Paul Weston, the leader of the LibertyGB party in Britain, spoke yesterday at an English Defence League demonstration in Luton. Below is the video of his speech:
Update: I’ve added a transcript of Mr Weston’s remarks below those of Mr. Cameron.
Speaking of traitors, the following is an excerpt from Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech to British Muslims at a Downing Street reception to mark Eid al-Adha:
We’re in the process of moving most of our email addresses to a new provider — that is, the addresses will remain the same, but they’ll be hosted by a different service. The process has been a big headache for us, and took up most of my time today (well, yesterday, actually). It may affect how quickly we respond to some emails.
To make matters worse, I have some kind of stomach virus that has me functioning below optimum. I hope to get back up to speed within the next day or so, but that’s why posting has been light.
Al-Shabaab activists stopped a bus in eastern Kenya near the Somali border and made all the suspected non-Muslims get off. Those who were unable to recite Koran verses were summarily executed. Three suspected infidels were able to recite the verses, and their lives were spared. Relatives of those killed were able to draw comfort from knowing that the tragic incident had nothing to do with Islam.
In other news, Ecuador has guaranteed asylum for Julian Assange, saying that it will protect the fugitive leaker as long as necessary.
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Four weeks ago today Michael Zehaf-Bibeau went on a shooting spree on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, killing Corporal Nathan Cirillo at the Cenotaph before being shot to death himself inside the parliament building.
Mr. Zehaf-Bibeau, who called himself Joseph Paul Michael Abdallah Bulgasem Zehaf-Bibeau after he returned to his father’s religion, was more than a psychotic homeless crackhead. In his lunacy he had found a spiritual home, and his murderous actions were motivated by religion — specifically the Islamic religion.
Everyone knows this, but now the Canadian state broadcaster has publicly acknowledged the fact. Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this CBC News report:
Below are excerpts for an article on the same topic from The Vancouver Sun:
Ottawa shooter ‘confrontational’ at North Vancouver construction site
He talked of Jewish conspiracy theories, fellow workers recall
Before he was addicted to crack and sleeping in shelters on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the Parliament Hill shooter was known as a “confrontational” member of a construction crew making good money on a seven-kilometre tunnelling job in North Vancouver.
Michael Zehaf-Bibeau had two stints working as a skilled labourer helping build a tunnel for the region’s water system, according to former co-worker Kevin Banek.Banek, a civil engineer, doesn’t remember exactly when “Zehaf” — as he was known on-site — started working on the project, but said his last stint began in May 2011. The project began in 2009 and all employees had to pass drug tests to get hired, he added.
Zehaf-Bibeau was known for “getting into it with people for various things” and would “go off” on the women of the job site, Banek said.
Site safety rules dictated that Banek be accompanied by another worker when inspecting portions of the tunnel that could be an hour’s walk away. A handful of times, Zehaf-Bibeau accompanied Banek on these walks.
Banek remembers the two having many theological conversations and Zehaf-Bibeau’s constant refrain that converting to Islam had changed his life.
“He was always trying to convert me, (saying) ‘You should read the Qur’an, bro,’ “ Banek said.
When asked if he would be happy with world peace but no religion, Zehaf-Bibeau told Banek, “No, there can’t be world peace until there’s only Muslims.”
As reported here last month, Tommy Robinson, the former leader of the English Defence League, was sent back to prison for 28 days. The ostensible reason for renewing his incarceration was that he had reported via Twitter that there had been death threats against his family. Considering that his original prison sentence had been for “mortgage fraud”, jugging him again on the Twitter pretext to demonstrates the political nature of his prosecution and imprisonment.
Mr. Robinson believes that he was returned to prison to keep him for participating in a debate at the Oxford Union on October 24, at which he had been invited to speak. Now that he is out, he is preparing to take part in this month’s Oxford Union debate, despite the fact that he might be sent back to prison for doing so.
We just received this brief report from a source close to Tommy Robinson:
Tommy Robinson was released from prison (again) on Friday 14th November, and appeared in court on Monday 17th November.
After he was released, we re-arranged Tommy’s debate at the Oxford Union for the 26th November. Tommy was visited by the Probation Services and informed that if he attends this debate, he is not allowed to talk about Islam, Mohammed, or the Koran. If he does he will be recalled to prison.
Tommy is still determined to go and explain why he cannot debate certain subjects, and express his concerns that his freedom of speech is being silenced with the threat of prison when NONE of the above topics relate to his ‘mortgage fraud’. Tommy feels that this is the way they are going to handle things now to try and silence him.
Please help us make as many people as possible aware of the games that the government are playing in an attempt to keep him from speaking out.
I’m looking forward to next Wednesday — the debate at the Union may turn out to be an interesting event.
At a meeting of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Pope Francis spoke out against the market system as it pertains to food. The Holy Father said that making a profit deserved no place in the attempt to alleviate hunger in the world.
In other news, China’s central bank lowered interest rates in an attempt to revive the country’s flagging economy. Meanwhile, ECB President Mario Draghi says that the rate of inflation in the Eurozone is far too low, and another round of quantitative easing is required.
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Michael Stürzenberger is the leader of the Munich branch of the party Die Freiheit, which is in the forefront of German resistance to Islamization. As reported here frequently in the past, Mr. Stürzenberger began giving a series of public talks in central Munich, as part of a drive to collect signatures for a petition against a proposed mega-mosque financed by Qatar.
Mr. Stürzenberger’s anti-Islamic action have drawn verbal harassment, threats, thrown objects, and occasional physical attacks. But he will not be deterred, and continues to stand courageously against the Islamization of Germany.
Vlad Tepes recently conducted an interview with Michael Stürzenberger over skype. Readers who are used to hearing him speaking only in German may be surprised to hear him describe his anti-mosque petition in English:
Previous posts about Michael Stürzenberger and Die Freiheit in Munich:
Vlad Tepes has deconstructed this brief news clip to illustrate the similarity between the street-based techniques employed by Muslims in the West and those of lefty groups such as these representatives of the “transgender community”:
For the past couple of weeks, ever since the congressional elections reduced Emperor Palpatine President Obama to a vestigial appendage on the body politic, it seems that everyone in the country has been preoccupied with the details of what the Pardoner-in-Chief was going to do in the way of “Executive Amnesty”. No time left over to worry about the Great Jihad!
Whether you love him or hate him, Obama-obsession seems to be the order of the day. But Diana West has been an exception. As we have seen many times in the past, the author of American Betrayal is quite capable of keeping track of more than one topic at a time, unlike the majority of American journalists.
Ms. West’s column today at Townhall summarizes the work of ritamalik, Vlad Tepes, and Andy Bostom in exposing what was really going on at the November 14 Muslim prayer service at the National Cathedral (now the National Masjid) in Washington D.C.
Below are some excerpts from the column. For those who may have missed it, I’ve embedded the video she refers to in the body of her text:
Giving Thanks For The Counter-Jihad Network
I am giving special thanks this year for the hard work of patriots who toil without recompense to expose the many vectors of Islamic subversion currently eroding the already hollowed-out institutions of Western society.
To this end, I will tell a story about a story. It concerns the first Muslim prayer service ever held at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. As I wrote last week, this weirdly “invitation-only” service, which took place on Friday, Nov. 14, gathered representatives of Muslim groups with proven links to Hamas and to Hamas’ parent group, the Muslim Brotherhood. This means that, however briefly, jihad-linked groups took over the National Cathedral, where presidents and other great Americans have lain in state. These terror links led some media to label the event overall a “Muslim Brotherhood event,” or an “Islamist” or “extremist” event. As the service itself demonstrated, however, it was all strictly Islamic.
How do I know that? Not from 24/7 media, national or local. Not from the armies of think tanks that occupy Washington and its environs. Not from religious or political leaders, either. No professional organization with experts or a newsroom that I am aware of bothered to analyze the Muslim service at the National Cathedral, even though it was live-streamed on the Internet and available to all.
I am able to tell you about the contents of the service only thanks to the incredible international counter-jihad movement. This movement lives and breathes in the ether of the Internet, on an array of blogs, on YouTube. This case of Islam at the cathedral shows how the network works.
First, the blog Vlad Tepes captured the streaming footage of the 80-minute Muslim service. Next, Arabic translator Rita Malik assessed the English and Arabic service for Gates of Vienna and provided a summary that was posted there. Enter Islamic expert Andrew Bostom, author of several indispensable books on Islamic jihad, anti-Semitism and Islamic totalitarianism, who analyzed several of the Koranic verses used in the service by consulting some of the essential Koranic commentaries that Muslims use to understand their religious book. Bostom posted his findings at his blog, AndrewBostom.org.
Finally, Gates of Vienna and Vlad Tepes compressed everything to create a watchable, educational YouTube video of four and a half minutes. (As a bonus, Gates of Vienna also posted the short video’s transcript.) Soon, the video was mirrored at other counter-jihad sites, such as the Scandinavian blog Tundra Tabloids and Denmark’s EuropeNews.dk.
Swift and seamless volunteer operations like this keep anyone informed who wants to be informed. For their extremely hard work, I am truly thankful.
Tonight President Barack Obama declared his intention to invoke what is commonly known as “Executive Amnesty”, which would grant legal status to illegal aliens who fit in certain categories. Somewhere between two and five million “undocumented” migrants may be legalized by his action. Mr. Obama expects that a period of inter-ethnic harmony, unprecedented prosperity, and improvement in the general commonweal will ensue. Or something to that effect — I was in the process of drinking down a quart shaker of absinthe-laudanum cocktails I had just mixed, so I may have missed a word here and there.
In other news, the mayor of the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon has banned Arab workers from the vicinity of nursery schools during school hours. National political leaders, including Prime Minister Netanyahu, condemned the mayor’s action.
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The following news report from CNN concerns the Salafist jihad group in the Sinai known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which recently declared itself the local franchise of the Islamic State and declared its allegiance to Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
I’ve seen the full ISIS propaganda video from which the excerpts in this report were drawn, and the complete video is far more horrific and graphic than the portions included here:
Hat tip: Vlad Tepes.
The Jihad Cognomen Flip-Flop
Islam is a charnel house. It was born in fire and blood and slaughter in the 7th century and has maintained the same modus operandi for the past fourteen hundred years.
When it is strong it wages aggressive jihad. It slaughters victims who refuse to convert. It takes slaves and distributes concubines to its warriors. It rapes and loots and destroys the wealth of civilized societies to feed its insatiable lust for booty and plunder, battening on the flesh of the prosperous. It reaps what it does not sow and harvests where it does not plant.
When it is weak, it goes into dormant mode. It turns its aggressive energies in upon itself, ferreting out blasphemy and unbelief and punishing the malefactors. Deprived of plunder, its cities fall into decay and desuetude. Poverty and degradation become the norm. The soldiers of Allah bide their time and await the moment when they may resume their rapacity.
With the emergence of the Islamic State in the Middle East, we are now moving out of a three-century hiatus of Islamic weakness into an era of renewed Islamic strength. What seems an unprecedented horror of bestial behavior is actually just a return to the Islamic norm as practiced before 1683 throughout the lands conquered by Islam.
All of the above is easily discoverable by any non-Muslim who cares to look into the matter. None of it is hidden. Yet the average Westerner is wearing a blindfold and earplugs when it comes to Islam. The arrant nonsense that is peddled by our media and our political leaders is swallowed by millions of people who should know better. And who could know better, if only they would raise a corner of the blindfold and take a little peek.
The political leaders and financial wizards who squat atop the pyramid of Western power know full well the reality of Islam. They have access to complete intelligence information on what the Great Jihad is doing, and what its long-term plans are. Cynical self-interest requires that they obscure the truth and lie to the populace.
The same cannot be said for all the millions of gutmenschen who go along with the feel-good multiculti program. These are decent, well-meaning people — I know quite a few of them personally — who believe the official lies and accept the unexamined premise that Islam is essentially a good, peaceful religion similar to Christianity and Judaism. They may be subliminally aware of mounting evidence to the contrary, but manage to screen it out to maintain the structure of a deluded worldview that becomes more and more untenable every day.
How did this come about? How did Islam become the whited sepulchre that it is today in Western popular culture? What keeps filling the buckets and dipping the brushes to maintain the paint job?
There are no simple answers to these questions. This is the first of an occasional series of posts that will highlight our capacity for mass self-delusion by examining some of its manifestations.
What’s in a name?
Many Canadians are familiar with the name Marc Lépine. It was chosen by a man who went on a killing spree at the École Polytechnique de Montréal on December 6, 1989. Mr. Lépine murdered fourteen students and wounded another fourteen before killing himself.
Most people, however, have never heard of Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi, which was the name given to Marc Lépine when he was born. His father was an Algerian, but the murderer’s Muslim background was rarely mentioned at the time of the massacre, and is still generally unknown.
The case of Marc Lépine serves as the prototype for media coverage of vile acts committed by Muslims or people of Islamic background. If a violent criminal has two names, one Muslim and one non-Muslim, only the non-Muslim name will be used in media reports about the perpetrator’s evil deeds. John Allen Muhammad, the elder of the Beltway Snipers, is a case in point. After he was apprehended back in the fall of 2002, the media avoided mentioning his conversion to Islam and used his birth name, John Allen Williams, for as long as they could get away with it.
This phenomenon is especially noticeable when the perpetrator is a convert to Islam. Media reports will use the birth name of a killer and eschew his jihad cognomen whenever possible, even when his name has been legally changed. If the Islamic name is ever mentioned, it is relegated to back pages of the newspaper and the bottom of news articles, and is scrupulously omitted from the headlines.
The practice has become so noticeable and ubiquitous that it deserves its own name: Vlad’s Rule, after Vlad Tepes, who first pointed it out to me:
A Muslim convert who commits violent crimes will be identified by his non-Muslim name in all news stories.
Below is a list of converts to Islam whose names have figured prominently in recent news reports:*
Another French convert to Islam has been identified among the executioners for the Islamic State who conducted the recent mass beheading that was recorded for an ISIS propaganda video. A young man named Michael Dos Santos, also known as Abu Othman, is said to have been one of the beheaders.
In other news, two men disguised in burkas and wielding guns robbed a jewelry store in Toronto, making off with $500,000 worth of swag.
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Here’s another news report about parents who became alarmed when a public school began teaching their child the Islamic religion, rather than just the history of Islam. The school refused to change its policy, and the parents yanked their child from the course:
Hat tip: Vlad Tepes.