“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
SDAMATT2 as usual, managed to bring us this Coren show. Michael Coren is one of the few sane voices on Television in Canada. Not sure as a result, how long he will last. He also writes for the National Post and the Sun Chain.
Michael Coren has also had Kurt Westergaard on his show, thanks in part to Vlad Tepes, as well as the International Free Press Society.
Although all the men wanted were in fact, members of the U of M Muslim Students Assn’s.
Here is the link. Click “read this article” and search for MSA or Muslim Students Association.
Wouldn’t it be nice though, if just once, these Muslim groups would say something like: “Oh we are working very hard with the police to help them catch these men and anyone who thinks like them. We deeply regret that they were using the religion of Islam in this way and we shall work doubly hard to earn respect in Canada and elsewhere to show that Islam can be a welcome and vital part of any community”
Or just anything other than the usual apologetics we are so sick of.
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Here is a clip to which I added my thoughts fore and aft. Mostly aft. And yes, I broke the cardinal rule of not comparing things to Hitler because, well i did compare this mentality to Hitlers. I think it was fair in the context I meant it however. Many Utopians left unchecked and given enough slack tend to slaughter people in the millions to create utopias. Environmentalists are just a flavour of leftist and like communists before them, are sufficiently confident that they are right that they are ready to go farther and farther into the freedoms and rights of others to achieve their particular, and often misanthropic, utopias.
For a really good article on this clip as it was without my additions, please click here to Info-Wars.
MacKay pulls plug on imam’s speech at defence HQ
OTTAWA — A speech at National Defence headquarters by the outspoken executive director of the Canadian Islamic Congress has been cancelled due to his organization’s “extremist views.”
A spokesman for Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Imam Zijad Delic was scheduled to make an address as part of Islamic Heritage Month on Oct. 4 but that MacKay decided to cancel the event.
“The Canadian Islamic Congress has declared that Israelis over the age of 18 are legitimate targets of suicide bombers,” spokesman Jay Paxton said in an email to Global National.
“These types of comments don’t support Islamic Heritage, they simply divide Canadians, promulgate hate and they have no place in Monday’s celebrations.”
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Here’s the original Post: What the hell is going on at DND?
Last night I posted about a thinly-veiled threat issued by a Turk against Germans who support nationalist leaders. Tonight a much more explicit threat comes from the Pakistani Taliban against the Netherlands.
Our Flemish correspondent VH has translated an article with the latest from De Telegraaf:
Taliban leader threatens Netherlands with attacks
The Pakistani Taliban leader Wali ur Rehman threaten attacks aimed against the Netherlands in response to “laws” the Netherlands may make “against Islam” and “ridiculing Islam.” He said as much in an interview on the Dutch RTL News. The National Coordinator for Counterterrorism (NCTb) knows about the statements, but sees no reason in it to review the current threat situation, which is “limited”.
“We do take these signals seriously,” said his spokeswoman in response. “But these expressions were known to us and we have already factored those into our threat assessment.”
“The path the Dutch government has taken for the last few years is very dangerous,” Wali ur Rehman said. “They always try to make new laws against Muslims. They ridicule Islam and try to confine it. We believe this is the first phase of the plans of the Dutch government. Therefore we will try — and this has a priority for us — to teach them a lesson. They will pay a price for making laws against Islam.”
International terrorist groups still view the Netherlands as an Islam-hostile country, and therefore a ‘legitimate’ target, as was reported in the latest threat assessment from the NCTb on September 13. According to the analysis in recent months there has been no concrete evidence of attacks against the Netherlands. Therefore, the threat level for the Netherlands will remain at ‘limited’. In the U.S. moreover, there also is a reward on Rehman’s head of $ 5,000,000. Continue Reading →
Thanks to VH for translating this video clip:
I mentioned a couple of days ago that a new coalition government has been agreed upon in the Netherlands. As expected, the cabinet will consist of a VVD/CDA minority coalition, backed by Geert Wilders’ party, the PVV.
Details of the new government’s program have now emerged, and when I read what they’re planning, it made my mouth water. The most conservative Republican government imaginable would never attempt half of this stuff in the USA. Just think — if only Geert had been born in Kenya, we could elect him president!
Our Flemish correspondent VH has translated several articles from the Dutch media about the new government, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s reaction to it, and Geert Wilders’ upcoming trial for hate speech.
First, from De Telegraaf:
“Everyone will notice some of it”
“We’re cutting the budget by €18 billion in the coming years. Everyone will notice some of that,” VVD leader Mark Rutte said Thursday at the presentation of the coalition agreement of the VVD and CDA with support of the PVV. The cabinet Rutte wants will give the country back to the “hard-working Dutchman”.
The government will work hard to increase safety. “We want to put the burglars in chains, not you,” said Rutte — as expected, the incoming Prime Minister. There will be a national police force [instead of the local and regional police]. Street-terror [usually performed by the enriched “new Dutch”] will be tackled hard. There will be minimum sentences handed out to recidivists for crimes for which there is a maximum sentence of twelve years or more.
The TBS system [“offenders with severe personality disorders who are detained in special forensic psychiatric institutions”] will be cut back. Trial-leaves will be addressed. Criminals with dual nationality will loose their Dutch citizenship. The ticket quota [in which a police officer has to write out 120-160 fines a year or else has to face losing a promotion or a cut in salary] will be abolished. Coffee shops [where soft drugs are permitted to be sold and consumed] must become closed clubs where clients are only allowed in with a ‘club card’.
There will be a strict immigration policy. The influx of non-western immigrants has to decrease substantially, according to Wilders by 50%. Illegal residence in the Netherlands will become punishable.
There will also be a burqa ban:
Burkas and other face-covering clothing will be banned. Police officers and judges will not be allowed to wear headscarves. Unemployed persons who due to their behavior or dress code will be less likely to find a job will feel it in their pocketbooks. Their welfare benefits will be reduced, or they will not have any right at all to them. [source]
And those who “take it easy” with their citizenship course, may lose their residence permit:
Turks will also have to continue to integrate. The judge recently ruled that such would not be required for Turks, based on a European treaty, but the new government wants to alter the treaty-agreement. The government wants to spend less on subsidies for integration. Only “Vluchtelingenwerk” [“Refugee aid”] will be spared. People who come from elsewhere have no more special preference in applications. The abolition of “affirmative action” will also affect women [source]
I have been tardy posting the details but Blazing Cat Fur has picked up the slack.
I will post more as we get closer to the events but amazing people and events are coming to Ottawa, Toronto and other Canadian locales thank to two organizations. The Canadian Free Press Society, a branch of the International Free Press Society, and Free Thinking Films Society which has brought in amazing speakers like Bruce Bawer, Bat Ye’or, Sam Solomon and other fantastic people who otherwise would never have been heard in Canada.
The upcoming events will be detailed soon, but for the moment please click over to BCF and have a look at the poster and details for Lars Vilks, the cartoonist who drew the Mohamed-as-a-round-house-dog toon which earned him several thousand death threats, 2 actual murder attempts and an arson attack on his home.
Good thing Mel Blanc is already dead. He would be the Islamic worlds ‘most wanted of all time’ given Islam’s penchant for hunting cartoonists who Mock Islamic culture.
In any case, it is really important that groups like IFPS and FTF are supported. These are staffed by people who take risk and effort to try and expose Canadians to the facts of Islam in the west and leftism’s collusion with what is, ironically, the most conservative group in the world today.
For everyone who hates and mocks conservatives for their projected desire to keep women barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen, they should talk to a Muslim for a while about exactly what women’s roles should be, and are in most of the Islamic world.
In any case, please do click over to Blazing and check the details. This event and the ones coming really matter. It is time for the shoe leather to meet the sidewalk. Show your support. Come to an event. Bring a freind who isn’t certain about any of this stuff yet. Buy a book from the authors. Look at it this way. Someday, these books will either get you killed from the new sharia overlords, or they will be prized possessions like a book signed by Churchill himself.
I hope to meet lots of you there if you go.
Eeyore for Vlad.
**** UPDATE **** From the Toronto Sun (H/T Snaphanen.DK)
OTTAWA — Half the North American dates for a Swedish free speech activist have been cancelled following poor ticket sales and heavy security concerns.
Lars Vilks, who invited controversy in 2007 when he published a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed with a human torso and a dog’s rear end, was scheduled to speak in Philadelphia, Ottawa, Toronto and Boston.
“The amount of money would have to spend to ensure security in Ottawa, and the number of registrations, did not justify the expense,” said Mary Lou Ambrogio, a vice-president with the International Free Press Society.
The Philadelphia event was also cancelled after the Department of Homeland Security declared him a security risk.
“It appears that Mr. Vilks is considered a very high security threat by U.S. law enforcement, and it was decided that they would cancel because they could not secure the event to everyone’s liking,” Ambrogio said.
“It is becoming increasingly difficult to host these events.”
Ambrogio was part of the tour that brought American commentator Ann Coulter to Canada last spring. The Ottawa stop on that tour was also cancelled, after a rowdy crowd showed up at the event and police told organizers that security could not be guaranteed if the event proceeded as planned.
Ottawa Police said that, while they were aware of Vilk’s planned event, they were not involved in its cancellation.
Vilks’ cartoon was originally published in a Swedish newspaper to illustrate the censorship many media outlets impose on themselves when it comes to religious issues. The cartoon is separate, though, from the 2006 controversy involving a Danish newspaper.
Following the cartoon’s publication, Vilks became the target of an international plot involving a Philadelphia woman named Coleen LaRose, also known as Jihad Jane, who was arrested last March and now faces conspiracy charges.
The event scheduled for Sunday at Toronto’s Zionist Centre will still go ahead.
Here is a rather stunning scam being run by immigrants to France. If you are an honest tax paying hard working fellow and up till now, have managed not to be too pissed off about it, well you may not want to watch this. Even petty criminals will feel like chumps when they see this short news report from France.
See if you can catch the subtle, nuanced message this German of Turkish origins has for the people of Germany.
Last night I posted an instructional video made by a Scandinavian Muslim on how not to integrate to the west and how women must resist the call to freedom and equal rights. There was also of course, the mandatory dig at Jews in it, but that was the least shocking part of it.
In any case, a self declared Muslim commented on the video to which I answered and led to the following thread. Frankly, I’m not sure if it’s funny or not exactly. But I think it is post worthy. So here it is.
Here is the link to the comment thread if anyone wants to follow it and below, I will paste the official Al Azaar approved translations of the Koranic verses I mentioned above.
5:34 I had forgotten to mention…
Except for those who repent before you overpower them. Know then that allah is all forgiving, merciful.
9:123
O you who believe, fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them see how harsh you can be. Know that allah is with the righteous.
As parents, we have a moral obligation to our children and our Western heritage to combat the corrosive indoctrination on Islam that currently passes for “Islamic education” in public school curricula. That effort must begin by providing our children ready home access to objective, unapologetic Western scholarship on Islam, such as the Shorter Encyclopedia of Islam.
The Texas Board of Education issued a press release, Friday 9/24/10, which included a self-described “most debated item on the board’s Friday agenda”—a non-binding resolution that barely passed by a 7-6 vote, with two members absent. The resolution concludes with the statement that the board,
…will look to reject future prejudicial social studies submissions that continue to offend Texas law with respect to treatment of the world’s major religious groups by significant inequalities of coverage spacewise and/or by demonizing or lionizing one or more of them over others.
Additional media reports of the resolution adopted Friday maintained it cited “…politically-correct whitewashes of Islamic culture and stigmas on Christian civilization…” in current textbooks, while warning that, “…more such discriminatory treatment of religion may occur as Middle Easterners buy into the US public school textbook oligopoly.”
But defenders of the textbooks in question, such as the Rev. Bobbi Kaye Jones, superintendent of the Austin District of the United Methodist Church, representing the Texas Freedom Network, an interfaith group of religious leaders, insisted,
Realistic information takes a back seat to religious intolerance [in Texas], and education suffers a blow.
And Imam Islam Mossaad of the North Austin Muslim Community Center, affirming the “objectivity” of the textbooks in question, stated,
Our children’s textbooks must treat all religions accurately and fairly.
Gilbert Sewall, although critical of the reasoning in the Texas School Board resolution, was favorably inclined toward its intent. Sewall is founder of the American Textbook Council, a nonprofit that reviews history and social studies textbooks utilized in U.S. schools. His organization issued a comprehensive, evidenced-based 2008 report entitled, “Islam in the Classroom—What the Textbooks Tell Us”.
This 2008 report observed, prominently, that the deficiencies in Islam-related lessons were uniquely disturbing, with history textbooks presenting, “ an incomplete and confected view of Islam that misrepresents its foundations and challenges to international security.” Among textbooks copyrighted before 2001, “deficiencies” regarding Islam, “ persist and in some cases have grown worse.” Sewall also maintained that publishers and editors in lieu of making corrections or adjusting contested facts,
…defend misinformation and content evasions against the record. Biases persist. Silences are profound and intentional. Particular fault rests with the publishing corporations, boards of directors, and executives who decide what editorial policies their companies will pursue. Publishers have learned of contested facts and have had the time to correct imbalances. But instead of making changes, they have sustained errors or, in deliberate acts of self-censorship, have removed controversial material.”
And Sewall concluded the 2008 report with this appropriate, but as yet unaddressed warning:
Islamic activists use multiculturalism and ready-made American political movements, especially those on campus, to advance and justify the makeover of Islam-related textbook content.
Responding to the current Texas Board of Education resolution controversy, Sewall opined,
My complaint is the misinformation and selected information that attend chapters on Islam. The resolution is correct that textbooks routinely doctor the meaning of jihad (or fail to cover it) and that Muslim intolerance/military aggression, (is) soft-pedaled or excised.
And Sewall reiterated his 2008 concerns about the corrosive impact of cultural relativism, which he argued undermines the ability to defend ourselves against jihadism. The publishing industry, he stated, …
…[R]esists ugly facts about Islam…From what they read in history textbooks, students and teachers are not likely to grasp why the United States and its allies consider militant Islam an enemy.
The raging textbook controversy in Texas, because of the Lone Star State’s purchasing power, will ultimately affect textbooks distributed across the country. But regardless of which side prevails, and the content of such textbooks, revised or not, I suggest a modest proposal to help resolve this dilemma for concerned parents. As a small investment in our children’s (and their parents’) objective education about Islam, purchase your household a copy of the Shorter Encyclopedia of Islam (used from $30.00; new at $140.00 to $143.20).
Originally published in 1953, and edited by the eminent scholars of Islam, H.A. R. Gibb and J.H. Kramers, this single volume includes all the articles contained in the first edition and supplement of the nine-volume classic Brill Encyclopedia of Islam, pertaining, in particular, to the religion and law of Islam. The Shorter Encyclopedia of Islam remains an unequalled—and unbowdlerized—reference work.
Consider the Shorter Encyclopedia of Islam entry on jihad (spelled “djihad”)—arguably the most important single subject today’s students must grasp about Islam. The concise discussion of jihad was written by Duncan B. MacDonald (1863-1933), a very sympathetic scholar of Islam, renowned for his seminal analyses on the development of Muslim theology and jurisprudence. Here are MacDonald’s key observations about the nature and conduct of jihad, which he defines with doctrinal and historical accuracy, as “holy war”:
[H]oly war. The spread of Islam by arms is a religious duty upon Muslims in general…This position was reached gradually but quickly. In the Meccan Suras [chapters] of the Koran patience under attack is taught; no other attitude was possible. But at Medina the right to repel attack appears, and gradually it became a prescribed duty to fight against and subdue the hostile Meccans. Whether Muhammad himself recognized that his position implied steady and unprovoked war against the unbelieving world until it was subdued to Islam may be in doubt. Traditions [especially the hadith, the canonical collections of Muhammad’s words and deeds recorded by his most pious Muslim companions] are explicit on the point; but the Koranic passages speak always of the unbelievers who are to be subdued as dangerous or faithless. Still, the story of his writing to the powers around him shows that such a universal position was implicit in his mind, and it certainly developed after his death, when the Muslim armies advanced out of Arabia. It is now a fard ala l-kifaya, a duty in general on all male, free, adult Muslims, sane in mind and body and having means enough to reach the Muslim army, yet not a duty necessarily incumbent on every individual but sufficiently performed when done by a certain number. So it must continue to be done until the whole world is under the rule of Islam…
The people against whom the jihad is directed must first be invited to embrace Islam. On refusal they have another choice. They may submit to Muslim rule, become dhimmis and pay jizya and kharadj [specific taxes imposed on the vanquished non-Muslims—the former, in lieu of being slain] or fight. In the first case, their lives, families and property are assured to them, but they have a definitely inferior status, with no technical citizenship, and a standing only as protected wards. If they fight, they and their families may be enslaved and all their property seized as booty, four-fifths of which goes to the conquering army. If they embrace Islam…they become part of the Muslim community with all its rights and duties. Apostates must be put to death. But if a Muslim country is invaded by unbelievers, the Imam [Muslim sovereign] may issue a general summons calling all Muslims there to arms, and as the danger grows so may the width of the summons until the whole Muslim world is involved. A Muslim who dies fighting in the Path of Allah (fi sabil Allah) is a martyr (shahid) and is assured of Paradise and of peculiar privileges there [a genteel reference to the willing virgins awaiting jihad martyrs]. Such a death was in the early generations, regarded as the peculiar crown of a pious life. It is still, on occasions, a strong incitement….
MacDonald concludes his Shorter Encyclopedia of Islam entry on jihad—published in the mid-1930s—with this warning, relevant then, and now:
Even yet, however, any war between Muslims and non-Muslims must be a jihad with its incitements and rewards…[T]he Muslim masses still follow the unanimous voice of the canon lawyers [Muslim clerics]. Islam must be completely made over before the doctrine of jihad can be eliminated.
Two obituaries (published in the New York Times, and Yale News) from 2003 for Yale Professor Franz Rosenthal—the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Arabic—highlighted his escape from Nazi totalitarianism. Rosenthal’s work included lucid, timeless analyses of Islamic “martyrdom” vs. suicide, and the antithetical Islamic and Western conceptions of “freedom.” Franz Rosenthal also wrote an obituary for the Austrian-born US scholar Gustave E. Von Grunebaum (1909-1972) which included these observations about von Gruenbaum’s seminal contributions, and uncompromising standards:
Now and again, a document comes along that actually matters. Here is one of them.
Center for Security Policy | Sep 13, 2010
This study is the result of months of analysis, discussion and drafting by a group of top security policy experts concerned with the preeminent totalitarian threat of our time: the legal-political-military doctrine known within Islam as “shariah.” It is designed to provide a comprehensive and articulate “second opinion” on the official characterizations and assessments of this threat as put forth by the United States government. This study challenges the assumptions underpinning the official line in the conflict with today’s totalitarian threat, which is currently euphemistically described as “violent extremism,” and the policies of co-existence, accommodation and submission that are rooted in those assumptions.
UPDATE: The Team B II Report, Shariah: The Threat to America, wil be released in early October as a 370-page paperback volume, and will be available to purchase at Amazon.com for $14.00. This official version will include an expanded section on the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) as well as the complete text of the 1991 Muslim Brotherhood document, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,”entered into evidence in the US v Holy Land Foundation trial.
Please add your name to the Center’s mailing list, the National Security Brief, on the right of this page for updates.
NOTE ON REPRODUCTION: Shariah: The Threat to America may be reproduced, distributed and transmitted electronically for personal or non-commercial purposes (including permitted reproductions of multiple copies), with appropriate attribution. For a letter authorizing reproduction, click here.
On September 15, 2010 the Center for Security Policy presented its Team B II Report, Shariah: The Threat to America, to Congressmen Trent Franks and Pete Hoekstra on Capitol Hill. Present at the event were Team B II members Frank Gaffney, Andy McCarthy, Lt. Gen. Soyster (Ret.), David Yerushalmi, Amb. Hank Cooper, Michael Del Rosso, Christine Brim, Stephen Coughlin, John Guandolo, Adm. “Ace” Lyons, Tom Trento, Patrick Poole, Clare Lopez, and Diana West.
The video of the press conference is below.
Andy McCarthy’s introductory comments.
David Yerushalmi answered a question comparing Shariah to traditional Jewish law, called Halacha. He later expanded on it in a piece for Andrew Breitbart’s Big Peace.
UPDATE:
Tom Trento does press release on this document above, and where the U Government is falling down on the issue: