, other data within the intelligence system . . . that didn’t give us the clarity we needed to be able to map it and attach it to Abdulmutallab.”

Read the whole article here. Whiskey, tango, foxtrot…they’re going to offer the bomber a plea agreement?? Brennan states that, despite warnings from the bomber’s own father, the Administration didn’t have the “clarity” to determine Mr. Abdulmutallab was a threat. Offering him a plea agreement–through his court-appointed public defender–suggests the Administration won’t achieve “clarity” anytime soon.

Chavez’s ‘Bolivarian revolution’ appears to be getting results.

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According to STRATFOR:

January 4, 2010

The Venezuelan government could shut down national steel and aluminum manufacturers as part of its electricity conservation plan, Globovision reported Jan. 4, citing Electric Energy Minister Angel Rodriguez. Rodriguez said that the measure could be necessary due to falling reservoir levels at the Guri dam

According to wikipedia:

The Guri Dam is one of the largest in the world. It is located in Bolívar State, Venezuela in the Caroni River. Its official name is Central Hidroeléctrica Simón Bolívar (previously named Central Hidroeléctrica Raúl Leoni from 1978 to 2000). It is 1300 meters long and 162 m high. The construction started in 1963 with the first part concluding in 1978 and the second one in 1986.

It has long been the focus of much controversy, as the lake created by the dam forever destroyed thousands of square miles of forest formerly renowned for its biodiversity and rare wildlife, including the only place where the recently-discovered Carrizal Seedeater (a finch-like tanager) was ever found.

There are two machine rooms with ten generators each producing a total of 87 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity and saves 300,000 barrels of oil a day. The walls in room number two were decorated by the kinetic Venezuelan artistCarlos Cruz-Díez.

So, in other words, its one of the largest hydro electric plants on earth. Yet Venezuela seems not to have enough electricity to run its various industries despite being a net exporter of oil as well. Can anyone say ‘Central Planning’?

For anyone unfamiliar with Hayek’s most excellent book, ‘The Road to Serfdom’ here it is in classic comics version. Please have a look. It is the blueprint for failure in Venezuela now, and for Europe very soon.

Canada: Gay Muslim a ‘pariah’ in his own community

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Islamic Myth # 1431: Sharia is tolerant.

Thanks to Gay and Right

From The National Post

Gay Muslim scholar shunned by own community

Elise Stolte, Canwest News Service Published: Sunday, January 03, 2010

Muslims in Luton call British soldiers baby killers, rapists, shout ‘burn in hell’

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Let’s be perfectly clear. Radical Islam does indeed want troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan for one reason and one reason only- so they can continue to brutally force 7th century sharia on the population through terrorism, barbaric tactics, thuggery and intimidation without interruption, international scrutiny, global condemnation and NATO interference. Their aim is no different in the west, as they have made repeatedly clear and will continue to do so. While these ‘marches’ and ‘protests’ are insincerely billed as ‘reactions to the occupying forces’, they are in fact simultaneous  pro-sharia, anti-west happy parades, designed to notify the British public that their aim is to one day transform the U.K. to an Islamic state, similar to the shit-holes they now occupy and administer on behalf of Muhammed in much of the Middle East.

These idiots refused to stand today in a Luton court because as Muslims and adherents to sharia they are not permitted to rise in respect of secular law. Sharia does not respect human beings. Nor does it respect the western ideals of democracy and freedom; it considers only God. These idiots terribly pained at the sight of a woman justice overseeing their trial, no doubt furthered their resolve to fight the good, soft jihad at a system that would consider a woman responsible for meting out justice. These idiots can also be rest assured at the sight of support by their fellow sharia lovers, many of whom are no doubt burqa clad young women who never donned the cloth until it became a fashionable visual agitation, a tool used to promote sharia whilst in solidarity with their Islamist brothers.

One sign held up by a Muslim extremist at the Luton homecoming read, ” Anglican Soldiers: Butchers of Basra”. Let’s again be clear of the butchery in Basra. As of November 2008, it was reported by the Women’s News Network that as much as $100 U.S. was paid to each Muslim hit-man, per victim of honour killings. Authorities of the southern city in Iraq claimed they were ‘powerless’ to prevent such Islamic killings following a staggering 70% increase. The butchery in Basra comes not from NATO troops, but from Muslim men against Muslim women. Conviction rates for these murders are very low and the police continue to protect perpetrators. (I bought my dog for more than a woman’s life is worth to such a Muslim man in Basra). The lies and hypocrisy go hand in hand with fantastical sharia, a totalitarian and oppressive legal system these idiots pray to God for.

From The Daily Mail U.K.

Muslim protesters ‘branded British soldiers as rapists and baby killers’ at homecoming parade

By Lucy Ballinger
Last updated at 4:43 PM on 04th January 2010

A group of Muslim protesters shouted ‘murderers’, ‘rapists’, ‘baby killers’ and chanted ‘burn in hell’ at soldiers on a homecoming parade from Iraq, a court heard today.

Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment were greeted by protesters screaming the hostile jeers and holding placards as they marched through Luton last year.

There was a furious reaction from the hundreds lining the streets to give the 200 soldiers – known as the Poachers – a heroes’ welcome. Among the supporters upset by the protest were children and families.

The chants included: ‘British army murderers’, ‘British soldiers burn in hell’, ‘British soldiers you will pay’, ‘baby killers and murders all of you’ and ‘baby killers shame on you’.

Protesters: (from left to right) Jabair Ahmed, Shajjadar Choudhury, Ziaur Rahman, Jalal Ahmed, Munim Abdul and Yousaf Bashir arrive at Luton Magistrates' Court

Protesters: (from left to right) Jabair Ahmed, Shajjadar Choudhury, Ziaur Rahman, Jalal Ahmed, Munim Abdul and Yousaf Bashir arrive at Luton Magistrates’ Court today.

The regiment had just returned from a second tour of duty in Iraq, and had previously fought in Afghanistan – losing 12 of their comrades during the wars.

Today seven Muslim men appeared at Luton Magistrates Court charged with using threatening, abusive, insulting words and behaviour which was likely to cause harassment, alarm and distress to others.

Munin Abdul, 28, Jalal Ahmed, 21, Jabair Ahmed, 19, Yousaf Bashir, 29, Shajjadar Choudhury, 31, Ziaur Rahman, 32, and white Muslim Ibrahim Anderson, 32, all from Luton, have pleaded not guilty to the charge.

The seven men refused to stand when district judge Carolyn Mellanby walked in, as is the custom in court. Their lawyers explained that this was because as Muslims they could not make a show of respect to any human being, only to God. Continue Reading →

So this is how it becomes the religion of peace…

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Below, two photos of the Somalian Muslim who attacked Kurt Westergaard with a knife and an axe yelling “Blood and revenge” reminiscent of Jack Nicholson in the Shining yelling “Here’s Johnny” as he tried to break his way into a bathroom to kill a woman and child about the same age as Kurt’s granddaughter.

At least one can rest assured for the next few minutes this Muslim will indeed be peaceful and safe to be around till some idiot undoes the restraints.

Some Muslim threatens a Swedish cartoonist.

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H/T Snaphanen Somali threats against Swedish illustrator

Somali threats against Swedish illustrator

Published: 4 Jan 10 16:21 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/24198/20100104/

Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who sparked outrage with caricatures of the Muslim prophet Muhammad as a dog, has received threats via telephone from Somalia.

Police in Helsingborg in southern Sweden are taking seriously the threats made against Vilks, which come just three days after Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard was subjected to an axe attack at his home in Denmark.

The first of two phone calls to Vilks came on Monday morning. A subsequent check by the Swedish artist revealed that the call originated in Somalia, where the Islamic militant group al-Shabaab has gained increasing influence in the war torn country.

Al-Shabaab is also believed to have ties to al-Qaeda.

In the last month, al-Shabaab supporters who reportedly used to live in Denmark have killed at least 22 people, including three ministers, in a suicide bomb attack carried out in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.

According to Vilks, the man who threatened him spoke Swedish.

“The man, who spoke accented Swedish, asked me if I knew about what happened in Denmark and to the artist Kurt Westergaard. I said I certainly did,” Vilks told the Helsingborgs Dagblad newspaper.

“The man then explained that they were out after more and that they would soon come for me. I told them they were welcome,” said Vilks.

According to Patrik Peter, a spokesman for Swedish security service Säpo, the incident is being investigated by local police.

“It may be that the police will ask for our help in which case we’ll obviously do what we can,” Peter told the TT news agency.

The Helsingborg police have refused to comment on the incident.

“I have no comment whatsoever on how our investigation of the threat is being carried out,” police spokesperson Göran Hassel told TT.

Westergaard was one of the Danish artists who drew cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad for Denmark’s Jyllandsposten newspaper. Westergaard’s drawing portrayed Muhammad with a bomb in his turban.

TT/The Local (ne**@******al.se/08 656 6518)

For relativists unable to discriminate between the value of the west, and Islam

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Here is a little contrast for those who seem unable to recognize the fruits of western secular thought with its traditions that come from the ancient Greeks and Romans, and Islam who’s previous intelectual arabic, Persian, and North African traditions such as the library at Alexandria Egypt, or the fine intelectual traditions of Persia were in fact destroyed by Islam. Top video pretty much represents the pinacle of Islamic thought. Bottom one, I would venture to say is the greatest accomplishment of western civilization. The fact that many might argue, shows how much and varied those fruits are.

Enjoy!

I doubt you made it through the video above entirely. It was fairly banal. I bet you watch all of this one though:

And interestingly, we, as a culture, are able not to take the genuine fruits of our civilization that seriously. Yet those who cling to fantasies and empty baseless threats of course have to eliminate any sense of fun lest people notice it is pure fiction.

Somali who attacked Westergaard now named. Has history

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Below are screen caps of a machine translation from this Swedish web site. For the original please go here as the machine translation can be a little rough.


Pro-Palestinian Protesters Give Nazi Salutes

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From Blazing Cat Fur.

“Pro-Palestinian” protesters were photographed giving Nazi salutes in Toronto on December 27. “Palestinian House” is clearly marked on the flag staff of one of those giving the stiff-armed salute. “Palestine House Educational (PHE) (Mississauga, Ontario): PHE received $747,314 from the Canadian government in 2008-9 for language instruction ; and Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has two agreements totaling over $3 million through 2010 for language instruction and immigrant settlement. ”

To read more and see more photos of the protest go here.

Sydney Australia, fighting another giant mosque.

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From Islam Monitor:

Aubur

As if this huge masjit would not be enough for Auburn

Auburn Council, in Sydney’s west, approved yet another giant mosque (there is already one monstrosity called Gallipoli Mosque in Auburn)   to be built  on a site occupied by a historical  Art Deco fire station on  Harrow Road.

And so it comes as no surprise that the non-Muslim residents are trying to stop the construction  as they  they believe it will become a headquarters for the strict Wahhabi sect of Islam in Sydney. (reference)

Additionally the Muslim buyers of the property do not care that the Fire Station, listed as a Australian heritage building, will be destroyed in the process.

The purpose of the Omar Mosque leadership in acquiring the property was to demolish the Old Auburn Fire Station building, consolidate the site with their three other adjacent properties and build over the new site a grand mosque, capable of accommodating a thousand worshippers at a time.

The new mosque is proposed to have 134 car parking spaces underground in a location that is zoned residential. The DA applicants knew at the time they bought the property that it was subject to heritage protection under the Auburn LEP. They are the same people who a few years earlier built the Al Faisal Islamic School, which is only one hundred metres further down the road from the site. But despite this knowledge of the laws in NSW and their ready access to legal and town planning expertise, which might have motivated them to seek another site, they chose instead to pursue a campaign to have its heritage protection removed by Auburn City Council.

Historical Fire Station at 47 Harrow Road, Auburn

The leaders of the Omar Mosque also probably knew at the time they bought the old fire station site that the Victorian Italianate terrace style cottage next to their existing mosque, formerly used since 1909 as Pegler’s Bakery at 43 Harrow Road, is also of high heritage significance, although not yet on the heritage schedule. Both properties will be demolished to make way for the proposed grand mosque, the main structure of which will stand on the highest hill in Auburn over three stories tall, topped at each of its four corners with a small minaret and a large central dome bearing an Islamic crescent moon. At the apex of the crescent moon, as is now proposed by the applicant, the structure will be close to the height of a five storey building. (source)

Dear Readers, we can stop the destruction of our heritage building and at the same time we can prevent building yet another symbol of Islamic arrogance and disregard for our culture and history.

If you are a resident of New South Wales, please download our petion from HERE, print as many copies as you need and collect as many signatures as you can.
When you finished collecting signatures, please mail the forms to the following address:

P.O. Box 693
Auburn
NSW 2144

If you prefer e-mail you would need to scan the forms after signing and then send them as attachments to: d.*******@**********or.org This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Unfortunately there is very little time and you would have to send  the forms back to us before January 16, 2010.

If you are not a resident of NSW you can still help by sending THIS letter directly to:

The Hon. Tony Kelly

The Hon. Tony Kelly, ALGA MLC
Minister for Planning
Minister for Infrastructure
Minister for Lands
Deputy Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council
Leader of the House in the Legislative Council
Address: The Hon. Tony Kelly, MLC
Parliament House
Macquarie Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Phone:     (02) 9230 2528
Fax:     (02) 9230 2530
Email: (Private Secretatry)

sh**************@***********ov.au

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Please remember to send your petition before January 16, 2010.

Some interesting Details about Auburn City Council:

Councillors – Term: September 2009 to September 2010

Izzet Anmak – Independent, Muslim background
Ned Attie – Liberal
Teresa Di Paolo – Labor
Jack Au – Unity
Le Lam – Independent
Patrick Curtin – Labor
Ronney Oueik – Liberal, Muslim background
Malikeh Michels – Greens, Muslim background
Hicham Zraika – Labor, Muslim background
Irene Simms – RAGAA

Top Ten Religions in Auburn Council

Two clips to end the night. Kurt and Adolph.

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First, CTV, a large Canadian television network did a nice little segment about the attempt on Kurt Westergaard’s life. I added a bit to the start and end to drive a certain point home. Enjoy:

Lastly, here is one of my favorite clips of all time showing the absolute importance of ridicule in the face of tyranny. It is one of the most important weapons we have and when we do not use it, we create opportunity for fascists to make it illegal, and then that space for ridicule no longer exists, the space being what exists in between what is polite and what is possible. Granted, the clip below would have been much better had it been made before the war, or even during, but it is still an excellent example of a weapon against tyranny. Islam has shown us over and over again that it cannot defend its ideas with reason. That any questioning of it, or ridicule or expression that challenges its primacy it cannot tolerate. This means we all know what to do. If indeed, as it would appear, that Islam and it’s horror is that fragile, then we all need to create a cacophony of ridicule, questions and challenges at every intellectual level. This problem exists because we afford Islam a respect it has not earned and does not deserve. Make yourself a funny T shirt of Mohamed, or buy one from me. Do your own cartoon. Make sure that Kurt Westergaard is simply one in hundreds of millions of us that will not be intimidated into accepting horror over reason.
Eeyore for Vlad.