If I remember the press conference of last night correctly, the man had actually changed his name to Osama Husain after his two heroes, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Husein. Although I don’t see the connection to Saddam. He was more or less secular and killed a whole pile of Muslims.
Category Archives: Willful ignorance
“In the past two weeks we’ve witnessed a coup d’état”
Peter Hitchens chillingly reflects in the London Daily Mail today (How long before the grey dictators march on London?) on how the European Union is entering a frighteningly authoritarian endgame:
Civilian juntas have seized power in Rome and Athens. Soon, similar gangs of grey men may be sweeping aside national governments in Madrid and Lisbon. Nobody much [in the media] is protesting. In time – don’t rule it out – it could be our turn here [in Britain]…
Our ruling Left-wing elite seem oddly untroubled by the ruthless snuffing-out of national sovereignty across southern Europe. If the same thing had been done by a bunch of colonels, they would have been piously outraged…
But of course these putsches are the work of the European Union, a project the Left have long supported. And the EU is more subtle than any colonels. There is no need for midnight arrests or tanks on the streets. The enormous invisible power of the EU’s law and institutions gets its way without any need for such things.
He continues.
The sheer dictatorial nerve of Italy’s new viceroy, Mario Monti, is impressive. He has formed a government without a single elected politician in it…
Once again, please pay close attention. This is the best warning you will ever get of what the EU is really about. It is an empire, in which the great nations of Europe, including ours, are intended to disappear for ever.
What’s taking place in Europe should stagger and frighten us all, but it doesn’t seem to affect the populous, and it’s true horror is not even momentarily permeating the mainstream media. Maybe because it’s all happening so smoothly, so effortlessly? It’s almost as if the European system had been gently and deliberately designed for decades, with the aim of facilitating precisely such a total removal of democracy, and its substitution with a Euro-statist technocracy.
The British Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan, also this week, very adroitly summarized events in the following speech to the European Parliament.
Army veteran and his wife die in tragic ‘suicide pact’ after becoming ‘too poor to live through the winter’
The Daily Mail:
- Couple had to walk ten miles a week to a soup kitchen for free food
- Charity call for investigation after couple ‘slipped through the net’
- Mark and Helen Mullins kept food in plastic bags in their garden because they couldn’t afford a fridge
- Driven to despair at having to live off £57.50 a week
- Poverty-stricken pair found dead in home last Friday
Last updated at 2:03 PM on 9th November 2011
An Army veteran and his wife were found dead in their home after becoming so poor they were living ‘hand to mouth’ on food handouts.
Mark and Helen Mullins died in an apparent suicide pact after being reduced to crushing poverty at their rundown home in Bedworth, Warwickshire.
The couple were reduced to despair at having to live off just £57.50 a week, and had to walk ten miles each week to a soup kitchen to collect free vegetables.
Tragic: Mark and Helen Mullins could not face another freezing winter on the poverty line, according to neighbours
Military man: Mr Mullins served as a PE teacher in the Army but fell on hard times after leaving the service
Former soldier Mark, 48, and Helen, 59, who had learning difficulties, ‘slipped through the net’ and were found side-by-side in their home after not having access to the right benefits. Continue Reading →
Former Soviet citizen speaks to the occupy idiots.
I never understood the term, ‘criminally stupid’ till I heard this woman claim that the “workers of North Korea” are paid fairly for their work unlike South Korea” by a moronic entitled colostomy bag in New York. Not entirely like the one in Ottawa for the same reasons.
This video found over at Blazing Cat Fur. Where everyone should check at least once a day.
NKorean Prison Camp Survivor: Starving Women Cooked & Ate Their Own Children
I post this for two reasons.
1. North Korea is the worlds biggest story that still goes untold. People just have no idea. And North Korea hires, or better put, forces people to be on internet chat rooms and forums and try and argue with and contradict the facts on the ground about North Korea. Look for them here in the comments within a few days written in fairly classic East Asian bad syntax.
2. Because of a spoiled, stupid, entitled, lefty colostomy bag ‘protesting’ at the Occupy Ottawa thing on behalf of the union of Postal workers, people who make more for doing less with better job security than pretty much any other unskilled worker in Canada, who claimed that Stephen Harper was worse than Kim Jong Il or at least as bad as him.
Below is part of the article. Please click the link below to see the whole thing.
From The Blaze.
Kim Hye Sook suffered unbearable pain and emotional suffering when she was detained for 28 years in a secretive North Korean concentration camp. Brutal executions, starvation — even mothers killing and eating their children to ensure their own survival — were regular occurrences.
Kim — who miraculously escaped from the Bukchang prison camp back in 2003 – granted CBN News with the first American television news interview to discuss these horrendous conditions. She now lives in South Korea, with the details of her escape remaining classified for security reasons. This summer, she released a memoir entitled, “A Concentration Camp Retold in Tears.”
When she was 13-year-old, her tragic tale began. The year was 1975 and in the blink of an eye the young girl was captured alongside her entire family. After years of suffering, she didn’t taste freedom until she was 41-years-old. Kim explains:
“My entire family went to prison. Some were taken to the mountains; others were put in different labor camps all because of my grandfather’s one mistake: he escaped to South Korea during the Korean War.”
Two women are watched by a North Korean guard (Photo Credit: AP)
Today, Kim wears dark glasses to ensure that her identity remains concealed. While she lost seven family members in the re-education camp, she currently has two sisters and a brother who are still imprisoned. She described a typical day at the camp:
“I attended indoctrination classes in the morning. In the afternoon the children were sent to push trolleys in the coal mines, often without any safety gear.
People were dying in the mines. There were numerous mine collapses, so many injuries, people who lost their legs, many who were buried alive. It was horrible.
Imam’s on-air death threat ‘not hate speech’
The biggest problem with thought-feeling-speech laws, is, has been, and always will be, the selective enforcement of them. Once you decide that it is illegal to say thing or feel a certain thing then it is guaranteed that the next decision will be what constitutes these things and, more importantly, what does not. Canada’s ‘Human Rights Commissions’ (hold your nose when you read that one) already proved it by prosecuting anyone who had a bad thing to say about a favored group based on the flimsiest reasoning or evidence and then quite overtly choosing not to prosecute a case of a Canadian imam who had violated the spirit and the letter of section XIII of Canada’s hate speech laws in every conceivable way and in every known form of mass communication.
Here we see the same reasoning and selective enforcement at work in Europe. In this bloggers opinion, the selective enforcement of law, is a cancer upon law itself.
Eeyore
From The Local.Se
It was not hate speech when Swedish public service broadcaster Sveriges Radio (SR) featured a programme in which a Somali imam called for all converts from Islam to be killed, the Swedish Chancellor of Justice (Justitiekanslern, JK) has ruled.
- Converts must die: imam to Swedish radio (15 Sep 11)
The motivation for the decision not to open up an investigation into the matter was that the presenter protested against what the imam said immediately following the controversial statement.
The decision said that ”the programme features opinions that could be taken as a threat aginst those who have converted from Islam”.
However, due to the responses from the presenter, the Chancellor has decided not to investigate the matter further.
The programme in question was a panel discussion and was broadcast live by SR International’s Somali service.
The initial police report was filed by Erik Johansson, at the Swedish Evangelical Mission (Evangeliska Fosterlands-Stiftelsen – EFS), after friends told him of the imam’s words underlining every Muslim’s responsibility to kill anyone who leaves Islam. Continue Reading →
Occupy Sacramento Protesters Lash Out at Local Media
This might be the stupidest thing I have ever seen. It is most certainly the stupidest thing this year. A large group of political activists that had to form a committee to determine what exactly it is they are being active about. They even admit that their demands for protesting are vague and that they “have an answers committee working on formulating the reasons they are there”.
I think there is a lesson in this for all of us. Please, as a public service, remember to spay and neuter your college students.
EGYPTIAN IMAM LEARNS NYPD HAD HIS MOSQUE UNDER SURVEILLANCE, CRIES FOUL
It’s irrelevant that nothing found inside his mosque warranted prosecuting, the NYPD are just doing their job, they have to investigate these mosques. The fact that this Egyptian imam,Reda Shata, isn’t happy about the NYPD’s vigilance is an indicator that he more than likely views all investigations of mosques to be unwarranted. He may not be involved in anything illegal, but he nonetheless wants to ensure the possibility of uncovering illegality in other mosques in the future is greatly hampered.
The facts remain that in the past, the very same “moderate” Muslim leaders touted for their pacifism and general soft approach to Islam, proved to be otherwise. That lesson was learned by the various law officials and it speaks highly of them and of their ability to learn from past mistakes. KGS
NYPD spied on city’s Muslim anti-terror partners
NEW YORK (AP) – Reda Shata considered himself a partner in New York’s fight against terrorism. He cooperated with the police and FBI,invited officers to his mosque for breakfast, even dined with MayorMichael Bloomberg.
Despite the handshakes and photo ops, however, the New York Police Department was all the while watching the Egyptian sheik. Even as Shata’s story was splashed across the front page of The New YorkTimes in a Pulitzer Prize-winning series about Muslims in America, an undercover officer and an informant were assigned to monitor him, and two others kept tabs on his mosque that same year.
“What did they find?” Shata asked through an interpreter at his current mosque in Monmouth County, N.J., after learning about the secret surveillance. “It’s a waste of time and a waste of money.”
Shata welcomed FBI agents to his mosque to speak to Muslims, invitedNYPD officers for breakfast and threw parties for officers who were leaving the precinct during his time at the Islamic Center of Bay Ridge.As police secretly watched him in 2006, he had breakfast and dinner with Bloomberg at Gracie Mansion and was invited to meet with Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, Shata recalls.
“This is very sad,” he said after seeing his name in the NYPD file. “What is your feeling if you see this about people you trusted?”
[…]
“Yet in 2006, the NYPD infiltrated two mosques where Shamsi Ali holds leadership roles—the Islamic Cultural Center of New York and the Jamaica Muslim Center. The NYPD cited radical rhetoric and possible money laundering in the Islamic Cultural Center of New York and said the Jamaica Muslim Center was a hub of radicalization that offered martial arts training. Shamsi Ali said he was unaware of the police assessments and denied the underlying accusations.
“How do you define rhetoric?” Shamsi Ali asked. He said some imams sound harsh when they’re preaching. And, if the NYPD suspected money laundering, it should ask the Internal Revenue Service to audit the mosque, he said.
“It’s wrong to view Muslims as radicals simply because of the outfit,” Shamsi Ali said.”
The Gray Zone
I have a personal theory about how legislation should be directed and why. I call it, ‘The Gray Zone’. The idea is, that we should make illegal something which is relativly benign and not enforce the law much or at all, in order to be able to enforce it harshly past the ‘gray zone when needs be.
An example.
Marijuana should be illegal. Not because it is necessarily that bad for you, although I think it is deleterious for a culture for a few reasons, but lets say its of no consequence at all. But the next drug, cocaine, crack, heroin etc. these have few redeeming features and when abused (heroin can be very beneficial for cancer patients I am told) ruin a persons life and bear a heavy cost to society. So why should marijuana be illegal? Because you need a wide line. Marijuana is that line. You need to be able to say, well, that person is dealing/taking/giving to children this noxious substance many many times worse than substance X which is illegal but we dont enforce.
Why? Because once we legalize marijuana we will legalize, or not enforce the next thing. The gray zone exists not because I think we need to consider it, but because it simply does. The fashion in legislation for decades now has moved towards liberalization of certain important practices to the extent that now, we can’t seem to find the line to draw in what has to be seen as, and punished as, criminal behavior. It is in that spirit that I post the video below. Not that it deals with an issue I wish this site to take on for its own sake.
I just feel it is an excellent example of a grotesque breach of the gray zone in legislation and a clear example of the consequences.
Some police officers are ‘barely literate because entry standards are so low’
Maybe it is time to actually get a working definition of what racism actually means, given it has become the RPG of words. For me, the racism of lower expectations pretty much defines racism. Treating a person differently and cruelly because they are of another group or treating them like a toy poodle are equally racist although certainly the latter might be preferable to the former, at least in the short run.
From The Daily Mail:
Last updated at 9:07 PM on 13th September 2011
Some police officers are ‘barely literate’ because the educational standards required to join the service are so low, it was claimed last night.
Tom Winsor, the lawyer reviewing police conditions, said reading, writing and mathematical skills have fallen ‘significantly’ since the 1930s.
He suggested that the public could be at risk if poor academic skills damage the effectiveness of potentially vital evidence.
Criticism: Some police officers are ‘barely literate’ because the standard to join the police has become so low, a top lawyer claims (file picture)
Mr Winsor said criminal barristers sometimes ‘speak in contemptuous terms’ of the ‘barely literate’ quality of police evidence.
While checking and rewriting poor quality paperwork was increasing the cost and bureaucracy of policing.
And in an extraordinary aside, he added that two senior officers told him standards were lowered to help black and ethnic minority recruits. Continue Reading →
Eye witness account of the attack on the EDL bus
I live on Mile End Road, the bus carrying the EDL supporters was attacked literally right outside my window. I had to watch in fear and horror as hundreds (there were far more than 100) local Asian children threw missiles, heard foul abuse and attempted to attack the coach. At no point did I see or hear anything provocative from the EDL members on the bus. They were obviously arrested for their own safety and to quell the bloodlust of this rabid mob. There were at least 200 police in riot gear, my road was cordoned off, and it was an extremely intimidating atmosphere… not just for the public but also for the police. I witnessed with my own eyes a gang of weedy Muslim children who couldn’t punch there way out of a wet paper bag individually, verbally abusing and threatening the police.. in fact picking out a female officer for special treatment. I was very anti-EDL and BNP not so long ago. But when it is on your door step, in your face, it is a different story. Some EDL members will inevitably be racist morons. More still will be unable to articulate themselves clearly… after all they are uneducated and working class. But Tommy Robinson is absolutely correct, he is a political prisoner of the state, and everybody who cherishes this country and OUR traditions should support him. The fact that no Muslims were arrested on Mile End Road says two things first of all the political pressure on the police to treat the EDL as criminals and secondly the great difficulties of making any arrests… These animals run in packs and make it very dangerous for an officer to apprehend one except in large numbers. I even watched one group with my own eyes approach an officer on his own to tell him they were going to get ‘tooled up’.
A response to the BBC reportage of the banned EDL march in Tower Hamlets planned for early September.
I had to do something. The original BBC clip is here in its entirety. I have not edited any of it out whatsoever but I have edited in my own comments, text and clips showing how they may have selectively used footage to create a false impression accidentally or otherwise.
Silencing dissent
Here is a part of the article. For the rest please click through to:
The Jerusalem Post (blogs)
Sunday Aug 21, 2011
Silencing dissent
The public discussion in Northern Europe that followed the Utøya-massacre in Norway has been characterized by attempts to silence the political opposition. The popular opinion among the political left in Northern Europe is that Anders Behring Breivik’s monstrosities are a result of toxic and contagious hate speech which led him to murder 77 people.
The past month has witnessed a birth of a new age which is suggestive of a Kafkaesque spirit in Nordic political discourse. The accusers are pointing fingers at people whose names appear in Breivik’s manifesto and in other dubious forums, mainly online. The accused can only fight the accusations by claiming that they cannot control when and where their names appear.
One of the first victims of the new zeitgeist was Jussi Halla-aho a Finnish MP for the The Finns, and whose name appears in Breivik’s 1,500-page manifesto. This led the party secretary of the Social Democratic Party, Mikael Jungner, to demand that Halla-aho resign from his post as the chairman of the parliament’s administration committee.
The chairman of the Left Alliance and the current culture minister of Finland, Paavo Arhinmäki accused many of his fellow MP’s of quietly tolerating hate speech. He added that in the case of the massacre in Norway, “silence is a sign of approval”.
In the light of these comments, it is interesting to note that Arhimäki has been at the forefront of bringing football hooliganism to Finland which is arguably one of the most violent and hateful sub-cultures in Europe. Arhinmäki was also one of the organizers of Smash Asem and was arrested during a violent demonstration. The sole purpose of the demonstration was to wreak havoc in Helsinki.
Whether sports or politics, minister Arhinmäki has been one of the protagonists of organized hate speech.
UK riots: The end of the liberals’ great moral delusion
The Telegraph:
The Left has gone into overdrive in its attempts to rewrite the history of the riots, but the public knows the truth.
A hooded youth walks past a burning vehicle in Hackney Photo: GETTY
By Janet Daley
9:00PM BST 20 Aug 2011
There is no national debate about the epidemic of riots and looting that spread through our cities like a bush fire. Out there in the real world, where people go about the normal business of life, there is no sign of the heated argument that the media is so determined to air. In fact, I cannot remember a time when there has been such crushing unanimity on a matter of public importance: the answers to the questions of why this happened, what went wrong when it began to happen and what needs to follow in its aftermath are considered so blindingly self-evident as to be beyond rational disagreement.
At the margins of this consensus, there are some distant noises off. They are the desperate cries of those who fear that they have lost the argument of a lifetime and who want to persuade the great mass of the population that what it saw before its own eyes, hour by hour, night after night on the television news channels was something else altogether.
The Left-liberal camp is in overdrive in its campaign to rewrite history (or, in its own vocabulary, to alter consciousness): you did not see thousands of jubilant thugs rampaging through the streets, destroying livelihoods and property for the sheer exultant joy of it. What you saw were society’s victims responding to any or all of the following: bankers’ bonuses, MPs cheating on their expenses, unemployment, government spending cuts, poverty, social inequality, etc, etc. Their crimes were simply part of the same package of callous selfishness displayed by (as one particularly bizarre equation had it) tabloid phone hackers.
What is not ludicrous and insulting to common sense in these propositions is contradictory in its own terms. There are indeed views of the human condition which hold that all species of wickedness are connected, because they are all rooted in the fact that man is a fallen creature. But somehow I doubt that the ardent liberal secularists who were piping up last week were believers in original sin or the machinations of the Devil.
The moral equivalence that they wanted to establish between looters and arsonists on the one hand, and the perpetrators of any other kind of bad behaviour you can think of on the other, was rooted in ideological, not theological, orthodoxy. The rioting gangs could not simply be what they seemed – what they so obviously were – because that would be a devastating victory for the judgment of popular opinion over the fantasies of liberalism. Continue Reading →
TED EKEROTH ANSWERS CRITIC OF THE ANTI-ISLAMIZATION MOVEMENT IN SWEDEN
Ted Ekeroth: “Debate” in this country (Sweden) is nothing more than an intellectual desert with huge element of hypocrisy and cowardice.
Here is an op-ed by Ted Ekeroth in response to a horrid article by, Jesús Alcalá, that attacked not only the Ekeroth brothers, (Ted and Kent), the Sweden Democrats but the Counterjihad anti-Islamization movement as a whole. KGS
Ekeroth responds to Alcalá: I participated as an individual
August 17, 2011 at 02:00
RETORT Anders Behring Breivik has no place in the counter-Jihad movement who wants to fight Islamization with words, not violence. Ted Ekeroth writes in response to Jesús Alcalá. But one must also take responsibility for every word where it may lead, responds Alcalá.
Apart from the intellectually dishonest buildup throughout his article (SvD 3 / 8 ) with a “guilt by association” principle, Jesús Alcalá also shows a willingness to deliberately misinterpret the anti-Islamization movement.
Firstly, I was not at the Copenhagen meeting as a representative of the Sweden Democrats, but as an individual among other intellectuals whose courage and sense of human rights led them to gather to discuss the ongoing problem of Islamization.
Anders Behring Breivik has no place in counter-jihad movement for several reasons: he is a murderer who kills children, he wants to cooperate with Al Qaeda and other jihadists, and discuss the possibility to detonate nuclear bombs in European cities. In addition, he wants to impose a Taliban-like patriarchal society where women are subjugated, a selection of his madness that can never be accepted in the anti-Islamization movement.
That he then chose the counter-jihad movement as “his thing” can not be blamed on anyone. He began his plans in 2002 and chose violence as a method already 1999/2000 in its own words – well before the Copenhagen meeting, and long before either Robert Spencer and Fjordman had begun to write. Breivik could choose the “orientation” at any time which should be obvious when you read his manifesto, which is contradictory and confused. The terrorist attack was not about his ideas, but about his willingness to “be someone”, to be known.
Counter Jihad movement fights Islamization with words, pencil and paper. Islamization is not imaginary and it is perhaps easier to see this clearly by looking at the outside world. Non-Muslims in many countries have been displaced because of violence, intimidation and oppression. The non-Muslim populations in the Arab world have been decimated, if not completely erased in some places, precisely because of the pressure they have endured by their Muslim surroundings.
In Europe, it springs up more and more so-called “no-go areas”, ie areas where the government lost control or are on track to do so. These areas are often dominated by Islam, which in many places for an “Islamic way of life” often including Sharia law, there is thus parallel societies in which the host country’s norms, rules and laws are disregarded in favor of Islam. Segregated bathing time, anti-Semitic tapes sold in the Södermalm mosque with incitement to murder, withdrawal of pork from school menus, whilst introducing the ritual slaughter of halal meat, calls for the introduction of Sharia law in Sweden (Mahmoud Aldebe), Muslim groups who attack manifestations that they do not like (Malmo) and violence and threats such as Jews in Malmo (fleeing the city) are just some of Islamization that is happening in Sweden.
Alcalá text does discuss substance, but it is most unclear and unfair innuendo. Is there no Islamization? We are lying in claiming that Islamic texts encourage jihad? Are our observations of how it looks in different European cities fabrications?
These issues, as usual, are never discussed. It is considered to be irrelevant because Islam has nothing to do with the jihadists’ ideas, they say. Instead, it is highly relevant to try to connect the anti-Islamization movement’s basic ideas with Breivik, although his rigmarole, manifesto and practices are in stark contrast to what we are fighting for. Then suddenly it’s all right to try to link the man’s actions to the peaceful anti-Islamization movement, no matter how wrong the link is. But looking at the very core of Islam and the ideological basis and then consider where jihadis get their motivation from, is being “racist” and “dangerous”.
“Debate” in this country is nothing more than an intellectual desert with huge element of hypocrisy and cowardice.