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Compare and contrast media coverage: Muslim killing in US, Christian one

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Taken word by infuriating word from the esteemed Gates of Vienna

Tuesday, June 02, 2009
The American Press: The Unbearable Lightness of Treason

by Baron Bodissey

Below is a guest-post from Takuan Seiyo about the pack mentality and poisonous leftism of the American mainstream media.

The American Press: The Unbearable Lightness of Treason
by Takuan Seiyo

This is the WaPo front page, June 2, 2009. Center right, you will find this story:

Killing Reignites Abortion Debate — Fatal shooting of prominent later-term abortion provider raises fears on both sides of the issue.

This is the NY Times front page, June 2, 2009. Center right, you will find this story:

Seeking Clues on Suspect in Shooting of Doctor

This is the LA Times front page, June 2, 2009. Bottom left, you will find this:

Suspect in Kansas abortion doctor’s slaying reportedly belonged to anti-government militia

This is The Chicago Tribune front page, June 2, 2009. Center right, you will find this story:

Tiller slaying suspect linked to militias

This is the Dallas Morning News front page, June 2, 2009. Bottom left, you will find this story:

Abortion doctor shot, killed at Kansas church

This is the front page of the Arizona Daily Star, on June 2, 2009. In the column “AP Breaking News” you’ll find:

Defendant in doc’s killing railed against abortion

In the column “Most Commented Stories for June 1, 2009” you will find:

Kansas abortion doctor is fatally shot in church — 267 Comments

What’s wrong with this coverage? Only this:

On Monday, June 1, one day after the abortionist’s shooting and a day before the editions quoted above, a black American Muslim convert, Carlos Bledsoe, aka Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, 24, pulled up in his car at 10:30 a.m. in front of an Army-Navy recruiting center in Little Rock, Arkansas. Muhammad opened fire at the military personnel there. He killed one soldier, William Long, 24, and wounded another, Quinton Ezeagwula, 18.

Per USA Today, Little Rock Police Lt. Terry Hastings said in a phone interview, “This individual appears to have been upset with the military, the Army in particular, and that’s why he did what he did.”

A short time later Muhammad’s car was stopped on the freeway and he was arrested. An assault rifle and other weapons were found in his car. Here is Muhammad, being taken away:


You will not find a mention of any of this on the front pages of America’s newspapers, if any mention at all. It’s not newsworthy, is it?

Who are these people? No, I don’t mean the respective killers. I mean the editors of America’s newspapers who trumpet the killing of a late-term abortionist who made a living at crushing and dismembering little humans, and deign not to notice an American jihadi, a convert to the Religion of Peace, who murders American soldiers in a shopping center in Arkansas in broad daylight.

Who are they? Do they get their marching orders from the same pasha in Washington so that they all make the same editorial choices? Or was the same chip implanted in their contemptible skulls sometime during college?

Continental Pilot Reports Missile Flying Near His Plane Over Texas

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 What I find interesting about this story is the date of event vs the date reported. The possibility of a missile attack on an American aircraft should garner a little more attention than this. Thankfully the Liberty County sheriff’s department is on the job as homeland security is closely watching the radical Tea Party, and returning vets.

FOX NEWS

 A Continental Express pilot reported seeing a “missile or rocket” flying near his aircraft over Texas Friday night, the Houston Chronicle reported.

The pilot told the Federal Aviation Administration an object was spotted within 150 feet below his airplane around 8:15 p.m. Friday night over Liberty County, Texas, the newspaper reported.

“The pilot, from what we understand, was former military,” Cpl. Hugh Bishop of the Liberty County Sheriff’s Department told the Chronicle. “He was able to get the coordinates down real quick,” said Cpl. Hugh Bishop with the Liberty County Sheriff’s Department.”

But, Bishop said deputies searched for where a missile might have been launched from and found nothing.

The plane was reportedly flying around 13,000 feet.

Liberty County Sheriff’s officials and the FAA were expected to meet today, according to the Chronicle.

The FAA referred all questions to the sheriff’s office, who did not immediately return a call placed by FOXNews.com.

‘Cause we’re evil.

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That would be the truthful answer if the Taliban were asked why they feel the best way to attack a government is through it’s civilian population. Since the 1000 or so hostages taken by Islamic militants are undoubtedly a Muslim majority, one can only assume they will be used as a mass human shield for the exodus of Mo’s minions. As to the number who will be made an example of is anyone’s morbid guess.  At the end of the day [or week] this story has the potential to be huge in scale of people and tragedy. Those points will make the news but how these events and others in the past relate to Islam will again be ignored.taliban-woman-running

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN)

400 students and kin abducted by militants, Pakistan police say

 Militants in a Taliban-held area of Pakistan are believed to have abducted more than 400 students and their relatives Monday after a ceremony marking the last day of school, a police official told CNN.

The abduction took place in North Waziristan, located in Pakistan’s tribal region, where the military has waged a bloody battle against Taliban insurgents.

The militants seized more than 30 vehicles carrying 443 students and their relatives who were leaving the ceremony marking the last day of school at Razmak Cadet College, according to Iqbal Marwat, a police official in nearby Bannu District.

He said 22 students in two vehicles managed to escape; the remaining 421 students and their relatives are still missing. The students are between the ages of 9 and 22, Marwat said.

The reported abductions follow a series of attacks on civilians in northwest Pakistan.

An explosion struck a bus station in the city of Kohat on Monday, killing two civilians and wounding 18, a police official said. Kohat is in North West Frontier Province, where a string of militant attacks in Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan killed 12 people last week.

Militants also struck the Pakistani city of Lahore last week, killing 27 people in a suicide attack on a building that housed police, intelligence, and emergency offices.

Pakistan’s Taliban claimed responsibility for the Lahore bombing, and threatened to continue attacking cities in Pakistan until the military ends its operations against Taliban militants.

As a result, Pakistani authorities increased security in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital city.

The Pakistani military has been conducting a month-long offensive against the Taliban, centered in the Swat region of North West Frontier Province

Pajamas TV for June 1 well worth 9 mins 50 seconds of your time

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As usual PJTV does a good job of giving us the news the ah, news doesn’t seem to bother with anymore. I can’t help but notice that self funded groups like Pajamas Media and blogs seem to be the ones bringing important information to supposedly free nations while mass media news outlets are censored or self censor any news which may generate a complaint from groups which perpetrate the horrors being reported on. It’s also interesting that many groups are looking after their own security abandoning the notion that the state is using the tax money collected from us all for what it was intended. One begins to wonder of the writ of state itself is losing meaning as leftism and Islam subverts resources of the state leaving all basic requirements of civilization to the individual to fulfill. While the state achieves less and less of what the basic requirements are, the cost of operations continue to go up. There is no formula that can make this sustainable. I would watch the UK and parts of Scandinavia to see where this is likely to go.

More blatant UN-HRC hypocracy than usual

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Different rules for Israel

National Post  Published: Saturday, May 30, 2009

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H/T Fred at GAR
If more proof were needed that the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is a feckless, biased, intellectually corrupt haven for dictators and Islamofascists, the evidence was clearly on display this week. The UNHRC voted to affirm Sri Lanka’s right, justifiably, to self-defence from terror attacks launched against its citizens and territory by the Tamil Tigers. Indeed, the council went further, “condemning all attacks that the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) launched on the civilian population and its practice of using civilians as human shields.” Sri Lanka had every right to protect itself, the council concluded, even at the cost of an estimated 20,000 civilian Tamil lives since the beginning of May alone.

Why, then, when Israel seeks to do the same — protect its citizens and territory from rocket and terror attacks launched from Gaza — does the very same council accuse Israel of being a “genocidal empire?” No quarter is given for the way Hamas –every bit as much a terror organization as the LTTE — hides its rocket bases and ammunition caches in schools, apartments and hospitals and launches its attacks on Israel from behind innocent human targets so that if the Israel Defense Forces wish to retaliate it is impossible for them to do so without taking civilian lives.

We are not disagreeing with the UNHRC’s assessment of Sri Lanka’s actions. Even more than Hamas and its jihadi brothers-in-arms, the Tigers were enthusiastic suicide bombers, targeting shops, public squares and Sri Lankan government offices. So proficient had they become, the Black Tigers — the LTTE’s suicide squads — could calculate how many Sri Lankans would die in their initial blasts and how many more would be cut down by flying glass and debris. After nearly three decades of fighting and at least 70,000 deaths on both sides, we sympathize with the Colombo government’s desire to bring their civil war to an end, once and for all.

Our question is merely: Why such a double standard when it comes to Israel?

Following Israel’s offensive against Gaza earlier this year, members of the council accused the Jewish state of genocide. The UNHRC struck a investigative panel that examined only Israel’s role in the fighting; it ignored the many thousands of provocative rocket attacks launched by Gazans against civilian targets in Southern Israel over the past eight years. It was silent on Hamas’s repeated use of its own people as shields against Israeli counterattacks. What the council praises Sri Lanka for doing, it roundly criticized Israel for.

Council members Cuba, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, China and others — all states with their own spotty records on human rights — voted for both the resolution condemning Israel and the one praising Sri Lanka. Cuba — that paragon of rights defence — even moved to stop EU amendments to the Sri Lankan resolution that would have at least called on Colombo to permit relief workers into the Tamil war zone and pressured both sides to end their violence.

Earlier this year, the UNHRC expressed its solidarity with the Palestinian people and denounced Israel as the “occupying power,” even though Israel had no troops in Gaza in the three years before the most recent incursion.

Accusing Israel of human rights violations, though, seems to be the foremost reason many countries seek seats on the council — that and using their positions to shield their own human rights records from scrutiny.

This week, many Arab member-states wanted the council to go further and accuse Israel of crimes against humanity for killing 600 to 900 Palestinian civilians. We suppose the fact that they were unsuccessful is some kind of ray of hope. Still, the even-more-blatant-than-usual bias of the council, as evidenced by their different approaches toward the very similar situations in Sri Lanka and Israel, shows that neither the council nor the greater UN can be trusted when it comes to the Middle East in particular and human rights in general.

UK to publish book on religion and women despite fear of Muslims

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It is sort of interesting I suppose that the publisher even considered not printing this book. A sign of the times indeed. It is perhaps also surprising that contrary to most headlines these days the publisher decided to go ahead and publish despite the fact that they know for an absolute certainty that some Muslims will use this book as an excuse to be violently offended. Is the worm turning? We shall know soon.

H/T Gates of Vienna

From The Times Online UK:

Female Palestinian Muslim worshippers pray at the Dome of the Rock Mosque

Christine Toomey

An academic book about religious attitudes to women is to be published this week despite concerns it could cause a backlash among Muslims because it criticises the prophet Muhammad for taking a nine-year-old girl as his third wife.

The book, entitled Does God Hate Women?, suggests that Muhammad’s marriage to a child called Aisha is “not entirely compatible with the idea that he had the best interests of women at heart”.

It also says that Cherie Blair, wife of the former prime minister, was “incorrect” when she defended Islam in a lecture by claiming “it is not laid down in the Koran that women can be beaten by their husbands and their evidence should be devalued as it is in some Islamic courts”.

This weekend, the publisher, Continuum, said it had received “outside opinion” on the book’s cultural and religious content following suggestions that it might cause offence. “We sought some advice and paused for thought before deciding to go ahead with publication,” said Oliver Gadsby, the firm’s chief executive. The book will be released on Thursday.

A recent novel that also dealt with Muhammad’s relationship with Aisha provoked an outcry. The Jewel of Medina caused such anger that a Muslim extremist was convicted earlier this month of trying to firebomb the office of its publisher. Continue Reading →

Appeasement of Concessions – The Invisible War with Islam

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By Daniel Greenfield CFP

“He who sets the terms of the war sets the terms of the peace.”

While our focus is on the visible war against terrorists and guerrillas in which our armies are engaged in, this war is only the visible war, the tip of a great dark iceberg which reaches far beneath the surface.

The visible war we are fighting is the war that the most radical Islamists are carrying forward, it is the war that occupies the bulk of our attention, it is the only war that our leaders officially recognize—but it is also the war that sets the terms for the invisible war happening daily on our streets, in our schools, in government, university, civil service and throughout our lives.

The visible war, the terrorist threat, the car bombings, the shootings, the riots, the stabbings are the threat under which free nations surrender themselves one piece at a time. The goal of the visible war is to make present and clear the threat. But it is the invisible war which extracts the concessions.

The invisible war is not waged with guns or bombs. It is waged with reasonable editorials, with suits and benedictions. With smiles and handshakes and reassurances. It is a salesman’s pitch that goes something like this. “We want to live in peace. To be your neighbors, to attend your weddings, embrace your families and create a better world. But first this is what we want–”

The invisible war. The quiet threat that sets the terms of the peace. The “Muslim Moderates” who seem quite reasonable who come bearing a gift, the message that peace is possible, as long as the proper concessions are made to them. And of course those concessions will be followed by more concessions still. And yet more to come after.

And if those concessions are not made, the visible war will follow. There will be riots, bombings, stabbings, shooting. The growing domestic Muslim population, whose presence we are legally not permitted to object to or their deportation to call for, in countries as diverse as England, Australia, Israel, Sweden, Russia and France, will turn hostile and become a weapon in our midst.

The invisible war uses the threat of a visible war combined with the threat of the “radicalization” of the “moderate” Muslim population, positioned like self-reproducing Trojan horses within our midst, to enforce concessions in the invisible war.

While we chase terrorists around the world, their leaders and our domestic sympathizers are busy setting the terms of surrender in our own capitals and getting their way more often than not.

It is easy enough to see the template for it in the countries most seriously affected, a look at Israel, Thailand or the Philippines allows us to total up the final costs that are brought to the bargaining table as terrorist leaders are legitimized to become statesmen and terrorist populations become sovereign nations. But it is not as obvious at the beginning when the butcher’s bill has yet to be toted up and the real agenda is still only a whisper in coffee houses, an ink smear on a pamphlet, a hastily recorded speech by an Imam that law enforcement refuses to take seriously. It is not until there is real blood on the streets, when years of conflict become decades of conflict and the toll wears down even the patriot and the hardened soldier, that the real surrender begins and the enemy declares victory in the invisible war.

The real threat is not so much in the visible war, murderous as it may be. The visible war may claim thousands and perhaps even millions. But it is the invisible war that destroys countries feeding them up as menu items for the Islamofascist beast. As great a threat as the terrorist is, the phony moderate Muslim is a far greater threat—for Islamic leaders extract ten times the price of every moderate Muslim, both at home and abroad, demanding money, political power, influence, land, autonomy, positions and control in their name.

While we fight the invisible war, Islam exploits the fighting to set better terms in its own invisible war. As long as we give lip service to appeasing moderate Muslims, as long as we turn our energies to appeasement, as long as we allow ourselves and our societies to be held hostage to Muslim rage– we allow the enemy to set the terms of the war and in doing so set the terms of our own surrender.

France asks for more violent anti semitism by covering up what is already there

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The Halimi Cover-Up
by Pamela Geller

Israel National News h/t Jdamn

Death in an Islamic “homemade concentration camp”.

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Warning! The following contains descriptions of extreme brutality.

The abduction and murder in Paris of a young Jewish man by a gang of Muslim immigrants calling themselves the Barbarians shocked the whole of France in 2006. But now that the accused are on trial – silence.

A French judge has ordered the latest issue of the magazine Choc (“shock”) removed from the shelves. The cover showed a man with duct tape completely covering his head, except for a small opening around his nostrils. His His hands are also bound with duct tape.

It was a photo of Ilan Halimi, the 23-year-old Parisian Jew who was kidnapped and tortured for 24 days by the Barbarians. His captors took the picture and sent it to his family. A lawyer for Halimi’s family had complained about the magazine, but Choc’s editor-in-chief Paul Payan responded: “Of course, we understand the anguish of the parents and, of course, we share their anguish…. But what’s so harrowing is not the publication of this photo. What’s harrowing is what it represents, And it gets worse. The New York Times reported last week that “in the two and a half weeks since 27 people went on trial [in Paris] for the brutal 2006 kidnapping, torture and killing of a young Jewish man, little has filtered out about the proceedings.” Worse still, the little that has emerged indicates that French government and law enforcement have done everything in their power to obscure the Islamic Jew-hatred that led these Muslims to commit this crime.

The corrupt media, aligned with the jihad forces, has long blacked out the truth about Halimi’s homemade concentration camp and the inconceivable horrors that were suffered by this French Jew, chosen by Islam’s soldiers for unimaginable torture. They covered up the religious aspects of this depraved barbarity. Law enforcement did as well.

No one said anything about the Koran’s statement that the Jews are the Muslims’ worst enemies. No one referenced Muhammad’s words: “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.'” Never was there heard anything about the Islamic tradition that says: “When judgment day arrives, Allah will give every Muslim a Jew or Christian to kill, so that the Muslim will not enter into hell fire.”

Ilan’s uncle, Rafi Halimi, reported that “the gang phoned the family on several occasions and made them listen to the recitation of verses from the Koran, while Ilan’s tortured screams could be heard in the background.”

Three weeks of unimaginable torture. Three weeks. So many clues. So many guilty animals partaking in the continuing torture in their “homemade concentration camp.” Twenty-three people participated in torturing Ilan. Another twenty were involved indirectly. The custodian of the building gave them the key to an apartment where they said they wanted to “keep someone.” French journalist Guy Millière reported that “the screams must have been loud because the torture was especially atrocious: the thugs cut bits off the flesh of the young man, they cut his fingers and ears, they burned him with acid, and in the end poured flammable liquid on him and set him on fire.” Continue Reading →

The Congregation of Jihad

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From Canada Free Press

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Last year the Riverdale Jewish Center made headlines by accommodating a female Muslim exchange student’s need for a prayer space during school hours. As Rabbi Rosenblatt described it, “We’re just helping to welcome somebody’s child from overseas,” an announcement that was greeted by loud applause in his congregation.

King Solomon said in Kohelet, “Cast your bread upon the waters and it will return to you after many days.”

It took only a few months for the “bread” to return with a Muslim plot to bomb the Riverdale Jewish Center. Since no good deed done for Muslims goes unpunished, while the Rabbi and congregants of the Riverdale Jewish Center were congratulating themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness, their eagerness to throw open the doors of their house of prayer to an enemy, their friendly neighborhood Muslims were plotting to kill and destroy. Continue Reading →

Toronto man found guilty of terrorist bomb plot. Then released.

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Well, he did promise not to try to kill any more Canadians. Had he and his brethren been successful in their plans, the streets of Toronto would have been littered with bodies for no other reason than Muslims hate the west. This little fact is again ignored by a judge that is to stupid to see the truth.  So I guess this man [who’s identity is protected by the same justice system that allowed him back into society] can now have a lovely welcome home, no longer imprisoned by the naive infidel.

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A man belonging to the so-called Toronto 18 terror group was sentenced to 2½ years in prison Friday, becoming the first person convicted in a domestic terrorism trial in Canada.

The judge in Brampton, Ont., who sentenced the 21-year-old man declared that, with credit for his time already spent in custody, the man had served his time and could be freed.

The man was found guilty in September 2008 of participation in a terrorist group that was plotting to blow up buildings in downtown Toronto.

He was not a ringleader and his involvement included attending two terrorist training camps, shoplifting items from a Canadian Tire store and removing a surveillance camera.

In passing sentence, Justice John Sproat described the man’s crime as “very serious,” but also noted he had expressed genuine remorse.

In a letter to the court, the man promised to work hard to contribute to society and declared, “I do not believe in participating in violent acts against anyone.”

He was 17 at the time, so he was tried under youth justice laws. However, the judge found he had continued his activity with the terrorist group past his 18th birthday, so he was sentenced as an adult.

He also given three years probation, prohibited from owning weapons for 10 years and ordered to submit a DNA sample.

Identity remains protected

The media still cannot name him, because the judge granted a defence request Friday to keep the man’s identity shielded for a month while his lawyers have the chance to appeal his conviction.

Earlier this month, Saad Khalid, 22, pleaded guilty to aiding in the 2006 terrorist plot. He is expected to be sentenced in June.

The 18 men and youths were arrested in the Toronto area and detained following an investigation by CSIS, Canada’s spy agency.

Seven of those accused have since had their charges stayed or dropped. The remaining individuals have yet to stand trial.

The suspects face charges including participating in a terrorist group, receiving training from a terrorist group, providing training, and intending to cause an explosion that could cause serious bodily harm or death.

The offences allegedly took place between March and June 2006 in Mississauga and a rural township near Orillia, Ont.

The Crown alleges the group planned to bomb the CN Tower, the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Toronto CSIS office.

BNP vindicated by BBC documentary on rape and forced prostitution of British children by Muslims

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Say what you want about the BNP. I’ll even listen with a sympathetic ear. There may even be a smattering of truth to some of the worst allegations against them. But let’s be perfectly clear here. The BNP have NOT been making wild public statements about killing all the Jews or any group at all like for instance, oh I dunno the president of Iran for example. The BNP has NOT threatened to nuke a civilized nation because it contains a group he doesn’t like as has, well for instance the president of Iran.

Yet it was that same president of Iran who was asked to deliver the annual Christmas message to the people of England by the BBC instead of the Queen in 2008 and the BNP who are being charged with hate crimes, accused of racism and maligned without any hard proof and certainly no national televised speeches with the leader demanding nuclear annihilation of a friendly state.

So I think for the moment Ill pitch in with the BNP. Sooner or later one has to trust the evidence over allegations.

BNP immigration stance proven correct.

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from BNP home page 

200 Islamists in “Anti-Terror Detox Programme” as Muslim Council of Britain Urges Anti-BNP Vote

A revelation that more than 200 Muslims living in Britain are currently taking part in a government anti-terrorist detoxification programme, has coincided with a call by the Muslim Council of Britain for followers of that religion to vote against the British National Party.

The existence of the detox programme was revealed in a Sunday newspaper which carried a story about a Muslim youth who had been recruited into an Islamist terror cell in a mosque in London.

According to the report, the scheme is a blueprint for a nationwide programme backed by the Home Office and police chiefs to which 200 people – some as young 13 – have been referred.

The Islamists are recruiting inside mosques all over Britain, according to the reports. They show the young Muslims martyrdom videos and facilitate their travel to Pakistan to receive terrorist training.

The Muslim youth interviewed by the newspaper was quoted as saying: That was the ultimate purpose of what these men were doing: what they were doing was training people up to carry out operations in the UK.

A lot of people think that terrorists are recruited in special recruiting grounds, but the truth is that it actually goes on in mosques a lot of the time, he told the newspaper.

He said that the more advanced recruits had been sent on training exercises to the Lake District and the New Forest in Hampshire, as well as paintballing sessions in the Home Counties.

At the same time, the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has urged all Muslims to participate in next months elections to the European parliament by voting against the BNP.

Significantly, the MCB announcement was first carried in the Pakistan Daily newspaper. Active participation of the Muslim community is imperative to prevent . . . the British National Party (BNP) gaining a foothold, the MCB said.

Imams and community leaders were reminded to mention to congregations during weekly prayers on Friday the importance of voting in the elections on June 4 and ensure that they were registered to vote by next Tuesdays deadline, the MCB added.

The Labour Partys website second largest group of visitors comes from Pakistan, a country which has been identified as the source of two thirds of all terrorist plots in Britain.

* The existence of a taxpayer-funded programme to steer Muslims away from extremism confirms the accuracy of the BNPs immigration and foreign policies.

Terrorism in Britain is the direct result of two disastrous policies followed by both Tory and Labour governments:

– Mass Third World immigration which has created a population pool from which Islamists can recruit.

– The worlds Muslim population has been incited by a foreign policy which has waged illegal wars against Iraq and Afghanistan.

Until both these issues are addressed, the spectre of terrorism will loom large over Britain.