Category Archives: Totalitarianism

Christians tried for breaking Ramadan fast

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I wish I had fifty bucks for every time a Muslim told me they don’t force their religion on anyone. I could be living in a nice beachfront condo by now. This article found through the important site, The Religion Of Peace

From ABC.NET

Two Algerian Christians have been tried for breaking Ramadan fasting rules, with hundreds of people protesting outside the courtroom against judicial authorities.

Hocine Hocini, 44, and Salem Fellak, 34, were arrested on August 13 on the building site where they worked in the northern region of Kabylie after they were spotted eating lunch.

The pair admit to eating but insist it happened in a discreet place.

Muslims are not allowed to eat during daylight hours during the Ramadan holy month.

In Algeria breaking the fast can be punished with three months in jail.

“I am optimistic,” Hocini, a Protestant with a one-month-old daughter, said as he left the courtroom in Ain el Hammam after the hearing.

“I have no regrets, I’m Christian and assume my responsibilities. We are innocent, and we haven’t done any harm to anyone. Continue Reading →

CBN does an exceptional primer on Iquan, or the Islamic Brotherhood.

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Frankly, this is something that most readers of Vlad will already have some idea about, if not know as much as is here in this excellent informative and well produced video by the Christian Broadcast Network. Erick stakelbeck does his usual thorough job of investigation and explanation and it begs the question. Why is a small Christian media outfit doing the job the large media giants simply will not do, FOX not withstanding.

My guess is, a combination of editorial cowardice, and editorial disbelief that these issues are as presented here, as well as fear of a far left government in the US shutting down any media that might present Islam in a bad light much as it appears to be doing to the CIA and FBI.

In any case, please enjoy this expose on the Islamic Brotherhood in the US and in general, and spread the link to all who need to know this.

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.

Paris tells Brussels: ‘You do not speak to us like this’

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The Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Lellouche: ‘A plane ticket to one’s country of origin in the European Union is not a death train, and is not the gas chamber’ (Photo: OliverN5)

VALENTINA POP From EUObserver

Today @ 09:25 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – France’s junior minister for EU affairs has said to the European Commission: “This is not how you speak to a major power like France,” following stinging comments on Roma expulsions by EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding.

Focusing in on the commissioner’s remark on Tuesday that “this is a situation I had thought Europe would not have to witness again after the Second World War,” the French politician said on Wednesday (15 September) that Ms Reding’s “unseemly” remarks in effect compare France to the Nazi regime.

“A plane ticket to one’s country of origin in the European Union is not a death train, and is not the gas chamber,” he said, according to Radio France. “This kind of slip … is not acceptable.”

“This is not how you speak to a major power like France, which is the mother of human rights.”

A spokesman for the French foreign ministry had earlier said Paris was “astonished” by Ms Reding’s statement. “We don’t think that this kind of declaration will help improve the predicament of the Roma, who are at the heart of our concerns,” spokesman Bernard Valero said.

The head of Mr Sarkozy’s UMP party in the National Assembly, Jean-Francois Cope, speaking on Canal Plus also dismissed Ms Reding’s comments as “baseless accusations” and suggested the EU commission had “ulterior motives.” Continue Reading →

The Emancipation of the Dhimmi & European Imposed Reforms

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Not to mention the genocide of the Armenians

Morocco gives 6 months in jail for eating during Ramadan

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In a post from a couple of days ago, there is a screen shot of a McDonald’s with a sign that says they will not serve Muslims during Ramadan. Below, is the video from which that screen shot was taken. Keep in mind, that while this is systemic in as much as the state itself imposes these charges, in Spain, France and other nations where Muslims reach a certain critical mass, sharia law to one degree or another is imposed on the Islamic community by appointed sharia police and somewhat unabashedly. In fact, many Canadian Imams have been quoted as saying they will obey Canadian law so long as it does not conflict with Islamic ones, which of course, they do in pretty much any and every meaningful way.

Horrifying video of daily life in North Korea

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Thanks to our reader erisian23 we now know that “flower Swallow” means a child in North Korea who flits from opportunity to eat, one to the next like a bird.

Kotjebi or kotchebi (???) is a Korean term denoting North Korean homeless children. The term literally means “fluttering swallows”, given because of the kotjebi’s constant search for food and shelter.[1] The kotjebi are not officially recognized in North Korea, with any mention of the term being prohibited in state publications and documents

(from youtube comment)

Dispatches: Unholy war… in one video

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Dispatches investigates the violence and intimidation facing Muslims who convert to Christianity in Britain today


Watch Dispatches: Unholy War Part 1 in Faith & Spirituality |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

From Liberties Alliance:
The man from the MCB, who chimes in around 08:30 in the video, seems to be indulging in the the Islamic practice of taqqiya when he talks about ‘no compulsion in religion’ – he was quoting sura 2:256, but look at sura 3:85, and sura 8:39 – see Winds of Jihad for coverage of this issue. Furthermore, how does he explain the ‘Ridda Wars’ that were conducted, against people who did not want to continue to be Muslims, by Mohammed’s immediate successor Abu Bakr? Did Abu Bakr, the first of the ‘al-Khulaf?’u r-R?shid?n’ (Rightly Guided Caliphs) somehow misunderstand the religion that he was propagating? Pull the other one, it has bells on it! Perhaps these ‘rightly guided’ caliphs were not so rightly guided after all if they managed to get such basic things wrong, if so then the whole Islamic religion is built on very wobbly foundations indeed. It appears that the spokesmen for the Muslim Council of Britain take us for fools and idiots.

The Koran and the Psychopathology of the Prophet (Part II)

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by Baron Bodissey

Two years ago in this space Sergei Bourachaga began his study of the psychopathy of Mohammed, as revealed by the Koran and the Sunna. Circumstances delayed the production of Part 2, but, as you will see, it has been well worth the wait.

Part 1 may be read here.

A dancing boy
The Koran and the Psychopathology of the Prophet (Part II)
by Sergei Bourachaga

Considerable effort was made in Part I of this essay to refute the argument that the Koran is the infallible word of God who declared Islam as “The Perfect Deen (Arabic word for religion)” during the farewell pilgrimage of prophet Mohammad in 632.

The KoranReaders who are interested in the findings of Western scholars who, after a meticulous analysis of the history and the content of the Koran, reached the conclusion that it was nothing but a series of plagiarized and distorted stories, borrowed from Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, etc.. .to fit the political agenda of a psychopath named Mohammad or Chairman Mo, should read the following academic publications:

Theodor Nöldeke: The Origins of the Koran: Classic Essays on Islam’s Holy Book. The German scholar highlights very interesting points about the confrontations involving Mohammad and his followers accusing him, on more than one occasion, of changing verses and conveying conflicting instructions. Chairman Mo was quick to point out to his detractors the notion of “Abrogation”. Basically Mo argued that “Divine Wisdom” can issue new instructions and cancel old ones, and since Islam is a faith advocating total surrender/submission to the will of God, the most recent instructions should be unquestionably obeyed, and no Muslim should pursue an explanation as to why Allah, the source of “The Perfect Deen”, failed to provide perfect laws and verses in the first place, and had to go back to the drawing board to design, adopt, and convey new laws to Chairman Mo.

Nöldeke addresses also in his writings the issues of arbitrary leaps in the Suras from one subject to another, with total incoherence and lack of chronological progress in the stories promoted by Chairman Mo, all of it complicated by a blatant misuse of non-Arabic names and expressions borrowed from other religions. The German scholar died in 1930 without any exposure to the book of Neuropsychologist Dr. Abbas Sadeghian entitled Sword and Seizure. He would have adopted a more benevolent approach in his analysis, had he known that epileptics, like Chairman Mo, do suffer from memory problems after a seizure. Even a minor seizure that does not lead to unconsciousness can seriously disrupt someone’s train of thought, that is why frequent recollection glitches created a heavy dose of incoherence in Islam’s Holy Book-the Koran.
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Another good reason to own a Blackberry

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Saudi Arabia joins the UAE in locking out the Blackberry smart phone today. This raises a number of questions for me and answers others. Certainly I am now quite pleased to own a blackberry as it means that its sufficiently secure that totalitarian governments will not allow their citizens to own one, but it makes one wonder…

what sort of deal did Apple make to allow their iphones to be acceptable to governments like Saudi Arabia?

Quebec shuts down French private school over partly English curriculum

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When the state closes a school for teaching a foreign language, wouldn’t that define fascism?

Ottawa Citizen:

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A decision to immediately revoke the operating permit of a private Quebec elementary school — one that consistently turns out high-performing, fluently bilingual youngsters — over its English-language policy triggered Friday a promise of fiery, unyielding refusal.

The Laval-based l’Academie Lavalloise’s core policy of providing 30 per cent English curriculum — from kindergarten through Grade 6 — was cited as one factor for the shutdown by Quebec’s education ministry.

Under Quebec regulations, that’s forbidden in a French-language primary setting.

Ministry officials sought to shutdown the arts, maths and language-rich school just three weeks before classes are set to resume Aug. 23, triggering a “panic” among parents, said Albert DiFruscia, president of the parents’ committee.

The timing, he said, makes it “just impossible” to place the students in other private schools.

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

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From The Daily Mail

By Peter Hitchens In Istanbul
Last updated at 12:26 AM on 1st August 2010

Among the bayonet-like minarets of ancient Istanbul, an East wind is blowing. It will chill us all… says The Mail On Sunday columnist in the week David Cameron calls for Turkey to join the EU

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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.

Peter Hitchens walks among the robed women in FaithCovered way: Peter Hitchens walks among the robed women in Faith

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. Continue Reading →

Russia police arrest Kremlin critic Nemtsov, others

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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)