Italy to become next European country to ban burka after government report recommends forbidding it in public

From The Daily Mail:

By Nick Pisa
Last updated at 1:41 PM on 7th October 2010
Ban: Italy could become the next European country to ban the burka after a government report ruled in favour of legislation to prohibit wearing it in publicBan: Italy could become the next European country to ban the burka after a government report ruled in favour of legislation to prohibit wearing it in public

Italy is set to become the next European country to ban the burka after a government report ruled in favour of the proposed legislation.

MPs from the anti-immigration Northern League party, a member of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s ruling right wing coalition, have presented the proposal in a bill.

It comes just weeks after France banned the wearing of burkas and other forms of face veils – a decision which prompted al Qaeda terrorists to vow revenge.

An Interior Ministry report now being considered by the Constitutional Affairs Commission says that if introduced the law should make clear burkas and other face coverings were being banned not for ‘religious reasons but for security reasons.’ Continue Reading →

Geert Wilders gives historic speech in Berlin Oct. 2 2010

This speech may well go down in history as one of the most important political speeches of this young century.

Special thanks to the Counter Jihad Collective for staying up all night to translate this most auspicious speech.

Geert Wilders Berlin Oct 2 English titles from Vlad Tepes on Vimeo.

Dispatches From Berlin

As some of you may know, there was a giant counter-jihad gathering in Berlin this weekend. Here is the first report of it from Gates of Vienna:

Dispatches From Berlin

Wilders in Berlin #1
A number of representatives of the Counterjihad Collective (including several members of ICLA) attended today’s events in Berlin. The occasion was a speech by Geert Wilders to a group of about five hundred people, sponsored by René Stadtkewitz and his new political party, Die Freiheit.

Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff and Geert Wilders
As you can see from the photo above, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff was one of those present. She says she was able to discuss the hate-speech charge against her with Mr. Wilders, and the two of them compared notes on their respective cases.

Although the two cases differ considerably in scale, they are similar in other respects: each defendant being is prossecuted for purely political reasons, at the whim of the state and its prosecutorial apparatus. Each is being targeted for speaking out against the Islamization of their countries. Their prosecutions are an attempt to appease the Islamic lobby and satisfy the requirements of Orthodox Multiculturalism. Continue Reading →

Blazingcatfur Gets Results! MacKay Cancels DND Speech By Canadian Islamic Congress

This is a small victory in a long war. A special thanks to readers and those who worked behind the scenes to make this happen. Good work all of you!

MacKay pulls plug on imam’s speech at defence HQ

OTTAWA — A speech at National Defence headquarters by the outspoken executive director of the Canadian Islamic Congress has been cancelled due to his organization’s “extremist views.”

A spokesman for Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Imam Zijad Delic was scheduled to make an address as part of Islamic Heritage Month on Oct. 4 but that MacKay decided to cancel the event.

“The Canadian Islamic Congress has declared that Israelis over the age of 18 are legitimate targets of suicide bombers,” spokesman Jay Paxton said in an email to Global National.

“These types of comments don’t support Islamic Heritage, they simply divide Canadians, promulgate hate and they have no place in Monday’s celebrations.”

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Here’s the original Post: What the hell is going on at DND?

The New Dutch Government, the EU, and the Wilders Trial

Thanks to The Baron at Gates of Vienna for this post:

Rutte-Verhagen-Wilders
I mentioned a couple of days ago that a new coalition government has been agreed upon in the Netherlands. As expected, the cabinet will consist of a VVD/CDA minority coalition, backed by Geert Wilders’ party, the PVV.

Details of the new government’s program have now emerged, and when I read what they’re planning, it made my mouth water. The most conservative Republican government imaginable would never attempt half of this stuff in the USA. Just think — if only Geert had been born in Kenya, we could elect him president!

Our Flemish correspondent VH has translated several articles from the Dutch media about the new government, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s reaction to it, and Geert Wilders’ upcoming trial for hate speech.

First, from De Telegraaf:

“Everyone will notice some of it”

“We’re cutting the budget by €18 billion in the coming years. Everyone will notice some of that,” VVD leader Mark Rutte said Thursday at the presentation of the coalition agreement of the VVD and CDA with support of the PVV. The cabinet Rutte wants will give the country back to the “hard-working Dutchman”.

The government will work hard to increase safety. “We want to put the burglars in chains, not you,” said Rutte — as expected, the incoming Prime Minister. There will be a national police force [instead of the local and regional police]. Street-terror [usually performed by the enriched “new Dutch”] will be tackled hard. There will be minimum sentences handed out to recidivists for crimes for which there is a maximum sentence of twelve years or more.

The TBS system [“offenders with severe personality disorders who are detained in special forensic psychiatric institutions”] will be cut back. Trial-leaves will be addressed. Criminals with dual nationality will loose their Dutch citizenship. The ticket quota [in which a police officer has to write out 120-160 fines a year or else has to face losing a promotion or a cut in salary] will be abolished. Coffee shops [where soft drugs are permitted to be sold and consumed] must become closed clubs where clients are only allowed in with a ‘club card’.

There will be a strict immigration policy. The influx of non-western immigrants has to decrease substantially, according to Wilders by 50%. Illegal residence in the Netherlands will become punishable.

There will also be a burqa ban:

Burkas and other face-covering clothing will be banned. Police officers and judges will not be allowed to wear headscarves. Unemployed persons who due to their behavior or dress code will be less likely to find a job will feel it in their pocketbooks. Their welfare benefits will be reduced, or they will not have any right at all to them. [source]

And those who “take it easy” with their citizenship course, may lose their residence permit:

Turks will also have to continue to integrate. The judge recently ruled that such would not be required for Turks, based on a European treaty, but the new government wants to alter the treaty-agreement. The government wants to spend less on subsidies for integration. Only “Vluchtelingenwerk” [“Refugee aid”] will be spared. People who come from elsewhere have no more special preference in applications. The abolition of “affirmative action” will also affect women [source]

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Some very important events coming to Canadian cities. Please make every effort to attend.

I have been tardy posting the details but Blazing Cat Fur has picked up the slack.

I will post more as we get closer to the events but amazing people and events are coming to Ottawa, Toronto and other Canadian locales thank to two organizations. The Canadian Free Press Society, a branch of the International Free Press Society, and Free Thinking Films Society which has brought in amazing speakers like Bruce Bawer, Bat Ye’or, Sam Solomon and other fantastic people who otherwise would never have been heard in Canada.

The upcoming events will be detailed soon, but for the moment please click over to BCF and have a look at the poster and details for Lars Vilks, the cartoonist who drew the Mohamed-as-a-round-house-dog toon which earned him several thousand death threats, 2 actual murder attempts and an arson attack on his home.

Good thing Mel Blanc is already dead. He would be the Islamic worlds ‘most wanted of all time’ given Islam’s penchant for hunting cartoonists who Mock Islamic culture.

In any case, it is really important that groups like IFPS and FTF are supported. These are staffed by people who take risk and effort to try and expose Canadians to the facts of Islam in the west and leftism’s collusion with what is, ironically, the most conservative group in the world today.

For everyone who hates and mocks conservatives for their projected desire to keep women barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen, they should talk to a Muslim for a while about exactly what women’s roles should be, and are in most of the Islamic world.

In any case, please do click over to Blazing and check the details. This event and the ones coming really matter. It is time for the shoe leather to meet the sidewalk. Show your support. Come to an event. Bring a freind who isn’t certain about any of this stuff yet. Buy a book from the authors. Look at it this way. Someday, these books will either get you killed from the new sharia overlords, or they will be prized possessions like a book signed by Churchill himself.

I hope to meet lots of you there if you go.

Eeyore for Vlad.

****    UPDATE    **** From the Toronto Sun (H/T Snaphanen.DK)

OTTAWA — Half the North American dates for a Swedish free speech activist have been cancelled following poor ticket sales and heavy security concerns.

Lars Vilks, who invited controversy in 2007 when he published a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed with a human torso and a dog’s rear end, was scheduled to speak in Philadelphia, Ottawa, Toronto and Boston.

“The amount of money would have to spend to ensure security in Ottawa, and the number of registrations, did not justify the expense,” said Mary Lou Ambrogio, a vice-president with the International Free Press Society.

The Philadelphia event was also cancelled after the Department of Homeland Security declared him a security risk.

“It appears that Mr. Vilks is considered a very high security threat by U.S. law enforcement, and it was decided that they would cancel because they could not secure the event to everyone’s liking,” Ambrogio said.

“It is becoming increasingly difficult to host these events.”

Ambrogio was part of the tour that brought American commentator Ann Coulter to Canada last spring. The Ottawa stop on that tour was also cancelled, after a rowdy crowd showed up at the event and police told organizers that security could not be guaranteed if the event proceeded as planned.

Ottawa Police said that, while they were aware of Vilk’s planned event, they were not involved in its cancellation.

Vilks’ cartoon was originally published in a Swedish newspaper to illustrate the censorship many media outlets impose on themselves when it comes to religious issues. The cartoon is separate, though, from the 2006 controversy involving a Danish newspaper.

Following the cartoon’s publication, Vilks became the target of an international plot involving a Philadelphia woman named Coleen LaRose, also known as Jihad Jane, who was arrested last March and now faces conspiracy charges.

The event scheduled for Sunday at Toronto’s Zionist Centre will still go ahead.

Pain, Pleasure and Prejudice. Bernard Payeur.

So. One day, a Canadian systems analyst decides to read the Quoran. He knew nothing about Islam except some mild nagging misgivings about the religion, and he was inspired to read it by a chance encounter, in Montreal, with an East African prostitute who had come to Canada to escape a forced marriage. Mr. Payeur decided that he needed to dispel his own misgivings about Islam by reading the Quoran so he could relax about it and join the chorus of people who argue that the violent, hate filled, war like, violent aspects of Islam or at least the Koran, are misinterpretations.

After his fourth time through an Al-Azaar approved translation of Islam’s holiest book, he decided to use his skills as a systems analyst and do a complete layman’s guide to this book as he feels, and I agree, that everyone should read this thing if they are old enough to be able to read it objectivly and not be influenced by the misogyny, hatred violence and sex in it.

In other words, this book, the Koran, may not be suitable for children.

After reading this book, I think it should be re-titled, or at least add it to the cover, ‘A quiver full of arrows’ as reading this book will indeed allow the reader to argue successfully with any apologist of Islam and even Muslims themselves and likely win the debate.

Typically, I do not like the approach of developing scholarship of Islam to argue the issue of Islam in the West. It is, I feel, always a bad idea to play the enemies game by the enemies rule. We do not need, for example, to know if the Burka is truly a requirement of Islam should a govt. choose to ban it. We just need to decide if its good to allow it in our own cities.

By the same reasoning we do not need to know if Islam truly demands the killing, enslaving, raping and subjugation of ‘unbelievers’ in order to say that typically it is Muslims who do this claiming it is their religion to do so, and it should never be our place to argue the fine points of their religion with them, as that is a fight we will nearly always lose, unless you are Robert Spencer and are ready to dedicate a substantial part of your life to developing that scholarship and frankly, debate is not part of Islam. Blind obedience is. Debate is a Jewish-Greek-Christian thing.

Even so, Mr. Bernard’s most excellent book is an entertaining way to gather the materials and facts you need to debate Islam with those apologists for it that insist it is a religion of peace or more typically, make false moral equivalences with the bible etc. Bernard dispels that notion in chapter 1.

The book is also full of fascinating observations. Here is one that even Phyllis Chesler might have missed:

‘The Koran does not mention one woman by name except Mary and that is to say that Mary claims she is not the mother of god.’

Thats right the Koran does not have one woman in it as an actual named person, except where one can be ventriloquised to suit Mohamed’s agenda. A fact I am rather stunned has not been pointed out, at least to my knowledge, before now.

Payeur’s book is full of useful observations like this and as it is not based on the work of authors familiar to us already, it is quite a refreshing approach to the usual explanations of the facts and workings of traditional Islam, as prescribed by the Koran.

All this to say that I very much recommend getting Pain, Pleasure and Prejudice and getting settled in for several hours worth of highly entertaining and informative reading and analysis on the book which may well herald the return of the dark ages, The Quoran.

Eeyore for Vlad Tepes.

Below, a very rare interview with the author that I scavenged from the Internet.

Muslims historically have burned Quorans when it was tactically wise.

When I watch this clip I am reminded of how the UN-OIC published a cartoon of a Pig-Mohamed to try and show how awful ‘Islamophobia’ was, and when Tundra Tabloids pointed out the brutal hypocrisy of it, that it was perfectly fine to show blasphemy when it advantaged Islam, while when a Non-Muslim publishes one of these drawings it results in riots, death threats and occasionally actual murders.

Here we see that burning a Quoran is just fine unless infidels do it. It means why ‘kufaar’s have forgotten our places and must be punished. In any case, its fun to watch this large American force these Muslims to change their position so fast.