As David Cameron calls for Turkey to join the EU, PETER HITCHENS on the disturbing picture of growing repression at the heart of ‘Eurabia’

DAILYMAIL…Down a glum, dark back alley in Istanbul, I found a sinister sight. In a workshop two stern and bearded men were bent over sheets and patches of very black cloth, their sewing-machines whirring urgently.

I was plainly unwelcome and they objected to the very idea of being photographed. I quickly saw why. They were making dark robes and masks for women to wear. They looked to me as if they longed for the day when every woman in sight was clad in their workmanship.

They knew the women would wear them, because one day, not far off, they would have to. These robes would be, literally, a ‘must-have’ for the women of Turkey.

Those who think of Turkey as a relaxed holiday destination, or as a Westernised Nato member more or less ‘on our side’ need to revise their view.

And that very much includes our Prime Minister, David Cameron, who last week joined in the fashionable chorus urging Turkish membership of the European Union. Mr Cameron plainly hasn’t been properly briefed.

Leave aside the fact that such a step would allow millions of Turks to live and work in Britain, and give us  –  as EU members  –  a common border with Syria and Iraq. Mr Cameron really ought to realise that the new Islamist Turkey he so ignorantly praises is much more interested in making friends with Iran than it is in joining the EU. And it is becoming less free and less democratic by the day.

I would say there is a strong chance that we will soon lose Turkey to the Islamic world, much as we lost Iran to the ayatollahs 30 years ago. And there is not much we can do about it  –  least of all the daft scheme to include this nation in the EU. 

Panic-mongering? Well, perhaps. But I would rather monger a bit of panic now than ignore what I saw. Continue Reading →

Russia police arrest Kremlin critic Nemtsov, others

Reuters:

Boris Nemtsov, a leader of the anti-Kremlin, liberal Union of Right Forces (SPS) party, speaks during a news conference in Moscow November 26, 2007. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

Boris Nemtsov, a leader of the anti-Kremlin, liberal Union of Right Forces (SPS) party, speaks during a news conference in Moscow November 26, 2007.

Credit: Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin

By Ben Judah and Denis Pinchuk

MOSCOW/ST.PETERSBURG | Sat Jul 31, 2010 5:34pm BST

MOSCOW/ST.PETERSBURG (Reuters) – Police arrested anti-Kremlin opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in Moscow and at least 95 others at demonstrations in cities across Russia on Saturday against restrictions on freedom of assembly.

In St. Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city, 60 out of about 200 protesters were arrested. A Reuters reporter said some had bleeding noses and some had their heads beaten against police buses.

In Moscow, along with Nemtsov — a fierce critic of Russia’s ruling elite — the police arrested Left Front opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov and at least 35 others.

Mikhail Schneider, executive secretary of the Solidarity movement, told Reuters the protests were intended to promote democracy.

“We’re here because the government has broken the constitution,” he said. “Pay greater attention because people are lying to you about democracy in Russia.”

Earlier in Vladivostok, no arrests were made in a protest of about 30 people.

(Writing by Lidia Kelly; Editing by Louise Ireland)

Israeli air strikes on Gaza kill Hamas commander

GUARDIAN…Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip have killed a Hamas commander and wounded 11 other people.

Warplanes fired missiles at five targets across Gaza, including Gaza City, last night for the first time since Israel’s three-week offensive in the territory ended 18 months ago.

Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the territory, said the man killed was Issa Batran, 42, a commander of its military wing in central Gaza and a rocket maker. Eight of its supporters and three civilians were also injured.

The air raids came after a Palestinian rocket attack struck the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon on Friday, causing no casualties but damaging buildings and cars in the city.

The city’s mayor said the attack was the most serious since the end of Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli offensive that left around 1,400 Palestinians dead, in January last year. Renegade militant groups have fired dozens of rockets and mortars into southern Israel since then, although most of those attack have been ineffective, with rockets mostly landing in open fields.

The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, earlier said he took the rocket attack on Ashkelon, which lies seven miles north of Gaza, “very seriously”. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

The cross-border violence has raised concerns of further escalation.

A Hamas spokesman said the group would avenge Batran’s killing.

“Hamas will not be quiet over the blood of its martyrs,” said Hamad al-Rakabi. “Israel is opening all the gates of fire. This blood will cascade into rage and fire.”

The targets hit in last night’s air strike included a military training camp in Gaza City, smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border and Batran’s shack, on the outskirts of the Nusseirat refugee camp, according to Hamas security officials.

Missing Afghan soldiers legally in Canada

NATIONALPOST…At least eight members of the Afghan military wanted by U.S. authorities after fleeing a Texas air force base have attained permanent resident status in Canada or are awaiting decisions on refugee claims.

Of 17 Afghan National Army personnel who have gone AWOL in the last eight years while receiving English training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Tex., 13 have been located.

Two of them are now living as permanent residents in Canada and six are awaiting rulings on refugee claims, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Air Force’s Air Education & Training Command in Universal City, Tex. The remaining four are being deported from the United States, while one has been granted a conditional resident permit.

“It would be bizarre in the extreme that they would qualify as refugees,” said retired Canadian Major-General Lewis MacKenzie, adding it is “disturbing” the individuals may have been able to settle in Canada despite being on a U.S. criminal watchlist.

“With the most liberal immigration methodology in the world, I would certainly hope they don’t qualify.” Continue Reading →

Dawkins, Gay groups, Buddhists and others drop relativism for a moment

The early part of this century saw a great deal of relativism from intellectuals not the least of which, was Richard Dawkins. A man who’s books on evolution in my opinion are compulsory reading. His book, ‘The Selfish Gene’ is one of the best explanations for the mechanisms of evolution, if not the best one for lay people, ever written.

Even if you are religious and do not subscribe to science or evolution this is the book to read, so that at least you are arguing against genuine evolutionary theory and not, which is the common thing, arguing against a straw man of ones own creation claiming it to be evolution.

However, Dawkins in his documentary film, ‘The Root of all Evil’ goes to great lengths to attempt to make Islam, Judaism and Christianity etc. to all appear equally dangerous, stupid and counter civilization. So you can imagine how delighted I was to find this:

From Sean Robsville Blog:

Richard Dawkins views Christianity as a bulwark against Islam

Christianity is in decline in Europe as a whole, and has collapsed in Britain in particular, leaving even the most committed atheists wondering what is going to fill the spiritual vacuum.

From The Times:
“Even among the world’s most famous atheists, the crisis of faith among Christians in Europe has been met with concern.

Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, said: “There are no Christians, as far as I know, blowing up buildings. I am not aware of any Christian suicide bombers. I am not aware of any major Christian denomination that believes the penalty for apostasy is death. I have mixed feelings about the decline of Christianity, in so far as Christianity might be a bulwark against something worse.”

Peter Tatchell, the human rights campaigner and one of the organisers of the Protest the Pope demonstration at Westminster Cathedral last weekend, came to the defence of a Christian street preacher who was fined £1,000 in Glasgow for saying that homosexuality was a sin.

Shawn Holes, a Baptist from America, was charged with “uttering homophobic remarks” in a breach of the peace that prosecutors said was “aggravated by religious prejudice”.

Mr Tatchell said: “The price of freedom of speech is that we sometimes have to put up with opinions that are objectionable and offensive. Just as people should have the right to criticise religion, people of faith should have the right to criticise homosexuality.”

It is a sign of how bad things have become that the faith’s enemies seem now to be defending it.”
More at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7085129.ece

This article also has several other examples of various groups such as gay and so on, who recognize that not all religions are equally a threat to them.

Gunshots and car burnings in Dudley (over dropping of charges of EDL?)

As this article does not name the people arrested, nor describe any of the circumstances that would normally be included in a news piece like this, I feel safe in guessing that:

1. It was Muslims rioting…

2. It was because the EDL people who were arrested on the rooftops protesting the opening of a megamosque in Dudley that no one wanted and government is forcing on people.

From Dudley news:

VIOLENT disorder broke out in Dudley last night as cars were attacked with baseball bats and reports of gunshots being fired.

The incident happened on the forecourt of the car wash in Stafford Street at around 7pm.

Police were called after witnesses saw a group of men smash cars parked outside premises, just off Wolverhampton Street.

Officers arrested a 37 year-old man at the scene, on suspicion of violent disorder and possession of an offensive weapon. He continues to help police with inquiries this morning.

A second witness later reported that gunshots had been heard in the vicinity around the time of the disorder.

At this stage, it is not thought that anyone was injured during the incident.

Detective sergeant Glenn Marriott from the Sandwell and Dudley team of Force Criminal Investigation Department said: “We are treating this incident very seriously, as it appears that those involved in the disorder were obviously in some kind of dispute and had access to weapons.

“We are continuing to conduct specialist searches at the scene today, and will be interviewing the man arrested at the scene.

“Stafford Street and Wolverhampton Street are busy thoroughfares and I would urge anyone who was passing the area at all from around 7pm last night to come forward and pass on any information you may have to the investigating officers.”

Roads in the area are open as normal this morning, however the affected business premises remains closed.

Sergeant Chris Fox from Dudley police station said: “Incidents such as this cause concern for local people and we will be carrying out patrols in the area to reassure residents and traders over coming days.

“Thankfully, this kind of disorder is unusual and we will be speaking to people in the area as part of inquiries to try and identify those involved.”

Anyone with information to help the police investigation is urged to contact Team 9 of Force CID at Harborne police station on 0345 113 5000 or call the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Excellent example of Islamic word games and making marionettes out of leftists

Posting has been light today because I was working on this one post. The clip at the bottom took a great deal of time. I felt it was worth it when I watched the Muslims leading the demonstration in the clip at the top, turn it from a peace rally, to a distinctly different one.

Watch the chants on this protest for peace. Notice how it starts out demanding an end to war and for peace and so on, then changes rather quickly to, “no peace without justice”, a common Islamic rhetorical device. As most in the west do not realize that Muslims redefine common terms to suit their purpose, while knowing full well we non-Muslims are understanding something fundamentally different when we hear that term, (think ‘marriage’ just for one example) I thought it might be useful to explain what Muslims mean by the term, ‘justice’.

Below, some clips from two very important documentaries, Farewell Israel, and Atomic Jihad. I have grabbed a few clips that attempt to explain the Islamic concept of ‘justice’ which have about as much to do with a Western concept of justice as womens rights do in Afghanistan vs. USA

Muslim, not quite hatched yet, jailed for throwing eggs at Muslim peer

As you can see from his photo, the man jailed for 6 weeks for throwing eggs at a Muslim peer in Cameron’s cabinet, has not quite got the shell off himself yet.

Not what I typically think of when I hear the term, ‘egg head’. I can imagine him with salmonella though.

From The Daily Mail:

Egg-throwing extremist who shouted ‘Cameron’s bitch’ at Muslim Tory minister is jailed

By David Wilkes

A Muslim convert who pelted a Tory peer with eggs was jailed for six weeks yesterday.

Gavin Reid, 23, targeted Baroness Warsi as Islamic extremists shouted abuse at her, including ‘Cameron’s bitch’, in a ‘planned and deliberate’ confrontation.

At least three eggs were hurled at the high-profile champion of Muslim women’s rights, one of which broke on her face, soiling her hair and jacket.

Unbowed: Baroness Warsi was pelted with eggs on a trip to LutonUnbowed: Baroness Warsi was pelted with eggs on a trip to Luton

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Melanie Phillips on Cameron’s pathetic dhimmitude

Here is the first part of Ms. Phillips article. I would like to add for the record, that Vlad Tepes, specifically in articles posted by and written by A. Millar, also predicted that a conservative government in England would be far worse from our point of view than labour because we have proof that the British conservative party is heavily infiltrated by Islamic groups. In any case, here is the speech Cameron gave in Turkey which we posted here some days ago, and below, the first part of Melanie’s article. Please click here for the rest of the article. It is worth the read.

Eeyore for Vlad


When David Cameron became Britain’s Prime Minister, I warned that he would turn out to be even worse than Labour on the related issues of Israel and the global threat from Islamism to Britain and the west. This was because Cameron had no knowledge of or interest in foreign affairs, and so was always likely merely to reflect the most politically expedient views he encountered – which, given the current poisonous attitude within the British establishment and intelligentsia, were likely to push him into appeasing Britain’s mortal enemies in the Islamic world and dumping on Israel, Britain’s strategic ally in that great struggle.

But even I did not foresee just how cynical Cameron would turn out to be — and how dangerous therefore to the British national interest. Today’s truly shocking and quite astoundingly stupid speech in Turkey has now laid bare the fathomless shallowness and frightening ignorance and idiocy of Britain’s new Prime Minister.

Declaring himself a fervent supporter of Turkey’s bid to join the EU, Cameron declared that those who opposed this bid fell into one of three categories: protectionists; those who believed wrongly in a ‘clash of civilisations’ between east and west, whereas in fact

Turkey can be a great unifier, because instead of choosing between East and West, Turkey has chosen both;

or

those who wilfully misunderstand Islam

because they

… see no difference between real Islam and the distorted version peddled by the extremists.

Astonishingly, Cameron thus totally ignored the fact that Turkey’s Prime Minister, Recep Erdogan, is no secular Ataturk but an Islamic extremist; and as a result Turkey is changing from a secular state and strategic ally of the west into an Islamist tyranny and a new strategic enemy of the west. Here is what Turkish political economy professor Dani Rodrik wrote recently in the Wall Street Journal (£):

I no longer recognize Turkey, the country where I was raised and spend most of my time when I am not teaching in the U.S. It wasn’t so long ago that the country seemed to be taking significant strides in the direction of human rights and democracy… But more recently, the same government has been responsible for a politics of deception, dirty tricks, fear, and intimidation… It’s clear now that Turkey is no longer the liberalizing, emerging democracy under the AKP that it was only a few years ago. It’s time the U.S. and Europe stopped treating it as such—both for their own sakes, and for the sake of the Turkish people.

Newt Gingrich speaks on Islam and the danger America faces today.

Yes I know lots of you do not have time to watch all the videos I post on this site and to be fair, it would take up a large part of one’s day to do so. But please, watch this one. Newt is fantastic and calls it like it is. He makes me want to make a T shirt saying: “2+2=4? RACIST! My little objection to the dialectic scam. In any case please do watch this superb video of Newt G. Really, it is worth your time.

Below, I did a 9 minute sort of highlights of his speech as a teaser:

Taliban backs Dutch socialist party in next election

The Taliban has come out supporting the Dutch PDVSA party in the next Netherlands election. Go figure.


The Taliban thanks the PvdA [Labour Party, Socialists] for the upcoming departure of Dutch troops form Uruzgan. The radical Islamic terrorist organization says it hopes the PvdA will again make part of the Dutch government so that there will be a lasting friendly policy “toward Afghanistan”.

This was said by Qari Yusuf Ahmadii, the spokesman for the Taliban in southern and western Afghanistan in an exclusive interview with Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant.

Thanks to Gates of Vienna for this, and to VH for the translation from Dutch

Gates of Vienna has more here:

When Muslims are a majority in non-Muslim lands. German high schools…

Bus company rejects Islamophobia ‘veil ban’ story

From The London Daily News:

bus 7.jpgA bus driver accused of refusing two veiled women passage has been cleared by his bosses.

The pair of Muslim students said the “bigoted” driver refused to let them board because they were wearing head scarf’s – however, Metroline have rejected the women’s complaints after studying CCTV footage.

The bus operator says the incident has nothing to do with Islamophobia and a lot to do with a lack of manners. One of the women said she was “shocked” by the decision and is seeking legal advice.

Footage, which does not have sound, is said to show the women banging on the door as the bus comes to a stop at Russell Square, its final destination. The two women then entered through the back door and remonstrated with the driver, before disembarking and waiting outside. When the bus driver opened the front doors, the students had another exchange with the driver; it is at this point they were ordered off.

A Metroline spokesperson said that one of the women was being “argumentative”.