Islam Sits Sulking in the Corner

The following essay on the violence, misogyny, and “honor” of Islam in the West was originally published on the German blog Die Achse des Guten. Many thanks to JLH for the translation:

Islam Sits Sulking in the Corner, Defending Its Honor and Blaming Everyone Else

by Jennifer Nathalie Pyka
April 13, 2016

Recently, on Frank Plasberg[1], there was speculation on whether Islam has a problem with violence. After 75 minutes, there was a unanimous “jein” (yes/no). Naturally, it is difficult to judge to what extent Islam and its many doppelgängers actually suffer from the violence that surrounds them — or, by way of comparison, do not find it okay. At the same time, it would be comparatively unimportant what ails Islam, so long as it was only a kind of sadomasochistic club among religions. That is, a kind of arrangement whose adherents, by mutual agreement, give each other hell.

Yes, there are a number of other groups that have a real problem with Islam, but unfortunately don’t fit well on a talk show. In the Islamic Republic of Iran, women suffer under Islamic justice, which condemns the victim of rape to death by rope if she makes a complaint against her tormenter. In the Islamic State, an “infidel” or Western journalist holds very poor cards (unless you look like Jürgen Todenhöfer[2]). Islam also makes itself known in Israel now and then, for instance by Palestinian rockets impacting in the front yard. Islam is not yet in evidence in German front yards, but in Berlin-Neukölln or Duisburg Marxloh, you can depend on seeing its friendly face. And in German refugee shelters, everyone becomes intimately acquainted with Islam so soon as he has a Bible.

The much more suspenseful question is not whether Islam has a violence problem, but rather what can be done about it, so that it will not cause any more problems. But before it comes to that, other things must be clarified. For instance, all those things that have nothing to do with Islam. Or the hazards that can arise from not enough Islam. Katrin Göring-Eckardt[3] prefers to defer to them, in fact, with more Islam education. Islam, indeed, suffers not only from a violence problem, but an understanding problem.

What unites the terrorists as well as the hustler immigrants is the fateful inability to understand both the Koran and Islam. Some angry voices even maintain that both of them are not at all Muslims. Alcohol, terrorism and absenteeism from the mosque are deeply un-Islamic. It is only too bad that the appropriate groups are not moved to insight when they are excommunicated for non-Islamic issues by Lamya Kador[4] and other experts.

Of course, it is quite possible that the Brussels perpetrators and the molesters in the cathedral square in Cologne really interpreted the Koran falsely, and never even read it to the end. But Islam is not necessarily what is in the Koran. Islam is what its adherents make of it.

And, all things considered, the result is not so amazing. One part of Islam’s adherents practices cherry-picking. From its teachings, they select what makes life more beautiful and pleasant: that is, oppression of minorities, harassing women, plus murder and manslaughter whenever anyone makes fun of Mohammed. The other part suffers from what the first part does, or is indifferent to it. Islam is apparently too busy for all the arduous things, such as tolerance, brotherly love and debate.

And, in parallel, the suspicion arises that Islam has another problem: one with women. It cannot be by chance that a suicide bomber in paradise does not get a villa with an attractive wife and servants or a whole fleet of Porsches, but — believe it or not — 72 virgins. You have to ask what is going on with men who drape their women in full-body coverings, because otherwise they can’t keep it together. And besides, it cannot be socially healthy when families misplace their raison d’être to a place between their daughters’ legs.

The women in question never do anything against it, above all, because any protest could be life-threatening. The fact that any number of “problem men” turn up is comparatively easy to understand. It could in fact be that many of the problems with Islam in Neukölln , Syria and Israel have in large part to do with the schizophrenic relationship of the sexes. Suppressed sexuality leads to frustration and aggression. More than ever, when the radical and substantially more pleasing counter model can be seen every day on the smart phone or at the front door. And this frustration must be released. So it is good that there are women and minorities to vent it upon.

It is often claimed in the West, that young Muslims are especially frustrated because “we” don’t let them join in. In actual fact, the young Turk may become furious if promotion does not come instantly. But the West offers him a cornucopia of possibilities: from attending school, through volunteer service for the republic, to the casting of “Germany Is Looking for the Superstar” — nowhere he does not have access to them. On the other hand, the absence of free choice of partner and sexual development is difficult to escape. It is fenced off by the ever-present “honor”. The individual means nothing — honor means everything. This lack of alternatives can only be endured, or fled.

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Identitaires Interrupt Refugee Play in Vienna

The following brief TV news report from Austria is the only information I have about an anti-immigration action in Vienna, in which members of the Identitaire movement interrupted a play performed by refugees. It’s intriguing to consider a cast of “refugees” — How did the director choose the cast? Did he run background checks to determine whether a migrant was an actual refugee, and not an economic migrant? Or did anyone with a dark complexion and a foreign accent qualify?

Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Transcript:

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Sex Slavery by the Numbers

In the following video, Gavin Boby of the Law and Freedom Foundation discusses the “grooming” phenomenon in the UK. By drawing on official government statistics and examining mainstream media reports, Mr. Boby’s extrapolations show that it is not a “tiny minority” of pedophiles and satyriasts who perpetrate these heinous acts, but a majority of Muslim men.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for editing and uploading this video:

Below is the text of Mr. Boby’s remarks, with links added.

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Oath? What Oath? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Oath!

Last weekend the post that included the above graphic (and very little else) caused a series of arguments here that went on for several days. A number of people took exception to the inclusion of the Queen in that rogues’ gallery. With the trial of Tommy Robinson looming, and numerous other matters occupying my attention, I didn’t have time to get back to the issue until now.

The important question is this: What legitimate constitutional obligation, if any, does Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II have in these matters? Is she required to rectify to the best of her ability the manifold legal injustices that are currently oppressing her subjects?

When I lived in England back in the 1960s — when there was still somewhat of a swashbuckling free-for-all in the media concerning political matters — the Queen was fair game, like everything else. Evidently things have changed in the decades since.

Before we argue any further about all this, let’s have a look at the coronation oath taken by Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey on June 2, 1953:

Archbishop. Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the Peoples of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon, and of your Possessions and the other Territories to any of them belonging or pertaining, according to their respective laws and customs?

Queen. I solemnly promise so to do.

Archbishop. Will you to your power cause Law and Justice, in Mercy, to be executed in all your judgements?

Queen. I will.

Archbishop. Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel? Will you to the utmost of your power maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law? Will you maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the Church of England, and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government thereof, as by law established in England? And will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of England, and to the Churches there committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges, as by law do or shall appertain to them or any of them?

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Islam and the Christian Genocides in Turkey

The Turkish poet Serkan Engin sends this guest-essay on the Islamic nature of the genocides of the early 20th century against Christian minorities in Turkey.

Islam and the Christian Genocides in Turkey
by Serkan Engin

As some have said in the West: in truth the Armenian, Assyrian, Chaldean, Nestorian and Pontian Greek genocides* were “Christian genocides”. On the other side were Muslim Turks and Kurds. The basis in society and the justification in conscience of these genocides were Islamic rules.

Islam gives permission to all Muslims to kill and rape every non-Muslim, and also to grab all their money and property. The de facto killers in these genocides were the predatory bands of the “Secret Organization” (In Turkish: Teşkilatı Mahsusa). The Turks and Kurds who killed their non-Muslim neighbours, enslaved their women and little girls as sex slaves, and grabbed all their property, had no awareness of “nationalism,” as did their commanders, the leaders of the Union and Progress Organization. So the Turks and Kurds who took part in the Armenian, Assyrian, Chaldean, Nestorian and Pontian Greek genocides massacred innocent humans with pleasure, did not do all this for the benefit of “Turkish nationalism”. They were simple farmers, describing themselves as “Muslim”, but not as “Turkish” or “Kurdish”.

The massacre order given by the Union and Progress Organization leaders was a gift for the Turks who lived as predators for two thousand years, and only turned to agriculture and the breeding of livestock in Anatolia. They considered it a gift because they got the chance to pillage their “rich” non-Muslim neighbours on the order of their government, and also they could take revenge upon non-Muslims who had, in their eyes, a great deal of money.

Kurds had been living in the same region for thousands of years and didn’t have ability, aptitude and historical experience except in the jobs of agriculture and the breeding of livestock. They, like their Turkish coreligionists, became happy too, because along with the Turks they would loot the money and property of the non-Muslims.

Muslim Turks and Kurds pulled their non-Muslim neighbours to pieces with the appetite and wildness of hyenas without any mercy; moreover, they gloated over all of this. They grabbed all the houses and stores of the non-Muslims, and they enslaved the women of non-Muslims as sex slaves and also domestic slaves in their “harems” as their “booty,” as is ordered by the rules of Islam. And they sold some of these women and girls at the slave bazaars for a bit of money.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/16/2016

Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs, chastised Austria for no longer showing a welcoming face towards migrants. Ms. Mogherini’s admonition came in response to Austria’s decision to build a 250-meter-long fence in the Brenner Pass along its border with Italy.

In other news, Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein, a Jordanian and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, chastised Donald Trump for the bigotry inherent in his immigration policies. Mr. Al-Hussein’s remarks were part of a speech given at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, the same city where the Republican convention will be held in July.

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Robert Spencer on the Crusades and the Golden Age of Islam

Robert Spencer spoke a few days ago at the Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa. The video below is taken from the question and answer period after the speech. As the clip begins, a member of the audience has just presented Mr. Spencer with a selection of the usual myths about Islam — the “Golden Age” of Islamic tolerance, the evil Crusades, Islamic science, the invention of algebra, etc., etc. His knowledgeable answers thoroughly demolish each of those myths.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for editing and uploading this video:

The Trial of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon

Our English correspondent Seneca III was present at the trial of Tommy Robinson last Thursday. Below is his report.

The Trial of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon
by Seneca III

Preamble

In fully-fledged Police States where the Law, Civil or Criminal, is whatever the ruling Junta says it is there is no right of access to fair and impartial legal processes. There is only a perverted form of ‘justice’ designed for and used in the public show trials of ‘Enemies of the State’.

The principal control mechanisms of such State entities really are simple and straightforward — physical brutality, including torture, arbitrary incarceration and summary execution — and the concealment thereof is generally and with deliberate intent quite minimal — universal public knowledge thereof serves to frighten and intimidate the subject population so that it submits to and obeys the diktats of the ruling entity, thus precluding protest or counter-action.

However in embryonic, quasi-Police States, such as are now in the latter stages of their gestation all across the West — particularly within that inappropriately named behemoth, the European Union — lip service still has to be paid to the remnants of the original, idealised concept of one Rule of Law for all. Up to now this lip service, whilst being nothing more than comforting noises designed to conceal a real and different intent, has been paid quite subtly so that in general its common purpose (no pun intended) has slipped below the conceptual radar of the body politic.

Now, fortunately, in one revealing moment this intent has, perhaps out of a hubris generated by the past successes of its implementers, stumbled into the open, its methodology glaringly exposed. In this demonstration of its reality we saw how ‘Political Correctness’, together with the latter’s bastard spawn ‘Islamophobia’ and ‘Racism’, rides roughshod over our ancient rights and freedoms on a deceptive tide of faux self-righteousness. Now many more of us have at last awoken to the deep and abiding threat posed by this, ‘The New World Order Project’, as it approaches its apogee.

But, still, at least for the moment, the Iron Fist of the ruling elite continues to strike — mostly whilst covered with its ever-thinning velvet glove of dissimulating legality. Thus the Junta’s apparatchiks and enforcers must, at least when exposed to public scrutiny, be seen to function within the existing legal framework of the State, within the power-limiting — and to them annoying — constraints of its statutes. Those statutes oblige them to impartially and openly serve the commonalty as a whole without fear or favour, rather than from behind a veil of smoke and mirrors. And they failed this day because they had tried to cross what became a bridge too far for them — a bridge that was at last properly defended.

Hence, on the morning of the 14th of April, 2016, during the trial of Mr. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon and the consequent public exposure therein of the series events leading up to his prosecution (or, as his Counsel, Mr. Richard Kovalevsky QC, so eloquently put it, “This preposterous prosecution!”) we were given a short but definitive peek behind the veil and were able to cast our eyes upon the draconian future so long planned for us in the venal corridors of power.

It was there that day that the establishment’s long exercised practice of first ridiculing, then demonising and then destroying those who would protest or resist their social re-engineering was clearly seen in all of the gruesome reality of its final phase.

A Magistrates’ Court

For the benefit of non-British readers and those who are British but are unfamiliar with HMCS (Her Majesty’s Court Service) I offer a brief résumé of the structure and functions of English and Welsh Magistrates’ Courts (Scotland does it a little differently).

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From the Hebrides to the Antipodes: The Response to the Tommy Fund Appeal

The email below just came in from the organizers of the Tommy Robinson Defense Fund.

Update: Denmark was left out by mistake. It’s been added to the list.

Update From Team Tommy

Our heartfelt thanks once again to our generous donors. The total number of donations to date is 967, made up as follows:

From:

 

GB:   435

                                         
USA:   211

                                         
Canada:   117

                                         
Australia:   65

                                         

The remainder have been received from:

  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Brazil
  • Bulgaria
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Gibraltar
  • Hong Kong
  • Hungary
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Malta
  • Martinique
  • Mauritius
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Russia
  • Singapore
  • Slovenia
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Thailand

Thank you each and every one of you. Your contribution has made an enormous difference.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/15/2016

1,700 more migrants landed in various parts of Italy yesterday, making a total of 6,000 new arrivals since Tuesday. Meanwhile, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi pooh-poohed the idea that the immigrants constitute an “invasion”, and reassured his fellow Italians that the total number of migrants this year is only slightly higher than at same time last year.

In other news, the Swiss government announced that it is considering deploying tanks along its border with Italy in the event that the Italians fail to get their migration problem under control.

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Tommy Robinson on Trinity Channel: “The Biggest Problem I Face is the State”

Yesterday evening, after the court case against him was dismissed, Tommy Robinson was interviewed at length by Trinity Channel, an American Christian broadcaster. The topic was “The Islamization of the United Kingdom”.

Now that Tommy’s legal entanglements are over (for the moment), he is able to speak out freely about the persecution he has suffered at the hands of the British state. In this excerpt there are details about what happened to him that I hadn’t heard before. He also talks about the defense fund that was recently set up to pay for his legal representation — which you, the readers of Gates of Vienna (among others), helped make a reality with your generous donations. Thanks to your contributions, Tommy Robinson is a free man today.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for editing and uploading this video:

Update: This is the direct YouTube link for the above video.

The full video is recommended viewing. In addition to Tommy’s segments, Nonie Darwish is interviewed about sharia and the Islamization of the West.

Tommy Robinson Lives to Fight Another Day

Paul Weston has a few words to say about his fellow PEGIDA UK leader, Tommy Robinson, who walked free from Peterborough Magistrates’ Court yesterday after the case against him was dismissed.

Tommy Robinson Lives to Fight Another Day
by Paul Weston

Tommy Robinson is a free man today, as opposed to sweating it out at her Majesty’s pleasure surrounded by dangerously violent men long of beard but short of human decency.

Tommy maintains the real reason the British state wants him banged up is not to “rehabilitate” him via left/liberal bleeding-heart probation officers, but rather to kill him, thereby removing a perennial thorn in the side of the establishment. As Mark Steyn says: “I’ve looked fairly closely at the British state’s curious obsession with Mr Robinson, and his conclusion seems to me entirely reasonable.”

I would agree with Mr Steyn here. A prison governor who places a man “guilty” of a white-collar crime (mortgage irregularity à la Peter Mandelson and many other British politicians) alongside Muslim murderers in a high security jail, is a governor operating under strict instruction from above, one can only surmise.

Had Tommy been murdered during his previous incarcerations, the prison governors would have been hauled over the coals via a public enquiry — not something in their best interests and not something they would willingly bring upon themselves. No doubt their excuses would have been “I was only following orders,” but who gave those orders? The awfully nice Mr Cameron? The fragrant Theresa May or the apparently benign Justice Minister Michael Gove?

Fortunately for Tommy, the musings above are pure conjecture, but I imagine the orders came from the very top, which does not bode well for a liberal and democratic Britain. Our politicians and police seem to have appraised the situation which consists of ever-growing Islamic demographics coupled with ever-growing Islamic fundamentalism, and made a conscious decision to appease the Muslim community whilst persecuting any native who publicly draws attention to the illiberal requirements institutionally inherent in Islamic doctrine.

As the years progress we will see more and more appeasement of Muslims from our traitor class in the political and media world, and more and more repression aimed at those who notice Islam seems not to be a religion of peace, but is instead a political ideology of blood, war, supremacism, misogyny, intolerance, imperialism, fanaticism, Jew-hatred, kuffar-hatred, homosexual-hatred, you-name-it-hatred and other such assorted wonders of 7th-century barbarianism so foolishly imported wholesale into 21st century liberal democracies.

Oh, dear! Call Inner Party member O’Brien’s Thought Police! There I go again, writing Hate Facts in the public sphere, contrary to the wishes of our political masters — and of course the charmless chubster Fiyaz Mughal of the corrupt and English/Christian hating organisation TellMama. I mention Mr Mughal, the well-known mendacious, grievance-mongering, tubby taqiyya artist only because I know he monitors these articles for any sign of “Islamophobia”, after which he can then scuttle off to the British government and press them to break out the rubber truncheons in order to deal with the intolerant. All in the name of tolerance, of course…

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Christians Advocate for Israel while Jews in Nashville Support its Enemies

Below is the latest newsletter from the Tennessee Council for Political Justice.

Newsletter #195 — Christians Advocate for Israel while Jews in Nashville Support its Enemies

PJTN (Proclaiming Justice to the Nations), CUFI (Christians United for Israel) and Tennessee’s state legislators such as Judd Matheny and Sheila Butt pass strong pro-Israel resolutions.

Meanwhile, political leftists seem to dominate the organized Jewish community in Nashville, Tennessee. Despite over 100 knife attacks on Jews in Israel, no matter how many calls for another intifada, no matter how many Jewish children are murdered while sleeping in their beds, politically left American Jews and their leadership stand with the jihadist murderers.


Fogel children murdered by jihadists: 11 year old Yoav, 4 year old Elad and a three month old infant girl, Hadas

The rabbis in Nashville even have a slogan that justifies this resolve — “We may be opponents, we need not be enemies.” Even local Islamists whose group members emulate the language and values of HAMAS can get this rabbinical absolution. The leftist leadership extends the same olive branch to the anti-Israel, pro-BDS Nashville start-up chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), a group that puts politics before support for the Jewish biblical homeland.

JVP is an anti-Zionist Jewish hate group that collaborates with and stands in solidarity with other anti-Israel hate groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). Not surprisingly, JVP and SJP spewed from the same UC Berkley campus.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, JVP pushes ending U.S. aid to Israel, agitates both on and off college campuses using the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) campaign, the goal of which is to end Israel as a Jewish state. BDS embeds its objectives in language about social justice and human rights in order to deceive people who have a conscience.

Temple member and Alinsky disciple Pat Halper is helping JVP to grow a Nashville chapter. Halper, a member of The Temple (Congregation Ohabai Shalom led by Islamist fictionalist rabbi Mark Schiftan), is an extreme political leftist drawn to neo-Marxist organizations like Saul Alinsky’s first Nashville project called “Tying Nashville Together (TNT)” where she served as a board member. Once TNT flopped, many of its members moved on to NOAH (Nashville Organized for Action and Hope). Halper joined NOAH’s Executive Committee. She also chaired the social justice committee at The Temple.

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