Video & artikler: Douglas Murray om multikultur, Iran, Irland, Christopher Hitchens, arabisk forår, venstrefløjen, homoseksuelle og mere

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Douglas Murray – Does Iran have nuclear weapons? Does god exist?

Douglas Murray on BBC’s The Big Questions

HJS Associate Director Douglas Murray discusses British Identity and Iran on Nicky Campbell’s The Big Questions, Sunday 4 March 2012.

Og flere glimrende artikler fra The Spectator – først om Murray’s nye bog:

The forgotten victims of the Troubles

Douglas Murray – 22nd February 2012

The 30th January this year was the 40th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day when members of the British Parachute regiment shot dead fourteen civilians on the streets of a British city. The constant commemoration of that day by families of the dead and injured was one of the things that kept its memory alive and eventually led to the British government setting up the Saville Inquiry. That inquiry – the longest and costliest in legal history, and the subject of my recent book – exonerated the dead and accused some people still living.

Mere HER i The Spectator.

Remembering Christopher Hitchens

Douglas Murray – 16th December 2011

Just one of Christopher Hitchens’ talents would have been enough for most people. In him those talents — like his passions — all melded into each other: as speaker, writer and thinker. Yet he was more than the sum even of these considerable parts, for he possessed another talent that was even rarer — a talent for making us, his readers, want to be better people. He used his abilities not to close down questions and ideas, but to open them up. In the process he made you, the reader, aware that you needed to do more, engage more, think more and know more. Writers often feel a need to impress their readers. Christopher made his readers want to impress the writer.

Mere HER i The Spectator.

Push off now, Press TV, and take your conspiracy theories with you

Douglas Murray – 20th January 2012

A week that began with an insane decision from the European Court of Human Rights has come to an end with a sensible decision from Ofcom. The Iranian government’s propaganda channel in London, Press TV, has just had its license to broadcast revoked.

Mere HER i The Spectator.

Hague’s misplaced optimism

Douglas Murray – 13th January 2012

William Hague has an article in the Times today arguing against what he refers to as the ‘pessimism’ of those who have expressed concerns about the direction of the ‘Arab Spring’. As somebody who cannot see the virtue of either optimism or pessimism as policy, and preferring facts to moods, I think the Foreign Secretary’s central points should be answered. Particularly as he chose so injudicious a day to publish his piece.

Mere HER i The Spectator.

Livingstone will get away with it, of course — because he’s on the ‘left’

Douglas Murray – 9th February 2012

Ken Livingstone has just reminded us of a prevailing rule in British politics. His comment that the Conservative party is ‘riddled’ with homosexuals ‘like everywhere else’ would have earned him a sacking if the parties had been reversed and a Conservative politician had talked of the Labour party in this fashion. [...]

Mere HER i The Spectator.

The conservative case for equal marriage

Douglas Murray – 5th March 2012

In America a new generation of Republicans is challenging the traditional consensus of their party on gay marriage. They — as well as some of the GOP old guard like Dick Cheney — are coming out in favour. In Britain the subject is also back on the agenda with the coalition government, at the insistence of the Prime Minister apparently, planning a ‘public consultation’ on the matter.

Mere HER i The Spectator. Douglas Murray blogger om løst og fast i  Standpoint Magazine:

Leveson Levity

Douglas Murray – March 2012

Should there be an inquiry into the Leveson inquiry? The phone-hacking which prompted the setting-up of the inquiry faded almost immediately as a procession of celebrities complained about what they disliked most in the press.

Now everybody has settled in, his lordship most of all. A nadir was reached when three editors of those infinitely depressing celebrity magazines gave insights into their trade. Counsel to the inquiry was a nice young woman. The matter arose of a picture of Heston Blumenthal dressed up as an egg. Counsel giggled with the three witnesses as his lordship tried to locate the page in the relevant magazine. Much hair was flicked. “Not my normal journal,” Lord Leveson joked in that way older men do when they are not yet beyond flirting and engage in it with studied senility. Everyone laughed. Some of the lawyers stretched back while laughing so they could be more in camera-shot. Oh how jolly. And oh how much money evaporating every second.

The inquiry needs to discover only one thing: how did the law come to be broken, repeatedly and publicly, with impunity?

Mere HER i Standpoint Magazine.

Andre kilder: The Daily Express,

Daniel Greenfield – lidt håndpluk

Jeg har valgt lidt ud fra november måneds Greenfield-produktion:

The roots of slavery can be found in the Muslim slave trade

Islam, the Religion of Slavery

Daniel Greenfield – November 10, 2011

The slow collapse of Dubai, a desert mirage built on oil money, human misery and the greed of Western businesses, reminds us once again of the fate of all slave economies in the end. But for all the skyscrapers in Dubai, the glittering avenues built by slave labor and the abundance of luxury American and European automobiles—the story of Dubai and Saudi Arabia is very much an old story in a Muslim Middle East, of fat prosperous sheiks clutching their ill gotten gains to themselves and ruling over harems and companies of slaves, until the end comes.

Like Muslim Brotherhood derived terrorists using the latest Web 2.0 social media as part of a quest to drive humanity back into the dark ages, the Gulf States are a very old story with the external gilt and glitz of modernity. While the Muslim world may employ the tools and utilities of the 21st century, even mimic its terminology, it has never left its own dark ages… and its dominant religious and social movements are all geared toward making sure that it never does.

Mere HER i Canada Free Press. Sultan Knish har den her.

The fanatics want armageddon, the clerics want a big gun that they can use to become a world power and the people doing the killing– it’s anyone’s guess what they want

Don’t Underestimate Iran’s Instability

Daniel Greenfield – November 17, 2011

Israeli leaders and generals certainly don’t mind smiling knowingly every time a top Iranian commander meets an untimely accident, which has been happening surprisingly often these past few years, but the explanation is likely to be more complicated than Mossad secrets agents operating behind the scenes. The logistics of infiltrating people on the ground to carry out assassinations isn’t easy, anyone viewing the chronology of the Dubai hit for one man in a hotel room, can only begin to imagine what it would take to pull off more complicated operations in Iran, which sees far less foreign travelers and has much tighter security.

There’s no doubt that Israel has its hand in it, but it’s also unwise to underestimate the meltdown of the Iranian revolution which began with Ahmadinejad’s fraudulent reelection and has turned into a complex power struggle between the Ayatollahs, Ahmadinejad and a populist movement that draws on student protests and brings together reformist Mullahs, Communists and masses of young people who want to live their lives without the religious police looking over their shoulders.

Mere HER hos Canada Free Press. Kan også læses her hos Sultan Knish.

Perpetuate a myth of Islamic innocence

The Dangers of Legitimizing Muslim Grievances

Daniel Greenfield – November 14, 2011

There is no surer path to Muslim violence than through the legitimization of Muslim grievance. And once you accept the legitimacy of the grievance, then you are also bound to accept the legitimacy of the violence that follows.

Violence begins with grievance. Grievance is the pretext for violence and the narrative for the violence. Liberals make a fetish of separating the grievance from the violence, emphasizing constructive means of resolving the grievance. But what do you do when the grievance and the violence are inseparable?

Canada Free Press HER. Sultan Knish her.

Egypt Falls into Darkness

by Daniel Greenfield on Nov 16th, 2011

Rebuilding the Library of Alexandria some 1300 hundred years after its final destruction at the hands of its Islamic conquerors in a country where blasphemy against Islam is still a crime was always a fool’s errand. But it was a fool’s errand lavishly embraced by every collection of useful idiots from UNESCO to the National Library of France, which kicked in half a million books.

Most of the money was spent constructing a massive edifice housing only a fraction of the books that could be found in the Harvard University Library, the Library of Congress or the British Library– in a country with a lower literacy rate than much of the African continent. The Library was a Mubarak project and as the wonderful Arab Spring turns into the Islamic Winter, the mobs of Tahrir are coming for the library.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. AINA her.

Islamophobia: A License to Kill

by Daniel Greenfield on Nov 11th, 2011

Once upon a time when newspaper and magazine offices were torched for offending a powerful group, the rest of the press would rally behind them. But when Charlie Hedbo, a French satirical magazine decided to put out an issue dedicated to Islam with a cover of Mohammed declaring, “100 lashes if you don’t die laughing,” and received a very special burning “Letter to the Editor” from the country’s “Religion of Peace,” the American press lined up behind the firebombers.

Christopher Dickey​, the Paris Bureau editor at Newsweek suggested that the far right was probably behind it because it had the most to gain from the attack. Dickey was unable to accuse Hedbo, a left-wing magazine, of being a member of the far-right, so he did the next best thing by diverting attention from the perpetrators and transforming Muslims into the victims of a far-right conspiracy.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Right Side News her.

Andre kilder: The Examiner,

Arabisk slavehandel med børn

The Dark World of the Arab Child Slave Trade

by Stephen Brown on Jun 10th, 2011

In a story last week in the British newspaper The Sun, a private investigator stated that Madeleine McCann, the subject of probably the world’s most famous unsolved kidnapping case, is in the United States. The British girl was three years old when she went missing five years ago from a seaside resort in Portugal, where her parents were vacationing. The Portuguese police, in what has been termed a “bungled investigation,” at first accused the parents of the abduction but later cleared them. Portuguese security officials halted their investigation to find the missing child in 2008 after stating she had probably been “stolen to order.”

Since her disappearance, numerous alleged sightings have been made of the little girl across Europe, Africa, in North America and in Australia. The investigator making the latest claim concerning McCann’s whereabouts is an amateur sleuth originally from Angola. He told The Sun that a Portuguese pedophile ring, also responsible for other child abductions, took the McCann girl and has handed his findings over to authorities. The claim that a pedophile ring is responsible for McCann’s disappearance has been made before, especially concerning one in Belgium. And while Madeleine McCann girl may have very well been snatched by such evil hands, it is surprising that an equally depraved institution — one of gigantic size — has never even been considered by investigators or the media as McCann’s possible kidnapper: namely, the Arab child slave trade.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.

Trifkovic om demokrati i Mellemøsten og Obamas tale

Democratizing the Middle East: A Realist Alternative

by Srdja Trifkovic • May 23rd, 2011

The most significant aspect of President Obama’s speech on the Middle East (May 19) is the absence of a plan to revive the “Peace Process.” The passing storm over his statements regarding the 1967 borders notwithstanding, it is already evident that there will be no new initiatives in the months to come. This is just as well, because any new initiative would be doomed to fail for as long as the political future of several key countries in the region remains uncertain. The PLO-Hamas coalition hopes, with good reason, that as several key Arab regimes become more democratic, they will become more willing to pursue policies supportive of the Palestinian views and aspirations.

Mere HER i Chronicles Magazine.

Om flerkoneri…

Flerkoneri giver ulykkelige familier:

Women in polygamous marriages suffering psychological torture

By Diana Al-Jassem | Mar 8, 2011

JEDDAH: Although Islam permits men taking more than one wife, the issue of polygamy remains a controversial one with many Saudi women dead set against sharing their husbands with others.

In Islam, men are permitted four wives at any one time. However, the faith insists on men treating their wives fairly. Those who fear they might not be able to do justice to multiple wives are commanded to refrain from marrying more than one woman.

Some scholars are also of the view that a husband should tell his first wife if he intends to marry a second time, but her permission is not necessary for subsequent marriages.

Mere HER i Arab News. Se eventuelt også denne lidt ældre sag:

Kone nummer to giver dårlige nerver i Dubai

Af Helen Hajjaj – 7. maj 2007

Leveomkostningerne i Dubai er efterhånden blevet så høje, at mange arabiske mænd sender kone og børn til hjemlandet. Men konerne frygter, at mændene ender med at tage en hustru nummer to.

Mere HER i Nyhedsavisen.

Niall Ferguson: Intet demokrati i Mellemøsten

Artiklen er ikke meget værd. Jeg er skuffet over Ferguson:

Why democracy will not catch on in the Arab world

Niall Ferguson – 1 Mar 2011

Today the world watches enthralled as the Arab world – from Morocco to Yemen – gropes its way towards… what? Two tyrants have been toppled and a third is teetering on the brink. The post-colonial order of feudal monarchs and military dictators is crumbling. But only a Prozac-addicted optimist would put money on the emergence of anything resembling Western-style democracy from the current revolutionary upheaval.

Where democracy has been tried in the Arab world, the results have thus far been dismal. Even full-scale military intervention by the United States, backed up with billions of dollars over nearly eight years, has created only the most fragile elected government in Iraq. Elsewhere, elections have increased rather than reduced the power of Islamist organisations such as Hamas and Hezbollah. Just why have North Africa and the Middle East lagged so far behind other parts of the world in making the transition to democracy? Much of Asia (China is the big exception) has done it. So have most Latin American countries.

Mere HER i London Evening Standard.

Video: Donald Trump – præsidentkandidat i 2012

Donald Trump meddeler, at han seriøst overvejer at stille op til det amerikanske præsidentvalg, som afholdes den 6. november 2012 og at den officielle meddelelse nok kommer i juni. Udsendelsen her handler bla. om USAs konkurrenceevne, OPEC, Mellemøsten, præsident Obama og mere. 

Newsmax har flere artikler i tilknytning til interviewet, – bla. her, her og her.

Fra 30. og 31.  januar 2011, men først uploadet på YouTube den 21. februar 2011 i to dele – Kathleen Walter interviewer:

Donald Trump: I’ll Probably Run for President in ’12

Jan. 30, 2011 — Real estate mogul Donald Trump tells Newsmax.TV he probably will announce his candidacy for president in June. The New York billionaire is confident he can restore the United States to glory after President Barack Obama has made America “a laughingstock.”

Trump Won’t Tape ‘The Apprentice’ in White House

Jan. 31, 2011 — In part two of an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview, Donald Trump explains where housing, oil, and gold prices are headed. ‘The Apprentice’ host gives viewers a sneak peak at the upcoming season, which features celebs, and says, if elected president, he wouldn’t tape the show at The White House.

Opdatering den 17.maj 2011: Trump siger nu, at han ikke stiller op alligevel, skriver The Washington Times.

Video: Islam på retur?

Der Spiegel har fundet en modrat muslim. De er ellers sjældne. Hamed Abdel-Samad er meget kritisk overfor islam og forudser, at antallet af muslimer en dag vil falde pga. frafald. Nedenfor et videointerview med Hamed Abdel-Samad:

Political Scientist Hamed Abdel-Samad:

‘Islam Is Like a Drug’

In a SPIEGEL interview, Egyptian-German political scientist Hamed Abdel-Samad talks about his childhood as the son of an imam in Egypt, why he thinks Islam is a danger to society and his theories about the inevitable decline of the Muslim world.

SPIEGEL: Mr. Abdel-Samad, Germany is currently a divided country because of the controversial author Thilo Sarrazin, whose new book “Germany Does Itself In” has triggered a heated debate on immigration and the willingness of Muslims to integrate into German society. Are you part of the pro- or anti-Sarrazin faction?

Hamed Abdel-Samad: Neither.

SPIEGEL: Have you discovered the happy medium in the integration debate? Or are you trying to avoid offending both your German friends and your fellow Muslims?

Abdel-Samad: I don’t like the nature of this debate at all. Some are standing in judgment over Sarrazin while others are cheering him on without further reflection. Sarrazin has become a lightning rod for everything. Whether he is seen a hero or a scapegoat, Sarrazin has unintentionally become the friend of the idle and the clueless. All failings and accusations can now be addressed to one person: Superman Sarrazin.

Interviewet, der er i tre dele, fortsætter i Der Spiegel HER. Og så til videoen. Fra Svejtsiske SF TV den 8. september 2010::

Egyptian-German predicts fall of Islam

An interview with a German social scientist speaking on the collapse of Islam as he sees it, and Islam and modernity.

På YouTube er der mange videoer om frafald fra islam. Her er en af dem:

Islam – The Fastest Dying Religion

The internet site aljazeera.net published an interview with Sheikh Ahmad Al Qataani, the president of the companions lighthouse for the science of Islamic law in Libya, which is an institution specializing in graduating imams and islamic preachers, who said “In Africa alone, every hour 667 Muslims convert to Christianity. Every year, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity”

Dubai: to turister tiltalt for at have drukket juice offentligt

I De Forenede Emirater tåler man åbenbart ikke noget brud på ramadanens regler. Alle vantro skal overholde sharialoven.

En 28årig russisk kvinde der besøgte Dubai på et turistvisum sammen med en 33årig libanesisk butiksejer, er blevet stillet for retten, fordi parret har drukket juice offentligt og midt på dagen under ramadanen.

Efter straffeloven i dette bagstræberiske samfund kan noget sådant straffes med bøde eller op til en måneds fængsel. Parret blev idømt en bøde på 278 dollars hver, skriver den russiske avis Pravda.

Menneskerettigheder og personlig frihed er umuslimsk. Det findes ikke i islam og Dubai er hastigt ved at afvikle de få tegn på fremskridt, der ved et uheld har sneget sig ind de senere år. Sagen om juice er bare den seneste af en lang række stramninger i Dubai. I juli i år arresterede politiet 79 vestlige turister for diverse overtrædelser af sharialoven, – eksempelvis topløse kvinder på stranden. Nu er der blevet opstillet vagttårne langs kysten og civilklædt politi patruljerer på strandene. News.com.au skriver:

Signs warning tourists in Arabic, English and several other languages not to sunbathe topless or change clothes in public has been erected, along with watchtowers.

Police have warned that first-time offenders may be issued with a warning, but if caught twice, tourists could be referred to the public prosecutor for possible criminal charges.

Et britisk par er involveret i en alvorlig retssag, hvor de er tiltalt for at have haft sex på stranden, – noget parret benægter. Fra FOXNews:

They were later charged with having sex outside of marriage, public indecency and public drunkenness.

Sagen er endnu ikke afsluttet, – der falder tidligst dom i oktober. Parret risikerer op til 2 års fængsel.

Andre kilder: New Kerela,

Opdatering den 26. oktober 2008 fra Kristeligt Dagblad. Det britiske par skal i fængsel:

Det britiske par skal nu betale en bøde og afsone tre måneders fængselsstraf i Dubai.

Opdatering 17. juni 2011 – de kan bare det der med at skræmme turister væk:

British businessman facing jail for Prophet Mohammed insult

A British businessman is facing jail for insulting the Prophet Mohammed after getting into an argument in a shop in Dubai.

By Richard Spencer – 18 May 2011

The man, named in court papers as Andrew Graham, 40, is said to have told Hassan Habib, a Pakistani computer salesman, that the Prophet was a “terrorist”.

Insulting Islam is a serious offence in the United Arab Emirates, as in other Gulf countries, and can attract a fine and a sentence of up to a year in prison.

Mere HER i The Telegraph.

Opdatering 17. juni 2011 – jeg går ud fra, at AG er Andrew Graham. Det blev en bødestraf:

A 40-year-old tourist who insulted Islam and called the Prophet Mohammed a terrorist was fined Dh3,000 yesterday.

AG, a Briton, was charged on May 18 in the Dubai Court of Misdemeanours.

In his court appearance last month he was sent away after appearing in shorts. He was ordered to be suitably dressed before being allowed to enter a plea and deny the charges.

Mere HER i The National.

Dubai: nu kan muslimer blive skilt pr. SMS

Hidtil har det været uklart, om en muslimsk mand kunne lade sig skille via SMS. Er det nok at skrive det eller skal han både meddele det skriftligt og mundtligt til en islamisk dommer?

 

Men nu ligger det fast: begge metoder er tilladt i islamisk jurisprudens. Landets øverste islamiske retslærde, stormufti Ahmed al-Haddad, har afgjort sagen. Han skriver i en ny fatwa, at en islamisk dommer er i stand til at afgøre en skilsmissebegæring, som bliver indgivet til ham per SMS. Man kan bruge den ene eller den anden metode alt efter omstændighederne.

Det fortæller India Daily. Hvad avisen ikke fortæller er, at det drejer sig om de såkaldte midlertidige ægteskaber: prostitution. Det er samtidig tale om en forringelse af almindelige kvinders retsstilling.

Dubai er en del af De (7) Forenede Arabiske Emirater. De oprindelige indbyggere er hovedsageligt sunnimuslimer, men der er også et shiamuslimsk mindretal foruden et enormt antal indvandrere.

Kriminelle somaliere invaliderer deres børn for resten af livet

Piger helt ned til babyalderen får deres kønsorganer skåret helt eller delvist af for at forhindre, at de nogensinde skal kunne få en normalt fungerende seksualitet.

Omrejsende kriminelle, somaliske kvaksalvere kommer til både Danmark, Frankrig og Norge for at lemlæste de forsvarsløse børn. De skulle være blevet antruffet i Danmark indenfor de sidste 2 år, skriver dagbladet.no. Hvorfor har vi ikke set noget i medierne om det?

Initiativet til disse kriminelle handlinger er børnenes egne forældre, der i religiøst vanvid holder sig til, at invalideringen er foreskrevet i islam via hadith (“profetens” sædvaner), der bla. er en del af grundlaget for sharia. Derved bliver også forældrene kriminelle.

Andre gange sender man børnene til hjemlandet for at invalidere dem der. Eller bruger private klinikker i Frankrig, England, Holland, Dubai eller lande i Mellemøsten.

Hvor det før var almindeligt at omskære pigerne, når de var 6-8 år, er det i dag almindeligt, at omskæringen sker allerede, når de er 2-4 år.

Det somaliske miljø er ekstremt lukket, hvilket bla. skyldes narko-kriminalitet. Ligesom i Danmark er omtrent hver anden somalier i Norge narkoman og bruger khat. Selvtægten overfor familier, der falder ved siden af, er blevet meget streng. Sådan er det i Norge og sådan er det i resten af verden.

Årtiers kampagne rundt omkring i de involverede lande har være forgæves. Hvis et valg står mellem fornuft/videnskab og islam/sharia vælger en muslim åbenbart det sidste. Dagbladet.no skriver, at 99 pct. af pigerne i Guinea omskæres og 80 pct. i Etiopien.

De lande, der holder disse islamiske grusomheder overfor kvinder i hævd, er:

Djibouti, Egypten, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Irak, Iran, Jordan, Mali, Nigeria, Saudi Arabien, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Syrien, Tyrkiet.

Nogle af landenavnene overrasker sikkert de fleste.

Kilderne her er dels dagbladet.no, dr.dk/Nyheder og rights.no

Andre artikler: Dagbladet,