Mark Steyn on Elisabeth Wolff and freedom of speech.

Mark Steyn was speaking at a tribute dinner for Ezra Levant Saturday Oct 30 in Ottawa and, I am told, his speech was spectacular. James Cohen, former board member of the International Free Press Society, managed to get a few moments of Mark’s time on Camera to ask him what he thought of the charges against Ms. Wolff. His answer of course, was as lucid and high impact as we have come to expect from Mr. Steyn. It never ceases to amaze me that he always lives up to the very high standard of excellence that he has created for himself. A very difficult thing to do.

I hope to have some sections of his speech for publication at some point from that night, the entirety of which may be made available on a commercial DVD from the Center for Policy Studies



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WHITE FARMER SHOT IN THE HEAD IN CHEGUTU AREA, ZIMBABWE

No one seems to care about real, lethal racism do they? Maybe it’s time for some of you sanctimonious leftists who delight in calling me racist for my opposition to sharia and Islam’s influence on secular liberal democracy to pony up and so something about real world modern race based murder like in Zimbabwe or modern real world slavery like in Sudan, Saudi Arabia and of course, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.

Eeyore

From African Crisis:

Date Posted: Friday 29-Oct-2010

Harare, Zimbabwe-2010, October 29

A 67 year old white farmer, Kobus Joubert was shot (on Monday 25 October 2010) at his Scotsdale farm in Chegutu, west of Harare. The farmer heard her wife screaming in the bathroom, as he go to investigate he was shot by a man right in the head.

The murderers got away with Cell phones and $10 000 but failed to get a Laptop which they demanded. This was not the first incident the Jouberts suffered government persecutions. In 2008 Joubert was attacked by a mob of ZANU PF militias who needed his farm. ZANU PF government of President Robert Mugabe has declared that white farmers are “enemies of the people.” Therefore many farmers have been targeted, beaten, tortured and murdered by war veterans, militias and hired assassins.

The Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) state’s, “The shooting at point blank range of another white farmer in the Selous district (near Chegutu) of Zimbabwe again highlights the deteriorating situation currently being faced in the rural farming areas. This is a symptom of the flagrant disregard for the rule of law in these areas over the last ten years and the Commercial Farmers’ Union of Zimbabwe urgently requests that the authorities take immediate action.” Continue Reading →

Cat Stephens’ real thoughts.

Yet he is not above selling his song books under his old name, Cat Stephens. Check any musical instrument store. None of them say, ‘Yussef Al Islam’s hit, Peace Train’.

Bomb ‘meant to explode on plane’

Bomb ‘meant to explode on plane’The circuit board on the printer found inside the package intercepted in Dubai

The bomb found on a plane in the UK was designed to go off on the aircraft, the British PM says, as Yemen arrests a woman suspected of involvement.

PAUL WESTON INTERVIEWED BY BRITISH MEDIA AT RALLY FOR FREE SPEECH IN AMSTERDAM

ALSO: Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff addresses the crowd:

UPDATE: An anonymous speaker who goes by the nome de guerre, Gandalf, spoke at the event as well.

Thanks to Frank Kitman for the amount of work he’s done in uploading videos from the Free Speech Event in Amsterdam. KGS

EDL DEMONSTRATORS CHASED BY MUSLIM THUGS CALLING THEM ‘ZIONISTS

This spells it out rather clearly, the Muslims know that the EDL are Zionists, and philosemitic, so outside of the EDL’s main emphasis of stopping radical Islam, it’s another reason that’s why the Muslims and the Left hate them. KGS
NOTE: This was posted earlier, but I wanted to place it with the other photos that just came in from the Amsterdam demo. Thanks to Henrik Clausen from Europe News for sending them in.


Paul Weston


PAUL WESTON DELIVERS SPEECH AT THE DEMONSTRATION FOR GEERT WILDERS IN AMSTERDAM ON BEHALF OF IFPS

The regulars at the Tundra Tabloids will be familiar with Paul Weston, who’s a great friend and colleague of the TT. Paul was present today to deliver a speech he crafted to highlight the reasons all were gathered in Amsterdam in support of the Dutch politician, Geert Wilders. Please take the time to read this magnificent speech that was originally posted at the Gates of Vienna. KGS

“We Will Hold You to Account”

Below is the speech given at today’s demonstration at Generatorstraat in Amsterdam by the British author and former Parliamentary candidate Paul Weston.

Hello. My name is Paul Weston, and I represent the International Free Press Society.

And I am standing here today because our liberal elites have betrayed our countries to Islam.

Forty-two years ago the British politician Enoch Powell made his famous “Rivers of Blood” speech, in which he stated that “The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.”

Our politicians today do the exact opposite. They actively promote a preventable evil.

But eighty years ago one man, Winston Churchill, was very clear about preventing a clear and present evil, Herr Hitler and the Nazis. But Churchill was a lone voice crying in the wind of appeasement, and the carnage that could have been avoided came with a vengeance.

And today Europe finds itself in much the same position. Even as Islam grows demographically, territorially, and militantly, it is promoted as the “religion of peace” by the same type of cowardly, careerist politicians who once appeased Hitler.

Islam was not the religion of peace to Winston Churchill. He described it as the religion of blood and war.

Anyone with a knowledge of the foundations and history of Islamic expansion knows this to be the truth.

Mohammed was a warlord. And a very good warlord indeed. By the time of his death he had militarily defeated and converted most of the pagan and Christian tribes of the Arabian Peninsula.

After his death Islam rapidly expanded at the point of a sword, defeating ancient civilisations and overrunning continents as it did so.

And today it is within Europe, it is within the West, and it is calling for what it has always called for: total Islamic domination. And if we wish to resist, then they will use terror against us.

Yet still our treasonous politicians call it the “religion of peace”, and tell us that if we refuse to share such a fantastical and ridiculous notion, that if we choose to believe Winston Churchill’s argument that Islam is a religion of blood and war, then we will be sent to prison.

Of course it is not a religion of peace. Its founder was a warrior, and the highest honour bestowed upon a Muslim is the promise of hordes of scented houris and an eternal leg-over in the after life, achievable not by being a good Samaritan, but by dying as a martyr in the physical battle to expand imperialist Islam.

Islam literally means submission. What kind of a religion can possibly call itself submission?

Islam divides the world into two spheres. The House of Islam (submission) and the House of War. What kind of religion defines itself by military conquest?

Yet our leaders tell us we cannot criticise Islam because it is a religion, whilst the organisation of the Islamic conference, in cahoots with the united nations is striving to make any criticism of Islam illegal.

But Islam is so much more than just a religion. It is a political, social, legal and structural blueprint which totally dominates a devout Muslim’s life, and wishes coincidentally to dominate all devout non-Muslims’ lives as well.

It is profoundly illiberal and it is profoundly undemocratic. It does not believe in the man-made laws of democracy, preferring instead to adhere to the absolute word of Allah, as interpreted by an illiterate 7th-century desert dweller.

And our politicians have imported this illiberal and undemocratic ideology into the liberal democracies than make up the West, and then they dare to criminalise us when we object to this!

But how can we not criticise Islam? Can our politicians really protect it as a religion and therefore place it out of legal reach

When homosexuals are hung from cranes, is this political Islam in action or religious Islam?

When adulterous women are buried up to their shoulders in sand and stoned to death, is this political Islam or religious Islam?

When Muslims who wish to leave Islam are issued with death sentences, is this political Islam, or is this religious Islam?

When wives and daughters are slaughtered to protect their families honour by husbands fathers and uncles, is this political Islam or religious Islam?

If it is political, then it must be denounced as evil and barbaric. If it religious, how can it possibly not be denounced as the same? What is evil is evil and what is barbaric is barbaric and cannot be exempted from criticism because it is sheltered by the word “religion”.

In criminalising free speech, our socialist leaders reveal their dictatorial ambition. The mark of a free society is freedom of speech. To take this away is a totalitarian act, made all the worse because freedom of speech is our only defence in the peaceful opposition against the foreign totalitarian ideology of Islam.

And I hope this irony is not lost on you. In order to protect and advance a foreign totalitarian ideology, our own rulers are prepared to adopt native totalitarian means to stop us defending our democracy and our freedom.

The West lives in accordance with the European Convention on Human Rights. Islam does not. They signed up instead to the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam.

But they have a very important caveat: when sharia law collides with human rights law, guess which law prevails?

Quite so. Sharia is the top trumps when it comes to human rights.

This is like a signatory to the Geneva convention murdering and torturing prisoners of war, and being given a pass at a war trial because it was “part of their religion.”

And when our politicians today excuse Islam as a religion of peace and allow them to set the rules both at home, at the European Union, and at the United Nations, then our politicians are betraying their countries and they are betraying their people. They are committing treason.

“Can one commit treason in a time of peace?” people may ask. But are we really at peace?

We may not consider ourselves at war with Islam, but Islam considers itself at war with us.

And it is a war we are losing. Territorially, demographically, politically, and democratically.

In fact, it is a war of aggression on two fronts. Radical Islam on the one, and left-wing treason on the other.

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NEWS FROM THE AMSTERDAM DEMONSTRATION

Here’s a video report from the Dutch state-TV program “Nieuwsuur” of the two spokesmen from both the DDL (Dutch Defense League) and ANTIFA, the brown shirts of the mulitculti self anointed elite. Nieuwsuur interviewed Bert Jansen (DDL), and Job Polak (AFA) who will be present today in Amsterdam, on either side of today’s demonstration assembled in support of Geert Wilders. KGS

NOTE: The TT will be updating this post as news filters in.


H/T: GOV

UPDATE: The Baron promises to have something soon up about the demo, but I found a site from the opposition who has been tweeting some of the happenings that took place already. By the looks of it, the Antifa thugs are gleeful.

UPDATE: THE BARON COMES THROUGH:

A Successful Counterjihad Demonstration in an Amsterdam Backwater

I just got off the phone with Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, who will shortly be one of the speakers at today’s demonstration at Generatorstraat in Amsterdam. The police moved the demonstration to the new venue at the last minute, and Elisabeth says it is an awful place — a bare patch of grass in the middle of nowhere, far away from anything.

The demonstration, however is a smashing success, according to Elisabeth and others at the site. The remote open location apparently attracted massive media coverage, and Elisabeth has given four interviews so far. While she was talking to me, Paul Weston was being interviewed by a French media outlet.

The “anti-fascists” had gathered at the nearby train station to try to prevent the demonstrators from reaching the site, but they were not successful. Ruffians reputed to be from the AFCA/Ajax football club were at the station, ready for a fight, but were chased away by the police.

Elisabeth says that there is a helicopter hovering over the field, police on horses, and fifteen to twenty police vehicles on the scene. There are more police than civilians.

The English Defence League’s minivan was smashed by the Antifas, and the EDL was asked (reportedly by the British police, strangely enough) to leave the demonstration early.

For that reason Tommy Robinson had to give his brief address ahead of schedule, and made some caustic remarks about the state of free speech in Amsterdam. He showed the audience that he had to wear a bullet-proof vest while addressing them, and had strong words say about the inability of the Dutch authorities to protect peaceful demonstrators. He said it was a disgrace that the mayor had shunted the demo off into the middle of nowhere.

While I was talking to Elisabeth, I could hear Gandalf (“The Younger”, of VV&D and the Alliance to Stop Sharia) in the background speaking to the crowd and chastising the Antifas who were heckling him for their inability to tolerate real democracy.
There will be photos later, and I hear that there are already photos posted here. There will also be video.

Stay tuned.

Kitman captured and uploaded this video from the pre-demonstration period

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  1. Amsterdam: That’s it! It’s all over. EDL have left. For you Tommy, the day is over
  2. EDL told to leave for their own safety! They’re leaving. Tommy saying goodbye!
  3. Only 60 people all up. Tommy’s complaining he’s being harrased.
  4. Amsterdam: Minibus carrying EDL leader Tommy Robinson is smashed up!
  5. Amsterdam: EDL minibus attacked..
  6. Amsterdam: Kevin Carrol’s arrived. Not looking happy. Where’s Tommy?
  7. Where are the English?? That’s what all the EDL’s, very fed up, European friends are asking!
  8. Amsterdam: Someone just walked up to a German speaker on stage and pulled him off.
  9. @euphoriabuzz http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/The-Extremist-Defence-League
  10. Amsterdam: Clarification, about 50 Antifa & 30 Ajax in station. Trains not being allowed to unload.
  11. Amsterdam: 100 Dutch and German Antifa have arrived and have taken over the train station. Ugly scenes.
  12. Amsterdam: About 30 French, German, Dutch and Austrians here now. About 100 press.
  13. Amsterdam: 3 EDL have arrived and are being mobbed by the press

Anjem Chaudery once again, honestly lays out the facts.

This man is so blunt and factual (about most aspects of Islamic politics at least if not Islam) that I am tempted to send him money. Notice that what he say in terms of Muslim ambitions and the nature of Islam overall.

Stunning testimony at the trial of Geert Wilders.

Thanks to the Counter Jihad Collective, and especially the work of V.H. as translator and the good Baron over at Gates of Vienna, we have managed to translate and subtitle a lot of the testimony given by the judge (I still don’t exactly understand that as procedure) reading from Wafa Sultan and others, on behalf of Geert Wilders.

This testimony, written by Hans Jansen, is the most blunt and insightful of all. Yes it is nearly an hour, but well worth it. Jansen does not mince words and responds to all the questions asked of him with tremendous clarity eliminating irrelevant assumptions from the questions and then discussing the pertinent aspects of Islam relative to the charges against Geert Wilders directly. This really is an excellent watch. Hans is an Arabist with world class credentials on Arabic and Islamic history and culture.

President Obama: Suspicious packages contained explosives

North Jersey.Com

Friday, October 29, 2010
Last updated: Friday October 29, 2010, 4:25 PM
BY DENISA R. SUPERVILLE AND STEPHANIE AKIN
The Record
STAFF WRITERS
A United Arab Emirates flight carrying cargo from Yemen has landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport alongside two military fighter jets that escorted the plane from the Canadian border to New York City.

U.S. officials said there is no known threat associated with the plane, but it was being escorted to John F. Kennedy International Airport as a cautionary move.

Earlier in the day, federal authorities determined that suspicious packages taken from a cargo plane at Newark Liberty International Airport and a truck in Brooklyn and two planes in Philadelphia do not pose any danger.

Police in Brooklyn surrounded a UPS truck on Friday after suspecting that there was an explosive device, but the package turned out to be an envelope containing receipts, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said in a press briefing.

The Boeing Co. 767 jet, which landed at Newark Liberty Airport, originated from East Midlands, U.K. It was later cleared to leave for Louisville, Kentucky.

“There was nothing threatening in that package,” said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. “It’s not suspicious anymore.”

Coleman said the package was inspected inside the UPS cargo facility, 350, and cleared about 12:10 p.m. He referred additional questions to the FBI. The FBI referred questions to the Transportation Security Administration.

“This is bigger than us,” Coleman said.

The White House says President Barack Obama was notified about a potential terrorist threat after suspicious packages were discovered aboard two airplanes bound for the U.S. and a statement is expected at 4:15 p.m.

The Newark incident did not impact flight operations at Newark Liberty Airport.

At the UPS terminal, there are no more emergency vehicles remaining. Earlier, there were eight Port Authority vehicles and a helicopter hovering in the general area.

The plane screenings were prompted after authorities in the U.K. on Thursday discovered a “manipulated” ink toner cartridge that was on a UPS flight bound for Chicago. The flight originated in Yemen, and authorities on Friday were focusing on cargo flights from Yemen, CNN reported.

There are conflicting reports whether the cartridge contained explosives. CNN is reporting that the United States received a tip from an ally that the device might have been destined for synagogue in Chicago. Continue Reading →

Yemen plot to blow up multiple US aircraft: Ongoing

This is a current event. Fox has good ongoing coverage of this here.

In a nutshell, it appears that several similar or identical packages have been found on multiple aircraft. The number being kicked around is a dozen. They are modified printer toner cartridges containing a white powder with wires attached to them.

From FOX:

DEVELOPING: International law enforcement agencies are investigating several suspicious UPS packages that originated in Yemen and were destined for the United States.

Authorities were examining packages found on UPS planes at Philadelphia International Airport, Newark Airport, a UPS truck in Queens, NY and another plane that was destined for Chicago but stopped in the East Midlands airport in the U.K.

A crew member aboard an inbound UPS plane from Paris, France notified authorities on approach about a suspicious package. The crew member described a possible radiological component to the package, the incident report said. The two occupants safely exited the aircraft after landing in a remote area of the airport.

A second UPS plane was isolated near the UPS terminal at the Philadelphia airport before take off.

Both planes remain under investigation.

Bare Naked Islam seems to be on top of this one as well.