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A Typical Week in Dhimmi Britain

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Prompted by last Sunday’s culturally-enriched gathering at Downing Street, Paul Weston sends the following observations on the dire situation of Modern Multicultural Britain.

A Typical Week in Dhimmi Britain
by Paul Weston

It is amazing — in a rather horrifying way — to track the antics of the Religion of Peace in what was once Great Britain. News over the last few days serve only to reinforce my belief that British politicians and media journalists have already submitted before Allah, or have large off-shore bank accounts bulging with treacherous blood money as a reward for betraying their country.

If this sounds a bit far-fetched, consider the peculiar behaviour exhibited by our supposedly impartial journalists over the weekend. The EDL held a march in Dudley on Saturday, protesting about the building of yet another mega-mosque which the vast majority of local people are firmly against. Some 1,000 plus patriotic Brits turned out for the event. A peaceful march ensued and a number of speakers outlined why it was not really a good idea to add another propaganda centre for Islam in the town.

Around fifty delightful young chaps from David Cameron’s UAF friends and Antifa also turned out, all dressed in black with balaclavas thoughtfully covering their scowling and hate-contorted faces lest cameras catch their violent behaviour carried out in the name of “anti-racism” — which is something of a misnomer when one considers the virulent racial hatred they feel toward the native British.

Of these fifty upstanding examples of decency and compassion, thirty were arrested (see video) after they attacked the police. Curiously though, all the media headlines were along the lines of “Thirty arrested at EDL demonstration in Dudley”, leading the low-information reader to assume all those arrested were from the EDL. In point of fact, no EDL supporters were arrested at all.

The Birmingham Mail was guilty of blatant propaganda here, but rather foolishly allowed their comment board to remain open. Within a few hours hundreds of people pointed out their story was a tissue of lies and disinformation. Some questioned the ethics of modern day Birmingham Mail journalists and publicly mused as to whether the propaganda they pumped out was in line with the integrity one expects from those who purportedly exist to tell us the unvarnished truth.

Having been caught in-flagrante as it were, the Birmingham Mail took the only course of action available to such an honourable edifice of truth telling… and deleted all the comments whilst making no attempt whatsoever to edit the article in order to reflect truth and objectivity. The editor is a chap called David Brookes who may be contacted at David.Brookes@trinitymirror.com should readers wish to drop him a line…

On Sunday another demonstration occurred, this time held by thousands of Muslims outside Prime Minister David Cameron’s temporary London pied-a-terre in Downing Street. Some people have noticed how hard it is to get large numbers of Muslims onto British streets to state “Not In My Name” regarding paedophile rape gangs, beheaders of British soldiers or blowers-up of London tube trains, and sure enough this large gathering had nothing to say about such errant Muslim behaviour. They were more concerned about abolishing free speech you see, particularly with regard to free speech about lovely, peaceful old Mo by those rascals at Charlie Hebdo magazine.

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After 100 Years, a New Islam Law for Austria: Part 2

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Critique of the draft law by Wiener Akademikerbund

This is the second in a four-part series on the new Islam Law. Previously: Part 1.

Introduction to Part 2

by Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff

In order to understand the process of lawmaking in Austria, here is a short and very simplified overview:

The government presents a draft law, which is then forwarded to Parliament and discussed in committee. There are usually one to two hearings before the law — sometimes after being amended — goes to a plenary session and is then voted into law.

Before the government votes on the draft law, it is usually preceded by more or less lengthy discussions which include those affected by the law. In the case of the new draft law on Islam, the initial discussions, lasting nearly two years, aimed at comprising “Austrians as well as Muslims from all walks of life.” This is blatantly false, however, since the Wiener Akademikerbund (WAB) was excluded from any deliberations.

Nevertheless, as soon as the initial law was presented in draft form, anyone, including the WAB, was permitted to comment officially on the Law, before it was voted on by the government. The WAB seized this opportunity and presented a lengthy paper with a scathing analysis of the failings of this law (Islamgesetz 1912, Änderung in German only, all comments and critique presented to Parliament).

Below is the Commentary on the Draft Law by the Wiener Akademikerbund as translated by Rembrandt Clancy. The original German version is available here. Following the WAB paper is a news article from an Austrian daily that is relevant to the deficiencies of the proposed Islam Law.

Wiener Akademikerbund
A-11080 Wien, Schlösselgasse 11/I www.wienerakademikerbund.at

Commentary on the Draft of a Federal Law Amending the Islam Law of 1912

For some years, the Wiener Akademikerbund has been comprehensively and systematically engaged both with the doctrines of Islam, its constitution [Verfaßtheit], legal foundation and development in Austria, and with the effects of its implementation and its expansion, especially in Europe. The Wiener Akademikerbund considers itself called upon to accept the invitation to participate in the process of assessment and consultation which was issued as the draft was being published on 2 October 2014.

Contents:

1.   Synopsis
2.   Background
3.   Initial situation prior to the implementation of the project for a new Islam Act. The constitution [Verfaßtheit] of real Islam in Austria.
4.   The necessity for a new Islam Act. Support for the legislative project and identification with the “spirit of the law”, as it is expressed in the draft at hand.
5.   Rationale for the indispensability of the measures to be taken in connection with the three central reform points of the draft.
6.   The draft’s central structural error and its far-reaching consequences.
7.   Proposal for the direction to be taken in repairing the cited defect.
8.   Important technical details by which the draft should be improved and/or supplemented.
 

1. Synopsis

The more than 100-year history of Islam legislation in Austria began in 1912 with an act of tolerance unique in the world, and with an “outstretched hand”. Since then, many deficiencies and imperfections have slipped in through dealings with the “real Islam”. Today, there is reason to assume that the Islamic Religious Community in Austria has no valid legal basis. And a proliferation of non-transparent mosque organizations is taking the principle of religious freedom to the point of absurdity.

The project to renew the Islam Act is overdue and most necessary. The Wiener Akademikerbund identifies with the “spirit of the law” which undergirds this project. Longstanding demands of the Wiener Akademikerbund are reflected in the draft text: disclosure of the tenets of the faith, a ban on financing and radical influence from foreign sources, as well as the dissolving of the religious operations of the associations that are exempt from any supervision or responsibility.

The draft, however, has a serious legal defect that is likely to undo all the intentions of the project. The defect is the result of complex causes and is, at first glance, barely recognizable. It will be analyzed in minute detail in the present commentary. A specific suggestion for a remedy will indicate a way out of the dilemma. Additionally, detailed suggestions for improvement and reform will be made, which are suited to increase the likelihood of accomplishing the goals of the planned Islam law.

2. Background

Without knowing the history of the origin and development of the concrete legal issues, it is no more possible to understand the need for a new Islam law than it is to grasp the strengths and weaknesses of the draft that is now before us.

After the final repulse of the Ottoman expansion in the Balkans by the European forces of the Austro-Hungarian Habsburg monarchy, Bosnia and Herzegovina were made protectorates of Austria by the Berlin Congress of 1878. Not until 1909 were they accepted into the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. In 1910, this acceptance was formalized by a special status conferred by Emperor Franz Joseph. The monarchy was affording the land a respectable economic prosperity, and was at pains to preserve the religious peace as well as the social structures frequently linked with the Muslim elites. As a special mark of equality, Islam was therefore to be awarded the status of a legally recognized religious community throughout the entire empire. This took place “with the agreement of both Houses of the Imperial Assembly” in the Islam Act of July 15, 1912.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/9/2015

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Masked gunmen carrying Kalashnikovs opened fire on police when the police chief entered a culturally enriched housing estate in the French city of Marseille. Elite police units were dispatched to the scene to deal with the disgruntled activists. The incident (which had nothing to do with Islam) came just before a scheduled visit by Prime Minister Manuel Valls.

In other news, according to The Daily Mail, the Islamic State is facing a shortage of volunteers for suicide bombings.

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Iran: Strangled by a Gordian Knot

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Our expatriate English correspondent Peter returns with an essay about Iran just before the turn of the millennium. He includes this introductory note:

This is an item I first wrote in 1998, which covers a two-week visit to Iran taking in Tehran, Esfahan and Shiraz while I was en route from Delhi to Istanbul. I wrote it originally at the request of a friend who works for the BBC’s Farsi service, but the BBC decided not to use it or to pay me for the privilege of not using it. Apparently the views expressed were at variance with the BBC’s Middle Eastern policy, whatever that might have been.

The article is very much as it was when I wrote it, that is, my impression of Iran in 1998, but its relevance today is that when the inevitable violent revolution finally dislodges the governing theocracy, it will be seen that violence was the only possible way for the people to achieve the necessary change.

Iran: Strangled by a Gordian Knot
by Peter

April 1998

It was just after midnight as, in company with my fellow passengers, I finally stumbled into the bustling arrivals hall on Tehran airport, more than three hours after my flight from Delhi via Dubai had landed. The intervening time had been spent standing in a series of queues while a number of dishevelled hirsute men went through our baggage and other belongings minutely examining everything we had, presumably to ensure we were not bringing anything into their country that might in any way be considered improper, offensive, or undesirable. No sooner had we left one queue than we had to join another and yet another after that while different sets of plain-clothes ruffians rummaged through our things. After we had performed this particular ritual a sufficient number of times, the roughnecks who were detaining us must have decided that we didn’t have whatever it was they might have been looking for and allowed us to leave.

Although I was the only non-Iranian on the flight, I had not been treated any differently by the customs officials than had any of the other arrivals, although the same could not be said for passport control where I was removed from the queue by two more unkempt bruisers and escorted to the end of the line, clearly a discriminatory gesture but an understandable one since, unlike most EU countries, Iran was not burdened by a multi-billion-pound race industry.

It was another week before I saw Tehran in daylight. With its characterless, concrete buildings, some adorned with murals depicting the baleful visage of the late Ayatollah Khomeini or the more benign features of the current president Mohammed Khatami, I concluded that it had not been worth the wait. Indeed, Tehran appeared to be so devoid of any prominent landmarks that I had no idea how I would find my way around without getting lost, a misgiving I raised with my friends after the taxi had dropped me at their ground floor apartment.

Ali, his wife Soraya and their two daughters had been staying at the same hotel as me in Esfahan and they had adopted me to ensure I did not fall foul of any xenophobic activities in which some of the local inhabitants were known to indulge, or to prevent me from committing some outrageous though innocent blunder that might have brought me into contact with the Komite, a particularly virulent strain of religious police whose apparent role in Iranian society was to find out how ordinary people managed to enjoy themselves in this austere theocracy and instantly put a stop to it. Thanks to my new-found friends, I found out what most things cost, generally a lot less than they did in Western Europe, and that while the accepted currency was the Rial, worth about 1500 to the US dollar at the time, there was also something called a Toman worth ten Rials. There did not appear to be any denomination of banknotes denoting the Toman and I quickly decided that its only reason for existence was to make certain I paid ten times the going rate for any commodity I might need.

By the time I’d returned to Tehran, after spending four days in Esfahan and three more in Shiraz, I’d formed the opinion that Iran was a country that evoked many questions but offered few answers in return. For example, while I waited in baggage reclaim for my suitcase, I noticed a number of passengers from Kish Island, a duty-free resort in the Persian Gulf, removing articles from a carousel piled high with boxes containing the latest and most advanced Japanese technology and satellite equipment. Yet, in a country where communication with the outside world was actively discouraged by a Government, whose edicts were covertly policed by any number of sinister internal organisations, how could it be that people were openly unloading digital receivers and satellite dishes at a public airport without any apparent fear of detection or reprisal?

As I was being driven through the dusty streets of Tehran, I noticed bed linen hung out to air on every balcony, veranda or patio I passed, a futile gesture in this highly polluted environment but one in which everybody appeared to participate without exception. Ali revealed the answer to this particular conundrum when he showed me his garden and I noticed the edge of a huge satellite dish protruding from beneath the sheet festooning his balcony. He explained that everybody he knew had satellite dishes and as long as these remained concealed, nobody could report them to the authorities but anyone who neglected to hide their dishes could guarantee a visit from the Komite, whose heavy handed representatives had a well-earned reputation for physical abuse and malicious damage, not to mention arbitrary arrest and detention without trial.

This was not the only problem Ali was experiencing because of his family’s access to satellite television. He also felt that his fifteen year-old daughter, Shaida, spent more time watching MTV or the Indian Channel Zee than she did on her schoolwork, and this might ultimately undermine her efforts to secure a place at university when the time came. It was a familiar concern. In the early 1960’s, my parents had the same reservations about my relationship with Radio Luxemburg.

Unlike the rest of her family, Shaida was fluent in English, and during our frequent discussions, revealed an insatiable curiosity about life in England and an encyclopaedic knowledge of English boy bands. It was she who first revealed to me the widespread disillusionment with the Khatami Government that was sweeping the country only a year after he took 70% of the vote during the 1997 Presidential Election. Thousands of teenagers were reputed to have dragged their parents to the polling stations to ensure the selection of this popular reformist candidate. Now his good intentions appeared to be foundering on the self-serving intransigence of the conservative clerics, fuelling seething discontent amongst his erstwhile supporters who blamed him, unfairly, for failing to deliver on his manifesto.

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After 100 Years, a New Islam Law for Austria: Part 1

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The Original Law, and the Proposed New Law

Words cannot express the gratitude the Wiener Akademikerbund (WAB) extends to Rembrandt Clancy and JLH for their tireless and dedicated work in translating this mass of very difficult legal material. The task was truly an epic challenge for both translators, and we congratulate them on a job well done. Vielen Dank!

Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff
Vice Chairman of the Board, WAB

Introduction

The Austrian Law on Islam is unique in all of Europe, perhaps even worldwide: Islam, along with other major religions such as Catholicism, Protestantism, the Jewish faith, Buddhism, and others, is granted a special status within the legal system. Not only that, but the taxpayer also foots the bill for imams, religious education, and other matters. (This also concerns all other legally recognized religions.)

The original law was necessitated by the Austria-Hungary’s annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina at the beginning of the 20th century: the incorporation of Hanafi Muslim soldiers into the Austrian army demanded that the Hanafi school of Islam be legally recognized. Little did the authors of the law know that nine decades later this very law would be the cause of so much discussion.

The main point of discontent has always been the lack of disclosure of the tenets of the faith by the Islamic Faith Community, as demanded from and adhered to by all other faith communities. Thus, official Austria does not know what faithful Muslims believe in. This has resulted in the ridiculous situation that numerous Islam-critics have been convicted for “denigration of religious beliefs of a legally recognized religion” while the state has no idea what these teaching comprise!

The Austrian think tank Wiener Akademikerbund (WAB) has for many years now been very vocal in calling out the ruling elite about the challenges Austrians face with regard to the ongoing Islamization of Austria. The resulting vilification of WAB has not ceased. However, given that Christian Zeitz is the expert on the Law on Islam as well as Islam itself, it was only natural for him to be chosen as an expert witness in the parliamentary constitutional committee discussing the updated Law on Islam.

It was and continues to be our aim and guiding principle — and that of all people critical of Islam — to prevent the propagation of Islam and Sharia law by the law and within the law, i.e. secular law.

Let us back up now and present the original Law on Islam for readers to peruse.

Imperial Gazette — 1912

(Official translation as provided by Language Services and Terminology, Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour-Vienna)

Part II

1. Austria

Imperial Gazette for the Kingdoms and crown-lands represented in the Imperial Council
Year 1912, item LXVI, published and dispatched on this 9th of August, 1912

159

Law dated 15th July, 1912

referring to the recognition of the adherents of Islam according to the Hanafite rite as religious community

In agreement with both chambers of the Imperial Council I herewith order as follows:

ARTICLE 1

The adherents of Islam shall be granted recognition as religious community in the kingdoms and crown-lands represented in the Imperial Council in the meaning of the Constitutional Law of 21st December, 1867, Imperial Gazette No 142, in particular article 15, under the following terms:

Section 1

The external legal conditions of the adherents of Islam shall be regulated on the basis of an autonomous administration, due consideration being given to state supervision by way of ordinances once the foundation and existence of at least one religious community has been achieved. Particular attention shall be paid in this respect to the relations of the religious organisations of the adherents of Islam living within the country with those in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A religious community having been established, the creation of charity foundations for religious purposes of Islam shall be permitted.

Section 2

In agreement with the Minister for Cultural Affairs also religious functionaries from Bosnia and Herzegovina shall be permitted to be appointed to the office of a religious servant.

Section 3

If a disposition of the organiser of a religious service is, in the opinion of the government, contradictory to public considerations, such service may be prohibited.

Section 4

A religious servant found guilty of a criminal offence or punishable act, committed for pecuniary benefits, in violation of morality, or constituting a public nuisance, or whose contact threatens to endanger public order, shall be removed from office.

Section 5

The state authority shall see to it that the religious community of the adherents of Islam, their communities and organs do not exceed their scope of activities, meet the requirements of the law and of the envisaged ordinances on the external legal conditions of this religious community, and enforce the ordinances promulgated on this basis, apply fines tailored to their financial means and other legally admissible coercive measures.

Section 6

The religious community of the adherents of Islam according to the Hanafite rite shall, both as regards the community as such and religious worship and religious servants, enjoy the same legal protection as is granted to other legally recognised religious communities.

The doctrines of Islam, its institutions and customs shall enjoy the same protection too, unless they are in contradiction to state law.

Section 7

As regards marriage of the adherents of Islam and the keeping of the registers of births, marriages, and deaths, the provisions of the Law dated 9th April, 1870, Imperial Gazette No 51, shall remain in force.
Religious obligations in respect of marriage shall not be affected by these provisions.

Section 8

A respective ordinance shall stipulate if and how religious servants of Islam may be employed to assist with the keeping of the registers of births, marriages, and deaths of their fellow believers.

Article II

My Minister for Cultural Affairs and Education, my Minister of the Interior, and my Minister of Justice shall be entrusted with the implementation of this law.

Bad Ischl, on this 16th of July 1912
Francis Joseph, m.p.

And here is the new draft law, as proposed and submitted to Parliament (translated from the German by Rembrandt Clancy):

Draft

Federal Act, Amending the Law on the Recognition of the Followers of Islam as a Religious Society [Religionsgesellschaft]

The National Council has decided:

The Act on the recognition of the adherents to Islam as religious society, RGBl [Imperial Law Gazette] I Nr. 159/1912, last amended by the Federal Ministries Act Amendment 2014, BGBl. [Federal Law Gazette] I Nr. 11/2014 shall be amended as follows:

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“These People Don’t Belong in This Country”

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We reported last night on yesterday’s mass demonstration by British Muslims at Downing Street in London. The culture-enrichers in attendance — whose numbers were estimated at 3,000 to 10,000 — were angry about the Charlie Hebdo cartoons, and demanded that the British parliament pass laws criminalizing the insulting of Mohammed.

Some thirty counter-demonstrators from Britain First were present throughout the event. They were outnumbered by at least a hundred to one, so it took a substantial contingent of Metropolitan Police to keep the Muslim demonstrators from inflicting the “harmony” they were so vociferously promoting on the British patriots across the street:

Hat tip: Vlad Tepes.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/8/2015

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Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan says that it is now inevitable that Greece will have to leave the Eurozone. He maintains that it will better both for Greece and the rest of the euro countries if Greece abandons the euro.

In other news, North Korea fired five test missiles off its eastern coast.

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President Obama, Islamic Terrorism, And The Naked Emperor

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Prompted by President Obama’s remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast last week, Sergei Bourachaga sends the following essay.

President Obama, Islamic Terrorism, And The Naked Emperor

by Sergei Bourachaga

On Thursday February 5 2015 US President Barack Obama, during a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, while condemning a long list of atrocities committed by ISIL in the name of Islam, pointed out to his audience that the US and Western democracies should not conflate the acts of a “vicious death cult” named ISIS with the totality of the 1.6 billion Muslims who practice the religion of peace.

President Obama invited his audience also to reflect on the historical facts that Christianity used the same barbaric tactics of ISIS during the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition — both scourges where “people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.”

President Obama, while acknowledging that the followers of every religion have “a sinful tendency” to distort and pervert the basic tenet of a faith, invited the audience to share his optimism that Islam is not beyond redemption. The solution he suggested was very simple-Basic HUMILITY. A brand new 21st century form of humility, a panacea tailored to contain Islamic fanaticism by reminding every Jihadi on this planet that “No God condones terror. No grievance justifies the taking of innocent lives, or the oppression of those who are weaker or fewer in number.”

What did President Obama say? “No God condones terror.” Obviously he never read the Koran in its original Arabic version, and thus failed to grasp the fundamental fact that Allah the God of Islam is a God of terrorism “par excellence”, and He clearly instructs Muslims in the following verse to embrace terrorism as a religious duty:

“We will put terror into the hearts of the unbelievers (Jews, Christians, Hindus). They serve other Gods for whom no sanction has been revealed. Hell shall be their home; dismal indeed is the dwelling place of the evil-doers”. — Koran 3:149

Did president Obama study history before adding his voice and giving credibility to the Islamic fundamentalist narrative that the Crusades, and the atrocities committed in the Holy Land, by Christians in the name of Christ, contributed to the modern grievances you find on every Muslim Jihadi website? Does he suffer from a selective amnesia that confounded in his mind critical dates and events?

Islam launched the conquest of the European continent by invading Spain in 711 AD. On April 29, 711 the armies of Tariq Ibn Zyad landed at Gibraltar (known in the Arab world as Jabal Tariq), and he immediately ordered his followers to burn all the ships used during the invasion to eliminate the possibility of a retreat, and he made the following speech, highly glorified in every Muslim school in the Middle East:

“Oh my warriors, whither would you flee? Behind you is the sea, before you, the enemy. You have left now only the hope of your courage and your constancy. Your enemy is before you, protected by an innumerable army; he has men in abundance, but you, as your only aid, have your own swords, and, as your only chance for life, such chance as you can snatch from the hands of your enemy…You have heard that in this country there are a large number of ravishingly beautiful Greek maidens, their graceful forms are draped in sumptuous gowns on which gleam pearls, coral, and purest gold, and they live in the palaces of royal kings. The Commander of True Believers, Alwalid, son of Abdalmelik, has chosen you for this attack from among all his Arab warriors; and he promises that you shall become his comrades and shall hold the rank of kings in this country. Such is his confidence in your intrepidity. The one fruit which he desires to obtain from your bravery is that the word of Allah shall be exalted in this country, and that the true religion of Islam shall be established here. The spoils will belong to yourselves.” (Source)

The First Crusade was launched by European powers in 1096 AD, after almost three centuries of Islamic fanaticism ravaged Europe, and induced the major powers of the era to force down the throat of Islam the very bitter pill it was forcing Europe to swallow. Islamic obsession with the destruction and conquest of Europe did not end until 1683, the year that witnessed the defeat the Islamic Ottoman Turkish armies at the gates of Vienna.

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“Freedom of Speech Has Boundaries”

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Update: Vlad has uploaded the missing video to LiveLeak, and I changed the embed.

A large crowd of “Britons” gathered in Downing Street today to protest the cartoons of Mohammed published by the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, and against insulting the prophet in general. Estimates of numbers run from 1,000 (The Telegraph) to 10,000 (the organizers, and also Breitbart).

The event was organized by a group known as the Muslim Action Forum:

Shaykh Tauqir Ishaq, a senior spokesman for the Forum, said “Perpetual mistakes by extremists, either by cold-blooded killers or uncivilised expressionists, cannot be the way forward for a civilised society.

“The peace-loving majority of people must become vociferous in promoting global civility and responsible debate. At this time of heightened tension and emotion, it is crucial that both sides show restraint to prevent further incidents of this nature occurring.” [emphasis added]

In other words, “cold-blooded killers” and those who draw cartoons of Mohammed are “extremists” of the same magnitude. “Both sides” make “mistakes” and must practice restraint.

This is the sort of false equivalence of which Barack Hussein Obama might approve!

Actually, under Islamic law, the protesters are quite correct when they insist that the only way to achieve harmony among diverse communities is for everyone to refrain from insulting the prophet Mohammed. Shariah makes exactly this requirement, which applies to Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Those who do not heed it are guilty of Islamic slander (ghiba), the penalty for which is death.

This means that the assassins who carried out the Charlie Hebdo massacre were simply executing the prescribed sentence for ghiba in the time-honored, ad-hoc fashion as practiced so often in shariah-based societies.

Yes, harmony will indeed come to Britain as soon as parliament criminalizes insulting Mohammed and all the other violations of shariah that are now so rampant in British society.

The video below features one Abu Tahir speaking at today’s event:

Update: Whoops! By the time I got the post together, the video had been yanked. Too bad — if another version of it surfaces, I’ll use that.

Below are excerpts from a Breitbart article about today’s protest in London:

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Oppression Instead of Admission, Part III

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Note: This post was originally published on February 6, and was “sticky” for several days. Scroll down for more recently posted material, including Newt Gingrich’s discussion of American Betrayal and the Saudi funding of 9/11, Mike Vanderboegh’s speech in Olympia, a guest essay about the current Islamization of Europe and the history of the French colonization of Algeria, a celebration of e-Day, and last night’s news feed.

This is the third essay in a series by Takuan Seiyo. Previously: Part 1, Part 2.


Amphisbaena

Oppression Instead of Admission
Part III

by Takuan Seiyo

The monster that ate its middle

When Liberal State was young, I thought it was in the image of the mythical serpent Ouroboros, whose head consumes its tail. But as soon as the acceleration of state propaganda, oppression and printing of fiat paper money started, I understood that my analogy was wrong.

Ouroboros is a model of feudal society, or early industrial society in Dickensian hues. The top consumes the bottom. But in the Liberal-Oppressive State, the head and the tail join forces to consume the middle. It’s a two-headed monster: one head at each end. The ancients had that one in their lore too: the Amphisbaena.


Ouroboros

The Top Head is composed of the mega-billionaires, CEOs of major corporations, a small pool of “electable” (i.e. liberal) politicians, the mandarins at the top of government’s bureaucracy, labor unions bosses, lawyers and academics. The Tail Head is the failed, lower-IQ minorities, most nonwhite or white and intensely ethnocentric and therefore corrosive “Hispanic” immigrants (e.g. this one) and even their American-born, rich and famous descendants. All that is forever expanded by the Top Head’s obsession with race, immigration, the psychotically truculent identity freaks, and all other feeders at the government’s trough. Included in the latter are about 21 million (civilians alone) government employees — most of them unionized and fighting to perpetuate the racket that feeds them.

If you have to ask who the middle is, you are the amateur sitting to a game of poker with pros and not knowing who the mark is at the table. You are.

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Pretense, Denial, and Treason

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On February 5 Sean Hannity featured former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich as a guest during the second hour of his radio show. During the discussion about ISIS and Islamic terrorism, Mr. Gingrich advised Americans to read Diana West’s book American Betrayal as a way to better understand the way in which the political leadership of this country has been infiltrated and suborned by agents of the Muslim Brotherhood. In particular, he discussed the Saudi funding of the terror attacks on September 11, 2001, which was allegedly redacted from the 9/11 Report.

At one point Mr. Gingrich said:

“…and I would say second, read Diana West’s book American Betrayal, which is very chilling in telling us about a similar period in the 1940s and early 1950s in which we were confronted by a Communist threat, and a very large part of our elite tried to pretend that it did not exist …”

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for editing the audio recording to make this video:

For links to previous articles about the controversy over American Betrayal, see the Diana West Archives.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/7/2015

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The Nigerian presidential election has been postponed for six weeks due to security concerns, specifically the continuing terror attacks by Boko Haram. The electoral commission made the decision, but critics say the postponement is intended to improve the electoral chances of Goodluck Jonathan, the incumbent president.

In other news, President Barack Hussein Obama’s recently published national security strategy lists climate change as one of the eight major threats to the national security of the United States.

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“Refusing to Knuckle Under to Tyranny of Any Kind”

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We mentioned last night that Second Amendment activists were planning to converge on the state capitol in Olympia this morning, with the intention of defying the state’s new administrative ban on openly carried firearms in the viewing galleries of the legislature. Patriots from all over showed up on schedule — see the WRSA report for photos and videos of the event.

The state authorities tried an interesting tactic: they locked the doors and closed off the viewing galleries, which are normally open to the public seven days a week. It was a clever stratagem — by keeping out the open-carry folks, they avoided having to arrest them, and thereby postponed the inevitable confrontation to another day.

Below is the text of the speech given by Mike Vanderboegh this morning in Olympia on the portico of the state capitol. It was originally published on his blog:

My name is Mike Vanderboegh and I have come here to these wintry grounds from the much warmer great free state of Alabama to stand beside you as I did in December in your resistance to the growing tyranny in this state — and it IS a tyranny, there is no other word that applies so well. From I-594, Michael Bloomberg’s billionaire-bought, demonic bastard child, to the new anti-firearm laws being promulgated by collectivist politicians behind these walls, to the latest diktat about firearms in the House and Senate galleries — it IS a tyranny that has a voracious appetite for your traditional liberty, for your property, an appetite that comes with the state-sanctioned threat of violence to your lives if you do not comply.

As I noted when I spoke on the steps of the Connecticut state house almost two years ago now — it is an established principle of American jurisprudence that an unconstitutional law is void — it has no effect. But I also noted that the tricky part for those of us who wish to maintain our liberties is how to make that point when all the levers of power in a state — the executive, the legislative and the judicial — are in the hands of people whom the Founders would call “domestic enemies of the Constitution.” And as I don’t need to tell you, there are people behind THESE walls who fit that description.

For we are divided today — as the Founders were themselves divided from their fellow countrymen — along the stark lines of the answer to the fundamental question: Does the government serve the people or do the people serve the government? It is a simple question. It is the most basic of questions. And the answer is either one or the other. It cannot be both. It cannot be compromised. Who serves whom? That is what we are here today, in some small part, to discover.

Other speakers will give you details of what led to this seemingly silly and inconsequential argument over whether citizens can bear firearms in the galleries of the House and Senate. They will explain why it is neither silly nor inconsequential. They will tell you how this began last summer with public insults and threats on the part of the leadership of the WA state legislature. They will explain how this move on the part of these “authorities” is contrary to law and to past practice of long-standing and how it is an offense to liberty. But I would like to explain why I’M here. Why I continue to stand by the uncompromising firearm-owning citizens of Washington state. Why indeed I have done the same thing in other states from Connecticut to Colorado.

How DO we maintain our liberties when all the levers of power are in the hands of the domestic enemies of the Constitution? Well. I’ll tell you. WE SIMPLY REFUSE TO BE COMPLICIT IN OUR OWN VICTIMIZATION.

The citizens of Connecticut answered that question with armed civil disobedience. They simply refused to obey the law demanding that they register their semi-automatic rifles and even, if you can believe the absurdity of it, that they register the standard capacity magazines that those rifles use — and there were and are literally MILLIONS of them. They accepted the fact that their own state had just declared them Class D felons — They accepted it and then they quietly and politely — with their silent non-compliance — told the Connecticut politicians to TAKE THEIR LAW AND GO STRAIGHT TO HELL!

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The Alternatives

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Carl Lexow is a retired journalist and author from Norway who lived in France during the 1960s. Inspired by Fjordman’s most recent post, Mr. Lexow wrote this guest essay about the current Islamization of Europe and the history of the French colonization of Algeria. Although not a participant in the attempted coup of 1961, he was present in France at the time it happened.

The Alternatives
by Carl Lexow

In a recent article Fjordman criticized Western leaders who say that violent bearded men who yell “Allahu akbar” while bombing and shooting Jews and random others, are without exception “terrorists”, never Islamists, and that their evil deeds “have nothing to do with Islam”. Even if the culprits without exception are Muslims. Fjordman concludes:

I become more and more hardened in my long-standing conviction that Problem Number 1 is the lying, cheating Globalist Western ruling elites and their open borders ideology. Problem Number 2 is Muslim Jihadists and other hostile aliens. I remain convinced that the West has the intellectual, economic and military capability to deal with the Islamic threat, if we do so in a sensible manner. We are currently prevented from doing so due to our ruling elites.

We cannot deal properly with the Islamic threat until the useless elites and their damaging Multicultural, Globalist ideology have been removed from power throughout the Western world.

Fjordman is right. Our elites are betraying us. They do it slowly, one small step at a time, but eventually, the world as we now know it will be lost to us.

In the general picture, what makes it difficult for each and every one of us to understand is that we are facing two different threats simultaneously:

1.   The global, multicultural idea, organized and run by international capital and supported by international socialists, and
2.   The Muslim desire to create a caliphate based on shari’a law.
 

These two very powerful movements take place simultaneously and so far help and nourish each other. But in the end, they are not compatible and have to clash somehow.

Most of us will probably agree with Fjordman that in order to solve a problem, we have to acknowledge its existence. But that’s not so obvious. Our globalist ruling elites, in the EU, US and everywhere else, are uniformly of the opinion that immigration of Muslims to Europe isn’t a bad idea at all. On the contrary, it’s a blessing, and we can’t do without it. So, from the globalist perspective, where’s the problem?

But our elites take a great risk voicing such an opinion. If they’re wrong, our Western societies are facing radical changes, on a magnitude that happens no more than once or twice in a millennium. It’s like the fall of the Roman Empire, or similar events. The impact of the coming changes will be felt very heavily. Many of us will certainly survive whatever happens; life will go on somehow, but it will be a different life. And like all major shake-ups, changes will happen very quickly.

Muslims quite openly say that they are at war with us. It’s no secret. What we must bear in mind is that every Muslim is under an obligation to participate in such a war as Jihadists, which translates as “holy strife”. Jihad may be committed on several levels and in many ways. Apart from being “terrorists”, joining IS, or killing one’s fellow soldiers as in the Fort Hood massacre, each individual must contribute according to his means. Muslim women in Europe, for example, can contribute by giving birth to children. Which they do.

“We shall conquer Europe through our women’s wombs”, Moammar Gadaffi once said, “and we shall succeed in doing it without firing a single shot.” Well, a few shots have been fired here and there, but so far the war has been a low tension conflict. This phase is nevertheless important. Muslims in Western countries are strategically positioning themselves by joining existing political parties, by demanding favors according to what is laid down in the Koran, organizing themselves and building mosques and alliances with the liberal Left, i.e. media, politicians, the Christian Church (believe it or not), professionals, and so on.

But don’t be fooled, these preliminary steps are not taken in order to integrate peacefully, submitting to our culture. Islam, by nature, can never consent to that. At best, before Islam has accumulated sufficient strength to deliver battle, they can content themselves to be living in parallel societies, making good use of what the welfare states have to offer. Strategically, they will make use of our weak spot, our democratic institutions, which in most Western countries no longer function as they should, since legal opposition is either too weak to influence on decisions in Parliament (as in Sweden), or doesn’t exist at all, as in Fjordman’s country of origin, Norway.

Because of their small ethnic populations, such states are likely to be taken over easily in a not-too-distant future. But I am a “Fjordfellow” — Norway happens to be my country also, and I care about it, as does Fjordman. Being also a distant relative of the state senator Clarence Lexow, of the “Lexow Committee” in New York in the 1890s, who opposed social injustice and elitist political abuse of power, I’m like Fjordman, fighting the ideological bastards wherever I see them. Actually, we are many who are doing this, but we have to act now, before it’s too late and events have gone too far.

Apart from this, an important factor is what happens in the Middle East. For the time being the various factions of Islam are fighting each other, but should Israel fall (God forbid), their attention will immediately turn towards Europe. Certainly, they might do this anyway, since Israel is a hard nut to crack, even if the Israelis are opposed by both the EU and President Obama. But if they turn around, things might happen quickly, one way or another.

Let’s hope for the best, because if you participate in a war, only one thing matters. To win. Without doubt, Europe has the military and material means to do so, as Fjordman says. It will thus come as an unpleasant surprise to the Muslims, but they will then have to face the choice of either submitting to our culture, or leaving our lands.

Alternative 1 is that we use our might to settle the matter once and for all, and at the same time rearranging a little bit of some of the articles of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international conventions in order to make them up-to-date, as they indeed were supposed to be when they were adopted for quite different purposes than for allowing “women’s wombs” to conquer other people’s countries.

Let’s look at a two of the comments left on Fjordman’s article:

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