Year: 2010

Ottawa tightens security, forces Muslims to remove veils

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Calgary Herald… OTTAWA — The federal government has quietly tightened screening regulations at airports so passengers boarding flights must show their faces at boarding gates, amid concerns that Muslim women were being allowed to board flights without removing their veils.

But the new rules could also create headaches for people whose appearance have changed significantly, or who have aged noticeably, since they had their photo taken for identification documents. Such passengers could now be turned away at the boarding gate.

Meanwhile, passengers wearing bandages on their heads will be allowed to pass through unchecked, as long as they have a note signed by a “health-care professional.”

Under an “interim order” by Transport Minister Chuck Strahl, airlines must now check the “entire face” of passengers passing through boarding gates. The order explicitly states that airline officials must look at passengers — first, to determine if they are 18 years or older, and if they are 18 or older, to verify their identity against their passport or other photo ID.

Previously, federal regulations required that airlines screen anyone over 18 by asking that person for the appropriate identification. But there was no explicit mention of the need for passengers to show their “entire face.” Continue Reading →

Drunk Muslim woman kills Ottawa teen, returns to court for more charges

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Question:

Imagine your family had 6 children and one was a delinquent with criminal tendencies. Does that mean you should invite all the criminals from everyone else’s family to come live with you? Because that seems to be the logic and arguments of everyone who insists that because some Canadians are awful people that we should therefore not discriminate against the criminals from everywhere else in the world when they want to come commit crimes in Canada.

From Canadian Immigration Report:

Woman charged in one of three hit-and-runs in court Saturday

Three killed in separate accidents; 40-year-old suspect lost licence before for impaired driving

By Meghan Hurley, The Ottawa Citizen September 11, 2010 10:25 AM

A 16-year-old youth was killed Thursday night when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver while riding north on Bank Street near Mitch Owens Road.
Photograph by: Mike Carroccetto, The Ottawa Citizen

OTTAWA — After three separate hit-and-run accidents left three different people dead within 90 minutes of Ottawa overnight Thursday, two people have been arrested and charged with impaired driving — with one appearing in court Saturday — while police hunt for the third.

In Ottawa, a 40-year-old woman made an brief court appearance Saturday morning. She was in court after a teen riding a bicycle was struck and killed by a vehicle Thursday.

Samira Mohamed Daoud will next appear by video on Sept. 17.

Daoud was dressed in a blue top, had her hair in a bun, and appeared tired. Previous to Saturday’s court appearance, Daoud had already lost her licence for impaired driving.

The charges against Samira Mohamed Daoud include criminal negligence causing death, failing to stop at the scene of an accident, drunk driving and possession of a stolen vehicle. Continue Reading →

More arrests for ‘hate crimes’ in the UK

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Things are clearly heating up. Authorities are so afraid of the inevitable backlash that Orwellian policies of thought control are creating, they are arresting people for burning certain books, even if those books are the legal property of the person burning them. The point is made in this article that no one is being arrested for burning the sacred texts of other religions but only burning Islamic texts. For me that isnt the point. If people were being arrested for burning Darwin’s Origin of Species, I would be out burning copies of it in the street even though I agree with every word of it and think it is one of the most important books ever written.

The point is, we must never, in a free society, allow any group amongst us or elsewhere, determine what we must respect or hold sacred. We give the right to all people to choose for themselves what they may hold sacred and that itself is a rare and truly precious right. But it must not be confused with allowing people to force others to hold those same things sacred through thuggery or law or any other means.

This must be understood and now or we are lost.

Eeyore for Vlad.

We Are Offended! From the EDL web site

Saturday, 18 September 2010 08:27

Today we have learned that police have arrested two men under the Racial and Religious Hatred Act. Their crime? To burn a copy of the Quran.

The Quran is the ‘Bible’ of the Islamic faith. It contains the Muslims’ holy scriptures and is regarded as the literal word of God. Muslims treat the Quran with respect that borders on reverence. They are taught only to hold the Quran with a certain hand, and will often use a book-stand to read it from so as not to touch it. Although Christians will happily write in their Bibles, make notes and underline important teachings, Muslims would be horrified if anyone was to do that to a Quran.

On the surface it is easy to regard the burning of a Quran as a religious, or even, racial hate crime. But is it? Does burning a Quran demonstrate a true hatred of the whole Muslim population?

Some would suggest it does. But would the same be true if we were speaking of the holy scriptures of a different religion? Other religious books are burned around the world on a regular basis. Bibles, for instance, are burned or at least confiscated every day in the Islamic world. What’s more, their owners are routinely discriminated against, arrested, and even tortured and imprisoned.

It is not difficult to see how the burining of a Quran could cause offence. But surely that could be true of any book, to a greater or lesser extent? Why is it so important that we acknowledge the status of Muslims as victims? Why are we so happy to condemn those who would burn a copy of the Quran, but appear less interested when a Bible or a Torah is burnt to ashes?

These questions are all the more difficult to answer when you consider that the Islamic world is probably the worst offender when it comes to religious intolerance. Continue Reading →

Australian Dhummitude

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Sadly even the Oz don’t get it. Tolerance means you let the Muslims dress how they want if they want to join your activities or use your facilities. It does not, was never meant to, and must not ever mean that other people dumb down their choices to suit Islamic sensitivities. That is begging for tyranny.

Cover up for pool event during next year’s Ramadan

  • Padraic Murphy
  • From: Herald Sun
  • September 23, 2010 12:00AM
Adeeba Nabelsi models Muslim swimwear

Adeeba Nabels models Muslim swimwear. Picture: Alex Coppel Source: Herald Sun

UPDATE 12.35pm: A PLAN to force families to cover up to avoid offending Muslims at a public event has triggered furious debate.

An overwhelming 94 per cent of heraldsun.com.au readers disagree with the legal ruling approving the contentious ban during next year’s Ramadan.

So far the Premier John Brumby has refused to weigh into the debate about the event, saying he will wait to see the VCAT ruling before making any comment.

VCAT has approved a ban on uncovered shoulders and thighs for a community event to be held at the Dandenong Oasis, a municipal pool.

“Participants aged 10 and over must ensure their bodies are covered from waist to knee and the entire torso extending to the upper arms,” a request by Dandenong City Council and the YMCA states in an exemption application to the Equal Opportunities Act.

Pool cover-up

Do you agree with the VCAT ruling on the Dandenong Oasis community event?

“Participants must not wear transparent clothing.”

This issue has also sparked a huge community debate, with well over 500 people commenting on heraldsun.com.au this morning. Continue Reading →

Islam’s hypocricy is stunning.

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After you read this ISESCO report, please stop and think for a moment about what Islam and Muslims do to and about every other religion on earth. Hell by their own rules the Koran should be destroyed for what it says about Judaism, Christianity etc. not to mention the fact that every other religion is actually illegal in Saudi Arabia.

Rabat: 09/09/2010

In a communiqué released today, the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) called on the United Nations to issue an international law criminalizing all forms of offence against religions under any circumstances.

ISESCO insisted, “The Florida Dove World Outreach Centre Church’s plan to burn copies of the Holy Koran on September 11 was condemned by church authorities, Christian and Jewish clergy, the European Commission, the US government and the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, and sparked international protest by Muslims from all over the world. This requires immediate action to outlaw all acts of defamation of religions and religious sanctities.”

The communiqué goes on, “It is a blot on humanity that such discriminatory attack against Islam and Islamic holy sites is continuing in the absence of deterrent legal measures, local and international.”

ISESCO denounced roundly the Dove World Outreach Centre Church’s criminal plan, and called on the Muslim community to abide by the noble values of Islam in responding to such provocative, hostile stance. The best response thereto, ISESCO explained, would be to help spread the core Islamic principles, and redress the distorted image and misconceptions about Islam.

Italy proposes ban on veils similar to France.

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Italy: Xenophobic party tables anti-burqa bill

Rome, 17 Sept. (AKI) – Italy’s anti-immigrant North League party on Friday introduced a bill to the lower house of parliament that would ban the burqa. Wearing the burqa will be punishable by a year in prison, fines of 150 to 300 euros for the wearer and 30,000 euros for anyone forcing a woman to don the face-concealing Islamic garment.

Anyone coercing a minor or a disabled woman into wearing a burqa will be eligible for a 60,000 euro fine.

If a woman is wearing the burqa of her own volition, the 150-300 euro fine can be reduced, if she agrees to do community service aimed at better integrating Muslim immigrants.

“This bill represents a step forward because we are not just facing a problem of public order, but – we believe – an offence to women’s dignity,” said Northern League member of parliament Carolina Lussana, presenting the bill to journalists.

“It is also a violation of the principle of equality between men and women enshrined in our Constitution,” she said.

The bill is likely to draw criticism from many Muslim immigrants, but 73 percent of Italians believe the burqa should not be allowed to be worn in public places, according to a recent poll by Panel Data.

The right-leaning Northern League’s bill came just days after France’s upper house of parliament, the Senate, voted by 246 to one to ban the burqa.

Under the new French law, women will be fined or jailed for covering their faces in public.

U.K. spy chief warns of new terror threats

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From The Star:

Jonathan Evans, director-general of M15, warned Friday that the U.K. faces potent new threats from terrorism, including from Northern Ireland. (Nov. 5, 2007)

Jonathan Evans, director-general of M15, warned Friday that the U.K. faces potent new threats from terrorism, including from Northern Ireland. (Nov. 5, 2007)

David Stringer Associated Press

LONDON—The head of Britain’s domestic spy agency warned Friday that the U.K. faces potent new threats from terrorism incubated in Northern Ireland, the Middle East and North Africa.

Jonathan Evans, director-general of MI5, the country’s domestic intelligence service, said in a rare public speech that attacks on the U.K. are increasingly likely to emanate from Somalia, Yemen or Belfast, as Al Qaeda-linked groups flee strongholds in Pakistan.

The spy chief said the 2012 London Olympic Games will likely be a major target for terrorist attacks, and warned that dissidents who reject Northern Ireland’s peace process could strike mainland British cities for the first time since 2001.

Evans said Irish republican splinter groups have access to weapons, including Semtex explosives, and funds from smuggling and drug trafficking.

“We cannot exclude the possibility that they might seek to extend their attacks to Great Britain, as violent republican groups have traditionally done,” Evans said, making a speech late Thursday to security industry professionals in central London. Details of the speech were made public Friday.

While security officials have improved defences against the threat from Islamic extremism, Evans said Al Qaeda plots against Britain are “uncovered on a fairly regular basis,” with officers dealing with a handful of different cases at any one time. Continue Reading →

… But think of all the great restaurants! The cost of multicultural enrichment

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From Gates of Vienna:

Calculating the Cost of Cultural Enrichment in the Netherlands

by Baron Bodissey

“The second generation of non-Western immigrants makes greater use of collective provisions and contributes less in taxes and social security premiums than the average citizen.”

Last year Geert Wilders asked the Dutch government to prepare a cost-benefit analysis of immigration into the Netherlands, so that voters could make an informed decision about whether mass immigration from the Third World should be halted. The government refused his request, so his party commissioned a report from NYFER, a private research firm, to assess the overall net cost of immigration.

As Mr. Wilders mentioned in his speech last week, the results are in, and the report has been published. The full NYFER report (in Dutch, pdf) is available online, and the conclusions (in Dutch, pdf) have also been posted.

Our Flemish correspondent VH has kindly translated NYFER’s conclusions for Gates of Vienna. It’s easy to see why the Dutch government was reluctant to look into the matter: for the last ten years, the net cost of immigration to the Netherlands has been €7.2 billion annually.

Below is the PVV’s introduction to the report, followed by the entire text of the conclusions as reported by NYFER and published by the Party for Freedom:

10 years’ immigration in the Netherlands costs 72 billion euros

The Dutch government [the Balkenende Cabinet] refused last year to investigate the cost of mass immigration at the request of the PVV fraction. The research institute NYFER has now conducted this study, as commissioned by the PVV. The results are shocking. The Party for Freedom is pleased that the taxpayers will finally get what they are entitled to: insight into what happens with their money.

On a net migration of 25,000 non-Western immigrants per year, with an equal number of offspring, our society loses €7.2 billion [$8.8 billion] a year. Ten years of unchanged immigration policy therefore means running up a tab that eventually costs the society 72 billion euros [$8.8 billion]. Compared to natives, non-Western immigrants pay less on net taxes and premiums, are more dependent on government benefits (including social security benefits) and are more often involved in crime with all its associated costs.

PVV faction leader Geert Wilders: “The fact that mass immigration is also disastrous from a financial standpoint confirms the need for the actions the Party for Freedom recommends, such as a halt to immigration from Muslim countries, a reduction of the remaining migration and asylum flows, and the exclusion of new immigrants from social security benefits for a period of ten years.”

Most important conclusions of the NYFER report:

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Swedish SD party attacked by state media in Finland.

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Ken over at Tundra Tabloids was kind enough to translate this for subtitling from Finnish for us all. The SD party appears to be about to make it into the Swedish Government for the first time in this coming election. Below is the video from Finnish TV and below that, some American News clips about the parties sudden, but hardly inexplicable, surge in popularity…

Here is a link to the New York Times on the SD party in Sweden, but I have not read it, as I can’t seem to log in for some reason. I am reliably told it is interesting.

ISLAM: MOSQUE NEAR NORTH POLE SOON

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A mosque appropriately named, The End of the World, is headed towards the North Pole. I think it should be named, ‘The End of any Chance for development or prosperity’ but the end of the world will do as that is what they, the Muslims, seem to want and very probably it is what they will get.

From ANSAMED:

(ANSAmed) – ROME, SEPTEMBER 15 -After a 4-thousand-kilometre-long land and river ways journey , the mosque called the ”End of the World” will arrive on a ship at its destination, the Canadian town of Inuvik in the extreme far north of Canada, 200 kilometres from the North Pole.

The population of Inuvik is 4000 people including about one hundred Muslims. Muslims in the small town – reports Al Arabyya – had been used to praying in a small transportable building, said the architect Ahmed Alkhalef, who added that when the mosque arrives on September 24 the Muslims living in Inuvik will be able to pray together, whereas in the last prayer only about twenty people took part since the house-mosque did not have the space for everyone. The first prayer of the new mosque, built according to a Canadian architectural style and commissioned by a wealthy Saudi national (the total cost was about 100,000 dollars) is scheduled for November 1. (ANSAmed)

Pope visit: Five men held over papal terror alert

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*****     UPDATE Men are of Arabic Origin     *****

17 September 2010 Last updated at 08:37 BBC

Police outriders escorting the Pope mobile

Five men have been arrested in London by the Metropolitan Police in relation to a potential threat to Pope Benedict XVI’s visit.

The arrests were made at 0545 BST at addresses in London after counter-terrorism officers received intelligence of a potential threat.

The five men have been taken to a central London police station.

Officers are continuing searches at premises connected to the raids. The men are not British nationals. Continue Reading →

Christopher Hitchens on free speech

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When I was reading the story about ESW and how she is being treated in a way that most of us would consider unthinkable for a modern democracy, I was reminded of a moment in one of my all time favourite speeches by Christopher Hitchens when he spoke in Toronto on the matter of freedom of speech.

I clipped out that bit with a link to the story in the post below about Elisabeth but the whole speech is really worth seeing. It is perhaps, Hitchens at his very best. Check out the 3 minute clip but please do stay and watch the whole thing below. It is well worth it. I have posted it before on Vlad but not since well over a year ago and if you have seen it, it is well worth seeing again.

Eeyore for Vlad.

“Justice Must Not Be Made the Handmaiden of Sharia”

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by Baron Bodissey

Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff at ACT! For America
We have reported previously on the pending “hate speech” case against our Austrian correspondent Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff. The most recent post featured a CBN news report about her (links to the earlier articles are at the bottom of this post).

For the last ten months Ms. Sabaditsch-Wolff has had the possibility of a formal charge hanging over her head, based on what she said last November in a seminar she gave about Islam. She has been waiting for the other shoe to drop, and now it seems that the red patent-leather stiletto heel of Austrian “justice” has finally thumped against the floor.

EUSSRThe travesty of the matter is that Ms. Sabaditsch-Wolff did not learn of the charge filed against her through a court document.

She received no official summons.

It was not communicated through her lawyer.

No, that’s not the way they do things in modern multicultural Austria. As is typical of the corrupt soft-totalitarian state known as the “European Union”, she learned of the official charge via the Austrian media.

Here’s what she told me in an email:

I just had a long talk with my legal representation. This is a huge judicial scandal. My lawyer has tried to get the documents detailing my case and the charges. In vain. the public prosecutor cited “computer problems”, the clerks said there is a note in my case that nothing is to be made public (wonder why the media knew about it then), and he was shoved from clerk to clerk, getting nothing. So far we know that I will be tried, but nothing else.

I have nothing whatsoever in my hands. I cannot defend myself at the moment because neither my lawyer nor I know the precise charges.

It makes me wonder about our judicial system. It is outrageous that the media in both Germany and Austria knew about this before the accused. Continue Reading →

Another Cartoonist in Hiding After Death Threats

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From The New York Times:

By BRIAN STELTER
Published: September 16, 2010

A cartoonist in Seattle who promoted an “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” last spring is now in hiding after her life was threatened by Islamic extremists.

The cartoonist, Molly Norris, has changed her name and has stopped producing work for a local alternative newspaper, Seattle Weekly, according to the newspaper’s editor, Mark D. Fefer.

Mr. Fefer declined an interview request Thursday, citing “the sensitivity of the situation.” But in a letter to readers about Ms. Norris on Wednesday, he said that “on the insistence of top security specialists at the F.B.I., she is, as they put it, ‘going ghost’: moving, changing her name, and essentially wiping away her identity.”

The F.B.I. declined to comment on the case.

Ms. Norris attracted attention after she published a poster on the Internet in April satirically proposing that people draw figures of the Prophet Muhammad on May 20.

She indicated that the proposal was a protest of censorship by Comedy Central, which edited out references to Muhammad from an episode of “South Park” that month. That episode also triggered threats from extremists. Islam forbids depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.

In 2005, a Dutch cartoonist named Kurt Westergaard published a depiction of Muhammad that led to multiple death threats and alleged assassination attempts. He was presented an award this month for freedom of speech by Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany. Continue Reading →