Category Archives: Islam
President of the Czech Republic offers direct opinion on the nature of the migration crisis in Europe in Christmas address
Thank you Xanthippa for the speedy translation
It’s on. Links 1 for Dec. 27 – 2015
1. Germany: Düsseldorf 26.12.2015
(I believe these are Kurds demonstrating against Turkey in Germany)
Google translation under video reads:
This raises the question of what politicians or civil servants hundreds of policemen on the 2nd Christmas Day sends to the streets, because the protesters on Sunday did not have time? or was imminent danger and Monday did not go?
2. ISIS implicitly threatening to strike Canada
Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed religious supreme authority of all Muslims worldwide, said in his recorded speech the following (originally in Arabic):
“The battle today is not just a Crusader campaign, but it is a war waged by all nations of heresy against the nation of Islam… this is the battle of all unbelievers against all Muslims. Therefore, every Muslim is involved in the war, abiding by Allah’s order to carry out the duty of jihad in the path of Allah… this war is the war of every Muslim… O Muslims, prepare yourselves to your war everywhere… O Muslims, joining the fight in this war is a duty upon every Muslim. None will be excused. We call on all of you to take action everywhere… We promise you, with the permission of Allah, that everyone involved in the war on the Islamic state, will certainly pay a heavy price, God willing, and surely will regret [taking part in the war].”
Agence France-Presse has reported on December 10, 2015 that Swiss fugitives planned to carry out terrorist attacks in Geneva, Toronto and Chicago.
3. Vienna: Police Step up Security Precautions After Tip
Police in Vienna say they have stepped up security precautions after a warning to several European capitals about the possibility of an attack using explosives or firearms between Christmas and New Year, but they see no need to call off any events.
Vienna police said in a statement Saturday that the tip from an unidentified “friendly” intelligence service came in the days before Christmas. It said authorities also were given several names of potential attackers, but examination of that list and other investigations brought no “concrete further results” so far.
4. Family of Mengistu slams Hamas for ‘the worst hypocrisy’
The family of Avraham (Avera) Mengistu, a mentally ill Israeli who crossed into Gaza back in September 2014 and has been held by Hamas ever since, condemned the terrorist group for its hypocrisy on Saturday.
The criticism comes after Hamas issued harsh criticism against the Egyptian military, which was caught on camera gunning down a naked mentally ill Gazan man who waded into the sea and crossed into Egyptian territory earlier in the day.
“It is infuriating and shocking that the terrorist organization that is holding a mentally ill man, instead of returning him home as expected, dares to cry that ‘this is an act worthy of condemnation and opposes the laws and humanitarian agreements,’ and demands to put those responsible on trial,” said Mengistu’s family in a statement on Saturday night.
“This is the worst kind of hypocrisy.”
Mengistu’s family noted he has been held for a full year and three months by Hamas, after crossing into Gaza under the same circumstances of mental illness as the Gazan man who entered Egyptian territory on Saturday.
5. The New York Times reminds us of what sharia law looks like with the case of the Afghan woman, accused of burning a koran by a typical imam who was covering up corruption she had discovered, and subsequently beaten, dragged, stoned and burned and thrown off a roof. Basically the whole hudud shy of crucifixion. Article and video at link.
6. UK’s ‘Disney’ Muslim family was headed to visit worshiper at mosque of San Bernardino terrorists
It’s beginning to seem like — contra CAIR and the Washington Post — Donald Trump had nothing to do with the visa revocation that stopped a British family as it sat on the tarmac at Gatwick Airport waiting to fly to the U.S.
Malik and Farook in July exiting customs in California
There were clearly red flags in the histories of some members of the Mahmood family. A Facebook page with the name of the 18-year-old — one of the nine “children” traveling with the two adult brothers — contained endorsements of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. And Mohammed Tariq Mahmood’s brother had some kind of red flag, given that he was denied entry by Israel eight years ago.
But now Breitbart London’s Raheem Kassam and Liam Deacon report that the 11-person group was coming to the U.S. to visit an extended family member, Muhammad Mahmood, who owns an auto repair shop in San Bernardino, California, and attends the same mosque as Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the terrorists who killed 14 people at a Christmas party on 2 December.
7. UK Anti-Terror Cops Reveal Muslims Offer Almost No Help in Combatting Extremism
(That would be because muslims are unlikely to help combat islam, since the ‘extremism’ moniker is a total deflection from the facts)
Muslims are boycotting Prevent, the British government’s anti-radicalisation programme, with community leaders accounting for less than a tenth of extremism tip-offs.
The vast majority of tip-offs are instead coming from public services, such as schools and hospitals, or the police.
The Times reports that although the figures include extremism of different varieties, including far right, they show the hostility in Muslim communities towards the so-called Prevent programme, and raise concerns that police are being denied information that could prevent terror attacks.
Earlier this month, the Waltham Forest Council of Mosques, which represents tens of thousands of worshippers in east London, said was boycotting the scheme, while Muslim leaders in neighbouring Newham accused the scheme of “spying on our young people”.
8. Daesh kidnaps women and children to sell as sex slaves on social media
MORE than 7,000 young women and children have been kidnapped from their homes and sold into slavery in a chilling new moneymaking operation by Islamic State leaders.
Turkey was last night facing questions about its role in the war against the extremists as it was claimed IS had been running their human trafficking business from offices in a Turkish city.
As coalition air attacks pummel IS revenue-generating oil fields, the warlords have been forced to diversify and are now focusing efforts on targeting and abducting innocent civilians in Syria and Northern Iraq.
Their pictures are posted on social media feeds including WhatsApp and the Messenger for slave buyers to peruse from the safety of their homes. Women fetch an average £15,000 while children are thought to command about £10,000 each.
9. Europe-wide terror warning includes threat to London in jihadi plot BEFORE the new year
(Note to European Citizens: Watch Corsica. When law enforcement protects the enemy and not you, the Corsicans seem to have picked a course of action which gives the least violence and most effect for this stage of the conflict)
LONDON and capital cities across Europe have been warned about the possibility of a shooting or bomb attack on or before New Year’s Eve.
The terror alert was handed to Austrian police this evening from a “friendly” intelligence service, as evidence grows that jihadi sleeper cells are planning to hit Western targets.
It has prompted police across the continent to increase security measures in a bid to prevent a Paris-style copycat attack on an unknown location in Europe.
The warning made specific mention of the threat to shoppers and revellers in “crowded spaces” and warned that the strike could take place between Christmas and New Year.
A statement released by police in Austria said: “In the days before Christmas a warning was sent out by a friendly (intelligence) service to numerous European capitals, saying that it could come to an attack involving explosives or a shooting between Christmas and the New Year in crowded spaces.”
Astonishing footage from Calais has captured the moment hundreds of migrants stormed the streets in an attempt to break into the Eurotunnel on Christmas Day.
Car drivers were forced to squeeze through the crowds of people – many of whom were pushing prams – as they strolled down the middle of the road.
Local authorities admitted that ‘since the traffic was low’, it was decided to close the A16 highway in both directions until the crowds could be dispersed.
‘Around 4pm, hundreds of migrants, in small groups, attempted to break into the site,’ said the Pas-de-Calais prefecture.
The port of Calais has become a key destination for the thousands of migrants and refugees who are trying to enter the UK.
It has led to the evolution of the Calais migrant camp, known as The Jungle, which has become so well established that it is even now home to restaurants, barbershops, churches and mosques.
Its inhabitants have arrived from all over the world, including Syria, Eritrea and Afghanistan, most claiming to have fled violence and war in their home countries.
More than 6,000 people are now believed to have made temporary homes in the make-shift camp, including orphaned children, the elderly and disabled.
Thank you Oohh God!, M., Richard, Gates of Vienna, Nash Montana, Wrath of Khan, and many more and apologies to anyone I lost track of. Its that time of year.
For those of you that read the page, ‘The Agenda and view of this site‘ you may see that in 2008 the idea was clearly expressed that the purpose of the site was to wake up liberals to the facts of islam and how it contradicts liberal principles in whole or in part, but mostly in whole, so that it can be dealt with before actual Nazis take to the streets and gain popular support perceived to be the only people ready to act in the interests of a classical Europe.
That may not seem profound today but in 2008 it was a worthy idea. Below, a video from this summer in Sweden where some self proclaimed National Socialists (Nazis) pull off a rather brilliant and necessary stunt, giving affluent neighborhoods a small taste of the consequences of the policies that they create and support who’s effects are mostly felt in working class areas. Nonetheless, these are Nazis. The cure has a cost so close to the disease that it would still be far preferable if the rest of us did something first. Even the Corsican solution is a vastly preferable one. Observe:
This is rather well researched. One of the best musical parodies
Here is a recent Robert Spencer speech. If anyone has problems with the audio please leave a comment. It is an excellent speech and I may have posted an earlier version of it with some audio problems before.
The issue in Corsica is ongoing. There is a lot to say about this but for the moment you can catch up on the news via Google translate or if you speak French via F De Souche
Berlin Germany: Muslims Beating on Christians
An original translation by Nash Montana with much thanks
From this German news site
H/T Wrath of Khan
”I am muslim. What are you?” After asking this question, muslims beat on Christians at Berlin Mitte on the second day of Christmas, on Potsdam Platz.
At least five injured men are the result of a fight on early Sunday evening in Berlin-Tiergarten. The police are still investigating, But what they know so far is that five men, after leaving the Club “Adagio” at 17:20 on the Marlene-Dietrich-Plaza, were accosted by a man and asked about their religion. The police report said that the unknown man said, “I am muslim! What are you?” The question resulted in a verbal shouting match. Suddenly more people arrived on the scene and together with the unknown muslim they started beating on the men aged 20, 24, and 25.
A 19-year-old man who tried to calm the men down, was injured in the face. Right before the police arrived, the perpetrators fled the scene. The injured young men did not wish for medical treatment on the spot and said they were going to go to the clinic themselves. According to police, the young men that were attacked come from Serbia and Montenegro and are Orthodox Christians. The office for political crimes within the police has taken over the investigation. The “Adagio” held a “Balkan Party” on December 25th.
Turkish alliance with the Islamic State becomes difficult to deny, Ottawa jihad leader back story and more: Links 1 on Dec. 25 – 2015
When the evidence of Turkish complicity with the Islamic State reaches these screaming proportions, (See item 10) certain questions need to be asked of NATO and the USA. Given the severity of the consequences of related issues, a non-answer should be looked at as nearly as problematic as the worst case answer I would think.
1. Woman who falsely claimed she had been raped so she could resit her A-levels is jailed for two years
A young woman who falsely claimed she had been hauled into bushes and raped twice by the same man in the same park five months apart has been jailed for two years.
A court heard former Edinburgh Academy pupil Naima Shereen Mirza, 21, ‘spun a web of lies and deceit’, causing police to waste hundreds of hours investigating her malicious allegations.
Officers became suspicious when Mirza named her attacker as a man from Perth, who was actually in jail at the time the alleged offences took place, which was when she was a pupil at Edinburgh Academy.
After searching her property, they found a journal where she documented her increasingly alarming thoughts and fantasies, including the names and offences of rapists and sexual offenders from around Scotland.
She later told detectives she concocted the attacks to explain her poor exam results after failing to get in to Strathclyde University, in Glasgow.
2. Russia is a new front for militant Islam
As Russia deepens its involvement in Syria, it risks more than a military quagmire. Its intervention exacerbates a growing domestic threat, one that could destabilize the whole country. A new brand of radical Islam is rising in Russia, fueled by Russian fighters eager to perpetrate acts of terror at home.
Even a decade ago, the scope and depth of this emerging terrorist network would have seemed inconceivable. While Russia has suffered its share of domestic terrorism, those crimes were largely perpetrated by Chechen fighters based in the North Caucasus region. When Moscow declared victory in Chechnya in 2009, it suggested that the threat of radical violence had been largely contained.
But militant Islam didn’t disappear. In fact, the fundamentalist teachings have spread from Chechnya throughout central Russia. They’re propagated by Russian imams trained in the Middle East and are finding new audiences among the country’s native Muslims, as well as Central Asian migrants in Moscow. Even some younger and seemingly long-assimilated believers are becoming radicalized. Like their counterparts across Europe, they’re turning to Internet videos and social-media messages aimed at arousing anger at Western “crusaders.”
3. Sdrja Trifkovic Discusses European Immigration Fears on RT International
4. Pope asks God to ‘repay’ those who shelter migrants
(The best thing then should be that 20,000 migrants go live in the Vatican instead of working class areas of Europe and the Pope can be the most re-payed man on Earth, Francis talks a good game but I notice that there are pretty much no muslim migrants near him and the few families he allowed are likely very carefully vetted unlike all the rest of the migrants)
Pope Francis issued a Christmas Day prayer that recent U.N.-backed peace agreements for Syria and Libya will quickly end the suffering of their people, denouncing the “monstrous evil” and atrocities they have endured and praising the countries that have taken in their refugees.
Speaking from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, Francis issued a plenary indulgence for Catholics in hopes of spreading the church’s message of mercy in a world torn by war, poverty and extremist attacks. The sun-soaked St. Peter’s Square was under heavy security, as it has been since the Nov. 13 Paris attacks by Islamic extremists that left 130 dead.
5. Syria: Russian MoD release footage of ISIS oil tankers at Turkish border
6. (Related) Syria: Russian airstrikes destroy suspected ISIS oil tankers
7. Germany: Christmas Eve arson attack hits planned refugee centre
The under construction refugee hostel in Schwabisch Gmund, at the Baden-Wuerttemberg state was massively damaged after a suspected arson attack hit the facility on Thursday night.
8. Abdullah Kurdi, the man who’s dead son on a Greek beach is not the very icon of the migrant/Hijra crisis in Europe today, gives an ‘alternative Christmas message’ on Channel4 UK
But who is this guy and what did he do?
(I am confident that had be been a Canadian doing what he did into the USA he would be in Jail in one country and wanted for extradition by the other)
9. An Ottawa paintballer made $550,000 to spy on a suspected ISIL network in a two-year investigation
The undercover agent went from working at an Ottawa paintball supply shop to making top dollar by wearing a wire against suspected jihadis — including twin brothers Ashton and Carlos Larmond, their paintball colleague Suliman Mohamed and suspected ISIL fighter Khadar Khalib.
The undercover agent also worked as a referee at a paintball battlefield. And for a time, he was on a military simulation team that included a handful of Canadian soldiers he trained with on the paintball battlefield.
He is considered a prized police agent in a terrorism case anchored in wiretap evidence. If he was new at the job, it didn’t show. He never blew his cover, not even when one of his Ottawa targets suspected he was wearing a wire and patted him down, according to police.
The informant allegedly captured a key pre-dawn meeting in the parking lot of the Ottawa main mosque on Nov. 25, 2013. It was at this meeting that police allege Ashton Larmond gave the undercover agent $1,300 to cover the agent’s airfare to get to Syria and join the fight. Larmond allegedly advised him on which route to take, and what to bring, right down to warm hiking boots.
(We covered Suliman’s arrest when it happened)
10. Someone let them cross borders’: Messages from Turkish intelligence found in ISIS phone
Thank you M., Richard, Yucki, Oz-Rita, Gates of Vienna, Chris Jones, Perfect Child, JohnnyU, PePi, Wrath of Khan, and many many more. Thank you all for your continued dedication.
The post on the 24th had a headline which read that the UK had declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group. Comments on that post offer clarity. While it is safe to say that the prime minister of the UK has indeed made a statement of significance in which he said they were, this may not be the same, at least yet, as passing legislation adding them to groups which will be treated as a terrorist group, in which case for the first time, security services will be able to act against various groups and organizations which are the problem.
Reader’s links for Dec. 25 – 2015 (Merry Christmas everyone! May you Feel joy, may you spread joy!)
In order to preserve the flow of conversation about various posted items, and also in order to make it easier for visitors to find the list of related links being shared by other readers, regulars and interested parties in one place, each day a post is automatically created at a minute past midnight ET.
This way, under the various posts of the day, conversation can take place without as much ‘noise’ on the various links and articles and ideas in the main posts and all the news links being submitted can be seen under these auto-posts by clicking on the comments-link right below these ones.
Thank you all for those that take the effort to assist this site in keeping the public informed. Below, typically people can find the latest enemy propaganda, news items of related materials from multiple countries and languages, op-eds from many excellent sites who write on our topics, geopolitics and immigration issues and so on.
Bombs in Turkey, update on defeated mosque in Romania and more: News post 2 on Dec. 23 – 2015
1. Italian uni researcher held on terror charges
(A near perfect example o a moderate muslim that you work with and who is a really nice person?)
Italian Police said on Wednesday they had detained a university researcher working at the University of Palermo on terror charges.Forty-five-year-old Libyan researcher, Khadgia Shabbi, had been working at the university’s economics department for the last three years while living in the city.
She is said to have been in contact with foreign Isis fighters and to have worked to produce online propaganda for al-Qaeda during that time, Italian daily Gazetta del Sud reports.
Shabbi was not employed directly by the university but received €2,000 a month from the Libyan embassy while carrying out research at the department.
Police chiefs said they had been monitoring the woman for months and had discovered contacts linking her to extremist fighters in Belgium and the UK.
They also found that her contacts included terrorists who planned the 2012 bombing of the US Embassy in Libya.
2. Woman killed in blast at an Istanbul airport
A female cleaner was killed and another wounded early Wednesday after an explosion of unknown origin beside a plane at Istanbul’s second international airport, with Turkey on high alert for possible attacks.
3. Christians flee persecution in the middle east
4. Iraqi Christians celebrate Christmas after fleeing ISIS
5. Hungary: Labeling of settlement goods is counterproductive
Hungary is sticking to its criticism of the European Union’s policy of labeling settlement goods, arguing that it is counterproductive to the body’s bid to become a significant player in the Middle East, and does nothing to advance Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation.
“Hungary does not consider that the indication of origin of products from Israeli settlements is effective and timely, as it weakens the position of the EU in the Middle East peace process and does not contribute to the practical solution of the conflict,” the Foreign Ministry in Budapest told The Times of Israel on Tuesday.
The statement appears to contradict the stance of the EU foreign policy czar, Federica Mogherini, who last week said that all member states are “united” in support for the measure.
6. A Congressional Overture to Censorship
(And UN resolution 16/18 stealthily moves forward)
Stephen Coughlin alerted me to a House Resolution introduced on December 17th, H.Res.569, “Condemning violence, bigotry, and hateful rhetoric towards Muslims in the United States.114th Congress (2015-2016).” As of this writing, the country remains clueless about this development.
The resolution was introduced by Virginia Democrat Donald S. Beyer, and sponsored by Frank Pallone, a New Jersey Democrat, and endorsed by seventy-one other Representatives, most of them Democrats, and possibly a sprinkling of Republicans. The resolution has gone into committee, but one can predict with confidence that it will emerge virtually unscathed and unaltered. After all, the “victims” are Muslims, and the House wishes to put it in the record that certain of its members are against hurting anyone’s feelings.
Many of the usual suspects have endorsed the resolution: Keith Ellison, a Democrat and Muslim from Minnesota; Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida Democrat and chairman of the Democratic National Committee; Charles Rangel, New York Democrat; and Alan Grayson, a Democrat from Florida. Most of the other endorsers’ names I do not recognize. They are all termites who have made careers of eating away at the rule of law and “transforming” America from a Western nation into a multicultural, welfare-statist, politically correct stewpot of no particular character.
Migrants have dumped rubbish in the streets in protest at not getting a cleaner or wi-fi at the free villa they have been given for shelter.
The 24 refugees are up in arms after demanding someone clean up after them in the Italian duplex where they have been housed since arriving from sub-Saharan Africa last summer.
They are also angry at not being provided free internet, which has prevented them from contacting relatives back home.
The demonstrations, which first took place last week, also blocked main roads in the town of Ceranova, near Milan, sparking heated rows with members of the local community.
Dirty demonstration: Migrants have dumped rubbish in the streets in a protest at not getting a cleaner or wi-fi at the free villa they have been given for shelter in Italy (file picture of migrants not involved in the protest)
The town’s mayor, Alessandro Grieco, was forced to intervene personally with the help of three police officers to calm the situation, it was reported by The Local, which cited La Repubblica.
Mr Grieco has expelled the 24-year-old leader of the protests from the villa.
He said: ‘The migrants have obviously flagged up a few issues for them but this is not the way to draw attention to them.
‘We absolutely won’t tolerate protests like this.’
8. Wiretapping reveals communication between Turkish officers and ISIL
Some Turkish officers on the Syrian border have been revealed to have communicated with terrorists of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria, a daily reported on Tuesday.
“It emerged that the telephone communications some officers made with ISIL militants were wiretapped,” the Cumhuriyet daily said, describing the officers’ contact with ISIL members as scandalous.
The wiretapping reportedly took place last year as part of an investigation conducted by the Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s Office.
The investigation file was handed over on March 15 this year to the military prosecutor’s office of the Gaziantep 5th Armored Brigade Command as the prosecutor’s office deemed the issue outside of its jurisdiction, according to the report.
An investigation was launched by public prosecutor Derda Gökmen into the 27 suspects, some of whom are in Syria, the report said.
Thank you M., Johnny U., Gates of Vienna, and many more who sent in materials. Posting is still a bit light thanks to seriously slow internet and similar issues but the important stuff will get through!
The People’s cube have a worthy post on the Vegas car terror event of the other day.
Also some time ago, this site covered a protest against a mosque in Romania, a land famous for the abuse it suffered under muslim raids, slave raids, forced tribute of children for janissary soldiers etc. etc. I just received an email from a Romanian activist with an update and a video of some of the Christian protestors who went to the land the PM at the time ceded to the turks for a giant mosque and planted crosses on it and sprayed it with holy water it appears. This action was successful and the contents of her email follows.
Well, I’m not very sure that we’re rid of that mosque, because there’s no law passed against it, to my knowledge. However, something changed since then. The [expletive deleted] prime minister Victor Ponta that allowed the land to be used for that purpose has resigned and he’s become a total nobody. Also there were the Jihadi attacks in Paris. And Erdogan, the president of Turkey, has other problems to focus on now. Maybe you know that Turkey was supposed to be paying for the construction. I don’t know if anyone would still dare to move forward with that mosque, but you can never be sure.
And lastly, a great cartoon from somewhere or other
Maajid Nawaz: Stealth Jihadist Exposed
While many will not recognize the name, they may recognize the organization he ran, and of which Tommy Robinson, formerly of the EDL, was a temporary partner.
This is a must read, must spread article.
From Gates of Vienna:
Maajid Nawaz is a prominent “moderate” or secular Muslim and the founder of the Quilliam Foundation in Britain. His organization was featured briefly in this space two years ago, when Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll left the EDL and teamed up with Quilliam just before Tommy’s trial (see these three posts from October 2013 for more on Tommy Robinson and Quilliam).
The following exposé by Vikram Chatterjee examines the extensive use by Maajid Nawaz of untruths, dissimulation, evasions, and misleading statements in his writings about Islam. In these he reveals himself to be a practitioner of taqiyya, tawriya, and kitman, the time-honored Islamic doctrines of lying and sacred misdirection.
Update: Mr. Chatterjee has cross-posted this article to his own blog, where you will find his further thoughts on Maajid Nawaz.
Maajid Nawaz: Stealth Jihadist Exposed
by Vikram K. Chatterjee
Thanks in part to the help of Douglas Murray, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Sam Harris, Prime Minister David Cameron and others, Maajid Nawaz has acquired an undeserved reputation as a secular liberal. Despite his outward facade of secularism and liberalism, Nawaz is in fact a deeply devout Sunni Muslim supremacist, operating far behind enemy lines in the Dar al-Harb, the House of War. Nawaz, to fulfill his duties as a Muslim, is waging a campaign of stealth Jihad in order to further the cause of Islam by making himself appear friendly and open to the Infidels of the West while simultaneously carrying out a campaign of mass deception about Islam itself. His goal is to weaken any resistance to the conquest of the Infidel lands of the West by publicly spreading disinformation about the faith, about its many ways of conquest, and deceiving his audience about the doctrinal details of Islam itself. While this may seem like a preposterous claim to make, it merely reflects the ordinary reality of stealth Jihad.
In what follows, Nawaz’s campaign of deception will be demonstrated.
Maajid Nawaz’s not-so-subtle threats of decapitation
The first thing to be said is that Nawaz is easily shown to have deployed threatening, jihad-tinged language after he supposedly became a secular liberal. In July of 2012, Nawaz’s book Radical: My Journey Out of Islamist Extremism was published by WH Allen. The book purports to be a memoir in which Nawaz describes his youth in Essex, how he joined the Sunni supremacist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, and how he became a political prisoner in Egypt where he supposedly had a revelation in which he saw that “Islamism”, or variously “Islamist extremism” was a divisive political ideology, and decided to leave it (but not, crucially, Islam itself), becoming a secular liberal. Fifteen months later, in October 2013, a year and a half after the UK publication of Nawaz’ memoir, Tommy Robinson quit the English Defense League, the organization which he started, out of fear that its ranks were swelling with neo-Nazis. He embraced Maajid Nawaz and Quilliam Foundation instead, accepting at the time their claims of secularism to be genuine. In an email obtained by Huffington Post Assistant News Editor Jessica Elgot, Nawaz described this event as the “UK’s largest right-wing street movement — the EDL — is being decapitated.”[1] (emphasis added)
Interesting choice of words, no? Why would the “former Islamist extremist” Maajid Nawaz use such threatening, jihad-tinged language? Could his secular liberalism be a clever sham? As we shall see, turning to the book he co-authored with Sam Harris, the evidence shows Nawaz is cold and calculating in his bald-faced telling of untruths, repeatedly deploying outrageous falsehoods about Islam.
The lies of Maajid Nawaz in Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue
Published in October 2015, Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue purports to be a conversation between two liberals, one an acknowledged atheist and secularist, the other a supposedly nominal Muslim. The goal of the book seems to be to find a way of talking about Islam and its attendant problems in a polite way, and search for a path for a kind of Islamic secularism. Harris, apparently convinced of Nawaz’ liberalism and secularism, entered into the “dialogue” with him in October 2014. In an article entitled “Can Liberalism Be Saved From Itself”, Harris wrote what will prove to have been a fateful sentence:
Whatever the prospects are for moving Islam out of the Middle Ages, hope lies not with obscurantists like Reza Aslan but with reformers like Maajid Nawaz.[2]
Harris called Aslan an obscurantist, yet turning to his book with Nawaz, on page 44 we find Nawaz saying, of Sayyid Qutb, the notorious Muslim Brotherhood leader, theologian and author of Milestones, and In The Shade of the Qur’an, whose zealous career was a primary force in creating the modern Islamic movements to restore the Caliphate, that “the Egyptian regime killed him for writing a book”.
This is a straightforward falsehood. Notoriously, Qutb was executed by the Egyptian state for his alleged involvement in an attempt to assassinate Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.[3] By saying that Qutb was executed for merely writing a book, Nawaz portrays Qutb as a devout Muslim as an innocent victim, a tried and true tactic of Islamic propaganda. It seems highly unlikely that Nawaz is unaware of the real reason for Qutb’s execution, given that Nawaz spent four years at the same prison in which Qutb was held, Mazra Tora.
Moving on, on page 61 of the book, Harris brings up the important point of Qur’anic literalism:
I want to ask you about this, because my understanding is that basically all “moderate” Muslims — that is, those who aren’t remotely like Islamists, or even especially conservative, in their social attitudes — are nevertheless fundamentalists by the Christian standard, because they believe the Qur’an to be the literal and inerrant word of God.
Excellent question, Sam. Do mainstream Muslims believe that the Qur’an is the literal and inerrant word of God? What is Nawaz’s reply?
Algerian army genuinely genocidally racist, no UN condemnation: Links 1 on Dec. 23 – 2014
1. ISIS-inspired Frenchman who beheaded his boss is found dead in jail cell
A Frenchman who beheaded his boss in the name of the Islamic State was found dead Tuesday in his Paris jail cell, according to local media.
Yassin Salhi was held in isolation at the Fleury-Merogis prison after the barbaric beheading during the summer. The 35-year-old delivery driver was found hanged with bed sheets from his cell and later died around 9:15 p.m. local time, Le Dauphine Libere newspaper reported.
He then unsuccessfully tried to set off an explosion at the U.S.-owned Air Products factory in Lyon by plowing a truck into an area containing flammable liquids. The suspect instead caused only a small explosion and was attempting to ignite bottles of acetone when he was overpowered by firefighters.Salhi had also hung ISIS-inspired messages from a fence, beside Cornara’s head. Authorities said Salhi had ties to Islamic extremists but was likely inspired, not ordered, to carry out the killing.His in-custody death has been ruled a suicide.
2. France: Terror plot foiled in Orleans in France as two arrested, says interior minister
An extremist plot was foiled last week in the French region of Orleans, south-west of Paris, Bernard Cazeneuve said on Tuesday, as the government prepared constitutional changes to enshrine emergency police powers.
Two French citizens aged 20 and 24 were arrested on December 19, the French interior minister said. The older individual has a police record for petty crime.
A police source told AFP that one was originally from Morocco and the other from Togo.
“A planned attack targeting representatives of state forces in the Orleans region was foiled last week by the DGSI (France’s internal intelligence agency),” Mr Cazeneuve said.
(Extremist plot ay? Must be vegans. Those guys can go crazy from lack of protein to the brain)
3. USA: Muslim deputy under scrutiny
(That fellow is correct. Islam is evil and worthy of contempt and hatred. It just is, by its teachings, actions and history. Communism equally so for making it a crime to speak the truth about islam)
4. Migrants Vs. refugees. The first forging the identity of the latter for the benefits and scamming the system.
5. Algerian Army march chants. “Kill, Slaughter and skin the Jews”
In a marching drill of the Algerian National Gendarmerie, the soldiers chant: “Turn your guns towards the Jews… in order to kill them… slaughter them… and skin them.” The video was posted on the Internet on November 1 to mark Algeria’s Revolution Day, but the post did not state when the video was filmed.
(The most important thing however is to be vigilant to make sure this is no backlash against any Algerian Soldier who actually does it)
6. Ban the song, White Christmas cause its racist.
7. Still No Answers for What Caused Mass Choking, Vomiting at Jersey Dept Store
(At least someone is following up on these stories and trying to keep them out of the memory hole)
On Sunday, a Kohl’s department store was evacuated and police were brought in to investigate after “at least a dozen” shoppers became ill due to an unknown cause. From the initial report:
A Kohl’s department store in Secaucus, New Jersey, was evacuated Sunday night after an unknown substance began to make shoppers sick.
The store was evacuated at around 9 p.m. after employees began telling customers to leave, CBS2’s Brian Webb reported.
The substance seemed to be coming from the front of the store by the cash registers, Webb reported. Witnesses said some shoppers were coughing, choking and even vomiting.
Today, police report that the substance that caused the customers to become sick is still a mystery.
Breitbart London reports:
Despite being of a migrant background herself, commissioner Tania Kambouri has not been shy in her criticism of the failures of the integration process in Germany which is making life difficult for police, as they are harassed and even ganged up on by migrant men.
Speaking in an interview with Stuttgarter Zeitung, Mrs. Kambouri said the German state was not taking the problem seriously enough, and said the police were under threat. While identifying “young Muslim men” as the main problem she and her colleagues faced, she did qualify herself, remarking: “They are, as far as I can see, men from Muslim countries. But whether they are practising Muslims or not, I can not tell”.
9. According to Andrew Bostom, Ruch Limbaugh has come out and just said it. Islam is the problem. No qualifiers, no unnecessary and deflecting adjectives. If so he is the first broadcast radio personality with an audience in the millions to say so. Lets hope that he has now created the ‘safe space’ for the rest of the media to drop Obamonix and start saying what is true, and what more and more people just already know. It looks like we can listen to the show here if you are a member. The embed below might be it.
Thank you M., Gates of Vienna, Richard, Nash Montana, Andrew Bostom, and all.
Non-native German brags of being part of 7 monster gang rape of ‘virgin’
UPDATE: ***It has been brought to my attention that an earlier (unsubtitled) version of this video was uploaded to Youtube on 2013. There is no issue that I have seen as to the veracity of it but it is not a new event
What can I say. Nothing really.
Priceless: German crypto-enviornmentalists go to the Maldives to study global warming and find jihad
Bombs on a plane, American soldiers at British airports and more: Links 1 on Dec. 20 – 2015
(Don’t you hate it when people leave stuff in the bathroom on aircraft?)
An Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris was forced to make an emergency landing in Kenya after a passenger found a suspected bomb in the toilet.
Kenyan authorities have now retracted an earlier statement which said that it was an explosive device, and now claim that it was a ‘dummy bomb’.
The Boeing 777 was carrying 459 passengers and 14 crew members when pilots requested an emergency landing at a Mombasa airport at 12.30am.
(There are photos of the bomb on social media according to the article. No doubt there is as people with cell phones are much more willing to inform others of what they need to know than is the MSM or our governments if it contradicts the narrative. Perhaps a reader can find one of them. More at the Tribune)
2. Britain: Immigration officers give up hunting 10,000 missing asylum seekers
(10,000. That would be what, two divisions?)
Immigration officers have given up trying to find more than 10,000 asylum seekers who are missing in Britain, a watchdog has revealed.
Staff are not even checking last known addresses because it is “not a priority” and a “drain on resources”, the chief inspector of borders and immigration found.
Illegal immigrants have also been allowed to abscond after being released from custody because there are no beds available in detention centres.
And more than 30,000 failed asylum seekers are still in the UK more than two years after all appeals against removal were exhausted, the report said.
3. Israel: Potentially Devastating Terror Attack Foiled on Gaza Border
JNS.org – Israel on Friday uncovered a number of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) along its border with Gaza, foiling a possible devastating terror attack.
Israel Defense Forces engineers uncovered the unexploded IEDs, with some devices connected to remote-controlled timers set to be activated by a cell phone, Yedioth Ahronoth reported. Earlier this week, a similar IED detonated near IDF troops.
4. Large demonstration against a ‘migration’ center in Poland.
(Translation by Kathy)
Manifestation in Polish city of Olecko.
City council adopted resolution against the migrant centre in Olecko. The resolution was sent to Prime Minister Beate Szydlo. Resident are also collecting signatures in protest against the creation of a centre for refugees. Neither city authorities nor residents agree with the decision of Office for the Affairs of Foreigners ( the official name is “Office for Repatriation and Aliens” ? ) . In town residents displayed black flags which are sign of the mourning for democracy.
(Olecko has populatio of 22,384)
[Oddly there is audio of the demo at the site but no video. Perhaps on YT somewhere. Will look]
(Video here. Sent for translation if content warrants)
5. This video from an ABC focus group on muslims in America who are upset with all white people for being racist, and Obama for not doing enough to protect muslims etc. is quite revealing of both the leftist media and islamic thought in the USA. It isn’t encouraging however.
6. Turkey: Police fire tear gas at protesters on busy Istanbul street
Gun-toting US border guards with the power to search holidaymakers will be stationed at British airports for the first time, under controversial plans being discussed by Washington and London.
The US Department of Homeland Security wants to introduce the scheme at airports worldwide, including Heathrow and Manchester, to reduce the risk of Islamic State terrorists flying to America.
Guards from Customs and Border Protection would carry out immigration and customs checks before passengers board.
They would be given diplomatic immunity so they could not be prosecuted for any crime committed on British soil.
(Fascinating sign of the times, sin’t it?)
Thank you Yucki, Richard, M., Maria J., Kathy, WTD., Blazing Cat Fur, and all. More to come. Internet problems are not solved but work arounds occasionally are possible)
Riots in Geldermalsen, Netherlands – shots fired by police
An original article explaining the situation in a Dutch village where locals rioted against yet another proposed government funded refugee center for muslims in population replacement numbers.
Just don’t look. It will be OK
By SIMONXML with much thanks
Dutch cheese, Dutch butter, Dutch milk, Dutch cows, dairy products have always been a major part of the Dutch economy and a reason for its fame. With nearly 4.5 million cows, each producing approximately 12 tons of manure per year, that is an incredible amount of BS. The Dutch solution is to inject it back into the soil, bit by bit, from February to September, working on the principle that if you spread it thin, no-one will complain.
So too with refugees. The list of official centers reads like a telephone book: [Aalten 300, Alkmaar 460, Almelo 378, Almere 800, Alphen aan den Rijn 1,140, Amersfoort 301, Apeldoorn 400, Arnhem – De Berg 400, Arnhem-Zuid – Vreedenburgh 339, Azelo 375, Baexem 425, Bellingwolde 345, Bergen aan Zee 95, Borculo 130, Breda 400, Budel-Cranendonck 1,700, Budel-Dorplein 239, Burgum 450, Delfzijl 430, Den Haag 600, Den Haag – Loosduinen 40, Den Helder – Doggershoek 575, Den Helder – Maaskampkazerne 300, Den Helder 372, Deventer 50, Doetinchem 350, Drachten 460, Dronten 1,000, Echt 414, Ede 370, Eindhoven 700, Emmen 500, Geeuwenbrug 75, Gilze en Rijen 1,200, Goes 300, Gorinchem 300, Grave 600, Groningen 550, Grou, Oer ‘t Hout 195, Gulpen-Wittem 250, Haarlem 400, Heerhugowaard 600, Heerlen 412, Hengelo (OV) 135, Hoogeveen 1,000, Katwijk 1,170, Kolham 400, Leersum 675, Lelystad Schepenen 230, Leeuwarden 600, Leiden 250, Luttelgeest 1,000, Maastricht 600, Middelburg 330, Musselkanaal 450, Nijmegen Heumensoord 3,000, Nijmegen 325, Oisterwijk 450, Ommen 370, Onnen 480, Ootmarsum 230, Oranje 700, Oude Pekela 467, Overberg 200, Overloon 800, Rosmalen 500, ‘s-Gravendeel 375, Schalkhaar 550, Scheerwolde 35, Sint Annaparochie 400, Stadskanaal 538, Sweikhuizen 242, Ter Apel 2,000, Terneuzen 600, Tilburg 400, Utrecht 450, Utrecht Kanaleneiland 500, Valkenswaard 400, Veenhuizen 600, Venlo 480, Vierhouten 60, Vledder 180, Wageningen 246, Wassenaar 750, Weert 1,000, Winterswijk 500, Zaanstad Rijshoutweg 300, Zaanstad Burg. in ‘t Veldpark 500, Zeist 379, Zweeloo 450, Zwolle IJsselhallen 400 …] spread them thin, avoid large concentrations and it’s impressive how many you can hide away in a country a little large than twice the size of the state of New Jersey.
The recent “refugee crisis” has meant however that even this is not enough. Refugees are being shuttled from one temporary location (where they are legally only allowed to stay for 72 hours) to another – sports halls, empty office buildings, vacation parks, tents. It’s hardly any wonder that locals, who see their children no longer able to take part in school sports because the local gym is occupied, are getting annoyed. It no wonder that the refugees themselves are becoming increasingly aggressive, and no surprise that problems like scabies outbreaks are beginning to appear.
Rather than limit the number of incoming refugees, all Dutch citizens are urged to step up and accept their moral responsibility. The Dutch COA agency sent out an appeal to local authorities to “do the right thing” and find locations where the refugees could be housed and the local authorities have responded.
Dutch Democracy
Dutch democracy, like a lot of things Dutch, appears to be very similar to democracy in many other countries but, like a lot of other things Dutch, the Dutch have their very own interpretation. The democratic part of Dutch local authorities is the “Raad” or council. These are elected. Well, not quite. Votes can be cast for individuals (with literally hundreds of names of anonymous individuals appearing on ballot forms) or political parties. The parties then choose their office holders based on the number of total votes they received. This can mean that an office holder may actually have received only a few tens of votes. Above the council is the “burgermeester” (mayor, appointed, not elected) and the “wethouders” (aldermen, chosen by the council, not elected), together forming the “college van burgermeester en wethouders” (“B&W” for short). While the council may veto B&W decisions, the B&W holds the executive power and makes its decisions independently of the council.
Why is this important? It’s important because this is the reason why there have been riots in Geldermalsen, protests in Steenbergen, demonstrations in Glanerbrug, and why there will be many, many more.
Islamic Supremacism Does Business in U.S. Via a Turkish Cult: Gulen Movement is an Engine for “Civilization Jihad”
Press Release from Center for Security Policy in Washington DC
(Washington, D.C.): It has become increasingly apparent that the United States is not only confronting a violent effort by Islamic supremacists to impose the program they call shariah on the rest of the world, Muslim and non-Muslim, alike. Dangerous as jihadist terrorism is, America – and the rest of the Free World, for that matter – also face what amounts to a pre-violent assault.
The Muslim Brotherhood calls this stealthy, seditious effort to “destroy us from within” a “civilization jihad.” One of its prime practitioners in this country is the Gulen Movement, a cult/business empire led by a reclusive Turkish expatriate, Fethullah Gulen, who operates from within an armed camp in the Poconos.
This movement and its penetration of our country is the subject of an important new monograph published as part of the Center for Security Policy’s Civilization Jihad Reader Series: The Gulen Movement: Turkey’s Islamic Supremacist Cult and Its Contribution to Civilization Jihad in America. It is co-authored by two members of the Center’s senior leadership team: Vice President for Outreach Christopher Holton and Clare Lopez, Vice President for Research and Analysis.
The narrative and muslim double speak.
So you take a course in ‘international calligraphy’ and naturally writing Arabic would be part of it. And one might assume that in the many regions of the Earth inhabited by any number of hundreds of millions of Arabic speakers, some of them might have written something worth copying, or even have your own thoughts translated to Arabic and then learn to write them with cool pens.
So how interesting is this story where the one thing they could find to teach public school students in Virginia to write out is the Islamic declaration of faith, the ‘shahada’.
In a lesson Friday on the Middle East, students were presented with an Islamic statement of faith written in Arabic calligraphy, superintendent Eric Bond told The News Leader.
“The students were presented with the statement to demonstrate the complex artistry of the written language used in the Middle East, and were asked to attempt to copy it in order to give the students an idea of the artistic complexity of the calligraphy,” a statement Bond gave the paper said.
The article goes on to explain how people’s objections show islamophobia of course and muslims are, as usual, the victim of trying to trick, force and kill people into accepting the tenets of their gang.
There is good news though. In future the class plans to use non-religious material as a template. Perhaps just swearing an oath to the Islamic State or something.
H/T PePi