Scuffles broke out between Iraqi Kurds and British police at a polling station in London after many Kurds were told that they did not have proper documentation and would not be allowed to vote, they told reporters. (March 6)
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London: Islamists mobilize votes for Livingston, IFE helped secure massive swing
From The Telegraph U.K.
Islamists got voters out for Livingstone
A fundamentalist group which believes in sharia law, jihad and creating an “Islamic social and political order” in Britain arranged an “unprecedented mobilisation” of voters for the former London mayor, Ken Livingstone, at the last mayoral election.
By Andrew Gilligan
Published: 9:00PM GMT 06 Mar 2010
Published: 9:00PM GMT 06 Mar 2010
In an election lost by Mr Livingstone, the Islamic Forum of Europe helped secure massive and unexpected swings towards him in its east London heartland.
In one ward, Spitalfields, his vote share rose from 29.6 per cent in 2004 – an election he won – to 68.4 per cent in 2008, a rise of nearly 39 percentage points.
In every other ward in Tower Hamlets and Newham with a sizeable Muslim population, his vote rose by between 23 and 36 percentage points. His vote in other Muslim and ethnic minority areas of London also rose, but by far smaller amounts.
Mr Livingstone’s economic development body, the London Development Agency, had agreed to pay more than £1.3 million to the East London Mosque, controlled by the IFE, and described by critics as hardline.
Emails leaked to The Sunday Telegraph show that a senior LDA official furiously protested against at least £500,000 of this grant, saying there were “major concerns” about the mosque project and “no case” for giving it the money.
However, the official was overruled and the grant was paid.
Part of Mr Livingstone’s voting rise will have been due to his opposition to the Iraq war and support for the Palestinian cause, both popular among Muslims. Continue Reading →
More Islam taught at Islamic schools in the UK
Once again, the hunt is on for that ever elusive, moderate Islam.
Thank you Don’t bend over
More Islamic infiltration of UK governments
Andrew Gilligan
I’m the Telegraph’s London Editor. This is where I write about London politics, London life and many other things I’m interested in, well beyond the capital. I’ll also post source material for many of my newspaper stories here, so you can read the documents I refer to for yourself. Got a tip or a story? Email me at an*************@**********co.uk
Fundamentalist-infiltrated council steps back from the cliff edge – just
At the eleventh hour, Tower Hamlets has drawn back from an act of stupidity stunning even by its own standards. The council’s initial response to our revelations that it has been infiltrated by Islamic fundamentalists – revelations which the council leader refuses to deny – has been not to investigate the matter, but to attack one of the people who helped expose it.
In the ongoing takeover process of the council by the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE), one of the key moments was the appointment of Lutfur Ali, a man with close links to the IFE, to the second most important job at the Town Hall – despite his palpable unfitness for the £125,000 post.
Apart from his IFE links, there wasn’t that much else going for Mr Ali. The council-appointed headhunters who considered applicants described him as “rather limited,” “superficial,” and “one-dimensional” and said he might “struggle with the intellectual challenges [of] a highly strategic role.” And the headhunters didn’t even know that Mr Ali had submitted a misleading CV, which gave false dates for a previous employment and omitted the fact that he had been forced to resign from that job for breaching the local authority code of conduct.
Mr Ali is responsible for council grants. Since his appointment, a lot more council money has started going to organisations closely linked to – you guessed – the IFE. These organisations include a very generously-funded youth training project, Brick Lane Youth Development Association, or Blyda. Part of the purpose of this project, according to critics, is to take vulnerable young people off the streets and imbue them with the values of the IFE. Continue Reading →
Canada: Muslim lauches complaint against Quebec school for non-compliance to sharia
From the CBC
Niqab-wearing woman pursues Quebec college
The niqab is a style of headwear that covers the whole body, leaving only the eyes exposed. (CBC)
Quebec’s Human Rights Commission is studying a complaint from a permanent resident expelled from a French college class last year after she refused to remove her niqab veil.
The Egyptian woman was enrolled in a language class for new immigrants at the CÉGEP St-Laurent in northwest Montreal when she was asked to remove the religious clothing.
She claims school officials violated her freedom of religion by requesting she not wear her modest dress, which covers the entire face and body and leaves only the eyes exposed.
The school says it tried to accommodate her on several occasions. Officials say she was not wearing her niqab veil when she applied for the program, nor when she met with school representatives for the first time prior to the 10-month course.
But when she showed up for class, she was wearing a niqab because of the presence of male students.
The school said the teacher allowed her to do her oral tests alone in a separate room, and present her assignments with her back turned to the class.
The teacher told her it was important when learning a new language to be able to see others’ faces.
The woman’s demands created tension in the class, school officials said.
“For the teacher it was more difficult to hear her, and it was more difficult for all the people to understand what she has to say,” said the school’s director, Paul-Émile Bourque.
But one Montrealer who wears a niqab said she doesn’t understand how it could be a problem in the classroom.
“I went through four years of university in engineering and I graduated with distinction,” said Afifa Naz. “It didn’t affect my grades. I participated in projects with my group and really I had no problems.”
But the government is sticking by its guns.
A spokesman for the province’s immigration minister says the woman could have stayed in the French class had she agreed to remove her niqab for certain exercises.
She claims school officials violated her freedom of religion by requesting she not wear her modest dress, which covers the entire face and body and leaves only the eyes exposed.
The school says it tried to accommodate her on several occasions. Officials say she was not wearing her niqab veil when she applied for the program, nor when she met with school representatives for the first time prior to the 10-month course.
But when she showed up for class, she was wearing a niqab because of the presence of male students.
The school said the teacher allowed her to do her oral tests alone in a separate room, and present her assignments with her back turned to the class.
The teacher told her it was important when learning a new language to be able to see others’ faces.
The woman’s demands created tension in the class, school officials said.
“For the teacher it was more difficult to hear her, and it was more difficult for all the people to understand what she has to say,” said the school’s director, Paul-Émile Bourque.
But one Montrealer who wears a niqab said she doesn’t understand how it could be a problem in the classroom.
“I went through four years of university in engineering and I graduated with distinction,” said Afifa Naz. “It didn’t affect my grades. I participated in projects with my group and really I had no problems.”
But the government is sticking by its guns.
A spokesman for the province’s immigration minister says the woman could have stayed in the French class had she agreed to remove her niqab for certain exercises.
Dispatches: Britain’s Islamic Republic
The rest will be posted soon. Here is part 1. which is worse, the Muslims or the British government face for them, making preposterous claims about Islam.
Infidel cyclist run over by a holy car of Riyadh
Vlad has to a small degree, focused on how Islam is antipathetic to the arts and music and musicians in particular. There are many reasons for this not the least of which is that artists tend to be the most sanctimonious of the leftists, not to mention strident advocates of multiculturalism. The other is that supporters and producers of the arts need to know, that other cultures, specifically Islam, do not see the arts as Americans do.
Celebrity culture is uniquely an American experience even if it has been exported to many western nations. Rome for example, loved and admired the arts but felt Artists overall, were considerably lower in status than people in the trades. I tend to agree with the Romans.
In any case, now cyclists have been targeted in Saudi not so much because they are cyclists, but because they are infidels. The trial, if there is one, and the sentence, if there is one, will be very revealing as to how sharia law will view this, if indeed it is a crime at all.
The bigger point is, that in a world with increasingly higher numbers of Muslims being brought into western nations, nations which have a profound culture of their own but are in denial of it, we will start to see the following.
Our culture, which allows for people to make themselves very vulnerable to strangers from time to time, will begin to change those behaviours. That we will have to start to examine our food and where it is from more. To not use bicycles trivially for exercise and sport where we may be vulnerable to strangers in cars.
‘Situational awareness’ will become something people learning more and more circumstances and not just something taught to spies and security personnel. We already see this in aviation to a very large degree. Aviation is merely the first area where western civilization has grudgingly changed its sense of security to accommodate the multi cultural fantasy. But it will not be the last.
Our refusal to accept the fact that we are indeed at war with Islam, as we have been historically more often than not, means we will have to come up with more and more creative reasons why we are losing and why its somehow OK, or more likely, our own fault. Civilization has already thrown Israel and by extension Jewish people, under the bus. Israel’s foreign policy has aggravated the peaceful Muslims and made victims of the ‘Palestinians’ and they deserve what they get or some other rationalization.
There is also of course, massive denial of the facts on the ground for Jewish people world wide and especially in universities. Have a look at this stunning case of selective enforcement at York U. This is a very serious matter. This means that York has allowed the most vicious and hostile people to western ideas, the very ideas a university is supposed to perpetuate, to set the agenda, and the parameters of who may and may not speak, and what ideas may or may not be presented to the student body.
Granted this example of the cyclist was in Saudi Arabia but this is about stages. With larger numbers of Muslims, you get a larger demand for more and more strict applications of sharia law. Already at Carleton U. in Canada, the main bar, Roosters Pub, which was rumoured to be one of the largest beer outlets in North America, was forced to go booze free to accommodate Muslim ‘students’* who felt they had a right to be in there without being offended by the presence of infidels drinking.
Much more disturbingly, the facts, which at the time where printed in local newspapers etc. where hushed up and its very difficult to find evdience of this now. This by the way, was in the 1990s or earlier. I went in and interviewed staff members myself who refused to speak on the matter or denied knowing anything about why a massively profitable institution became dry.
It will be well worth watching the trial of those arrested for deliberately running over foreign workers in the KSA who were cycling. It is the future of our own nations. First in the behaviour, the attacking of the vulnerable in any way possible in order to destroy our trust based culture, and then in the judicial process that follows. All this I guarantee until and unless we admit in the west, that we are indeed at war, with Islam.
Eeyore for Vladtepesblog.
Col Allen West speaks in Washington D.C. Feb 19 2010 from Vlad Tepes on Vimeo.
*I put ‘students’ in single quotes because people who are there to learn seldom demand that everything at the institution of education change to conform to what the ‘student’ already knows.
East London Mosque headquarters for Islamic Forum of Europe
From The Telegraph U.K.
Inextricably linked to controversial mosque: the secret world of IFE
On Whitechapel Road in the heart of the East End stands the East London Mosque.
By Andrew Gilligan
Published: 8:00AM GMT 28 Feb 2010
For most of the 15,000 ordinary Muslims who pray there each week, it is simply a place of worship. For many, it provides valuable social facilities, and creche and outreach services.
But for a small number, the mosque is the headquarters of a secretive, fundamentalist political network. The Islamic Forum of Europe is dedicated, in its own words, to changing the “very infrastructure of society, its institutions, its culture, its political order and its creed … from ignorance to Islam”.
The mosque and IFE are inextricably intertwined. Dr Mohammed Abdul Bari, the chairman of the mosque, and its vice-chairman are former IFE presidents.
The director and imam of the mosque are trustees of the group. Of 22 IFE trustees in recent years, only five have not also been trustees or officeholders of the religious centre.
The mosque calls the IFE a “social welfare organisation” and the IFE presents itself as committed to “community cohesion” and “tolerance”.
But the undercover reporters discovered that it was also a sophisticated political group with a structured rank system and hardline goals.
Prospective recruits must attend training. One undercover reporter was told that she would have to take an exam and swear an oath of allegiance and ordered to keep her membership of the IFE a secret. Continue Reading →
Who infiltrated who?
At this juncture, I really think it should be the Muslims in the British government complaining that they have been very slightly infiltrated by infidel members of the labour party.
H/T Liberties alliance
Islamic radicals ‘infiltrate’ the Labour Party
The Telegraph:
A Labour minister says his party has been infiltrated by a fundamentalist Muslim group that wants to create an “Islamic social and political order” in Britain.
By Andrew Gilligan
Published: 10:00PM GMT 27 Feb 2010
Jim Fitzpatrick, the Environment Minister
The Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) — which believes in jihad and sharia law, and wants to turn Britain and Europe into an Islamic state — has placed sympathisers in elected office and claims, correctly, to be able to achieve “mass mobilisation” of voters.
Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph, Jim Fitzpatrick, the Environment Minister, said the IFE had become, in effect, a secret party within Labour and other political parties.
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“They are acting almost as an entryist organisation, placing people within the political parties, recruiting members to those political parties, trying to get individuals selected and elected so they can exercise political influence and power, whether it’s at local government level or national level,” he said.
“They are completely at odds with Labour’s programme, with our support for secularism.”
Mr Fitzpatrick, the MP for Poplar and Canning Town, said the IFE had infiltrated and “corrupted” his party in east London in the same way that the far-Left Militant Tendency did in the 1980s. Leaked Labour lists show a 110 per cent rise in party membership in one constituency in two years.
In a six-month investigation by this newspaper and Channel 4’s Dispatches, involving weeks of covert filming by the programme’s reporters:
- IFE activists boasted to the undercover reporters that they had already “consolidated … a lot of influence and power” over Tower Hamlets, a London borough council with a £1 billion budget.
- We have established that the group and its allies were awarded more than £10 million of taxpayers’ money, much of it from government funds designed to “prevent violent extremism”.
- IFE leaders were recorded expressing opposition to democracy, support for sharia law or mocking black people. The IFE organised meetings with extremists, including Taliban allies, a man named by the US government as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and a man under investigation by the FBI for his links to the September 11 attacks.
- Moderate Muslims in London told how the IFE and its allies were enforcing their hardline views on the rest of the local community, curbing behaviour they deemed “un-Islamic”. The owner of a dating agency received a threatening email from an IFE activist, warning her to close it.
- George Galloway, a London MP, admitted in recordings obtained by this newspaper that his surprise victory in the 2005 election owed more to the IFE “than it would be wise – for them – for me to say, adding that they played a “decisive role” in his triumph at the polls.
Mr Galloway now says they were one of many groups which supported his anti-war stance and had never sought to influence him.
The IFE has particularly close links to Tower Hamlets council. Seven serving and former councillors said Lutfur Rahman, the current council leader, gained his post with the group’s help.
Some said they were canvassed by a senior IFE official on his behalf. After Mr Rahman was elected, a man with close links to the group, Lutfur Ali, was appointed assistant chief executive of the council with responsibility for grant funding.
This was despite a chequered employment record, a misleading CV and a negative report from the headhunters appointed to consider the candidates. The council’s white chief executive was subsequently forced from his post.
Since Mr Rahman became leader, more council grants have been paid to a number of organisations which our investigation established are closely linked to the IFE.
Funding for other, secular groups was ended or cut. In the borough’s well-known Brick Lane area, council funds were switched from a largely secular heritage trail to a highly controversial “hijab sculpture”, angering many residents who accused the council of “religious triumphalism”.
Schools in Tower Hamlets are told by the council should close for the Muslim festival of Eid, even where most of their pupils are not Muslim.
Mr Rahman refused to deny that an IFE activist had canvassed councillors on his behalf. He said: “There are various people across Tower Hamlets who get excited, who get involved.”
He would not comment on concerns about infiltration, saying they were “party matters”. He said: “If you look at our flagship policies, like investing £20 million to tackle overcrowding, you can see that we are working for everyone.”
The IFE said it did not seek to influence the council and had not lobbied for Mr Rahman. “If anything, existing members of the Labour Party have joined the IFE, rather than the other way round,” it said.
The group insisted it was not a fundamentalist or extremist organisation and did not support violence.
Illegal immigrants now have legal right to 100% of UK benifits
England, you once led the world in spreading reason and true liberalism. Now you are committing suicide as rapidly and dare I say it, ‘diversely’ as you possibly can.
Towards a New Feudal Netherlands. V.H. via Gates of Vienna
Here is a rather discouraging post from GOV about the state of the Netherlands and the extent to which it has allowed itself to fall under the spell and authority of irrational leftism. As I read it however, I am not at all sure how much worse this is than Canada or the U.S.A. at many significant levels. Thank you Baron Bodissey for editing and posting this in the original.
Eeyore for Vlad:
by Baron Bodissey
Several weeks ago a Dutch reader sent us a set of essays by an expatriate Dutch writer named Arthur Legger. I forwarded two of them — one from The Wall Street Journal and the other from IFPS — to our Flemish correspondent VH, and asked his opinion of them.
As regular readers know, VH is very well-informed on both Belgian and Dutch affairs, and documents his opinions copiously using multiple sources. His reply to me was so thoughtfully pessimistic that I was taken by surprise — VH has an invariably sunny and optimistic disposition, but his outlook for the Netherlands was startlingly gloomy.
With his kind permission, I have merged and edited two of his emails into the essay below. My questions to VH have been interpolated in italics:
The “traditional Dutch liberties” that according to the WSJ existed from 1997 until 2005 had in fact already ceased to exist since the immigration flow started to boom in the mid-1970s. Many non-left-wing and conservative Dutch people learned to be careful after that, to go with the flow, and to share real opinions only with the most trusted friends, and in private.
In the eighties a politician was convicted for stating: “When we have the chance, we will abolish the multicultural society”. And when Frits Bolkestein of the VVD expressed his critique of multiculture and mass immigration in parliament in the early 1990s, a very silent electorate rewarded him with a substantial increase in votes, only to be betrayed by Bolkestein being kicked upstairs to Brussels, to the EU…
In Arthur Legger’s excellent essay, he quotes Dr. Hans Daudt: “Via the main political parties the traditional regent families are still in power.” That, however, may be only partly the case with the royalty and its entourage.
For among that “entourage” is the multicultural elite, and they influence each other and hold power. Princess Maxima — who in 2002 was introduced to the ins and outs of Dutch society by extreme left-wingers and multiculturalists and ex-DDR admirers like Andrée van Es (now Secretary General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs) and Paul Rosenmöller (ex Pol Pot propagandist who, as a GreenLeft, easily got away with that) — once stated to Gretta Duisenberg (maybe the most notorious Arafat- and Hamas-admirer and anti-Semite in the Netherlands) that Dutch identity does not exist. Duisenberg: “One time Princess Maxima was there at a reception, and I passed by her, and she called me and said: ‘I want to say that I really admire you’.”
That is how bad it is with the Netherlands. Continue Reading →
R.I.P. Sweden
Thank you Lili for sending me this clip
British Jihadis face prison time, home made video was evidence
Well, once again some British Jihadis made a video of themselves firing off guns and crawling around in the park and spliced in pictures of OBL and the usual Muslim imagery and ended up in a British jail. Here is a link to the original video, and below, my own treatment of it. Basically, it is just their video with some added images. I felt it needed the Vlad touch.
From The Times Online:
Interesting diagram of Islamic organization in North America
Seems Muslim Students Assosiations figure rather heavily into it all.
Thank you GOV for sending this over:
Please click here for the original animated gif
Australia: Terror threat admitted.
Australia like the rest of the world’s Western Governments, is clinging to the notion that terrorism is from some sort of ‘warped and distorted’ form of Islam. OK maybe it is. Can someone please show me the normal common clear Islam everyone insists is out there cause I am having a hard time finding it, and it most certainly is not in the Koran.
From The BBC:
Rudd warns that Australia is facing more terror attacks
The video below was posted as a response to the video above on Vlad’s youtube channel.