Earlier today, a reader wrote us about the controversy in Sweden over the recent republishing of Tintin in the Congo. He concluded with this speculation, about the man on Swedish radio who was complaining about Tintin:

A guess — is this Mr. Sabuni a relative, brother or something, to the minister with the same name [Nyamko Sabuni, the Minister for Integration in Sweden’s current government], trying to profile himself and rising in society to those levels where little work is very well paid?

Now he sends this follow-up:

Baron,

I was right and I was wrong. Mr. Mkyabela Sabuni, a brother to the Minister for Integration, is second chairman of the National Association of AfroSwedes (!) and he has no need to profile himself to get a well-paid job — he already has got it, paid by Swedish taxpayers and deceased Swedes. The whole clan Sabuni seem to be very well taken care of by taxpayers and the deceased in combination. Two more siblings Semeke and Zela (sister) are supported from the same sources. See attached material!

What do I mean saying that deceased Swedes are paying for the Sabunis?

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All who have died in Sweden having no relatives and no beneficiaries get their assets taken care of by the Swedish State Inheritance Fund (Allmänna Arvsfonden) from which money is doled out to various so-called idealistic purposes, non-profit associations, etc. — nowadays mostly anything with a connection to immigration. It can be assumed that the deceased would turn in their graves if they knew in whose pockets their hard-earned money ended.

Swedes — never die before writing a valid will!

The pirates got a cool 300 large for each crewmember, but apparently they didn’t get to keep the ship as a souvenir, according to Reuters:

A Danish cargo ship and its crew that were hijacked by Somali pirates in June have been released after 83 days in captivity after a ransom was paid, the Danish Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

The MV Danica White was carrying building materials from Dubai to Kenya when it was seized off Somalia in the world’s most dangerous waterway.

“We have talked to the crew and they are feeling OK at this point,” the Foreign Ministry’s head of citizen services Lars Thuesen told a news conference.

“It’s been a terrible experience for the hostages, being held for more than 80 days not knowing what was going on.”

Danish TV2 News reported security firm Protocols said it had paid ransom of $1.5 million (753,000 pounds) for the release of the ship and crew.

[…]

After being freed, the Danica White headed for Djibouti about three days away, escorted by the French corvette Blaison. The crew will fly from there to be reunited with their families.

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Now comes the obligatory nostalgic nod to the departed Somali Taliban, who made the trains run on time… Oh, wait! No trains in Somalia!

Well, at least they lopped off the hands and/or heads of malefactors:

Such attacks have increased since a Somali Islamist movement that brought a semblance of order to the country for six months was ousted in January. Piracy remains a significant threat to sea trade and cost billions of dollars annually.

“Semblance of order”: that’s the stock phrase. Run “Somalia ‘semblance of order’” through Google News and see what you get…

Construction work on a mosque being built next to an ancient church in Rome has been halted by the police. However, it looks like the stoppage is temporary, and based on a technical violation of the building permit. Or maybe a failure to bribe the right official…?

Anyway, according to Adnkronos International:

Police in Rome have halted the construction of a new controversial mosque because of irregularities with building laws.

“Certain rooms were being enlarged and a partition wall knocked down without authorisation”, police officer Carlo Buttarello was quoted as saying by Rome-daily, Il Messaggero.

But Rome’s city council manager for security, Jean-Leonard Touadi, said the stoppage was temporary, and it “just needs for regulations to be respected”, for work to resume.

The site for the planned mosque whose opening was scheduled for 7 September, is adjacent to the Roman Catholic Church of San Vito in Rome’s multi-ethnic Esquilino neighbourhood.

The mosque’s location next to a Christian site and concern with Islamic extremism associated with some Muslim centres in other parts of Italy including Milan has incensed those opposed to its construction.

But Touadi dismissed the criticism.

“Rome, the city which hosts the Vatican and the largest mosque in Europe… cannot and must not fear a new place of worship which instead must be guaranteed”, he was quoted as saying by Il Messaggero.

Ah yes, we must guarantee the new place of worship — and our own dhimmitude as well.

The mosque is being constructed to serve Rome’s growing Bangladeshi community:
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“The premises on Via San Vito 12, right next to the Church of San Vito are being refurbished in these days in time for the opening on 7 September,” Mustafa Kamal who heads the Hil Ful Fuzul Social Organization Onlus, which is supervising the mosque’s construction, told Adnkronos International (AKI).

Sheikh Ubeidulhaqq, a prominent Muslim cleric who serves as prayer leader or imam of the Beit al-Mukarram mosque in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, is expected to attend the inauguration ceremony.

The Mosque’s opening will take place on a Friday, Islam’s traditional day of prayer.

The Hil Ful Fuzul Social Organization Onlus which operates as a non-governmental non-profit organisation, was formed in May this year to help Muslim immigrants in Rome, especially in the city’s Piazza Vittorio area, where the new Mosque will be located.

Hat tip: Oriana.

The noted blogger Fjordman is filing this report via Gates of Vienna.
For a complete Fjordman blogography, see The Fjordman Files. There is also a multi-index listing here.

This is Fjordman’s response to my posts about Brussels.

I can’t emphasize too strongly how much I value Fjordman’s contributions to this blog, even when I don’t agree with him. I don’t require everyone I respect to agree with me…

Regarding the articles about the Brussels demo, I tend to agree with SIOE, actually. You were way too negative. The Eurabians want people to be scared; you fell for their tactics.

I think we should go on the offensive. We should bombard the Brussels Mayor with emails and make it perfectly clear that he will allow that demonstration to go on whether he wants to or not. Not only should it be allowed to proceed, but the authorities should make sure that the peaceful demonstrators will be able to carry out the protest without harassment from Muslims.
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The eyes of the world will now be in this demo, and if Belgian authorities do anything to those participating, Belgium will be portrayed as a rogue state. And no, that wasn’t an empty threat. If the Brussels Mayor does not allow this demo to proceed without harassment, a large number of bloggers all over the Western world will spend every possible opportunity bombarding him and his office with emails and phone calls demanding his resignation.

Don’t give in to intimidation. Our enemies should be scared, not us. There will be too much attention for them to do anything during this demo. And yes, I support the idea that as many people as possible should carry cameras to document it if the authorities do anything improper.

Our Swedish corrspondent LN just sent this report. No word of it yet on the web, as far as I can determmine. If I find a news link, I’ll add it:

At 16:25 today the five Danish sailors onboard the Danica White were released. A French corvette lying next to Danica White has taken them onboard. A release sum has been paid; the Foreign Ministry won’t tell how much.

Just reported on Danish Radio 1800 CEST.

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Found at Uriasposten, tipped by Steen:

The Taliban Song

I’m just a middle-aged, middle-eastern camel herdin’ man
I got a little, 2 bedroom cave here in North Afghanistan
Things used to be real nice and they got out of hand when they moved in
They call themselves the Taliban

Now I ain’t seen my wife’s face since they came here
They make her wear a scarf over her head that covers her from ear to ear
She loves the desert and the hot white sand
But man she’s just like me, nah she can’t stand
The Taliban

You know someday soon we’re both gonna saddle up and it’ll be
Ride Camel Ride
My old lady she’ll be here with me, smilin right by my side
We should do just fine out around Palestine or maybe Turkmenistan
We’ll bid a fair adieu and flip the finger to the Taliban

I know where you comin from brother!
This is a patriotic love song
So y’all feel free to salute if you want,
You got my permission.

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Now they attacked New York City cause they thought they could win
Said they would, stand and fight until the very bloody end
Mr Bush got on the phone with Iraq and Iran and said “Now, you
sons-of-bitches you better not be doin any business with the taliban”

So we prayed to Allah with all of our might
Until those big U.S. jets came flyin one night
They dropped little bombs all over their holy land
And man you should have seen em run like rabbits, they ran

You know someday soon we’re both gonna saddle up and it’ll be
Ride Camel Ride
My old lady she’ll be here with me, smilin right by my side
We should do real fine out around Palestine or maybe Turkmenistan
We’ll bid a fair adieu and flip a couple fingers to the Taliban

we’ll bid a fair adieu and flip a big boner to The Taliban

My post yesterday about the criminalization of the 9-11 protest in Brussels aroused antagonism in some unexpected quarters.

I’m referring to a post on the SIOE blog. Judging by a virtually identical comment left on my post, the author of the SIOE piece is Steve Gash. Here’s what he has to say:

Some people seem to be spreading some rather unconstructive and even unverified information/rumours about the SIOE demonstration.

This information was published on Gates of Vienna, together with some scary images!

This article on Gates of Vienna has been the most damaging for the Brussels demo yet.

If you were trying to keep people from going to Brussels you couldn’t have done a better job than that article.

Anonymous emails are worthless, they could have come from Thielemans’s office itself.

Threats, like those described in the article here, are even more likely to come from people who want the demo to not happen as those who really support the demo, but are concerned about violence.

The article warns that we should be careful of police or other infiltrators trying to start violence to discredit the SIOE demo and get participants arrested, yet we are expected to believe what’s written in emails!?

Now I’ll go through his post point by point.

Some people seem to be spreading some rather unconstructive and even unverified information/rumours about the SIOE demonstration.

I object to the assertion that my words were unconstructive. I’m trying to be realistic about what is likely to happen.

And obviously my assertions are “unverified”, since they concern events which have not yet occurred. I have made some attempts at informed speculation; as the future unfolds they will be either validated or discredited.

This information was published on Gates of Vienna, together with some scary images!

One image of Freddy — pretty scary, I agree!

Plus two etchings of 19th-century anarchist riots to make the post visually interesting.

This article on Gates of Vienna has been the most damaging for the Brussels demo yet.

I profoundly disagree with this assertion. Based on the comments and email I’ve been receiving, my posts (and articles on other blogs) have served only to galvanize people, to increase their determination to show up and demonstrate peacefully. The actions of the mayor and the expected violence from the anarchists and the police have only strengthened the resolve of the European Counterjihad.
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If you were trying to keep people from going to Brussels you couldn’t have done a better job than that article.

See the above. Based on all my available information, the opposite is true.

Anonymous emails are worthless, they could have come from Thielemans’s office itself.

Who told you any email was anonymous? I know the recipient of the email, and the sender was known to the recipient. Nothing was anonymous, although I took pains to make sure no details were left in what I posted that could identify the sender or the recipient.

Threats, like those described in the article here, are even more likely to come from people who want the demo to not happen as those who really support the demo, but are concerned about violence.

Well, of course the threats of violence are going to come from those who want the demo not to happen. What could be more obvious?

The mayor of Brussels has set his position in concrete. Violence is likely to occur as a result, not as instigated by him, but by people who understand that violence will serve the interests of those who are entrenched in power.

To expect anything else is foolish and naïve.

The article warns that we should be careful of police or other infiltrators trying to start violence to discredit the SIOE demo and get participants arrested, yet we are expected to believe what’s written in emails!?

OK, tell me what you believe. Do you believe what’s written in the newspapers? Or what’s broadcast on television? How well do the publicly-uttered words of a government minister reflect reality?

Yet emails are somehow suspect?

Give me a break.

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I’ll repeat my assertion: Because the political establishment in Brussels has set itself against the SIOE demo on September 11th, violence has become more likely.

Based on historical experience, it is very likely that provocateurs — with no incriminating trail leading back to any public official — will be amongst us, instigating violence for which we will be blamed.

Back in the 1880s the Okhrana were very good at such provocation. In some Russian anarchist cells, up to half of the zealous revolutionaries were actually secret police plants. The Nazis and the Communists excelled at the same tactics.

The fact that the media are guaranteed to cover this event in a way which makes the EU establishment look good only increases the likelihood of such shenanigans.

Add to this the fact that the AFA would love to see the police busting “racist” heads, and trouble becomes a virtual certainty. Just think of it from an anarchist’s point of view: the pigs engage in brutality, and the Islamophobes get what’s coming to them.

It’s a twofer! How could they resist?

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Not to confront these possibilities does our own people a disservice. A cool and well-informed analysis shows such events to be likely. People with experience in public demonstrations in Europe agree that violence — not instigated by SIOE — is a very distinct possibility.

So come to Brussels with your eyes wide open. Wear a bicycle helmet and be prepared to spend a night in jail if you have to. Only a small number of people will face such circumstances, but it’s likely that somebody will.

As I said before, everything is stacked against us except the rightness of our cause, and our numbers. The more people who show up and let their opinions be known in peaceful silence, the more effect the event will have, regardless of the provocateurs and the police and the media coverage.

Read yesterday’s post: the commenters have many ingenious and useful suggestions about how to leverage all of this to our advantage.

If this analysis is “unconstructive”, then so be it.

Don’t read Gates of Vienna anymore; take the link off your blogroll.

I’m just one voice, and there is plenty of alternative reading out there.

A faithful reader in Sweden sends us a report about a new kerfuffle over “racism”, this one because of Tintin:

A man called Sabuni representing the so-called Afro-Swedish National Association made a big hullabaloo this morning on the Swedish State Public Service Radio because the cartoon album Tintin in the Congo has been republished.

He is demanding that the whole edition, which has already been printed, be withdrawn. The album first published 1931 is said to be very racist, showing black people (Negroes) with white eyeglobes and low intelligence, and is supposed to make the situation for Africans in Sweden worse (!) and obstruct their possibilities to get jobs, win sympathy etc — and of course influence younger readers in the wrong direction.

In his arguing he refers to the Swedish past: textbooks from the ’50s stating that Negroes lack intelligence, eugenics from the 30s up till 1975, and trading with slaves in the 1700s and other ‘dirty’ businesses. (FEEL GUILT!)

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Nothing yet about it in any papers that I have seen. The Discrimination Ombudsman (DO-Linna) has not yet engaged!

A guess — is this Mr. Sabuni a relative, brother or something, to the minister with the same name [Nyamko Sabuni, the Minister for Integration in Sweden’s current government], trying to profile himself and rising in society to those levels where little work is very well paid?

The image at right is from a protest yesterday at Montebello in Quebec. The occasion was a two-day summit for the leaders of Mexico, the United States, and Canada, with President Bush, Prime Minister Harper, and President Calderon in attendance.

And, just for a change, the protesters (or at least some of them) weren’t there to protest globalization, or capitalism, or the exploitation of the Third World, or global warming, or cruelty to animals. They were there to protest the SPP, and the secrecy surrounding it.

Fjordman, Dymphna, and I have written repeatedly about the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), a pact between the United States, Canada, and Mexico that was signed by the three countries in 2005. Those of us who are of a paranoid bent tend to view the SPP as a stepping-stone towards the NAU, the North American Union. For the transnational elites in government, business, and NGOs, the NAU is the ideal solution for North America. Modeled on the European Union, it would arrange the affairs of the continent in such a way that the rich and powerful can easily maintain and consolidate their positions, doing away with the annoying intrusion of democracy, the consent of the governed, and other such trivial concerns.

According to the The National Post:

As the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership summit wrapped up Tuesday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the three leaders are “committed to working together on mutual security and continued economic growth.”

[…]

The initiative, known as the SPP, has its share of critics and nearly 1,000 protesters made the trip to Montebello on Monday to demonstrate their opposition.

[…]

Earlier in the day, the leaders met with an exclusive group of business executives — the North American Competitiveness Council.

The group is comprised of 10 chief executive officers and corporate chairmen from each country and was created under the SPP to advise leaders on how best to strengthen North American integration.

The group was to present a report to the three leaders, showing what progress has been made so far on the SPP and what work still needs to be done. The report was expected to contain recommendations on how to free up the flow of goods and people across the border, and reforms to harmonize regulatory roadblocks to trade. [emphasis added]

How to free up the flow of goods and people across the border.

That’s the important part of this exercise: how to create a new arrangement in which borders are no more than lines upon a map. The idea is to optimize the business arrangements that keep power flowing smoothly into the hands of the correct people. The agreements that are crafted at venues like Montebello are crucial and have far-reaching effects, but they don’t have to be ratified by the U.S. Senate, and any consultation with Congress is simply a courtesy.
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There were protests yesterday, as reported by the CBC:

Police used tear gas and pepper spray against protesters who were hurling rocks and branches during confrontations outside the leaders summit in Quebec on Monday.

Police arrested at least one protester in the small resort town of Montebello, near Ottawa, where Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderon to discuss issues including border security and free trade.

[…]

At least 500 protesters took part in a march outside the hotel, carrying signs with slogans such as “No to Americanada.” Others held a peaceful family-friendly rally away from police lines.

“No to Americanada!” — I like that slogan. We need to fit Mexico into it somehow, though.

Canadians have the same objections to the SPP that we do:

…protesters say the SPP is anti-democratic because it didn’t require a vote in Parliament or a change in the law.

“If this is such a wonderful deal and it is about protecting North Americans from shoddy products or whatever they’re now saying … then be proud of it, stand up, tell us what’s in it … and send it to our Parliament for oversight,” Maude Barlow, head of the Council of Canadians, said in an interview from Ottawa Monday morning.

And from The National Post:

Critics say the council is proof the three governments are only consulting big business, and ignoring everyone else, in their pursuit of closer economic and security ties.

They also oppose what they say are secret negotiations over everything from energy trade to border security.

The Star had a similar report:

One common complaint echoed by all is the secrecy surrounding the meeting.

Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians called for a moratorium on the “profoundly anti-democratic” SPP until the citizens of all three countries are consulted and their elected representatives are given oversight over the business-driven initiative.

The SPP’s proceedings are indeed “profoundly anti-democratic”, but they are hardly secret. Like the EU’s Barcelona declaration and the EuroMed partnership, the process is not so much secret as it is deliberately obfuscated. It is so tedious, boring, mind-numbing, and couched in techno-jargon as to deter all but the most dedicated investigation. Layers of bureaucratic boilerplate, massive pdf downloads that will tie up your bandwidth for hours, and all so that you can read timeless prose such as this (yes, it’s a pdf):

The analysis, consensus-building and advocacy conducted through the NASTC facilitated progress in defining better subsidy disciplines for the steel sector world wide. Building on the common objectives established by the North American governments during the OECD Steel Subsidy Agreement talks, the three governments will continue efforts to curtail subsidization of the steel sector through the OECD and will seek opportunities to develop or strengthen subsidies disciplines affecting steel in other multilateral negotiations. The three governments will continue efforts to explore and identify other opportunities for coordination in multilateral arenas, including the Rules, Non-Agricultural Market Access, and Trade Facilitation negotiations of the WTO’s Doha Development Agenda. Fostering more regular discussion among delegations to seek clarification of positions will be a key component of these efforts.

When I start reading an SPP document, my eyelids droop and my head immediately begins to nod. All the Benzedrine in the world avails you little in the face of such turgid bumf. And I chose this selection at random; it’s all like this.

It’s the purloined letter, hidden on a desktop full of unreadable official reports.

Here’s more about Maude Barlow:

She has some unexpected support from top business leaders.

A report from the Canadian American Business Council says non-governmental organizations and so-called civil society groups – not just blue chip corporate CEOs – should be invited to participate in the SPP.

The council says much of the opposition to the SPP revolves around process rather than substance. It notes that one of the chief criticisms is the “lack of transparency” in the way in which a 30-member committee of business leaders from the three countries makes recommendations to Harper, Bush and Calderon.

The group says the political leaders should embark on a public education campaign to explain the SPP.

The council is right about the “lack of transparency”, but it’s the cloudy prose that keeps it from being transparent. Any “public education” about the SPP should be written in clear English so that even bozos like me can understand it.

I’m ready. Go ahead and educate me.

Yesterday the Brussels Journal posted translated excerpts from an op-ed piece by Freddy Thielemans, the mayor of Brussels.

I decided to forbid the September 11 demonstration “against the islamicisation of Europe.” […] Since 2001 I have allowed over 3,500 demonstrations. This is only the sixth one which I forbid. […] The right to demonstrate exists only inasmuch as it does not cause a disturbance of the public peace and order. […] First and foremost the organizers have chosen the symbolic date of 9/11. The intention is obviously to [conflate] the terrorist activities of Muslim extremists on the one hand and Islam as a religion and all Muslims on the other hand. […] Such incitement to discrimination and hatred, which we usually call racism and xenophobia, is forbidden by a considerable number of international treaties and is punished by our penal laws and by the European legislation. The European Court of Human Rights has repeatedly pronounced judgements condemning this type of acts. […]

Our society has long fought to achieve that certain codes of behaviour connected with the Catholic religion are no longer enforced as civil law upon everyone. To my knowledge not a single rule specific to the Islamic religion is being enforced in similar fashion. And I see no indication that a large majority of our Muslim population is demanding any such thing.

…With regard to the planned demonstration of September 11 “against the Islamicisation of Europe” my mind is made up. And my decision is final: it will not take place.

Paul Belien then commented on Mayor Thielemans’ message:

Clearly this should be read as a threat. Anyone who intends to participate in the 9/11 demo is a criminal under Belgian and European law: he or she is a racist and a xenophobe (Islamophobe).

Contrary to what the mayor says, rules specific to the Islamic religion are being imposed upon society as a whole. For instance, Brussels has segregated swimming hours for women in public pools; Brussels public schools serve halal meat; Muslims slaughter sheep in the streets of Brussels; the religion-hating (religiophobia, anyone?) Brussels mayor, who toasts the death of the Pope, does not toast the death of Muslim leaders; …

Yesterday a British reader who is planning to attend the SIOE demonstration received an email which he passed on to us. It’s from a European contact who has knowledge of how these matters are handled in Brussels:

I should warn you that the Mayor is setting a trap! He intends deploying large numbers of territorial riot police and using them to beat the crap out of us as an object lesson. This will be meant to serve as the first lesson of obedience and warning to all those that oppose the Islamisation of the EU. I just thought you would all like to know. The Russians and Nazi used similar tactics. He is priming the public to view us as criminals. Then he moves in the boot boys and they will hand out everything they can muster.

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I have seen this all before!

I am thinking about whether it is sensible to go! I do not want my skull kicked in and then be put on trial on trumped up charges. It would only serve their cause and we have more important work to do than succumb to what is in effect entrapment. These are Belgian police not cuddly politically correct British coppers.

Be prepared for deliberate provocation and bullying on the slightest excuse.

Let’s not be babes in the woods about this. The deck is stacked against us.

I wrote yesterday about the autonomer in Denmark and their tougher cousins in Brussels. Assume that these anarchists of the “Antifascist Action” squads will be out in full force in Brussels. Assume also that the Belgian riot police will be primed to suppress the slightest hint of questionable behavior by the SIOE demonstrators, while turning a blind eye to anything that the AFA goons do in response.

Expect that agents provocateurs will be planted among us. The guy standing next to you with the “Say NO to Sharia” sign may be an AFA plant or even a police infiltrator. When he lobs a rock over your head into the police lines and then disappears, it will be you who get cracked in the skull by a police baton, with a free ride to the hoosegow to follow, courtesy of Belgium’s finest.

Any media coverage of the event will be artfully edited to place SIOE in the worst possible light. If a neo-Nazi skinhead finds his way into our ranks, you can guarantee that the footage of him will be looping over and over again that night on TV screens all over the world. The counterprotesters — with their all-inclusive peace ’n’ love Multicultural signs and tame imams uttering perfectly-phrased bromides into the microphones — will be featured in the best news spots and sound bites of the event, complete with subtitles in all the relevant languages.

We will be caught between a rock and a hard place, with the police on one side and the autonomer on the other. Both will be better-armed and meaner than we are. Both will have the iron fist of sympathetic media coverage multiplying their firepower.

The only possible advantages we will have will be the rightness of our cause, and superior numbers.

The first of those is taken care of. Can we manage the second?

Here’s the latest from British jurisprudence: a convicted murderer can’t be deported if it would cause him to be separated from his family.

No, it’s not a comedy sketch. This is the ongoing reality-TV sitcom that is the modern British judicial system, as reported by the Grauniad:

The widow of the London headteacher Philip Lawrence said she was “devastated and demoralised” by the decision not to deport her husband’s killer. Learco Chindamo is to stay in Britain after immigration judges allowed his appeal against deportation, it emerged yesterday.

Chindamo, 26, who came to Britain from Italy with his family at the age of five, is serving a life sentence for stabbing Lawrence to death outside his school in Maida Vale in north London, in 1995. His 12-year minimum prison term is due to end next year.

Lawrence, 48, was killed as he tried to defend a 13-year-old pupil who was being attacked by Chindamo and several other boys outside St George’s Roman Catholic comprehensive.

OK, a “life” sentence in Britain really means twelve years. We already knew that.

But this kid will finish his dozen next year, when he’s twenty-seven years old, meaning that he was fifteen when he whacked his principal.

Sheesh.

And who’s in this family that must be kept together at all costs?
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His mother is a Filipina and his father an Italian mafia gangster who served time in prison for throwing acid into a woman’s face, but both are now in Britain. Judges at the immigration and appeals tribunal ruled that sending him back to Italy would breach Chindamo’s right to a family life. The home secretary can order the deportation of prisoners to another EU country only if they pose “a fundamental threat to the interests of society”.

Well, it’s clear that no one poses a fundamental threat to British society, except of course for racist children who object to all-Urdu classrooms. Oh, and those especially vicious criminals who insult the gender identity of a policeman’s horse.

But I digress…

Chindamo, who it is believed was told of the ruling at the weekend, was said to be “pleased” because his “family and life were in the UK”. In a statement he said he hoped the decision would not “cause grief” to Lawrence’s widow or to the rest of his family and expressed his deepest sympathy.

Frances Lawrence, the headteacher’s widow, said in a statement: “I am devastated, demoralised. I’m unutterably depressed that the Human Rights Act has failed to encompass the rights of my family to lead a safe, secure and happy life.

“I feel that I have always been a staunch advocate of the Human Rights Act but there is a missing term in it. It must encompass some responsibility.

“This isn’t just about me and my family. I am not solely thinking of me. I may be a mother but I am a human being as well. I feel I can’t fight any more. I feel I can’t survive this.”

Well, I think she’ll just have to suck it up. Stiff upper lip, old gel!

The Home Office said last night it was disappointed that the courts had not upheld the decision to deport Chindamo. Home Office minister Tony McNulty said the government would appeal “robustly” against the decision, arguing that Chindamo had forfeited his rights because of the crime he committed.

“We think, given the nature of this crime, actually the individual has forfeited his right to remain in the UK and should be deported as we asked for in the first place. I think the core principle must be absolute: that foreign nationals living in this country have rights but there are incumbent responsibilities that come along with them.”

Name one. Go on, I dare you!

Downing Street tried to calm the growing political furore over knife crime, saying crime overall had fallen and that the punishments for carrying a knife were now much tougher.

Are you reassured?

If twelve years is what you get for cold-blooded murder, what’s a “tough” penalty for carrying a knife likely to be?

The Home Office strongly criticised crime figures quoted at the weekend showing that robberies at knifepoint had doubled in three years. A spokesman said the analysis by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies was misleading and the conclusion flawed. “The figures are based on a crude extrapolation of British Crime Survey figures. The BCS does not show a statistically significant increase in the use of knives in violent incidents,” the spokesman said.

My own personal suspicion is that these British crime statistics and official Swedish unemployment figures all come from the same source: a little private Westminster accounting firm called Bendit, Specius and Bogus.

Their motto? “Books Cooked While You Wait!”

Hat tip: Ron.

Our Bangkok correspondent H. Numan, who doubles as a commentator on Dutch affairs, sent us this essay today about the resurgence in the Netherlands of attacks on homosexuals.

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Is Gay-Bashing Again a Religious Crime?
by H. Numan

In the past, gay-bashing was a vile crime of hatred against defenseless victims. God had ordered it, according to the interpretation by the churches of their holy books. The mere accusation was enough to get one lynched. The accused had to prove his innocence. Even if he did so, the victim was stained for life, if lucky enough to escape alive.

From an offense against God it was downgraded to an offense to common decency. Times changed for the better, fortunately, and the authorities put in a lot of effort into stopping it entirely. In The Netherlands, at least, it was almost completely eradicated in the early 80s’ of the last century.

But the times, they are once again a-changin’. In The Netherlands, and very likely in all European countries, more and more religiously inspired acts of hatred are taking place. It is commonly assumed that the recent outbreaks of gay-bashing are the result of an intense religious dislike by Muslims about gay behavior. Newspapers and other media always state convenient Koran quotes to support this point of view. So do imams. But is this correct? I don’t really think so.

If the Muslim religion is violently opposed to homosexuals — and be in no doubt that it is — something rather strange is going on. Not one devout Muslim has been arrested or charged with this crime. A devout Muslim would perhaps have been arrested for this and similar religiously inspired crimes. But certainly not for theft, drunken behavior or drug-related crimes. Almost all arrested Muslim juveniles have extensive criminal records with exactly those crimes. Hardly devout religious youths by anyone’s standard, including that of devout Muslims.

Another point to ponder is entrepreneurial: a successful criminal seeks high yield with low risk, just like a successful businessman. Beating up gays carries very little risk. Many men looking for some company are actually ashamed of their behavior, and will not report their maltreatment to the police. Not even if not too severely injured. Not even if they are robbed.

Many of these attacks take place when the victim is utterly defenseless: it’s kind of hard to defend yourself with your pants either down or unzipped. You can beat your victim to pulp and rob him of his possessions, with little worry of him resisting or going to the police. Afterwards you can even blackmail your victim, with a bit of luck. And best of all: your crimes will be hushed up by the authorities, so as not to offend the extremely sensitive religious feelings of Muslim communities.
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One last point to support my position: the gay behavior of Muslim juveniles themselves. In the early eighties I noticed that many sometimes extremely young boys of “South Mediterranean” origins started prostituting themselves in public parks. Nobody forced them into this revolting business. For them it’s a very easy way to make a lot of money. Walk around in such a park, and you will see a disproportionately large number of Muslim youths trolling for business. They see nothing wrong in their behavior, as they — according to their culture — are not engaging in homosexual sex at all! In Arab culture, the ‘top’ is not gay. Only and exclusively the ‘bottom’ is gay. Thus, they are not gay themselves nor do they participate in gay sex by any means, provided they take the ‘top’ position. It may not be your logic, but ask any Arab and he will tell you exactly this. Only the passive partner is gay, the active one is not.

Is Islam perniciously anti-homosexual? It certainly is. It is also virulently misogynistic, anti-democratic, and utterly intolerant. If only for these reasons, it should be monitored very closely by Western societies. Those gay-bashing juveniles receive without any doubt religious justification for their behavior. However, the current outbreak of gay-bashings is in my opinion much more based on pure profit and power projection rather than religion.

I don’t think Islamic organizations — as yet — actively support gay-bashings. That’s not to say they condemn or disapprove of it. It is a highly convenient indirect means of creating an atmosphere of fear. It shows the unbelievers in a crystal clear fashion that Islam is not to be mocked in any way. And at the same time they can claim full innocence.

Compare this with the situation in the late 20’s in Germany: not that many people had a big problem if the SA brown shirts beat up an undesirable. In some cases the NSDAP even denied any involvement, more or less as mosques do now. One couldn’t claim the NSDAP was violent or responsible just because some of its members were acting violently, could one? However, behind the rhetoric the NSDAP actually liked this kind of fear and terror. It strongly supported their position, just as happens with the mosque authorities now.

There is another problem: it clearly shows others that crime not only pays, but rewards richly as well. Before the last Gay Pride a gay couple in Amsterdam was attacked in a gay area of the city by a gang of Moroccan, Antillean and Surinam youths. They were arrested (not the couple, but their assailants; almost a unique event in Amsterdam!) and received minor sentences. Merely the time spent in arrest, a few months’ probation, and 180 hours of communal services. That’s all.

The court apparently did not see this as something to worry about. They definitely should: normally Moroccan youths don’t get along with Antillean and Surinam youths at all, whilst Surinam and Antillean youths don’t get along with each other well either. The mere fact that they operated together shows clearly that they understand that the end (rich rewards) justifies the means (operating with hated compatriots in crime). Their arrest is irrelevant. They probably see it as a risk of the trade. It also shows abundantly clearly that in some way multicultural integration is working. Not really the ideal society being preached by our left wing politicians, what?

What we also should question is the absurdly lenient position the authorities take. As is commonly stated by the media these youngsters are motivated by religion and culture, which can (of course) not be questioned. Far too much is allowed to take place just to prevent charges of racism and to allow freedom of religion.

This is actually backwards. Suppose a gang of intolerant Lutheran (in Scandinavia), Dutch Reformed (in Holland), or born-again Christians (in the USA) youths acted in a similar way. Would this be tolerated? Would the authorities accept their religious or cultural excuses?

With the Kahlil Gibran International Academy (KGIA) in Brooklyn scheduled to open in ten days, controversy over the Arabic-language high school continues to burn white-hot in New York City.

The longer the issue stays out in the open, the more telling are the details that emerge about KGIA and its supporters. With each rock turned over by Stop the Madrassa, a new succession of grotesque creatures emerges.

The latest discovery to see the light of day is a member of the KGIA Advisory Council, Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid, who hails from the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood in Harlem. Daniel Pipes has this to say about Abdur-Rashid and the MIB:

The MIB’s logo shows a sword with the words “There is no deity but God and Muhammad is his prophet.” Yet more alarming, however, is the Muslim Brethren slogan, devised by Hasan al-Banna himself, printed right on the “About us” page:

Allah is our goal
The Prophet Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah is our leader
The Qu’ran is our constitution
Jihad is our way
And death in the way of Allah is our promised end.

Abdur-Rashid’s bio also lists that he is a member of the “N.Y.C. Dept. of Education Chancellor’s Interfaith Advisory Committee to the NYC Dept. of Education,” pointing to the deeper state of rot in the whole of the DOE when it comes to Islam. That this man is on the KGIA board offers further confirmation of the school’s Islamist quality.

Abdur-Rashid is fond of some of the trendier “Afrocentric” versions of American history, including the assertion that black Africans arrived in the New World long before Columbus. He also disapproves of the “so-called Thanksgiving holiday” as a racist Eurocentric institution. I don’t suppose any of the students at KGIA will be dressing up in pilgrim hats and putting up turkey cutouts on the wainscoting come the middle of November.

The Stop the Madrassa Community Coalition has announced three back-to-school initiatives for this fall at KGIA:
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First, the Stop the Madrassa Coalition demands the resignation from the KGIA Advisory Council of Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid, Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood, Harlem. The Imam is unfit to serve in any capacity in a public school system, since he insists on teaching that Muslims came to America before other explorers and derides any other history as “European imperialistic notions of history rooted in White Supremacy,” as well as opposing celebrating Thanksgiving as “European colonial misguidance.” The Imam’s mosque, the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood, Harlem has a logo that is a sword with the words “There is no deity but God and Muhammad is his prophet.” The Mosque’s slogan on the “About” page at their website is, verbatim, the Muslim Brotherhood slogan: “Allah is our goal, The Prophet Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah is our leader, The Qu’ran is our constitution, Jihad is our way, And death in the way of Allah is our promised end.”

This radical Imam’s participation in the design and governance of the KGIA is yet another proof that this school should be stopped before it opens…

Second, the Stop The Madrassa Community Coalition calls on the New York City Department of Education to begin the planning process now for the 2008-2009 school year, to increase by at least 300% the number of secular high school Arabic language instruction classes from the number now available in the 2007-2008 school year. Only two high schools — Stuyvesant and Fort Hamilton — now offer classes in Arabic language instruction, according to a May 7, 2007 letter from New Schools Executive Garth Harries. Since July 27, 2007, we have urged the NYC Department of Education to provide more Arabic classes. The Department of Education can move on from the debacle they have created with the KGIA fiasco, by developing a specific plan for increasing the number of elective, non-religious, non-Islamic, non-ideological Arabic classes, to be taught according to college preparatory standards and by background-checked teachers, with additional curricula criteria to be determined by experts in the field.

Third, we are launching today the American Patriot Youth Library (APYL). We want the students currently scheduled to attend KGIA to have a special library of books about America, to counteract the kinds of Islamist propaganda KGIA Advisory Council Imam Al-Hajj Talib ‘Abdur-Rashid teaches. We hope that when KGIA is closed — and it will be, sooner or later — the books can go with the children to their new and better schools, or home for them to keep. Think of it as America’s Back-To-School resistance to radical Islam in our schools.

We want them to have the kind of books we would buy our own children and grandchildren, especially if we thought they were at risk of being exposed to this kind of propaganda. Books about American History, Biography and Geography that aren’t filtered through the philosophy of the Muslim Brotherhood (on the website of KGIA adviser Abdur-Rashid) and CAIR-NY (a founder of the American Muslim Association of Lawyers, KGIA partners listed in the “KGIA Executive Summary”).

These are very good ideas. Preventing KGIA from opening would be the best outcome, but since that is almost impossible, a good stopgap is to force it to adhere to standards that the vast majority of New Yorkers approve of and consider normal.

The outcome of the KGIA issue will demonstrate how thoroughly entrenched and intractable Multicultural ideology is within our institutions. If ordinary citizens can close the school or turn it around, then there is hope yet for the rest of the country.

It has become increasingly evident that Multicultural ideology is simply the vector for the coming epidemic. The Islamist bacillus is carried behind the baseboards of our culture by the PC rats and their Multicultural fleas.

The Kahlil Gibran International Academy and Imam Adur-Rashid are just some of the earliest symptoms of what is to come.

Previous posts on this topic:

Bringing the Jihad Back Home
Shaking Off Dhabah Almontaser
A Tale of Two Principals

I reported on Friday that SIAD (Stop Islamiseringen af Danmark) organized a demonstration on behalf of SIOE in front of the Belgian embassy in Copenhagen, to protest the denial of a permit for the 9-11 SIOE demonstration in Belgium.

I’ve just learned from SIAD’s blog that the autonomer paid a little visit to the demonstrators right after the end of the event. For readers who are not familiar with Denmark’s autonomer, here’s a summary about them from one of my earlier posts:

“Autonomer” is the Danish term for a hodge-podge of anarchists, Trotskyites, radical Greens and all the other players we see in the anti-war and anti-globalist demonstrations that erupt periodically across the Western world. Here in the USA it would be International ANSWER filling the same role.

They are called autonomer because they reckon themselves to be autonomous, i.e. not part of the patriarchal capitalist warmongering fascistic country they happen to be living in. They are the true independent free-thinking progressive idealists of our time…

And how do these youths support themselves? Why, they are recipients of government welfare benefits, of course!

On the SIAD blog, Anders Gravers reports an attack on the demonstrators just after the end of last Friday’s protest:
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After the manifestation, 7 of the participants carrying the signs went back to their cars.

Suddenly there were 15-17 autonomous [i.e., the autonomer] on bikes coming our way and they started to throw filled bottles after our group.

One bottle hit on the ground only one meter from a woman from the demonstration. It landed with such a power that it would have killed her if she was hit in the head.

Five of our group succeeded to scare the attackers away with the use of the signs as shields.

It’s shocking to realise that these autonomous are prepared to kill in order to stop democratic-minded people’s right to manifest.

This phenomenon is often seen in history.

It’s called fascist methods in order to stop utterances that do not harmonise with the fascist way of thinking.

And at the same time we have to remember that they act in harmony with [Mayor of Brussels] Freddy Thielemans’ words!

Denmark’s autonomer are a local subset — a franchise, if you will — of the pan-European “Antifascist Action” movement. One might call these people “Anarchists Without Borders”, since they make it a point to travel anywhere and everywhere to oppose racism, homophobia, Islamophobia, capitalism, globalization, etc., etc.

Because Denmark, unlike many other European countries, still has a functioning democracy with a collective sense of self-worth, the autonomer are contained by the police and the citizenry and do not amount to much. In places like Belgium and the Netherlands, however, the anarchists are crypto-brownshirts, functioning as PC enforcement squads with the tacit support of the Socialist establishment.

According to my contacts in the Low Countries, the anarchists in Belgium mean business, and can count on being given a free hand when acting against “racists” and “fascists”. Whenever conservative anti-immigration groups demonstrate, the anarchists arrive in force, and come prepared with weapons and body armor.

If you’re planning on being in Brussels to observe a moment of silence on September 11th, you might want to wear a bicycle helmet, just in case.

Hat tip: Steen.