Another Cartoonist in Hiding After Death Threats

From The New York Times:

By BRIAN STELTER
Published: September 16, 2010

A cartoonist in Seattle who promoted an “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” last spring is now in hiding after her life was threatened by Islamic extremists.

The cartoonist, Molly Norris, has changed her name and has stopped producing work for a local alternative newspaper, Seattle Weekly, according to the newspaper’s editor, Mark D. Fefer.

Mr. Fefer declined an interview request Thursday, citing “the sensitivity of the situation.” But in a letter to readers about Ms. Norris on Wednesday, he said that “on the insistence of top security specialists at the F.B.I., she is, as they put it, ‘going ghost’: moving, changing her name, and essentially wiping away her identity.”

The F.B.I. declined to comment on the case.

Ms. Norris attracted attention after she published a poster on the Internet in April satirically proposing that people draw figures of the Prophet Muhammad on May 20.

She indicated that the proposal was a protest of censorship by Comedy Central, which edited out references to Muhammad from an episode of “South Park” that month. That episode also triggered threats from extremists. Islam forbids depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.

In 2005, a Dutch cartoonist named Kurt Westergaard published a depiction of Muhammad that led to multiple death threats and alleged assassination attempts. He was presented an award this month for freedom of speech by Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany. Continue Reading →

Arabic enrichers carve swastika in the forehead of SD politician after breaking into his home

Sorry, it is in Swedish, you will need web translation

Here is a video of leftist demonstrators who tagged the mans house, that resulted in his having a Swastika carved on his head

The Gates of Vienna has this post on this important story:

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Carving a Swastika into the Forehead of Free Speech

by Baron Bodissey

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Sweden goes to polls in a week, and the Sweden Democrats — opponents of mass immigration who publicly decry the Islamization of Sweden — are expected to enter parliament for the first time. The Swedish political elites are obviously terrified by the prospect of SD, and have ramped up the demonization and repression as the election approaches.

Needless to say, the official organs of the state are never involved in any of the suppression, intimidation, and violence. The establishment keeps its hands fastidiously clean, and sub-contracts the thuggery to non-state actors such as Anti-Fascist Action.

Reinhard of ICLA has a report about the sickening extremity of pre-election oppression in Sweden, and most egregiously what occurred late yesterday in Malmö.


Welcome to Sweden
by Reinhard

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that Sweden, while promoting its self-image of being the most tolerant and liberal country in the world, at the same time ruthlessly suppresses dissent, either by loud and persistent condemnations of everything that is considered to be even remotely racist, or by ignoring or downplaying physical attacks on people who are accused of being racists.

Sverigedemokraterna in the crosshairsThese condemnations and attacks are never more apparent than during election year, and never more so than this year, when Sverigedemokraterna (the Sweden Democrats) are poised to enter Swedish parliament for the first time. The Sweden Democrats are unique in that they are openly critical of immigration, multiculturalism and Islam, and have consistently garnered enough support in recent polls to indicate that they will indeed enter parliament in the elections next Sunday.

Their opponents are therefore out in force, and doing what they can do sabotage the Sweden Democrats’ chances of entering parliament — by any means possible.

These attacks can be divided into five different categories: attempts at election sabotage by tampering with their ballots; disruptions of meetings (which coincidentally is a crime against the principle of freedom of assembly, which is guaranteed by the Swedish constitution); threats directed at party officials; attacks on houses and property; and even attempted murder.

While these attacks are perpetrated by activists of the extreme Left, they are rarely, if ever, condemned by the same pundits and self-proclaimed guardians of Swedish morality who fill the pages of practically every newspaper in Sweden with reasons why all decent Swedes should vote for immigration-friendly parties, instead of the Sweden Democrats with their, as one pundit put it, “illegal opinions”.*

The following are examples of these attacks, and demonstrate that while Sweden may be the most tolerant society imaginable when it comes to immigrants, it is an absolute dictatorship when it comes to political dissidents.

1. Election sabotage

SD set up a dedicated e-mail address which they asked voters to use if they saw evidence of tampering with ballots. After two days of advance voting, 34 complaints had already been filed.

The 34 most serious acts of sabotage include cases where election officials refused to display SD’s ballots, where SD’s ballots were completely absent from the election locale despite the fact that blank ballots with the party name marked in must be present in all locales. [Since SD have previously garnered more than 1 % of the vote in national elections, their ballots are distributed free of charge and must be present in all election locales.] Besides this there are reports of cases where all ballots have been stolen.

Besides the 34 most serious cases there are roughly a hundred reports of other parties’ ballots being placed in front of those of the Sweden Democrats, cases where the Social Democrats’ ballots have been mixed in with those of the Sweden Democrats or where SD’s ballots have been placed in a separate container beside those of the other parties, which threatens the election secrecy. [Swedish voters bring ballots with them into the polling booth. Having SD’s ballots in a separate location violates the principle of not being able to see what others vote for.]

The following video shows how election sabotage works. SD’s ballots have been placed behind those of the Social Democrats. The election official’s exclamation (at 1:24), “All the time!”, sums up the situation: this form of tampering is persistent. The video itself is self-explanatory.

2. Disruptions of meetings

There are many examples of this, but the most recent one was in Malmö, which is well-known as being both Sweden’s most multicultural city and a hotbed of leftist/pro-Palestinian extremism

The Swedish daily Sydsvenskan reports on the demonstration, which was cancelled by police due to leftist disruption.

Sverigedemokraterna meeting, Malmö
Kent Ekeroth, international secretary for the Sweden Democrats and an active member of the counterjihad, defies the extreme Left (Photo by Karl Melander, Sydsvenskan).

3. Threats against party officials
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The Sweden Democrats have a long history of being targeted for physical assaults by the extreme left. The first step is usually threatening letters and phone calls. One such threat was recently received by Isak Nygren, a candidate for local council in Katrineholm. The threatening letter was signed by the Revolutionary Front, an organisation dedicated to fighting against what they call racists, fascists, and Nazis by “militant” means.

“This is a warning. We will only give you one warning. So think carefully about your next step. Pull out!”

The Swedish secret police, SÄPO, released a report in 2008, Hot mot förtroendevalda (“Threats against elected officials”), which describes the situation for SD officials:

Elected officials for the Sweden Democrats are subjected to extensive and systematic threats from the autonomous milieu. This includes violent crimes. The threats have led to several elected officials leaving political office.

[…]

AFA SwedenThreats against elected officials from organised criminal milieus or other groups are rare. The Sweden Democrats are the exception to this. They are continually subjected to threats and actions from Anti-Fascist Action (AFA), or from persons using AFA’s symbols.

[…]

[Most threats are due to specific issues the politicians are involved in.] The motives are different when it comes to threats against the Sweden Democrats, where the main motive seems to be to make the politician leave political office.

The results of the study indicate that the Sweden Democrats are subjected to more threats than representatives from other parties. The frequency of reporting [threats] is deemed to be low.

4. Attacks on house and property

The next step is direct attacks on the homes, cars and property of SD officials.

The night between Friday and Saturday [September 3rd] a former Sweden Democrat candidate for local council in Mariestad was attacked by the violent leftist organisation AFA (Anti-fascist action). The attack consisted of a smashed car, several fist-sized rocks thrown in through windows and threats sprayed on the side of the house.

Anti-Fascist ActionMarrlis Lundgren from Mariestad signed up for the Sweden Democrats as a candidate, but later withdrew her candidacy for personal reasons. In spite of this, she and her family were on Friday night subjected to a very serious attack from the democracy-despising violent organisation AFA. Marrlis’ son took the brunt of the attack in that all the windows of his car were smashed and it was through his bedroom window that the stones were thrown. AFA also left behind a threat aimed at the former candidate and her family:

“Think of your family, Marrlis! /AFA”

The threat was sprayed with large letters on the facade of the house.

5. Attempted murder

The last step consists of direct attempts to murder SD officials. One such attack in March of 2010 was aimed at David von Arnold Antoni, who was subject to another attempt on his life yesterday, the 10th of September.

Malmö — A candidate for the Sweden Democrats was attacked Friday night in his apartment in Malmö. The police received an alarm at 20.42.

A man has been beaten in his apartment by two perpetrators. We’re labeling it illegal deprivation of freedom and assault, says the police commander in charge at the time, Lars Karsten. The intruders used a knife during the assault, according to the police. The man is said to be lightly injured.

The Sweden Democrats’ press secretary, Erik Almqvist, confirms that the victim is a representative of the party and that he is a candidate in the elections.

“It is unfortunately true.”

He doesn’t want to say right now which district the man is running in.

“I actually don’t want to go into more detail, first I want to talk to the person so that he’s OK with the situation.”

According to Erik Almqvist there is no doubt that the attack was politically motivated.

“Without a doubt. This will become readily apparent due to what’s happened. It’s definitely the most serious thing I know to have happened to a Sweden Democrat for political reasons.”

Bo Paulsson with the Malmö police reports that the man has been cut in his face with a knife.

“And when they left they took with them money and a computer,” he says.

Earlier that day, von Arnold’s home was plastered with AFA stickers and sprayed with graffiti stating, “David von Arnold is a people-hating racist swine”.

The same evening, he was dragged into his apartment by two assailants who spoke a language “resembling Arabic” and threatened him, in “heavily accented Swedish”, because of his participation in the meeting earlier that day in Malmö. According to the Sweden Democrats’ press release, the perpetrators admitted to taking part in disrupting that meeting.

The police have confirmed that the perpetrators put up stickers from the organisation AFA, Anti-Fascist Action, an organisation which for many years has been known for using violence against those opponents whom AFA defines as being anti-democratic and belonging to racist organisations.

Aside from stealing money and a computer, they also used a knife to carve a swastika in von Arnold’s forehead.

So there we have it: an open meeting in a public square in Malmö was disrupted by the extreme Left and Middle Eastern immigrants, the latter of whom proceeded to track down one of the speakers, drag him into his apartment and carve a swastika in his forehead.

This is what happens to political dissidents in Sweden today. This is the reality behind the rhetoric of tolerance and diversity: if you challenge the multiculturalist orthodoxy, you will be tortured in your home by immigrants and quite possibly killed.

Welcome to Sweden, the most tolerant and progressive society in the world.

Hoping for peace through escapist-illusion and weakness

From The Ottawa Citizen

Pastor bashing didn’t buy peace

By David B. Harris, Citizen Special September 10, 2010 7:55 AM

What do Stephen Harper, Barack Obama, Gen. David Petraeus, Canadian Defence Minister Peter MacKay and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have in common?

They each need to get a grip on themselves the next time they want to whack a wacky pastor. Each sacrificed valuable resources to condemn and plead with once-aspiring Koran-griller, Florida Pastor Terry Jones, a bizarre fourth-string in the evangelical band. Congregation size: 50, on an inflationary day.

Yes, by now all agree: a nutty fringe leader was compromising social cohesion, foreign relations and military security with grotesquely silly, gratuitous and hurtful plans for a Koranic cook-off.

But this portrayal missed key considerations. In the extent and scope of their criticism of Jones’ aims, senior U.S. officials, including Clinton and Gen. Petraeus, exceeded their constitutional remit in ways that could undermine future security and liberal-democratic ways. The same can be said of Harper and his defence minister.

Their warnings and beseechings raised immeasurably the stakes in this matter. Politicians risked the possibility that a government failure to apparently force Jones to stop — a constitutional impossibility, in any event — would produce more blowback than ever. Now that this pressure has forced Jones to climb down on his own, liberal-democracy’s enemies at home and abroad will be emboldened. The outcome doubtless confirms their doctrinal belief in a soft West that is vulnerable to ever-increasing levels of terrorism and stealth-jihadic demands for endlessly-Islamizing “accommodation.” Continue Reading →

On book burning and sanctimony

All the bloggers and pundits who write on Islam seem to be weighing in with an opinion on whether or not this US pastor should have his little Koran burning day. For the most part, everyone seems to be against it with a plethora of false equivalence and moral high handedness to justify their opposition. However, I don’t give a damn. I think you should be able to burn any book you want. In fact, if I had my way, everyone would both read Qu’oran and then burn it. I don’t think people would understand why it should be burned till they have read it.

Besides, to paraphrase Alan West:

“When tolerance is a one way street, its actually suicide.”

I say burn the Koran. That seems to get their attention. It isn’t as if not burning it will stop the hundreds of thousands if not millions of Muslims who chant “death to America” every morning before breakfast or ethnically cleanse non-Muslims out of various cities towns and villages across the Islamic world.

Lets compare and contrast a bit shall we? A nobody preacher in Florida who is going to burn a few books compared to this:

WARNING: This is HARSH watching.

Predictibly, youtube removed it. Here it is again:

This is Muslims actually burning Christians alive and beating them at the same time. That is this year. What inspired this barbarity?

Lets see if we can find a few choice quotes and by the way, the translation I am using was approved by Al Azaar, so no games please about it being English.

Qu’oran 4:74 “So let those who sell the present for the life to come fight in the way of allah. Whoever fights in the way of Allah and is killed or conquors, we shall accord him a great reward.”

Qu’oran 9:30 “The Jews say: “Ezra is the son of Allah” and the Christians say: “The Messiah is the son of Allah.” That is their statement, by their mouths; they emulate the statement of the unbelievers of yore. May Allah damn them; how they are perverted.

or could it be…

Qu’oran 9:123 “O you who believe, fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them see how harsh you can be. Know that Allah is with the righteous”

These are just three of literally hundreds of Koranic instructions to kill unbelievers and painfully I might add. So if burning a few of them gets the book some of the attention it so richly deserves and for that matter, that we in the west so urgently need to understand, (To quote that BNP manatee, “Islam is not just Christianity with a towel on its head”) then burn them. And those who have been dumping on this nobody pastor in Florida to give themselves a fresh coat of sanctimony, well they should be ashamed of themselves. It is just a book and burning it is a symbolic act and a much needed one. It is not the same as calling for it to be banned, something which really is un-American and does run against the core values of Western liberal democracy.

Ill sign off with this little quote by Churchill on what he felt Mine Kampf was:

“the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message”,

Maybe if we had burned a few copies of that it would have attracted enough attention to get America into the war in time to stop that Austrian bastard at Poland.

Eeyore for Vlad

The Emancipation of the Dhimmi & European Imposed Reforms

Not to mention the genocide of the Armenians

Opposing Hassan al-Banna and the Muslim Brotherhood Is Not Some Kind of Racism

From Point De Bascule:

Opposing Hassan al-Banna and the Muslim Brotherhood Is Not Some Kind of Racism.

2 Septembre 2010 par Étienne Harvey, Marc Lebuis

Mots clés: MAC, Issam Saleh, Edmonton, Lessard/Gariepy Community

A reply to Issam Saleh, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who threatens to sue Edmontonians opposed to the opening of an Islamic school in their neighbourhood

By Marc Lebuis and Étienne Harvey

After they learned about the Muslim Association of Canada’s intentions to run an Islamic school in their Lessard/Gariepy area of Edmonton, 60% of the residents signed a petition opposing the project. [CTV – August 20, 2010]

Initially their objections were based on zoning considerations. As they learned more and more about the ideological background of the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC), their objections came to include the danger of having an organisation openly supporting jihad and suicide bombing that would run a school in their neighbourhood. The Lessard Petition Campaign has set up its own website to explain the motives supporting its opposition.

The MAC is the Canadian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), an organization whose motto concludes with “Jihad is our way” and “Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope”. A previous article published on Point de Bascule exposed the totalitarian ideology of the organization and that of its founder Hassan al-Banna. On its own website, the MAC pledges to implement al-Banna’s ideology as “the best representation of Islam”.

Unable to refute the objections brought up by the residents, Issam Saleh, the MAC leader in Edmonton, tried to silence his critics by threatening to sue them for so-called “Islamophobia” in the Edmonton Sun [August 19, 2010].

The very notion of Islamophobia has been developed in the late eighties by Islamists to make their critics pass for irrational haters of Muslims. The MB’s recourse to this concept is flawed for the simple fact that many of its critics are Muslims themselves. Many of the most eloquent expositions written against the MB’s ideology have been produced by Muslims. Many of the most courageous stands against the MB have been taken by Muslims. Consequently, condemning the MB cannot be equated to condemning Muslims in general. Continue Reading →

Iranian woman facing death by stoning is ‘lashed 99 MORE times’ after newspaper prints picture of her without headscarf

Daily Mail: UK

By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 8:13 PM on 5th September 2010

Lashings: Sakineh Mohammad Ashtiani was allegedly whipped 99 times after an incorrect picture of her appeared in a newspaper

Lashings: Sakineh Mohammad Ashtiani was allegedly whipped 99 times after an incorrect picture of her appeared in a newspaper

An Iranian widow sentenced to death by stoning for adultery has been lashed 99 times for ”spreading corruption and indecency” after a newspaper published an alleged picture of her without a headscarf, her son said last night.

Sakineh Mohammad Ashtiani, 43, was convicted of “adultery while being married” and given the death penalty after a trial over her husband’s murder in 2006.

The widow’s son Sajad, 22, has campaigned for her to be released and after the plight caused international uproar her execution was halted in July.

But supporters’ hopes have been dashed after Sajad said that his mother has been whipped 99 times after an apparent picture of her without traditional head-dress appeared in The Times last week.

The newspaper quickly withdrew the picture claiming it was of a different Iranian woman living in Sweeden but Sajad now fears that his mother could be hanged.

He said the photograph was an excuse to punish his mother and that the hardline Iranian government’s real purpose was to silence the international campaign to save her.

‘If it wasn’t the picture they would have found another excuse to try and silence her supporters outside Iran’, he said.

The Times said that it had been sent the photo “in good faith” by Mohammad Mostafaei, who was Sakineh’s lawyer in Tehran until he was forced to flee Iran at the end of July for publicising her plight.

Outrage: Sakineh's plight has caused international uproar and her supporters hope that her death sentence will be quashedOutrage: Sakineh’s plight has caused international uproar and her supporters hope that her death sentence will be quashed Continue Reading →

Geert Wilders openly threatened with beheading

Does you’re ‘maid’ try and run away from you?

From Sheik Yermami

Saudi Master Embeds 24 Burning Hot Nails into Maid’s Foot…

by sheikyermami on August 26, 2010

Thanks to the RoP

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission

The Sowdi Barbarians  really have a way to treat their domestic servants:

(August 25, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka Guardian) Mrs. L.T. Ariyawathi (49), a mother of three has returned from Saudi Arabia after less than five months of employment. Within a short time of her return she was hospitalized for an operation to remove 24 nails from her foot and a needle implanted by her employer. Doctors who x-rayed her at Kamburupitiya hospital have identified these items and are preparing to operate in order to remove them.

for the rest please click here:

Morocco gives 6 months in jail for eating during Ramadan

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

Two people assaulted in France for eating during Ramadam. One was not even Muslim

This is a machine translation from the French article here. I will try and get a better translation done later. Still, you get the jist.


Assaulted because they did not respect Ramadan [+ quick history]

Par Jeannot le 23 août 2010 By Jeannot August 23, 2010

Assaulted because they did not respect Ramadan [+ quick history]

A man who was lunching on the terrace of a restaurant in central Lyon was assaulted for not respecting Ramadan

He breakfasted on the terrace of a restaurant in central Lyon, the weekend of Aug. 15, when three youths pounced on him because he does not respect the fasting month of Ramadan.  The father of Senegalese origin, living Venissieux, was struck in the head with a glass bottle, then hit with a chair.

Transported to the hospital with a fractured skull at the back, the victim has been trépanée. The attack was filmed by a CCTV camera, but the bad images do not identify the attackers. The Lyon prosecutor’s office opened a preliminary investigation.  According to our information, the manager of Kebab, fearing reprisals, would testify under X.

Three days later, a young Jewish woman who wore a complaint after being assaulted in a large area of Toulouse. . The victim claimed to have been taken to task by two teenagers who accused him of buying food during fasting.

The young woman would then argued that she was Jewish, which would only intensify the anger of his attackers, who, after having called a “dirty Jew”, allegedly hit on the head, by the heavy fall.

A vigil attended the scene without intervening. When questioned by investigators about the reasons for its passivity, the man explained that he respected Ramadan and so was anxious to leave in order to eat, from the sunset.

Sharia in Chechnya: women attacked for not wearing head scarves

From The Province, courtesy TROP

Women targeted in Chechnya

Reuters August 22, 2010

Many women in Russia’s volatile Chechnya region said on Friday they had been harassed and some physically harmed by bands of men for not wearing head scarves during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

Against the backdrop of a spreading Islamist insurgency, many fear that growing interest in radical Islam could fuel separatism in the volatile North Caucasus, where the Kremlin watches uneasily as sharia law eclipses Russian.

Residents and witnesses told Reuters that bearded men in traditional Islamic dress have been roaming the streets both on foot and in cars since Ramadan started on Aug. 11, demanding bare-headed women wear a head scarf. Continue Reading →