Video & artikler: Islamisering af Spanien

Den økonomiske krise i Spanien spidser til. Recession, konkurstruede banker, bristet boligboble, voldsomme demonstrationer i alle større byer og mere af samme skuffe. De er stadig betydeligt bedre stillet end grækerne, men hver fjerde spanier er arbejdsløs. Ikke mindst de unge er hårdt ramt. Her er det mere end hver anden, der ikke har job, skriver Berlingske Tidende. Lidt økonomi før artiklerne om islam i Spanien:

Europe’s Worst Fear: Spain and Greece Spiral Down Together

By Landon Thomas Jr. – May 20, 2012

In a season of nightmare projections for Europe, this one could be the scariest: Greek leaves the euro currency union at the same time Spain’s banking system is collapsing.

In many ways, the market convulsion last week was a test run for those crises, as political deadlock in Greece and mounting fears over the health of Bankia, one of the largest consumer banks in Spain, converged. The credit ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the entire Spanish banking sector Thursday.

As investors gird for another challenging week, they will be hoping European leaders in Brussels, if not Frankfurt where the European Central Bank is based, can finally start to map out an action plan. It is not clear that policy makers have many good options.

Mere HER i The New York Times.

Spanish village goes back to peseta: Residents turn to old money they’d held on to in case the euro folded

By Lee Moran – 15 February 2012

• Thirty businesses have started using old currency
• Spain estimated to have saved 1.7bn euros in pesetas
• Jobless rate in Villamayor de Santiago above national average – with a third out of work

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Og så til muslimer i Spanien:

Spain Facing Creeping Islamization

by Soeren Kern – March 9, 2012

Laaroussi was questioned by police but refused to answer questions because he does not recognize the legitimacy of the Spanish state. According to one estimate, 75% of all babies born in Spain on January 1, 2012, were born to immigrant parents, primarily from Morocco.

A radical Islamic preacher in Spain has been arrested for calling on Muslims to use physical and psychological violence to “discipline” errant wives who refuse to submit to Islamic Sharia law or obey their husbands.

Spanish public prosecutors say Abdeslam Laaroussi, a charismatic imam from Morocco who preaches at a large mosque in Terrassa, an industrial city situated 30 kilometers north of Barcelona, is guilty of “incitement to violence against women” for “providing concrete examples of the manner in which wives should be beaten, how to isolate them inside the family home and how to deny them sexual relations.”

Mere HER hos Gatestone Institute. Kern har mere om islamistiske tv-kanaler i Spanien i denne artikel:

• Radical Islamic Television Arrives in Spain

The Telegraph skriver om imamen i Terrassa:

• Imam ‘called on faithful to abuse errant wives’

Islam Conquers European Football

by Soeren Kern – April 5, 2012

As part of the agreement, however, the ruler of Ras al-Khaimah required Real Madrid to remove the cross from the crown on its logo for all promotional materials. The president of Real Madrid dutifully complied.

The top-ranked football team in Spain, Real Madrid, has removed a Christian cross from its official logo as a way to strengthen its fan base among Muslims in Europe and the Middle East.

According to Spain’s top sports newspaper, Marca, the change was made to “avoid any form of confusion or misinterpretation in a region where the majority of the population is Muslim.”

Real Madrid says its decision to remove the cross from its logo (see image here) is simply a cost of doing business in a globalized world. But critics say the move represents yet another erosion of European culture and tradition in the face of encroaching Islam.

Mere HER hos Gatestone Institute.

Jihadists “Liberating” Spain for Islam

by Soeren Kern – March 20, 2012

The problem is so grave that the United States has proposed setting up an intelligence hub at the U.S. Consulate in Barcelona to counter the growing threat.

Nine Islamists accused of planning terrorist attacks aimed at “liberating” Spain for Islam are standing trial in Madrid.

Spanish public prosecutors say the men — Salafi-Jihadists who belonged to an Islamist cell known as the “Army of the Messiah” (Ansar al-Mahdi) — sought to “free” the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, two Spanish enclaves in northern Africa, from Spanish rule and thus begin the Islamic re-conquest of Spain.

Salafism is a branch of radical Islam that seeks forcibly to re-establish an Islamic empire (Caliphate) across the Middle East, North Africa and Spain, which Salafists view as a Muslim state that must be reconquered for Islam.

Mere HER hos Gatestone Institute.

“Andalusia Spring”

Reclaiming “Occupied” Spain for Islam

by Soeren Kern – January 9, 2012

Controversies over Islam dominated the Christmas and New Year holidays in Spain this year.

These conflicts reflect the growing influence of Islam in Spain after mass immigration from Muslim countries. They are a harbinger of things to come, especially as the Muslim population in Spain is predicted to double within the next fifteen years.

Demography, not surprisingly, is a major topic of debate in Spain. Spanish newspapers, for example, reported that the first child born in Spain in 2012 was Fatima, whose parents are Muslim. According to one estimate, a whopping 75% of all the babies born in Spain on January 1, 2012 were born to immigrant parents, primarily from Morocco.

Mere HER hos Gatestone Institute. Flere historiske artikler:

• Right Side News – Andrew Bostom: The Cordoba House and the Myth of Andalusian “Ecumenism”
• The Middle East Forum – Raymond Ibrahim: The Historical Reality of the Muslim Conquests

Spain’s Jew-Hating Majority

“Germans Were Wrong Not to Burn Them All”

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci – December 21, 2011

“The levels of anti-Semitism in Spain are among the highest in Europe,” wrote the Spanish daily, El Pais. According to a poll, presented on November 30 during the Fourth International Seminary on Antisemitism hosted at the Caja Navarra Foundation in Madrid, 52% of Spanish students declared that they would not like to have a Jewish classmate sitting next to them, and 58% of adults thought that Jews have too much power and that they are all too rich.

The organizers of the Madrid conference said they were sad an bewildered that anti-Semitism “is a problem that is often denied in the country.” The Federation of the Jewish Communities in Spain (FCJE) also stated that although surveys indicate that there are high levels of “hostility” towards Jews, “most leaders and media persons believe there is no prejudice whatsoever against Jews.” However, sociologist Alejandro Baer explains that the situation has become unbearable and that it is time to face the problem: “In Spain, insults, writings and slogans against Jews are considered normal.”

Mere HER hos Gatestone Institute.

Is New Moroccan Government Inciting Muslims in Spain?

by Soeren Kern – December 8, 2011

Some 3,000 Muslim immigrants took to the streets in near Barcelona to protest recent cuts in social welfare benefits.

The protest, which took place on December 5 in the industrial city of Terrassa, about 30 kilometers from Barcelona, was organized and attended by Moroccan immigrants.

The size and spontaneity of the demonstration caught local officials by surprise — they had been expecting no more than 300 demonstrators — and reflects the growing assertiveness of Muslim immigrants in the northeastern region of Catalonia.

Mere HER hos Gatestone Institute. Baskerlandet bliver også løbet over ende af islamister, ligesom wahhabisterne har travlt i spanske ghettoer, fortæller Kern i disse artikler – den sidste har været blogget her en gang tidligere:

• Islam Arrives in the Basque Country
• Qatar Financing Wahhabi Islam in France, Italy, Ireland and Spain

Videoen kommer ind på en del af de samme emner som artiklerne – fra CBN 6. februar 2012:

Under Siege? Spain Resists Islamic ‘Invasion’ – CBN.com

The Koran instructs Muslims to conquer the whole world for Islam. It happened 1,300 years ago in Spain — and some say it’s happening again… The Christian Broadcasting Network CBN

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Video: Pædofile indvandrerbander hærger England

Voldtægt af børn. Fantastisk med multikultur, ikke?

‘You preyed on girls because they were not part of your community or religion’, says judge as he jails Rochdale sex gang for 77 years

Nine ‘pure evil’ men who abused girls as young as 13 were today jailed for a total of 77 years for their roles in a child sex grooming ring.

Following an 11-week trial, a jury found the nine men, from Rochdale and Oldham, guilty of several counts of sexual abuse over a two-year period.

They were convicted on the back of evidence from five girls, who were as young as 13 when the abuse happened between 2008 and 2010.

Mere HER i Manchester Evening News.

The Rochdale sex ring shows the horrific consequences of Britain’s ‘Islamophobia’ witch-hunt

By Melanie Phillips | 9 May 2012

So now we can see the outcome of the witch-hunt against ‘Islamophobia’.

With the conviction of nine men for organised sexual crimes from rape to sex trafficking, the full horrific details of more than two decades of sexual violence against young, predominantly white girls living in children’s homes in the north of England have been revealed.

The gang lured an officially estimated 47 girls (the figure may well be higher) aged 12 to 16 with gifts, alcohol and drugs before passing them around to have sex ‘with several men a day, several times a week’ in flats, houses, cars, taxis and kebab shops.

After phone calls inviting them to come and have sex with a girl, men would turn up to do so by the taxi-load. One 13 year-old was forced to have sex with 20 men in one night.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Kan også læses her hos Melanie Phillips.

Asian grooming gang detectives hunt for FORTY more men who may have had sex with underage girls

By James Tozer and Nazia Parveen – 10 May 2012

• Judge says gang preyed on five girls, aged between 13 and 15, partly because they were from different ‘community and religion’
• Nine men jailed for a total of 77 years as police prepare to arrest four more
• Judge Gerald Clifton dismisses defendants’ claims that prosecution was ‘triggered by race’ after ringleader brands him a ‘racist b******’
• But legal counsel for one of the convicted men says he will launch an appeal on the basis of a tweet by BNP leader Nick Griffin
• Opportunity to catch the paedophiles missed after complaint four years ago
• As many as 47 vulnerable girls were plied with alcohol, gifts and money
• They were then passed around for sex with ‘several men a day’
• At least one victim forced to have sex with 20 men in one night, police say
• Convicted men will be scattered in prisons across the UK and segregated from other prisoners over fears of revenge attacks
• Former Labour MP Ann Cryer says gang were left to it because police feared being branded racist
• Muslim leader warns that some British Pakistani men ‘think that white teenage girls are worthless and can be abused without a second thought’

Mere HER i The Daily Mail.

Uploadet 12. maj 2012:

EDL – British Freedom – Muslim Rape and the complicity of the ‘Liberal Left’

Paul Weston, the Chairman of the British Freedom Party, has recorded this video in response to the recent arrest, prosecution, and conviction of vicious Muslim paedophile rape gangs who trafficked underage white girls in major cities all over Britain.

Fra 10. maj 2012:

Rochdale sex grooming racially motivated

Der følger en artikel med fra Sky News, som kan læses her.

Muslim sex-gang convicted to jail for 77 years

Rochdale grooming trial: Nine men jailed

Et program fra BBC 5. december 2011 – citat:

Exposed: Groomed for Sex

Adil Ray investigates the controversial subject of on-street grooming of young girls for sex by Pakistani men in the UK. He speaks to members of his own community, the police and victims of abuse. For Adil, it is a ‘deeply personal journey’ and he is shocked by what he discovers.

Opdatering 21. maj 2012:

Muslim Child-Rape Gangs in Britain

by Soeren Kern – May 21, 2012

It recently emerged that British police had known for more than a decade that Muslim rape gangs were targeting young girls, but they ignored the evidence of rapes because “they were petrified of being called racist.” Rather than acknowledge that there is a problem, Muslim groups have decided to play the victim card instead. They are working overtime trying to silence public discussion about Muslim sex crimes by branding critics as “far-right racists” and “Islamophobic.” Several of the men on trial in Liverpool apparently told their victims that it was all right for the girls to be passed around for sex with dozens of men “because it’s what we do in our country.”

Nine Muslim men belonging to a child-rape gang in northwestern England have received hefty prison sentences for trafficking and raping young British girls.

The three-month sexual grooming trial at a court in Liverpool, which ended on May 9, has drawn nationwide attention to the sexual abuse of children and women by Muslim immigrants, and British police are currently investigating at least 40 other cases of child rapes perpetrated by Muslims in northern England.

Fortsætter HER hos Gatestone Institute.

Andre kilder: The Daily Mail, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mail, BBC, BBC, BBC, The Telegraph, The Telegraph, The Telegraph, Manchester Evening News, Manchester Evening News,

Christopher Caldwell om indvandrere i Europa og valget i Frankrig

Christopher Caldwell anmelder to bøger. Dels “Europe’s Angry Muslims: The Revolt of the Second Generation” af Robert S. Leiken og dels “After the Fall: The End of the European Dream and the Decline of a Continent” af Walter Laqueur:

Europe’s Other Crisis

May 4, 2012 | Christopher Caldwell

In two separate incidents in March, Mohammed Merah, a French-born French citizen who thought he was waging jihad, ambushed four soldiers around Toulouse, killing three of them. A week later, he shot dead three children arriving for morning classes at a nearby Jewish school, along with a young rabbi who was father to two of them. The children were aged eight, six, and three. Merah recorded the killings on a micro-camera mounted around his neck and sent the footage to Al Jazeera, which did not air it. Shortly before he died by gunfire, Merah told the soldiers who had surrounded his apartment that he regretted not having done more of what he did.

These were crazy deeds, and one can argue about what role insanity played in them, but something else needs to be candidly acknowledged: the killer was not a lone wolf. He had a measure of community support and a great deal of family support. His brother Abdelkader professed himself “proud” of his relation to the murderer. His mother refused to convince her son to surrender to police. His father threatened to file a wrongful-death suit against the French state. The contemporary culture of politicized Islam, as deracinated Internet-surfers understand it, is what Merah believed he was fighting for. He was upset about French laws that limit the wearing of the Muslim veil among schoolgirls. Someone had whipped him into a frenzy over Israel’s occupation of the West Bank.

Mere HER hos The New Republic. OBS: Jeg har valgt at linke til printversionen for at undgå den fjantede sideinddeling, som er her.

François Hollande er Frankrigs nye præsident. Nicolas Sarkozy har tabt. Artiklen herunder er skrevet før valget, – på trods af datoen:

The Lady with the Popular Front

France’s rightists have grown too big to ignore.

May 7, 2012 • By Christopher Caldwell

The French prefer “tenacity” to “cooperation” by a measure of 51-44 percent, according to a poll about political attitudes published this election season. By 57-41 percent they like “hard work and courage” better than “social justice and solidarity.” Such attitudes have not been widespread in France since the war. On Friday, Dominique de Villepin, the foreign minister who led France out of the Iraq war coalition in 2003, professed himself “frightened” of France’s right-wingers. As Attorney General John Mitchell said of the United States in 1970, “This country’s going so far to the right you’re not even going to recognize it.”

Mere HER i The Weekly Standard.

Andre kilder: Jyllands-Posten,

Video: The Doha Debate om fætter-kusineægteskab

Eksperterne her klarer sig glimrende. Klar besked om fætter-kusineægteskabet. The Doha Debates skriver på sin hjemmeside:

The Doha Debates threw themselves into one of the Arab world’s most sensitive social issues, arguing the rights and wrongs of inter- marriage between blood relatives and voting overwhelmingly to discourage the practice.

In a lively session that featured geneticists and cultural commentators, speakers grappled repeatedly with the scientific and religious aspects of consanguineous marriage – the union of two biologically-related people, including, most controversially, first cousins.

Mere HER. Hele 81 procent mente, at man skal fraråde denne type ægteskaber. Fra BBC 20. marts 2012 - Tim Sebastian er ordstyrer:

Family marriages – The debate

This House believes marriage between close family members should be discouraged

Kan også høres som mp3 her.

Andre kilder: Prospect Journal, The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel, The Hindu, OnIslam, Dawn, Gulf Times, Zawya, International Conference on Consanguinity, Pakistan Today, FaithFreedom, FaithFreedom,

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,

Integration er en svær en

Misvisende overskrift her:

Religion giver mindre integration

16. januar 2012 – Af Rasmus Karkov

Undersøgelse af herboende vietnamesere viser, at religioner – især dem med strenge krav til de troende – mindsker integrationen. Religion påvirker til gengæld ikke efterkommeres integration. Vietnamesere er blandt de mest veltilpassede flygtninge i det danske samfund.

Mere HER hos Videnskab.dk.

Norsk studie avslører:

Tror jentefostre blir valgt bort

09.01.12 – Av Shazia Sarwar og Synnøve Åsebø

En norsk studie avslører at indisk-norske kvinner føder unormalt mange guttebarn. Forskerne tror jentefostre blir bevisst valgt bort.

Funnene i studien, som er utført ved Rikshospitalet, er oppsiktvekkende:

Før ultralyd ble tilgjengelig ble det født 108 jenter per 100 fødte gutter hos indisk-norske mødre. Etter ultralydens inntog i 1987 – hvor det ble mulig å fastslå fosterets kjønn – har tallene falt dramatisk til 65 fødte jenter per 100 fødte gutter.

Mere HER hos VG.

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Video: Pamela Geller, Michael Coren & Tarek Fatah

Vi lever i en mørk tid:

Michael Coren with Pamela Geller – Jan 3/2012

Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs joins Michael Coren to discuss the so-called Arab Spring.

Coren & Fatah on Pakistan’s perfidy

Michael Coren and Tarek Fatah discuss one of the world’s most notorious rogue nations – Pakistan.

Bruce Bawer om Ibn Warraqs nye bog

Bawer er myreflittig for tiden:

A Muslim Apostate’s Defense of the West

by Bruce Bawer on Jan 3rd, 2012

Ibn Warraq​ is the pseudonymous, Pakistani-born author of the modern classic Why I Am Not a Muslim and the writer or editor of several other estimable books about Muhammed, the Koran, Islamic culture, Muslim apostates, and Western civilization.  Surely few people know as much as he does about both the West and Islam.  Therefore I was more than eager to read his new book, Why the West Is Best: A Muslim Apostate’s Defense of Liberal Democracy.

Naturally, I expected something wise and incisive and steeped in learning – and I wasn’t disappointed.  But what I hadn’t counted on was how fresh, original, delightfully inspired, and emotionally stirring Warraq’s approach to his topic would be.  Take his first chapter, which is about New York, a city he views as “a testament to the robustness of Western culture and to its welcoming catholicity.” Warraq’s goal here is to help us to see a Western metropolis through the eyes of a person from, say, the Islamic world, and thus recognize the magnificence of things so familiar to us that we may take them for granted.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.

Is the West Doomed?

by Bruce Bawer on Jan 2nd, 2012

At the beginning of a new year, it’s hard to avoid the question: where are we going?  What will our future be like?  Does America, does freedom, does Western civilization even have a future?

I date my career as a professional writer to an op-ed I published in the Los Angeles Times in the early 1980s.  I was a graduate student in English and was also teaching undergraduate composition courses.  One of the challenges I faced in the classroom was this: when, in a search for possible topics for my students to write about, I brought up things that I thought of as falling under the category of general knowledge, I found over and over again that most of my students didn’t know what I was talking about.  They didn’t know history.  Their knowledge of politics, geography, art, and literature was, at best, extremely spotty.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine eller her hos AINA.

Video: Mark Steyn & Michael Coren om lidt af hvert

Skøn udsendelse fra i går:

Michael Coren with Mark Steyn – Nov 30/2011

Topics: intolerant bigoted fascist Michael Erickson – Iran attacking the British embassy – honour killings – islam in the West – the “hate crime” charges – “human right” commissions – the death of America – Mark’s Christmas CD – show tunes

Melanie Phillips om prins Philip

Phillips er så godt som altid meget læseværdig:

Hurrah for Philip! Wind power is the most ruinous folly of our age

By Melanie Phillips on 21st November 2011

Once again, Prince Philip has performed an invaluable national service by tilting at windmills — or to be more precise in this case, wind turbines.

In private remarks that found their way into the Press, he apparently said wind turbines were ‘absolutely useless’, completely reliant on subsidies and that those who claimed they were one of the most cost-effective forms of renewable energy believed  in ‘fairytales’.

The Prince’s outburst may have been impolitic but many will be cheering his words. Indeed, he understated his case. For the Government’s promotion of wind-farms is simply off-the-wall crazy from every conceivable point of view.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Kan også læses her på Melanie Phillips blog.

Bigotry, revisionism and Baroness Warsi

Melanie Phillips – 15 November 2011

The co-chairman of Britain’s Conservative Party, Sayeeda Warsi, has delivered a speech about antisemitism to the European Institute for the Study of Antisemitism. I am sure that Baroness Warsi means well. I am sure that she is personally genuinely opposed to bigotry and prejudice in any form. I would therefore like to be able to say it was a fine speech. I cannot do so. Despite much in it that was worthy and unexceptionable, in one vital respect it was a travesty – made no more palatable by the fact that many Jews subscribe to precisely the same lethally misguided misapprehension.

This revolves around the comforting but mistaken notion that Jews and Muslims stand shoulder to shoulder against the same threat by racists and bigots. It’s the argument that says ‘antisemitism = Islamophobia’. And it’s the claim that there is nothing intrinsically threatening to Jews within Islam.

All three notions are false. All three notions are promoted by many Jews. All three were to be found in Baroness Warsi’s speech.

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

How feminism made so many nurses too grand to care

The real reason our hospitals are a disgrace

By Melanie Phillips on 17th October 2011

Back in 2001, when Tony Blair was Prime Minister, I was invited to talk to him about the National Health Service. At that time, he was particularly exercised about reforming the NHS.

Sitting on the Downing Street sofa, I told him that the experience of my frail and elderly mother had left me shocked and aghast.

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

Andre kilder: Aish,

Video: Michael Coren & Niall Ferguson om konservatisme

Fra 11. november 2011:

Michael Coren with Niall Ferguson

Michael Coren discusses a number of topics with scholar Niall Ferguson.

Video: Irshad Manji & Steve Paikin – igen

Manji siger ikke noget nyt her. Fra 10. november 2011 – The Agenda med Steve Paikin:

Irshad Manji: Islam and the Arab Revolutions

Author Irshad Manji sits down with Steve Paikin to discuss how the Arab Spring has changed the perception of Islam within the Islamic body politic.

Reservelink: CastRoller (audio),

Michael Nazir-Ali om England, Pakistan, kristendom og mere

Udmærket interview:

The Good Fight

by Huw Spanner – November 2011

As a bishop in Raiwind and Rochester and as a ‘lord spiritual’, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali has been a controversial champion of both Christian truth and human dignity. Third Way engaged with him at the Bible Society’s offices in Westminster.

Your background, I believe, is very important to who you are. Your father was a convert from Islam…

Yes, I come from quite a large Shia Muslim family. My father was the only one who became a Christian, be­fore I was born – indeed, before he was married. My mother was from a Methodist tradition.

Were there repercussions from his conversion? Obviously, in Pakistan today it would be quite a serious matter.

It’s always serious and, yes, there have been some quite difficult times for him, and for us; but equally we have had good relations with many family members. I’ve just visited my senior uncle, who is the head of the family now, and head of the religious leaders of the Shia community in that part – and that was a cordial visit.

Mere HER i The Third Way Magazine.

Interview med Spengler

Om Spenglers nye bog:

“How Civilizations Die (And Why Islam Is Dying Too)” by David P. Goldman

Review and Interview – Ruth King – October 26, 2011

Demographic predictions often affect national security policy. President Jimmy Carter’s smarter brother Billy put it succinctly. When questioned about his shady deals with Libya, he replied “The only thing I can say is there is a hell of a lot more Arabians than there is Jews.” American policy with respect to the Middle East has been stated a tad more elegantly but it is based on the same immoral and obtuse calculations.

With respect to Israel, misleading predictions of Arab population growth were used, mostly by soft-core supporters to suggest that Jews were doomed to become a minority west of the Jordan River and should concede that geography in order to secure demography. A study : “The million Person Gap: The Arab Population in the West Bank and Gaza-the American-Israel Demographic Research Group” was published by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies in February 2006  with Ambassador (Ret.) Yoram Ettinger  as head of the Israeli team. All the meticulous research, including birth and death records and emigration numbers, revealed a net loss of Arab births and a surge in Jewish births in the West Bank.

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters. Og et ganske lille uddrag af bogen:

Book Excerpt: How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam Is Dying Too)

October 27, 2011 – David P. Goldman

Population decline is the elephant in the world’s living room. As a matter of arithmetic, we know that the social life of most developed countries will break down within two generations. If present fertility rates hold, the number of Germans will fall by 98 percent over the next two centuries. No pension and health care system can support such an inverted population pyramid.

Opdatering: Asia Times har et bedre uddrag HER. Mere HER hos Pajamas Media.

Andre kilder: ICJS, ICJS, Asia Times,

Sappho om Douglas Murray, svenskere, humanitærpopulister og mere

Først et portræt af Douglas Murray:

Douglas Murray – multikulturalismens vedholdende kritiker

30. oktober 2011 – artikel af Katrine Winkel Holm

Douglas Murray er en af Englands mest højprofilerede og elegante islamdebattører. Mød ham på Trykkefrihedsselskabets konference på lørdag.

Mere HER i Sappho. Sennels er rigtig god her:

Hvem skal betale regningen?

31. oktober 2011 – klumme af Nicolai Sennels

Regeringen vil øge indvandringen. Nicolai Sennels gennemgår hvad det kommer til at koste og spørger, hvem der skal betale.

Mere HER i Sappho. Straffes frafald fra islam af gammelsvenskerne? Ja da! Det er det, importen af fremmede går ud på:

Den svenske undtagelse

27. oktober 2011 – artikel af Sapphos redaktion

Er det udtryk for svensk dobbeltmoral, når man vil sende en frafalden muslim tilbage til Pakistan? Aktuel sag tyder på, at det er bedst at være muslim, hvis man vil søge asyl i Sverige.

Mere HER i Sappho.

Video: Ezra Levants seneste

Ezra Levant laver nogle særdeles interessante programmer. Og dem skal Veritas Universalis selvfølgelig have masser af. Islam er et  meget velegnet værktøj, hvis man ønsker at fremme sadisme, ser det ud til. Fra 21. oktober 2011:

Ezra Levant on mass murder honour killing in Canada

Når vold, mord, kvindeundertrykkelse med videre holder sig indenfor rammerne af normal islam, sker der ikke alverden. Om forbrydelser straffes eller ej, kommer an på, hvem der udøver dem. Lighed for loven er forældet og hører fortiden til – det kommer alle vesterlændinge til at vænne sig til. Enkelte heltemodige mennesker tror stadig, man kan ændre noget. Men islamiseringen af Vesten er villet. Behovet for en tilbageføring af udviklingen er vi endnu for få, der har. Og det behov er kun blevet synligt, fordi vi allerede har tabt.

Næste video er fra 13. oktober 2011:

Ezra Levant with Andrew Breitbart on Occupy L.A

Ezra Levant talks to the great Andrew Breitbart about his experience with the Occupy L.A. protesters.

Og en opfølgning fra 17. oktober 2011:

Ezra Levant & Andrew Breitbart: The Occupy Movement & The MSM’s Leftist Agenda

Andre kilder: The Totonto Sun, Ezra Levant,

Sappho om Norge og Egypten

Vi må hellere se af at komme ud af Europa, så vi ikke går i vejen for projektet:

Livsløgnen tar Norge to skritt tilbake

14. oktober 2011 – klumme af Hege Storhaug

Tilbageslag: Majoritetsbefolkningen skal fortsat piskes, som om vi har et særligt gen som disponerer os for diskriminering. Hege Storhaug skriver fra Norge

Mere HER i Sappho. Kristne skal åbenbart også ud af Mellemøsten:

Vil den arabiske revolution føre til en ny exodus?

14. oktober 2011 – artikel af Hans Rustad

Fordrives kopterne fra Egypten vil det være en tragedie af historiske dimensioner som da grækerne blev fordrevet fra Lilleasien efter 3000 års historie, skriver Hans Rustad.

Mere HER i Sappho. Desuden link til sharia-toppen af Nicolai Sennels her.

Video: Ezra Levant interviewer Peter Bhatti

Om Pakistans indre fjender: de vantro. Kvinder, kristne, ahmadiyya’er. Offeret er den pakistanske mand, som således er omringet af fjender. Og det endda i De Renes Land:

Ezra Levant Interviews Peter Bhatti On Canada’s New “Office Of Religious Freedom”

Peter Bhatti is the brother of Shahbaz Bhatti, who was executed by a muslim in Pakistan because he stood up for the rights of Christians.

Og lidt artikler:

London mosque accused of links to ‘terror’ in Pakistan

By Kurt Barling – 22 September 2011

A south London mosque is at the centre of allegations it helped promote of acts of terror and hate in Pakistan.

Leaflets circulating in Pakistan calling for the murder of members of the Ahmadi Muslim sect directed readers to a website naming Stockwell Mosque.

The website mentioned on the leaflets in turn advised people with queries to contact the mosque in Stockwell.

Angry trustees at the mosque said its name had been misused and it had no links to the Pakistani organisation.

Mere HER hos BBC.

Pakistan: ten year old girl accused of blasphemy and sentenced for a spelling mistake

by Jibran Khan – September 27, 2011

Faryal Bhatti misspelled a word in urdu referring to Muhammad, resulting in incredible reactions from teachers and the ulema. Expelled from school, her mother, a nurse, forced to leave work. Bishop Anthony: “Society is becoming so intolerant that a tiny error gets major attention.”

Mere HER hos AsiaNews.

Islam’s History of Forced Conversions

Apostasy and continuity in Islam

September 29, 2011 – by Raymond Ibrahim

Finding and connecting similar patterns of behavior throughout Islamic history is one of the most objective ways of determining whether something is or is not part of Muslim civilization.

Consider the issue of forced conversion in Islam, a phenomenon that has a long history with ample precedents.  Indeed, from its inception, most of those who embraced Islam did so under duress, beginning with the Ridda wars and during the age of conquests, and to escape dhimmi status.  This is a simple fact.

Mere HER i Pajamas Media. Kan også læses her hos Middle East Forum.

Refusing to Kill Daughter, Pakistani Family Defies Tradition, Draws Anger

By Habiba Nosheen & Hilke Schellmann – Sep 28 2011

A Pakistani girl who says she was kidnapped and gang-raped faces a new threat: honor killings, a tradition here, but one that her family refuses to carry out

Kainat Soomro is a 17-year-old Pakistani girl who has become a local celebrity of sorts in her battle for justice in the Pakistani courts, a daring move for a woman of any age in this country, let alone a teenager.

Mere HER i The Atlantic. Kainat Soomro’s storebror blev myrdet sidste år efter først at have været udsat for dødstrusler, skrev den pakistanske avis, The News International i juni 2010:

“The Jirga back home wanted me to take back the case, forgive the culprits and accept money as compensation. They warned me and my family of dire consequences if I did not obey their commands. But I declined them. Today, my brother is no more alive, but I will continue to fight for my right. I will do it even if my body is riddled with hundreds of bullets,” a determined Kainat said between tears.

Andre kilder: Family Security Matters, Middle East Forum, The Daily Mail, BBC, Jihad Watch, The Christian Post, OneNewsNow, Hudson New York, The Vancouver Sun, British Pakistani Christian Association, Persecution.org, Barnabas Fund, Let Us Build Pakistan,

Håbløse England

EU praktiserer hvidt slaveri. Indfødte europæere er bare skaffedyr for resten af verden. Det må være konklusionen. Englænderne har lige fået klar besked:

‘We’re throwing open the doors to benefit tourists’: EU plan to let migrants claim as soon as they enter UK is blasted

By Daniel Martin on 30th September 2011

The EU’s ruling that Britain should allow all European citizens to claim benefits ‘must be vigorously opposed’, according to a migration watchdog.

Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migration Watch UK, has warned that the decision is ‘an open invitation to benefit tourism’.

Europe has given Britain two months to scrap its policies which prevent benefit tourists claiming billions of pounds in handouts.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. The Daily Express har en tilsvarende artikel om sagen her. Det hele er planlagt. Englænderne skal straffes på denne måde:

Migration boom DID drive down wages and living standards, admits Labour

• Both Miliband and Cooper confess that Labour ‘got it wrong’
• Former government also hushed up potentially damaging reports

By James Slack on 26th September 2011

Labour’s open-door immigration policy drove down wages and living standards in Britain, party leader Ed Miliband has admitted.

He conceded that the last government ‘got it wrong’ on border controls and said  that British workers had  been ‘undercut’.

The bombshell confession came amid revelations that, when in power, Labour suppressed a string of damaging reports about the impact of mass immigration on the UK.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail.

Asylum seekers from Arab spring pour into Europe

27th September 2011

Refugees from war and revolution in the Arab world have begun to pour into Europe, according to research.

A count covering the first three months of this year – the months that saw the outbreak of the Arab Spring – showed that number of Tunisian asylum seekers rose more than 20-fold after their country became the first to be engulfed in the chain of uprisings.

The study covered the first three months of this year – the  period of the Arab Spring.

The influx raised fears that Britain faces a fresh asylum boom as tens of thousands of individuals and families try to flee other countries convulsed by violent upheavals.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Englændernes egne politikere udbytter også sine borgere:

Muslim Polygamists Exploiting British Welfare System

by Soeren Kern – September 29, 2011

Tens of thousands of Muslim immigrants in Britain are practicing bigamy or polygamy in order to collect bigger social welfare payments from the British state, according to experts interviewed in a British newspaper exposé on the subject.

The September 24 report shows that the phenomenon of bigamy and polygamy — which is permitted by Islamic Sharia law — is far more widespread in Britain than previously believed, even though it is a crime there, punishable by up to seven years in prison.

The rapid growth in multiple marriages is being fuelled by multicultural policies that grant special rights to Muslim immigrants who demand that Sharia law be reflected in British law and the social welfare benefits system.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York. Når man nu ingen racister har, må man jo opfinde dem selv:

Nurses ‘wore golliwog keyrings to mock black colleagues’, tribunal hears

22nd September 2011

Two nurses used gollywog keyrings to mock black colleagues, a tribunal heard today.

The trinkets were bought as holiday souvenirs and Susan Horton clipped one to her uniform at St Mary’s Hospital in Kettering, Northamptonshire.

Healthcare assistant Sandy Smith told the Nursing and Midwifery Council that Horton put the golly on her uniform ‘so it was always accessible.’

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Ligesom nøgleringe er hvidt papir nu racistisk, skriver The Telegraph:

• Dress witches in pink and avoid white paper to prevent racism in nuseries, expert says

Muslimske indvandrere har menneskerettigheder. Det har englænderne tilsyneladende ikke:

Terrorist we can’t kick out: Released after half his sentence but still ‘a risk to the public’… the suicide bomb fanatic who’s free to stay – thanks to his human rights

By Chris Greenwood on 25th September 2011

• Eritrean-born Ali will not face deportation because judges rule he could face ‘inhumane treatment’
• The Home Office is appealing the decision and pledges to try to have him removed from the UK

A fanatical terrorist has escaped being thrown out of the UK because it would breach his human rights.

Hate-filled Siraj Yassin Abdullah Ali, graded the highest possible risk to the public, was released after serving just half of his nine-year sentence for helping the July 21 bombers.

He now mingles freely among the Londoners his co-plotters tried to kill six years ago.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Samme avis har endnu en artikel om terrorister, der ikke må udvises her.

Our language is being hijacked by the Left to muzzle rational debate

By Melanie Phillips on 25th September 2011

One of the most sinister aspects of political correctness is the way in which its edicts purport to be in the interests of minority groups.

This is despite the fact that, very often, they are not promulgated at the behest of minorities at all, but by members of the majority who want to destroy their own culture and who use minorities to camouflage their true intentions.

The latest manifestation stars once again that all-time world champion of political correctness, the BBC. Apparently, it has decided that the terms AD and BC (Anno Domini, or the Year of Our Lord, and Before Christ) must be replaced by the terms Common Era and Before Common Era.

Mere HER i Daily Mail. Englænderne trækkes naturligvis også med æresdrab:

• Mother and father accused of honour killing are banned from contacting their other daughter

Andre kilder: Politisk Ukorrekt, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mail, The Telegraph, The Daily Express,

Theodore Dalrymple om islam i Belgien og England

Artiklen kan høres som mp3 her:

The Currents of Islam

In Belgium and elsewhere, Muslims face a choice between secularism or radicalization.

Theodore Dalrymple – 28 September 2011

I don’t read the Belgian press often, but a recent headline in Le Soir caught my eye: Islamization of the young: fundamentalism sweeps them.

Actually, the headline turned out to be something of an exaggeration compared with what followed. The article reported on a recently defended doctoral thesis by a young researcher at the Free University of Brussels, Leila El Bachiri. She maintained that the radicalization of a small minority of the Muslim young of Brussels (the European city with the highest proportion of Muslims, 17 percent) was brought about not from the influence of their immigrant parents, or by the religious institutions in their country of origin (mainly Morocco), but by the preaching of members of the Muslim Brotherhood on the one hand, and of Wahhabi or Salafist missionaries on the other.

Mere HER i City Journal.