Category Archives: West fights back
No mega mosque in London; Tablighi Jamaat to be evicted
From The Telegraph U.K.
Plans to build super-mosque at Olympic site blocked
Plans by an Islamic sect to build a mosque for 12,000 worshippers close to the Olympic site in London have been blocked, according to reports.
By Nick Collins
Published: 2:14PM GMT 18 Jan 2010
Published: 2:14PM GMT 18 Jan 2010
Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamic group, will this week be evicted from the site where it has been running an illegal temporary mosque, and where it intended to build a new mega-Mosque, according to The Times.
Newham Council is said to be considering compulsory purchase of the land after Tablighi Jamaat failed to progress with its plans, which were strongly opposed by the public when they were announced in 2007.
The group, which has raised concerns with its strict interpretation of Islam, did not submit the required masterplan to the council before the final deadline earlier this month.
The local authority issued enforcement notices last week against Tablighi Jamaat, which has been operating a mosque on the site illegally for the last three years, since its temporary planning permission expired.
Gen. Peter Pace on the Defenders of Freedom
Thank you KitmanTV for this excellent recommendation for a video post. Text below verbatim from Kitman’s excellent site
2004 Keeper of The Flame Award
Original site
On Wednesday October 6, 2004, the Center for Security Policy paid tribute to the Defenders of Freedom – the men and women of the U.S. armed services (active duty and reserve), officials of the executive, legislative and judiciary branches, those responsible for the security of our borders and homeland, the first responders, the law enforcement community, intelligence personnel, our allies and industrial base. Accepting the Keeper of the Flame Award on their behalf was the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Peter Pace USMC.
General Pace’s address to the 350-plus attendees at this elegant black-tie dinner held at the Mayflower Hotel was preceded by a welcome from Harry Stonecipher, President and CEO of the Boeing Company, who served as the Dinner’s Chairman. Gen. Pace was introduced by the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, General James Jones, following a powerful address by the Homeland Security Advisor to the President, Fran Townsend. Ms. Townsend also read a congratulatory message from President George W. Bush that read, in part:
“I commend the Center for Security Policy and those attending this dinner for honoring these dedicated patriots. As we continue to fight terrorism and advance liberty, America stands solidly behind the men and women of our Armed Forces. Their courage, commitment, and sacrifice inspire others and help protect our founding ideals…”
In accepting the award, Gen. Pace movingly praised the courage and commitment of those who serve, and in some cases die for, their country. He described particularly poignantly personal reminiscences of the sacrifices men he led in battle have made – and the inspiration they give to all who defend this country today. Gen. Pace expressed deep gratitude for the support given to uniformed personnel and the other Defenders of Freedom by their loved ones.
Among those in attendance for the fifteenth annual Keeper of the Flame Award were: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy Peter Rodman; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Forces Policy John Rood; and Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Proliferation Strategy, Counterproliferation, and Homeland Defense, NSC Robert Joseph.
Members of Congress in attendance included: Keeper of the Flame Award recipients Senator Jon Kyl (1994) and Congressman Christopher Cox (1997); Senator Ted Stevens, Senator Kit Bond and Congressman Norm Dicks.
Other distinguished guests included: Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors Kenneth Tomlinson; former Chairman of the Defense Policy Board Richard Perle; and former Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Energy and Director of Central Intelligence and 2001 Keeper of the Flame Award recipient Dr. James Schlesinger.
The event concluded with remarks by Center Board of Regent Chairman Terry Elkes. Mr. Elkes joined in thanking Gen. Pace and the men and women he represented on this occasion, and encouraged their continued support through the work of the Center for Security Policy.
Kenyan police clash with Muslim Protestors
I must say, the rest of the world could learn a few things about how to handle Muslims from the Kenyans. It appears they managed to get the better of the deal with a gang of rioting Muslims demanding that the Kenyan nation give in to all their demands. If only Western governments would allow regular people to defend thier own cultures, beliefs and societies then we could probably fix the problem of Islam in the west in a week. [I bolded the text below]
Eeyore
Kenyan police, people clash with Muslim protesters
Published on : 15 January 2010 – 2:23pm | By International Justice Desk
Kenyan security forces shot in the air and fired tear gas at hundreds of people protesting in the capital on Friday against the detention of Jamaican Muslim cleric Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal.
The protesters, chanting “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) and some holding the flag of Somali rebel group al Shabaab, were blocked by police with dogs as they tried to march through the heart of Nairobi after prayers at the downtown mosque.
Some Kenyans, angry the attempted protest had taken place at all, joined forces with the security forces and began hurling stones at the marchers, squeezing them back towards the mosque.
“This is not an acceptable behaviour. The man who is supposed to be deported is not a Kenyan and his presence is not in the interest of Kenya these days,” said bystander Richard Odibo.
A helicopter clattered overhead and police also used water cannon to contain the clashes. Many protesters, some carrying pictures of Faisal on placards, were eventually corralled in the mosque but small groups continued hurling stones nearby.
A Reuters witness saw two policemen and four protesters injured by stones.
Faisal was visiting the east African nation for a preaching tour. Kenyan intelligence officials have said they fear his speeches could stoke radicalism in a country that has suffered two al Qaeda-linked attacks.
Faisal was deported from Britain in 2007 for preaching racial hatred and urging his audiences to kill Jews, Hindus and Westerners. He was arrested in Kenya on Dec. 31.
Kenya’s immigration minister Otieno Kajwang has declared Faisal a prohibited immigrant. Attempts by Kenya to deport him failed last week because Nigeria refused to give him a transit visa to Gambia.
Police sources told Reuters Faisal was being held at Nairobi’s international airport. Another source said the government would hold him in custody until he could be deported straight to Jamaica.
“One person, a Jamaican, how can he make the whole country shut down? One person, how come no one in Jamaica is defending him,” said a man in a group that charged the Muslim protesters.
“These demonstrators, they can go back home to Somalia if they want to,” he told Reuters Television.
Kenya hosts some 300,000 Somali refugees in refugee camps and there is a significant Somali community in Nairobi. There have been reports of rebel supporters recruiting fighters and young suicide bombers from the diaspora within Kenya.
Al Shabaab, a rebel group that Washington accuses of links to al Qaeda, is battling to overthrow the Somali government and impose their own hardline version of sharia law.
REUTERS
Five guilty for Islamist protests in Luton
Under a banner held up by a supporter saying “Islam will dominate the world. Freedom can go to hell”, Choudhury said that the trial showed the failure of freedom of speech and democracy.
TIMESONLINE… Five Muslim men who accused British soldiers of being rapists, murderers and baby killers during a homecoming parade were found guilty today of making threats.
The five, all from Luton, were convicted of using threatening, abusive or insulting words and behaviour likely to cause harassment and distress during a march by the Royal Anglian Regiment through Luton town centre in March last year.
Jalal Ahmed, 21, Yousaf Bashir, 29, Ziaur Rahman, 32, Shajjadar Choudhury, 31, Munim Abdul, 28, were found guilty at Luton Magistrates’ Court. Ibrahim Anderson, 32, and Jubair Ahmed, 19, also from Luton, were found not guilty. All had denied the charges.
The five men found guilty were given two-year conditional discharges and ordered to pay contributions towards costs of £500 each.
District judge Carolyn Mellanby said: “I have no doubt it is abusive and insulting to tell soldiers to ‘Go to hell’, to call soldiers murderers, rapists and baby killers. It is not just insulting to the soldiers but to the citizens of Luton who were out on the streets that day to honour and welcome soldiers home.”
Ms Mellanby added: “The fact that they say they did not intend their remarks to be insulting does not amount to defence in law. They were fully aware that shocking phrases in such circumstances would inevitably cause distress.”
She rejected arguments that they were merely exercising their right to freedom of speech as enshrined in the Human Rights Act, saying that their behaviour “went beyond reasonable, legitimate protest”.
Avirup Chaudhuri, for the prosecution, said that as the local regiment, who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan, passed, the group of protesters jeered “British Army murderers”, “British soldiers burn in hell” and “Baby killers”. They also denounced the troops as terrorists.
Lawyers defending the men said that their clients discussed their plans to protest with police beforehand, had agreed to a time and a place to do so and officers had not objected at the time. This implied consent by the police and to prosecute them retrospectively was not right, the lawyers said.
Outside court the defendants responded defiantly to the verdict.
Under a banner held up by a supporter saying “Islam will dominate the world. Freedom can go to hell”, Choudhury said that the trial showed the failure of freedom of speech and democracy.
Church resists Islamification of Britain in timely defence of Christianity
From The Telegraph U.K.
The church fights back against Islamification
Lord Carey’s brave call to limit immigration is a timely defence of Christian values, says Damian Thompson.
By Damian Thompson
Published: 6:28AM GMT 08 Jan 2010
We have had to wait decades for this moment, but it has finally happened. A leading British clergyman has said something sensible about immigration.
Lord Carey of Clifton, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, this week signed a declaration by the Cross Party Group on Balanced Migration calling for an urgent tightening of borders to stop the British population reaching 70 million by 2029. He also gave an interview yesterday in which he called for a tougher Church. “We Christians are very often so soft that we allow other people to walk over us, and we are not as tough in what we want, in expressing our beliefs, because we do not want to upset other people,” he said.
Tougher church … people walking all over us … controls on immigration: it really is not all that difficult to join the dots. Later in the interview, Lord Carey almost joined them for us, suggesting that there might be a “points system” based on respect for Britain’s Christian heritage. Continue Reading →
France muses law toward Muslim extremists- ditch the burqa or face hefty fines
Islamic Myth#1431: The burqa is about modesty.
We have been told for years now that the burqa is a symbol of modesty. My arse it is. The burqa symbolizes extremism. Young, western women who don the garb do so only to publicly illustrate a political solidarity with their extremist Islamic brethren- to show support for sharia inside France whose advocates weekly vie for dominance through open and deliberate agitation in Paris neighbourhoods. Many of these girly fools have never set foot in a Muslim nation, nor I bet could point one out on a world map, let alone bother to ask their own mothers why many of them never ‘chose’ to wear the walking coffin in their homeland(s). For those women in France who are forced to wear a burqa by their intellectually impotent men folk, perhaps they may be able to finally take the step toward freedom knowing that the Republic stands behind them. As for Muslim men who seek French citizenship and whose wives wear the burqa?– they are not welcome in the country.
From The Telegraph U.K.
Women who wear burkas in France face £700 fine
Women who wear the burka in public will be fined £700 under laws being considered in France.
By Henry Samuel in Paris
Published: 6:22PM GMT 07 Jan 2010
Published: 6:22PM GMT 07 Jan 2010
Interior ministry figures suggest that around 2,000 women in France wear full Muslim dress in public Photo: GETTY
MPs will vote on the proposal this month after a long impassioned debate over the merits of outlawing the burka and niqab.
Jean-François Copé, parliamentary leader of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP group, said the 750 euro fine would apply to anyone whose face is “fully covered in public”.
Wearing either would be tolerated only in exceptional circumstances, such as “cultural events or carnivals,” he added.
The bill proposes introducing an even heavier penalty for anyone who forces a woman to wear the full veil, Mr Copé said in an interview with the Le Figaro magazine. Continue Reading →
Aftenposten republishes Mo’toons
From The Telegraph U.K.
Norwegian newspaper reprints Prophet Mohammed cartoons
The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten has reproduced the controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
Published: 5:11PM GMT 08 Jan 2010
They were used to illustrate an article about Kurt Westergaard, the Danish cartoonist whose home was broken into by an Islamist armed with an axe a week ago.
It printed six out of the 12 drawings that infuriated Muslims around the world when the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten first published them in 2005.
Several of the drawings were seen as linking Islam and its revered prophet to terrorism and suicide bombings, with Westergaard’s cartoon showing him wearing a turban in the shape of a bomb.
On Jan 2, an axe-wielding 28-year-old man broke into Westergaard’s home screaming for “revenge” and “blood”. Police – alerted by the cartoonist who had hidden in a panic room – shot and arrested him.
Aftenposten’s editor, Hilde Haugsgjerd, said it seemed “natural and justified to republish the artistic and journalistic body of work that is likely the cause of this violence”.
Aftenposten first published copies of the cartoons in 2005 but did not join newspapers in many other countries when they reprinted in 2006 some or all of them, citing freedom of expression.
Angry crowds demonstrated across the Muslim world, leaving dozens of people dead in riots and causing damage to Danish embassies and the country’s export trade due to boycotts.
STRATFOR: Israel’s Iron dome tests succesful
Of course, if Iran fires one straight up above Israel and creates an EMP effect, I doubt the system can defend against that, or if Iran lets a nuke off on a ship off the shores of Israel. However its nice to have an umbrella against the barrage of missiles from Hamas and Hizbolah, and there must be some really great science in the Iron Dome missile defence system.
January 7, 2010
Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system, designed to respond to the thousands of rockets fired at the country by Hezbollah and Hamas, passed its final tests Jan. 6. The rocket system successfully intercepted multiple threats simultaneously, including rockets that mimicked Kassam and longer-range Grad-model Katyusha rockets. The defense department plans to integrate the system into the army, and will deploy the rocket interceptor outside the Gaza Strip by June 2010.
English Defence Leagues Tommy Robinson interview on Radio 5 live (04/01/2010)
H/T Gaia at ICLA
English Defence Leagues Tommy Robinson is the voice of the silent majority on Victoria Derbyshires BBC Radio 5 live show on Monday 4th January 2010. He was on the show to explain the EDLs position on Anjem Choudary and his islam4uk groups plan to march through Wootton Bassett and islamic extremism in general.
120,000 sign up to stop traitor jihadist Anjem Choudary march
Daily Mail U.K.
120,000 sign up to Facebook protest to stop Islamic extremist march through Wootton Bassett
By Ian Drury and Andy Dolan
Last updated at 12:50 AM on 04th January 2010
More than 120,000 people had last night signed an internet petition protesting about plans by Islamic extremists to march through Wootton Bassett.
Hate preacher Anjem Choudary sparked outrage by saying his radical group Islam4UK would parade through the town renowned for honouring soldiers killed in Afghanistan.
The firebrand cleric said 500 of his supporters would carry ‘symbolic coffins’ in memory of the Muslim civilians ‘ murdered by merciless’ coalition forces.
Hate preacher: Anjem Choudary, centre, and his followers plan to protest through the town of Wootton Bassett, Wilts.
In remarks designed to cause maximum offence, he compared fallen British heroes to Nazi stormtroopers and the September 11 and July 7 terrorists. He even claimed his plan was backed by families of servicemen and women.
But MPs, military chiefs, moderate Muslims and councillors expressed horror that 42-year-old Choudary was ‘hijacking’ the town for political purposes. In less than 48 hours, more than 120,000 people joined a Facebook campaign opposing the march by Islam4UK, which calls itself a ‘platform’ for the banned extremist group al-Muhajiroun.
Petition organiser Jo Cleary, who works with service families, urged supporters to express their ‘alarm and distress’ to Wiltshire Police in a bid to stop the plan.
She said: ‘This group can march anywhere it wishes in the country but has chosen Wootton Bassett to cause outrage and offence. We need our politicians to make a statement saying that this march will never take place.’ Continue Reading →
FOX: Strip search all Muslim Males
Of course this is a preposterous solution. One of them is going to swallow a condom of PETP sooner or later and learn to detonate it right. You gonna give everyone a barium enema?
Muslims should have to take their own airlines and not be allowed to deviate from flight plans by a degree. Profiling is not enough at this point. Sooner or later we have to come to terms with the fact that Muslims acting in accordance with the teachings of Islam are responsible for terrorism, which by the way is the least of the threat to the rest of us that Islam presents.
UK: Muslim MP: security profiling at airports is ‘price we have to pay’
A modicum of brains can be very efficacious. From the Telegraph:
A Muslim MP has opened up divisions within the Islamic community by saying it is reasonable for Muslims to be singled out for extra airport security measures following the Detroit bomb attempt.
By Patrick Sawer
Published: 9:00PM GMT 02 Jan 2010
Khalid Mahmood Photo: BPM
Khalid Mahmood, the Labour MP for Birmingham Perry Barr, said it had become necessary to ‘profile’ passengers from certain racial and religious groups in order to weed out possible terror suspects.
He said: “I think most people would rather be profiled than blown up. It wouldn’t be victimisation of an entire community.
“I think people will understand that it is only through something like profiling that there will be some kind of safety.
“If people want to fly safely we have to take measures to stop things like the Christmas Day plot. Profiling may have to be the price we have to pay.
“The fact is the majority of people who have carried out or planned these terror attacks have been Muslims.”
Muslim opinion on the subject was split yesterday, with some groups objecting to any such move for fear of alienating large sections of the community.
Massoud Shadjareh, the chairman of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, said: “It’s not true that all terrorists are Muslims.
“Any such measure would not only alienate people, it would also be ineffective in terms of stopping terrorists. What’s to stop them dressing up as orthodox Jews in order to evade profiling-based searches?”
However, many British Muslims now agree with Mr Mahmood.
Dr Shaaz Mahboob, of British Muslims for Secular Democracy, said: “We have seen that certain types of people who fit a certain profile – young men of a particular ethnic background – have been engaged in terror activities, and targeting this sort of passenger would give people a greater sense of security.
“Profiling has to be backed by this type of statistical and intelligence-based evidence. There would be no point in stopping Muslim grandmothers.”
The Airport Operators Association and BAA, the UK’s largest airport operator, are in favour of passenger profiling.
The UK Border Agency says profiling is one of the security measures used in the case of people coming into Britain, but the Department of Transport refuses to say whether it is used on passengers leaving the country.
A Pakistani Christian reminds us of what the word ‘Martyr’ actually means.
Muslims love to sodomize the meaning of important words in order to try and assuage the fears of westerners on the one hand, while ramping up the fears on another. One of the words they like to grotesquely abuse, is the word Martyr. In Islam, a Martyr is someone who volunteers to become the guidance system of a WMD. If they kill enough civilians, they can get a street named after them in Gaza or Tehran. Below, we are reminded of what martyr actually means.
Thank you Baron for the tip and Christian Post for writing it up
Jesus tells us that the first shall be last, the least will be the greatest in the kingdom. He elevates repentant sinners and tax-collectors above Pharisees and wealthy leaders. And through His apostle Paul, He reminds us that He chose the foolish things of this world, the weak, and the despised, to show the glories of his wisdom.
A recent story coming from Pakistan seems to fit this pattern exactly. In late October, at Islamabad’s International Islamic University, an Islamic suicide bomber tried to attack the women’s side of campus. But there worked a lowly janitor, Pervaiz Masih, who like so many of the 2 percent Christian minority in this 95 percent Muslim country are relegated to the most menial jobs in society-garbage collectors, sewage workers, and servants.
The suicide bomber was making his way to a cafeteria of some 300 to 400 women students, when Masih came between him and his goal. Masih is a common name among the Christian minority-it means Messiah. And on October 20th, Masih certainly followed in the footsteps of Jesus, the true Messiah. He refused to let the bomber pass. In the process the bomb detonated, killing Masih, the bomber, and three girls nearby. Meanwhile, the 300 to 400 Muslim girls inside the cafeteria were unharmed.
In the midst of the rubble from the explosion lay two martyrs. A so-called Muslim “martyr” had maliciously murdered others. Meanwhile, a Christian martyr had laid down his life for his brethren. A Christian died to save Muslims from a fellow Muslim.
CNN reported Professor Fateh Muhammad Malik, a rector of the university, as saying that Pervez Masih “rose above the barriers of caste, creed and sectarian terrorism. Despite being a Christian, he sacrificed his life to save the Muslim girls.” Continue Reading →
Ronald Reagan. A Time for Choosing
Thank you KitmanTV