A debate took place at the Cambridge Union in Britain on Iran or War. Douglas Murray spoke for proposition that appeasement means war with a nuclear Iran. A nuclear Iran should not be. He recounts the shameful past of Europe standing aside when the very existence of Israel was threatened. Powerful.
"Honor killings" are rampant in Muslim countries and have been brought to Canada and the United States by Muslim immigrants. Fathers, mothers and siblings can kill daughters who have "dishonored" the family by, for example, un-Islamic dress or being friendly with infidels. It is estimated that Pakistan, for example, has hundreds if not thousands of such honor killings each year in which the killers suffer no punishment.
Honor killings are often not reported by the mainstream media, be it newspapers, radio or TV. If a murder is reported, the term "honor killing" is seldom employed and the fact the killer is a Muslim is rarely mentioned. The vast majority of honor killings worldwide are by Muslims, for whom such killings are culturally acceptable.
A jury in Canada made it clear such killings are murder.
Flash mobs of black hoodlums in Philadelphia are condemned by Mayor Nutter, who calls them a disgrace to the city and themselves.
The breakdown in society is also seen in the riots in Britain, condemned by columnist Max Hastings as the poisonous fruit of liberalism, which has created a dependent underclass without moral compass, sense of purpose or concept of personal responsibility.
The National Debt is a huge problem. Driving that point home to everyone is very important because all of us will one way or another is affected and will be affected even more as necessary attempts are made to reverse the direction in which Obama is driving this country. Thanks to PowerLine for sponsoring the contest that produced this masterpiece.
True believers of Mohammad are embedded in Pakistan's security forces, most notably the intellingence service (ISI). A book published yesterday written by recently murdered Syed Saleem Shahzad recounts how the ISI planned the 2008 Mumbai massacre and handed the plans over to Lashkar-e-Taiba (L-e-T) for execution. Americans were among the hundreds killed and wounded.
Yet the U.S. calls Pakistan an "ally" and showers billions of dollars on the weak government, which itself is infiltrated with hard-core terrorist supporters. Appeasement? Yes. It is an unstable country with nuclear weapons and a danger to the world. No good plan has emerged for dealing with it.
This 99% Muslim, Sunni majority country of 170 million has for generations been "educated" by Saudi imans in what the Koran really requires of Muslims. Saudi-supported madrassas teaching the Koran and little else are more influential than public or private schools and are the prime souce of suicide murderers.
As a consequence, persecution of Christians and other minorities is rampant. As a civilized socienty, Pakistan appears to be sliding backward toward the 7th century more and more every year. Our alliance with India is critical for the years ahead.
ISI scripted Mumbai attack, Qaida cleared it: Shahzad bookNEW DELHI: The 26/11 terror attacks that killed 166 people and brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war was scripted by ISI officers and approved before its execution by al-Qaida commanders, according to a book just written by slain Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad.
The 40-year-old reporter in his book titled `Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taleban -- beyond bin Laden and 9/11' describes the Mumbai plan as one pushed through by Ilyas Kashmiri, a key al-Qaida ally with wide links with the Pakistan defence establishment. Shahzad, who was an authority on terrorism in Afghanistan and the neighbourhood, says in the book that the plan was authored by the Inter-Services Intelligence officers and embraced and executed by Lashkar-e-Taiba.
"With Ilyas Kashmiri's immense expertise on Indian operations, he stunned the al-Qaeda leaders with the suggestion that expanding the war theatre was the only way to overcome the present impasse. He presented the suggestion of conducting such a massive operation in India as would bring India and Pakistan to war and with that all proposed operations against Al-Qaeda would be brought to a grinding halt. Al-Qaeda excitedly approved the attack-India proposal," Shahzad wrote in the book, excerpts of which were published in Karachi's The Dawn newspaper on Wednesday.
Shahzad's friends and family believe the ISI may have had something to do with his kidnapping on Sunday and his death by torture and Shahzad himself had spoken of threats from the ISI. The bureau chief of Asia Times Online was killed days after he had exposed links between Pak navy personnel and al-Qaida, explaining how the devastating attack on the Mehran naval base in Karachi was engineered. He is believed to have been killed for "knowing too much" about how al-Qaida has infiltrated the Pakistani defence forces, sources said. The book, yet unavailable in India, is further proof of the close ties between Pakistani officers and al-Qaida.
"Ilyas Kashmiri then handed over the plan to a very able former army major Haroon Ashik, who was also a former LeT commander who was still very close with the LeT chiefs Zakiur Rahman Lakhvi and Abu Hamza," the book says.
"Haroon knew about a plan by Pakistan`s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) that had been in the pipelines for several months with the official policy to drop it as it was to have been a low-profile routine proxy operation in India through LeT.
"The former army major, with the help of Ilyas Kashmiri`s men in India, hijacked the ISI plan and turned it into the devastating attacks that shook Mumbai on November 26, 2008 and brought Pakistan and India to the brink of a war."
According to a friend of Shahzad, the slain writer and he discussed the militant infiltration in the lower ranks of the defence forces. "He also expressed a fear that there would be a rise in violence as the security establishment is really shaky," the friend was quoted as saying in the Dawn newspaper
Bernard Lewis, the premier Western authority on Islam for many decades, see the era of tyrannies in the Middle East coming to an end. Western-style freedon, tolerance and free speech as a result? Islam westernized? Not likely.
More likely is a return to the consultative process of the Ottoman Empire in which the sultan had to work things out with the various power brokers to get things done.
islam will remain dominant.
He notes the distressing regression taking place in Turkey. In a way, it's a non-violent repeat of the transition in Iran from the secular. The mullah tyranny will be replaced by an Ottoman-style system of governance. Turkey and Iran will be running parallel courses. It's anyone's guess how Islamic fundamentalist fervor will act out. The odds are continuing trouble for the West from an expansionist, fundamentalist Islam.
He has no answer for a nuclear-armed Iran. He thinks a military move would incite patriotism among the opponents, so should not be tried. At the same time, he fears the "fanatic mullahs" who have an apocalypitc end-time vision.
Lewis sees things this way, nuclear holocaust skipped over:
{E}ven as... young Middle Eastern activists rise up against the tyrannies that have oppressed them, he keeps a wary eye on the spread of Islamic fundamentalism. It is particularly challenging because it has "no political center, no ethnic identity. . . . It's both Arab and Persian and Turkish and everything else. It is religiously defined. And it can command support among people of every nationality once they are convinced. That marks the important difference," he says.
"I think the struggle will continue until they either obtain their objective or renounce it," Mr. Lewis says. "At the moment, both seem equally improbable."
That's pretty depressing. Lewis does not see Islam succceding in achieving world domination as decreed in the Koran, but he does not see any wholesale defection of the billion plus Muslims from the creed of Mohammad and the effort to impose Islam on the world.
In other words, Islam will continue sreading through violent and non-violent means as at present with intermittent successes and setbacks. It will keep progressing in its war of expansion as long as the non-Muslims of the world do not resist and mount an effective counterattack to preserve their values. Europe is being swallowed thus far with no resistance by Muslim immigration, procreation and separatism, with not much need of terror. Stealth Jihad in the U.S. is well underway with the government in total denial.
The 1400-year war continues.
'The Tyrannies Are Doomed'The West's leading scholar of the Middle East, Bernard Lewis, sees cause for optimism in the limited-government traditions of Arab and Muslim culture. But he says the U.S. should not push for quick, Western-style elections.
By BARI WEISS in the Wall Street Journal, April 2, 2011
THE WEEKEND INTERVIEW
Princeton, N.J.'What Went Wrong?" That was the explosive title of a December 2001 book by historian Bernard Lewis about the decline of the Muslim world. Already at the printer when 9/11 struck, the book rocketed the professor to widespread public attention, and its central question gripped Americans for a decade.
Now, all of a sudden, there's a new question on American minds: What Might Go Right?
To find out, I made a pilgrimage to the professor's bungalow in Princeton, N.J., where he's lived since 1974 when he joined Princeton's faculty from London's School of Oriental and African Studies.
The fight against the tenets of Islam goes on in Muslim lands as well as Europe and America. Brave are those who dare to speak out against this frozen 7th Century culture.
Pakistani actress Veena Malik defended herself against a cleric and the anchor attacking her on Pakistani TV for appearing on a popular Indian television program. Good for her. Great job.
Geert Wilders is the leader of the Dutch Freedom Party and the foremost European fighting against the Islamization of Europe. Wilders gave an important speech in Rome this past week on what must be done in the Western world to defeat the spread of Islam, which is incompatible with Western civilization and democracy.
Islam's goal is the destruction of Western civilization to be replaced with Islam and Islamic law. Wilders speaks most urgently about Europe, which is already imperiled, but his words of warning and recommendations for actdion apply equally to the United States. The agents of Islam are already at work undermining our culture.
The Muslim Brotherhood's "work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions. This goal was approved by the Muslim Brotherhood's top council in 1987.
Multiculuturalism must be defeated. Western civilization is far superior to that of Islam. Islam's evil must be widely made known. Free speech must be free and political correctness must end. As John Adams, John Quincy Adams and Winston Churchill have warned, Islam is a retrograde expansionist force that must be opposed and defeated. Geert Wilders is echoing a centuries-old message that is still falling on too many deaf ears. The late Harvard historian Samuel Huntington wrote of a coming clash of civilizations. One ex-Mulsim Wafa Sultain more correctly says it is a clash between barbarity and civilization.
Wilders' speech in full follows.
"The Failure of Multiculturalism and How to Turn the Tide"
Geert Wilders, March 25, 2011
Rome
Signore e signori, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends of the Magna Carta Foundation, molte grazie. Thank you for inviting me to Rome. It is great to be here in this beautiful city which for many centuries was the capital and the centre of Europe's Judeo-Christian culture.
Together with Jerusalem and Athens, Rome is the cradle of our Western civilization - the most advanced and superior civilization the world has ever known.
As Westerners, we share the same Judeo-Christian culture. I am from the Netherlands and you are from Italy. Our national cultures are branches of the same tree. We do not belong to multiple cultures, but to different branches of one single culture. This is why when we come to Rome, we all come home in a sense. We belong here, as we also belong in Athens and in Jerusalem.
It is important that we know where our roots are. If we lose them we become deracinated. We become men and women without a culture.
I am here today to talk about multiculturalism. This term has a number of different meanings. I use the term to refer to a specific political ideology. It advocates that all cultures are equal. If they are equal it follows that the state is not allowed to promote any specific cultural values as central and dominant. In other words: multiculturalism holds that the state should not promote a leitkultur, which immigrants have to accept if they want to live in our midst.
Continue reading THE IMPERATIVE: REVERSING THE SPREAD OF ISLAM.
Muslim persecution has driven most Jews and Christians out of Muslim lands. The latest outrages in Nigeria, Egypt and Pakistan reflect the pressure of Islam to convert, kill or drive out "the other." Now the number of ever-expanding Muslim clusters in the big cities of Europe are driving Jews out of not-yet Islamic countries.
Jonah Goldberg askes an interesting question:
For years, we've heard how the peaceful religion of Islam has been hijacked by extremists.What if it's the other way around? Worse, what if the peaceful hijackers are losing their bid to take over the religion?
The latest horror in Pakistan in which a popular moderate politician was gunned down by his bodyguard because he supported repeal of that country's blasphemy law prompted Jonah's question.
Those waking up to the threat of Islamic ideolology to Europe are still a small minority, but their numbers are spreading. Some national leaders such as Germany's Angela Merkel has acknowledged there's an Islam problem in Germany: Integration has just not happened and there is growing concern about the growth of a parallel Muslim society with its own laws and customs far removed from the traditional one. Organizations such as Stop the Islamisation of Europe are still very small. Many politicians are uncertain how to deal with the problem. Indeed, those on the left are courting Muslim votes, making them a more powerful bloc. A core confusion is about what is Islam? Is it just a religion? Or is it something else? As one Dane observed, it's an ideology of world domination just hiding behind religion. What's clear is that Islam is far more than a religion, it's a political movement dedicated to world conquest as it has been for 1400 years.
The left-wing publication Der Spiegel publishes an extensive account of the stirring that is now occurring in Germany, echoing what's already happening in the Netherlands (thanks to Geert Wilders) and Denmark. Of course, Der Spiegel calls this movement Islamophobia, the texbook definition of which is an unreasonable fear of Islam. What can be more reasonable than a fear of Islamic ideology the goal of which is world Islamic rule under Islamic law.
Even with Spiegel's prejudiced viewpoint, it's an article worth reading.
Yusuf al-Qaradawi is considered by those in the Muslim world as their greatest thinker -- and strategist. Many years ago he helped devise the demographic plan for the Islamic takeover of Europe -- immigration and robust breeding. Now Qaradawi is calling Muslims to deny Christians and animists in southern Sudan their separate country. Years ago, after decades of civil war in Sudan led to the death of millions of southerners at the hands of Muslims, the south was promised the right to vote for their own country. Now Qaradawi is telling all Muslims it's a crime to let them have it. Keep them under the thumb of Islamic sharia and continue to make their lives miserable until they convert or flee. If one needed another example of the relentless drive for universal Islamic rule, here is one. Of course, we also see it every day in the war to recapture the sliver of land called Israel. Once Muslims control a piece of land it is theirs forever. As for lands yet to be conquered, the ever expanding no-go zones and self-created Islamic ghettos -- as in France and Britain -- are doing the job piecemeal.
For Europe to save itself from Islamization, it must reinvigorate its culture and the moral life that has been the hallmark of western civilization. It's deeply troubling when the head of the Church of England exposes his own moral bankruptcy. Who is to rally the British to stand up for right and wrong, for doing the right thing when their religious leaders tells people they are helpless victims of a capitalist society who are powerless to improve their economic let alone their moral situation.
Melanie Phillips brilliantly eviscerates the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Turkish ambassador to Austria has been publicly grumbling about the failure of the government to achieve integration of Turkish immigrants at the same time as he is going into Turkish enclaves telling the immigrants not to assimilate or integrate. Apparently he (and other Turkish government officials) have been issuing the same instructions in other countries of Europe as well.
It was only a couple of years ago when Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Erdogan visited Germany and held a mass rally of Turks in a soccer stadium and told them to remain Turks and to think of him as "their" Prime Minister.
Sorry, Angela.
Well, one Austrian legislator (from the opposition, apparently) was fed up and had his say. He says it well.
The French are finally getting concerned about how the Islamic demographic invasion of their country is transforming it into something else. A French video team went to London to see if things were any better there. They weren't.
Allen West is now the Republican nominee to become the next Congressman for Florida's Gold Coast wth Palm Beach at its heart. He's got a great record and a great message and will help rescue this country with a change in Congressional leadership this November 2nd.
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