Video: Paul Weston om The British Freedom Party

The British Freedom Party har lavet en ny video om sit partiprogram – 20 punkter (den næstsidste video er den bedste):

Paul Weston June 12 2012 20 point agenda

EDL / British Freedom Press Conference

Tommy Robinson, Kevin Carroll and Paul Weston announce the appointment of the joint leaders of the English Defence League as joint Vice Chairmen of the British Freedom Party in Luton on Saturday 5th May 2012.

Paul Weston London April 7 2012 British Freedom Party

British Freedom Party Chairman – Paul Weston – IFPS Dinner Speech – Toronto – Feb 19, 2012

Paul Weston, Chairman of the British Freedom Party speaks to the International Free Press Society – Canada in Toronto on February 19, 2012.

Mr. Weston warns Canada of the encroachment of Islam in society using the British example where that society has seen the establishment of Sharia courts and a hands-off approach be law enforcement. He foresees a coming civil war in the United Kingdom between Muslims and those Britons who hold traditional British views of liberalism, individual rights and freedom.

Robert Vaughan interviewer:

British Freedom Party Chairman – Paul Weston on Just Right Feb 19 2012 Toronto

Og endnu et interview om England og partiet:

A Future for Britain Free from Islamization: An Interview with British Freedom Party Chairman, Paul Weston

24 March 2012 – Jerry Gordon

The United Kingdom, or as Daily Mail pundit, Melanie Phillips calls it, Londonistan, has been mired in massive demographic change and concomitant Islamization brought on by its recent “open door” immigration policy. This was graphically evident in the July 7, 2005 London underground and bus system attack by four British Muslim suicide bombers who took the lives of more than 52 innocent victims and injured over 700. It was also reflected in the condoning of the more than 85 Shariah courts by the UK legal system and controversial Church of England head, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. Deeply disturbing has been the de facto creation of what former Bishop of Rochester Michael Nazir-Ali called “no-go areas” where native Britons are not welcome, especially if they happen to be homosexual or Jewish.

Mere HER i The New English Review eller her hos Right Side News.

Andre kilder: Paul Weston, Snaphanen, Jewish Tribune,

Sappho om kristne i England og navne i Danmark

Som altid meget læseværdig:

England: Multikulturel kampagne mod synlig kristendom

Artikel af Katrine Winkel Holm – 20. maj 2012

I en lang række sager er briter, der åbent giver udtryk for deres kristentro på arbejde, blevet enten suspenderet, fyret eller slæbt i retten.

Mere HER i Sappho.

”Der er et kulturradikalt tyranni i dette land”

Artikel af Katrine Winkel Holm – 20. maj 2012

En ny totalitær sekularisme har ramt England og sætter bl.a. ytringsfriheden under pres, advarer kritikere.

Mere HER i Sappho.

Navne er sociale markører

Klumme af Geoffrey Cain – 18. maj 2012

Ændringer i navneskikken viser bl.a., hvilken social position forældrene mener, der tilkommer barnet. Det bliver især tydeligt for pigerne, som knapt havde navne i det gamle Rom, skriver Geoffrey Cain.

Mere HER i Sappho. Desuden link til:

• Internationalt af Raymond Ibrahim
• Sharia-toppen af Nicolai Sennels
• Ved Profetens Skæg af Niels Thomsen
• Udkigsposten af Dan Ritto
• I medierne ved Jette Plesner Dali

Audio: Michael Nazir-Ali i Nordirland

St. Elizabeth’s Church ligger i Dundonald – det er lige i omegnen af Belfast. Her er tale om en prædiken fra 22. april 2012. Den første del er ret traditionel, i anden del kommer Nazir-Ali ind på islam i England:

Sermon Audio: Bishop Michael Nazir Ali

Sunday morning 22nd April 2012
Preacher: Bishop Michael Nazir Ali

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player.

Et par artikler:

Bishop joins row over right to wear the cross

David Barrett – 28 Apr 2012

One of the most prominent figures in the Church of England has joined a landmark court case over the right of Christians to wear the cross.

The Rt Rev Michael Nazir Ali, the former Bishop of Rochester, has written to the European Court of Human Rights in support of Christians who claim they suffered discrimination at work when they were banned from displaying the symbol.

Mere HER i The Telegraph. Og om ægteskabet:

How to Save Marriage From Hitting the Rocks

Michael Nazir-Ali – May 2012

Marriage has had a good press lately. More people are marrying and more people are staying married. This is welcome news. I have recently met a number of community groups that promote marriage in schools, colleges and generally in society, an encouraging and hopeful experience for me. But of course while I welcome this greater interest in marriage, both in promoting it and defending it, it is impossible to do so unless we understand what marriage and the family are.

Mere HER i Standpoint Magazine.

Og endnu en audio fra BBC den 22. april 2012 – her hører vi flere interviewpersoner. Nazir-Ali kommer ind i udsendelsen efter 5 minutter:

• Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, presented by Edward Stourton.

Andre kilder: St. Elizabeth’s Dundonald Blog, The Catholic Herald, The New Statesman, Christian Concern, Anglican Mainstream,

Opdateret.

Melanie Phillips, Andrew Bostom, Ann Snyder, Mark Steyn, Jerry Gordon, Soeren Kern om Lars Hedegaard

Udlandet reagerer meget positivt på nyheden om Hedegaards frifindelse. Mange pundits her:

Two cheers for Danish justice

Melanie Phillips – 22 April 2012

In the event, Denmark pulled back from the brink. Following my piece here a few days ago about the witch-hunt against the President of the Danish Free Press society Lars Hedegaard, the Danish Supreme Court ruled last Friday that he was not guilty after all of hate speech and racism – the second time he has been acquitted of this charge in a roller-coaster of a case which has stained Denmark’s reputation for justice, free speech and common-sense.

So a victory, certainly — but still only two cheers for Denmark’s legal system.  First, as has been the case throughout this saga, the acquittal – like the previous acquittal and conviction – turned merely on the narrow question of whether the remarks by Hedegaard which were in contention had been made in a private forum. The Supreme Court decided that he had had ‘no intention of disseminating his remarks to a wider audience’, and that therefore no offence had been committed.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Melanie Phillips har den her. Det er anden gang på få dage, Phillips skriver om sagen:

Europe’s auto-immune disease

Melanie Phillips - 17 April 2012

In decadent Europe, freedom of speech is dying. Loudly trumpeted as a ‘human right’ for any attacks on America, Israel, Christians or on the core values of the west, it is swiftly transformed into ‘hate speech’ and the shutters are slammed down on the speaker whenever Islam is in the frame.

Lars Hedegaard is President of the Danish Free Press Society, which is devoted to defending freedom of expression — particularly against the threat from radical Islam to extinguish it on the spurious grounds of ‘Islamophobia’.  With no sense of irony, Denmark is trying its damnedest to shut Hedegaard up on precisely those grounds.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Melanie Phillips har den her.

The Prosecutor Lies in Wait

by Lars Hedegaard – April 23, 2012

Article 266b, under which I was charged, remains unchanged. Thus, we still have no right to refer to truth if we are indicted under this article.

I am satisfied that the Supreme Court has delivered a verdict in accordance with the evidence given in lower and superior court. The prosecution had this evidence before it decided to press charges so I cannot understand why it went ahead.

The prosecutor has burdened the courts and the taxpayers needlessly for more than two years.

This judgment is not necessarily a victory for free speech. Article 266b, under which I was charged, remains unchanged. It remains a disgrace to any civilised society and is an open invitation to frivolous trials. Thus, we still have no right to refer to truth if we are indicted under this article.

Mere HER hos Gatestone Institute.

Free Speech Found Guilty by Europe

by Soeren Kern – April 23, 2012

The ruling showed that while Judaism and Christianity can be disparaged with impunity, speaking the truth about Islam is subject to swift and hefty legal penalties. The Supreme Court stressed that the substance of the charges — public criticism of Islam – is still a crime punishable by imprisonment. Under Danish law, it is immaterial whether a statement is true or false. All that is needed for a conviction is for someone to feel offended.

Lars Hedegaard, the president of the Danish Free Press Society, has been acquitted by the Danish Supreme Court on charges of “hate speech” for critical comments he made about Islam.

The verdict, however represents only a partial victory for free speech in a Europe that is being stifled by politically correct restrictions on free speech, particularly on issues related to Islam.

Mere HER hos Gatestone Institute.

Infidel Hedegaard avoids prosecution for Islamic blasphemy in Denmark. For now.

Andrew G. Bostom – April 21, 2012

Intrepid Danish journalist, historian and President of the Free Press Society Lars Hedegaard, has been acquitted unanimously by a panel of seven Supreme Court justices.  led by Chief Justice Børge Dahl. Hedegaard was accused of intentionally denigrating Muslims in breach of Article 266b of the Danish Penal Code, which states,

Whoever publicly or with the intent of public dissemination issues a pronouncement or other communication by which a group of persons are threatened, insulted or denigrated due to their race, skin color, national or ethnic origin, religion or sexual orientation is liable to a fine or incarceration for up to two years.

Mere HER i The American Thinker. Kan også læses her hos Andrew Bostom.

Danish Supreme Court Acquits Hedegaard

by Ann Snyder  •  Apr 21, 2012

On April 20, 2012 in a 7-0 decision, the Danish Supreme Court acquitted Lars Hedegaard of violating Article 266(b), the infamous “hate speech” provision of the Danish penal code.

Hedegaard’s case has been winding its way through the courts for some time now.  Readers will recall that he was first acquitted and then retried and convicted—a decision he appealed to the country’s highest court.

Mere HER hos The Legal Project.

Lars Man Standing, Final Score

By Mark Steyn – April 22, 2012

I’ve written previously about Lars Hedegaard of the Danish Free Press Society, my host in Copenhagen in 2010. Lars was charged, acquitted, re-charged, convicted and fined 5,000 kroner for remarks about Islam made during a conversation in his own home. He appealed to the Danish Supreme Court, and late on Friday they struck down his conviction 7–0.

Mere HER i National Review Online.

Justice in Denmark: Supreme Court dismisses Lars Hedegaard’s racism and hate speech conviction

20 April 2012 – Jerry Gordon

There is sweet justice in Denmark. We received news that the Danish Supreme Court acquitted Lars Hedegaard, President of the Danish Free Press Society of Prosecutor charges of ‘racism’ and “hate speech under Article 266b of the penal code that were upheld in a conviction and fine by the Eastern Superior Court in May 2011.  The headline of the Supreme Court  press release was “Dismiss the case on insulting and degrading statements about Muslims “  This is a major victory for free speech in Denmark and the EU.  This legal victory in Denmark should also be welcome news to the Hon. Geert Wilders in The Netherlands and hopefully useful news for Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff in her legal proceedings in Austria. The opinion of the seven justices convened by the Danish Supreme Court was posted on the website of the Danish Supreme Court. Hedegaard indicated that he will have an English translation for us later today along with observations about the decision. As we can appreciate it he has been swamped with congratulatory phone calls and interviews by the Danish press. In our last post on  Hedegaard’s Supreme Court case heard last Friday, we noted:

Mere HER i The New English Review. Også Gordon har skrevet adskillige artikler om sagen:

Lars Hedegaard – The Scene at Yesterday’s Danish Supreme Court Hearing

Jerry Gordon – 14 April 2012

We had the occasion today to speak with Lars Hedegaard, President of the Danish Free Press Society (DFPS) about the circumstances behind yesterday’s hearing before the Danish Supreme Court.  A mutual Canadian colleague and friend, Bjorn Larsen,  flew to Copenhagen to observe the proceedings. Larsen is a Board Member of both the Canadian and International Free Press Society. He sent us some photos of Hedegaard and his counsel, Karoly Németh and DFPS board member, Jette Dali.  Németh escaped from his native Hungary as a teenager during the 1956 Revolt and has become a brilliant advocate in his adopted country. Németh arrived at the Supreme Court on his own power. He rode a bicycle. Larsen said in an email that the entire proceeding lasted approximately three hours. The prosecutor spoke for almost two hours, Nemeth for 40 minutes and Hedegaard for approximately 10 minutes. [...]

Mere HER i The New English Review.

Opdatering – Karen Lugo skriver i The National Review Online den 30. april 2012:

• The Death of Free Speech, Continued – An alarming trial in Denmark

Andre kilder: Calgary Herald, Jihad Watch,

Den Europæiske Menneskerettighedsdomstol er en skandale

Man tror ikke sine egne øjne:

How can they tell us how to run our country? Seven of eleven sitting at Europe’s human rights court deciding fate of hate preacher Qatada have never been judges

• Many ECHR judges are academics who have been parachuted into the role
• Youngest judge was given job when she was just 33 and has no experience as a senior judge

By Richard Hartley-Parkinson | 19 April 2012

Seven out of eleven of the top judges at the European Court of Human Rights have little or no judicial experience, it has been revealed. Despite this, they have great power over the UK and in recent times have given prisoners the right to vote and were instrumental in the blocking of the deportation of hate preacher Abu Qatada. They will now preside over a second case after Qatada lodged another appeal against his deportation to Jordan.

Even the ECHR’s president, British lawyer Nicolas Bratza has never actually held a senior judicial position and his experience was limited to a brief stint as a crown court recorder.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail.

Andre kilder: Wikipedia,

Video: Mark Steyn om “judge-made laws”

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms har 30 års fødselsdag. Det hører vi om i denne video. Fra 18. april 2012 – værten hedder Evan Solomon:

Why Mark Steyn won’t be celebrating the charter anniversary

CBC’s Power & Politics host Evan Solomon interviews author and free-speech activist Mark Steyn on the latest developments in the Omar Khadr case, and hears Steyn’s harsh criticism of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on its 30th anniversary.

Der er lidt mere følgetekst hos CBC her:

Minoriteter, indvandrere med flere har rettigheder, vi andre ikke har:

Charles Adler with Mark Steyn: April 18, 2012

Mark Steyn joins Charles Adler to discuss terrorist scumbag Omar Khadr.

Og artikler:

Buying ‘Buffett Rule’ makes you a fool

Mark Steyn – April 14, 2012

In the end, free societies get the governments they deserve. So, if the American people wish to choose their chief executive on the basis of the “war on women,” the Republican theocrats’ confiscation of your contraceptives, or whatever other mangy and emaciated rabbit the Great Magician produces from his threadbare topper, they are free to do so, and they will live with the consequences. This week’s bit of ham-handed misdirection was “the Buffett Rule,” a not-so-disguised capital-gains tax hike designed to ensure that Warren Buffett pays as much tax as his secretary. If the alleged Sage of Omaha is as exercised about this as his public effusions would suggest, I’d be in favor of repealing the prohibition on Bills of Attainder, and the old boy could sleep easy at night. But instead every other American “millionaire” will be subject to the new rule – because, as President Obama said this week, it “will help us close our deficit.”

Wow! Who knew it was that easy?

Mere HER hos Orange County Register. National Review Online her.

Exodus

By Mark Steyn – April 17, 2012

As far as the media were concerned, the murder of Jewish schoolchildren in Toulouse and a black teenager in Florida were the same story — literally: Angry white male opens fire on “the other,” his deeply ingrained racism inflamed by the tide of toxic right-wing hate infecting our public discourse. Alas, in Florida, the angry white male turned out to be a registered Democrat and half Hispanic — or, as the New York Times put it, a “white Hispanic,” a descriptor never applied by its editors to, say, Sonia Sotomayor or Gloria Estefan or indeed any other person living or dead. And in Toulouse the angry white male turned out to be yet another Muhammad.

Oh, well. Better luck next time, although the pickings seem likely to get thinner: Pitch the Western world a decade or two down the road, riven by an ever-more-fractious tribalism between blacks, Hispanics, and Muslims, and the one surviving nonagenarian neo-Nazi white supremacist will be at the retirement home. But it’ll still all be his fault.

Mere HER hos SteynOnline.

Andre kilder: National Review Online, Wikipedia,

Lars Hedegaard & Højesteret

Særdeles interessant artikel af Jette Plesner Dali:

Islamofobi, racisme og 266b

I morgen den 13. april tager hele syv dommere ved Højesteret stilling til, hvorvidt der efter deres mening var tale om forsæt, da Trykkefrihedsselskabets formand, Lars Hedegaard fremsatte sin udtalelse om, at nogle muslimske mænd voldtager familiens pigebørn.

Karoly Németh, Hedegaards advokat forventer, at der afsiges dom efter kl. 12.00.

I dagbladet Politiken kunne man allerede 3. marts under overskriften “Hedegaard- og Pittelkow-tiden er slut” læse følgende udtalelse fra Mona Sheikh: “Debatten om islam og muslimer er forsvundet … Integrationsdebatten har i lange træk været styret af fremmedfrygt og islamofobi … Det faktum, at DF ikke længere er tungen på vægtskålen, at den nye regering har nedlagt Integrationsministeriet, og at man nu forsøger at forklare integrationsproblemer – som jo stadig findes – som sociale problemer, har bestemt været med til at sætte en ny diskurs.”

Mere HER hos Jette Plesner Dali. Lars Hedegaard fik mulighed for et sidste ord i Højesteret i dag:

Tale i Højesteret

13. april 2012 – klumme af Lars Hedegaard

Hæderværdige Højesteret

Min forsvarer har fremdraget de juridiske argumenter, der taler for, at jeg skal frifindes, og dem skal jeg ikke yderligere kommentere.

Jeg kan dog ikke tilbageholde en stille undren over, at nogen kan påstå, at det skulle have været min hensigt at beskylde samtlige muslimske fædre verden over for at misbruge deres børn – ganske særligt i lyset af, at jeg omhyggeligt har forklaret, at det naturligvis ikke er min opfattelse, og at jeg ikke har haft forsæt til at udbrede sådanne absurde påstande.

Læs det HER i Sappho. The New English Review har allerede oversat talen til engelsk:

• Lars Hedegaard’s Remarks at Today’s Danish Supreme Court Hearing

Hedegaard’s Appeal to the Danish Supreme Court

by Ann Snyder  •  Apr 12, 2012

Once again, freedom of speech is under attack in Europe. Lars Hedegaard’s appeal to the Danish Supreme Court will be heard April 13th along with the prosecutor’s cross-appeal seeking a higher fine. Court proceedings are anticipated to wrap up the same day and a decision is expected within a week.

Mere HER i The Legal Project.

Is the Third Time a Charm for Lars Hedegaard?

Jerry Gordon – 10 April 2012

On Friday the 13th, Lars Hedegaard will have his appeal to the Supreme Court heard seeking to overturn his conviction and fines under an arcane Danish law.   Hedegaard is President of the Danish Free Press Society  and one of three heroes of conscience in an EU Country tried for exercising free speech,the criticism of Islam.  Together with the Hon. Geert Wilders in The Netherlands and Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff in Austria, Hedegaard’s predicament and theirs have been captured in interviews in the recently published collection, The West Speaks.  Of the trio of free thinkers, only Wilders has been acquitted of all charges.  We noted this as an update at the conclusion of Hedegaard’s interview:

Mere HER i The New English Review.

Update om Hedegaard-sagen i Højesteret

12. april 2012 – artikel af Jens Gregersen

Hele syv højesteretsdommere skal tage stilling til hate speech-sagen mod Lars Hedegaard i morgen. Jens Gregersen informerer om morgensdagens begivenhed.

Mere HER i Sappho.

Andre kilder: Jyllands-Posten,

Video: Bruce Bawer & Michael Coren

Blandt andet om Fjordman – fra 5. marts 2012:

Michael Coren & Bruce Bawer: Persecution Of Conservatives In Norway

Og lidt håndpluk fra Bawers seneste:

Love and Hate in Norway

by Bruce Bawer on Mar 2nd, 2012

“If you hate Norway so much,” read the email in my inbox the other day, “why don’t you go back to America?  Why don’t you go back to the Midwest or the Southern states where you can live with your beloved Tea Party friends?”

The email was in Norwegian, and the sender had a Norwegian name.  This is far from the first such e-mail I have received in my thirteen years in Norway.  A few years back, in a piece for the New York Times about the Norwegian economy, I made what I thought was a harmless remark in passing about the matpakke, the wrapped-up homemade sandwich that many workers in Norway, including high-ranking executives, chow down at their desks at lunchtime because it’s just too expensive here (Oslo is the world’s priciest city) for most people to go out for even a modest lunch.  After that article, I got several hundred outraged text messages, e-mails, and phone calls asking me why I was living in Norway if I hated its beloved traditions so much and ordering me to go back to America.  I even got a couple of death threats.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.

Will There Always Be an England?

by Bruce Bawer on Mar 7th, 2012

It’s always refreshing when mainstream-media bigwigs are actually honest about the prejudices that guide their institutions.  So one could only applaud when Mark Thompson, director-general of the BBC, admitted the other day something that is already obvious to anyone who watches or listens to the Beeb – namely, that the folks who run the shop are as quick to broadcast works that mock Christianity as they are to forbid the mockery of, shall we say, certain other faiths, and that the main reason is, quite simply, fear.

Thompson actually gave three reasons for the BBC’s all-religions-are-not-created-equal policy.  First, he said that the BBC treats Christianity differently from other faiths because, as “an established part of our cultural-built landscape,” it is “pretty broad shouldered” – whatever that means.  Second, certain other religions have a “very close identity with ethnic minorities” who may feel that an attack on their beliefs is “racism by other means” – whatever that means.  Third, and obviously most decisive in determining the Corporation’s policy, Christians and adherents of at least one of those “other” religions have, shall we say, rather divergent ways of reacting to insults to their religion.  “Without question,” Thompson said, “’I complain in the strongest possible terms’ is different from ‘I complain in the strongest possible terms and I am loading my AK47 as I write.’”

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Kan også læses her hos AINA.

The Vicious Cycle of Western Apologies and Muslim Violence

by Bruce Bawer on Feb 28th, 2012

A newspaper in a small European country publishes a few cartoons of Muhammed, and millions of Muslims erupt in outrage – or in what we have become accustomed to seeing described as outrage.  An obscure pastor of a tiny church in Florida threatens to destroy a Koran, and millions of Muslims erupt in that selfsame outrage.  Some NATO soldiers inadvertently burn a few copies of the Koran, and millions of Muslims erupt, yet again, in outrage.

And the next thing you know, large numbers of people have been killed, Western embassies have been vandalized, mischief and mayhem of every imaginable kind has taken place.  And meanwhile, the air is thick with apologies.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Kan også læses her hos Ruthfully Yours.

Party Like It’s A.D. 632

by Bruce Bawer on Feb 10th, 2012

Recently the Partij voor Moslim Nederland (Party for Muslim Netherlands), which already enjoys a significant presence in various municipal governments in that country, announced that it intended to run candidates for the Dutch Parliament.  An article in Forbes listed the party’s major principles, which included limits on “offensive” speech about religion; the criminalization of blasphemy and of the destruction of religious texts; immediate admission of Turkey to the EU; an end to support for Israel; and the free and unimpeded importation of Muslim brides from abroad.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Free Republic her. Norge er ved at gå tabt. Sverige om igen:

Lessons from North Korea

by Bruce Bawer on Feb 21st, 2012

One of the many interesting aspects of living in Norway is that one is frequently exposed to pro-Cuban propaganda.  As I wrote in my book While Europe Slept, the Norwegian media routinely depict Cubans as “an unusually happy people who, in a world of bland, cookie-cutter materialism, have taken a different path, retaining their magnificent, vibrant uniqueness and staving off the influences of the vapid ‘McDonald’s culture’ that reigns only sixty miles from their shores.”

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Desuden denne artikel i FrontPageMagazine om et stort, naivt fæhovede:

• Oliver Stone’s Son: the Jewish Christian Muslim

Opdatering 11. marts 2012:

The Tundra Tabloids publishes the following review at Fjordman’s request.

Book Review: The New Quislings

The American author Bruce Bawer, who has lived in Norway for over a decade, in early 2012 published the ebook The New Quislings: How the International Left Used the Oslo Massacre to Silence Debate About Islam. It deals with the aftermath of the terror attacks in the Oslo region on July 22, 2011 where Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in cold blood, first with a bomb in central Oslo and then with a shooting spree at the island of Utøya outside of the city. Relative to its population size, Norway lost more of its citizens in these attacks than the USA did during the Islamic Jihadist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Mere HER hos The Tundra Tabloids.

Andre kilder: FrontPageMagazine, FrontPageMagazine, FrontPageMagazine,

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

Den er ikke noget stort, denne her video:

Opdatering – nu findes der en video med uddrag:

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,

Video: Mark Steyn i Australien

Alan Jones’ interview med Mark Steyn foreligger som audio i to dele - første del HER, anden del HER eller her. Første del er blevet YouTubet:

Alan Jones Interviews Mark Steyn on 2GB

Alan Jones Interviews Mark Steyn about his latest book during the Steyn down under tour, Wednesday 29th February 2012.

Endnu en video:

Mark Steyn on the Drum

Mark Steyn’s brief appearance on Australian Broadcasting Corporation‘s ‘The Drum’ Tuesday 28th of February 2012.

Der er endnu en ny audio fra ABC – Jon Faine on the Conversation Hour. Det er en panel-debat om australsk politik med Lyn Allison, Mark Steyn og George Megalogenis. Den kan høres på ABCs hjemmeside HER. Og artikler:

‘Die, Die, Foreigners!’

We have everything in Afghanistan except strategic purpose.

By Mark Steyn – March 3, 2012

Say what you like about Afghans, but they’re admirably straightforward. The mobs outside the bases enflamed over the latest Western affront to their exquisitely refined cultural sensitivities couldn’t put it any plainer:

“Die, die, foreigners!”

And foreigners do die. USAF Lieutenant Colonel John Loftis, 44, and Army Major Robert Marchanti II, 48, lost their lives not on some mission out on the far horizon in wild tribal lands in the dead of night but in the offices of the Afghan Interior Ministry. In a “secure room” that required a numerical code to access. Gunned down by an Afghan “intelligence officer.” Who then departed the scene of the crime unimpeded by any of his colleagues.

Mere HER i National Review Online.

The Perversion of Rights

They’re now gifts that a benign king graciously showers upon his subjects.

By Mark Steyn – February 25, 2012

CNN’s John King did his best the other night, producing a question from one of his viewers:

“Since birth control is the latest hot topic, which candidate believes in birth control, and if not, why?”

To their credit, no Republican candidate was inclined to accept the premise of the question. King might have done better to put the issue to Danica Patrick. For some reason, Michelle Fields of the Daily Caller sought the views of the NASCAR driver and Sports Illustrated swimwear model about “the Obama administration’s dictate that religious employers provide health-care plans that cover contraceptives.” Miss Patrick, a practicing Catholic, gave the perfect citizen’s response for the Age of Obama:

Mere HER i National Review Online. Kan også læses her i The Orange County Register.

Andre kilder: Human Events, Sheik yer’mami, National Review Online,

Audio: Roger Scruton om konservatisme, Darwin og mere

Fra Cambridge University Conservative Association den 20. februar 2012:

Listen again – Roger Scruton’s talk

Roger Scruton’s talk to CUCA tonight was well-received by an audience of 65 including students, schoolchildren from Long Road Sixth Form College, and members of the local Conservative Association. He spoke on the topic ‘First Principles of Conservatism in our time’ and took questions.

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 1 time og 12 minutter.

Facing Up to Darwin

By Roger Scruton from the February 2012 issue

There is a philosophy of the human condition that stands apart from biological science without opposing it.

It is fair to say that “Darwin’s dangerous idea,” as Daniel Dennett has described it, has caused more trouble to the ordinary conscience than just about any other scientific hypothesis. We cannot easily reject the theory of evolution, which explains so much that we observe in the lives of plants and animals; and we cannot easily accept it either, when it comes to understanding human beings. It is not only the religious world-view that seems so precarious in the light of it. All kinds of moral aspirations, set against what we can know or surmise about our hunter-gatherer ancestors, seem to be so much wishful thinking. How can we entertain the liberal hope for equality between the sexes, for universal human rights, for a global community without wars, when we reflect on the harsh conditions in which our species is said to have evolved, and for the need, in those conditions, for belligerence, relations of domination, and an innate division of labor between woman and man?

Mere HER i The American Spectator.

Opdatering 15. marts 2012:

Fra Policy Exchange:

‘Green Philosophy’ with Roger Scruton | 13.03.2012

In Green Philosophy, Roger Scruton argues that conservatism is far better suited to tackle environmental problems than either liberalism or socialism. He contends that the environment is one of the most urgent political problems of our age, and sets out principles that should govern our efforts to protect it. The current environmental movement often fails to see that the environmental problems are generated and solved by ordinary people. Scruton argues that success in tackling environmental degradation comes from “national or local schemes to protect territory recognized as ‘ours’”.

Roger Scruton will be speaking about the ideas in his new book, Green Philosophy: How to think seriously about the planet, and taking questions.

Roger Scruton is a writer and philosopher. He is currently Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC, and visiting Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of many books including The Uses of Pessimism (2010).

Artikler af Melanie Phillips

Veritas Universalis følger som bekendt med i, hvad Melanie Phillips skriver. Her er et udvalg af de seneste artikler. Fra The Daily Mail – verdens største netavis:

A seven-year-old branded a bigot. How on earth have we come to this?

By Melanie Phillips on 20th February 2012

The word ‘Orwellian’ has become over-used to the point of cliche. Yet there is really no other way to describe the deeply sinister, upside-down onslaught upon common sense that has extended even into the school playgrounds of politically correct Britain.

The aim was originally to create a kinder, gentler world — with a commitment to eradicating racial or any other type of prejudice.

Supporters of these beliefs profess to loathe and detest bullying, with teachers instigating school playground patrols and ‘anti-bullying weeks’ to stamp out this hateful practice.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Melanie Phillips her. Phillips har en opfølgning:

‘Mummy, why are we both brown?’ – Telling feedback on the playground inquisition

By Melanie Phillips on 23rd February 2012

On Monday, I wrote in the Daily Mail about the shocking case of a seven year-old boy who was branded a racist by his primary school after asking a five-year-old boy in the playground whether he was ‘brown because he was from Africa’. As I wrote, this was hardly a one-off incident. Last year, some 34,000 nursery, primary and secondary pupils – including more than 20,000 pupils aged 11 or younger – were effectively classed as bigots on account of so-called ‘hate speech’ laws requiring teachers to record all such incidents.

My column provoked a storm of reaction from members of the public outraged by such state-enforced bullying of children. Among the messages I received were the three I publish below, which give more of the flavour of the thought-control from which British people have been silently suffering for years.

Mere HER eller her i The Daily Mail. Melanie Phillips her.

Cameron and Clegg give a free pass to racism

By Melanie Phillips on 23rd January 2012

The British Prime Minister David Cameron and his deputy Nick Clegg today met the Palestinian Authority ‘President’ Mahmoud Abbas on his visit to London.

Cameron said that ‘time was running out’ for the two-state solution which was why the ‘settlement issue’, or ‘facts on the ground’, was so important. Clegg went further and condemned ‘continued settlement building in the strongest possible terms’ because

‘Once you’ve placed physical facts on the ground that make it impossible to deliver something that everyone has for years agreed is the ultimate destination [peace via a two-state solution] … it is an act of deliberate vandalism to the basic premise on which negotiations have taken place for years and years and years. And that is why we have expressed our concerns as a government.’

Mere HER eller her i The Daily Mail. Melanie Phillips her.

The future of Hebron’s Jewish past

By Melanie Phillips, December 1, 2011

Until recently, I had never been to Hebron. In the past three months, however, I have twice boarded an armoured bus to make the journey. The first time was with a private, non-political group to visit Hebron’s Jewish area and the Cave of Machpelah, where Abraham and the patriarchs and matriarchs are said to be buried.

It was a shock. If ever there was a illustration of the attempt by Islam to supersede Judaism, this was surely it. This holy Jewish shrine was to all intents a mosque. Islamic prayer mats were piled high, and there seemed to be not one Jewish artefact in the place. Even the catafalques sporting labels claiming them as the tombs of the founders of Judaism were topped by Islamic crescents.

Mere HER i The Jewish Chronicle. Melanie Phillips her. ICJS her.

Why Iran will not ‘come to its senses’

War with Iran is a truly fearsome prospect.

25 January 2012 – by Melanie Phillips

Its likely consequences would include attacks on US air bases from thousands of Iranian missiles, the unleashing of terrorist attacks within the US and Europe, the rocketing of Israeli towns from the tens of thousands of missiles trained on Israel from Lebanon,  the closing of the Straits of Hormuz thus paralysing western oil supplies, and doubtless other horrors.

But however fearsome this prospect, that of a nuclear-armed Iran is worse. The consequences are simply insupportable.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Melanie Phillips her. ICJS her. Se eventuelt også denne:

• Iran on the brink?

Ailing West aids its Islamist enemies

by Melanie Phillips – January 31, 2012

Was there ever a more perverse and self-destructive society than the contemporary West? In its attitude to the Middle East and the Islamic world, it appears to suffer from the political equivalent of auto-immune disease: turning on its allies while embracing its enemies.

One year ago, the US and Britain helped street protesters to overthrow president Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. Hailing the revolutionary tumult of the “Arab Spring” as the equivalent of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the West went on to help armed Libyan rebels remove president Muammar Gaddafi by military force.

Mere HER i The Australian. Melanie Phillips her. ICJS her.

So what should be done about foreign terrorist suspects and the European Court of Human Rights?

By Melanie Phillips on 9th February 2012

In the wake of the decision yesterday by Britain’s Special Immigration Appeals Commission to free the Al Qaeda mastermind Abu Qatada on bail (true to indefensible form, the BBC reportedly instructed its journalists not to make a ‘value judgement’ by calling ‘an extremist’ the man described by Home Secretary Theresa May as ‘a serious risk to our national security’ and a dangerous foreign national’), and with the prospect now looming that other notorious terrorist suspects may be similarly freed, virtually everyone from the Home Secretary downwards is outraged and declares that something must be done. But what?

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Melanie Phillips her.

Europe’s unfinished business

By Melanie Phillips – 21 December 2011

When Germany’s Foreign Minister Guido Westervelle came to London a few days ago to extend an olive branch in the wake of the row between Britain and the EU over proposals to shore up the euro, he took people aback by his display of emotion. As the Guardian reported:

‘Westerwelle told an anecdote about how he went on a camping holiday overseas in the 1970s as a teenager, and was shocked that the appearance of a ”blonde, slim” young German reduced one woman to tears. That, and a trip to Berlin after the Wall went up, made him realise the importance of a united Europe.’

Such emotion is not really surprising. For many Germans, the EU is deemed vital to ensure that their own country never again repeats the horrors of the past. That was presumably what lay behind Chancellor Merkel’s remark, when the euro started to implode, that it was imperative for the EU to be saved because without it there would again be war in Europe

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Melanie Phillips her.

Andre kilder: The Daily Mail, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mail, Melanie Phillips, Melanie Phillips, Melanie Phillips, ICJS, PowerLine,

Sappho om muslimsk forår, nihilisme, venstrefløj, sprog, kristne, Eleanor Roosevelt og mere

Siden sidst:

Arabisk forår

10. februar 2012 – klumme af Geoffrey Cain

Geoffrey Cain om historiens lovmæssighed, Mugabe, Arafat og det arabiske forår.

Mere HER i Sappho.

Redeker: ”Venstrefløjen taler nihilismens sag”

13. februar 2012 – artikel af Sapphos redaktion

Når man siger, at alt er lige meget værd, siger man, at intet er noget værd. Hvilket kort sagt er definitionen på nihilismen. Læs Robert Redekers kommentar til den franske debat om hvilken civilisation, der er mest værd.

Mere HER i Sappho.

Hvem ejer sproget?

13. februar 2012 – klumme af Magnus N. Sørensen

Den nye ægteskabslov, der er på vej, påtvinger borgerne en politisk korrekt sprogbrug, mener teolog og præst Magnus N. Sørensen.

Mere HER i Sappho. Og et nyt iinitiativ fra Sappho:

Set fra Udkigsposten

15. februar 2012 – klumme af Dan Ritto

De to største trusler mod det frie ord kommer fra islam og fra ønskerne om netcencur, skriver Dan Ritto, der holder opsyn med presset på det frie ord på Udkigsposten.

Mere HER i Sappho. Se det her:

• Udkigsposten

Muslimer omdanner tomme europæiske kirker til moskeer

16. februar 2012 – artikel af Soeren Kern

Islam er nu den hurtigst voksende religion i Europa. Mange steder på kontinentet er der således flere praktiserende muslimer end praktiserende kristne. En af følgerne er, at stadig flere kirker omdannes til moskeer.

Mere HER i Sappho.

De frie lande advarede imod hate speech-forbud 

16. februar 2012 – klumme af Katrine Winkel Holm

Eleanor Roosevelt var blandt dem, der i 1960erne advarede mod den FN-konvention, der ligger til grund for vestlige hate speech-paragraffer, skriver Katrine Winkel Holm.

Mere HER i Sappho. Og det sædvanlige link til Nicolai Sennels klumme:

• Sharia-toppen

Audio, video & artikler: Roger Scruton om konservatisme, moral, miljø, natur, Schubert, Grækenland og mere

Lidt af hvert her. I den første video hører man Scruton sige: “Well, the answer was to send them back home but you can’t say that”. Og ja, det er dem, Scruton taler om:

Roger Scruton on Moral Relativism

A conversation with Roger Scruton at Gerbeaud Cafe in Budapest, Hungary on the topic of moral relativism. Hosted by the Common Sense Society on January 25, 2012.

Audio fra RSA – The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce:

Green Philosophy

RSA Keynote – 18th Jan 2012

The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political left, which has seen the principal threats to the earth as issuing from international capitalism, consumerism and the over-exploitation of natural resources.

In his new book ‘Green Philosophy’, philosopher Roger Scruton argues that this way of thinking is fallacious, and poses a danger to the ecosystems on which we all depend.

Instead, he believes that conservatism is far better suited to tackle environmental problems than either liberalism or socialism, and argues that rather than entrusting the environment to NGOs and international committees, we must assume personal responsibility and foster local sovereignty.

People must be empowered to take charge of their environment, to care for it as a home, and to affirm themselves through the kind of local associations that have been the traditional goal of conservative politics.

The current environmental movement directs its energies at the bigger picture but fails to see that environmental problems are generated and resolved by ordinary people – and that there is an alternative path that we can take which could ensure the future safety of our planet and our species.

Speaker: Roger Scruton, writer, philosopher and author of ‘Green Philosophy: How to think seriously about the planet’ (Atlantic Books, 2012).

Chair: Matthew Taylor, chief executive, RSA.

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 46 minutter. Australske ABC Radio har lavet en udsendelse om ovenstående, men den består mest af klip fra foredraget. Audio fra 30. januar 2012 kan findes her eller her på ABCs hjemmeside.

Og en meget gammel sag fra BBC 2003 – Melvyn Bragg, Jonathan Bate, Roger Scruton, Karen Edwards:

Nature

Og artikler:

How conservatives can help to tackle climate change

Treaty-chasing is a futile waste of time and resources – the search for clean energy begins at home

Roger Scruton – 14 February 2012

Environmental degradation has one cause above all others: the propensity of human beings to take the benefit and leave the costs to someone else, preferably someone far away in space or time, whose protests can be safely ignored. The solution is to give space to the rival tendency in human nature, which is to take charge of costs, when the costs affect one’s home. So my book Green Philosophy is an exploration of the motive I call “oikophilia”, the love of home. The propensity for settlement and stewardship is at the heart of conservative philosophy, I argue, and ought to be at the heart of Conservative politics, too.

Mere HER i The Guardian.

Schubert is needed now more than ever

The composer’s musical legacy contains more consolation for our loneliness than any other human creation.

By Roger Scruton – 11 Feb 2012

Franz Schubert excelled in every musical genre, writing string quartets that can be set beside the greatest of Haydn and Mozart, symphonies that stand comparison with Beethoven, and works for piano that paved the way for Schumann and Chopin. His String Quintet in C major is perhaps the most beautiful piece of chamber music ever composed, while his 600 songs represent a flow of unaffected melody without compare in the history of music. He died aged 31 in 1828, leaving nearly 1,000 compositions, nearly all of which are marked by his distinctive genius.

Mere HER i The Telegraph. Synopsis-Olsen har oversat den næste artikel til dansk:

• Om at betale prisen

Den engelske version følger her:

Paying the Price

By Roger Scruton from the December 2011 – January 2012 issue

There’s no question but that a Greece should be “allowed” to default.

“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”

Thomas Sowell’s aphorism is of special relevance to us now, when we discover that, without the matter having been discussed or put to the vote, the most important economic decisions are in the hands of politicians. Democratic politicians secure their following by making economic promises–basically to steal from the few in order to reward the many. And in order to protect themselves from the cost of this they set up supposedly independent economic bodies, like the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve Bank, and the European Central Bank, which they place in the hands of political appointees. In all the excitement over Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s adventures in a New York hotel the media seems to have forgotten to ask the most important question: how was it that a politician, and one of the French sofa-socialist persuasion, should be in charge of the IMF? What conceivable attribute could have qualified him for such a position? Granted that a gargantuan libido might sometimes be useful in politics, in what way could it possibly contribute to the process of maintaining equilibrium in the world economy, and compensating where possible for the rash promises of politicians?

Mere HER i The American Spectator.

Video & artikel: Douglas Murray om den Den Europæiske Menneskerettighedsdomstol

Først Michael Coren og Douglas Murray – igen. Fra 7. februar 2012:

Michael Coren with Douglas Murray: islamofascism

“The single most impenetrable idiocy of our age is the thing we constantly hear from islamists, who say to us ‘say my religion is peaceful or I’ll kill you’.”

“If you shut down debate, if you intimidate, if you stop open discussion happening, that is the only conceivable way in which they’ll win, because there’s no way they can win in the battle of ideas if it’s fought in the open.”

- Douglas Murray

Ser ud til at være fra 6. februar 2012 – BBC Newsnight – Jeremy Paxman, Douglas Murray, Roger Smith:

Douglas Murray, Henry Jackson Society on Newsnight discussing Abu Qatada ruling

Douglas Murray, Associate Director of the Henry Jackson Society on Newsnight discussing the Abu Qatada ruling: www.henryjacksonsociety.org

Udvis kriminelle udlændinge:

Ignore the European Court and deport Abu Qatada tonight

Douglas Murray – 7th February 2012

The Al-Qaeda preacher Abu Qatada is a Jordanian national who is in the UK illegally (having come here in 1993 on a forged United Arab Emirates passport). The headache he has caused successive UK governments looks like finally reaching a peak. But there is a simple solution to the problem he poses.

Last month, not only for the first time in the decade-long Qatada process, but for the first time ever in an extradition case, the European Court of Human Rights cited Article 6 ‘rights to fair trial’ to ensure that Abu Qatada could not be returned to Jordan. The Court had previously played around in the Qatada case only with Articles 2, 3 and 5. So through citing Article 6 the ECtHR not only moved the goal-posts, it made a mockery of the extraordinary efforts made by the last government to ensure it jumped through every previous hoop the ECtHR set up (including putting together a memorandum of understanding with Jordan in 2005 to satisfy Article 3 demands, which ensured that Qatada himself would not be mistreated).

Mere HER i The Spectator.

Andre kilder: The Daily Mail, The Daily Mail,

Lone Nørgaard, Ole Hasselbalch & Katrine Winkel Holm

Lidt guf fra Jyllands-Posten:

Statistik, folkekirke og kristendom

Af Lone Nørgaard – 29.01.12

Andelen af danskere, der er medlem af folkekirken, må være knapt 90 pct.

Der er én megafordel ved kombinationen af igangværende normsammenbrud og massetilvandring. [...]

Mere HER i Jyllands-Posten.

Medieløgnenes bagmænd

Ole Hasselbalch, professor jur.dr. – 04.02.12

Medierne har i dag et frirum, der giver dem mulighed for at bruge metoder, som i andre dele af samfundslivet – f.eks. finanssektoren – ville føre til fængselsstraf.

Mere HER i Jyllands-Posten.

Lad os følge Storbritannien

Katrine Winkel Holm – 04.02.12

Da Margrethe Vestager i DR2′s Debatten lagde hovedet på skrå og med sin særlige overbærende pædagogstemme forklarede os, hvorfor Danmark, uden folkeafstemning, skal tilslutte sig EU’s finanspagt, selv om vi for længst og gudskelov har sagt nej til at være med i euroen, blev jeg kort øjeblik grebet af en heftig længsel efter at være englænder.

Mere HER i Jyllands-Posten.

Video: Nigel Farage hos Michael Coren

Det er et kup, skriver uploader. Meget af det, vi hører, er sagt før, men vi skal da se interviewet alligevel. Fra 25. januar 2012:

Michael Coren with Nigel Farage, UKIP

In a major coup, Michael Coren gets Nigel Farage of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) to join him in The Arena.

Lunatic in charge of EU asylum

24th January 2012

The news that disgraced former European Commission President, Jacques Santer has been appointed as boss of the EU’s bailout fund, improbably named the Special Purpose Investment Vehicle (Spiv), is ‘almost laughable,’ said Nigel Farage MEP, the UKIP leader.

“The lunatics have finally taken over the asylum,” he said.

“The key to dealing with this crisis, as with any crisis in the markets is confidence. What sort of confidence can anybody have in somebody who was even the EU fired for incompetence.”

Mere HER hos UKIP.

PM blustering on ECHR to no avail

25th January 2012

UKIP Leader Nigel Farage has dimissed the Primer Minister’s postering over the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg today, telling him he must “face the facts”.

“David Cameron’s blustering to no avail about the harmful effect of the European Court of Human Rights,” said Mr Farage.

Mere HER hos UKIP.

Opdatering 29. januar 2012:

Set the taxpayer free, and watch the economy grow

By Nigel Farage on 27th January 2012

Nick Clegg appears to be demanding that the Government moves much faster in its stated desire to bring in a tax free allowance of £10,000 per annum.

I have never understood and nobody has ever explained to me effectively how the Treasury can justify taxing somebody who is on the minimum wage.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail.

Bruce Bawer om Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff

Pressen ignorerer dommen i Østrig:

Unfit to Print

by Bruce Bawer on Dec 29th, 2011

The other day I took note here of a recent New York Times feature in which several prominent figures from the worlds of law and religion were invited to answer the question: Is religious freedom in America under threat?  I focused on one of the responses, entitled “A Campaign Against Patriotic Muslims,” in which Salam Al-Marayati, president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, maintained that when it came to his coreligionists, the answer was a definite yes.  Al-Marayati painted a picture of an America awash in “anti-Islam groups” and “Muslim haters” who make life difficult for American Muslims, whom he depicted as overwhelmingly peaceful, freedom-loving, and terrorism-hating.  It didn’t seem to matter to the Times that Al-Marayati himself is a longtime associate of and apologist for terrorists.

Another participant in the same Times feature was Noah Feldman​, a Harvard law professor.  Like Al-Marayati, Feldman claimed to be concerned about a plague of Islam-hatred in America.  Feldman complained about legislative proposals in Oklahoma and Tennessee that would “ban Islamic law from the courts — a measure that the American separation of church and state makes completely unnecessary.”  Feldman concluded: “It would be nice to say these proposed laws are un-American. But they are sadly reminiscent of our history of targeting vulnerable religious minorities out of bigotry and political expediency. We can only look forward to a day when anti-Islamic sentiment seems as archaic as these other old hatreds do today.”

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.

Denigrating Religious Stupidity

25 December 2011 – Henrik R. Clausen

While I was working on a polite essay ”What is ‘denigration’, really?”, events overtook the intended polite and analytical approach. At an Austrian court, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff had her conviction for ”Denigrating the teachings of a recognized religion” upheld. The court deemed that her uttering ”an excess of opinion” about Muhammad having sex with minors, and that doing so was subject to a fine of 480 euros, alternatively 60 days in jail.

Many of us consider freedom of expression is a fundamental right in itself. Expressions used in criminal ways, like committing fraud or inciting violence is indeed a matter for the courts, but a victimless crime where not even a single Muslim protested that his faith had been ‘denigrated’, surely cannot be subject to legal action, fines or jail time. In a free society, that is.

Mere HER hos Right Side News.

Video: Roger Helmer om EU

Jeg fandt lige denne video. Den er fra 3. august 2011, men EU flytter sig jo ikke det mindste, så den er lige så aktuel, som da den blev lavet:

Sceptic at Large: Lifting the Lid on the European Union

In Sceptic at Large, Roger Helmer lifts the lid on how the European Union really works. A Conservative Member of the European Parliament since 1999, he offers a potent potpourri of politics and polemic, enlivened by irony, and amusing anecdotes. He provides a personal perspective of the major events during his odyssey through the corridors of Brussels over the past decade and documents his long battle against creeping European integration.

Helmer tells the tale of how Brussels is making Britain poorer, less democratic, and less free. He also conveys the tragic saga of the euro currency. Having predicted problems for the single currency since the mid 1990s, Helmer describes how it has now become a “slow-motion train wreck.”

“Helmer tells the tale of how Brussels is making Britain poorer, less democratic, and less free. He also conveys the tragic saga of the euro currency. Having predicted problems for the single currency since the mid 1990s, Helmer describes how it has now become a “slow-motion train wreck.” Our national debate is the richer for a sceptic at large. Roger puts establishments on their mettle, challenges politicians to think about their preconceptions and offers challenging views to the public.” – The Rt. Hon. John Redwood MP, from the Foreword of Sceptic at Large

Der kommer styr på lyden efter 3½ minut:

Audio & artikler om justitsmordet på Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff

Ned May fra Gates of Vienna kommer ind i udsendelsen efter 15 minutter og fortæller om sagen imod Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff. Fra Secure Freedom Radio den 22. december 2011:

Time To Stand Up For What America Stands For

With Nina Shea, Ned May, Diana West, and Clare Lopez

Are we failing to understand the nature of our enemies and blinding ourselves to the threats that they pose?  Today’s guests address this issue beginning with Nina Shea of the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute.  Nina first explains the situation in Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood is not being open about its agenda for the new Egyptian government.  It is likely though that broad restrictions and punishments for any expression against Islam will continue to be instituted.  These will target women, religious minorities, and political reformers, and further hinder the discussion about freedom of speech in Egypt by essentially taking it off the table.  This perverse agenda is only being exacerbated here in theUnited Stateswith the recent State Department conference with the Organization for Islamic Cooperation.

Ned May, blogger at the Gates of Vienna and Big Piece contributor, addresses the issue of Sharia law. Court cases inEuropehave proven that Sharia law is being upheld and thus the question is can the imposition of Sharia happen here too?  InAustria, an activist by the name of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff has been found guilty of hate speech.  Her case highlights the point that Muslims can defame Christians and Jews without facing prosecution, but under Sharia law all other faiths are prosecuted for exposing Islam.  Similarly in theUnited Kingdom, the courts have upheld Sharia law by forcing a Muslim mother to give her child up for adoption in order to prevent the mother’s father from carrying out honor killings.  It appears that Sharia law is taking precedent over the common law of European countries.

Next Diana West, columnist at the Washington Examiner and author of The Death of the Grown-Up, examines how the doctrine of Sharia law is being enforced in theUnited States.  This submission to Sharia doctrine stems fromUS counterinsurgency doctrine in which our goal over the years has been to convince the Islamic people, inAfghanistan for example, that we are the “good guys”.  Unfortunately this concept has led to increased sensitivity to and accommodation for Islamic norms and practices that have saturated our military training.  This has also led to directives such as at the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) that dictate adherence to Islamic law and provide a means for the regulation of American freedoms.

Today’s show concludes with Clare Lopez, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy and former CIA intelligence officer.  Clare explains some recent court cases and documents that point to the connection between the Iranian government and Al-Qaeda.  First, a judge ruled in favor of several family members of 9-11 victims because of proven evidence thatIranand Hezbollah provided support to Al-Qaeda for the terrorist attacks.  Law firms have joined together to assemble evidence that show this connection too.  TheU.S.people have a right to know the truth about 9-11 and theU.S.government has the responsibility to hold these members ofIran’s political leadership accountable for their actions.

Startes HER eller her - åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 53 minutter.

The Persecution of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff

by Jamie Glazov on Dec 26th, 2011

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, a free speech activist who was charged last year in Austria with “denigration of religious beliefs of a legally recognized religion” for asserting that “Mohammed had a thing for little girls.” In February of this year she was convicted, and will have to pay a fine of up to €480. Just recently, on December 20, 2011, her conviction was upheld by the higher court. If she refuses to pay the fine, she may spend a maximum of two months in jail. She grew up and lived in Muslim countries and experienced Islam first-hand.

FP: Ms. Sabaditsch-Wolff, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

I would like to talk to you today about your trial and where it stands now. But let us begin with a bit of background about yourself.

Sabaditsch-Wolff: Thank you Jamie.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.

A New ‘Silent Night’ Descends on Austria

Dec 23, 2011 – Diana West

Ah, to be in Vienna at Yuletide. Streets sparkle with the lights of the Christkindlmarkts, the traditional markets that spring up for the season. Skaters circle the rink outside the picturesque Rathaus (City Hall). Merrymakers warm their hands on cups of gluhwein (mulled wine). What could possibly be missing?

Freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech no longer exists in Austria, as definitively proven by the Vienna high court. This week, a judge upheld the conviction against Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff on the following charge: “denigration of religious beliefs of a legally recognized religion.” In simplest terms, this means that Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff speaks the truth about Islam, and in Austria, as in other nations across the Western world currently transitioning to sharia (Islamic law), speaking the truth about Islam is not tolerated, and, more and more, is against the law.

Mere HER hos Townhall. Kan også læses her hos WorldNetDaily.

“A Black Day for Austria”

by Soeren Kern – December 26, 2011

An Austrian appellate court has upheld the conviction of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, a Viennese housewife and anti-Jihad activist, for “denigrating religious beliefs” after giving a series of seminars about the dangers of radical Islam.

The December 20 ruling shows that while Judaism and Christianity can be disparaged with impunity in postmodern multicultural Austria, speaking the truth about Islam is subject to swift and hefty legal penalties.

Although the case has major implications for freedom of speech in Austria, as well as in Europe as a whole, it has received virtually no press coverage in the American mainstream media.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

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