Ret godt interview – tilsyneladende kun et par dage gammelt. Intervieweren hedder Nicholas Beecroft:
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali- Christianity in Complexity. Rejuvenating Democracy, Identity and Authority
Videoen har en lang følgetekst:
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali is one of the leading figures in the Church of England. He was the 106th Bishop of Rochester, for 15 years which made him the first non-white Diocesan Bishop in the Church of England. Prior to that he had been Bishop of Raiwind in Pakistan, his country of origin where he had a both Christian and Muslim family background. In 1999 he was elevated to the House of Lords. He has a prodigious academic record with much research into the role of Christianity in a pluralistic world, Christian-Muslim relations and on the teaching of Christianity in the modern world. Now he is President of the Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy and Dialogue. He courageously supports Christian leadership in many parts of the world where Christians suffer persecution.
Bishop Michael really understands the state we are in the Civilisational challenges we face and has the courage to speak the truth in the face of strong social pressure to stick to the Politically Correct hymn sheet.
In this interview, Bishop Michael addresses the State of Western Civilisation; it’s strengths; what’s working really well; the challenges we face. He describes his positive vision for the future- his version of heaven on earth. He believes that we need a spiritual foundation for life and that we are living on past spiritual capital and that Christianity is essential to start regenerating that spiritual capital.
Bishop Michael says what he thinks of being spiritual but not religious- whether or not that is an evolutionary step towards towards a global post-Ethnic pure form of spirituality without cultural and historical baggage. Could it be that the C of E is the first post postmodern religion which provides a lead for the others in recognizing their common path and accommodating all- the first post-postmodern, Integral, Global religion? He sets out his conditions for that to be possible.
He says we need a shared story of who we are, what we believe, our values and history. He tells his version of that story and his own identity. He celebrates the strengths of Britain and talks about how he personally views the history of the British Empire and how we relate to that today. Clearly he sees Christianity as absolutely the central pillar of our history, identity, culture and values.
Bishop MIchael comments upon the muted Western reaction to the persecution of Christians around the world. Why do the Western Elites turn a blind eye?
How do we defend our freedoms, democracy and way of life from those who want to force their authoritarian and absolutist way upon us at a time when the pseudoliberal elite have made it at least taboo if not illegal to engage in debate and assert that Western or British values are better and in any case are our own right in our own country?
What’s needed to sort out gang violence and social decay? How do we restore the healthy authority of a parent, teacher, policeman, doctor etc?
Det hed den konference, der fandt sted i Chicago den 10. marts 2012. Jeg har plukket lidt ud – først den meget sympatiske Cynthia Farahat:
Faith Under Fire: Cynthia Farahat
Faith Under Fire: The Global Threat to Religious Freedom conference took place in metro Chicago on March 10, 2012.
Please join us for this eye-opening Chicago-area conference on the worldwide crisis in religious freedom. We will examine the plight of persecuted religious minorities in Islamic countries as representatives of these communities offer riveting testimony. Key members of the U.S. Congress will discuss the latest legislation and actions intended to prevent genocide. Recognized international and national experts will offer insightful analysis of policy issues and the global threat to religious freedom.
Cynthia Farahat is an Egyptian political activist, writer and researcher. She co-founded the Liberal Egyptian Party (2006-2008) and served as a member of its political committee. In 2008-2009, she was program coordinator and program officer at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty in Cairo, a multi-national free market think tank. She was a founder of the Masr El-Om (Mother Egypt) Party and was a member of its political committee (2004-2006). She has published in National Review, Middle East Quarterly, and in other publications in both English and Arabic. In December 2011, Ms. Farahat testified before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the US House of Representatives on the roots of the persecution of the Coptic Christian minority in her native Egypt. She is a fellow at the Middle East Forum and the Center for Security Policy. (edit)
Næste tale med Ashraf Ramelah kan man evt. se på YouTube. Derefter Juliana Taimoorazy:
Faith Under Fire: Juliana Taimoorazy
Faith Under Fire: The Global Threat to Religious Freedom conference took place in metro Chicago on March 10, 2012.
Please join us for this eye-opening Chicago-area conference on the worldwide crisis in religious freedom. We will examine the plight of persecuted religious minorities in Islamic countries as representatives of these communities offer riveting testimony. Key members of the U.S. Congress will discuss the latest legislation and actions intended to prevent genocide. Recognized international and national experts will offer insightful analysis of policy issues and the global threat to religious freedom.
Juliana Taimoorazy is the founder and President of the Iraqi Christian Relief Council, an organization that raises awareness about the persecuted church in Iraq and helps Assyrian Christians resettle in Illinois, Michigan, Massachusetts and Arizona. Through her activism and media appearances, Taimoorazy has worked tirelessly to promote the cause of Assyrian Christians in the U.S. While volunteering for Catholic Charities, she has mentored young women arriving in the U.S. She has also volunteered with Operation Homefront in Illinois, an organization that provides emergency financial and other assistance to the families of our service members and wounded warriors.
Taimoorazy was smuggled into Switzerland in 1989 to avoid religious persecution in her native Iran. After spending seven days in a monastery in Zurich, she was smuggled into Germany where she sought asylum in the U.S embassy. In 1990 she immigrated to the U.S with the refugee status. As an Assyrian Christian living in Iran, Taimoorazy learned to be multi-lingual at a young age, and is fluent in English, Farsi, and Assyrian. She obtained her Masters degree in Instructional Design from Northeastern Illinois University. In addition to being an entrepreneur, she has also worked as a journalist for a local television station in Chicago. As a child, she would take her sister’s hairbrush and stand in front of the mirror and act as a news reporter — even before she learned how to read and write. She currently is a radio host for Nineveh Radio.
Faith Under Fire: Q+A Background Testimony on Indigenous Communities
Panel: Testimony from the Region and Background on Indigenous Communities
-Cynthia Farahat Egyptian political activist – Ashraf Ramelah founder and President of Voice of the Copts – Juliana Taimoorazy founder and President of the Iraqi Christian Relief Council
Moderator: Hon. Fred Grandy
Please join us for this eye-opening Chicago-area conference on the worldwide crisis in religious freedom. We will examine the plight of persecuted religious minorities in Islamic countries as representatives of these communities offer riveting testimony. Key members of the U.S. Congress will discuss the latest legislation and actions intended to prevent genocide. Recognized international and national experts will offer insightful analysis of policy issues and the global threat to religious freedom.
Paul Marshall var udmærket:
Faith Under Fire: Paul Marshall – Blasphemy, Apostasy and Free Speech
Faith Under Fire: The Global Threat to Religious Freedom conference took place in metro Chicago on March 10, 2012.
Paul Marshall — Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide
Faith Under Fire: The Global Threat to Religious Freedom conference took place in metro Chicago on March 10, 2012.
Please join us for this eye-opening Chicago-area conference on the worldwide crisis in religious freedom. We will examine the plight of persecuted religious minorities in Islamic countries as representatives of these communities offer riveting testimony. Key members of the U.S. Congress will discuss the latest legislation and actions intended to prevent genocide. Recognized international and national experts will offer insightful analysis of policy issues and the global threat to religious freedom.
Paul Marshall is Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom, Washington, D.C.
He has spoken on religious freedom, international relations, and radical Islam before Congressional committees, the U.S. State Department, the Helsinki Commission, INS and DHS Asylum Bureaus, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army. He has also lectured in Canada, England, Israel, Cyprus, Austria, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Greece, India, Switzerland, Spain, Lebanon, Korea, Nigeria, Belarus, Australia, South Africa, Malaysia, Thailand, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
In November, 2011, Oxford University press published his Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide co-authored with Nina Shea
His co-edited work Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion, was published by Oxford in early 2009 and was awarded the Wilbur Prize by the Religious Communicators’ Council and given the “Book of the Year 2009″ Awardfrom the Religious Communication Association.
Marshall is the author of the best-selling survey of religious persecution Their Blood Cries Out (1997). In speeches introducing the International Religious Freedom Act in the U.S. Senate, Senator Nickles described the book as “a powerful and persuasive analysis” and an “exhaustive survey,” “which simply cannot be ignored” and Senator Lieberman described it as “the manifesto of the religious freedom movement.”
Faith Under Fire: Q+A Paul Marshall and Keith Roderick
Faith Under Fire: The Global Threat to Religious Freedom conference took place in metro Chicago on March 10, 2012.
Paul Marshall — Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide
Very Reverend Keith Roderick — Strategy for the Future
Please join us for this eye-opening Chicago-area conference on the worldwide crisis in religious freedom. We will examine the plight of persecuted religious minorities in Islamic countries as representatives of these communities offer riveting testimony. Key members of the U.S. Congress will discuss the latest legislation and actions intended to prevent genocide. Recognized international and national experts will offer insightful analysis of policy issues and the global threat to religious freedom.
Den første video er den mest interessante fra konferencen 28. februar 2012. Forelæsningen næstnederst er er også meget seværdig:
Mightier Pen 2012: The Growing Censorship of Free Speech
The Center for Security Policy presented its 2012 National Security & New Media Conference and Mightier Pen Award in New York City. The theme of the conference was “Under the Gun: Reporting News in a Dangerous World,” and featured participants of this panel were: Sam Nunberg (Middle East Forum-The Legal Project), Brooke Goldstein (The Lawfare Project, author of “Lawfare: The War Against Free Speech”) and Andrew McCarthy (National Review). Moderated by the Center for Security Policy’s Fred Grandy.
Den næste handler om undertrykkelse af ytringsfrihed i Venezuela, Kina, Rusland og andre steder:
Escalating State Violence Against Political and Religious Expression
The Center for Security Policy presented its 2012 National Security & New Media Conference and Mightier Pen Award in New York City. The theme of the conference was “Under the GunL Reporting News in a Dangerous World,” and the featured participants in this panel were Claudia Rossett (Foundation of Defense of Democracies Investigative Reporting Project), and Vilma Petrash (News Producer AmericaTeVe – WJAN – Channel 41, host of “Temas de Mujer” in Venezuela). The panel was moderated by Frank Gaffney.
Og et lille ekstranummer:
Andy McCarthy: Saluting Ray Kelly & the NYPD’s Defense of New York
Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy joins the Center for Security Policy in saluting NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly at the 2012 Mightier Pen Award in New York City. Commissioner Kelly has kept New York City safe from jihadist terror attacks for decades, beginning with his investigation of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing (the perpetrators of which McCarthy later prosecuted).
Og en flot forelæsning:
“The Global Threat of the Muslim Brotherhood”
Andrew C. McCarthy October 7, 2011 “The Global Threat of the Muslim Brotherhood”
Andrew C. McCarthy on the True Helpfulness of Obamas Apology
Og artikler:
It’s a Pity Somebody Has to Win
We have no national interest in overthrowing Assad.
By Andrew C. McCarthy – March 3, 2012
Asked about the Iran-Iraq war that stretched for eight ghastly years after breaking out in 1980, Henry Kissinger is said to have quipped, “It’s a pity they both can’t lose.”
The pity is that we have lost that exquisite wisdom concerning our national interest, despite a two-decade road to hell paved by good intentions — at least compassionate intentions — from Kosovo to Kandahar. If that isn’t clear enough from the latest killings of American soldiers stuck like sitting ducks between the Afghan Taliban and other Afghan Islamists, all doubt is removed by Elliott Abrams, the longtime Republican foreign-policy solon who served as a top National Security Council official during the heady days of the Bush “Freedom Agenda.” “Can there be a group anywhere in the world today more disappointed in United States foreign policy than those fighting the Syrian regime?” Abrams, a distinguished public servant whom I admire, asked this week in a post on the Corner.
We should stop enmeshing ourselves ever deeper in the Muslim morass.
By Andrew C. McCarthy – March 10, 2012
‘We will hold sacred the beliefs held sacred by others.”
That’s the concluding rally cry of the U.S. Department of Defense’s newly issued guidance on the “Proper Handling and Disposal of Islamic Religious Materials — Service Members/Civilian Training.” Here’s how it works: Mainstream Muslims throughout the Middle East believe, based on the Koran and other “Islamic Religious Materials,” that if an infidel force invades a Muslim territory, its members must be killed until the force has been driven out. They further believe that if non-Muslims commit some act — even an inadvertent one — that Muslims perceive as insulting to Islam, a campaign of murder and mayhem is justified.
Our response? We will hold sacred the beliefs held sacred by others.
Egypt Releases Seven Americans . . . but Is There a Catch?
By Andrew C. McCarthy – February 29, 2012
The AP reports that Egypt’s transitional military government has lifted a travel ban against seven of the 16 Americans currently being tried for their work with organizations that allegedly took illegal foreign contributions — work that incited protests against the military rulers, the government alleges. The report takes this development (which includes the release of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s son) as a signal that the crisis is being resolved. The 16 Americans are among 43 “civil society activists” being tried. Though the trial started Sunday, it was promptly adjourned for two months (until April 26). In the meantime, the American defendants have not been required to attend the trial and, more significantly, the three judges resigned from the case, citing “uneasiness.” The country’s top prosecutor is said to have lifted the travel ban at the recommendation of the case’s investigating magistrate.
Well, no, the Council for American-Islamic Relations is an Islamic supremacist group spawned by the Muslim Brotherhood, and the mission of the Brotherhood is to implement sharia. Hence its motto for the last 90 years or so: “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Koran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope. Allahu Akbar!“
It isn’t al-Qaeda that’s slaughtering religious minorities in Muslim lands.
By Andrew C. McCarthy – February 18, 2012
Their crime? These Muslims have the temerity to suggest that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, an Indian who died in 1908, was the promised Mahdi — the redeemer of Islam — and not one of the false prophets about whom Mohammed had warned. They compound their offense with condemnations of violent jihad, maintaining that man’s inhumanity to man is ultimately conquered by love and kindness. So, of course, the Ahmadi Muslims have to die.
They are killed in Muslim Pakistan. They are killed in Muslim Bangladesh. They are killed in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Islamic country and, putatively, its most moderate. It was there, in a village in West Java last year, that hundreds of Muslims wielding machetes, sharpened sticks, and stones set upon on an Ahmadi home, brutally murdering three men and maiming several others. True to form, Islamic clerics raced to the fore to rationalize the savagery as being provoked by Ahmadi heresy. The ringleaders were sentenced to less than six months’ imprisonment, with the country’s minister of religious affairs callously explaining that religious freedom was certainly not freedom to “modify” Islamic beliefs — and equating Ahmadi preaching, which is banned, with flag-burning.
Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide
The 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie awakened many westerners to the danger of being charged with blasphemy in the Muslim world. Charges of “blasphemy,” “apostasy,” and “insulting Islam” are increasingly used by authoritarian governments and extremist forces within key Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states to acquire and consolidate power. These codes have proved effective in intimidating not only converts and heterodox groups, but also political and religious reformers.
In their newly released book, Silenced (Oxford University Press, 2011), Paul Marshall and Nina Shea provide the first survey of such accusations in the contemporary Muslim world, in international organizations, and in the West. These charges traditionally carry a punishment of death but are contested within Islam today, as described by the late Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid in the foreword to Silenced. Nevertheless, as Marshall and Shea describe, hundreds of victims, including political dissidents, religious reformers, journalists, writers, artists, movie makers, and religious minorities in many countries. They also document the political effects in Muslim societies of blasphemy and apostasy laws, as well as non-governmental fatwas and vigilante violence. And they examine in the West the move toward importing new blasphemy standards through bans on purported hate speech and Islamophobia, aggressively promoted by the OIC, and the increasing threat of violence to stifle commentary on Islam even in the absence of law.
Bawer er flittig for tiden. Hvor er det bare godt at se:
Deadly ‘Diversity’
by Bruce Bawer on Nov 29th, 2011
The neighborhood of Grønland in Oslo, Norway, is not terribly large. It’s on the east side of town, adjacent to central Oslo, and has traditionally been a place of working-class flats and unpretentious pubs. Ever since Norway began to be the destination of immigrants from the Muslim world, however, Grønland has been home to an increasing number of Muslim families and businesses. In recent years, furthermore, it has become an attractive residential area for young Norwegian singles and families, for many of whom part of the lure of living in this part of town was that they wanted to be part of a “multicultural” community. As a result of the influx of these these young people – including no small number of gays – a number of hip restaurants and cafes have sprung up in the area.
Of late, however, as the city’s Muslim population has boomed, Grønland has been undergoing a transition from a mixed neighborhood to an essentially Muslim one.
Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Kan også læses her hos AINA.
The Reign in Spain
by Bruce Bawer and Antonio Golmar on Nov 30th, 2011
On November 20, the 36th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death, the Spanish people – as has been the case ever since the first democratic elections following the Generalissimo’s death – turned out to the polls in huge numbers. This time around they ousted PSOE, the Socialist Workers’ Party, after almost eight years of rule under Prime Minister Rodríguez Zapatéro.
Indeed the PSOE loss amounted to a near collapse. PP received 45% of the vote, its best result ever, and won an 11-seat majority in Congress and over 60% of the Senate. By contrast, PSOE plummeted from 44% to 29% of the vote, losing almost half of its Senate seats.
A few years back I was invited to give the keynote address at a one-day conference in Washington – or, actually, in Arlington – about the future of Europe. I am still baffled as to why I was invited. Pretty much all the other people there – the audience members as well as the conference speakers – were seasoned diplomats and sundry high-level government types, some of them Americans, the rest from various European countries. And all of them painted a rosy picture of Europe’s prospects. The European Union, most of them agreed, was just about the best thing ever to happen to the old continent – a guarantor of peace and prosperity for generations to come. The one or two passing mentions of Islam and immigration were also positive – thanks to the massive influx of “new Europeans” from the Muslim world, these experts assured us, Europe’s demographic decline wouldn’t really be much of a problem. Several participants expressed the desire that the tired, backward old USA could become more like the progressive, forward-looking EU.
Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Kan også læses her hos AINA. Se også denne i FrontPageMagazine:
How Muslim immigration has transformed European politics
By Bruce Bawer – October 16, 2011
The mass immigration of Muslims into Western Europe over the last four decades or so was a project of elite mainstream politicians, most of them left-wing, who never consulted the electorate on whether they thought this project was a good idea or not. Motivated by a multicultural sensibility (and, in most cases, an invincible ignorance about Islam), these politicians felt compelled not to try to integrate these newcomers, but encouraged them, rather, to preserve their cultural values, however at odds they might be with Western ideas of freedom and equality. For many years there was little organized public resistance to the increasing Islamization of Europe. But then, around a decade ago, things reached a breaking point.
Muslims have been persecuting Christians ever since the time of Muhammed. But in the wake of the so-called “Arab Spring,” such activity seems to be on the rise throughout much of the Islamic world, now that Muslims in several countries are enjoying greater freedom to do things they felt more restrained from doing before. Christians are being beaten and murdered, churches attacked and destroyed.
If there is a positive side of this terrible development, it is this: if there’s more such persecution going on, more attention is finally being paid to it in the mainstream Western media. Yet even as some of the media are daring to report on these events, there remains a strong disinclination to suggest that this pattern of persecution has anything whatsoever to do with Islam.
Mere HER hos AINA. Kan også læses her hos FrontPageMagazine.
Om Pakistans indre fjender: de vantro. Kvinder, kristne, ahmadiyya’er. Offeret er den pakistanske mand, som således er omringet af fjender. Og det endda i De Renes Land:
Ezra Levant Interviews Peter Bhatti On Canada’s New “Office Of Religious Freedom”
Peter Bhatti is the brother of Shahbaz Bhatti, who was executed by a muslim in Pakistan because he stood up for the rights of Christians.
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London mosque accused of links to ‘terror’ in Pakistan
By Kurt Barling – 22 September 2011
A south London mosque is at the centre of allegations it helped promote of acts of terror and hate in Pakistan.
Leaflets circulating in Pakistan calling for the murder of members of the Ahmadi Muslim sect directed readers to a website naming Stockwell Mosque.
The website mentioned on the leaflets in turn advised people with queries to contact the mosque in Stockwell.
Angry trustees at the mosque said its name had been misused and it had no links to the Pakistani organisation.
Pakistan: ten year old girl accused of blasphemy and sentenced for a spelling mistake
by Jibran Khan – September 27, 2011
Faryal Bhatti misspelled a word in urdu referring to Muhammad, resulting in incredible reactions from teachers and the ulema. Expelled from school, her mother, a nurse, forced to leave work. Bishop Anthony: “Society is becoming so intolerant that a tiny error gets major attention.”
Finding and connecting similar patterns of behavior throughout Islamic history is one of the most objective ways of determining whether something is or is not part of Muslim civilization.
Consider the issue of forced conversion in Islam, a phenomenon that has a long history with ample precedents. Indeed, from its inception, most of those who embraced Islam did so under duress, beginning with the Ridda wars and during the age of conquests, and to escape dhimmi status. This is a simple fact.
Mere HER i Pajamas Media. Kan også læses her hos Middle East Forum.
Refusing to Kill Daughter, Pakistani Family Defies Tradition, Draws Anger
By Habiba Nosheen & Hilke Schellmann – Sep 28 2011
A Pakistani girl who says she was kidnapped and gang-raped faces a new threat: honor killings, a tradition here, but one that her family refuses to carry out
Kainat Soomro is a 17-year-old Pakistani girl who has become a local celebrity of sorts in her battle for justice in the Pakistani courts, a daring move for a woman of any age in this country, let alone a teenager.
Mere HER i The Atlantic. Kainat Soomro’s storebror blev myrdet sidste år efter først at have været udsat for dødstrusler, skrev den pakistanske avis, The News International i juni 2010:
“The Jirga back home wanted me to take back the case, forgive the culprits and accept money as compensation. They warned me and my family of dire consequences if I did not obey their commands. But I declined them. Today, my brother is no more alive, but I will continue to fight for my right. I will do it even if my body is riddled with hundreds of bullets,” a determined Kainat said between tears.
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, director of the Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy and Dialogue, looks back at 9/11 and forward at what the Christian response should be…
Ten years on from the ghastly atrocity of 9/11, and all that followed it, it is worth asking about ‘the stagnant and fetid waters’ that have given birth to terrorism on such a vast and well-organised scale. Commentators have drawn attention to the seething, and growing, resentment in the Muslim world at the dominance of the West, the experience of colonialism, the creation of Israel, the Kashmir dispute and, of course, the casus belli of so much, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
This resentment, however, has not just been the usual one of the weaker against the stronger or of the subjugated against the oppressor. It has also been informed by a world-view which expects ‘manifest victory’ for Islam, has not been reconciled to lands ‘lost’ to Islam, whether India, the Iberian peninsula or, indeed, Palestine, seeks the restoration of the Caliphate and the abolition of the nation-state in the cause of a united Ummah or Islamic nation.
Jeg har i månedsvis gerne villet lave en post om reklamer imod islam og nu skal det være. Det var Pamela Geller, der startede det flotte initiativ sammen med Robert Spencer i form af kæmpe-annoncer på busser, men nu finder man regelmæssigt reklamer for f. eks. hjælp til apostasi på taxier, husmure og snart sagt hvad som helst. Det var og er stadig noget af et forhindringsløb. Herunder eksempler på nogle af bataljerne:
Og et enkelt billede fra en af de muslimske kampagner:
I Miami fjernede busselskabet reklamerne med påstand om hate-speech. Men SIOA vandt klagesagen og fik reklamerne tilbage.
PayPal mente, at Pamela Gellers blog, Atlas Shrugs, var anstødelig og lukkede bloggens konto. I dag benytter Geller et andet selskab.
Nancy Pelosi forlangte i sin egenskab af “Speaker of the United States House of Representatives” en officiel undersøgelse af, hvor pengene til busreklamer kom fra. Pengene var såmænd bare samlet ind som småbeløb via blogge.
Geller & Spencer står også bag andre annoncekampagner, – blandt andet en imod æresdrab, en imod Ground Zero-moskeen og en imod USAs økonomiske støtte til palæstinenserne. Sidstnævnte var en reaktion på en anti-israelsk kampagne.
En helt ny annoncekrig er brudt ud i Australien, skriver Barnabas Fund. Muslimer har reklamer på busser: ”Jesus: a prophet of Islam”, ”Holy Quran: the final testament” og ”Muhammad: mercy to mankind”.
Her er to videoer om et par af kampagnerne i USA. Fra FoxNews juli 2010:
Post American President Pamela Geller on Fox and Friends on Honor Killings
Discuss new book: The Post American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America
Fra august 2010 – ahmadiyyamuslimer tror på en ekstra “profet” og regnes for vantro af både sunni- og shiamuslimer. Det var lidt dumt, at Russia Today valgte at debattere busreklamer med en repræsentant fra en mindre sekt:
RTTV: Pamela Geller Debates Dr. Said on Freeedom Buses
A debate on freedom of speech, religious liberty, and apostasy
Anglican TV har optaget en video fra Michael Nazir-Alis foredragsturné i USA. Foredraget er i en vis udstrækning identisk med det i videoen fra i går, men der er også enkelte nye ting. Så til dem, der gik glip af gårsdagens video – fra 26. maj 2011:
Bishop Nazir-Ali: Hold fast
A message from Bishop Nazir-Ali delivered to the Western Church. Brought to you by the AAC and SOMA.
Rev. Dr. Duncan Macpherson introduces the Michael Prior Memorial Fund and the lecture series endowed by the Fund. Duncan then introduces Bishop Michael Nazir Ali to give the UK 2011 Michael Prior Memorial Fund Lecture entitled ‘The past, present and future contexts for Church leadership in the Middle East’ This tape covers the first 15-20 minutes of this lecture with an overview of past impact of Islam on other faiths including Christianity in the Middle East.
Past, present and future contexts for Christian Leadership in the Middle East. Rt. Revd. Dr. Michael Nazir-Ali
The second part of Rt. Revd. Dr. Michael Nazir-Ali lecture on ‘The past, present and future contexts of Christian leadership in the Middle East’
Michael Nazir-Ali har lige været USA og nu dukker der materiale op. Denne forelæsning bragte Veritas Universalis for knap 14 dage siden som audio, men nu kan den også ses på video. Fra 18. maj 2011 – optaget i Atlanta:
An Urgent Call to the Western Church
Dr. Michael Nazir-Ali gives a special message on ‘An Urgent Call to the Western Church’.
Obama is too optimistic about Middle East democracy
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali is concerned about President Barack Obama’s ‘soft-focused’ approach towards the democracy movement in the Middle East. He fears it may instead lead to a new tyranny, that Bin Laden may be hailed as a martyr and his death a rallying cry. He asks whether Obama’s approach to Islam actually reflects a dhimmi-mentality.
Tyranny of the majority?
by Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali – June 1, 2011
President Obama referred several times to the desire for democracy among the demonstrators, but is this enough? Democracy can lead to a tyranny of the majority. Unless there is a strong charter of liberty that safeguards the rights of women and non-Muslim communities, democracy on its own may prove chimerical. There needs also to be a commitment to one law for all and to equality under the law.
Mere HER hos Christian Today. Kan også læses her hos Christian Concern.
As I have recently returned from a tough but rewarding visit to Iraq, my mind has turned quite naturally to the role of religion in that part of the world and particularly to what is happening to Islam there and, conversely, to how it is affecting the political and social situation in these countries.
We have so often heard the mantras of “violent extremism”, “Islamism” or even “Islamist terrorism” that we are in danger of not noticing that the common element in so much of the turmoil in the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and West Africa is not extremism or terrorism as such but a resurgent Islam. [...]
Anglican Bishop Blasts West’s Reticence on Christian Persecution
By Christian Today | May 07, 2011
An Anglican bishop in the Church of England has criticized the West’s reticence on violence against Christians and other minority communities in the Middle East, South Asia and other parts of the world.
Writing in the latest edition of Standpoint magazine, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali said the United Nations had taken the necessary steps to protect people in Libya from attacks by their own government, but questioned why the United Nations or the West was “unable to tackle the widespread and growing persecution of Christians?”
Mere HER i Christian Today eller her i Christian Post.
En australsk humanitærpopulist forlader den synkende halalskude:
How I lost faith in multiculturalism
By Greg Sheridan – April 02, 2011
In 1993, my family and I moved into Belmore in southwest Sydney. It is the next suburb to Lakemba. When I first moved there I loved it.
We bought a house just behind Belmore Sports Ground, in those days the home of my beloved Bulldogs rugby league team. Transport was great, 20 minutes to the city in the train, 20 minutes to the airport.
On the other side of Belmore, away from Lakemba, there were lots of Chinese, plenty of Koreans, growing numbers of Indians, and on the Lakemba side lots of Lebanese and other Arabs.
That was an attraction, too. I like Middle Eastern food. I like Middle Eastern people. The suburb still had the remnants of its once big Greek community and a commanding Greek Orthodox church.
Those who denounce critics of Islam should allow that, like all global faiths, Islam has its detractors and a religion will be judged on what its followers say and do.
There is a debate going on about Islam. The question being asked is: Does Islam itself – not just poverty or social exclusion – provide ideological fuel for extremism and violence?
It is all too tempting to promote one-dimensional explanations of religious violence. Monash University doctoral candidate Rachel Woodlock said on this page on Wednesday that social exclusion was the root of Islamic radicalism.
Mere HER i The Age. Kan også læses her i Brisbane Times. Mark Durie omtaler en artikel, som er denne.
Se eventuelt også artiklen “Violent Jihad Kills Muslims, ‘Islamophobia’ Does Not” af David J. Rusin her hos Islamist Watch.
Even before allied forces unleashed a “shock and awe” barrage of cruise missile attacks against Libya on March 19, French President Nicolas Sarkozy was quick to take the credit, saying France had “decided to assume its role, its role before history” in stopping strongman Muammar Gaddafi’s “killing spree” against people whose only crime was to seek to “liberate themselves from servitude.”
Sarkozy’s newfound concern for Libyan democracy contrasts sharply from only three years ago, when Sarkozy welcomed Gaddafi with open arms during an extravagant five-day state visit to France. On that occasion in December 2007, Gaddafi breezed into Paris in his Bedouin robes, accompanied by an entourage of 400 servants, five airplanes, a camel and 30 female virgin bodyguards , and then proceeded to pitch his heated tent on the grounds of the palatial Hôtel de Marigny, just across the street from the Elysée Palace.
Opdatering 24. marts 2011 – Søren Kern om England:
The Most Islamic Community in Europe
by Soeren Kern – March 24, 2011
Leicester, an industrial city in central England, is home to the most conservative Islamic population anywhere in Europe, according to American diplomatic cables that were obtained and recently released by the website, Wikileaks. Leicester is also on track to become the first majority non-white city in British history.
The politically incorrect observation was made by a senior US State Department official who visited the city as part of an effort to engage Muslim communities in Europe. It reflects how Leicester’s long-ballyhooed experiment with multiculturalism is being challenged by Muslim separatism and assertiveness.
Landet kan dårligt blive mere islamistisk end det er i forvejen, men opstand skal der nok blive. Det er højeste mode i de kredse. Det handler som altid om, hvorvidt imamer eller politikere skal have magten i landet. Sharialov igen.
De religiøse har deres egen landsdækkende, institutionelle infrastruktur med moskeer, madrassaer og mere, der kører parallelt med det offentliges system af valg, parlament, rådhuse, byråd etc. Der er tilmed en slags religiøs mødepligt i moskeerne, hvor mænd modtager diverse påbud, forbud, vejledninger, fatwaer osv.
Sådan er det jo overalt i den islamiske verden. De verdslige systemer kan ikke konkurrere på det organisatoriske plan, når det gælder mobilisering:
Bangladesh: The Constitution vs. Sharia Law as Islamists Threaten Violence
by Nina Rosenwald – March 14, 2011
Several Islamist leaders announced Friday their plans to start a jihad, or holy war, if the Supreme Court decides to declare Fatwas –or religious edicts by clergy or Islamic Sharia Law courts– illegal. Fatwas, according to Bangladesh’s Constitution, already are illegal; the ruling was reaffirmed several years ago by the lower High Court, which voted to uphold the Constitution. As Fatwas persist, however, the ruling was recently challenged in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, which will now be reviewing the decision. It is scheduled to issue its ruling on March 21.
What triggered the review, according to the Bangladeshi media, was the recent judgment by a Sharia Law Court against a 14-year-old girl, Hena, who after being raped, was sentenced to 100 lashes; during the flogging, she slipped into a coma, then died — while her rapist walks around free.
In a fatwa, issued last month during arbitration by the clergy, Hena, a 14-year-old rape victim, was ordered to receive100 lashes, while the alleged rapist was at large. The girl fainted halfway through the flogging and later died. The Bangladesh Supreme Court has reopened this case.
Taking up a 10-year old pending appeal, Bangladesh Supreme Court has sought the opinion of Islamic scholars on the status and application of fatwa or Islamic religious edicts. The Director General of Islamic Foundation in Bangladesh has been asked by the court to table the opinions of the Muslim scholars by March 21, 2011. The Muslim scholars can appear in person if they prefer to give verbal statement on the issue.
Radical Islamist leaders, such as Mufti Fazlul Huq Amini, Moulana Rezaul Karim and their followers, are continuing to flex their muscles to signal the government in Bangladesh, the third-largest Muslim country in the world, that any decision that runs counter to Sharia Law or the fatwa [an Islamic religious-court edict, illegal under Bangladesh's constitution]will be confronted by these elements. A few days ago, Mufti Amini and Moulana Rezaul Karim called upon their followers to rage Jihad [holy war]against anyone attempting to ban the fatwa or pass any law which might go against the “Koran and Sunnah.”
Since the secularist Bangladesh Awami League, the purportedly secularist party, came to power in January 2009, people expected that the muscle-flexing of radical Islamists would stop, as the ruling party always stated that it would ensure equal rights for every citizen of Bangladesh.
Secularism the only answer to Pakistans sectarian violence
17. January 2011 – Ibn Warraq
I anledning af drabet på Punjab-guvernøren, Salmaan Taseer, fortæller Ibn Warraq Pakistans historie. Islamiseringen er kommet nedefra.
Murder applauded by Muslim clerics
Salmaan Taseer, the secular-minded Governor of the Punjab was killed for opposing the country’s blasphemy law; a murder that was openly celebrated by thousands, and applauded by 500 Muslim clerics who warned that to mourn the late Governor would also be considered blasphemy.
Mere HER i Sappho. Og Trykkefrihesselskabets næstformand skriver:
Udsat for xenofili
17. January 2011 – Ahmed Mohamud
Ahmed Mohamud har på egen krop oplevet fænomenet xenofili, den anden side af xenofobi. En rigtig udlænding må nemlig helst ikke være ”leverpostejsneger”, har han fået at vide.
Hudfarvefiksering
En dag, hvor biler, træer og bygninger var indhyllet i en hvid dis, der lagde sig som en kunstig oplysning i en teaterkulisse, skulle jeg modtage en kvindelig dansk patient. Med mig på stuen havde jeg diverse apparaturer, som jeg skulle bruge, og havde derfor hænderne fulde.
Mere HER i Sappho. Og så til de herboende ekstremister. Jeg var lige ved at skrive “vore hjemlige”. Det have mildt sagt været uheldigt:
For eller imod al Qaeda?
19. January 2011 – Helle Merete Brix
Muslimer i Dialog er moderate, hævder de. De prædikanter, de inviterer herop fra Yemen er alt andet end moderate, kan Helle Merete Brix afsløre.
Yemens hellige krigere
Yemen. Det fattigste af verdens arabiske lande. Med en voldsom befolkningseksplosion og problemer med terrorisme i baghaven. Det sidste er et så alvorligt problem, at den amerikanske udenrigsminister Hilary Clinton den 11. januar 2011, som den første amerikanske udenrigsminister i 20 år, landede i Yemen.
Et klart mønster tegner sig. Konservative medier får etiketten ‘højreorienteret’, hvorimod venstreorienterede får ‘uafhængig’, ‘velanset’ eller ‘troværdig’.
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