UK: progressive ideology spawns ... radical colonisation

Melanie Phillips, The capture of Tower Hamlets
Now we can see what these cultural kamikazes are helping bring about. In the east London borough of Tower Hamlets, a man with reported links to radical Islamism, Lutfur Rahman, has been elected Mayor of the borough, giving him control of a billion-pound budget and thus the apparent installation of a platform for the progressive intimidation and silencing of British Muslims who do not want to live under sharia law, let alone the non-Muslim majority in the area.

... Andrew Gilligan ... writes on his blog:
For the last eight months – without complaint or challenge from Mr Rahman – this blog and newspaper have laid out his close links with a group of powerful local businessmen and with a Muslim supremacist body, the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) - which believes, in its own words, in transforming the “very infrastructure of society, its institutions, its culture, its political order and its creed… from ignorance to Islam.” Mr Rahman has refused to deny these claims.

We have told how the borough’s change from a conventional council leader to a mayoral system came about as a result of a campaign led and financed by these two groups – and how the IFE, in its words, wanted to “get one of our brothers” into the position.

We have described in detail, again without complaint or challenge by Mr Rahman, his deeply problematic two years as council leader until he was removed from that post six months ago, partly as a result of our investigations. After he secured the leadership with the help of the IFE, millions of pounds were channelled to front organisations of the IFE, a man with close links to the IFE was appointed as assistant chief executive of the council despite being unqualified for the position and the secular, white chief executive was forced out. Various efforts were made to “Islamicise” the borough. Extremist literature was stocked in Tower Hamlets’ public libraries.
The outcome is that Britain’s establishment is actively assisting the progressive Balkanisation of Britain, in accordance with the global strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood and their allies to take over the west. Astoundingly, the security and political establishment even now still chooses to embrace the Brotherhood, treating them as authoritative Muslim spokesmen and even employing them as counter-extremism advisers, on the ludicrous basis that they are merely religious ideologues who can be used to divide British Muslims and divert them from al Qaeda...

But of course, it is Islamophobic exaggeration and scare-mongering to say so.
DailyMail, Mohammed is now the most popular name for baby boys
Mohammed has become the most popular name for newborn boys in Britain.

It shot up from third the previous year, overtaking Jack, which had topped the list for the past 14 years but was relegated to third spot...

A total of 7,549 newborns were given 12 variations of the Islamic prophet Mohammed’s name last year, such as Muhammad and Mohammad.

The second most popular boy’s name, Oliver, was given to 7,364 babies.

Harry and Alfie came in fourth and fifth place respectively.
Lawrence Auster, More Muhammads than Harrys
What's the big deal? Why should anyone get excited or alarmed about this? The simple fact is that Muslims overwhelmingly name their sons Muhammad. Therefore if you let Muslims mass-immigrate into your country, you will end up with a sub-population that overwhelmingly names their sons Muhammad, and that name will inevitably become the most popular male name in your country. Period. A leads to B leads to C. If you have a problem with having lots of people in your country named Muhammad, then you shouldn't invite Muslims into your country. And if you have already made the suicidal mistake of doing so, you must, If you don't want to complete the suicide, recognize your error and retract and reverse the invitation.

There is really nothing more to say about the subject. All else is escapist b.s. or dhimmi surrender.
It's great here, says the mother of eight living in a £2.6m townhouse paid for by you
A mother of eight has told of her ‘great’ life in a £2.6million home funded by taxpayers.

Francesca Walker receives more than £90,000 a year in benefits to pay the rent on the five-bed villa, plus other payouts...

Miss Walker, 33, has Tory leader David Cameron, actor Hugh Grant and Four Weddings writer Richard Curtis as neighbours in fashionable Notting Hill, West London.

Her four-storey home boasts five bedrooms, three bathrooms, a double living room, study and roof terrace...

None of the available council houses was big enough, so the local authority pays for her to rent from a private landlord.
Andrew Bolt, Visit London and breed. They’ll pay and house you well
... the British Government’s attempts to cut back on a welfare rort that puts welfare recipients with huge families in London houses that most taxpayers could never afford themselves...

The examples are astonishing and explain much about third-world immigration to Britain, welfarism and a growing resentment of those who feel they are being taken advantage of.
The Age, Public-housing stretch lets refugee families spread their wings
A SHY smile is Saido Gali's answer, at first. The question is an obvious one: does she want more children? She has eight and another boy on the way...

Australia's humanitarian resettlement of African refugees - 41,310 live in Melbourne - has thrown up a basic challenge for the state government: how to house the large families ...

... Melbourne's public housing high-rises are made ''a bit like Lego''. If carefully done, walls could be breached and flats joined. This meant a three-bedroom flat could become a six-bedroom home with two bathrooms and two toilets. Across the public high-rises - as the government's eight-year, $640 million renovation has rolled through - dozens of flats have been opened up in this way.

Mrs Gali, who is now raising her children alone... Of her new place, adorned with a 20-seater modular couch that hugs three walls, she says: "It is a nice place. A good place for them to grow up."
Andrew Bolt, Why doesn’t the ABC next run a recruiting drive for al Qaeda?
Now ABC Online uses taxpayers’ money to publish the rantings of a spokesman for an Islamist group which is so radical that it is banned or restricted in several countries and brands our soldiers as ”terrorists”.

Has the ABC lost its mind? It even fails to identify just what Hizb ut Tahrir is and stands for, describing it only in the most flattering terms: as the world’s “largest global Islamic political party”.

File under: dumb and dumber

Europe: progressive ideology on course for ... civil war

Go back to where you are happy – German author on immigration issue
Udo Ulfkotte, a noted German journalist and author, known for his severe criticism of Islam, shared with RT his view on what is behind the integration dispute and where it may lead.

“What I believe is there is a place for Muslim in this world and for their culture, they have a place to live in,” Ulfkotte told RT. “And there is a place for European and Western culture to live in. What I don’t believe is they will live peacefully together. We have a clash not only of civilizations and religions, we have a clash of ideologies, like we had a clash between communism and capitalism. Now we have a clash because Islam is also an ideology. I believe that Islam is not going to win a battle.”

The journalist claimed that he does not believe that Muslims will overrun Europe. “Because I believe that what we have done in the past several times – the people will stand up and say ‘We are fed up, we don’t want that any more,’ and try to push them back. And that will be violent. I belong to Europe and to European culture and the Muslims belong to the places where they came from. Because whenever I ask the majority of Turks I speak to, and I ask them, ‘Are you German or are you Turkish?’ Even if they are second or third generation, they will say, ‘I’m Turkish.’”

“The Palestinians: if they live in Saudi Arabia as workers, they say, ‘I’m a Palestinian and my home is Palestine.’ I don’t blame them for that," said Ulfkotte. “I just say, ‘Okay. So if as they say they have their roots there, they are happy there, all the best. Take your suitcases and go back to where you are happy. I will be happy, you will be happy.” ...


Quote from end of the video ...
RT: what future do you predict for this continent?

Udo Ulfkotte: The financial and economical crisis, it looks like it will come back. And whenever you had in history... hard economical problems, ethnical unrest, and ... large groups not respect the state laws and the power of the state... when this respect is gone you had war or civil war.
Daniel Pipes, Europe's Stark Options
The possibility of Muslims accepting the confines of historic Europe and smoothly integrating within it can virtually be dismissed from consideration...

As the American columnist Dennis Prager sums them up, "It is difficult to imagine any other future scenario for Western Europe than its becoming Islamicized or having a civil war." Indeed, these two deeply unattractive alternative paths appear to define Europe's choices, with powerful forces pulling in the contrary directions of Muslims taking over or Muslims rejected, Europe an extension of North Africa or in a state of quasi-civil war.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaks on the loss of freedom in Europe
It is this state of affairs that makes Christopher Caldwell’s book Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration and the West ... which opens with the sentence, “Western Europe became a multi-ethnic society in a fit of absence of mind,” a chilling read...

Caldwell discusses this theme in an interesting light: he does not overlook the Europeans who feel that Islam is a danger to European values but asks, “How can you fight for something you cannot define?” And this is Europe’s problem – insecurity about who we are, what our various flags mean, why, with every turn, we spend less and less on the military.

Europe has become a place for new religions, new creeds, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, transnationalism. Everything is thus relative. This is an uncertainty that the Muslim does not share. The Muslim ethic and tribal spirit are far more resilient and fierce in war than the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism...

In reality, if Europe falls, it’s not because of Islam. It is because the Europeans of today – unlike their forbears in the Second World War – will not die to defend the values or the future of Europe. Even if they were asked to make the final sacrifice, many a post-modern lily-livered European would escape into an obscure mesh of conscientious objection. All that Islam has to do is walk into the vacuum.
Fjordman: Review of Christopher Caldwell's Reflections on the Revolution in Europe
Whatever is going to happen in Western Europe over the coming decades is not going to be peaceful. In 2010 there are already conditions resembling civil war in many French and certain Dutch, British, German, Italian and even Scandinavian suburbs; Kalashnikov rifles are popular in immigrant neighborhoods in the EU capital of Brussels..
How Much Allah Can the Old Continent Bear?
American author and journalist Christopher Caldwell recently published his latest tome, "Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West," ... he says ...

"It is certain that Europe will emerge changed from its confrontation with Islam. It is far less certain that Islam will prove assimilable...

When an insecure, malleable, relativistic culture meets a culture that is anchored, confident and strengthened by common doctrines, it is generally the former that changes to suit the latter"
Cultures in Conflict (On Muslim immigrants in Europe)
Caldwell writes...

"Muslim cultures ... have historically been either Europe’s enemies, its overlords, or its underlings. Europe is wagering that attitudes handed down over the centuries, on both sides, have disappeared, or can be made to disappear. That is probably not a wise wager...

Immigration is not enhancing or validating European culture; it is supplanting it."
Mark Steyn on why the fascists are winning in Europe
... in the room where they cook up European conventional wisdom, they could easily pin a sign on the door saying: “This Political Machine Creates Fascists.” ... politics evolved to the point where almost any issue worth talking about was ruled beyond the bounds of polite society... if the political culture forbids respectable politicians from raising certain issues, then the electorate will turn to unrespectable ones... You want to talk about immigration? Whoa, racist! Crime? Racist! Welfare? Racist! Islam? Racistracistdoubleracist! Nya-nya, can’t hear you with my two anti-racist thumbs in my ears! ... The problem in Europe is not a lunatic fringe but a lunatic mainstream ever more estranged from its voters.
Melanie Phillips, The clash of uncivilisations
To those at the bottom, who live outside the bubbles of wealth or ideology, the face of intolerance is all too easy to recognise. They can see the churches of Britain being steadily replaced by mosques, can no longer find a local butcher selling pork, or are being regularly intimidated by local youths declaring ‘this is a Muslim area’. They are in no doubt that they are watching the takeover of their country and civilisation...

Freedom can only be protected if its defenders are united. But with Britain’s collective brain turned to multicultural jelly, liberals are refusing to acknowledge the civilisational battle now under way and gathering pace.

The obsession with the ‘far right’ has cemented progressive opinion into its current lethal state of cultural somnambulism. Liberals must raise their eyes, raise their game and ask where this is leading. For there is far worse on the horizon than a nasty man on Question Time.
Greg Sheridan, East Timor plan lacks action and credibility
Gillard is emerging as a strangely weak and ineffective Prime Minister in foreign policy...

With nearly 6000 illegal immigrants arriving by boat so far this year, and with the government having no strategy to stop the boats, Australia stands in a precarious position. We seem just about to embark on the disastrous European policy, which is now tearing Europe apart, of accepting a large, illegal Muslim immigration.
Not totally strange, she and Rudd are not that far apart. And Big Kev did promise to bring the spirit of Europe down here:
The European Union of course does not represent an identikit model of what we would seek to develop in the Asia Pacific.

But what we can learn from Europe is this – it is necessary to take the first step.

In the 1950s, sceptics saw European integration as unrealistic.

But most people would now agree that the goal of the visionaries in Europe who sat down in the 1950s and resolved to build prosperity and a common sense of a security community has been achieved.

It is that spirit we need to capture in our hemisphere.

Our special challenge is that we face a region with greater diversity in political systems and economic structures, levels of development, religious beliefs, languages and cultures, than did our counterparts in Europe.

But that should not stop us from thinking big.
That's the spirit of open borders.

Gillard shares the same affliction as Rudd: she has no identity. She cannot defend Australia on subjective grounds i.e. because we desire to remain homogeneous. And her brain has been pickled by the ideology of non-discrimination, so she is blind to the consequences of diversity. She is the emotionally-paralysed and brain-dead leader of the lobotomised party.






File under: ominous non-debate.

Tourist in Sydney finds ... nothing like Australia

On Sunday I was dragged along to the rugby league at Parramatta to watch Australia v. PNG. I found myself chatting with a lonesome Brazilian lass who, unlike most of her compatriots, prefers rugby/league to soccer. She had travelled out from the city to watch the Kangaroos play.

Unsolicited by me, the conversation turned to how shocked she was to find so few Aussies in Sydney. She's been here two months working and studying and said she knows very few Aussies, about 10.

I told her many Aussies have moved out, and suggested she look outside the city at the Central Coast. She had that dumbfounded look on her face, as if she couldn't comprehend how we could let our country go.

I suspect she was hoping to find a stadium full of Aussies on Sunday. Alas, no such luck. Rather than a celebration of Aussie pride, the whole day was more a Pacific Islander festival. There was a Samoa v. Tonga match before the main game, along with the usual dancing, hakas, and drumming throughout the game. Half the crowd were Pacific Islanders draped in foreign flags doing endless Homer Simpson impersonations.

After the first game, most of the Islanders went home. So we were left sitting in the rain with a small crowd to watch the Aussies thrash PNG. I suspect she went home somewhat disappointed, still having found nothing like Australia.

Maybe next time the league will consider the novel idea of targeting Aussie fans to a test match, instead of using it as a tool of ideology ...

Crowd concern for Kangaroos opener
"The whole purpose of playing at Parramatta - with three teams from the Pacific Islands and the Kangaroos - was to show the support of the cultural diversity to western Sydney and the idea of turning this Sunday afternoon into a celebration of the game out there.

"We're hopeful fans will respond to the fact the Kangaroos are playing their only game in Sydney."
If you want fans to respond, they all seem to be drifting into racial consciousness:

Hopoate calls for Pacific Island Origin
Former NRL star John Hopoate has called for Samoa and Tonga to play-off in an annual three-match country of origin series, which could serve as polynesian rugby league's answer to State of Origin...

"I reckon we have three Tests a year every year, they need to build these countries up," said Hopoate...

"If you're not going to have a State of Origin type series - they have the NRL All Stars and the Aboriginal All Stars - they should have the Islanders' All Stars, because the NRL is full of islander players.

"I had the chance to play for Tonga or Australia and I took Australia only because Australia pay and they look after their players.
Here's a crazy idea. If we have the Aboriginal All Stars, and now calls for Islander games, gee why not have an all-white lead-up game to a test match. Maybe then the stadium will be full of Aussies, and a Brazilian tourist might find the Australia she was looking for.

Foxtel launches Bonobo MTV

Actually they don't need to ...

Steve Kryger, Who needs porn when you’ve got MTV

This is the content of the MTV video clips that are playing on the television screens when I visit my local gym each week. It’s nothing short of soft-core pornography, and I’m over it.

I started watching video clips when I was in high school (15 years ago), and I’ve noticed a dramatic transformation in the content of clips over that time. Take our own Kylie for example. The clip for “Locomotion” is almost quaint when we watch it now ...

As time progressed, Kylie got sexier ... But her latest clip - “All the lovers” takes things to a whole new level ... they’re all in one big human mountain, rubbing up against her, rubbing up against each other...

We’re not in Locomotion-land anymore... most of the video clips produced today have skipped innocent, and jumped straight to explicit.

Nikki Webster couldn’t hold out long before taking her clothes off. Miley Cyrus has recently taken the plunge...

Sex has been so shamelessly and thoroughly grafted into video clips, that it’s hard to find a clip without highly sexualized imagery.

Considering the phenomenal transformation over the last decade, is it that far-fetched to suggest that if we wait another 10 years, hardcore pornography will have infiltrated the mainstream video clip culture?

“It’s just video clips”, I hear you say. But for me, this is just the straw that’s broken the weary camel’s back.

I’m sick of turning to the left and to the right and at every turn to be confronted with the same depiction of women ...

No, it's not far-fetched to suggest that hardcore porn will go mainstream in the future. And sex in public would also follow the normalising of such imagery.

What's needed is for sexualised images to be put back into the private sphere. If people want it, they can opt in. Bonobo MTV should be an opt-in Foxtel channel, not a standard.

If a gym really wants to show Bonobo MTV they should be required to inform their customers they are entering a porno gym.

Sexualised billboards ought to be banned. And sexualised advertisements in print ought to have a warning label on the cover.

And the sexualised fashions have gone too far: the leggings fad, shrinking speedos and bikinis. Ditto for cheerleader routines which have morphed into a booty dance.

It's all good fun in private, but I'm sick of copping an eyeful everywhere I go. Arousal overload is annoying, distracting and tiring. It's sensory assault. We should have a right to a relaxed and comfortable subconscious. There's just so much schwing a guy can take.

Ideology will ... wreck this beautiful little town

ABC Radio, SA furious over asylum seeker plan (mp3 audio)
TONY EASTLEY: The Prime Minister Julia Gillard faces a fight over her plans to establish a new detention facility in the small town of Woodside in the Adelaide Hills.

At a highly charged meeting last night opponents ridiculed and jeered government officials who tried to speak.

The plan is to move about 400 asylum seekers into empty defence houses at nearby Inverbrackie from December.

Reporter Jason Om went along to the meeting for AM.

JASON OM: Outside the Woodside town hall people yelled slogans from passing cars. At a nearby pub beer drinkers were shouting: F-off refugees.

VOX POP 1: This is something that will wreck this beautiful little town...

VOX POP 6: We are not taking this sitting down. We are not taking this at all!

(Sound of a crowd cheering)

VOX POP 9: As much as you say that we have got to accept it, no we don't. We can tell Gillard we don't approve.

VOX POP 10: When did this become a dictatorship? When? Because we are being told. We are not being asked, we are being told.









Detention facility at Inverbrackie
"As more beds won’t stop more boats, the Prime Minister should also explain whether she would expand an Inverbrackie detention centre in the future."
Just a bunch of redneck racists? No, it's a healthy community. Lawrence Auster:
I'm reminded of a Patrick Buchanan column from the late 1980s in which he said about protesters who were rudely jeering and holding mocking signs against a homosexual "pride" parade, "That's the way a healthy society behaves that wants to preserve its existence." I found that inspiring.
One criticism I have of the protesters is the endless list of non-racial reasons for opposing the detention centre. But those reasons don't fully explain the ferocity of their outrage. They should stop being politically correct, and just stand up and defend their desire for homogeneity. Homogeneity is a basic human desire, it's hardwired into us, and we should not shy away from admitting it. Admit it like Jim Russell ...

GOP Abandons Congressional Nominee Over Anti-Integration Essay
A Republican candidate for Congress in New York is facing a fierce backlash from his party after an essay surfaced in which he criticized interracial marriage and socialization.

Party officials have rescinded their endorsement of Jim Russell, who is challenging Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey in New York's District 18, and they are now trying to strip his name from the ballot.

The controversy exploded earlier this week after Politico.com unearthed an essay Russell wrote from the 2001-02 edition of the Occidental Quarterly...

"While liberals and universalists constantly yammer about 'bringing us all together,' and how 'diversity is our strength,' it may be suggested that the biological function of human language and culture is just the opposite, that is, to keep discrete groups apart," he wrote...

"In the midst of this onslaught against our youth, parents need to be reminded that they have a natural obligation, as essential as providing food and shelter, to instill in their children an acceptance of appropriate ethnic boundaries for socialization and for marriage," he wrote.
Jared Taylor, Subjective Reasons are Sufficient
Racial solidarity is natural for all people. Only constant anti-"racist" propaganda keeps it in check...

There are many routes by which whites awaken to an understanding of race, but they usually start with some kind of direct experience: being thrown in with blacks at school or in the army, watching the neighborhood turn Mexican, traveling to Africa or South America and sensing how profoundly alien the inhabitants are. Only the most cerebral whites will be persuaded by... analysis rather than by the evidence of their senses...

... whites seem to require objective rather than subjective reasons to favor their own race, and a great many whites do act this way. They seem to believe that the desire to see their race survive and flourish is not only an insufficient motive for action but a vicious one...

We do not need objective reasons to favor our own children over the children of strangers...

Midway through the 20th century, whites — and only whites — lost their instinct for survival as a people. If they do not regain that instinct they will see their lands divided up among groups whose instincts are as strong as ever. Territory is held only by people who are willing to hold it, and loss of will is an invitation to invasion.
Meanwhile, nothing short of open borders will satisfy refugee advocates...

Refugee group rallies in Sydney
The Refugee Action Coalition rallied today to oppose mandatory detention, offshore processing and forcible deportation of asylum seekers.

"We want to send a very, very strong message to the Gillard government that policies even with the announcement of children being released into community accommodation - it's nowhere near good enough,'' coalition spokesman Ian Rintoul said.
File under: the wrecking ball of the emotion-neutered and brain-dead ideology of non-discrimination: destroying beautifully homogeneous towns everywhere it goes. The wrecking will only stop when we unapologetically reassert our hardwired desire for homogeneity. Reject inhuman ideology, reassert hardwired homogeneity. Subjective reasons are sufficient.

Ideology spawns ... fatal failure to communicate

Anglers urged to share safety tips after fisherman goes missing
Fewer rock fishermen would die if more experienced anglers share their safety tips with others who are less aware about the sport's dangers, an experienced Sydney fisherman says...

... the missing man, a Japanese national ... fished at the spot quite regularly and was a good technical angler but was "not really that experienced" with the conditions.

"Share your knowledge about how to fish safely" ...

"All it takes is a comment from me. To say, 'Look mate, wear your cleats, get some appropriate footwear, don't wear jeans and that sort of clothing, and try and fish at a safer spot.'

"The people that are turning a blind eye to it - they are the ones where the responsibility lies." ...

In June, five members of the Poon and Tin families died after a rock-fishing accident at Catherine Hill Bay.

Another man, Wang Qintao, 29, was swept off the rocks at North Bondi in May while fishing.

In April, a 43-year-old Yagoona rock fisherman died despite being winched out of rough surf by a rescue helicopter at Port Kembla, south of Wollongong.
Another tragic outcome for ideology. Blind Freddy knows that empathy does not so readily cross ethnic boundaries. Yet, ideology recklessly pushes against human nature. This failure of empathy and communication is at the heart of much of our diversity woes, including:

- interracial violence in Australia, USA, Germany, UK, Sweden, Italy, etc.
- Lebanese gang rapes: "You deserve it because you're an Australian" and "I'm going to f*** you Leb style"
- difficulty recruiting frontline diversity jobs such as nursing, police officers and bus drivers
- a fatal lack of road sense by foreigners
- increasing corruption e.g. pink batt rorting
- and you have to wonder what other cross-cultural exchange is not happening

File under: what are the chances of white people empathising with those whom they are being demographically displaced by? Buckley's and none. Sad, but that's the fact, Jack.

The emotional stocktake of ideology is ... neutered

McCarthy and Ho, The burqa should not be an issue
Ignore the extremists and try civil indifference, write Maeve McCarthy and Christina Ho.

Another day, another burqa controversy. It's one of those issues about which thinking people are supposed to have an opinion... But the project is Sisyphean.

As soon as the thing seems thought and talked out, a provocation, such as the NSW Christian Democrat MP Fred Nile's proposal for a ban, happens. A made-for-media rally ensues, and the writers all shoulder their opinionated boulders once more. The seeming impossibility of closure leads us to suspect the public is being played. We want to try to identify the emotions being triggered and answer this question: is civil indifference an option?

Emotion 1: Fear. It is created when the burqa is discussed as a security risk, as enabling wearers to commit crimes and escape detection because their identity is obscured... Can we try not to be frightened by the burqa?

Emotion 2: Anger. There is a ''how dare you'' tone in some of the responses to the arguments equating the burqa with modesty... Getting drawn into the moral competition is harmful in that it fuels a sense of community victimisation and radical separation from mainstream society. Can we try not to take the burqa personally?

Emotion 3: Compassion. Many people who are genuinely concerned about the quality of life of women in Australia find it hard not to instinctively support a burqa ban. But any new law would require an expensive allocation of scarce police and judicial resources to enforce it ...

Our emotions are valid. But instead of acting on them, can we identify them, "park" them, and try civil indifference as our default public attitude?

In many ways this is the most ethical response to a debate that has been framed by extremists on all sides, who have elevated the burqa issue to a level out of all proportion to its significance in the lives of most Australian Muslims. The burqa should be a non-issue. Civil indifference - to both Nile and fanatical burqa defenders - will allow all of us space to identify the real challenges and opportunities of religious and cultural pluralism.
Ho hum, I suppose I should have an opinion, but it's all so seemingly impossible, so why bother? If Fred Nile can't shoulder the boulder, our goose is cooked isn't it? At the risk of an outbreak of made-for-blogging outrage by all two of my blog readers, allow me to elevate the burka to a level in proportion to its significance ...

Unmentionable Emotion 1: Identity

As unfashionable as it is, humans are hard-wired to prefer the company of their own kind. How does nature manage this politically-incorrect feat? Er, we have a stored visual norm to denote what race/ethnicity/subculture we belong to and we feel unease in the presence of all things alien.

So, it's no surprise to find France has first 'burka rage' incident because the offending lawyer "likened the Muslim woman to Belphegor, a horror demon character" (yes, even lawyers have unmentionable visceral emotions).

Unmentionable Emotion 2: Demographic displacement

As Geert Wilders says "those headscarves are ... a symbol of an ideology that is out there to colonize". Unsurprisingly, we feel unease at being colonised by an alien and hostile group. We feel we belong to people and places. So it's hardly surprising to find locals commenting: I feel like an alien in my home town.

Unmentionable Belief 1: Islam is not a religion of peace.

Exhibit A
Exhibit B
Exhibit C
Exhibit D

Unmentionable Belief 2: diversity is not strength

Exhibit A

I rest my case, Your Honour.

File under: driving under the influence of emotions is not a crime, it's what makes us human, as distinct from emotion-neutered and brain-dead ideologues like McCarthy and Ho who's indifference to identity will lead Australia towards a distinctly uncivilised place.

Ideology: strong for decades and then ... utterly failed

Merkel: German multiculturalism 'utterly failed'
Germany's attempt to create a multicultural society has "utterly failed," Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday, adding fuel to a debate over immigration and Islam polarizing her conservative camp.

Speaking to a meeting of young members of her Christian Democrats (CDU), Merkel said allowing people of different cultural backgrounds to live side by side without integrating had not worked in a country that is home to some four million Muslims.

"This (multicultural) approach has failed, utterly failed," Merkel told the meeting in Potsdam, south of Berlin.

Merkel faces pressure from within her CDU to take a tougher line on immigrants who don't show a willingness to adapt to German society and her comments appeared intended to pacify her critics.

She said too little had been required of immigrants in the past and repeated her usual line that they should learn German in order to get by in school and have opportunities on the labor market.

... Horst Seehofer, chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the CDU's sister party, ... said last week there was no room in Germany for more people from "alien cultures."
Blah, blah, blah. Talking tough whilst the other day she sanctioned demographic suicide.

Letter from Dr Frank Ellis
Modern liberalism is truly depraved. Even now I am staggered by its boundless capacity for hypocrisy and lying ...

... however, all is not doom and gloom. More and more white people are standing up and saying enough is enough. I suspect many liberals realize that the game is up for the cult of multiculturalism. It is the awareness of this looming defeat that makes them all the more vicious, though the time when these people could automatically silence an opponent with screams of “racism” and “fascism” is gone.

As a Slavist, I take great encouragement from Solzhenitsyn who saw Communism could not endure forever: “And I sat there and I thought: if the first tiny droplet of truth has exploded like a psychological bomb, what then will happen in our country when whole waterfalls of Truth burst forth? And they will burst forth. It has to happen.”
Wilders shows the way forward ...

Geert Wilders in Berlin - Part 1/4


Speech Geert Wilders in Berlin
Despite my busy schedule at home, however, I insisted on coming to Berlin, because Germany, too, needs a political movement to defend German identity and to oppose the Islamization of Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel says that the Islamization of Germany is inevitable. She conveys the message that citizens have to be prepared for more changes as a result of immigration. She wants the Germans to adapt to this situation. The Christian-Democrat leader said: “More than before mosques will be an integral part of our cities.”

My friends, we should not accept the unacceptable as inevitable without trying to turn the tide. It is our duty as politicians to preserve our nations for our children...

Today I am here, however, to warn you for looming disunity. Germany’s national identity, its democracy and economic prosperity, is being threatened by the political ideology of Islam. In 1848, Karl Marx began his Communist Manifesto with the famous words: “A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.” Today, another specter is haunting Europe. It is the specter of Islam. This danger, too, is political. Islam is not merely a religion, as many people seem to think: Islam is mainly a political ideology...

The American political scientist Mark Alexander writes that “One of our greatest mistakes is to think of Islam as just another one of the world’s great religions. We shouldn’t. Islam is politics or it is nothing at all, but, of course, it is politics with a spiritual dimension, … which will stop at nothing until the West is no more, until the West has … been well and truly Islamized.”

These are not just statements by opponents of Islam. Islamic scholars say the same thing. There cannot be any doubt about the nature of Islam to those who have read the Koran, the Sira and the Hadith. Abul Ala Maududi, the influential 20th century Pakistani Islamic thinker, wrote – I quote, emphasizing that these are not my words but those of a leading Islamic scholar – “Islam is not merely a religious creed [but] a revolutionary ideology and jihad refers to that revolutionary struggle … to destroy all states and governments anywhere on the face of the earth, which are opposed to the ideology and program of Islam.” ...

A dispassionate study of the beginnings of Islamic history reveals clearly that Muhammad’s objective was first to conquer his own people, the Arabs, and to unify them under his rule, and then to conquer and rule the world. That was the original cause; it was obviously political and was backed by military force. “I was ordered to fight all men until they say ‘There is no god but Allah,’” Muhammad said in his final address. He did so in accordance with the Koranic command in sura 8:39: “Fight them until there is no more dissension and the religion is entirely Allah’s.” ...

After Muhammad’s death, based upon his words and deeds, Islam developed Sharia, an elaborate legal system which justified the repressive governance of the world by divine right – including rules for jihad and for the absolute control of believers and non-believers...

In 1954, in his essay Communism and Islam, Professor Bernard Lewis spoke of “the totalitarianism, of the Islamic political tradition.” Professor Lewis said that “The traditional Islamic division of the world into the House of Islam and the House of War, … has obvious parallels in the Communist view of world affairs. … The aggressive fanaticism of the believer is the same.” ...

There is one more striking parallel, but this is not a characteristic of the three political ideologies, but one of the West. It is the apparent inability of the West to see the danger. The prerequisite to understanding political danger, is a willingness to see the truth, even if it is unpleasant. Unfortunately, modern Western politicians seem to have lost this capacity. Our inability leads us to reject the logical and historical conclusions to be drawn from the facts, though we could, and should know better. What is wrong with modern Western man that we make the same mistake over and over again? ...

When the citizens of Eastern Europe rejected Communism in 1989, they were inspired by dissidents such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Václav Havel, Vladimir Bukovsky, and others, who told them that people have a right, but also an obligation, to “live within the truth.” Freedom requires eternal vigilance; so it is with truth. Solzhenitsyn added, however, that “truth is seldom sweet; it is almost invariably bitter.” Let us face the bitter truth: We have lost our capacity to see the danger and understand the truth because we no longer value freedom.

Politicians from almost all establishment politicians today are facilitating Islamization. They are cheering for every new Islamic school, Islamic bank, Islamic court. They regard Islam as being equal to our own culture. Islam or freedom? It does not really matter to them. But it does matter to us. The entire establisment elite – universities, churches, trade unions, the media, politicians – are putting our hard-earned liberties at risk. They talk about equality, but amazingly fail to see how in Islam women have fewer rights than men and infidels have fewer rights than adherents of Islam.

Are we about to repeat the fatal mistake of the Weimar Republic? Are we succumbing to Islam because our commitment to freedom is already dead? No, it will not happen. We are not like Frau Merkel. We do not accept Islamization as inevitable. We have to keep freedom alive. And, to the extent that we have already lost it, we must reclaim it in our democratic elections. That is why we need political parties that defend freedom. To support such parties I have established the International Freedom Alliance...

One of the things we are no longer allowed to say is that our culture is superior to certain other cultures. This is seen as a discriminatory statement – a statement of hatred even. We are indoctrinated on a daily basis, in the schools and through the media, with the message that all cultures are equal and that, if one culture is worse than all the rest, it is our own. We are inundated with feelings of guilt and shame about our own identity and what we stand for. We are exhorted to respect everyone and everything, except ourselves. That is the message of the Left and the politically-correct ruling establishment. They want us to feel so ashamed about our own identity that we refuse to fight for it.

The detrimental obsession of our cultural and political elites with Western guilt reinforces the view which Islam has of us. The Koran says that non-Muslims are kuffar (the plural of kafir), which literally means “rejecters” or “ingrates.” Hence, infidels are “guilty.” Islam teaches that in our natural state we have all been born as believers. Islam teaches that if we are not believers today this is by our own or by our forefathers’ fault. Subsequently, we are always kafir – guilty – because either we or our fathers are apostates. And, hence, according to some, we deserve subjugation.

Our contemporary leftist intellectuals are blind to the dangers of Islam.
Former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky argues that after the fall of communism, the West failed to expose those who had collaborated with the Communists by advocating policies of détente, improved relations, relaxation of international tension, peaceful coexistence. He points out that the Cold War was “a war we never won. We never even fought it. … Most of the time the West engaged in a policy of appeasement toward the Soviet bloc – and appeasers don’t win wars.”

Islam is the Communism of today. But, because of our failure to come clean with Communism, we are unable to deal with it, trapped as we are in the old Communist habit of deceit and double-speak that used to haunt the countries in the East and that now haunts all of us. Because of this failure, the same leftist people who turned a blind eye to Communism then, turn a blind eye to Islam today. They are using exactly the same arguments in favor of détente, improved relations, and appeasement as before. They argue that our enemy is as peace-loving as we are, that if we meet him half-way he will do the same, that he only asks respect and that if we respect him he will respect us. We even hear a repetition of the old moral equivalence mantra. They used to say that Western “imperialism” was as bad as Soviet imperialism; they are now saying that Western “imperialism” is as bad as Islamic terrorism.

In my speech near Ground Zero in New York on September 11, I emphasized that we must stop the “Blame the West, Blame America”-game which Islamic spokesmen are playing with us. And we must stop playing this game ourselves. I have the same message for you. It is an insult to tell us that we are guilty and deserve what is happening to us. We do not deserve becoming strangers in our own land. We should not accept such insults...

I am very happy to be here in Berlin today to give this message which is extremely important, especially in Germany. Whatever happened in your country in the past, the present generation is not responsible for it. Whatever happened in the past, it is no excuse for punishing the Germans today. But it is also no excuse for you to refuse to fight for your own identity. Your only responsibility is to avoid the mistakes of the past. It is your duty to stand with those threatened by the ideology of Islam, such as the State of Israel and your Jewish compatriots. The Weimar Republic refused to fight for freedom and was overrun by a totalitarian ideology, with catastrophic consequences for Germany, the rest of Europe and the world. Do not fail to fight for your freedom today.

I am happy to be in your midst today because it seems that twenty years after German reunification, a new generation no longer feels guilty for being German. The current and very intense debate about Thilo Sarrazin’s recent book is an indication of the fact that Germany is coming to terms with itself.

I have not yet read Dr. Sarrazin’s book myself, but I understand that while the ruling politically-correct establishment is almost unanimously critical of his thesis and he lost his job, a large majority of Germans acknowledges that Dr. Sarrazin is addressing important and pressing issues. “Germany is abolishing itself,” warns Sarrazin, and he calls on the Germans to halt this process. The enormous impact of his book indicates that many Germans feel the same way. The people of Germany do not want Germany to be abolished, despite all the political indoctrination they have been subjected to. Germany is no longer ashamed to assert its national pride.

In these difficult times, where our national identity is under threat, we must stop feeling guilty about who we are. We are not “kafir,” we are not guilty. Like other peoples, Germans have the right to remain who they are. Germans must not become French, nor Dutch, nor Americans, nor Turks. They should remain Germans. When the Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan visited your country in 2008, he told the Turks living here that they had to remain Turks. He literally said that “assimilation is a crime against humanity.” Erdogan would have been right if he had been addressing the Turks in Turkey. However, Germany is the land of the Germans. Hence, the Germans have a right to demand that those who come to live in Germany assimilate; they have the right – no they have a duty to their children – to demand that newcomers respect the German identity of the German nation and Germany’s right to preserve its identity.

... German culture, like that of neighboring countries, such as my own, is rooted in judeo-christian and humanist values. Every responsible politician has a political obligation to preserve these values against ideologies which threaten them. A Germany full of mosques and veiled women is no longer the Germany of Goethe, Schiller and Heine, Bach and Mendelssohn. It will be a loss to us all. It is important that you cherish and preserve your roots as a nation. Otherwise you will not be able to safeguard your identity; you will be abolished as a people, and you will lose your freedom. And the rest of Europe will lose its freedom with you.

... there is no need to despair. Never! Just do your duty. Be not afraid. Speak the truth. Defend Freedom. Together we can preserve freedom, together we must preserve freedom, and together, my friends, we will be able to preserve freedom.
File under: We are not like Frau Merkel. We do not accept Islamization as inevitable.

Build the mosque ... to end Muslim immigration

Matthew Richer, Build The Dang Mosque!—To End Muslim Immigration
As an immigration patriot, I obviously sympathize with those who oppose the construction of the Cordoba House Mosque near the World Trade Center. Only the most recalcitrant globalist cannot see what an extraordinary insult this is to the victims of September 11th and their families.

Unlike many of those who support the mosque’s construction, I was actually in Manhattan on September 11th. And while I was not close enough to the Twin Towers to be in any danger, I was close enough to see them fall with my own eyes.

It’s hard to describe the collective sense of dread we all felt that day. You just had to be there.

Nevertheless, I am actually relieved that a mosque is being built near the World Trade Center. Let me tell you why:

Lost in the debate over the Cordoba House Mosque is the fact that New York City now has a larger Muslim population than London, Paris or any city in Western Europe. There are over 800,000 Muslims living in New York and over 100 mosques—some estimates are much higher.

There are also an incalculable number of Muslim prayer rooms or “musallas” in the city, located in the backrooms and basements of restaurants, warehouses, and offices buildings. There was even a musalla on the 17th floor of Tower One...

Our response to 9-11 suddenly became about defeating our enemies “over there” in the Middle East.

But our enemies are not over there. They are here—and in greater numbers than ever before because we still allow them to come.

In the meantime, sharia law continues to inch its icecap over New York City. Muslim activists have been lobbying Wall Street to practice sharia-compliant finance. They have been pushing the public schools to recognize their holy days. Whenever a mosque or musalla opens in the city, they try to muscle any liquor stores or bars out of the neighborhood. You get the picture.

The real insult to the victims of 9-11 is not that a mosque is being built near the spot where they died—it is that Muslim immigration continues to flow into the city and country most of them called home.

Moreover, even if opponents of the Cordoba House Mosque successfully prevented it from being built by Ground Zero, it will probably still be built a short distance away. What kind of victory is that?

If we really gave a damn about the victims of 9-11, we would immediately prohibit all Muslim immigration. But that isn’t going to happen unless people begin to demand it.

Given that most of our post-American leaders in New York and beyond support the Cordoba House Mosque, there appears to be nothing that can be done to stop it.

My hope, then, is that the mosque’s construction will help to reignite the instinct of self-preservation that is so essential if the country is to avoid having a Muslim problem on a scale like that of Western Europe.

While the instinct of self-preservation remains sadly dormant among our elites, it still burns within the rest of us. We have seen it in the number of people who already oppose the Cordoba House Mosque. We have all seen it in the thousands of outraged citizens who crashed the Senate switchboard to oppose another amnesty...

The construction of the Cordoba House Mosque will hopefully awaken Americans to the reality that our enemies are not “over there”.

They are already here, and living among us; they are swelling in strength and size, and right now, they appear to be winning.
Well that's a sad admission that our leadership is so lacking that we have to rely on highly visible Islamisation to motivate our own defence. But he has a point.

What should our response to Muslim immigration be? Obviously the high Muslim birthrate amounts to a colonisation force which has to be stopped. As unpalatable as that is, there is no getting around it. So, that first means ending Muslim immigration. And then, secondly, there are various options for halting the spread of the local Muslim population such as: offering incentives for Muslims to voluntarily leave; suppressing their freedoms may encourage some to leave e.g. by banning burkas, mosques, headscarfs, minarets; or separating ourselves from the local Muslims by some form of internal separation or secession.

So, the solution has to be demographic. And until we have political representation that acknowledges the need for a demographic solution, I agree with Matthew Richer: we should build the mosque. Likewise, we should not ban the burka. We should not help Islam to blend in. We should let it remain highly visible. Only once there is a collective will to act against the demographics should we consider banning mosques. Prematurely banning mosques and burkas only leads to a false sense of security, while the demographics continue to spread. And, as we see in Turkey, Kemalist suppression of Islam is eventually defeated by demographics. Demography is destiny.

File under: a demographic problem needs a demographic solution.

Trade with China ... now a matter of national security

Pat Buchanan, What The U.S. Must Learn From Japan's Kowtow To China
The Chinese have just made a serious strategic blunder.

They dropped the mask and showed their scowling face to Asia, exposing how the Middle Kingdom intends to deal with smaller powers, now that she is the largest military and economic force in Asia and second largest on earth.

A fortnight ago, a Chinese trawler rammed a Japanese patrol boat in the Senkaku Islands, administered by Japan but also claimed by China. Tokyo released the ship and crew, but held the captain...

Now Beijing has decided to rub Japan's nose in her humiliation by demanding a full apology and compensation.

Suddenly, the world sees, no longer as through a glass darkly, the China that has emerged from a quarter century of American indulgence, patronage and tutelage since Tiananmen Square.

The Chinese tiger is all grown up, and it's not cuddly anymore.

And with Beijing's threat to use its monopoly of rare-earth materials to bend nations to its will, how does the Milton Friedmanite free-trade ideology of the Republican Party, which fed Beijing $2 trillion in trade surpluses at America's expense over two decades, look now?

How do all those lockstep Republican votes for Most Favored Nation status for Beijing, ushering her into the World Trade Organization and looking the other way as China dumped into our markets, thieved our technology and carted off our factories look today?

The self-sufficient Republic that could stand alone in the world is more dependent than Japan on China for rare-earth elements vital to our industries, for the necessities of our daily life, and for the loans to finance our massive trade and budget deficits.

How does the interdependence of nations in a global economy look now, compared to the independence American patriots from Alexander Hamilton to Calvin Coolidge guaranteed to us, that enabled us to win World War II in Europe and the Pacific in less than four years?

Yet China's bullying of Japan is beneficial, for it may wake us up to the world as it is, as it has been, and ever shall be...

How should America respond?

As none of these territorial disputes involves our vital interests, we should stay out and let free Asia get a good close look at the new China.

Then explore the depths of our own dependency on this bellicose Beijing and determine how to restore our economic independence.

Ending the trade deficit with China now becomes a matter of national security.
So, while Greg Sheridan is painting a rosy picture of the US not surrendering an inch of the South China Sea, Buchanan demonstrates the Yanks could easily just let it go.

Sheridan should return to questioning the wisdom of trading with China.

Greg Sheridan, Giants of Asia-Pacific locked in a complicated relationship
This is not that China is planning to go to war with the US, but that it is planning to compromise and degrade US strategic supremacy in the Asia-Pacific. That, certainly, is a long-term trend in the US-China relationship.

As these trends mature, it is unclear if the US will decide that continuing to make China rich is in its own national interests. The US-China relationship is going to become more complicated. Those many pro-China voices in the Australian debate, especially those at the Australian National University, have no answer to why accommodating China on all points, which seems to be their policy, would produce a good outcome for Australia.
Greg Sheridan, Appeasement gets us nowhere with bellicose Beijing
Many commentators wrongly say Australian wealth is dependent on China and therefore we must forgo our principles in order to make money. This is not true. The Chinese economy is at least as dependent on Australian commodities as we are on Chinese customers. The Chinese will buy commodities on the basis of price and reliability. The political dimension makes very little difference to that trade. And if they did go somewhere else that would chew up other suppliers and thereby leave other customers for us, of which there are many.

The bellicosity and arrogance of the Beijing government are very difficult to deal with at the moment...

... there are serious signs that the US is reconsidering its policy of taking as many exports as China can dump on it.

There are going to be a lot of headaches in Australia-China relations over the next few years...
File under: the ideology of indiscriminate trade is now a matter of national security.

The benefit of free trade is a ... huge cyber threat

Military faces huge cyber threat
In a rare glimpse at the threat the military faces from cyber espionage, figures from the Defence Signals Directorate show the military has experienced 700 attempts a month this year, up from 200 a month last year...

And while Defence will not specify who is behind the intrusions - given the anonymity of the web it is often impossible - there has been a wealth of evidence to indicate dozens of countries are prying...

Numerous countries have used the web for espionage, and China, Russia and North Korea have become particularly adept.
The brain-dead ideology of indiscriminate trade empowers China and puts us at a comparative military disadvantage, negating any economic benefit from cheap Chinese imports. But, alas, the ideology of free trade cannot be criticised. Why not? Shut up, you fool, it just can't! Alas, trade sanctions against China cannot be considered. Why not? Shut up! Free trade solves everything. It's warm and fuzzy. Just shut up!

All ye who enter ideology, leave thy brains at the door. Greg Rudd is waiting to reassure you that China is not the enemy, they're just different.

If a butterfly flaps its wings inside the empty brain of an ideologue, our military faces a huge cyber threat.

Greg Rudd: stupid ideologues run in the family

Greg Rudd is the managing director of investment company GPR Asia and brother of Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd.

Greg Rudd, Chinese way is here to stay, so get used to it
... global currents are changing. Global growth is coming from developing, not developed, countries. How do we pilot these new waters? We're not prepared.

... China cares only about China... It's not nasty. It's just Chinese. We have to understand it. China is coming, and we need them...

I was in Germany recently... "We Germans are blunt. The Chinese insist on exaggerated politeness. They hide behind platitudes. You never know what they're thinking." Exactly.

...They don't even trust each other, let alone foreigners. I am constantly warned by Chinese not to trust Chinese.

China is not the enemy. To some that will sound like appeasement. China is simply different. Treat them the way Chinese treat each other: with suspicion. They are the best at dealing with themselves. Learn from them.

Australia needs a stable China...

We need to support China but not suck up to China. Chinese don't respect weakness. They are always gaming; each other and the world...

Somehow we all have to make it work. Together.
How do we pilot these new waters? Greg Rudd is delusional. Everything he says is fatalistic commentary. He is a passenger, not a pilot. "China is rising, we need China, resistance is futile, let's pretend we're in control when really we are financing the rise of a military monster". A suicidal gamble wrapped in the ideology of free trade.

We don't need China, and we are insane to keep supporting their military rise with our trade - thinking they will be a benign power. What we need is fatalistic commentators like Greg Rudd to stop window dressing the suicidal ideology of indiscriminate trade.

Demographic suicide: sanctioned by ... ideology

Mosques to become bigger part of German life – Chancellor Angela Merkel
Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Germans had for too long failed to grasp how immigration was changing their country and would have to get used to the sight of more mosques in their cities...

"Our country is going to carry on changing, and integration is also a task for the society taking up the immigrants... For years we’ve been deceiving ourselves about this. Mosques, for example, are going to be a more prominent part of our cities than they were before ...

... we now have to ask the question whether we should train imams here in our country who accept the principles of our state and legal order, or whether preachers should continue in the next few decades to come mostly from Turkey.

... mosques will be a more prominent part of our urban landscape than before..."
Lawrence Auster, Merkel tells Germans to accept the Islamization of Germany
The ironies are sickening. When Hitler came to power in 1933, there were 600,000, mostly highly assimilated, Jews in Germany, one percent of the population, but the Nazis viewed this one percent Jewish element as such a threat to the German nation that it had to be dispossessed and destroyed.

Now there are five million Muslims in Germany, six percent of the population of 81 million, the carriers of a way of life and a system of law totally incompatible with the West, and the German policy is to attack, not the Muslims, but a sole individual, Thilo Sarrazin, who warns that the Muslims cannot assimilate.
File under the ideology of: demography is unstoppable because we'd much rather be displaced than criticise immigrants; so shut up, we're all Kemalists now, just don't notice that Ataturk's suppression of Islam is too being defeated by demography. In other words, the brain-dead ideology of non-discriminatory immigration will be rescued by the brain-dead ideology of Kemalism? Yeah, sure. Lose, lose - the epitaph of ideology.

In ideology ... you're silent and you're dead

Wilders speaks in Berlin
The occasion was a speech by Geert Wilders to a group of about five hundred people, sponsored by René Stadtkewitz and his new political party, Die Freiheit.

As you can see from the photo above, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff was one of those present. She says she was able to discuss the hate-speech charge against her with Mr. Wilders, and the two of them compared notes on their respective cases.

Although the two cases differ considerably in scale, they are similar in other respects: each defendant being is prossecuted for purely political reasons, at the whim of the state and its prosecutorial apparatus. Each is being targeted for speaking out against the Islamization of their countries. Their prosecutions are an attempt to appease the Islamic lobby and satisfy the requirements of Orthodox Multiculturalism.



Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff at the Freedom Defense Initiative
I have to go to the European Union and tell you that there is a strong threat to the freedom of expression in Europe, with the help of the European Union.

Freedom of expression died on 9/11 2007, when a peaceful demonstration was forbidden by the mayor there.

Now my focus in all that I’m doing is freedom of expression, because if you can’t speak, you're silent and you’re dead.

And, you know, freedom of expression, who decides what to say? I decided, it’s my standards. I was brought up and raised to speak in a friendly manner. So I decide what is right or what is wrong, not somebody else. I determine that.

The problem with the EU declaration of human rights, is that is sounds beautiful. With the new Treaty of Lisbon we have this declaration of human rights. But the last article is a problem because it says, the declaration says: the rights of expression and association are to be balanced, against the values and interests of the community, in achieving and maintaining harmony. The community decides.

But who determines this balance? It’s those who are in control of the establishment. The politicians, and the proponents and apostles of multiculturalism.

We also have the frame work, the EU framework, and the resolution for combating racism and xenophobia, and I won’t quote that because we are out of time, but it suffices to say, that criticism of religion is racism.

OK? Racism is no longer racism the way we know it.

But my daughter is growing up with a definition of racism, that Islam may not be criticized because that is racist...

And I will conclude by quoting Ralph Giordano, a German Jewish writer who says:

"So in the future I will dare to say what I think and what makes me uneasy... immigration is not the problem, the mosque is not the problem, Islam is the problem."
In the brain-dead and emotionally-neutered ideology of non-discrimination and never-giving-offence ... you can’t speak, you're silent and you’re dead. (except when speaking of whites, Christians and Jews... in which case you're free to demonise them)