Here is a link to the original (sort of) Road to Serfdom in classic comics format
Year: 2010
On Trial, Geert Wilders Opposes Judges
By Jurjen van de Pol (Updates with lawyer comment in second paragraph.)
Geert Wilders, a Dutch political party leader who has agreed to support the first minority government in the country since World War II, challenged the judges at his trial today, saying they may be prejudiced.
Wilders’s lawyer Bram Moszkowicz criticized Jan Moors, who presides over the three-judge panel, for comments on his client’s decision to remain silent. Wilders, founder and head of the Freedom Party, went on trial today for inciting hatred and insulting Muslims.
“You’ve given the impression” that “we are no longer facing an unprejudiced judge, so I will challenge you,” Moszkowicz told the Amsterdam court. The trial was halted and other judges will now have to decide whether a new panel should be chosen.
Wilders, 47, is being prosecuted for calling the Koran “fascist” and comparing it to Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf in a 2007 Dutch newspaper editorial, which led to complaints. A year later, he released his movie “Fitna,” in which he calls on Muslims to rip out “hate-preaching” verses from the book.
Moors said the court “reads newspapers and watches television nowadays” and that Wilders has been blamed by others for being “good in taking a stand and then avoiding a discussion.” By remaining silent “it seems you’re doing that today as well.”
Minority Government
The trial coincides with the formation of a new minority government led by the Liberal Party and Christian Democratic Alliance, which relies on Wilder’s Freedom Party to pass legislation. The government plans to ban full-face Islamic veils, an issue for Wilders’ party, which more than doubled its representation in parliament in June elections.
“With me, the freedom of speech of many, many Dutchmen is on trial,” Wilders told the court. “I’ve said everything I have said and won’t take a word of that back.” Continue Reading →
Bin Laden Said to Have Financed European Terror Plot
From Der Spiegel:
AP
Did al-Qaida terror chief bin Laden approve and finance plans for new attacks in Europe?
The No. 3 ranking member of the al-Qaida terror network allegedly prepared to carry out fresh attacks in Europe — at least those are the claims made by German Islamist Ahmad Sidiqi during his interrogations, according to information obtained by SPIEGEL.
He met with Sheik Younis al-Mauretani early this summer under conspiratorial circumstances in the city of Mir Ali in Pakistan, the German claimed. He said he discussed possible attacks in several European countries, including France and Britain. He allegedly claimed that Osama bin Laden had given his personal approval for the plans and that he had also provided some of the money that was needed for the attacks.
American soldiers arrested Sidiqi in early July in Kabul, and he is currently being interrogated at the Bagram US military base. Sidiqi allegedly told his interrogators that he had fought in Afghanistan and had also met Said Bahaji, one of the men who provided support for the terrorists involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, airplane attacks in New York and Washington. Continue Reading →
ABC ‘Town Hall’ segment’ on ‘should Americans fear Islam’
At least major US TV networks are debating the subject.
Vlad Tepes comments on Al Jazeera and leftist media hit pieces on Geert Wilders
Segment of Geert Wilders speech in Berlin from Oct. 2 2010
I am working on getting the whole speech titled in English. I hope it will be done tomorrow, if not by me, then someone should have it by then. Clearly Geert brought down the house and Europe is waking up.
More terror alerts issued by the US for Europe and India
Interview with Bosma of Geert Wilders’ PVV party in Holland.
“Things are actually happening Reg” -Life of Brian
This man is one of the strategic and intellectual pillars of the PVV party in Holland. Thanks to Gates of Vienna for finding this clip and VH for translating it so fast.
Canada starts it’s own Tea Party movement
Here is Ottawa’s own Fred Litwin of Free Thinking Films, the man who brought in Bruce Bawer, Sam Solomon and Bat Ye’or now speaking at Ottawa’s first Tea party.
Blazing Cat Fur: Shocka! Imam Zijad Delic’s Islamic History Month Advisory Board Includes Mohamed Elmasry, 911 Truther, Louis Farrakhan Fanboy, Muslim Brotherhood Member
Big Hat Tip to Evil Good Web Elf Binks for finding this.
If indeed Imam Delic of the Canadian Islamic Congress is the moderate he claims he may wish to moderate his acquaintances.
The Islamic History Month Board of Advisors of which he and and The CIC’s 911 Truther President Wahida Valiante are both members includes such luminaries as:
Mohamed Elmasry – Who needs no introduction.
Jamal Badawi CAIR-CAN board member, Muslim Brotherhood Member and “unindicted co-conspirator” in the “Holy Land Terrorist Funding Trial”
Dr. Munir El-Kassem who has publicly praised Louis Farrakhan and wrote this apologia for the Taliban’s destruction of the Hindu Statues in Afghanistan
Dr. Anthony Hall 911 Truther, gee he and Wahida Valiante will have something in common…
Oh and the anti-semitic Islamist Front Organization Canadian Arab Federation is a sponsor as well as the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) – which openly supports and adheres to the doctrines of Hassan Albanna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Below: A Message from the Chair of IHMC, Sr. Wahida Valiante
Big things are happening in Berlin
Dispatches From Berlin
As some of you may know, there was a giant counter-jihad gathering in Berlin this weekend. Here is the first report of it from Gates of Vienna:
Dispatches From Berlin
A number of representatives of the Counterjihad Collective (including several members of ICLA) attended today’s events in Berlin. The occasion was a speech by Geert Wilders to a group of about five hundred people, sponsored by René Stadtkewitz and his new political party, Die Freiheit.
As you can see from the photo above, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff was one of those present. She says she was able to discuss the hate-speech charge against her with Mr. Wilders, and the two of them compared notes on their respective cases.
Although the two cases differ considerably in scale, they are similar in other respects: each defendant being is prossecuted for purely political reasons, at the whim of the state and its prosecutorial apparatus. Each is being targeted for speaking out against the Islamization of their countries. Their prosecutions are an attempt to appease the Islamic lobby and satisfy the requirements of Orthodox Multiculturalism. Continue Reading →
Al Jazeera trashes Geert while Bin Laden threatens Europe
I find it ironic that England, the nation that has accommodated Islam more than any other Western nation, is one of the most attacked or attempted attacks, and threats of attacks, from Islamic terrorists.
British schools where girls must wear the Islamic veil
From The Telegraph:
Hundreds of girls are bring forced by British schools to wear the Islamic veil in a move which has been heavily criticised by mainstream Muslims.
By David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent
Published: 9:00PM BST 02 Oct 2010
Critics warned that the spectacle of burka-clad pupils entering and leaving the schools could damage relations between Muslim and non-Muslim communities Photo: GETTY
Islamic schools have introduced uniform policies which force girls to wear the burka or a full headscarf and veil known as the niqab.
Moderate followers of Islam said yesterday that enforcement of the veil was a “dangerous precedent” and that children attending such schools were being “brainwashed”.
The Sunday Telegraph has established that three UK institutions have introduced a compulsory veil policy when girls are walking to or from school. They are:
- Madani Girls’ School in east London;
- Jamea Al Kauthar in Lancaster;
- Jameah Girls’ Academy in Leicester.
All three are independent, fee-paying, single-sex schools for girls aged 11 to 18. Critics warned that the spectacle of burka-clad pupils entering and leaving the schools at the start and end of the day could damage relations between Muslim and non-Muslim communities. Continue Reading →
Follow up: Canadian Islamic Congress’ “People’s Man” speech cancelled at Department of National Defence
Three days ago, we posted the article, “What the Hell is going on at DND?” reporting on BlazingCatFur’s excellent exposure that the Canadian Islamic Congress’s Imam Zijad Delic would be delivering a scheduled speech at Ottawa’s Department of National Defence in celebration of Islamic History Month. Yesterday we followed up with another article, ” Balzingcatfur Gets Results! MacKay Cancels DND speech by Canadian Islamic Congress”. It appears that the CIC’s front and center Imam will not be permitted to deliver his speech after all, as the Defence Minister has cited the organization as an extremist one with sentiments that should neither be welcomed or shared as part of Islamic Heritage.
Good news travels fast as both the Ottawa Citizen and the National Post have today published the latest in the story. But others are not so thrilled and see little cause for celebration in what blazingcatfur aptly describes as ” a small victory in a long war”.
Typically when Islamist extremism is exposed, apologists on its behalf trip over themselves to “set the record straight”. One such example comes to us through the Montreal Muslim News’s Ottawa based Yahya’s blog on life, politics, religion, culture, etc. The author of ” Peter MacKay’s Cancellation of Imam Zijad Delic’s Speech is Deplorable and Counter-Productive” seems to waver between predictable Muslim outrage and palsied victimization that such a decision would be made. He writes:
” We now live in an age of collective punishment. One person holds an objectionable view or makes a controversial statement and anyone associated with that person in anyway is also found to be guilty. We call this guilt by association and most right thinking people consider it to be totally unfair….”
Of course he is referring to the public statement made in October of 2004 by then president of the Canadian Islamic Congress, Dr. Mohamed Elmasry in which he stated that all Israelis over the age of eighteen are legitimate targets for terrorism.
“Delic has totally distanced himself from Elmasry’s statements and has categorically declared that “Muslims totally forbid suicide bombing.” Delic further stated that Elmasry was speaking on his own and not on behalf of CIC”. “Of course CIC doesn’t agree. There are many leaders who speak and they don’t speak on behalf of everybody. They just speak,” Delic said. “Muslims totally forbid suicide bombing.”
For guilt by association to be argued responsibly and with any measure of success, one would have to deliver the facts; that the organization in question has firmly and unequivocally denounced this infamous remark as extreme and non-representative of their position and does not consider Elmasry a beneficial ally in their bridge building efforts. Six years after the Coren event, I have yet to find any facts that bear this out, delivering without exception or conditions the separation between the CIC, it’s ‘People Man’ Delic and Elmasry.
It’s impossible to say whether the relationship remains up close and personal or whether he is viewed as the family’s creepy, weird, distant uncle to be invited to dinner only when the occasion suits, to be defended because he is part of the clan. But whether close or not, there is a continued alliance.
Shortly after the Coren affair, there was no CIC site denouncement of Elmasry’s statement to be found, instead a vehement defense on his behalf. “THIS IS TOTALLY FALSE! the site screeched in good measured denial of the doctor’s very public comment. They lambasted the media for reporting on it, and in response announced their initiation of a law suit against certain media organizations for defamation. Another article published on the site entitled ‘Defend Mohamed Elmasry” of November 10, 2004, opens with the charge that Dr. Elmasry has been “the target of an intense and unrelenting media campaign calling for his resignation as head of the CIC.. ” They further added:
“What exactly did Elmasry say and, even if he did say it, does it deserve this kind of response?”
followed by a link to a full transcript of the show available from…….. the Montreal Muslim News. Of course it deserved ‘that kind’ of response just as now, both the CIC and Imam Delic deserve the scrutiny they face. As a point man for an organization that has clearly been established as a supporter of Islamist standards in Canada, it should come as no surprise to anyone least of all Imam Delic that he should be held responsible for his organization’s views. If you’re going to sign up to be the guy that gives speeches then you have to be prepared to answer for what your group believes. Considering that Mohamed Elmasry continues to appear on the list of ‘who’s who at the CIC and his articles continue to be published on their site, this could quite possibly set a new record for the shortest distance measured.
Below is the video of Mohamed Elmasry on the Michael Coren show. Apparently we don’t need to be aided by the transcript from the Montreal Muslim News to hear what he said. As for my own view, this indeed is a small victory in a long war, one that is fought as bravely on the home front as it is overseas. Thank you to blazingcatfur for their northern exposure.